Are you talking about waking from a complete power-off condition? Then no. If you're talking about waking from a blank screen, I think (but don't hold me to it) that there are a few apps that do that with the sensors - turn the phone face up, or shake it or something like that. But you'd have to spend time in the Play store looking.

 

If you press the home button, that also wakes the device up from standby.

 

I see...well, I've been searching to find an app that's similar to the software that allows the tap twice (turn on) function that the LG G2 has and found this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.maicas.android.wsleep&hl=en

Haven't downloaded it yet, but it's another option you might want to try out.

 

Here's another app that would allow turning the screen on without the power or home button

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree&hl=en

 

And another, involving the proximity sensor

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.android.smartscreenonlite

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.android.smartscreenon

 

I wrote in another post about an app I installed on my phone called note buddy. I have it set up so when I pull the S-pen out it wakes and insert it - it sleeps. Kinda cool. Just throwing that out there.

 

Here's another
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omd.autoscreenon

 

Completely forgot about that. I don't use it to turn the device on, but I do use Note Buddy (f.k.a. S-Pen Helper), so that I can change the sound that the device makes when the S-Pen is taken out. I also changed the notification message that is displayed

 

No problem. Your thread prompted me to continue my search for an app that'll allow the same function as the LG G2, but all of the ones I posted seem to involve the proximity sensor. I might try the one that uses the proximity sensor to detect when I've pulled the phone out of my pocket or when pulling it off my stand.

 

I'm actually going to try it as well. As much as I like certain software concepts that Samsung has on Touchwiz for stuff like this, Gravity Screen On/Off seems like I'd benefit from it (if it works as stated on the reviews).

 

I've just downloaded gravity to give it a try. i'd love to hear your thoughts on how/whether it's worked for you please.

Cheers

 

I couldn't quite get my settings right, so I will try it again when I have more time

 

New Note 3 user here...
As Caker188 mentioned, pull the S-pen out and it wakes. Doesn't sleep when inserted for me, though.

I do have a few note-taking apps installed (colornote, evernote, etc) so I don't know if the apps are tied to S-pen removal/wake process.

 

No worries. I tried some of the apps I had recommended to you, but ultimately none of them really worked for me because of the security pin that I'm required to have on my phone. Using those apps, automatically triggered the pin to be active, after the phone went into standby, and by using Widgetlocker, I could at least delay the pin from being active for 30 minutes, which is much better for me (especially when I'm using my phone frequently throughout the day).

 

frankly.. I like the .. home button wake.
don't need the fancy wake up apps.

the "hi galaxy".. cant see me using that .. when others are around. silly.
the wave across the screen.. more work than pressing the home button
move to wake... what if it is in my pocket or backpack?

 

It's funny because I absolutely hated S-voice, when I had the Note 2. Problem is, Samsung took out the software that immediately read out text messages (while in hands free mode) and forced people to use S-voice, to have text messages read out loud...so, I turned S-voice back on (on my Note 3), just for the purposes of being able to tell the phone to read my text messages. I've already had a couple instances, while not in the car and the phone is sitting at my desk, where it thought I said "Hi Galaxy" and woke up S-voice...very annoying...LOL.

I've been searching and searching to find a way to not need S-voice again...

Oh, and I must say that I have gotten used to being able to push the home button to take the phone off standby. Only thing I can hope for with that, is the ability to customize the amount of pushes, so that my phone doesn't wake up when in the pocket (I'd love to be able to set the home button for 2 pushes to wake the phone, rather than just 1...that would resolve the issue for me).