Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

You guys should post your Note home screens and such. I'm sure you guys have good stuff.

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Hell why not? :)

https://p.twimg.com/AregEwRCEAAF7Bb.png

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@debranardis Nice! Where do you get that wallpaper?
Seems like ICS uses up a bit more memory. Does this effect performance of ubuntu. I plan to install it later today.

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Wallpaper is https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...dhbGxwYXBlciJd

Ubuntu on ICS seems not different from GB. Not that quick, not that slow.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

this could be an alternative for galaxy note
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Panasonic Eluga Power

http://androidos.in/wp-content/uploa...lack_right.jpg

features
5inch 720p display
9.6mm thick
1.5GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Android 4.0
8MP rear camera 1080p@30fp
dust proof/Water proof up to 1 meter and 30 minutes
battery can reach 50% charge in just 30 minutes.

source

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

over the last years have bought a new phone every 6 month, all with different OSes. The last one I bought back in Nov last year is called galaxy note. what i discovered when I had used it for a few weeks was that it is so great that i dont need to buy a new one anymore. still 6 month after. nothing can compete with it in web expreiance. I'm not buying note 2 or other copycats with that formfactor that will pop up after the success of the note. If you want phone that is amazing...just buy the Note.

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i know most of members wont agree with me,but i like the AT&T-Note(i717) Design very much.. i know that its not as powerful as international Note(i7000) but still..

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if someone doesn't know there are two galaxy note's i7000 & i717

i hope t-mobile version releases with design of AT&T i717 + Exynos :)

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Are you looking for file transfer between android and desktop? sorry, if I did not read the whole thread. I am still using winSCP and has been satisfy with it. Or, lately I found FXexplore, from GooglePlay, they interacted with my winXP like a native win machine, file transfer or streaming video seemlessly.

bun

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Anyone have any news about any update for galaxy note, including some of the stuff packed in galaxy III? Would be nice to get wake-while-watching-you function.

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My problems was connecting ICS to Ubuntu but, in order:
1) I had to deinstall the Ice Cream Sandwich update because there's a bug (most likely in kernel) which bricks the device;
2) anyway, ICS update had (buried inside its menus) the old usb guest connectivity,

So, no problem: I can connect but I'm back to Gingerbread now until the bug gets ironed out ;)

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I've just discovered that with ICS, my Note while on stand by almost does not use any power at all.

I've just seen the battery consumption graphic during the night and it's a perfect flat line.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

@debranardis Does this bug brick Notes without custom roms. I just did the basic rooting recommended by Dr Ketan so I could run Ubuntu or Debian. So far experience has been very good. Hate to revert back...

@isolano I made a similar observation this morning. I had just charged the Note and decided to not turn it off when I went to sleep. When I woke up battery was at 98 %!

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The so-called "superbrick" bug happens when wiping a partition under some ICS firmwares, including the stock German LPY firmware, and maybe (still uncertain) the Taiwanese LPF.
It seems that the majority of EMMC chips in these devices are partially faulty and issuing a certain bulk erase command (which it seems ICS does and GB does not) the EMMC gets damaged. Someone could restore by repartitioning, some others had their partitions so damaged that nothing could be done.

I wouldn't have reverted if I hadn't to go to a congress where the Note will be my only device for taking notes, making presentations and consulting pdf's.
I think I'll risk again when I'm back.

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The problem is this is happening from the kernel, not the ROM itself.
And since CWM is only a light front, its not really happenning on boot....which means you can BRICK your device while loaded in Android.

Entropy said its a very rare occurance, but under heavy I/O operations it wouldn't be impossible to replicate. Also that the bug is actually a feature from the AOSP which Samsung have accidentally enabled, that its always in the kernel. So if you wiped or flashed via CWM and didn't BRICK, it doesn't mean you don't have the bug it just means you got lucky...but your next flash can be the lethal one.

While its serious, and I have no idea how it even made it into an Official Update....there's many members spreading fud in the forums. I've come under personal attack because I warned some members because two "knowitalls" said if they developer cooks a rom with it he knows what he is doing and its safe *facepalm*

I'd recommend people to stay away from the LPY kernel.
LPF hasn't had any bricks (so far) that I know of, but I don't think its safe (since it was released close timing with the GER ota).
The safest is the Gingerbread kernels, i91004 kernel (CM9 nightly) or Abyss.

Also don't flash the LPF bootloader. Flashing bootloaders is extremely dangerous and should only be done if there's missing features. Since the stock Samsung bootloader works like a charm, there shouldn't be anyone flashing and putting themselves at pointless risk.

On good news, PARANOIDANDROID is available for the N7000.
What it is, is an AOSP based rom (cm9 nightlies) which sets the pixel density (dpi) at tablet mode but at highest possible setting = 213 dpi.
Then it has its own ROM Control, where you can select these awesome options:
- Set a custom dpi for ANY App, so each app is different (eg Carousel YouTube, large phone, dual-window Settings, dual-window Gmail etc etc)
- Select if the Notification Bar is visible for ANY app (so that you can hide it for some apps, or bring it forth for others eg angry birds)
....
....
..So its not tablet mode, its not phone mode...its a hybrid and you have all the choices, its what the NOTE needs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1662802

Bad points about the ROM:
-based on CM9 nightlies
-bugs bugs bugs
-unoptimized kernel
-no UI options like AOKP ROM (Stunner/LiquidSmooth)

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

http://www.becausewemay.com/play.html

if anyone like games? take a look.

