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Icons on WM5

Hi,
Could someone tell me if there's a way to change/remove the icons from the today screen. I'm talking about the little butterfly, the house, the messenger icon and the envelope.
Thanks
Andrew

Did you steal your device or something ?
It's in the manual, but here you go...
Start > Settings > Today > Items tab
disable and re-order the Today Screen items there

No, I actually bought it. Actually it never crossed my mind to read the manual. Maybe it's a bad habit.
Thanks

:lol:
V

*grin*
I'm much the same, actually... I like to just sit down and poke at things (found the today screen settings that way, for example).. but manuals do sometimes have good information that you can't easily stumble upon otherwise.. so once I feel 'ok' with a device/piece of software, I read through the entire manual once, and highlight (or note down) the bits that are interesting and seem non-obvious.

I'm much the same, actually... I like to just sit down and poke at things .. but manuals do sometimes have good information that you can't easily stumble upon otherwise
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yeah, my missus was much the same!
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V

Pairing mode?

How do you put the Gear Live in pairing mode? I am trying to pair my watch to a different phone and it won't come up in the bluetooth search on the second phone.

Found the answer, you have to factory reset the watch to pair to new phone. This sucks because I lose all my step history

sprke said:
Found the answer, you have to factory reset the watch to pair to new phone. This sucks because I lose all my step history
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No way, there must be another way. I have the G watch and I can just switch phones on the fly. On the other hand you have the Samsung watch. I had the gear 1 before and with that watch I also had to reset it (actually it did it automatically but whatever). It would suck if Samsung did this again..

This is in the help menu in the wear app
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sprke said:
This is in the help menu in the wear app
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Hm, well I tried with my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 and it worked without resetting. But I have the same apps installed so that might be why. Maybe it resets but I don't notice it.
Edit: Just tried again and it seems you're right. My step count also always resets. That sucks. Luckily I plan with sticking with my Nexus 5 anyway.

Is the "set style clock for S View cover" gone after Android 8 Update

Hi,
I updated my s7edge to Oreo last week, and i totally hate the new "vertical" digital clock when i close my S View cover, it used to be like this :
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now its like the s8 and i don't understand why would anyone like that ...
does anyone have a solution for this please ?

I think you can find it with an activity manager in settings.
I tried to bring back night clock and i think i saw someting with "s view" in it.

AndreiOfTheFuture said:
I think you can find it with an activity manager in settings.
I tried to bring back night clock and i think i saw someting with "s view" in it.
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I can't find any of that :/ you sure you're talking about an s7edge with the latest android update ?

Yea, Oreo.
1 get quickshortcutmaker from ggl play
2 serch "view"
3 you should see "wallpapers' , click on it and there should drop down another "wallpapers" and click on it then press try it, from there it will send you to the gallery app.
Now I realise you want to change the clock and S view ist that ugly flip cover.....
Sorry man.

Smart Swipe Gestures?

How do i get the half circle, spinning quick shortcut wheel to appear on the bottom left of my phone? My wife and i both have the USA T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and her phone is the only one that does it. If you swipe upwards diagonally, from the bottom left or right corner, then the quick access wheel appears. This only works on my wifes phone. We both got them at the same time, unboxed them together and she doesnt have the smart swipe app installed from the Galaxy store, but yet her phone does it without problems. There has to be a setting on my phone that can be changed to get this to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
i have a picture i took of her screen on my phone but not sure how to share it on here.
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It's not a Samsung pre-installed app. You can read here and find what is yours
https://forums.androidcentral.com/a...o-i-remove-corner-swipe-popup-menu-my-s8.html

Thank you for the information. So it sounds like my wife must have an app installed on her phone that contains this feature, yes/no? Second, whatever apps contain this feature, it looks like everone is trying to get rid of it. That option wont appear on my phone because i dont have any apps that support that swipe gesture?

Mystery shortcut (or accidental feature) on my G4 Plus

Here's a nagging Android riddle I'd like to understand just out of curiosity, as opposed to researching an 'issue' that needs to be resolved. We all have better things to do (laundry, pull weeds, floss) than to make a case out of this post.
I'll ask anyway.
In my graphic the shortcut on the left shows normal behavior from the Settings widget in Oreo. The shortcut on the right, however, just showed up on the home screen out of nowhere. I'm clueless about how it got there and why it has color. Is anybody familiar with this?
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I think it's a spyware from mobile-tracker-free.com . Coz I used it before and it comes as the name of WiFi in the settings to avoid attention of the user.

rahulvidh said:
I think it's a spyware from mobile-tracker-free.com ...
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It's not spyware. But mystery solved. The peculiar green shortcut is an Oreo feature.
In my case it showed up by accident. Here's how it's done on purpose:
Long-press the Settings app icon until a pop-up box appears with a short list of widget items that can be dragged to the home screen. In my case there are only 3 options -- battery, data usage and wi-fi.
There are similar effects by long-pressing other apps like Gmail and Messages.