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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kimdoocheol:
You: I wanted to buy the Note II and was wondering when I can do that in-store? I have no wish to order online.

Megan R.: Hello! Thank you for visiting our online sales chat service. I am happy to assist you with your order today. Were you looking to start new service, upgrade your device or purchase some accessories?

Megan R.: Hello!

Megan R.: I'd be happy to assist you.

You: Thanks

Megan R.: May I ask why you don't want to order online and be one of the firsts to get it on the release date of 11/27. As we don't know when that phone will be launched in stores?

You: I just prefer to get the phone in-store that is all.

You: the mailing service to my work place is sort of bad

You: it is a big building

You: It would be more convenient for me, since there are so many VZW stores near me, to just go to the store and get one after work

You: or on my lunch break

Megan R.: Oh, and you don't have anywhere safe at home they could leave it either?

You: The require a signature, and my building is also quite big over 30 floors

You: I don't get home till after 5, mailing service usually comes at 4

You: so i would have to be picking it up at the nearest fedex location or whatever, and that is quite far (15 miles or so)

You: It is overall just more convenient for me to pick it up in-store and was wondering when I can do that

Megan R.: Oh. They also leave them if there is a mailbox or secure place if you have a note. But yes..we don't know when exactly stores will be able to order- They have to wait for all the pre-orders to be shipped then they order them.. most corporate stores may have them on the release date 11/27

You: I would do that, but since oru building is so big they just leave it in this room that doesn't have a camera, so don't feel quite secure with it there

You: That is good to know... as i also heard the note ii is being released on VZW so much later than everyone else due to stock issues, or lack of stock i should say. i was just wondering how come the biggest carrier in the USA gets the phone last aftere everyone else

You: like, is there a chance we could get the phone early if i preorder?

You: or is 11/27 a firm date

Megan R.: 11/27 is a firm date...thats the release date

You: so is it due to stock issues?

Megan R.: No..just the contract verizon had with Samsung on the device thats when they agreed to have it released

You: oh, ok. and do you know if there is ever a chance if the 32gb or 64gb variant will be released?

Megan R.: No that is the only one.

You: thanks megan
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
This does not surprise me in the least. Like I was told earlier, the phone will not exit their pre-order system until the scheduled date (25th). (They can't submit a ticket on the device until it exits the pre-order system).

---UPDATE---

If anyone has been following the Verizon forums, someone just posted a screenshot of another chat with a verizon rep. The rep blatantly said "Correct" as a reply to "So the rumors are true, I will get mine before the 27?"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kimdoocheol:
This seems to be the most accurate response I have gotten from VZW so far. I have posted up 3 chats so far, all with different answers.

I don't like the fact that they cannot have a structured company with consistent responses. Go look at the VZW boards, their answers are just as random.

Some guy said he looked up his preorder and it said the 16th, but it went back to "not available at this time." Which he speculated is because they didn't know the release date of the DNA and the Note II was originally going to be released on that date. That seems plausible too.

Another scary thing (seems to be most likely inaccurate) is they said the pre-orders will be fulfilled before corporate gets the devices. With the low stock issues other carriers are getting, i'm starting to be quite glad I did indeed pre-order.

Oh yeah, just fwiw, half of the things regarding my building and work were BS + i've already pre-ordered
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
That sounds like a reasonable assumption for the date getting pushed back. When you have a company as big as Verizon, the left hand doesn't always know what the right hand is doing.

lol I really wish I was making up stuff up the convoluted mess that my work is. I live/work at a University and Verizon does not understand that we have our own zipcode...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kimdoocheol:
Oh, you have to deal with all the campus codes and stuff, eh?

But while that is true, these people usually use their computers or meetings to get their info. it shouldn't be that hard if they put the same data on their computer network.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
Yeah. Normally I just get stuff shipped to our mail center, but Verizon does not have our zip in their database. Therefore, I am trying to get them to ship it to my [boss's] office. I have to add an attention line to do that and since it is still in the pre-order system, Verizon can't do that.