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The superbrick bug only leads to one conclusion:

Samsung isn't better than Nokia making software and is the community who keep doing the hard software work.

Both Nokia and Samsung only cares for buying the more expensive devices the better.

Regards.

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I'm in the process of reinstalling (3rd time) ICS LPY with CFRoot LPF Kernel.
Now making nandroid backup, by CWM, of my perfectly working Gingerbread filesystem.
Why do I do? Dunno. Tinkering. I know, it's risky. I like it.
Wish me good luck. I promise I won't wipe.

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Good luck, bro!

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After tasting ice cream sandwich I just can't go back to gingerbead. Good luck debranardis...

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No need to use leaked ICS kernel (lp1, lp5, lp6) which are not fully stable/supported.
No need to brick your beast with the official ICS kernels (lpy, lpf, lp9) which have the infamous bug.

Samsung has finally responded (did I mention it took too long) and they've Open Sourced the ICS kernels. Now custom kernel development has started. Soon you'll see:
- root, busybox available during flashing.
- no mmc bugs, all working functions.
- new drivers.
- absolute stability.
- possibly new interesting projects.

And obviously the ROMs will then follow suit, eg:
- AOKP with ParanoidAndroid features

Its not correct to give ETA, but the new kernels should be ready in 1-2 weeks and the custom roms in 3-4 weeks. I believe that's not such a long wait, certainly enough to stick with Gingerbread or Stunner and not risk brick.

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Wow, this is great news !

Does it also mean that we could finally have an Android device with a USB host port, that supports streaming digital audio through USB ?...

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Here is what is going on concerning the infamous emmc bricking bug:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=26521643

We have a faulty firmware aboard :-(

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Chrome beta has N9 style tab switching. Would probably never notice if I wasn't addicted to swiping...

Edit: works best with the stylus. I can't swipe consistently with finger.

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Ok, I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I want a Note. I assume most folks here are on the N7000 not the AT&T flavor. Anyone know where to buy one for a decent price or is $530 USD about as low as they go?

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First kernels from third-part developers are out, and said to be free from the emmc bug :-)
I am now writing from Franco kernel r3 which has clockworkmod... There is also Speedmod kernel but still without clovkworkmod.
So far, so good ;-)

EDIT: after 24h+ of testing I would choose Speedmod over Franco, at least for the present versions. Franco kernel gave me slowdowns, lags and reboots - maybe because of its abundant tweaks which maybe should be optimized a little bit more. Speedmod just works :)

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Just got a Note today, my initial "Woohoo, little pocket tablet!" enthusiasm has, in just a couple of hours dwindled to "Hmmm, aside from the screen, this all seems like a big step backwards..."

Just opened my blog http://www.margaretscratcher.co.ukon my n900 and the Note, and my n900 scrolls smoother, reflashed to stock literally just yesterday so not overclocked...

Hmmm... Missing the keyboard already, and now it seems like I have to choose whether I want flash support but mobile versions of sites like youtube and facebook (Which I hate), or get to default to desktop versions of sites but lose flash support in the browser if I upgrade to ICS...

Ugh...

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What? No...change user agent?

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Not sure, literally just got it so not fully investigated.

The thing is I want ICS for everything else but to lose flash is going away from the 'web on my phone is the same as web on my desktop' thing that I really like about the N900..

And I'm not entirely sure why I was surprised by the fact that a song on youtube stopped when I went to the homescreen, but even so...

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@Tedri Mark: Start by using Dolphin browser with a desktop user agent. You get smooth experience and flash.
Then ask. I have learned in these last 2 years with Android that stock applications are not always the best. Luckily there are alternatives which work well.

EDIT: by the way, your music blog seems to me perfect in Dolphin browser, or - at least - is rendered like in desktop Firefox on my ubuntu box.

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Hi Tedri Mark. I suggest you check out Stick it! and OverSkreen apps.
They will allow you to play youtube in background (or in a window whose size you can adjust) and open multiple windows for browser.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

you are on stock - the custom kernals are much better - everything including battery life is so much better

but dont touch the ics stuff yet - in a few weeks i think the hard brick bug will be fully dealt with

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got the ota update this morning, after being VERY patient and not putting custom rom on. only rooted and nothing else.
so i happily clicked on the update to android 4, fearing no possibility of anything going wrong.
so it downloaded the update and began installing, looked fine. then it finished with no problems and restarted........only it didn't start lol.
stuck on booting screen for over an hour, so had to eventually give it up and take the battery out.
what a palaver. gotta go through trying to recover now:(

so warning to anyone else doing this. do a full backup before hand.

