Nice Trick - PIE Scrolling with Volume Slider - JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General

Just discovered nice little touch on PIE (you may all know it already). When in full screen mode the "Volume Slider" works as an up/down scroll bar (sadly only jumps from link to link).
I only discovered this cos I am trying to find a way to get true scrolling in PIE, instead of it TABBING from link to link. In most instances this is fine, but a real pain if there are hundreds of links at the top of a web page. Any advice?

Sorted - Real Page Down Scrolling
Sorted it, found on another forum. Change PIE Scrolling from TABBING to normal PAGE DOWN/PAGE UP.
Edit registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Navigation\4-Way Nav
Change Value from 1 to 0.
Also works when in FULL SCREEN with the VOLUME SLIDER.

Sweet hack.
That's one for the Wiki IMO

nice one dude! Implemented it straight away.

This hack was included in Tweaks2k2 a long time ago (option Internet Tricks/PIE Smooth Scrolling).

Wish there was a way of scrolling smoothly, line by line, and not by a full screen at a time... :?:

SiliconS said:
Wish there was a way of scrolling smoothly, line by line, and not by a full screen at a time... :?:
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well, this is better than jumping from link to link

ctitanic said:
SiliconS said:
Wish there was a way of scrolling smoothly, line by line, and not by a full screen at a time... :?:
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well, this is better than jumping from link to link
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Hmm. I know it's a matter of personal preference but I quite like the link-to-link scrolling. It seems smart enough (i.e. if there are links on a page then it scrolls through them, but if the page has no links then it goes page-by-page). It means I can view a webpage and navigate the web without taking out the stylus to tap the screen. I just wish I could read long news articles line-by-line (or even halfscreen-by-halfscreen) rather than jumping entire pages with only 10 pixels overlap.

SiliconS said:
ctitanic said:
SiliconS said:
Wish there was a way of scrolling smoothly, line by line, and not by a full screen at a time... :?:
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well, this is better than jumping from link to link
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Hmm. I know it's a matter of personal preference but I quite like the link-to-link scrolling. It seems smart enough (i.e. if there are links on a page then it scrolls through them, but if the page has no links then it goes page-by-page). It means I can view a webpage and navigate the web without taking out the stylus to tap the screen. I just wish I could read long news articles line-by-line (or even halfscreen-by-halfscreen) rather than jumping entire pages with only 10 pixels overlap.
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Well, this reminds me a song: "What you see is what you get"

ctitanic said:
SiliconS said:
ctitanic said:
SiliconS said:
Wish there was a way of scrolling smoothly, line by line, and not by a full screen at a time... :?:
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well, this is better than jumping from link to link
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Hmm. I know it's a matter of personal preference but I quite like the link-to-link scrolling. ... I just wish I could read long news articles line-by-line (or even halfscreen-by-halfscreen) rather than jumping entire pages with only 10 pixels overlap.
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Well, this reminds me a song: "What you see is what you get"
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hehe

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Does anyone use PocketCM?? I have a problem

Hello all,
Does anyone here use PocketCM (an iPhone-like application for contacts)? It's a great program and works really well except when I try to install and select a new theme. When I go to the settings and press "Choose Theme", it only lets me choose one theme (the defaul), and I can't scroll over or anything to select a different theme. I hope this makes sense, and I hope someone out there knows something about this. I was gonna post in the forum on PocketCM's website, but I can't register in it for some reason. Please help me out if you can! Thanks!
-- Nick
Nevermind -- I figured out a way that works (even though it's very inconvenient)
xboxremote said:
Does anyone here use PocketCM (an iPhone-like application for contacts)?
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no harm dude, but i think almost everyone here uses pocketcm lol
How does one search for a contact with this pocketcm ? Dont tell me one has to go click on every alphabet? Say I want to look for Jayne - cant I just type Jay etc and out pops Jane or wutever else?
natzakaria said:
Dont tell me one has to go click on every alphabet?
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No. You can slide your finger down either the left or right side of the touchscreen and when you release your finger it will jump to that alphabet in your list.
natzakaria said:
cant I just type Jay etc and out pops Jane or wutever else?
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Yes. Just start typing and PocketCM will narrow down your list of contacts which match the characters you typed.
tomazez said:
no harm dude, but i think almost everyone here uses pocketcm lol
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Haha, I wasn't sure.
Anyway, I guess another question is, does anyone have trouble when sliding, and the program will just randomly decide that you meant to press on a name instead of sliding? If that makes sense...?
xboxremote said:
Haha, I wasn't sure.
Anyway, I guess another question is, does anyone have trouble when sliding, and the program will just randomly decide that you meant to press on a name instead of sliding? If that makes sense...?
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Its just a matter of gettin used to it. I still have trouble scrolling tho. Not very consistent.
MajorGl0ry said:
No. You can slide your finger down either the left or right side of the touchscreen and when you release your finger it will jump to that alphabet in your list.
Yes. Just start typing and PocketCM will narrow down your list of contacts which match the characters you typed.
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Errr type where??
I use PocketCM also. I do experience a little glitch when searching the contact alphabetically, when scrolling from the left; it will sometimes show my favorite contacts instead. Does anyone experience this also?
natzakaria said:
Errr type where??
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Just slide out your keyboard and type.
But if without the keyboard? How?
Pocket CM disappointment
I'm actually pretty disappointed when it comes to this app, for a two reasons:
1) it randomly hangs: sometimes when I'm scrolling the display just stops working and in my impatience i continue to click and before I know it I've either called someone that I didn't mean to, or i've opened someone for editing.
2) side scroll (alphabetically) does not work worth a damn. It NEVER goes to the letter that I specify, always stops short. I would say that this happens randomly... but no, it happens consistently, every time. Any ideas what is causing this? The only time is seems to work is when I'm going upwards.
Does anyone have any ideas about these two problems ?
Thanks.
TMELAM said:
I'm actually pretty disappointed when it comes to this app, for a two reasons:
1) it randomly hangs: sometimes when I'm scrolling the display just stops working and in my impatience i continue to click and before I know it I've either called someone that I didn't mean to, or i've opened someone for editing.
2) side scroll (alphabetically) does not work worth a damn. It NEVER goes to the letter that I specify, always stops short. I would say that this happens randomly... but no, it happens consistently, every time. Any ideas what is causing this? The only time is seems to work is when I'm going upwards.
Does anyone have any ideas about these two problems ?
Thanks.
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I don't have any ideas about those two problems (sorry), but I'm also a little disappointed with the app. Like why I orinigally started this thread, it's such a hassle for me to install new skins because it doesn't work like it's supposed to. Or the inconsistent scrolling, or the hanging like you mentioned.
Also, (although this is minor), has anyone else noticed that if you leave Pocket CM open and go back to the Today screen, and lock the buttons, the top eighth of the screen or so shows the Pocket CM app, and everything else is the Today screen? Does that make sense? Anyway, it's a minor detail, but it's kind of a sore-sight. Has anyone been able to fix this?

