Hello guys, I just had my S Viewer for my Note III yesterday. I noticed that with the S Viewer closed, in the small screen I can see the time, date, weather, walking steps count, play music, taking photo and Action memo.
My question is:
1) Can I remove the play music screen? Because I dont use default mp3 player.
2) Can I anyhow pull-down the status bar for notification in the small window?
3) Can I take video as well with the camera function in the small window?
4) When I open the cover, is there anyhow to have my Swipe Screen again? I wanna has my lock screen wallpaper (not want password setting)
5) Can I add more functions to the small screen? like widget / app icons?
Thanks in advanced for your answers.
Push~
hmmm, I guess no one knows? :crying:
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Not quite sure whether this is the exact location something like this should go.. but over time I've just put together a list of some issues I have with the current Sense (Mainly its apps) and changes/additions I'd like to see in further updates.
I'm using HTC Legend unrooted.
Ones with asterisk are more significant.
General
*Ability to select default location on sd card to be used by apps for cache/data storage (so root is not clustered with folders)
*Option to choose whether the long press home button action shows recently used apps or currently running apps - latter could be more useful.
*Built in flashlight app which uses camera flash as a torch (so I don't have to root. Don't see why HTC doesnt have this already.. very practical and useful)
Ability to change timestamp on Footprints. For creating footprints of past events/locations.
When manually selected network becomes unavailable, the screen annoyingly switches to the mobile network list to choose a new one, annoyingly interrupting any current tasks. Will continue to switch back to network list periodically if you ignore it. Show alert in notification bar instead.
Allow selecting/copying of text in sms messages. (select text in long press menu)
Allow manual selection of location for weather (seems to not update location until I'm connected to some form of internet.. even though it can figure it out from GPS/phone network)
Sometimes time on clock widget and notification bar are not synchronized (when traveling between timezones, notification bar has manually selected time of the new location, widget keeps time and weather data of previous location)
360 degree rotate angles (does not go landscape when rotated clockwise)
Interface
*Turning page animation for clock widget, hero has it, looks better (doesn't work on my Legend, seen a Desire where it doesn't turn pages either, must be because of the updated 2.1 version.. defeats the purpose of the page-looking background though)
*When pressing home button or otherwise going back to home screen, have a transition effect where current window minimizes to center of screen with home screen objects coming in from the edges when (like effects in nexus one). Currently the home screen sort of slides in from the side... the minimizing and fading into the centre looks much more appealing
*Nice looking orientation rotate effect when rotating phone (like iphone)
When in pinch zoom out mode on home screen (where you can see small versions of each home screen), allow the dragging and re-arrangement of the order of home screens. (Touchwiz is adding this feature, LauncherPro does I believe, need to keep up with the competition)
Music
Re-do cover art display, there's room to move things and make album art larger, have a nicer looking display with maybe 3D effects, something similar to Itunes Cover Flow
Smooth, fast scrolling through cover art without changing song until actually pressing on album.
When pressing search button in library mode, search all fields not just one currently active.
Music sync capability of htc sync.
Be able to select album art from sd card/search online.
Photo
*Display color gradients better. (currently sometimes shows gradients very badly, rough and obviously ugly, same for picture set as lock screen wallpaper)
*Be able to choose which folders to find media (so it doesnt pick up all the images used by apps etc)
*Be able organize albums e.g. folders within folders.
*Separate videos from photos - have separate tab thing down the bottom, like where it has Albums, Facebook etc, for videos
Better updating when SD contents is modified, takes forever and initially leaves doubles of media and albums, shows nonexistent albums until finished.
Better caching - not show "searching for media" loading notification every time even if the album list had been loaded seconds before. Especially since it does not properly search for and detect new media.
Add option to add folders/search/refresh manually.
Allow creation of custom albums.
Camera
*Easier switch between camcorder and camera like nexus one and iphone camera app with constant visible slide toggle. The slide out options bar is laggy and inconvenient to change between modes.
