When did they add this feature to do simple things like quick compose and navigate to saved addresses? What other apps have these kind of options?
Google is including force touch for the pixel 2, so most the popular google apps now have a long press feature.
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Like most smartphone users: I live out of my calendar app.
When adding my schedule at work, I have to constantly select my Gmail calendar - for every new event - in order to sync to the cloud. The default is always the phone's 'My Calendar', which I never use.
It's not the end of the world, but when I get into the groove of adding events, I sometimes forget to change the setting.
Is there a way to delete that default, or is there a way to default new events to always be placed under your google account's calendar, or is this a bug / lack of foresight on Samsung's behalf?
I suppose the alternative is to do this all from Google's web app -- but I'd rather just be able to tap the info into the phone's default app.
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Several aspects of the phone act this way. I think Samsung still doesn't quite get the google-centric nature of most android users.
Coming from a blackberry, i have universal search that lets me type and find content on blackberry messenger, emails, facebook, contacts and even some third party apps.
While i know that android itself has some of these, there are third party apps that extend this feature. Do you use one of these apps? Which one?
I wish there was a way to use universal search (built into Android,) to search Google Maps, like I could on WebOS. I find that if I am hitting the search button, over half the time I am looking for a phone number from the yellowpages, (maps.)
I very much miss being able to start typing a contacts name at the home screen and having it pop up. Currently I have the far right launcher (ADW) set to Contact Search, but it's still to presses to get started. If anyone finds something that works more seamlessly, please let us know.
Well the built-in search feature of Android does search contacts... Depending on what ROM you're running, how your contacts are sync'd can effect if they appear in results. I can tell you that on CM7 nightly 21, with TouchDown and Facebook sync, that my contacts all appear when I just hit the search key and start typing. I just wish that one of the options was to start a search in maps.
Hit the search capacitive button at the bottom and start typing. If they don't show up, go into settings and make sure iit searches for contacts too.
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When you first setup your new Cyanogen Installation, it allows you to set up your account and then it takes you to a screen where you can download the apps in the google apps package. It's like it restricts your market to only google related apps.
The problem I had no internet so had to set that up later, and now I can't install and update all the apps I want, because if I put Google Apps in the market, it shows me google things and non google things...
How can I get that initial screen again?
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IonAphis said:
When you first setup your new Cyanogen Installation, it allows you to set up your account and then it takes you to a screen where you can download the apps in the google apps package. It's like it restricts your market to only google related apps.
The problem I had no internet so had to set that up later, and now I can't install and update all the apps I want, because if I put Google Apps in the market, it shows me google things and non google things...
How can I get that initial screen again?
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Go to accounts> Add accounts. Add your google account. That won't give the initial setup screen but you will add your google account anyways.
Does anyone know where a list of the specific services used by Google Play Services is located so I can disable certain ones and still maintain functionality of ones I need to run certain apps? (Gmail, Play Store, Blogger, Maps)
I do not want to disable or remove the whole app, just freeze the battery hogging useless services I do not need or use...
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I've enabled Google Play Services, Play Store etc. using Datastream33's Fire Toolbox v. 19 and all my Google apps work perfectly except the the Google Calendar app. I actually use the Calendar Widget which I like a lot. Several sub-calendars from which to choose are supposed to appear with checkboxes in on the last setup page, but it is always blank no matter which Calendar Widget I'm trying to install and I've tried more than 6 in the Play Store in addition to the Calendar Widget. I just re-enabled the Amazon Calendar and Contacts based on a suggestion in Datastream33's thread but that didn't solve the problem. Does anyone have any helpful ideas?
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