I really don't know how this happened, but a couple of days ago, my Xoom stopped asking me which app I want to use to open a file after say... downloading it.
Whenever I go to the downloads app / file manager app and try to open a file (eg. jpg / doc / xls) it doesn't ask me which app I want to use to open it. The screen just goes dim, and the selection box doesn't appear.
It stays like that indefinitely, till I press the back button.
Even clicking on a youtube/android market link in the browser gives the same results. (It doesn't ask me whether I want to open it using the browser or youtube app)
The only ones that work properly are the ones for which defaults have been set.
Any help will be appreciated.
ViousAD said:
I really don't know how this happened, but a couple of days ago, my Xoom stopped asking me which app I want to use to open a file after say... downloading it.
Whenever I go to the downloads app / file manager app and try to open a file (eg. jpg / doc / xls) it doesn't ask me which app I want to use to open it. The screen just goes dim, and the selection box doesn't appear.
It stays like that indefinitely, till I press the back button.
Even clicking on a youtube/android market link in the browser gives the same results. (It doesn't ask me whether I want to open it using the browser or youtube app)
The only ones that work properly are the ones for which defaults have been set.
Any help will be appreciated.
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There's a bug in HC three.two that makes you have to occasionally change the xoom's orientation--with auto-rotate enabled, change the Xoom from landscape to portrait orientation. You should then get a dialog box asking which app you want to use. Once you have done this once for an offending app you usually don't need to do it again.
I really can't thank you enough for that.
I find the auto-rotate pretty annoying, so it's turned off pretty much all the time.... Which is why (I guess) I didn't notice this simple thing.
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I really can't thank you enough for that.
I find the auto-rotate pretty annoying, so it's turned off pretty much all the time.... Which is why (I guess) I didn't notice this simple thing.
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When browsing the marketplace, installing an app and then going back my scrolled position in the marketplace is lost. This is very frstrating and makes browsing and installing from the marketplace a pain.
Am I missing something?
Cheers, John
Same here. Another issue: I can search and find apps to install (for instance "Root Explorer" that I wanted to use to replace wpa_supplicant) but when I click the link to view the details and install it, I get a dialog that says the detailed view can't be found. If I click OK, it goes back to the search results. If I instead click back, I can read the detailed view, but clicking "Install" results in it telling me the application can't be found. Looks like Google is blocking the app.
+1 same problem here! (Using the tablet outdoors and I must say the feeling is great but....the screen is awful!!!! I can see my every detail reflected in the screen ...lol)
By the way is there no way to comment or rate an app from the market app???
Is there perhaps a way of installing the gingerbread marketplace app?
John
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Same here. Another issue: I can search and find apps to install (for instance "Root Explorer" that I wanted to use to replace wpa_supplicant) but when I click the link to view the details and install it, I get a dialog that says the detailed view can't be found. If I click OK, it goes back to the search results. If I instead click back, I can read the detailed view, but clicking "Install" results in it telling me the application can't be found. Looks like Google is blocking the app.
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I've been having the same problem today. Lots of Apps in the market seem to be giving this response but if you try and see the details of and install a featured app then there's no problem. I think the Android Market may be having a few issues today. Try using the Android Market website instead, worked for me.
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I'll give that a go, thanks
yeah I noticed the same thing
I would also like to know where to rate and comment on apps
I hate it loses position on back. I like to browse through the app list to what is available for us honeycomb users but the fact that it goes back to the start makes this a pain in the *ss.
i agree, this is horrible, especially when browsing a long list. The marketplace is pretty average all round really.
Would it be too much to ask for a dedicated tablet section?
Just chiming in agreeing that this is a real pita.
Another +1 for the position loss on back being a pain in the ass, especially if you've just scrolled through 400 or so apps only to have to scroll through them again.
+1 here as well. I'd also love to see a section in the market just for the newest apps. I still can't figure out how to comment or rate anything there either. Some of the stuff I have tried and had to just uninstall I would love to be able to comment on. Any suggestions?
I use the online site
Regarding rating apps, here's what I've found:
Menu + Purchase History
Click the name - pick to open with browser
Rate it from the browser.
Yeah, it sucks. Honeycomb fail.
+1 on losing position in the marketplace when going back to it from an app page - very frustrating. I've also had numerous occasions when an app wouldn't properly download or install - the animated bar would continue but no notifications would show up and/or the install would fail leading to the animated bar on the app page continuing to animate but no progress. Going back then finding the app again then going into the app page and clicking install again seems to be the only way to kick start it.
I'm having problems loading the gallery sometimes and viewing pictures in mms messages..
I would've posted this in the actual development forum but I haven't posted enough stuff yet
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I'm having problems loading the gallery sometimes and viewing pictures in mms messages..
