Stupid menu getting in the way of landscape typing!!! - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

What the heck is wrong with samsung putting a touch button where your palm goes when ur landscape typing??? Is there any way to disable the menu button when typing in landscape mode?? I cant be the only person with this problem...

Dragonsla said:
What the heck is wrong with samsung putting a touch button where your palm goes when ur landscape typing??? Is there any way to disable the menu button when typing in landscape mode?? I cant be the only person with this problem...
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Um, pretty much every android OEM has done this. I honestly don't know how your palm is hitting that part of the phone. Maybe tasker could do what you want.
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Having a SIMILAR problem with the back button. These buttons are just so damn sensitive! When I try to take a picture in landscape, my hand usually touches the back button and I close the camera app. So annoying!

If I had a nickle for every time i've acidentally caused the back button to activate and screw up what I was doing with the phone, i'd be able to afford to have it redesigned, and a limited run made with hardware keys instead.

TXI Kaze said:
Um, pretty much every android OEM has done this. I honestly don't know how your palm is hitting that part of the phone. Maybe tasker could do what you want.
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Palm or top of hand....happens allll the time.....and I don't have too big of hands....I am actually really surprised samsung hasnt fixed it yet....It's almost bad enough to always type in portrait mode...

Dragonsla said:
Palm or top of hand....happens allll the time.....and I don't have too big of hands....I am actually really surprised samsung hasnt fixed it yet....It's almost bad enough to always type in portrait mode...
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I had to adopt a new hand position. Kinda lame that it does not turn off the button.

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Keyboard sounds?

I'm looking for an app that will add typing sounds of some kind while using the hardware keyboard on my G1. I'm coming from a modded, OpenTouch flashed and overclocked HTC Herald/T-Mobile Wing which had the option to add sounds for hardware button presses. I'm a big guy with BIG hands- my two thumbs placed together stretch from the "A" to the "L" on the G1 keyboard. The G1's keys are smaller and don't have the healthy, positive feeling "click" that my old Wing/Herald did, which makes it hard for my big ass thumbs to register if I've depressed the button. I end up backspacing a lot to correct double typed or missed letters. Having sounds would help sooooo much. Even the same sound you can set for screen touches would be perfect.
Does something like this exist? Could an app be made?
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Just realized I should have posted this in the apps forum....sorry! Move if needed!
hmm good post. I would like to know this as well, would be a great feature addition.
maybe someone can create a sound not when it opens but when ever the screen is rotated?just a thought
HOGWILD said:
maybe someone can create a sound not when it opens but when ever the screen is rotated?just a thought
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no offense, but that wouldn't really help the OP
and it would be a nice feature. god knows how you'd do it though
This would be an absolute must have app for me....I'd pay for it without a second thought.
ttt....
My hope is that some super secret squirrel developer will see this and whip out the appropriate app and beam to my phone in 3.2 seconds. lol
i was wondering about this also!
jealous of my friends sidekick..
i dont care what anyone says i find noises to be entertaining..
matthewboii said:
i was wondering about this also!
jealous of my friends sidekick..
i dont care what anyone says i find noises to be entertaining..
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Same here.... I was using my buddie's G1 for few min, I had to turn on audible selection. Lack of noise was driving me nuts!!! lol
ttt
10 char
its quite possible to do it. i dont know how though
in the coding, there is a keyboardhidden and keyboardexposed recognization...
we just need to find a dev interested in it
i would like this also!
i love using the on screen keyboard because of all the sounds and the different ones for space and delete and if i could have it on my hard keyboard also i would most definitely pay
You guys know about Haykuros keyboard mod? The one that gives the hard keyboard predictive text? It also gives you key pressing sounds like the VK does.
can you link us to this?
if you use haykuro's HTC IME you can tell it to make typing noises when you click the hardware or software keyboard.
http://haykuro.theiphoneproject.org/?p=213
Hope that this helps.

