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[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
As I recall the reviewers HATED the Note and it went on to record sales.

You have to undertstand that tech reviewers have a couple disadvantages. Quite often they are reviewing buggy pre-release hardware. Next they tend to be spec nerds. They focus more on pure specs than does the damn thing actually work for people.

Honestly who cares what they say? If I wanted an iPad I would have bought one. Face it, by this time next year everything that is awesome now will suck by comparison.

Sent from my awesome Note 10.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Magnesus:
The most shocking thing in those reviews is "oh, and it has an S Pen, you can take notes with it" like it was less important than for example number of megapixels in the rear camera. Even the positive reviews mostly ignore S Pen.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] rebista:
Actually, when reading the review - I didn't finish it though, too annoying - the picture of one of these little dogs that tend to bark at anybody and everything kept appearing in front of my inner eye ... this Amadeo guy must be one of these short people.

I couldn't care less for NFC. And resolution, oh my. Everything about this was already stated here. I care for the pen. And that works good enough
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] madsquabbles:
the original galaxy tab 10.1 has the "flex" too, but if the note is built like the gt101 then you DO NOT touch the components when it flexes. there seems to be a double layer. the outer layer is the design which is squishy, but adds a bit of grip. the second layer is the thicker plastic that protects the insides. i found the gt101 to be higher quality than the tf101. i had the tf101 first and was afraid i'd break it as much as the aluminum case creaked and flexed (same on my 2 tf700's).

now i think i will agree that the shiny plastic will scratch like crazy just as my droid charge would, but being some kind of smart guy that i am i put a case around my phone. hell, i put a case around all my phones and tablets (except the archos 101, all plastic and still looks good after more than 2yrs). those that don't have cases i keep it in mind that hard surfaces will scratch it, even my ipad2 (which really is a quality built device, no matter how much you like or hate apple).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] brocken_5110:
Self-Interested Critics

"Any time you do something big, that’s disruptive — Kindle, AWS — there will be critics. And there will be at least two kinds of critics. There will be well-meaning critics who genuinely misunderstand what you are doing or genuinely have a different opinion. And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand. And you have to be willing to ignore both types of critics. You listen to them, because you want to see, always testing, is it possible they are right?

But if you hold back and you say, ‘No, we believe in this vision,’ then you just stay heads down, stay focused and you build out your vision."

- "Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’", GeekWire.com, June 7, 2011 at 10:56 am by John Cook
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] HoushaSen:
I owned infinity for about a full month and though it was a great device, aside from the display the note is better in every other aspect.

The most notable is stability. I only had a single crush so far. It'd more stable than ipad2 I have.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Magnesus:
TF101 fortunately has plastic case not aluminum. Aluminum came with TF201 and a massive amount of problems. I agree on build quality though - TF101 is creaky (but quite solid, I didn't manage to break it in 1.5 years of abuse :) ).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
My OG G-Tab was dropped at least half-a-dozen times; once down a flight of stairs (in its sleeve). It was even run over by one of those "excuse the cart" vehicles at Dallas airport when it fell in front of it (in a sleeve) while I was getting it out of my briefcase. A year later it still looked like new with only one small scratch on the plastic back. People talk about the plastics used in Samsung's phones too. At the end of the day as long as their devices are durable that's what really matters (at least to me).

If pushing on the back cover touches anything internal it's just the battery. The more sensitive components are protected by the metal band that surrounds the camera and flash preventing any flex from occuring near the top of the device. Since we don't have the design thesis, for all we know Samsung could be incorporating some flexibility to help absorb shock from a drop that could otherwise damage a more rigid device.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] agzela:
Whats interesting is that they still think the TFP is great!!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] SM05:
Does your Note back flexes the same way and as much as they show it there in one of the videos? Mine does, probably not as much, but noticeably though.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] akxak:
My one does, but it is minimal and does not hamper use.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] fmf.post:
Not really.

Its plastic so there is no denying there is some flex, however not even close to the extent shown on the review.

You would need to apply a great amount of pressure to obtain that amount of flex, something I'm not willing to do on my device.

Lifting it up, or under normal handling you dont feel the flex at all, and I have no flexing related sounds, it will flex if a willingly apply pressure to it wanting it to flex.

So for me, flexing, the sounds, quality issues are nonexistent, its like the reviewer is using a different tablet.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] id10terrordfw:
I would still take the back side flex and a "low res" display with astonishing real world performance over a buggy, slow, unoptimized tablet any day. And I did, Infinity - Note and not looking back at all.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
Damn dude, with all those devices in your signature do you keep them long enough to even form an opinion? ;) And I thought I was a chronic device swapper.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] fmf.post:
off topic

Just wondering as you have also a N7 and this tablet, have you used the N7 after buying the note?

