The Galaxy Note 5 Attributes Thread - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note5

Hey ladies and gents,
I made this thread to have a place to post personal findings with your note 5's. For example, tell us how do you like the screen, anything weird that you noticed about the screen, the way the phone behaves, and possibly any quirks that you found out with the phone. Even things that you like and don't like. Maybe the phones camera acts a certain way in weird conditions, etc. Let us know so that we can discuss and possibly find solutions for any future quirky attributes that pop out! ?
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I have noticed that when I want to send a pic to someone it automatically sends the pic without letting me type anything. Don't know if it is a bug or just the way the OS works.

I do not like the fact that I can't choose to use an app once or by defualt, it automatically selects the app for me
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I agree. The default activity chooser is missing the option to use an app just once or always. Very annoying

Really? That's very annoying because I usually like to choose different media players for different media applications. That can pose a problem.
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On a positive note (pun intended), the screen is gorgeous and wonderfully sensitive. My last two phones, lgg4 and nexus 6 were too dim in sunlight and the screens on the far right edge missed touches far too often. Well, on the LG touches were missed just about anywhere 1/3rd of the time.

I have noticed that when I take a screenshot with smart select and save it to gallery I cannot send it as an mms. It says unsupported media file. Anyone else had that problem/

helikido said:
Hey ladies and gents,
I made this thread to have a place to post personal findings with your note 5's. For example, tell us how do you like the screen, anything weird that you noticed about the screen, the way the phone behaves, and possibly any quirks that you found out with the phone. Even things that you like and don't like. Maybe the phones camera acts a certain way in weird conditions, etc. Let us know so that we can discuss and possibly find solutions for any future quirky attributes that pop out!
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Sent from a LG G3?

DJ ELITE said:
Sent from a LG G3?
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Yes sir a G3. Just waiting for a 64gb note to get back in stock.
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helikido said:
Yes sir a G3. Just waiting for a 64gb note to get back in stock.
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I'm waiting for @Chainfire. :good:

Just bought a 64gb note 5. I wait with large anticipation.
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Anybody with the Note 5 64gb how much of the 64gb do you get to use after the OS is installed? Right now I'm using around 50gb overall on my Note 3.

re: free space
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Anybody with the Note 5 64th how much of the 64gb do you get to use after the OS is installed? Right now I'm using around 50gb overall on my Note 3.
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The size of the OS has no effect on the amount of in free user space, the OS is on a separate partition in the phone.
The separate partition is of a pre-determined size which has nothing to do with the free space on the internal sdcard.
That's why I do not see any advantage of uninstalling bloatware or other apps which we don't use or want.
Disabling bloatware and many other unwanted and unused apps is a much better and safer option.
Good luck,
Have a great day!

I hear what you are saying, but still doesn't answer his question. Regardless of partitions, you will still have 64gb to work with, so how much is available from a stock N5 64gb? I think I read that 11gb is used, but I can't confirm I don't have a note 5 yet. Coming soon. You should have over 50gb, probably 52-53. I'm sure someone can confirm.
@Misterjunky-That sounded a little rude, I didn't mean it so please don't take it the wrong way.
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Warrior1975 said:
I hear what you are saying, but still doesn't answer his question. Regardless of partitions, you will still have 64gb to work with, so how much is available from a stock N5 64gb? I think I read that 11gb is used, but I can't confirm I don't have a note 5 yet. Coming soon. You should have over 50gb, probably 52-53. I'm sure someone can confirm.
@Misterjunky-That sounded a little rude, I didn't mean it so please don't take it the wrong way.
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Ok, before adding any files to your internal sdcard you will have exactly 58,350,411,776,00 bytes usable free space.
Which means that you will have approx 58.3 GB usable free space to work with before adding any files.
Good luck,
Have a great day!

