I only tried to use this feature on my S5 a couple times, but my wife would like to use this feature on her new N4. I find that starting the One-handed operation function on both the S5 and N4 using the touchscreen gesture described in the enabling setting screen rarely works. It takes a bunch of swipes before the reduced One-handed screen appears.Very annoying and defeats the purpose of the feature as you actually have to try to enable it using two hands. I didn't even try to master using this feature given that it's so hard to get it started. I thought it was an issue with my S5, but after trying it on the N4... I had the same results. Is there a shortcut to enable this feature other than that the swiping gesture? Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Im sure you dont swipe correctly, for me it work all the time, just swipe your finger from screen edge to the middle then back to the screen edge with a horizontal way! Its not a V-like swipe, its like a hohorizontal "I" swipe just try it until you get it working!
Good luck!
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Im sure you dont swipe correctly, for me it work all the time, just swipe your finger from screen edge to the middle then back to the screen edge with a horizontal way! Its not a V-like swipe, its like a hohorizontal "I" swipe just try it until you get it working!
Good luck!
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Yes, I'm swiping correctly, but it's not very reliable it works only 1 out of 6 or 7 times. I have a wallpaper with a straight line down the middle and I swipe over that straight line to the middle of the screen from the edge of the screen and back. Of course in a horizontal I. It would be nice if this feature had a toggle in the top bar pull down to turn it on/off. I'm hoping a Xposed Module developer notices this deficiency and comes up with a module with shortcut solution.
You have to start at edge of screen then finish at edge of screen, which can be a problem if you have a case. Doesn't hurt to actually go past the center either.
I can do it pretty consistently, and the times I fail I know it's because I hit the rim on the case and didn't swipe all the way to edge.
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I've watched various videos but after enabling the service and swiping the screen nothing happens. I've tried different swipe motions but no luck activating the reduced window. Appreciate any help.
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I've watched various videos but after enabling the service and swiping the screen nothing happens. I've tried different swipe motions but no luck activating the reduced window. Appreciate any help.
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Make sure you swipe all the way off the screen. You have to end the swipe over (or past) the bezel. Obviously you have to enable the feature from settings also (its off by default). Also make sure you are doing the gesture for the Note 4, the note 3 had a different gesture.
not sure what the note 3 gesture is as I've never owned one . I am actually uploading a video of me doing and will be postingit in a second
Just to confirm you are using the Samsung keyboard? The one hand feature only works when using the default Samsung keyboard.
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Just to confirm you are using the Samsung keyboard? The one hand feature only works when using the default Samsung keyboard.
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No thats not what he is talking about. He is talking about shrinking the entire screen down, not the smaller keyboard. This feature is off by default in the Note 4, but is a nice one to have on occasion.
Here I am trying to activate it http://youtu.be/43p280kN8O0
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http://youtu.be/43p280kN8O0 the end is 8 O 0 without emicon
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Here I am trying to activate it http://youtu.be/43p280kN8O0
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You are doing it totally wrong. Only go to the middle of the screen (not all the way across) and without lifting the thumb go all the way back to the bezel.
Thanks after trying it over and over again I finally got it, I was basically doing the action to slow. If you watch my video you have to do the motion 2 times faster and it will work 100% of the time. Really appreiate the help
Ok this is a little hard to explain, but in using my 6p (stock) now for a few days, when I swipe in from the right edge it doesn't seem to work, as well or at all. I use Action Launcher 3 and one of the perks is quickpage, which is activated via swipe in from the right edge. I can get it to work if I don't swipe in from off the screen, but click just a hair in from the edge. The left edge swipe in works fine.
I thought maybe it was the app but Facebook appears to be the same, when trying to swipe between feeds, requests, etc.
I even tried the google launcher with multiple pages it doesn't handle the swipe in from off the edge well either.
So is it just my phone or can others duplicate my findings? I just want to see if it is just me or not.
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Ok this is a little hard to explain, but in using my 6p (stock) now for a few days, when I swipe in from the right edge it doesn't seem to work, as well or at all. I use Action Launcher 3 and one of the perks is quickpage, which is activated via swipe in from the right edge. I can get it to work if I don't swipe in from off the screen, but click just a hair in from the edge. The left edge swipe in works fine.
I thought maybe it was the app but Facebook appears to be the same, when trying to swipe between feeds, requests, etc.
I even tried the google launcher with multiple pages it doesn't handle the swipe in from off the edge well either.
So is it just my phone or can others duplicate my findings? I just want to see if it is just me or not.
