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[Q] Phone sweet phone.

Well, I finally made the switch from iOS to Android. But there are a few things I miss about it, albeit little things.
I have no idea what's good and what's bad in the Play Store, what to avoid etc.
I'm used to having notifications on the lockscreen. Yes, I've realised I can pull down the notification bar when on the lockscreen, but AFAIK that's only if you don't have a password/pattern/face-recog.
I've also tried the 'Productivity', that doesn't show Skype messages, Tweets, WhatsApp messages and stuff like that.
I also have a 4-digit pin for my lockscreen, I'm used to typing in the PIN then it'll automatically unlock.
But on Android (or on Sense, anyway) I have to type it in, then press enter.
Like I said, they're little things. But things I miss nonetheless.
So! Is there anything I can do/change or anything I can install to 'fix' these things?

M_Woody said:
Well, I finally made the switch from iOS to Android. But there are a few things I miss about it, albeit little things.
I have no idea what's good and what's bad in the Play Store, what to avoid etc.
I'm used to having notifications on the lockscreen. Yes, I've realised I can pull down the notification bar when on the lockscreen, but AFAIK that's only if you don't have a password/pattern/face-recog.
I've also tried the 'Productivity', that doesn't show Skype messages, Tweets, WhatsApp messages and stuff like that.
I also have a 4-digit pin for my lockscreen, I'm used to typing in the PIN then it'll automatically unlock.
But on Android (or on Sense, anyway) I have to type it in, then press enter.
Like I said, they're little things. But things I miss nonetheless.
So! Is there anything I can do/change or anything I can install to 'fix' these things?
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I understand that you're missing the things you've been used to for a long time but at the end of the day this phone isn't an iphone and it's not pretending to be either.
For me if i want to know who's contacted me i unlock my phone and check, it's that simple. In all fairness, if a lockscreen can give away information then it's a lockscreen that's not doing it's job, i want my info to be private until i want to use my phone, otherwise anyone could just open it and take a look.
I'm sure that you'll find that after a while you'll see why people use android over ios and if you ever make the switch back to ios you will miss android so much it'll just make the iphone look stupid.
As a rule of thumb i always go for paid versions of apps and avoid any with aggressive ads, so anything that installs something else with it has to go, If anything has notifying ads then again it has to go.
Generally speaking that's about it with the apps, just go nuts.
There are tonnes of "Best app" threads on XDA and majority of them are in the top 100 apps on the play store anyway.
Afaik there isn't a way to have iphone style scrolling of your notifications.
You do get missed calls and texts on your lockscreen though (the productivity switch is probably the place to go to turn most of these on)

It can be done goto your messages go to settings it will be in there something like display message on screen same for WhatsApp and so on

Exact same problem over here. Coming from iOS and being used to get everything I need to know right there on the lockscreen.
There are some apps on the Playstore that you can use as a workaround though.
First, don't hesitate to use Notifypro, it will send you a little notification like you could get on iPhone. Notification will appear everywhere, in a game, a video, etc etc. Easily configurable and useful. Plus it's free !
Next, I tried it but didn't like it that much, it's Notification LockScreen Widget. I'm not really fond of it, there must anoter app doing it better...but I can't try anothere one since my phone has been shipped for warranty.

There are 2 settings on the security section in settings, one to show message notification preview and one to show phone notification on the lock screen. Try those...

dladz said:
[snip] ...and if you ever make the switch back to ios you will miss android so much it'll just make the iphone look stupid. [snip]
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I've just realised how true this is now.
I've had to resort back to my iP4 while my One gets replaced, it's only been gone a few hours and I'm missing it already!

Same thing here. Was an ios user since iPhone 2g (the most beautiful one imho). This is my first Android phone after getting a nexus 7 last summer.
For me there's just some handiness in some of the functionality built into ios. What I "missed" was the batt status in percentages, volume control from headset and also the notifications.
Found these three apps:
Notification toggle
Can put a batt percentage in the statusbar. And also some very handy quicklaunch buttons in the notification tray like android 4.2.2. and touch wizz.
Jays headset control
The name says it all and it gets the job done.
LockerPro
It's a locks screen replacement which also shows notifications like ios.
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KH_ said:
Same thing here. Was an ios user since iPhone 2g (the most beautiful one imho). This is my first Android phone after getting a nexus 7 last summer.
For me there's just some handiness in some of the functionality built into ios. What I "missed" was the batt status in percentages, volume control from headset and also the notifications.
Found these three apps:
Notification toggle
Can put a batt percentage in the statusbar. And also some very handy quicklaunch buttons in the notification tray like android 4.2.2. and touch wizz.
Jays headset control
The name says it all and it gets the job done.
LockerPro
It's a locks screen replacement which also shows notifications like ios.
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Thanks for this info. I'm coming from a jailbroken iPhone 5 and I want the quick settings toggles on the lockscreen.

