How to connect the Samsung Galaxy Note to PC or Laptop

It's so easy to connect your Samsung Galaxy Note to your PC using a USB cable if you want to browse your data files that has been stored on your phone's microSD card, synchronize your contacts or accounts using Samsung Kies, transferring files such as photos, videos, ringtones etc. To do this you may need to have a kies installed on your PC so that the desired USB driver for your Galaxy Note will be installed as well. You can download Kies program from samsung website. www.samsung.com/kies

Here's how to connect the Galaxy Note to PC and access the memory card. (a removable disk file directory will appear on your PC, separate from internal memory of your phone.

- From idle mode, select Application list.
- Then tap on Settings
- Tap Wireless and Network
- Select USB Utilities
- then select Connect Mass Storage to PC.
Then connect your Galaxy Note to PC with the USB cable or multifunction jack
When connected Touch USB connected or Turn on USB storage

- A USB icon will appear in the top left Notifications area of the screen.
- On the PC, go to My Computer then locate the newly file drive directory that appears as your Galaxy Note mass storage. You can now have the access to browse, sync, copy or transfer files that you want from your Galaxy Note microSD card to your PC or laptop.

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How to Take Screenshot on T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 T989

If you'll need to have a screen captured on your T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 (S II) SGH-T989, that's too very easy. You don't need to have it rooted or install any software tools or screenshot capture application just to have a screenshots of your phone.

You can directly take a screenshots right away from your device because the Samsung Galaxy S2 is already has it's own built in screen capture function. All you need to do is just - by pressing the HOME button and then quickly press and release the Power button. (you have to push the power button quickly because the task manager comes up if you keep the home button pushed too long)

The taken screenshots will then be saved on the phones image gallery folder.
This will also works on AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777 and Samsung Galaxy S II I9100 (global version). This is how tech bloggers and developers do when they want to share a screenshot sample of their newly develop android themes or custom ROMs out over on the internet.

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How to increase battery life of AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

If you had experience and somehow had trouble with the rapidly draining battery of your Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) by AT&T. In most recent reports that the new AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II had a poor battery life.
Others says that this is due to a poor system OS or some bugs issues that one of the main reason why your phone drains its battery so fast.

So, how to get your Samsung Galaxy S2 I777 improved the battery life performance?
Here's a few tweaks we gathered so far and shared by Singuy1234 who already had his Samsung Galaxy S2 battery life problem fixed.

My phone is no longer draining massive amount of battery life when idle (3-5% after 7 hours of idle), android system usage is now down to 5-15% instead of 78-97% from before.

My fixes.

1. Turn off data syncing
2. Turn off wifi while on the road (so wifi doesn't constantly look for signals).
3. Clear memory

Yes, att installs a lot of bloatware that constantly update for changes.

If killing those services AND disabling data syncing doesn't help your problem, then you have a kernel problem (like myself).
If this is the case, do the following:

1. Take phone back to AT&T and get a replacement
OR
2. Re-flash your android with the STOCK kernel found here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1286432
OR
3. Reflash with cognition x2 (reported to solve a member's problem, I didn't try this myself).

You can read the whole story at XDA-developer. We'll hope that Samsung will release a  new firmware update that fix for this battery draining issue a soon as possible.

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How to Hard Reset Verizon's Samsung Stratosphere i405

Here's a simple tip on how  to factory reset the Samsung Stratosphere i405 from Verizon.
The Samsung Stratosphere is Verizon’s first 4G LTE slider.  This new Android handset runs on Android Gingerbread, a WVGA display Super AMOLED Plus, 5MP rear camera, and a 1.3MP front-facing camera.

But however, if you'll experience any low performance, hang or frozen problem, a factory reset may help to restore back your Samsung Stratosphere to it's original factory default settings. But just ensure to have a back copy of all your important data files like contacts, messages, etc. that are stored in the handset for it will be all deleted on this process.


Here's  how to reset your Samsung Stratosphere

 Factory reset
-From the Home Screen, tap Settings
-then scroll to and then select Privacy
-then scroll to and select Factory Data Reset
-then select Reset Phone
-then select Erase Everything

Hard Reset
You can either type and enter this code *2767*3855# or do a button combination below if the Samsung Stratosphere experience hang problem like just stuck on the start up logo.

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Download T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II t989 User Manual

If you have bought T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 already and somehow looking for the user manual so that you'll learn how to tweaks your newly android phone and have fun making use of it, download the user's guide from the link below.

The T-Mobiles Samsung Galaxy S II is also known as "Hercules" - this devices comes with 4.52 inches display screen with a little bit more curved in the four corners body unlike the size of  Galaxy S2 Sprint D710 and Galaxy S2 AT&T which has  4.3″ only, so do the SGS2 GT I9100 International version.  But still it uses Super AMOLED Plus Capacitive Touchscreen with TouchWiz UI v4.0 and protected with scratch-resistant surface via Corning Gorilla Glass Display. For the screen resolution, and equipped with WVGA touchscreen in  (800 x 480 pixels) pixel resolutions. Isn't it nice!

We'll here's your T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II t989 User Manual - T989_English_User_Guide.pdf

Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 by T-Mobile User Manual

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