Is it normal that the text doesnt wrap when you zoom in on the browser? I've had this problem with both the roms I've tried, twopointtwo, and incredibly re-engineered.
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ls1norcal said:
Is it normal that the text doesnt wrap when you zoom in on the browser? I've had this problem with both the roms I've tried, twopointtwo, and incredibly re-engineered.
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I have this same issue, it is one of, if the only, issue I have with these ROMs.
I think they default to text wrapping turned off. I think it's in the settings. Otherwise can you double tap on it and have it wrap?
BrettApple said:
I think they default to text wrapping turned off. I think it's in the settings. Otherwise can you double tap on it and have it wrap?
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If it's in the settings, tell me where because I looked all over and couldn't find it.
Double tapping just zooms in, no wrap.
Wraps fine for me using Nils' Business Sense -Desire-Z Based V6.1
Using the default browser with default settings.
vince47 said:
Wraps fine for me using Nils' Business Sense -Desire-Z Based V6.1
Using the default browser with default settings.
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Flashing that browser indeed works. Thanks! You can find the fix at the bottom of the first post here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901822
Double tapping works. When pinching to zoom, I double tap and the text realigns.
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I heave a really big problem with this bull***t. It drives me crazy!
With the ne HTC Sense you have "Reflow Text" in every broswer.
So if you zoom (doesn't matter if double tab or pinch) the browser switch to another part of the page. It is just impossible to zoom to a place you want. Sometimes it just kicks it to the left end of the page!
And I can't turn it off! So why HTC?? Why I can't turn it off?
I hope there is or there will be a solution for this
OP is talking about this issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN6dQoWnxFU
Apparently, there is a fix for the Desire, but I'm not certain if it applies for Desire HD. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786290
Android Version: 2.2
Build Number: 1.32.405.3
Browser Version: 3.1
Not sure if it could work? Do I lose warranty with this?
Codana said:
I heave a really big problem with this bull***t. It drives me crazy!
With the ne HTC Sense you have "Reflow Text" in every broswer.
So if you zoom (doesn't matter if double tab or pinch) the browser switch to another part of the page. It is just impossible to zoom to a place you want. Sometimes it just kicks it to the left end of the page!
And I can't turn it off! So why HTC?? Why I can't turn it off?
I hope there is or there will be a solution for this
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I love the way the browser reflows the text. Best reflow of all the browsers I used on both the windows mobile (wp7, wm6.x) and the android platform.
But maybe it comes with some costs... Fortunately, I don't need a exact zoom like you do.
Codana said:
Android Version: 2.2
Build Number: 1.32.405.3
Browser Version: 3.1
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Not at all. Just try.
Better idea: "about:debug" -> Menu -> Settings -> GEP Zoom an ->
Doubletab: relfow
Pinch-zoom: no reflow
Thank god!
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Better idea: "about:debug" -> Menu -> Settings -> GEP Zoom an ->
Doubletab: relfow
Pinch-zoom: no reflow
Thank god!
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How did you sort this out. cant find the menu steps you stated here on the desire hd.
santet said:
How did you sort this out. cant find the menu steps you stated here on the desire hd.
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Write about:debug your address bar and press enter key. After that you'r going to debug mode of browser then tap menu>settings> and go down there is Enable GEP Zoom. Enable that.
I cant agree more, the htc browser zooming is ****, can't really see why anyone would like it better than original ASOP zooming. There are no real benefits to this text reflow thingey when you pinch zoom.
about:debug works great though
SGS2 is a fantastic phone but one of the most annoying things I find is when you zoom in on the browser, the webpage doesn't seem to do the screen auto-fit.
Double tapping it doesn't seem to do the trick either where this feature is available to the former SGS1.
I have already ticked the box for Auto-fit in the settings menu to no avail. I use browser zooming all the time and it's frustrating you have to scroll from left to right and vice versa to read for every single line. It's doing my head-in!! What else can I do to make this work?
