I really like apex launcher on my gs3 and equally so on my 8. But even though I set it as the default launcher Samsung seems to override at will. Is there something I'm missing?
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I use Nova. It's my favorite and works well on the Note 8. I think I read theres a bug in Apex, and thats why it doesnt work on the Note 8, but I'm not sure I remember that correctly
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Do you still have split screen, the instant note when touching the screen with a pen, screen capture, etc when using Nova Launcher?
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I use Nova. It's my favorite and works well on the Note 8. I think I read theres a bug in Apex, and thats why it doesnt work on the Note 8, but I'm not sure I remember that correctly
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Do you still have split screen, the instant note when touching the screen with a pen, screen capture, etc when using Nova Launcher?
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Do you still have split screen, the instant note when touching the screen with a pen, screen capture, etc when using Nova Launcher?
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Yes to all the above. The only thing I've noticed that's lost is the S Planner month view widget. The S Planner app still works, I just couldn't get the big month view widget on the screen with Nova. So I bought aCalendar instead, which has a month view widget...
PS: For instant note to work, you have to hold the pen button while you touch the screen twice. (In my case, touching the screen twice is set to bring up recent apps, touching it twice while holding the pen button brings up the note. I'm not sure if there's a setting I changed somewhere to do that...)
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Yes to all the above. The only thing I've noticed that's lost is the S Planner month view widget. The S Planner app still works, I just couldn't get the big month view widget on the screen with Nova. So I bought aCalendar instead, which has a month view widget...
PS: For instant note to work, you have to hold the pen button while you touch the screen twice. (In my case, touching the screen twice is set to bring up recent apps, touching it twice while holding the pen button brings up the note. I'm not sure if there's a setting I changed somewhere to do that...)
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That's great news. I really like NOVA launcher and I am happy I'll be able to keep using it. Another question, are the 9 GB of available memory enough? I'm struggling with the question about whether or not I should purchase the 16 GB one or wait until the 32 GB becomes available in the US.
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That's great news. I really like NOVA launcher and I am happy I'll be able to keep using it. Another question, are the 9 GB of available memory enough? I'm struggling with the question about whether or not I should purchase the 16 GB one or wait until the 32 GB becomes available in the US.
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Unless I'm mistaken there hasn't been an announcement regarding a release date for a 32GB version in US, or even that it will be available.
Get the 16gb version, buy a 32gb sd card for <$30. I would assume that would be much cheaper than paying whatever the upgrade cost is to have that additional memory built in. Plus, you can start playing with it now.
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I know you're talking about Nova, but I've been using Apex Launcher, and all these features work.
The only thing I've really noticed that only shows up in TouchWiz Home is the S Planner widget(s)... weird, cause the S Planner ones still work in alternate launchers. Other than that, everything else seems to be intact, but maybe I missed something.
What other apps/widgets/features are specific to this launcher?
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That's great news. I really like NOVA launcher and I am happy I'll be able to keep using it. Another question, are the 9 GB of available memory enough? I'm struggling with the question about whether or not I should purchase the 16 GB one or wait until the 32 GB becomes available in the US.
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I think that depends on how many apps you need installed and whether or not you plan on installing large games. I still have over 6 GB free but I'm not a gamer. My first Android device had 32 gb but I always had over 20 gb free, so I've only bought 16gb devices ever since. The only time I've ever had to delete an app to free up space was on my iPad. Maybe ios apps are bigger? You can't put apps on the sd card out of the box, and I'm not sure what you have to do to allow moving apps to the sd card, so maybe you want to look into that before you decide to spend extra for more space you might not need.
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I think that depends on how many apps you need installed and whether or not you plan on installing large games. I still have over 6 GB free but I'm not a gamer. My first Android device had 32 gb but I always had over 20 gb free, so I've only bought 16gb devices ever since.
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Thanks for this info! I've been wondering about all that and how different usage patterns would affect things. If there is an easy way to do so would you mind posting a list of the apps you have installed?
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You can't put apps on the sd card out of the box, and I'm not sure what you have to do to allow moving apps to the sd card, so maybe you want to look into that before you decide to spend extra for more space you might not need.
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Relevant threads (both methods require rooting your device):
howto: mount external sdcard as sdcrard0
Use SD-Card as main storage?
