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▐ 20.2.2011▐ ★UPDATED★Awesome WP7 Tips&Tricks★▐

▐ 20.2.2011▐ ★UPDATED★Awesome WP7 Tips&Tricks★▐
I just wanted to post a couple of helpful tips&tricks for those who are new to the WP7 OS. If I helped please "donate" your time by clicking the thanks button!
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10 Awesome Tips&Tricks
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1. Using the Windows Phone 7 voice controls
Press and hold the Windows key at the bottom of your screen and you can start talking to your phone. Try saying "Open Calendar", to see what we mean.
2. Adding apps to the Start screen
When you are in the long applications list on your phone pressing on an icon and holding brings up a contextual menu that gives you a series of options, one of which is "pin to start". Press on this option and the app will be shown on the Start screen.
3. Add people to the start page
No it's not just about adding apps to the start page, but people too. Find them in your contacts book, click on the "pin" icon, and they'll be added to your Start page so you can speed dial them whenever you need.
4. Moving your tiles around
Adding a new app or tile to the Start screen will place it right at the bottom. If you want it to be elsewhere, press and hold on the tile in question and then you are free to move it up and down and rearrange your tiles to best suit your needs.
5. Removing apps from the Start screen
You like the app, but you don't really want it on your Start screen anymore. No worries. Hold your finger on the tile in question for a couple of seconds and when it highlights press the no pin icon in the top right-hand corner.
6. Uninstalling apps
You've tried it and you don't like it. No problem. Head over to the menu list and press down on the app in question until you get the contextual menu. Select uninstall and you're done.
7. Rating and reviewing apps
You really love the new app you've downloaded, so much so that you want to rate and review it so anyone else interested knows whether it's any good or not. With Windows Phone 7 you don't have to wait until you delete it to rate it, you can rate and review it at any time. Press and hold down on the app in question until that contextual menu appears and then choose "Rate and review". It will bring up another page allowing you to have your say and give it a rating out of five. Easy peasy.
8. How to change the theme
If you've got your Windows Phone 7 phone from Vodafone the theme is going to be all red, O2 is dishing out blue themes and Orange, orange ones. An all red themed phone might be a bit much (we hear you), but fret not as you can change the colour of the tiles and other features in the Setting area. Zip on over to the menu list, select Settings, and then Theme. Here you can choose the colour of the background and the accent colour. Background options are "Black" or "White" while you'll get nine accent colours to pick from. Lime, anyone?
9. Swipe to the left
Windows Phone 7 is built around the idea of panoramic tiles that you swipe to reveal more content off screen. It's always worth seeing if you can swipe to the left as there might be more stuff waiting to be revealed.
10. What are the dots?
Whenever you see three dots at the bottom of the screen, that's a menu for more options. In photo playback for example, it will give you the options to delete the image or perform a quick upload.
72 Windows Phone 7 tips and tricks here:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/3641...s-phone-7-tips
For those who need access to a US market, or wherever...
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1st, when you link your live account to the phone, you'll automatically get an e-mail from Microsoft phone 7 in your inbox.
this had some useful links in it. for example, I didn't download the full zune package, but another version witch works as well and is quite a bit smaller.
2nd, create an extra live account with false location settings, i set mine on Beverly hills, California, so you can access marketplace, xbox live etc.
(you can add an other account for your e-mail settings etc)
Search Button
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Because the HD2 has different hardware keys than the WP7, the home key for the HD2 is the search button for Windows Phones. Depending on where you are, pressing the home button will give you different search results.
HOMESCREEN:
Will open BING-search(Many custom WP7 ROM's have changed default search to Google).
MUSIC&VIDEOS:
Enables search for videos, music etc.
MARKETPLACE:
Searches for Music and Applications available for purchase in the Market
Transparent Lockscreen Wallpaper
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This is the link to the wallpaper:
http://phone7.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/clawpaper.png
Simply send yourself an email with the image attached, then open the email on your phone and save the image. When you view the image, you have an option of setting it as your wallpaper(The Zune software only seems to sync JPEG’s)
Click on the PNG attachment and then wait a few moments. Once the ‘cancel’ button next the attachment disappears, click again. This should open it in the picture viewer with the option to set as wallpaper.
Until the lock screen has started any animation, the home screen will appear black. Presumably this is because the home screen isn’t loaded until the lock screen has been touched, which makes sense. Secondly, it doesn’t work if you have a password on the lock screen. Having a password is obviously a good idea, so it’s a shame this doesn’t work with the password.
Lockscreen Text App
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A useful application is Jivtech's Lockscreen Text App. Head on over to the site for more info about an application that allows you to quickly and easily add text to your lockscreen wallpaper
http://www.jivtech.com/lockscreentext.aspx
Extra tips from users:
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yogeshmishra23 said:
Screen Locked...received a message...tap on the message preview on the top of the lock screen and then unlock the screen. Phone will unlock directly to your message screen.
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patrikbarden said:
Long press on Send-key activates the camera from sleep mode. Even when the phone is password locked!
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squarejp said:
You can record a phone conversation using the video recording mode. Simply make a phone call and hold the camera button to record the entire phone conversation and video. Make sure you put on Speaker Phone Mode.
Camera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u-2MBYYsmw
Dark Side of Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXS4jrxeI0k
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ppsravan said:
There is search for Marketplace...goto the market place and hit the search button...the search button works as a contextual search based on the app or hub you are in...its awesome and well thought
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shahidpak said:
1. Connect to Wifi
2. Select Settings
3. Select Wifi
4. Tap the connected WIFI network for few seconds.
5. Select Edit
6. Proxy ON
7. Type your proxy server and port
8. Save and exit you are done
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Have fun!
If I helped please hit the Thanks button!

