Hello,
Just picked up my 16GB S3 and none of the motion stuff works including the Palm Swipe. I can't even take Screenshot with Home + Power?
I followed you tube instructions and on how to swipe etc, but no go. The only thing was that the batt was at 10%, I am charging it now but is this a power issue? or do I have a broke piece and if yes, is it the s/w or the h/w issues
EDIT: I was waving my hand instead of kissing it over the screen. I did the tutorials for the motion and they work as well
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Hi there, I have the same problem. Did you figure out why? I can't save any pictures at all!
It does work for me . ACtivate the motion and the Palm swipe to capture. You need to put the side of your on the screen from left to right.
hmm, the easiest one to check is the screenshot or the auto contact call one, turn it on. go to messaging app and open a thread with someone you are texting and just put the phone to your ear, it will auto dial the person.. try that one
I think there are some bugs with the SGH-I747M. I have tried on 4 different phones and none of them allow the palm screenshot
Also the tap to top only works on a couple apps
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I had problems too until I found out the you DON'T use your palm. You have to swipe from right to left with the side of your hand (karate chop basically ). After I figured that out it has been working without problems. It's a little tricky taking a screenshot with home+power as you have to do it with perfect timing for it to work, but once you figure that out it's pretty simple. Not as easy as my iPad though but still fairly easy now.
Hope that helps
Screenshot with the power and home button need to be held down until it takes the picture. Don't just hit them quickly.
With the motion screenshot your karate chop hand needs to touch the screen as your swiping from right to left.
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defnow said:
Screenshot with the power and home button need to be held down until it takes the picture. Don't just hit them quickly.
With the motion screenshot your karate chop hand needs to touch the screen as your swiping from right to left.
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Thanks for the tip about holding the home+power a lot easier then what I was trying lol
Palm swype work like a charm for me on rogers
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The palm screenshot thing isn't even worth using since you have to be touching the screen to do it and it always manages to change things on the screen while you are trying to swipe your hand across to screenshot. Home+Power works a lot better.
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The palm screenshot thing isn't even worth using since you have to be touching the screen to do it and it always manages to change things on the screen while you are trying to swipe your hand across to screenshot. Home+Power works a lot better.
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Wow.. I finally got the screen shot motion to work. Lmao
You have to touch the screen. And here I was thinking the front facing camera is responsible for this :banghead:
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Doh!
manny05 said:
Wow.. I finally got the screen shot motion to work. Lmao
You have to touch the screen. And here I was thinking the front facing camera is responsible for this :banghead:
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OMG thank you, so did I. Glad I'm not the only one. Somehow it made sense to me that the camera was doing it too! :silly:
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The palm screenshot thing isn't even worth using since you have to be touching the screen to do it and it always manages to change things on the screen while you are trying to swipe your hand across to screenshot. Home+Power works a lot better.
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Wasted all kinds of time trying to sort this out. When will I learn to Google first? Would have saved me all kinds of frustration
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Has anyone else switched to quick controls in honeycomb's browser, by going to settings->Labs? It gives you all the menu items in a semi-circle at your finger too just from swiping along the edge of the screen. I have since day one and am not gng back! I haven't seen anyone comment on this awesome, somewhat hidden, feature, so I thought I would attempt to bring it to everyines attention.
in fact I love it so much I wish it was integrated throughout the rest if the os. I often find myself swiping the side of the screen attempting to use the back button or whatever else. Then sadly I realize I am not in the browser and begrudgingly reach down to the bottom left corner...
If you guys have tried it let me know what you think. If you havn't, give it a whirl and post back
I tried it, but couldn't get it in to it. You have to swipe very close to the edge of the screen, so the popup wouldn't appear several times because I wasn't swiping close enough to the edge. It seems like it would be good, but it needs a little work. Maybe they've fixed it or there are some settings that I didn't look at.