Thanks in advance.
You need to totally zoomed out of the page then double tap and the text will be rearranged.
If you are already zoomed in, double tap once will do a zoom out, do that one more time to auto-fit the text.
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tmj12 said:
SGS2 is a fantastic phone but one of the most annoying things I find is when you zoom in on the browser, the webpage doesn't seem to do the screen auto-fit.
Double tapping it doesn't seem to do the trick either where this feature is available to the former SGS1.
I have already ticked the box for Auto-fit in the settings menu to no avail. I use browser zooming all the time and it's frustrating you have to scroll from left to right and vice versa to read for every single line. It's doing my head-in!! What else can I do to make this work?
Thanks in advance.
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This is another reason why not to use the stock SGS2 browser (the other being that it brings the battery to its knees).
Try Menu > More > Settings, uncheck "Open pages in overview", and check "Auto-fit pages".
nhat2991 said:
You need to totally zoomed out of the page then double tap and the text will be rearranged.
If you are already zoomed in, double tap once will do a zoom out, do that one more time to auto-fit the text.
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Double tapping only switches between overview and default zoom level - both of them do allow auto-fit. However, if you zoom in at a level greater than the default zoomed-in level, it certainly does not perform the auto-fit again as it should be and in this case double tapping would only take it back to overview level. I regularly need to zoom in more than the default zoom level. It's so annoying!! Surely, I'm not the only person experiencing this issue.
Opera Mobile has it.
There's already a thread on this topic about 500 pages long titled text reflow. Perhaps all your answers are contained there.
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There's already a thread on this topic about 500 pages long titled text reflow. Perhaps all your answers are contained there.
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Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
tmj12 said:
Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
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The clue to the referenced thread is in the post above yours, where he actually gives you the title of said thread. If you then do a search with that same title.........
This settings help..
U double tap it will zoom to a decent viewing level, and text has Bernard organised to fit the screen.. But if you zoom in manually, it won't autofit screen
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hua_wuxin said:
Try Menu > More > Settings, uncheck "Open pages in overview", and check "Auto-fit pages".
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Very helpful indeed , but like my previous post said
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tmj12 said:
Did a search for this but nothing came up. Have you got the link to that thread?
I need to find out how to resolve this issue as it's ruining my browsing experience..
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I did another test on the Samsung infuse today and text reflow definitely works. Now we just need to figure out why Samsung would leave it out of their flagship phone.
Dumbass browser move by Samsung, as well as not having settings for desktop displays.
'Best browser' in the industry: NOT because they don't enable these key features. Idiotic.
Regarding zoom you have to pinch zoom to required level and rotate the phone it auto fits your page in whatever zoom level.you should keep auto rotation on.
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Regarding zoom you have to pinch zoom to required level and rotate the phone it auto fits your page in whatever zoom level.you should keep auto rotation on.
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Yeah it autofit if you rotate it. But the funny thing it will autofit if you zoom in after a rotate.
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in settings there seems to be very few menu options and all my web pages are loading in mobile format
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you can try ics browser + or to get desktop sites just hit menu then request desktop site
Yea they changed it up a bit. In the drop down when you hit the settings button "request desktop site " is right in that list
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right got full web pages ,is there an option for the address bar to disappear when you scroll up and down
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right got full web pages ,is there an option for the address bar to disappear when you scroll up and down
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If you enable "quick control" in Labs, the url bar is hidden.
got that now never used stock browser always used dolphin for pad ,but want to give it a try,so i have deleted the book marks thumb nails i dont want but on the page that shows the bookmark thumb nails hoe do you creat new folders to sort you book marks into catergories
thanks for the help
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I am still using dolphin HD, the bookmark swipe layout is the best, was hoping to use chrome but the default text size is too small .
I am assuming Dolphin HD is the stock browser just different layout design because it is behaving almost exactly like the stock browser when u select text etc. Now on ICS it has the magnifying popup same as stock.