gooooooood work.thank you buddy

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816501

i hav done the prosses of instaling wp7 on my hd-2 but its asking activation code ...........wat to du.

Thanks for the tricks.....
trying wp7 since sunday and still in trouble.

kooka17 said:
Thanks for the tricks.....
trying wp7 since sunday and still in trouble.
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why whats the problem saty in detail..............

ninja1kava said:
i hav done the prosses of instaling wp7 on my hd-2 but its asking activation code ...........wat to du.
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call ms to get the activation code they wont find you untill you say that u have hd7.........
and dont say its hd2.........
convince them that u got in seconds from friend and bla bla......
then you ready to get the code..........

Thanks for the help!

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[Q] Toggle switches by long pressing Home button?

Hello all,
I'm looking for an application which will allow me to toggle my Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Mobile Internet, Hotspot, Auto Rotate without leaving any application. Because sometimes when you go into some application and needs to turn on Mobile Internet because wifi is not working, then you'll have to come to home screen to turn off wifi and then turn on mobile internet, instead of that, what if there was an application which will do as follows.
Long press home button, instead of displaying recent apps which I'm sure is of no use, it will display toggle switches from which you can turn on or off bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, Hotspot etc.
It will also allow option after press to select Toggle or Recent Apps. Optionally user will be able to set the desired behavior on long press of home button in the settings if he wants to directly open the toggle or recent apps or choose at runtime.
There are some applications which allows you to do this using search button, but most of the applications already use search button for in within application search, whereas they don't use home button for anything and long pressing home button won't interfere without any action in actual application.
Thanks for listening and I'd love if someone can find the application if already developed. If not, I just gave the idea for development of new tool.

Not sure if it's an option to you, but you can run cm7 nighties. In there you have the option to define any application to run after long pressing the home or search key

Since you cant get the CM7 Nightlies, you can get some of the many applications that are listed in the Android Market which puts the toggle switches along with the notification bar. As I had specified in some other thread, here is a short list, just lifted from there:
* Extended Controls
* Bartender
* Bar Control
* Power Control Plus
* Widgetsoid
* Quickdesk
Hope they do work out for you.
Good Luck

jorgen2009 said:
Not sure if it's an option to you, but you can run cm7 nighties. In there you have the option to define any application to run after long pressing the home or search key
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Perfect. long press home button to start the popup of notification is sweet. That's exactly what I'm looking for. But as my wildfire came with 2.2.1, no root and no custom roms.
3xeno said:
Since you cant get the CM7 Nightlies, you can get some of the many applications that are listed in the Android Market which puts the toggle switches along with the notification bar. As I had specified in some other thread, here is a short list, just lifted from there:
* Extended Controls
* Bartender
* Bar Control
* Power Control Plus
* Widgetsoid
* Quickdesk
Hope they do work out for you.
Good Luck
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Have a look at above screen, I'm looking for something which will start the above screen. MySettings and Quick Settings does the job, but they won't start from some applications like Opera where even long pressing Search key brings the search bar.
So is there any way to add applications to home screen long press action. Why are they all insisting on using Search key long press instead of home key long press?
Does any of above applications provide the home screen long press initiation? Thank you.

