I was considering shelling out £600 for the Tab S3 but remembering from my old Note 4 that the Direct Pen input method stopped working about a year ago I thought I'd check whether Samsung had addressed this on their premium note taking device.
No.
I can't believe that the 2 top apps for note taking and management can't be used with an S-Pen, this is crazy.
I don't believe this to be a strange use case, there must be others who want to write their notes onto the screen and have that turned into text WITHIN their note app of choice. I'd be happy to use either, but neither works. Evernote told me it was to do with adopting Chrome as the input editor, is there any way around this? Otherwise there is little point in having an S-Pen.
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I was considering shelling out £600 for the Tab S3 but remembering from my old Note 4 that the Direct Pen input method stopped working about a year ago I thought I'd check whether Samsung had addressed this on their premium note taking device.
No.
I can't believe that the 2 top apps for note taking and management can't be used with an S-Pen, this is crazy.
I don't believe this to be a strange use case, there must be others who want to write their notes onto the screen and have that turned into text WITHIN their note app of choice. I'd be happy to use either, but neither works. Evernote told me it was to do with adopting Chrome as the input editor, is there any way around this? Otherwise there is little point in having an S-Pen.
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Direct Pen input works with no problem here. Is it only not compatible with the 2 apps you mentioned?
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You can use the S-pen in the keyboard and have that convert to text in any app you use. As for converting sketched letters to typed words it would be the app not Samsung to blame.
BTW, for OneNote, the "workaround" is to turn off auto switch to ink mode on stylus hover in settings for getting the keyboard To show up when using the S-Pen.
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Here is a keyboard I posted in the EVO 4G forums awhile back. Similar to swype but tons better IMO. I just added the theme to it. The theme came from "Awesome Keyboard" theme from "Dansta34"
Been using it on my Rezound since day one.
Just transfer to your sd card and install like any other apk.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=644728&d=1309720711
Screenshot is tiny.
This looks to be a themed version of Nuance's Flext9:
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5udWFuY2UuZmxleHQ5LmlucHV0Il0.
While I agree that it's a great keyboard (It's my daily driver), this is a paid app and probably shouldn't be distributed here. I see a reference to tmo in the file name, maybe this was included on some t-mobile phones?
This also happened to be the Amazon Free app of the day some time ago, so if you keep up with that, you may already have it (that's how I got it).
I tried to theme this keyboard about 3 versions ago but it would lose some of the functionality, the voice and swipe would not work. It just updated yesterday also.
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Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
This looks to be a themed version of Nuance's Flext9:
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5udWFuY2UuZmxleHQ5LmlucHV0Il0.
While I agree that it's a great keyboard (It's my daily driver), this is a paid app and probably shouldn't be distributed here. I see a reference to tmo in the file name, maybe this was included on some t-mobile phones?
This also happened to be the Amazon Free app of the day some time ago, so if you keep up with that, you may already have it (that's how I got it).
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Yes it was ported from a T-Mobile phone originally.
I have had it posted here for a long time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144447
Is speech to text working on the Rezound? Reading the reviews for this on the market and a lot of people said the flex update broke speech to text.
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Is speech to text working on the Rezound? Reading the reviews for this on the market and a lot of people said the flex update broke speech to text.
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No the speech is not working, sorry I should have put that in the original post
Speech to Text works fine on my UnMod'd Flext9.
Having just spent $20 on 8 different keyboards and trying various 'free' keyboards as well, Im wondering what you all find works well for the Note.
Right now, I find Better Keyboard 8.9.9 on the Amazon Market ($3) the keyboard that is working well for me, primarily because it extends the size of the 2nd and third row keys to fit the phone's width which makes the keys easier to hit. All the settings are stock except I disabled auto correct as it keeps changing my abbreviations to words I dont intend (bldg for example keeps getting changed to either bulldog or another word that is slipping my mind).
Supposedly Swiftkey has very good text prediction which might be interesting but I havent used it enough yet to know. Not yet sure the difference between the tablet version ($3) and the phone version (free) nor do I know which I should use for the Note. My assumption is the $3 version would offer more than the free version but I havent had a chance to look at it.
Of course, one of the other things about the keyboard stuff is that it requires using for a few days to determine if a keyboard is working for you.
Im also looking for a good speech to text app, it needs to be something I can select from the keyboard when it appears - ie. clicking the little microphone in the corner on whatever keyboard appears (not sure if Android lets you use a custom keyboard and change the voice recognition app from Google Voice to something else). It is important to be able to toggle the voice recognition from the keyboard as I am using some custom software on my Android phone for work that requires me to do text entry, the app does not support anything other than a keyboard meaning that I want to bring the keyboard up, tap the mic in the corner, say what I need to and have that automatically put into the field. Google Voice is ok but Im wondering if there isnt something better.
