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S Pen problem

I have a problem with my S Pen, it selects what I'm hovering on ( sometimes ) is this normal ??? I've a screen protector, I haven't tried the phone without the screen protector yet, may its the cause of this ? The hovering feature sometimes seems not to work at all, I have to take the pen back then hover again to work and It happens alot, its annoying :S :S :S

[Q] S Pen airview doesnt work on some areas of screen

Hey,
I bought note 2 few days ago and I have noticed that S Pen airview icon (small blue circle) does not work on lower right hand corner of my screen. When I hover the pen over that part of screen that blue circle does not appear at all but every thing else works fine (display, touch)
is this a manufacture fault? Is there anyway to fix this? or should I take it back to the shop?
Thanks

theunlucker said:
Hey,
I bought note 2 few days ago and I have noticed that S Pen airview icon (small blue circle) does not work on lower right hand corner of my screen. When I hover the pen over that part of screen that blue circle does not appear at all but every thing else works fine (display, touch)
is this a manufacture fault? Is there anyway to fix this? or should I take it back to the shop?
Thanks
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Your device is not faulty.
The area indicated in the picture is not supported by the S-Pen due to a normal but minor limitation of the operation of the S pen feature.

anson5549 said:
Your device is not faulty.
The area indicated in the picture is not supported by the S-Pen due to a normal but minor limitation of the operation of the S pen feature.
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erm I didnt post a picture earlier.....anyways I have now attached a picture of the area where s pen airview doesn't work. Also this area is not responsive for air view on any app, home screen , etc.
is anyone else having the same problem?

Back to watch

How do I return to the watch screen ? In some apps I can't seem to figure out how to get back! Super annonying having to swipe the screen from left to right 20x some times in other apps to get back. Is there some universal go back to watch swipe/poke/lick/kick i'm missing?

Some apps you need to swipe from the absolute edge of the watch, others you need to swipe on the "card" to close/ get out of it.
Ergo,.. absolute edge you will feel the raised edge while swiping, others you simply swipe from the left side but stay on the glass.
I hope thats helpful.

So there's no one action to return to the watch screen? My Gear 2 had a home button, and it would be nice if the 360 button worked that way as well.

Negative there is not a "home button". I agree it would be nice. It's easy to get lost in the menus.

I usually just tap the power button twice.

vansmack said:
I usually just tap the power button twice.
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Cool, that seems to work, thanks!

I usually just cover the screen with my palm until a feel a slight vibration, that turns the screen off and when you turn it back on, you are back on the face.

darrenk232 said:
I usually just cover the screen with my palm until a feel a slight vibration, that turns the screen off and when you turn it back on, you are back on the face.
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I thought covering the screen was to mute/turn off notifications. Do you have to cover it again to turn them on?

JimSmith94 said:
I thought covering the screen was to mute/turn off notifications. Do you have to cover it again to turn them on?
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No, covering the screen turns off the display and returns it to the watch face.

JimSmith94 said:
I thought covering the screen was to mute/turn off notifications. Do you have to cover it again to turn them on?
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Swipe from top edge all the way to the bottom to toggle mute, swiping half way to peek at the date/charge level

faint red Led

Hello fellow lenovo p2 owners i purchased this phone 2 days ago everything most things seem to be working fine apart from a couple of quirks. double tap to wake is hit n miss which is rather annoying but i can live with it in the hope future software will fix it. On another note i have noticed their is very faint red led light always on to the left of the speaker after i turn the screen off. Has anyone experienced this issue with the faint red led which when the screen is switched on goes off but whenever the screen is off i can see it light up just left of the speaker. I am concerned that this led might affect the battery usage in some way iff it is always on. should i take it back to the shop on account of this faint light always being on which appears much brighter in complete darkness. t
Thankyou all for reading.

That's the proximity sensor. Have you got any apps that use it?
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Uibon said:
That's the proximity sensor. Have you got any apps that use it?
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Hi thanks for the reply the only app I think might be using it is Ac display but not sure.

OK fixed its a false alarm its definetly the app AC display which is using the sensor while screen off because i disabled the app and the red faint light vanished. the only other thing left is double tap to wake is fragile and needs about 10 taps to wake screen sometimes. Hopefully this is software related.

Why use double tap when you can touch sensor once to wake the screen?

not too sure but i prefer double tapping the middle of the screen rather than all the way up on a specific point where the sensor is.

Finger print is at bottom. Can also click it once with a non registered finger to bring lock screen up.
Kind of think dttw is redundant on a phone with front finger print sensor and physical home button.

To reduce the wear-and-tear like in iPhone home button...
waj1234 said:
Finger print is at bottom. Can also click it once with a non registered finger to bring lock screen up.
Kind of think dttw is redundant on a phone with front finger print sensor and physical home button.
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As for me, I'll use the DTTW feature just to see the time and glance thru incoming notifications and if nothing important, the screen will turn off after 5 seconds... If we wake the screen, then, we have to turn off the screen "manually" (unless we set the display off timing to 5 seconds...or DTT-sleep is implemented...)
If we were to always "press" the home button, there is high change of "wear-and-tear" failure in the near future...
My iPhone 4 after 3 years, the home button failed due to "wear-and-tear" because too many double-click to get to the background apps...now the iPhone is running "virtual floating button"...LOL...
My current Note 5 home button seems to be very reliable which is now closed to 2 years ownership... But I'm not too confident at P2a42's front fingerprint scanner "durability"... Hence, I'll try to reduce the "clicking" actions as much as possible...
I wonder after warranty ended, how much is the repair cost for the fingerprint scanner... Should be less than 20% of the selling price...

Can see your point. I never own a phone 2 years lol so makes no difference to me. Don't think I have had a phone 12 months before either, just too addicted to em lol.

Question How to wake up my new phone with a wave (proximity?)

I just upgraded from an S8 to a 21 FE, I had this setup where my screen will turn off using the proximity sensor, so when I open my case cover or lift it up from the table it just turns on automatically.
Upgrading, I notice the apps I used (Gravity Screen, Smart Screen On Off) are not working as they used to. In most tests, I did seem to suggest the proximity sensor only responds when the front lens is covered by my thumb instead of just hovering over with my hand like before. I did the *#77692# test and the Proximity sensor is working fine then WHEN I enable it so I'm at a lost here, is this a technical issue, is this by design

EnigmaXtreme said:
I just upgraded from an S8 to a 21 FE, I had this setup where my screen will turn off using the proximity sensor, so when I open my case cover or lift it up from the table it just turns on automatically.
Upgrading, I notice the apps I used (Gravity Screen, Smart Screen On Off) are not working as they used to. In most tests, I did seem to suggest the proximity sensor only responds when the front lens is covered by my thumb instead of just hovering over with my hand like before. I did the *#77692# test and the Proximity sensor is working fine then WHEN I enable it so I'm at a lost here, is this a technical issue, is this by design
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Didn't you find the gesture to double tap the screen to wake up?

ze7zez said:
Didn't you find the gesture to double tap the screen to wake up?
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I did, but I'm used to waving my phone awake with both my hand and by opening my phone case, but it seems the more recent Galaxy phones don't allow the same use of the proximity sensor

EnigmaXtreme said:
I did, but I'm used to waving my phone awake with both my hand and by opening my phone case, but it seems the more recent Galaxy phones don't allow the same use of the proximity sensor
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A touch sensor while the screen is locked can consume less power than a proximity sensor placed in a camera, for example.