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Ever wonder what happens to all those links and other things you have copied to your clipboard before pasting in a post or document? Long press on the microphone key on your Samsung keyboard to find out and delete anything you don't need anymore.

Thanks to members Jeffruby and Klotar in the LG G2 forum for pointing this out. Not specifically a Note 3 tip but pretty cool nonetheless.

Update: You can also reuse clipboard items by just tapping on them after the microphone key long press. You have to redo url tags though.
 
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I don't have a Note 3 and forgot to test this out on a store demo unit.

On the original Note and Note 2 you can bring up the dial keypad and dial *#0*# to bring up a diagnostic panel. Is this still present on the Note 3?

I never used this on the Note 2, but yes, it exists on the Note 3. Just tried it.
 
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It's funny how you don't see thing until someone shoves it in your face... In the contacts app there is a new icon with a picture of a business card with a small camera over the lower right corner of the card. Tap on that, take a picture of a standard business card and Viola! it captures all the info in contact fields that you can edit before you save.

Open Contacts, tap on the + symbol
Choose where you want the new contact saved
Tap on the Business card icon
Take a photo of the card. Try it without flash in a well lit room for best results.
Check the details
Tap on Save

Thanks to The Daily Note II/3 - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 & Note 3 Daily Videos for pointing this out for us.
 
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It's funny how you don't see thing until someone shoves it in your face... In the contacts app there is a new icon with a picture of a business card with a small camera over the lower right corner of the card. Tap on that, take a picture of a standard business card and Viola! it captures all the info in contact fields that you can edit before you save.

Open Contacts
Tap on the Business card icon
Take a photo of the card. Try it without flash in a well lit room for best results.
Check the details
Tap on Save

Thanks to The Daily Note II/3 - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 & Note 3 Daily Videos for pointing this out for us.

That is awesome. As someone that seems to be flypaper for business cards, this would be a godsend.


You know, as much as I dislike Samsung for the region lock fiasco (let's not discuss that in this thread please) and my averment that I wasn't going to buy a Note 3 to replace my SGS2, I keep finding myself back in these forums...


I think it's time to bite the bullet and get one.
 
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It's funny how you don't see thing until someone shoves it in your face... In the contacts app there is a new icon with a picture of a business card with a small camera over the lower right corner of the card. Tap on that, take a picture of a standard business card and Viola! it captures all the info in contact fields that you can edit before you save.

Open Contacts
Tap on the Business card icon
Take a photo of the card. Try it without flash in a well lit room for best results.
Check the details
Tap on Save

Thanks to The Daily Note II/3 - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 & Note 3 Daily Videos for pointing this out for us.

Awesome tip. I'll actually use this one a lot. One thing I would point out though is at least on my Sprint phone I have to open the contacts app then hit the settings button, then select business card to open that up. then the little icon in the top right hand corner opens the camera.

It seems fairly accurate on the first 5 or so cards I tried it out on. It gets most everything right but you definitely have to proofread them before you save. At least it saves a copy of the card you can go back later and view. This is golden.


Thanks for the tip. :)
 
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Awesome tip. I'll actually use this one a lot. One thing I would point out though is at least on my Sprint phone I have to open the contacts app then hit the settings button, then select business card to open that up. then the little icon in the top right hand corner opens the camera.

It seems fairly accurate on the first 5 or so cards I tried it out on. It gets most everything right but you definitely have to proofread them before you save. At least it saves a copy of the card you can go back later and view. This is golden.


Thanks for the tip. :)
In contacts, if you tap the + symbol for new contact, you don't see the camera icon?
 
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I couldn't get it to work on my Note3...what am I doing wrong? I dialed *#0*#0


Thanks!

If your phone came from Verizon, it's been disabled.

See this.

My bad. Didn't realize that certain providers blocked that. I never used that ever on my Note 2 and remembered it having been mentioned before, but I'm on Sprint (should have clarified that detail) and hadn't ever used it.
 
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My bad. Didn't realize that certain providers blocked that. I never used that ever on my Note 2 and remembered it having been mentioned before, but I'm on Sprint (should have clarified that detail) and hadn't ever used it.
I googled the poo out of it because I wanted to see the temp/humidity/barometric pressure without having to install an app to do it.

Then I did install an app, and it was garbage.
 
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I did not find any mention of this via search so thought I'll add this as winter is approaching. (I know it is in the manual, but not everyone reads them so..)

You can use gloves with the touchscreen if you increase the screen sensitivity. :)

Increasing touch screen sensitivity
Use this feature to let the device increase its touch sensitivity.
On the Home screen, tap Apps→Settings→Controls, and then tick Increase touch
sensitivity.
 
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I did not find any mention of this via search so thought I'll add this as winter is approaching. (I know it is in the manual, but not everyone reads them so..)

You can use gloves with the touchscreen if you increase the screen sensitivity. :)

Increasing touch screen sensitivity
Use this feature to let the device increase its touch sensitivity.
On the Home screen, tap Apps→Settings→Controls, and then tick Increase touch
sensitivity.
 
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Lillian, off topic totally. I like your signature :) I notice where your from and that one of your previous phones was a Nokia N8. Is your signature a reference to what happened at Nokia? Just a thought :)

Actually, it's is from the game Alice: Madness Returns, but I guess it could be used to describe Nokias fate too. :D EDIT; Nokias fate was also the reason I jumped to Samsung.
 
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Actually, it's is from the game Alice: Madness Returns, but I guess it could be used to describe Nokias fate too. :D EDIT; Nokias fate was also the reason I jumped to Samsung.

Funny, HTC's impending fate is the reason why I jumped back to Samsung. :p

In contacts, if you tap the + symbol for new contact, you don't see the camera icon?


Actually its there too. The wording on the original tip implied that all you had to do was open contacts and it would be there. I rarely spend any time in that particular app and didn't realize they had added any features in there. That's really handy.
 
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Actually, it's is from the game Alice: Madness Returns, but I guess it could be used to describe Nokias fate too. :D EDIT; Nokias fate was also the reason I jumped to Samsung.

You, me and alot of others as well 'defected' to Samsung. I loved Nokia phones and still have my N95 and my N900 - the latter is was way ahead of it's time and a fantastic phone.

Anyway sorry to thread jack - back on topic.
 
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Actually its there too. The wording on the original tip implied that all you had to do was open contacts and it would be there. I rarely spend any time in that particular app and didn't realize they had added any features in there. That's really handy.
Updated business card tip.
 
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