Ok, so I've had the streak for a couple more of weeks now, being a dedicated winmo userfor some years there were several things I needed to get used to and although there are a couple of thing I will miss, mostly I am more than happy with the switch to android.
There are a few things that are bothering me a little about the streak, although this could be down to my ignorance at not doing the right thing, and maybe others here have similar issues.
My streak sometimes resets for no apparent reason.
Quite often while I'm on the net the browser locks up for a while before putting up the force close message. It's not due to having multiple windows or data-rich pages, it can happen when I've got 1 window open looking at the bbc mobile site.
In contacts, the top tabs for the letters don't respond most of the time.
The browser occasionally closes for no apparent reason.
Anyone else have these issues, or any other niggles?
This post worries me, I really do not want to experience the same problems you are.
This may be bugs which are related to Android 1.6 and not the Streak itself. Remember it is running pretty old software. Can anyone who used Android 1.6 often confirm this? Like the OP, this will be my first Android device
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Ok, so I've had the streak for a couple more of weeks now, being a dedicated winmo userfor some years there were several things I needed to get used to and although there are a couple of thing I will miss, mostly I am more than happy with the switch to android.
There are a few things that are bothering me a little about the streak, although this could be down to my ignorance at not doing the right thing, and maybe others here have similar issues.
My streak sometimes resets for no apparent reason.
Quite often while I'm on the net the browser locks up for a while before putting up the force close message. It's not due to having multiple windows or data-rich pages, it can happen when I've got 1 window open looking at the bbc mobile site.
In contacts, the top tabs for the letters don't respond most of the time.
The browser occasionally closes for no apparent reason.
Anyone else have these issues, or any other niggles?
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I have had mine for a week now and it has had some hammer in that first week i have tested it a lot and i have not ran into any of the problems you have is yours an 02 one or dell, mine is a dell one
I suppose I have to add, that even with these little annoyances, I'm more than happy with the streak, I wouldn't swap it for two HD2s! No device is ever going to be perfect, but the streak for me is the closest thing to it that's out there.
The promise of a simple upgrade to android2.2 to come later this year is great, seeing as I've been stuck with never-updated Orange roms on htc devices for years. I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from getting a streak with the original post!
@ LUFC, yep, mine's on O2, but unlike Orange they don't seem to have ruined the device with their own crappy rom. Maybe too many 3rd party apps with all my experimenting, maybe I should tidy up a bit?
I use opera mini and that never locks up or hangs (so far)
I replaced the contacts with phonebook 2.0 (little slow but better facebook picture association for contacts)
My streak has been on 3 days now and has not rebooted once or crashed. Or slowed down...
Mine is direct from dell unlocked.
I've had mine from launch and only had to reboot once - but I think that was because I got carried away with task killer and probably killed something important.
Otherwise its done everything I've asked it to do without too much trouble. Still looking forward to 2.2 though.
it's been mentioned in other threads that task/app killers have been causing the browser to lock/crash perhaps this may be the issue?
I found this to be right, I uninstalled the app-killer apps I had and now the browser works brilliantly.
sorry, duplicate post
My next little grumble in the hope that someone can show me how dumb I'm being.
I store a lot of my favorite photos on my phones, some of which are quite old and I usually have them categorized into folders. I love the stock "photo and video" viewer for it's editing features, and I love the idea of the timeline viewer. But, I get my streak, I transfer my pictures folder to my sd card and now my streak thinks I have 1600 pics taken on the same day! I don't suppose there's any way to switch the view? My other bug with this is that when I open some apps (eg poker or a racing game) the photo viewer shows all the image files just opened by the app. It's pretty annoying, I'm sure someone else is bugged by this?
Yeah the stock picture app is annoying in that respect, its going on the time stamp from file access by the look of things, which is a but crude to say the least, hopefully the one shown on the nexus froyo build will be better.
I guess there will be a way of dictating what folders etc are accessed but I don't know it
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Yeah the stock picture app is annoying in that respect, its going on the time stamp from file access by the look of things, which is a but crude to say the least, hopefully the one shown on the nexus froyo build will be better.
I guess there will be a way of dictating what folders etc are accessed but I don't know it
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Wouldn't putting .nomedia in the folders you don't want showing help?