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I think that depends on how many apps you need installed and whether or not you plan on installing large games. I still have over 6 GB free but I'm not a gamer. My first Android device had 32 gb but I always had over 20 gb free, so I've only bought 16gb devices ever since. The only time I've ever had to delete an app to free up space was on my iPad. Maybe ios apps are bigger? You can't put apps on the sd card out of the box, and I'm not sure what you have to do to allow moving apps to the sd card, so maybe you want to look into that before you decide to spend extra for more space you might not need.
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I'm impressed that you only used 3GB. I usually use more than this. I have 9GB used in my Nexus 7 and almost twice as much on my Droid Razr Maxx. I do believe I would not need to install so many 3rd party apps on the Note since it's already heavily customized. I might give it a try to see if I can survive with only 9 GB.
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Unless I'm mistaken there hasn't been an announcement regarding a release date for a 32GB version in US, or even that it will be available.
Get the 16gb version, buy a 32gb sd card for <$30. I would assume that would be much cheaper than paying whatever the upgrade cost is to have that additional memory built in. Plus, you can start playing with it now.
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I know you're talking about Nova, but I've been using Apex Launcher, and all these features work.
The only thing I've really noticed that only shows up in TouchWiz Home is the S Planner widget(s)... weird, cause the S Planner ones still work in alternate launchers. Other than that, everything else seems to be intact, but maybe I missed something.
What other apps/widgets/features are specific to this launcher?
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I have only heard of 32 GB in Europe or India. I had hopes of a 32 GB being released in the US because the Note 10 has a 32 GB version. I believe that no other Samsung device has more than 16 GB in the US.
I might give it a try now that it's available at Sam's Club.
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Thanks for this info! I've been wondering about all that and how different usage patterns would affect things. If there is an easy way to do so would you mind posting a list of the apps you have]
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If this works, the link should be to screen shots of all my apps on my Note 8. It is a short list, I had twice as many apps on my GNex until I cleaned it out recently, but this is pretty much all I need. I found that even my two year old single core tablet is still usable as long as I don't put a lot of apps on it. I also found on my GNex and Nexus 7 a horrible slow down when less than a specific amount of free space was available, so I now make sure I always have at least 2gb free.
Thanks for the sd card tips, I will check it out later.
Edit: deleted link. Picasa appears to link to Google plus now. I will post from another site tomorrow.
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I believe that no other Samsung device has more than 16 GB in the US. I might give it a try now that it's available at Sam's Club.
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So is your guess that it could go either way with the Note 8 then? i.e., there could be a 32GB forthcoming since there is one for the Note 10.1, or there might not because your understanding is no other Samsung has more than 16GB?
Also, how much is it selling for at Sam's Club? I couldn't easily tell from the website (I'm not currently a member). $400 is the price I see everywhere here in the US.
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If this works, the link should be to screen shots of all my apps on my Note 8. It is a short list, I had twice as many apps on my GNex until I cleaned it out recently, but this is pretty much all I need. ... I also found on my GNex and Nexus 7 a horrible slow down when less than a specific amount of free space was available, so I now make sure I always have at least 2gb free.
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Thanks for trying and for the tips! And yeah I'll be interested to see the list whenever you can get to it (no rush!).
Regarding default home launcher:
I had this issue with Action Launcher and it was resolved by dev...only thing is theres a bug in the play store with JB4.1.2 that showed up then which is probably what you're getting now. It has been resolved with 4.2 so it'll be flakey until Samsung pushes that out. The workaround atm is to use a root app to make your launcher a system app not user and that'll override until 4.2 comes our way.
HTH
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So is your guess that it could go either way with the Note 8 then? i.e., there could be a 32GB forthcoming since there is one for the Note 10.1, or there might not because your understanding is no other Samsung has more than 16GB?
Also, how much is it selling for at Sam's Club? I couldn't easily tell from the website (I'm not currently a member). $400 is the price I see everywhere here in the US.
Thanks for trying and for the tips! And yeah I'll be interested to see the list whenever you can get to it (no rush!).
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You are right, I don't know which way it goes. Samsung usually releases a basic device and later releases either a 3G enabled or a different color, who knows? The Note at Sam's Club is $380. The biggest points for me are: an affordable protection plan and a longer (an actual hassle free) returning time. I figure I'll try the Note 8 as is and see whether or not I need the extra storage space for apps. I know of apps to install stuff to SD card but one needs to root the tablet. I've never rooted any phone or tablet and don't want to purchase something if rooting will be needed.
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So is your guess that it could go either way with the Note 8 then? i.e., there could be a 32GB forthcoming since there is one for the Note 10.1, or there might not because your understanding is no other Samsung has more than 16GB?