Tilting SCreen

Is there any way to disable that annoyng tilting effect og the sense 3??? I don't know why but most of the time I turn on the phone the screen is rotated left or right.
yeah settings then display then auto rotate, turn that off
rameel said:
yeah settings then display then auto rotate, turn that off
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Maybe I made a wrong question. When you hold the phone on hand and you move it from left to right, objects on screen remain alligned with the floor. It's quite annoyng and it doesn't work as well....
Ha ha that sounds great. It didn't happen with mine
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Barff1984 said:
Ha ha that sounds great. It didn't happen with mine
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Thanks for helping....
Still not understanding the problem here. Your phone is getting stuck in landscape mode?
sjgore said:
Still not understanding the problem here. Your phone is getting stuck in landscape mode?
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The home screen tilts if I move the phone. I hate thing thing!
any chance of a vid or photo of this? I've never known anything like that before.
from what i gather, he's saying that the software image is staying aligned with the horizon when he moves his phone. so if he tilts his phone at 45 degrees, sense will still be in line with the horizon, where as you or I would need to tilt our heads at 45 degrees to see it aligned properly....get it?
alfa71omega said:
The home screen tilts if I move the phone. I hate thing thing!
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That sounds interesting
Sorry for not been helpful at all ... but I'd like to see this on video (we may be able to help you)!
Barff1984 said:
from what i gather, he's saying that the software image is staying aligned with the horizon when he moves his phone. so if he tilts his phone at 45 degrees, sense will still be in line with the horizon, where as you or I would need to tilt our heads at 45 degrees to see it aligned properly....get it?
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You score it!
Have you tried a factory reset?
alexp999 said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
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two days ago i tested on the dhd a coocked rom, Rmix i think, that came with sense 3.0. It has the same thing, that I assume is a standard feature of the sense. I cannot believe you don't see it. Try to move the phone from left to right in the home screen: I can see the edge of the clock, in the meteo widget you see the moon or the sun in 3d. At a first sight it's amazing, but now, when i switch on the phone the screen is not aligned.....
alfa71omega said:
two days ago i tested on the dhd a coocked rom, Rmix i think, that came with sense 3.0. It has the same thing, that I assume is a standard feature of the sense. I cannot believe you don't see it. Try to move the phone from left to right in the home screen: I can see the edge of the clock, in the meteo widget you see the moon or the sun in 3d. At a first sight it's amazing, but now, when i switch on the phone the screen is not aligned.....
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Really cant say as I'm getting that. Any chance of you videoing it?
I tried tilting phone, moving phone, my homescreens only move when I touch the screen and drag left or right.
alexp999 said:
Really cant say as I'm getting that. Any chance of you videoing it?
I tried tilting phone, moving phone, my homescreens only move when I touch the screen and drag left or right.
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May be is a setup somewhere. I have to descor it otherwise i'm getting mad...
Please please please before you find a fix, give us a video of this. It sounds awesome.
JonSolo said:
Please please please before you find a fix, give us a video of this. It sounds awesome.
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I'll do that as soon as my wife came back with the other phone.....
alfa71omega said:
I'll do that as soon as my wife came back with the other phone.....
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Here it's a video. Sorry for the bad quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3nCE-ztNo
Wow, thats wierd, mine definetly doesnt do that.
What software version is your phone running?
alfa71omega said:
Here it's a video. Sorry for the bad quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3nCE-ztNo
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That....my friend...is amazing!!!!
Keep it! It looks great!!!!!

Lock phone while watching video!!!

This may seem like something small to some but this is a huge feature in this phone that I was not aware of and noticed a lot of people I knew were not aware of.
With our infuse if you are watching a video you can press the power button on the side of the phone and it will lock the screen completely, you can't hit the menu or hit home by accident or anything. I have 3 kids and I couldn't tell you how many times they "accidently' backed out of the video player and either moved apps around or called people or what. So if this helps even 1 other person it was worth it. Enjoy!!!
thanks for the tip!
but dont try this if you watching porno, you cant turn down the volume or go back to home screen quickly. haha
netnerd said:
thanks for the tip!
but dont try this if you watching porno, you cant turn down the volume or go back to home screen quickly. haha
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Lmaoo. Omg u just made my day lol
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netnerd said:
thanks for the tip!
but dont try this if you watching porno, you cant turn down the volume or go back to home screen quickly. haha
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soooo true, thats also why I love my mac, four finger swype up, everything gone, LOL
What an awesome find! Thank you. How many times haven't I handed my Infuse over to show a video and something gets pushed in the hand off?!?!
Thanks for the great tip. One thing I found though is this works with the standard video player but not with Real Player.
This also works while video recording btw.
antuus said:
This also works while video recording btw.
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It also works on the camera. I dont understand why though. If you have the camera open, why would you want to lock the screen so it stays there keeping the screen on. Im sure theres a good reason, im just not aware of it
now i wish they would add like double tap the power button would like it at anytime. Like when your playing a game or browsing so you don't "accidently" send yourself home like I do all the time lol. But this is a start

What are you looking forward to..

