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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
As usually thank you so much for your help. I have a lot of answers to go back to everyone with. They’ll be very happy and I’ve already started to disseminate the information. I did have just two follow up questions:

On question one - I think I may have gotten explained the question wrong. They all got the Add S Note Template and it worked exactly how you said that it eventually asks you to down the S Note Template app from the Samsung App Store. What they were asking was someone noticed on an APK of that app from the App Store it had I believe 21 and 23 where we changed those numbers in all those other apps to 24 and 25/26. So they were wondering if they changed those numbers in the S Note Template app from the Samsung App Store would it work directly from S Note then? I hope that makes sense and I’m explaining myself better to represent what they were curious about.

On question 5 - I guess someone had a kid who likes Minecraft and they downloaded it from Aptoide and it supposedly messed their phone up. They said they’ve downloaded other apps from their with no problem, but that one time was really bad that I believe they needed to get a new phone. So they’ve been real hesitant on downloading items. Since I personally haven’t downloaded anything other than from xda, apkmirror, and apkmirrordownload, I figured it would be best to ask someone who has more experience from Aptoide and f-droid (assuming you have also used f-droid as well, which I don’t know if you have).

Everyone that I’ve told your answers to so far are very happy! I have a few more people that have gone away for the holidays and I will get with them when they get back. I’m sorry that I was asked these two other follow up questions. I really appreciate it. I wish I knew more. I always thought I knew a lot and I guess I know a lot more than some, but not as much as others. I guess you can some everything up like that. Any thought on how to get Samsung to rethink S Note like they did the SD card? Have a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
Answering question number 1: No. Changing the apk or api target only allows the apk to fit the api (Application Program Interface) of the Android system of the specific phone type. In this case the Note 8 whose present API is 25. It would be excellent to "merge" or smack together any app we want to make it work the way we want them to. This forum would so much shorter lol.

Answering question number 5: Aptoide is a gamble. Meaning: you have to do severe research on the apps and games itself and the developer revamping such apps on sites like that. Some don't have a damn clue what they're doing and some don't speak English to get clarification of its content. I would definitely stick with sites like XDA, Apkmirror and Apkmirrordownload or any site directed by someone knowledgeable on here.

You learn something new everyday. I've learned from trial and error. I've bricked two phones, Galaxy Note 2 and my Galaxy Note 3 and recovered them back to normal. (? whew!!!). My very first Rom on the Note 2 and 3 was the Wicked Rom. After trial and error..bricked it twice and finally got it right... It became my hobby and finally a passion. Wicked Rom made me stick to the Galaxy Note series. I still have my Galaxy Note 3 rooted still with the Phronesis N7 Rom v7.0. I'm typing here on the Note 8 but I haven't switched over completely because I'm using this phone as a $1,000 experimental platform to convert my beloved apps over permanently .... Some of the same apps we all love. It's not about the "Samsung Experience", it's about "Our Experience". Here's a recent short story of what I mean: Funny how a friend of mines has the silver $1,000 Note 8 and in light competition, my Modified rooted 2013 Note 3 with a Note 7 rom and S8 tweaks blew his phone away?... lol..

His...?...S-note had no action memo, his S-Pen made the same old default sound since the very first Note 1, same two multi window function and ohhh live message text... nice...

Mines... first thing I did was download Sling TV signed in and started watching El Rey Network... pinched it to the size of a postal stamp and put it in the corner still playing a commercial... opened S-note and pulled the S-Pen which sounds like Luke Skywalker turning on his light saber...?... not 5 or 6 but 17 apps appeared on the air command...tapped calendar, airCalc (floating calculator) and double tapped the screen with the S-Pen and an action memo yellow sheet pops up... all this while watching the Godzilla marathon....??..finally just for a closer... with Sling TV still in the screen floating around, I put XDA app and Paper Artist in multiwindow and started coloring a picture from a my gallery lol. ?. It's the knowledge gained from trial and error that makes it Our Experience and there's always more to learn from each other on here.... each one teach one. Here's a screenshot of what I did similar to what I did on my rooted Note 3.