Verizon has been eerily quite about the Note 2. All the reasons for this aside, the result is a suppressed launch. From the outside looking in, it looks like the people that make all the decisions are not passing that information down the chain. Almost like the availability is "need to know". Either that, or Verizon is even more incompetent than we thought.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imnuts:
They really need to have both the Note 2 and DNA on shelves over Thanksgiving weekend to get good sales. There is only so long you can ride the pre-order wave and keep consumer interest, and one month is definitely over that time IMO.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
You sir have hit the nail on the head.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rapier-:
Well, I'm about to root my Sony Ericsson Xperia Active, but the Build Number is 4.0.2.A.0.62 and I'm about to flash into 4.0.2.A.0.42 and root using Flashtool (As being suggested from Xperia Community Thailand Facebook). So, I searched for some app in Google Play but only rooted phone seem to be able to backup App+Data. So, is there any way to backup App+Data on Unroot Android Device? Or maybe there are some method to root my phone without flash into 4.0.2.A.0.42?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shimp208:
Check out the app My Backup in the play store there is a non root version that backs up app and data.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rapier-:
But it said that

:confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shimp208:
I have used My Backup (Non root) and the root version many times both backup app+data just fine and restore it just fine as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pappaellio:
I changed my DPI (lcd resolution) from 320 to 270...

Now I get limited results in the Google Market.

What should I do?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] pappaellio:
bump

bump
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] thompsos:
http://bit.ly/T07Vdw

Try the third or fourth one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] funkeee:
Assuming you modified it via the build.prop, and the above fixes don't work for you, you'll need to restore the resolution back to what it was in the build.prop. Then clear the Google Play Store data and cache, and reboot. It will work for you after you start Google Play Store again.

That is one of the problems I faced on my G2, and I gave up using a different resolution for this very reason.
[Nexus 7 General] tomh1979:
It may just be me, but it seems like the quality of images and the color had taken a crap turn on 4.2. Pictures aren't as crisp and clear anymore, wtf.
[Nexus 7 General] PromaneX:
They look fine on mine...
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
wrong thread again
[Nexus 7 General] Wintergon:
I am going to say just you as my display looks as awesome as it has.
[Nexus 7 General] AndyBurns:
I think perhaps some of the wallpapers are a bit more lossy/noisy, but other than that it looks fine to me ...
[Nexus 7 General] tomh1979:
And that's what I mean, mine now looks like there is more noise, before I updated I didn't have this issue. :(
[Nexus 7 General] tomh1979:
OK after doing a little net viewing I started to notice that the bad image quality is really just on Facebook when using chrome browser, otherwise every other site is just fine including video, however wallpapers do seem to have way to much noise in then.
[Nexus 7 General] ingenious247:
Update completely ruined image quality. Gray wallpapers have HORRIBLE dithering (I think that's what it's called..)

Can't even use Gray gradients anymore. I'm pissed.
[Nexus 7 General] rayiskon:
Pictures on 4.2 are definitely better for me, better contrast and more saturated colors.
[Nexus 7 General] mertzi:
i'm with the op here. my first reaction when the installation was finished when seeing the standard 4.1 background was that it looks really really compressed with a lot of artefacts in the dark parts. but when looking at hi-def pictures in chrome it looks fine. I think they put the standard backgrounds in low quality by mistake.
[Windows 8 General] CubeCloudOS:
I have a z520 and wish to upgrade to a z560 and 2GB RAM so i can play Portal. Is it possible I know the risks and would still like to proceed. The RAM is also soldered to the motherboard.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
My Nook is 10.5 months old and I have recently noticed it only hold charge for 2-3 hours.

I am still running 1.40 and rooted so I could block OTA. I haven't done any other modifications to the tablet.

Is this a common problem? I need to charge this thing everyday now, where before I could go several days without recharge.

Thanks for the help.

