Recent content by bialy

I seem to have lost Google Assistant. It no longer responds to " Ok, Google ". Battery settings seems fine. "Hi Bixby" is working fine. I recall seeing a voice recognition off message flash on a couple days ago. I cannot find a simple toggle in any of the Settings to turn Google Assistant back...

What is the name of this new UI and the top useful features? Was Oreo the latest one?

What is the best / easiest way including filter to turn a regular photo in the gallery to a black n white photo?

Ok, I figured it out. Under 'Theme', once selected a theme, there is a toggle to get the key borders. How is the typing prediction on Gboard?? I thought the stock samsung was as good or better than SwiftKey, which was surprising as many hailed SwiftKey prediction as superior.

Can you give a step-by-step specific instruction on how to do that - put a square outline around each key? Thanks.

I tried SwiftKey for 6 months or so and was underwhelmed versus the stock Samsung keyboard (including prediction). I now will try Gboard. Anyway on Gboard to get a square outline around each key?

I noticed that when I do a Group text with my N8 texting two iPhones using the standard Samsung text messenger that I either do not receive some of the text messages from one of the iPhones (or maybe some of the missing ones seem to come in at a later time but populate up in text thread at the...

how to access a note8 Level tool to see if a surface is flat ?

how does one access a Compass on the N8 ?

Does the N8 have a thermometer capability to measure temperature?

^ ^ thanks

where is that? how do you access that?

Thanks. There were just one or two fb notifications set as a sound, all the others no sound. So I changed All to no sound and let's see if that is a fix.

^ I noticed this also of late. And also dings for selected facebook alert notifications. I can't seem to relocate settings to quiet things up. Can someone drill down details to get to the appropriate settings? Thanks.

It would be nice to have this feature to turn off alarm (upon wakeup) - just wave your hand over phone to shut off alarm (rather than pressing the screen little x target to dismiss while not fully coordinated awake)