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I often find myself wanting to show someone a picture or current screen display, but when I hand them my phone either touching the screen or one of the buttons or making that gesture suddenly changes the screen, or moves the picture. Is there some way to freeze the screen on purpose so it can be passed around safely?
I know about screen capture programs (Screenshot, Shootme) and the screen capture built into some ROMs Power Menu, but those don't keep the resulting scene on the screen (one needs to use a file program to find the graphic, which is clumsy and time consuming).
I agree, i always give my phone to my relatives or friends and they always press the back or home button somehow -.-!
One solution , would be to use a transparent lock screen with a very small unlock toggle ...
Lock it , hand it to them ...
Screenshot would do
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tcboo said:
One solution , would be to use a transparent lock screen with a very small unlock toggle ...
Lock it , hand it to them ...
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This sounds just right, but is there such a lock screen available?
capcanuck said:
Screenshot would do
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I have that program, and it works well, but after taking the shot one needs to recall the complex name and directory, and once found the viewing program has all the buttons active. I have a shortcut to Astro opening in the directory, but even with a half dozen thumbnails, it isn't clear sometimes which one I want to show. I don't see any option to freeze the view.
jpnelson40 said:
This sounds just right, but is there such a lock screen available?
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I don't have the link, but search around , there are some threads on transparent lockscreens ...
Not sure but you may be able to do it with just a transparent .png and setting that as your lockscreen background, but that is just a guess ....
I just accidentally found another way to close the notifications menu.
Sorry if this is already known.
Usually to close the notification pull down, I flick it up or drag it up, but a few minutes ago I noticed that if I perform the same pull down motion again, notification will close.
That's all I got; so if even one person learned something new, then I'm happy.
Thanks, veritasaequita
I just accidentally found another way to close the notifications menu.
Sorry if this is already known.
Usually to close the notification pull down, I flick it up or drag it up, but a few minutes ago I noticed that if I perform the same pull down motion again, notification will close.
That's all I got; so if even one person learned something new, then I'm happy.
Thanks, veritasaequita
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Took me 3 reads to understand what OP was saying. Tl;dr easily readable version.
Nice trick
veritasaequita said:
I just accidentally found another way to close the notifications menu.
Sorry if this is already known.
Usually to close the notification pull down, I flick it up or drag it up, but a few minutes ago I noticed that if I perform the same pull down motion again, notification will close.
That's all I got; so if even one person learned something new, then I'm happy.
Thanks, veritasaequita
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I tried and got nothing. Pretty sure you were just swiping down and accidentally hitting the back button.
ihaimay said:
I tried and got nothing. Pretty sure you were just swiping down and accidentally hitting the back button.
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Yeah he either hit the home or back
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It's probably because he hit the status bar at the top. When the notification menu is pulled down you can tap the status bar and it will collapse back to normal.
It's working for me good find...
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I'd try it but I don't have my E4GT anymore. FML :/
Works , thnx
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That's pretty cool, I didn't know about this. Thanks for posting.
Edit. Yeah, it's because you're hitting the status bar.
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Its because you touch the bottom bar of the pulldown window. all it needs is a tap.
Shoulon said:
Its because you touch the bottom bar of the pulldown window. all it needs is a tap.
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Yep. If you tap bottom of pull down or status bar it will go back up. Has nothing to do with swiping.
If you use a alternative instead of touchwiz u can have custom methods to open then notification bar also. But everyone knows this one i believe
Shoulon said:
If you use a alternative instead of touchwiz u can have custom methods to open then notification bar also. But everyone knows this one i believe
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Yeah when I was using Launcher pro plus, I set the home button to open/close notifications (and to go to home screen when not on the home screen). Actually like it that way but I also like Touchwiz, wish I could get the same options with Touchwiz.
thats freaken awesome dude thanks! I have a problem trying to get it back up sometimes without clear button. so thanks for the find!
Good find. Thanks man
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12MaNy said:
Yep. If you tap bottom of pull down or status bar it will go back up. Has nothing to do with swiping.
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well your half correct...yes u can tap the bottom (which just makes it roll back open) "OR" you can swipe downward from the very top and it will instantly close. also it doesn't matter how far you swipe, its going to close regardless.