Did you try any of the applications I listed? They are placed along with the notification bar, something like this:
So, with that, although the disadvantage is that you cannot get so many settings on that as posted in your screen shot, the advantage is they are universally available everywhere, and, does not require any button presses. I would assume that the Search Key is the most preferred one for app developers, since, it is the "least" used key among the 4, simply because, even without the search key, almost all apps and even the home screens, have their own search functions and widgets.

The problem is, most of the applications including Opera hides the notification bar and there's no way to access those settings in Opera or the applications which hides the notification bar. Search key is least used, agreed. But the home key long press is something no application will ever use as it's a key which will let you exit the application. On the other hand, search key long press is used in Opera, Market and some other applications that I can't recollect at this point of time.
The problem with above applications list is, all of them are aiming at displaying toggles either on home screen or through notification bar, but none of them give us ability to choose the custom keys. I appreciate your help mate, but I'm looking for more specific thing.
Also I'd like to know from some developer if it's possible to assign custom application to home key long press without rooting? If not, may be that is the reason no one has come up with home key long press instead of search key long press.

Launchkey lets you assign a custom app but only for long pressing search button.
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chiaotzu said:
Also I'd like to know from some developer if it's possible to assign custom application to home key long press without rooting? If not, may be that is the reason no one has come up with home key long press instead of search key long press.
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There are apps in the market that do this - but, they are only Task Manager Apps. More advanced versions of the default Android Task Switcher.
But, that's an idea as well. Many task switchers allow you to "stick" app shortcuts there. So, simply install one of the task switchers, add the shortcut to Quick Settings there, and, you should be able to use it without exiting Opera Mini / other apps.
This is probably an extremely long and tiring method, but nothing else comes to my mind.

kevin2516 said:
Launchkey lets you assign a custom app but only for long pressing search button.
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Indeed, I don't know why everyone is sticking to long press of search key instead of long press of Home key, which I think is available on all android handsets, unlike search key on samsung galaxy phones.
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There are apps in the market that do this - but, they are only Task Manager Apps. More advanced versions of the default Android Task Switcher.
But, that's an idea as well. Many task switchers allow you to "stick" app shortcuts there. So, simply install one of the task switchers, add the shortcut to Quick Settings there, and, you should be able to use it without exiting Opera Mini / other apps.
This is probably an extremely long and tiring method, but nothing else comes to my mind.
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Thanks for keeping up with me. I have tried the task switcher applications as you said, but I couldn't find an app which will be activated on long press of home key. Most of them again uses the search key or notification bar. Now I don't know if there are certain set of rules, but Android applications don't have coherent UI interface as compared to iOS. And that is the reason, I think Opera is in fault or we're expecting too much from our Mobile?

3xeno said:
Did you try any of the applications I listed? They are placed along with the notification bar, something like this:
So, with that, although the disadvantage is that you cannot get so many settings on that as posted in your screen shot, the advantage is they are universally available everywhere, and, does not require any button presses. I would assume that the Search Key is the most preferred one for app developers, since, it is the "least" used key among the 4, simply because, even without the search key, almost all apps and even the home screens, have their own search functions and widgets.
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chiaotzu said:
The problem is, most of the applications including Opera hides the notification bar and there's no way to access those settings in Opera or the applications which hides the notification bar. Search key is least used, agreed. But the home key long press is something no application will ever use as it's a key which will let you exit the application. On the other hand, search key long press is used in Opera, Market and some other applications that I can't recollect at this point of time.
The problem with above applications list is, all of them are aiming at displaying toggles either on home screen or through notification bar, but none of them give us ability to choose the custom keys. I appreciate your help mate, but I'm looking for more specific thing.
Also I'd like to know from some developer if it's possible to assign custom application to home key long press without rooting? If not, may be that is the reason no one has come up with home key long press instead of search key long press.
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The long press button functions are "hard-coded" into the ROM, and Search is mapped to "Custom-Shortcut" or something like that; simply put, app developers can ONLY use long press Search. On CyanogenMod it's a different story, because they added additional code to open up the other buttons.

chiaotzu said:
Thanks for keeping up with me. I have tried the task switcher applications as you said, but I couldn't find an app which will be activated on long press of home key. Most of them again uses the search key or notification bar. Now I don't know if there are certain set of rules, but Android applications don't have coherent UI interface as compared to iOS. And that is the reason, I think Opera is in fault or we're expecting too much from our Mobile?
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Well, browsing the market, I found this app switcher which claims it works with the Home Key. Couldn't test it though, since it's a paid one:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.appswipe2
Even this one claims to do the same thing: (Again paid though)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.quicklaunch
And one more, which seems exactly like what you are looking for:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.intuitit.android.p.powerstrip
Will keep looking for any free solutions and let you know.
EDIT: One Free Solution:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
But, here's the catch. "Officially", it is not compatible with the Wildfire. So, you will have to look elsewhere for the APK and sideload it on your Wildfire,
Hope it works out.
Good Luck