Happy Holidays to you and your friends and all your loved ones. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
First off, thank you for all of your help on behalf of my friends as well as myself. It means a lot! I also wanted to thank you for your well wishes as well! As usual, I of course have follow up questions on behalf of one of my friends. She is a great person and is always looking out for her son. Like I said, she already tried to download Minecraft from Aptoide and it messed things up. Her son has it on his iPhone, but wants it also on his Android tablet. Money is really tight. She works 2 jobs after her husband left her, not in a bad way. He unfortunately passed away and now she might even have to get a third job. She wants to try again and download it for him because she said it’s a different person on Aptoide. She also said it has the green check mark, which I personally don’t understand what’s the point if you have to be careful from that site. She can’t find it anywhere else, and you really don’t think it’ll work? Also you never mentioned what you thought of F-droid? I am actually curious about F-Droid as well as what is the point of Aptoide verifying things if you are still taking a big chance. Maybe you can shed some light on those 2 things and what you think she should do with Minecraft. I really want to help her as best as I can. I really appreciate any advice as usual you can give. Thank you again!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MatroxD:
Is this the feature that allows you to write notes on the back of your pictures? As I miss this, as it was massively handy.. Samsung comes out with tons of features that are great and then they take them away in Leah of some general features for the masses.. Ugh..

Sent from my note 8...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
Yes I think you're right. How I did it was do all the apps for S-note first and then did S-note last. Being that's the main app we are all tweaking.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jimbo77:
Thank you for this. The only one I couldn't get running was Idea Sketch :/. I've tried all things but just can't make it, any clues guys?

Or could it be related to the ROM I'm using?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tzin1:
Everything is working perfectly for me! Thank you so much guys for your effort!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Conito11:
Easy chart is the only app that doesn't work for me. I did the same thing with the other ones. Any tip?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tzin1:
Install all the modded apks with s-note last. If you already installed all the apks, delete cache/data for all of them and then unistall them all. Install everything from scrath but keep the s-note for the end. That was the trick for me. In my first try I installed s-note first and easy chart crashed every time. Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Conito11:
You are the man thanks you so much. Now all is working. Also is needed to bring storage permissions for easy chart on application settings.

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I'm going to upload all the modded apps with a gracenote notification sound (really love so want to share) and dual camera apk also.

Would be great if someone can make a flashable zip for those have rooted phones, if not just install them just like thread.

https://mega.nz/#!3xgRGDzK!znGVm8sxo4LzFgf97LdFaVyOpeKRl5p_rmoDS-CX1vg
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
That's a great step with the MEGA. Yes I agree if done properly, a flashable zip for rooted Note 8s would be great. Non rooted 8s if it bypasses the verification with not app updates whatsoever
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
Happy "Note" Years everyone....?..lol..Hey guys. I'm back on. While I've been sick in bed after a crazy cold..Ive been researching the Photo Note with the gallery insert feature found in the Note 4. To get it to work properly, a few things have to be done (which is the long way).. in order for us to get it on the Note 8. I'll be testing my experimental ideas all week while changing the permissions (rw-r-r-r) editing copying pasting and other fun Note things. and seeing ways to shrink this process. Please bare with me as me and my Note 8 are not at 100% just yet. Thank you guys and happy Monday. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
Picture from another page..This is what we all want in our Photo Note
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
Happy New Year, too!!! I hope you feel better! That picture is exactly what I was talking! That would be awesome to have that capability! I was wondering if anyone got their phone updated to Oreo and if so did they have to do anything to S Note or was is taken care of through the update? Also, I noticed one of your previous posts you mentioned you have 17 shortcuts in the air command. Was that for the Note 8 or the 3? I think that would be great if we could do that with the 8? You mentioned something about not being able to pin with the AOD. I would love to be able to pin Action Memos with Nova Launcher as well as use a icon gesture to add a contact like I was able to do on a LG. I was told by Nova that there is no way to do it with Samsung (They actually were really not happy with Samsung. I should say he was.). I was quite surprised. Again, hope you feel better! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
Thank you. Yes that's the picture and I have the APK but it's being stubborn and not allowing me to push the permissions and open correctly. I'm working on it today after 4pm. So I'll post my experience as I go along.

Oreo update? I don't know. I am still at 7.1.1. I gutted I'll have too wait to find out but we should be good since S-note APK EDITOR PRO changed the apps SDK target to 25/26.. so wet shall see.

Air Command...lol...on the modified Note 3 with Phronesis Note 7 Rom v7.0 it is up to 10. The Rom version before that allowed about 12 to 15 I think. I think I still have a screen shot but not sure. I'll look but it was amazing. Now it only allows 10 on this version v7.0.. that's on both phones now.

Action Memo with pining to AOD would be wonderful. I could of sworn we was able to do that on the Note 3? If so then I'm not crazy lol... Mandela Effect ?

