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[Galaxy Note II General] tushardoultani:
i too have the gps problem, it gets locked but takes a lot of time.

it developed just last month, i bouht the phone in October.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
dr.ketan, is it possible that GPS problem develops after some time. The next day after buying my note 2, when I tried the GPS, it connected instantly (though I was in open area) but now it keeps on searching. Is it also possible that some app that we download can mess with gps?
[Galaxy Note II General] Sharp-Razr:
Well, mate you were asking about a MOBO or handset replacement and that's not going to happen unless you can prove the phone is faulty and/or not working i.e. dead/bricked. :D Just asking for a replacement @ the service centre because some Play Store app says you have a faulty chip isn't going to help.

Frankly I screwed around with different ROMs including Carbon and CM 10.1. They are buggy to say the least and for me stability is paramount. So I'm back to Sammy's latest DMC3 and yes it is rooted.

For faster GPS locks, go to Settings --> Location Services and check the "Use wireless network" option. there may be a bit of privacy issue with Google gathering anonymous location data but it helps.

PS - My handset GPS takes a 1-2 minutes to lock on, depending on where for e.g. in a building etc, when I switch it on after the above option is enabled. What time do you get for a lock on? BTW, this phone or most mobiles are no where as fast as a dedicated GPS unit.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
I have to say the low light pictures are very very bad on the Note 2. I know I come from the One X and my standards might be higher but even the evening pictures are very bad.....

See the above pic. It's just sad... :banghead::mad: As soon as the evening arrives, the picture quality goes down..

The amount of noise is unbearable... :thumbdown:

Is there any camera mod that I can use? I'll root for it. Or any really powerful image editing app for the phone?

Sent From My Note 2.
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
I think it has developed later. Somewhere around jan-feb, while I had been using gps and the phone since october last year.

Gps always shows 'accurate to 800 m' or above, unless wifi antenna is on, when it reduces to around 40m. But unless accuracy is less then 20m, navigation doesnt turn on, it is always searching for location.

Sometimes it does give accuracy<20m, but that is one out of maybe 20 times.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
how long approximately, suppose you are on open area.

once try under sky

and keep enable both Use wireless network and Use GPS satellites under location services setting
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
I know I cant ask for a replacement if I have a faulty chip. I am just going to tell them about the gps issue. Its almost always there so it wouldnt be a problem displaying that to them.

I do turn on my wifi whenever connecting to the gps. Check above, I have written to Dr.Ketan about how the accuracy improves after turning on gps. Also, gps using gmaps and navigatuon should be pretty accurate on note 2. It is on most other samsung phones.

I think roms like wannamlite, omega etc are pretty stable. But to each his own I guess. Infact, the latest touchwiz stock roms are so customizable that they are pretty close to any custom rom in functionality.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
Just tried that and connected instantly :) thanks.

By the way, can you throw some light on processor being shown as cortex 7? Some one else had the same thing. It should have been c9 supposed ly. Am on my way to smart cafe so your answer would be great.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
Don't think the processor thing is much of an issue. It's just that the app database is wrong..

Sent From My Note 2.
[Galaxy Note II General] Sharp-Razr:
Ok here's what I did. I switched on GPS, made sure the use WiFi/Network option in location services was checked and switched on G Maps. It took a long time to lock on..well about 3 minutes. Initially it showed my location as Luxembourg (LOL!!) and then to India and where I was.

Now here's what I did - I rebooted the phone so it would reset my location. Once it started up I proceeded to switch on GPS and then Sygic. Hey presto, it had a lock within 45 seconds.

The point I am trying to make here is what if it is the application in use for e.g. Google Maps or Sygic etc that contributes to fast or slow lock on time?
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
Maybe. But that doesn't explain why I would be having issues in the same app after it had been working perfectly for 3-4 months.

I know it takes time to lock on to satellites even under open skies. But the issue I am talking about is different. It NEVER locks on to the position, there is always an accuracy of atleast 40m even with wifi on. Without wifi its > 800m.