3xeno said:
Well, browsing the market, I found this app switcher which claims it works with the Home Key. Couldn't test it though, since it's a paid one:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.appswipe2
Even this one claims to do the same thing: (Again paid though)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.quicklaunch
And one more, which seems exactly like what you are looking for:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.intuitit.android.p.powerstrip
Will keep looking for any free solutions and let you know.
EDIT: One Free Solution:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
But, here's the catch. "Officially", it is not compatible with the Wildfire. So, you will have to look elsewhere for the APK and sideload it on your Wildfire,
Hope it works out.
Good Luck
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Probably works with a listener service constantly running in the background or something; point is, it will always be better done in CyanogenMod, at system level

3xeno said:
Well, browsing the market, I found this app switcher which claims it works with the Home Key. Couldn't test it though, since it's a paid one:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.appswipe2
Even this one claims to do the same thing: (Again paid though)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.magouyaware.quicklaunch
And one more, which seems exactly like what you are looking for:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.intuitit.android.p.powerstrip
Will keep looking for any free solutions and let you know.
EDIT: One Free Solution:
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
But, here's the catch. "Officially", it is not compatible with the Wildfire. So, you will have to look elsewhere for the APK and sideload it on your Wildfire,
Hope it works out.
Good Luck
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OMG, that did the trick. Thanks a million. Used the Quick Launch to start the MySettings app and it's perfect. It allows us to use home key, not a long press though as explained by NickHu. But it allows us to quick press it 2 times and set the maximum delay for which the action will be effective. Like if you set it to 500ms, after pressing Home button, it will wait for 500ms for you to press home button one more time. If you press home button in those 500ms, your specified application will open. If you don't do anything in those 500ms, it will perform the default home button behavior.
@NickHi, Perfect and always, it will be better at system level rather than at application level. But when I bought this Wildfire, I was on 2.2.1. So can't root, won't be able to install CyanogenMod or any other custom ROMs. So the above setting is working pretty good for me.
I'd like to know one more thing. How to get that notification setting which in turn is the best way to toggle in applications which shows you notification bar.
Kindly link me to the application which will add the panel in notification window.

chiaotzu said:
Kindly link me to the application which will add the panel in notification window.
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I listed these in the first post I made in the thread. You can check them out.
* Extended Controls: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.extendedcontrols
* Bartender: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.miromind.bartenderlite and https://market.android.com/details?id=com.miromind.bartender
* Bar Control: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.schwimmer.android.barcontrol
* Power Control Plus: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.siriusapplications.eclairwidgets
* Widgetsoid: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jim2 and https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jim_donate
* Quickdesk: https://market.android.com/details?id=sg.ruqqq.quickdesk and https://market.android.com/details?id=sg.ruqqq.quickdeskpro
All of these add the toggles to the notification bar, as it is in my screenshot.

Thanks a lot. Everything is perfect now. The software is widgetsoid. Thanks a lot everyone who has helped me.

Advice for widgetsoid (in case you don't know yet)
If you want to have the widget ONLY in the notification bar choose the 5x1 type widget, after configuring the wanted widget uncheck the "open popup" in notification tab in widgetsoid (this so that the widget doesn't popup after the selection in the notification bar).
Also if you want something more simple search the market for status bar settings.
https://market.android.com/details?id=karson.app.SettingsBar
Cheers.

stuffynet said:
Advice for widgetsoid (in case you don't know yet)
If you want to have the widget ONLY in the notification bar choose the 5x1 type widget, after configuring the wanted widget uncheck the "open popup" in notification tab in widgetsoid (this so that the widget doesn't popup after the selection in the notification bar).
Also if you want something more simple search the market for status bar settings.
https://market.android.com/details?id=karson.app.SettingsBar
Cheers.
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LOL yeah. Figured it out eventually. I was clicking on the toggles and every single time, there was this popup. Then did some trial and error, and got rid of it successfully. SettingsBar looks good, but will switch to it when few more toggles support comes i.e. Orientation toggle which is a must when reading something while sleeping, annoying little android keeps them switching in weird orientation making it impossible to read, thanks to lock orientation on Widgetsoid.
And It gave me some warning after I tried to made the 5x1 widget that "OMG ITS ONLY FOR BIGGER SCREENS AND BLABLA" So made the 4x1 widget, but I guess that doesn't make any difference at all, I have 8 toggles on it anyways.