Steve
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
haven't used stock in a long time, but is there an option to turn wifi off when the tablet goes to sleep? ur wifi might be sucking up power continuously if it doesn't shut off.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Yes, that is correct, Wifi can be switch off. And I have done that. But the drain has become very significant.

I am considering going for a warranty repair, but my guess I will get a refurb with another weak battery, and hassled because I have rooted and blocked OTA.

Are most folks just running off their chargers?

If folks have bad batteries are they replacing them themselves?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
you can attempt to request for a new nook tablet placement. After two refurbished replacements with the same problem as my original NT. they sent me a new Nook Tablet and so far so good. It's worth a shot.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Came off the island today and went to the big green city. Stopped at BN and did some talking with them and also to the service center at the same time. The service center said they would send me a refurb. My 3-4hour of run time is way under the 11.5 hours you should get for the e-reader mode only. That fella felt like the battery developes memory and needed to be fully discarded to combat that occurring. I can not find any technical document that supports this idea. There are not NiCad batteries.

Anyway if I send my tablet in I will end up with 1.4.3 instead of 1.4.0.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vector2nds:
When you get your replacement

Once you get your replacement, it's a good idea not to charge it until it show very low percentage on any nicad rechargeable batteries. When you charge it, don't remove it from the charger until it reaches 100%. Also don't have a habit of plugin it in when finish using it, plan ahead so that you can have a fully discharge battery before recharging. Your NT battery charge will hold a lot longer threw time if you do it this way. You also can try this app to see if it works.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Good advise, thanks,

I put in some effort to side load the battery stats reset software and found a application call: Battery HD. I loaded this app instead. It provides a graph of the charge and discharge rate. From the graph I can see that my battery is OK. I became aware of some funnies going on when I woke up at 3 am and saw the display on. With the discharge rate as specified I now believe I have some application causing me trouble. I don't have much on the table, Titanium, MX video, Amazon apps.

I shut the unit off last night and it came back right to the same charge. Tonight I will leave it on and check the graph to see if there was an load and when. The application has a gross report on the power used separated by function instead of application. It also has a calibration test that tests the three main functions and reports the discharge rate.

Anyway, I will post what the nightly current hog is if I can find it.

Steve
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tmjohnsonfse:
My friends NT has been having issue with screen turning on by itself. Seemed to narrow it down to aldiko app. Not sure why it's happening. Performed a clean install of CM7 and issue came back. I keep thinking it's hardware related, trying to convince him to try a different ROM, but he's stuck on using CM7. If you find a reason for your tablet screen turning on let us know so maybe I can help him get his issue resolved. Thanks...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rete:
That's actually bad advice for any lithium based battery - like the NT's lithium ion battery. LiON batteries don't like to be fully discharged and they don't like heat, especially heat when they are fully charged. That means avoid full discharges and avoid charging it to full every time, and do charge the battery more frequently (keeping the charge level between 20% and 80% for example). Partial discharge on LiON is just fine; they don't suffer memory effect.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vector2nds:
Yeaper

I have said it in past post, I need glasses. I totally missed this part while reading "There are not NiCad batteries" the word not always gets me.:oSorry about that sgschwend. I did not even know, thanks for the info update.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Well, I always appreciate advice, my view is that it becomes a starting point and it is up to the reader to combine it with a working course of action.

As to phantom startup/turnons I checked last night and there wasn't one. I will continue till I find it. The summary screen does say what type of application is turning on so that should help. The only gotcha will be if the battery application changes how the tablet works to the point that the issue will not occur. I don't think this is very likely.

The battery application (battery HD) makes a nice graph so you can look at the slope and see what is going on, it also lists the run time for various activities based on the current battery charge. Interesting to note the Nook charger overcharges a bit and the battery does warm up some. When it cools down the charge is just under 100%. This is not an ideal situation, it would be better for the charger to slow to a point that the battery temperature is not elevated near the end of its cycle. Splitting hairs perhaps. My discharge rate matches the tablets specs even with the battery application running.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Second day of monitoring the device operated correctly. I did check and found that I have a Titanium backup batch job setup to run every day a 3 am. Which coincides with time I observed the device display turning on. I will move the time and see if the issue moves too.