I would've posted this in the actual development forum but I haven't posted enough stuff yet
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No need to post in dev forum, maybe Q&A would have gotten more attention..
Does the Gallery force close when you try to load it? Or what specifically is the issue you are experiencing w Gallery?
I use Handcent for SMS/ MMS and am able to receive pictures. In whichever messaging app you use, go to your settings and make sure that the "auto-retrieve" option is checked. Or maybe this will help.?
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No need to post in dev forum, maybe Q&A would have gotten more attention..
Does the Gallery force close when you try to load it? Or what specifically is the issue you are experiencing w Gallery?
I use Handcent for SMS/ MMS and am able to receive pictures. In whichever messaging app you use, go to your settings and make sure that the "auto-retrieve" option is checked. Or maybe this will help.?
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Thanks for the reply. It doesn't necessarily force close it just takes me to the gallery page but nothing loads. Its not all the time but it does frequently. Also its like when I get a picture message I can't open it to enlarge the image it will just go black. Sometimes it will load after like ehhh 10 seconds or so =\
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might have a corrupt file in there. try moving all of your pics (except for one you sure works) to your pc. and try to load up the gallery you might need to clear the data under manage applications.
I have no idea why, but my phone is gingerbread v 3.5 unfriendly (at least this is my speculation). It installs just fine, but my touchscreen will not function, nor will the fingerprint scanner. After a while, the screen will shut off, and I will not be able to wake the phone from it's slumber. At first, I thought that the phone auto shut down, but It later randomly awakened to prove my theory on this wrong. The four touch buttons at the bottom hint that they are reading, but nothing else does. The power button is also unresponsive. I will attempt to use GreyBlur to further localize the problem.
Following up on my last post, GreyBlur v 2.1 reacts in the same manner. I will now attempt to find a method to undo everything that I have done thus far, including the rooting. Does anybody know a method to do this?
just go back to the guide and only do the first step.
I have attempted to reinstall the roms to see if that had any effect, and it did not. In addition, My phone is still set to not allow interaction with internal usb memory, so I cannot touch the original files that I placed on the phone. Also to note, I'm not completely sure why, but the touch screen does not respond, neither does the power button, volume buttons, or fingerprint scanner. So in the end, I can't log into my phone, nor can I alter any settings. I am able to still enter recovery mode and navigate, so I know the hardware itself is not broken.
you can't flash a base sbf through rsd?
Hi Guys,
Just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction.
I flashed to 3.01 US stock from UK in order to get the updates. I updated twice to 3.2.
What I'm noticing now is that if I click on a link, that launches an associated app (browser for instance), I used to get a screen jump up and ask which app I wanted to use. So if I'd installed Firefox, Dolphin and got Stock, it would give me the option if I hadn't yet set a default.
Since 3.2 when I click the link, the screen fades out, but the options aren't showing to select which means I can't launch the link/app.
The fix is to uninstall any relevant applications until I only have one app that can launch said link, then reinstall, and I get the option again.
Anyone had this or know how to fix without reinstalling everything?
Hope that made sense....very tired so it might not have done
I had the problem I hope u didn't set Firefox or dolphin as ur default browser what I did was erase all data now I have dolphin and the default drowser all working fine here
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This issue has been discussed, but there are two simple ways to solve it without having to reinstall everything.
1) Simply wait and eventually it will fix itself. I know this sounds strange but it will eventually work. I am not generally patient so this one did not work for me.
2) With Autorotate ON, simply rotate the Xoom so that it has to redraw the "picker" screen. Do this when the screen dims and nothing is showing up. I have found that once you do this once for any particular file type you do not need to do it a second time.
I too was reinstalling apps to get the screen to show up, but even that did not always work.
I had the same problem and it seemed to only manifest itself after I re-installed all my apps from Tiamat/Xoom Zone with Titanium Backup. I'm not sure which app was the culprit but after uninstalling Scripter and aLogcat it started working perfect.
Hope this helps!
Same Issues !!
With opera Mobile and MoboPlayer !
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This issue has been discussed, but there are two simple ways to solve it without having to reinstall everything.
1) Simply wait and eventually it will fix itself. I know this sounds strange but it will eventually work. I am not generally patient so this one did not work for me.
2) With Autorotate ON, simply rotate the Xoom so that it has to redraw the "picker" screen. Do this when the screen dims and nothing is showing up. I have found that once you do this once for any particular file type you do not need to do it a second time.
I too was reinstalling apps to get the screen to show up, but even that did not always work.
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Will certainly check these options out. Are you saying that in the first instance, when the screen dims.,...if I left it long enough, it would appear?
Has this been put to Google on their Bugs page,....as Bugs go...it's an annoying one
The Asus Transformer has the exact same problem. makes me think it could be more of a HC3.2 bug now after seeing this thread than device related.
