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Leo Impressions

Hi Guys, just thought id post my thoughts on the Leo.
Ive been using mine now for over 2 weeks having come from an N95(and several failed attempts at finding something I liked inbetween including various iphones, N97 etc etc) so to the thoughts.,
The screen for me was a bit tricky as many have said before, I have huge hands, but decided to persevere.
Has to be said that after about a 10 day period typing messages etc became much easier, after 2 weeks it was brilliant, but then came the eureka moment, which it has to be said was'nt good for me, but telling all the same.
After flashing the ROM, the typing experience became similar to a fair proportion of others on here, infuriating!
Now thinking logicly about it, I decided it couldn't be the screen as was fine before, only thing changed was the ROM, so was software, tried a screen align, hmmm, worse still, did it again, slightly better, but still no cigar, went and checked settings and set to how id had it before, no vibrate(seems to fubar typing), keyboard click on, screen click on, correct as you type on, complete words in both XT9 and ABC both on and did screen align again, now zoila, its better than before(after another screen align) no more false inputs although xt9 has to learn my vocab again(annoying) but it really is a revelation.
Now the only thing annoying me is the long sms list issue (although partialy sorted by selecting all messages and going in through WM)
Can I just add, absolutely epic site guys and thanks to all those that spend there own time making the WM experience better for all!!

Noooo! you've got it all wrong. You're supposed to try typing for 5 minutes, throw your toys out the pram and go buy an iPhone.. *then* come on to xda developers and post a nice long rant about how poor the entire phone / windows mobile is (bonus points for expletives and spelling mistakes).
Fixing problems in an intelligent, logical manner? whatever next?!

I just got my HTC HD2 from Royal Mail. Everything seems to be working flawlessly. The screen is just gorgeous and the navigation is really smooth and snappy. The videos online really do not do it justice.
I've just got a few of questions. I heard that Opera does not support flash, is this true? and will this change in the future?
I tried using IE to open youtube but it doesn't seem to play anything. It has the flash 9 logo and that's it. How do I play videos via the web browser?
Also, when I open up IE it says that it connects using my data plan and I may get charged. Does it not work over WiFi?
I'm just uploading files onto it right now but yes, this device has had my jaw on the floor since I opened the packaging. By far the best phone I have ever owned.

StrangeReality said:
I just got my HTC HD2 from Royal Mail. Everything seems to be working flawlessly. The screen is just gorgeous and the navigation is really smooth and snappy. The videos online really do not do it justice.
I've just got a few of questions. I heard that Opera does not support flash, is this true? and will this change in the future?
I tried using IE to open youtube but it doesn't seem to play anything. It has the flash 9 logo and that's it. How do I play videos via the web browser?
Also, when I open up IE it says that it connects using my data plan and I may get charged. Does it not work over WiFi?
I'm just uploading files onto it right now but yes, this device has had my jaw on the floor since I opened the packaging. By far the best phone I have ever owned.
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Opera doesn't support flash.
Use the You Tube app already on your handset, it works perfectly.
For playing videos within your browser, download the Skyfire browser for free. I don't like the interface and therefore only use it when I have to but it supports flash and you can play videos and surf for porn on it lol.

gamma500. looks like you still need to find the return key (aka as enter key) as this is the only thing missing in your message. Or did you type it on a PC keyboard, and is the return key (aka as enter key) broken?

sunking101 said:
Opera doesn't support flash.
Use the You Tube app already on your handset, it works perfectly.
For playing videos within your browser, download the Skyfire browser for free. I don't like the interface and therefore only use it when I have to but it supports flash and you can play videos and surf for porn on it lol.
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I don't have the youtube app, where can I find it? I got my phone from T-Mobile UK if that helps. And I thought IE did support flash?

StrangeReality said:
I don't have the youtube app, where can I find it? I got my phone from T-Mobile UK if that helps. And I thought IE did support flash?
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Opera doesn't support flash and IE only has 'flashlite' which isn't suitable for playing video. You will need to download Skyfire but the You Tube app will be in your start menu - press the icon at the top left of the screen or the windows button in the middle at the bottom - then scroll through the icons.

sunking101 said:
Opera doesn't support flash and IE only has 'flashlite' which isn't suitable for playing video. You will need to download Skyfire but the You Tube app will be in your start menu - press the icon at the top left of the screen or the windows button in the middle at the bottom - then scroll through the icons.
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I don't have it pre-installed, is there somewhere I can get it? It's wierd that they didn't include it. Is anybody here on T-Mobile UK who has it pre-installed?

