I'll start: how do you get out of multi-window. I tried the phone at Best Buy and used the dual app launch feature. I couldn't figure out how to shut one off and keep the other open. Or just close both. Any easy tip for that?
Feel free to add your simple, small questions here that probably don't require their own thread!
PsiPhiDan said:
I'll start: how do you get out of multi-window. I tried the phone at Best Buy and used the dual app launch feature. I couldn't figure out how to shut one off and keep the other open. Or just close both. Any easy tip for that?
Feel free to add your simple, small questions here that probably don't require their own thread!
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Ha! I am not the only one then! Pressing, dragging poking anything you think might be the way ... then you either close the wrong one down or both!
But what I learned is this:
Tap the lower or upper part of your screen (in other words bringing the app you want to close down in focus) then tap the blue line in the middle (carefully) and tap the cross.
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PsiPhiDan said:
I'll start: how do you get out of multi-window.
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Its simple, drag the movable middle divider up or down fully to choose which app you want to bring back into full screen, or simply hold the recents button and it will fullscreen the top app.
My question is, is there any way to get rid of that ridiculous blue app indicator glow in multi window? I'm a pretty smart cookie, I can figure out which app im using all on my own.
imatts said:
Its simple, drag the movable middle divider up or down fully to choose which app you want to bring back into full screen, or simply hold the recents button and it will fullscreen the top app.
My question is, is there any way to get rid of that ridiculous blue app indicator glow in multi window? I'm a pretty smart cookie, I can figure out which app im using all on my own.
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Holding down the recents button didn't work for me.
You are stuck with that blue line however.
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Any red / pink issues with the screen like on s8 and s8 plus
strikerdj2011 said:
Any red / pink issues with the screen like on s8 and s8 plus
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I sure hope not. So tired of uneven screen lighting and weird tints. My Note 4 has always had half of the screen more yellow and dim. I got used to it, but I always regretted not returning it for a different one.
apprentice said:
Holding down the recents button didn't work for me.
You are stuck with that blue line however.
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Oh my bad, I was under the impression that the hold to full screen a split app was a built in Android thing, but it must be my ROM.
Also, is it possible that this annoying blue line can be masked with a theme?
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Oh my bad, I was under the impression that the hold to full screen a split app was a built in Android thing, but it must be my ROM.
Also, is it possible that this annoying blue line can be masked with a theme?
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Yeah I kept trying the recents button at the store - that was my default method since I do that on my Pixel on stock Android. It seems Samsung changed the way it behaves.
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Oh my bad, I was under the impression that the hold to full screen a split app was a built in Android thing, but it must be my ROM.
Also, is it possible that this annoying blue line can be masked with a theme?
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I think the solution I offered earlier in this thread is now the default way to close one of the split screen apps. Once you get used to it, it works pretty good.
As for theming, I am guessing not. Maybe there is build prop mod but you are probably looking at having to root it. I have to say I forget the line is there, it doesn't bother me so maybe you will get to ignore it eventually : )
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Go to Multi Window setting and turn on Use Recent Button function
PsiPhiDan said:
Yeah I kept trying the recents button at the store - that was my default method since I do that on my Pixel on stock Android. It seems Samsung changed the way it behaves.
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Hey just letting you know, you can indeed hold the recents button to full screen a split app, you just have to enable it in the multitask section in the settings app
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dadr0p said:
Go to Multi Window setting and turn on Use Recent Button function
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This!
imatts said:
Hey just letting you know, you can indeed hold the recents button to full screen a split app, you just have to enable it in the multitask section in the settings app
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This!
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Fantastic!! Thank you!
Related
Just picked up one of these beauties (truely samsung paid attention to the iPad), aside from the annoying lack of a micosd slot (and touchwiz, really has no dev wanted to make a touchwizless rom? haha)
Can one remove the screen shot button from the launcher? frequently when I type or go to used the "recent list" I accidentally hit it, I must have 20 screen shots in less than 24hrs!
thanks!
Bump. I wish they could have given you the option to disable it.
Still waiting for a dolution to this myself. Tried launcher replacements like adw ex or launcher pro but nothing
Ok if you freeze com.sec.android.screencapture (search for screen in case i spelled it wrong) in TitaniumBackup it disables it, however the icon will remain.
Not perfect but a workable solution until cm9 arrives for us!