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I am still using dolphin HD, the bookmark swipe layout is the best, was hoping to use chrome but the default text size is too small .
I am assuming Dolphin HD is the stock browser just different layout design because it is behaving almost exactly like the stock browser when u select text etc. Now on ICS it has the magnifying popup same as stock.
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I dropped dolphin when they were found out to be sharing users usage data
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It's also possible to enter "about:debug" in the address bar and press enter to enable debug mode, and reveal the debug sub-menu in settings.
There is an option in the debug menu to change the user-agent to desktop. Unfortunately, the debug mode is not persistent; you will have to re-do this after every reboot (maybe even after restarting the browser, sometimes).
Hopefully there will be ROMs, soon, that will enable a persistent browser debug mode (as many did for HC). (I prefer to disable the wide viewport, personally, and as far as I know, ICS Browser+ does not have any similar debug options, otherwise I would already have switched to it.)
(Also, just a passing thought, but something else that surprised me about the default browser in ICS: no list view for bookmarks?! Scrolling through rows and rows of thumbnails, if you have a lot of bookmarks, is very irritating. Such a simple function, why remove it?! ICS Browser+ also lacks this feature, it seems.)
It's cause the stock ICS browser doesn't let you change the useragent by conventional means. You need to be able to change the tags from android > something else.
Need a custom rom like revolver or android revolution, etc where they added features built into the stock browser (this was on HC) everytime.
I haven't updated to ICS yet, but I hope the stock browser is improved. The HC browser was a load of garbage.
Check if Chrome beta is available on market?
Is there any way to get the "requested desktop site" button to stick? I have to recheck it everytime I go any site. Its really annoying.
So I have flashed the italian version of official ICS rom.
I was wondering is the stock browser can be modded to allow more tabs? and set to always request desktop site?
I have found a few mods but they are for phone ICS, not sure if they would work on tablet ICS.
any suggestions?
Edit : i flashed the deodexed, zipaligned stock 4.0.4 and modified the SecBrowser.apk to enable a maximum of 99 tabs, and some faster animations. i have attached the modified apk here for those who need it. note: only works on deodexed stock 4.0.4
rihui said:
So I have flashed the italian version of official ICS rom.
I was wondering is the stock browser can be modded to allow more tabs? and set to always request desktop site?
I have found a few mods but they are for phone ICS, not sure if they would work on tablet ICS.
any suggestions?
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one of the very first things I did:
RE "always request desktop site"
type about:debug in the broswer's address bar
go to the browser's settings
go to the "advanced" (IIRC) tab or something like that
find the voice "UAstring" (IIRC) or something like that to "desktop"
type again about:debug in the broswer's address bar
this setting stays set even after rebooting (which was not always the case in the past)
don't know where/how to change the "8 tabs max" settings but would like to!
xdapao3 said:
one of the very first things I did:
RE "always request desktop site"
type about:debug in the broswer's address bar
go to the browser's settings
go to the "advanced" (IIRC) tab or something like that
find the voice "UAstring" (IIRC) or something like that to "desktop"
type again about:debug in the broswer's address bar
this setting stays set even after rebooting (which was not always the case in the past)
don't know where/how to change the "8 tabs max" settings but would like to!
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Is this for the stock browser or for chrome or both? Thanks
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Is this for the stock browser or for chrome or both? Thanks
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I was referring to the stock browser. And since I don't have Chrome (a browser which doesn't reflow zoomed in text, like the stock does, is useless to me) I have no idea if it works with Chrome too, sorry.
xdapao3 said:
I was referring to the stock browser. And since I don't have Chrome (a browser which doesn't reflow zoomed in text, like the stock does, is useless to me) I have no idea if it works with Chrome too, sorry.
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No worries and thanks for the info!
When you say doesn't reflow zoomed in text, do you mean the fact that Chrome doesn't properly fit a page on screen when you change pages?
