[Q] S Pen help please - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

I've went through every setting I can think of but cant figure this out. Just got my Note today, and this was working until somehow I switched it off I guess. When I pull the pen out, it doesnt bring up the S Pen options anymore. It vibrates and makes the sound, but nothing comes up on the screen. If I go set it to open up an S Note when the pen is removed, it will work, but I somehow switched off where it will bring up the whole menu of options to choose from.

When I pull my pen out it defaults to the screen you are talking about. On that screen if you tap the settings menu, it takes you to a something called "page buddy". There are check marks in Page Buddy that make it default to opening certain screens when you remove the pen, insert headphones, and dock the phone.
Sounds like you may have turned page buddy off. Not sure where the settings for that are though...

go to main settings-display there should be a "page buddy" option. make sure it's on on the right side with the switch. then click on the name itself on the left and it will take you to it's options. make sure the s pen page is enabled and you are good to go. just remember this doesn't work in any app, just on the home screen
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reinaldistic said:
go to main settings-display there should be a "page buddy" option. make sure it's on on the right side with the switch. then click on the name itself on the left and it will take you to it's options. make sure the s pen page is enabled and you are good to go. just remember this doesn't work in any app, just on the home screen
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Wow, I would have never figured that out. Thank you very much, it worked!

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[Q] How to disable the TW Lockscreen

Is there a way to remove the stock lockscreen?
Here is what I have currently:
Rooted with UnNamed Rom, using No Lock app. I also have WidgetLock just in case.
What happens:
Phone will randomly go to the Stock Touch Wiz Lockscreen during any application (NetFlix, Pandora, texting). It is pretty annoying, and sometimes the phone will pull up the dialer when I didn't even press anything.
I thought I could simply remove it on Titanium Backup but I cannot find what the actual name of the TW lockscreen is named.
Any suggestions?
Javeline4 said:
Is there a way to remove the stock lockscreen?
Here is what I have currently:
Rooted with UnNamed Rom, using No Lock app. I also have WidgetLock just in case.
What happens:
Phone will randomly go to the Stock Touch Wiz Lockscreen during any application (NetFlix, Pandora, texting). It is pretty annoying, and sometimes the phone will pull up the dialer when I didn't even press anything.
I thought I could simply remove it on Titanium Backup but I cannot find what the actual name of the TW lockscreen is named.
Any suggestions?
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Well the thing is tho, I'm pretty sure if you disable the lock screen you keep your phone from sleeping. That's actually an option you can choose from inside widget locker, its called wake lock. But if your phone isn't gonna sleep, the battery will drain continuously. Plus, any button will turn the screen on. But then again, im not 100% sure.... just mostly sure
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Does anyone else have some knowledge on this?
If what hijewpositive says is true, that really stinks to have such a big design flaw on this phone like that.
If you go to your keypad and put in *#7594# Check box to enable and press home button. It will disable the lock screen. If you want to use the lock screen again repeat and uncheck box. Hope this is what you are looking for.
d2kss2250 said:
If you go to your keypad and put in *#7594# Check box to enable and press home button. It will disable the lock screen. If you want to use the lock screen again repeat and uncheck box. Hope this is what you are looking for.
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Will this cause the phone not to sleep?
It will still go to sleep. I have been using that way and never had a problem
with it going to sleep.
d2kss2250 said:
If you go to your keypad and put in *#7594# Check box to enable and press home button. It will disable the lock screen. If you want to use the lock screen again repeat and uncheck box. Hope this is what you are looking for.
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*#7954# doesn't do anything whatsoever for me....
(Today, I'm running rooted stock, newest everything).
Any idea what isn't right?
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mazook98 said:
*#7954# doesn't do anything whatsoever for me....
(Today, I'm running rooted stock, newest everything).
Any idea what isn't right?
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It appears you have your numbers all wrong. should be *#7594#. Just tested and works
CharlyDigital said:
It appears you have your numbers all wrong. should be *#7594#. Just tested and works
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That worked for me, kinda:
It brought up a box that said "Enable to shut down app on long press".
Is that it?
(This isn't one of those "system32" Windows jokes, right?)
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Hmm, I've been getting the phone dialer pop up on UnNamed ROM also but only when I unlock the screen. Always thought I might of hit the phone dialer by accident, but this has occurred multiple times on UnNamed, but absolutely zero times before. Wonder if there's a bug?
Also, I use Go SMS which has a pop-up feature which prevents the lockscreen when an SMS comes through; phone still goes to sleep and no battery drain (tested it by leaving the popup on for half a day and using betterbatterystats, battery monitor, and cpu spy)
I use 'no lock' app. Never had a problem with it.