On the 6.0 update?
For me...
1. Faster fingerprint reader/unlock animation
2. New keyboard layout
3. Finally having an option to switch to pin code for alternative option if fingerprint isnt working
4. Adjustments on touchwiz
5. Google now on tap
6. New emojis
7.Faster phone ?? (hopefully)
Is speed an issue? My Note5 is smooth and quick. *shrug* Now on Tap is actually pretty cool. I don't use a protective lock screen so I don't know about that. I'd like to be able to activate Samsung Pay with a swipe up from the S-View window, but that won't happen.
PDXMatt said:
Is speed an issue? My Note5 is smooth and quick. *shrug* Now on Tap is actually pretty cool. I don't use a protective lock screen so I don't know about that. I'd like to be able to activate Samsung Pay with a swipe up from the S-View window, but that won't happen.
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Speed is definitely not an issue lol, but there are somethings that need a speed improvement.. such as the fingerprint reader. I just hope i dont see any lag. Im assuming you use Find my mobile? if you dont use a protective lock screen. And i dont use samsung pay or NFC payment for that matter, but i understand your struggle haha.
I could root my device, but i choose not to. Reason being is it will possibly lose value once Knox has been tripped.
geeshiet said:
Speed is definitely not an issue lol, but there are somethings that need a speed improvement.. such as the fingerprint reader. I just hope i dont see any lag. Im assuming you use Find my mobile? if you dont use a protective lock screen. And i dont use samsung pay or NFC payment for that matter, but i understand youre struggle haha.
I could root my device, but i choose not to. Reason being is it will possibly lose value once Knox has been tripped.
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I do use Find my Mobile but I also use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickclephas.fingersecurity to lock certain apps. It only locks those apps when I am not connected to my WiFi or my cars Bluetooth. Maybe with the new fingerprint API I'll lock the whole phone up.
I also noticed when watching marshmallow beta for s6/s6 edge is that the capacitive buttons dont light up when touching the screen... which is a smart move from samsung. It saves battery and it makes sense. It only lights up when pressing them or when pressing the home button.
PDXMatt said:
I do use Find my Mobile but I also use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickclephas.fingersecurity to lock certain apps. It only locks those apps when I am not connected to my WiFi or my cars Bluetooth. Maybe with the new fingerprint API I'll lock the whole phone up.
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Thats looks like a really useful app! And yes, really looking forward to the new fingerprint API. We can finally make purchases with just our fingerprint reader on play store, amazon, ebay, etc... hopefully.
I hope they fix the keyboard lag I have with every keyboard.
New emojis?! What are the supposed to look like in 6.0? Also what is Google on tap?
geeshiet said:
I also noticed when watching marshmallow beta for s6/s6 edge is that the capacitive buttons dont light up when touching the screen... which is a smart move from samsung. It saves battery and it makes sense. It only lights up when pressing them or when pressing the home button.
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Actually it makes no sense, whatsoever. The entire point of the capacitive buttons lighting up when you touch the screen is so you can see them in the dark in order to press them.. lighting up when you touch them makes zero sense, why would I need them to do THAT?
ingenious247 said:
Actually it makes no sense, whatsoever. The entire point of the capacitive buttons lighting up when you touch the screen is so you can see them in the dark in order to press them.. lighting up when you touch them makes zero sense, why would I need them to do THAT?
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It only takes about an hour to learn which is which... Its unecessary for the lights to turn on everytime you touch the screen, its just pointless.
geeshiet said:
It only takes about an hour to learn which is which... Its unecessary for the lights to turn on everytime you touch the screen, its just pointless.
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They didn't light up because it was a Beta and the rooted kernel broke it even more on some devices, but made them work better on other devices. There's also mods you can use to just turn them off if you don't like them. Xposed. Or just go into the settings!!!
Also, just because you don't like them being on, doesn't mean that they are pointless. Tests have also been done to see just how much battery life is affected by Capacitive buttons and you can't even tell how much they use.
By the way, a lot of people like myself, work in dark places and have to use our phones. Think about that for a minute.:good:
The only thing I'm looking forward to is a phone that doesn't get an update and have it cause the phone to be worse than before. Right now my stock Note 5 works just fine.
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I'm just looking forward to my ohone being updated at all. Lol
Once we get the update I will be looking forward to no more posts about getting the update..
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pcriz said:
Once we get the update I will be looking forward to no more posts about getting the update..
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Followed by people complaining that the update ruined their phone.
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http://www.androidauthority.com/att-galaxy-note-5-marshmallow-beta-671153/
ingenious247 said:
Actually it makes no sense, whatsoever. The entire point of the capacitive buttons lighting up when you touch the screen is so you can see them in the dark in order to press them.. lighting up when you touch them makes zero sense, why would I need them to do THAT?
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Maybe they could have it only light up when it's dark..
pcriz said:
Once we get the update I will be looking forward to no more posts about getting the update..
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Not going to happen because people will start complaining about not getting Android 7 update
Jammol said:
They didn't light up because it was a Beta and the rooted kernel broke it even more on some devices, but made them work better on other devices. There's also mods you can use to just turn them off if you don't like them. Xposed. Or just go into the settings!!!
Also, just because you don't like them being on, doesn't mean that they are pointless. Tests have also been done to see just how much battery life is affected by Capacitive buttons and you can't even tell how much they use.
By the way, a lot of people like myself, work in dark places and have to use our phones. Think about that for a minute.:good:
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Well judging by the videos people post about MM update or s7 edge with MM, it doesn't light up when touching the screen. Lol.
geeshiet said:
Well judging by the videos people post about MM update or s7 edge with MM, it doesn't light up when touching the screen. Lol.
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You decided to quote me and revive this olds thread. Dang. I'm so sorry.
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ok this has never happen before until i got this phone.

