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Is there any kind of app that uses a password where u can draw your password..
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I would think that would be a bad idea... I mean no one can draw the same 2 things EXACTLY the same. Then if you allow for it being off by a bit. then how much till it accepts "close enough" as the password. Might be something quiet a bit diff and you can still get in. and even little things like drawing it to the left of the center a little bit will throw it off and such. Might be initially not a bad idea... but i could see it as working out to be something very hard to code. I personally always liked the idea of taking a pic of yourself and it logging you in like that....but you would probably run into similar problems as above

I could see this working...similar to gesture search. The lock could be like the letter A and all you would have to draw is the letter A. So just like gesture search recognizes what is the letter A it unlocks, instead of searches. Umm. Copyrights on this idea. You all seen it.
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It would be nice, if the App is not shown in "Recent Apps" (long press home and statusbar).
Is it possible?

Yeah I meant something like gestures on the homescreen to unlock... it would be cool lol
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Change the position of the tabs button in Chrome. Request to google!

So many smart people work at Google and noone thought of making a simple switch to swap the tabs button from the right to the left...why? Please Google do something about it
I find it really annoying as I use my phone with my left hand and can barely reach the button...
please share your thoughts

Most people are right handed, not left?
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NoOneCanHelpMe said:
So many smart people work at Google and noone thought of making a simple switch to swap the tabs button from the right to the left...why? Please Google do something about it
I find it really annoying as I use my phone with my left hand and can barely reach the button...
please share your thoughts
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One thing chrome on android lacks badly is customization. Swapping the location should be an option. Another gripe of mine with chrome is the perpetually visible address bar that wastes screen real estate. Sure it may not be for some but why not make it an option?
Is it more resource intensive to provide options?
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thaBuzzed said:
One thing chrome on android lacks badly is customization. Swapping the location should be an option. Another gripe of mine with chrome is the perpetually visible address bar that wastes screen real estate. Sure it may not be for some but why not make it an option?
Is it more resource intensive to provide options?
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While I do fully agree with your point i think that this should go in the Android general section (not only the sgs3 general) since there are a lot of people on 4.X, and there you could ask for a petition or something similar.
Staying on topic though I do hate that always visible address bar, it's one of the reasons I don't use chrome so much.
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Most people know that this is not Google and a post to Google is not read by Google here .
jje

coebergh said:
Most people are right handed, not left?
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so should I cut my left hand so I start using it with my right....
btw I'm right handed

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S Note crash

S note just crashed and lost my 2 hours assignment. Did I make a mistake in trusting Sammy? Is auto-save that hard to implement? And is it really hard to implement a auto document recovery system?

if it is really important.. y dont you press the "save" button time to time? it's just located at top of the screen

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if it is really important.. y dont you press the "save" button time to time? it's just located at top of the screen
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I have had many crashes similar to this using Snotes, Tapatalk, and Polaris office. The screen went blank and about 5-6 seconds later it returned to the lock screen with the app closed without any warning?

It sadly takes 5 seconds to save every time I press it
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I was using shape recognition last time it crashed. What about you?
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vanillanesquik said:
I have had many crashes similar to this using Snotes, Tapatalk, and Polaris office. The screen went blank and about 5-6 seconds later it returned to the lock screen with the app closed without any warning?
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that's weird.. i havent have any force close experience with this device until now

Hi all,
I had also a few crashes while taking notes in study lessons. It is really frustrating and I hope there will be more improvement specially on stability.
Best regards
mpeg

I just got on here to look for this very subject. I use s note for work. I heavily use the shape recognition and handwriting to text function. Ever since the recent software update, s note has been "crashing" just a minute or two into using the handwriting to text function. It starts by not converting text I have just written, then after I wait 20 seconds or so, everything I have written by hand all of a sudden gets converted to text and then it freezes. It won't let me erase, close, or anything. Sometimes I can't even get it to force close by going into the application settings and I have to restart the tablet. This is very frustrating seeing as how I use this at work constantly and this was a huge part of what drew me to the tablet
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briancarrie05 said:
I just got on here to look for this very subject. I use s note for work. I heavily use the shape recognition and handwriting to text function. Ever since the recent software update, s note has been "crashing" just a minute or two into using the handwriting to text function. It starts by not converting text I have just written, then after I wait 20 seconds or so, everything I have written by hand all of a sudden gets converted to text and then it freezes. It won't let me erase, close, or anything. Sometimes I can't even get it to force close by going into the application settings and I have to restart the tablet. This is very frustrating seeing as how I use this at work constantly and this was a huge part of what drew me to the tablet
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I also have this problem.
When I try to write something with handwriting to text it works until I have around 20 words written. Then the whole application hangs up and ends in the startscreen...
Does Samsung know the problem?
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Could it be that this is caused by rooting the device?!?

