Cover screen issues - Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Questions & Answers

about a week ago I noticed on my cover screen that I can no longer swipe right or left it allows me to double tap and view the time , date and temp.
Is this something I accidentally shut off like a notification setting hiding or blocking it from showing ?

Platinumsweet1975 said:
about a week ago I noticed on my cover screen that I can no longer swipe right or left it allows me to double tap and view the time , date and temp.
Is this something I accidentally shut off like a notification setting hiding or blocking it from showing ?
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It's a known bug, did you try to reboot the phone? It helps.
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Tips and tricks

long press recent apps button and menu posted up with in apps. And if on home screen long press recent brings up home screen options
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ill try this..
Kchitown1977 said:
long press recent apps button and menu posted up with in apps. And if on home screen long press recent brings up home screen options
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What do mean by recent apps button ? can you please share with me this deeply ?
Look about 1.10 into video
15 Samsung Galaxy S5 Tips and Tricks: http://youtu.be/XD-58tnDl6k
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I removed one app 5 times because I could only get to settings during initial setup. I was so angry there was no menu button. Then I heard about the long press
Step by step like a tutorial if you want to.
Guadalupeohara said:
What do mean by recent apps button ? can you please share with me this deeply ?
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Bottom left next to home
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New Message preview
After receiving a new text message, there's an alert on the lockscreen that reads, "Messages New Message". Anyone else find this practically useless? Is there a way to get that notification to give a preview of the message?
What I've been doing is either tapping on the New Message banner then swiping in the highlighted box below to unlock and go straight to that message. Or I pull down the top panel and tap on the message preview found there. Either works, but seems like extra steps.
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Bottom left next to home
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okay. I will try it. thanks.
You can create an auto-reject list.
From the Phone App - going into settings (3 dots on the top right) and Settings-> Call -> Call rejection. From there you can set to reject form list and start creating a list of numbers you don't want to hear from.
AmisRBjr said:
After receiving a new text message, there's an alert on the lockscreen that reads, "Messages New Message". Anyone else find this practically useless? Is there a way to get that notification to give a preview of the message?
What I've been doing is either tapping on the New Message banner then swiping in the highlighted box below to unlock and go straight to that message. Or I pull down the top panel and tap on the message preview found there. Either works, but seems like extra steps.
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If you open the messaging app, go to settings, notifications, and at the bottom if you check lockscreen it will show the sender and part of the text instead of just new message. You can also turn on pop up where it shows a pop up message where you can reply to a message without going into the messaging app. Pretty convenient. Hope this helps.
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Card scanner built into contacts app
Open contacts >menu>business cards> hit + and you have a scanner !!
What about scheduled messages? It was a feature on my S4 just wondering am I missing it.
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Anyone know of a way to make long pressing the home button on the lock screen turn on flashlight like in the miui rom?
1. long press on the recent apps button while looking at one of your home screens, or long press on the home screen to get your scrren menu then hit "home screen settings" uncheck "my magizine" to get rid of the magazine tab
2. go into camera and hit settings turn off picture stabilization to make the camera much more responsive and get rid of that "please hold still" delay when trying to take pics of moving targets (dogs, kids, etc)
3. until we get root third part apps will NOT save to the external SD card (your camera and some stock apps will, but playlists from 3rd party mp3, back ups from any back up app, 3rd party notepad, 3rd party alarms like smart alarm, etc will not) so be careful that if you need to back something up use dropbox or something like that these third party apps may back up to an emulated storage (still internal storage) so if you factory reset when we actually get root you will still lose everything you thought you saved
4. if someone helped you hit the thanks button, lol
Disable/hide apps you don't use from your app drawer: go to app drawer - long press recents/hit menu button (three vertical dots) - select "Uninstall/Disable Apps"
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So I was playing around with the fingerprint scanner and wanted to add more then 3 fingerprints. When I was setting up my thumb, I also swiped my pointer finger. After the set up was complete. I found it let me unlock the phone with both fingers from the one setup. I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I figured someone out there might find it useful.
Semper Primus
Already posted in the fingerprint thread but thought it could be useful here..
What I did was use the 3 allotted different fingerprints and scan my thumb at slightly different angles so I could swipe my thumb horizontally rather than vertically and it works a lot better now.
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armyranger172 said:
So I was playing around with the fingerprint scanner and wanted to add more then 3 fingerprints. When I was setting up my thumb, I also swiped my pointer finger. After the set up was complete. I found it let me unlock the phone with both fingers from the one setup. I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I figured someone out there might find it useful.
Semper Primus
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Thanks!! Just confirmed this worked for me. I was able to use right thumb, left thumb, and index finger on just 1 fingerprint setting.
I am going to copy and paste this info into the thread I made on the Fingerprint Scanner Tips.

First world problem: Keep the screen from turning off?

