Another way to go back While using the Spen - Galaxy Note II General

Sometimes while using the Spen, I have to hit the Back button to go back or use the Back gesture which is not very practical since pressing the button is kinds annoying at times.
In the Galaxy Note 10.1 it simple to go back since the Back button is a touch button.
So is there another way to hit Back on the GN2?
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Smokie Smokerson said:
Sometimes while using the Spen, I have to hit the Back button to go back or use the Back gesture which is not very practical since pressing the button is kinds annoying at times.
In the Galaxy Note 10.1 it simple to go back since the Back button is a touch button.
So is there another way to hit Back on the GN2?
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There was an app in the galaxy nexus forums that enabled you to make gestures for basically every action you might think of. If I remember the name , i'll link it here ( not sure if it will work though, but i think it may will ).
EDIT : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535740
i think it was this... its really easy to use , just make a 2 finger swype gesture to from right to left to use instead of back

If you're rooted try smartswitcher from the play store.
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I am former Note 1 user and waiting for Note 2.
But I can help
Hoping this options still unchanged from Note 1,
Swipe Pen from right to left by holding pen button = back
Swiping pen on screen from bottom to top by holding button on pen works like menu/option button.
Swiping pen from top to bottom whole holding pen button brings back to home screen.
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In settings/ pen setting / pen help
should explain everything you need.
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I think you can write arrow symbol with the Spen to go either side back or forward.

The thing is I was hoping for a way without actually holding the Spending button.
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gotshoaib said:
I am former Note 1 user and waiting for Note 2.
But I can help
Hoping this options still unchanged from Note 1,
Swipe Pen from right to left by holding pen button = back
Swiping pen on screen from bottom to top by holding button on pen works like menu/option button.
Swiping pen from top to bottom whole holding pen button brings back to home screen.
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In settings/ pen setting / pen help
should explain everything you need.
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I think it's changed, naturally I tried those gestures coming from the GN1 too, but they didn't work. They have decided to change the bloody commands, it's like learning another language lol.
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RavenY2K3 said:
I think it's changed, naturally I tried those gestures coming from the GN1 too, but they didn't work. They have decided to change the bloody commands, it's like learning another language lol.
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Learning another language LOL.....you are funny.
Well then enjoy learning...
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Here's another nice alternative, I've used this before too. Again ( not 100% sure if it will work ).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150

it has changed draw < for back and ^ for menu. cheers.

