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Hello everyone,
I have had the Nexus 4 for a few months and am for the most part happy with it. I am not a power user by any means,but the pure android experience has been very helpful to me. I just started a new career which required a lot of traveling to different locations and scheduling and the calendar and navigation have been like a godsend for me. The notetaking apps like keep are great too. Like having your own personal assistant.
There are few things I still struggle with, particually on the phone end. I tranferred my contacts over from a blackberry, I think google did this automatically. It takes me a while to scroll down to a contact(voice recog does not work great for names) - is there a "better" way to set-up your contacts for easier acess or to enhance voice dialing? I feel it takes me much longer to find a contact than to set the navigation system to a new location. Anyone find a good solution for this?
Thanks,
Rick

Hello... I'm new here too... After using a blackberry I missed the name search here on Nexus.. The stock dialer in my opinion is ****.. Try exdialer..
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Start dialing the contact name on the dial pad, this might only be a feature on custom ROMs though. If you drag the list on the right, it should scroll faster, going by letter instead of one contact at a time. This should work on stock.

You can search for a contact. Also you can add favorites for faster access to them
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marsdta said:
You can search for a contact. Also you can add favorites for faster access to them
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What he said. You can search for a contact in the Phone app by name.

[Q] two features missing from gs4 the gs3 had! any way to get them back?

first, i noticed something that was really important to me and that was that you cant copy past a part of an sms like you could with the gs3.
it sucks because it was something i always bragged about to iphone users who had to copy the entire sms. if you guys have any ideas on how to be able to just copy a part of the texts like a home address and stuff.
second, all share control isnt working anymore which i understand considering theyre pushing watchon, however watch on doesnt have a track pad feature that can control the mouse on the samsung tv that you need when browsing the web.
is there any other app that has that feature or an add-on for watch on that would add that feature?
thanks for the help

no one know?
does no one know of any substitutes for these features?

I use goSMS and you can only copy entire message too. Know it doesn't help but might save you from trying it.
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Turdfergus0n said:
I use goSMS and you can only copy entire message too. Know it doesn't help but might save you from trying it.
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I appreciate the information

cannondave said:
I appreciate the information
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you can use an ugly hack to copy parts of messages - tap and hold the message, pick "forward", then use the normal selection controls to select and copy the parts of text you want.

kreoXDA said:
you can use an ugly hack to copy parts of messages - tap and hold the message, pick "forward", then use the normal selection controls to select and copy the parts of text you want.
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i have been using the translate feature to do it but i was hoping to find a way not to have to do those kind of detours

You also can't swipe the contact right to call or left to text I miss that feature
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freemeech said:
You also can't swipe the contact right to call or left to text I miss that feature
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actually you should still be able to do that, i use it all the time on my gs4
both in texts and contacts page

Nexus 4 calling issue

Hey
It isnt really a problem, but it kinda disturb me-when clicking on someone's name on contacts it immediatly calls him, is there any way to disable that ? for example, in galaxy S4-when you swipe the contact to the right it calls him and when you press it it shows info about him.
Please help me disabling that, thanks

Press on the contact image for options, use a 3rd party contacts application if that is useless to you.
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That actually only occurs if you go through the Phone application. If you launch the People application instead, pressing on the contact takes you to the contact info.

Go for exDialer. Hands down the best, detailed and smoothest contacts/phone app replacement around.. For me at least. Try it.
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Call Confirm.

App or functionality list that dont require root anymore!!

We can all benefit from a thread like this to supplement our need for root or for those that don't want to root but want some root functions. The 2 listed below don't require root anymore and I use then on a daily basis.
If you have an app that you can share please list it and add a little description of use or configuration needed.
1) I'm running Automatic call record. This even works better that the rooted version that ran in Xposed module.
2) pie controls, this is a simpler version that the LMT launcher that required root. This gives me all home buttons and any app at thumb level on both sides.
What other apps or functions are you running on your LG G4 that do not require root anymore?

pvaldeben said:
We can all benefit from a thread like this to supplement our need for root or for those that don't want to root but want some root functions. The 2 listed below don't require root anymore and I use then on a daily basis.
If you have an app that you can share please list it and add a little description of use or configuration needed.
1) I'm running Automatic call record. This even works better that the rooted version that ran in Xposed module.
2) pie controls, this is a simpler version that the LMT launcher that required root. This gives me all home buttons and any app at thumb level on both sides.
What other apps or functions are you running on your LG G4 that do not require root anymore?
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Which recorder are you talking about?
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mikec86 said:
Which recorder are you talking about?
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Automatic call record records all you phone calls in 1 of 3 ways. once the call is done you can add notes to the call if you want.
1st way is to recored all phone calls
2Nd way is to only record numbers who are in your contacts only
3Rd way to record is to record all calls from numbers that are not in your contacts... New numbers.
Usefull app as I use for my business when taking orders.
Hope this helps.

There are a lot apps by that name. I tried the first 1 but it didn't work. Who created the app? Thanks
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mikec86 said:
There are a lot apps by that name. I tried the first 1 but it didn't work. Who created the app? Thanks
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its called Automatic Call Recorder by Appliqato..

I have found that SMS Backup & Restore (Ritesh Sahu) works without Root (maybe it always did, just assumed it wouldn't).
I use this app to daily backup all my texts and multimedia messages (inc. cloud backup) and was very happy to find that i was able to restore all my messages from my G2 on to my G4

All in one gestures

I use wave launcher so I can have easy access for most used app quickly from any screen it helps to be able to launch camera quickly https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilemerit.wavelauncher
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[q] Old notifications from same app deleted in Android N

Hello, I'm in stock unrooted Android n preview 3. It appears that notifications that come from the same app, when I have left another notifications sitting there, will be overridden and disappear.
This is a big problem for me, as I use cloudmagic to track multiple tasks that pop up for me, and I let them sit there. Sometimes I'll have 10 notifications at once that I need to get to. Is there a way to override this behavior that I missing? Sorry if this is already been answered, I did do a search and was unable to come up with any results
Thank you in advance for your help.
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AndroidSlave said:
Hello, I'm in stock unrooted Android n preview 3. It appears that notifications that come from the same app, when I have left another notifications sitting there, will be overridden and disappear.
This is a big problem for me, as I use cloudmagic to track multiple tasks that pop up for me, and I let them sit there. Sometimes I'll have 10 notifications at once that I need to get to. Is there a way to override this behavior that I missing? Sorry if this is already been answered, I did do a search and was unable to come up with any results
Thank you in advance for your help.
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I haven't tried N, so unfamiliar on how the notifications display but the best bet would be to contact the app developer and explain.
AFAIK or understand by a quick search, the behavior is controlled by the app calling the same tag/id with different notification parameters which will overwrite the previous one.
Also have you tried any of the notification managers on play? Could be an easy work around or easier to manage.

hinxnz said:
I haven't tried N, so unfamiliar on how the notifications display but the best bet would be to contact the app developer and explain.
AFAIK or understand by a quick search, the behavior is controlled by the app calling the same tag/id with different notification parameters which will overwrite the previous one.
Also have you tried any of the notification managers on play? Could be an easy work around or easier to manage.
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I did contact the app developer and explained exactly what you said previously. They are blaming it on N. I told them they need a unique intent for each call. They didn't respond.
Can't use a third party notification manager because of special features within the cloud magic reminders
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