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Another S2 or Note?

Hi everyone,
I will be upgrading in late Feb. The options are: another s2 or Note.
Love my s2 (rooted with Illusion-xT v1.4.2 - XWKL1 2.3.6) , played a bit with Note and its size is not a problem for me.
I really have no time to go through the forum to find my answers.
I'd like to know:
- the battery life compared to s2
- does Note do everything that s2 does?
- call recording quality pls, does anyone use Total Recall?
- application compatibility with s2
- overall performance compared to s2
- your experience if you are owning both s2 and Note
- TV out - like in s2?
Thanks a lot guys!

qwerty1q said:
- the battery life compared to s2
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About roughly the same, the 250mAH is to feed the huge screen. I get the same video playback time of 9hrs on the S2 and on the Note. Gaming might suffer since it needs to compute for more pixels.
qwerty1q said:
- application compatibility with s2
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No issues, Andriod apps mostly scale to the screen and if they dont developers fix then quite fast.
qwerty1q said:
- does Note do everything that s2 does?
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The Galaxy Note is different device but is an upgrade for the Galaxy S2 in a way.
qwerty1q said:
- overall performance compared to s2
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Some say the note lags/UI stutters more than the Galaxy S2.. this is only true when you use the pinch to view the home screen or the app drawer which is a TW issue, anything other than that the Note does things FASTER than the S2 which is expected as it is a better device even under the hood.
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- your experience if you are owning both s2 and Note
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I find it difficult to now use a phone with anything less than 5.3" of a screen, this is one major drawback once you get attached to the Galaxy note.
Altho both phones are not with out its issues, faces similar issues on both ends though
You havent asked this but the GPS on the Gnote is amazing, you can even get a signal lock indoors all of this due to the GLONASS that it has, but its not that accurate as compared to dedicated GPS devices yet.

Thank you EarlZ
Yes I ve forgotten to ask about GPS as I am gonna use my Copilot and Sygic very often.
What about TV-out - the same as s2?

Howdy.
Typed up a quick compairison between the two if you wanna take a moment to read it here.
One thing that I didn't mention in that post is TV out, and it's exactly the same as you would do so on a GSII; plug in an MHL adapter.
I personally haven't used GPS on the phone enough to count, but everyone else who has, has said it's the best they've used thus far. Much better than a GSII
If you go for it, you'll love it.
And hey! If you're not satisfied with it, go ahead and sell it and use those funds for either a new GSII or, when the time comes, put it towards it's successor.
But I doubt you'll want to once you get your hands on this baby

qwerty1q said:
Thank you EarlZ
Yes I ve forgotten to ask about GPS as I am gonna use my Copilot and Sygic very often.
What about TV-out - the same as s2?
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I've never used TV out on the S2 but I assume they will be exactly the same.
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qwerty1q said:
Thank you EarlZ
Yes I ve forgotten to ask about GPS as I am gonna use my Copilot and Sygic very often.
What about TV-out - the same as s2?
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I've never used TV out on the S2 but I assume they will be exactly the same.
DarkShot666
Just took a quick peek at your post and I noticed you mention at 25% there is no issue viewing it under direct sunlight? I even have issues with the S2 or the note at 100% brightness under direct sunlight well ofcourse this varies how bright the sun is shining though.

EarlZ said:
DarkShot666
Just took a quick peek at your post and I noticed you mention at 25% there is no issue viewing it under direct sunlight? I even have issues with the S2 or the note at 100% brightness under direct sunlight well ofcourse this varies how bright the sun is shining though.
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I've personally never noticed any issues. It could very well be that any light that I was under wasn't 100% dead on, but my Note screen is always one of two brightness levels: 25% and 0%. I've never had a need to crank it any more.

Are you a big guy? (ie 6" + ?)
Then get the Note.

qwerty1q said:
What about TV-out - the same as s2?
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Used on both. More or less the same, yes.
For both devices, however, the system UI outputs at native resolution. So when you're web browsing or just going through menus and such, the S2 is at 800x480, the Note is 1280x800; noticeable difference.
I will say though, that the Note does seem to slow down quite a bit when hooked up to the TV for moving about the UI or playing games and such (mainly because, not only does it have to render 3x as many pixels already, but now it's doing it twice over(!!!), it's quite a burden, and it shows.
That said, it's still (mostly) functional, and when using it for video output (even full 1080p), it is flawless there.
P.S. I'm selling my international GS2 if you're interested. Send me a PM

Health Products

Hi, I have a Galaxy Note 2 (duh) and I am getting into more running, and over-all health related activities.
I use Runtastic, and there related applications to track my information.
I am wondering whats the best device for tracking heart rate and all that information that works with those apps? I am asking in this area because at the same time I am looking for an arm band that can hold my note 2, maybe even have one of those heart rate/health devices attached to it the arm bad that supports the note 2 as well.
I hope I am making sense.
Ideas?
Thanks.

bmancell said:
Hi, I have a Galaxy Note 2 (duh) and I am getting into more running, and over-all health related activities.
I use Runtastic, and there related applications to track my information.
I am wondering whats the best device for tracking heart rate and all that information that works with those apps? I am asking in this area because at the same time I am looking for an arm band that can hold my note 2, maybe even have one of those heart rate/health devices attached to it the arm bad that supports the note 2 as well.
I hope I am making sense.
Ideas?
Thanks.
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Also interested

The s health app has a few devices listed, did you check them out?
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Note 8 Themes

Can you get Note 8 themes on Note 9 without rooting?
I miss the background motion wallpaper

vadimo said:
Can you get Note 8 themes on Note 9 without rooting?
I miss the background motion wallpaper
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Thats there on note 9 too..

kirankowshik said:
Thats there on note 9 too..
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I think vadimo meant the set of infinity wallpapers that rotated when you moved your phone around. I liked blue starry sky a lot, and my biggest gripe with the Note 9 is that the built-in infinity wallpapers are boring!
I've actually researched this a bit as well, and came to the conclusion that they're probably baked right into the system UI and thus can't easily be ported over.

