Any comments? i tried keeping my finger pressed on the icons but that opens the apps up...help! i am trying to remove some icons from the screens
thanks
People please, 22 posts and no replies? I am certain some of you must have updated the firmware and found this bug. I tried searching for çustomization' and other words I could think of but could not find the correct threads on this. Please help, I cannot find any way to edit the screens (not even in settings).
Thanks a lot in advance for your inputs, really appreciate
I think HTC changed the delay when moving or removing widgets or shortcuts from Home pages.
Just needs a more accurate and slightly longer press and hold before it triggers the move.
I must admit, its not as easy as it was.
Just make sure you press the icons for long enough. I find it sometimes takes as long as 10 second for the remove option to come up. And also, its seems slightly tempremental sometimes. If it doesnt work after 10 seconds, try again.
Hold the icon only after the screen/scene is static
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It just opens the app up after 2 seconds, no matter how long i keep pressing it. I have tried multiple ways....has anyone reported this to HTC? any easier way around this? This is pissing me off!
umaronly said:
has anyone reported this to HTC?
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Given noone else has this problem, shouldn't you be the one reporting it?
I did, am just trying to find out if someone else already has a solution for it....anyone?
umaronly said:
I did, am just trying to find out if someone else already has a solution for it....anyone?
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I don't have the problem, it works just fine for me. I suggest you try doing a hard reset or something, sounds like something hasn't installed right on your system.
Have you tried long presses on other apps, like messages? Just to see if it recognises long presses at all...
Silly question...
Your not trying this in the applications list are you ?
You are trying this on the Home screens ??
Just want to clear that up
Yes I am trying on the homescreen, I even have tried changing the scenes to try it for the icons....does not work And yes I have tried it on all icons, apparently all the big icons (HTC ones) seem to work much better (though not always) whereas shotcuts to applications seem to be the worst. On a total average 98 out of 100 times the shortcuts open the application no matter how i try it....emailed HTC and they told me the same story of what is written in the manual even though I explained i already did that.....have emailed them again to see if they take it more seriously
anyone else have a solution?
umaronly said:
anyone else have a solution?
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I can only suggest that you either return the phone (if possible), or at least try rolling back the firmware to see if this fixes your issue.
As it stands, it looks like you are the only person in this community suffering from this, so it makes it very unlikely it is a "generic" firmware issue, and more likely that it has something to do with your physical device.
Regards,
Dave
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Well, my HD2's end call button has finally given out on me. I can still get it to work if I push down on it VERY hard...
Anyway, I was hoping someone could help me replace it with an on-screen shortcut or widget for Android and Windows please. I just want to be able to get to the power off reboot menu...
Any help is much appreciated.
Any ideas? I tried to make a shortcut to my homescreen using anycut (in android) but couldnt figure it out. Is there anyone that has had a end call hard button that stopped working for them?
sactownsav said:
Well, my HD2's end call button has finally given out on me. I can still get it to work if I push down on it VERY hard...
Anyway, I was hoping someone could help me replace it with an on-screen shortcut or widget for Android and Windows please. I just want to be able to get to the power off reboot menu...
Any help is much appreciated.
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When you are in a call on the droid os there is a softkey on the screen saying 'end call', just use it....simple beyond belief <----- DISREGARD THIS
Sorry about that, I see what your saying now, hmmm...check out the marketplace to see if you can find anything, I know there are a couple of apps there and if your lucky then you can get one free.
norodaigh said:
When you are in a call on the droid os there is a softkey on the screen saying 'end call', just use it....simple beyond belief <----- DISREGARD THIS
Sorry about that, I see what your saying now, hmmm...check out the marketplace to see if you can find anything, I know there are a couple of apps there and if your lucky then you can get one free.
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Yeah Ive looked, mabey not hard enough, and I cant seem to figure out how to create the shortcut either...Thanks for the advice, Ill keep looking through the market for anything....
Have a read through the Themes & Apps HD2 section on here. I recall a few End Button programs - but have never had the need to try them out.
