So on my G1, you could just hold shift and use the touchscreen to select text to copy it. Is there similar functionality hidden somewhere on the nexus one?
its the same android OS, actually newer version. i doubt they would take a feature out.
Just hold down the trackball, that's what I do. I'm assuming you're talking about a field where you entered text?
Press and hold works too.
While on the browser if you want to select a text press menu > more and select text and the rest has been covered by previous post.
There is no copy/paste on the Nexus One. Apple have a software patent on it with the iPhone.
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There is no copy/paste on the Nexus One. Apple have a software patent on it with the iPhone.
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You have no idea what your talking about see previous post and Nexus One runs android which has it, apple can't patent it because its been out as well as the tech however they can patent how they specifically implement it.
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You have no idea what your talking about see previous post and Nexus One runs android which has it, apple can't patent it because its been out as well as the tech however they can patent how they specifically implement it.
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Land Of The Trill said:
You have no idea what your talking about see previous post and Nexus One runs android which has it, apple can't patent it because its been out as well as the tech however they can patent how they specifically implement it.
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I'm pretty sure he was making fun of Apple... trying to patent things they stole from others... Like half the code in Mac OS... or 90% of the technology in the iPhone....
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I'm pretty sure he was making fun of Apple... trying to patent things they stole from others... Like half the code in Mac OS... or 90% of the technology in the iPhone....
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Well, that and the fact that the iPhone didn't have C&P for years.
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While on the browser if you want to select a text press menu > more and select text and the rest has been covered by previous post.
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Thanks! I tried searching on here and in the google help for the nexus one and couldn't find it anywhere.
I've only used the Android on Samsung Galaxy, and was frustrated by the fact that its user interface varies from application to applications. To do text selection, cut, copy for example, you press and hold until a pop up letting you select/select all/cut/copy. This is how it works in messaging and an application called Andoird Note. However, if you go to the brower and do the same, a pop up with ask you if you want to save the picture (although your finger is pointing not to a picture but to text). In order to perform text selection then copy in browser, you press the menu button first. Whereas pressing the menu button in the other applications will not let you have access to the text selection/copy function.
Is this version of Android still the same?
Hmm, this is really frustrating as I used copy & paste on mu 3GS all of the time for e-mailing web pages and copying text messages etc. Now it's not even possible to copy the contents of an e-mail... at all. The copying in the web browser is pretty sucky too since there's no time to edit the selection if you missed something.
Even so, I would like even that much in all applications. I can't even copy part of an e-mail into my notes app ¬¬
Does anybody know if there will be a fix for this?
Not as of yet. Definitely a missing feature.
I dont think anyones done it as good as WinMo yet. Iphone and Android both leave alot to be desired with copy and paste.
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Not as of yet. Definitely a missing feature.
I dont think anyones done it as good as WinMo yet. Iphone and Android both leave alot to be desired with copy and paste.
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Yeah that's true, I forgot all about WinMo copy&paste. It's just so well thought out. I really like the Maemo method, where you select "mouse mode" or something and then select text like a computer; that's fairly intelligent of them, although I'm not fond of the "corkscrew" zoom
and there's no need, since Apple have no "pinch to zoom" patent in Europe (that I'm aware of)
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This device is slowly racking up the checkmarks that have me miss my iphone less and less.
The htc_ime keyboard was a huge one...many other gems have just about sealed the deal. The functionality has just about overwhelmed the usability advantage of the iphone (which it had to do!).
My big issue is copy paste feature....which i needed extensively on the iphone.
Specifically the ability to copy a whole page.....not the page url, but whole page...images and all.
Unless I'm really losing it, the N1 one is incapable of it.
Wondering if rooted, this function exists.
I appreciate any responses.
Thanks
Most apps allow copy and paste. Try doing a long-press on the text and look for "select text" then select the text using the trackball. Pressing the trackball will automatically copy the text.
Then you can paste in most text fields with a similar long-press and "paste"
Thanks
I have been using my finger ala iphone to acccess the text and try to move it down but it only gets a small amount of text.
ill try the trackball.
Why all the bad press for Android and the Nexus?
I don't really understand. Granted, the guy is obviously an Apple fanboy, but, there are a lot of negative reviews out there. No multi-touch? Give me a break.
I can't post a link yet-- search "google-android-personal-thoughts" for the Boy Genius report.
while android OS may not have some of the features of iphone OS, and yes the controls are definatly not as streamlined as iPhone, Android OS can do many, many things iPhone users can only dream of (ESPECIALLY if your iPhone is not jailbroken).