Also, how much is it selling for at Sam's Club? I couldn't easily tell from the website (I'm not currently a member). $400 is the price I see everywhere here in the US.
Thanks for trying and for the tips! And yeah I'll be interested to see the list whenever you can get to it (no rush!).
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Ok - let's try these links... should be a screen shot of each of my app pages. The link on the bottom may go to the location all of them are shown. I haven't tried this before so I don't know how well this will work:
Possible link to all of them? http://postimg.org/gallery/6qd44eza/2765721e/
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You are right, I don't know which way it goes. Samsung usually releases a basic device and later releases either a 3G enabled or a different color, who knows? The Note at Sam's Club is $380. The biggest points for me are: an affordable protection plan and a longer (an actual hassle free) returning time.
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That is a nice price (though of course sales tax will eat up some of the savings), and even better that you get the other benefits you mentioned!
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I know of apps to install stuff to SD card but one needs to root the tablet. I've never rooted any phone or tablet and don't want to purchase something if rooting will be needed.
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Yeah, I feel similarly about not wanting to mess with rooting.
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Ok - let's try these links... should be a screen shot of each of my app pages.
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That worked fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
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Regarding default home launcher:
I had this issue with Action Launcher and it was resolved by dev...only thing is theres a bug in the play store with JB4.1.2 that showed up then which is probably what you're getting now. It has been resolved with 4.2 so it'll be flakey until Samsung pushes that out. The workaround atm is to use a root app to make your launcher a system app not user and that'll override until 4.2 comes our way.
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That's what I found too. Additionally, tt seems to have impact on paid apps only. I am using Smart Launcher. The free version works perfectly, paid version not. Although there is a "patch app" for Smart Launcher to fix this issue, it simply does not work on Galaxy Note 8.0. While at the same time works perfectly on Galaxy Note 2...... strange...
If you've rooted your rom, just delete the touch wiz apk from /system/app
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What about Go Launcher?
Have you tried Go Launcher on Note 8? I'm planning on buying this tablet in the near future, and Go Launcher is the best one I've tried on my SGS2.
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I've been working with Spiderweb games on trying to get their RPG "Avadon: Black fortress" working on my Note, and despite others being able to buy it on the market I'm unable to.
I finally figured out it seems to be ICS related. GB Notes can buy it but ICS Notes cant.
According to the correspondence below they seem to think its "screen size" related.
does anyone know a hack that can let me buy this game? (I have root...)
Here is the last (somewhat disappointing correspondence I had with Spiderweb games support)
Hi again,
It's great that you figured out what the issue was. However, Avadon runs fine on ICS tablets, so the problem is not ICS compatibility. The only restriction we've placed on the Avadon Google Play listing is reported screen size - only devices that report screen sizes of "large" or "xlarge" to Google Play can access the listing and download the app. My only thought as far as possibilities go is that somehow the ICS upgrade changed the reported screen size of the Note from "large" to "normal" or even "small" (there are four sizes: small, normal, large, and xlarge). This is sort of unlikely, since the Note should not be classified as a "normal" or "small"-sized screen as far as Android devices go, but there's really nothing else I can think of which would cause this to happen. We won't be allowing "normal" or "small"-sized screens to access the Avadon listing because most of the devices allowed would not be able to play the game. So, I really am terribly sorry about this, but we can't do much to fix this issue on our end.
We regret the inconvenience.
Christina
The Apportable Team
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sen ectus <[email protected]> wrote:
Ok I think I've figured it out.
I have two friends with n7000 notes that have never heard of your game so never searched for it in their phones, one also has ICS the other has GB.
The ICS phone can't buy avadon but the GB one can.
Does avadon support ICS?
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Wow, I would have put money on someone knowing some sneaky hack to make it work... :-(
Is really a weird one seeing as it is support under GB, supported under ICS, supported under a GB note but just that specific combo of ICS on the note it isn't supported...?
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Why not just backup your ICS rom, flash to GB, buy/install the app, back up the app with Titanium Backup, and then flash back to your ICS backup and restore the app with TB.
I wasn't able to install it on GB either. And I read it's Android 3.0+ and 7"+. So maybe a dpi change does the trick.
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I bought it as part of the humble bundle awhile back. It is version 1.0.6 and it installs fine on both GB and ICS. It downloads from the humble bundle app not google play.
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I bought it as part of the humble bundle awhile back. It is version 1.0.6 and it installs fine on both GB and ICS. It downloads from the humble bundle app not google play.