Damn, that's actually very good.
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Has anyone ever noticed that the clock icon actually tells the right time? If you go to the app drawer and flip the page back and forth you can actually see the seconds hand moving.
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[APP REQUEST] Motorola Assist Modification

I was wondering if any developers would be willing to look in to the Moto Assist app, I know there's a few of us that would like to be able to toggle the driving functionality on and off at will.
I work from home programming, so it's great to be able to just vocally tell my phone to read me texts, or answer calls... but then I'd like to be able to turn it off when I go out to dinner haha. I've already tried work-arounds like forcing car mode on, or downloading other apps. Nothing works as well as the stock Moto Assist app, but unfortunately it only works when I'm driving, it must pull from the GPS.
Anyway, if someone could look into this that would be awesome, it's a bit beyond my ability regrettably. Thanks! :fingers-crossed:
Like being able to say.. "okay Google now. Turn on moto assist"
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Jeez, this is quite a shock coming from the Galaxy Nexus. I didn't realize developers for this phone would be so sparse.
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9kracing said:
Jeez, this is quite a shock coming from the Galaxy Nexus. I didn't realize developers for this phone would be so sparse.
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No kidding. :|
I'll see if I can get around to decompiling the APK today and poke around. Hopefully I can bypass the driving check at worst and just have it always on, or always off.
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+1 I think I'll donate $5 to anyone who does this
I thought of this one too
Look at these weird permissions assist has maybe we just need an app with these permissions
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New finding in SmartActionsHanashi.apk ... there's a service com.motorola.hanashi.CommunicationMediatorService (my guess on which service it is) and I think (I dont do much reverse engineering) we just need an app to activate the service after we edit the SmartActionsHanashi.apk to make the service exported (it is false ATM)...
I would try it myself but with no root I cant reinstall the SmartActionsHanashi.apk
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SmartActionsHanashi.apk also has all of the right resources. so i am 90% sure that this is the apk we are looking for.
If anyone would like to try my idea PM me, you WILL need root.
9kracing said:
Jeez, this is quite a shock coming from the Galaxy Nexus. I didn't realize developers for this phone would be so sparse.
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In all fairness, it's a completely different situation. I know with my Droid DNA it took MONTHS to see anything other than slightly modded stock ROMs.
I'm sure the Moto X community will pick up in the next few months but that being said i'll probably get a Nexus 5 to satisfy my urges.
foster626 said:
Look at these weird permissions assist has maybe we just need an app with these permissions
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New finding in SmartActionsHanashi.apk ... there's a service com.motorola.hanashi.CommunicationMediatorService (my guess on which service it is) and I think (I dont do much reverse engineering) we just need an app to activate the service after we edit the SmartActionsHanashi.apk to make the service exported (it is false ATM)...
I would try it myself but with no root I cant reinstall the SmartActionsHanashi.apk
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SmartActionsHanashi.apk also has all of the right resources. so i am 90% sure that this is the apk we are looking for.
If anyone would like to try my idea PM me, you WILL need root.
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I tried with this but no luck. Check your PM.
I've been super busy lately, haven't had time to look at this myself.
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abiezer said:
I tried with this but no luck. Check your PM.
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Thanks to new root method I'll be working on this on my own I will post if I get it to work
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New development assist app uses new modified smart actions app and there are rules in here that correspond to assist actions but using the ones they have all I can do is confuse the phone..... There are also strange actions that don't do anything except if in the driving sleeping meeting actions ....in the pictures I'm sitting at my desk but in the status bar you can see I'm "driving" but no texts are read and music didn't start either....
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Edit the command i got to open the assist engine is
adb shell
su? idk i just used it
[email protected]:/ # am start com.motorola.contextual.smartrules2/.app.AboutActivity
AOV is Touchless Controls
I believe LED is Active Notification
use with caution i probably messed up my assist just now
Is anyone still working on this by chance? The only thing about my Moto X that I wish was different is having the ability to switch having the phone read my texts aloud on and off at will. I'm surprised that such a useful feature is limited to only driving when there are so many situations where it would be useful. Being able to do this without needing root access would be ideal.
This would be very useful and definitely be awesome for a work environment.
I am going to try and do it again. I have some new ideas on how to do it!
Will post in here and make a new thread if profit is achieved :fingers-crossed:
I would defiantly donate $10 for this.
Profit