The iPhone OS, while being very intuitive and streamlined, feels like it was made for children. Everything you do in the iPhone OS is linear and controlled. This even goes for the App store, where Apple controls what apps can and cannot be distributed through the Appstore with an iron fist. If iPhone OS is your home, Apple is your strict dad.
Android on the other hand is much more lenient. On the Nexus One, they even give you the option to "jailbreak" (root) your phone out of the box! All you need to do is type in one simple 3 word command from your PC's command prompt.
Also, most of the apps on the iPhone appstore are garbage. Sure there may be over 100,000 apps to download, but 80% of them are useless iBeer/Flashlight apps, dumbed down games, or broken applications the so called devs cooked together to make a quick $0.99 off anyone who is eager to spend their money on something that looks cool on the description.
Dolphin browser has a "read it later" option.
Don't know if that counts.
Have NO idea what sixcoronas or melkers sic posts have to do with my question which is simply is there a way to cut and paste and entire intact page...not an url of the page....which, I said, is done really well on the iphone, gasp! (must be a really inflammatory thing to say for some reason).
Anyway, Couldnt do it with the trackball.
When highlighting text the most i can copy is a small paragraph.
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Have NO idea what sixcoronas or melkers sic posts have to do with my question which is simply is there a way to cut and paste and entire intact page...not an url of the page....which, I said, is done really well on the iphone, gasp! (must be a really inflammatory thing to say for some reason).
Anyway, Couldnt do it with the trackball.
When highlighting text the most i can copy is a small paragraph.
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Just curious as to why you would need this feature... perhaps there is a better way to accomplish what you're trying to do, without having to copy/paste?
You could try Any Web Copy from the market or some kind or screenshot app if you don't need to manipulate the text.
Does anybody know of an app that would allow me to sign my name on the screen, and the paste my signature onto documents ? I have searched around the freewre sites pretty good, but come up empty handed. Seems like it would be like a pretty easy app to code, I mean pretty straightforward I'm no dev but it seems like something that could be done. And it seems like something obvious to have for smartphones, considering all the business users. I'd imagine more than half of all documents that people email you and want back probably require nothing more or little more than a handwritten signature. Does such a thing exist ?
I thought one could just sign his name using Draw in Notes, then uncheck Draw, and then select the signature by making the motion of two sides of a rectangle and re-sizing the box that appears- but pasting it into Word Mobile didn't work like it does in the Windows versions of Office. Perhaps One Note Mobile?
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This is combination of a gmail app question, accessory question and honeycomb OS question so I'll post it in general.
I received my Moto Bluetooth keyboard today.
This is a huge step forward in having this device be a laptop replacement for 90% of my non-work computer use. However, there are a few things missing:
1. Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between active applications? Like alt-tab in windows? the dedicated app buttons are nice, but this means that I can only switch between certain apps.
2. Is there a way to change the behavior for the buttons? There is no "messaging" app in honeycomb. I would instead like this to map to gchat
3. Where are keyboard shortcuts in the gmail app? I want to be able to archive, reply, and forward by hitting y, r, and f.
4. in fact why do the arrow keys not do what I expect them to in gmail? They jump between links in the content of the email. I want them to be able to let me hop between emails not only within the current one. Perhaps this would be solved by keyboard shortcuts of j and k.
5. Why hasn't anyone made a decent office/productivity app yet? Is this that difficult? Is there a way to force my browser to not use the mobile version of google docs?
6. I hate to say it, but I miss blur. Only for the fact that motorola understands how to integrate with exchange well.
Blur can download attachments, reply to email, manage calendar invites, look up in the GAL, etc much much better than the crap support that google gives out of the box. And before anyone asks, TouchDown for Tablets has issues in honeycomb and does not work for me.
That being said, these are all minor software tweaks. I love the device and really hope that moto/google can address these issues.
If anyone has any known workarounds or solutions please let me know as well.
I don't have my Xoom (yet) and I don't have a keyboard. But I do have an OG Droid. And you can setup your shortcuts for it by going into Settings->Applications->Quick Launch. You might check to see if that option is there for the Xoom.
Android apps do not have keyboard shortcuts, period. The onscreen keyboard isn't meant for that and it's not designed to be used with an external keyboard (primarily).
