Does anyone know how to change the internet favorite icons on the HD2? I set my link and the icon shows a picture of an internet site that isn't the favorite.
Sometimes the picture doesn't even come up. It's still the empty black box with the name of the favorite in it.
After you set it as a favorite in the visual bookmarks, you have to shutdown the browser, then open it using the new tab. After that, it will show the first page of the site thats assigned to that tab.
If you want to get rid of the existing site on a tab, just long press on it then drag it to the edge till it turns red. Tab is now empty and ready for a new bookmark assignment.
Hope that helps
I tried that. It worked for most of the icons but there are a couple that keep putting up the Wikipedia page for a favorite that isn't Wikipedia. It's super annoying.
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This is just an idea.. but I think it would be nice to be able to setup the background of the Today Screen to a web page.
possible uses are:
1) webcams image pages that are updated every minute
2) traffic pages that are updated every minute etc.
3) other type web mini dashboards
etc.
possible options are
1) reload every xmin
2) reload olny when there is a open data connection
3) reload schedule
3) green icon in bottom left if last refreshed < 1min
etc
questsin said:
This is just an idea.. but I think it would be nice to be able to setup the background of the Today Screen to a web page.
possible uses are:
1) webcams image pages that are updated every minute
2) traffic pages that are updated every minute etc.
3) other type web mini dashboards
etc.
possible options are
1) reload every xmin
2) reload olny when there is a open data connection
3) reload schedule
3) green icon in bottom left if last refreshed < 1min
etc
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Tap/hold/save image(pop up) on the webpage, find saved image,tap on file, tap menu, tap set as today background. For the best background image should be set at "0", click OK(on top), this can also be done going to IE5 temporary internet files and following the same above procedures.
hotdog53 said:
Tap/hold/save image(pop up) on the webpage, find saved image,tap on file, tap menu, tap set as today background. For the best background image should be set at "0", click OK(on top), this can also be done going to IE5 temporary internet files and following the same above procedures.
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To have the whole webpage as tbg, capture the page using a screen capture utility, find the capture in file explorer, tap, menu, set as today background.
hotdog53 said:
To have the whole webpage as tbg, capture the page using a screen capture utility, find the capture in file explorer, tap, menu, set as today background.
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As an example, I'm using this webpage (1) as a today background. Pict. 2 is the page that comes up after "set as today background" from menu at bottom right.
I dont think he wants a screen shot of the webpage.
Im guessing he wants an active webpage as the background, much like the windows active desktop thing. Its a great idea and i would personally use this.
an active desktop kinda thingy is not present for windows mobile, but i guess there can be a "workaround'. e.g., a program can pull an image from a server every x seconds and change ur background with it.
Sometime down the line (if this has not already been done by then) I might include this in my timed wallpaper/theme cycler proggie..
if you follow the instructions from ms on using the compact framework to create a today item you will end up with a web page item. It would then be a more simple task to load content from the internet. I know it can work because i did it a while ago. I got as far as using html to set the window colour then went back to purely native today items.
Warning: it is a major pain in the back side to do that project. It involves a managed side and a native side that work together.
Id like an active webpage, but an active image from a web site refreshed on an interval would be nice
questsin said:
Id like an active webpage, but an active image from a web site refreshed on an interval would be nice
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Try here:
www.kickingdesigns.com
Ok I may just be going stupid here but I want to delete some of the bookmarks that Opera seems to have as defualt. Ie when you go to the internet page it has a list of bookmarks you can choose below the planet. And when you go into bookmarks it has the links for Google UK, Wikipedia etc, what I want to do is delete some of these, is there a way?
I can't for the life of me see a way to delete them?
If Opera Mobile is still having more or less the same interface, then press the star symbol to go bookmark. Place your cursor on the bookmark to delete, then press the symbol that looks like a tool (shape of X). A dialog will appear to ask you if you want to delete it. Click delete button.
Let me know if it still work this way in this version of Opera. Cheers.
Thanks eaglesteve.
The only problem is if I tap on one of the bookmarks it launches the browser and goes to that bookmark. As there is no keyboard in the bookmark view I don't have the arrows on the keyboard to navigate down the list and select the bookmark that way. If I create my own bookmarks its not a problem, it just seems you can't delete these defualt bookmarks
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If Opera Mobile is still having more or less the same interface, then press the star symbol to go bookmark. Place your cursor on the bookmark to delete, then press the symbol that looks like a tool (shape of X). A dialog will appear to ask you if you want to delete it. Click delete button.
Let me know if it still work this way in this version of Opera. Cheers.
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That works if you want to delete the first bookmark on the list that is already highlighted. When I try to choose different bookmark it tends to just open the link. Another method is to press and HOLD the bookmark and a screen will pop up with the delete option amongst others.
Yes, the lack of D-pad makes this untuitive, but not to worry, there is another way:
Press on that item and HOLD until you see the pop up dialog letting you delete that bookmark then.
AFK_Matrix said:
Thanks eaglesteve.
The only problem is if I tap on one of the bookmarks it launches the browser and goes to that bookmark. As there is no keyboard in the bookmark view I don't have the arrows on the keyboard to navigate down the list and select the bookmark that way. If I create my own bookmarks its not a problem, it just seems you can't delete these defualt bookmarks
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Don't tap it, just place your finger and keep it there for awhile on top of the bookmark you want to delete and you'll get a menu where you can choose what you want to do with that bookmark.