Feature discoveries

EDIT: I have updated this post with features/discoveries to date - 01/08/2011
Hey guys,
i've just arrived off the HTC boat and i'm lovin' the world of the Galaxy S2... what a phone!!
anyways, thought i'd make a thread on features as they get discovered as i tend to find that a lot go undocumented, and as i'm not a user of a previous version of Touchwiz, i'm not sure whether some of these are new or not, but maybe of interest to someone else like me...
Dickie
Mentioned so far - 01/08/2011
Dragging left on a contact sends them an SMS, and right calls them. This works in all the contacts list, messaging, call log etc...
You can pinch-zoom the app drawer and move panes as per the home screens
Home + Power buttons = screenshot
With manual brightness set, hold your finger down on the notification bar after a few seconds it becomes a brightness scroll. You just move your finger left/right on the notification bar to decrease/increase the brightness
In the address bar type in "about:debug", hit the go button. It won't do anything, or so it seems. Hit the menu contextual key and pull up the options. Go all the way to the bottom
In the address bar type in "about:useragent" to change user agent
An easter egg you didn't know about(it's from Google), if you go to preferences and about phone and click three times on Android Version you get an art
Pinch on browser whilst zoomed right out takes you to Tab/Window overview
Customise shortcuts in the Camera app. Just click 'Menu' and 'Edit' or hold the 'Cog' icon and you can drag the shortcuts you want to appear on the left of the screen
The dots that represent the home screens/app screens can be tapped to take you directly to the relevant screen, or held to reveal a slider for super fast scrolling
You can Pinch to zoom in the camera app
If you pinch to zoom in the stock e-mail mailbox it compresses all the mail by date. When you press on a compressed date, it expands the mail for that date only
You can smart dial in the phone app by typing a contacts name, if its not the correct contact displayed, click it to reveal all possible contacts, then select to call
Hold the power button for approx 5secs for an immediate shutdown
Use 2 fingers to scroll on a list to get an immediate stop upon release, use 3 to get a fast scroll that will continue to the end
Drag left and right on the video player to control FF and RW
Pinch the calender app to view by year, then swipe to change
holding on a letter on the right side of the contacts list & dragging to the left (without lifting your finger) will bring up another alphabet list & do a sub-contextual search under that letter of available options like 'AA', 'AB', 'AC'...'AZ'

didnt know the app drawer could be pinched zoomed : ) that sounds cool.
the swyping contact to call or message was there in the original G S as well though.

cool, thanks for letting me know!!
the pinched view of the app drawer, with my current 6 panes, are very large, requiring scrolling down to see them. theres only enough room for the first 4 (2 per row) and 2 halves before scrolling... if that makes any sense lmao...
Dickie

This is a big one: apparently Home + Power buttons = screenshot... I just heard about it. I live in America so haven't used it.

Tennis11 said:
This is a big one: apparently Home + Power buttons = screenshot... I just heard about it. I live in America so haven't used it.
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Just checked and it works!!!
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I don't know if they left this feature in, but in the original SGS if you hold your finger down on the notification bar after a few seconds it becomes a brightness scroll. You just move your finger left/right on the notification bar to decrease/increase the brightness. I think it only works if you enable/disable auto-brightness. Someone will have to verify of course

ryude said:
I don't know if they left this feature in, but in the original SGS if you hold your finger down on the notification bar after a few seconds it becomes a brightness scroll. You just move your finger left/right on the notification bar to decrease/increase the brightness. I think it only works if you enable/disable auto-brightness. Someone will have to verify of course
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Very cool! Still works
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steve228uk said:
Very cool! Still works
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Can you also see if the browser trick still works?
In the address bar type in "about:debug", hit the go button. It won't do anything, or so it seems. Hit the menu contextual key and pull up the options. Go all the way to the bottom and see if it will let you change user agent strings now

ryude said:
Can you also see if the browser trick still works?
In the address bar type in "about:debug", hit the go button. It won't do anything, or so it seems. Hit the menu contextual key and pull up the options. Go all the way to the bottom and see if it will let you change user agent strings now
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It worked to an extent although there is no browser agent option any more.
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Sweet! Let's hope you guys find some neat tricks!
As for the ones mentioned:
- The sliding on the logs/contact list was already present in the predecessor (slide to the right to call, and to the left to message)
- Helicopter view/Pinch-zoom on the App Drawer was enabled in TouchWiz after the official Froyo update on the Galaxy S (International version)
- Screenshots were also enabled on the previous GS(International version) after the Froyo update, but there you had to hold the Back softkey for a second, then press the Home button.
Let's keep hoping for new things!
On a side note, could you try and let me know about this please:
While editing text, does it pop a magnifying glass to help easily position the cursor, similar to the iPhone's iOS and I believe HTC Sense as well?
Thanks!

