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Is there an app or hack I can apply to select text without using a trackball. something like the iphone with its magnifying glass
That was my biggest hurdle when switching from iPhone to Nexus 1. You can use your fingers to press and hold until the menu pops up, but then it's still pretty much the same thing as using the trackball.
The HTC desire has an excellent magnifying glass type of copy paste like iPhone. It's been talked about porting it to the nexus but it just hasn't happened yet. It probably needs all the sense UI frame work files along with it which is why we haven't seen it ported yet. Google's implementation is pretty lame, I'm not sure why they haven't improved it by now.
Clearly not the best solution but you can do.
menu->more->select text
then just select the text you want to copy
Well if you dont mind switching to sense theme all together you could give this ROM a try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730290
As mentioned above it has a great text selection mod like the iphone, and the theme isn't so bad either
Depending on the app you're in you can double tap at the starting word and drag to the end word. It works in the Stock Messaging app on Froyo. Also in the browser.
What are your suggestions, tips and tricks?
In Gallery app you can press S Pen button and single tap photos to select. Or you can hold S Pen button and select group of photos at once by moving S Pen across the screen (just like you do with mouse on PC). Thats all
Try touchretouch app , flipaclip app , scribble racer games , check on youtube top apps for galaxy note 4 some good finds
selecting text with S-Pen is so great. It makes my life really easy
New convert. The S-pen rocks. I didn't use it for the first couple of days I had the phone - why would I?
Used it once and I'm hooked. Can't go back. Who needs a tablet! It's fantastic on the web, it's fantastic with documents, its.... Fantastic.
Gush.
Thing is, are there replacements? Do they cost much? Can we get metal ones?
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kolembo said:
New convert. The S-pen rocks. I didn't use it for the first couple of days I had the phone - why would I?
Used it once and I'm hooked. Can't go back. Who needs a tablet! It's fantastic on the web, it's fantastic with documents, its.... Fantastic.
Gush.
Thing is, are there replacements? Do they cost much? Can we get metal ones?
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I Definitely know you can get replacement S-pens, I saw them in a phone shop a few weeks ago when I was looking around for cases, and there was an official one that was 49000 KRW (Approx. 50 USD). I don't think samsung make metal ones, but there are probably third party ones available.
judhin said:
In Gallery app you can press S Pen button and single tap photos to select. Or you can hold S Pen button and select group of photos at once by moving S Pen across the screen (just like you do with mouse on PC). Thats all
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thanks didn't know this
No problem.
I have found that selection with S Pen also works in contacts! Just hold S Pen button and slide-select contacts or tap every contact separately.
Every scrooling object like web page or drop-down list have active zone at the top center or button center. Just hover S Pen over it to scroll up or down.
S Pen can select text absolutely everythere! In web pages or even in apps or system GUI or Home Screen! Hover S Pen over some text, press and hold S Pen button and slide through the text just like with PC mouse! You will get selected text and popup menu with actions!
Browse the internet using S Pen just like you would use PC mouse. You can hover over links, diffucult hided menus and get hint on browser functions.
Try papyrus such a great app for notes
Do you think the Spen of the Note2 is finish better than the Note4? Compare both I think my Spen on my Note2 is better (the shape, the material,...) than one on the Note4. Poor Samsung!
I don't think I see it anywhere on any review
and no reviewer ever mentioned about how great smart select can extract the text just like note 4?
is it me or it's gone?
I know I can do copy paste using spen on the unselectable text where finger can't do copy
but it's just more steps
andddddd the multiple smart select is gone too!!
I'm not getting mine until Sept 11th
Its not gone, its in the little pop-up menu that comes up for the s-pen.
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Its not gone, its in the little pop-up menu that comes up for the s-pen.
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you mean when you hover the spen pretty close to the screen?
or when you detached the spen and get pop up menus?
