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Hello everyone Michael here from the daily note 2 and three YouTube channel. Welcome
to part 2 of what's new in Android 4.4 for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The update from
Android 4.3 to 4.4 is a relatively minor one, but nevertheless there are some changes to
the Samsung software that Samsung provides for the Galaxy Note 3 so let's check those
out. First things first. If you haven't got the
Android 4.4 update yet, don't worry. It is because your carriers are most likely waiting
on some important updates to big bugs. One, VPN seems to be broken. If you have to connect
to a VPN to get your work emails, well, you definitely want to make sure that is working
before you update. The other things I've run into. It only happens very rarely, but sometimes,
it won't let me write to my local or external storage over USB. After I reboot it though
it seems to be fine. And last, if you were not using a genuine S View cover but a generic
one, that won't work at the moment. Some of these bugs Google needs to fix. Let's hope
they get all that fixed soon and push the updates to everyone.
After you update, you'll get a popup message saying that it wants to sync with a previous
version of S Note. What I believe it's looking for are S Note files from your Galaxy Note
2 and maybe even the Galaxy Note 1, if you have any of these files. When you press OK,
it will search through your device and your Samsung Account. And you can choose to import
any files that it has found. When you go to Recent notes from the main
screen, you'll notice that you get hover previews for up to the first 6 pages for you S Note
files. At the bottom, you'll see the files you've just imported. But these won't give
you the hover previews. It is because you have to convert them the first time. Inside
the S Note editor, when you are editing a note, you'll notice a new icon for the Magnified
notepad feature. Have you seen the video where a guy paints
Morgan Freeman with his finger on an iPad on YouTube? He individually drew each stand
of Morgan Freeman's beard with one finger. Well, I think if he had an S Pen and this
feature, it would have been infinitely easier. You can see this box here that will be the
area of focus. You can move it and expand it to focus on the specific area you want.
Also, I believe the writing sound feature was always there before the update. I never
turned it on before but after the update, it was automatically checked, and I heard
the writing sound for the first time. And I definitely like the writing sound. Maybe
you'll find that to be true as well when you update.
And one last thing about S Note. Was it able to do drag and drop before? I kinda remember
not being able to in a video I wanted to make a while back, but it seems to do it just fin
e. That's about it for S Note. You may also notice
the menu's pop up with a little more animation and some minor design changes to labels.
Next, Pen Window. It has got a small update. When you start pen window, you will notice
an edit button to edit apps you want to have access to when you are looking to use the
feature. Unfortunately, it does not change what apps are available overall. But like
multi window, I'm sure the list of supported apps will eventually grow. Speaking of multi
window, when you go to edit, you'll notice that the button on the bottom is now gone
to find apps in the google play store. I guess they kinda thought it wasn't a reliable way
to get more apps that support multi window. Finally Group Play. You now have more apps
listed in the Group Play games. Here is an example of a Group Play Air Hockey game that
you can play. I'll have some more extensive videos on all these games because they are
all kinda different and interesting. One thing I do want to point out is that these games
seem to be only compatible with the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy S4.
So that's it for today's episode. I'll have a few more videos on what's new on Android
4.4 for the Galaxy Note 3. Make sure you rate, comment, and subscribe for upcoming videos.
And as always, thank you for watching.