Nope.. I flash the Note2 into DN4 for my mom. Everything works fine as advertised. Problem is, sometime I found some sluggish or delay when opening some apps.. Maybe because I'm a Vanilla Android user la.

Gonna flash back to Vanilla Android for my mom I guess, since she won't complain anything except why sometime slow open things only.

Why my note 2 the led notification always dimmed red even when it's been turned off?.I'm using stock rom 4.1.2.i already did factory reset and still in same condition.

got a question.

Seng Heng refused to honor extended warranty because apparantly motherboard on the Note 2 fried.
Replacing a new one would cost RM350.

I'm also thinking of replacing the screen, which will cost more.
Worth doing that? Or go for another phone?

thanks for the tips. gonna have to find the receipt and all, which belongs to my sister. Thanks again.

Hi all

I've got a faulty note 2 from my nephew
I cant turn on my phone at all, stuck at bootloop the samsung logo thingy.
I've tried to flash the rom with odin all versions new and old, but it just says FAIL ... ( in capital letters)

I've removed Kies from my PC, reinstalled the Samsung USB drivers in my PC
I don't know if the USB debugging has been turned on? the phone just died on my nephew last week and I'm having it right now and I can't check if USB debugging is ON or OFF.
It just says USB device not recognized when i plug in the phone.
I've tried with different ports, different USB cables, all FAIL.
I've tried with the official ROM, I've tried with android toolkit, I've tried running all possible ROMS with Odin but all FAIL...

Please help me, I've run of out ideas.

Is there a faster way of d/loading Sammobile firmware without paying? Any other source to d/load from?

Dear all,

I'm having this very strange charging problem with my Galaxy Note 2 and hope that you can shade some light on this issue.

I bought a Fujitsu USB cable and it won't charge my phone when plugged into the wall charger. It however will charge if I plug it into a powerbank or USB port on PC. I have tested it on 5 different wall chargers, all won't charge the phone. I have also confirmed that all the 5 wall chargers are working fine as they can all charge other phones using USB cables including the Fujitsu.

But if I leave the phone plugged in to the Fujitsu USB cable and wall charger, it will occasionally charge the phone for 1-2 seconds before turning off again and it will go on and off.

My phone is not rooted, i have already clear the cache partition, performed soft reset by removing the battery and tried charging in safe mode which didn't work either. This is not the first USB cable that gave this problem. I bought another 2 previously and they all gave me the exact same problem. A colleague of mine who is using a Galaxy S2 is having the same problem too. 

Please help!   

Thank you!

Edit:
P/S: My original samsung cable and the cable that came with my Pineng powerbank have no problem with wall chargers.

Are there any fixes for this issue? Or is it better to use 2g network instead of 3g?

Hi all Sifus,
I face the problem on my Note II,and the most important is my contacts in the phone? Anyone can help me backup or recover the contacts without factory reset it? thank you very much.    
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Thanks for your reply.i haven't backup or syn any my contacts. 

Most user not smart as their smartphones. I find many don't sync with Google or iOS service.Still depend on simcard or phone memory. Heck most don't even remember their gmail @ Apple acc.

Guys!! Serious problem here!!

My bro in law's note 2 went into a bootloop after an auto restart during playing CoC,

btw he's using official stock rom FNI1 build + rooted

- it's a bootloop, so i'll try clear caches and dalvik cache, still cannot be fixed
- do a factory reset (full wipe)  still not fixed

then I notice in recovery screen got show  "E: failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) "

So I believe the EFS partition cannot be read for a reason,

- then I tried re-flash the same build stock rom thru odin, did not fix the efs not mounted issue, and phone is still bootloop

so I google, they say it's the mount point for efs went wrong, need to fix thru adb commands

- I did everything adb shell thingy to fix the mount point for efs,  finally fixed and it's mounted,  phone can now boot normally just fine!!

now... new problem  "Emergency Call Only", his phone can no longer connect any Telco network, the sim card confirmed no problem, so I check IMEI and baseband info,  basedband ok, but imei become generic 004999010640000 which is not valid and different than phone's original.

now this is the problem, I don't have his phone's EFS backup, also couldn't backup EFS since the phone is not usable because bootloop.

How can I restore IMEI without its original EFS backup???

His phone is screwed

Sifu please help...

Haha.. I've been struggle to fix my Note 8 EFS issue.. journey from stock recovery to CWM recovery to flash EFS file inside .zip.. still unsolve.. thinking to bring it to SC.. but possibility warranty void is very high.. maybe need to clear KNOX trigger.. with something like Triangle Away.. or do you have any good source/read about this?

Some don't even dare to go to settings scared damage the device  .From average 10 user of smartphone that I met only 2@3 that truly know how to use their device to the fullest.