The fact is, I did see similar problems with numerous other users. Try googling 'gps issues note 2' or some such keywords and you will find these.

Anyway, thanks for responding. If there are more problems or if I find a solution I will report it here.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Can you test this application and check result

no need to keep wifi on

just keep two option enable i said in previous msg.
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
There is app called gps status. When I reset gps using this, I can get even navigation started, I just tried it a couple of times. Let me try it on road tomorrow, maybe it can solve this issue.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
May be right but this is the same with all benchmarking apps. I tried with Quadrant, Vellamo, amd Antutu. All giving the same information. Is there any app on play syore that gives system information?
[Galaxy Note II General] Sharp-Razr:
You are welcome. And now that you've brought up this GPS issue I too shall start keeping an eye on its performance.

In my case GPS is used only occasionally and that too with Sygic..almost never with Google Maps. Which is probably why I never thought there was an issue with it.
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
If samsung were advertising a exynos with arm9 cores and actually install arm7 cores in the real thing,im pretty sure it would be worldwide news.so just calm down its not really an issue :thumbup: just giving my friendly 2 cents.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
Thanks. :)

Just downloaded and checked using system info pro and results are the same.
[Galaxy Note II General] Sharp-Razr:
Thanks for this link Doc. I downloaded the app and tried it with AGPS switched on. the lock was near instantaneous (~4 seconds) with coordinates shown. 18 satellites detected, locked onto 16 sometimes 17.

Backed out of the app, killed it thru a task manager, switched off GPS and AGPS (in location) waited 1 minute, turned GPS on again (no AGPS this time). The app was restarted. Same result.

Two deductions from this experiment:

a) GPS chip is fine in my case

b) Delays are most probably caused by the application using the GPS chip's output signal. For e.g. GMaps is nowhere as fast as either Sygic or this test app when starting up and locking on..
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Exactly

I am keeping this application installed, whenever i found delay, just using this application to fix.
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
Had alreafy tried this app. It shows accuracy of around 30-40 feet with 12-13 in view or in use.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] Sharp-Razr:
If other apps can get a location lock very quickly why can't G Maps? My conclusion? G Maps performance sux.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
likely bug in stock navigation app

If once you fix with above said app, then navigation also works fine.
[Galaxy Note II General] tushardoultani:
even my phone says arm7
[Galaxy Note II General] pnsdhrn:
In the Superuser logs no mention of granting permission to adb is seen.And how can I give permission to Superuser for accessing adb ?Also in the phone when USB cable is connected there sees 2 options,one Media server and the other Camera.I selected Media.
[Galaxy Note II General] amg009:
The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore is a 32-bit multicore processor providing up to 4 cache-coherentCortex-A9 cores, each implementing the ARM v7 instruction set architecture. So the application would be recognising the arm v7 instruction sets that's being used. The Cortex-A9 comes under the family Arm v7-A.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
Thanks. This one seems a plausible reason.

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What is written on the sticker at the battery slot made by samsung or made in korea by samsung.?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Yeah it should media. once you click EFS_backup file it should ask for supersu permission (unless you have select default permission grant)

Do you have java installed on PC? I think you need java

If not, try installing from here then try

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Try this otherwise updating here adb command and backup with terminal from device.(updated to post #2920)
[Galaxy Note II General] tushardoultani:
made in korea by samsung.. but why ?
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
On mine only made by Samsung is written and on box made in Vietnam. Fingers crossed mine is not a fake one :'(
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
Thanks for the information :)

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[Galaxy Note II General] SRK-Designs:
Getting Back to Stock

Hi members,

I would soon joining the Android family after I receive my Note 2 this week.

Since I am new to Android I need some help. I do have a fair bit of knowledge about the platform but need to learn loads of things from you members.