The menu that pops up when you pull out the pen, or touch the onscreen pen icon (if youve already closed the menu when it opened itself up upon removing the pen from the phone).
oh what you mean is the smart select
I was asking about the text extraction on the smart select rather than how to access the smart select
it's on note 4
several people confirmed that it's gone and no more multiple smart select to be combined on one scrapbook
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oh what you mean is the smart select
I was asking about the text extraction on the smart select rather than how to access the smart select
it's on note 4
several people confirmed that it's gone and no more multiple smart select to be combined on one scrapbook
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it is really a shame! this year they introduce the scrollable screen cap, yet they just remove the multi screen cap? why on earth can't they just keep both? probably all in the name of "no-one uses it" :crying:
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it is really a shame! this year they introduce the scrollable screen cap, yet they just remove the multi screen cap? why on earth can't they just keep both? probably all in the name of "no-one uses it" :crying:
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omg you're right
that multiple smart select is gone too
it's a pity if they decide to remove it because "no one uses it"
I love to group several pics in one scrapbook with description on each photo
is there an alternative way of saving several images in one scrapbook
or use s note and manually add photo one by one?
So we don't have text selection for an selectable text?
You can use Optical Reader to get text from images. I know it's not ideal, but it works.
It seems to only work from camera....
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You can use Optical Reader to get text from images. I know it's not ideal, but it works.
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It is sad that we don't have the powerful OCR feature in smart select where one could 'read' text from pictures which would then be editable.
Smart select has been downgraded by Samsung and that is a real pity.
Wish someine from Samsung gets this feed back and does something about it
Hi everyone, i'm a physical keyboard diehard fan. I'm using the keyboard case and it's great. However, I'm having issues with the space bar, which sometimes does not get pressed. In fact, it does not work at all with the tempered glass cover (the space bar, the other keys work).
Peeking under the keyboard i realized the on screen keyboard layout below the physical add on has a really tiny space bar.
This seems to be baked into the touchwiz standard theme, the keyboard is not compatible with other themes. Is there any way I can make this on secreen space bar larger so it gets always pressed? Can I add some material right under the space bar so it omproves "touchability"/contact with the screen?
Thanks
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Hi everyone, i'm a physical keyboard diehard fan. I'm using the keyboard case and it's great. However, I'm having issues with the space bar, which sometimes does not get pressed. In fact, it does not work at all with the tempered glass cover (the space bar, the other keys work).
Peeking under the keyboard i realized the on screen keyboard layout below the physical add on has a really tiny space bar.
This seems to be baked into the touchwiz standard theme, the keyboard is not compatible with other themes. Is there any way I can make this on secreen space bar larger so it gets always pressed? Can I add some material right under the space bar so it omproves "touchability"/contact with the screen?
Thanks
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I think its becuase of the tempered glass screen protector. Becuase the glass screen protector has no adhesive on the screen area there is an air gap which is why the keyboard case doesn't work properly, it's what happend to me. I took the tempered glass screen protector off and put a normal tpu based screen protector on and the keyboard case work perfectly now, no skips in the keys which I press. Ohh and for the theme issue which you are talking about, that is none existent for me, I have used many themes on my s7 edge and the keyboard case works perfectly with them. The themes do not change the layout of the onscreen keyboard they just make it look different that's all.
Also if your keyboard isn't at its biggest size you can hold the button on your keyboard the one on the right of the symbol button, after holding it for a second or two it should bring up a popup this is where you click the settings button once you have clicked that you should be in the onscreen keyboard setting, scroll down until you find the keyboard size option and from there you can make the keyboard bigger or smaller according to your preference.
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I think its becuase of the tempered glass screen protector. Becuase the glass screen protector has no adhesive on the screen area there is an air gap which is why the keyboard case doesn't work properly, it's what happend to me. I took the tempered glass screen protector off and put a normal tpu based screen protector on and the keyboard case work perfectly now, no skips in the keys which I press. Ohh and for the theme issue which you are talking about, that is none existent for me, I have used many themes on my s7 edge and the keyboard case works perfectly with them. The themes do not change the layout of the onscreen keyboard they just make it look different that's all.