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Hmm ok. so the titanium back up option might work then.
Any ideas on what was meant by a dpi change?
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Hmm ok. so the titanium back up option might work then.
Any ideas on what was meant by a dpi change?
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I think he means to download an app that changes the dpi. Maybe it will trick the app store into letting the game show up.
Ha cool, we figured out what it was... Samsung have buggered up the way it reports screen size to google Play in ICS:
Hello again,
We confirmed from our analytics software that the ICS Galaxy Note is now reporting its screen size as "normal" instead of "large." We inquired about this to the Android team at Google and they think it's a mistake on Samsung's part when they prepared the ICS update for the Note. What we want to do is use a setting that actually allows us to specify which devices can access Avadon: The Black Fortress by minimum screen resolution instead of by these size labels which are sort of fuzzy. This setting exists in Android, but is not supported yet by Google Play. However, there is a chance that it will be supported by Google Play in the future, and at that point we'll be able to reconfigure the APK settings to filter devices based on screen resolution instead of this size value.
I wouldn't recommend trying to hack around this. Since you are obviously a very devoted fan and since you've really helped us out in figuring out what's happening with the Note, we'd like to give you a free copy of Avadon. This copy won't update with Google Play, but if you don't run into any issues on the Note, then you won't need to worry about updates.
Hopefully the ICS Note will be able to purchase Avadon in the not-too-far future! Thanks very much for your help and feedback.
Christina
The Apportable Team
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I noticed that PS Touch was Updated to 1.5.0 on Google Play.
Do you thing we will be getting an update for the APP or do you think the update will come in the next OS update from Samsung???
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I tried on the samsung app store and nothing
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I am still on 1.4.1 and I don't see the update yet but I will keep my eyes open. Thanks for the info!
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I am still on 1.4.1 and I don't see the update yet but I will keep my eyes open. Thanks for the info!
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kkretch said:
I noticed that PS Touch was Updated to 1.5.0 on Google Play.
Do you thing we will be getting an update for the APP or do you think the update will come in the next OS update from Samsung???
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I just went into the Play store, and it let me download the new version... I store all of my projects to the Cloud service, so I just synced it and disabled the old copy... if you haven't tried it yet, the changes are very small - although I have to say it feels a bit more responsive, the icons seems a bit refined, and it does sync a bit faster than the previous versions... overall, not a massive/life-changing upgrade, but it's possibly worth it if you use it alot. :cyclops:
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I just went into the Play store, and it let me download the new version... I store all of my projects to the Cloud service, so I just synced it and disabled the old copy... if you haven't tried it yet, the changes are very small - although I have to say it feels a bit more responsive, the icons seems a bit refined, and it does sync a bit faster than the previous versions... overall, not a massive/life-changing upgrade, but it's possibly worth it if you use it alot. :cyclops:
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Was just about to post asking what the improvements are and if I should bother upgrading. I use photoshop daily, but still prefer to work on my laptop and rarely use it on my tablet.
Thanks for sharing!
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Was just about to post asking what the improvements are and if I should bother upgrading. I use photoshop daily, but still prefer to work on my laptop and rarely use it on my tablet.
Thanks for sharing!
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No worries! I've only started using PS at all, so the mobile one is 'simple' enough for me to get accustomed to it... the PS on my laptop is a bit of a monster.
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No worries! I've only started using PS at all, so the mobile one is 'simple' enough for me to get accustomed to it... the PS on my laptop is a bit of a monster.
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Haha I feel like the Mobile one is more confusing compared to the desktop version. Finding everything I'm used to on the tablet has been a learning experience that I'm still going through.
I do find using the stylus (S-Pen) to be useful though. A lot more accurate than I thought it'd be
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I just went into the Play store, and it let me download the new version... I store all of my projects to the Cloud service, so I just synced it and disabled the old copy... if you haven't tried it yet, the changes are very small - although I have to say it feels a bit more responsive, the icons seems a bit refined, and it does sync a bit faster than the previous versions... overall, not a massive/life-changing upgrade, but it's possibly worth it if you use it alot. :cyclops:
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How did you install from google play with out it charging you the 9.99?
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How did you install from google play with out it charging you the 9.99?
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I think I must have purchased it some time ago on my old tab... hadn't thought of that - think it was on sale, grabbed it and a bunch of others. According to my Google Account purchases, I'm a bit of an app-whore, apparently.
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How did you install from google play with out it charging you the 9.99?
