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S Pen hover available actions

Hi, under settings I have the option to setup a pen hover actions and one of the tutorials shows you can hover the spen over an image with the button passed to see some actions such as editing. This does not work for me, similarly hovering the s pen over a digit in the dialer along with the button should show you your speed dial numbers &this also does not am to be working for me either. The commands Window however does show up. Can someone please verify on their phone to see if these options seem to work correctly on their phones! Thanks
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faisalsiddiqui said:
Hi, under settings I have the option to setup a pen hover actions and one of the tutorials shows you can hover the spen over an image with the button passed to see some actions such as editing. This does not work for me, similarly hovering the s pen over a digit in the dialer along with the button should show you your speed dial numbers &this also does not am to be working for me either. The commands Window however does show up. Can someone please verify on their phone to see if these options seem to work correctly on their phones! Thanks
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the image thing works, but it only works on images that are ON THE DEVICE, no backups, no web images etc...
goto your gallery and find a picture that is ON THE DEVICE, this will not work with your backed up photos. as you hover the cursor will start glowing and sending out rings, press the button and you'll see a bunch of options
make sure you have airview on for the spen

tomthedancingbug said:
the image thing works, but it only works on images that are ON THE DEVICE, no backups, no web images etc...
goto your gallery and find a picture that is ON THE DEVICE, this will not work with your backed up photos. as you hover the cursor will start glowing and sending out rings, press the button and you'll see a bunch of options
make sure you have airview on for the spen
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Thanks a lot for your reply, I have tried everything but I can't get it to work in the gallery. It does not even work in the tutorial under options.
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faisalsiddiqui said:
Thanks a lot for your reply, I have tried everything but I can't get it to work in the gallery. It does not even work in the tutorial under options.
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I have the same problem. Any luck?

faisalsiddiqui said:
Hi, under settings I have the option to setup a pen hover actions and one of the tutorials shows you can hover the spen over an image with the button passed to see some actions such as editing. This does not work for me, similarly hovering the s pen over a digit in the dialer along with the button should show you your speed dial numbers &this also does not am to be working for me either. The commands Window however does show up. Can someone please verify on their phone to see if these options seem to work correctly on their phones! Thanks
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk 4
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Do u have air view turned on because without it it doesn't work

I don't see little "T" icon on the S-pen smart select

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.

faaaaq said:
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

chobits said:
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:

alexcarterkarsus said:
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....

Briankbl said:
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

remap s-pen button

Anyone ever heard of a way to remap the button on the S Pen?
I rarely use the Air menu in fact I actually disabled it in options.
I do however use the pen in my hand probably 95% of the time, I love the precision as well as having the ability to hover over something without clicking it like a mouse can.
My only thought is that it would be amazing to be able to press the button and have it register as a tap at the current location instead of having it pop up in the air menu.
I also would love to be able to modify that SVG Circle that Prince the current pin location on screen to something more visible and possibly add a trail or something. I'm guessing this would require rooting. I am a long time desktop developer but this is my first time really delving into Android and I have noticed so many hidden services and apps that I would love to kill but I can't so it looks like I may have to root anyway.

That prints* sorry I tried to edit the typos but the save wouldn't send. I'm assuming my you block extension here is blocking some script. I've pretty much disabled 90% of the functionality on this phone just to help secure it that's another thing I need to look into browser security.

+1 on remapping the pen button

bober10113 said:
+1 on remapping the pen button
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Yeah I think there's a lot of potential for some really helpful and amazing functions. First time I used this and noticed it could track on screen without touch I thought that was something very special. And then when I found that it could register a button press while hovering I immediately thought of thousand applications for this.
Just one off the top of my head. Imagine having an actual useful text to clipboard function where you simply hover the cursor over text you wanted and click the button to highlight and let go of button to stop highlighting. It would make copying text on the phone just like using a mouse. I am so sick of having to long press and stay completely still for the damn thing to register. We shouldn't have to do that with this s pen.