Ok, so here goes..
Smart me decided to open up my phone to clean out all the grime and give a go at solving/fixing my headphone problem. Smart me also severed the touch screen connection to the LCD screen lol. Now, here's my few questions that I need help with.
1)Is there any way to enable Trackball Wake on CM7 w/o the touch screen? If I could enable that, I could use the phone no issue until I buy a new front plate. (I'm currently using GSB1.5)
2)How much is a replacement front plate for the eris?
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this and drops some feedback or help!
PS- I DID fix my headphone issue, too bad it took breaking my damn screen!
$34 from Amazon
bftb0 said:
$34 from Amazon
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I may try to find one already mounted in the front housing to make life easier, but thank you, that's exactly it
Also, I was wondering if a nandroid backup of the same cm7 ROM with Trackball wake enabled would work on my phone?? My recovery is still up and running and usb still works so I can use my bros Eris and copy his nand backup. Sound like it'd work?
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I may try to find one already mounted in the front housing to make life easier, but thank you, that's exactly it
Also, I was wondering if a nandroid backup of the same cm7 ROM with Trackball wake enabled would work on my phone?? My recovery is still up and running and usb still works so I can use my bros Eris and copy his nand backup. Sound like it'd work?
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It will work - but with his Gmail credentials - and his contacts, not yours - on your phone. There is a way to wipe those from an adb shell, but then how would you re-enter the values for your account?
I'm assuming that this temporary "touchless" phone you are proposing would be able to only answer in-bound calls, yes? Or maybe you are thinking that you will be able to bring up the dialer app by pressing Send, and then using the trackball to scroll through contacts to somehow dial that way?
Quick! Here's a different idea:
Edit and replace the XML file in your own ROM at
/data/data/com.cyanogenmod.cmparts/shared_prefs/com.cyanogenmod.cmparts_preferences.xml
look for the string:
<boolean name="pref_trackball_wake" value="true" />
You might want to do this in an offline mode (using Amon_RA), so you are sure the phone is picking up that setting during boot.
Alright, here's what I did..
1) Made a NAND on my phone and copied it into the nandroid folder on my bros phone (made a specific note on which folder to choose, so as not to confuse myself lol)
2) Made a NAND on his phone, then wiped data/dalvik, then NAND restored my backup onto his phone. Booted it up, changed the CM settings to trackball wake, booted back into recovery and made yet another NAND (also made a specific note on which folder to choose)
3) Copied that NAND to my phone again, did a full wipe and restored.
Eureka!...-ish :/
It works... I can now get past the lock-screen upon boot and access my phone/messages/app drawer/market/dolphin-browser.
Here's the problem now. I cant back out of anything lol, and its awful pesky (and prob not healthy) to have to reboot the phone every time I need to get back to the home-screen.
I tried looking in CM setting to see if there was a way to set up my volume up/down buttons as the home and back buttons but no luck.
Would anyone here happen to know if a button function re-routing is possible/fairly easy?
Thank all of you for the suggestions and help.
*Bftb0, thank you for your last post, I knew something like that was possible but I was already too deep into my NAND solution to attempt it. I appreciate the knowledge and help greatly
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It will work - but with his Gmail credentials - and his contacts, not yours - on your phone. There is a way to wipe those from an adb shell, but then how would you re-enter the values for your account?
I'm assuming that this temporary "touchless" phone you are proposing would be able to only answer in-bound calls, yes? Or maybe you are thinking that you will be able to bring up the dialer app by pressing Send, and then using the trackball to scroll through contacts to somehow dial that way?
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Most likely the latter. Pretty much the only useful function w/o the keyboard is the phone. I can access messages and pretty much anything else through the app drawer, but without the keyboard and back/home button, its all useless. I can dial and call/end with the trackball, that's now the ONLY useful function lol
Ok, so Spare Parts held the key. The End button now serves as the home button. I still can't type or do other various things but that's all I need now to use a few more features.