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I got similar - hid my GB root with voodoo rootkeeper before doing OTA. The update d/l was fine but failed to apply correctly (crapped out midway leaving my GB install OK). Don't know why but I tried again and this time it seemed to work but after it finished and rebooted, it stuck on the samsung logo.

I downloaded the UK CPW 4.0.3 firmware and used PC Odin to apply it - all ok and it restored/upgraded all my apps and data etc automatically.

I then re-rooted using cwm.zip and su_busybox_installer.zip and I'm all rooted & booted.

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Here's my current setup:

#1-[ROM]AOKP Build 38 (haven't tried 38.1)
#2-[ROM]ParanoiDroid v0.2 (great work)
Last resort: LiquidSmooth v2.2

#1-[KERNEL] Thor's v11 (v12 is available today)
#2-[KERNEL] Franco's r5 (r6 sucks)
Last resort: cm9 nightly kernel

#1-[GOVERNOR] PegaSuq
#2-[GOVERNOR] LulzActive
Last resort: SmartassV2

-[Max CPU] 1.6GHz 1,400mV
-[Min CPU] 0.1GHz 800mV

I'm running my own optimized Apex Launcher. I can provide .apk for anyone interested.
I'm using the Miui Lockscreen (beautiful) instead of stock/aokp.
I have thepsyntyst's screen transitions [MOD] so far Rubik and PsnShift are my favourite.
On AOKP I've pre-organized my settings (after much experimenting).

I'm *lucky* enough to have a poop quality N7000, so I had to tweak figures for stability, and reduce the voltage wherever I saw possible to increase battery life. This layout should increase it by 15-25% over stock ics. But it should be just as fast, if not faster. Processor wear down is pretty much impossible on this settings:
1.74GHz - 1500mV
1.66 - 1500
1.6 - 1400
1.5 - 1325
1.4 - 1225
1.3 - 1150
1.2 - 1050
1.1 - 1025
1.0 - 1000
0.9 - 975
0.8 - 975
0.7 - 950
0.6 - 925
0.5 - 900
0.4 - 900
0.3 - 875
0.2 - 850
0.1 - 800
50MHz - 800
25MHz - 800

All ICS kernels/roms (inc Official Samsung) really suck for battery life. People can't pin-point the exact reason but its horrid. Screen On Time is usually about ~4.5-5 hours on stock Gingerbread. Most ICS kernels give you about ~3-3.5 hours. With the settings above the max I had was 4 hours. So its better than the alternatives, but its not really stellar. Part of the reason could be the rom (memory leaks etc?). But I think its more likely that my battery's experienced too much wear since October.

P.S. Some have also Overclocked the GPU (use Voltage Control App) to 267MHz @900mV...and the results seem to tie with Tegra3 performance. Though you have to be careful, the cpu is designed to handle alot of heat/speed...not so much the gpu.

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could you please point me in the direction of where to download all those files please. And are there any noob firendly instructions out there too? I know a bit but not a lot, and the bits I do aren't working:( so a step by step would be good if one exists.
my note was not being recognised by odin :( only by adb in recovery mode, and not in 'download mode'. I tried a zip file that I put on an sd card which looked promising, thought it was an official rom, got it from xda, but it told me to go away because it wasn't signed :(
I'll be buggered if I can find the official ones anywhere. Samsung hides them well. If a Gingerbread rom is available too I might just
use that. Save the hassle for when I have more time to sort it all. I'm guessing my phone is one with the dreaded !problem' that bricks it when updating. I did think the official ota update wouldn't be a problem though. Never bothered to do any tampering except to gain root access and that was it.

Sorry for the extra long post, but I will just say that using my n900 again has been great. only niggle is the web browsing isn't quite as fast, and there's not an app available for a couple of things.

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just found a place that looks promising. I'm gonna give that a go, sticking it on an sd

http://www.samsdroid.com/2012/06/n70...ingdom_01.html

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

Go find all stock firmwares here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1424997

Until Samsung corrects the emmc bug, I an using the SpeedMod kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1673072

Once your Note is rooted, best choice imho is using Mobile Odin Pro, to flash firmware on device without external computers, and automatically inject root and superuser into the flashed firmware.

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I'm losing the will to live here lol.

Every place I find to download the official 4.0.3 firmware takes me to hotfile, where it kindly tells me that I am already downloading this file and can't do another one.
I am NOT currently downloading, else I wouldn't be trying to get it. GRRRRrrrrrr.
Hulk mad.
lol

Re: Samsung Galaxy Note
 

Want latest LQ3 firmware? Get it from my computer from http://www.justbeamit.com/7ba34
I'll keep it running for a few hours :-)

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thank you very much. I will have a try. Been trying to dowload that stock firmware still. finally tricked it in to downloading to my n900 by using 3g connection. It still thinks anything over wifi in the house is already downloading. It's going, but slowly. Will try that first then move on to other things.

Damn. guess I was too late and missed it lol.

Is that something that would work anyway if all can use is the standard android system recovery (3e)?

I'll figure this out eventually.