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Thanks Ill try this. I don't mind the button but a screen shot out of context can make for an embarrassing moment. Especially when your girlfriend picks up the tablet.
cigmanfroyd said:
Thanks Ill try this. I don't mind the button but a screen shot out of context can make for an embarrassing moment. Especially when your girlfriend picks up the tablet.
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Out of context....sure.....
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there is a setting for it in the screen settings, i think it can change functions there, i forgot what the options are right off hand.
gregh2000 said:
there is a setting for it in the screen settings, i think it can change functions there, i forgot what the options are right off hand.
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That is true because I turned it off on my 8.9 LTE but damn if I can remember how I did it.
Currently Skyrocketing into Android Space!
none that I've seen under "screen", I am on a custom rom, Overcome
You can freeze it with Titanium Backup. The button remains but is inert, so you're not taking random screen shots willy nilly.
I think the Tab Plus has the functionality to disable/remap that button, it's not on my 8.9 LTE or 10.1 WiFi.
Yes I mentioned that fix earlier, strange they have it in the tab +. maybe we can port it over.
There is a setting in the display area. I changed mine to an apps key. So it now does the same as the apps icon in the top right corner.
Took me a while to figure it out but under settings go to screen and configure the Quick Launch settings.
Blackberrynomore said:
Took me a while to figure it out but under settings go to screen and configure the Quick Launch settings.
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I dont have that option :-/
nycbjr said:
I dont have that option :-/
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This setting may be unique to the 8.9 LTE version that I am using.
Blackberrynomore said:
This setting may be unique to the 8.9 LTE version that I am using.
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It was...when I flashed the AT&T firmware, I got the setting option. Win.
Downside, I also got all the AT&T bloatware, and an older version of Market.
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Just picked up one of these beauties (truely samsung paid attention to the iPad), aside from the annoying lack of a micosd slot (and touchwiz, really has no dev wanted to make a touchwizless rom? haha)
Can one remove the screen shot button from the launcher? frequently when I type or go to used the "recent list" I accidentally hit it, I must have 20 screen shots in less than 24hrs!
thanks!
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For Android 4,go to settings, select display, then select quick launch and then select the desired option. You can replace the screen capture button with something else or just remove it.
Just found out a little tip which many of you might already know. If you are missing the menu button, especially for outdated apps like the xda app, you can still access it. The note 4 replaced the menu button with recent apps button, but if you long press the recent apps button you will get to the menu function.
That is all. Have a good day.
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Just found out a little tip which many of you might already know. If you are missing the menu button, especially for outdated apps like the xda app, you can still access it. The note 4 replaced the menu button with recent apps button, but if you long press the recent apps button you will get to the menu function.
That is all. Have a good day.
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Thanks for that. I was using a friends S5 last night and that was driving me mad. My note 4 is at home waiting for me to open the package
If they completely removed it, then yes but holding task switcher for a couple of more seconds then it doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that I have to hold the back button every time to access Multi window bar as app switcher only has opened apps.
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If they completely removed it, then yes but holding task switcher for a couple of more seconds then it doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that I have to hold the back button every time to access Multi window bar as app switcher only has opened apps.
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App switcher has on every app window a icon on top right that does what you need.
Wow thanks a million for this. I thought it was gone forever :highfive:
PhatFishNL said:
Wow thanks a million for this. I thought it was gone forever :highfive:
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X2, I still accidentally hit the recent button all the time from being so used used to it being there...
PhatFishNL said:
Wow thanks a million for this. I thought it was gone forever :highfive:
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You are welcome. It would have been a nightmare had it gone forever. Not all applications have that on screen menu button.
Brilliant, I missed that button... nice to know it's still there
Need a way to reverse the functionality from long and short press
Nope don't miss it. I don't even use the long press.
m3lover1 said:
Nope don't miss it. I don't even use the long press.
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Its not about missing it just because you prefer to press the physical button. There are many apps which don't have the soft menu button. For example, go to Google Now and try to change the settings, but don't long press. Good luck with that.
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Its not about missing it just because you prefer to press the physical button. There are many apps which don't have the soft menu button. For example, go to Google Now and try to change the settings, but don't long press. Good luck with that.
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I just did. Took less than 2 seconds. Then again, 6 of my past 7 phones all had on screen nav buttons, which I prefer
m3lover1 said:
I just did. Took less than 2 seconds. Then again, 6 of my past 7 phones all had on screen nav buttons, which I prefer
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Wait, what? How? There is no soft menu button in Google Now. Am I missing something here?
ozaghloul said:
Wait, what? How? There is no soft menu button in Google Now. Am I missing something here?