I got also a lot of crashes in the s note app and my device isn't rooted. For everyday use at university I prefer lecture Notes to S-notes a lot more and on top there was not a single crash since I make use of it. I got my crashes when I wanted to make use of the 'Handwrite-to text'-function.
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Same crashes
After the latest update, my s-note crashes everytime I try to use the write recognition to text. My device is not rooted and it worked perfectly before the update.

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I got also a lot of crashes in the s note app and my device isn't rooted. For everyday use at university I prefer lecture Notes to S-notes a lot more and on top there was not a single crash since I make use of it. I got my crashes when I wanted to make use of the 'Handwrite-to text'-function.
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Are there shape recognition in lecture notes?
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No. It offers certain tools like draw a line, circle, rectangle (filled, unfilled). So it CAN draw forms 'indirectly' but not as easy as in the s notes app.
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Mine also crashes sometimes when using handwriting to text or the formula editor. It won't force close, it will just freeze and then restart itself
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mine crashes conmpleteley and funnily enough it always seems to crash as im about to finish a drawing, mine reboots

Strange... I am having none of these issues
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Not a single crash with snote since the official German ota jelly bean update for me though. Pretty happy with it.
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Mine crashed everytime I used Handwriting Recon, the fix was to just use the one a key board. Now though I am using the Germany Jellybean on my 8013 and its perfect! You will need setcpu for on demand govevnor to stop reboots.

Himguys my snotemkeeps crashing when I try to import pdf any ideas y?
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i didnt exprinced any crashes to this moment . i use S note everyday

[Q] S Pen Button Not Switching Pens in S Note?

So, after getting my Note in August, and using it for email and Internet, I've finally been checking out what this thing can really do. Supposedly, I can switch pens (after creating pre-set pens in S Note) by pressing the S Pen button. Well, sometimes this works. Mostly, it doesn't. I've tried pressing hard, pressing softly, holding the button down, close to the screen, on the screen, away from the screen. Doesn't matter.
When it does work, which is maybe one out of every thirty tries, I can't figure out why. And then, once it's switched to the next pen, that's it. I can't switch again.
Anyone else experience this? Might this be something I can adjust by turnig the little screws under the button?
Update: Tried this on a coworker's Note 10.1, and he's having the same issue. Even tried switching S Pens. No luck.

Just another bug in the new SNote, if this is the only flaw you noticed consider yourself lucky! I have the same problem in the main app as well, the toggle between pen and rubber in the small mode is working great though. Does that work on your device (hold the button and double-tap the screen to get up the small SNote)? If it does, at least you know it's not you nor the hardware.
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Just another bug in the new SNote, if this is the only flaw you noticed consider yourself lucky! I have the same problem in the main app as well, the toggle between pen and rubber in the small mode is working great though. Does that work on your device (hold the button and double-tap the screen to get up the small SNote)? If it does, at least you know it's not you nor the hardware.
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Wow, I didn't even know it did that. Yeah, that works fine. Thanks!
'Nuther question: Is the pen switching thing supposed to work only in the new S Note (on Jellybean), or was that supposed to be a feature in the ICS version, too? I'm having some trouble finding specifics about new S Note features online. Lots of articles refer to "enhanced S Note features, " but very few say what they actually are!

loribuono said:
Wow, I didn't even know it did that. Yeah, that works fine. Thanks!
'Nuther question: Is the pen switching thing supposed to work only in the new S Note (on Jellybean), or was that supposed to be a feature in the ICS version, too? I'm having some trouble finding specifics about new S Note features online. Lots of articles refer to "enhanced S Note features, " but very few say what they actually are!
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As far as I can remember toggle between pen and rubber is supported even in ICS SNote but not toggle between your favorite pens. Ie, just like it works at the small quick note app now. But I'm not sure to be honest, that wasn't a feature I learned to use since I only had that SNote a couple of days before upgrading to JB.
I'm sure you already know this, but if you haven't consider giving LectureNotes a try!
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Yeah, I've checked out Lecture Notes. Even tried Evernote for a few days and was pretty excited about it. But I mainly use S Note for journaling, not note taking. And the ability to slap a picture, video, or map in there on-the-fly, is pretty awesome. I have a three year old, and you just can't beat how easy it is to stick a video or audio recording in your note.
If I was using this in school, I may feel differently.