I know they are 2 different devices, kind of tailored maybe to a different audience, but I'm just wondering about you.

Personally I haven't touched my N7 after buying this tablet, it seems I do a lot more surfing as I thought I did. And the N7 lacks in that department.

Also the lack of sd, I thought I could do without it, but it seems I can't in reality, I mean... I love the N7, but it think I'll end up selling it.

What about you?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] appelflap:
Agreed! It seems like it is compared with a wrong standard. From a usability perspective this is the first tablet that just get things done. Extremely happy user here.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] ilostmypistons:
Well I looked at many user reviews today on Amazon, Bestbuy and others

End users love the Note(even iPad users) no question about it. The only negative reviews are completely off base like "I've not received my update on my one year old Tab Samsung sucks" which have nothing to do with the Note.

I feel like I got what I paid for with the Note unlike the four Asus tabs I've since returned
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] rolfd:
I wasn't going to comment on that so-called review because in my opinion it's total crap.

What annoys me the most though is that the excuse for an author chose to refer to this device and cancer in the same paragraph. In my opinion, that is just pure juvenile crap and he really needs to take a long hard look at himself and perhaps choose a new career, I suggest as the local village idiot.

Write a review if you want, make it critical and silly as you want, but don't resort to silly juvenile rubbish in the hope that you gain some kind of cult fame status.

/end rant.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] id10terrordfw:
Yes, and I also Use my Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Often as well. It just depends on which one I grab. Movies and TV I mainly use the Note though.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] bigblue95z:
Agreed. I was excited about my Prime for about 2 months. Which was when I switched to ASUS' TERRIBLE build of ICS. Soooo much lag. Soooo many ANRs. Soooo many browser freezes. Soooo many promises that it was getting fixed. I exchanged my prime at Best Buy for the Note 10.1 and it is leaps and bounds better. I contemplated getting the Infinity, but after all the BS that ASUS put us Prime owners through, no freaking way. I would have to be insane!! And don't say I'm hating on ASUS. About 1/2 the parts for my PC builds are ASUS. But I bought them off review ratings from here and there. Never again will I buy an ASUS product on launch. Ever.....
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] demandarin:
I used my Nexus 7 nonstop. Hardly used it since getting this note 10.1. But that's how it is when you get an even newer device. I'm running stock rom and motley linaro kernel with 1.6ghz CPU OC & 520mhz gpu OC. Its a great device. I never would've thought I'd like the 7in. Form factor so much. Ill get back to using it more. I'm just more interested in mastering this S pen feature and learning the ins and outs of this Samsung tab. I'd say the nexus 7 and note 10.1 are 2 of the 3 best android tablets(or any tablet) right now. The 3rd. Being Infinity pad. So it seems I like to stay with cutting edge tablets.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] id10terrordfw:
Haha, yeah I do tend to change stuff out a lot. And this doesn't even include that I also have a spare iPhone 4S laying about running iOS6...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] twospirits:
Awesome thread.

That was one of my points in my comment over there.

bottom line its a headline grabbing unprofessional write-up.

While I do not have the Note 10.1 and only its smaller brother, I did go to the local best Buy and checked it out and did not see any of the issues he mentioned. I plan on getting the tablet and in the hour I had with it at the store it surely is a much better device than my current Lenovo Thinkpad (android) tablet.

TS
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] ilostmypistons:
I lost my son to cancer 5yrs ago when he was 20 so the reviewers comment really hit home with me. I hope the guy gets fired
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] twospirits:
Sorry to hear that. But I doubt he'll get fired unless folks complain to the head writer or the site itself.

Now as for reviews, besides the Lisa Gade one from MobileTechReviews, I found another one that actually gave the Note 10.1 an Editors Choice in their review of it.

Computer Shopper

TS
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] knives of ice:
i really don't get people making such a huge deal out of the plastic. truthfully, having been an asus owner i much prefer the plastic when holding the device. the metal on my prime was sharp and it was uncomfortable to hold.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] donec:
Now now we all know the best looking Note 10.1 is the cool looking grey colored one.:D

As to the topic of discussion. The article in question was IMO written with the intention of causing the most discussion possible and not written as a true evaluation of the Note 10.1.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] richB7:
My Note really sucks just like all these genius reviewers have said. I'm going return it to BestBuy first chance I get.....so I can trade up to a 32gb since 16 is not going to hold me.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] twospirits:
Not trying to nitpic here, but if your Note is as bad as what the reviewers are saying, what makes you think by going from the 16GB to the 32GB would be better?

TS
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] plebianJay:
Try an app called Layer Paint. The response to pressure and fine strokes is better than any other Android drawing app I've used. The pencil tool in particular is great! I think the quirkiness in other apps has to to with the apps, not the hardware. Even Sketchbook Pro for android seems pretty crude after using layer paint.