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There is. There is no way Google didn't implement soft menu button when they themselves are pushing on screen nav bar and soft menu buttons. Open Google now and it's bottom right corner. Might need to scroll all the way down. That might be the only annoying thing about it but it's there and very easy to access.
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There is. There is no way Google didn't implement soft menu button when they themselves are pushing on screen nav bar and soft menu buttons. Open Google now and it's bottom right corner. Might need to scroll all the way down. That might be the only annoying thing about it but it's there and very easy to access.
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Oh I see, thanks. I assumed it would be on the top right corner. However, there does remain other apps that don't have it at all. For example the XDA app.
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Oh I see, thanks. I assumed it would be on the top right corner. However, there does remain other apps that don't have it at all. For example the XDA app.
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I agree with what your saying. But you've picked 2 really bad examples. You can get to menu without menu button in xda!
I am used to Android tablets which don't have the menu button anyway, so I don't miss it on the phone.
daz_2000 said:
I agree with what your saying. But you've picked 2 really bad examples. You can get to menu without menu button in xda!
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LOL. I looked and looked, still can't find it. *fail*
ozaghloul said:
LOL. I looked and looked, still can't find it. *fail*
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Open up the left panel and whilst its open. The far right button changes to a settings cog.
People should have read the manual by now...
Several release ago Samsung did away with a dedicated menu button. Many of the application developers enhanced their apps to have the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner to allow touch access to the menu button.. In the S6 those apps with out a menu button had a floating circle with the 3 dots. Now with the note 5 I could not find a button combination or the floating circle for apps like moon reader. Previously you would press and hold the multitasking button. NOW you need to press and hold the back button. Why do they need to change this so often and not communicate it? Oh well but there is your answer
Thank you so much... I've been searching for the answer to this question since I got mine on the 18th!!!
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Thanks
Oh man ... thank God you found it ... was missing it in my s6 edge ... got my note5 today and its back bcz of you ...
I have held the back button on my note 5 and nothing comes up.
Ya, I suffered with this one for a while, coming from the Note 3. Then I saw someone on a video use the back button hold.
Take this site for example, subscribing used to be a breeze on my other device but long press back, the page will be back instead. Same goes to other app, the back and menu combination really a bad choice by samsung.
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Thank you. Wish I would have known this a while ago.
Menu button on note 5
I have long pressed the back button on my note 5 but it doesn't come up. I need it for game apps I play. Please help. Thanks.
@Alliswhat44 Its not a big deal with 'All in One Gestures' app in the store. You can combine the features of buttons(Home, Back, Recents, Volume up and down) as you wish. Even the Back button can be Recents..
Hi, I downloaded all in one gestures. I enabled it. Do all boxes have to be checked?
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I enabled it all but it does not show what I want. I play shoot bubble deluxe and I need the menu button in the game to use skips and play levels already played
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Hi, I downloaded all in one gestures. I enabled it. Do all boxes have to be checked?
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I enabled it all but it does not show what I want. I play shoot bubble deluxe and I need the menu button in the game to use skips and play levels already played
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I think your device is not rooted, is it? You can manage Recents button as Menu(If rooted I think) with selecting 'Single Tap or Long press'. The app is perfectly usefull and working.
BTW there is an app name is 'GMD Gesture Control' Thats spectacular as pro.
some apps don't support it...would just quit the app
Correct. If the app uses an on screen menu button anyway (disregarding the android prop setting), then the long key press menu button doesn't work. Is really an app issue at that point.
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many thanks!
I thought the long press of the back button brought up the menu?
Has no one made a tweak to change recent back to the menu button like they did with the note 4?
Konsstantine34 said:
@Alliswhat44 Its not a big deal with 'All in One Gestures' app in the store. You can combine the features of buttons(Home, Back, Recents, Volume up and down) as you wish. Even the Back button can be Recents..
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This post saved all the ****ty feelings I had for my new note 5 without the menu button. Thank god for this software and others like these.
newuxtreme said:
This post saved all the ****ty feelings I had for my new note 5 without the menu button. Thank god for this software and others like these.
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Lol glad to know you like it too.
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
farhanzs said:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!
