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Button-less Wake!

The main defect with the Note 3 is that it requires a button-press to wake-up.
Let this thread be a collective bounty of alternative solutions until we can Slide2Wake which requires kernal changes and AT&T to unlock the bootloader.
Sign this petition in the meantime while you read on:
http://www.change.org/petitions/at-t-unlock-our-samsung-galaxy-note-3-bootloader
Working solutions:
-Use a proximity sensor app (very hit and miss) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omd.autoscreenon&hl=en)
-Use the S View cover (also hit and miss and unpreferred by many)
Any other solutions please add!

Why would you want a huge wake lock like that? A simple press of the home button is much easier IMHO. I'd rather not have to swipe across the screen to turn the screen on

RErick said:
Why would you want a huge wake lock like that? A simple press of the home button is much easier IMHO. I'd rather not have to swipe across the screen to turn the screen on
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You're right. It's a considerable battery drain. The surprising thing is.. in the end, the smoothness of button-free operation becomes *worth it* IMHO.
I turn my phone on and off a lot to check stuff. I'll look at my to do list then press the corner SwipePad shortcut to turn it off. Then I'll remember something while moving up a bit in the line and **without even looking down for a button** and half-entranced in contemplation still I'll swipe from one side of the phone to halfway to the other and it is ON by the split second both my hands hold it to to make a note or reminder, look up something, etc. after which i'll immediately press the corner shortcut again to turn it off and my phone stays in one hand while I people-watch.
For some reason this is much more relaxed and makes me feel like the phone is like a second brain where I don't even need to create mnemonic devices called loci as much like I used to.
Maybe that's what's making my memory kind of crappy. Maybe should go back to doing that for my to-do lists. Might improve my memory. ANYWAY. my point is:
(1) it's less mechanical effort to swipe and
(2) I like to save my buttons and don't want to eventually have to replace the home button on the Note 3 for like $50 or whatever.
I guess it's not that big a deal.
If I did have that feature though I wouldn't miss anything else from past phones especially since the Note 3 is big enough to fit in one hand BARELY and could do a HALF-swipe to wake feature.
**pretends to do it now**
I'm crazy.

I would like a solution to this as well. Tried the light sensor app but that wasnt working well. Really wish we had tap-on.
I really like not hitting any physical buttons because this phone is huge and unwieldy. Still love it though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spazedog.xposed.additionsgb
I assigned the power button to holding down the back button. That saves a little bit of button-life.
The app also is designed to support the same while the screen is off... but it doesn't seem to work yet.
Would be super awesome though to be able to turn the screen off and on while the back button is held. Just not there yet.
Screen on with swipe is the next best.. though much more battery intensive.

Has anyone just simply tried pressing the simple wake button on the side of the phone once? I mean you already have your hand on it most of the time since it is where your fingers are if you are holding the phone in one hand.
Also for you slider guys, it takes many more muscles to frown and it is the same to slide. Much better to smile and press one single button already under your thumb when you are holding the phone.

Solarenemy68 said:
Has anyone just simply tried pressing the simple wake button on the side of the phone once? I mean you already have your hand on it most of the time since it is where your fingers are if you are holding the phone in one hand.
Also for you slider guys, it takes many more muscles to frown and it is the same to slide. Much better to smile and press one single button already under your thumb when you are holding the phone.
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Congratulations Captain Obvious. You are the first person to ever think of that!
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Read above about my experience with button-less waking in the SGS2.
Besides that, you're wrong, my thumb is actually closer to the screen than the power button when I am holding it.
And it's no effort at all. That's the whole point. It's the same slide necessary in receiving a call. No physical PUSHING required.
I can turn my phone on twice per second easily by linking one of the touch buttons to "power" as well. With zero concern for screwing up any physical buttons.
Anyway please only write in this thread if you have something that will contribute to the idea of "button-less wake"
I'm only looking for creating solutions to that.

megamorphg said:
I can turn my phone on twice per second easily by linking one of the touch buttons to "power" as well. With zero concern for screwing up any physical buttons.
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Well it looks like you've solved your own problem right? So should this be closed? I'll answer my own question, yes
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Roundtableprez said:
Well it looks like you've solved your own problem right? So should this be closed? I'll answer my own question, yes
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I'm talking about my SGS2 (last phone).
If Note 3 has a button-less wake feature then can close this.
I think that won't happen till ATT lifts the lock tho..