I have tried before on rooted note 3 to remap the s pen button but the phone didn't recognize the command... always pop up s pen menu. I think surely you need root before trying or try adb push.
Regards

Conito, I would love to hear more in-depth description of your attempt to remap it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.spencontrol
this might be an option if you have rooted your phone.
it doesn't outright remap your button, but does let you execute commands by drawing lines or symbols while holding the button.
I haven't tested it since the note 2 though because I no longer root devices.

I have even wrote to Samsung asking for this. I want to be able to remap it for the eye dropper to when I'm drawing. It's set as the eraser from Samsung so hopefully someone will one day find a way to at least change the default tool (eraser) That might be easier than a whole other app or something.

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Conito, I would love to hear more in-depth description of your attempt to remap it.
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Sorry mate you have to quote, I didn't see your post until now.
I just try to remap with applications like xposed additions and stuff like that. But the app didn't recognize when I pressed the button. So the only thing we can do is get into the app that manage the spen command and edit it with tools or things like that. I remember that some guy in the note 3 forum develop a simple app that can launch that application. So maybe that could be the solution: edit the behavior of the original spencommand app.
My best regards.

Multiple S pen

Hi
Do you know if we can use multiple S pen at the same time ? For example, I want to let a S pen on my desktop and use it at home to avoid to take out the S pen inside the Note 8.
Thanks

I tried somewhat like you describe with my note 7, but the spen was not be detected when another one was stored inside the phone

Not clear what OP wants to do, after reading it 5 times...
You can use various S pens, but digitizer only accepts one at the time.
I can use my Note 4 S pen while Note 8 S pen is stored in phone, as long as I have "power saver" in S pen settings off.
I use various S pens (Wacom pen, Noble/Steadler pen, S pens) with all Galaxy Notes (2, 4, 8, 10.1) and my Notebook 9 Pro, no problem.

I believe that winol understood what I wanted to say : actually, I want to have 2 S pen, one that I carry in my phone everywhere (in the slot of the galaxy note) and an other that I left at home for example. The goal is to avoid to take out the S pen at home every time I want to use it (because I have a second S pen in my exemple) .
From winol answer, it seems that we can't have the Note 8 to recognize a second S pen when one is in his slot.
Is it clearer ? (sorry english is not my native language)

needhelp11 said:
I believe that winol understood what I wanted to say : actually, I want to have 2 S pen, one that I carry in my phone everywhere (in the slot of the galaxy note) and an other that I left at home for example. The goal is to avoid to take out the S pen at home every time I want to use it (because I have a second S pen in my exemple) .
From winol answer, it seems that we can't have the Note 8 to recognize a second S pen when one is in his slot.
Is it clearer ? (sorry english is not my native language)
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Yes like OnnoJ mentioned you should be able to do that if you turn off the power saver option in s-pen settings. I haven't tried it though, because I only have 1 s-pen

Oh it works, nice ! just the tip of my Note 3 isnt as smooth as the one in the note 8 but I can fix this

Good to know i worked! With the note 7 it did not, I really did not want to implement using two, but I bought another spen, and when I tried it, it did not work, as the original one was still attached

sefrcoko said:
Yes like OnnoJ mentioned you should be able to do that if you turn off the power saver option in s-pen settings. I haven't tried it though, because I only have 1 s-pen
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Yeah, this. Notes have always been like this, turn off Power Saver if you want to use additional S-Pens while one is stored in the device.

the same with Note 9

1) Is there ANY way to trigger Samsung's AirCommand without pulling the S Pen out ? An app, an activity, a shortcut, a Tasker plugin, an xposed/magisk module, anything ?
2) Likewise, is it possible to enable or disable "power saver" for S Pen without going to the (unnecessarily confusing) Settings ?

