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I hated my phone. I think that MS doesn’t know how to make a phone feel like a phone. That's my opinion and you know what they say about opinions... Anyway, thanks to the work of some fantastic programmers, I have gotten my phone to where it feels a little nicer. On to what I did.
I wanted to tackle making the phone prettier to use. I don’t like how the today screen background doesn't act as the background of the phone app. I think that's stupid. For fixing this, I downloaded a few dialer skins from Zombienexus. (http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/GH_ShowArticle.asp?HID=35&CATID=1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12) I'm not sure who this person is, but his dialer replacement is fantastic. I chose the "Springwood_BlackBars" theme. It's a dim picture taken of a rain forest. Looks really nice. Nice and professional. This took care of my today screen and my phone dialer. Now, both have a good (great) background.
Next up. I hate my contacts. I can't mash a letter corresponding to my contact's last name with my finger. My fingers are too fat. I don't like using the stylus for doing this because phones don’t' require stylus.... enter Contact Manager v0.10 (http://www.pocketcm.com). The guy that created this is freaking awesome. It's a contact app that pulls from your list of contacts and puts them into a list that makes them easy to select with a finger. If you drag your finger down, the list will spring down and continue scrolling with this elastic effect. If you drag your finger down one side of the screen or the other, a little tab will pop up following your finger from top to bottom with each letter of the alphabet in it starting with "a" at the top and "Z" at the bottom. Where you stop is where the list scrolls to, nice animation and all.
Now, this contacts manager is kind of plain looking off the bat. But, the creator gives you an ini file to customize. After thoroughly tweaking the ini, I now have my today screen background (the springwood) as the background behind my contacts. Though, in words this may not sound like much, but in practice, the phone is freaking sweet now. the only other thing I did, was use a softkey tweak (http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/change_softkey_buttons.html) so that my contacts softkey invokes the new contactmanager app.
I wish I had screen shots of what my phone looks like. Showing it to friends has convinced them that wm5 phones CAN look like ... phones.
I'd love to see somebody "can" all three of these things together. I think a program that allows you to set the background for all three places would be very nice... What's best, all of the pieces I used are free (but, be sure and donate, these guys really out did themselves with this stuff).
Hope this helps somebody else make their phone a little more friendly.
Jason
NOTE: Contacts manager is a little funky when in landscape mode. It works, but display is a bit "off" and "tabs" no longer work. (but, who uses their phone in Landscape mode?)
Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
Sorry about that:
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Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
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hey Contact Manager v0.10 is made by one of our members @ xda developers, check out updates in the development and hacking forum.
Did'nt even know that. THat's cool... Great job Tene: ... here's link to that thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314048&highlight=contactsmanager
My wife recently bought a Galaxy Tab 7.7 and now after some hours of experience she has some questions:
1. When you turn off the sound it doesn't turn off everything, sounds on webpages still plays.
2. The screen unlock pattern is in the same place so it's easy to see it because of the grease the finger is leaving behind.
3. When you want to edit text in the web browser, for instance in a forum like this, and you put the marker where you want to start edit, the marker jumps 1 or more letters efter about one second. It's not a miss click, because you can see that the marker is in the correct place when you remove your finger, and then after about one seconde it jumps to another place. Extremely annoying.
4. Honeycomb does not utilise the screen size, it seems like it's made for a smaller phone with lesser resolution. Reminders and other notifications is easily missed. Text is also extremly small sometimes and even though you can read it, it's very hard to put the marker in the right spot, if you want to mark and copy a text for instance.
5. Reminders from the calendar is to discreet, it should be something that you have to turn off manually so you dont miss it.
6. Can you create a shortcut to a file on the startscreen/desktop?
7. The clock doesn't show when you make a call so you can't check the time
8. The screen locks itself quickly when you make a call, in like 10 s, even though you have set it on 5 mins. Very annoying when you want to check things on the pad during a call.
9. Adding a new phone number to a contact is very unlogical, and it takes alot of steps. Why not just have, "add phone number to contact" when you have marked the number??
10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
11. I can't write é and ü which is used sometimes in my language, the signs ¨ and ´ just doesn't exist. But a ton of smiliys do...strange choice by Google/Samsung.... (yes, I have the local version of the OS)
12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
13. The music player can't do shuffle
This was just the most important things, then it's alot of other annoying things that doesn't work correctly and that are just illogical.
Overall it doesn't seem like a product that is ready for selling, If this was a computer OS it would've been called version 0.1 alfa.
If you have any tips or apps that solve the above listed things, please post here. My wife would be super happy.
I m sorry to say. All of the above can be done/customize... u just haven't look in the right place or download the right Apps..... I guess it's your first smartphone.
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No, I've owned an Iphone, which had none of these issues.
But please give me some tips and hints, because I've looked around and have found nothing.
1) You need to turn down the media volume whilst in the browser.
