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[Galaxy Note II General] fahad2mail:
It is actually a phone plus tablet. Before buying this, used s3 as phone and nexus 7 as tab. Now only using this.

Pros

Massive 5.5 inch non pentile super amoled display.

Ultimate device for watching video on a smartphone. Lots of function, popup, subtite search, color and contrast and sound changing option, if u hover s pen it will show u preview or can show u still pic of the video if u hover it over video timeline.

S pen make your life easier. Can take note when receiving call, can draw something, can give command to call someone or open an app like camera or fm radio. Can write something and phone will detect. Kinda remind me of nokia 5800, n97. Love it.

Battery. Its really impressive. Can last whole day if you are a power user. For normal user it will last 2 days for sure. 2g 3g 4g does not matter.

Sound quality and photo and video are top notch.

Lots of customizations. Can even create your own vibration!

Muti tasking is awesome. Can open two apps simultaneously. Needed for busy people.

Cons

Cant use single handedly. I do not know how some people said they can but I can't!

Touch wiz is like cwrtoonish its not matured like htc sence or sexy like sony's one.

Though s pen adds many functionality but you can go without it. But if u used to pda and nokia n series you will welcome it.

5.5 inch on 720p. Its less then s3. Even more less then z or one or g pro.

No matter what cons is, I love it. Trust me, you wun regret it. I am kind of ppl who do not like big panel. Used xperia mini pro, e6, live with walkmen, curve. But samsung forced me to change that view. They not only made big panel, also adds usability I cant argue.
[Galaxy Note II General] Elvecio:
I love the battery. Just the battery.

If there were some other phones with that battery life and AOSP roms, i would never buy the Note. The Touchwiz UI is laggy (i came from the completely smooth iOS) and is rich of totally useless gimmicks like smart stay, the hubs and so much more. I mean, Messages app is laggy. Come on.

On top of that, the screen is really too big and unconfortable, default DPI is too high, the camera isn't very great and so on.

I tried a Nexus 4 some weeks ago. On that device Android was SO PERFECT. Smooth, responsive. My God.

Unfortunately, battery life was totally worse than the Note. And i didn't like the speaker: unbalanced, low volume, and positioned in the worst place of the phone.

So, i'm still here with the note.
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
[MENTION=4939480]Elvecio[/MENTION] - have you tried out Project AOSP? It's as close to stock UI it can get and you can keep all the touchwiz features. Try it out. Most custom roms are extremely smooth. You can get stock messaging app/camera etc. too. Have zero lag, I mean literally, zero lag (except the few seconds immediately after booting or a nanosecond after deep sleep wake).

And DPI, you can easily change via LCD_Density if not with Xposed framework (per app dpi) or Paranoid android ROM (don't prefer AOSP Roms though).
[Galaxy Note II General] Elvecio:
Yep, i tried a large number of roms (project AOSP included) and none of them are completely ok.

Now i'm trying the aosp rom SentinelROM and i'm pretty satisfied. It's a shame that s-pen can't work here.
[Galaxy Note II General] AcostaJA:
I hate: TouchWiz and the home button, I prefer virtual home button as on the nexus, in general I would like it to be as stock Android as possible w/o need to root an install AOKP.

Also the speaker behind, much better is the HTC one.

Bth the note 2 stoll the best phone ever despite the Galaxy S4 and all it whistles and bells, the note 2 still the one with everything thing is compared, the new Icon by own right.

Sent From my Un-Rooted GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
What's wrong with Project AOSP? That lags for you too? Wow it's absolutely smooth for me. Which kernel do you use?
[Galaxy Note II General] dazza7111:
Love everything at the minute cos just got it but only thing annoying is not being able to use the s pen for the back and menu buttons but can use spen button and ^< draw commands instead. :)
[Galaxy Note II General] bullseye69:
Lol I can't stand when ppl try and say ios is so smooth never lags. My daughter has used the iphone since the 3g to the 5 and yes ios does lag and freeze here and there and it does have the apps crash. Apple just makes it look like it don't. Every few days or so my daughter comes to me because her iphone is acting up. But its your opinion to my opinion.

