It look like I have found a way to make your Nexus 7 in landscape mode on the Home Screen. All you have to do is install the IMDb app
HTML:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imdb.mobile&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5pbWRiLm1vYmlsZSJd
Play the Paranormal Activity 4 trailer (Possibly any trailer) and then hit the home button and you will be in landscape mode on your Home Screen! But when you turn it off it will go back to Portrait.
If I hold my n7 in landscape and plug in a USB drive, it flips to landscape when stickmount kicks in. Granted the second I do anything it flips back.
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Or you could just download ultimate rotation control in the play store
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or, if you have root, you can just add this one line to the bottom of your build.prop file and reboot..
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
I don't know why people are asking about screen rotation on home screen. This tablet was designed to use in portrait mode mostly and this is how it would be best utilitized. Anyways, this is personal choice but try to use to the tablet in portrait mode and you would soon start to appreciate what Google was trying to do here with the interface.
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Any one else find it kinda awkward to hold in landscape? I got my nexus 4 days ago and I find my self holding it in portrait more often... Idk I even did the whole "tablet mode" thing.
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or, if you have root, you can just add this one line to the bottom of your build.prop file and reboot..
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
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make a local.prop file instead in the data folder, works without root
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saadi703 said:
I don't know why people are asking about screen rotation on home screen. This tablet was designed to use in portrait mode mostly and this is how it would be best utilitized. Anyways, this is personal choice but try to use to the tablet in portrait mode and you would soon start to appreciate what Google was trying to do here with the interface.
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still give the people the choice and stop trying to be like apple
Nova launcher supports rotation without any hacks on jellybean.
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The new apex launcher beta based on JB also supports homescreen rotation.
Or use a free app called "set rotation" works a treat.
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still give the people the choice and stop trying to be like apple
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For 7 inch the interface selected by Google is way better than tablet interface. Tablet interface is good for 10 inch tabs. I have used the tablet ui in glazed ROM but I turned it off immediately. Anyways its up to every person to decided what is best for him
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does rotating the home screen to landscape give added functionality? I have the trial version Ultimate Rotation, but I don't see a huge advantage of a landscape home screen. i see all the info on forcing landscape, so it makes me think my experience will greatly improve with a landscape home screen. is this purely a matter of personal preference or am I missing out on something by keeping it portrait?
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Or you could just download ultimate rotation control in the play store
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This.
hamdir said:
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Could you please expand on that? What data folder? /data is ro and /storage/sdcard0/Android/data doesn't seem to be picked up (wasn't expecting it to be, either). And AFAIK I can't remount rw without having root? Thanks.
Yes the N7 is easier/better used in portrait mode. But I just like it when I come out of an app that's used in landscape mode it doesn't force me to rotate the device immediately but I can stay in that mode.
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Bingo! Its about choice and "fluidity".
Being locked into portrait mode like this (on the Home screen, settings, etc.) makes for a really disjointed user experience.
Screen rotation shouldn't be something people not only have to think about but then physically have to keep juggling!
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Its About Choice
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Bingo! Its about choice and "fluidity".
Being locked into portrait mode like this (on the Home screen, settings, etc.) makes for a really disjointed user experience.
Screen rotation shouldn't be something people not only have to think about but then physically have to keep juggling!
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Agree with both comments above..
Also try downloading a movie and then watching it. It will only play in portrait mode. however if you could rotate the screen the film would be full screen, No brainer really..
As a work around download "Mx Player" ( mentioned in another thread). and it Rotates the screen..
Its all about choice and messing with the Apple fan boys, lol..
Being locked into portrait mode is rediculously annoying when flipping in and out of apps that run in landscape mode (games and movies for example).
Before I bought the N7, I figured I would be fine with portrait mode only. But after just a few hours of using it, I was searching all over XDA and decided on getting Nova launcher.
Now if only the lock screen would rotate too... Its annoying to have the tablet propped up on a stand in landscape orientation, and have to wake it up with pin (or even worse, with face unlock lol) in portrait mode.
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Being locked into portrait mode is rediculously annoying when flipping in and out of apps that run in landscape mode (games and movies for example).
