Samsung secret features D-Pad and Screen

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I just wanted to point a few things about the Samsung Vibrant everyone is complaining about how this phone does not have a D-Pad and i just wanted to clear this up.

In fact this phone has a d-pad, select the samsung keyboard if not already in use hold down the key on the keyboard that is use to select numbers and symbols you will see a d-pad appear with copy, past select text options.

Also to easily dim your screen or to brighten your screen, slide your finger across the top of the screen where the notification bar is and you will notice your screen brighten or darken according to which way you slide your finger. (Note you may need to disable auto brightness for this function to be activated.

Heres a pic of the dpad

The Swype keyboard also has a really nice d-pad. Just swype from the tutorial icon right to the SYM key and it will show up.

Sent from my Vibrant, using the XDA app.

Thank you very much for the brightness slide tip!!!

Anyone else accidentally changing the brightness a lot? I swipe the bar with my left thumb, and if it's too angled of a swipe, my screen brightness goes to 11. I never thought I'd complain about a screen being too bright, lol.

can we activate the d-pad when not in a text entry field? I used the trackball on my G1 to select html anchors to get at small links or hovering elements

Wow I did not know this thanks for the info.

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Originally Posted by cbisquit

can we activate the d-pad when not in a text entry field? I used the trackball on my G1 to select html anchors to get at small links or hovering elements

It can be used on a web page, but I've only gotten it to come up by hitting a text box first. For that, even the addresses bar works.

-bZj

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Awesome. Thanks for sharing this info.

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keyboard almost always pulls up with a long press on menu. but in the browser this also pulls up the URL bar so no can do. also what is 'keyboard sweeping' in the samsung keyboad options?