With the recent stagefright bug on androids I wonder what will happen since most user don't even update their devices since out of the box.

Hi,

I have a battery draining issue.
I have changed a new battery and still the same.

I'm on Stock ROM 4.4.2

Any advice on this for me?

Wow.... Note2 thread is still alive and kickin'..... Hehehehe.... I am still with my Note 2 although seriously tempted to get the Note 4 more than I can recall... 

I guess my Note 2 is giving me a good service until now, so it's hard to let go. I am on Ditto Note 4 and this phone absolutely rocks....

Note 5 is coming.... Sigh... Maybe, just maybe....

Considered the age, note 2 running CM12 contains noticeable stutter.. wonder how`s the performance of note 3 running custom ROMs
Seems to me that note series is just a bigger version of the S series..

The ornamental design of an electronic device, as shown and described.

According to the USPTO, that iPhone design patent is now invalid on multiple counts of obviousness in light of prior art (in a technical, not literal, sense - two very different things).

Waiting for 5.1.1 release for Note 4 before I upgrade to Note 4.
I totally agree with you.

Note 4 better than all Note series up to date. Except the stupid swipe fingerprint scanner.

As I sit here in a hip Los Angeles coffee shop across from the seemingly never-ending whooshes and rumbles of LA traffic on a busy boulevard just outside the door, I wonder if my latte is worth the $4 I have just paid for it.

While not a tiny amount of money, it doesn't seem totally unreasonable. After all, I am availing myself the use of said business's counter, its rather lovely interior inspired by the owner's Taiwanese heritage (well, supposedly), a nice ceramic cup for my beverage, and the generally relaxed atmosphere the place provides. All things considered, $4 isn't so bad for the drink and the hour I'll sit here hashing out emails and responding to comments. At least, that's what I'd normally be doing. Instead, I'm writing.

As I type this post on the Galaxy S6 edge+ in my hands right now, I do not feel as though I am holding an $800+ smartphone. I feel like I'm holding a slippery, warm, glass brick, not particularly dissimilar from other slippery, warm, glass bricks I have held in the past.

This slippery glass brick is, of course, brand new. People have only yet started to receive them, pulling them from their soft-touch cardboard packaging, examining them from edge to edge like well-practiced jewelers before carefully and surgically peeling away the logo and text-emblazoned plastic cover, revealing the almost impossibly clean veneer of a factory-fresh smartphone.

"This," they think proudly, "is what $800 (or more) buys you." They then unceremoniously slap a $12 plastic case ordered on Amazon a week ago over it to protect their newest beloved possession, never really considering again the sleek, purposeful, and thin structure all that amazing technology is somehow packed into, like some prestigious tin of silicon caviar.

2 months later, that phone falls down a flight of stairs, and despite the valiant efforts of that $12 branded plastic tomb to absorb each increasingly brutal impact, the screen develops a spidering crack along the edge of the glass. This renders it as ugly and socially stigmatic as a car that was clearly involved in a serious accident quite some time ago and has yet to be repaired because the owner either lacks the funds or, as we "smart consumers" quietly think to ourselves, because that person isn't careful and considerate with their possessions. No one likes to be "the cracked screen guy," and every time that phone leaves your pocket, there is a brief moment of dread - fleeting as it may be: "What the hell did I do to deserve this?"

Perhaps you have insurance. Oh, for joy: a mail-in process. And a deductible. Maybe a loaner device for good measure, a phone you'll use just long enough to get set up to your satisfaction before it's time to send it back. And suddenly your $800 phone and $12 case have turned into an $800 refurbished phone and a $12 case and two months of $8 insurance premiums (that you will continue paying, because you're responsible) and a $200 deductible and probably a cut finger because what were you supposed to do, stop using your phone? And if you don't have insurance? Time for a repair, with no guarantee that it'll be done right or even that a repair is possible without potentially damaging other parts of the phone.

Take a step back. What if you had bought a $400 phone instead? Or even a $250 one? How much would you miss that $800 "experience"? How much more financially able would you be able to deal with a loss if you opted for the cheaper device? Would you even need a case, or phone insurance?

I really think it is time to take a stand against the expensive smartphone. We've all probably wasted too much time and too much money on at least one electronic gadget in our lives for the sake of being an early adopter or out of a sheer desire for a novel toy. Smartphones have stopped being novelties - they are commodities. The products are so alike even at opposite ends of the price spectrum that consumers can't not notice this much longer.

So, I say down with the $800 phones, the $900 phones, and to hell with anything more than that, either. Let's start treating smartphones for what they are: something that almost everyone needs, and thus that should be made for the needs of everyone.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go plug in this $800 phone that doesn't last on standby as long as the $200 phone I keep on my desk for occasional app-testing.