Anyway I love all on my note 2 and I dont get any lags. I am using dualcore rom and redpill kernel. Works great.
[Galaxy Note II General] LordLugard:
Folks complaining about animation lag and etc in TWiz, have you turned of animation effects in developer options?

That's the first thing I always deselect. Oh, and I might be the only person on earth who has no problem with TWiz. Love it. Also, use Apex launcher as well.

Wished S-Pen worked with capacitive buttons but that's a generational thing. Wasn't available when Note 2 launched but future devices will have it (Note 8, N3 etc).

Have no problem with plastic (could have been matte rather than glossy). Have a nice slim body glove matte TPU case on it, so whether it was made of metal, aluminium or adamantum I'd still have a case on it. I don't go about dropping my phone just to have a reason to complain about its durability.

Could do without all the "booply" nature sounds. Thankfully can all be turned off.

Screen is a bit dimmer than S3 side by side, but still super gorgeous nonetheless.

Once again, I might be the only person in the world who LOVES the home button. Have it set to answer calls when pressed. Loved it on the S3, glad they kept it here.

Stock Samsung keyboard needs auto correct. For now, I prefer my combination of stock 4.2 keyboard and Thumb Keyboard 4.

Thank you Samsung.
[Galaxy Note II General] AcostaJA:
All We Agre: NO BODY LIKES TOUCH WIZ.... (HEY SAMSUNG GUYS, YOU READ IT?)
[Galaxy Note II General] sos_sifou:
I bought it from UK, i can't replace it nor I can use my warranty.

Best regards

Sifou

Using a Samsung N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] AbraKdabra:
I love the size, I (freaking) love the stylus, really, I feel more comfortable using the phone with it than with my fingers.

I hate the size (sometimes, mostly when I'm at bed by my side and have to use it with one hand), I hate the physical button placement and sensivity, I unlock it every time I put it on my pocket (and even when I just take it with my hand, I'm still used to my Atrix with those hard-to-press buttons).

I love all the rest, it's an AMAZING phone, my Atrix looks like a toy now (specially the screen, eww qHD, I've been living a lie for 21 months...), and I also miss the hard brick Milestone 1, compared to te N2, it feels so fragile haha.
[Galaxy Note II General] Goodm7sn:
Love the battery.

Despise the physical home button.
[Galaxy Note II General] Iriseyoufall:
I agree totally with you. Also the built-quality of the phone could be better. I mean, it has alot of plastic :P
[Galaxy Note II General] bushako:
your opinion contradict each other. you love and you hate the size.lol which one is it?

my only problem is the finishing of the phone. I love everything about the front display panel but hate how sensetive the phone feels overall, especially the slight creeking when you get if you grip it a bit hard.
[Galaxy Note II General] Ry2mkk:
A few things that slightly annoy me about the phone

- Its made of plastic..they need to take a leaf from apple and make the phone feel more like the premium device it is !

-Samsung, need to make their TouchWiz Widgets work outside of touchwiz, within Apex for example !

-They used the same GPU ( simply overlocked it ) why not stick the Adreno inside !!

Thats all that i could think of, however the rest of ther phone is simply amazing. Best phone ive ever owned !
[Galaxy Note II General] MarkHerm:
Love it... the only thing that could be improved imo is the screen resolution and some Samsung Touch Vis' menus could be improved for making use of the big display.
[Galaxy Note II General] mightbme:
My battery sucks....equivalent of my GS2.

I wish that the Spen worked with the capacitive buttons.

Speaker sucks, but I've not come across a decent phone speaker before.

I dig the size, spen, multi screen, power.

With a good quality case, the body is fine....relatively light, but without one it feels fairly fragile.
[Galaxy Note II General] miljbee:
I Like :

Battery Life

Responsiveness

Screen Colors, contrast,

the spen

the camera

I don't like:

All the buttons

Stock android soft controls are so much better

I would prefer the power button on top

The quick settings in the notification shade : I never use them, it takes up space for nothing
[Galaxy Note II General] Haplok:
I just love the screen! Both its size (helps A LOT in productivity, like Excel, in browsing and in gaming, particularly if using on-screen controls) and quality is just awesome. Really like AirView - the fact its there, when I need it. Like the possibility to take notes with the SPen during calls, etc. Also I'm quite fond of the build - feels very sturdy and solid in my hand and the Titanium Gray texture is actually quite elegant, I find. I find the battery life sort of average - but I'm sure I'd hate it in most other phones. Maybe I need to cut some background processes down.