If you spend another 2 days tweaking it, the replacement parts could be at your door.
Here's an idea - we'll all get together and write an app with a "SHAKE KEYBOARD".
If you shake the phone just right, it will type whatever letter/digit you want. LOL
You'll only need to learn how to shake your handset in 128 different ways.
bftb0 said:
If you spend another 2 days tweaking it, the replacement parts could be at your door.
Here's an idea - we'll all get together and write an app with a "SHAKE KEYBOARD".
If you shake the phone just right, it will type whatever letter/digit you want. LOL
You'll only need to learn how to shake your handset in 128 different ways.
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128? Bah! Why not set up the shakes in Morse Code format!?
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
128? Bah! Why not set up the shakes in Morse Code format!?
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LOL .... .. ....... . . . .... ... .. ...... .... . . .....
^Not really Morse Code lol
lmao that's a terrific idea!
-/****/*-/-*/-*-
T/H/A/N/K
-*--/---/**-
Y/O/U
*-/*-**/*-**
A/L/L
!!!!!!!
On a side note though, can either three of you explain to me why we can't use the Eris trackball to access/type on the keyboard? I'm using GSB 1.5 atm, but I can swear that back in the days of Sense ROM's that the trackball worked on the keyboard...?
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lmao that's a terrific idea!
-/****/*-/-*/-*-
T/H/A/N/K
-*--/---/**-
Y/O/U
*-/*-**/*-**
A/L/L
!!!!!!!
On a side note though, can either three of you explain to me why we can't use the Eris trackball to access/type on the keyboard? I'm using GSB 1.5 atm, but I can swear that back in the days of Sense ROM's that the trackball worked on the keyboard...?
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I'm on xtrSENSE v4.6.5 right now. I tried all three of the keyboards that came with it just now, HTC_IME mod, Touch Input and Multi-touch keyboard, and the only aspect of any of them that I could control with the trackball was if it made a word or letter suggestion, then I could scroll between the suggestions. Otherwise the trackball only appeared to control the "Share" and "Cancel" buttons in the case of the Facebook app/widget's "What's on your mind?" text entry field.
Anyone else know anything about this?
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I'm on xtrSENSE v4.6.5 right now. I tried all three of the keyboards that came with it just now, HTC_IME mod, Touch Input and Multi-touch keyboard, and the only aspect of any of them that I could control with the trackball was if it made a word or letter suggestion, then I could scroll between the suggestions. Otherwise the trackball only appeared to control the "Share" and "Cancel" buttons in the case of the Facebook app/widget's "What's on your mind?" text entry field.
Anyone else know anything about this?
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Thank you for trying that out for me bro, I really appreciate it! It definitely wouldn't have been worth it for me to flash a 2.1 ROM to check for myself lol Especially since it's taken about 2 1/2 days to get my phone to a controllable setup using only hard buttons and logic.
So far I've been able to make due using a combo of the Button Re-mapper app and Spare parts. All of my hard buttons can now take me into and out of any app, the menus, home and sleep. I can use the trackball to dial on the phone, so that function is still useful, and I can view texts, just no reply lol
Back in the day I used Handcent SMS on 2.1 and 2.2, and that had an option to speak out your reply to texts... used to work like a charm for me. So I downloaded this onto my busted phone but for some reason it wont work. It keeps saying "Recognizer is not present" when I hit the speaker icon on the SMS popup. Is this a CM7/GB issue on the Eris? I already have Pico TTs (Duhh!) and downloaded another TTs app on the market, enabled it in the settings, and still no luck
If I could figure this out though, my phone would be tops again, even w/o any touchscreen capabilities. Texting and calling are all that really matter to me until I either upgrade/replace the broken part. I'm tight on cash (who isn't?) and won't be able to do either until next week at the very soonest.
Any ideas? Are any of you using GSB and having the same issue with voice input?
Hi Friends,
I have a nokia lumia phone.