What is the annoying black square in Opera Browser?

A black square pops up at the top of the screen when browsing in Opera and does not go away. What on earth is it?
tboy2000 said:
A black square pops up at the top of the screen when browsing in Opera and does not go away. What on earth is it?
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I have the Blackstone and cannot figure out what black square you're referring to on the browser. Care to be more specific?
Mobiman2008 said:
I have the Blackstone and cannot figure out what black square you're referring to on the browser. Care to be more specific?
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He is talking about the Opera Browser you can see in all the HD videos. When the phone is switched to landscape mode it is displaying a strange black square at the bottom. i dissapears when you scroll on a page but when you stop its suddenly there again.
That's it Raziel1. I see it in the videos on Youtube. When you scroll it vanishes but when you stop it comes back again. I am so puzzled as to what it is for.
its the new zoom feature isn't it? when u hit it it brings up a zoom scroll bar so you can zoom as much or as little as you want instead of just double tapping the screen.
to the OP, are you sure it's at the TOP? there shouldn't be anything at the top. there should be TWO black squares at the bottom corners (one on each side), regardless of orientation. the left one is zoom, the right one is new page (or shrink current page to a tile).
Ok go here to see a video of it:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TykCSs44TAs
Move the progress bar below the video to 4minutes and 6 seconds and watch fro there onwards. Clearly seen in landscape browsing. What is it and can it be disabled in options?
tboy2000 said:
Ok go here to see a video of it:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TykCSs44TAs
Move the progress bar below the video to 4minutes and 6 seconds and watch fro there onwards. Clearly seen in landscape browsing. What is it and can it be disabled in options?
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wow... never see that before, guess i'll be replaying my ppc with opera 9.5 today. but my ppc doens't have auto rotate. from that video it looks like the black square only appears in landscape mode.
Mobiman2008 said:
I have the Blackstone and cannot figure out what black square you're referring to on the browser. Care to be more specific?
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then would you mind giving us some info about the phone?
Raziel1 said:
then would you mind giving us some info about the phone?
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Ok so what else you'd like to know about the Blackstone, I have seen so much info on it when Googled
So of all the people who seem to have the phone, no one can tell me what that square is yet?
tboy2000 said:
So of all the people who seem to have the phone, no one can tell me what that square is yet?
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looking at the newest youtube videos, it seems that this square was just part of the prerelease version. more a bug than anything else maybe.

Is there a tweak to make opera mobile browse in full screen?

Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
borgqueenx said:
Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
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Try checking the settings...
Nagrom Nniuq said:
Try checking the settings...
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i have heard on youtube reviews it is not possible...thats why i am wondering.
the iphone browsing experience is great, and is full screen.
On the Leo it is not full screen, even when you zoom out.
what about ticking auto full screen in the settings menu?
borgqueenx said:
Just what the title says. cant find any tweak in google...
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I'm a little confused by this. Do you mean Opera 10? I only ask because the default Opera (9.7) that comes installed on the device is always in full screen, except when you use the menus.
same for opera 10.. always in fullscreen except when using the menus
maby i said it wrong...with fullscreen i ment viewing the whole page. only able to scroll down, not sideways.
Opera always goes to fullscreen mode automatically.
And actually it goes to REAL fullscreen, not like on the iPhone where you still have that bar on the bottom taking away screen real estate (that's already very limited on the iPhone anyway, with that low resolution and smaller screen).
Don't know where you found that information that Opera would not do this, but it's wrong.
You can turn that off in the settings, however.
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maby i said it wrong...with fullscreen i ment viewing the whole page. only able to scroll down, not sideways
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Ah yes, now I understand what you mean. Yes, you can do that also, by setting the "virtual screen width" higher.
if it still wont work, type about:config in your browser
and then go to user prefs and see if there are some options permanently activatet wich do not allow the browser to go into fullscreen!
This is what you're searching for:
- type about:config
- click on 'adaptive zoom settings'
- set 'virtual screen width' to 1000 (or something great enough for all the pages you visit)
- click 'save' and restart Opera
Thanks for the question, I'll include this in my next ROM
I like not having to scroll sideways, but was too lazy to change it
yeah thats it! i was to lazy to get my phone to look it up^^
freyberry said:
This is what you're searching for:
- type about:config
- click on 'adaptive zoom settings'
- set 'virtual screen width' to 1000 (or something great enough for all the pages you visit)
- click 'save' and restart Opera
Thanks for the question, I'll include this in my next ROM
I like not having to scroll sideways, but was too lazy to change it
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alrighty. thanks for the answer.
i think im gonna sell my 3Gs

strange new icon in opera

anyone seen this icon when browsing xda dev in opera? seen for first time ten minutes ago after 4 weeks use. looks like it maybe could be full screen or something but doesn't do anything., not there permanently, comes and goes as I zoom and scroll.
samsamuel said:
anyone seen this icon when browsing xda dev in opera? seen for first time ten minutes ago after 4 weeks use. looks like it maybe could be full screen or something but doesn't do anything., not there permanently, comes and goes as I zoom and scroll.
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Yep, i've seen it too and don't know what it is. What I do know is that the icon is named icon_iframe in the opera skin file. Maybe that does ring a bell with you? Here, it stays very silent
Strange, but glad i'm not just seeing things! hehe. Not seen it since i posted about it, lets hope ignorance is bliss...
samsamuel said:
Strange, but glad i'm not just seeing things! hehe. Not seen it since i posted about it, lets hope ignorance is bliss...
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A joke would be to make a skin for opera and replace this icon by for example: (since it does nothing and means nothing and only randomly pops up only once a week ....)
Hah, or 'click here'
Do you use full screen mode? I do and that is the icon that is there except when I am scrolling. Clicking it brings up the "non-fullscreen" style menu. Not sure why you would see it there otherwise.
meegulthwarp said:
Do you use full screen mode? I do and that is the icon that is there except when I am scrolling. Clicking it brings up the "non-fullscreen" style menu. Not sure why you would see it there otherwise.
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Yea i have 'auto full screen' selected in options, and clicking the icon does nothing.
I have that problem as well. I don't know what is is. Never botherd me.
Well guys if it's name is Icon_iFrame then it should bring up some menu for iframe element in html. Or maybe loading the page in iframe as a new tab. But I really dont know, just guessing =)

does scrolling in android suck?

i'm asking this because it sucks when i want to get to the bottom of a contacts list or a long text file and I have to scroll it down manually. only some apps support the movement of the "scroll button" on the right (i hope you get what i mean, it's where the button gets bigger). is there any work around to this?
yeah i guess your right. Some of the system menus have that bigger "quick scroll" button, some dont. If the ones that dont end up having many items in them they can annoying, even though the momentum scrolling can go really fast its still not ideal. Unless there is something I am not aware of, I would have to agree with you
there must be some work around. if winmo can, so why can't android?
No I think its great!
you must be using mattc froyo 1.0
tdizzle404 said:
No I think its great!
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great how? do you find 20 seconds of scrolling to get to the end of a page great?
dapoharoun said:
you must be using mattc froyo 1.0
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i'm using the latest nexushd2.
I don't see how it sucks.... Not matter how long the file is, you just flick it up quickly and it will most likely scroll right to the bottom. Obviously depending on how many lines but it won't take you 20 times to scroll....
Willievi said:
I don't see how it sucks.... Not matter how long the file is, you just flick it up quickly and it will most likely scroll right to the bottom. Obviously depending on how many lines but it won't take you 20 times to scroll....
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but still, the ability to go straight to the bottom would be nice. imagine if you're in a life or death situation where your life depends on a data at the bottom of a text file.
You suck at the scrolling of the names maybe? Maybe your phone make seperate post that say "do human with tiny fingers suck at scrolling maybe".................
Titties
dan138zig said:
but still, the ability to go straight to the bottom would be nice. imagine if you're in a life or death situation where your life depends on a data at the bottom of a text file.
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Put google search widget on home. Type name of contact. The name pop right up in search after 2-3 letters.
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Don't blame Android, blame the dev of the app that doesn't have it. Android provides the option, and some apps are better off without such a quick scroll handle, so I'm glad it's an option and not forced.

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