2. Obviously clean the screen more often, what do you expect?
3. Its a bug with no fix. ICS should fix this.
4. With apps in general? Because ICS has started a trend for better resolution support. With notifications I suggest getting glasses. Also in the themes and apps forum there is an app to increase font size called Big Font.
5. That defeats the point of a reminder.
6. No but some custom launchers like go launcher provide this option.
7. I have a wifI only version so no idea. But the clock should always stay in the bottom bar.
8. Its meant to be this way. Its a feature from smartphones. It stops your face pressing buttons on the screen when you put the speaker grill to your ear.
9. No comment.
10. For the clock/alarm app?
11. Hold the letter e (é) and u (ü) down on the Samsung keyboard.
12. The play store offers alternative browsers like opera and dolphin hd, try some.
13. ICS upgrade should fix this. But again use the play store to find alternatives.
Honeycomb is buggy, numerous reviews have stated this. The ICS upgrade is set to fix most of these issues and provide a better overall experience. The ICS upgrade is meant to be set for May.
Its not meant to be a computer. Its meant to be be a media consumption device. You've come from an iphone which is simple. Android just takes times to get used too. You probably would have been better off with am ipad. Android tablets just aren't there yet.
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1) You need to turn down the media volume whilst in the browser.
Ok, but you have to agree with me that when you put the phone in silent, it should be completely silent.
2. Obviously clean the screen more often, what do you expect?
It becomes a mark after every time you log in. If they'd just had the grid in different places it wouldn't be a problem.
3. Its a bug with no fix. ICS should fix this.
I have big hopes for ICS
4. With apps in general? Because ICS has started a trend for better resolution support. With notifications I suggest getting glasses. Also in the themes and apps forum there is an app to increase font size called Big Font.
Mostly the webbrowser, even though you zoom max, it's very small text, and it's hard to highlight words. I will try Dolphin more extensively.
5. That defeats the point of a reminder.
It's just that you should have better options for the sound level (now it's a bearaly audiable "ding" or something), and it should also be a pop-up window or with a OK-button or so.
6. No but some custom launchers like go launcher provide this option.
Ok, will try that.
7. I have a wifI only version so no idea. But the clock should always stay in the bottom bar.
It doesn't, you have to go back to home screen to see the clock.
8. Its meant to be this way. Its a feature from smartphones. It stops your face pressing buttons on the screen when you put the speaker grill to your ear.
Well, it should be an option to turn it off since this is a 7.7 inch tablet and mostly you will use a headset.
9. No comment.
10. For the clock/alarm app?
11. Hold the letter e (é) and u (ü) down on the Samsung keyboard.
Thanks!
12. The play store offers alternative browsers like opera and dolphin hd, try some.
Will do!
13. ICS upgrade should fix this. But again use the play store to find alternatives.
Again, I have big hopes for ICS
Honeycomb is buggy, numerous reviews have stated this. The ICS upgrade is set to fix most of these issues and provide a better overall experience. The ICS upgrade is meant to be set for May.
Can't wait!
Its not meant to be a computer. Its meant to be be a media consumption device. You've come from an iphone which is simple. Android just takes times to get used too. You probably would have been better off with am ipad. Android tablets just aren't there yet.
I know, but they certainly have the hardware for it, they just don't use it properly.
If Apple had an ~7 inch tablet from which you could make calls, I would've probably bought that.
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Open the phone app (not the mini dialer)
Logs - Long press a caller number- Add to contacts.
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9. Adding a new phone number to a contact is very unlogical, and it takes alot of steps. Why not just have, "add phone number to contact" when you have marked the number??
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"Stopwatch & Timer" from Google Play.
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10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
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It becomes a mark after every time you log in. If they'd just had the grid in different places it wouldn't be a problem.
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It will leave finger marks anywhere your grid was anyway, other still can figure your grid shape
So... just clean your screen or consider using password ^^
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Open the phone app (not the mini dialer)
Logs - Long press a caller number- Add to contacts.
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"Stopwatch & Timer" from Google Play.
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No, can't find a option to add the number to a contact you already have, it only creates a new contact. Maybe I'm just stupid, only got 5 years of higher IT education...
What I need to do is choose to edit the phone number, and then add the phone number to a contact that way.
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It will leave finger marks anywhere your grid was anyway, other still can figure your grid shape
So... just clean your screen or consider using password ^^
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Yea, this is just one of those annoying things. If the grid randomly switched place, it could've been much harder to see the pattern. But it's not very important.
It's just that when alot of things annoy you, you just start to get annoyed on other things aswell
Overall she is very happy with the tablet, it's just that it has the potential to be much much better, it's just a matter of software.
This image shows how small text is when you write in a box on a web page (max zoom), it's just hard to put the marker where you want it, if you for instance notice that you have missspelled something:
Marquzz said:
No, can't find a option to add the number to a contact you already have, it only creates a new contact. Maybe I'm just stupid, only got 5 years of higher IT education...
