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Months ago my Note 2 got real slow charging or if I used the phone on AC it would not recharge or the battery charge level would decline slowly. The solution was to use a short USB cable, 18"instead of 4-5 feet. Going to that improved charge rate dramatically. It appears to me that the...

Since last December the N2 is my first smart phone and the first time I'm had a data plan. I was holding out for something that would let me read online text for hours at a time and do that in the woods far from chairs and desks and human distractions. The big screen and big battery let me do...

The theory that the android update is waiting on the S4 makes sense. If the update gives existing phones good features of the S4 then the update might steal sales. If that's the issue then maybe an android update won't come from Samsung for months after the S4 is available for sale. And if...

Will the s4 battery be as strong as the N2? Plus I have an extended 6,400 mah battery when that might be needed. Will the s4 have that battery accessory. I like having the stylus because it has me handwriting again (but I suppose an after market stylus would work on most any phone.) The S4...

My use of the pen has been fading but I know why and there's a fix. On any secreen I should be able to press a button on the pen that lets me write a note on top of that screen, and when I'm done I push the button again and the note and a current screen shot are saved and then the note is time...

? seached on dead note 2 and I found you bot not a rash of other reports. Did you post the problem in several places because some of the other text sounds like yours above. I've been lurking in the Note forums for some months and dead note phones are not coming up very often and a lot of those...

I found this web site http://batteryuniversity.com/ . It appears to be authoritative, covers all kinds of batteries and there is a LOT to learn about phone batteries. I got one of the Hyperion 6200 mah extended batteries for my N2. If you don't mind the extra size and weight it will let you...

Swiftkey flow out and about and a bt keyboard at home. The samsung key board doesn't like the bt keyboard and constantly switches the phone back to the samsung keyboard. Anyone know why that happens.

to all the different reactions i say it's not a phone, it's a pocket computer that also has phone service. for me that's what it is. that possibility interests people.

And yet you can talk to someone riding with you in the car and it isn't being blamed for a lot of accidents? What's the difference? My hunch is that we instinctively use your eyes differently depending on whether we see the object of our attention or don't see it. Perhaps when dealing with...

Thanks for the info. The N2 camera is good enough for my purposes that I don't bother to carry a point and shoot any more. One thing I'd like is a way to start the camera with presets for stills or video. Then I would have a number of presets for different situations on one of the start...

There is an app called animated clock for the start page that can have a sweep hand which is accurate to about 2 seconds. It has an option to turn off the sweep hand because, unfortunately, it takes a lot of battery power to provide time to the second. You can have time in seconds, I don't...

another option to consider, there is a 6200 ma battery branded as hyperion that comes with its own back plate and a case is available. I ordered them from amazon and will probably see them Tuesday. I hope that battery will let me run gps and blue tooth for a long day and have some hours of...

my experience with Li batteries is the cheap ones lose their ability to hold a charge faster. That experience was 7 years ago and maybe things have changed. I'm going to try one of the 6200 m batteries for summer outings.

Right now the N2 is the one to beat. Every few months there will be a new latest and greatest. How much time have you got?