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Most annoying feature of Note 2.

Sometimes when I tried to press the edit button, back button or home button the phone does not react. Volume and power buttons works fine. I almost thought that I had a faulty unit with an intermittent problem.
In actuality, as long as the proximity of the S-pen triggers a blue dot on the screen, these buttons are deactivated for some unknrown reasons.
SO ANNOYING.
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mix1987 said:
Sometimes when I tried to press the edit button, back button or home button the phone does not react. Volume and power buttons works fine. I almost thought that I had a faulty unit with an intermittent problem.
In actuality, as long as the proximity of the S-pen triggers a blue dot on the screen, these buttons are deactivated for some unknrown reasons.
SO ANNOYING.
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Lol thats the way it supposed to be friend, when the S pen is close to the screen it deactivates the touch sensitivity. Now thats what you call a smartphone!
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I find it a good thing honestly. I hate accidentally bumping those.
Out of curiosity, why are trying to press those buttons with the pen so close to the screen anyway?
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Now thats what you call a smartphone!
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Haha. Apparently not so smart?
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i dont got a problem with it.. how are you holding the pen?

You know you can hold the button and draw gesture arrows using the S Pen to open the menu or go back, yeah?
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I am sitting on my sofa with a pillow on my lap. My left hand holding the phone and right hand holding the S-pen are both resting on the pillow. The right hand was resting on the pillow when not using the S-pen and while resting, the S-pen happened to be in close contact with the screen.
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I am surprised no one thought this is annoying too. Haha. Maybe its just me.
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The most annoying thing for me, is when I go tap the back button and it registers as a double tap, taking me two pages back.
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The S-Pen icon constantly being in the notification bar. Oh wait, that is only there because I didn't get an S-Pen in my box so I can't attach the S-Pen and T-mobile said I will have to wait 10 days.

It's a feature not a bug and I'm glad that Samsung implemented it
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RambJoe said:
The S-Pen icon constantly being in the notification bar. Oh wait, that is only there because I didn't get an S-Pen in my box so I can't attach the S-Pen and T-mobile said I will have to wait 10 days.
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Disable page buddy in the settings
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Annoying is threads....well I will just Say Thank You for your info and....
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Use front camera as light sensor

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thank you very much!!!

thanks for sharing i test it and it's working good :thumbsup:

It says not compatible with my device :/
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Thanks, installed, but can only use it in "wake on mode", meaning it scans the light value when the phone wakes up, is there any way of setting it to auto-brightness in it's usual meaning, like constantly adjusting the brightness level?
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Calculating Infinity said:
Thanks, installed, but can only use it in "wake on mode", meaning it scans the light value when the phone wakes up, is there any way of setting it to auto-brightness in it's usual meaning, like constantly adjusting the brightness level?
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why you need this...ur not even using your phone when the lights go off, & also I think if you did that the battery will drain in crazy speed
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I found this option to when to adjust your brightness
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Well lets say I turn my phone on while I'm in a dark spot, so the brightness sets to low level, but then I enter a room with more light, or exit on the street so the brightness gets too low. Get it? I'd like to have the auto-brightness, otherwise I can set the level manually, as I'm used to.
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Hi! Thanks for this thread I have (noob) question Is there some possibillity, that s iii mini has light sensor on board, but it is dissabled (by kernel on by something)?
I am maybe totally wrong, but on front side is camera, proximity sensor and third "circle" where could be light sensor???
We dont't have otg support by defaul, but it can wokrs so why not light sensor?

Some state it does, some that it does not. I believe it does not, since I dont see why sammy wouldn't include the sofware for it in the first place.
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then why we have a otg hardware support but we can't enable it unless by a custom kernel

Someone who works at a service center may know how the hardware looks better.
Or someone can risk flashing an s advance rom, it has same hardware right?
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Pezmet said:
Someone who works at a service center may know how the hardware looks better.
Or someone can risk flashing an s advance rom, it has same hardware right?
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Oh, no. Even if you remove the device name checks from the updater-script and make it flash somehow, you're bricking it. Let the hardware be same. It will brick.
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Ok so we need an ALS chip (ambient light sensor) somewhere on the mother board. If we have this we need to include in the kernel drivers, closest mach would be i8160. We might run an easy test with such a kernel and the display setting coded in to a rom from the same i8160.
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How did you set your simple link for Lume.. i have just 1 and 255 ?
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why we afford to risk with flashing a new kernel while if someone can take our phone to some hardware specialist open the phone guts...and search for a light sensor...
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Robi959 said:
How did you set your simple link for Lume.. i have just 1 and 255 ?
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Touch the 1 or 255 yellow bars and you can edit them.
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Hi! Today I was cleaning my s iii mini and I looked under front cover, where is proximity sensor and found there something like this. So I thing that we have brightness sensor too, but question is, if it is hw disconnected or only sw disabled???
I was thinking about it and I have question: Is possible to port ROM from Samsung Galaxy S Advance to our mini? Both phones are similar and this tutorial should help.
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Here is picture, how it looks in real
It is from this video.