Steve
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] hwong96:
Also turn off push notifications that certain apps have. They suck up a lot of battery. Install the Better Battery Stats app (search xda for it). Won't have to pay unless you want to. Monitor the partial wake locks to determine what apps are using battery during sleep.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] frazom:
I have a similar problem, i got a nook with cm7 and the battery doesn't last at all, i charged it yesterday and let it all night without touching it to see how long would it last and after 12 hours i got 30% and it says 70% of the battery was drained by the andoid os, it says that the processor was working for 2hrs!

i got it and stared looking for an answer to this problem and in less than 10 min it has drained 4% of the total charge, this didn't happened with the stock firmware so I'm thinking about trying jelly bean and if it doesn't get better i will have to go back to the stock firmware :(
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
Hwong, I think you hit it on the head. Last evening my NookT had a much higher current draw, loosing 20% in 12 hours. I saw this when I checked it a midnight. I had left the Nook with the battery monitor application in the graph mode, likely running as an active application instead of a "monitor" mode. Titanium Backup did run last night but it runs for such a short period it did not even show up on the graph.

So I really don't know which application or notification is causing me a problem but the issue I have had is like loosing 20% of my battery in a 6-8 hour period. Which to me looks like an application is running that shouldn't and the time I observed the screen on would do it too. As I started this post I am still on 1.4.0, rooted, OTA blocked with hidden commands.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] frazom:
I did a hard factory reset and wipped the caché, now my nook has been charged for 2 days on sleep mode with the wifi on.

I believe the problem was caused by an application, i believe it was the launcher and theme i was used, i re-installed it yesterday and the tablet started to drain battery quickly again so i cleaned the data used by them and uninstalled them.

The battery monitor widget use to say my battery would last 2 hrs of video playing, now it says it should last 8:30, closer to the 9hrs promissed by B&N.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] sgschwend:
It all about old sins. I found that I was jumping around in the normal Nook UI and not using the back button. So several things were still running in the background. Even though that little darling looks the same, that background stuff is a killer. I did a quick test with the battery monitor by leaving it in the graphic mode and sure enough the discharge rate went up 400%, just a dumb graph in the background plotting Voltage versus time. When I use the back button on the application graph, the current draws goes to near zero.

It really does a nice job of standby or sleep.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Vector2nds:
Maybe this will help.

You could use titanium backup to freeze the apps that you think could be causing more than usual battery drain and maybe narrow the issue down?:fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 7 General] Turbotab:
For anybody wanting to try out stock 4.2 from a custom ROM, Google have updated their factory images.

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Android 4.2 (JOP40C)

Great guide how to use fastboot to flash the factory image by Comminus

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1907796
[Nexus 7 General] ridearoundsolo:
So how do these work? I'm on cm10 but don't want to restore backup then wait for ota/or flash the update
[Nexus 7 General] turdbogls:
Just give it a day. souce also just dropped on AOSP so the custom ROM's should start flowing later today.

i REALLY wish i had the know-how to do this. i would love to build an AOSP ROM myself, but i am pretty dumb outside of using a custom recovery to flash a ROM....lol
[Nexus 7 General] ridearoundsolo:
Haha same here
[Nexus S General] Viadanna:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-building/-ymcoMuDAbA
[Nexus S General] cpaixao:
Thats just because any Nexus device will receive any update later than 18 months since it has been release. Last update 4.1.2 occurred on august (19m), so no more updates.
[Nexus S General] alen1901:
Ok, devs, start porting. :p
[Nexus S General] _Drifter_:
Relax, there's a post by JBQ saying that he can't comment Nexus S and Xoom, so maybe is a little hope for us
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
F***K Google if they'll stop supporting Nexus S! They know that the device can perfectly handle 4.2 but for their f*****g commercial reasons they'll not do it! Hate that policy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Nexus S General] deltatux:
XDA Developers ... start your engines ... Ready, set, PORT!
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
Okay, they can port 4.2 to Nexus S. However, that will not be as powerful as AOSP.
[Nexus S General] deltatux:
How do you figure? Android 4.2 doesn't look that different than Android 4.1 except the dual pull down notification menus, updated apps, lock screen widgets and some security features. To be honest, I've seen ICS ports done on Froyo-only devices like the LG Optimus G2x (P999) and they work fine with only a camera bug.