Thanks for the screenshot trick. I was thinking it was the same combination as the original Galaxy, never thought to try other combos!
Now I can uninstall the shortcut app I downloaded
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steve228uk said:
It worked to an extent although there is no browser agent option any more.
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try about:useragent
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I'm pretty sure "Normal Rendering" means desktop mode.

Enthrall said:
On a side note, could you try and let me know about this please:
While editing text, does it pop a magnifying glass to help easily position the cursor, similar to the iPhone's iOS and I believe HTC Sense as well?
Thanks!
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No, but there is a little tab that appears just below the cursor, which you can drag so your finger doesn't cover the text you are trying to look at. It works well.

QuboidRC said:
No, but there is a little tab that appears just below the cursor, which you can drag so your finger doesn't cover the text you are trying to look at. It works well.
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Aww rats, so it's still the same! Thanks for the response!

vitalij said:
try about:useragent
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Yep, that did it!
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Enthrall said:
Aww rats, so it's still the same! Thanks for the response!
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The magnifying glass pops up in the browser but not in any other apps as far as I've seen.
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really cool thread.

wow finally you can take screenshots.
really a fantastic phone, samsung hit it out of the park with this one.

nickbarbs said:
wow finally you can take screenshots.
really a fantastic phone, samsung hit it out of the park with this one.
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Original SGS can take screenshots too...Holding the back key then pressing Home will do the trick on mine.
Looks like they changed the button combination on SGS II

These few stuffs Rocks G-Note !

Few stuffs Rocks My G-Note
Here listing few applications must have for me, makes my note fabulous !
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I like clean default screen, that gives more room to play my kiddos.
Few my favorite applicatios here :
1.Barcode
can barcodes on products then look up prices and reviews.
Also share your contacts, apps, and bookmarks
get it
2.Tubemate :
The fastest and most famous YouTube downloader
Get it
3.Sign
Need fast dialler? giveup stock old way
just draw a sign, (like draw a heart n call your love ) and You are ready to go
Get it
4. Wave Launcher
A quick gesture-enabled quick launch bar always accessible with a simple gesture
Want more room on desktop?, Get wave launcher, it will popup many as > 10 shortcut, select your desired to open application
Get it
5.Voice Speed Dial
This innovative app is the perfect solution to make calls/open application without needing your hands
he voice recognition is highly accurate because you create a "voice tag" in advance
Get it
6.Guesture search
Search your Android phone by drawing gestures on the touch screen.
A google Application
Get It
7.CamCard
A must-have business app for your smart phone
Simply take a picture of a business card, CamCard recognizes the business card and saves contact
Get it
8.Flight Track
Get real-time flight status and map tracking for airline flights worldwide.
Get it
9.Flight Board
Turn your Android phone or tablet into the Arrivals and Departures board for any airport in the world!
Get it
10.Indian Rail Info :
Get information about Indian Railways, anytime anywhere. PNR Status, Find Trains, Running status n More
Get it
11.NoLED
missing LED on Note?
Dont miss any event Now, Almost support all event base application on device.
Get Audiovisual Notification on offscreen
Get It
12.CoolVolume
missing call on noice? Want semisilent ring tone in office?
Here is go, it adjust volume (Ring/SMS/In call/media) depend on surrounding noice.
Get It
13.Shake Call
Feeling unconvinient to pickup call by sliding?
yes can pickup by shake OR with using just proximity sensor, just put your phone near ear and connect.
Get it
14.Dr.Ketan News
This news application i have created for me., gives be auto update of my favorite news paper, with configurable setting n widget.
15.ESPN Cricinfo
The official ESPNcricinfo App brings you the most comprehensive cricket coverage from around the world.
Get it
16.Handwrite Note
Handrite alows you to write with your finger right on your screen. Each time you lift your finger, the character or symbol you wrote appears in the notebook interface
Get it
17.Pocket Blonde
Blondie in Your Pocket is a charming girl residing in your phone!
Despite the stereotypes, Blonde’s smart and helpful! She wakes you in the morning, tells news, makes jokes, sends out birthday reminders, delivers a morning horoscope, keeps here eye on the weather – just to name a few things…
And, yep, now she can speak!!!
Get it
This is endless !!!
It's just enough for this time...
Now relax n watch demo of all above applications
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9m546OcBg&feature=youtu.be

Well done.
There are some nice recommendations there!