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xious1 said:
I tried it, but couldn't get it in to it. You have to swipe very close to the edge of the screen, so the popup wouldn't appear several times because I wasn't swiping close enough to the edge. It seems like it would be good, but it needs a little work. Maybe they've fixed it or there are some settings that I didn't look at.
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I have never had it not register...perhaps you're doing it wrong.
Simply move your finger from the bezel to the screen on the left or right sides of screen, like you are pulling the menu out. Move your finger to the option you want and release.
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I often catch myself swiping when using a 3rd party browser. Long pressing a page brings focus back to the tab as well so its the best of both worlds.
It does however confuse others when they want to check out my Xoom haha.
Yeah I love this option as well.. Took me a little while to figure it out as well.. Make sure your swiping closed to the middle as well because otherwise all the options wont be visible.
Yeah, honestly, my only complaint is that it registers sometimes when I am trying to click a link near the edge of the screen. But doesn't happen very often and a precise touch or quick zoom remidies this.
It is a nice option but I do not like the fact that it hides all of the other controls that are much easier to simply tap with one touch. I realize that it adds more screen real estate but it just doesn't seem easier to use to me. Maybe it is just me.
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It is a nice option but I do not like the fact that it hides all of the other controls that are much easier to simply tap with one touch. I realize that it adds more screen real estate but it just doesn't seem easier to use to me. Maybe it is just me.
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Agree... would be nice if this was done by toggle so you could have both if you want.
Greedy users we are.
Didn't know about this but I really like it.
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The only thing I would like added is a "close tab" button. To anyone having issues activating the option wheel, you don't just touch the edge of the touchscreen...you start with your finger off the screen on the bezel and drag it on from the side.
I love it too. At first it seemed a little flakey but the more I use it the more it's become second nature.
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I love it too. At first it seemed a little flakey but the more I use it the more it's become second nature.
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Agreed... its bad ass. I too, find myself trying to do it all the time on the xda app. Hint Hint XDA...
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Thanks would never have seen this
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The first time I saw it (my brother actually found it), I didn't want it because I thought it would be too complicated (at least for the misses).
Now, its been fully embraced by everyone that touches my xoom
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how do you switch tabs while using it?
mobilehavoc said:
how do you switch tabs while using it?
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When there are multiple tabs open, they appear across the top just like before. To get another tab use the + (plus) sign.
There are different controls in others corners. This seems to make the browser faster. Thanks for the tip...
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This is great..love the full page effect.Thanks!!
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I've been using this since day 1. Best way to use chrome!
I like it too. Its very smart. Hopenwe get additional ui or improved.
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This rant is not about the current Epic phone. I love this phone, so I don't really have much to complain about, other than my charger port going out after over a year of use. This isn't a bad number though, considering I had to replace my HTC Touch Pro 5 times within a year due to screen issues...
No, this is not a rant about the current Epic, but a rant about the Epic Touch. Maybe not so much the Epic Touch alone, but the manufacturers and their inability to keep things consistent. They come out with new phones with tons of upgrades in hardware. That's great! What I don't like is when they take features away. This is why I'm doubting I will ever jump to the Touch...
It's not the lack of slide-out keyboard I hate. I waited for the Epic to come out solely for this feature, but find with Swype, I never use it. No, it's the one tiny overlooked feature that I use quite often on my Epic. The dedicated shutter button for the camera!!! Seriously! Why take that away??? You make all of these changes to the hardware that make it a far superior phone, but you take away something as simple as this that has a huge benefit push? ARGH!
Has anyone else found themselves loving new phones that come out, but deciding not to because of that ONE little feature that you refuse to lose?
Ok, end of rant.
yes ... i hate that my nexus doesnt have a camera button or a led light... even though bln makes up for the led i have to press the screen to take a picture and sometimes its easy to move when touching the screen
No camera button is a *****
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Seriously! I would upgrade to the Epic Touch, I really would, if it had that freakin camera button. Everything else about that phone is sexy! They are losing business from at least me just because of something that should be so basic in all phones at this point. Pressing the screen is a pain in the butt, especially when turning it around to take a picture of yourself with the back camera for quality and flash purposes. I've become a pro at this with my Epic.