So here is my query:

The Note 2 that I am purchasing is said to be from UAE and it seems to be rooted with a custom ROM. (image attached).

Now, I want to have it completely stock, as if it is just out of the factory. I've gone through the Unroot thread and would be downloading the Stock ROM for India (N7100XXDMC3 N7100ODDDMD1) and all other mentioned software and driver.

The question is, if I correctly follow the instructions will it restore the Note 2 to completely factory condition? Since I do not know the origin of the country, will installing the Indian ROM have any effect?

Your help will be appreciated.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
EFS backup from device itself

1.Install Terminal emulator

2.Open it, you will get ***@android:/$

3.Now type

it will ask superSU permission, grant it (it will ask only if your superSU setting - default permission is set to 'prompt', if you have set to 'grant' it will not ask)

4.you will have now this

root@android:/ # (this # symbol suggest it got root access)

5.Now type below mentioned command (case sensitive) and enter

You will have 20MB efs.img file in Ext Sd card, keep it to safer place.
[Galaxy Note II General] pnsdhrn:
When I started first the EFS Tool with permission in SuperSu as "Prompt" it didn't ask SuperSu permission.Then I started the Tool with permission as "Grant".Then also no asking or detecting the device.If this is an ADB issue will reinstalling ADB will resove the problem/Or else reinstalling Samsung drivers will resolve?

Java(TM)7 update 5 and Java Fx 2.1 are installed in my laptop.
[Galaxy Note II General] rana_kirti:
guys, how do i install the Active Apps widget to my home screen in my note2. I cant find it on my phone. I want to save battery life.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Samsung driver itself is adb driver

Try reinstalling driver. Get from my toolbox thread. Which os you have?
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
Play store...? Cause there isn't any sammy active applications widget on the note 2.

Sent From an ECHO thingy
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
Bump.

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] pnsdhrn:
Originally I had installed the drivers from your Toolbox thread.I shall reinstall it once again.The OS is your PreRooted April ROM.(4.1.2 Version,Build No:JZ054K.N7100XXMC3) and Device status is"Modified"Can this changed to Official?
[Galaxy Note II General] shethsa:
From the tv
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Yeah you can reinstall

I mean os of pc

To change status

Setting - application manager - all - sysscope - clear data

Do same with enterprise sysscope too

Reboot device

Check status after 5min
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Anyone has any confusion about GPS, I can submit my two cents here, as I need to use it regularly due to my line of work, and my last phone, S2 had horrible problems connecting to satellites, even in an open area. Then I kept searching, and found some useful informations. Like,

1- You never can have the same lock time everyday, it depends on the position of the satellites, cloud coverage, number of satellites etc. So you got a lock today within 10 seconds doesn't mean you'll have the same tomorrow.

Also, it depends where you live. A person living in Hyderabad can't expect same fast lock like a person living in New Delhi or Bangalore.

2- Android's ecosystem is made in a way that on every reboot it'll automatically download the A-GPS data. Obviously if you have data on.

3- If you change your server to the country's dedicated NTP one, you might have faster lock. Just see the gps.conf file under system/etc, and change it to in.pool.ntp.org

Read this topic too,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1239713

4- Make sure your Gyroscope is calibrated.

5- Lastly, our Note 2 has GLONASS (Russia) along with GPS (American). And that GLONASS has collaboration with India. It helps to lock fast than GPS at least by 50%, if not more. Which is a huge advantage for Indian users. Honestly those who needs to use GPS regularly shouldn't consider a device without GLONASS.

6- It's needless to say for a faster lock you need to be under open sky. Still due to GLONASS our device can get a lock within a minute even inside.

No, can't do anything. The intensity of the led flash is the weakest I've ever seen. That was the first thing I noticed when I first got the phone. The flash is horrible!

Also, if you need to take photos in night time do use Low Light Mode. The default ISO is way too high, that causes grainy photos. So steady hand, with low ISO, good result, you'll lose some details though. And high ISO and normal hand, grainy photos. Whatever it is, the camera in Note 2 is average, for average users, and below average for users like me, DSLR users, or m 4/3 users.

