Practical usage for multi-window stuff and more? - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, blessed people of XDA!
I love my Note, and JB ROM Ultimate and it has some mindblowing features.
However, I do fail to grasp what is the practical side of some of them (like multi-window), apart from shoving it under the nose of iPhone owners.
I mean, while the Note has a big screen, it is still not big enough to leave both the browser and and some pdf document open one above other... Is not swithcing in the task manager better?
I always welcome any form of enlightenment...
Thanks and God bless...

No offense of course, but seems there is really no answer to your question... no one is forcing you to use the feature... I personally think its cool to watch a video while browsing the web... after all, the screen is large enough to do so practically

This is a addtional feature availale to Note 1. Whether you use it or how you use it is your problem, as such screen size cant be increased more than 5.3 by xda mods.
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asf58967 said:
No offense of course, but seems there is really no answer to your question... no one is forcing you to use the feature... I personally think its cool to watch a video while browsing the web... after all, the screen is large enough to do so practically
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One practical use that I thought of:
Video call a friend on Skype, whilst you are viewing google maps. You can direct a person to a location this way.

watching 2 pr0n at once? lol, kidding aside, the most practical usage I have done with is comparing two documents I needed for work. that saves me the hassle of printing them or switching with the task manager.

Lol need to invent triple windows for that!
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Doing a text chat while watching a movie for me.
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main use.. for me... xda & whatsapp /skype/youtube

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LiveView

I'm thinking about buying this little thing in the future so I must ask you about it - is it useful? Would you recommend it or not?
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Well is useful for people who do jogging, because I think that is easier just pull out your x8 and do your thing, more details search in youtube: Sony Ericsson LiveView™
Sorry I'm a new member so i can't post external links
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what does the LiveView do? and why would you would prefere it for jogging?
It's something like a wireless phone controller. It connects through Bluetooth and looks like a watch. Very interesting device.
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i have got one from play.com , i like this small device but when i try to use it as a watch i lost it first time. then i got another one and also second time it got lost but found out after some time . after that i am not using this liveview but it is great device. the lock between the band and the device seems solid but you dont know when it will get seperate from band and loss it for ever
romcio47 said:
It's something like a wireless phone controller. It connects through Bluetooth and looks like a watch. Very interesting device.
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i looked up in google it doesn´t look usefool!
Didn't say that. It's very interesting, I will buy it soon and share my experience with you
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romcio47 said:
Didn't say that. It's very interesting, I will buy it soon and share my experience with you
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but share your experience after 2 weeks or so. becouse when you get something new, its always cool ... after a while you will see that maybe its not so useful you thought.
Think it would be more useful if it wasn't for the capacitive-style buttons. With proper clickables, it could serve well as a pocketed remote control for music. As it is now, you have to pull "something" out of your pocket to swap tracks... and that "something" might just as well be your phone.
Been thinking about getting one myself, but for the purpose of swapping tracks, cyanogenmod does the trick by fiddling with volume/camera buttons.
are you realy listening musik from your phone! because i need to charge it daily and i even dont whatch movies or like that. i think this phone is just good be stylish and maybe to spend time with playing some games! ;(
This thing is very useful. I use it to check text messages when I'm in school And my phone seems to last longer cuz the screen isn't on as much
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Sold my mp4 because of that phone. I don't like to carry so many devices as my friend (Milestone 2 + iPhone + iPod Touch + another mp4 player), one phone is great for me and I really listen to the music all day rly!
And I'm interested in buying LV because of the power of that small device. Music control, wristwatch, facebook, notes, reading messages...
its upto the person as to how useful you would find the item to be fair, I'm quite happy just taking my phone out of my pocket and using it that way... lol but its each to their own preference. Sony released a watch based phone product before i think, and that never really "took off"

Why bother with having both S Note and S Memo?