This should stop the viewer picking them up.
to be perfectly honest im getting abit bored. i didnt think it would bother me so much having 1.6 on this thing but it really bugs me but so did my x10. i seem to have in my head that because i brought this device out right that entitles me to get more from the device than if id simply got it on contract. theres so much i want to do with the streak that right now i simply cant do because of the OS
I've heard that the Atrix, Inspire 4G, and a few other newer phones aren't supporting installation of non-market downloaded apps. Has anyone heard if the TB will follow suit? Since there are some unboxings and reviews of it on youtube, I would figure someone would have checked already but I can't find anything on it.
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I've heard that the Atrix, Inspire 4G, and a few other newer phones aren't supporting installation of non-market downloaded apps. Has anyone heard if the TB will follow suit? Since there are some unboxings and reviews of it on youtube, I would figure someone would have checked already but I can't find anything on it.
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at&t does to all android phones regardless so thats expected
Verizon hasnt yet so i doubt it
even so, just use ADB to sideload if it comes to it
from what I know its an ATT thing not an htc thing... they wouldn't allow nonmarket apps on the aria either... if I pick up the phone and go into development and it doesn't allow me to install non market apps I'll give it right back to them... not to steal anything but becuase sometimes newer isn't always better... sometimes older versions work better for me
They shouldn't be able to block you from installing anything, it's trash.
Any way to do this yet without the wonder machine?
yes, either root the phone or use htc sync if you hate adb
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zynga.words
Now formatted for Honeycomb and/or tablets. It looks good but I think notifications are still messed up
Andy
Notifications or not, the new Words app looks fantastic.
It does look good! Lol how hard is it to get the notifications right, though?
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It does look good! Lol how hard is it to get the notifications right, though?
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No kidding. It is almost like they work the exact opposite of how they should. I always get a notification of my turn right after I play a word
I agree it does look good and depending on how often one uses chat, maybe even better than the iPad version.
Andy
I guess words with friends seems to not just like me in both tablet and phone world. I've always had weird experiences with it that keep me going back to Wordfeud even though it doesn't even support landscape.
Started a game yesterday after it took almost a day to find another player. S/He played a word then I did shortly after. Went back into game to check if the person has played, turns out it was my turn even though it showed that I just went with points and all. Checked back a few hours later and said it was my turn, but with the word and points gone. Tried to play a word but I couldn't since there was no button to play that word. Uninstalled.
Looks great!
Sigh. People ***** and moan when they took it off the market. Now they put a HC optimized version online.
Words with Friends (Update issue)
I see an update is available in the app itself. Though when I go to "My Apps" in my market it does not show any updates for Words with Friends. I have a Droid Incredible 2 by the way. I am a bit curious if there is something wrong with "My Apps" in the market. I haven't seen any updates for my apps in the last few weeks except for one app called, Battery Indicator. Is there a possible issue with my My Market and apps. I can't seem to even figure out how to do the update for Words W/ Friends (as of today 7/6/12). Would really appreciate any help! Thankyou!
The Honeycomb market is probably the buggiest thing on this tab, for me anyway. Clear your data and cache, and force stop the app through your app manager. See if that helps any.
I was told when I got my EVO 3D that when I logged into the market place with my Google email every app I previously had on my EVO would download to my new EVO and it didn't happen and I didn't care if it did or not cause I have app brain market and used that to get most of the apps back that I wanted. And some apps on my EVO I didn't want on the 3D.
Well Now I have the new Prime just got it today and I wanted to use my same Gmail as I do on my phone and now every app is downloading and I don't want them all on my tablet. I reset the tablet and then when I put in my gmail and the tablet came up every app that is on my EVO 3D is downloading. I have several apps I don't even want on this tablet. Isn't there a way to make them not all download? Is it a marketplace setting? I can't seem to find it and if I have to I guess I'll just have to go and uninstall all the ones I don't want but there is a bunch. I would rather just install a couple apps at a time that I know I want.
Also lots of people have Ice Cream mine says no updates available. I read is was coming out on the 12th so maybe I will get it tomorrow. I didn't want to set things up till I got updates but mine didn't update anything. I went under firmware update and nothing. Thanks!
I do not know much about the Market ... the only thing I know of is that you could turn off Allow Automatic Updates for each app. That would probably stop it. Lots of work, though.