somin.n said:
Hi! Today I was cleaning my s iii mini and I looked under front cover, where is proximity sensor and found there something like this. So I thing that we have brightness sensor too, but question is, if it is hw disconnected or only sw disabled???
I was thinking about it and I have question: Is possible to port ROM from Samsung Galaxy S Advance to our mini? Both phones are similar and this tutorial should help.
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Here is picture, how it looks in real
It is from this video.
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this tutorial only work if we had a cm which we hasn't. ..yet
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Prevent unauthorized shutdown on Nexus 4

Hi all,
i am a relatively new nexus 4 owner. loving the buttery smoothness and amazing battery life with stock rom, loving it more with sentinel rom.
so the thing is, i wish to protect my device against theft. in the case it does happen, i would want to be able to retrieve it.
read online reviews about cerberus and find it wonderful! just the app i need...until i realized something. what if the first thing the thief did was to power off the nexus 4 instead of attempting to crack the pin? wouldn't that kinda render the anti-theft app useless? still pretty new with this so please correct me if i am wrong
having said that, is there a way to prevent unauthorized shutdown of nexus 4? like prompting of pin before user will be allowed to shut down the device.

He can shut it down all he wants. But he won't be able to boot it up to use it. You'll have enough time to take a picture of him using the app by then.
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Misledz said:
He can shut it down all he wants. But he won't be able to boot it up to use it. You'll have enough time to take a picture of him using the app by then.
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what if, for some reason, the thief decided to not use it but just keep it (weird thief i know), he can just power down and there will be no way the cerberus will be able to take a pic through the "wrong pin" method.
so there's no way one can pin lock the power down, reboot processes?

chainer22 said:
what if, for some reason, the thief decided to not use it but just keep it (weird thief i know), he can just power down and there will be no way the cerberus will be able to take a pic through the "wrong pin" method.
so there's no way one can pin lock the power down, reboot processes?
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No one steals a phone to make it an expensive paperweight lol. But you're being too paranoid on it, he probably isn't that smart if he's stealing a smartphone knowing that it can always be traced. If not by cerberus, then by Google device admin.
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I've thought about the same thing when a friend of mines phone was stolen. Couldn't call or locate it cuz it was turned off. Use uXylon ROM (4.2.2), Dirty Unicorns ROM (4.2.2), or PAC ROM (4.3). They have a power menu option that let's u hide the power off and reboot options during the lock screen.
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cdigga101 said:
I've thought about the same thing when a friend of mines phone was stolen. Couldn't call or locate it cuz it was turned off. Use uXylon ROM (4.2.2), Dirty Unicorns ROM (4.2.2), or PAC ROM (4.3). They have a power menu option that let's u hide the power off and reboot options during the lock screen.
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Cool feature BUT if the thief just holds down the power button a few more seconds it shuts down .
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failly said:
Cool feature BUT if the thief just holds down the power button a few more seconds it shuts down .
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True, nerds like us know about the hard reset. But average cell phone user wouldn't think of that. They'll hold the button till something happens, of which the power menu will pop up. They'll likely won't keep holding it.
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cdigga101 said:
True, nerds like us know about the hard reset. But average cell phone user wouldn't think of that. They'll hold the button till something happens, of which the power menu will pop up. They'll likely won't keep holding it.
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You got a point there mate!
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I've thought about the same thing when a friend of mines phone was stolen. Couldn't call or locate it cuz it was turned off. Use uXylon ROM (4.2.2), Dirty Unicorns ROM (4.2.2), or PAC ROM (4.3). They have a power menu option that let's u hide the power off and reboot options during the lock screen.
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that's awesome! i might give it a try. i became paranoid ever since my i9305 got stolen last week and i failed to install any form of protection on it.

I'd be interested in being able to not have the Power Menu come up on the lock screen too... I'm just on rooted stock right now.
Yes it might make me feel a little better about it getting stolen, but I do understand about the long hold which will still work.
Mostly I'd just like to prevent my own pocket shutdowns... seems like that's happened a handful of times to me.

Anyone know which, if any, 4.4 kit kat ROMs have continued this option setting? I'm still rocking PAC 4.3.
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Has anyone experienced this ?

