S Finder and Quick Connect

Xer · January 28, 2015

What's going on good forum peoples! Back in late October 2014, I got myself a shiny new Galaxy Note 4! It is a fantastic phone, I like the size, and the S Pen is great to use. One thing that has irked me from day one is the S Finder and Quick Connect (also to a lesser extent, the brightness control) that are stuck in the notification panel, along with the quick toggles, they take up nearly half of the panel! I searched up and down any relevant menus, and unfortunately, it looks like there is no way to remove these features that I have absolutely no intention of ever using. I did a bit of research at the time, didn't find anything useful, so I dropped it.

Fast forward a few months to now. I'm still sick of these things taking up so much room in my notification panel. I decide to embark on some more research, and find there's an app that can get rid of them. Great! It however requires root access, which I didn't think would be a big issue, until some further research told me that doing so would trip some sort of KNOX counter that would void warranties, make my phone unable to receive updates, set fire to your house and steal all of your money. Okay, I may have made up those last two, but making the phone unable to get 5.0 whenever that comes around isn't something I'm fond of.

With my previous Samsung phones, I've always rooted and put Cyanogenmod on them and such. With this Note 4 however, I'm keeping things as official as I can, mainly in the interest of keeping the S Pen features, since they're kind of the whole point of having this phone in the first place. I'm just not happy with the fact that I'm forced to have these things stuck in my notification panel that I will never use, and that I cannot do anything about them without breaking the warranty?

TL:DR Is there another way that I just haven't found? Has anyone here had any experience with this? Help is appreciated!

Xer · January 29, 2015

Need to bump my own thread I guess?

Aniallation · January 29, 2015

Fast forward a few months to now. I'm still sick of these things taking up so much room in my notification panel. I decide to embark on some more research, and find there's an app that can get rid of them. Great! It however requires root access, which I didn't think would be a big issue, until some further research told me that doing so would trip some sort of KNOX counter that would void warranties, make my phone unable to receive updates, set fire to your house and steal all of your money. Okay, I may have made up those last two, but making the phone unable to get 5.0 whenever that comes around isn't something I'm fond of.

TL:DR Is there another way that I just haven't found? Has anyone here had any experience with this? Help is appreciated!

As far as I know, the only way so far to root Note 4 is to use ODIN and CF-Auto-Root which will trip your KNOX counter and therefore void warranty.

However do you think you could link me to the app to get rid of them? I'd love to find out if it works on my Galaxy Core, as those two buttons I also find very annoying, and I've already tripped XNOX and rooted as I could care less about warranty and the updates that this phone will likely never get.

Xer · January 29, 2015

As far as I know, the only way so far to root Note 4 is to use ODIN and CF-Auto-Root which will trip your KNOX counter and therefore void warranty.

However do you think you could link me to the app to get rid of them? I'd love to find out if it works on my Galaxy Core, as those two buttons I also find very annoying, and I've already tripped XNOX and rooted as I could care less about warranty and the updates that this phone will likely never get.

The app is called xposed