ICS Note has both the old S Memo and the new S Note.
I have tried both. The S Note is very similar to S Memo, but has some extra new features of the Premium Suite.
I would say use S Note is good enough, but I am lost to see the reason for Samsung to include both apps. May be I missed something.
Can someone with good experience shed some light here?
Differences compiled from replies:
1. S Memo has a S Memo Lite (double tap with pen button pressed to quickly bring up app),
2. S Memo has widgets.
Unfortunately SNote does not have the double screen tap while pressing the SPen button to pop up a S Note Lite version ontop of any application running (pretty convenient for me actually). So in order to conserve that function they had to leave it installed.
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OK. that counts one. Anything else?
S-memo has a widget for home screen, the other app doesn't have it.
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Any others?
If these are the only two features, I would say Samsung shall really merge the 2 apps into one. It should be an easy task for them.
roamingphiul said:
Any others?
If these are the only two features, I would say Samsung shall really merge the 2 apps into one. It should be an easy task for them.
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I totally agree... in fact, yesterday morning I searched the forums and couldn't find any threads relating to this so created my own:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681747
They say great minds think alike!
My biggest frustration is the functionality with Evernote. S-Note syncs, but uploads as an attached file.
geordie1976 said:
I totally agree... in fact, yesterday morning I searched the forums and couldn't find any threads relating to this so created my own:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681747
They say great minds think alike!
My biggest frustration is the functionality with Evernote. S-Note syncs, but uploads as an attached file.
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I have read the other thread of yours. Your shared experience and others replies enhance my thought: Samsung did not think twice before launching S Note, may be it was in a rush to get out the Premium Suite.
My frustration is similar to yours: I do not want to use all three apps (and spend time on riding through the learning curves), but just one primary note taking tool. If I have to use all three apps with complimentary features, they should be easily synced and shared.
The app is preferred to be/have:
Nice features of S Note and the S Memo Lite (the quick double tapping feature),
Manageable. With all the different file name extensions and folder locations, I have problems in finding where the S Note, S Memo, and S Memo Lite files are.
Portable. Will S Note and S Memo still be around in a year time after the current hot Galaxy Note phone is superseded? May be Evernote is a better choice in this regard.
Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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priyanv said:
Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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Screen capture directly into SMemo with S pen?
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priyanv said:
Also once I saw a record button over top of the app... Donno in which app but it's not there!!! That's for recording the onscreen activities right?
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When opening the s note application choose idea note out of the 6 templates. Thats where the recording feature is found. And yes it does record everything done on screen.
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open S note notebooks in my desktop
Hi,
is there anyway to open the .snb notebooks in my desktop and edit them ... i love the app and use it as my daily diary ... but cant continue if i cant edit them and save them on desktop ...
please help
I have not found one.
S-features are nice, but not really suitable for notes that are to be kept and used in future.
I am going to use something like Evernote.
I am too a bit underwhelmed and puzzled by those two apps, the fragmentation and lack of critical features (like seamless sync to online with full editing support, not only picture edit) makes all this pen thingy little more than gimmick.
I installed mostly everything that was mentioned on xda (like quill, skitch, floatnote, etc) but still nothing clicks for me.
It looks like the companies develop such software just to have something nice to put on your home screen or to make some enticing marketing videos. It's a pity, especially that some features are very nice and surely there was some serious work put into them (like handwriting/ecuations recognition).
In the end even if I would really like to use more then notes and such I can't find myself using more than the following two features:
- screen shot editing
- handwritten formula for calculations (via search->wolframalpha).
Both because they are mostly self-contained and once the activity is over I'm done, so no further editing/sync/open format/ future proofing is needed.

