Hi everyone!
I've recently bought my beloved Note II in places of an iPhone 4 and I have only two things bugging me.
As you've may already guessed, I seriously need autocorrect.
My experience with other Android devices (namely Motorola Xoom) was perfect minus the astonishingly good performance.
I was able to write quickly knowing that the original Android keyboard will correct every thing for me... but now I can't.
So, is there a way to enable autocorrect on Samsung's TouchWiz keyboard (don't want to lose S Pen functionality)?
Secondly, I only need 5 of the loads of widgets on the notification drawer.
Is there anyway I can modify them to the number and order I want?
Is there any ROM that can fix those problems without losing S Pen apps?
Thank you in advance!
1- No way to enable auto correct in stock samsung keyboard as far as I know. I recommend downloading swiftkey from the android market. It has (in my opinion and many others) the best auto correction/prediction of any keyboard in the world. Granted, it is a paid app but there is a free 30-day trial.
2- You can't modify the notification toggles with stock rom. With certain custom roms, yes.
Just a little info.. the notification thingies that allow enable/disable of wifi/bluetooth etc are called toggles. Widgets are the ones you can put on the home screen.
The problem with having a 3rd party keyboard is when you want to use the S-pen you have to select the samsung keyboard. Try using the continous input option of samsung keyboard, you can swipe which does auto correct / predict.
I did a search on this and found others asking and frustrated but no answers. Perhaps someone here can lead me in the right direction.
I notice the annoyance of this in landscape mode and I am talking about the s-pen auto scroll. Lets say you are using Dolphin browser and you want to type something in the keyboard pepper up taking 50% of the screen The tabs of the browser take Up another 15% . This leaves a small window to Work in. When you use the s-pen to scroll around auto-scroll jvmqs around at full speed this makes it difficult to use the pen to click on the next box.
Anyone had this problem?
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Settings-Controls-AirView-AirView Pen Options
Scroll down and you will see an option to disable SPen auto scroll. It drived me crazy too until I found it
Im trying to find out what I did only one time and cant get it to do it again. Basically I was ib the stock browser and trying to access the side swype in toolbar as I have the setting on in labs. And I accidently ended up with a rectangular magnifying box that I fould move around with my finger. It reminded me of an iphone were u are trying to move the cursor when typing. If anyone knows how to actually use this feature and can let me know I would appreciate it. I tried googling as best I could and only find results from the s4 having a similar feature. And for anyone who may suggest it is a motion enabled setting I have them turned off completly. And as well this was done with my finger not the Spen.
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So I'm a (mostly) happy owner of a new Tab S4 SM-T830 256 gb tablet. My old tablet was a 64 gb Tab S2. I was excited about the hardware upgrades. I use my tablet in place of a laptop, and was starting to notice the speed and memory lags.
I'm having problems with three "features"
1) No fingerprint scanner. I wear glasses. Strong glasses. Progressive lenses. I turned on Samsung Pass, but it isn't clear to me if this works with external apps (like my banking app), or just within the Samsung Internet Browser.
2) I use Nova Launcher. On the Tab S2, the dock bar stayed horizontal on the bottom of the display when you rotated the tablet. For the S4 the dock seems to be locked to the short side of the screen.
3) Multiple peaves with the floating navigation bar. I'd like it to lock to the short side of the screen, like hard buttons do. But it stays horizontal. It takes up a lot of expensive real estate - can I add other shortcut buttons to it? In the best of all worlds, could you make it part of the docking bar?
3A) This is the most annoying "feature". I use SwiftKey for my keyboard app. Even though I have the navigation bar set to hide, any time I pull up the keyboard, there is the navigation bar. Right under the space bar. I can't tell you how many times I've missed the space far and hit one of the navigation buttons.
3B) This may be due to the wide-screen format of the tablet, but when you bring up the keyboard in landscape, and add in a cm for the navigation bar, it takes up 3/4 of the screen.
Any other thoughts, tips, tricks for migrating from a Tab S2 to an S4 are appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe
I've been using Samsung Pass on my Note 9 and now on the Tab S4. It seems to work almost anywhere: Apps & Browser. Although, not consistently. Still better than nothing. I also have Lastpass and it is a little annoying that I can't use iris scanner for that, but it gives you the option to use a PIN on the S4, which helps a little.
I just installed an app called simple control (On the Playstore). I have heard it works well for the Nav Bar issue, but I haven't tried it yet.
I can't speak to the other issues though, as I'v only had the Tab for 2 days.
As already mentioned, I also use Lastpass. I disabled Samsung pass for now as with Lastpass I can use on multiple devices. As far as the dock in Nova, not sure what's going on with that. I also find that annoying that it doesn't rotate either, thus I got rid of it. I just disabled it and placed my common icons right on the desktop. Then I added a shortcut icon to open the App Drawer. It rotates, so kind of like having the dock. In regards to the Navigation bar, try Samsung's One Handed Operation App in the Galaxy Store. It's a nice alternative to the Navigation bar. I wasn't sure I would like it at first but now use it exclusively. Thus I also now hide the standard Nav bar.
drjoe1 said:
So I'm a (mostly) happy owner of a new Tab S4 SM-T830 256 gb tablet. My old tablet was a 64 gb Tab S2. I was excited about the hardware upgrades. I use my tablet in place of a laptop, and was starting to notice the speed and memory lags.
I'm having problems with three "features"
1) No fingerprint scanner. I wear glasses. Strong glasses. Progressive lenses. I turned on Samsung Pass, but it isn't clear to me if this works with external apps (like my banking app), or just within the Samsung Internet Browser.