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Good question! PS Touch came with my Note 10.1 and Google Play is not giving me an update. I assume if I uninstall PS Touch and reinstall I would have the newest version, but Google Play does not recognize I own the app or have it installed.
Anyone else having this issue?
I'm the same I guess from personal experience with apps there are some that won't update cause of who has them I've bought apps on amazon that won't update on the playstore so I guess being that this is for the Samsung app store it goes that way to
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I'm the same I guess from personal experience with apps there are some that won't update cause of who has them I've bought apps on amazon that won't update on the playstore so I guess being that this is for the Samsung app store it goes that way to
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That's right, I forgot that since the PS Touch came with the Note 10.1 that it is getting it's updates from the Samsung app store, not google. Thanks for reminding me. Looking at the Samsung App Store, they are still offering the version I currently have. I assume at some point they will get the newest version in their queue.
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Good question! PS Touch came with my Note 10.1 and Google Play is not giving me an update. I assume if I uninstall PS Touch and reinstall I would have the newest version, but Google Play does not recognize I own the app or have it installed.
Anyone else having this issue?
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You can find it here (Samsung App Store) http://content.samsung.com Login, click Samsung apps at the top and then type Photoshop in the search box, it will show up as a free app but the version is 1.4.2, last updated Dec 19, 2012.
I purchased SketchBook Pro for Galaxy Note from Samsung App Store, it has a different start screen and it does not show up in Google Play as a purchase but some apps that you install from the Samsung App Store re-direct you to Google play and install from there but I think they are free apps.
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I can upload the apk file if need be
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You shall not. It's a piracy.
However, it's not a good way to treat customers... if they'll receive no updates for more apps (btw NFS Most Wanted for my N7100 not updated since many months), no one will be using samsung store, and i don't think it's what samsung wants as they are updating their store ("hubs") in an intensive manner, recently.
Sketchbook apps for note devices are in exclusive versions with spen support, that's a different story, they are great, and there is no other official source.
But atm it is a risk to buy a non-exclusive app from samsung if it is also reachable via google, as you can be left with no further updates.
Anybody tried contacting with samsung support? They are going to update PST? Or no such a plans?
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There are many people complaining about it not being updated to 1.5 and samsung apps is bad at updating anything or even taking care of their store, I got the avengers game from there as they were giving it away free but when downloaded the game doesn't even start and they haven't updated that and couldn't even be bothered to check the user comments all complaining about this issue.
I went to the photoshop touch forum on adobe's website and saw that there were people complaining about not getting updates and the repliers who I think work on the app didn't know how to solve the problem and that was a post complaining about not getting an update for 1.2....or was it 1.3, anyways they still haven't solved the problem since then and I doubt they care as the app came free with the note 10.1
I went to ask about why upload to cloud doesn't work and was told to update to 1.5 so said about the problem to him and he didn't have an answer for me about the update issue, he kind of changed the subject
I like photoshop touch and it seems to have the biggest canvas I've used without any slowdown or relentless bugs like one art app I gave up with and just unistalled, another art app sketchbook ink, had high hopes for that but seems whatever you paint zoomed in shows blotchy when zoomed out so that's more money I lost on art apps that didn't work properly but apart from the really annoying non palm rejection and the fact that when you zoom out with your fingers sometimes the app doesn't pick it up and leaves marks on the art I'm doing and if I hadn't remembered to do another layer I have to go back and go over all the marks that I didn't spot earlier.
1.5 still hasn't got palm rejection btw and doubt it will for a while
I also like using photoshop touch more than the others because I'm colour blind and can only pick up a few colours without getting confused with other colours and they just have a small few colours and I can add my own pallette of colours by mixing...oh you know what I meant if you had trouble with colours.
I'd buy this app if I didn't already have it and my work that is in psd format can not be imported only saved on cloud plus why should I pay for something I got for free, I don't like this cloud saving it's just another way of getting money from people to sell them a little....empty space that's what is there but you can't see it only if you find it on a computer or whatever you have, next someone will come up with an idea for selling air and probably gravity one day.
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PS Touch on my Note 10.1 has just updated from the Samsung App Store to 1.5.0
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dmarchant said:
PS Touch on my Note 10.1 has just updated from the Samsung App Store to 1.5.0
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Caught what u said
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Samsung finally has the update in their store
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Samsung finally has the update in their store
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I did not get an update notice from Samsung but was able to force the update manually.
Was fed up with my Htc One camera tint issue and got this yesterday. Just finished 1 full day with the Exynos version this evening, thought id share my experience here which should help other people.