Useful collections..

Cannot find tubemate on the market, even your link says that it cannot be found???

HasC said:
Cannot find tubemate on the market, even your link says that it cannot be found???
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I have same problem. Thought it was a temporary internet problem on my side.
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HasC said:
Cannot find tubemate on the market, even your link says that it cannot be found???
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CGI_Ram said:
I have same problem. Thought it was a temporary internet problem on my side.
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you can get it here http://devian7.iisweb.co.kr/

yes it is not showing on market now
updated link from ArcticCat post
@ ArcticCat - Thx

more very important app
and below some very important app that must have and it solved issue with my GN.
-Optimize Tool Box:
one of the benefit it will show all startup app that you will never know about it.
-Memory Booster lite.

Thanks for the tips.

Great list bro, but what do you use to get that cool 3d pic as wallpaper?

Doctor sahib!
Kindly add screen filter and root dim to this list of yours..
On the whole you've given a pretty good list..
Tapashocked via my gt-I9003 with a random keyboard of my choice !

tahpics said:
Great list bro, but what do you use to get that cool 3d pic as wallpaper?
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Nothing special, i have crope picture from routine pic n made background black.
It gives 3d effect as well saves battery too, more the brighter wallpaper, more battery draining.

Lordrdx666 said:
Doctor sahib!
Kindly add screen filter and root dim to this list of yours..
On the whole you've given a pretty good list..
Tapashocked via my gt-I9003 with a randomYa keyboard of my choice !
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Ya i know about it, as such there is nearly 500 app is on my pc, regularly using about 125 app other thn stock. Here i tried to make list limited, but tried to highlight that may b helpful to most.
Regards

Question about voice speed dial:
Is it possible to replace voice talk with this app. I mean when I press my call button on the Bluetooth headset note activates voice talk. Also double click of the home button activates voice talk.
Since my language is Serbian I have little to no use of voice talk. On the other hands ability to voice tag calls or applications is much better.

ArcticCat said:
you can get it here http://devian7.iisweb.co.kr/
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Are you sure this is no virus/spyware/adware?
For some reason all Youtube downloaders seem to be viruses, even on the PC.
I don't know why the virusmakers all seem to do youtube downloaders but they do. The website that you linked says it isn't a virus. To me when a site claims their software isn't a virus, it usually IS. The site looks kind of dodgy too.
Is there a way to detect a virus in android apps without installing a bloated antivirus on the phone? Does something exist where you can check android files for viruses on the PC?

Been using this for ages, since Galaxy S time. No issues mate. Have it on my Galaxy S, 8.9 and Note.

igorstef said:
Question about voice speed dial:
Is it possible to replace voice talk with this app. I mean when I press my call button on the Bluetooth headset note activates voice talk. Also double click of the home button activates voice talk.
Since my language is Serbian I have little to no use of voice talk. On the other hands ability to voice tag calls or applications is much better.
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there is launch option inside application
- Long press wiered headset
long press search
long press camera button, thogh camera key not available in note, rest of two shud work, I have not tried.

Things you miss after Lollipop update on your Z3

Hi folks, I recently got the update notification and updated my D6603 to Lollipop. I do like Lollipop's new features, but there are a few things I miss from the previous version:
Slide from left to right in the middle to unlock. I used to be able to hold the phone with one hand and slide with my thumb, but now it's from bottom to top. The motion is harder to do, but it's something to get used to.
Remove all from recent apps menu. I cannot find a button to remove all apps in one press. It's not there anymore.
Wishful features/changes:
THE CAMERA! I don't see any improvements on the camera. Still smudgy photos and pink issue with white background, etc. Going through the picture thread is still a disappoint. My hopes for this fix with the update has been lost.
Remove Small apps completely from Recent apps menu. I have never use this and it takes up space on the bottom of the screen, especially when flipping through Recent apps cards. Got this removed, thanks to lu99ke!
That's all I can think of for now. Got yours? Please share!