What I need to do is choose to edit the phone number, and then add the phone number to a contact that way.
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Dial the number and press the icon next to the number where you can save it to any existing or new contact.
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Dial the number and press the icon next to the number where you can save it to any existing or new contact.
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Yes, I know it can be done. Just can't understand why a very expensive top of the line smartphone/tablet 2012 just isn't better than this.
I might have answers to some of your questions which I hope could be useful to you:
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2. The screen unlock pattern is in the same place so it's easy to see it because of the grease the finger is leaving behind.
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As much as I hate to mention, ICS has face recognition unlock feature which doesn't leave any grease mark for James Bond; or if you are the impatient kind like me, you could considering getting the FaceLock for apps Pro (paid app) which as similar phone lock feature for non-ICS Android devices.
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4. Honeycomb does not utilise the screen size, it seems like it's made for a smaller phone with lesser resolution. Reminders and other notifications is easily missed. Text is also extremly small sometimes and even though you can read it, it's very hard to put the marker in the right spot, if you want to mark and copy a text for instance.
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You have multiple questions in one go. XD
First of all you could really re-size the screen size on running application, you could find the corresponding option in the notification bar when the tablet detects it.
Reminders and other notifications is easily missed, yes...but you could try NoLED app, or FaceLock apps Pro I mentioned earlier. (Do not use both, I tried, and miserably failed)
Text can be resized with app like BigFont. I don't use it, as it messed up with the default calendar app (though you can circumvent that with third-party calendar app)
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6. Can you create a shortcut to a file on the startscreen/desktop?
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You could use the Linda File Manager (free app) to create desktop shortcut. In the rare event you would like to create script shortcut (e.g. instant reboot script), you could try SMWidgets.
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12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
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I use Overskreen (paid app) as my default browser. It can't move tabs, but the tabs doesn't reload when you switch between them (redraw, though). It has additional feature like floating browser, and background processing (such that you could listen to browser's streaming audio while phone is locked)
Yeah adding and sorting bookmarks is still a major harrass, especially when you utilize Google sync bookmark features.
If you like fancy features to impress your friends you could try Dolphin Browser (beta version only, and this version is not found in Play yet): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgC9qaOLmO8
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Overall it doesn't seem like a product that is ready for selling, If this was a computer OS it would've been called version 0.1 alfa.
If you have any tips or apps that solve the above listed things, please post here. My wife would be super happy.
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Trust me, this tablet is the best you can get for business applications. Of course, it is very much depending on your needs.
Marquzz said:
No, can't find a option to add the number to a contact you already have, it only creates a new contact. Maybe I'm just stupid, only got 5 years of higher IT education...
What I need to do is choose to edit the phone number, and then add the phone number to a contact that way.
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I take it that you are trying to add a number from inside the phone app to an existing contact?
#1 If you are in Dialer, press the icon to the right of the number and you can either save it as a new contact, or add it to an existing contact.
#2 If you are in Logs, the trick is to long click on the entry in the left pane, select "Edit number before call", which will bring you to the dialer, and you to #1 above, where you can proceed accordingly. (If you select "Add to Contacts", it will be a new contact.*)
#3 Still in Logs, long clicking on the entry itself (on the right) will copy the number to clipboard. Which will allow other possibilities...
*This is peculiar to the Samsung phone app and I agree that they should not have done it this way. It's not how it works in Vanilla ICS on my Galaxy Nexus.
Hope that helps.
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5. Reminders from the calendar is to discreet, it should be something that you have to turn off manually so you dont miss it.
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The Samsung stock calendar is rather basic. Try Business Calendar, which has advanced controls for notifications (include snooze).
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7. The clock doesn't show when you make a call so you can't check the time
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The clock shows on my bottom bar even in a phone call. See attached pic below.
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10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
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I think Alarm Clock Xtreme can do that.
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12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
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Use Dolphin HD. It solves the first and the last two problems. I'm not sure why but the browser sometimes reloads when you switch on the 7.7--it didn't do so (or do so as much) on either my Galaxy Nexus (ICS) or even on my old HTC HD2 running Android Gingerbread. Might be a Honeycomb thing.
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13. The music player can't do shuffle
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The ICS music player can do shuffle. If you are resourceful, you can install the apk. But again, there are better alternatives out there. For instance, Poweramp and PlayerPro. (I have the ICS player, but eventually settled on Poweramp.)
All the best!
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Yes, I know it can be done. Just can't understand why a very expensive top of the line smartphone/tablet 2012 just isn't better than this.
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Wow, ok...
1) Open the dialer
2) Enter a number
3) Click the 'add to contact' icon immediately to the right of the number you just entered
4) You are immediately taken to your list of contacts
5) At this point you have 2 options, click 'New" to add a new contact or click on any contact from the list
6) Upon clicking any one of the contacts in your list, that contact is immediately opened and the new number automatically added to the list of phone numbers for that contact...from there you can specify the number type (work, home, mobile, etc.)
