Is there a way to get Poweramp edge screen controls and feed on the Note 8? I had this function on my Note Edge, but I believe the functions were native and worked without having to do anything specific beforehand. I have been at this for hours and cannot figure anything out. Thanks for the help in advance!
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Hi,
I do a lot of biking on trails on weekend. To record the trip and trails, I use my Tilt video capability. Only problem is, I have to have the screen on to record and this kills the battery. Is there a way to record videos on the tilt with the screen off?
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Any idea guys?
Hi anyone know how to do this?
Can someone make a patch for this?
U can use freeware like Screen Switch, it turns of the display only. Google for it.
From time to time I play movies on my tilt for my kids. The problem is when they are watching it, and touch the screen, it stops the movie. So I'm looking for a way to disable touch for a short time. Maybe set to one of the buttons? Does anyone know of a program that can do that?
give your kids some boxing gloves?
Hi,
I'm often using my Note 3 as multifunction car device - camera recording, bluetooth music streaming, recording GPS track and running navigation - all at the same time while the screen is on... Problem is, when I get a text or mail, I don't get notification on Gear - because my Note 3 is having screen on. Is there any way to change it? I want to see navi app on Note 3 and get my notifications on my wrist...
Perhaps a fake "screen off" process?
hurdlejade said:
Hi,
I'm often using my Note 3 as multifunction car device - camera recording, bluetooth music streaming, recording GPS track and running navigation - all at the same time while the screen is on... Problem is, when I get a text or mail, I don't get notification on Gear - because my Note 3 is having screen on. Is there any way to change it? I want to see navi app on Note 3 and get my notifications on my wrist...
Perhaps a fake "screen off" process?
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I don't think so.
I just submitted my pre-order for a Note 4. I loved the Note 2 (I love the size), but I really wanted a Sprint tri-band phone about a year ago, so I sold my Note 2 online and got the Nexus 5. Here is my post mortem after about a year of owning the Nexus 5.
What I really like about the Nexus 5:
• The phone is really zippy. With some of my other phones, I felt like after about 8 months the phone would start to get really laggy. Not the Nexus 5. To this day, it is really fast. Very smooth.
• I of course love the fast Android OS updates.
• I still think the phone has a great physical design. I love the very small bezels on the side of the screen.
• I love the multi-colored LED, when used with Light Flow. I haven’t read anything about the Note 4’s LEDs. I hope it has one. If it doesn't, that might be a dealbreaker. I use those LEDs to help me keep track at a glance of SMSs, work emails, home emails, calendar reminders, and missed phone calls.
• I love the HDR camera. I got some great shots, and got many compliments. I love that the HDR is subtle – the pictures do not look fake.
• I love that it is easy to root. I am never concerned about a locked bootloader or anything like that.
• I like the fast boot up time.
• I love the “OK Google” voice hotword on any screen. I use autovoice and have several custom commands. Can other phones do that? I hope so.
• The screen is awesome. I love the accurate colors. I’m not a fan of the saturated colors on the Samsung. The Note 4 seems to look better than prior Samsung OLED screens.
What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
• I hate not having a physical home button. There have been many times when a full-screen app freezes, and I can’t access the home button for 10 seconds or so. Very annoying.
• The GPS is laggy. Sometimes when I launch Waze, it takes like 3 minutes to get a GPS lock. That seems to have gotten better after a recent update. However, I still have problems in Runkeeper. It sometimes takes about a minute to get a lock.
• The low light video recorder autofocus is terrible. This might be the most annoying problem. Most of my recordings are of my kids at home, indoors. The Nexus 5 video recorder autofocus cannot keep up. It got better after an update a few months ago, especially because now I can focus on the subject by tapping the screen before I hit record, but it is still bad. I have so many blurry recordings. I’m really hoping the Note 4 is better. I didn’t seem to notice this problem on my Note 2.
• I am not impressed with battery life. When I am not at my desk at work, and I’m at home or out, my phone goes to about 20% after only 5 or 6 hours of medium to heavy use. I bought an external battery charger and I carry that around in my laptop bag now. Obviously, my Note 4 will be much better with the much bigger battery.
• I hate not having an SD card. I record a lot of video, and like to load a lot of music on my phone. I have to be careful about what I load, and I have to regularly offload my videos to free up space. I don’t understand why Google does not want us to have an SD card.
• I miss a removable battery. With the Note 2, I had one battery always charged at home, and another always charged at the office.
• The HDR photos look great, but require the subject to be still, because it takes so long to get a shot.
• I wish the headphone volume was a little louder. When I am listening while mowing the lawn, I often cannot hear my audio books and podcasts.