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Home button

Does anyone else dislike the home button? I really find this a step backwards.
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Nope! I like the physical home button.
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bighulk666 said:
Nope! I like the physical home button.
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Same here. I was a little worried about it before my phone was delivered because of what one of the reviews I read had to say about it, but I am pleased with it.
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If you had a i9100 or a i9000 you are used to it. Its nice double clicking it brings out s voice. Then double clicking menus opens search.
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I like it... Coming from the Epic, its taking a bit to get use to it. The simple touch to get home was nice too. I want my Camera button back. lol and Keyboard.
a454nova said:
I like it... Coming from the Epic, its taking a bit to get use to it. The simple touch to get home was nice too. I want my Camera button back. lol and Keyboard.
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I also like the Home button. I like holding it down to get the task manager with whatever is running. I can easily remove any apps by swiping them off to the side. (for those few who didn't know)
But, you don't need a physical button to get the camera going. It takes a bit of practice but here's the trick - starting from the locked screen (visible) - with your thumb in the middle of the screen hold the phone in the portrait position then rotate to horizontal. The camera should pop up instantly.
it does work.
Coming from the S2 it takes some getting used to but its growing on me.
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i like the home button it works nice for me
Has anyone noticed a definite lag when you press the home button before it returns to home screen? I disabled double click to open S-voice and it seems to have become slightly faster, but you can still notice a lag before the home screen shows up.
Coming from the Galaxy Nexus it was s ***** at first but I have grown used to it though but......soft keys>>>>> hard keys
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Well, I guess I need to keep giving it a chance. I'm just used to having to barely press it. With the case on it seems harder to get to.
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avishek_32 said:
Has anyone noticed a definite lag when you press the home button before it returns to home screen? I disabled double click to open S-voice and it seems to have become slightly faster, but you can still notice a lag before the home screen shows up.
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Disable S-Voice's double-tap-home shortcut in the S-Voice settings. It's instant after that. You won't be able to launch S-Voice by double tapping home though.
Personally I would prefer more screen real estate and have the digital soft keys like on the Galaxy Nexus. by doing this they could have either provided more screen or made the overall size of the phone slightly shorter.
It's my only complaint. After having a Transformer Prime and getting used to a capacitive home button, it really is a hassle.
Coming from the Samsung vibrant, I didn't like the idea of it at first because I was use to the soft keys and the s3's physical home button reminded me of the vibrant's international version (I9000).
But now that I actually have the phone, I love it. Just takes some time to get use to, depending on your preference or your previous phone.
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Coming from the Evo 3D, it's definitely annoying but I'm getting used to it. Honestly, I wish they removed capacitive buttons, made the screen bigger and went for software buttons like the Galaxy nexus. That way it's much more customizable and gives you extra screen space when you dont use the bottom buttons.
Annoyed
It is a shame. My finger is tired!
Captivate had 4 capacitive buttons.
Considering how good and responsive capacitive buttons got on SGS3 - it is hard to justify physical home button, and it can break too. Suxxxx.
I dont mind it at all
I like the home button. I just hope it holds up for 2years.
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Love the Home button. Coming from an iPhone 4S I am used to the physical button. The biggest plus for me is waking the phone up. I find it very awkward to press the side power button to do that instead of quickly locate the physical button right on the face of the device. Also the double tap and single tap and hold works good.

Random Tips/tricks thread

I though this was interesting - thought I'd make a new thread for random interesting little things.
I just watched a video about air view, and the samsung said that in the (stock?) browser, holding the pen above anything on a web page
will act as if you were hovering your mouse pointer above the same thing on a regular browser.
ChodTheWacko said:
I though this was interesting - thought I'd make a new thread for random interesting little things.
I just watched a video about air view, and the samsung said that in the (stock?) browser, holding the pen above anything on a web page
will act as if you were hovering your mouse pointer above the same thing on a regular browser.
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That's for the note 2
**** wrong forum
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Moved To Note 2 General Forum​
I assume this is the forum you wanted, if not PM me.​
This works on Note 1 (N7000) stock ICS too. Works on my non-rooted stock Note 1 on N7000JPLR8 ROM.
Mine too on LRT
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There is an interesting spen power saving option - it turns off the wacom detection if the stylus is Inside the slot. What this means in practical terms is that you save battery, but you can't use a secondary stylus in the meantime.
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That's a nice addition. Does it take a while for the wacom to start up again when you pull the pen out?
ChodTheWacko said:
There is an interesting spen power saving option - it turns off the wacom detection if the stylus is Inside the slot. What this means in practical terms is that you save battery, but you can't use a secondary stylus in the meantime.
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paul2834 said:
That's a nice addition. Does it take a while for the wacom to start up again when you pull the pen out?
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No time at all. You won't even notice it was off.
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WHATS wacom PLZ
stesteste said:
WHATS wacom PLZ
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The technology used to power the S-Pen.
Found a couple of things that I'd thought I comment on.
There's an option where if you pull out the s-pen, it opens up the s-memo so you can start writing right away. Nice.
If you stick the s-pen back in, it automatically closes the s-memo too, and saves the contents. Very slick!
I'm also very happy the sms program has a 're-notify me every 2/10 minutes' if I haven't read the message.
Notification light helps a lot with this, of course, but it's nice to have the phone re-vibrate if it's in your pocket!
I wish we had renotify for calls too! I tried 'vibrate notifier' but it was kind of flakey on the note 1. Have to retry on JB/Note 2.
- Frank
You can now adjust the brightness slider even when it's on auto brightness.
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Today I set up an appointment for a colegue (we share Google calendars)
It had a time and location. A bit later the phone notified me it was time to leave for the appointment. It had calculated the time it would take to get to the meeting location from where I was and when I should leave.
That's clever
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concreteman said:
Today I set up an appointment for a colegue (we share Google calendars)
It had a time and location. A bit later the phone notified me it was time to leave for the appointment. It had calculated the time it would take to get to the meeting location from where I was and when I should leave.
That's clever
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Damn, that is smart. Wonder if it used google traffic to consider any delays as well?
Everyday, google is getting closer and closer to knowing exactly what we do, where we go, who we interact with, etc... scary but who cares.
Holding the s-pen above a web page or any list...will scroll the page...without even touching the screen.
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concreteman said:
Today I set up an appointment for a colegue (we share Google calendars)
It had a time and location. A bit later the phone notified me it was time to leave for the appointment. It had calculated the time it would take to get to the meeting location from where I was and when I should leave.
That's clever
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How you do that..?
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dzontra11 said:
How you do that..?
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Technically, that's a feature of Google Now, available on any device running JB.
Using stock keyboard you can pinch to change to one handed keyboard and then rhe opposite to go back to the normal keyboard.
It's a little sporadic - anyone know how to do it seamlessly???
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Hovering over an appointment with the SPen in Calendar will act like a mouse over and give you more detail. Works great in Month and Weekly views. Scrolling works here as well.
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Galaxy note 2's hidden feature called Air Touch...