I honestly can't imagine a scenario any more intuitive & straight forward than this. Please describe (if you can) what would be 'better than this'?
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7. I have a wifI only version so no idea. But the clock should always stay in the bottom bar.
It doesn't, you have to go back to home screen to see the clock.
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Wrong. The taskbar on the bottom is still there during calls, and the clock is still visible. I'm looking at it right now as I type this.
For someone with 5 years of "IT higher learning", you're not exhibiting much in the way of higher intelligence here in my opinion. You are aware that there's a thing called a search engine, right? Google is kind of a popular one. Millions of people from all over the world have been using Android for several years, and nearly every question/complaint you raised in your original list has been asked, discussed & addressed by someone at some point. Instead of jumping onto a forum and ranting off your list of 'problems', you might want to poke around a bit & see if there's already an answer out there.
1. When you turn off the sound it doesn't turn off everything, sounds on webpages still plays.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.audiowidget&hl=en
2. The screen unlock pattern is in the same place so it's easy to see it because of the grease the finger is leaving behind.
Seriously? Clean the screen frequently; Try a non-glossy screen protector; Use a PIN or a password to unlock the screen rather than a pattern.
3. When you want to edit text in the web browser, for instance in a forum like this, and you put the marker where you want to start edit, the marker jumps 1 or more letters efter about one second. It's not a miss click, because you can see that the marker is in the correct place when you remove your finger, and then after about one seconde it jumps to another place. Extremely annoying.
This is the one item on your list that I would call a real 'problem'. A bluetooth mouse helps if this is something you need to do very often.
4. Honeycomb does not utilise the screen size, it seems like it's made for a smaller phone with lesser resolution. Reminders and other notifications is easily missed. Text is also extremly small sometimes and even though you can read it, it's very hard to put the marker in the right spot, if you want to mark and copy a text for instance.
Honeycomb is a smartphone OS first, and a tablet OS second. ICS bridges that gap much better, but there will always be some compromises. The Android phone market is bigger (much bigger) than the tablet market, so there will always be somewhat of a slant toward smartphone functionality-wise.
5. Reminders from the calendar is to discreet, it should be something that you have to turn off manually so you dont miss it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitfire.development.calendarsnooze&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5iaXRmaXJlLmRldmVsb3BtZW50LmNhbGVuZGFyc25vb3plIl0.
6. Can you create a shortcut to a file on the startscreen/desktop?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex&feature=search_result
7. The clock doesn't show when you make a call so you can't check the time
Yes, it does.
8. The screen locks itself quickly when you make a call, in like 10 s, even though you have set it on 5 mins. Very annoying when you want to check things on the pad during a call.
This is by design, and another byproduct of honeycomb being a smartphone OS first and a tablet OS second. You may notice that the tablet does have a proximity sensor with related settings. If you make a call and pass your hand over the sensor it will blank the screen...remove your hand and the screen reappears. This mirrors the functionality you'd expect when you put the 'phone' up to your ear..again geared toward how you'd expect a smartphone to work. Honestly, I'm not sure that the target demographic for this tablet will use it as their primary mobile phone all that much. But for those that do, it's a pretty minor inconvenience...so you have to push the power button to get the screen back...just not that big of a deal.
9. Adding a new phone number to a contact is very unlogical, and it takes alot of steps. Why not just have, "add phone number to contact" when you have marked the number??
Wrong. It's very logical and very intuitive. 2 clicks & done.
10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
Who does this? Why? If you want to wake up 1 hour & 45 minutes later can you not just do some simple math in your brain and set the timer to what the time will be 1 hours & 45 minutes later?
11. I can't write é and ü which is used sometimes in my language, the signs ¨ and ´ just doesn't exist. But a ton of smiliys do...strange choice by Google/Samsung.... (yes, I have the local version of the OS)
Someone already answered this.
12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
Numerous browser options in the play store.
13. The music player can't do shuffle
Numerous music player options in the play store.
This was just the most important things, then it's alot of other annoying things that doesn't work correctly and that are just illogical.
Wrong. In my opinion, you're just lazy. Android is not a kindergarten children's toy like iOS. If that's what you want or need, you should get an Apple. There's a learning curve with Android, but if you invest a bit of time, you will be rewarded with an experience that's ultimately more satisfying than iOS (at least in my opinion).
Overall it doesn't seem like a product that is ready for selling, If this was a computer OS it would've been called version 0.1 alfa.
Return it & buy an Apple.
If you have any tips or apps that solve the above listed things, please post here. My wife would be super happy.
Marquzz said:
My wife recently bought a Galaxy Tab 7.7 and now after some hours of experience she has some questions:
1. When you turn off the sound it doesn't turn off everything, sounds on webpages still plays.
2. The screen unlock pattern is in the same place so it's easy to see it because of the grease the finger is leaving behind.