hanime said:
Hi folks, I recently got the update notification and updated my D6603 to Lollipop. I do like Lollipop's new features, but there are a few things I miss from the previous version:
Slide from left to right in the middle to unlock. I used to be able to hold the phone with one hand and slide with my thumb, but now it's from bottom to top. The motion is harder to do, but it's something to get used to.
Remove all from recent apps menu. I cannot find a button to remove all apps in one press. It's not there anymore.
Wishful features/changes:
Remove Small apps completely from Recent apps menu. I have never use this and it takes up space on the bottom of the screen, especially when flipping through Recent apps cards.
That's all I can think of for now. Got yours? Please share!
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Hey Hanime
Your wish has been granted!! There is a way to remove small apps from the recent screen - no root required! You just need to be able to run and ADB command ...
I can't post the link but google "remove small apps z3" and you will see a post in the android central forums..
Look for comments on this post as with lollipop, you need to use "hide" instead of block.
See attached pic of it on my phone... Looks HEAPS better.
Cheers
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

lu99ke said:
Hey Hanime
Your wish has been granted!! There is a way to remove small apps from the recent screen - no root required! You just need to be able to run and ADB command ...
I can't post the link but google "remove small apps z3" and you will see a post in the android central forums..
Look for comments on this post as with lollipop, you need to use "hide" instead of block.
See attached pic of it on my phone... Looks HEAPS better.
Cheers
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Lu99ke, thank you for this! I will give this a whirl when I get home tonight. Awesome!

NP!

Sound Mode in Quick Settings. I can't mute calls / messages anymore while listening to music as it only affects the media volume.. I would have to go the long way over settings. Is there any work around? Preferably not a widget.

LED notification light in Silent mode
If you switch your phone to silent mode the LED notification light you will not be on If you got a notification.. This not Sony fault
very annoying

Notification bar icons. Not only are they pretty ugly designs but they're also varying in sizes and don't seem to follow any kind of consistent theme.

Hani88 said:
If you switch your phone to silent mode the LED notification light you will not be on If you got a notification.. This not Sony fault
very annoying
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You still get the notification light if you set it to vibrate. I rarely use silent as I think vibrate is well, silent enough.

Run_dawn10 said:
You still get the notification light if you set it to vibrate. I rarely use silent as I think vibrate is well, silent enough.
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For me I hate vibration a lot !! I usually disable everything called "vibration" in my phone

Hani88 said:
For me I hate vibration a lot !! I usually disable everything called "vibration" in my phone
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Speaking of vibration, how do I get rid of the vibration on keypress of the home row buttons on the bottom (including back and recent apps buttons)?

Run_dawn10 said:
You still get the notification light if you set it to vibrate. I rarely use silent as I think vibrate is well, silent enough.
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hanime said:
Speaking of vibration, how do I get rid of the vibration on keypress of the home row buttons on the bottom (including back and recent apps buttons)?
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For me I always hide the soft menu keys So I didn't try that

hanime said:
Speaking of vibration, how do I get rid of the vibration on keypress of the home row buttons on the bottom (including back and recent apps buttons)?
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Settings > Sounds and Notifications > Other sounds

freddy1991 said:
Settings > Sounds and Notifications > Other sounds
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Thank you very much!

I noticed the physical camera button opens the camera app with a chime sound now. I turned it off via the camera settings (Sound = Off), but it still chimes. The touch version opens the camera silently. Anybody know how to turn the chime off?
Also, on the lock screen, it says "No Service" even when I have service. And it continues to say so until a good restart or when I download the "Internet Settings" again. Normally, it should show my carrier, T-Mobile. Anyone having this issue?

My Xperia with Facebook app does not work. I have it and had put my FB account but when I want to share a picture there is no opiton to use "Xperia with Facebook"

hanime said:
Also, on the lock screen, it says "No Service" even when I have service. And it continues to say so until a good restart or when I download the "Internet Settings" again. Normally, it should show my carrier, T-Mobile. Anyone having this issue?
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Yes. But i find it's a good indicator whether the phone rebootet itself again or not.

I miss
landscape in tv launcher with mhl

I miss location based wifi

hanime said:
I noticed the physical camera button opens the camera app with a chime sound now. I turned it off via the camera settings (Sound = Off), but it still chimes. The touch version opens the camera silently. Anybody know how to turn the chime off?
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Didn't found how to, but it was the same in KK.

i missing unlock via Bluetooth, a loved this feature on kitkat via my smardband 10, on lollipop there is only smartlock an this is sh**y, because you can not set a distance for the feature to unlock.