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well your half correct...yes u can tap the bottom (which just makes it roll back open) "OR" you can swipe downward from the very top and it will instantly close. also it doesn't matter how far you swipe, its going to close regardless.
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You don't gave to Swype down. Once you have the notification open a simple tap on the status bar will do the trick.
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RayTrue04 said:
You don't gave to Swype down. Once you have the notification open a simple tap on the status bar will do the trick.
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myth confirmed
You can also use the back button to close the notification bar.
I searched but didn't see anything on this.
There is a blue pull tab thing on the left hand side of my screen. I want it gone, but can't find out how to get rid of it.
Thanks!
There's a ton of threads already on this. ..
To show/hide hold the back key for a couple of seconds
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Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.
bleclair said:
Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.
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It allows you to access the multi-window feature of the NII, for accessing 2 apps at the same time.
To be fair its not a particularly well advertised feature and with little to no instruction a lot of people won't know what it is for.
But it is for split screen mode.
You can drag apps to the top of bottom part of the screen from that bar to run two apps side by side.
I hate the screen to the left of my home screen, how can I remove it?
Open the home screen you want to remove, long press anywhere on that screen until you see the WIDGETS button at the bottom, press WIDGETS button, then just long press the screen you wish to remove and drag to the top to remove.
To change or add back just do the same, but instead just put a check in the widgets you want adding. HTH
Guntert said:
I hate the screen to the left of my home screen, how can I remove it?
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Unfortunately, there is no way to remove it with the touchwiz launcher, unrooted.
GeorgeP said:
Unfortunately, there is no way to remove it with the touchwiz launcher, unrooted.
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What did I just post above? You don't need root or anything else to remove it. However you will have to leave at least one widget, that cannot be removed.
ashyx said:
What did I just post above? You don't need root or anything else to remove it. However you will have to leave at least one widget, that cannot be removed.
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Your response does not make sense. You can't remove the screen and you must leave at least one widget on it.
GeorgeP said:
Your response does not make sense. You can't remove the screen and you must leave at least one widget on it.
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There are 2 screens to the left, you can remove the first one easily. The last one only the widgets can be removed except for one.
Just use an other launcher...
Use different launcher. Even custom Roms have that screen. I think it is unremovable.
Guntert said:
I hate the screen to the left of my home screen, how can I remove it?
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Found this while I was looking for something else http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2825558
Are you talking about the magazine?
If you are press and hold on blank screen until the widgets and stuff come up at the botom, tap home screen settings, uncheck my magazine
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luckytrek said:
Are you talking about the magazine?
If you are press and hold on blank screen until the widgets and stuff come up at the botom, tap home screen settings, uncheck my magazine
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I think your referring to something else. There are no such options on the tab s.
Are you able to set a home screen in the OP launcher? For example I like for my 2nd of my 3 screens to be my home screen.
Every other launcher I've used allow this but I can't figure it out with the OP launcher.
Is it possible?
1. Hard press on the screen
2. You'll see all your screens.
3. Press on the screen you want.
4. Select and drag to the position of the home screen.
FINISHED
WizeGuyDezignz said:
Are you able to set a home screen in the OP launcher? For example I like for my 2nd of my 3 screens to be my home screen.
Every other launcher I've used allow this but I can't figure it out with the OP launcher.
Is it possible?
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ftarsj said:
1. Hard press on the screen
2. You'll see all your screens.
3. Press on the screen you want.
4. Select and drag to the position of the home screen.
FINISHED
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I think he wants his homescreen to be the middle of his 3 screens so that there is another screen to the left and right of his homescreen. I've looked around it it doesn't appear to allow you to do this. Perhaps it's because it needs space for the Shelf.
duomatrix said:
I think he wants his homescreen to be the middle of his 3 screens so that there is another screen to the left and right of his homescreen. I've looked around it it doesn't appear to allow you to do this. Perhaps it's because it needs space for the Shelf.
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Correct, this is what I'm looking for. Sorry of I didn't describe it well, I was struggling with that lol.
Thanks guys, I will stick with the ADW beta.
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