zadox said:
1) Is there ANY way to trigger Samsung's AirCommand without pulling the S Pen out ? An app, an activity, a shortcut, a Tasker plugin, an xposed/magisk module, anything ?
2) Likewise, is it possible to enable or disable "power saver" for S Pen without going to the (unnecessarily confusing) Settings ?
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See screenshot for settings for floating icon and power saving options under advance -> SPen settings, SPen does not require to be removed, pressing the button will bring up the air command icon after which it will stick around till a reboot (your out if luck if pen does not have button)

zadox said:
1) Is there ANY way to trigger Samsung's AirCommand without pulling the S Pen out ? An app, an activity, a shortcut, a Tasker plugin, an xposed/magisk module, anything ?
2) Likewise, is it possible to enable or disable "power saver" for S Pen without going to the (unnecessarily confusing) Settings ?
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As far as I know, the last time I checked this (which was a quite a while ago), the air command icon doesn't work or react to anything other than the S Pen. For instance, even if it's on screen, you can't press on it with your finger and interact with it like that. I'll recheck that again now.
As far as apps existing to trigger the air command and the setting; there used to be an app for the Note 3 to trigger air command. I don't know if apps like that still exist or even work.
For the setting, you can create a shortcut, if you have Nova Launcher, or use Activity Launcher app to create a shortcut to go directly to the S Pen settings. It's not as ideal as just a trigger, but it saves a little on effort. I don't think there is an app that allows you to change that setting via a widget or something like that.
EDIT: Confirmed. The Air Command icon only works and reacts to the S Pen. So, even if you had an app to open Air Command without undocking the pen, it wouldn't work anyway. So, might as well just take out the pen and use it via the pen, like it was intended.

Max_Terrible said:
As far as I know, the last time I checked this (which was a quite a while ago), the air command icon doesn't work or react to anything other than the S Pen. For instance, even if it's on screen, you can't press on it with your finger and interact with it like that. I'll recheck that again now.
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EDIT: Confirmed. The Air Command icon only works and reacts to the S Pen. So, even if you had an app to open Air Command without undocking the pen, it wouldn't work anyway. So, might as well just take out the pen and use it via the pen, like it was intended.
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I was presuming that they were using a compatible pen device as the post mentions multiple S Pen, the only issue is not all compatible pen devices has a button.

SteelPicori said:
I was presuming that they were using a compatible pen device as the post mentions multiple S Pen, the only issue is not all compatible pen devices has a button.
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Yeah, this makes sense. I'm a very literal person. If you say "S Pen", I'm going to assume you're talking about an S Pen and not a similar device, like an Apple Pencil.

New user to this phone.. have I changed something?

Not long got this phone starting to get things done........ my way
Removed Bloated Apps
Settings changed for better battery usage
Now I am getting a blue line when scrolling/swiping up and down on certain pages under my finger touch
Did I enable something?
Checked Smart Assistance - Draw options
Sometimes my screen dims, automatic brightness has been diasbled, I think
Tried setting "increase readability under sunlight" under developer options to off as well as on
Any help would be appreciated

EwOkie said:
Now I am getting a blue line when scrolling/swiping up and down on certain pages under my finger touch
Did I enable something?
Checked Smart Assistance - Draw options
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You mean like in the screen I attached?
This is the knuckle gesture feature. There are gestures for taking screenshots, split view and others for use with your finger knuckles.
If you have it while you're scrolling your fingers are so hard that the screen thinks it's a knuckle. Maybe you have long finger nails or scarf-skin?
You can disable this under ‘Settings’ > ‘Smart assistance’ > ‘Motion control’.

Jannomag said:
You mean like in the screen I attached?
This is the knuckle gesture feature. There are gestures for taking screenshots, split view and others for use with your finger knuckles.
If you have it while you're scrolling your fingers are so hard that the screen thinks it's a knuckle. Maybe you have long finger nails or scarf-skin?
You can disable this under ‘Settings’ > ‘Smart assistance’ > ‘Motion control’.
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Thanks for replying
No its only when swiping/scrolling up and down pages or menus I get this

++ SOLVED

EwOkie said:
++ SOLVED
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Would you please share how you solved it.
Many thanks.