Galaxy Note 7 — S Pen Tips and Tricks

 

Jared is back with XDA TV with a new video focusing on some of the best tips and tricks for the S Pen on the Galaxy Note 7. Become an S Pen power user with these tips below.

#1 Remove Floating Icon

Instead of going through your settings menu to turn off the Air Command floating icon from your screen, just tap and hold the icon until the trash icon appears at the top of your screen. Drag it to the trash to remove it.

#2 Magnify

Believe it or not, magnify can be pretty useful. Use magnify to get a closer look at graphical elements in your photos. You can also use it in spreadsheets and other documents. Instead of zooming in and out to see small text, just use the magnifier.

#3 Glance

Glance is much like the alt-tab function on a windows PC. Use glance to reference notes when sending an email. Likewise, it's best used whenever you need information from more than one app at a time.

#4 Smart Select

I'm sure many of you are already aware of the gif creation tool from the smart select menu. There are ways to use some of the other smart select tools as well. In apps like YouTube, you can't normally cut and copy text from the comments section. Just choose one of the other smart select tools like the rectangle, create a box around the comment you want and choose "extract text".

#5 Fix Lock Screen Memo

The always-on display allows you to pin a note to the lock screen but many users have a hard time getting this to work correctly. The fix is actually pretty simple. Got to Display Settings > Always On Display > About Always On Display > Update and now you should have the lock screen note functionality.

#6 Delete Written Text

When writing something with the handwriting feature, simply cross out the text you want to delete and it will disappear.

Did we miss any great tips for the S Pen? Let us know in the comments!

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Android 6.0 via MIUI 8 Global Beta 6.9.9 Available for Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Snapdragon 650 Variant

The Snapdragon 650 variant of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 has received its Android 6.0 update via a MIUI 8 Global Beta build, version 6.9.9. While the new ROM is supposed to bring in a whole host of improvements, both cosmetic and with performance, early adopters are mentioning of issues. Keep in mind that this is still a Beta ROM, and MIUI 8 Global Stable should release sometime in the future.

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OxygenOS 3.1.0 is Currently Rolling Out to OnePlus 2 Owners

A big update has just been announced for the OnePlus 2, and the OTA update is currently being rolled out in stages. This update will bring OxygenOS up to version 3.1.0, and it comes with a number of changes. OnePlus has fixed some notification issues, improved Doze, addressed the alert slider/silent mode issue, included August's security patches, fixed some bugs and more.

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UMi Announces their 2016 Flagship, the UMi Plus

The latest smartphone from UMi has been announced and pre-orders are available right now for $180 (but the price will go up to $250 once released). The device has a 5.5″ 1080p display, MediaTek's Helio P10 SoC, 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 32GB of storage, 13MP rear camera, 4,000mAh capacity battery from Sony, front fingerprint scanner (that UMi is calling Touch ID 2.1), and Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.

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MediaTek’s Revenues Grow MoM and QoQ

MediaTek is doing very well lately as their revenue is not only increasing from month to month, they're also breaking their own quarterly revenue records. The chipmaker reported $827.9 million in revenue for the month of August, which is a 4.2% increase over July. Q2 showed them bringing in a record breaking $2.32 billion in revenue, and they're projecting around $2.69 billion in revenue for Q3 as well.

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XDA TV: Rawad Rants About Samsung Apps and RAM

In this new XDA TV video, Rawad rants about Samsung apps and their poor RAM management. So many Samsung phones have fallen victim to the many extra apps sitting in your RAM. Rawad breaks everything down in the video.

There is no doubt that accessing data from RAM is faster than accessing it from anywhere else. Many people will say "Free RAM is wasted RAM". This may be true but filling your RAM with apps that you will never use is pointless. Samsung likes to ship their phones with a lot of extra bloatware. Many of these apps take up a lot of space in your available RAM. So even though your device might have 6GBs of RAM, it doesn't do you much good if it's all occupied by Samsung apps.

See the video to heard Rawad's  full thoughts on the situation.

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Android 7.0 Users Report Issues with Bluetooth Connectivity

We're seeing reports from Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P users who are having Bluetooth connectivity issues after they have updated to Android 7.0 Nougat. The reports initially started toward the end of last month, and have continued to add up throughout the week. Multiple people are responding with different solutions, but there doesn't seem to be one universal fix at this time.

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