Macbook Pro Retina

I have never been more tempted by a computer. The screen is GLORIOUS.
Reality distortion field wins again!
Yaaaaaay!
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I don't see a point to all the fuss, especially at that price. Apparently hardly any programs can even utilize that resolution so it scales it down anyways. If you're a video/photo editor then I can easily see the benefit. But for so many others who just use it for facebook and MS word, what's the point?
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slapshot30 said:
I don't see a point to all the fuss, especially at that price. Apparently hardly any programs can even utilize that resolution so it scales it down anyways. If you're a video/photo editor then I can easily see the benefit. But for so many others who just use it for facebook and MS word, what's the point?
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Not even so much video editing, unless you're working with 2k or 4k resolution. And if you were, you'd know right away, when the computer can't do anything in real time.
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I'm tempted by it for photo editing.
It is a pretty impressive screen
bmstrong said:
I have never been more tempted by a computer. The screen is GLORIOUS.
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Come back when it gets a "right click" mouse button
husam666 said:
Come back when it gets a "right click" mouse button
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System Preferences > Trackpad > Secondary click
Nburnes said:
System Preferences > Trackpad > Secondary click
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but still not on by default, and doesn't exist physically
husam666 said:
Come back when it gets a "right click" mouse button
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*facepalm*
Besides the ridiculous pricing and the lack of programs supporting the screen's ability, I refuse to support Apple so long as their business practices include the inane lawsuit wars that they have been waging. I really don't care about the eliteist toolbags who use them sometimes because we have PC/Android/etc users who are the same, but I won't give a one cent to a company who conducts business like Apple does.
I still want this thing, and it didn't help that i checked out The Verge's review.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082649/macbook-pro-review-retina-display-15-inch
LordManhattan said:
I still want this thing, and it didn't help that i checked out The Verge's review.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082649/macbook-pro-review-retina-display-15-inch
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I read their review, on the machine itself, then took the pictures. The review doesn't really show how good the display is in real life. I really, really want to dual boot ML and W8 on it and turn it into a HDTV, along with finding an external Blu-Ray drive for it.
It's shocking how far ahead they are in build quality against the PC manufacturers.
Exactly. I want to dual/trippel boot OSX/Win7/W8. I'm not a gamer but it's also nice to know that it'll run most games just fine.
"But why would you pay that much for a laptop when you can get one for $3 and a BJ on Craigslist!?"
- Nice screen
- Superb build quality as usual
- OSX (I like it very much)
- It pisses the fanboys off
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Meh, sticking to my guns. It could come with Halle Berry and every Pussycat Doll and I still wouldn't support it, but more power to you guys if it makes you happy =)
The only thing that apple is good at making, is really only Macs. iOS will forever take criticism from me and a bunch of people
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LordManhattan said:
Exactly. I want to dual/trippel boot OSX/Win7/W8. I'm not a gamer but it's also nice to know that it'll run most games just fine.
"But why would you pay that much for a laptop when you can get one for $3 and a BJ on Craigslist!?"
- Nice screen
- Superb build quality as usual
- OSX (I like it very much)
- It pisses the fanboys off
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Not a good idea. The retina display means nothing but trouble with regards to Windows. Windows doesnt do well with really high resolutions. Don't expect any gaming at all either. The 650m isn't a terrible card, but if you put it under much stress, expect a lot of overheating. That chassis is just way to small to deliever adequate cooling.
Tldr: If you want windows, buy a native windows machine this time around.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=teuDDV_KSs4
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQx43mJJwBI
I expect 8 to be even better.
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Come back when it gets a "right click" mouse button
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Ugh.. What rock are you living under?
AnyMal said:
Ugh.. What rock are you living under?
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bedrock
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best app to take notes in math class?

What is the best app to take notes in class with? I'm looking for something that I can draw notes with, as well as type with... mainly something I can use during my math classes so I'd have to be able to draw out things like (dx/dy)(X^e^3 + (5/3)X^2) into something easy to look at. And I'd also like to be able to save it into a printable format. Any recommendations?
Try the SNote app available in this forum.It has a formula button which recognizes math formula .... though i dont think it can be put into a printable format...
I don't really care if it recognizes what I'm writing, as long as a can draw something in the same space as I'd be able to type it into... And I'd have to be able to save my notes as a PDF or some other easily recognizable/ printable format.
Try handrite and handraw from the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsIm15LmhhbmRyaXRlIl0.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmhhbmRyaXRlLnNrZXRjaCJd
LectureNotes is also pretty good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEwOSwiY29tLmFjYWRvaWQubGVjdHVyZW5vdGVzIl0.
Pencil & paper work well
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While that is true, that's not really useful information for Some_Biker or pertaining to his initial question.
There's bunches of handwriting recognizer note apps in the play market. example quill, handrite ,FreeNote, etc.
If it doesn't need to recognize writing I much prefer Evernote for its vast variety of formats it can export and the cloud sync across devices and desktop
Also Evernote can ingest handwritten notes
see this for Handrite, and how the inclusion of a share feature makes it easy to send handwritten notes to Evernote using an Android tablet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhADNUwSqJc
dynospectrum said:
Pencil & paper work well
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LOL yea thanks... but i've got engineering hand writing... which pretty much looks like tiny 6 year old hand writing, while the 6 year old had to go pee realllllly bad. Plus i'm a fan reducing my carbon footprint.
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Pencil & paper work well
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"This application stop work, would you like to kill it?"