As far as I know, every U.S. Prime received their update a few days ago...
Since you just got your Prime, perhaps you already have ICS? What is your Android version number under Settings | About Tablet | Android version? If it begins with 4, you are set. Otherwise, you checked Settings | About Tablet | System Firmware Update and clicked the Check Update button, right?
No I'm version 3. something already checked last night. And Asus was actually open late and he said there was nothing I could do. He said I would probably get Ice Cream in a day or two but he also said that once you put in your Google account all apps will download automatically from the market he said there is no way to stop it. He said I'll just have to uninstall the ones I don't want which I did most of them now so I guess I'll be ok. I have to get amazon app store next and then I'll have more to install but those I can pick and choose which ones I want out of all my free apps of the day. I checked the Market to about un checking auto updates but I wanted it for all apps but I didn't see it. So everyone who has an Android phone and uses there same Gmail gets all there apps on the tablet i'm guessing? Now I am confused a little on what apps came with the phone and what are mine that I had on my phone. LOL! Oh well It wasn't so bad deleting the ones I didn't want. There wasn't as many as I thought. I just have lots of games and I am not sure how some will look on here. Nice Tablet though I love it. Thanks!
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I do not know much about the Market ... the only thing I know of is that you could turn off Allow Automatic Updates for each app. That would probably stop it. Lots of work, though.
As far as I know, every U.S. Prime received their update a few days ago...
Since you just got your Prime, perhaps you already have ICS? What is your Android version number under Settings | About Tablet | Android version? If it begins with 4, you are set. Otherwise, you checked Settings | About Tablet | System Firmware Update and clicked the Check Update button, right?
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There is a way.
Actually, there is a way to stop the apps from downloading, but be careful with it. I inadvertently found it when my 170 apps were downloading, and I wanted to interupt them to get an update (pre-ICS) If you go into Market while they are downloading, at the top left you will see "STOP x121" (or whatever number is left to DL. Hit that and they stop. Forever. I had to go back and manualy grab over 100 apps after doing so. Ugh. You think deleing was bad, LOL!
Anyway, a good thing to know if you have multiple devices. Whats weird is, they would not show anymore on the Prim as apps that I have, just on phone. If you go to the web site for Market, you can see whats what, but STILL cannot delete old devices. They have at least 15 divices I no longer own, and you can hide, but not delete... ONE DEVICE. Is Google that retarded that they don't know people buy lots of devices these days?
By the way, it looks like they took down the update to ICS for a while, a thread showed people not getting it, with one exception in New York. Maybe they fixed the rebooting issue and screen issues, but then I would expect to see a new update for mine. Just hang in, and keep manually checking, but first make SURE you see a serial number in Device Status. If not you are SOL, and will need Asus or the store to replace your Prime. There are WAY too many of those out there. Asus did a plain ****ty job rolling these out, as everyone agrees.
I know I went to the Marketplace website I went there to see about disabling everything from downloading. I saw my EVO my EVO 3D my Archos and now this and saw where I couldn't delete. But anyway worked out OK for me to just delete what I didn't want on my tablet. I am guessing it downloaded every app. I found the Amazon app store APK and emailed it to my gmail and now I got a few more apps from there that I wanted. I didn't want all those neither but I got to choose those.
I was up so late messing with this last night and I got up early to mess with it again. I am familiar with Android and HTC Phones but not this tablet. I don't even know how to change my background yet or add an app or widget to screen I long pressed and something else came up. I'll figure it all out though. Oh and I have an 8 gig card that came with my phone I put a 16 in my phone but I wasn't gonna put it in since I was gonna order this 32 gig online for like 28 bucks. I have an app app2SD and it's showing me apps that can be moved sd card but I don't have a card in there yet but everyone's saying you can't move apps. I am wondering if it will let me with this app once I put a card in?
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Actually, there is a way to stop the apps from downloading, but be careful with it. I inadvertently found it when my 170 apps were downloading, and I wanted to interupt them to get an update (pre-ICS) If you go into Market while they are downloading, at the top left you will see "STOP x121" (or whatever number is left to DL. Hit that and they stop. Forever. I had to go back and manualy grab over 100 apps after doing so. Ugh. You think deleing was bad, LOL!