Hi friends, I want to show you all... note 2's hidden feature we can call it Air Touch (by this feature you can use your note without touch on its screen through SPen) n hope you'll enjoy this amazing feature... n also let me know how many of you know about it... n if you like this, plz press thumbs up
I've uploaded it on youtube n
Here is the video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDyPqX3Jw8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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hidden
not its not
Well, for some people, it's not "air touch", it's "S-pen way too sensitive" and it's a problem
(see that vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDDKGPj2FI)
I guess you tweaked the potentiometer of your S-pen so much that it reacts without even touching the screen ?
BTW, I guess you've lost air view function by doing this, right?
Oh
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I thought it was some hidden feature of note 2
I liked it very much its cool and samsung should placed one more button to activate n deactivate this air touch feature n its more fun then air view
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Well, the possibility to activate/desactivate this feature could be a great idea indeed, but I fear it depends on the potentiometer of the S-pen. Maybe another button on the S-pen to activate this feature could be a good idea for the Note 3
Was it out of the box for you, or did you unscrew the S-pen potentiometer to get these results?
(for me, it was just the contrary, the S-pen was not sensitive enough, I had to press the screen pretty hard to get it working, I had to unscrew the potentiometer to get a smooth S-pen. I haven't tried to get results as yours and I'm not sure my S-pen could do this even if I tweak it more)
Well I dropped my SPen today
And found this feature accidentally
Its quite simple if you press your Spen tip little inside then this feature activate... for deactivation pull it little out
But its fun to use it
Now its like some high tech magic wand
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Hi I hv seen new galaxy s4 video
It has a air swipe feature... where you can just swipe your palm over screen n it'll change the photos, videos
May be samsung will add this feature air touch on galaxy note 3
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Not as convenient but you can get the same result by holding the tip of your finger over the nib of the spen.
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hidden....? samsung has this feature on their note2 promotional video....
This feature isn't "hidden". Lol
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amitsharma.atc said:
Hi I hv seen new galaxy s4 video
It has a air swipe feature... where you can just swipe your palm over screen n it'll change the photos, videos
May be samsung will add this feature air touch on galaxy note 3
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This is a pretty old feature which I was using on my old Nokia, it was a 3rd party application that used the front camera to detect the motion of your hands over the screen and swipe photos or pages. Nothing new and certainly not a samsung innovation.
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I don't like it. Confusing.
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amitsharma.atc said:
Well I dropped my SPen today
And found this feature accidentally
Its quite simple if you press your Spen tip little inside then this feature activate... for deactivation pull it little out
But its fun to use it
Now its like some high tech magic wand
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Thanks Thanks Thank you My Indian friend this feature works gr8 thx
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aviralsingh16 said:
Thanks Thanks Thank you My Indian friend this feature works gr8 thx
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Well I just like this feature becoz you dont hv to rub your spen on your screen n also with finger its work normal.... using spen like this way its quite feel magical.....
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amitsharma.atc said:
Well I just like this feature becoz you dont hv to rub your spen on your screen n also with finger its work normal.... using spen like this way its quite feel magical.....
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Me too and also it fells a quite good the S IV has floating touch and we have S pen floating touch lol xD I am working on a modifier I may loose air view but I can use air touch.
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aviralsingh16 said:
Me too and also it fells a quite good the S IV has floating touch and we have S pen floating touch lol xD I am working on a modifier I may loose air view but I can use air touch.
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Well thats why I want Samsung should put a button that can activate n deactivate this feature when needed... so you can use both features simultaneously according to your use (air touch n air view)... because note2 has capable hardware
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So you broke your spen for this to work
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http://samsung-updates.com/flagship...ries-s-3-note-2-to-get-new-software-features/
Looks like Samsung has a simpler solution. ..
Even easier just slightly hold your little finger on the nib and this works
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Screenshot

