Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 - user opinions and reviews
5114434- TheNeighbor
- t7M
You might be finding the battery with a shorter since probably you have been fiddling with your Note a lot since you got your update?
I heard one time that there would be an screen inverted function for the ICS internet browser to save on power, especially for AMOLED screens, in where the text would be white against a black background. Anyone caught that? I'm looking for that setting.
- Abishek
- t}y
TheNeighbor, 25 May 2012Most likely you need to reset your wifi router (the transmitter, like at home) if you have upd... moreThanks bud for the detailed review ! :)
My major concern was the battery drain that many ppl are complaining. Will be updating mine to ICS soon :)
5114434- TheNeighbor
- t7M
Abishek, 25 May 2012Hi Guys !!
For people who have updated to ICS, can you please post a detailed review of SGN... moreMost likely you need to reset your wifi router (the transmitter, like at home) if you have updated your Galaxy Note to the ICS. Your apps and data from the previous GB OS will be retained, but do please make a backup as a safety net, either to your micro SD card or your computer before updating to ICS.
The first thing I really appreciate is the enhancements to and with the use of the S Pen. The hovering pointer that appears on the screen when you have your S Pen as far as 1 cm away from the screen has solves the problem of the slight inaccuracy before. Now you see where it is pointing exactly. The S Note with a great function of creating virtual sets of books to organize your note-taking and sketches. As advertised for the Note's Premium Suite, the S Note gives a number of productivity tools like encoding mathematical formulas, automatically straightening stuttered lines or shapes, a knowledge search after encoding in a question about something, and the usual handwriting recognition. Another nifty thing about the S Note is that you can save preferred pen widths or their colors to save you time in adjusting. It audio has a number of notebook covers and content templates with different paper backgrounds. Although, I would like to see a longer horizontal format paper (the Japanese fold) for interesting panoramic sketching.
The simpler S Memo app is still maintained within the system, however, from the original presets of the Note 6 months ago. S Memo content can be inserted in the S Note compilations.
As previously stated, the Galaxy Note is not for everyone, because they don't need the functions of the S Pen, or the screen size. The active digital Wacom S Pen sets the Note leagues apart from any other unit that's out there, except probably the Galaxy S III, which will try to be like the Note with the use of the C Pen (capacitive type).
As far as the ICS itself, I've only gotten the update 12 hours ago and will have a thorough observation of the battery usage as I have been keeping usage records (screen capturing) of my 3 batteries when my unit was on GB. I hope to see an improvement in the battery efficiency.
I've been excited about the face unlock, but then I found it a peculiar way of unlocking your phone in public, and it doesn't work with low light or your face is at a different angle. The time to unlocking your phone this way is longer, as there is a few second of pause for the facial recognition to kick in. I'll be sticking to the pattern unlock. Everything else still feels and looks t pretty much like before, but I'm really thankful for the new S Note app.
- Anand
- ttd
I also had similar issues with battery drain after updating to ICS. was very upset. Yesterday i factory reset my GN, and set power savings on, disabled wifi and sync, disabled some applications, from developer settings, set max number of activity running to 3, and display mode to movie. Yesterday Night i charged the device to 45% and after 11 hrs 35 min it came to 38% which i think is reasonable battery usage. I think while, upgrading from GB to ICS, some apps settings might be causing this issue. Also i uninstalled facebook and skype which may be having some service running in the background and keeping the device awake. whoever having problem with battery once pls try it out and post the status. (Don't forget to backup your SMS,Call log and contacts before factory reset). good luck
- Anonymous
- ijy
ics on gn:
1:The notification area is improved with the battery saver option directly accessible there.
2:The looks of the widgets have been improved.
3:Few changes in the settings options.
4:Face unlock is standard works just fine.
5:Browser crashes sometimes.
6:Browser has a new option to view webpages in desktop mode.
7.Browsing is very fast compared to GB.
8: Overall performance is too good but drains the battery very fast
- Raf
- Hxi
Dear users of GN ICS, kindly help me, i live in uae, as still the ICS has arrived here, is there any other way where i can upgrade to ICS, pls help me step by step, to understand and to upgrade
- Mak
- jaI
Anonymous, 24 May 2012just got a 36 mb update on my note, what about ICS? is it not available via OTA? please help.It is not available as OTA, do it via kies
- Abishek
- t}y
Hi Guys !!
For people who have updated to ICS, can you please post a detailed review of SGN with ICS ?
I'm expecting one from TheNeighbour & Siddharth !! :)
Others also please !
Thanks in advance :)
- AnonD-48762
- vaQ
can somebody tell me what is the Premium suite ???? and if there is .... Where to find it ???
Thank you
- Anonymous
- ijy
after updating my galaxy note to ics, the battery is draining very fast.. i have a 2g network.. it hardly gets me through a day.. samsung pl do something..
- Anonymous
- ijy
after updating my galaxy note to ics, the battery is draining very fast.. i have a 2g network.. it hardly gets me through a day.. samsung pl do something..
- Anonymous
- PS6
Just update to ics yesterday, the only thing i discover is the data connection throught 3G/HSDPA is slow and unstable (switch between 3G and H) which i don't have any problem before. Software bug?
- vanitas487
- KxF
Did anyone get premiumsuite app such as S-Note and My Story?
Because i didn't get those in my ICS updated Galaxy Note.
Please help me.
- mhm
- nsC
i don't know it work or not but turn off phone and take out battery and then put it back and turn on phone.maybe work.
- gerry
- wYJ
Already updated to ICS (version 4.0.3)here in the Philippines. Everything nice EXCEPT that battery seems to drain really fast. How can this problem be solved? PLEASE HELP.
- Ryan
- mpU
Just got email guys,
Ice cream sandwich out of stock, more stock expected in UK 27 June. Only 4 weeks to go
5114434- TheNeighbor
- t7M
I just installed the ICS update via Kies on my Smart locked GN this morning. Everything is ok, except the wifi connection. I turned on the wifi and it just says it's "connecting" to my home system, but never does. I think I've done everything except a factory reset. Any suggestions as to how to get it "connected"? Maybe I missed something. Thanks.
- krisha
- w0P
My phone is now ics. My phone always hangs up. I cant even open my email. It says that email has stopped. Please help.
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