KH_ said:
Same thing here. Was an ios user since iPhone 2g (the most beautiful one imho). This is my first Android phone after getting a nexus 7 last summer.
For me there's just some handiness in some of the functionality built into ios. What I "missed" was the batt status in percentages, volume control from headset and also the notifications.
Found these three apps:
Notification toggle
Can put a batt percentage in the statusbar. And also some very handy quicklaunch buttons in the notification tray like android 4.2.2. and touch wizz.
Jays headset control
The name says it all and it gets the job done.
LockerPro
It's a locks screen replacement which also shows notifications like ios.
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Not bad for a first post
Thanks for the apps, and welcome to the forum!

Thanks, and np. That's why we're here right? To find and share!
Cheers!
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cheers KH_; can I ask, is it stable for you? lots of reviewers saying it crashes quite often?

Apologies for the late reply mate.
Locker pro works really well! It's great being able to see ur notifications and actually read the content from the lockscreen! The app has a shortcut and widget panel accessible from the lockscreen too.
Jays headset control didn't work at all on my device so deleted it. I got the HTC metal three button headset. Good price, sound at least as good as headset supplied with the phone, skip tracks and volume control!
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New features

Just got the note 8 yesterday and been messing around with it. I'm coming from the Note4 with Note7 software. I think I have a pretty decent setup. I'm taking advantage of the always on screen. I use it like a lock screen. So I disabled the lock screen. I long-press the home screen to unlock the phone its pretty awesome. Or double tap the notifications to go directly to them, without swiping again.
I wanted to create this discussion so ppl can share their shortcuts and little efficiencies so everybody can enjoy them.
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Update: So I lied I assumed there would be notifications on the AOD screen with the lockscreen off but unfortunately there are no more notifications on AOD without the lock screen that's silly
Update, Update: there is a setting in the display>navigation bar settings that bypasses the lock screen on a long press!!!

Double tap recents for switch to last app
press on power button twice when phone is completely off for a camera shortcut
bxActions from the google play store to remap bixby

leyvatron said:
Double tap recents for switch to last app
press on power button twice when phone is completely off for a camera shortcut
bxActions from the google play store to remap bixby
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dat double tap doeee
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jcip17 said:
Just got the note 8 yesterday and been messing around with it. I'm coming from the Note4 with Note7 software. I think I have a pretty decent setup. I'm taking advantage of the always on screen. I use it like a lock screen. So I disabled the lock screen. I long-press the home screen to unlock the phone its pretty awesome. Or double tap the notifications to go directly to them, without swiping again.
I wanted to create this discussion so ppl can share their shortcuts and little efficiencies so everybody can enjoy them.
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How do you like the phone?

alhadee12 said:
How do you like the phone?
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I like it a lot but in my opinion the curve screen does not improve anything and is unnecessary, it just looks good. Typing on it takes getting used to. The q & p keys are on the edge and it's a little weird to press them and long press them.
The phone was super hard to handle with one hand without the Samsung military grade rugged case. It's a long phone. With the case it's thicker and more manageable. Having the case on it also makes it harder to touch the edge of the screen by accident when using one hand.
Really not a fan of the curve screen as you can see lol. But other than that the phone is perfect.
I wish they had an option to disable the edges or something.
You planning on getting it?
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jcip17 said:
I like it a lot but in my opinion the curve screen does not improve anything and is unnecessary, it just looks good. Typing on it takes getting used to. The q & p keys are on the edge and it's a little weird to press them and long press them.
The phone was super hard to handle with one hand without the Samsung military grade rugged case. It's a long phone. With the case it's thicker and more manageable. Having the case on it also makes it harder to touch the edge of the screen by accident when using one hand.
Really not a fan of the curve screen as you can see lol. But other than that the phone is perfect.
I wish they had an option to disable the edges or something.
You planning on getting it?
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I ordered one because I had the Note 7 and they offered the discount. It’s supposed to be delivered 9/12 and I was using the S8 Plus at one point. The Note 7 was the first time I used the pen extensively, so I wanted to try it again.

leyvatron said:
Double tap recents for switch to last app
press on power button twice when phone is completely off for a camera shortcut
bxActions from the google play store to remap bixby
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Long press recents for split screen multi task.
Press on power button even when the screen is on for a camera short cut.