Worse after you think you have fixed the problem every time you turn the device off and then on again on the problem begins again if you have multiple apps that can load a file or link like a web browser (I use multiple). If you have one app or set one app to be the default then you don't have the problem ....with that file or link
Easy to reset by rotating the screen ..but each time you turn on?
Question........
has anyone fixed this with a factory reset?
Factory reset will not fix this . Other browsers , media players and file managers somehow cause the problems .
I have a lot of apps installed, and while Go Launcher does indeed allow me to add more icons than the MotoBlur launcher, sometimes I need that odd app that I haven't pinned to the home screen.
Google Search -- the app itself, that launches through the search button when you're at the home screen -- allows searching for installed apps and launching them directly, as long as you type the first few letters of the program.
I got used to this on my old Nexus One, especially with CM7, which allowed me to long press the Search button and it would launch GSearch no matter where I was. After finding a way to do this via a third party helper utility on the Atri, I can launch Search via a long press, but the app search itself works about 1/3 of the time. Most of the time it returns nothing.
I may be in the minority of users who use search to launch apps, but when I have around 150 installed apps, it's a pain to have to look through the launcher every time you need a particular app.
On Froyo, the app search feature was also buggy, and was hoping they would fix it by now, but on GB it's the same story.
Anyone experience this as well?
Click the search button then the top left icon and on the top right click on the preference button ..make sure app search is checked.
Works fine for me. Give me an app that doesn't work for you and I'll be glad to try it.
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I've enabled it, disabled web and contacts search, so app search results should be the only thing coming up.
What I mean is not that a particular app doesn't come up, but rather that the search functionality stops working all together. As in, no matter what I type, nothing is returned in the search results. I can't figure what triggers this. I just rebooted the phone and it's working fine, and as I continue using the phone, it will stop working.
At the end of the day, it's just a nuisance that can be worked around, but it was a neat little shortcut I got used to.
i have about 75 or so apps installed, so i kinda know your pain. but, the search feature has always worked for me in the past, currently using ninja speed freak 0.4.5 with Faux's kernel.
do you have any mods/roms installed on your Atrix?
Deblured by freezing some Motorola processes and of course rooted. Nothing else, and like I said, it works, but only some of the time.
I would suggest checking it after it's been a while since last reboot to see if you can reproduce the problem.
This happened in Froyo as well, and on my previous Atrix, so it's definitely reproducible between phones and different OS versions.
Well. At least you can use the app groupings!
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I also had such issue till now. just now i tried going to the setting of search and unselected selected apps and google search. it now work.. may be the setting got refreshed.. u may try this..
Works completely fine for me. Could be something your freezing that makes it buggy? Or maybe GoLauncher?
ive always had the same issue, on stock, roms, whatever i'm running. I would search for an app, and the only thing that would show up is the term i typed in with a magnifying glass (signifying searching the web). I'd go into search settings and make sure APPs are checked... then i search again, and the apps show up!
I find I have to constantly go into search settings and then press back for applications to show up. it's annoying. It ends up working though, but why can't it work the first time?
Seems to me that something so basic should not be so buggy by version 2.3.4 of an OS. Maybe once we get CM7 it won't be a problem anymore, based on my experience with it on my n1.
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ive always had the same issue, on stock, roms, whatever i'm running. I would search for an app, and the only thing that would show up is the term i typed in with a magnifying glass (signifying searching the web). I'd go into search settings and make sure APPs are checked... then i search again, and the apps show up!
I find I have to constantly go into search settings and then press back for applications to show up. it's annoying. It ends up working though, but why can't it work the first time?
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You don't need to go to setting everytime just type the app name expand search icon and tap on app your app will show in search result works for me
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Hem, that does work, thank you. It's still annoying that searching "all" doesn't work, but the "apps" sub category does, but I'll just have to get used to it till they get it working correctly.
Works just fine for me, 4.5.91 installed ota (rooted w/ preinstall, no bl unlock)
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You don't need to go to setting everytime just type the app name expand search icon and tap on app your app will show in search result works for me
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lol it works! but damn it should be the FIRST thing that shows up! instead of having to go thru all the other options
I'm a nurse and need seconds displayed on my watch for when I perform vitals. I know there are watch faces that display seconds, but they go away once the screen dims. Any third party watch faces that would fit the bill?
BTW loving my gear live! Picked it up this morning.
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tu3218 said:
I'm a nurse and need seconds displayed on my watch for when I perform vitals. I know there are watch faces that display seconds, but they go away once the screen dims. Any third party watch faces that would fit the bill?
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I haven't seen any. That'd be a massive drain on the battery; the watch would be constantly redrawing the display instead of sitting idle and updating only once a minute. I'm not sure you'd even get through a shift before it were to die...