When using your Slate stylus, do you get a pixel offset that is different than the standard stylus? I've tried my Axiotron studio pen and my stylus for my HP 2710, and they have a pretty big pixel offset unless I hold the pen exactly vertical.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
The reviewers are idiots.

Let me put it this way. I have read a number of the critical reviews and it is not altogether clear to me that they were even using this device at all. I mean comments like "it is so flimsy it feels as if it would break apart in your hands"? Utter rubbish. This is a very solid device and it would take a very powetful human to break this in their hands.

Anyone who reviews this device and doesnt talk first and foremost about the s-pen simply doesnt get it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] warmonked:
The whole point of a review is the write your OPINION. :eek:

The guy has videos of the tablet flexing and creaking, do you all think he's faking it? Maybe he's faking it like the Verge faked their video *EYEROLL*
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
Lol. I happen to own the tablet in question and it neither flexes nor creaks. As a person who trusts my own eyes more than what someone online tells me i must assume one of two things: either the reviewer had a faulty pre-production unit or they are faking the problem. I tend to believe they had a faulty unit.

I mean for a reviewer to say they felt the tablet would break in half in their hands? No, they cannot be talking about the final production device as it is VERY sturdy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] fmf.post:
Exactly

That's exactly why we owners of the tablet are amazed at this review. Not only because it has been written very poorly, but because most of the complaints expressed, specifically those regarding the hardware and physical construction are not visible or the experienced or duplicated by any of us (owners).

I've seen several reviews, with favorable points and criticism, as expected, but all presented professionally like a proper reviewer should.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] effluent:
Na, the boss over there, Artem, is a d!ck, so the reviewer fits right in.. and agrees with him in the comments.

---------- Post added at 06:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:08 PM ----------

I actually agree. I prefer plastic on phones and tablets. I don't like the way the metal feels or looks. I don't think plastic and being light weight makes things seem cheap. *shrug* My phone is a Galaxy Nexus, all plastic, and best hardware design and construction of any phone I've had. Previous two phones were HTC's which had inconsistent quality from phone to phone and the pieces of different types of materials all over the phones looks like crap.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] richB7:
TS.... I was being facetious... I really like my Note.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] jobryan26:
I created a short video review myself to respond to the "lagging" complaints I have been seeing regarding the Note 10.1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JOyJpNrSz4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] quinman22:
I liked your video! I have yet to receive my note 10.1, but I can see that if mine does experience lag, I should exchange it, because that isn't the norm. Having a 1.4 GHz quad core processor, it would be absurd if there was any lag. I have no idea why reviewers are harping on this thing. It's performance looks every bit as good as the tf700, and it has 2Gb of RAM! They seem to disregard the speed and jump straight to hate.

As for notes on your video, there was one point where you said "more happier," but that's very minor in comparison to the rest of the great review. It was a well done video. I also saw that you have the Guitar Pro app. I wonder how much better that is on a tablet vs my Galaxy Player 5.0.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] ilostmypistons:
Great video John

Watch your your tank video... nice and clean... wished you lived closer I'm try to dump a bunch of RBTAs and hundreds of corals I don't room for... love giving stuff time guys with clean tanks :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] demandarin:
Well I came to conclusion 16gb wasn't enough storage space for my huge collection of apps & games. So I returned my white 16gb this morning to best buy and had them order me a 32gb one. It only comes in grey :( lol I really liked how the white one looked. Too bad its not available in white. Or at least wifi 32 gB version doesn't.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] fmf.post:
kudos

Fantastic video!!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
I did too. I replicated a lot of the same things the Verge was *****ing about (with different outcomes). Mine are in the "vs." thread.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] jobryan26:
Ah you caught that.lol
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] :
I think it's fair to say that when you are switching between applications very fast, there is a "delay". It could be somewhere between 1-2 sec.

I am sure everyone of us are using MS Outlook. My work involves interacting with clients from different countries, my average daily e-mail count is probably like 150-200. Everyday when I load the outlook, it takes quite a few seconds to feel "snappy". Does that mean the laptop or the software is useless? (IMO) the multi-screen was developed with the view that users will first tap to select and then start working. if we are going to keep jumping every second between the applications, you are simply trying to "induce" some lag just to show-off. please tell us what purpose would that serve jumping between the applications every sec? instead if someone tap-to-select, it would run smooth enough.

the even bigger point is the idea and philosophy of this product. they are trying to make this more useful. you can definitely use it like any other normal tablet, but they have given a few more things extra -- the mini apps, multi-screen, S-Pen, digitizer, S-Note. These are all extra apart from what you find in a regular tablet. most of these extra features work. Yes, things could have been better. But this is just the start -- software will continue to improve. i am hoping JB will come probably in next 3-4 months.