Dont have a HD2 ...yet! But from what I have read Youtube is not included on the T-Mobile handset.

Thanks Christonabike, personally don't see the merit in ranting, seldom effective in sorting issues and htc-hd2, in an effort to be cloggy friendly have inserted a few returns just for you!

StrangeReality said:
I don't have it pre-installed, is there somewhere I can get it? It's wierd that they didn't include it. Is anybody here on T-Mobile UK who has it pre-installed?
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http://rapidshare.com/files/309160325/YouTube_Player_-_WVGA_-_800x480.cab

Fantastic! Disabling the vibrate response was one of the best things I could do! I can actually type for long periods of time with little errors and the XT9 and ABC is working great now, I didn't realise it could learn... so have been typing in all of my Northern Irish phrases that we use over here!
I'm happy once again, I'm really starting to love this phone; was a bit doubtful at the start and was thinking my N95 8gb looked like a good option to go back to but my faith is growing in this device by the day!
Once again to OP, thanks!

It Just gets better with time Rossimac, which only became apparent after having flashed the ROM and thereby losing two weeks of it.

HD2 Would be cool if....

Working Proximety sensor & Internal speaker without 3rd party application within Skype (sick of putting it on lock first so i dont hit anything
Camera button (stupid to try guess where the snapshot button is on your phone / if doing self portraits ! "girlfriend does alot)
Easier to change themes / find more easier
A webbrowser that is easy / good to use with flash with 0 problems (seems impossible ask)
A Torrent manager that doesnt cost an arm and leg (granted its good but cmon, who pays for it seriously....)
Ventrilo mobile actually worked (centrilo i believe "hasnt been updated for latest version)
A more spaced out keyboard (better way of changing which keyboard your using without having to tap a million times / reboot phone " too fiddely at moment in my opinion)
A better image editor, Yes i made a colour picture but i want to quickly make it black and white, why do i need to install 50,000 applications for something so simple.

dignitasmick said:
A webbrowser that is easy / good to use with flash with 0 problems (seems impossible ask)
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skyfire or opera 10
dignitasmick said:
A more spaced out keyboard (better way of changing which keyboard your using without having to tap a million times / reboot phone " too fiddely at moment in my opinion)
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swype is by far the best keyboard. Also i dont know what you are doing but it only takes two taps to change you keyboard. In any text entry screen you will see a little upwards pointing arrow at the bottom of the screen.... tap this to bring up all your input options.

Why on earth do you wanna torrent onto a phone?!?! Seems utterly pointless to me (as do Torrents in general)

http://www.wmtorrent.com/home_index.html
is this paid???

Audio Oblivion said:
skyfire or opera 10
swype is by far the best keyboard. Also i dont know what you are doing but it only takes two taps to change you keyboard. In any text entry screen you will see a little upwards pointing arrow at the bottom of the screen.... tap this to bring up all your input options.
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Opera 10 doesnt work for sites such as narutoget.com
skyfire is just horrible
the keyboard issue, double tap works at first but not after browsing websites / coming back to skype
Will try swype

erikvario;6031823
is this paid???:confused:[/QUOTE said:
Yes you get a free trial
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Take note, ive had this phone since november, so its not through lack of trying to get this phone how i want it...
The keyboard is a joke in skype, the up arrow doesnt even response (which is where i need to reboot for it to start working)

Video out and bluetooth mouse functionality.

EddyOS said:
Why on earth do you wanna torrent onto a phone?!?! Seems utterly pointless to me (as do Torrents in general)
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+1 here.
Torrent on mobile is missed idea. Besides you can be sure, it will be against fair usage policy with your carrier (most carriers I believe).
Kris

kregowski said:
+1 here.
Torrent on mobile is missed idea. Besides you can be sure, it will be against fair usage policy with your carrier (most carriers I believe).
Kris
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USA T-Mobile has no restriction on torrent.
I'm using my HD2 as the Wi-Fi Router and posting this right now whilst downloading torrent files.
Of course, They still might warn me, or at the worst case, ban me at any time like my ISP at home did.

sorry, but i've never used wmtorrent so i didn't know.
i don't want to be illegal but we also have warez sites

rickyoon.vegas said:
USA T-Mobile has no restriction on torrent.
I'm using my HD2 as the Wi-Fi Router and posting this right now whilst downloading torrent files.
Of course, They still might warn me, or at the worst case, ban me at any time like my ISP at home did.
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Is that with adista torrent client? wmtorrent
The reason I wanna download torrents on my mobile, is because they simply download quicker for starters, at work I'm getting 500kbps on albums etc

dignitasmick said:
Is that with adista torrent client? wmtorrent
The reason I wanna download torrents on my mobile, is because they simply download quicker for starters, at work I'm getting 500kbps on albums etc
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Perhaps a little clarification is in order.
I'm using my HD2 as a wireless router, and downloading torrent files on my computer using t-mobile data service.