Before I bought the N7, I figured I would be fine with portrait mode only. But after just a few hours of using it, I was searching all over XDA and decided on getting Nova launcher.
Now if only the lock screen would rotate too... Its annoying to have the tablet propped up on a stand in landscape orientation, and have to wake it up with pin (or even worse, with face unlock lol) in portrait mode.
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This thread got my thinking so I downloaded ultimate rotation control and its works great. Also rotates lock screen landscape if you want. Free 7 day trial so worth a look.
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Related
Just got an email to test it.
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I got it to you have to sign up for their vip
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yup just got it
http://www.swiftkey.net/vip/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=518
Just started using it not bad at all. I just wish it was a cross between this and thumb keyboard. This one feels just a little small in split keyboard mode
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I registered. How will it take for me to get approved?
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Thanks for the post!
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I registered. How will it take for me to get approved?
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The process took less then 2 minutes from registering to downloading - have it now and about to install.
Looks ok.
I think Thumb Keyboard has a lot more functionality (directional keys, readily accessible punctuations, @ symbol, parentheses, .com key with extras [.net, .org, .etc) when longpressed and all other 'tabbed' symbols just require a longpress, too.
Just MHO.
Here are some screen shots just not a big fan of the full screen text input. Would also like split me keyboard in portrait.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hyoeIEU29ccVjXzt9qr8OMrGV1lREUdvTqzuf1Sxwrw?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/liJbUrHd5ANlD3LDKVlKmMrGV1lREUdvTqzuf1Sxwrw?feat=directlink
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Yeah, they definitely need to make the keys a little bigger.
dch921 said:
Just started using it not bad at all. I just wish it was a cross between this and thumb keyboard. This one feels just a little small in split keyboard mode
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I think it works great!
Hated it, went back to stock. Takes way too much realestate in portrait, my main viewing format.
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Hated it, went back to stock. Takes way too much realestate in portrait, my main viewing format.
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You are the first person I have seen that primarily uses their tablet in portrait.
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You are the first person I have seen that primarily uses their tablet in portrait.
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haha me too... why would you need this keyboard if you are using it in portrait? wouldn't stock work well enough? just wondering.... but the whole full screen force thing is bad, thumb keyboard does it too by default, but you can override it.
Hey I am waiting to have my account admin approved on swiftkeys site, in the mean time could someone post the APK for the keyboard!?!
Pretty plz!
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Hey I am waiting to have my account admin approved on swiftkeys site, in the mean time could someone post the APK for the keyboard!?!
Pretty plz!
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patience grasshopper. they are really fast about it, shouldn't be more than a few minutes. respect developers' wishes. if they wanted it out here they would have posted it here.
Trying it out now, so far I love the look of the app and it has been working great.
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It needs some work still, I was on a closed beta (which I think I can admit), and of course, now use the open beta available on the forum.
But despite the issues with sizing and the alternate keys for symbols and stuff, the predictive text is still like the number one need when typing on a tablet, and it is so much more useful than stock. I don't use split mode atm, because of the key sizes, but I'm hoping I'll like that once they get it worked out.
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It needs some work still, I was on a closed beta (which I think I can admit), and of course, now use the open beta available on the forum.
But despite the issues with sizing and the alternate keys for symbols and stuff, the predictive text is still like the number one need when typing on a tablet, and it is so much more useful than stock. I don't use split mode atm, because of the key sizes, but I'm hoping I'll like that once they get it worked out.
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The common theme seems to be the small buttons are an issue. Hopefully they will make th necessary adjustments.
I'm sure they will, it was among the first comments in the closed beta. I'm using standard layout for now.
Also, nobody can deny... SwiftKey's style on the Xoom is freaking awesome.
Is there a way to switch between apps with just a swipe, instead of pressing the home button and then launching the app each time. I need something similar to Dell Stage, where you swipe to move from one page to another, but it will be from one app to the other.
The reason for my need: I use Evernote for my public speeches, but I also reference the internet and need to access a browser, in my case I am using Opera. I need to switch back and forth between Evernote and Opera during my speech, and using the home button each time is to cumbersome. If I can just swipe the screen to switch back and forth between apps would be ideal.
Wave launcher might help
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Wave launcher might help
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Thank you for this suggestion, but swipe the screen to access a list of app is the same as pressing the home button.