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No camera button is a *****
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How do you guys manually focus with the on screen controls? I always use my two stage camera button
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I've always found that it works pretty well on it's own when I need to take a self group photo. I guess I could always get someone else to take the pictures, but it's just more of an annoyance than anything else. lol
The phone focuses so fast and the shutter speed is speedy as well. I haven't taken a blurry pic yet. I use Swipe Pad from the Market and set the camera as one of the 12 apps so its actually really fast and easy to open the camera.
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Camera button is nice, but I can do without it if it makes for a slimmer sexier device.
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you just tap the screen to focus and hit the button to take the picture. I hate the hard button personally because when i press it the camera always moves. But the on screen one can take a very light tap and nothing moves. so I actually never use the hardware button.
That's fine. On the Epic, you have that option. My point is, they took away a very basic and simple feature from a phone needlessly. Now you no longer have the option.
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you just tap the screen to focus and hit the button to take the picture. I hate the hard button personally because when i press it the camera always moves. But the on screen one can take a very light tap and nothing moves. so I actually never use the hardware button.
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Same here. I only ever use the camera button to turn the camera on. Touch screen focus you can actually pick the focal point of the picture other than dead center which I like.
By knowing obvious two ways of taking screenshot using S-pen and Palm sweep,
yesterday i discovered 3rd way which is by pressing lock button and home button simultaneously !
I dont know how many of us know this, just thought sharing, but nowhere i have read about this.
And if you really didn't knew this, being "Noob" i would really like to see something on my Thanks meter
Most of us know it I guess but thanks anyways
I didn't know it, thanks. probably won't use it though a its a little more awkward than the other 2 ways
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Actually pressing the lock button and home button simultaneously is quite easy... ive been doing that since i got my note. That was how I used to take screen caps with my iphone
Maybe in landscape
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how do you capture using palm sweep? i saw the video on youtube but can't seem to duplicate it. is there a setting i need to enable before i can do this?
You should just have to Swipe your hand from the right hand side of the screen to the left
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Left to right works also, learn something new everyday
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I don't really find the hand swipe convenient
Most convenient method is hand swipe but 9 out of 10 times, I can't get it to work. I always end up with the other 2 methods.
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Coming from iPhone (besides my BB days) this was a natural gesture I tried when I got my note. Still, I usually need a screenshot when I am going to annotate it with my SPen, so button+screen press is my preferred action.
I can't seam to get the swipe motion to work. Are you guys using one finger? 2, 3, 4? The Palm? right at the middle of the screen? the top? bottom? I tried them all, can't seam to get it to work.
The Lock/Home Button method seams to work on most android devices by default.
geonahta said:
Coming from iPhone (besides my BB days) this was a natural gesture I tried when I got my note. Still, I usually need a screenshot when I am going to annotate it with my SPen, so button+screen press is my preferred action.
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You do know that pressing the button on the pen and holding the stylus on the Note will take a screen shot, plus bring up the S-Pen annotation tools right? It would be faster to do it that way rather then save the screen shot, then go to the gallery and annotate the photo after the fact.
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I can't seam to get the swipe motion to work. Are you guys using one finger? 2, 3, 4? The Palm? right at the middle of the screen? the top? bottom? I tried them all, can't seam to get it to work.
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use the side of your hand. Too hard to apply even pressure across the entire screen otherwise.
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use the side of your hand. Too hard to apply even pressure across the entire screen otherwise.
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Thanks! So...apparently it works if you run your phone across your abdomen as well...yeah, don't ask.
deymayor said:
how do you capture using palm sweep? i saw the video on youtube but can't seem to duplicate it. is there a setting i need to enable before i can do this?
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use the edge of the palm below index finger and slide it from left to right or right to left. It helps applying uniform pressure on ample amount of pixels......
