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Is this just me or anyone else? Back on my N1 it would bring up the keyboard on top of any screen/app I was on.. On my Vibrant it brings up a search screen with the keyboard..
This disables me being able to use Swype's cursor menu for selecting text, copying/pasting. I don't know if anyone else uses it like that?
On the Swype keyboard, swype from the tips key to the sym key, left to right.
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amd_203 said:
On the Swype keyboard, swype from the tips key to the sym key, left to right.
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Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.
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Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.
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More like a misunderstanding, douche.
He's out of luck though, since like he said long press of menu only brings up search, not the keyboard like the N1. I believe they did this because you international Galaxy S didn't have a search button, so to take its place they made it available by a long press of the menu. Though, I don't know why they didn't remove that on our T-Mobile Vibrant since we already have a separate button for it.
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thegreatcity said:
Reading comprehension fail.
He's problem is that a search field opens with a long press of the menu key, making the swype arrow keys useless when you want to use them outside of a text field.
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Oh, and it's his not he's (he is)
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I have this same problem and it's extremely annoying. This phone is full of bugs. Thankfully we have XDA and it's only a matter of time before we get bug fixes.
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More like a misunderstanding, douche.
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Vocabulary fail.
Last time I checked, misunderstanding what someone wrote = not comprehending what was read.
I was just joking anyways.
Have fun calling me names like a kid, pointing out typos (a typo on xda?! whaaaat?!), just next time actually RTFA.
Thanks for the insightful responses my fellow Vibranteers. Lol.
I agree it's pretty annoying. A friend was trying an older Android app that assumes you have a physical keyboard, and as a result, there is no way to force the soft keyboard to open.
You have to wonder how Samsung concluded the search button wasn't adequate for accessing search...
Menu lp for me is the keyboard, as it should be for everyone. Lp search is a choice of with vlingo or google voice search.
lp menu for me is search also......very very annoying!
For me as well... (I'm on stock TW)
Menu LP brings up the keyboard -- and the quick-search box in the top half of the screen.
Anybody figure out how to chnge this behaviour?
I have Button-Shorcut set to go to dialer with LP. As there is no hardware phone button,.SP search. + KB. I wish this app was able to map menu button that would be great.
Is your phone Loki? Use Odin. You'll be Thor!
I asked Steve Jobs and he told me that you guys are long pressing the button wrong
When you type in a new URL on your normal pc with a browser (Firefox of IE eg) he selects all the text and you can immediatly type in a new address. However, with the Tab when you click on the URL bar you always (at least I do) have to backspace the address that is shown in the bar and only after this you can type a new address. Is there a way to do this like on a normal pc?
ps. I tested it with Opera, stock browser and Dolphin and it s there with all three.
Doesnt do it with my dolphin or stock browser. When i touch the url bar, it highlights the whole thing blue so when i type, it deletes it all first.
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jtc442 said:
Doesnt do it with my dolphin or stock browser. When i touch the url bar, it highlights the whole thing blue so when i type, it deletes it all first.
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strange, are you running JK5 too?
Yup
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sanderh said:
When you type in a new URL on your normal pc with a browser (Firefox of IE eg) he selects all the text and you can immediatly type in a new address. However, with the Tab when you click on the URL bar you always (at least I do) have to backspace the address that is shown in the bar and only after this you can type a new address. Is there a way to do this like on a normal pc?
ps. I tested it with Opera, stock browser and Dolphin and it s there with all three.
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Although I do not have Galaxy Tab (I have Galaxy S), I'm experiencing the same thing, both in Opera as well as in stock browser. I'm sure it was not so from beginning. I suspect that some app must be interfering but as till now I couldn't find which.
I'm on JK5, and I can confirm that both in stock and Dolphin, when I touch the address bar it is already highlighted, so I just need to type to delete what is there.
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Dave
foxmeister said:
I'm on JK5, and I can confirm that both in stock and Dolphin, when I touch the address bar it is already highlighted, so I just need to type to delete what is there.
Regards,
Dave
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For me on my Galaxy S (Froyo) it was also like this, but after some time (probably after installing some app) it stopped behaving like that. When the browser is in portrait mode everything works fine, but if I switch to landscape then after selecting address bar initially the url is highlighted, but then the keyboard appears with some delay and selection is lost and cursor placed at the end of url. I'm pretty sure it is fault of some app, but till now I couldn't confirm it. On Eclair I've never experienced anything like this, so I guess it also has something to do with Froyo too.
quicker way, don't click on the address bar, just press the search key
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quicker way, don't click on the address bar, just press the search key
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simple but great tip! thxz
I could be wrong but I've noticed this only happen on AT&T Tab with JK5. I didn't see this issue on Tmob tab which I no longer have so couldn't confirm.
