So, many Galaxy Note 10 owners are a bit confused about the new Side key. It is in the location of the Bixby key, but it functions mainly as the Power key (with some differences).
This Galaxy Note 10 guide explains the functions and usage of the Side key and shows you how to customize (remap) the Side key on Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+. Questions on how to power on, power off, and reboot Galaxy Note 10, as well as Galaxy Note 10 recovery mode and the safe mode, are also covered.
Although Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ differs as explained in this post, the Side key on both phones are identical.
Samsung used to place the Power key (Power button) on the right side of the phone.
But as illustrated in the Galaxy Note 10 layout, there is no button on the right side of Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+.
Samsung actually moved the Power key to the left side and replaced the unpopular Bixby key. And they named it the Side key. This is one of the new features of Galaxy Note 10.
Of course, Samsung did not give up Bixby. They added one Bixby feature into the new Side key. For Bixby-haters, you can remove this Bixby feature (read on) and restore the Side key as the traditional Power key.
As mentioned, the Side key is a combination of the Power key and the Bixby key.
By default, the side key has the following functions:
You may notice it is very tricky to use Side key with the volume down key.
Anyway, Samsung allows you to customize (remap) the double press and long press options.
Like the Bixby button after the Android Pie update in previous Galaxy phones, Samsung allows you to customize or remap the side key on Galaxy Note 10.
On Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+, you can remap the double press and long press functions for the side key.
In Galaxy Note 10 settings, as shown below, tap Advanced features.
In the Advanced Features page, tap Side key, as shown in the screenshot above.
It should bring you to the Side key settings page, as shown below.
As mentioned, you can customize or remap two functions (gestures) of the Side key:
For the double press, you can use it to:
For the press and hold (long press), you can use it to:
For the double press function, you can also disable it if you want.
As shown above, you can disable the double press function of the Side key.
As mentioned above, you can access the Power button options menu on Galaxy Note 10 in two ways:
Of course, you can also remap the long press (press and hold) function to the Power button options menu as mentioned above.
You can tap the Power off button in the Power button options menu as shown above to power off Galaxy Note 10.
If Galaxy Note 1o is not responsive and you cannot access the Power button options menu, you can hold the Side key and Volume down key simultaneously until it reboots.
You can use the Power button options to reboot Galaxy Note 10.
But if the phone is not responsive, you have to hold the Side key and Volume down key simultaneously for more than 7 seconds. This is a hardwired feature and it should always work unless there are some hardware issues in related components.
Like in other Android phones, you can use the Galaxy Note 10 recovery mode to clear the cache partition, to reboot into the bootloader (download mode), to apply updates from SD card, to factory reset the phone, or to change carrier code (CSC).
To reboot into Galaxy Note 10 recovery mode, you need to power off the phone first.
When the phone is off, you need to press and hold Volume up and the Side key concurrently until you see the droid.
You can use Galaxy Note 10 safe mode to identify certain problems are caused by third-party apps or by the firmware.
There are two ways to reboot into Galaxy Note 10 safe mode:
If you have any questions on using the Side key on Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10+, you may let us know in the comment box below.
We will try to help you.
You may check our Galaxy Note 10 guides if you have any other Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10+ related questions,
You can read online or download a PDF version of the official Galaxy Note 10 users manuals in your language here.
This post was last modified on September 14, 2019 2:18 am
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