'Swyped' from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
The pic I'd taken was on landscape mode, so that it would've been able to focus on the door. I didn't use flash.

I tried all shooting modes, but am not very happy with them.

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] jitin02:
To all already using gadgetz shield users.

Last night just applied my gadget shield at around 12 night

Till what time (how much more longer should I wait? Also I am now kinda afraid if the phone will be ok:(
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
Is it recommended to install to cm10.1 on the note 2? The file system gets screwed up and thats pretty much the only reason i dont use it.

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Il leave this here..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2258519

Byebye samsung for me.

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[Galaxy Note II General] pnsdhrn:
The OS of my PC is Wlndows XP Pro version.

I uninstalled existing Samsung drivers and reinstalled the one from your Tool(Version 1.5.6).

Also I deleted the existing EFS TOOL and reinstalled the one in your Tool(Version 2.0)

and extracted it into a folder on Desktop of PC..

Then started the Tool and clicked Back up.This time the Daemon started but the same writing faileure.I am frustrated now.In case when my IMEI GETS WORKED UP, I will be a total loser.So please offer me ,if possible,a workable solution.Waiting with thanks again.....
[Galaxy Note II General] tushardoultani:
where did you buy it from ?
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
You're using night mode right? Have you tried with flash on?

PS: The above pic seems OK to me, what's wrong with it? Perhaps it's the lower resolution, can't see much detail to notice noise, I can see some noise, but nothing horrible.
[Galaxy Note II General] dcpathak:
Samsung Smart Cafe. Its in Hyderabad.
[Galaxy Note II General] tushardoultani:
i bought it from a samsung smartphone cafe in delhi

i dont think yours will be fake..

you can take it to a samsung service center and ask them.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
Nope, that was landscape. Try zooming in a bit, and see the wooden doors.

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
It's already low resolution mate. Zooming in, everything would look pixelated and horrendous. You're using low light mode right? The noise is due to high ISO as your room is poorly lit.
[Galaxy Note II General] ABHIII:
Around 12 hours atleast. Don't put any cover over it for atleast a day or two. Let it dry up totally.

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It's not fake. Don't worry.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
Maybe uploading to XDA made it low res. The original was clicked on landscape mode. This is the pic details:

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
Anybody?

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[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
Again, did you take it on low light mode or just default? Or you could use flash+lower ISO.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
When you select the landscape mode, you cannot select low light mode. So I guess the ISO and other settings are automatically selected....

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] drjamit:
Selling my note2, 5mths old, getting 29k. Is that ok price. Will buy s4.
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
You didn't select landscape from scene modes, did you? That's not the landscape orientation, that's for outdoors dude, for well lit environment :eek:
[Galaxy Note II General] SacGuru:
I have applied it many times on both my devices, and on the note 2 I only give it 12 hours. So turn yours on if you already havent.

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

Those who help noobs go to heaven. True story.
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
I had selected landscape mode from scene modes. This is what I'd got.

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
Why would you want to take pics inside with landscape scene? For orientation just rotate the phone. Don't use any scene modes, try taking pics with low light mode on. How does that look now?
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
It wasn't focusing on the door, so I tried with landscape mode.

And I've tried the camera today outside in the sunlight. My verdict is that it's just okay, nothing great.

I'll try the low light stuff later.

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
Try Camera FX by the way. Camera isn't spectacular, obviously - but it's good :) Also wipe the lens everytime, I've often got poor photos, thanks to the foggy lens.

And yeah, low light does make massive difference to the noise, try that.
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
NO. Unless you are obsessed with that CM thingy.

I'd say it's a great price you are getting. New N2 shouldn't me more than 34-35k.

