CKwik240
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Well that was short lived. I was holding off on accepting the update to see if it would affect this. I must have accepted the update while under the influence last night. Argh! Lol
Is there any way to envoke Bixby other than the hard button?
If you use TouchWiz, swiping from left to right on your Homescreen would bring up Bixby. If you are using a third party launcher, you can set up an 'Activity' shortcut (if your launcher supports it, and I think most, if not all, do) to launch Bixby.
You can do it for now on Verizon since they haven't released the zero day update yet
Well that was short lived. I was holding off on accepting the update to see if it would affect this. I must have accepted the update while under the influence last night. Argh! Lol
So just found this out. The update made it so you have to double tap the button to open it. Bixby still works.
Remapping is nice, but if Sprint gets an update that disables it I won't be mad. I just wish Bixby was fully functional.
Yeah I wouldn't block updates just to avoid the remap fix... there are a lot more benefits in getting updates fixing bugs, updating apps and keeping your phone secure. 7.1 will be pushed out eventually and you want to miss that for a dumb button remap? Devs will eventually find another way to remap.
I have never owned a phone where the costs didn't outweigh the benefits of "updates". The costs have always been greater than the benefits. From glitches, worse battery life, disabling of features, uglier layout updates have ALWAYS been bad in my book. A phone will never be better than when it came out of the box. F@#k updates. I dont want to downgrade my phone. People get obsessive about updates and think they are the holy grail but I despise them with a passion. I will always use a disabler in the future ever since I used it on my Note 7.
Here are a few examples:
Upgrade from 4.4 to 5...Orange messages and white notifications from a nice black notification area and decent blue messages.
Note 7 getting killed
S8 losing remapping capabilities.
I have never owned a phone where the costs didn't outweigh the benefits of "updates". The costs have always been greater than the benefits. From glitches, worse battery life, disabling of features, uglier layout updates have ALWAYS been bad in my book. A phone will never be better than when it came out of the box. F@#k updates. I dont want to downgrade my phone. People get obsessive about updates and think they are the holy grail but I despise them with a passion. I will always use a disabler in the future ever since I used it on my Note 7.
Here are a few examples:
Upgrade from 4.4 to 5...Orange messages and white notifications from a nice black notification area and decent blue messages.
Note 7 getting killed
S8 losing remapping capabilities.
You're kidding right??? They killed the Note 7 so people wouldn't get hurt. Also the update on the T-Mobile S8 clears up the problem with the face recognition