Samsung is not allowing Nova launcher or any launcher to override their apps unless your rooted and on a custom Rom

I hope I touched on everything... and thank you for your get well wishes. I much appreciate that. So here are the old files in a screen shot from the Note 4 I'm going to try to tweak to push to our Note 8s. Thank you and be back soon. ??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
Thanks for the information. I passed the information onto my friend. I don’t know necessarily why he wants this, but than I had an epiphany. I think it would be great if the screen off Memo can be saved to Action Notes. This way if we write down contact information and other things on the screen off memo we would be able to use link to Action that I think would be great. I was wondering if you or tah480 would know if this is possible. I personally don’t mind losing the real estate of the screen as long as we still have the capabilities of the 100 memos because than the real estate wouldn’t be necessary. I just find that most of the times I use the screen of Memo it’s eithet for something I don’t want to forget, something to pick up at the store, or mainly contact info from someone, so it would be great if I could use the link to Action from that.

Lastly, in case anyone is having issues with Scrapbook, it may still be working fine. My notification tab keeps telling me it won’t work until I enable permissions, by the way there is only one permission to enable and it’s already enabled. However, it doesn’t matter I erase the notification and Scrapbook works flawlessly. Yet that notification keeps popping up don’t understand why. But disregard because it doesn’t seem to matter except for the nuisance notification.

Thanks again to all that have helped!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
I just noticed something that I’m not sure has any bearing to the notification I keep getting on Scrapbook and enabling its permissions. It works so I really didn’t think it matters, but I just noticed that both of the advanced permissions are off - draw over other apps and modify system settings. Could the fact that I have one or both of these set to off be the reason I keep getting tha4 notification on enabling permissions? Like I said the app works, but the notification is annoying. So should I have one or both of those settings to on? Do you think if I change one or both it will stop the notifications from coming back?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tah480:
I'll Check ......Give it a shot...and post your experience.

Ok I just checked my scrapbook permissions and yes mines is allowed. The only permission is storage.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
I am trying to help a friend who is having some trouble and I saw your post. First, I forgot whether or not we need to send extension pack through apk editor Pro. I am aware of all the others, but I noticed conflicting information on that one apk and I forgot what I did. The other reason I was commenting on your post is I am now aware (because of your post) that it is creating the new apk called gen_signed.apk (which I saw one file), but if you are already installing the app then why would it matter to rename the apk unless you wanted to save all the apks for future use? The reason I’m confused is because I never changed any of the files so it kept overwriting that same file, but everything works. I am assuming it’s working because each app got installed before a new apk took the place of the previous gen_signed.apk. My only issue is I can’t remember what order I installed all the apps. So I don’t know what app is represented in my current gen_signed.apk. Obviously, you do and it would have helped going forward where I could’ve just sent the apks over to my friend, but technically I only have 1 apk (that I’m not even sure which one it is) because after each app was installed they got overwritten. However, it is my understanding that it will still work because it did for me. I’m just verifying that you were trying to explain how it works, but saying that it is necessary to do it that way, right? Also, expansion pack is one of the apps that needs to be adjusted, right? Thanks in advance.

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Sorry that it took me a little bit to answer this because I didn’t notice it. My best answer is sort of. On the tablet called the Note 8 as well as previous Samsung Phones there was a feature called Photo Note/Photo Frame (I believe) that had the capabilities of writing on the back. I know the S4 and Note 4 had this feature. The difference was you would open your Gallery and pick a photo. You would then click on the menu and the click the option Photo Note. It would, in turn, flip your photo so you could write notes on the back of the photo. I really liked that feature as well, but I don’t believe this Photo Note has those capabilities. Maybe someone else can verify this? Also maybe there is another app that will give us the same feature. Is anyone aware of this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Technobeat:
Works great, thank you for the workaround!

