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Do any of the new Note 3 features (pen or not) get impacted from using a different launcher?

polstein said:
Do any of the new Note 3 features (pen or not) get impacted from using a different launcher?
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some widgets does not work. (like s planner)

muhtesem insan said:
some widgets does not work. (like s planner)
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I can live with that - was thinking the swipe up scrapbook & other functions. One way to tell - try!

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no everything seems to work fine im using action launcher pro and ive had no issues .. air command still pops up when the stylus is removed all the samsung and S apps stay there .

all s PEN functions work
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The swipe up/home button press my magazine gets removed. Thats it.
You can overcome this, (Im using apex) and you can bind my magazine to a home button press if you miss it.

Using Nova Launcher Prime, all of the spen features work perfect, haven't noticed anything that is broken yet.

Can I disable My Magazine?
I'm coming from the other direction. I like the stock launcher and everything Touchwiz and S-pen related, I just want the swipe-up My Magazine feature to be disabled. Is there a way to do this without rooting or using a different launcher? Thanks in advance,
Nate

N8shon said:
I'm coming from the other direction. I like the stock launcher and everything Touchwiz and S-pen related, I just want the swipe-up My Magazine feature to be disabled. Is there a way to do this without rooting or using a different launcher? Thanks in advance,
Nate
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I tried to remove my magazine with titanium backup. Now touchwiz crashes when i press home button on home screen.
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[Q] S-Note page widget gone

On my Note 2, S-Note had widgets you could create for individual note pages - I believe they were large by default (4x3 maybe?) but with Nova you could resize they and they'd display the whole content of that page - tapping them would open S-Note to that page ready to write. --- and it was -only- the note itself comprising the widget - no border, no menus, no overlaid titles. So if you had a black background and created a note with an all-black background, it would blend in perfectly and just show your writing overlaid on your homescreen.
This was extremely valuable to me. On the Note 3, with the revamped S-Note, there's only one widget option and it's a tabbed overview of all notes/most recent notes. Lots of border crap, wasted space, view of the notebooks, etc. It sucks.
Anyone have a replacement widget to emulate the old one??

not sure if this is what you want but the app "sweet Notes" can do something like that
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I know exactly what you are talking about and it is also the biggest thing I loved in my Note 8. I am also wondering why they removed that feature. I hope there is a way to bring it back.

aresinuae said:
I know exactly what you are talking about and it is also the biggest thing I loved in my Note 8. I am also wondering why they removed that feature. I hope there is a way to bring it back.
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I haven't found anything to help. I'll mail Samsung and may go back to the S Notes version from the Note 2, I have a Titanium backup of it. Hopefully that would work.

Yeah i too noticed the absence of that widget. I really liked it and used it alot on my s4 and s3. If someone figures out a way to bring it back I would like to know as well.

This is the first thing I noticed, and is now part of a very long list of things my Note 2 did much better than my Note 3. I wish it wasn't so popular for companies to constantly change/update things that are steps backwards. Updates should just add new features, not change for the sake of changing.
The closest thing I can find to emulate this missing feature is to take a screenshot of your S-Note page, then add that to your homescreen as a "picture" widget. It's a hassle and doesn't scale as intuitively as the old version of S-Note though.
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This has bothered me as well, but now I found that you can long-press the folder of the note and choose the option to "add shortcut to home" and then you have direct access to the note via the created icon. You can rename the note's folder first if you choose to do so. Put the icon whereever you choose. Works for me.

balliet said:
This has bothered me as well, but now I found that you can long-press the folder of the note and choose the option to "add shortcut to home" and then you have direct access to the note via the created icon. You can rename the note's folder first if you choose to do so. Put the icon whereever you choose. Works for me.
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This is just adding an icon, completely different than a versatile, re-sizable, widget containing a scalable image of the note itself.
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JVogler said:
This is just adding an icon, completely different than a versatile, re-sizable, widget containing a scalable image of the note itself.
Note 3 -- Tapatalk
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I tried restoring old S Note from my Note 2 backups and things broke, so no go on that front - at least just a basic restore didn't work. I didn't dig deeper, but I'm guessing there are various other dependent libraries that have been updated.
I did find an old S Memo flashable zip I had used on the 2, which is what S Note used to be. I might give that a try - I don't recall if it comes with the page widget.

bigillz said:
I tried restoring old S Note from my Note 2 backups and things broke, so no go on that front - at least just a basic restore didn't work. I didn't dig deeper, but I'm guessing there are various other dependent libraries that have been updated.
I did find an old S Memo flashable zip I had used on the 2, which is what S Note used to be. I might give that a try - I don't recall if it comes with the page widget.
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At&t screwed me over, and locked up the Note 3 bootloader pretty tight. Interested if the S Memo works for you though, as I'm sure someone will crack the At&t version soon as the bounty is getting pretty high.
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No luck. I flashed my S-Memo installed and it ran without crashing anything but wouldn't receive any pen input, as well as a few minor display/function things.
UGH.