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Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
It is now only available as up and down, no right or left (at least I couldn't find it)
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When in recent menu, just click the app icon. You will see the multi-window floating app option
It is soooooo annoying that you cannot swipe down and left/right from a corner to resize it to window view. Same thing with not being able to change recent apps view for a list.
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Yeah this is totally a feature I used often. Especially when playing YouTube video and don't want to interrupt the playback I could swipe from either top corner and start using another application without interrupting the video or sound.
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no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!
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was having a bad day until I read this! [email protected] head scrather :laugh::laugh::laugh:
and can anyone Confirm I will suffer no " Sudden device death syndrome" if i Chose not to update until i Change this device?
really don't Understand how removing useful functions count as upgrades or Improvement. i still havent forgiven samsung for removing action Memo and easy chart. Why take away a useful function???
Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?
Multi window gone
My phone just updated and now my multi window feature is gone, I've gone thru every setting to find it
When viewing you're recent opened apps, each app has their icon at the top centre of it. Click on the icon. You'll get a small pop-up menu with options. You can choose: App info, open in split screen, pop up mode (where you can resize the app) and lock it.
I don't know yet what the lock functions does.
EDIT:
As mine is in Dutch, could be that the lock function has a different name in English.
The lock function: If you lock an app, and then close all recent apps, the locked app wil stay open. So if you're playing a game, you can lock it, close all recent apps and the game will stay open and running.
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Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?
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Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.
grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Just to add to this, you can switch between multi view and currently open apps by holding down on the previous apps button for 2 secs then you can choose by 2 second press if you want multi window or just currently open apps.
I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.
When you open Samsung members app the first thing that appears is something called advices... if you tap you will see some changes on the pie update ...
Other pie screwups
That's not all you've lost, my friend. The multi window setting is gone, as you know. The ability to swipe from the corner to resize and go multi window is gone, as you know. However, additionally, i noticed the following:
- The ability to enter your fingerprints to access Samsung browser secrecy mode is gone/disabled. You can only enter using iris scan or password.
- The phone optimisation edge panel is gone and nowhere to be seen.
- when you deactivate the nav bar in favour of swipe gestures, you cannot long press on the recent apps swipe area to enable split screen multitasking, as you would have with the recent apps button on the nav bar.
I hope there's a bug fix coming and soon
Try multi window app
farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Try the edge screen app Multi Window for quick popup windows..
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farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Bo21 said:
I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.
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You can also use the search bar for the app you want when in the app switcher multi window selecter.
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high_voltage said:
Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.
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You can also swipe the multi screen spliter inbetween each app to fully open the bottom app and then select a different app for the bottom... it's still hokey but quicker than exiting out of both apps
Instructions...
https://www.sammobile.com/2019/01/04/how-to-open-apps-in-multi-window-one-ui-android-pie/amp/
grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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This is not working for me. I'm holding the 3 line open app navigation bar button....nothing.
What's the trick you are using for taking screenshot on Galaxy S10? How to deal with scrolling screenshot? just curious
freckaby said:
What's the trick you are using for taking screenshot on Galaxy S10? How to deal with scrolling screenshot? just curious
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I do it the way I've always done it, power + volume down. I'm not sure what you mean by scrolling screenshot.
Tel864 said:
I do it the way I've always done it, power + volume down. I'm not sure what you mean by scrolling screenshot.
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When you take a screen shot on the S10, an info bar pops up with editing tools for the screen shoot. There is a double arrow just to the right that you can tap to scroll for longer pages.
https://m.androidcentral.com/how-take-screenshot-galaxy-s10
The link about shows what I'm talking about including pics.
truckerdewd said:
When you take a screen shot on the S10, an info bar pops up with editing tools for the screen shoot. There is a double arrow just to the right that you can tap to scroll for longer pages.
https://m.androidcentral.com/how-take-screenshot-galaxy-s10
The link about shows what I'm talking about including pics.
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Oh yea, I forgot. I have smart capture turned off in settings so I don't get the pop-up.
holding bixby button and say screenshot
I use the edge of my hand run across the screen, used this for many years and with smart capture you can save several screens on the same screenshot
netnerd said:
holding bixby button and say screenshot
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it is cool. first time to heard about this trick
I will try it on my Android phone,as i have never done a scrolling screenshot.But why not read this : https://www.androidphonesoft.com/resources/take-screen-on-galaxy-s10.html for more (From Google)
netnerd said:
holding bixby button and say screenshot
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Now that's cool way to do it.
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I do the smart gesture with hand across screen from left to right.