3. When you want to edit text in the web browser, for instance in a forum like this, and you put the marker where you want to start edit, the marker jumps 1 or more letters efter about one second. It's not a miss click, because you can see that the marker is in the correct place when you remove your finger, and then after about one seconde it jumps to another place. Extremely annoying.
4. Honeycomb does not utilise the screen size, it seems like it's made for a smaller phone with lesser resolution. Reminders and other notifications is easily missed. Text is also extremly small sometimes and even though you can read it, it's very hard to put the marker in the right spot, if you want to mark and copy a text for instance.
5. Reminders from the calendar is to discreet, it should be something that you have to turn off manually so you dont miss it.
6. Can you create a shortcut to a file on the startscreen/desktop?
7. The clock doesn't show when you make a call so you can't check the time
8. The screen locks itself quickly when you make a call, in like 10 s, even though you have set it on 5 mins. Very annoying when you want to check things on the pad during a call.
9. Adding a new phone number to a contact is very unlogical, and it takes alot of steps. Why not just have, "add phone number to contact" when you have marked the number??
10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
11. I can't write é and ü which is used sometimes in my language, the signs ¨ and ´ just doesn't exist. But a ton of smiliys do...strange choice by Google/Samsung.... (yes, I have the local version of the OS)
12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
13. The music player can't do shuffle
This was just the most important things, then it's alot of other annoying things that doesn't work correctly and that are just illogical.
Overall it doesn't seem like a product that is ready for selling, If this was a computer OS it would've been called version 0.1 alfa.
If you have any tips or apps that solve the above listed things, please post here. My wife would be super happy.
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Yeah, this and so many more "little" things is what makes me hate android. This tablet was my first device and I can safely say I will never buy another android device again. I'll probably get an I pad 4 when it comes out. I'm just sick of finding out more things my tab can't do. Its really dissapointing as the reason I chose this over an I pad was the smaller screen size but its just not worth it
Marquzz said:
My wife recently bought a Galaxy Tab 7.7 and now after some hours of experience she has some questions:
1. When you turn off the sound it doesn't turn off everything, sounds on webpages still plays.
2. The screen unlock pattern is in the same place so it's easy to see it because of the grease the finger is leaving behind.
3. When you want to edit text in the web browser, for instance in a forum like this, and you put the marker where you want to start edit, the marker jumps 1 or more letters efter about one second. It's not a miss click, because you can see that the marker is in the correct place when you remove your finger, and then after about one seconde it jumps to another place. Extremely annoying.
4. Honeycomb does not utilise the screen size, it seems like it's made for a smaller phone with lesser resolution. Reminders and other notifications is easily missed. Text is also extremly small sometimes and even though you can read it, it's very hard to put the marker in the right spot, if you want to mark and copy a text for instance.
5. Reminders from the calendar is to discreet, it should be something that you have to turn off manually so you dont miss it.
6. Can you create a shortcut to a file on the startscreen/desktop?
7. The clock doesn't show when you make a call so you can't check the time
8. The screen locks itself quickly when you make a call, in like 10 s, even though you have set it on 5 mins. Very annoying when you want to check things on the pad during a call.
9. Adding a new phone number to a contact is very unlogical, and it takes alot of steps. Why not just have, "add phone number to contact" when you have marked the number??
10. You can't set the timer on an certain amount of hours and/or min, just a time?
11. I can't write é and ü which is used sometimes in my language, the signs ¨ and ´ just doesn't exist. But a ton of smiliys do...strange choice by Google/Samsung.... (yes, I have the local version of the OS)
12. Then it's the browser:
* You can't move tabs
* Tabs has to reload when you switch between them
* Very long procedure to add a bookmark
* You can't sort the bookmarks the way you want.
13. The music player can't do shuffle
This was just the most important things, then it's alot of other annoying things that doesn't work correctly and that are just illogical.
Overall it doesn't seem like a product that is ready for selling, If this was a computer OS it would've been called version 0.1 alfa.
If you have any tips or apps that solve the above listed things, please post here. My wife would be super happy.
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You can make a similar list of annoyances or personal preferences for any tablet, so such lists are pretty useless for it is always a trade-off between annoyances and delights and for me the delights on the 7.7 far outweigh the annoyances compared to any other tablet. So rather than buy a tablet then whinge about it you should check it out first.
I am having trouble displaying and saving yotacovers to display my pictures on the EPD. I can create them fine in the app, add my pictures, and it shows up as a panel in the app with the pictures displayed in black and white. However it won't display at that point on the EPD. If I then exit the app and go back in my new cover I just created is gone.
What am I doing wrong?