CtrlZThis said:
Long press recents for split screen multi task.
Press on power button even when the screen is on for a camera short cut.
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Click on recent button, long press the app of choice, and drag it in the pop-up window square to make the app a pop up window quickly. Or you can enable the multi-window setting to diagonal swipe from the top right of the screen to make the app a pop up window.
In the sound settings you can choose apps to default to a specific output channel. I find this useful for using Google maps while playing music. I have maps defaulting to phones speakers. I think it is working lol but it still lowers the music volume when maps is talking. It doesn't seem to blast the annoying gps voice over my music that I was playing loud.[emoji108]
alhadee12 said:
I ordered one because I had the Note 7 and they offered the discount. It’s supposed to be delivered 9/12 and I was using the S8 Plus at one point. The Note 7 was the first time I used the pen extensively, so I wanted to try it again.
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Sweet ! Have fun ! It's such a dope phone. I think the new UI hit the sweet spot. I'm not sure what the S8 is like but I assume it is very similar. The navigation bar looks sick. The toggles have no text [emoji7]. Ahhh it's the little things in life lol
Also I'm looking into trying this very soon to make the nav bar always black
www.xda-developers.com/change-galaxy-s8-navigation-bar-color/amp/
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jcip17 said:
Click on recent button, long press the app of choice, and drag it in the pop-up window square to make the app a pop up window quickly. Or you can enable the multi-window setting to diagonal swipe from the top right of the screen to make the app a pop up window.
In the sound settings you can choose apps to default to a specific output channel. I find this useful for using Google maps while playing music. I have maps defaulting to phones speakers. I think it is working lol but it still lowers the music volume when maps is talking. It doesn't seem to blast the annoying gps voice over my music that I was playing loud.[emoji108]
Sweet ! Have fun ! It's such a dope phone. I think the new UI hit the sweet spot. I'm not sure what the S8 is like but I assume it is very similar. The navigation bar looks sick. The toggle have no text [emoji7]. Ahhh it's the little things in life lol
Also I'm looking into trying this very soon to make the nav bar always black
www.xda-developers.com/change-galaxy-s8-navigation-bar-color/amp/
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I’ll find out how similar they are this week. I’m always looking for was to make my job easier

So far loving the note 8. But one thing I hate and don't see how to change. When i start and app that is inside a folder when that app ends it goes back to that folder. Would rather the folder closes and i go back to hone. Any thoughts
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Press recents > click on the three dots on top > lock apps > select and lock apps that you don't want to close when you close all.

double tap the screen with the spen while holding the spen button opens a quick notepad
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jcip17 said:
double tap the screen with the spen while holding the spen button opens a quick notepad
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That's a feature that was available via the much more feature-rich Action Memo that was included with S Note on pre-N7 models. So while it's a new feature from the perspective that it's a new app, it's a crappy app in comparison.

Dodge DeBoulet said:
That's a feature that was available via the much more feature-rich Action Memo that was included with S Note on pre-N7 models. So while it's a new feature from the perspective that it's a new app, it's a crappy app in comparison.
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yeah I know I'm just putting it out there
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I didn't have the Note 7, only the S8+, but I do not recall if this feature (below) was on the S8+ or a previous device.
While in the app drawer, and I scrolled up to the top of the list, I then swipe within the drawer downward (but not from the top) and a popup comes up showing me a list of apps that were are frequently used, recently used and those that were new/updated. Pretty cool.