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Is there a way to shut off the choice part for actions we do on our phone? Every room I install I get this issue where if you pinch the home screen in to select which one of the screens you want the phone says" home screen edit page open" then when you select s page or will say "work space 2 of 3" poor how ever many home screens you got. Everything is turned of in the accessibility post in the settings. I even flashed back to stock and it is still there. Is there a easy to shut it off or delete the sound files for that?
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Two isssues that are annoying me.

First the one handed operation, I try to disable it by unchecking the option but dor some reason it just continues to default to one handed operation while im typing.
Second issue is the default program option, I check always and go to applications manager but im unable to add always to a particular operation, like instragram, ie, twitter. Any help would be great.
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Have you rebooted your GN2? I had a problem where the default launcher choice wouldn't stick until after I rebooted.
SKi4life said:
First the one handed operation, I try to disable it by unchecking the option but dor some reason it just continues to default to one handed operation while im typing.
Second issue is the default program option, I check always and go to applications manager but im unable to add always to a particular operation, like instragram, ie, twitter. Any help would be great.
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Try rebooting your phone, is your keyboard showing full-screen at all? It has two multi-touch gestures built in that can not be turned off, and poorly implemented to boot. Pushing your thumbs together from the outside edge to the middle will turn on one handed mode. Then from middle with two fingers/thumbs out to edge of the screen will put it back into full-screen mode. Most of the time this only happens to me when I'm typing, not when I'm showing off the feature. :silly:
How did you get your the phone launcher to stick?
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ejdavis said:
How did you get your the phone launcher to stick?
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Because I tinker with several launchers, I find it easiest to just use the Home Switcher app (free on Google Play).
I don't remember for sure how I got my preferred launcher to "stick", though. I may have gone into Settings/Application Manager/All, scrolled-down and opened "TouchWiz Home" and pressed the Clear Defaults button. Then rebooted. After that, Home Switcher seemed to work as intended.
I was gonna start a thread.. but I'll bring it here, i decided to use the auto screen brightness it didn't last to long.. the screen on auto seems to change brightness allot.. but with auto brightness off its fine... does anyone have issues with auto brightness on?? Thanks
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The Galaxy S1 was the same way. I never use auto brightness.

Anyone else notice a fairly significant delay when trying to open up a note w/S-PEN??

I double tap, and it seems like a solid 2 seconds before the note comes up. 2 seconds is a long time if you are trying to jot something down quickly.
To clarify, I am talking about opening up the note taking feature by pressing the S-PEN button and double tapping on the screen.
My note was doing the same thing and I found some crazy setting that did the trick. Mine is now almost instant. I'm looking right now trying to find that setting.....stand by.
I can't seem to find the setting now. I don't remember if I had actually turned something off or on now. I just came across it before and boom it worked. Sorry dude, but I will keep checking here in a bit after my meeting. I am also running Zedi 3.2 rom if that has anything to do with it.
Milkman00 said:
I double tap, and it seems like a solid 2 seconds before the note comes up. 2 seconds is a long time if you are trying to jot something down quickly.
To clarify, I am talking about opening up the note taking feature by pressing the S-PEN button and double tapping on the screen.
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Having the exact same problem with mine. Subscribed!
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OMG yes a some what huge delay; it gets annoying.
Go into S Pen settings and check the box to have S note pop up when you remove pen, it is instant upon pen removal.
Granna said:
Go into S Pen settings and check the box to have S note pop up when you remove pen, it is instant upon pen removal.
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Thank you Granna. That is a good work around, but not really the solution I was looking for since I don't use the note each time I pull out the pen.
Hoping for another fix.
I have another type of delay.
If you go to Snotes and try to open any note you have there it takes forever to open the note. Sometimes I think I didnt touch the icon well enough but then it opens. There are times I have to wait 4-5 sec to open a note in Snotes.
Such a slow app. However my pop-up note works very fast everytime double click with pen.
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I don't know what "set as" means when using smart select?

What's the "set as" function do in smart select? Please check out the screenshot
Verizon Note 7
Always on display background.
NIKKOTUASON said:
Always on display background.
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Are you referring to the always on display that comes up when the screen is turned off? If so then I hit that button plenty of times and I don't see the thing that I highlighted come up as the background for my always on display.
Hmm that's weird I just tried it on mine and it works fine. After selecting an area it doesn't pop up the Always On display and let you edit it with the area you selected earlier?
NIKKOTUASON said:
Hmm that's weird I just tried it on mine and it works fine. After selecting an area it doesn't pop up the Always On display and let you edit it with the area you selected earlier?
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I just realized something, I had my phone on power save mode. Want to take it off power save mode then it allowed me to do what you described. Thank you for your help.

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