Besides the searc tip above, anyone knows how to fix this (clicking on URL it highlights the string instead of bringing up the full keyboard)?
TIA
just noticed that the search button solution stopped working too
sanderh said:
just noticed that the search button solution stopped working too
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how so?
(10 char)
This is what I do and it works on all browsers: touch and hold the address bar until popup menu shows up and use "select all".
Funny thing. It only happens to me when i have my tab in landscape mode; in portrait when i select the address bar, it highlights the url, but in landscape it doesn't. Uhm?
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Typing a new URL in browser not easy (all browsers!)
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how is pressing 1 button "not easy"?
This only happens when the device is in landscape mode. Portrait mode works just fine.
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Confirmed that the problem is only in landscape mode
Hi all!
I'm starting a new thread about my problem because the two other ones i found did not give me any answer or clue. They are (at least) 2 months old and there's no news about that.
The old threads can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=885271
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12798131
I have this problem: When I try to write a text message with the physical keyboard, the screen start to "scroll up" in the conversation after a couple of seconds.
After some tests, here's what I can tell about the problem:
-I use HTC Sense messaging app
-Screens jumps a little bit IF i slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting the contact
-It can't be the trackball to me, (lot of people are saying that it is trackball related) because if you try to "scroll up" or down with the trackball while typing a message, it do not scroll the whole page, but only between your message's lines.
-Sometimes, it scrolls the page up AND unselect the message box, so pressing "delete" will offer you to delete messages (instead of deleting the last character you wrote), and some keys open a new message, etc.
-I tried with "Touch Input" and Swype as the software keyboard and it seems to be unrelated to the software keyboard (I get the problem with both of them)
-It seems to happen to me in EVERY conversation (even conversations with less than 50 messages, contrary to what some peoples says)
-It scroll up in two times, the first time I can see the "send" button a little bit and the second one I can't see the message box anymore. It always jump to the SAME point (with 10 messages or with 200..) the second "jump" occurs 1 second after the first one.
-It is REALLY annoying.
Here's infos on my cellphone:
Bell's HTC Desire Z (canada) with official ROM (not rooted) version 1.84.666.2 (On Android 2.2.1)
I'm using it in French with French Canadian Keyboard.
If someone find a solution (other than switch to another messaging app) i'll be really happy!!
UPDATE: I was having two more software keyboard, "Wifi Keyboard" (installed by Remote Web Desktop) and an unworking Gingerbread keyboard app. (The gingerbread keyboard whas installed a long time after the problem starts), I uninstalled both of them and seems to have no more problems. I'll test some applications and thing and will update this thread once I have a "final answer" on it!
I did a lot if test and it seems that with swype selected, it happens EVERYTIME I slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting a contact or a message.
If swype is not selected, it happens sometimes, but a lot less. Is there a solution to this? I'm not using swype so it do not matter to me, but i would like to fix this annoying bug
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joe540 said:
I did a lot if test and it seems that with swype selected, it happens EVERYTIME I slide out the keyboard AFTER selecting a contact or a message.
If swype is not selected, it happens sometimes, but a lot less. Is there a solution to this? I'm not using swype so it do not matter to me, but i would like to fix this annoying bug
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Yes I know how you feel.
Sadly, the only workaround I've found to minimise the jumps is by going to the list of messages first in landscape mode (keyboard out) before selecting the thread. It's not 100% foolproof but I found it cuts the phenomenon down significantly with my European Desire Z.
I'm hoping the promised upgrade to gingerbread may finally put this one to bed.
Just a quick update: I've uninstalled Swype Beta completely (rather then keeping it installed as an option) as I was hardly using it. Seems to have made a difference to how often the jumping occurs.
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I get this in the messsaging app Only on Sense though....
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i think its an android general issue i remember having the same problem with my xperia x10 and it happened also on an omnia ii i ported eclair to, so yeah...
This is a known issue. It has to do with ambient light hitting the black touchpad. It causes the screen to inadvertantly jump up. I had this problem before. When ever you see it happening just move the touchpad out of the light or cover it with your hand and it should be fine.
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After my 4th g2 and a month with it, it starts happening to me here in the no airport =/
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So what's the REAL solution here? It happens every time for me and it has nothing to do with light...?
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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combat goofwing said:
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.
Devoting a soft key exclusively to recent apps seems ridiculous to me. Is it a Motoblur thing or stock ICS?
Is there an app that will allow an unrooted user to program a shortcut to the key that is of some use? Maybe on long press?
I installed Google Launcher and noticed that accidentally hitting that key shows recent apps but then takes you out of Go Launcher and back to Motoblur. Any way to avoid that?
