SIGH!
Farging new phone.
Anyone familiar with the Galaxy s10e? I’m having some…minor, but vexing…issues and I’m having trouble finding info on the webs.
Ok, so first, when using the switch/kill all app button, I’m used to being able to close individual apps. That seems to have disappeared on this phone, is there a way to make it possible to close individual apps instead taking the mass closing approach?
Crap, switching phones has fried me. I know there are a couple other things but for the life of me I can’t think of them…truly minor indeed, but also frustrating when I “stub my toe” on them in the next few weeks as I adjust.
fucking g-----m m-----------g worthless fu…
On one phone/Android version I have, the apps are all layered vertically and you swipe up or down to scroll and swipe left or right on an app to close it. On another version, the apps are arranged horizontally and you move through them swiping left or right and swipe up or down to close it. So yours is probably one of those.
Put your finger on the app you want to close and move it towards the top of the phone (a.k.a., swipe up).
Now I remember one of the other things, what happened to the keyboard flashing a little bubble off to the side so you can see what key you’re actually pushing? Can I get that back somehow? Very useful for typing passwords for those of us that don’t have teeny tiny pixie fingers,
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Don’t even get me started on this bixby key bs. God I haven’t even had the phone 10 hours yet and already I want to fix it with a hammer
Drag it off, ok that’s not too awful
Hmmm! Not sure about the word bubble.
I like your mad face emoji, tho’.
ETA: see if you can pull up a keypad option in settings.
I’ve had a S10e for a few months. I like it, it’s probably the last time we can get a good-performance phone in such a small form factor.
It’s possible to reprogram the useless, ridiculous Bixby button to do something else, such as open the camera application. Instructions here.
This page has instructions for installing and activating a different keyboard from the Play Store. The one I use is Gboard (Google keyboard), at least I think so, and it has a pop-up on every keypress. Alas, the pop-up is square, not round, so I’m not sure if it’s “bubbly” enough for you.
I use gboard and definitely recommend it above any other Android keyboards I’ve used. It has the keypress popups as well as a bunch of other nice features like a clipboard manager and an easier-to-use editor with arrow buttons, so you don’t have to play the “try to tap your finger between these two tiny letters” game.
However the Bixby button is one of the main reasons I stopped buying Samsung phones.
I love you. I hate that button.
Carp. It only works if you are signed into Bixby. I don’t think I’ve ever done that.
<sigh> Maybe I should learn more about this thing. I seem to be becoming more Luddite-ish as time goes by. I ought to embrace the oo-shiny of my youth again.
Ok, thanks for the tip about gboard…
Yeah, the bixby thing, guess this is the last Samsung I get, and a new resolution to actually force time and energy to physically shop phones instead of browsing online(I don’t recall seeing anything about bixby online, could have just missed it)
Did samsung downgrade the tts engine? My venerable (if senile) j3 had way better voice synthesis. This thing sounds like those old automated phone trees from way back when.
One thing I do like, if you’re typing something (like on here) and you need to slide the cursor around, it shows a magnified view so you can actually put it where you want it. So there’s at least one good thing, I guess.
Oh and yeah, Beck, it does have pretty good emojis, so two good things
I can’t make them work on the board from the phone. My tablet can though.
Yeah, smilies from my old phone didn’t work on here either.
On the other hand, I found a most gratifying solution to the problem of the bixby button. The only phone case/holster clip combo I could find was an otterbox (outrageously over priced imo) and the solution was to simply trim off the button nub on the rubber portion of the case that reaches through the hard plastic part to push buttons. Now I shouldn’t have to worry about literally bumping that damn thing (which I’ve already done). MORGYYYYYYYN. Looky what I did, maybe you can too. No annoying logging in or pita mere remapping or anything. Button isolated completely, almost as good as disabling it
