how to switch between windows in note 5

omluff · Sep 8, 2015

please...How to switch between many windows in note 5 (apps windows or main windows) 2 problems i have:

1- in my previous phones i could do this with only clicking in the white point and go directly in the window... but couldn't in my note 5 so if i will have 7 or more so how to switch diretly from 1 to 7 for example.

2- they removed even when you switch to the next of the last window...in my note 2 the next window of the last window is the first window but in note 5 it blocks in the last window so you must go back

please if anyone have a solution please tell me...don't like this thing

omluff · Sep 8, 2015

i think we can't do this anymore

pool_shark · Sep 8, 2015

I'm not sure I fully understand your dilemma but I'll give it a shot.
Using the TouchWiz launcher, if you press and hold the screen your multiple home screens minimize, from there you can press one of the dots below and choose which screen to go to.

omluff · Sep 8, 2015

pool_shark said:
I'm not sure I fully understand your dilemma but I'll give it a shot.
Using the TouchWiz launcher, if you press and hold the screen your multiple home screens minimize, from there you can press one of the dots below and choose which screen to go to.

but it takes much times than my note 2 so it's embarrassing to scroll without using dots directly (in apps windows when you click to the icon apps )so if i have 10 apps windows
i'll have to scroll from 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 to go to the 10th window i don't like...somone told me that you can fix this by launchers

and even when i do what you said you can't reach far dot directly when you are at dot number 3 and you click to the dot number 10 you will pass to the 4th not the 10th

omluff · Sep 8, 2015

i hope you understand my problem now

pool_shark · Sep 8, 2015

omluff said:
but it takes much times than my note 2 so it's embarrassing to scroll without using dots directly (in apps windows when you click to the icon apps )so if i have 10 apps windows
i'll have to scroll from 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 to go to the 10th window i don't like...somone told me that you can fix this by launchers

But you can do it without scrolling. I added 4 homescreens. In TouchWiz I simply touched the buttons to switch screens. In Nova I did as I previously mentioned.
In the app drawer I pressed the dots at the bottom to switch windows, again, using the TouchWiz launcher. It didn't work using nova.

omluff · Sep 8, 2015

pool_shark said:
But you can do it without scrolling. I added 4 homescreens. In TouchWiz I simply touched the buttons to switch screens. In Nova I did as I previously mentioned.
In the app drawer I pressed the dots at the bottom to switch windows, again, using the TouchWiz launcher. It didn't work using nova.

in note five you go from 1st to second and from second to 3rd
in my note 2 i can go from the 1st directly to the 4th with clicking the dots
in note 5 when you are in the 1st and click to the forth dot you go always to the second...
you can't directly go to the 4th (i am talking to the normal touchwizz...not with launchers...)

pool_shark · Sep 8, 2015

Aha. Now I see. You're right. Although the screens move when hitting the dots they don't move to the corresponding screen, they move incrementally.

Don S · Sep 8, 2015

Yup, I noticed this too while ago. You can no longer go from screen 1 to screen 4 directly, as you could with previous Touch Wiz versions. And there is no longer the option to loop the home screens (continuous home screen scrolling).

Deleted User · Sep 8, 2015

That was apparently discontinued around the S5 generation if I heard right. I was also told there are ways to get that functionality back, (third party) but at what cost, I'm unsure.

omluff · Sep 9, 2015

Don S said:
Yup, I noticed this too while ago. You can no longer go from screen 1 to screen 4 directly, as you could with previous Touch Wiz versions. And there is no longer the option to loop the home screens (continuous home screen scrolling).

it's not touchwizz problem it's lollipop...lollipop have many problems like that or more importants one...

i found a solution(not really very good solution but most helpful solution in our case)
for exemple you want to go from dot 1 to dot 5 you just rapidly click lot of times in the dot 5 (4 times to go from 1 to 5...

Don S · Sep 9, 2015

omluff said:
it's not touchwizz problem it's lollipop...l..

Nope. It is Touchwiz. My Note 4 on Lollipop can do this without issue. It's a Samsung decision here ..

omluff · Sep 9, 2015

lollipop 5.1.1
i meant
and tried lot of launchers too and it's the same

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