That's pure ICS, not Moto. Actually was there in honeycomb too. I never understood removing the search key and menu key to put in the far less used recent apps. If there is a mod out there to convert it's function to a menu button I'd be on it too.
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Any shortcut would be preferable. I thought it would be a nice button to open phone dialer or dolphin browser.
I'm really surprised you guys don't find it useful. There's plenty of times where I'd rather have that button than hit the home button and go back to the home screen or hold the home button for a second or more to get that popup on my Nexus S.
I find that I'm swapping back between texting, web browsing, the music player / pandora and facebook quite often
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I'm really surprised you guys don't find it useful. There's plenty of times where I'd rather have that button than hit the home button and go back to the home screen or hold the home button for a second or more to get that popup on my Nexus S.
I find that I'm swapping back between texting, web browsing, the music player / pandora and facebook quite often
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Thank you, I agree as well. Not to mention, the menu and search are legacy buttons. People need to let them die and embrace the design direction Android is moving forward in...but I guess old habits die hard (and painfully). Why so much resistance towards the death of the menu button?
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Thank you, I agree as well. Not to mention, the menu and search are legacy buttons. People need to let them die and embrace the design direction Android is moving forward in...but I guess old habits die hard (and painfully). Why so much resistance towards the death of the menu button?
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Yeah, I can definitely do without the menu button since every new app has been building it into the application. It's a button that I'd hardly hit while interacting with most applications.
I do miss the contextual search though. I got used to tapping the search button in Contacts or Chrome and searching within that context. Only searching globally when I was at the home screen. Well now with the changes (at least to the Nexus S) the search button brings up Google Now and there's no in-app search unless they specifically build in a button. Most have done that now, so it's not really a problem, just a habit that I got into.
I understand it's benefits but those apps I use quite often you speak of are already shortcuts on my home page. Using the recent apps button adds another key press to open it. I've only used it when I can't remember the name of an app I recently installed.
For me personally, useable? Yes. Useful? Not really. Especially when it gets bogged down with tons of recent apps and my finger already knows where the shortcuts are.
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Hey look I'm the OP and said nothing about making it a menu button. What I want is a programmable button to do what I want and you could have one to do what YOU want. Now you tell me NOOOO.., I should embrace the direction of Android. That sounds suspiciously like Apple philosophy.
I never have had any use for a recent apps button and still don't. I don't care what apps I have used recently. Since there is a key there I would like it to be useful. Personally, I would like short press to be Opera and long press to be Dolphin. Now shall I look forward to be scolded for not embracing Chrome? I thought the whole point of Android was personal choice. Android users don't have to be sheeple imo.
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I understand it's benefits but those apps I use quite often you speak of are already shortcuts on my home page. Using the recent apps button adds another key press to open it. I've only used it when I can't remember the name of an app I recently installed.
For me personally, useable? Yes. Useful? Not really. Especially when it gets bogged down with tons of recent apps and my finger already knows where the shortcuts are.
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You've got to admit though that closing applications by swiping them "off" at that quick switch menu is kind of nice. I like that a little bit better for closing off high RAM applications quickly compared to the CM method of holding "back". Then again, I'll admit it's a very rare thing where I want to kill more than one application at once haha
Sorry, no I don't admit it. (not for me anyway) Never have done it. Never will. I prefer not to force close apps. I let Android handle it.
Dolphin and Opera are in a folder on my desktop so it takes two keypresses to access them while that utterly useless recent apps key sits there doing nothing. In fact it does harm if I am using another launcher and hit it by accident.
There was an app I used to use that allowed you to program the search key (which I also never used) and double tap of home key (which normally produced something else I never used). I think it is called Home to Shortcut. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated to use the recent apps key.
I also think Moto should have made the navigation bar transparent so we could see the entire screen like Nexus. I hope somebody figures out a way to do that too.
Give it time for custom roms and you will be able to do loads of stuff with that bar, including changing the icons and uses. Aokp is great for that.
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I don't think swiping from the recent apps menu is an FC function. Just a history. To check it I FC'd a bunch of stuff from the proper menu and opened the recent apps. Sure enough everything is still there. Clicked on one of the apps and sure enough it had to start up.
I generally don't use app killers but there are always rogue apps that will give you problems. Netflix is a bad one for me where I'll watch an episode and when it's over Netflix develops Alzheimer's whether there are more episodes. Does the same on the Roku and tablet so I'm sure it's a Netflix thing. The only way to slap sense into their servers is an FC and restart.
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Give it time for custom roms and you will be able to do loads of stuff with that bar, including changing the icons and uses. Aokp is great for that.
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I can't wait. I was spoiled by the super developers for Tbolt.