From reading screenshot is supposed to be holding the home button and power button at the same time until a white flash appears. I am unable to get mine to do this, am I doing something wrong?
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toothmkr57 said:
From reading screenshot is supposed to be holding the home button and power button at the same time until a white flash appears. I am unable to get mine to do this, am I doing something wrong?
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When I preform a screen shot I dont see the white flash, I just hear a click and the "saving screen shot" message in my notification bar.
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But you hold those two buttons, right?
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Do I have to turn some option on somewhere? Not that this would be common... I can't get it to do anything but bring up the recently open list
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toothmkr57 said:
Do I have to turn some option on somewhere? Not that this would be common... I can't get it to do anything but bring up the recently open list
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Yes, power and home buttons.
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toothmkr57 said:
Do I have to turn some option on somewhere? Not that this would be common... I can't get it to do anything but bring up the recently open list
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Are you pushing them at the same time? If the home button is pushed first nothing happens, if power is pushed first recent apps c9mes uo.
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erickmtz said:
Try holding the power button until some options appear, among those there is a screenshot button.
Mine works that way
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That's a custom ROM option - I think you're in the wrong thread. Or you're trolling. Either way...
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toothmkr57 said:
From reading screenshot is supposed to be holding the home button and power button at the same time until a white flash appears. I am unable to get mine to do this, am I doing something wrong?
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It took me some tries to get the timing right - power then home RIGHT after and hold both until you get the screenshot flash.
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Are you pushing them at the same time? If the home button is pushed first nothing happens, if power is pushed first recent apps c9mes uo.
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I thought I was, if I'm not it's insanely sensitive...
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That's a custom ROM option - I think you're in the wrong thread. Or you're trolling. Either way...
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It took me some tries to get the timing right - power then home RIGHT after and hold both until you get the screenshot flash.
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Sweet, got it!
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toothmkr57 said:
I thought I was, if I'm not it's insanely sensitive...
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Not sure then. Other way to take screen shot is palm swipe.
Settings > My Device > Motions and Gestures > palm motion > Screen capture
Ensure its on then with a "karate chop hand" swipe from one side to the other.
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erickmtz said:
To enable screenshot option go to:
Settings/Customizations/System/Power button/ check screenshot option.
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What thread do you think you're in? This is the Samsung GS4 thread. There is no "customizations" menu. If there is on the stock GS4, post me a screen shot and post a screen shot of your "about phone".

[Q] Activate Google Search?

Coming from a Note 1 where I had a nice capacitive button to activate search.
Really don't want to keep a widget on my home screen just to get to Google Now/Search, but can't figure out how to map a hardware button to it.
Help?
What about a custom launcher with user defined functions invoked by a gesture?
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Ya, I suppose that fixes all my problems. I was trying to stick with touchwiz for once, but I've finally bit the bullet and went back to Nova.
Thanks
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Google Now: hold home key / middle option
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Another option: check out Swipepad!
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