*Audio record quality in camcorder is terrible - atleast at high volumes. Recording video at a concert and the sound was so distorted it was impossible to distinguish any of the music, while my relatively cheap Powershot camera recorded it fine.. a phone's mic should be better than a camera's right?
*Use volume rocker for zooming in and out (currently does nothing in camera mode), screen swipe zoom is often unresponsive
People
For a contact links, often does not keep selected display name.
Typing in a phone number of a contact in the global search (press search button while on home screen) does not find that contact
Ook thats it for now. I just wanted to put this up to see if anyone had similar ideas/problems, maybe ways to fix certain ones. Also is there any place to suggest this kind of thing directly to HTC? Silly I know, like they'd care about the opinions of one whiny guy, I can imagine how much emails from people begging for things in updates (see user KISS1 on these two threads:
htt p:// community.htc. com/na/htc-forums/android/f/22/t/4169.aspx
htt p:// community.htc. com/na/htc-forums/android/f/22/t/35.aspx)
lol
yep..People widget too ambitious,but sometimes does not keep selected display name.hope HTC will fix this bugs
Hi everyone, just had a Google nexus 10 for a couple of days now....first ever tablet PC / Android OS device - pretty experienced with PCs and Window but this is very different!
Getting on fine customising the setup and installing Apps etc, finding the solution most the time I get stuck here or elsewhere on the Interweb but there's a few minor things I just can't sort out.
I'll start with just a couple of questions and keep working on the other 'issues' myself for a while....
1) Music Player
I've added a bunch of MP3 albums to the GN10 - originally the album artwork appeared in screen you could scroll through but in finding my way around the App changed the view to a static tiled view of the album covers - no way can I switch back or between any view options now!
By the way.....stick with the standard music player or other Apps recommended? (would be nice to have a graphic equaliser.......I've set up a nice set of external speakers with Logitech Bluetooth audio adapter)
2) My Library...
My Music.......the icons on the 'Desktop' are just grey squares with the album title etc......surely the album covers/artwork should show?
........that's it for now
Thanks
Andy
Your are talking about the play music app, yes? If so the view you were talking about where you could scroll through is the "recent music" view. The static tiles is the "album" view. The view can be changed in the upper left side of the app next to the app icon. The app does have a built in graphic equalizer which is accessed by touch the menu button (3 dots) in the upper right.
As far as the widget, you may want to try removing the widget and then putting it back. A reboot may help afterwards as well. Hope this answers your questions.
Spot on re the 'recent music' view....thanks - strange that that view is not available for the full music selection :shrug:
Removed and added the Library widget again but no change.........not fussed though as removed again as on second thoughts can't see the need anyway, how often would one of the few albums shown be what you wanted to listen too anyway?.......just hit the Media Player icon...
Something else strange (to me anyway lol).....
The photo gallery has imported all the artwork/album covers from the Music folder ......can't see a setting to change this?
That is strange indeed. Is the music mp3's that are physically stored on the tablet memory?
Yes all on the tablet, fully tagged etc via dBpoweramp
AndyW.R1200GS said:
...Something else strange (to me anyway lol).....
The photo gallery has imported all the artwork/album covers from the Music folder ......can't see a setting to change this?
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...anyone any ideas?
very nice,its worked fully!
Unfortunately I don't believe there is a way to remove them from the gallery. It is a quirk of android. You will notice that some apps will even create folders in the gallery to store cached images.
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I am trying to get the clock and the weather widget to show up on my lock screen - my old NOTE2 had the option in Lockscreen settings to show weather on Lock screen but I cant find that option here.
I was able to add a weather widget to the lock screen - but when you first open the lock screen all you see is the clock - then, if I swipe down on the screen - it opens the weather ap - see my screen shots attached.
The first is what you see when you first get to the lock screen
the second is what you see when youi swipe down.
I am wanting to get the look of the second screen shot - when you first see the lock screen -
any suggestions?