Hi, all,
Sorry to gate-crash here, but I'm a new member and haven't found the Opera section of this forum, yet.
Does anyone know how to relabel the Speed Dial icons in Opera?
thanks eaglesteve! that worked like a charm !!
You wouldnt hapend to know how to organize the favorites ? like moving them up or down. like if you want the most visited sites on top and less visited further down the line.
thanks
Ok, by now you probably know HTC's nice text selection tool. To use it, write some words in a HTC application (like the text message composer), then tap-and-hold somewhere in the text. You get one handle to move around, or two if you want to select a precise part.
But there's more. Change "HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier" from 0 to 1. Now activate the text selection tool again as described above and try moving the single handle around...
Nice catch. Can be helpful in tight selections. I've been looking through the reg. So much stuff disabled... Why does HTC do this? They could've placed it as an option on SMS menu...
Thanks. Added to tips thread.
Maybe they disable it so we at XDA have something to do until HSPL is released
Some other simple but cool things I discovered:
* You can use the album app to crop pictures. Just pinch-to-zoom until the part you want fills the screen, then tap the screen, tap the icon on the bottom right and choose the second option from the menu. In Dutch it's called 'Schermafbeelding opslaan'. It will save a cropped copy of your pic.
* Here's a registry entry I found: "HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila/InternetPush/EnablePushInternet". It's set to 0 by default. I'm not really interested in push internet, so I haven't experimented with this, but it seems you can enable it if you want.
* Sometimes touch scrolling gets in the way of selecting text. If you want to select text, the solution depends on the context, but to start you just tap-and-hold anywhere:
-- In Opera, you can switch text selection on/off in the context menu;
-- In some apps (like while reading an e-mail message) you get a pop-up menu where the first option is 'make selection' ('selectie maken' on my Dutch device);
-- In Word, just before the pop-up menu appears, you see this: '[T]'. As soon as it appears, move your finger and you'll be able to select text!
* If you like the Footprints app but prefer full size pictures to those square 'polaroids', there's an option to save a full sized copy whenever you create a 'Footprint' (Footprints tab -> Menu -> Settings).
* The 'me' entry in the People app stores your 'owner' info. I know this is widely known by now, partly because I've been posting it everywhere, but I still see so many people complaining they can't register their applications (Resco stuff, SKtools)... because the can't find the old owner info icon. I have registered both Resco Explorer and SKtools perfectly fine without ever bringing the owner info icon back.
I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.
leepriestenator said:
I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.
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you know it only works in text messaging, right? (well, some other htc apps too, apparently, but i couldn't name another one i've seen it in)
Yes of course... I'm aware that it only works in the realm of Sense specifically mail and text. I can do the standard selection thing but I just can't seem to get the sliders.
Any ideas?
hmm, well a common mistake I've come across a few times is people not pressing select the first time.
firstly go type some text into a new text message. (not sure where the idea it works in email came from, certainly doesn't on mine.)
ok, press and hold should bring up a cursor and the words "select|select all.
use the single sljder to set the start(or end, whichever) press 'select' nd now a second slider should join the first, enabling you to select.
Thanks for the responses guys, but as it turned out, I didn't realise that Energy ROMs are stripped of the HTC Messaging Module and that seems to be the only place where this 'feature' works.
It's a shame that's it's not available system-wide considering how easy it makes life.
I installed the HTC Messaging Client and voila, it was it there! but that excitement was short lived considering how bad HTC's messaging client is.
hah couldn't agree more. with the magnifier too its great ,, just never gets used.
Hi All,
I thought I'd share this little issue I've had, and managed to solve on my own *smug*
Basically, I was creating Favourites from within the tab and setting them to the quick launch style buttons on the tab itself.
None of them had thumbnails, always had the 'empty' globe icon.
I could press them, and off the browser went to the website, all works fine, just no thumbnail on the Internet tab.
I've been mostly using Skyfire as my default browser.
I've now discovered that to get around this, you need to browse to the website in question (in Opera, didn't try in IE), then add it as a favourite, then add the quick launch shortcut.
It may sound simple, but it seems a bit strange to be able to set up favourites outside of the browser (as the favourites work independent of a browser) but that the thumbnails aren't created.
Hope this helps someone
thanks for this post
now i've my thumbnail with oper10
how do you get a regular IE browser on this device? all I see is web2 go browser. clicking on opera takes me to web2go. sorry if it is a silly ques new to hd2 and used to my nexus one.
when opera is open, there is a triangle ontop of a rectangle.
click on that
then on top you'll see two arrows that looks like it goes up and down or a circular motion.
click in the white box right next to those arrows, that is your address bar.
type in www.xxxxxx.com (x=the address where you want to go)
click enter...
that's how you navigate with 9.7 opera. should be similar with other opera also
And if you want IE (internet explorer) Opera should be in there too
go to start button
then inside there should be a blue "e" icon to represent internet explorer.
could be inside a folder such as Internet or Applications etc. Depends on how it's set up. I am not familiar with stock roms. And every chef is different on how they like to set theirs up.
Good luck
thank you!