Opera 10 is nice, apart from no pinch to zoom (external program must be installed first)
& flash like i said earlier does not work If it did, It wouldnt say you are required to install new version, skyfire works well with www.narutoget.com but as a browser its terrible compared to opera10

Incredibly hard to put cursor in specific spot in browser

I've had the S2 for a week or two now and I'm finding my main gripe with it is selecting text in the browser.
If you've written a block of text, or several sentences (whatever), I find tapping your sentence to place the cursor at a specific point utterly hit and miss. It's really, really hard to get it where you want it.
I mostly use the stock browser as it's way faster than any other I've tried (Dolphin and Firefox), but this is driving me insane. It's not quite as bad in Dolphin, but it's still pretty bad.
I have to say, the iPhone is way ahead when it comes to placing the cursor where you want it. I'm hanging for a mod that uses the little magnifying glass thing that the iPhone has.
Is anyone else bothered by this and found a solution?
Thanks
Simon

Ah ha!
Tried Opera Mini just now and it worked perfectly! The problem, then, appears to be the browsers.
Whatever, I'm just glad one of them works as it should

simonk83 said:
I've had the S2 for a week or two now and I'm finding my main gripe with it is selecting text in the browser.
If you've written a block of text, or several sentences (whatever), I find tapping your sentence to place the cursor at a specific point utterly hit and miss. It's really, really hard to get it where you want it.
I mostly use the stock browser as it's way faster than any other I've tried (Dolphin and Firefox), but this is driving me insane. It's not quite as bad in Dolphin, but it's still pretty bad.
I have to say, the iPhone is way ahead when it comes to placing the cursor where you want it. I'm hanging for a mod that uses the little magnifying glass thing that the iPhone has.
Is anyone else bothered by this and found a solution?
Thanks
Simon
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Yep...i had the same grief..... its a pain in the arse.

Same so used to iphone browser. Ill try opera mini

One of the few things I wish they would nick from the iPhone. HTC have done it with their new versions of Sense, why can't Google do it with Android in general or Samsung with their devices?

Love em or hate em but I really miss the trackball on the N1. Both for this reason and being able to quicly nab closely spaced link without zooming.

You could download the Gingerbread Keyboard App in the market and use the included D-Pad. I can't live without it.
Regards.

I use gingerbread keyboard and I don't think it has a d-pad..!

Pagnell said:
One of the few things I wish they would nick from the iPhone. HTC have done it with their new versions of Sense, why can't Google do it with Android in general or Samsung with their devices?
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Isn't this a generic Android issue as I have encountered it on all the Android phones I have owned as far as I can remember?

Keep in mind the stock browser uses hardware acceleration. I'd guess that anything else is going to be slower.

I just cant win with honeycomb browsers.

The stock browser is my preferred browser because it has the best design and features (and the only one that can play 720p YouTube videos smoothly) but has too many glitches to be functional!
First off its the laggiest out of all of them making it almost impossible to type at any fast rate of speed. Second there is a ridiculous glitch that won't allow you to move the cursor by just tapping where you want it to go within the text, you have to actually drag the cursor to where you want it go. But like i said it looks the best, has the best features, formats the text the best, and plays 720p YouTube.
Opera is the fastest. It is the best for text editing and overall speed of browsing. It is extremely annoying though that it won't do things such as auto capitalize or just allow you to push enter to search rather than clicking on the page, and the very layout of the browser seems dated. It also won't play 720p YouTube videos. Opera seems to be the only one that will allow proper handling of HTML forms and text editing, which is very important for posting on the net and making your way through forums.
Dolphin is OK but it has one glitch i can not look past. I can not search from the little drop down menu within forums because it just glitches and closes. Similarly I can't use the login to websites function (such as xda) from the little embedded login on the main page. Its broken.
I guess the most usable is opera. But can some dev not fix the little things that are wrong with the stock browser? I would really prefer to use it instead. Im sure most of you will agree.

seh6183 said:
Mods is there anyway to delete every single post except for the op? Maybe some real human beings will post and we can start over.
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Can everyone please stick to the topic,if you have nothing constructive to add please refrain from posting.