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Great! thank you so much. let's make this the (weirdos!) keyboard users thread...
1-themes: you cannot DOWNLOAD the themes with the keyboard attached, but you can download them and use them if you doanload them with the cover removed... however, once I apply the theme (material design flat for instance) and attach the keyboard, i get the message:
KEYBOARD COVER ATTACHED. UNABLE TO APPLY DOWNLOADED THEMES WHILE THE KEYBOARD COVER IS ATTACHED. THE DEFAULT THEME WILL BE APPLIED
so no luck for me.
2-i use a tpu but I had to go through a few, some also made it unable to recognize the lower row (space bar) of the keyboard. I will experiment with the tempered glass plus some paper or something to facilitate its use and will report back.
3-sometimes when the phone comes back from sleep with the keyboard attached in enters a kind of multi window loop which I can only stop by briefly removing the keyboard, has that happened to you?
thanks!
g.
I have not had any of the issue you're experiencing other than the tempered glass one where it would not register the keyboards buttons. But other than that I've just tried the material design theme (normal and dark version) and they work fine I don't get no notifications or information toasts telling me that the theme is uncompatible.
Ohh and by the way this is the screen protector I use: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CH5RJT0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_udp_apa_DiADxbW8E784N
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My Keyboard cover just arrived from korea and my screen doesn't automatically adjust. It''s off by a row. If I have the Keyboard cover on when I launch the phone I can't access the swipe code to open feature. It's a great idea but can't figure out how to make it work.
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My Keyboard cover just arrived from korea and my screen doesn't automatically adjust. It''s off by a row. If I have the Keyboard cover on when I launch the phone I can't access the swipe code to open feature. It's a great idea but can't figure out how to make it work.
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Did you change the DPI/resolution in the display settings? That could be the reason why (although using it with different display settings seemed to work on custom ROMs based on the official one).
Does the Note8 not support drag and drop any more? I love the Note8 but the more I look back at the Note4 the more disappointed I get, a few features I used to find really useful have been taken away since the Note4 and I can't work out why. My favourite features that are missing are the fairly universal drag and drop feature, the option to collect smart select clips on the screen rather than just pin one selection (a feature that also supported drag and drop) and the action memo with link to action. All very useful and powerful features that for whatever reason Samsung decided we didn't need any more, I don't know why but I don't like it.
Your smart select clips should be stored in the Clipboard Edge (swipe out your Edge panel a few times from the left). You may have to enable Clipboard Edge in the settings.
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Does the Note8 not support drag and drop any more? I love the Note8 but the more I look back at the Note4 the more disappointed I get, a few features I used to find really useful have been taken away since the Note4 and I can't work out why. My favourite features that are missing are the fairly universal drag and drop feature, the option to collect smart select clips on the screen rather than just pin one selection (a feature that also supported drag and drop) and the action memo with link to action. All very useful and powerful features that for whatever reason Samsung decided we didn't need any more, I don't know why but I don't like it.
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You are definitely right, I also miss that collect option, really useful.. I wrote somewhere that in terms of functionality and note 8 seems a downgrade from note 4. Note 4 was definitely more oriented for productivity than note 8.
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Your smart select clips should be stored in the Clipboard Edge (swipe out your Edge panel a few times from the left). You may have to enable Clipboard Edge in the settings.
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Nº, what goes to clipboard edge are the screen shots not the smart select clips.
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Looks like, for screen clips, you will have to click save, then retrieve it from your gallery.
As for drag and drop, I just t ried it, and it works perfectly.
For action memo(if you have installed S note from either play store of from samsung store) you will need to uninstall it, and turn off auto- updates. Then, go here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/themes/app-s-note-5-2-04-25-extension-pack-s-t3673174 and download the soft ware and install all of them that you want. Make sure you DON'T update the software ever, or it will break Action Memo. After that, I added the action Memo icon to the air command, and all is well.