S4 Weather
I couldn't find a way to do it either, so I downloaded this little app and it's kind of cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock&hl=en
You can add several other notifications to it as well.
I use beautiful widgets on all my devices, lets me set weather, clock, battery, and all completely customizable. One of the few apps I ever paid for.
holmesm said:
I couldn't find a way to do it either, so I downloaded this little app and it's kind of cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock&hl=en
You can add several other notifications to it as well.
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Can you set it up with pattern security? The images on the Play store shows that you can but I haven't been able to do so. Every time I set up the widget and set the pattern security, it reverts back to the standard default clock.
Well I did once, but it has now reverted to the regular lock screen. Looks like maybe a bug - The other notification extensions I picked are taking up the whole screen. When I first installed it moved everything small up next to the clock when I had the pattern visible on the lock screen. I'm not sure how to make the widget smaller as of yet. Other users have reported the same problem, so maybe there will be a future fix.
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Just started using this app, thought I'd share.
Missing these important features
1) Camera launch almost always fails ( on my nexus 5 with face recognition lock setup)
2) Does not bubble up apps with notifications to top
3) Does not show next meeting, battery percent and other simple info most other lock screens show ( samsung , htc ..)
4) tap on a app with notifications ( say hangout) can show the notification message ( cover already has access to notification content). swipe will still open the app
I've just upgraded from Galaxy S4, and surprisingly I am missing some useful options and settings:
1. Dropbox folder on Gallery - In S4 the Gallery app display every photo folder on dropbox as a separate album (like "Summer vacation 2013" etc). In S5 all of the thousands of photos in my dropbox cloud are merged into a single album, named "Dropbox".
2. Lock Screen - unlike S4, no option to define applications on the button of lock screen for fast loading. Only the camera.
3. Widgets on Lock Screen - unlike S4, no option to insert widgets on lock screen, including option to swipe in lock screen to the right camera) and to the left other widgets).
4. Torch - no option to press volume-up to light the torch
5. Air Gesture - no option to put my hand above the phone when off, to get fast info about clock, messages, battery etc.
And few more problems (not related to the S4 options):
1. Home Screen - I often need to press it TWICE in order for it to work (both when phone is off and on). I'm not talking about the lag. Is it normal?
2. Geo News - in which countries does it works?
I have an official rom, not custom.
Thank you
mattan said:
I've just upgraded from Galaxy S4, and surprisingly I am missing some useful options and settings:
1. Dropbox folder on Gallery - In S4 the Gallery app display every photo folder on dropbox as a separate album (like "Summer vacation 2013" etc). In S5 all of the thousands of photos in my dropbox cloud are merged into a single album, named "Dropbox".
2. Lock Screen - unlike S4, no option to define applications on the button of lock screen for fast loading. Only the camera.
3. Widgets on Lock Screen - unlike S4, no option to insert widgets on lock screen, including option to swipe in lock screen to the right camera) and to the left other widgets).
4. Torch - no option to press volume-up to light the torch
5. Air Gesture - no option to put my hand above the phone when off, to get fast info about clock, messages, battery etc.
And few more problems (not related to the S4 options):
1. Home Screen - I often need to press it TWICE in order for it to work (both when phone is off and on). I'm not talking about the lag. Is it normal?
2. Geo News - in which countries does it works?
I have an official rom, not custom.
Thank you
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Simple answer. Certain reviewers on mobile websites (who don't use the S4) complained that the S4 has a lot of features that they deemed unnecessary, so samsung listened to these reviewers and removed them.
But some of these were very useful features. e.g. Widgets on home screen, a very helpful feature, Additional shortcuts like contacts, phone button on the home screen. The camera in S5 click when you press the volume button rather then enable zoom! For zoom you are forced to go thru the screen based zoom Isn't this odd?.
Why would anyone deem these as not helpful. It is high time that someone on Samsung reviews the user experience versus online reviewers (some of them may not be expressing unbiased opinions).