Okay, so I've had many phones before this one and none of them ever done this before..
So I was at work and my phone was in my pocket with a iris and password lock on but I've just noticed it's on the lockscreen witch is dumb… but anyway, somehow inside my pocket I called 911 due to somehow turning on the phone inside my pocket and pressing the emergency button..
So my question is since this has never happen before if I can somehow disable that button and possibly make it invisible and no longer there so I don't do it again.
I googled and some said if I used another lock screen from the market but I don't wanna do that unless I have to and plus idk which one would be good for this phone in the first place…
So please, someone help lol I gotta work tomorrow and don't wanna pocket dial 911 again.
Also am I the only one who has done this with this phone or is it a common issue?
Keep screen turned off option in display.
Pretty sure that will do it
Junnyz said:
Keep screen turned off option in display.
Pretty sure that will do it
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It was on. Im trying to remove it all together tho if possible.
It turns out I need root or download another lock screen… which will suck because idk if I can use my iris scanner if do that
Well, I am guessing the emergency call thing has to be there legally...
I cant find the setting (the one how when you press home it goes straight to pin?)
Turn that off so atleast you will have to swipe up to get to where the emergency button is.
(i know this isnt a fix but its another step you have to accidentally do)
This has got to be one in a million. It's a lot of very specific presses, swipes, and numbers that Have To be pressed.
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Strange...ware different pants with bigger pockets!
Sorry double post lol..
Junnyz said:
Well, I am guessing the emergency call thing has to be there legally...
I cant find the setting (the one how when you press home it goes straight to pin?)
Turn that off so atleast you will have to swipe up to get to where the emergency button is.
(i know this isnt a fix but its another step you have to accidentally do)
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I'll look for it.
CptCrackers said:
This has got to be one in a million. It's a lot of very specific presses, swipes, and numbers that Have To be pressed.
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Well for my screen it's right where you type the password or do the iris scan. And I pressed it to see if it calls right to 911 and it doesn't but theres another button after that it does.
galaxys said:
Strange...ware different pants with bigger pockets!
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I had shorts on lol..
Wild. On mine all you can do is view or call Ice contacts or dial a number.
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It should of realized it was in my pocket but it didn't. .
AngelRyu said:
Okay, so I've had many phones before this one and none of them ever done this before..
So I was at work and my phone was in my pocket with a iris and password lock on but I've just noticed it's on the lockscreen witch is dumb… but anyway, somehow inside my pocket I called 911 due to somehow turning on the phone inside my pocket and pressing the emergency button..
So my question is since this has never happen before if I can somehow disable that button and possibly make it invisible and no longer there so I don't do it again.
I googled and some said if I used another lock screen from the market but I don't wanna do that unless I have to and plus idk which one would be good for this phone in the first place…
So please, someone help lol I gotta work tomorrow and don't wanna pocket dial 911 again.
Also am I the only one who has done this with this phone or is it a common issue?
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Food for thought. Are you sure you didn't have the triple click power enabled and that is what placed the call?
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jackdforme said:
Food for thought. Are you sure you didn't have the triple click power enabled and that is what placed the call?
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Where's that option at?
I found it an no that wasn't on.
As much as I love it I'm gonna have to turn off the always on display because that's probably why it came on.
AngelRyu said:
It should of realized it was in my pocket but it didn't. .
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Hey,what is that keyboard?
Laurentiu27 said:
Hey,what is that keyboard?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aitype.android.emojinew
With
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aitype.android.theme.DuskBlackBlue
Theme.
And I'm using a gold theme from the Samsung store.
AngelRyu said:
Where's that option at?
I found it an no that wasn't on.
As much as I love it I'm gonna have to turn off the always on display because that's probably why it came on.
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It's in security. Called sos.
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jackdforme said:
It's in security. Called sos.
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Triple press power button is to send an SMS to your chosen contacts I believe... not dial emergency number
n/m
Never experienced this on my phone so far...

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