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I am having trouble displaying and saving yotacovers to display my pictures on the EPD. I can create them fine in the app, add my pictures, and it shows up as a panel in the app with the pictures displayed in black and white. However it won't display at that point on the EPD. If I then exit the app and go back in my new cover I just created is gone.
What am I doing wrong?
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That happened to me as well I think you have to wait a while before existing app or try setting it as home each time
I tried setting it as a home page but that didn't work. One thought I had is there a limit to the number of yotacovers with pictures? I already had two before the lollipop upgrade and they are still there. I don't want to test the theory by deleting them as I may not be able to recrate them. Are you able to create more than two picture ones? Thanks
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I tried setting it as a home page but that didn't work. One thought I had is there a limit to the number of yotacovers with pictures? I already had two before the lollipop upgrade and they are still there. I don't want to test the theory by deleting them as I may not be able to recrate them. Are you able to create more than two picture ones? Thanks
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This happened to me first after a few restart I was ok
Below you will find links to both of the widgets they showed off during the launch event last week. First is a basic date/weather widget, and the second is a FULLY working calendar widget. Behaves exactly like the calendar widget on the Pixel 2. If the appointment is today, it shows time until appointment in hours, if less than an hour, it switches to minutes, and if it is tomorrow or later it displays in days. During the time of the next appointment it displays (Now) and on the minute the appointment starts, it displays (Due Now). See video below for example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFL6PIK-gwQ
Simple date widget: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfKGciLoLcxemtHN1ZIalFXdE0/view?usp=drivesdk
Calendar Widget: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByfKGciLoLcxUk9KbzlFYS1oamM/view?usp=drivesdk
*NOTE: when the links open in Google Drive, it will more than likely say "file type not supported". Click the three dots in the upper right corner and select "download". File type is unsupported for preview, not to download.*
If you use these, and post screenshots PLEASE CREDIT ME. I made them from scratch and the second one wasn't easy.
Nice! How did you create it? I personally made both in one widget using Zooper. If an event is closer than 6 hours, show the calendar widget. If the upcoming is more than 6 hours away, show the date + weather. But the code doesn't work flawlessly yet when switching from one widget to another.
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Nice! How did you create it? I personally made both in one widget using Zooper. If an event is closer than 6 hours, show the calendar widget. If the upcoming is more than 6 hours away, show the date + weather. But the code doesn't work flawlessly yet when switching from one widget to another.
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If you download the widget, you can check it out. It is basically a LONG ass formula that analyzes the calendar event, looking at start date, and event time, and current time, and determines whether or not the event starts today or in the future. If it is today, but not yet within an hour of the event (again, formula arguments in Zooper) if displays the time in hours until the event start time. If the same day, and the current hour is 1 hour from the start time of the event, it displays in minutes. If the event date is greater than the current date, then it displays Tomorrow if it is one day away, and then 2 days, 3 days, etc. The formula is ridiculously long, and I had to use multiple and statements (&&) to account for every possible scenario. Also, since you can not do text strings and math together in Zooper (it will display the math as a text string (e.g. if you put (24-5) Minutes, it will display (24-5) Minutes instead of 19 Minutes)) I had to do multiple, redundant && arguments to account for the math that needed to be done, and the text that I needed to display alongside the math. It was a pain trying to get it to work, but once I did, I felt very accomplished
I am using it, and is really great. Thanks for your excellent work. I only have one problem. If an appointment is not in exact hours, and for example is at 12:30, it starts countdown to 12 o'clock, and not to 12:30. Maybe I am just encountering this because of my country's different calendar layout. (DD/MM/YYYY). Anyway, it is no big problem, and again, thank you for your work
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
If you download the widget, you can check it out. It is basically a LONG ass formula that analyzes the calendar event, looking at start date, and event time, and current time, and determines whether or not the event starts today or in the future. If it is today, but not yet within an hour of the event (again, formula arguments in Zooper) if displays the time in hours until the event start time. If the same day, and the current hour is 1 hour from the start time of the event, it displays in minutes. If the event date is greater than the current date, then it displays Tomorrow if it is one day away, and then 2 days, 3 days, etc. The formula is ridiculously long, and I had to use multiple and statements (&&) to account for every possible scenario. Also, since you can not do text strings and math together in Zooper (it will display the math as a text string (e.g. if you put (24-5) Minutes, it will display (24-5) Minutes instead of 19 Minutes)) I had to do multiple, redundant && arguments to account for the math that needed to be done, and the text that I needed to display alongside the math. It was a pain trying to get it to work, but once I did, I felt very accomplished
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Yh I downloaded and tried it, works great man I just personally removed the capital letters from the Tomorrow and Today and Now and changed (Now) to now. Besides that, like a charm man
Hammerakos said:
I am using it, and is really great. Thanks for your excellent work. I only have one problem. If an appointment is not in exact hours, and for example is at 12:30, it starts countdown to 12 o'clock, and not to 12:30. Maybe I am just encountering this because of my country's different calendar layout. (DD/MM/YYYY). Anyway, it is no big problem, and again, thank you for your work
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Oh my God dude, you just found a bug in the conditional formula that I hadn't accounted for..
