Hover feature - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knew why the feature where you can hover your finger over the screen doesn't work on my GS4. On the lock screen you can see the little dot when you hover over but it doesn't work on camera, texts, gallery, etc.
THANKS EVERYONE!

mpalomba3 said:
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knew why the feature where you can hover your finger over the screen doesn't work on my GS4. On the lock screen you can see the little dot when you hover over but it doesn't work on camera, texts, gallery, etc.
THANKS EVERYONE!
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Turn Air view on?
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You have to go to Air View settings and enable it for other situations.

MaKTaiL said:
You have to go to Air View settings and enable it for other situations.
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Thanks I had it on but it wasn't enabled for everything. THANKS AGAIN!! :good: :laugh:
EDIT: I enabled everything and it still doesn't work. Any Suggestions?
Thank you

mpalomba3 said:
Thanks I had it on but it wasn't enabled for everything. THANKS AGAIN!! :good: :laugh:
EDIT: I enabled everything and it still doesn't work. Any Suggestions?
Thank you
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Air view only works on selected apps, basically the Samsung apps (Samsung email, gallery, browser, messaging), it doesn't work with all apps (which kinda sucks)
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Enable information preview, and also don't forget it will hover the content only when the data displayed doesn't fits the screen fully.
《posted from octa cored s4》

Also..
I had it turned on, but it wasn't working.
Turns out the sensor gets dirty, or dusty or whatever.. just clean it up with your finger or paper towel.. , and it should work again.

mpalomba3 said:
Thanks I had it on but it wasn't enabled for everything. THANKS AGAIN!! :good: :laugh:
EDIT: I enabled everything and it still doesn't work. Any Suggestions?
Thank you
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Try testing it with the Try command on each function.
If it works you have nothing to worry about.

You can also test it with *#0*# > TSP Hovering..

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Smart stay 'eye' icon always present

Hi all,
I would like to ask if any of you have this same thing.
I have tried to disable all of the smart stay / smart scroll feature of the phone, yet I still see the 'eye' icon in notification which indicated that the feature is still on. Is it just me or you guys have the same thing?
I already tried to turn off the phone, remove the battery, turn on again, it still there.
I don't want to hard reset yet, as maybe something else I could do, or maybe it is supposed to always stay there.
Thank you.
I9505.
On this phone the eye icon is always there but since no active - it is still dimmed. no problems all.
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myname70 said:
On this phone the eye icon is always there but since no active - it is still dimmed. no problems all.
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Ah, I see. It made me really confuse. Since I see U also using the same type with mine, I guess it is true then thx.
Opiecool2008 said:
Ah, I see. It made me really confuse. Since I see U also using the same type with mine, I guess it is true then thx.
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Hi,
If you go to settings/my device/smart screen, and uncheck everything,the eye in the notification bar disappears.
malybru said:
Hi,
If you go to settings/my device/smart screen, and uncheck everything,the eye in the notification bar disappears.
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Hi, no luck. I try that as soon as you inform me. But it still there. Any other suggestion? May I know you using I9505 or I9500? Perhaps different built?
Thanks
malybru said:
Hi,
If you go to settings/my device/smart screen, and uncheck everything,the eye in the notification bar disappears.
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Comfimed working here. Many thanks :good:
ToyGun1 said:
Comfimed working here. Many thanks :good:
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Finally I hard reset the phone. It's working. The eye is gone. Hope the glitch will not come back.

Air Gesture not working

Hi... sorry for my bad english
I've just bought GS4 since yesterday and I found an odd problem...
When I enable the air gestures for example air jump, air move etc. none of them works.
but when I try the training section they work correctly...
even It's icon doesn't appear on the status bar, but it appears when Im trying the tutorial... and It just disappears when i go back to the menu..
And I have not installed any rom or update yet...
any Idea?
oh I got why it was happening...
Rmansh said:
oh I got why it was happening...
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How did you resolve? Mine are enabled but don't seem to work, or work very rarely
Eambo said:
How did you resolve? Mine are enabled but don't seem to work, or work very rarely
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I found that when u enable it, it just works when on certain situations... for example when u are viewing pics u can go to next pic with air gesture or when u have a call u can answer it... but when there's no use for air gesture for example when u are in menu it's automatically disabled...
Eambo said:
How did you resolve? Mine are enabled but don't seem to work, or work very rarely
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I'm in the same boat. Air View works maybe 10% of the time across all apps that support it. The odd thing is that I took my new S4 into an AT&T store to see if they could figure it out. They checked all the settings, which were correct. They were stumped also. We could get it to work rarely, just enough to frustrate you. There were two guys trying to figure it out. They finally just gave me a new phone. We set it up for my account etc., loaded everything from the cloud backup, and what the hell the new one does the exact same thing. We just sat there and looked at it in disbelief. We must have played with both phones for an hour and a half and made no progress. I even started deleted various apps (I don't have a lot), but nothing. I'm totally stumped.
did you guys figure out anything, because my sgs4 gestures do not work at all, none of them, and they are ALL switched on in settings...
Very odd...
I used to have problem with air gesture .but noe its working good .
Check that
menu-my device-accesibility-put magnification gestion to off
AHA about Gestures not working!
For some reason, Samsung has hidden toggles for the gesture features WITHIN the gesture features... what I mean is if you toggle ON the gesture called "air gesture", NOTHING WILL HAPPEN unless you then tap to the LEFT of the toggle switch, and go INTO the Air Gesture sub-menu. Once you are in there, there are 5 OTHER toggles which must also be on if you want to use all the air gesture features.... WEIRD that Samsung did this without saying "Tap Here to select Air Gesture features" or something...
Mark.
zild8 said:
I used to have problem with air gesture .but noe its working good .
Check that
menu-my device-accesibility-put magnification gestion to off
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Awesome advice. That fixed my issue.
Kiros11 said:
Awesome advice. That fixed my issue.
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It ************'s ok to me.