Anyway, a good thing to know if you have multiple devices. Whats weird is, they would not show anymore on the Prim as apps that I have, just on phone. If you go to the web site for Market, you can see whats what, but STILL cannot delete old devices. They have at least 15 divices I no longer own, and you can hide, but not delete... ONE DEVICE. Is Google that retarded that they don't know people buy lots of devices these days?
By the way, it looks like they took down the update to ICS for a while, a thread showed people not getting it, with one exception in New York. Maybe they fixed the rebooting issue and screen issues, but then I would expect to see a new update for mine. Just hang in, and keep manually checking, but first make SURE you see a serial number in Device Status. If not you are SOL, and will need Asus or the store to replace your Prime. There are WAY too many of those out there. Asus did a plain ****ty job rolling these out, as everyone agrees.
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Don't worry, you will figure it all out!
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I know I went to the Marketplace website I went there to see about disabling everything from downloading. I saw my EVO my EVO 3D my Archos and now this and saw where I couldn't delete. But anyway worked out OK for me to just delete what I didn't want on my tablet. I am guessing it downloaded every app. I found the Amazon app store APK and emailed it to my gmail and now I got a few more apps from there that I wanted. I didn't want all those neither but I got to choose those.
I was up so late messing with this last night and I got up early to mess with it again. I am familiar with Android and HTC Phones but not this tablet. I don't even know how to change my background yet or add an app or widget to screen I long pressed and something else came up. I'll figure it all out though. Oh and I have an 8 gig card that came with my phone I put a 16 in my phone but I wasn't gonna put it in since I was gonna order this 32 gig online for like 28 bucks. I have an app app2SD and it's showing me apps that can be moved sd card but I don't have a card in there yet but everyone's saying you can't move apps. I am wondering if it will let me with this app once I put a card in?
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Sounds like me my first few days on the Original Transformer. I was like.. Huh? Cause quite a few things are different from the phone version. I remember specifically the add Widget/app screens, and wasn't sure what I was looking at either, LOL. Even more after ICS udate, but for that you can just go to android.com and get a full feature list, and I believe Engadget has a nice review and list of fun stuff to do. It's more evolutionary than revolutionary, and MOST of what makes it so good is not apparent from the top level interface. It's only when you discover things like swipe to clear recent/running apps and swipe to clear notifications that you start to really admire it.
Hey, anyone know if Asus removed "Swipe to close browser tabs" like they removed the unlock with your Face/camera thing? I haven't been able to do it, but then again, no where do they show you what, specifically to swipe! I have swiped the tab, the title bar, the window, and everything else on screen, to no avail. I must be a bad swiper!
The screen you see after long press is how you add apps, widgets and shortcuts to any of the 5 Desktops (Home Screens, whatever) Yo can hold, then drag to screens or tap and they auto move to whichever screen you came from into the tool.
When you get upgraded to ICS, you can add stuff to Home Screens by just going to Apps, and hold/drag apps and theres a tab for Widgets as well. Heck, take your time. The "discovery" part of all this is the most fun I have, and once you know it all, THATS when it gets boring, so have fun.
BTW, did you check if your serial number shows in "settings, About Tablet, Status?" You need to check that ASAP as it determines if your will get ANY updates, and the only resolution I have heard of is exchenge of hardware. Let us know if you are okay in that regard.
Also if you are on the fence about getting the keyboard, get off the fence and get on the web and order it. It's not 100% perfect, but it is truly an amazing piece, as it was with the OG Transformer, and if anything types BETTER, in spite of it's thinness. The additional battery life ALONE is worth it, but with the shortcut keys, trackpad, ports, and how it becomes one wth the tablet, I can't understand ANYONE who DOESN'T get it.
A guy at work let me attach it to my tablet with the OG, and where I had been "thinking about it" before, I ORDERED it, like 10 minutes later, LOL!
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Also if you are on the fence about getting the keyboard, get off the fence and get on the web and order it. It's not 100% perfect, but it is truly an amazing piece, as it was with the OG Transformer, and if anything types BETTER, in spite of it's thinness. The additional battery life ALONE is worth it, but with the shortcut keys, trackpad, ports, and how it becomes one wth the tablet, I can't understand ANYONE who DOESN'T get it.