Best buttonless Wake Achieved
S View cover
P.s.: for those who prefer a different case: just wait till bootloader is unlocked > kernel unlocked > slide function can be made.
thread closed.

Tap to Wake

Is tap to wake screen missing on Oreo? I don't see it in the normal place in the Display settings.

I think it is just missing from the phone and/or in a different spot.
A review notes that Oreo can come with double tap to wake:
http://www.gsmarena.com/android_80_oreo-review-1653p2.php (scroll to last paragraph)

Sony decided to not implement double tap to wake and sleep since XZs and XZ Premium, and recently released XZ1/XZ1 Compact phones follows that trend.
No idea why, it's such a useful feature.
People who don't like/use it can just not enable it, no need to remove the feature that's been a part of their phones since Z2 or Z3 I believe.

This is one of the best features, coupled with double tap to sleep. Useful when you sit your phone on a desk and you don't want to press the power button.
Shame they don't have it anymore.

I guess it's related to the finger print sensor, but agreed, should let people decide. I turned mine off on my Z3C as it kept going off in my pocket.

Damn, that's garbage. I love tap to wake.

Well whatever isn't on stock, a rom will eventually solve, right? That's why we're here.

Dashers said:
I guess it's related to the finger print sensor, but agreed, should let people decide. I turned mine off on my Z3C as it kept going off in my pocket.
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I'm genuinely curious, why would the fingerprint sensor be related? Double tap to sleep/wake has always worked flawlessly on my Z5C, and so has the fingerprint sensor.

No idea - but I can't see why else they'd disable it apart from some sort of "user experience" rubbish.

Im probably going to return my XZ1 Compact because this tap to wake was used heavily for me whilst at work where i have gloves on. Being able to tap the screen on my Z5C to see my notifications without having to remove my gloves to use Fingerprint made things so much easier. I know they have glove mode, but i really dont like using it, especially when i have stuff on my gloves i dont want all over the screen.
Well done sony, even android Oreo is meant to include this feature, so not only do they remove a Sony festure its users love, they block it out of Android OS also.

Have you tried contacting Sony Support? There is a possibility that it was an oversight or a bug and they'll fix it.

Any updates on this? Any chance this feature could be re-enabled by the experts on here. This is honestly what's holding me up from buying this phone.

Have you already contacted Sony about this?

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Have you tried contacting Sony Support? There is a possibility that it was an oversight or a bug and they'll fix it.
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There's no way this was an oversight. It must've been a deliberate decision for some reason.

4rz0 said:
Have you already contacted Sony about this?
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Yes and they say on their website it isn't supported on this phone, which is why I was hoping someone here could change that, just as they have re-enabled the fingerprint sensor in another thread.

So, I was playing with Nova Launcher to have at least the double tap to sleep. It works. But the problem is that when I wake up the xperia, I have to swipe the gesture password, touch id is not enough. Of course, no way I do that every time I unlock the screen! Has anybody found any other solution for that?

Dany XP said:
So, I was playing with Nova Launcher to have at least the double tap to sleep. It works. But the problem is that when I wake up the xperia, I have to swipe the gesture password, touch id is not enough. Of course, no way I do that every time I unlock the screen! Has anybody found any other solution for that?
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go to advanced ---- screen lock method ---- wait time
that solves the problem

Cryte-k said:
go to advanced ---- screen lock method ---- wait time
that solves the problem
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OK thank God, that actually solved the problem. Well at least I have double tap to sleep. I only hope the lack of double tap to wake is just a software limit and the device is hardware capable of doing it and we will be able to enable it in the future, maybe with root...