My favorite by far is the tablet Swype beta. Some people find the keys to be too small, but I find that it works great for me, and my fingers are fat. Also, using the spen makes it the fastest and most accurate text entry method I have used by far. It also includes speech to text through dragon dictate, which can be activated by the key on the keyboard and is very accurate, more accurate than the stock android voice recognition in my opinion. Here is a picture of the keyboard:
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I'd like a widget for my home screen that would allow me to quickly and easily write notes to myself. Something like one of the post it note widgets, but designed to have handwriting on it not typed text.
Anyone know of such an item?
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I'd like a widget for my home screen that would allow me to quickly and easily write notes to myself. Something like one of the post it note widgets, but designed to have handwriting on it not typed text.
Anyone know of such an item?
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I'm looking for this too. Ideally I'd like a widget that could be full screen and you could flick the pages just like a field notes and just keep a running notebook of ideas. Maybe within the app itself create different notebooks and such. There are plenty of apps that recognize the S pen, but I haven't found widgets that allow writing within them.
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I'm looking for this too. Ideally I'd like a widget that could be full screen and you could flick the pages just like a field notes and just keep a running notebook of ideas. Maybe within the app itself create different notebooks and such. There are plenty of apps that recognize the S pen, but I haven't found widgets that allow writing within them.
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That would be perfect. A digital field notebook with chapters.
Someone make it, I'll happily but it from the market.
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I just found one on the market called LectureNotes, not the most intuitive to get set up, but seems to do what I wanted.
More widget functionality would be nice, perhaps a message to the dev when I get a moment.
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If you use TSF shell launcher, they have a post-it widget you can download as well. When you tap on the post-it you can handwrite your note. That would be the closest to what you're looking for I believe.
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Lecture Notes is pretty much what I wanted.
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Which opens an editor directly
Even a setting for active input device so my hand doesn't work on the screen while writing, which is more useful than I expected.
Worth trying out.
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Hey Guys,
Its a great application landing to NOTE 2
Most people make do with a PIN or pattern lock to secure their Android devices. If you need something a little stronger (or just want to feel like Ethan Hunt) EyeVerify has just released the beta version of an app that uses honest-to-goodness eye scans. Eyeprint takes a photo of your face, then matches the pattern of blood vessels on your eyeballs to a previous photo to access locked apps.
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Technically, Eyeprint isn't using the classic retina scan to grant access - that would require a small amount of infrared light to illuminate the membrane at the back of the eye. It uses the same principle of amazingly unique vein patterns, but it picks them up from the corners of your eyes. Users need a front-facing camera of at lest 2 megapixels. To create the baseline, you'll have to follow the instructions while using the rear camera, looking to the far left and right to let the camera pick up the veins on your eyes. After that, a quick scan of your eyes looking left and right from the front-facing cam should do the trick.
EyeVerify hopes to expand its services to other developers on Android and iOS through an SDK. At present, the app can only lock other apps - you can't actually unlock your phone with an eye scan. (There's a quick "lock all" option for the truly paranoid.) Early feedback from the Play Store indicates that it's very efficacious, so hopefully more devices will be enables as the beta program continues. The Eyeprint App Lock Beta is free to try for 30 days.
Play store link
looks promising..
Anyone have the apk? google says not compatible with note 8, I say 'let me try'
This app did not get very good reviews from the users on the Playstore
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Please use this thread to suggest and promote good apps that make use of the S Pen.
It's my first time with a stylus enabled device and having just found out that the digitiser is made by Wacom got me excited about what features devs have been working on with regards to this. I am a computer graphic designer of sorts and decided to first look for an app that would maybe make my handset into a graphics tablet and soon found VirtualTablet Lite (S-Pen) (adfree version available).
Installed and loaded up PhotoShop CC 2014 and was very pleased that it tracked accurately and the pressure sensitivity worked instantly. I immediately bought the adfree version which works even better since the ads are gone and the tablet space takes up the full screen in horizontal mode. The phone screen is a proportional representation of your computers screen. Palm/hand detection is enabled by default too. The app and the server program are very clean and nicely made.
Screenshot of adfree version on my Note 4:
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How about Sketchbook for galaxy and Artrage?
I'd love to hear some journal apps. SNOTE doesn't auto fill in dates so daily notes are even less convenient than paper.
MyScript Stylus Beta
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How about Papyrus?
Play Store link: http://goo.gl/yImJ2t
Handy Note is one of my favorite try it
I love LectureNotes although for Note 4 you have to change (in handling settings) the thickness of the pens to a much higher value.
MyScript Calculator
Let's you write out formulas and will calculate them. Doesn't seem to handle imaginary numbers though.
OneNote
Everyone probably knows this one. Switches to ink mode when you bring the stylus up to the screen.