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I've got no issues with mine at all, I'm using Action Launcher 3 and mine works perfectly. I'm afraid you might have a defective unit
You could always try a factory reset- you never know.
thanks any others please let me your thoughts too
Hi,
I'm using Nova Prime and keep reading that it's possible to double knock the notification bar to turn off the screen without lock so the fingerprint sensor still works. But I have not been able to get my S7 Edge to screen off with this method, it just tried to open up the notification tray. I can use the double tap feature in Nova prime to screen off and lock, but then can't use the fingerprint sensor without first putting in a pin -- this is not what I want. I would be satisfied with knocking on the notification bar to do this, but can't make it work. Is there something I need to enable first?
There's one screen lock app that does what you want, but it uses sort of a kludgy method to do so.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.android.screenlockpro
Any app that actually turns off the screen will cause the behavior you've described. Screen Lock Pro, using the Marshmallow workaround in settings, applies a dark overlay to he screen, so it looks like it's off. But it doesn't really shut off until about 10 seconds later. Most of the time this is OK, but if you press the power button during that 10 seconds, intending to turn the phone back on, you've actually turned it off. And if you touch one of the soft keys, they'll light up.
Another option is built in. Settings / Accessibility / Dexterity and interaction / Assistant menu. This puts a blue spot on the screen to which you can assign various functions, including screen lock.
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There's one screen lock app that does what you want, but it uses sort of a kludgy method to do so.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.android.screenlockpro
Any app that actually turns off the screen will cause the behavior you've described. Screen Lock Pro, using the Marshmallow workaround in settings, applies a dark overlay to he screen, so it looks like it's off. But it doesn't really shut off until about 10 seconds later. Most of the time this is OK, but if you press the power button during that 10 seconds, intending to turn the phone back on, you've actually turned it off. And if you touch one of the soft keys, they'll light up.
Another option is built in. Settings / Accessibility / Dexterity and interaction / Assistant menu. This puts a blue spot on the screen to which you can assign various functions, including screen lock.
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Thank you for the answer.
Acutally, I'm not looking to install Screen Lock Pro. I want to get the double tap on the notification bar working through Nova Prime which is supposed to turn off the screen without locking the phone. But for some reason that's not working on my S7 Edge. Any ideas why? Does anyone have this working on the S7 Edge or is that function not supported on the S7 Edge with Nova Prime?
I don't know if it's a Marshmallow issue, or an S7 issue, but any app which actually locks the screen will require a PIN unlock afterwards. There's no work-around that I've seen.
It´s not "tapping on the notification bar". It´s tapping anywhere on the screen (besides the notification bar). That´s how it is working for me with Nova to turn the screen off.
If you want double tap specifically the notification bar, you have to use an extra app like the one posted above or use this free app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
Here are some comments I found regarding the "tap the notification bar" that turns off screen and still allows fingerprint unlock using Nova Launcher. Supposedly you do not need an extra app to do this since it is built into the function of Nova Launcher. Is this phone specific or why cannot get the double tap on notification bar to work on the S7 Edge. Does anyone have this working?
The double tap in Nova locks the screen and will require password, etc. to open. Fingerprint will not work. The same is true for all of the apps that allow double tapping to lock the phone. Something in the code for Marshmallow only allows locking and not just putting the screen to sleep. Double tapping the notification bar or hitting the lock button will work as it should with the fingerprint scanner working.
This is correct, using a gesture or anything other than double tapping the status bar or letting it timeout will not allow you to use the fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone. On my previous phones I'd use the screen off and lock app to be enabled by using the swipe down gesture to turn off the screen. Even using that app with the G5 won't let me unlock with the fingerprint sensor
Fix = Nova free knock on the notification bar at the top of the screen and fingerprint scanner will unlock the phone.
It works the same with the paid version [of Nova Launcher]. Knocking on the notification bar will turn the screen off and the fingerprint scanner will work to unlock.
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Double tapping the notification bar to lock is a feature found on LG phones, and the user you quoted mentioned the LG G5.
Hi anyone else experiencing a bug where it takes like 5/6 trys to slide the lockscreen up. Its like im not sliding up enough but im going off the top of the screen i have to flick like 20 times sometimes.
Indeed Nougat seems to require a slightly different swipe-up-to-unlock action than Marshmallow. If you're going off the top of your screen, though, you are doing it wrong. You're not catching Pokémon, just slowly swipe up about an inch, that should already trigger the unlock. Do a practice run, see how slow and short you can do it, you'll be surprised.
I also have this problem since the update to Nougat, sometimes the screen will unlock with a short swipe and others you have to go the full length of the screen!
I have taken the screen lock off for now as i am fed up with swiping 5+ times to unlock the phone
If you disable swipe to shrink screen in moto actions then it works fine.