I had a note 7 last year and I am coming from a s7 edge so I'm sure I have some new things to learn as well

Hey I have a question for the Note 8 owners here. I read earlier last week that you could touch and swipe left/right the home button when its hidden to go back / activate recent, and then regular force touch to go home. Is this a legit gesture, or is there an app that can enable such a thing?
I would absolutely love if I could ditch the nav bar entirely and get DAT space.
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jcip17 said:
double tap the screen with the spen while holding the spen button opens a quick notepad
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This is an amazingly small yet useful feature, thanks! I use Notes very frequently, and this will absolutely be invaluable!

imatts said:
Hey I have a question for the Note 8 owners here. I read earlier last week that you could touch and swipe left/right the home button when its hidden to go back / activate recent, and then regular force touch to go home. Is this a legit gesture, or is there an app that can enable such a thing?
I would absolutely love if I could ditch the nav bar entirely and get DAT space.
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This is an amazingly small yet useful feature, thanks! I use Notes very frequently, and this will absolutely be invaluable!
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Np happy to help!
Also!!
"Nav bar Apps" in the play store let's you apply a static color to your nav bar in every app! There is a flash of white when it launches an app where it is supposed to be white but I dont mind that. It looks like the app can do other things but I just wanted to make it black at all times! Exactly what I wanted.
If you go into the settings you can change the color change animation to fade. That is the smoothest animation with barely any white flash.
Alsoo
My OP setup is obsolete!!! There is a setting in in the display>navigation bar settings. See picture
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Substratum with the paid samsung addon works with the paid swift dark and black themes. Got Maps, YouTube, gmail, Instagram, Google Play, Chrome themed successfully. Not sure what else it can do I gotta play. I also was able to use "status bar icons for samsung" free app from the playstore to change the nav bar icons but I'm in love with the stock nav bar black all the time. I reverted.
Not rooted
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http://www.xda-developers.com/change...bar-color/amp/
This works. Followed the directions. I changed my nav bar to all black on all apps with adb. Make sure you uncheck "apply current theme" in the nav bar settings within the display settings.

One Hand Operation+. A gem!

This app comes with Samsung's Good Lock. I see very few people talking about it and actually knowing that it does even exist.
Give it a go! It allows you to bascially navigate your phone fully without any navigation bar. The main reason to use it over other similar apps is that this one obviously does not use any accessibility services. Besides, it is FREE.
You have 6 customisable swipe actions.
The swipe area itself can also be heavily customised to your taste.
Try it.

The swipe actions available.

I prefer this gestures app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivianuu.oneplusgestures
It works great.

nds850 said:
I prefer this gestures app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivianuu.oneplusgestures
It works great.
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I have tried basically all the similar apps on the Play Store, this one works the best after a week of testing: very responsive, never fails to trigger and works like a charm with the curved glass while feeling very natural.
Granted if you are not keen on side gestures, then this will not work for you.
The big draw is that, as mentioned, it does not require any accessibility service.

I agree that performance is better. I'm going to use OH+ for a while now. I really like the Good Lock apps.

nds850 said:
I agree that performance is better. I'm going to use OH+ for a while now. I really like the Good Lock apps.
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Same here! These are the tiny details that make you choose one ecosytem over another.
I would argue OH+'s implementation of gestures suits tall phones with very little bottom chin better. Its more ergonomic.

Praks93 said:
Same here! These are the tiny details that make you choose one ecosytem over another.
I would argue OH+'s implementation of gestures suits tall phones with very little bottom chin better. Its more ergonomic.
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I agree it's implementation is a lot better. It feels more natural to swipe from the side of the screen, especially on a tall screen. So much easier then trying to reposition your thumb to the bottom of the screen

Frozenrosen said:
I agree it's implementation is a lot better. It feels more natural to swipe from the side of the screen, especially on a tall screen. So much easier then trying to reposition your thumb to the bottom of the screen
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Good Lock, especially One Hand Operation +, will get a lot of use if it comes bundled with Samsung phones.
OnePlus already has its own solution. Samsung needs to bundle these and integrate it in Samsung Experience.

Praks93 said:
Good Lock, especially One Hand Operation +, will get a lot of use if it comes bundled with Samsung phones.
OnePlus already has its own solution. Samsung needs to bundle these and integrate it in Samsung Experience.
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Definitely agree with you on that! I bet most people aren't even aware of it! I wish they would have a function to get rid of the navigation bar, then it would be perfect!

i cant add a shortcut for this on home screen
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ozouzi said:
i cant add a shortcut for this on home screen
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Install Badlock v2. It will act like a hub for the app. This is how i am running all the Good Lock apps.

ozouzi said:
i cant add a shortcut for this on home screen
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Install Badlock v2. It will act like a hub for all the Good Lock apps. This how i am running them.