I have noticed that on Chrome every time I go to a new page it is zoomed in and I have to either scroll to see all text or double tap screen to get it to fit. Very annoying and I don't know if that is just a setting or a fact of life.
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No worries and thanks for the info!
When you say doesn't reflow zoomed in text, do you mean the fact that Chrome doesn't properly fit a page on screen when you change pages?
I have noticed that on Chrome every time I go to a new page it is zoomed in and I have to either scroll to see all text or double tap screen to get it to fit. Very annoying and I don't know if that is just a setting or a fact of life.
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yep, double tapping only zooms out while in the stock browser it reflows (reformats) the text leaving the zoom level you set and making the page readable without scrolling (make sure to also check this in the settings).
frankly this is one of the most basic functions of a browser and IDK how people can live without it. until Chrome gets this elementary feature it's just worthless crap, to me.
BTW, no settings issue, it's "a fact of life" with Chrome. Can't believe so many people rave about it......
oh and, just checked and the way to change the user agent that I wrote in my earlier reply doesn't work with Chrome.
Dolphin browser + desktop toggle is what you need. I have given up on stock browsers on all my devices. Dolphin is miles ahead.
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Thanks for all the input.
I've found this on the S3 forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1723182
I'm not familiar with compiling/decompiling, can anybody do the modification on the browser.apk for the official ICS rom?
edit: okay, tried modifying the apk using APKTools, deleted the SecBrowser.apk and .odex, replacing them with modified one, but ended up having a missing internet icon. Looks like it is not possible to modify apk in non-deodexed stock rom.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller
It actually works!
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Unfortunately its not the good aosp browser we all know and love from 4.3 and earlier. It now uses chromium webview and therefore has all the issues chrome has and some additional bugs since google didn't even attempt to update it to work properly with chromium webview.
I've been using it for a couple of hours, and I'm yet to see any bugs or issues.
It looks to me like the same browser that I was using before KitKat.
Anyway, I take anything over the total garbage that is Chrome.
This works well enough!
Is there an Option to hide the adressbar when scrolling down?
edit: found it
So far it doesn't allow me to save a page, but it syncs my bookmarks.
Those are 2 of the most important features in a browser to me.
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Unfortunately its not the good aosp browser we all know and love from 4.3 and earlier. It now uses chromium webview and therefore has all the issues chrome has and some additional bugs since google didn't even attempt to update it to work properly with chromium webview.
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And no flash player support.
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Does this app bring to your device the appropriate version of the AOSP browser? That is, 4.4 to 4.4 device, etc.? I'm also wondering if the file that is changed to *.bak is renamed so that it becomes valid once again when the app is uninstalled.
Some pretty serious bugs (which is to be expected):
Turning on the "Quick Settings" lab results in the address bar area glitching out visually, repeating the top of the page (immediately below) where the address bar would be.
Trying to open an Incognito tab simply Force Closes.
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How to hide adressbar?
Help, please
The behaviour after double tap is abnormal.....
double tap = zoom-in
After double tap zoom-in, if you try to drag up or down(this is the third tap), it still keep zooming in/out
The double tap triggered the "drag to zoom-in/out mode", this case the third tap become drag to zoom (even after ten second after the double tap)
can this behaviour be disabled?
wunit said:
The behaviour after double tap is abnormal.....
double tap = zoom-in
After double tap zoom-in, if you try to drag up or down(this is the third tap), it still keep zooming in/out
The double tap triggered the "drag to zoom-in/out mode", this case the third tap become drag to zoom (even after ten second after the double tap)
can this behaviour be disabled?
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Chrome has the feature too. Though after a double tap if you don't keep your finger down it just releases back to normal. I did experience the same problem you have on CM11 with the AOSP browser and it make's it completely unusable...
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Chrome has the feature too. Though after a double tap if you don't keep your finger down it just releases back to normal. I did experience the same problem you have on CM11 with the AOSP browser and it make's it completely unusable...
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O! You totally get my meaning!
Your are right, I am in Cataclysm Rom........