Iv created a quick post on my blog here http://nerdict.com/first-day-impressions-samsung-galaxy-note-3-exynos-5420/
Im still waiting to get my hands on galaxy gear in my city but im less keen to get the 1st generations of it
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Thanks for this. I just finished chargidng mine. Im gonna root and start freezing all the bloatware
toofimoofi said:
Thanks for this. I just finished chargidng mine. Im gonna root and start freezing all the bloatware
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I guess u have the Snapdragon version? I dont see any recovery or root methods for my Exynos..
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I see you have black version . Can you please tell me if problem with notification led color is still there in black version ? (if you will download led color tester app you will try colors like cyan or white you will see led light of bad color ((3 colors in one )) white version of S3 S4 N2 didnt had this problem but black allways had )
thank you for your reply
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I see you have black version . Can you please tell me if problem with notification led color is still there in black version ? (if you will download led color tester app you will try colors like cyan or white you will see led light of bad color ((3 colors in one )) white version of S3 S4 N2 didnt had this problem but black allways had )
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Nop, its still the same as my grey Note2. Cyan is a mix of green and blue. Yellow is completely green and with a bit of yellow.
White is red, green and blue.
Attached the pic of yellow which shows green. Sorry for bad quality pic. I only have my wife's iphone as cam.
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cool_dhamz said:
I guess u have the Snapdragon version? I dont see any recovery or root methods for my Exynos..
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Yesh. Its snapdragon.
I really like the Note 3 but it is too big for me (although I have S4 ) and I don't use the S-Pen on daily basis so it has no use for me.
Hope you enjoy it!
Interesting blog post, but I think you misunderstand how Android works when it comes to RAM. It's not that the device is "RAM hungry", it's that it never releases RAM unless it needs to. That's why after running a few apps, nearly all of the available RAM is used. But this is ok, this just means that when you swap back to those apps, they're instantly available. When you open another app, the oldest app in memory is silently killed to free up the necessary RAM.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the system is using up more than an average amount to account for the multitasking stuff alone, but saying that after a few apps have been used it's using 2.3GB of memory is a bit misleading. It may as well use that RAM, or what's the point in having it?
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Interesting blog post, but I think you misunderstand how Android works when it comes to RAM. It's not that the device is "RAM hungry", it's that it never releases RAM unless it needs to. That's why after running a few apps, nearly all of the available RAM is used. But this is ok, this just means that when you swap back to those apps, they're instantly available. When you open another app, the oldest app in memory is silently killed to free up the necessary RAM.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the system is using up more than an average amount to account for the multitasking stuff alone, but saying that after a few apps have been used it's using 2.3GB of memory is a bit misleading. It may as well use that RAM, or what's the point in having it?
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This is something most android users fail to grasp. :good:
Understandably of course since most of us use windows or other platforms, with less memory sometimes means better performance. But memory in general is there to be USED not the opposite.
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Interesting blog post, but I think you misunderstand how Android works when it comes to RAM. It's not that the device is "RAM hungry", it's that it never releases RAM unless it needs to. That's why after running a few apps, nearly all of the available RAM is used. But this is ok, this just means that when you swap back to those apps, they're instantly available. When you open another app, the oldest app in memory is silently killed to free up the necessary RAM.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the system is using up more than an average amount to account for the multitasking stuff alone, but saying that after a few apps have been used it's using 2.3GB of memory is a bit misleading. It may as well use that RAM, or what's the point in having it?
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Yup i agree. But the amount of Ram used on my One and Note 2 was much less. Im sure there are some background processes goin on other than the open apps.
Ill post a screenshot of open apps vs ram as soon as i get to my office wifi..
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Yup i agree. But the amount of Ram used on my One and Note 2 was much less. Im sure there are some background processes goin on other than the open apps.
Ill post a screenshot of open apps vs ram as soon as i get to my office wifi..
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Here, screenshot of open apps and available RAM attached..
The only negative of ram used is power drawn else ram used is good. I remember when people were complaining that vista used ram all the while the machine ran smoother over all as programs were loaded into ram instead of much slower HDD.
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I have some questions.
1. Whats is Actual Internal storage size? 18GB? :crying:
2. Tried disabling bloat from all all application in Application manager? How much RAM can u free up?
stanley08 said:
I have some questions.