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Yeah it works fine with swipe to shrink disabled now thanks
Shame that the swipe to shrink is causing the problem.
I can confirm the issue, and for the moment, also the solution! Thanks guys
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Had same problem but this didn't fix it for me. Ended up disabling/enabling Moto app. Noticed System UI tuner had disappeared so re-enabled that also. So far so good...
This is an old thread, but my findings may be relevant. A short time ago, I also started to have problems with all sort of swiping, on the home screen, but also when swiping away notifications or within apps. (Ironic, since I initially discarded those problems in the first answer here. Mea culpa.)
Eventually, I found the reason for it. I used a small app, "Media Volume Only", which hooked into the special "read phone status" permissions (in this case to monitor and modify volume keys behaviour). I assume in the process of monitoring gestures/keys it interferes with swiping actions. After disallowing, disabling and deinstalling this app, my swiping actions are as responsive as they should be.
So if you still have problems with swiping, it may well worth looking into these apps that carry that special permission.
Disaable all smart lock option.
Mainly on body detection option.
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Its working 100%
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If you disable swipe to shrink screen in moto actions then it works fine.
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You nailed it! Not only does their "Swipe to shrink screen" feature work TERRIBLY, as if that wasn't poor enough execution, it works terribly at the expense of making the swipe to unlock so completely frustratingly UNRELIABLE.
These folks need to take a leaf out of Huawei's book and make the swipe to shrink, work by swiping horizontally across the navigation bar ... (Huawei, incidentally, are FAR from perfect and need to fix their TERRIBLY laggy, sluggish phones) - you can SEE why people side with iPhone, can't ya!
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Disaable all smart lock option.
Mainly on body detection option.
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Its working 100%
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On body detection is the reason in my case.
Problem solved now
The navigation gestures on the 8 Pro are usable. However, I dislike the swiping to go back. It doesn’t allow for access to slide out menus from the side on different apps. On the 6T, you would swipe up on the right or left hand side to go back keeping the sides of the screen free. Is there anyone who would be able to somehow pull the navigation gestures that were on the 6T to be used on the 8 Pro?
I had asked this twice already and so far I've been told it's not possible just downloaded fluid navigation gestures and set them up and you're good to go.
There are alternatives when it comes to the swiping (All in one gestures/Vivd etc.) They do that job well in my opinion.
The thing they all have in common is that they need that area in the bottom to function, and for my case that messes with the lower end of my keyboard.
I enjoy having the swiftkey keyboard dragged down all the way to the bottom of the screen.
If someone is able to pull the OP gestures and somehow make it available as a module or whatever, I would surely donate some coffee..
This is almost a dealbreaker, and I miss my 7 Pro which also have them.
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I had asked this twice already and so far I've been told it's not possible just downloaded fluid navigation gestures and set them up and you're good to go.
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Were you able to set them up in a way that operates the same? Does it seem to work well and reliably/consistently?
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Were you able to set them up in a way that operates the same? Does it seem to work well and reliably/consistently?
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the application itself one setup does perform like the regular OnePlus just the sensitivity area of where you're swiping up from kind of makes it like a dead zone for touching on other spots underneath the swipe area. But you can configure your sensitivity area I have mine set to a little bit of past half so this way I get the best of both I get my swipe gestures and I can still access the stuff that's underneath them. I also left the right side back gesture available so this way if it doesn't function properly on the bottom I still got the side.
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the application itself one setup does perform like the regular OnePlus just the sensitivity area of where you're swiping up from kind of makes it like a dead zone for touching on other spots underneath the swipe area. But you can configure your sensitivity area I have mine set to a little bit of past half so this way I get the best of both I get my swipe gestures and I can still access the stuff that's underneath them. I also left the right side back gesture available so this way if it doesn't function properly on the bottom I still got the side.
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Are you able to use root to hide the system navigation bar? It hides it for a second for me but it doesn't stay hidden which is frustrating. Unless that's a pro feature?
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Are you able to use root to hide the system navigation bar? It hides it for a second for me but it doesn't stay hidden which is frustrating. Unless that's a pro feature?
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Use vivid N.G.
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Are you able to use root to hide the system navigation bar? It hides it for a second for me but it doesn't stay hidden which is frustrating. Unless that's a pro feature?
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Yes you can here is a screen shot of mine all set up and nav bar hidden with root. Here is how mine is all set up I set my wife's the same way she likes it and is new to OnePlus this 8 Pro is her 1st she was looking forward to OnePlus system navigation gestures but you know no dice. Mine stayed hidden all the time after I set I rebooted and haven't had a issue yet.
My set up on FNG
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My set up on FNG
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Cool, thank you for the input!