Action Memo does this.
I used that feature a lot, for my To Do's. Action Memo does the trick.

nyeazyone said:
Action Memo does this.
I used that feature a lot, for my To Do's. Action Memo does the trick.
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Unfortunately, not really the same at all. First, the Action Memo widget is only available on the stock TW launcher - not in Nova/Apex/etc, which makes it a non-starter. Next, it's not resizable, because TW doesn't allow arbitrary widget resizing.
Sucks.

bigillz said:
Unfortunately, not really the same at all. First, the Action Memo widget is only available on the stock TW launcher - not in Nova/Apex/etc, which makes it a non-starter. Next, it's not resizable, because TW doesn't allow arbitrary widget resizing.
Sucks.
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Finally I found a solution...Lecture Notes can make widgets from individual pages resized with Nova Launcher.
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I'm still looking for a way to do this. I have the latest S5 S Note app and still no S Note Page widget.
Anyone ever find a working solution (not for a different note app)?

bigillz said:
On my Note 2, S-Note had widgets you could create for individual note pages - I believe they were large by default (4x3 maybe?) but with Nova you could resize they and they'd display the whole content of that page - tapping them would open S-Note to that page ready to write. --- and it was -only- the note itself comprising the widget - no border, no menus, no overlaid titles. So if you had a black background and created a note with an all-black background, it would blend in perfectly and just show your writing overlaid on your homescreen.
This was extremely valuable to me. On the Note 3, with the revamped S-Note, there's only one widget option and it's a tabbed overview of all notes/most recent notes. Lots of border crap, wasted space, view of the notebooks, etc. It sucks.
Anyone have a replacement widget to emulate the old one??
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You could try App Memo from play store. I too missed the old widget from my Note 1. the full version of App memo allows you to use an actual memo as a widget, various size options available. Although it has less functions than the S note app, for simple memo's, I find it easier and quicker to use.

[Q] How can I add Camera to lockscreen with admin-enforced PIN?

My admin enforces PIN on Android plus encrypted PIN, which is annoying as heck.
But the real downside seems to be that I can't add any widgets to the lockscreen. I have no issues on Windows Phone or iPhone to take a picture from the lock screen. Any clue how to do this on Android w/ Knox?
I'm on a Galaxy Note 3 using stock 4.4.2 ROM, updated via Kies. I am not rooted.
So my questions:
1) Can I add a camera shortcut (or other shortcuts) to the lockscreen with PIN protection via a settings change within TW?
2) If I remove the PIN and make the change will it stay once I add the PIN back?
3) Are there apps or other launchers that will modify TW to allow changes to the lockscreen?
4) Is Root or ROM required to make these changes? Any helpful threads I need to read?
Hope you can help. I'm pretty annoyed at the level of customization needed to make a simple change...

I did it with Widgetlocker. Add a camera to their lock screen and set that action to log you in for access to that app only. Works well!
Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.

KruseLudsMobile said:
I did it with Widgetlocker. Add a camera to their lock screen and set that action to log you in for access to that app only. Works well!
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Will check it out, thanks.

[Q] How to get lockscreen shortcuts without installing another app?

Moving from a Note 2 to Note 4 is a joy in terms of the upgrade to the features. One feature that I miss though is the ability to have shortcuts to applications right on the lock screen. This allows one to access the app from the lock screen with a single swipe. Unfortunately it seems like in the Note 4, such a shortcut is only available for the camera. Grateful if anyone can enlighten on how the app shorcut feature can be implemented in the Note 4!

qwerty168 said:
Moving from a Note 2 to Note 4 is a joy in terms of the upgrade to the features. One feature that I miss though is the ability to have shortcuts to applications right on the lock screen. This allows one to access the app from the lock screen with a single swipe. Unfortunately it seems like in the Note 4, such a shortcut is only available for the camera. Grateful if anyone can enlighten on how the app shorcut feature can be implemented in the Note 4!
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Settings/Personalisation/Accessibility/Dexterity and interaction/Assistant menu(on)

Thks! How do I add applications to the lock screen using this method? Only has options like home, recent apps etc.
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I've been wondering the same thing. I can't think of a single reason that they would get rid of the shortcuts. I even tried the module on the Xposed framework that fixed the shortcuts for the S5 but that didn't work either. I'm really looking forward to a fix.

The best thing is that it seems like you get more shortcuts when you have the S View Cover on. You'll be able to access heart beat sensor, torchlight etc. Maybe it's a marketing gimmick to get people to buy the cover
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Tasks edge (in app shortcuts)

So when I am on my s7 edge (edge apps) and i go to tasks edge. I click the settings tab, on bottom left. Then go to that edge panel and click the bottom pencil(edit) Once there it says on top left( once you add shortcuts to homescreen from within apps they will appear here) so how do I do this? I I can't find any way to make these shortcuts? Any help?

One way is with an app called Awesome Icons. You may also want to install the Touchwiz Icon pack if you are using the stock icons. Also, you may may want to try QuickShortcutMaker. These effectively let you add App shortcuts to Task Edge.

Thanks georgeP,
I figured since it was there and mentioned that Sammy would have had a means of doing it. I will try the above mentioned. Thanks again
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shizumie said:
Thanks georgeP,
I figured since it was there and mentioned that Sammy would have had a means of doing it. I will try the above mentioned. Thanks again
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I added a couple of things there using Nova launcher but I can't remember how I did it.... Does anyone else have a solution for this? A google search only takes me to this thread.

Sorry to "me too" spam but I haven't found a way yet, either. The QuickShortcutMaker certainly makes shortcuts but I don't see how to put them to the Tasks Edge.

i need to put there messenger contacts, whatsapp contacts, telegram contacts but i can't...there is a way ?

Hi I also want to add more shortcuts to the Edge Tasks panel. so BUMP

m0usju1c3 said:
Hi I also want to add more shortcuts to the Edge Tasks panel. so BUMP
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One simply need to add the needed shortcut(s) to any page of the *Touchwizz Laucher*
After that it become available to add in the tasks panel
It works even if you use an alternative launcher: one just need to temporary switch to Samsung launcher to create the shortcut
Oncethe shortcut is added to the panel, you don't even need to keep it on the launcher desktop.