What I hate:

Touchwiz icons, widgets, colors, style, DPI, laggy lockscreen. Fortunately most of these things can be customized.

Samsung not disclosing Exynos sources. Note 2 burning my microSD card (or was it a coincidence?).
[Galaxy Note II General] Gede:
What I don't like about this phone is that there is no reason to buy something else.

I like unpacking things. :(
[Galaxy Note II General] CreepyDroid:
I like

battery life + ability to use spare batteries

screen size

the 2 gigs of ram, feels awesome not having to clear the ram every day

I hate

uninspired design

no black option + ugly grey which pushed me into getting the white one despite not being a fan of white phones

the menu button ewww

I have CM10.1 on it with the menu button remapped to multitasking and the experience is great. I'm still in love with my phone (which I got on september 29th) and neither of the current flagships looks worth spending 600€ to "upgrade" from my note 2. I really hope that the Note 3 won't be any bigger or else I will have a really hard time choosing my nnext phone.
[Galaxy Note II General] g0tch:
I, like many others, love mine. But, am I the only one who wishes for a recessed on / off button? Too easy to catch it when you don't want to.
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
Either you have a faulty battery, or something's draining your battery terribly. Because that's nowhere near acceptable.

Flash Perseus (or Neak/Redpill) to get better sound of the speakers.
[Galaxy Note II General] mightbme:
Thanks....yeah I'm using perseus....stweak and poweramp....it's just the nature of tinny speakers(and tiny too)....:rolleyes:

I'm running juice defender and greenify, which make a massive difference when it's off, but 3g and screen just suck it fast...it's been like that since day one. I've tried stock, redpill, perseus...using ARHD 16 ROM now with about lot of bloat frozen.....anyway, plenty of other threads for that....back on topic and sorry folks :D
[Galaxy Note II General] armydc:
i like spen ofcourse

but camera quality not enough
[Galaxy Note II General] kangerX:
o.O
[Galaxy Note II General] Elsydeon:
Coming from a Nexus 4:

Likes:

Battery life...huge difference as I anticipated. 8 hours of idling dropped my battery by only 4%, whereas it would've dropped it 10% or more on the Nexus 4

S-pen...I use this more for navigating than writing/drawing. It's nice to be able to use the phone without getting the screen all oily and smudged.

Airview...very cool, futuristic-like feature. Even trippier when you trick the digitizer by holding in the S-pen tip, and use your fingers to do the hovering.

Large screen...self explanatory. Holding the Nexus 4 makes it seem so dinky now.

Dislikes:

Capacitive buttons...really, really hate that their order is reversed from every single other Android phone. The 5 Sonys/Motorolas/Nexus phones I've used previously all had it arranged as Back, Home, and Menu, as dictated by Android standards. The Samsung arrangement has me pressing the wrong button all the time to go back...really wish they'd just follow the Android standard here for once. Also really hate that you can't tap the capacitive buttons with the S-pen, this makes for a jarring experience between navigating with the S-pen, and then having to do some finger twisting to hit the back button by hand. Having to draw a back arrow symbol to go back by S-pen is just plain irritating. For both of these reasons, would really love to be able to get AOSP onscreen buttons somehow.

Speed...every review goes off about how fast the Note II is, but I was very surprised to see upon initial usage that it has quite a bit of navigation stutters and lags around its UI compared to the Nexus 4, with or without a 3rd party launcher. This was made even more apparent after I cleaned up the Nexus 4 and reset it...the Nexus 4 feels absolutely blazing fast compared to the Note II. Just trying to run the Nexus Rain live wallpaper at 30 FPS between the two reveals that while it's perfectly smooth on the Nexus 4, it has considerable stuttering on the Note II. I'm guessing this is somehow down to the GPU on the Note II being not as good.