How lucky it worked. if we hope that waking up with two tap is enabled soon, it is very necessary

For those that need a temporary alternative, look up Gravity Screen https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree&hl=en and turn off all the features (uncheck boxes or slider to 0) except for "Turn Screen ON by Proximity". This will wake up the phone to lockscreen every time the proximity sensor goes from something nearby to nothing. so you can tap the proximity sensor to wake the phone, or it will wake up by itself when you take out of pocket.

Home button unlock

On my old s8 when the screen was locked I'd press the bottom of the screen where the home button is to wake the phone up
My s10plus this is not the case and infact I have to press to side button/on off button to wake the screen
Is this correct

You could just double tap the screen

You can "tap to wake" or "lift to wake" or use your fingerprint or press the power button or "always on display"
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The haptic button on the bottom was an amazing feature. Removing that was another of the stupid Samsung decisions.

lumiden said:
The haptic button on the bottom was an amazing feature. Removing that was another of the stupid Samsung decisions.
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Most consider it one of their better decisions. It was archaic and I would hate to carry a phone with one. My wife's J7 has one and she hates the phone for that one reason. LOL, I like her phone for one other reason, a removable battery.

Thanks double tap will do me silly idea Samsung removing that feature

Tel864 said:
Most consider it one of their better decisions. It was archaic and I would hate to carry a phone with one. My wife's J7 has one and she hates the phone for that one reason. LOL, I like her phone for one other reason, a removable battery.
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Why would you hate something that you could just not use, you don't even see it.

Does your Note 9 on One UI have double tap to wake?

I'm still on a Tmobile Note 8 and just got the One UI update today and was so disappointed to find that it doesn't have the 'double tap to wake' feature. I always thought this update would bring this feature. As I walked into a Tmobile store couple weeks ago and confirmed this feature was on a S10 so I thought this update would do it. Anyway, just wanted to know if any of you Note 9 owners who have the One UI update have this feature? if so, that would be awesome, and will get a Note 9 soon; if not, hmmm don't know, will just keep using my Note 8, thanks!!

slamming_sammy1 said:
I'm still on a Tmobile Note 8 and just got the One UI update today and was so disappointed to find that it doesn't have the 'double tap to wake' feature. I always thought this update would bring this feature. As I walked into a Tmobile store couple weeks ago and confirmed this feature was on a S10 so I thought this update would do it. Anyway, just wanted to know if any of you Note 9 owners who have the One UI update have this feature? if so, that would be awesome, and will get a Note 9 soon; if not, hmmm don't know, will just keep using my Note 8, thanks!!
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Double tap to wake always on screen display works.
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sorry, I meant 'double tap to wake' screen, not always on display. this already works on my Note 8

Nope, d2tw is only on s10 series (that doesn't have the virtual key feature)

marcovittori said:
Nope, d2tw is only on s10 series (that doesn't have the virtual key feature)
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ok thanks for the info! darn. ahhhh!!

Honest question, why would you need that when there's the soft, pressure-sensitive home button? Doesn't it do the same thing, with one less tap?

because when I'm driving, I could easily wake it up by tapping anywhere on the screen. it's not that simple finding the home screen button when you are driving now that there's no hardware button. I know I shouldn't be touching the phone at all but at times there's still a need to. sure, I can unlock it with google and do some things (and bixby I think but haven't try it yet), but it's not the same as google is waiting for me to tell it to do something.

slamming_sammy1 said:
because when I'm driving, I could easily wake it up by tapping anywhere on the screen. it's not that simple finding the home screen button when you are driving now that there's no hardware button. I know I shouldn't be touching the phone at all but at times there's still a need to. sure, I can unlock it with google and do some things (and bixby I think but haven't try it yet), but it's not the same as google is waiting for me to tell it to do something.
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I bet a front facing FP comes in handy when driving and phone is on a mount.
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marcovittori said:
Nope, d2tw is only on s10 series (that doesn't have the virtual key feature)
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Limeybastard said:
I bet a front facing FP comes in handy when driving and phone is on a mount.
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what's a FP ?