It won't be as clean as AOSP but performance should be pretty good. Hell, there are Nexus One devices running Jelly Bean as we speak. Google said there wasn't enough internal storage to do it but it's being done.

deltatux
[Nexus S General] moloy1978:
What we have seen so far is that 4.2 is not a major upgrade ... though we may have many changes :o . when JB can run on nexus one why not on nexus s. Lets hope for best :D

Debashish
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
You affirmed my idea ;).
[Nexus S General] dsaha78:
bad google ;)
[Nexus S General] revamper:
CM10.1 will bring 4.2 to this phone.
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
You have reason, yes for sure, however, Google policy is bad, very bad for not providing AOSP!
[Nexus S General] deltatux:
You said that it won't perform as well, not that it won't be clean lol.

deltatux
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
If we have NOT a clear ROM(non AOSP) comparing to a clear ROM(AOSP) so the second one will absolutely perform well and better ;) :D.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
If Google officially supported the way the Nexus One runs JB I would go buy a Windows 8 phone tomorrow.. It's great for the adventurous end user but re-partitioning SD cards to cram an OS onto a phone would be insanity for any legitimate company to actually support as a viable means of maintaining a device.

Fact is, JB struggles on the Nexus S. It is NOT `buttery' and never has been. Is it acceptable? In most cases. But you have to look at it from Googles view.. They can't keep supporting a device that is walking the fine line between a usable consumer product or a usable toy for a tech nerd to fiddle with.
[Nexus S General] madd0g:
I think Google kinda forgot that the Nexus was somehow a developer phone. Who cares about photosphere and facelock consumer crap?
[Nexus S General] aladin6:
Okay, i admit, i'm very poor in English :D.

I just want to undersand that sentence :D :
[Nexus S General] nikolas60:
here is the google factory image from gnexus https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/takju-jop40c-factory-1a47c890.tgz enjoy cooking
[Nexus S General] Logomotph:
Although JB does run on a nexus one, it's not particularly fast or smooth. It's there mainly to prove it can be done and because people like a challenge, but it's not particularly usable.

We don't actually know what's new in the core of 4.2 and if the NS can actually run it, until someone ports it. We may end up having the same problem as the Galaxy S. Samsung didn't officially update it to ICS because there simply wasn't enough RAM left after installing TouchWiz. I don't like to say it, but the Nexus S is kind of at the end of its life (update-wise).

Some of the features in 4.2 would be nice....the new camera app, quick settings...and we'll probably get them, but through a custom rom.
[Nexus S General] madd0g:
Another idiot who doesn't know the ROM / RAM difference.
[Nexus S General] Logomotph:
Has it ever occurred to your genius that 4.2 might use just enough more RAM than 4.1 to leave too little free RAM for user apps? On a stock ROM, even 20mb less free RAM is a lot. If it's a RAM problem, a bigmem kernel might solve the issue.

douche.
[Nexus S General] Articudos:
Do u think google is going to add highbigmem in official stock kernel?:p
[Nexus S General] Killasmoke:
It doesn't look good for are Nexus S getting 4.2 officially but with CM cooking up custom Rom we should get it. I just got it on my Nexus 7 & it's pretty nice smooth & fast. I like having the ability for multiple user accounts lock screen widgets are alright the new keyboard is very sweet :)
[Nexus S General] chupchip:
BWAHAHAHA! I'm pretty sure that we will get it via CyanogenMod anyway.