People with huge hands may find it ok to use their fingers on the phone page to switch between phone keys and log and favourites. We the normal dudes have to use the second hand to reach the father end. This in my opinion is a major flaw. These should be given at the bottom of the screen. Also, when we have found a contact on the key pad it doesn't give any option to open the contact to view. I am using dialer one in the mean while but samsung should do something here and in contacts.
Anyone has any other idea?
I haven't got large hands and I can easily navigate my way around the screen. How are you holding your phone?
How to hold it
I just hold it the way I have held all the other phones like hero, I phone, diamond but this is the first one with which I'm not absolutely happy. I mean the phone pad software. I hold it with my right hand with the thumb on the screen but have to really shift hand and stretch to reach the to left corner etc. this also requires many more taps to do the job. I'm telling you it nerds improvement.
No help
This means every one else is happy with the control being up on the dialer. I am disappointed but will have to stick with dialer one which is not bad at all. While stock dialer will continue to haunt us with many extra taps required to do the job.
You know this has been nagging at me for a LONG LONG TIME.... Since the days i used to use the Iphone 3gs.... This ALWAYS happens to me once in a while. I tried googling but to no avail, i'm sure there's someone out there who's experienced this.
Ok this isn't fixed to my galaxy note only it has happened on my Galaxy tab the 1st tab 7inch or somethin, has happened on my galaxy s2 and even happened on my iphone 3gs.
Example: You see a big button saying ok on your screen to press OR a letter you wish to key in on your qwerty keypad. You move your finger in to push on it and as your finger comes close within inches of touching your screen THE LETTER OR BUTTON IS PUSHED. Its like OMG IT JUST READ MY MIND HAHAHA. Its even happened to me with the stylus on my note, but even further i mean i'm not hallucinating but i could see i was like at least 1 finger segment away from the screen with my stylus and it registered a touch.
Anyone can explain this phenomena??? LOL or tell me what this is called
I believe this would be of interest to you, it describes capacitive sensing and its applications.
Also, the stylus is special, it's not capacitive. Start here, or search the forums, there have been lots of posts about the Note's stylus and the technology behind it.
Trying to take screen shots in Draw Something I realized that holding home and pressing power and volume up at the same time immediately puts the phone into Load by keypress mode! Arggh. The buttons being exactly opposite makes this much to easy a thing to do accidentally in my opinion.
Just wondering.
I never screenshots that way...
Using the home button on my Galaxy S, half the time the home button would activate and the screenshot would end up being of something that you didn't want (Home screen or task manager).
I usually use the S Pen.
I've also done the edge of the palm swipe a few times too when I couldn't be bothered getting the pen out.
The SPen is the most reliable method for me though.
Rich
I find the button on the S-Pen really hard to find. I think I will do something to make a raised bump on it.
MagentaJoe said:
I find the button on the S-Pen really hard to find. I think I will do something to make a raised bump on it.
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Then it will get difficult to slide it into its designated place !!!
Hi,
I was just thinking..now all the phones are getting bigger screens. It is getting harder and harder to hold your phone.
Would it be possible to keep one finger.(like your tumb) on the screen without the touchscreen being pressed?
For example when you hold your finger for more then 3 sec. on the screen that the phone doesnt recognize your finger anymore. And this should only work around the borders of the screen.
I think a lot of people with tiny hands would really appreciate this..
Just an idea
While I can understand the draw of having no physical home button (more screen, yay), it has already annoyed me a few times while typing and and trying to hit the space bar and instead hitting the button.
Maybe there is a stronger sensitivity setting that I missed?
Anyone done this a lot yet? I also noticed that the ability to hide the bar stops as soon as you have the keyboard open...
I am beside myself. There are times when I am getting irritated because of complacency and then there are times when I am loving the real estate...
I am having problems swiping up for the navbar and it hits other apps. Or especially if I'm like text messaging and I swipe and my keyboard comes up. I made the nav bar stay on and it helps but I lose the real estate. Hope with root we can disable the navbar and use 3rd party nav bar on the side.
