The magnets in my case cause the screen to go off when I flip the flap to the back.
Is there any way to turn off that feature?
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I was wondering about the dock feature in other phones so I wondered if the dock had a magnet like the droid series phones. I placed a neodymium magnet and with the screen locked to portrait mode I moved the magnet around and in between the camera and speaker the screen auto rotated to portrait mode.
G2 still says it's not docked but I wonder if this could be something to look at for a car or home style dock.
Anyone else try this?
I placed a neodymium under my G2 when the screen was off and it turned the screen on
I think the phone uses a magnet to sense whether the keyboard is open or not. So its waking and rotating the screen b/c it thinks the keyboard is open, not b/c its going to dock mode.
If you hold a paperclip to the underside of the screen, the part that is exposed when the keyboard is open (but not exposed when keyboard closed), the paperclip will stick to the internal magnet.
I put an M5 magnet next to a powered down G2, and it got up, walked to the kitchen and made me a pastrami sammich.
redpoint73 said:
I think the phone uses a magnet to sense whether the keyboard is open or not. So its waking and rotating the screen b/c it thinks the keyboard is open, not b/c its going to dock mode.
If you hold a paperclip to the underside of the screen, the part that is exposed when the keyboard is open (but not exposed when keyboard closed), the paperclip will stick to the internal magnet.
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Hammer meets nail. I tried the paperclip under the screen and found the magnet. 100% correct on your reply. Bummer on my half because I wish this had a docking feature.
Thanks for the answer!
when I stand my phone on the lower left corner of my laptop, my laptop goes into hibernation, and when i remove my phone, it wakes back up haha.
Hello,
I recently bought a new flipcover for my Galaxy S4, and the weirdest is that if I remove the magnetic clip and lift the cover from my (locked and turned off) screen it automatically will unlock my screen without having to press a button. Also if i put it on again it auto-locks my screen and turns it off.
Now the question is, how is this possible? If I lay a flat object on the screen, it will not do it. This has to do with magnetical fields made for the S4?
Just curious, thanks.
Inf1n1tyNL said:
Hello,
I recently bought a new flipcover for my Galaxy S4, and the weirdest is that if I remove the magnetic clip and lift the cover from my (locked and turned off) screen it automatically will unlock my screen without having to press a button. Also if i put it on again it auto-locks my screen and turns it off.
Now the question is, how is this possible? If I lay a flat object on the screen, it will not do it. This has to do with magnetical fields made for the S4?
Just curious, thanks.
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You have guessed it is the magnetic field that acts as a rub of your finger
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Hi folks,
Is it possible to answer calls when flip closed? Also can we see notification light when its closed again?
Thanks!
what kind of flip cover you used?
What case?
kireytir said:
Hi folks,
Is it possible to answer calls when flip closed? Also can we see notification light when its closed again?
Thanks!
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entirely depends on which cover you've used. ideally you need to flip the case open to swipe the screen to accept the call. You can then close the flip cover and take the call as per normal. I doubt that you can use what samsung phones have where they have a slot on the cover where you can swipe the screen, as MIUI requires you to swipe up instead of left/right.
I'm talking about original flip cover which produced by xiaomi. Do you have any experience about notification light and Does screen go off when flip cover closed?
kireytir said:
I'm talking about original flip cover which produced by xiaomi. Do you have any experience about notification light and Does screen go off when flip cover closed?
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I have one. The screen goes off. You cannot see the notification light when closed. The side buttons work great. I dropped it once. The cover saved it on the first bounce. Then the phone flew out of the cover but did not break.
I'd like to just chime in and ask, does the official Xiaomi flip case stay closed properly?
The flap looks like it isn't secured, so is it prone to popping open? How does it compare to the flip cases that have a magnetic buckle?
James Weinreich said:
I'd like to just chime in and ask, does the official Xiaomi flip case stay closed properly?
The flap looks like it isn't secured, so is it prone to popping open? How does it compare to the flip cases that have a magnetic buckle?
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It keeps popping open and it's annoying. But I only have it for 3 days now, maybe with time it will stretch,
I was thinking of adding a magnet clip or something myself even.
It does open, no magnet to keep it closed. It has some weight on it though, so it is still way better than the nilkin flip case. That one couldn't even stay closed and screen kept going on and off. In the nilkin though the phone clips in better and you can see when the screen turns on for notifications. Another thing you should consider with flip cases is the absence of lock control when you get a custom rom. None of the roms i tried had an option to control whether the magnet of the flip case is going to be locking the screen or not as in miui. After trying them for a few weeks i switched to a regular back cover case.
I am using s9+ samsung orginal clear flip cover. When we flip the cover it ll automatically turn off the display. Is there a way to turn this off. Even i flip the cover i don't want the screen to be locked. For example if i am watching YouTube and i close the case it shouldn't be turned off. Is there any option for this? Kindly advise me.
Maybe you need to get a better case.
I bought a cheap hardcase cover with a leather like cover. So when I turn the cover all the way to the back the tablet turn off. Which I wouldn't mind. Excepet when I push the power button I can't turn it back on!!!
I need to unfold the cover in order to turn it on again. I did the following. I removed the case from the tablet and I place the tablet on top of the "top side of the cover" (it's black). This is the part that would "cover" or touch the back when I flip the cover around. And if I do this, again the tablet turns off and will not turn on again untill I lift it up. But I open up the case and place the tablet on the inside of the flip cover (it's gray part) then the tablet does not turn off. I can't find anything that is magenetized on the cover itself, so I don't know what gives.
The tablet works fine in all other circumstances and I'm afraid of just buying another cover because how do I know it won't happen again....
Any Ideas?
I would really appreciate any thoughts.
You could just disable auto on off in the Accessories settings. I doubt your case is actually non magnetic if it works like that.
Reply I solved the issue buy making to black bars (made out of carboard and the painted black) of 1 CM height and gluing them to the back of the case. The case if effectively magnetized (but I only figured it out because It say so in the description of the item that I bought) this prevented the top of the cover from touching the back of it, when flipping it and had the added bonus that I can safely store the pen and lay the tablet on the table with zero issue.