Here to keep my tablet alive

Hello to all.
I mostly use the site to keep my old Samsung galaxy note 10.1 sm-p600 alive. It was sad seeing apps not being supported on it anymore, so it's fantastic out can be revived up to android 7. Just yesterday I found out someone managed to make a rom for android 10, so I'm quite happy with the site.

Presac said:
Hello to all.
I mostly use the site to keep my old Samsung galaxy note 10.1 sm-p600 alive. It was sad seeing apps not being supported on it anymore, so it's fantastic out can be revived up to android 7. Just yesterday I found out someone managed to make a rom for android 10, so I'm quite happy with the site.
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Welcome to XDA,
Hope this helps
Samsung Galaxy Note 10
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is a 6.3" phone with a 1080x2280p resolution display. The Exynos 9825/Snapdragon 855 chipset is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The main camera is 12+12+16MP and the selfie camera is 10MP. the battery has a 3500mAh capacity.
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Question Body Temperature

Anybody come up with an app for that yet?

Haven't seen or heard anything about a working app for this on our Watch ...

Here's How The Galaxy Watch 5's Temperature Sensor Will Work
The Galaxy Watch 5 has a temperature sensor.
screenrant.com

R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards

More scoop today:
Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro now feature skin temperature measurement
Samsung is now rolling out skin-temperature-based cycle tracking to the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Read on to know more!
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adfree said:
R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards
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I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?

rick6548 said:
I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?
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If you have a bugjaeger app on your phone (that you often use for sideloading and extracting apps for galaxy watch) it displays all sensor info. Before it only showed skin temp sensor id with no info. I wonder if with this new WD6 firmware it now displays temperature info too?
It will be awhile before this software update arrives to Canada and LTE variant for me to test.
I would assume if you change your sleep schedule to daytime in Samsung Health than maybe it will measure your body temperature while you work out??

rick6548 said:
I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?
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what does the information show? and how does it work did you have to turn on the menstration cycle? If not then thats still useful info to track if your temperature goes up during illness and if room is to hot or to cold etc.

adfree said:
R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards
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As a male, how can i get my menstrual cycle so i can take advantage of this awesome feature?

Srbija2012 said:
As a male, how can i get my menstrual cycle so i can take advantage of this awesome feature?
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Just say you're a female, that's how it works nowadays .

slaytanic said:
Just say you're a female, that's how it works nowadays .
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You don't even need to say you are a female. As a male, I had cycle tracking on since beginning of March when I heard temp sensor was activated when Samsung Health renamed Women's Health to Natural Cycles in 6.23.3 version. But I was disappointed to find out that it's not active so I stopped using it lol. But to my surprise this entire time Samsung Health continued calculating my period
My biggest concern here is that aparently your temperature will only be shown and calculated while you sleep. But I never sleep with my watch (hell no). So how am I supposed to fake that and make it calculate the temperature automatically while I'm in a gym? If it's like blood oxygen continuous monitoring than making my watch think day is night is not going to work cause the watch detects activity even if say you come back home and watch TV while wearing it, the watch still will not measure my blood oxygen automatically. And without manual option, I don't think I will get any temperature info at all.
At least from reading all the crazy reactions on reddit from women saying US government can monitor this data, ladies don't need to worry as man will be using this function alot more than women now which will throw off the data anyways.
Unless, someone comes up with manual measurement hack ofcourse.

Barmenchik said:
Here's How The Galaxy Watch 5's Temperature Sensor Will Work
The Galaxy Watch 5 has a temperature sensor.
screenrant.com
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What kind of dystopic world do we live in when the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has to approve the ability to measure your own body temperature?

Aethera said:
What kind of dystopic world do we live in when the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has to approve the ability to measure your own body temperature?
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Excellent question..... my thoughts exactly. I have been apparently failing the sleep criteria for Samsung Health as reported by the Watch 5 Pro evinced by various irritating messages that I need to enroll in "Sleep Coaching"(their words)...... what are they going to do, send a female android to "coach " me around bedtime? (YUM!) Wait!! Do I hear helicopters?

rick6548 said:
Anybody come up with an app for that yet?
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Yeah, this guy did: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t1ckt0ck.bodytemperature
Specifically for Watch 5, only takes a few seconds to measure on my GW5Pro running old WB1 firmware since LTE versions are stuck on January patch. I guess temperature sensor has been unlocked all along, but no idea what developer tools he used to access it. The app is very basic thou.

Has some body try it?, I have tried and it seems that shows a little bit low temperature and it not possible to calibrate the software.

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더 이상 저는 좋은 소프트웨어를 만들기 위한 피드백,오류제보등의 베타가 아닌 미리 체험하는 느낌으로 참여 할려고 합니다. 피드백,오류 제보 열심히 해봐야 소용 없다는걸 알았습니다. 수면 중 피부 온도가 드디어 되네요. 업데이트 하니 새롭긴 합니다.
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I have tried to look on korean forum about Beta...
Then i saw this post... and Picture about Temp...
No idea...
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Best Regards

As far as I can read from the google translator seems that the temperature while you are sleeping can be viewed on the One UI 5 beta.
A beta tester maybe can confirm.

javi.duro said:
As far as I can read from the google translator seems that the temperature while you are sleeping can be viewed on the One UI 5 beta.
A beta tester maybe can confirm.
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I can't find anywhere to see a result