Saturday, June 1, 2013

Galaxy Note flickering & switch-off issue - solved.

My one year old Samsung Galaxy Note 1 started to exhibit some strange behavior last few months.

When I use some camera applications or such other applications, suddenly the phone's screen starts to flicker resulting in the phone getting switched off.

When I switch on the phone, battery mostly shows 1% charge.This was very strange as before getting switched-off, there were instances were I had more than 80% charge in the phone.
If I again restart the phone, the phone shows 60% or so charge.It was very odd.

After the flickering and switch-off issue because very frequent, I searched in net and found that many had experienced this problem.

I faced another issue, my 32GB SD Card became read-only.Nothing could be saved in it.Seems because of the frequent switch-off while the card was in use, the card got corrupted.

When I checked my phone battery,I noted that it had slight bulge.So I decided to buy a new battery.

Went to Lulu Mall, Kochi and purchased a new battery.Rs.1599.With the new battery the flickering and switch-off issue is resolved now.

I also had to purchase a new 32GB SD Card.Rs.1500/-.

So I guess if any body else has this issue, a new battery is the only solution..
Check the battery, if there is even a slight bulge, replace the battery with out much delay.A faulty battery can even explode.So please be careful.

After some analysis, I found out the possible reason why my phone battery became faulty within a year.

Most days before going to sleep, my phone charge will be almost getting finished.So I used to plug-in my phone before going to sleep.So the phone was in charge mode the entire night, resulting in over charging and the battery getting corrupted.

Now I understood that this should never be done - once the phone is fully charged, unplug the charger.Also, once charged, better to recharge only after atleast only 20 to 25% charge is remaining.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

When should you consider NoSQL databases?


SQL and NoSQL solutions are tailored towards very different types of workloads.

NoSQL solutions offers Higher performance, can handle Higher Volumes of data, is more scalable and is not tied-up to any standard query language - as compared to SQL solutions.

If rapid, agile development or high performance are of high priority - then NOSQL can be preferred.

However, if dealing with data sets that are likely to remain relatively stable in size, or have slower, more predictable growth patterns, then stick to non-relational database solutions.

Read the complete article here : CLICK HERE

Saturday, October 27, 2012

All photo uploads to facebook and even some of the blogging is now done from Note 1.

I have also been writing diary - in Note 1..

So going good..

Hope no technical glitches crop-up :)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Note 2 ?

How superior Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is compared to Note 1?

One obvious difference is the Android version.

And the price is a notch higher.So those having Note 1 is probably good to continue with it and hope for an OS version update soon.. 

me included ;)

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Samsung Galaxy Note Software Bug


Did a software update for Galaxy Note.Software updated to Build Number IMM76D.DDLR9 (ICS 4.0.4).

After that noted that widgets added in Home Screen are disappearing if the phone is restarted.

I had configured my home screen with folders and widgets.Some of the widgets inside the folder also disappeared.

Given below, some screen shots of this issue..

Have a look at the screen shot above.I had a few icons on screen.

The above screen shot is after a phone restart.5 icons disappeared!!


Again, see the above screen shot.I had few icons in a folder I had created in the home screen

After the phone restart, some of them just disappeared!!



Hope Samsung fixes this issue at the earliest.Waiting for a software update for this.

Note : This issue was not there before applying the software update with the build number mentioned above.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Designed For Humans

Samsung Galaxy series phones are going great..

Galaxy S3 was released..

But, in my opinion, Samsung made a mistake in the ads they launched for S3.

The ad said 'Samsung Galaxy S3..Designed for Humans..'..

Well, well, well - I thought all their other phones were also supposed to be used by Humans only !!

Or probably, Samsung should have come out and said, to whom, their phones like the Note was for :)
Apple winning against Samsung on the patent lawsuite wars that were going on is probably good for Samsung and it's customers.

Hopefully Samsung will come out with more innovative, path-breaking stuff :)

Like the Galaxy Note..Yeah..

I was never a supporter or fan of apple..And I will never be..

I don't like their arrogance..