Galaxy Note stylus 5 blocked? Samsung does not fix the bug … – Macity (Blog)

The nib of the Galaxy Note 5 if stuck on the contrary gets stuck in the device and will permanently damage the device. A design flaw that should be repaired, but that Samsung prefers to freeze, limiting itself to warn customers of his life.

There is a flaw in design? Just warn buyers. This is the logic that, apparently, governs the logic of Samsung, which instructs with an adhesive, instead of repairing the problem, those who buy its Galaxy Note 5, warning not to insert the stylus into the receptacle on the contrary if not you want to take the chance to see him locked (almost) permanently.

The story takes as a basis a known problem: the phablet Korean, as we have explained, it literally eats the stylus, locking it if you make the mistake to toss it with the back inside the hole formed laterally in the Galaxy Note, that in this way it has been kept for the transportation. The trouble arises from a sensor lever which is located within the corridor of the pen and by the particular shape of the nib. If the accessory slips from the wrong side, a groove formed in the final part, is detected by the sensor that will work at that point situation. Pulling violently to remove the stylus, the sensor breaks.

Many sites Android stumbled into the problem (and some reviewer has also experienced live, see above) or asking to change the shape of the bottom nib or modify the receptacle preventing groove blocks accessory. Two options considered too expensive, obviously, by Samsung that did neither one nor the other, choosing a more economical: a warning on the plastic that surrounds the phone. “Put the S Pen in the wrong direction, it can determine its block and damage the pen and your phone.” A few images of kit say what is wrong and what is right to do.

When the Galaxy Note 5 is not yet available in Italy and is not given to know if when you get the bug hardware will been repaired, but those in the US was found to deal with it has found a solution (video below): insert a strip of paper into the hole of the pen to disengage the lever-switch. Not the height of elegance, and certainly a trick that smacks of DIY, a little ‘how to slip in the box with the instructions on what to do if you do not want to damage the phone instead of preventing the damage can take place.