This is the first step in bringing desktop-level multitasking in mobile space. Obviously you can't just reach that level in a single day. It's a good start -- much better than what these so-called-reviewers wants us to believe.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] twospirits:
Another good review, this time from ubergizmo.

TS
[HTC One X] limestone:
Hi all:

By fluke of chance, there was only once that managed to somehow get my photos in gallery to arrange itself in a horizontal straight line, like a filmstrip. (I enter the photo gallery by going into camera, and then tapping on the photos to view my past taken photos.)

Does anyone know what I am talking about, and what is the finger gesture or method to get the app to display my camera photos in a filmstrip mode? thanks!!
[HTC One X] Kiwi_Dude:
When you're in the gallery and have the picture in landscape, swipe left or right several times quickly to scroll the pictures along like a "film strip". The picture that it stops on will automatically fill the screen. Oh, and you do not need to access the gallery via the camera, this will also work by entering the gallery directly.
[HTC One X] limestone:
ah, it works! thanks so much! I found that quickly swiping about 3 times will do the trick. and it also works in portrait mode too!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasmith91:
So I'm getting this issue where I can't locate the device via ADB. I've tried reinstalling drivers which doesn't work. The device regardless of if it's in debug mode or not fails to mount and instead, windows fails to even detect it branding it a "Unknown device". I've tried restoring to a previous nanddump (taken just after rooting) which has still failed to fix the issue.

Is there a fix or am I stuck with having to sideload every app I develop?

Edit: apologies for putting this in the wrong sub-forum
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CasualStarlord:
I had to go into device manager and force the unknown device to use the nexus 7 drivers from the android SDK folder manually, (after I have used the SDK manager to download them of course) I've had to do this on 2 windows 7 computers so far, so I would give that a go, if you need help I'll hunt a guide out for you.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yosh76:
wugtoolkit has update the driver you search for try download that...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JFrawls:
**RESOLVED**

I am having my first issue with my SIII...

Randomly today the auto rotate of the screen seems to not work for anything. I have checked to make sure that it is active, and I've also tried using a different launcher... as well as calibrating again.... I cleared the cache and rebooted a couple of times to try and clear up the issues, that does not work... It is not specific to a single app... nothing goes into landscape view. browser/twitter/facebook etc

What do you think???

Rooted with Odin using rooted.system.img.tar Version 4.0.4 I535VRLF2

The only other thing I changed recently was to go to CWM Recovery but I doubt that has caused the issue
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] abissel22:
That happens to me too. For some reason it gets fixed with a reboot but I never figured the cause of the problem.

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mark930:
I had the same problem I rebooted many times recalibrated a multiple times and even did a factory reset and it still refused to rotate until I pulled the battery that fixed it for some reason. So try pulling the battery then reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shoeless1542:
I have this problem too. I read somewhere it has to do with the heat affecting it. The first time it happened I was outside taking pictures at the zoo. Since then it has happened several times after I had been using my phone for several minutes. I usually can just turn off the screen for a minute or so and it works after that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alexinna:
I had this condition as well. Fixed by rebooting the phone and never noticed it again.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] senrai180:
Alright, ever sine I flashed GO, some of my apps have had weird discolored, distorted graphics. Ex. Gallery has weird stands of the LED and the UI are not in their original places. Pics later, as this happens to Opera Web Browser. Think it happens for mini too. What's the cause? I think its only these 2 apps... help plz? ;(

Sent from my rooted gift from God 4G running a Gloriously Overdosed ROM using the expensive XDA app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackguy101:
So as you guys know may know in the stock messaging app you are able to change the bubble styles and also the background. I was just curious to know if it were possible to get more bubble added to the messaging app. I greatly enjoy stock messaging and dont really want to go to anything else like go sms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Paulb787:
I have unlocked the bootloader with ez-unlock. My understanding is it flashes a unsecured boot.img to unlock it. when i installed clean rom, it ask

Is your bootloader unlocked?

yes (flash unsecure)

no ( do not flash)

what is a unsecure boot image? what does it do if your bootloader is unlocked?

Thank You
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PJnc284:
Unlocking the bootloader flashes an unsecured boot.img as you said. The rom is just verifying that you're unlocked as you'll get a smack on the hand by Verizon ("unauthorized software" message) if you were still locked and flashed the rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bleelas:
Unlocking the bootloader actually flashes a new aboot.img (not boot.img). Aboot is a separate partition that is part of the boot sequence. Part of its job is to verify that the boot.img (the kernel) is official. Unlocking the bootloader (with a new aboot) means it no longer cares what is on the boot partition.

Long story short, if you unlocked your bootloader, you should answer "yes" to that question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
The unsecure boot.img that cleanrom is trying to install allows you to run adb commands for pushing to the /system folder.

If you do not know what this means, you do not need it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Paulb787:
Thank you. Understand completely now.