5 Useful Tips for Your Samsung Galaxy Note

Unlocking your phone with your fingerprint: Tired
of unlocking your phone by entering a password?
Thanks to a fingerprint sensor built into its home
button, you can unlock the Note Edge with a
simple swipe.

To save your fingerprint, go to the
Settings app (denoted by a gear icon) and scroll
all the way down to “Finger Scanner.” Here, you
can register up to three fingerprints, whether it be
other people’s or three of your own fingers. You’ll
get a prompt to slide your thumb over the sensor
multiple times. You’ll want to make sure you get
the whole area of your finger as you swipe it over
the scanner. Once it’s done, you can now unlock
your phone easy peasy. To add more fingerprints,
just go the same menu as before and tap the plus
sign.
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How to take a quick screenshot: Do you like
taking screenshots with your phone to share with
other folks? Doing so with the Note Edge is as
easy as one, two, three. Well, actually, one-two
as it only requires two button presses. Once
you’ve got the web page, text or image on your
phone screen that you want to take a photo of,
just press and hold the top power button and the
lower middle home button at the same time.
Make sure you hold for a bit until you see the
prompt or it won’t take the screenshot. You’ll
know it worked because you’ll see a white, square
border briefly show up on your screen. You should
be able to then see your screenshot in the
phone’s photo album.
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How to insert a memory card: If you feel that you
need additional memory for your new Note Edge,
you can insert a microSD card into the phone.
Before you can do that, though, you’ll need to
take off the back cover. Just look for a notch on
the upper edge of the phone just below the power
button. Pull back on that with your nail to take
the cover off and you can now access the
memory card slot. This, by the way, is the same
step you’ll take if you want to change the SIM
card while traveling abroad, for example, or the
battery if you like to rock spares. For more
detailed instructions with pics, check out our
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Back Cover, Battery,
SIM and Memory Card tutorial.
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Activating stylus features: Thanks to its
ginormous screen, stylus controls have always
been a touted feature of for the Note line. In the
case of the Edge, you can use the stylus to active
“Air commands” that let you do “action memos”
that turn written text into phone actions, do a
“smart select” box that lets you highlight a part of
the screen for later use, outline and crop images
on the screen, or even capture screenshots and
draw on them. To do so, hover the tip of your
stylus above the display then press the stylus’
built-in button. This’ll bring up the Air command
menu.
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How to customize the edge screen: See that
fancy side display on the edge of the
smartphone’s screen? You can do all sorts of
customization with that screen. These includes
changing the apps featured; adding notifications
for weather, text and mail; or even changing the
background for it. To access the options for the
edge screen, swipe up on the upward-pointing
arrow on the bottom of the edge screen. Tap on
the gear setting that shows up and you’ll bring
up a menu for customizing the edge screen. For
more tips, make sure to check out our Note Edge
battery and SIM tutorial or the Tablets and
Smartphones hub