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Thank you for this suggestion, but swipe the screen to access a list of app is the same as pressing the home button.
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Ah I see what you mean now. You could configure it to swipe from the side (instead of the bottom) with only evernote and opera in the list then it is just as you describe only instead of swiping the whole way to switch between the two you stop the swipe halfway to switch. You could also limit it to just two apps in the launcher so its easier. Just a thought though.
I think that kind of functionality would have to be built into the OS like it is in webOS and on the playbook.
Here's a video of me trying to do what I think you are trying to do
http://www.vimeo.com/27312532
I have no affiliation with wave launcher by the way. I got it for free from Amazon in May and love it.
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Ah I see what you mean now. You could configure it to swipe from the side (instead of the bottom) with only evernote and opera in the list then it is just as you describe only instead of swiping the whole way to switch between the two you stop the swipe halfway to switch. You could also limit it to just two apps in the launcher so its easier. Just a thought though.
I think that kind of functionality would have to be built into the OS like it is in webOS and on the playbook.
Here's a video of me trying to do what I think you are trying to do
http://www.vimeo.com/27312532
I have no affiliation with wave launcher by the way. I got it for free from Amazon in May and love it.
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Wow that video demonstrated exactly what I am looking for. Thank you for putting so much effort in helping me with this.
My pleasure. Glad I could help
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Swipepad is also another good option. i prefer that over wave launcher.
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Swipepad is also another good option. i prefer that over wave launcher.
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Yea, I did gave it a tried, but I ran into trouble with Swipepad. My Streak 7 is in a leather case, and the case cover portion of the screen around the sides, when I placed my finger on the side to swipe, Swipepad does not recognize my finger because the edge of the screen is covered by the case, so I can't swipe.
You know, honeycomb has a task switcher built in that stays visible when you run most, if not all, apps. If you wanted that, either wait for the official release from dell in september out give dj_steve's honeystreak a try. I've been running it on my ds7 for a while now and it gave new life to my tab.
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You know, honeycomb has a task switcher built in that stays visible when you run most, if not all, apps. If you wanted that, either wait for the official release from dell in september out give dj_steve's honeystreak a try. I've been running it on my ds7 for a while now and it gave new life to my tab.
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Yea, me and thousands of others are waiting for the official release of honeycomb! I will definitely switch to honeystreak if this official release does not materialize.
I was just playing around with my Nexus 7 and I came across a neat and convenient trick to dispose of a app from the app drawer that you may have mistakenly selected and you only get three options uninstall, app info or simply drop the app on the home screen of your Nexus device. Well, there's a fourth option! Simply long press a app from your home screen or app drawer. Then, fling your finger that's holding down the app down up and release! That's it! From the home screen you don't have to take a app all of the way up to the white x remove then red release delete. From the bottom or where ever that app is on your screen you want to remove or replace, just press and hold the app you want to remove, fling your finger in motion down then up release and watch it fly away off of your screen! I think this only works with Jelly Bean, but this my friend is very convenient!
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
Another cool trick in Jelly Bean. Settings > About Tablet/Phone > Android Version (tap repeatedly for surprise)
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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guerom00 said:
I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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It shows a lockscreen-style circle for that. Kinda unnecessary, but cool. A quick swipe up from the home button works just as well.
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There's an easter egg in the settings app. Go into "about tablet". Tap the version number many times. After that, press and hold the Jelly Bean.
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I can add another cool trick: slide up from the bottom of the screen where the 3 buttons are to bring up the Google search. Neat.
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That is actually launching Google Now. If you do not have search history turned on for your google account, you will only see a google search.
If you have history, it will show more information cards.
I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
tevinwade said:
Another cool trick in Jelly Bean. Settings > About Tablet/Phone > Android Version (tap repeatedly for surprise)
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Works in ICS too Not sure about HC or GB though, or other older OS's
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I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
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It's called surprise and delight and who are you to deny him life's simple pleasures ?
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It's called surprise and delight and who are you to deny him life's simple pleasures ?
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lol +1
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I'm not quite sure if you're serious or you're really just now discovering the features marketed in the presentations.