Dollar for Calculator app!

The lack of apps and not being able to sideload is irritating right now but I believe when development progresses we will get these things. I refuse to pay a dollar for a calculator app or 2048. I would like to have them on my watch but think they are taking advantage. I just gave samsung 200 dollars, they should provide more free useful apps.
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So you want Samsung to develop free apps for you because you paid $199 for the watch?
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Legacy2385 said:
So you want Samsung to develop free apps for you because you paid $199 for the watch?
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Some... yes. A calculator should be stock. What's with the attitudes on here today? If they are going to compete with android, they are going to want to develop a lot more apps.
P.s. And over the years, I have given them a couple of thousand. I've been very loyal to samsung.
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azpatterson3 said:
Some... yes. A calculator should be stock.
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I agree, man. I love some of the stock apps, for example, the remote app, but a calc app should be default too. I would consider paying for the calc app if it at least had a percentage option.
You can sideload apps, it's just that there are no apps to sideload. I'm sure samsung will provide us with a a calculator just as they provided a sleep app which wasn't available before the weekend
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azpatterson3 said:
Some... yes. A calculator should be stock. What's with the attitudes on here today? If they are going to compete with android, they are going to want to develop a lot more apps. P.s. And over the years, I have given them a couple of thousand. I've been very loyal to samsung. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527
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You can sideload apps, it's just that there are no apps to sideload. I'm sure samsung will provide us with a a calculator just as they provided a sleep app which wasn't available before the weekend Sent from my SM-G900W8 using Tapatalk
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Completely agree with azpatterson3, the calculator is the symbol for the problem! It's not the dollar for the an app. I like many always try to buy the dev's paid apps and I have hundreds of apps stuck on play to prove it! However, for Tizen we have (almost) only that one app (not counting the nascent watch face efforts, and Glympse). Morover, a basic calculator app is the type of app that every single beginning developer publishes for free just to get started! Samsung marketing this in their new Tizen store is . . . .puzzling! The irony is thick!
I do accept polish_pat's point too. There will be a free calculator, more watch faces and more. . . everything. Hopefully many created by outside devs that we can side load. But waiting is really, really frustrating.
Reminds me of when I bought a Motorola Atrix some years back (don't even remember which model right now!) I and many others were waiting and waiting for development on roms --it was painfully slow and limited. I felt like I won the lotto when I switched to samsung and found the rich, and fast development that hit all their galaxy (and note) phones.
However, with our Neo we're back in Matrix territory again. . .waiting for the developers to cross the river and setup shop. It won't be as fast since the population of users is much smaller, probably won't be as rich either. Fortunately, this is only a watch
As for Samsung leading any development surge, well, that would be great. but I suspect they will focus on ensuring the NEo has everything that is out there for other smart watches health bands and that's about it.
Moreover, if the way mucked up the S-Health/ Fitness for Gear approach is any model for how they will go forward, then we truly are going to be stuck in a mediocre app environment. I really hope they get better than that!
Still, I am enjoying what the Neo has now -- the (limited) sleep app, the telephony (great!), text messages and even S voice is pretty good for some searches and messaging for me (so far). Although more than once I have had to nervously say "cancel message" in a panic after looking at what my watch and S voice interpreted my words to be! )
markbc01 said:
I do accept polish_pat's point too. There will be a free calculator, more watch faces and more. . . everything. Hopefully many created by outside devs that we can side load. But waiting is really, really frustrating.
