S-pen question

[lbros360]

For some reason the s-pen keeper setting isn't working.... does anyone know why. I'm on 4.1.2 on at&t . I walk away from the s-pen on purpose and I get no alert. Anyone have ideas to why?

 

[digital0verdose]

I'm on 4.1.1 and have no such image.

Verizon

 

[karsdroid]

I'm on 4.1.1 and have no such image.

Verizon

+1

 

[lbros360]

I'm on 4.1.1 and have no such image.

Verizon

I'm sorry, I figured out what was wrong.... anyways, I changed my thread because I'm also having other s-pen issues.

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I'm on 4.1.1 and have no such image.

Verizon

I'm sorry, I figured out what was wrong.... anyways, I changed my thread because I'm also having other s-pen issues.

 

[digital0verdose]

For some reason the s-pen keeper setting isn't working.... does anyone know why. I'm on 4.1.2 on at&t . I walk away from the s-pen on purpose and I get no alert. Anyone have ideas to why?

This has yet to work for me as well.

 

[karsdroid]

This has yet to work for me as well.

works from me, but at varying distances....sometimes i have to get quite a ways away.

 

[digital0verdose]

works from me, but at varying distances....sometimes i have to get quite a ways away.

I've walked as far as about 100 ft away and it hasn't gone off.

 

[Scott Kenyon]

It's not actually proximity based. Really, keeper is a terrible solution.
The handset has a reliable sensor for detecting if the SPen is speed in the phone. If it is not, the keeper app uses the phones internal sensor to detect if you are walking away from the pen. This is probably detection of vertical movement or something of the sort. If you're light on your feet it won't work.
There are slews of reasons it fails to detect you moving from the pen. I think they added it just to have it on the feature list. This is also probably too refute a customer saying they'll probably lose the pen to encourage them to buy the phone.
Let's also remember to put a feature in the pen like a sensor requires power. Having a customer buying batteries for their stylus would be terrible, so they simply did it this way. Sometimes giving a good user experience, gives a bad user experience. If that makes sense.

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[karsdroid]

It's not actually proximity based. Really, keeper is a terrible solution.
The handset has a reliable sensor for detecting if the SPen is speed in the phone. If it is not, the keeper app uses the phones internal sensor to detect if you are walking away from the pen. This is probably detection of vertical movement or something of the sort. If you're light on your feet it won't work.
There are slews of reasons it fails to detect you moving from the pen. I think they added it just to have it on the feature list. This is also probably too refute a customer saying they'll probably lose the pen to encourage them to buy the phone.
Let's also remember to put a feature in the pen like a sensor requires power. Having a customer buying batteries for their stylus would be terrible, so they simply did it this way. Sometimes giving a good user experience, gives a bad user experience. If that makes sense.

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think you are right....just took out the spen put it on the right arm of my chair. held the note 2 in my left hand with the screen off and jiggled it as far away from me as i could and the alarm went off.

 

[SDHarleydad]

Works on my Sprint version... just takes longer after updating to 4.1.2

 

[jdub1981]

I believe its actually using accelerometer to sense motion. You can actually take your pen out and lay it down and with phone in hand walk in place. Swing those arms like you would normally do when walking. After appr 20 steps it should pop up. Works fine on my att phone.

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[DaRkL3AD3R]

Yes, the above is correct. There is no proximity sensor at all going on here. If you walk lightly enough the sensors in the phone won't detect the right movement and you could walk miles away leaving your SPen behind and the phone would never know the better.

Bottom line: make good habits out of putting it back in the holster when you're not using it, if you don't want to lose it.