[Q] pedometer app on nexus 5

Does anyone know of any apps taking advantage of the pedometer hardware in the nexus 5 yet? I'm currently using noom walk but it's not massively accurate.
Cheers!
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There's an app called moves that does an EXCELLENT job of this. The interface is fantastic. Highly recommend it.
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DinoSoup said:
There's an app called moves that does an EXCELLENT job of this. The interface is fantastic. Highly recommend it.
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Does Moves use specifically the pedometer hardware?
guilmm said:
Does Moves use specifically the pedometer hardware?
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Yes, it was the first to actually support the Nexus 5's pedometer.
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I'm pretty sure Google Now does but it only gives you an update once a month.
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Cool app Moves
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I just saw this and I really hope they can bring this on the Nexus 5, too. I doubt it, though...
ricostuart said:
Does anyone know of any apps taking advantage of the pedometer hardware in the nexus 5 yet? I'm currently using noom walk but it's not massively accurate.
Cheers!
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have you seen this?
its very simple compared to the "big guys" apps..
http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1rcd17/need_beta_testers_for_lightweight_pedometer_app/
Here's one that users the hardware step counter on the N5, it has a nice ui and has achievements etc too
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.pedometer
Data collected by Moves can be exported to a variety of connected apps to track fitness over time, visualize travels, etc.
The AIRS ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airs) recording app recently added the pedometer as a dedicated sensor. It's not specifically focussing on step counting only but more generally on lifelogging. Its companion app Storica ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.storica) lets you view your daily step count, among all the other data you collected on your phone.
hope google develop its Now activity card better with pedometer data
I'm currently using moves app as a pedometer. It is nice looking and good app but consumes way too much battery. At the same time it feels stupid that both moves and google now are tracking my path. Hope moves developers gives options for phones with hardware step counters to turn off tracking path when there is no need for their own algorithms to detect steps but I'm not holding my breath because it is clearly big part of that app's user experience what they want to offer.
So my second thought is that now when android 4.4 and hopefully more devices with hardware step counters will come to market google should develop google nows activity card better. I don't see any point in that card currently only showing once a month. Hope they will develop it more in the way like moves is currently. Google now already tracks the path like moves and now with pedometer they should count steps and give chance to user select how often they want to see that activity card. I think they should give a option to show daily activity card with path, steps, distance and walking/cycling/running time like moves do. Maybe even burned calories.

Missing S-Pen Features?

Trying to use selective text/ photo whatever it's called. On note 4 I could select a group of words from a picture, post etc. and after selecting a T would pop up if I wanted to extract the text and allow me to copy to clipboard. Is this gone or am I just overlooking it. If they took this away that's bs [emoji35]
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I've also been searching for this feature. I maybe used it once or twice on my note 4, but it's an incredibly powerful feature and fun to show off. Wouldn't make sense to remove it.
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Still haven't found the built in to snote feature; however, apps like TextFairy or Optical Reader essentially do the same thing (just one more step). They also allow to export to snote/pdf. Wouldn't be too bad to add one of them to the air command menu.
anastatow said:
I've also been searching for this feature. I maybe used it once or twice on my note 4, but it's an incredibly powerful feature and fun to show off. Wouldn't make sense to remove it.
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Yes it is definitely a great tool which I used all the time on my note 4. I can't believe they would remove it. That just pissed me off
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anastatow said:
Still haven't found the built in to snote feature; however, apps like TextFairy or Optical Reader essentially do the same thing (just one more step). They also allow to export to snote/pdf. Wouldn't be too bad to add one of them to the air command menu.
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Thanks for tip, guess I'll have to go this route.
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T-Mobile V10 marshmallow update