I fixed it, and updated the link in the OP. I had one missing conditional to recognize and act right for certain appointments that occurred at 30 minutes intervals. I fixed it though, so it should work perfectly now. Please redownload and replace the older version of you're already using the widget.
Really appreciate you pointing that out because I probably would not have noticed it!
Excellent widget i'm using it right now with action launcher and it's amazing, although i wonder if there is a way to push the weather and make it take you to the google current location weather, the one with the frog. I tried messing the configuration of the widget in zooper but it's kind of buggy, i couldn't figure a way to make it take me to that weather page, the closest thing was to make it take me to the google app.
Arturo777 said:
Excellent widget i'm using it right now with action launcher and it's amazing, although i wonder if there is a way to push the weather and make it take you to the google current location weather, the one with the frog. I tried messing the configuration of the widget in zooper but it's kind of buggy, i couldn't figure a way to make it take me to that weather page, the closest thing was to make it take me to the google app.
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Good idea, I'll see if I can figure something out.
Widget fixed again. Had to correct another bug. Please redownload if you downloaded already.
Can someone do a quick tutorial on how to create this widget ?
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Got it working just have ?? For weather.
First, thank you for making this widget! Great job!
I noticed a bug in it when the time till the next meeting is more than an hour but less than 2 hours, it simply says "minutes" without a number in front of it. I've included a screenshot for reference. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Aq7Je57V6a4jLl3x1
Also, if you have a really long event title, what worked for me was adding [tr=35] before #C0TITLE# and [/tr] after #C0TITLE# to limit the character length on the first line. So, that it looks like this [tr=35]#C0TITLE#[/tr]
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Arturo777 said:
Excellent widget i'm using it right now with action launcher and it's amazing, although i wonder if there is a way to push the weather and make it take you to the google current location weather, the one with the frog. I tried messing the configuration of the widget in zooper but it's kind of buggy, i couldn't figure a way to make it take me to that weather page, the closest thing was to make it take me to the google app.
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you can do this with tasker. by creating a task in tasker for google weather, this allows you to link the module in the zooper widget to it.
really good
thx, really nice work. the only think that isnt working is the weather part for me.
CHUHwant said:
First, thank you for making this widget! Great job!
I noticed a bug in it when the time till the next meeting is more than an hour but less than 2 hours, it simply says "minutes" without a number in front of it. I've included a screenshot for reference. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Aq7Je57V6a4jLl3x1
Also, if you have a really long event title, what worked for me was adding [tr=35] before #C0TITLE# and [/tr] after #C0TITLE# to limit the character length on the first line. So, that it looks like this [tr=35]#C0TITLE#[/tr]
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you can do this with tasker. by creating a task in tasker for google weather, this allows you to link the module in the zooper widget to it.
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I actually saw this minutes error this morning. Working on a fixed version now. Thanks for the screenshot. I will also add the title character limiter as well, as I noticed the same thing with the title length yesterday when I had an appointment that was auto-added to my calendar by another app. I will get a fixed version up hopefully tonight.
Awesome! And, fyi, I've actually been testing different character limits and so far 30 seems to be a good limit. Thanks for the updates!
OP updated again. Fixed a few minor bugs in the calendar widget. If you already downloaded the calendar widget, please redownload and replace the old version. Enjoy.
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OP updated again. Fixed a few minor bugs in the calendar widget. If you already downloaded the calendar widget, please redownload and replace the old version. Enjoy.
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I redownloaded but it's the same version it seems....
Does this happen to anyone else? The time for the calendar event sometimes says (now) twice: (now)(now)
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Does this happen to anyone else? The time for the calendar event sometimes says (now) twice: (now)(now)
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I haven't experienced this.. I'll look into it. The time formula is getting so convoluted, I'm thinking of simplifying and rewriting the entire thing. I will try to recreate this bug and fix it if I can.
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I redownloaded but it's the same version it seems....
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Name of the widget is the same, but it's updated.
Ok, so I'm not sure what's going on with my widget. The "time until next event" works when it's hours and minutes, but the "days until next event" function has stopped working. Which is weird because the code hasn't changed, zooper itself hasn't been updated (obviously), and my calendar app hasn't been updated. This function used to work, so it's weird that it just all of a sudden stopped. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate what I'm talking about. Also, I've tested another zooper skin that's similar to this one, and the same thing is happening with that one, as well. Any idea what's going on?
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Ok, so I'm not sure what's going on with my widget. The "time until next event" works when it's hours and minutes, but the "days until next event" function has stopped working. Which is weird because the code hasn't changed, zooper itself hasn't been updated (obviously), and my calendar app hasn't been updated. This function used to work, so it's weird that it just all of a sudden stopped. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate what I'm talking about. Also, I've tested another zooper skin that's similar to this one, and the same thing is happening with that one, as well. Any idea what's going on?