Love this, I agree now if we can get rid of the nav bar it would be perfect.

Praks93 said:
Install Badlock v2. It will act like a hub for all the Good Lock apps. This how i am running them.
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can you share the download link
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ozouzi said:
can you share the download link
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/themes/app-t3805969

Thanks for posting this. I'm now able to run full immersive mood when in secure folder.

I already get badlock v2 but i can't get swipe function View attachment 4550389
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ozouzi said:
I already get badlock v2 but i can't get swipe function
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Put the transparency to 0 so that you can see the swipe area. Once you are happy with where you want to position it and the size etc, you adjust the transparency.
Note that you have to swipe from the very edge, just like you do for the Edge Panels.
Hope it works for you.

Frozenrosen said:
Definitely agree with you on that! I bet most people aren't even aware of it! I wish they would have a function to get rid of the navigation bar, then it would be perfect!
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Steve One said:
Love this, I agree now if we can get rid of the nav bar it would be perfect.
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You can install Navigation Gestures from xda-devlopers. It has a feature to hide the navigation bar in a way that no other app does. Then just don't enable the gesture functions for the app, then in theory your navigation bar should be completely gone and you can just use One Hand Operation+ without any of the other gestures or the navigation bar.

Max_Terrible said:
You can install Navigation Gestures from xda-devlopers. It has a feature to hide the navigation bar in a way that no other app does. Then just don't enable the gesture functions for the app, then in theory your navigation bar should be completely gone and you can just use One Hand Operation+ without any of the other gestures or the navigation bar.
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A combo of Onehand Operation+ and Navigation Gestures. Good idea!
Update: It appears you have to enable Accessibility Services even just to hide the Navigation bar using the xda app.
Defeats the purpose, the only reason i recommended the samsung app is because it does not need any Accessibility Services and hence there is no hit to performance at all.

Note 9 One UI issues

Okay guys.
Just got the official Pie update and it seems that a couple of features are missing.
First, long press "recent button" to split screen in two. (When using full screen gestures), like, there is no way to get another app while listening to YT with screen gestures.
Also, "swipe fast to right" to switch to the last recent app is not working when "Gesture Hints" are hidden
Also, I cannot make apps go into the "Window mode", like swiping from the top will not minimize apps, it will just throw notification bar.
Am I perhaps missing something here?

All that you've mentioned are missing and very annoying.
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psychofedex said:
Okay guys.
Just got the official Pie update and it seems that a couple of features are missing.
First, long press "recent button" to split screen in two. (When using full screen gestures), like, there is no way to get another app while listening to YT with screen gestures.
Also, "swipe fast to right" to switch to the last recent app is not working when "Gesture Hints" are hidden
Also, I cannot make apps go into the "Window mode", like swiping from the top will not minimize apps, it will just throw notification bar.
Am I perhaps missing something here?
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Take a look at screenshots below.
Is this what you are looking for.?

willcor said:
Take a look at screenshots below.
Is this what you are looking for.?
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No, I found these, I just don't feel like swiping and tapping 5 times to get split screen instead of one single long tap.
I thought that split screen or at least previous app would be long swipe to the top, like with home button when you can activate Google assistant.
I just hope that they will bring that option in the near future.
I really miss fast switching to the previous app.