1. Whats is Actual Internal storage size? 18GB? :crying:
2. Tried disabling bloat from all all application in Application manager? How much RAM can u free up?
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Just for the record its 23.43gb free
jutley said:
Just for the record its 23.43gb free
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Dat sounds better. At least...
stanley08 said:
I have some questions.
1. Whats is Actual Internal storage size? 18GB? :crying:
2. Tried disabling bloat from all all application in Application manager? How much RAM can u free up?
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1) - 32GB internal with 6GB allotted to system. Currently have 24.58GB available on mine.
2) - Disabled a few. 1.6GB ram on boot.
If i do not even use the device or open any apps, after about 30 mins the ram goes up to 2.0 or 2.1GB unnecessarily..
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1) - 32GB internal with 6GB allotted to system. Currently have 24.58GB available on mine.
2) - Disabled a few. 1.6GB ram on boot.
If i do not even use the device or open any apps, after about 30 mins the ram goes up to 2.0 or 2.1GB unnecessarily..
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Thanks for this mate. I guess 24.58GB is decent enough (coming from an S4 with only 8.90GB), though i'm guessing you have the SM-9005 snapdragon as someone said his has 23GB+ earlier.
And when root methods come, or custom ROMs, RAM usage will change.
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Thanks for this mate. I guess 24.58GB is decent enough (coming from an S4 with only 8.90GB), though i'm guessing you have the SM-9005 snapdragon as someone said his has 23GB+ earlier.
And when root methods come, or custom ROMs, RAM usage will change.
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Nop i have the Exynos version..
I returned the HTC One before the 14 day return period, but for more reasons than just the camera. Battery life was terrible and non-expandable. There was no way I was going to stay tied to a charger. I liked the look of it, but after I stuck a case on it I realized what it looks like esthetically doesn't matter.
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Anyone else notice this?
For example. I'll open up chrome, go to a webpage, exit chrome, and then when I come back to chrome it starts reloading the page again. I've noticed it refreshes or restarts a ton of apps after I come back to them after a short amount of time and it never puts me where I last left off in the app. Even my two year old phones keep apps open longer.
What's up with this?
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Anyone else notice this?
For example. I'll open up chrome, go to a webpage, exit chrome, and then when I come back to chrome it starts reloading the page again. I've noticed it refreshes or restarts a ton of apps after I come back to them after a short amount of time and it never puts me where I last left off in the app. Even my two year old phones keep apps open longer.
What's up with this?
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There is a thread about this problem... it sucks and hope sammy fixes this issue soon.
Video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUw9PUlFUF0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/s6-vs-m9-vs-iphone-6-t3083188
brian85 said:
Anyone else notice this?
For example. I'll open up chrome, go to a webpage, exit chrome, and then when I come back to chrome it starts reloading the page again. I've noticed it refreshes or restarts a ton of apps after I come back to them after a short amount of time and it never puts me where I last left off in the app. Even my two year old phones keep apps open longer.
What's up with this?
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You have to setup your device properly then you have enough free ram for multitasking. Out of the box the system alone uses like 2gb+ of ram which is to much imo. Stock lollipop uses around ~500mb of ram. After all these years touchwiz is still a ramhog nr.1
Just some quick tips:
- use stock launcher from google or nova or other lightweight launchers
- deactivate facebook and messenger and almost every google app that you dont use
this alone will save you like 500mb ram alone. Everything else you'll find in the ram usage settings from there you can see what uses most ram and if you dont need it just deactivate or deinstall this ****.
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You have to setup your device properly then you have enough free ram for multitasking. Out of the box the system alone uses like 2gb+ of ram which is to much imo. Stock lollipop uses around ~500mb of ram. After all these years touchwiz is still a ramhog nr.1
Just some quick tips:
- use stock launcher from google or nova or other lightweight launchers
- deactivate facebook and messenger and almost every google app that you dont use
this alone will save you like 500mb ram alone. Everything else you'll find in the ram usage settings from there you can see what uses most ram and if you dont need it just deactivate or deinstall this ****.
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Problem is that I did not have this problem on my Note 3(with lollipop 5,0) so why should I have it on the touchwiz "lite" on the S6? same RAM on both devices.
johanbiff said:
There is a thread about this problem... it sucks and hope sammy fixes this issue soon.
Video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUw9PUlFUF0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/s6-vs-m9-vs-iphone-6-t3083188
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This issue is discussed in the other thread, but this one is appropriately named. The issue is driving me nuts, but I didn't find anyone else complaining until I saw this thread.