Just found a new trick well new to me with your phone off and on a flat service swipe the screen and it tells you the time any missed calls and battery life
I thought it was a cool trick
This was the first feature I found when I got the device (which was a week and half ago now).
You really should explore the s-pen and motion settings more often
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This was the first feature I found when I got the device (which was a week and half ago now).
You really should explore the s-pen and motion settings more often
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Have you ever managed to get the screen capture motion working? I have tried many times even via the hand motion tutorial thing but it just wouldn't work for me....
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Have you ever managed to get the screen capture motion working? I have tried many times even via the hand motion tutorial thing but it just wouldn't work for me....
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Worked like a charm on both galaxy s3 and now not2. You should try washing your hands before
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Don't worry about screen capture it's a pain in the ass evry time you wipe the screen it take a pic I turned it off
Update dont swipe just hover your hand over
I was being a retard didn't realise you had to touch the screen in order for it to work. Lol
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Just found a new trick well new to me with your phone off and on a flat service swipe the screen and it tells you the time any missed calls and battery life
I thought it was a cool trick
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Doesnt work for me
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Does not work for me either.
Is there a trick to swiping? top to bottom? left to right?
Edit: Found it. It was not enabled it's the first option in settings, gestures
schiz said:
Does not work for me either.
Is there a trick to swiping? top to bottom? left to right?
Edit: Found it. It was not enabled it's the first option in settings, gestures
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Hahha. Such a simple thing and I wonder how it kept away from my eyes. Thanks working now
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Have you ever managed to get the screen capture motion working? I have tried many times even via the hand motion tutorial thing but it just wouldn't work for me....
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Are you holding your hand vertically and then sweeping it across the screen?
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Guys your hands should be well touching on the whole screen while swipe your hand on it
Try.... enjoy
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Get your hand over from bottom to up and hold a bit over phone sensor.
Dont forget to enable first in settings
Fired From My FireDevice.
looks nice
i will try
There's a tutorial for this feature in the motion settings, you're not actually supposed to touch the screen to trigger it as it works using the proximity sensor.
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I see a few sec delay after i cover my hand over a phone and screen info , is it normal ?cause i have custom Rom. In the tutorials section when i cover my hand screen goes on without delay
Well just saw that this will turn the proximity censor on all the time which will drain the battery
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Go to motion turn on quick glance
I thought he Quick Glance was not working for me. It works more easily in the tutorials, but not IRL. When using it IRL, (especially in a bright room) I have to hover my hand over the sensor for some time to get it to activate.
Having a tough time doing screen capture with the palm. I saw the YouTube video snd still couldn't get it to work.
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You have to actually touch the screen with your hand as you swipe from side to side...
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You have to actually touch the screen with your hand as you swipe from side to side...
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If you touch the screen, it responds in whatever app you happen to be in. I can't get it to work either. I'm guessing there will be a software update in the next couple of weeks to fix. Whether AT&T releases it is another matter.
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If you touch the screen, it responds in whatever app you happen to be in. I can't get it to work either. I'm guessing there will be a software update in the next couple of weeks to fix. Whether AT&T releases it is another matter.
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I can do it every time. Use the whole side of your hand and slide it across the screen end to end. Maybe the Note II trained me how to do it...
I too had trouble with this on my SIII when I first got it until I started doing what Bjray explained, you don't use your palm, you use the side of your palm as if you're chopping something, then brush from one side of the screen to the other, starting OFF the screen's edge on one side, and moving kind of quickly to the other.... practice makes perfect, even if you do look pretty silly doing it! There's definitely no software update that needs to occur for you to get what we're saying and screen shot every time
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I can do it every time. Use the whole side of your hand and slide it across the screen end to end. Maybe the Note II trained me how to do it...
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Nope. Just tried it in low light, bright light, turned it off and on again. Which "Samsung gesture" things do you have turned on? I have some of them off (smart pause, etc). Maybe there's something there, or maybe my sensor isn't sensing...some of them did work though, so I don't think its that. Power/Home works fine, but it still bothers me that I can't get it to work.