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An OS is nothing without a community behind it. You can have the best, most efficient, smooth and gorgeous OS but its simply sucks if there is no one to code for it (aka windows mobile) This watch is Tizen's first serious market entry, so of course it sucks, for now, but remember that the king of mobile gadgets is behind it and it will eventually be something great. We are the pioneers of Tizen, we are paving the way for the future. Tizen is a good opportunity for any dev to have a fresh, new and especially easy revenue stream. I mean a guy coded a freakin simple calculator app and sold it for 1$. I'm sure that by the end of May, he will make at least a couple grand on something that any dev can code in under 1h. Same goes for any other app. If i were a dev, I'd jump on this opportunity of knowing this is a new emerging market that has a very serious bunch of backers (Open handset alliance) and within a year, there will be at least a couple hundreds of thousands of devices just screaming for 3rd party apps. And although a calculator might not be something that someone would spend a dollar on, there are many, many other simple apps that people would pay for. As an example, porting a T1 wrinting input that would allow us to write something directly on the watch
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I'm developing a simple calculator app I'm going to release for free... I find it crazy people are charging for extremely simple apps! I can see charging $1-5 for an app that actually takes some work to develop, but comon, a watch face for $2?!
Its all about opportunity. I'm not ever going to spend 2$ on a watchface, but suply x - demand xxxxxxxxxxx and as long as it stays like that, there will be more and more basic apps for a premium price
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Its all about opportunity. I'm not ever going to spend 2$ on a watchface, but suply x - demand xxxxxxxxxxx and as long as it stays like that, there will be more and more basic apps for a premium price
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Yeah, makes sense... they have had a lot of people buy them already. So hey if you can succeed at it, I guess touche.
But I submitted my calculator! Hopefully it gets approved... first app I have ever submitted. See if it goes through...
Out of curiosity, whats your coding experience? I might get motivated enough to take a crack at tizen. I know the basic stuff on Eclipse and have a few good ideas i would like to try for the gear. Is it easier or harder than for Android?
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polish_pat said:
Out of curiosity, whats your coding experience? I might get motivated enough to take a crack at tizen. I know the basic stuff on Eclipse and have a few good ideas i would like to try for the gear. Is it easier or harder than for Android?
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I consider myself a .NET developer first and Java a lid becoming a close second although I still have a lot to learn. Tizen widgets use HTML and Javascript for the backend. So if you know HTML5 and J Query I would say it's easier than android. Hard part is limited auto complete and knowing the SDK. For the most part I avoided the sdk.
Thanks for app!
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I also submitted a calculator but I avoided their SDK completely
I don't know how Samsung responds they will probably not be happy
Helga Pataki said:
I also submitted a calculator but I avoided their SDK completely
I don't know how Samsung responds they will probably not be happy
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Nice.. I bet they are processing like 59 calculator apps because people had the same idea! But yeah the sdk is just weird when it's javascript... seems too weird to me.
Why don't you guys post your apps here for us to use
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Why don't you guys post your apps here for us to use
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Yes, all you need to do is zip up the wgt file and post that. We can side load w/ sdb install.
Make it into a fun competition. Best calculator wins. ;-]
BigDanInTX said:
Yes, all you need to do is zip up the wgt file and post that. We can side load w/ sdb install.
Make it into a fun competition. Best calculator wins. ;-]
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I'll see if I can post mine later tonight. Found a small bug with mine where you can stack functions... also going to be implementing advanced functions here soon.
I just zip the wgt file with any normal zip program?
So you don't need the sdk to make app for this watch? I am not a programmer but I read that sdk is closed sources. I know closed source is restricted.
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Legacy2385 said:
So you want Samsung to develop free apps for you because you paid $199 for the watch?
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my sentiments exactly...:laugh:

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