Does anyone know of an apk that has been pulled out of Sense UI with the Smart dialer that works in the Streak?
I have tried Dialer One and aTakaphone and although their functionality is similar, they don't sit right on the screen.
If the other dialers can be tweaked then they are fine. In Launcher Pro, can the size of the dialer keyboards be changed, as they come up tiny, making it hard to read the letters on the keys.
Have you tried NubDial? I have tried Dialer One and like you said, the apps itself only uses a fraction of the screen.
However like Dialer One, NubDial also doesn't support landscape mode.
try fastdialer works on streak
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One thing that I find annoying on my Legend is that the screen is small compared to other devices and when I'm in text entering mode, the virtual keyboard comes up and shifts everything else upwards.
In situations like standard text messaging, emailing, internet browser, MSN talk, etc. there is often only a very small amount of room between the top of the keyboard and the top of the screen, where the contents of the app is now displayed. The keyboard takes up half the screen.
I don't see why they don't make the keyboard like 50% - 85% transparent, like a smooth popup which comes over the display instead of shifting it up and cramming it into a tiny space.
People are familiar with QWERTY keyboards, they dont need to see them with 100% opacity on their screen to type with them, especially if they're using something like Swype (Which I am).
I'm not really sure whether it would be possible to make a transparent keyboard app, since it might be hardcoded that any text input system shifts everything up.. I'm not sure. But I just think it's a sort of logical idea... thoughts?
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Yes I'll look into that.
it'd be cool if swype would make their keyboard transparent too
You could theme it yourself.
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I installed a theme and this is the only problem...can i change the background?
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I think it was intentional. There doesn't seem to be any graphical glitches and the keyboard's transparent!
i hope not I see no good
Some visual artifacts occur sometimes with the keyboard background. I had something similar with Better Keyboard having a white background that was looking awfull with the black keys. I've solved it by switching to other input method and back to Better Keyboard (also a restart but this I don't think it helped to much).
What you can do, is to switch to other keyboard (install a free one from the market if you don't have any), than switch back to android keyboard. There are big chances that your problem will be solved this way.
P.S. This is only if your newly installed theme does NOT have a transparent background for the keyboard. If it's made like this by purpose by the theme creator, your only option is to change the theme..or ask for a non transparent version of it.
Rapier you're right! I changed various keyboards and this has solved my problem (Multilingual Gingerbread keyboard)as always..many thanks!!!
I actually started using Android for the first time with ICS Elite ROM coming from a blackberry and didn't realise that some launchers do landscape mode.
As a result I've been using my i9000 locked in portrait mode to type and everything. The new ICS keyboard makes this feasible.
The thing is, I don't fancy doing a .zip unpack again even though Nandroid backup and Titanium backup is fairly easy. Is there a launcher to install that can do it or would I then find more apps that don't work so great in landscape? I don't like turning the screen all the time and also because if you lay on your side the auto turning is annoying, yet that's the only slick way to use both screen modes.
If I can find a launcher that can do it, it might be better to use landscape all the time.
Is there anyone else out there who uses exclusively portrait mode like I currently do?
"go launcher" has the option to either lock it in one position or turn with the sensor. some widgets get a bit distorted in landscape though
This is a thread for those coming from an AOSP ROM like Vanilla Android or CyanogenMod or even from other OEM overlays like Sense. What would you say are the good and LG features?
For me, good:
Heads up display implantation of incoming calls when screen is on that ensures you don't break your workflow.
Little hovering window to show a call is in loudspeaker in the background with the time on it
Though almost standardised, having call controls in the notification drawer
Bad:
Auto expanded notifications
Unable to disable the clips tray
Unable to remove toggles from within the drawer
Battery percentage being to the left of the battery
Unable to customise lockscreen
Implementation of software navigation keys breaks functions like hiding the keyboard
Customisation of the share intent with everything being ticked all the time
I only had my phone for half a day, but already some software feature I really like:
"Clip Tray" (Multi-clipboard).
Double-knock to wake and go to sleep (I don't use knock-code, haven't tried it yet)
And something I really don't like:
Keyboard sluggishness. When I type (using flow), it's always 1 or 2 words behind... I'm going to replace it quickly with Google keyboard or SwiftKey
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I only had my phone for half a day, but already some software feature I really like:
"Clip Tray" (Multi-clipboard).
Double-knock to wake and go to sleep (I don't use knock-code, haven't tried it yet)
And something I really don't like:
Keyboard sluggishness. When I type (using flow), it's always 1 or 2 words behind... I'm going to replace it quickly with Google keyboard or SwiftKey
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Agree with you about the keyboard... I hate it. I was using s4 with keyboard ported from s5. Is sluggish and i keep typing space more often..
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I've noticed that the keyboard is sluggish with more than one language selected.
I really like the keyboard. Haven't tried swipe input on it yet. Overall i'm really impressed by the UI. Its got great flat icons, beautiful selection of wallpapers and lots of options to customise.
Knock on and knock code are great. Clip tray is a very useful feature and the popup reply notifications for the messaging app are really handy and have stopped me from using Hangouts as my main SMS app.
The downsides so far are no search on server within the email app and no option to show the weather on the smart notice widget without turning on GPS. Also for some reason LG took out the wireless storage feature from the G2 which was very useful. They should have kept it.
Bad:
When adding contacts, the default option is to add to "Phone" with no way of changing it.
Oversharpening of text. More obvious on certain fonts with black text on white background.
Camera options are way too limited.
Overall I'm quite happy with the software. Looks pretty good and some of the added features are quite useful.
The infinity screen is amazing to look at, and mods or substratum theme to hide navigation bar make it look super clean.
But it absolutely interferes with the typing experience.
Keyboard is located too low and reaching for keys at the bottom row like space bar, enter key, number pads require your thumbs to stretch more than natural finger placements.
I wish keyboard is placed a bit higher. Hate to say this... But like the one in iPhone X. But thankfully I heard Android is very customizable. Does anyone know if this is possible? I mainly use Google keyboard but I don't care what keyboard supports it.
Thanks all
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The infinity screen is amazing to look at, and mods or substratum theme to hide navigation bar make it look super clean.
But it absolutely interferes with the typing experience.
Keyboard is located too low and reaching for keys at the bottom row like space bar, enter key, number pads require your thumbs to stretch more than natural finger placements.
I wish keyboard is placed a bit higher. Hate to say this... But like the one in iPhone X. But thankfully I heard Android is very customizable. Does anyone know if this is possible? I mainly use Google keyboard but I don't care what keyboard supports it.
Thanks all
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Found out Samsung keyboard has that option.. nevermind but not too perfectly.