It would be nice if we could get Screen off memo and Photo Note gallery import working.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
I’m still looking myself. I always thought I knew a lot about technology. Well, I now realized I know what I know. There’s definitely people that know a lot more than I do. The poster, tah480, was working on to see if it was a possibility for both. I guess he’s busy, but hopefully he’ll figure it out. He’s been a great help! Also, I don’t know if you saw Maris_ post about him finding a way to get it to work with the screen off Memo, but it’s missing the screen and the AOD pinning feature, which personally I like those features. So I’m still hoping there’s a solution. However, this is great that we have this support with this site. It really stinks that we can’t get this support from Samsung. You would think they would want to help and give us within reason what we want since we are the consumers. We help their bottom line. I’m still scratching my head with that and hoping that they handled this like the did with the Note 5 when they removed the SD card slot. But realized us consumers were upset and brought it back. The only reason why I’m concerned that they won’t take the same path was I thought they understood how upset people were that the S Note app was missing on the Note 7. They were supposed to be bringing it back before the battery issues, so I really didn’t think it was going to be an issue with the Note 8 because they knew how we felt with the Note 7. Obviously, I was wrong then, but I’m still hoping they take the SD card route. Let’s hope! I’m still looking around for these items and I will keep you and everyone informed if I get an answer on this. I would appreciate it if you could do the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
Could you do me a favor and double check your S Note Widget. I don’t think mine is working. Unless I completely forgot what it was because I haven’t used it since the Note 4. I thought you can basically take one of your Notes and put it on part of your screen or the whole screen depending on which widget you use, right? Also I was looking for the same thing with Action Memo and I don’t see one, there’s not a way to do it, or it’s another way (I vaguely remember pinning those, but there might have been an issue with Nova (I thought that was only pinning to the off screen). It’s possible that I can’t remember, but I would like to be able to have certain Notes and/or Action Memos on a screen by themselves each. I may just want even just 1 to take up the whole screen and I thought that was the widget and/or pinning. Either mines not working or I forgot how to do it. Thanks for your help.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
Actually, it’s not necessary. The S Note Widget is working. It’s just working very slowly. In the sense, when I go to add the widget, it puts an outlined rectangle with a plus in the middle after I’ve pushed the Note that I want the widget of. It eventually replaces that symbol with the proper note as the widget it just takes awhile. It’s quite strange! Also, I check the other item regarding Action Memo and flipped Nova off and sure enough in the menu, there’s an option to pin it to home screen. The only issue there is it needs to be the icon of the pin to create a widget of the Action Memo because you need to hold down. But it actually doesn’t matter because I like Nova so I have to figure out an alternative.

What strange about this delayed widget thing, is it’s happening in other places, too. The Play Store will download the app, but won’t install it. Either I have to wait awhile or I can close the Play Store and reopen it and then it will install and download the next and I will have to repeat. The other downloads don’t all of these delays, but a lot do. I don’t know if it’s because I disabled DT Ignite or whatever it was called or if it’s because I’m in the Beta of Google Play Services. It’s quite strange. I really like the phone, but I have these strange quirks going on with it so I’m hoping the Oreo update helps those issues. Just wanted to let everyone know what was going on in case others are having this issue. I know there are several people that I found that posted on line that they can only get the items to download, but not install.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ozren8:
I can't get Easy Chart working.

If I try to insert it I get this:

"To use Easy chart, you need to update it to the latest version. You will be taken to Samsung GALAXY Apps to download and install the latest version."

Once I follow the link I get:

"This app is no longer available for purchase or is not supported in this country or on this device. (com.samsung.android.chartbuilder:2290:4002:2836f5569013)"

I went through the entire thread, and the commonly repeated recommendation is to uninstall everything and clear data and cache. But how do I uninstall Easy Chart when it no longer exists on Galaxy apps, and so there's no uninstall button to click there?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
Ozren, first off make sure auto update on Play Store and Galaxy Apps are off. You definitely do not want to be taken to Samsung Galaxy Apps. So if you get that message you didn’t clear and uninstall everything. Go into your settings and go to apps. Search for Easy Chart there and clear all data and uninstall from that screen. It should work. If that doesn’t work, which I really think it should, please post what’s going on. I will try my best to help. I just hope I’m not having issues myself because I believe my OTA for Oreo is coming. So I hope it doesn’t mess up the app. I don’t see why it should it doesn’t mess with my other apps that are installed.

Please let me know if you were successful too.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sll1313:
I just received the Oreo OTA for Verizon and it messed S Note completely up. I’ve been trying to get it working for hours and Photo Note is sideways, expansion pack won’t install so I have to load from the apps, Easy Chart won’t install either. I will probably wipe again and see if I get any luck. Even the app editor pro wasn’t working. I needed a new version. Help!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Technobeat:
I will report back as soon as i get the Oreo Update in Germany.

I would guess that the min and max API levels have to be adjusted for Oreo.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sandra17:
I'm on VZW and Oreo just became available. I've been waiting to install to see if anyone else who was using S Note/Action Memo had any issues after the update. (I haven't yet installed EasyChart & PhotoNote - was about to, but had to get my phone replaced, so it was too much a pain to do that too, lol!).

Are those still working properly? Thanks!