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Maybe there is a stronger sensitivity setting that I missed?
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My phone is still on preorder, so I can't check, but I'm sure I saw somewhere that there is a setting to set the required pressure to activate Home
Yeah, I could have sworn I saw that too, but damned if I can find it now...
Found the link, but no phone yet, so can't test
https://www.phonearena.com/news/How...r-rearrange-buttons-make-it-disappear_id97873
Not in the least, using transparent nav bar layer and I have a gigantic screen. If you want black nav bar always use this. Install like an app and reboot, go to settings>display>nav bar>back ground color>select black>push slider to the right
I prefer a real button
I was annoyed at first, but I do admit I love the taller screen Samsung implemented this time by using the physical/capacitive button area for more screen space, unlike other OEMs content to stick with 16:9 screens and waste that space on soft keys. After all, Samsung lets you hide the nav bar with a quick double-tap.
Having to call up the nav bar for back and recents got old fast, but a Reddit poster clued me in on a neat hidden feature: if you force-press the home button, you can side-swipe for back or recents, no swipe-up for nav bar necessary! It does take some getting used to, though.
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I prefer a real button
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So get rid of the Note 8. The lack of a home button was implemented on the S8 series, it is the new norm.
I am coming from S8+ so no, it doesn't bother me at all. It took all of 5 minutes to get used to it on S8+
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While I can understand the draw of having no physical home button (more screen, yay), it has already annoyed me a few times while typing and and trying to hit the space bar and instead hitting the button.
Maybe there is a stronger sensitivity setting that I missed?
Anyone done this a lot yet? I also noticed that the ability to hide the bar stops as soon as you have the keyboard open...
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no. not at all. this is how it was before. I prefer this way and loving the ability to hide the buttons too. very happy.
Actually it is a pain in the neck, especially when driving and I switched from S8, still don't like it after 6 months. Not a deal breaker, but especially with full screen apps, simple one press turns into frustrating 3,4, sometimes even 5 presses. For that reason most of the time I have full screen disabled, but that beats the whole purpose of having full screen without buttons. That also forces fingerprint reader into back, absolutely huge issue when driving and having the phone mounted. There are workarounds, like having phone unlocked when connected to BT etc, but simplest solutions are the simplest and physical keys were simplest.
Coming from the Note 4, I'm instinctively keep going to press what's not there haha.
Only had it since 11am so can't make a proper judgement yet, it has got better in the last couple of hours though, so don't think it'll be long before it becomes just as natural as hitting the button was.
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Coming from the Note 4, I'm instinctively keep going to press what's not there haha.
Only had it since 11am so can't make a proper judgement yet, it has got better in the last couple of hours though, so don't think it'll be long before it becomes just as natural as hitting the button was.
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but it is there and that's the beauty of the phone. all that gorgeous glass and screen with nothing to take away from it. had no problem when I used older phones and tablets that were the same way. I predict you'll adapt fairly fast. I did.
I have the nav bar auto hide (swipe up to get nav bar), even when hidden you can hard press where the home button usually is to simulate a home button push
I would of NEVER bought the Note 8 if it still had the old, ugly, 2007 iphone home button.
Its 2017, not 2007 peoples.
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Actually it is a pain in the neck, especially when driving and I switched from S8, still don't like it after 6 months. Not a deal breaker, but especially with full screen apps, simple one press turns into frustrating 3,4, sometimes even 5 presses. For that reason most of the time I have full screen disabled, but that beats the whole purpose of having full screen without buttons. That also forces fingerprint reader into back, absolutely huge issue when driving and having the phone mounted. There are workarounds, like having phone unlocked when connected to BT etc, but simplest solutions are the simplest and physical keys were simplest.
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Just hard-press area where home button is. No need to wait for anything to show up.
Coming from a Pixel XL it doesn't bother me at all. Just another Learning curve.
It has a physical home. Press hard in the middle 1 inch from the bottom edge of the phone. Great move on Samsung's part.
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