2) I use Nova Launcher. On the Tab S2, the dock bar stayed horizontal on the bottom of the display when you rotated the tablet. For the S4 the dock seems to be locked to the short side of the screen.
3) Multiple peaves with the floating navigation bar. I'd like it to lock to the short side of the screen, like hard buttons do. But it stays horizontal. It takes up a lot of expensive real estate - can I add other shortcut buttons to it? In the best of all worlds, could you make it part of the docking bar?
3A) This is the most annoying "feature". I use SwiftKey for my keyboard app. Even though I have the navigation bar set to hide, any time I pull up the keyboard, there is the navigation bar. Right under the space bar. I can't tell you how many times I've missed the space far and hit one of the navigation buttons.
3B) This may be due to the wide-screen format of the tablet, but when you bring up the keyboard in landscape, and add in a cm for the navigation bar, it takes up 3/4 of the screen.
Any other thoughts, tips, tricks for migrating from a Tab S2 to an S4 are appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe
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I use Samsung Pass & LastPass in conjuction.
So far both works perfectly on any apps & website.
I used to use Nova Launcher but in this Tab S4, I skip it because I think it has everything I need...and I also installed some apps to give more functional effects.
Those apps are: Rotation Control, Blockada & Internet Speed Meter
But if you really want a floating NavBar you can just activate its built in Floating Navbar called Assistant Menu
It's located in the Accessibility>Dexterity and interaction section
A & B : I don't use Swiftkey, but I use Samsung Keyboard in conjuction with Tab S4 Keyboard Cover.
You can resize Samsung Keyboard to your liking and if you use Tab S4 for typing I recommend you buy its Keyboard cover as it is a very good physical keyboard.
I hope my answer helps & if you still have any questions just ask me.
Solution for #2
2) I use Nova Launcher. On the Tab S2, the dock bar stayed horizontal on the bottom of the display when you rotated the tablet. For the S4 the dock seems to be locked to the short side of the screen.
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I managed to solve this with the help of another thread . You need to go to the Display settings for the device and change the zoom to the smallest value. You'll find that the dock will now show at the bottom when you switch to landscape.
Thank you so much! That fixed the dock! I appreciate you taking the time to point out the post I missed!
Take care,
Joe
cryptonium said:
I managed to solve this with the help of another thread . You need to go to the Display settings for the device and change the zoom to the smallest value. You'll find that the dock will now show at the bottom when you switch to landscape.
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Long time Note user here (Note 1-3, Edge, 8-10) and Samsung is awesome but we have a saying down here in the American South: They "do too much".
They come up with so many features that when they put out a new version, they REMOVE features no one asked them to REMOVE!
Here's what's grinding my gears: remember on ANY Samsung phone that had split apps, they had 3 buttons that would appear if you "clicked" the middle line in between the apps?
Three options would show up:
1. An X to close out multi-window
2. A box within a box to change one of the apps to pop-up view.
3. Two rotating arrows to MAKE THE TWO APPS SWITCH PLACES. (Top to bottom and vice-versa)
That option has now been removed and this new convoluted bs way has now been 'implemented'.
Can ANYONE show me how to get it back, or a workaround?
What happened to Photo Note? Why not just have the older Note functions that made us USE the phone, available as additional, STILL FUNCTIONING apks to download separately? Why make good apps and then not keep them useable?
I'm thinking about going back to the damn Note 8 because it had that feature. I've attached a picture to show what I'm referring to.
Please help me before I toss this 1.2k paperweight across my house!
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Slicc98 said:
Long time Note user here (Note 1-3, Edge, 8-10) and Samsung is awesome but we have a saying down here in the American South: They "do too much".
They come up with so many features that when they put out a new version, they REMOVE features no one asked them to REMOVE!
Here's what's grinding my gears: remember on ANY Samsung phone that had split apps, they had 3 buttons that would appear if you "clicked" the middle line in between the apps?
Three options would show up:
1. An X to close out multi-window
2. A box within a box to change one of the apps to pop-up view.
3. Two rotating arrows to MAKE THE TWO APPS SWITCH PLACES. (Top to bottom and vice-versa)
That option has now been removed and this new convoluted bs way has now been 'implemented'.
Can ANYONE show me how to get it back, or a workaround?
What happened to Photo Note? Why not just have the older Note functions that made us USE the phone, available as additional, STILL FUNCTIONING apks to download separately? Why make good apps and then not keep them useable?
I'm thinking about going back to the damn Note 8 because it had that feature. I've attached a picture to show what I'm referring to.
Please help me before I toss this 1.2k paperweight across my house!
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I can only answer the multiwindow feature.
Install Samsung GoodLock app and the MultiStar module for goodlock app.
They took it out of the firmware and put it in a separate app. The Goodlock app has few different modules to try out.
They took it out on Note 8 Pie as well so have to use GoodLock!
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If on Android 10 wait for Samsung to update the GoodLock app to work on it!
geesh. when they toss everything and the kitchen sink out people ***** that it was bloated and had too many duplicated features. now that they are slimming it down and removing the bloat people ***** that they are removing the features that the *****ed about.
damn if you do, damn if you don't.
That's Samsung for you. I used the Hide Navigation Bar feature so that it wouldn't show when I'm browsing, etc. It was nice that I could swipe up to make it appear. I guess I'll just have to get used to the new hidden swipe design, but I'm really not a fan as I like Nova's full screen gestures, not Samsung's wonky attempt at having it active from the bottom of the screen only.
They likely change these things to lessen bloat. If you look you'll see that they create multiple apps to control all these features, so it becomes a mess when they leave too many in and running at once. That's how it appears anyway.