Dang! While I was typing my thread someone else had apparently a similar question... could one of the admins/moderators please merge my thread with this??!!? Thanks!
Bauxite said:
Android apps do not have keyboard shortcuts, period. The onscreen keyboard isn't meant for that and it's not designed to be used with an external keyboard (primarily).
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android-tips.com/use-keyboard-shortcuts-to-switch-between-applications/
It does look like there are keyboard shortcuts, but some of them have been dropped in the move to honeycomb. This is odd because I would think that more people will be using external keyboards to do actual work with honeycomb.
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5. Why hasn't anyone made a decent office/productivity app yet? Is this that difficult?
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Maybe the fact Honeycomb has been out all of 6 days...
You ever try writing a complex program such as that? No?! I didn't think so. Things like that take time. not even MS can pump out a copy of office in 6 days with their enormous development staff.
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Maybe the fact Honeycomb has been out all of 6 days...
You ever try writing a complex program such as that? No?! I didn't think so. Things like that take time. not even MS can pump out a copy of office in 6 days with their enormous development staff.
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lol. Quite defensive.
1. the sdk has been out for a while. Ever think about why there were apps on launch day? Those companies must have millions of people!!!
2. Since you asked, I have written much more complex apps. I'm a systems engineer. Phone apps are relatively simple.
3. Android has been out for years now. There is still not a decent office app on any flavor of android.
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3. Android has been out for years now. There is still not a decent office app on any flavor of android.
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There pops the bubble
zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-devices/2011/03/02/asuss-eee-pad-tablets-show-off-android-30-40091991/#story
hopefully if they keep releasing devices with keyboards, keyboard support and office applications will only get better.
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lol. Quite defensive.
1. the sdk has been out for a while. Ever think about why there were apps on launch day? Those companies must have millions of people!!!
2. Since you asked, I have written much more complex apps. I'm a systems engineer. Phone apps are relatively simple.
3. Android has been out for years now. There is still not a decent office app on any flavor of android.
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The API was finalized two days before the Xoom was released. Also the SDK is completely unusable without a Xoom to test on, so if a developer didn't have one there was almost no way they could start developing it before it came out unless google gave them a pre-production unit. This is why there are so few xoom apps right now, you could not develop for honeycomb without one unless you were okay with the emulator going .001 frames per second.
Google Suggests Google Docs. I think its very good considering it is web based.
We use it in our organization, publishing live statistical information about the operation every few minutes to shared spreadsheets, from which our users can interact.
Google Docs users can open, edit, share spreadsheets, Txt Docs with formating, and now Power Point without any issues from Android Devices, Apple, and any other web device.
I think Quick Office is also good for a small screen, and it has been out for years.
Or, Email moves docs around very nicely as well.
But in the end, Android is not Ubuntu. Andriod is not MacOS. Android is not Windows
If you would like to create complex documents, pick up a laptop. I hear they are available, and portable.
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Google Suggests Google Docs. I think its very good considering it is web based.
We use it in our organization, publishing live statistical information about the operation every few minutes to shared spreadsheets, from which our users can interact.
Google Docs users can open, edit, share spreadsheets, Txt Docs with formating, and now Power Point without any issues from Android Devices, Apple, and any other web device.
I think Quick Office is also good for a small screen, and it has been out for years.
Or, Email moves docs around very nicely as well.
But in the end, Android is not Ubuntu. Andriod is not MacOS. Android is not Windows
If you would like to create complex documents, pick up a laptop. I hear they are available, and portable.
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Exactly why I want a Google Documents app for Android tablets, since Google Documents doesn't load well in our browsers.
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My Titan (WP7) was stolen, so I updated to WP8 earlier than I was planning to.
Aside from about a third of my apps not being available for WP8 yet, I'm enjoying what the new system has to offer.
However, WP8 lost some functionality which is really annoying the hell out of me.
Gifs. In WP7, you couldn't save them, but you could "share" them and email them to yourself. When I try to do this in WP8, it takes one frame from the gif and shares a single frame jpg file. What the ****. Now there is no way to save gif files at all, which is problematic when sites like 4chan don't host them for long.
Unable to uninstall the Help and Tips app. ........ Just... why?
"Remove location data on uploaded images" is no longer an option. As a privacy nut, I loved this. Well, great, now I have to turn off location in pictures all together.
There are a few other things that are missing I'm not remembering, and granted these are all small problems, but now that they've been arbitrarily removed, they're never going to be re-implemented. I'll submit a "feature request" and it'll sit at the bottom, never to be seen...