Bloat or no bloat, it's incomprehensible to me how you can't even have three apps running on a phone with 3 GB of ram. My OPO could easily have six or more apps running at the same time.
Well, my galaxy s6 is going back to T-Mobile. LG G4 here I come.
I don't think ram is the issue. I just checked: system is using 1.2gb of ram and apps using 400mb. I have over 1gb of free ram. That's a ton.
brian85 said:
I don't think ram is the issue. I just checked: system is using 1.2gb of ram and apps using 400mb. I have over 1gb of free ram. That's a ton.
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they will fix this, I think it`s just some bad RAM management.. I love this phone so far so I belive that sammy will fix this on an update
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they will fix this, I think it`s just some bad RAM management.. I love this phone so far so I belive that sammy will fix this on an update
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I really like the phone too, but I'm constantly down to about 200-400 MB of RAM although I've removed most of the bloat and I'm not running any weird apps that I haven't used on other phones in the past.
Not too keen on rooting cause of all the warranty issues either...sure hope you're right about them fixing it.
You're not supposed to have free RAM...
Android’s operating system has its own native handler for assigning RAM to apps and making sure that all of it is being used in the most optimal way. In fact, Android purposely tries to keep apps loaded into RAM for better performance. RAM is fast, remember? On mobile devices, every bit of speed is critical for a good user experience, so keeping apps in RAM is actually a good thing.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ram-boosters-task-killers-bad-android/
There definitely seems to be an issue with apps being closed too quickly but I don't think it has anything to do with the free RAM numbers you're looking at.
I wonder if there is anyway to submit something to samsung so they are aware of this issue. If this wasn't an issue, this phone would be nearly perfect.
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You're not supposed to have free RAM...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ram-boosters-task-killers-bad-android/
There definitely seems to be an issue with apps being closed too quickly but I don't think it has anything to do with the free RAM numbers you're looking at.
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Thanks, I know this. Doesn't change the fact that my OPO had about 600 MB more free RAM at any given moment and multitasked like a champ.
Hope they'll fix it soon.
Really don`t think it`s the issue with to low RAM, I belive this is a management issue or a bug thats just kills the apps to quickly or even maybe lollipop 5,0,2 issue that samsung missed? I sent samsung a mail about it yesterday so hopefully they will contact me back.
I'd be very interested to know whether someone who has rooted and changed the minfree settings still experience the issues described here.
Also, did you receive any response from Samsung, Johan?
brian85 said:
I wonder if there is anyway to submit something to samsung so they are aware of this issue. If this wasn't an issue, this phone would be nearly perfect.
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Call Samsung customer support. I did for the flash remaining lit, and they weren't even aware of it. We need to be notifying Samsung of these issues, not our carriers.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S6-exhibiting-overzealous-RAM-management-report-users_id68745
made a tip to phone arena about this, hopefully Samsung will get some eyes open so they can fix this.
B.R
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I'd be very interested to know whether someone who has rooted and changed the minfree settings still experience the issues described here.
Also, did you receive any response from Samsung, Johan?
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sorry no :\ but made a tip to phone arena about it and they announced it today so lets se what happens
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S6-exhibiting-overzealous-RAM-management-report-users_id68745
B.R
Same problem here. Sammy, please...
now also up on Sammobile site
http://www.sammobile.com/2015/04/28/poor-ram-management-affecting-the-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge/
update is comming according to Samsung UK
just got this answer fron Sammy UK.
let`s see what will happen
johanbiff said:
just got this answer fron Sammy UK.
let`s see what will happen
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Fingers crossed. Thanks johanbiff
Just a quick link to my S6 edge thread - also about same issue so we can all keep track of this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/aggressive-ram-management-t3090492/page1
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johanbiff said:
now also up on Sammobile site
http://www.sammobile.com/2015/04/28/poor-ram-management-affecting-the-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge/
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Also Gizmodo India
http://www.gizmodo.in/indiamodo/RAM...he-Samsung-Galaxy-S6/articleshow/47083669.cms
So what did you guys do with your completely crippled by software tablet? Since it can only download a few apps I made mine into a $200 recipe book that sits it a kitchen drawer. I wish OnePlus was making a tablet instead of a ****ing tv.
What? App downloads work fine on my T5.
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What? App downloads work fine on my T5.
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I think OP is referring to the fact that the 16GB model comes with only about 9GB free and no way to install apps or do much of anything with the SD card. If it were possible to load a custom ROM on this tablet it would be an awesome value. As it is you can only use a couple of apps on it before mem is used up. Fact.