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Not everyone watched the presentations. No reason to be unnecessarily mean. I thanked him since I didn't know about the trick at all and these types of threads are awesome.
couldnt do it for the life of me and figured it must be a N7 thing only at the moment. But then I re-read the directions on how to do it... derp:silly:
Thanks guys for your help hints!
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I watched the presentation but only recently realised the two finger trick for expanding or reducing notification sizes!
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2 finger trick? Pinch zoom doesn't seem to do anything..
Tell Google now to do a barrel roll see what happens
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2 finger trick? Pinch zoom doesn't seem to do anything..
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slide two fingers up or down instead. Won't work on all notifications of course
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If you long press either the back button or the multi-window button (I forget the technical name of it) and swipe up it will bring up google now as if you were holding down the home button.
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Tell Google now to do a barrel roll see what happens
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Nice one!
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If you press power + volume down at the same time, it will take a screenshot.
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Can somebody modify this app so it stays in landscape mode only as I need it for my work van,it would be a great help.
I've seen some modified phone apps on the s2 which also have call record built in but not sure what would happen installing it on the 7.7??
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Can somebody modify this app so it stays in landscape mode only as I need it for my work van,it would be a great help.
I've seen some modified phone apps on the s2 which also have call record built in but not sure what would happen installing it on the 7.7??
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or get ultimate rotation app in play store and remember, contacts/people app governs dialer...
Enjoy..
I have that but I find it doesn't quite work properly, it makes apps act funny,for example if I keep some apps in portrait how they should be, some of them crash.
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works perfect for me..
Ok for example put the homescreen in landscape with rotate selected app and run any of the booth apps(fat,mix,ugly..) in portrait mode they will all crash and the camera will go funny. If I turn off the rotate app they all work fine. I'm not keen on running this app, I'd prefer to have each app modified so it doesn't affect anything else.
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I've owned many mobile phones and never installed the fat booth apps.. but am sure I would install them all to get my phone to stay in landscape if that was necessary. Are you sure you have it set right?, sounds like you have it set to global.. where it would affect other apps like these. With the free version you can set one app to behave as you wish, with the paid version you can select all apps.
That said, shouldn't be too difficult to decompile app and set default orientation to landscape.. I think...
best of luck..
A record function would be awesome.
Hi all. I'm normally not a big fan of starting threads, but because I'm sitting at work right now just wanting to play with my new phone, I might as well start a discussion.
So one of the coolest things about this phone for me so far are all the hand gestures. I know some of them are a little gimmicky, but there are also a couple of useful ones.
My favorites so far:
- Wake up your phone to show Time, missed calls or messages and battery by reaching towards your phone when asleep. Hint: If waving your hand towards the center doesn't initially wake it up, try bringing your open hand towards your sensor, then taking it away and then bringing your hand towards the sensor again. This feature will really come in handy in the middle of the night when I want to know what time it is.
- Take a screenshot by moving the side/palm of your hand across the screen. It's so much easier than trying to time the Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
What are your favorite gestures?
I thought we could use this thread for those who may need help figuring out these features as well. :good:
For some reason I cannot get my phone to switch tracks when I wave my hand. Do I have to be using the stock player for this to occur?
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For some reason I cannot get my phone to switch tracks when I wave my hand. Do I have to be using the stock player for this to occur?
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I'm not 100% on this, but I'm guessing that yes, it must be the stock player.
most of the hand gestures have been working on the note 2 for months now, so im not in awe of any...although the page scrolling sure seems like it might come in handy from time to time...
The hand thingies is awesome tho I don't use them...but good to have to show off The wake up feature to see the battery, calls and what not is awesome
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The hand thingies is awesome tho I don't use them...but good to have to show off The wake up feature to see the battery, calls and what not is awesome
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Glad to see you have the s4 shadow. Looking forward to some jellyverse goodness for this phone..
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I can't get the palm gesture to work for the screenshot.. I have palm featured enabled..
Any suggestion?
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I can't get the palm gesture to work for the screenshot.. I have palm featured enabled..
Any suggestion?
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The side of your hand has to be touching the screen...(mainly the bottom half of the screen)and swipe from left to right or right to left....you have to find the sweet spot and remember where that is
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I can't get the palm gesture to work for the screenshot.. I have palm featured enabled..