psychofedex said:
Okay guys.
Just got the official Pie update and it seems that a couple of features are missing.
First, long press "recent button" to split screen in two. (When using full screen gestures), like, there is no way to get another app while listening to YT with screen gestures.
Also, "swipe fast to right" to switch to the last recent app is not working when "Gesture Hints" are hidden
Also, I cannot make apps go into the "Window mode", like swiping from the top will not minimize apps, it will just throw notification bar.
Am I perhaps missing something here?
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Sadly, samsung implemented a multiwindow close to how google do it and killed their great android versions multitasking ability. It's really not only annoying, but strange why they removed something that they were praised for in android 7 and 8 and before. At this point I better get an iphone as the multitasking is the same (irony).
To show you how rushed (and this sound even funnier given how much time they had) the android 9 is, I will just tell you that you can swipe home-hold and it will run google assistant (like the older home button hold). It's like common sense that they could had done that to recents too - swipe up and hold for instant split screen, but nope, they didn't. Never mis triggered the assistant when going home, so this is not the reason.
Also they removed the menu between two split screen apps, so if you want to switch their places (for example youtube and viber so you can watch the video that is on the bottom while typing) - touch luck b*tch, now you need to close both and open again in the right order rofl (also there was popout there in the same menu). They removed so many key functionalities on a phone promoted BY THEM for multitasking and staying on oreo is not an option for obvious many reasons.
Edit: also the exynos note 9 drop frames in the UI like it did @ oreo if not worse (after it's settled down)... so you got also that.

Issue that i have is in settings, security if i deactivate the Find my Device option, when i restart my phone the option has been reactivated. Also sometimes the full screen gestures so working.
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psychofedex said:
Okay guys.
Just got the official Pie update and it seems that a couple of features are missing.
First, long press "recent button" to split screen in two. (When using full screen gestures), like, there is no way to get another app while listening to YT with screen gestures.
Also, "swipe fast to right" to switch to the last recent app is not working when "Gesture Hints" are hidden
Also, I cannot make apps go into the "Window mode", like swiping from the top will not minimize apps, it will just throw notification bar.
Am I perhaps missing something here?
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Which Note 9 do you have? I believe it's not the US Ver.?

psychofedex said:
No, I found these, I just don't feel like swiping and tapping 5 times to get split screen instead of one single long tap.
I thought that split screen or at least previous app would be long swipe to the top, like with home button when you can activate Google assistant.
I just hope that they will bring that option in the near future.
I really miss fast switching to the previous app.
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I took advice from another XDA user*: I installed an app called Edge Gestures https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.edgegestures which is helpful in restoring a fast switch back / split screen method.
* : https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...9-pie-beta-t3870521/post78640612#post78640612

Yeah sorry Samsung but your one ui is garbage, looks horrible and I can't stand looking at this navigation bar everywhere, no auto hide option at all now? I switch to the gestures option instead but swipe up for recents doesn't work at all. Also no update to their own good lock app and without that my phone looks even more like trash lol The notification panel is horrible, just a big white block with some blue buttons, my good lock one was so nice, also back to the boring old task switcher I was looking forward to this update so much, but it looks like arse...

SteveReno said:
Which Note 9 do you have? I believe it's not the US Ver.?
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It's not.
It's international n960f Exynos version, but anyway there should not be any difference in the software itself.

Mwyann said:
I took advice from another XDA user*: I installed an app called Edge Gestures https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.edgegestures which is helpful in restoring a fast switch back / split screen method.
* : https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...9-pie-beta-t3870521/post78640612#post78640612
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There is also a workaround with this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.fluid
It's even more prettier, but to be honest, I'm tired of using ADB, rooting and so on.
I had note 2 and note 4, rocking custom roms since beginning, but now I just want everything to be original, and logical.
I have no clue what the f were they doing while in beta, I mean, come on, no fast switching to the previous app if screen gestures are hidden.
*Amazing*

psychofedex said:
There is also a workaround with this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fb.fluid
It's even more prettier, but to be honest, I'm tired of using ADB, rooting and so on.
I had note 2 and note 4, rocking custom roms since beginning, but now I just want everything to be original, and logical.
I have no clue what the f were they doing while in beta, I mean, come on, no fast switching to the previous app if screen gestures are hidden.
*Amazing*
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Feature and productivity wise it's really a big downgrade. Also those notifications that take the whole screen... seriously. No thought put at all. All is done considering galaxy s10, I am sure of that... and especially nothing was done considering the note 9, even the rounded corners are matched for the s9 rofl.

Only things that a peeving me on Pie is the fact that I have never in my life used Duo or installed it but in my settings/accounts it shows Duo, I remove it but after rebooting phone its back??? that and the inability to deactivate Find my Device, I deactivate it, but after rebooting phone its reactivated again... any ideas (maybe with ADB to sort these 2 issues out?)