seh6183 said:
The stock browser is my preferred browser because it has the best design and features (and the only one that can play 720p YouTube videos smoothly) but has too many glitches to be functional!
First off its the laggiest out of all of them making it almost impossible to type at any fast rate of speed. Second there is a ridiculous glitch that won't allow you to move the cursor by just tapping where you want it to go within the text, you have to actually drag the cursor to where you want it go. But like i said it looks the best, has the best features, formats the text the best, and plays 720p YouTube.
Opera is the fastest. It is the best for text editing and overall speed of browsing. It is extremely annoying though that it won't do things such as auto capitalize or just allow you to push enter to search rather than clicking on the page, and the very layout of the browser seems dated. It also won't play 720p YouTube videos. Opera seems to be the only one that will allow proper handling of HTML forms and text editing, which is very important for posting on the net and making your way through forums.
Dolphin is OK but it has one glitch i can not look past. I can not search from the little drop down menu within forums because it just glitches and closes. Similarly I can't use the login to websites function (such as xda) from the little embedded login on the main page. Its broken.
I guess the most usable is opera. But can some dev not fix the little things that are wrong with the stock browser? I would really prefer to use it instead. Im sure most of you will agree.
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Have you tried SkyFire?

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Can everyone please stick to the topic,if you have nothing constructive to add please refrain from posting.
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Thank you sir.
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Tivo7 said:
Have you tried SkyFire?
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Wasn't even aware that skyfire was available on honeycomb! Thank you, ill try it out first thing in the morning. Do you feel its pretty snappy? Any weird glitches that you've come across yet?
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Tried skyfire and there are glitches in it as well. Oh well, I'll just stick with the stock browser and the opera browser for now. Thanks for the advice though.

Firefox also has a browser. Don't know if it will work for you and what you need. I personally didn't like it. Did you try Dolphin or Dolphin HD?

Firefox
What about Firefox???

rcy1 said:
Firefox also has a browser. Don't know if it will work for you and what you need. I personally didn't like it. Did you try Dolphin or Dolphin HD?
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I did try dolphin yes. Too many glitches.
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sansagara said:
What about Firefox???
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Haven't tried it in a while but it was real laggy. Will try in a moment.
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I can tolerate the stock browser for the most part. The only one thing I can't really live with is text editing. When I click in the middle of a word to correct it, the cursor doesn't jump when I pressed, it does for a second and then snaps across the screen to where it was previously. Then I have to grab the cursor and drag it to where I want. This gets old.
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Just tried both Firefox and Firefox beta and both we pretty laggy. While I could move the cursor to where I wanted by tapping, the browser had no arrow come up to fine tune the location! I could probably deal with this if the browser wasn't so laggy. And im pretty sure there is no flash support with firefox yet, back to the stock browser
On another note, I was able to tap my cursor whereever I wanted just now editing this text with the stock browser! Seems like a random occurance i guess.

Both Firefoxes are shocking, laggy slow and worse of all no flash support if I wanted that I'd have bought an iPad! The work around I use for text entry is to zoom it, bit of a pain in the butt n not perfect but it does sort out the glitch.

seh6183 said:
I did try dolphin yes. Too many glitches.
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Which Dolphin did you try? I use Dolphin for Pad and am quite happy with it.

AnyMal said:
Which Dolphin did you try? I use Dolphin for Pad and am quite happy with it.
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Yea dolphin pad is what I tried. There is glitches when trying to login to pages and text editing glitches.
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[Q] Web browser lag

Surprisingly dissapointed with browsing speed.
Coming from an LG G2 which was insantaneous in loading pages, my note 4 lags chronically.
This is observed in every browser I've tried.
It should be noted that the pages which the Note 4 loads, have significantly more and larger advertisements.
Symptoms:
1. 2-5 seconds longer in loading pages when compared to the LG G2.
2. Momentary freeze when swipe to scroll.
3. Noticeable jump when scrolling - every time with each swipe.
Has anyone experienced similar issue or able to offer any insight towards resolving?
Your input would be greatly appreciated!

Specify wifi or mobile data

Brava27 said:
Specify wifi or mobile data
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WIFI although havent been able to compare mobile data browsing with the G2.

wolgizee said:
Surprisingly dissapointed with browsing speed.
Coming from an LG G2 which was insantaneous in loading pages, my note 4 lags chronically.
This is observed in every browser I've tried.
It should be noted that the pages which the Note 4 loads, have significantly more and larger advertisements.
Symptoms:
1. 2-5 seconds longer in loading pages when compared to the LG G2.
2. Momentary freeze when swipe to scroll.
3. Noticeable jump when scrolling - every time with each swipe.
Has anyone experienced similar issue or able to offer any insight towards resolving?
Your input would be greatly appreciated!
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I found u Dave muahahahahaha

Same issues here, stuttering, and frame skipping during scroll on chrome, its terrible ANYONE can help?