A guy at work let me attach it to my tablet with the OG, and where I had been "thinking about it" before, I ORDERED it, like 10 minutes later, LOL!
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+1 -- the dock/keyboard is amazing IMO. Without the dock, the Prime is just a very good tablet (with a few issues, of course), but, with the keyboard, it's a whole nother beast. I do wonder how users with big, wide fingers do on the keyboard, however ... luckily, my fingers are thin.
What do you mean by swiping to close things? I don't even know how to get to your recent apps. I know about swyping with keyboards. But your saying swipe to close browser tabs and swipe to clear recent apps I don't even know how to get to recent apps. I think it's next to the home button on the right but I have to hit hard to make it close where I see the x you can't just tap it I have to press down on it. But I am guessing that's my most recent apps there and I think it's hard to push the X.
And yes I went under about tablet and status and I do see a serial number in the box. Oh and now it says I have an update check notifications. Is it not like your phone where you can swipe down the notifications window? Now I can't find where to go to Notifications. But yeah I think I will get the dock here soon when I have money. I am always near a plug and don't really need the extra battery but the full USB is kind of nice cause I have a flash drive I put movies on. But for now I'll wait. I did order a case and now I want a clear screen protector and a clear back cover protector and I don't know who to buy from. But Ok thanks for helping me I have to find my notifications window now. LOL!
Edit: I found it you click on the right bottom corner mine was showing me all my downloads and as I started xing them out I saw the firmware update but my battery is on 14% and says battery is getting low. I read the 1st few times I need to fully depleted and fully charge it is that correct? So I need to wait and let it go from 14 to powering off? And i have one more question this my Cloud it says I need a desktop app to access my desktop remotley from tablet is that from anywhere? Like at work I can access a movie or song on my PC. I have Audio Galaxy now that does that but it's only music. I want to take a recorded Tivo show and be able to download it to PC and watch it from tablet cause there big files cause of being in HD. Thanks! (Now it let me swipe app to close after ICS update)
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PHP:
It's more evolutionary than revolutionary, and MOST of what makes it so good is not apparent from the top level interface. It's only when you discover things like swipe to clear recent/running apps and swipe to clear notifications that you start to really admire it.
Hey, anyone know if Asus removed "Swipe to close browser tabs" like they removed the unlock with your Face/camera thing? I haven't been able to do it, but then again, no where do they show you what, specifically to swipe! I have swiped the tab, the title bar, the window, and everything else on screen, to no avail. I must be a bad swiper!
BTW, did you check if your serial number shows in "settings, About Tablet, Status?" You need to check that ASAP as it determines if your will get ANY updates, and the only resolution I have heard of is exchenge of hardware. Let us know if you are okay in that regard.
Also if you are on the fence about getting the keyboard, get off the fence and get on the web and order it. It's not 100% perfect, but it is truly an amazing piece, as it was with the OG Transformer, and if anything types BETTER, in spite of it's thinness. The additional battery life ALONE is worth it, but with the shortcut keys, trackpad, ports, and how it becomes one wth the tablet, I can't understand ANYONE who DOESN'T get it.
A guy at work let me attach it to my tablet with the OG, and where I had been "thinking about it" before, I ORDERED it, like 10 minutes later, LOL!
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Not all of Google Play just the web client.
Since the last update it is horrible. I used to go on there just to update my apps but I can't do that anymore. When I click my apps it takes 2 minutes to load the page and then gives me a bunch of apps that I may or may not have installed at one point over the last 4-5 years on ever device I have owned.
Anyone else figure out a solution?
Wow the web client does suck. I never really use it much. It use to be better.
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Not all of Google Play just the web client.
Since the last update it is horrible. I used to go on there just to update my apps but I can't do that anymore. When I click my apps it takes 2 minutes to load the page and then gives me a bunch of apps that I may or may not have installed at one point over the last 4-5 years on ever device I have owned.
Anyone else figure out a solution?
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A review of this was covered on Android Police a week or so ago. seems like a lot of functionality disappeared from the web play store. i dont think there is currently a solution. I think i read somewhere that they had restored a certain function a few days after this update, so maybe previous options will be slowly rolling out. but who knows. if people complain enough, maybe google will revert it