Air View not working

You know how if you hover your finger over a picture in the gallery or an item in your calender or an SMS, you'll get a pop up of it?
Well I used to be able to do that to emails and whats app messages in the notification menu. The thing you pull down from the top when you get a notification.
Now I cant see those pop ups with air view.
How did it get disabled?
Pull down your notif bar>long press air view
You'll find a looot of things to tick and untick there
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I didnt get it.
What do you mean?
My problem is that before, if I got an email or a whatsapp message, I hover my finger over the notification of the message in the notification pulldown menu, I can see the message.
I already have "information preview" enabled in the Air View menu.
I used to be able to do Air View over notifications like gmailor whatsapp, but now I cant.
You have to enable "information preview" under airview settings.
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Vadrieldur said:
You have to enable "information preview" under airview settings.
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did you not read my post just above yours?
I already have 'information preview' enabled.
try to disable magnification gestures under settings > my device > accessibility
Wait you meant that you could use air view for notifications on the pull down bar? I thought it was restricted to only Samsung apps.
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aimseven said:
try to disable magnification gestures under settings > my device > accessibility
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It was already disabled. :crying:
lambstone said:
Wait you meant that you could use air view for notifications on the pull down bar? I thought it was restricted to only Samsung apps.
Sent from my Galaxy S IV
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Yes I could see pop ups.
So if I got a whatsup message, I hover my finger over it and a pop up window (like in SMS for example) appears with the message. It was very handy.
Same thing for gmail emails.
Suddenly it stopped working.
CorruptedSanity said:
It was already disabled. :crying:
Yes I could see pop ups.
So if I got a whatsup message, I hover my finger over it and a pop up window (like in SMS for example) appears with the message. It was very handy.
Same thing for gmail emails.
Suddenly it stopped working.
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Meh. I think it was a fluke that it worked. Then it went back to not working.
lambstone said:
Meh. I think it was a fluke that it worked. Then it went back to not working.
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What was a fluke?
It worked for 4 days.
I even showed it to a friend and he tried it on his S4 in front of me and it worked.
Then suddenly it stopped working.
I've been trying every time I get a notification all day since that day.
Even when it did work, it was sorta random. Sometimes it'd work and sometimes it wouldn't.
CorruptedSanity said:
What was a fluke?
It worked for 4 days.
I even showed it to a friend and he tried it on his S4 in front of me and it worked.
Then suddenly it stopped working.
I've been trying every time I get a notification all day since that day.
Even when it did work, it was sorta random. Sometimes it'd work and sometimes it wouldn't.
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Hm. Strange. Perhaps you could try a nandroid backup then factory reset to see if it works again?
no one else had air view for notifications?
No Air View in the standard email app
LastPass was the culprit for me. Disabling it in Accessibility gave me back my Air View in the standard email app. So to any that are having issues with Air View not working it is most certainly an app. First look at anything in Accessibility that is associated with any app that you've added and disable it.
On 4.2.2 MGA (and older chrome version) airview worked as mouseover, it was SOOO good popup menus etc.
It didn't work all the time though.
Had random occurrences too when it's worked in other non samsung apps like WhatsApp like you said. Also when I used a remote desktop I could move the Windows pointer around without even touching the screen! But I've searched and searched and no one seems to have a definite answer how and why!!
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CorruptedSanity said:
no one else had air view for notifications?
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dave106 said:
Had random occurrences too when it's worked in other non samsung apps like WhatsApp like you said. Also when I used a remote desktop I could move the Windows pointer around without even touching the screen! But I've searched and searched and no one seems to have a definite answer how and why!!
Sent from my GT-I9500
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Hi,
Same here! I was on 4.2.2 stock on my S4 GT-i9505 for about a year, i used to preview Facebook comments, Whatsapp messages just hovering my finger and a pop-up showed the entire message. But since I upgraded to 4.4.2 , i missed that!
Anyone solved this?! :good:
edit: remember that on 4.2.2 i could preview the messages only if i pull down the notifications with the SCREEN LOCKED (slide to unlock) and then hovering my finger.
CorruptedSanity said:
You know how if you hover your finger over a picture in the gallery or an item in your calender or an SMS, you'll get a pop up of it?
Well I used to be able to do that to emails and whats app messages in the notification menu. The thing you pull down from the top when you get a notification.
Now I cant see those pop ups with air view.
How did it get disabled?
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Hey fellas! I just recorded a video showing that feature on Facebook notification in S4 Wanamlite Kit Kat ROM. But for some reason it shows for a few mili-seconds. browse on youtube for "air view hovering facebook notifications"
So, thats possible to expand notifications just hovering the finger. Just need a fix to pop-up remains for a long time!
Anyone?! :good:
How did it get disabled
CorruptedSanity said:
You know how if you hover your finger over a picture in the gallery or an item in your calender or an SMS, you'll get a pop up of it?
Well I used to be able to do that to emails and whats app messages in the notification menu. The thing you pull down from the top when you get a notification.
Now I cant see those pop ups with air view.
How did it get disabled?
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Air Gestures will let you navigate by waving your hand. Instead of swiping your finger from picture to picture in your gallery, you can wave your hand instead. You can even answer your phone without picking it up. You will find quick on/off toggles for both Air View and Air Gestures in your notification pull down, but you might need to fine tune the settings a little. Just hit the break for our video showing you how to set them up and how to use them.
Give this a try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frapeti.fingerhovering [emoji6]
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CorruptedSanity said:
You know how if you hover your finger over a picture in the gallery or an item in your calender or an SMS, you'll get a pop up of it?
Well I used to be able to do that to emails and whats app messages in the notification menu. The thing you pull down from the top when you get a notification.
Now I cant see those pop ups with air view.
How did it get disabled?
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frapeti said:
Give this a try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frapeti.fingerhovering [emoji6]
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Same thing, the app work on it but when I pull down the notification bar, it seems to disable the Air View Function!