Download the chrome support for samsung at the playstore and then turn off the option in S-voice wherein you can activate it in any screen by saying "hi galaxy"

drmodify said:
Download the chrome support for samsung at the playstore and then turn off the option in S-voice wherein you can activate it in any screen by saying "hi galaxy"
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I can't download it, its gone. Please share the APK if you can!

I have the same issue and reverted to the stock default browser and it seems the smoothest for me. I had the Samsung support apk installed which did help Chrome a bit but still not as good as stock.

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I have the same issue and reverted to the stock default browser and it seems the smoothest for me. I had the Samsung support apk installed which did help Chrome a bit but still not as good as stock.
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Can you please share the APK?

I think that the biggest problem is that most web pages are 75% ads, and 25% content that you want.
Web designers are lazy, and they just throw every single ad they can find on there, and they make a mess of things. It is really annoying when you just want to read something and have to go through 14 ads and commercials to read what you went there for.
I think that this is the modern day equivalent of the pop-up. Most have those blocked pretty well, so now all those annoying popups are just integrated into the page itself and it really bogs things down. And I think that in their greedy zeal to force these ads down our throats, they make them less effective because we just learn to tune them out and become numb to them...
If it was an ad or two on a page, I might see it and check it out. WHen it is 9 or 10 I get annoyed and just start flicking past them to get what I want, or I give up and try another page altogether...

It will help a lot if you get rid of the ads. I am using ABP to block all ads easily when in wifi. no need for root.
if you got root adaway is the way to go.
chrome samsung spport library apk:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5vavpnd2zmzlc8i/AACJcPUfLN2NyI_kVgUtm_goa?dl=0
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SquireSCA said:
I think that the biggest problem is that most web pages are 75% ads, and 25% content that you want.
Web designers are lazy, and they just throw every single ad they can find on there, and they make a mess of things. It is really annoying when you just want to read something and have to go through 14 ads and commercials to read what you went there for.
I think that this is the modern day equivalent of the pop-up. Most have those blocked pretty well, so now all those annoying popups are just integrated into the page itself and it really bogs things down. And I think that in their greedy zeal to force these ads down our throats, they make them less effective because we just learn to tune them out and become numb to them...
If it was an ad or two on a page, I might see it and check it out. WHen it is 9 or 10 I get annoyed and just start flicking past them to get what I want, or I give up and try another page altogether...
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No, its definitely Samsung issue, on my LG G2 it flied trough the pages, no stutter at all, but it was on ART, ART is totally broken on Touchwiz...

dazed1 said:
I can't download it, its gone. Please share the APK if you can!
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It should be there as long as you are using a samsung phone. Anyway try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.deviceextras.samsung

drmodify said:
It should be there as long as you are using a samsung phone. Anyway try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.deviceextras.samsung
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Тhanks, i tried it, no difference, same frame skipping.......is present.

dazed1 said:
Тhanks, i tried it, no difference, same frame skipping.......is present.
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Are you rooted? And have xposed installed? Maybe its in one of those plugins for chrome. Mine is working fantastic. Try clearing cache and dalvik and reboot. If all else fails use another browser

drmodify said:
Are you rooted? And have xposed installed? Maybe its in one of those plugins for chrome. Mine is working fantastic. Try clearing cache and dalvik and reboot. If all else fails use another browser
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No root

worth a try
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enter this in the chrome bar: chrome://flags
Then look for "Maximum tiles for interest area"
and change to 512. This allocates more ram.
You can play with the other settings there as well and reset incase things get effed up :good:

drmodify said:
enter this in the chrome bar: chrome://flags
Then look for "Maximum tiles for interest area"
and change to 512. This allocates more ram.
You can play with the other settings there as well and reset incase things get effed up :good:
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Already tried, this does not improve the scrolling performance at all, thanks anyway

I tried on the Nexus 5 my friend has it, not much of an improvement, guess its Chrome.

dazed1 said:
Already tried, this does not improve the scrolling performance at all, thanks anyway
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Alright this is the final solutions I have found. If it wont work for you then it's the end of the world...
Option one: 1) install samsung support
2) disable javascript and restart chrome
If you need javascript enabled keep it enabled and make sure samsung support is installed
1) enter chrome://flags
2) look for "Enable Experimental JavaScript" restart and reply here for feedback...
Also don't forget to enable the 512 hack as well