slamming_sammy1 said:
what's a FP ?
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Finger Print sensor.
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Limeybastard said:
Finger Print sensor.
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do these usually work by pressing anywhere on the screen, or needs to press in a certain section of the screen?

slamming_sammy1 said:
because when I'm driving, I could easily wake it up by tapping anywhere on the screen. it's not that simple finding the home screen button when you are driving now that there's no hardware button. I know I shouldn't be touching the phone at all but at times there's still a need to. sure, I can unlock it with google and do some things (and bixby I think but haven't try it yet), but it's not the same as google is waiting for me to tell it to do something.
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I see. I personally don't think it's tricky to press on the soft home button while driving (it's not that fussy about where you tap), but I use Android Auto while driving so my screen is always on anyway.

Guys, please don't use your phones while you drive.?

djbutter said:
Honest question, why would you need that when there's the soft, pressure-sensitive home button? Doesn't it do the same thing, with one less tap?
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+1
OP, you could try decreasing sensitivity of the button. Feels just like tapping plus having a dedicated area.
I'd your use case is while driving, a recommend turning on 'Skip Lock Screen' and adding your car's Bluetooth to trusted devices. This way, you need only a tap on the button and you can go directly to the home screen surpassing your lock screen and the need to scan fingerprint.
Also, did you know you can double tap any notification to wake screen. Enabling 'Skip Lock Screen' as mentioned above will route you to the app directly when you double tap it.
Hope this helps.
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Coming from a OnePlus 3T, I do miss DT2W as well. Sitting in a meeting, in a bus, on a plane or in the car - you never have to "search for the right spot", you can just tap on the (dark) screen in order to wake it up.
I really miss it. Once you get used to it, you´re lost.

Hi. There is Fast Wake (not sure about translation, i have another language) by Double Tap options in Accessiblility menu.

slamming_sammy1 said:
I'm still on a Tmobile Note 8 and just got the One UI update today and was so disappointed to find that it doesn't have the 'double tap to wake' feature. I always thought this update would bring this feature. As I walked into a Tmobile store couple weeks ago and confirmed this feature was on a S10 so I thought this update would do it. Anyway, just wanted to know if any of you Note 9 owners who have the One UI update have this feature? if so, that would be awesome, and will get a Note 9 soon; if not, hmmm don't know, will just keep using my Note 8, thanks!!
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Double Tap on Playstore works perfectly.
No ads, no internet connecting and almost no battery consumption.
Double Tap Off - Apps on Google Play
Double Tap on Home Screen to turn off the screen.Work with fingerprint & MIUI
play.google.com

Question Screen Switching on from lock screen automatically

Hi,
I've noticed the screen automatically turns itself on and the sensitivity is too low (tuning on to often). It's almost as though all I have to do is walk past, or wave my hand near by to the phone and boom the screen tuns on! I don't really like how sensitive it is.
How do I adjust the sensitivity so it doesn't turn on so easily?

blocka said:
Hi,
I've noticed the screen automatically turns itself on and the sensitivity is too low (tuning on to often). It's almost as though all I have to do is walk past, or wave my hand near by to the phone and boom the screen tuns on! I don't really like how sensitive it is.
How do I adjust the sensitivity so it doesn't turn on so easily?
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Check in the moto app, under moto display, i think its called peek display. Thats what causing it if i remember right

Beetle84 said:
Check in the moto app, under moto display, i think its called peek display. Thats what causing it if i remember right
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excellent thank you that was it!

blocka said:
excellent thank you that was it!
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Please send Motorola feedback under system and also in the Moto app + play store review to try and get them to add some more options / toggles to Moto peek (Moto display).
Motorola should be ashamed of the current Moto peek it's such a mess. This stupid movement thing you mentioned and the fact it cannot even show the notification content coming in without having to hold the icon down.
It is the worst thing about the phone by far.
To top it off if you disable it you can no longer get notifications on your phone or use double tap to wake.
A third party app called glimpse notifications fixes the notifications coming in but the double tap to wake is not possible to hack back.
You can use a proximity sensor wave app to restore a similar function but it's not as good.