Anyone catch this yet?
http://www.tmonews.com/2016/04/t-mobile-lg-v10-expected-to-get-android-6-0-update-next-week/
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Hadn't seen it yet! Wowza! It's about time. If course we'll believe it when we actually see it right?
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Lol i was just about to post this. Beat me to it. But great to finally hear something.
The silence has been deafening for long enough...☺
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Any bets that the finger print scanner will not be fixed? I know I know I am being synical....
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Nice. Anyone know what apps to freeze or disable to block the OTA? Just rooted stock rom now, but want to make sure my phone doesn't try to download OTA when it comes. Will return to full stock for that.
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Hoping root comes quickly, as I want the update but don't think I can sacrifice the freedoms
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bgbagz said:
Any bets that the finger print scanner will not be fixed? I know I know I am being synical....
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I'll take that bet....after the fact.
My wife just got it on hers. Updating right now. Mine hasn't. :/
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gustav30 said:
Nice. Anyone know what apps to freeze or disable to block the OTA? Just rooted stock rom now, but want to make sure my phone doesn't try to download OTA when it comes. Will return to full stock for that.
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Well if you are worried that your phone will update automatically, it won't because your /system partition has been modified (you have root access). Either way, you will be notified about the update and you can simply ignore it.
bgbagz said:
Any bets that the finger print scanner will not be fixed? I know I know I am being synical....
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nobreak1970 said:
I'll take that bet....after the fact.
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It's fixed and way better!
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masondoctorjt said:
It's fixed and way better!
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Agreed
Though I didn't get the ota I used lg bridge
PunishedSnake said:
Agreed
Though I didn't get the ota I used lg bridge
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Did you have any issues using LG Bridge? I getting an error on my device right at 49% that says "Image Verifying Failed", two times in red. After that message I get a message in Bridge that I need to retry the update (retrying gets the same error).
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inpherknow said:
Did you have any issues using LG Bridge? I getting an error on my device right at 49% that says "Image Verifying Failed", two times in red. After that message I get a message in Bridge that I need to retry the update (retrying gets the same error).
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Nope
I also used LG Bridge. Fingerprint scanner works great now with my Otterbox case. I had no problems updating through Bridge, took maybe 20 minutes.
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I took the update thru the LG Bridge. It came thru flawlessly. Things I've noticed...
- Fingerprint scanner seems to be very sensitive now. Registering a new fingerprint was effortless, unlike the first times I did it. MUCH improved.
- 2nd screen functionality for notifications seem better. My messages wouldn't scroll when they got displayed, now they do.
- MUCH better battery life.
- Sharing options are improved BIG TIME. It gives frequently used phone numbers now.
- The dialer has a native video call option now and it's awesome. I called my girlfriend on her Galaxy S6 Edge and she got the option to answer or answer in a video call. Very nice.
- Maybe placebo, but the camera seems a bit snappier.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on the update. Very nice and welcomed update. Also, this is the only phone I've never had to root just to get some extra functionality.
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Did anybody else notice a difference in front and rear camera quality while taking a picture and the marshmallow update?
I'm excited about the update I'm one of the few who have problems with the fingerprint scanner when I put a case on my phone but without a case this is got to be one of the fastest unlocking phones with fingerprint I've ever owned and I've owned quite a few phones... I'm going to update to marshmallow tonight
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PunishedSnake said:
Agreed
Though I didn't get the ota I used lg bridge
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Sorry guys new to this my lg v10 is rooted. A notification came up saying update will start between 11- 4 do not unplug. I don't want my cell to brick. What should I do
Give the update to us instead, ha!
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New Cyanogenmod alpha for N920t

Has anyone tried it yet? Been using it as my daily driver and it's pretty amazing. This isn't a joke for anyone who like myself thought we'd never have cyanogenmod on our note 5s. Just wondering if anyone has tried it what are your thoughts
Link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-13-alpha-t3520641/page1
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I thought there would've been more excitement over this lol. I never thought we'd have cyanogenmod on our note 5s. I've been having a blast messing around with it.
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The_Keeper86 said:
I thought there would've been more excitement over this lol. I never thought we'd have cyanogenmod on our note 5s. I've been having a blast messing around with it.
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Do we need to install Gapps? And how is it running?
diopskill said:
Do we need to install Gapps? And how is it running?
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Yeah, we still need to install Gapps. I use opengaps. It's running great so far for an alpha including call audio. Of course make a nand backup just in case . Make you sure you read through the thread carefully.
only bug i have found is trying to send mms you have to pick a picture from gallery to share then it will send you cant send from with in message app it restarts your phone
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only bug i have found is trying to send mms you have to pick a picture from gallery to share then it will send you cant send from with in message app it restarts your phone
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Oh I use textura. So I'm not sure. I'd report it in the thread so Rayman can see it. The battery life isn't the best either. But for an alpha it's pretty impressive.
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can fix with sms messaging (aosp) from play store
Also the video isnt working on the phone, recording video on camera or snapchat. It records on the camera but then it freezes when you play it back. and on snapchat is just says recording failed.
Camera quality does not seem very good. The only thing that may make me switch back to a Samsung based ROM.
Anyone else notice a camera quality difference?
Yeah, it seems the same for me. I'm tempted to dual boot though. I do like this rom for the most part.
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Thanks for the heads up, been waiting for this.
4G LTE is currently non functional it cuts on for a spit second and cuts off unusable unless on WiFi or awful 3g but glad to see the devs working hard keep it up hope to have this as my daily driver

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