[Solved] Have to Finger Print Unlock Some Individual Apps

After finger print unlocking my Mi9T I have to finger print unlock separately Messages and the dialer apps to use them.
Is this usual or have I done something I shouldn't have in the settings?
Thanks for any advice you guys can give.
Try going to the Security app and see if App Lock is on under the utilities page
BenHawthorne said:
Try going to the Security app and see if App Lock is on under the utilities page
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Spot on, thanks a lot. :good:
BenHawthorne said:
Try going to the Security app and see if App Lock is on under the utilities page
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Spot on, thanks a lot. :good:

Tips and tricks

Download SetEdit app from playstore. Scroll down to heptic feed back. It will say 0. Edit to value 1 and save. Staying even after reboot. Back,home ect works.
Next for crappy fingerprint response do this. Erase all save prints. Now go to settings display and tick on touch sensitivity now go back and add new prints. Now go back and untick touch sensitivity. Mine reads faster and opens usually on first try
Fingerprint response fix rly works fine! Thx!
Wounderfu said:
Fingerprint response fix rly works fine! Thx!
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Yes. Wish more people would read this. Everyone is saying touch responce is a bug. And its not at all
jimrfraser said:
Yes. Wish more people would read this. Everyone is saying touch responce is a bug. And its not at all
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Samsung should have done this from the start, Samsung software is really slow sadly, probably my last device unless Samsung improve its device' performance.
Fingerprint response fix rly works fine! Thx!
Hi,
could someone make a small video from it please?
Thanks
djsven said:
Hi,
could someone make a small video from it please?
Thanks
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I explained pretty well. No need for a video
Thanks,
yes you did.
But i meen how fast the fingerprint now response.
djsven said:
Thanks,
yes you did.
But i meen how fast the fingerprint now response.
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read 4 post up. Yes other people have used my fix and agree it works
Thanks the fingerprint fix really fixed the issue
How to remove vibration on the notification? Its disturbing
Mikkel Nf said:
How to remove vibration on the notification? Its disturbing
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So this might be whats doing it, make sure notification reminders is set to off because I know when I pick up my phone after I've gotten a notification the phone vibrates to let me know I missed something.
Just double checked it's in vibration intensity, which is buried in the sound settings. I promise. You can control when and how intense the vibration is.

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