I got the 820 over the 920 because a non-removable battery is a deal breaker for me. Funny thing is, when the titan first came out everyone was complaining about how hard it is to press the buttons... Well now I can't pick up the damn lumia without accidentally hitting one of the buttons.
I am not sure what your talking about. I recommend that you go to wpcentral forums because they can answer your question. Everyone has left xda in terms of windows phone, all the action here is android.
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I am not sure what your talking about. I recommend that you go to wpcentral forums because they can answer your question. Everyone has left xda in terms of windows phone, all the action here is android.
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Yeah, I've noticed that the portal features nothing about anything related to Microsoft, even when every other site was having a field day with all the WP8 related announcements...
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Side note: you could alternatively turn off the photo uploading, and leave the geotagging enabled. Then, sync your images to your PC and upload the images to wherever after running them through a de-geotagging program.
Not suggesting this is a *good* option; I hate feature regressions at least as much as anybody. Just a possible way for you to get around the problem.
Got the new phone other day, really nice so far.
BUT when i choose an uploader button on forums, craigslist or google image search etc… the choose an action menu pops up like normal, but NO gallery icon.
SO how can i upload? Taking a new pic each time is pretty annoying. BTW this worked fine on all my previous droid devices WITHOUT a special craigslist app or google app etc…..
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Got the new phone other day, really nice so far.
BUT when i choose an uploader button on forums, craigslist or google image search etc… the choose an action menu pops up like normal, but NO gallery icon.
SO how can i upload? Taking a new pic each time is pretty annoying. BTW this worked fine on all my previous droid devices WITHOUT a special craigslist app or google app etc…..
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It's not clear what you are objecting to. What your droid did is irrelevant. It's not reasonable to expect every phone to be identical for your favourite features. And if that is somehow critical to you.. why did you buy a non-droid phone?
As far as I can tell, you are accustomed to having the gallery icon show up on the action menu and don't like that it's (apparently) not there on your S5. Did you try clicking, "documents" on the action menu? I bet that takes you right into the gallery or a file browser.
Or there are a million other ways to do the same thing too - my files (the stock file browser, various apps, upload from your browser, long press on the recents (left soft) key to access a conventional context menu, the command line.. etc, etc.
If you want, go grab the Google gallery apk and install it and I bet it shows up on the action menu..
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Umm thanks I guess??
Yes document worked.
The other 12 paragraphs you typed why?
Wtf are you talking about ? I guess htc, Sony and Samsung don't count. Lol
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It's not clear what you are objecting to. What your droid did is irrelevant. It's not reasonable to expect every phone to be identical for your favourite features. And if that is somehow critical to you.. why did you buy a non-droid phone?
As far as I can tell, you are accustomed to having the gallery icon show up on the action menu and don't like that it's (apparently) not there on your S5. Did you try clicking, "documents" on the action menu? I bet that takes you right into the gallery or a file browser.
Or there are a million other ways to do the same thing too - my files (the stock file browser, various apps, upload from your browser, long press on the recents (left soft) key to access a conventional context menu, the command line.. etc, etc.
If you want, go grab the Google gallery apk and install it and I bet it shows up on the action menu..
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Dear Vdubjim,
To be completely honest with you the answer you received was quite sensible - outlining many options you do have and hope they can be resolved.
Do note - "droid" - means a Motorola phone with that word in the name (a/p gsmarena.com 4 pieces produced). Therefore - the whole rant about other options in other device maker's skins for Android.
The thing is - there are a lot of people in those forums who do not bother to google for answers and who simply want everything put before them on a plate. This always results in a somewhat sarcastic reply - and personally I'm not surprised. The answer you received was mild and non-offensive - please do take note of that.
Cheers!
Thank you for the insight.
Next time I'll post my search logs.
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Dear Vdubjim,
To be completely honest with you the answer you received was quite sensible - outlining many options you do have and hope they can be resolved.
Do note - "droid" - means a Motorola phone with that word in the name (a/p gsmarena.com 4 pieces produced). Therefore - the whole rant about other options in other device maker's skins for Android.
The thing is - there are a lot of people in those forums who do not bother to google for answers and who simply want everything put before them on a plate. This always results in a somewhat sarcastic reply - and personally I'm not surprised. The answer you received was mild and non-offensive - please do take note of that.
Cheers!
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