I dont know what happened but all of a sudden when i have observed i was able to see context menu icons after sliding right to homescreen,the apps where arranged alphabetically with the Alphabet box on top of each app.this creates a very long menu to scroll.
Please help.I dont want to reset my phone again.is there any setting i fiddled with?
I think MS will have to pop up an info box when this happens.
Don't worry it's normal, it is by design. It is to make it easy to jump through a lot of applications. I find it very useful, you probably will too when you get used to it.
Thank you...i thought i have done something wrong and nokia support asked me to reset my device for it...Youve saved me
Yes this is the list of all of your apps
When you have 30 or more apps, Letters appear, you can click on them to jump from one to another, when you are used to, it's pretty nice
The same thing happened to me today. I counted 45 apps installed. It seems to be the magic number.
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Yes this is the list of all of your apps
When you have 30 or more apps, Letters appear, you can click on them to jump from one to another, when you are used to, it's pretty nice
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I think the limit is 45 apps? I also find the letters useful. Makes finding the app you want much easier/quicker when you are used to it.
I find the slide to answer the phone very inconvenient. I would like to be able to answer the phone either by pressing a soft (on screen) button or even a hard button. I have tried a number of market packages that offer an answer button, but they do not activate until a number of rings have passed. Anybody have any suggestions?
This behavior probably varies between roms, so maybe you can find one with an option for what you want.
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This behavior probably varies between roms, so maybe you can find one with an option for what you want.
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I have not found a ROM with that option yet. If anyone knows of one I would appreciate your help.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk 2
It's not a bad idea. You could post a feature request somewhere for it, I guess. Maybe make a poll, see if there is interest?
Hi
if a topic already exists with an answer to my question, please forgive me, i searched but didn't find.
All in all, here's my question : how does google now work? i can't find a way to chose which cards are displayed, in which order, etc ...
for instance, i set a google now widget on my homesreen with 3 row dimension, but it uses only one, and displays only the next task in my calendar, even though i got 4 coming today and it has empty space where it could display them.
Also when in google now, i can't find a way to order my tabs :-/ i would like my calendar tabs over the meteo ones, etc
all this seems very "not ergonomical" but i guess i'm just confused....
thanks a lot for your answers
Régis
Hope you Understand
Google Now collects all the data available and then accordingly tells you about them.
For Eg.- If you travel from one place to another regularly it will collect that particular data. Through Maps
Then it would show you the Estimated time and traffic related details.
It also provides Bus or Train timings if your nearby a Railway or Bus station.
Similarly it provides many useful cards BUT it requires a working data plan and time.
mmh i guess i'll give it a try then. but what about rearranging cards ?
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mmh i guess i'll give it a try then. but what about rearranging cards ?
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You cant arrange them.
They Pop-up accordingly.But if you do not want a particular card swipe to remove it
but then after, how do i re bring it back if i ever need it :-/
Doesn't it also take some time to learn? I had it on for about a week before things started popping up.
First TRY IT
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but then after, how do i re bring it back if i ever need it :-/
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Dude, of course you can bring it back when ever you want it again.
Try it you will come to know.
k, i asked because when i first tried it months ago, a abandonned because never found a way to bring back the cards i swiped and it all seemed to "beta" ..
i'll try it again
thanks a lot !
ps: last question : is there a way to "theme" it? i just want to remove the ugly search background on top of it all, it takes lots of space and is quite ugly /...
bagou01 said:
k, i asked because when i first tried it months ago, a abandonned because never found a way to bring back the cards i swiped and it all seemed to "beta" ..
i'll try it again
thanks a lot !
ps: last question : is there a way to "theme" it? i just want to remove the ugly search background on top of it all, it takes lots of space and is quite ugly /...
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No you cant theme it.That background changes according to the time.(At night its dark.Bright in the morning and so on)
k thanks a lot for all the infos
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mmh i guess i'll give it a try then. but what about rearranging cards ?
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Yeah that's what I'm about to ask, atleast now we know that we cant rearrange it.