One
of our readers sent us an email asking why her Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has an eye
icon on the notification bar while his husband's does not have. She doesn't
know its function, or why it is there in the first place. She asked for our
help on how to get rid of rid.
Here
is the actual email message from our reader:
Hi team,
My husband and I have the same phone, Samsung
Galaxy Note 2, which we bought together from T-Mobile here in the U.S. While I
have no complaints about the my phone's performance and usefulness, there is
one thing I don't know about: there is an eye icon on my notification bar.
Can you please tell what it is and why it's
there?
How can I get rid of it?
Thanks.
Jodi
It Is Smart Stay's Icon
When
the eye shows on the notification bar, it means that the Smart Stay feature in
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was enabled. The feature commands the phone to keep the
screen enabled while you're looking at it. For readers and those who constantly
play multimedia files in their device such as videos and photos, the feature is
pretty cool for them.
When
enabled, the eye icon stays on the notification bar even if you're not looking
at it. Here's how you disable it to get rid of the icon:
1.
From the Home
screen, tap the Menu key.
2.
Choose Settings.
3.
Tap My
Device tab.
4.
Touch Smart
Screen.
5.
Tap Smart
Rotation and disable it.
6.
Tap Smart
Stay and disable the feature.
7.
The eye icon should be gone by now.
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4 comments
In the pervious version on jellybean you could have smart stay enabled but the icon in the notification bar didn't not display itself until the time was nearing for it to check. With the update to 4.3 the notification icon is always on now. I think the real question that everyone is asking now is why is the icon always present when before it wasn't?
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