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Yeah, I've checked out Lecture Notes. Even tried Evernote for a few days and was pretty excited about it. But I mainly use S Note for journaling, not note taking. And the ability to slap a picture, video, or map in there on-the-fly, is pretty awesome. I have a three year old, and you just can't beat how easy it is to stick a video or audio recording in your note.
If I was using this in school, I may feel differently.
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I have to agree with you, SNote is a quite awesome app! It's to bad they have messed it up in the last version, however I think it's just a matter of time before there'll be an update that solves most problems including the one you experience with the button.
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Axel_ said:
I have to agree with you, SNote is a quite awesome app! It's to bad they have messed it up in the last version, however I think it's just a matter of time before there'll be an update that solves most problems including the one you experience with the button.
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So weird... this is working for me now. I think maybe my pens were so close to each other that I didn't realize it was working. I don't know. But I went in and created 7 pens, of the colors of the rainbow, so I could be sure I knew if they were switching. And they do. And when it reaches the end of the list, it switches to the eraser, then starts at the beginning of the list again.

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So weird... this is working for me now. I think maybe my pens were so close to each other that I didn't realize it was working. I don't know. But I went in and created 7 pens, of the colors of the rainbow, so I could be sure I knew if they were switching. And they do. And when it reaches the end of the list, it switches to the eraser, then starts at the beginning of the list again.
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Strange! That didn't work for me but I've noticed there is a couple of different SNote version that at looks the same depending on what android you're running so they might have fixed some bugs on your. Good for you
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I find this most useful feature doesnt work reliably within s notes, it changes the brush preset only about once every 10 presses of the s pen button, however if I take a screen shot then the feature works perfectly when drawing on the screen shot!! Why is that?
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manmikey said:
I find this most useful feature doesnt work reliably within s notes, it changes the brush preset only about once every 10 presses of the s pen button, however if I take a screen shot then the feature works perfectly when drawing on the screen shot!! Why is that?
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Same here, also it works perfectly every time when using the small quick note as I told in a previous post. Why? Because the new SNote is ****, that's why
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make sure your pen is close enough to show the hover when you press the button

sublimerocks13 said:
make sure your pen is close enough to show the hover when you press the button
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Nope, that's not the problem here since it's working just fine at the quick note app even if it's just toggle between pen and rubber in that particular version. So the pen nor the handling it aint, it's just an SNote bug that seems to appear in some versions of SNote.
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How to get SNote to stop zooming when palm hits the screen

Is there a way to get SNote to stop zooming in when your Palm hits the screen? I tried the disable hands thing at the bottom right, but it turns out SNote still detects two fingers and palms.
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I'd like to know as well, and I have the same problem in Sketchbook Pro.

I've also got the same problem in sketchbook pro. It's be great if you could just disable finger input entirely when the spen is out, and soon by tapping plus or minus or something.
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Bump...this is an overlooked flaw in the UI design. XDA to the rescue! Its a bummer when your writing and all of a sudden...you are zoomed in at 200%. Someone help us...also the settings tab on the status bar is frequently activated when I'm writing. I think that when the pad is in S-note or any other writing mode for that matter any non-pen input should be ignored... until switched off or reboot.

GMD Spen Control
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GMD Spen Control
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How does this help? Please explain? Thanks.

DrADP said:
How does this help? Please explain? Thanks.
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It's annoying me so much that I'm likely going to return the tablet tomorrow. I'm still within my 14 days. When I right on a notepad or notebook, my palm definitely sits on the page. I end up zooming in/out or hitting the *system tray (clock / settings etc).
I love the multipoint screen but there's got to be a way to turn it off.
GMD Spen also requires root. I don't want to root my device until it's out of warranty!

dtziheucdavis said:
Is there a way to get SNote to stop zooming in when your Palm hits the screen?
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Touch input should be disabled when your spen is within the air-view distance from the screen. Just make sure your pen is close to the screen before you put your palm down and do not lift it too far off while you write.

Really wish for a control to turn off pinch zoom in S Note on my Samsung Note Pro!!