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Coolest things you've found to do with the Note!

Fred G. Vader

Fred G. Vader

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I have this nagging feeling that I'm not getting all I can out of my Galaxy Note. So I was wondering, what are some of the coolest things you guys are doing with your Note? Thanks for your input!
 
Coolest thing by far is having a car dock for it so that I can use it as GPS (that I can actually see, which is GREAT) while simultaneously streaming music and/or voice calls over FM radio.

I have a Jabra Cruiser 2 bluetooth speakerphone in the car, clipped to my sun visor. It has the ability to broadcast over FM radio bands. When I connect my Note to the Jabra 2 via bluetooth, everything that I would otherwise hear through the phone is now heard through the car stereo system, instead. I can have radio streaming (rdio, tune-in, xm/sirius) in the background while I have navigation displaying in the foreground. The navigation voice directions just play over the music when needed.

Love it.
 
Unlike smaller cell phones, I can really reach that nagging spot on my back that I could never scratch with my iPhone. :)

Seriously though, just play with the thing. I can't think of any short list of things I "discovered", I searched and played and fiddled for weeks. Finding the stuff was most of the fun and I'm sure there's more things to find.
 
I currently avoid any products that begin with the letter I.

Kind of a shame because I do like Ice Cream, ah well, Sherbert will have to do.
 
I'm a big music nerd so my big use is mounting it in my car with PuGoo and having the screen on the whole time while shuffling my music. After reading some articles here on Phandroid I'm using Plug In Launcher to launch PowerAmp as soon as I plug in my headphone jack. I also use it for reading comic books using Perfect Viewer, of which I copy the files to my phone using AirDroid from my laptop.

I'm hoping to get some sort of TecTiles or other NFC tags to do various things. I want to eventually get an NFC tag for opening my front door and for unlocking my car, but that's not quite here yet.
 
colnago said:
PowerAmp has a setting to perform that task natively.
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Actually that setting just resumes playing music once the headphones are plugged in. The app junbringer is describing sounds like it actually launches the poweramp app and brings it to the forefront.
 
I received a two-page PDF file from my boss via email about work availability for the upcoming year, and I was able to fill it out and email it back to him in S-Note in 5 minutes (his deadline was like two weeks from now.) He was genuinely impressed with how quickly it came back to him, and I was genuinely pleased to have actually found a real-world use for that feature. It's not like I would use it often, but it's convenient for when I DO need to!
 
I was buying a home recently and I was able to sign all pdfs right on my phone and email then directly back to the sender.
 
Fred G. Vader said:
Actually that setting just resumes playing music once the headphones are plugged in. The app junbringer is describing sounds like it actually launches the poweramp app and brings it to the forefront.
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^that

I can just plug it in and mount it on my dash without having to use the screen to pull up the app. I leave the screen on with the album art showing while I drive. Also PlugInLauncher turns up the volume all the way automatically since Samsung makes it turn down every time.
 
I came across mention of this Samsung code you enter into the phone section that gives you a lot of other tests you can run on your phone. It was originally about another Samsung phone, but I entered it into the Note as a lark and it worked.

Here it is, just enter this in the phone keypad:
*#0*#

Let's you test your LCD screen (Red/Green/Blue), vibration, touch, dimming, etc.

You can also see your Accelerometer, baromoter, lights, magnetic and gyroscope sensor data. Very interesting, though I'm not sure what it all means.
 
ebusinesstutor said:
I came across mention of this Samsung code you enter into the phone section that gives you a lot of other tests you can run on your phone. It was originally about another Samsung phone, but I entered it into the Note as a lark and it worked.

Here it is, just enter this in the phone keypad:
*#0*#

Let's you test your LCD screen (Red/Green/Blue), vibration, touch, dimming, etc.

You can also see your Accelerometer, baromoter, lights, magnetic and gyroscope sensor data. Very interesting, though I'm not sure what it all means.
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Basically a diagnostic tool on the Note. I've used it a few times just for fun. I'll have to check it out again now on ICS.
 
I primarily bought the Note for a backup camera and remote tethering with my Canon DSLR. Was considering an iPad as it was not possible on Android until this brilliant little app called DSLR Controller was developed.

DSLR Controller :: Home
 
If you haven't tried it, HulloMail is a great voicemail app replacement, the free version is no big whoop but with the full version, the thing I like is that you can assign different outgoing messages to contacts on your phone. So if you're say, expecting an important call from someone and there's a chance you might miss it you could set an outgoing message to say "Yes, I would like to have you leave a message and tell me if the results of the DNA test confirm that it's my child" or, well, you know, important stuff like that, or just fun stuff like "Oh, hi Mom, how are you? (pause) uh huh... (pause) Oh, really? (pause) Listen, the baby's crying, gotta run, love to dad, buh-bye!". :)
 
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