Frankly you are wasting time. You can never be impressed with Low Light output of N2. Damn, I had to look for a good lens even for my D5200, for better low light photos. And what a camera can produce under extremely bright light is irrelevant, I am sure you know that. Any average camera will produce decent photographs under bright light.
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
Hmm..ohk.ive read through some of the aosp rom threads on here and they all seem to have a wide number of bugs. -_-

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[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
I have never seen or heard CM without bugs.
[Galaxy Note II General] saintsinner25:
even on nexus devices?
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
I do think he knows that to be fair - it's just the settings that's making it worse than it already is. It's okay for a quick snap. That said, I agree entirely re: the low light photo quality. They're just s

But what they can produce under bright light isn't "irrelevant" though to be fair.
[Galaxy Note II General] drjamit:
Played with s4 today for 10 min. Its so light in comparison to this beast. Tempted to buy. Customer for 29k didn't turned up today. Lets see this week. I m giving original flip cover and gadget shieldz 2 pieces along with it.
[Galaxy Note II General] jujuburi:
Lol, same here. I played with it for 15 minutes day before yesterday and it felt so light, so small. I am lucky I didn't have much cash that moment, otherwise God knows what could've happened. The build quality also, it didn't feel as cheap as N2. But one thing, there is no S Pen, which is a single enough reason to refrain from it, least for me.

PS: My back cover's 3 pins are now broke, so I was checking eBay for a replacement (only the back cover), and I see this, what the hell?

http://www.ebay.in/itm/Original-Fli...ies&hash=item3a80e12eb0&_uhb=1#ht_1570wt_1139

Guys other than exFAT is there any other format which is faster? It's taking a minute just to copy a 1GB file! Ext4, what's that? Is it faster than exFAT? NTFS is not supported by phone, and FAT32 is beyond me. Any advises? Have an early flight tomorrow, thought about filling up the SD card, but with this speed, argh!
[Galaxy Note II General] toocool7610:
dr ketan/ mods , sorry for posting this here but i need urgent help...........dr ketan you look like a knowledgeable guy :)

i had installed slimbean 3 rom in my i9000 months back, it was all fine for months , but it had been acting weird lately , like suddenly shutting itself down (probably battery gone bad), but other than that there were other strange issues like , even if i did normal reboot , but still recovery mode is opened on itself, even when the phone is lying idle , also baseband version showing sometimes and sometimes saying not available , network not coming , etc etc , i upgraded to slimbean 4.2.2 today, but still no good , same issues , so i went back to slimbean 3.00................and bamm my imei is gone now.

luckily i had already got my efs folder on my pc way back ..............i please need a good guide to get back my phone in a working state .
[Galaxy Note II General] shhbz:
GPS issue

hey guys,

Going through the thread I found many facing the GPS issue as its not connecting in mine phone too. So have you come up with any solution yet.Please share some light as what is working as a perfect solution.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Try flashing stock rom and then wipe cache and data from recovery. I think 9000 have only gingerbread in stock rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] jitin02:
Already turned it yesterday evening

Looks great.. Screen is much brighter than the matte finish screen guard

Only thing . there are some bubble things on screen like 7 of them
[Galaxy Note II General] toocool7610:
will that recover imei , automatically? if not please help me with the guide of recovering imei too, thanks:highfive:
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
For that restore EFS.

PS:

Kindly post your query on i9000 thread, this is Note2 thread and it may be confusing for some other users.
[Galaxy Note II General] torque321:
Play Store update to ver 4.....????

Guys!!!!! have your play store been updated to ver 4 ?
[Galaxy Note II General] kkapoorr:
I think so..

Sent from my Note II
[Galaxy Note II General] torque321:
any way for force update.. ???
[Galaxy Note II General] pnsdhrn:
Originally Posted by dr.ketan

Yeah you can reinstall

I mean os of pc

Sorry dr for posting this again.I doubt you didn't see my reply..So I quoted it again above.
[Galaxy Note II General] Ram121:
Updated