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Good to know: sort order of Bookmark Widget can be changed!

As you will know, the HTC Bookmark Widget sorts bookmarks by creation date only. Not what I wanted..
I just found out that if you use Bookmark Manager (app available in Market) to rearrange your bookmarks, the HTC Bookmark Widget will show this new order!
Bookmark Manager can also sort alphabetically, will show correctly in Bookmark Widget too.
And: if you set the sort order of the browser's bookmarks (Browser -> Menu -> Bookmarks -> Sort order) to 'newest', this list too will show the sort order as set by Bookmark Manager.
So: great app (free and donate versions available)!
Cheers, Marc

I put in "Bookmarks Manager" to the search on the market but it did not come up with anything. Do you know if it goes by a different name? Not being able to change the order of the bookmarks widget is so annoying!
As a side note I hate the way the market is set up. Terrible.

Nasty Permissions

How does the Android community ban apps that ask for crazy permissions? For people who root and have some level of sophistication - we're not going to fall for bad behaving apps.
But for all those who don't even know what permissions are, they need to be warned.
Take a look at this one:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antonio.fashion&feature=search_result
Comes from a banned company called Plankton that rebranded itself as StartApp.
I feel sorry for people that install this and can't get rid of all the nasty stuff they injected into their device.

Android Market said:
Permissions
This application has access to the following:
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
Your personal information
write Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows an application to modify the Browser's history or bookmarks stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to erase or modify your Browser's data.
read Browser's history and bookmarks
Allows the application to read all the URLs that the Browser has visited, and all of the Browser's bookmarks.
Phone calls
read phone state and identity
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.
Storage
modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
Allows an application to write to the USB storage. Allows an application to write to the SD card.
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Network communication
view network state
Allows an application to view the state of all networks.
view Wi-Fi state
Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.
System tools
automatically start at boot
Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the device and allow the application to slow down the overall device by always running.
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I have a problem with an app that supposedly just displays pictures but needs access to my phone, my browser AND starts on boot. The network communication and SD modify I understand since it needs to retrieve the pictures from somewhere and save them in the memory other than the internal one but the rest of the permissions are just completely unnecessary.

Wow that's crazy, I fully agree!

Wow! Those permissions are crazy. That company should be banned. People are having a similar issue with the Amazon "Free app of the day" today. It's a game that is asking for a ton of permissions. There were a lot of complaints and the developer remarked on their Twitter account that they accidentally uploaded a version with "remnant permissions." Ya..right. Too many companies are getting away with this "we accidentally uploaded a test/alpha/beta/developer...etc version of our app." *rolls eyes
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[Q] change "share via" app options list in Chrome brower?

I want the option of adding Evernote Food, and some other apps to automatically share a webpage from Google Chrome.

Lenovo is sending all installed app details to their server.

I have disabled "Lenovo User Experience Plan" in Settings -> System -> About Tablet. I think I have disabled/uninstalled every pre-installed stuff I could without rooting. Yet, when I connected the tablet to the computer and saw the log, I could see something like,
Code:
D/HttpUtil.httpsPost: LSF_DEVICE_PUSH:com.lenovo.lsf.device :https:url: https://psbn.lenovomm.com/pushservice/2.0/appfeedback?lpsst=[some string-encoded binary]&versioncode=[number] body: [{"i1":"","i2":"","eventName":"installapplist","applist":[list of all app package names, versions, etc]
I have searched the web for that address, and the only thing I could find was this. https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sam...78442528b051275118f17fef7a8?environmentId=200
Why does Lenovo need to know the list of all my apps? Is this legal?

Anyone having issues with not being able to disable instant apps?

Hi,
Is anyone else having issues not being able to disable instant apps in Chrome/Google search results?
(Obviously it's disabled in Settings > Apps and Notifications > Default Apps > Opening Links > Instant App (toggled off) and Instant App Preferences > Upgrade Web links (toggled off))
Yet when using Chrome/Google search and look for instance anything on twitter, it will open Twitter no matter what. This only is an issue in Chrome/Google widget. Firefox is fine.
Steps to reproduce Issue:
OP8 Pro with OOS 10 or OOS 11, latest Google/Chrome/Play services/Twitter app installed.
1) Use chrome or google search bar widget
2) Search anything on twitter using google
3) Click the search result (a tweet for instance)
4) Link opens in Twitter app and not in Browser no matter the above settings
Setting Twitter app defaults to not open any links doesn't change the behavior.
Rebooting/Cleaning Cache/OOS Upgrade doesn't affect the behavior.
Regards