I have a first world problem: When I'm on a call and want to access the notification bar, my screen turns off--I think because the light sensor is effected by my hand.
Use case: I'm on a call, realize I want to switch to Bluetooth, and want to go to the notification bar to access settings or click on the bluetooth tile, but the screen goes dark. So, I have to put the phone down, and carefully access the bar making sure my hand doesn't get in the way. Is there a way to get around this?
UPDATE: I just got an answer from someone else off this board: While on a call, press the "home" button/icon that takes you to your launcher and then access the Notification bar--the screen will then stay on without a problem.
aagha said:
I have a first world problem: When I'm on a call and want to access the notification bar, my screen turns off--I think because the light sensor is effected by my hand.
Use case: I'm on a call, realize I want to switch to Bluetooth, and want to go to the notification bar to access settings or click on the bluetooth tile, but the screen goes dark. So, I have to put the phone down, and carefully access the bar making sure my hand doesn't get in the way. Is there a way to get around this?
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I've searched a lot and didnt found a solution, i guess the only way its being cautios with your hand
Kcotias said:
I've searched a lot and didnt found a solution, i guess the only way its being cautios with your hand
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I just posted a fix to my original post, above.
Alternately... You could install a launcher with gesture setting as to double tap in the home screen to toggle/expand notification bar.. So you don't have to get your fingers near the top at all... Cheers
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Disable screen resizing

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to pull down the notification bar and I end up shrinking the app. Especially during a phone call when I'm trying to avoid the light sensor (which will make the screen go black)
Any way to disable screen resizing entirely?
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Not that I'm aware of. However, the "minimize to window" gesture only works from the top left corner, and the light sensor is on the left of center. So swiping down anywhere on the top right half on the screen should activate neither.
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I wish that were the case. However minimizing the window also happens from the top right corner.
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Its super annoying. Ive been trying to find a way to disable it since i got the phone.
It only works on certain apps, not all apps. The difficult part is not knowing and trying to see if the screen sizing works or not. It works on gmail, messaging, google chrome and only a few others. Just try to not touch the upper left and right corners of the screen
You don't have to put your fingers near the top to pull down the notification bar when you are on a home screen...

Notification shade works while screen locked

Others may know this, but it was a surprise to me.
With the screen locked, you can still swipe down on notification bar and access the quick settings tiles and the screen brightness slider. Some of the tiles are locked out, but you can switch between sound, vibration or muted, and turn on or off the following WiFi calling, Do not disturb, flashlight, Always on display, Airplane mode, Power saving (but not Ultra), and Auto rotate.
Tapping on any of the other tiles will bring up the pin/password entry screen. Tapping the settings icon or Quick connect also brings up the pin/password keypad.
The fact that you can toggle airplane mode on is troubling. That means someone who finds your phone, and knows, can prevent you from locating / wiping the phone with Android device manager.
Correct, that's a HUGE security issue. Removed airplane mode from my choices.
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But im sure you can still get into it by clicking the edit button. To remedy this i use screen lock protector from the play store also cerberus has option to lock power off and notification drop down.
jadaress1 said:
But im sure you can still get into it by clicking the edit button. To remedy this i use screen lock protector from the play store also cerberus has option to lock power off and notification drop down.
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Nope, it requires login. Why would you assume
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jadaress1 said:
But im sure you can still get into it by clicking the edit button. To remedy this i use screen lock protector from the play store also cerberus has option to lock power off and notification drop down.
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Edit mode doesn't seem to work with the screen locked, fortunately.
Oh thats good then cause on my s6 edge you could
jadaress1 said:
Oh thats good then cause on my s6 edge you could
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Unfortunately, though, I discovered you can tap the down arrow to open the full quick settings panel, and use airplane mode from there. No way to prevent it at the moment.
Or they can just turn it off?
meyerweb said:
Unfortunately, though, I discovered you can tap the down arrow to open the full quick settings panel, and use airplane mode from there. No way to prevent it at the moment.
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Yep. That's crazy they would allow that. Someone needs to bring it to Samsung's attention!
meyerweb said:
Unfortunately, though, I discovered you can tap the down arrow to open the full quick settings panel, and use airplane mode from there. No way to prevent it at the moment.
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Yeh thats what i meant but worded it wrong, the app i mentioned earlier remedys that for now.
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Home Button Missing on AOD

I have 2 S8 Plus phones with mostly the same apps & the settings are set the same. One of them has the home button on the AOD. The other phone, the button icon is missing. You have to kinda find it. They both have the same clock setup & software updates. Where is the setting for the button to appear?
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I have 2 S8 Plus phones with mostly the same apps & the settings are set the same. One of them has the home button on the AOD. The other phone, the button icon is missing. You have to kinda find it. They both have the same clock setup & software updates. Where is the setting for the button to appear?
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settings lock screen and security always on display show always
jerrycoffman45 said:
settings lock screen and security always on display show always
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Thank you responding. I have it set for "always on"
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Settings -> Lock screen -> AOD -> Content to show -> Home button and clock or information
I think this is what you wanted ^^
realtrempskii said:
Settings -> Lock screen -> AOD -> Content to show -> Home button and clock or information
I think this is what you wanted ^^
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That you, that was it.
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The dot on the home bar / status / tabs / back button
You can just dubnle tap the dot on the home, tab, and back bar, which is on the bottom of the screen, and it will make it not disappear, or disappear. I cant find anywhere online that adresses it, so here you are, ive been looking for an hour and figured out wtf i pressed to make it disapear. A vanasing text appeared and said some**** about always on diplay, but that is nonsence. Has nothing to do with aod!!!!!
Got s8 plus on phone it say I got 60 gig, tried to copy 1 movie never copy saying no space, connected s8 plus to PC and it shows total space is only 2 gig something

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