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I haven't seen any. That'd be a massive drain on the battery; the watch would be constantly redrawing the display instead of sitting idle and updating only once a minute. I'm not sure you'd even get through a shift before it were to die...
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Yeah true good point. Well maybe there's an app I can load that just gives me seconds for when I go into a patients room. I guess I could load like a timer or something too. Or maybe I'll just have to use a regular watch during my shifts. Thanks for the input.
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tu3218 said:
Yeah true good point. Well maybe there's an app I can load that just gives me seconds for when I go into a patients room. I guess I could load like a timer or something too. Or maybe I'll just have to use a regular watch during my shifts. Thanks for the input
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I'm sure someone could whip up an accurate watchface app that stays alive while open. Not sure if one exists already. But it shouldn't be hard to do at all.
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I'm sure someone could whip up an accurate watchface app that stays alive while open. Not sure if one exists already. But it shouldn't be hard to do at all.
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Yeah I would only need it active for the 5-10 min I'm in the room than switch back to a normal clock face. I would gladly donate for this too. Hopefully some Dev see's this.
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Yeah I would only need it active for the 5-10 min I'm in the room than switch back to a normal clock face. I would gladly donate for this too. Hopefully some Dev see's this.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.collamo.wear.richwatchfaceconcrete
Also any thing using configurable app like "wear picture watch" since you actually can just configure it to show seconds even while dimmed. There are a few nice wear picture skins out there,this guy has a whole bunch
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.collamo.wear.richwatchfaceconcrete
Also any thing using configurable app like "wear picture watch" since you actually can just configure it to show seconds even while dimmed. There are a few nice wear picture skins out there,this guy has a whole bunch
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Hey that url is no good...Also I went to that guys page but its just zip files, not actual apks. He has some amazing designs. Wish I could actually download them. thanks for the info.
I'm learning that app but can't figure out the seconds part. Under clock draw interval, I figure that's where I need to be. I've tried sec always but seconds still don't pop up. Any ideas?
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Hey that url is no good...Also I went to that guys page but its just zip files, not actual apks. He has some amazing designs. Wish I could actually download them. thanks for the info.
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It's amazing how little people read.
i linked you to an app called "wear picture watch". Download and install that. Open it, it's a watch designer. Download the zip file from that guys page now open "wear picture watch" app. Goto the side menu scroll down you'll see "import/export" click on it. Now select the zip file and click "refresh" on top. There are other settings here on this app where you can adjust what shows up and what doesn't. One of those options can be tuned to have the seconds hand show up even when dimmed. Furthermore there is "update interval" which can be changed do the second hand moves even when dimmed.
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It's amazing how little people read.
i linked you to an app called "wear picture watch". Download and install that. Open it, it's a watch designer. Download the zip file from that guys page now open "wear picture watch" app. Goto the side menu scroll down you'll see "import/export" click on it. Now select the zip file and click "refresh" on top. There are other settings here on this app where you can adjust what shows up and what doesn't. One of those options can be tuned to have the seconds hand show up even when dimmed. Furthermore there is "update interval" which can be changed do the second hand moves even when dimmed.
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Actually you originally linked me to a play google link first. Which did NOT work. Which is why I said url did not work. Than I did go to that G+ link. I originally didn't see the instructions within the posts on G+, so my bad. Maybe I was distracted by the nice designs. As for the "update interval" section, there is none. There is a "clock draw interval" but not a update interval. I only saw that under weather settings.
I got it working. It is in fact the "clock draw interval", not "update interval". Just had to change that to sec. always(wake lock). Now just need to figure out how to get some numbers in there displayed around the clock.
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Actually you originally linked me to a play google link first. Which did NOT work. Which is why I said url did not work. Than I did go to that G+ link. I originally didn't see the instructions within the posts on G+, so my bad. Maybe I was distracted by the nice designs. As for the "update interval" section, there is none. There is a "clock draw interval" but not a update interval. I only saw that under weather settings.
I got it working. It is in fact the "clock draw interval", not "update interval". Just had to change that to sec. always(wake lock). Now just need to figure out how to get some numbers in there displayed around the clock.
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o my bad then . Glad to know you got it working. I think that one app should solve your issues.
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o my bad then . Glad to know you got it working. I think that one app should solve your issues.
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No worries, got it working exactly how I want it! So glad you pointed this out. So now I can just switch to this clock temporarily when I go in to see patients. I will post the file(assuming I can, and of course giving credit to where its due) that I used with the adjustments I made to allow seconds be displayed even while dim. So if future medical personal come along, they have a way to use their smart watch at work. thanks again.
Help getting a face
Hi
As an EMT this is exactly what I'm looking for! Downloaded wear picture watch app, but am having a hard time getting faces imported. Went to the G+ page and got the box link to download a face. It downloads a .face file. Question is where do I go from there. I do not see an import/export option in the app.
Thanks a lot