Volume Settings
sparhawk6 said:
What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
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There's an app that is really good for that: Noyze https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.barrasso.android.volume
Its free, but it also had IAP withe more themes, but I like it as it is. It's also very frequently updated.
Alright boys and girls
An idea.
We know that there is no Infra-red output on the Note 8, (unlike S6, s7 etc) rendering remote control apps useless.
However, there is an infra-red diode on the front of the note 8 for the iris scanner.
In our house we have infra-red controlled dimmer switches for our lights. Upon messing around having far too much time on my hands, I have managed to get our dimmer switches to respond to the Note 8`s iris scanner LED. Meaning when I have my case open, the lights dim and go up again.
What are the chances of being able to manipulate this LED for a remote app. It seems pretty powerful, dimming our lights from across the room. Can make a vid if anyone wants to see - pretty basic stuff.
Could the LED on the front of the Note 8 be switched (pulsed) fast enough do you think? ie 34khz / 38 khz to enable use as as an IR remote control?
There is obviously an API for accessing the IR diode.
Any thoughts?
Pretty sure it's locked up for security reason.
Samsung obviously say it isnt posible:
http://www.samsung.com/ph/support/skp/faq/1126303
Pd:I also miss the ir emitter from my note 4. It was very usefull for my arduino control proyects
Yes I have seen that. I think Samsung are assuming that it isnt possible as they only provide the API for off and on maybe?
It would involve manipulating the LED at a high rate
After all, all a remote control is, is the light turned on and off really fast (ie 34000 per second / 34 khz) in a set pattern to align with the requirements of the receiver / tuner.
Would need to be rooted obviously with kernel level access.
I may investigate further. Samsung say it isnt possible. That means it must be!
Just read in another post that this isnt possible because the hardware. Ir control remote leds wavelength is tipically 940-950 nm, and IR led for iris scanner is emitting in 810nm. That is why we can see clearly a red dot in the led, I didnt see anything in my note 4 with my eyes (only seen it throught any IR sensible camera). Anyway I will build a simple ir reciver with a PIC when I finish my finals next month in order to check if a IR reciver can get some information with the IR emitter. Hope is the last that we lose hehe
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Just read in another post that this isnt possible because the hardware. Ir control remote leds wavelength is tipically 940-950 nm, and IR led for iris scanner is emitting in 810nm. That is why we can see clearly a red dot in the led, I didnt see anything in my note 4 with my eyes (only seen it throught any IR sensible camera). Anyway I will build a simple ir reciver with a PIC when I finish my finals next month in order to check if a IR reciver can get some information with the IR emitter. Hope is the last that we lose hehe
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Forget the red dot.
There is actual IR that is completely invisible. Take a photo of your Note 8 from another handset. There is clearly IR in the 900nM range. Use another phone camera, it transverts the IR into visible light.
I do not mean the visible red light you can see when using iris unlock. I do not even have iris unlock / face unlock enabled and it is there.
IR blaster - dimmer switch
N10AP said:
Alright boys and girls
An idea.
We know that there is no Infra-red output on the Note 8, (unlike S6, s7 etc) rendering remote control apps useless.
However, there is an infra-red diode on the front of the note 8 for the iris scanner.
In our house we have infra-red controlled dimmer switches for our lights. Upon messing around having far too much time on my hands, I have managed to get our dimmer switches to respond to the Note 8`s iris scanner LED. Meaning when I have my case open, the lights dim and go up again.
What are the chances of being able to manipulate this LED for a remote app. It seems pretty powerful, dimming our lights from across the room. Can make a vid if anyone wants to see - pretty basic stuff.
Could the LED on the front of the Note 8 be switched (pulsed) fast enough do you think? ie 34khz / 38 khz to enable use as as an IR remote control?
There is obviously an API for accessing the IR diode.
Any thoughts?
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Hi,
I would like to ask if it has managed to solve somehow. ?
I'm currently tackling the same problem.
Note 8 turns off the remote control of the lights without wanting.
It can not turn off
N10AP said:
Forget the red dot.
There is actual IR that is completely invisible. Take a photo of your Note 8 from another handset. There is clearly IR in the 900nM range. Use another phone camera, it transverts the IR into visible light.
I do not mean the visible red light you can see when using iris unlock. I do not even have iris unlock / face unlock enabled and it is there.
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That invisible ir you are speaking of is part of the proximity sensor.
Just throwing a suggestion, the heartbeat sensor also uses infra red, so we might be able to use that too
This looks really promissing, we have iris LED and heartrate sensor LED, both infrared, this is xda FFS we can do it!
well guys, proximity sensor has an IR LED as well, and almost every phone has a proximity sensor. but still, there's no way to turn all of them into IR remotes till now...