S-Pen - Case Issue

Professor1991

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Hello All,

I've recently acquired a case for my Note 8. I'm not much of a case fan but I figured I'll take the plunge as the phone is too precious. I got a normal (fake) leather book type case.

Thing is, every time the phone is in the case, it for some reason acts like the pen has been taken out. When I pop it in, the screen off memo appears (Despite S Pen being still inside) and the Air Command icon stays on screen (I've now disabled that in the settings). Yet whenever the phone is out of the case, I have no issues with the S Pen.

When I put the phone into the case, I insert the bottom half in first, when the phone is at a fairly acute angle of like 20 degrees, screen off memo appears and the phone thinks the S Pen has been engaged for the duration of the phone being the case. This also happens if I insert the phone top first as well. Yet when I lift the phone back out (This is when the screen off memo appears when I'm putting the phone in), the screen off memo screen just goes off like I just put the pen back in. When the phone is in the case, I can't use the screen off memo either. Quite frustrating.

Is the phone case itself to blame ?
 

vash_h

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Hello All,

I've recently acquired a case for my Note 8. I'm not much of a case fan but I figured I'll take the plunge as the phone is too precious. I got a normal (fake) leather book type case.

Thing is, every time the phone is in the case, it for some reason acts like the pen has been taken out. When I pop it in, the screen off memo appears (Despite S Pen being still inside) and the Air Command icon stays on screen (I've now disabled that in the settings). Yet whenever the phone is out of the case, I have no issues with the S Pen.

When I put the phone into the case, I insert the bottom half in first, when the phone is at a fairly acute angle of like 20 degrees, screen off memo appears and the phone thinks the S Pen has been engaged for the duration of the phone being the case. This also happens if I insert the phone top first as well. Yet when I lift the phone back out (This is when the screen off memo appears when I'm putting the phone in), the screen off memo screen just goes off like I just put the pen back in. When the phone is in the case, I can't use the screen off memo either. Quite frustrating.

Is the phone case itself to blame ?
Could b the magnets of the casing screwing around w phone sensors

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maxram

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I got rid of the cases with magnets. The fake ones are worse. Try using your SPEN and run lines across the screen in snote or any other writint app.

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