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Same here.
Double widget
Hi, have been using a mix between your two widgets for a while now, but it doesn't display the calendar events, coz I wanted the date instead... However would there be any chance you could assist me with making a version of the calendar text (just the ___ in __ minutes text box, not any of the others) that displays the date if the event is further than 6 hours away and the calendar event if it's closer? Or even just tell me how I'd manage it. The best I got was the event name then the date, but I couldn't get rid of the name.... Any chance in a bit of advice?
This is my first android 9 device, coming off of the redmi note 4 and MIUI, feels like these two settings are missing. Long pressing the app in the task switcher doesn't offer split screen and dual apps as a feature is nowhere to be found. What am I missing. Did black shark really disable these? Using the global version of the phone
Global doesn't have it. Chinese version does. As well as screen recording and a few other features.
Global version doesn't have split screen unfortunately. Screen recorder has been added though in a new update. Also global version doesn't have the nice black and green theme like the Chinese version . Go to black shark Facebook page and request these features (themes, split screen etc) and hopefully they will add these in the next update
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This is my first android 9 device, coming off of the redmi note 4 and MIUI, feels like these two settings are missing. Long pressing the app in the task switcher doesn't offer split screen and dual apps as a feature is nowhere to be found. What am I missing. Did black shark really disable these? Using the global version of the phone
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Do a Google search on "enable split screen on Android Pie" it's implemented and I am using it daily.
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Do a Google search on "enable split screen on Android Pie" it's implemented and I am using it daily.
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Well, you see, these settings were straight up missing from the phone. There was no way to enable it. But since then there was a system update that added it, and screen recorder. Dual apps are still missing on a system level, but I know there are apps for that. Saying "just google it" isnt exactly helpful.
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Well, you see, these settings were straight up missing from the phone. There was no way to enable it. But since then there was a system update that added it, and screen recorder. Dual apps are still missing on a system level, but I know there are apps for that. Saying "just google it" isnt exactly helpful.
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Go to the black shark Facebook page and write on their wall, specifically mention that split screen feature is missing, even though it's available on the Chinese version and on most other phones. They will listen and pass this onto the devs, also the "Google it" suggestion was a stupid answer from that person, he/she doesn't even have this phone and is putting down pointless answers smh
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Go to the black shark Facebook page and write on their wall, specifically mention that split screen feature is missing, even though it's available on the Chinese version and on most other phones. They will listen and pass this onto the devs, also the "Google it" suggestion was a stupid answer from that person, he/she doesn't even have this phone and is putting down pointless answers smh
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Well, I didnt expect this reaction. I was trying to help and maybe i misunderstood the question. If the function described below you're after then fine, otherwise i'm sorry. I do have the Black Shark 2 bought in Europe at eu.blackshark.com. Is that the global version or is there another model?
How to Enable Split Screen on Android Pie?
Open the Apps you want to see in the split screen.
Now Swipe up from bottom (pill) button. ...
Tap on the desired app icon for split screen.
Tap on the app icon to get the menu.
Select Split Screen.
Tap on the bottom window app.
Now you will launch two apps on the split screen.
Danielli64 said:
Well, I didnt expect this reaction. I was trying to help and maybe i misunderstood the question. If the function described below you're after then fine, otherwise i'm sorry. I do have the Black Shark 2 bought in Europe at eu.blackshark.com. Is that the global version or is there another model?
How to Enable Split Screen on Android Pie?
Open the Apps you want to see in the split screen.
Now Swipe up from bottom (pill) button. ...
Tap on the desired app icon for split screen.
Tap on the app icon to get the menu.
Select Split Screen.
Tap on the bottom window app.
Now you will launch two apps on the split screen.
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I must apologise for opening my mouth without checking properly! Even black shark said that split screen wasn't available, when infact it is. So I am sorry ! And thanks a million! After 2 months I've finally found split screen on the black shark 2. My apologies again, and thank you so much dude !!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, you see, these settings were straight up missing from the phone. There was no way to enable it. But since then there was a system update that added it, and screen recorder. Dual apps are still missing on a system level, but I know there are apps for that. Saying "just google it" isnt exactly helpful.
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Split screen does work! My bad! Please see post from the other user!!!
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I must apologise for opening my mouth without checking properly! Even black shark said that split screen wasn't available, when infact it is. So I am sorry ! And thanks a million! After 2 months I've finally found split screen on the black shark 2. My apologies again, and thank you so much dude !!!!!!!!!!!
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Split screen does work! My bad! Please see post from the other user!!!
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No problem, all good then.
My mind is blown! Thanks a lot!
Edit: Aw I thought I could play 2 games at once but the non active app will actually freeze. So it's only useful for browser and messenger apps. Still awesome though