Any suggestion?
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Start from very edge and swipe pretty quickly. I was doing it slow and couldn't get it to work
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The hand thingies is awesome tho I don't use them...but good to have to show off The wake up feature to see the battery, calls and what not is awesome
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Yeah the eye scroll and touchless gestures are what I've gotten the oohs and aaahs on.
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The side of your hand has to be touching the screen...(mainly the bottom half of the screen)and swipe from left to right or right to left....you have to find the sweet spot and remember where that is
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Thank you both!! Works now but I am not consistent with it yet
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mjs2011 said:
- Wake up your phone to show Time, missed calls or messages and battery by reaching towards your phone when asleep. Hint: If waving your hand towards the center doesn't initially wake it up, try bringing your open hand towards your sensor, then taking it away and then bringing your hand towards the sensor again. This feature will really come in handy in the middle of the night when I want to know what time it is.
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How do you make this work? I have no luck :/
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How do you make this work? I have no luck :/
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Lay your phone on a flat surface and with a flat hand reach towards the phone and then pull it back. Your blue notification light should quickly go on and then the screen will light up with the information.
I'm at work and can't access YouTube, but I think there's a video on it too. If you're still having trouble, I can try to link a video when I get home.
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Lay your phone on a flat surface and with a flat hand reach towards the phone and then pull it back. Your blue notification light should quickly go on and then the screen will light up with the information.
I'm at work and can't access YouTube, but I think there's a video on it too. If you're still having trouble, I can try to link a video when I get home.
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Would definitely appreciate that. I'll hunt around for it too
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How do you make this work? I have no luck :/
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Make sure it's enabled first, because it's disabled by default
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One of the more useful gestures, IMO, is the moving an app/widget to a different screen. To achieve it, hold an icon with your left thumb, wave your right hand over the sensors from the left to right or vice versa to change the screen.
these actually really come in handy for me when my hands are dirty. i do a lot of work on my cars and im not really a fan of getting grease all over the screen and these save me a lot of hassle. i never even thought i would use them at first.
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these actually really come in handy for me when my hands are dirty. i do a lot of work on my cars and im not really a fan of getting grease all over the screen and these save me a lot of hassle. i never even thought i would use them at first.
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Good call. I get a lot of use from Air View when working out as well. It's so easy to change songs by just waving my hand over the phone.
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Looks like air gestures only work with stock apps. So far not working with Gmail & Chrome
Does it have gestures for rejecting a call like flipping off? Can you have and appropriate gesture assigned to go to a browser bookmark or URL or play a video? Sorry, saw the topic title and I couldn't resist. Lol
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Hi all. I'm normally not a big fan of starting threads, but because I'm sitting at work right now just wanting to play with my new phone, I might as well start a discussion.
So one of the coolest things about this phone for me so far are all the hand gestures. I know some of them are a little gimmicky, but there are also a couple of useful ones.
My favorites so far:
- Wake up your phone to show Time, missed calls or messages and battery by reaching towards your phone when asleep. Hint: If waving your hand towards the center doesn't initially wake it up, try bringing your open hand towards your sensor, then taking it away and then bringing your hand towards the sensor again. This feature will really come in handy in the middle of the night when I want to know what time it is.
- Take a screenshot by moving the side/palm of your hand across the screen. It's so much easier than trying to time the Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
What are your favorite gestures?
I thought we could use this thread for those who may need help figuring out these features as well. :good:
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I also like scrolling through a website and photos without touching phone
The most useful thing is scrolling through mp3 tracks while having my phone docked in my car
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Does it have gestures for rejecting a call like flipping off? Can you have and appropriate gesture assigned to go to a browser bookmark or URL or play a video? Sorry, saw the topic title and I couldn't resist. Lol
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No, only to answer the call
I have that feature turned off since it may make me pick up a call I intended to ignore
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Looks like air gestures only work with stock apps. So far not working with Gmail & Chrome
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Yep. Only works with stock browser, messaging, and gallery, and email
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tntsjp said:
I can't get the palm gesture to work for the screenshot.. I have palm featured enabled..
Any suggestion?
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I find it much harder to use than the sgs3
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