Jostian said:
Only things that a peeving me on Pie is the fact that I have never in my life used Duo or installed it but in my settings/accounts it shows Duo, I remove it but after rebooting phone its back??? that and the inability to deactivate Find my Device, I deactivate it, but after rebooting phone its reactivated again... any ideas (maybe with ADB to sort these 2 issues out?)
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Lol. Yep , noticed that on pie beta that I'm currently running .
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Limeybastard said:
Lol. Yep , noticed that on pie beta that I'm currently running .
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Good to hear it's not just me...
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Jostian said:
Good to hear it's not just me...
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Definitely not just you.
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I've flashed back to oreo. Hate pie.

clax6 said:
I've flashed back to oreo. Hate pie.
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...and how long are you planning on staying on Oreo? Was considering the same but a kind user on here advised against it? Particularly security threats...

screen flickering when calling
Hello guys!
I have updated to one ui on my international galaxy note 9
I have an issue, the screen flickers when I make a call, it's very annoying, anyone facing this?

thank you for sharing information <3 :good:

Gesture navigation?

I've been using a OnePlus 6T and Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 regularly and have become very much so used to swiping to go home, back, recents, etc. In fact, picking up my old Pixel 2 XL feels like a step back in terms of usage.
I understand there are apps that can mimic the gestures, but they aren't always 100% and can sometimes cause issues (Fluid N.G. definitely doesn't work 100% of the time and can be clunky feeling). The native gestures found on OnePlus, Xiaomi, Huawei, all feel great since they were made for the device and what not.
Based on every bit of footage I've seen thus far on the Galaxy S10/S10+, there are navigation buttons by default. Does anyone know if Samsung has made any gesture navigation to use instead of the buttons? I never thought I'd get used to using gestures but now I can't go back.
Cheers!

Yep Samsung does. Slightly different then others, but basically swipe up on left side to go back, swipe up middle for home, and swipe up on right side to go to recent apps. That is provided you have the navigation orientation the way it's supposed to be with back button on left and recents on right. Swipe up and hold middle for Google assistant
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Personally I am not a fan of the Samsung gestures and 3 swipe zones can be complicated if you use different hands at times. It is one of the cons I am considering for getting the S10 as I would have to install fluid if I got one

you can completely hide navigations buttons in android pie - samsung - and use gesture (swipe left, right up down)
i am using them and it was difficult at first and i still get the random misfire but is better as you get 100% screen no button bars
you can find this option in settings

GMD gesture control does this and much more. I use it for years.

tiho5 said:
GMD gesture control does this and much more. I use it for years.
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This also requires root though.

steelersmb said:
This also requires root though.
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That's true, yes.

On the play store there is an app called edge gestures and there's also one made by Francisco named fluid ng. Both are very good.
as for Samsung gestures you can get a good preview on how it works here. https://youtu.be/KptBndWmvqY

ikenvape said:
as for Samsung gestures you can get a good preview on how it works here.
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Are the Samsung gestures always on by default or one can turn them off?

ikenvape said:
On the play store there is an app called edge gestures and there's also one made by Francisco named fluid ng. Both are very good.
as for Samsung gestures you can get a good preview on how it works here. https://youtu.be/KptBndWmvqY
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I second that Fluid NG is a great piece of work. Kudos to the dev.

tiho5 said:
Are the Samsung gestures always on by default or one can turn them off?
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No, it's stock button layout. You can enable the gestures if you so choose.

Talking about gesture, anyone know how to activate/how works the gesture to close an app?
I can see it on a few videos but can't replicate it for some reason? Are we suppose to swipe up a few times?

massacreur75010 said:
Talking about gesture, anyone know how to activate/how works the gesture to close an app?
I can see it on a few videos but can't replicate it for some reason? Are we suppose to swipe up a few times?
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You just swipe from the middle once.

Ace42 said:
You just swipe from the middle once.
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Do you need to activate it?
I'm not talking about the bottom swipe, I'm talking about apparently anywhere on the screen swipe.

i switched from iphone x to s10
and am using the samsung gestures + FluidNG , but limited the Fluid Gestures to only back from left and right parts of the screen the same as i do with the iphone , so now everything is good without the need for ROOT etc..

Try the Good Lock app from Samsung Galaxy Store. The app gathers all the enhancement software from Samsung in it. The one hand operation + uses gesture and is configurable.