I pulled my phone from my pocket earlier today and the screen was like this. I suspect I may have a dodgy unit but has anyone else seen anything like this ?
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Is it always like that even when u boot the phone?
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No literally just happened now I've manage to get it back to normal but pressing around the edge of display however switching on off did nothing
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Im asking you this because I want to know if it is a software issue or hardware issue. So if when u boot the phone you see the same green waves screen on top of the black screen and the samsung logos then must likely it would be a hardware problem...
so need to check the water sensors etc. If u dont see the green waves then just do a full wipe if problem persist try flshing an other rom.
Hit thanks if I helped
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I think this hardware issue. You need send phone tk service center to replace screen.
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Geez people, read the responses, it's a hardware problem... If you are squeezing around the edge and thi fixes it means there's a hardware problem....
You might have fixed this time but what might happen next time you put in your pocket?

No never,
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seems to me its hardware problem, get it fixed before it gets worse.

It is hardware, maybe you placed the phone in your pocket or applied some pressure on it.
If this re occurs, have the display replaced..

I've conacted Samsung and they've sent me a package to post the phone to their service centre . unfortunately there's a 2 week return time. In the mean time I've bought a moto g that my mum will buy off me when I'm done with it.
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It also now effects the entire screen and will not go away
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I did saw this symptom on my note 3. But not by pressing the edge. Just performing screen on by trigger the power button will do. But until now I just saw 3 times. Never happen again.
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I have seen this before, and if you take the phone into recovery, the screen is fine, only when you try to restart, it goes back to this, it has to be sent away to be fixed
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androidflea said:
I have seen this before, and if you take the phone into recovery, the screen is fine, only when you try to restart, it goes back to this, it has to be sent away to be fixed
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really, it is fine in recovery?

That's what I'm saying, it's fine in recovery!
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Did the update fix the auto brightness issue? or any finding on what has been fixed?

Does the update fix the auto brightness issue or any other issue that exist. So far happy with the update speed. This is quite amazon, really hope this can be persistent even after they released other new phone.

Auto brightness has been tweaked. At least the interface has. Never seen it say this before either.
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What auto brightness issue you referring to? If you mean the one where the screen will not automatically dim (and you have to uncheck auto then recheck it, or power the screen off then back on to get it to dim) then no, the update did not correct that.
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Auto brightness has been tweaked. At least the interface has. Never seen it say this before either.
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That's really odd, because I updated my phone and I don't have that, even standing in direct sunlight with auto brightness on.

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That's really odd, because I updated my phone and I don't have that, even standing in direct sunlight with auto brightness on.
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I don't have it either.. Weird
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Click on auto then slide the bar back and forth and the text will come up
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That's really odd, because I updated my phone and I don't have that, even standing in direct sunlight with auto brightness on.
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If you touch the slider does it pop up?
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What auto brightness issue you referring to? If you mean the one where the screen will not automatically dim (and you have to uncheck auto then recheck it, or power the screen off then back on to get it to dim) then no, the update did not correct that.
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Yes, these issues. Unfortunately to hear that samsung didn't fix it in this update.

I have zero issues with auto brightness my phone adjusts just fine in direct sunlight and adjusts again when I go inside
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PapaMag said:
I have zero issues with auto brightness my phone adjusts just fine in direct sunlight and adjusts again when I go inside
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Same here... I do know what OP is talking about but I don't see it as a bug.
@op I mean, if you slide it yourself, why would it automatically slide? I guess it'd make more sense if Samsung disabled manually sliding it. I think that they allow us to manually slide it though for those situations where we'd like to override it temporarily. Idk, I don't think it'll get fixed as it isn't actually a bug. Maybe they'll add an option to disable the slider while on auto.

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I have zero issues with auto brightness my phone adjusts just fine in direct sunlight and adjusts again when I go inside
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Without turning the screen off and on again or unchecking the auto box and rechecking it?
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Yes I was just playing with my phone and walked to the window to look out and my screen adjusted automatically
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Yes I was just playing with my phone and walked to the window to look out and my screen adjusted automatically
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What happens when you walk away from the window? Will the screen dim while still on?
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Yes my screen adjusted as it is designed to
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Yes my screen adjusted as it is designed to
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Huh! Mine will not ... And this is my second decive. Only way I can get the screen to dim is to turn it off and on or uncheck / check the auto box.
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I just did the update.
I notice the following -
1) Excellent improvement regarding palm rejection. The edge sensitivity which on a scale of 1-10 was an 8 before in my case, is now a 1. The issue is almost none existent.
2) improved overall speed.