This seems pretty cool. Basically it lets you search for a contact or (anything else) on your phone by writing the letter on the screen but it lets you access the "Gesture Search" by flipping your phone away and then back. I have installed it and it's indexing my contact list but in my preliminary messing around it seems to work. Check it out.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/flipping-for-gesture-search.html
EDIT: Ok... The actual "flip" to start the program doesn't seem to work for me but the Gesture Search is still cool (starting it with the icon). Maybe they will fix it up for the Vibrant soon.
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Update: Wow I'm an idiot. There's an icon right on the address bar that opens the exact window I'm thinking of. In my defense, I don't think I used to have to access it this way. I seem to recall there being a menu option. Who knows. I bricked my G1 so I can't go look.
On my G1 I could long-press on the Back button and get my browser history. I've read elsewhere that this is the case on other phones. This is mysteriously missing from the Vibrant. Plus there used to be a menu option to see it. I can find no way to access the history using the "Web" app. There is a button in settings to clear the History, but what's the point if no one can ever see it?
Same with Bookmarks. I can create bookmarks, but there don't appear anywhere! The button that normally shows bookmarks (if I recall correctly) is now an "Add RSS Feeds" button. The only way I've been able to access bookmarks is by creating a shortcut on my home screen. That's pretty ridiculous.
I seem to remember bookmarks, history, and possibly the open window list all being in one spot with a tabbed interface. All I can get to now is the open window list. EDIT: No, wait, I think it was bookmarks, history, and downloads all in one place. I was using CM5 at the time if that matters.
Am I missing something obvious here?
Also, does anyone else think it's annoying that the browser has it's own brightness setting and you can't just tell it to use the normal brightness setting? I understand the idea behind the future. You spend a lot of time staring at the screen when using the browser, so it's nice to be able to dim it to save battery power, but I sure wish there were an option to just make it use the normal brightness, because I really don't care. This is especially annoying when I have the brightness in the browser all the way up, and I'm using the reddit app at night in my bed, and I click a link. BAM! I'm blinded by the bright screen and have to keep staring at it to go find the setting to lower it.
I think Samsung made some really dumb mistakes with their version of Android. I know that custom roms solve these problems, but users shouldn't have to hack their phone to get basic features like access to browser history and bookmarks.
I really like the phone, but the browser is the weak point for me. its just buggy, the text resize-when-zoom puts it JUST too wide, and bla bla bla, finally something to complain about. youtube links wont associate with the youtube app. i'm upset. thats another thread. thanks apple.
Anyway, the best part of the sense browser was you could just tap the address bar and you got a list of most-visited sites automatically. Now, its like any 3rd party browser where you have to at least type the first letter of any site before the list shows up. How do i get back the autolist function like the sense 3 and sense2 browsers?????? This was such a great awesome thing. gone.
Also, do you all know about the gestures??? i couldn't find a help explaining what they all are. I couldn't figure out how to get the address bar without scrolling all the way back up to the top.
Discovered you can finger-swipe a "L" or backwards L shape, down then right or down then left, and it'll bring up the address bar. OK, cool, i can live with that. But seriously people, HOW DO I GET THE STATUS BAR to show up while using the browser!?!? How do i get to pull it down, i can't even figure out how make it appear! someone help!
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i'll stop at those two major issues and whine about other minor problems later in the thread.
1)omnibar / awesomebar list of most visited sites by just tapping in it instead of requiring a typing of a letter.
2) what are the browser gestures, where can i get a list of them, "L" shape will bring up the address bar, but why and how does the broswer totally hide the status bar????? isn't the point of android you can pull down the status bar, see notifications, etc etc please someone help me
seriously no one knows about the default browser's guestures? any of this?
I think I'm missing something but navigation from a Google Now card (an automatic suggestion) doesn't work or make any sense.
When you get a card like 60m to Home or 50m to Work and you tap on it you get 2 options, Navigate or Open on the phone, but both seem to be doing the same, Navigate gives you no feed back, it actually looks broken because it doesn't do anything and goes back to main screen, it did however opened navigation on the phone without letting you know, at least the Open on the phone option tells you what it did.
However if you actually do ask for an address it does give you the navigation on the watch screen using card directions.
Am I missing something, does anybody else have the same behaviour?
Same here, and I wondered too. Looks bogus for me.
This is by far THE most annoying thing I have ever seen forced upon smartphone users, and is actually about to result in me returning an otherwise great phone. Judging from other comments, I am obviously not the only one having this issue, but I have yet to find any good resolution, aside from taking hostages at Google.....
Without fail, when I am scrolling through webpages, e-mails, within apps, whatever, that damned Google half-circle pops up when I stupidly scroll from the bottom of my screen. What an idiot I am. The LG "quickmemo" icon is on the right side of the half-circle, Google search on the left. Being right handed, I am continuously scrolling across the quickmemo icon, which results in me having to hit the back button twice, once to get rid of the red line it drew across my screen, then again to get out of the quickmemo app. I have disabled Google Now in "Settings" to no avail.
I have tried 2 apps from Google Play, "Swipe Launch Disabler" which will not work evidently because my phone has a physical HOME button (no idea why this is the case other than the developer telling me so), and "SwipeUp Utility" which so far will not work either to "do nothing" as the options offer.
My LG L39C did not have this God-awful POS feature and is likely going back into service. Google of course could not care less about what users want or their ability to determine for themselves what to disable or not. I have never even considered switching to iPhones until now, but if this is going to be forced upon Android users from here forward it's a no-brainer for me.
Can anyone tell me how to AT LEAST DISABLE QUICKMEMO COMPLETELY? I shouldn't have to root this [email protected] thing to make it usable and have no intention of doing so.
Any help will get you included in my will.......
Since installing Lollipop 5.02 I notice that when there now appears to be a "feature" that calls in google search when a swiping up from the bottom of the screen in the region of the home button.
I find this to be a flipping nuisance when scrolling through pages of info - I seem to have a tendency to place my swiping finger near the middle of the screen and keep getting google starting up all the time.
I don't recall seeing this in KitKat so I assume it came with Lollipop.
Does anyone know where to disable this "feature", it's driving me up the wall.
wooly1 said:
Since installing Lollipop 5.02 I notice that when there now appears to be a "feature" that calls in google search when a swiping up from the bottom of the screen in the region of the home button.
I find this to be a flipping nuisance when scrolling through pages of info - I seem to have a tendency to place my swiping finger near the middle of the screen and keep getting google starting up all the time.
I don't recall seeing this in KitKat so I assume it came with Lollipop.
Does anyone know where to disable this "feature", it's driving me up the wall.
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It is extremely annoying. I know some Xposed modules for HTC phones have an option to disable it all together, but so far I haven't seen anything similar for Sony's UI.
I use this app to make it less annoying..it just reassigns the Google shortcut to the app itself, which then makes the swipe up do nothing (except for the brief animation): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AdrianCampos.swipeuputility
Thank you, thank you, thank you for that link.
There has to be an app for everything nowadays!
So it appears the function is baked into the firmware, that explains why I could not find a way of disabling it.
At least this app minimises the disruption to workflow and restores a little bit of sanity.
Anyone being bugged by the swipe up feature - install this app and be happy