Screen sharpness...I was anticipating this already, but the reality is harsher than I expected. Wallpapers that would normally look nice and sharp on all of my previous phones now look very banded and pixelated on the Note II's screen. It has been a challenge to find wallpapers that remain sharp on the Note II's screen.

S-pen button...just a personal preference, but I do wish the button was situated just a bit higher up on the body. When using it to navigate, I tend to hold the pen higher up, and then because I have to draw a dang arrow to navigate back, I have to shift my grip back down to hit the button.
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
What? Are you sure the wallpaper pixelation isn't due to the lower resolution wallpapers? Because you need high resolution wallpaper (not just 1280x720) for it to not get pixelated. My screen looks pretty darn sharp to me - and I have an iPad just besides me, plus owned HOX previously (which still has one of the best displays around).
[Galaxy Note II General] Elsydeon:
I'm using pics that are 2560x1600 or higher. All of these looked really sharp on the Nexus 4, but it's luck of the draw as to which ones come out ok on the Note 2. I also understand that the ideal resolution to use is 1280 x 1440 on the Note 2, but most of the ones I've tried come out looking pretty bad. I'm also using Image 2 Wallpaper to set the wallpaper, as the stock gallery cropper would pretty much make all of these wallpapers look way too zoomed in. Even if the wallpaper looks relatively sharp, I still see some awful color banding issues, especially where there's light shades of gray.
[Galaxy Note II General] tuxonhtc:
Oh for that, just flash perseus if you're rooted. Enable master sequence and registry hook - and you're good to go. It's the awful calibration of samsung at work - I know what you mean.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejj3:
My Rom version is 4.2.2. And I have upgraded the toolkit to v4.3.9, the latest one.

I was able to unlock the bootloader. However, I couldn't root my Nexus 7.

Nexus 7 gets stuck at "booting the downloaded image", while the toolkit was showing "Waiting for adb Mode".

Luckily, the Nexus 7 wasn't bricked though. I was able to boot into the official image, by holding the power button for a long time.

I tried many times with different options in the Toolkit. Still got no luck. Many suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
Dont waste any more time with toolkits. take 5 minutes to learn how to do it manually
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejj3:
[MENTION=2775921]Pirateghost[/MENTION], is there any good guide for this? Most of google search results point to this toolkit.

It is working now. I had to run Windows on the bare metal of my macbook. It won't work when Windows is running within a virtual machine.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwilpstra:
Now that your N7 is already unlocked, all you need is a recovery... Download this: http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.3.1-grouper.img

Also make sure that you have the android sdk installed. It's easy enough to find.

Open the platform-tools folder, hold shift and right click; then choose "open command window here"

Make sure that your N7 is rebooted into the bootloader and run the command "fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img" replacing recoveryname with the name of the recovery.

After that, follow the instructions to flash any custom rom or supersu from recovery... I'm sure that there are more detailed instructions elsewhere, but that's all you really need at the moment...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirateghost:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1907796

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2150661

And you DONT need windows to use fast boot or adb

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
Can anyone offer some advice as to how to dissuade someone with buying an iPhone? You see, our whole family is switching to T-mobile (cheaper + unlimited data) and my technophobic mother is determined to switch to the iPhone. We currently have three Verizon Fascinates, Mom's being on TSM Resurrection. It's still on GB because Mom hates the stock 4.0+ phone app is if it were the bubonic plague (no idea why). The main reason that she dislikes her phone is that it doesn't work with her car. That's right, BMW uses some sort of @#?$?! proprietary bluetooth standard that is supported by exactly zero samsung phones and like two htc phones, but works perfectly with apple devices. Also, she has an iPad 2 that she uses daily. So, I guess my questions are:

1. Does anyone know some sort of patch/workaround to make a fascinate/any other Samsung work with BMW bluetooth?

2. If not, how else can I convince her to get something besides an iPhone (she tried and disliked Blackberry)?

Posted from my Galaxy Tab 2 with CM10.1
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crawshayi:
I don't understand why you care so much... is she forcing you to switch to an iphone too or will she let you stay with android? It sounds to me like she likes how the apple ecosystem is, so honestly I would just let her do what she wants. It sounds to me like you've already explained to her the differences between them, and if she's determined to get an iphone there's really not much you're going to be able to say to convince her otherwise. The best you could really do is just buy a top end android yourself (Galaxy S4 or HTC One) and let her watch you do all the cool things her iphone can't. I have no idea about the BMW bluetooth, sorry.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
Basically there're two reasons that her getting an iPhone is bad. One is that I already do all her tech support for her Fascinate, and I'm not too keen on having to set up and fix an iPhone. Two, then we would have to deal with a whole nother app ecosystem. We would have to rebuy certain apps and search for IOS equivalents, and few apps we found on one would apply to the other.

Posted from my Galaxy Tab 2 with CM10.1
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Megadoug13:
Alright here is where I think this is a pointless argument... Android and iOS have major differences but also are similar, marked and apps isn't much different. IPhone atleast has a media center that works and is organized, one thing I loved about apple, but there is only few reasons why someone should choose android over iPhone. Either you just like android or you know what android is... An open source OS. I only switched to android because I like modifying and hacking... Being with at&t and HTC I really feel like I'm screwed now. I can't do what I want and what my intentions with android were for. But that means I need to spend $700 on a developer model phone instead of upgrading. Let your mom/parents choose what they want. IPhone and iPods are easy maintenance. Android is really for developers and people who like cheap phones
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
Thanks for your input guys. I got her to compromise on a non-apple device when I realized something I'd been missing all this time--the fact that she tethers her phone to her iPad on a daily basis. I told her that since she didn't want me jailbreaking her iPhone, there likely wasn't a way to tether it. After that, she agreed to get another Android.

Posted from my Fascinate using XDA Premium
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Megadoug13:
You can tether your iPhone without jailbreaking..... Or is that only for the at&t iPhone's?
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbrad:
Yea but you got to pay a extra like 30$ a month it doesn't matter he won the battle DISCUSSION OVER ANDROID ALWAYS WINS :p
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Megadoug13:
you dont have to pay any extra...
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MultipleMonomials:
But this is t-mobile, and when I said "tethering" I meant "tethering without paying any extra $ to the carrier". It doesn't really matter though.

Posted from my Fascinate using XDA Premium
[HTC EVO 3D] mulamustafa:
My GSM EVO 3D has broken display, so will Sprint's display work on a GSM version?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanp1983:
Hi all, just a quick one, does anyone know how to set a custom text tone? I've got an mp3 file, I've messed around with file explorer and placed it in media, audio, notifications and also created a notifications folder but it's still not being recognized in the settings as a choice for notifications.

I'm not rooted.

It's odd because I can see the Facebook pop sound in the notifications folder I'm trying to put this file in.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanp1983:
Ps-original file I'm trying to use is a voice memo if that makes any difference
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steveh552:
I downloaded some sounds off zedge and had to move them to the /media/notification folder and they did not show up, after restarting my device they were there.

______

Sent from my mobile device
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanp1983:
Cheers Steve. Not sure why it wouldn't let me do it directly
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Pocket Me:
The traditional way to switch the radio on/off is very not convenient! We have to tap on icon in taskbar, wait for appearance of bubble and then tap on the tiny text "Turn Wireless On/Off" in the bubble.

Is there simple way to switch the radio on/off manually? E.g: a small software can toggle the radio on or off every times we run it?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] HTC:
Hi there...

Hope this will help ya. I suggest to put it somewhere on your Start Menu, it was made really silent to help you on avoiding extra graphics ;)

ps: didn't have enough time, so it might be buggy
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Nuno.Cardoso:
Change the application to switch from ON 2 OFF and from OFF

Hi.

Could please change(or send me the source code???) the aplication, to work like a Phone Switch, whenever you run the application, it will change from Radio On to Radio Off and if you run it again will change from Radio Off to On.

thank you,

Nuno Cardoso.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Tekflow:
Hey, nice tool!

It does switch radio OFF and ON when you tap on the icon.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Pocket Me:
ya, thanks to HTC very much, this is really what I need.