Same here in having the Note 2 and 4 (no Note 5 for me though due to lack of a user-replaceable battery) and I've never seen a single post over the years in those two respective forums that has been anything like this issue with the Note 5 S-Pen. So I can only come to the conclusion the issue is related to the redesign of adding the spring-release mechanism and the pressures it may be adding to how the end is secured (or lack thereof) to the S-Pen. To be frank, I hope they go back to the older, simpler design of using a single motion to remove the S-Pen (ex. just pull it out by grabbing the outer edge with a fingernail).
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There is no spen issue. Every Note that has come out, there has been people posting right away, on this very forum, their spen broke, it dropped out and they lost it, it stopped working, etc.
This spen is no different than previous. The only difference is someone stuck their spen in backwards, posted about it, every tech site and numerous forums posted about it. Many people looking for bad stuff about the Note 5, starting tweeting, posting to Facebook and tech sites about this. Tech people started intentionally putting their spen in backwards and declared it a flaw. Users started trying it and put their spen in backwards. I guarantee you, had people not taken the person that first did this and posted about it like it was some issue and intentionally doing it themselves, no one would have heard of it and it wouldn't have kept happening.
I'm willing to bet that there are or will be some issues of failure at the clicker end, because many people are clicking the spen when they have it out. I had to really pay attention and break the habit of clicking the spen over and over while I had it out.
Of the millions of devices sold, I have heard of a handful of spens having an issue where people say nothing happened. I've heard of some dropping their phone and then they have an issue.
Out of millions of anything made, there will be a failure here and there and that doesn't indicate an issue, that is manufacturing.
The Note 5 battery does much better than the Note 4 battery, there is no need for battery switching for the vast majority of users. Only a tiny niche of people actually "NEED" to be able to change batteries and many of those just want that option.
From what I heard today when the person from Samsung called me, it seems to me that replaceable batteries in their flagship devices look to be retired.
There never was an spen issue, it was a made up issue.
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