Is there a way to install programs for the laptop dock, or are there (or will there be) "apps" for the laptop dock.
I just wanna see Chrome swapped in for firefox
so we essentially have CHROME OS
That would be awesome, but I would at least like to see some apps that aren't on the "phone screen".
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Kaishen82 said:
I just received my G Tab yesterday (non-woot) and so far I love it. I installed CWM then flashed Vegan. Something about it didn't feel right, so I switched over to TNT Lite 4.4. I also installed Launcher Pro and have figured out how to use it to customize my "desktop" a little. Basically I have a few random questions.
1) Is there a way to disable the "dock" screen?
2) Is there a way to disable the lock screen that comes up after the screen has turned off?
3) Any recommendations on a good replacement for MS Office that can open, edit, and create documents that are compatible with Office?
4) Any recommendations on a good remote desktop app I can use to access files and software on my laptop?
5) Any recommendations on a compact, portable, hopefully inexpensive Bluetooth mouse?
6) How do I copy files from my laptop to my external micro SD card? Do I have to put the micro SD card into my laptop, or can I leave it in the tablet and copy them somehow? When I plug the tablet into my laptop it only appears to give me access to the internal SD.
7) Any other random apps I should look into getting? I plan to use my G Tab to basically replace my laptop, which I only ever use for surfing the web, email, facebook, etc.
8) In particular, any particular apps I should get for playing video/audio files?
9) Is there a tutorial somewhere I can read about how to find movies and get them onto my tablet to watch?
Sorry to barrage you with so many questions. Feel free to answer none, any, or all of them! Thanks in advance for your help!!!
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3) I use and really like Office suite Pro. Its 15 bucks but it is solid. You can try the demo version for 30 days for free and then decide how you like it.
4) I use "dropbox" to sync files between my tab and my two computers. Plus it backs everything up online so you can access them anywhere. Great App!!!
7) I also recommend the Mozilla web browser. I like it a lot better then the stock one it comes with. Also, Pulse is a great app if you like to read the news/bloggs often.
8) I have heard a lot of people use dolphin to play video but I have yet to try it. I have had trouble myself playing videos. Be sure you get the adobe 10.2 download so Youtube works.
Hope this helps.
I basically stopped using my lapdock a few weeks ago due to the slowness of my webtop2sd setup (XFCE4 on a PNY 32GB Class 10 card), so for kicks I decided to click uninstall in the webtop2sd app to try out the stock webtop in the internal storage, and its actually not running too bad,considering I want to use it for work and most of what I do is web based, firefox is working fine. I can even still use the network printer where I work at.
I find that the dock,although not necessarily bad, is really annoying that it cant really be configured at all. I have an extra separator and nothing inbetween,where the awn manager and lx terminal were,that I removed due to them not working.
So here are the actual questions.
1. Should those 2 programs, which webtop2sd installs,work on the internal storage as well? Should I try using the app to reinstall them?
2. If they dont work, is there a way, like a config file or something,that I can manually add and move icons, or more specifically,unused seperators with? I feel that with any other dock I have ever used,I should be able to drag icons to move them,but this one seems a bit stubborn.
3. Should the dock and top notification bar be hiding randomly? I dont mind the dock hiding (not that a window will ever use that extra space),but I'd rather that top bar just stay there all the time incase I get a new notification from the phone. Can this also be configured to not do that?
I'm really not that unhappy with the stock webtop,it seems to run faster than webtop2sd, I would just like to be incontrol of the dock and the top bar and I'll be happy with it.
Stock/rooted/locked BL
I would recommend that you look into GenTop, it is a linux distro which works on the webtop. It's one of the top topics in the atrix general section.
It will only work with the blur roms and for that I would recommend Nottachtrix
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I've read the whole thread,and am turned off by the fact that it does not appear to be too user friendly to setup, considering the whole thread is basically a discussion on how to compile programs,which I lack complete knowledge of.
I just dont have the time to mess around with something I dont know much about. I didnt mind messing around with webtop2sd since I've basically turned it into Xubuntu which I've used before,but I dont know anything about Gentoo.
It would be a lot easier for me to try to mess around with this dock than try to reinstall the whole system again.All the basically need is firefox with the keyboard,and the ability to print, which I already have.
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I know this is possible, because webtop2sd adds 2 icons and a seperator to the dock for hacking before it copies the whole webtop to the sd card.
Basically, i would like to know where the config file is for the dock so i can manually configure the icons, i would use a file browser on the phone to copy the file off the phone, edit it on a pc then use the file browser in android to overwrite it.
If no one knows where that file is, does anyone know where i could start looking for it? Im not sure how the file system is really setup tbh, i dont know whats webtop or whats android.
Hello,
I have here a CnM Tablet pre-loaded with 4.1 and there is a huge problem.
I previously installed Connect Bot for SSH use and noticed I could connect to the Tablets root. (I think its important to mention it was pre-rooted by the manufacturer). I started to look around on the system partition at thing i might recognize and i noticed a program called httpd. I assumed this was a web server app so i ran it. Nothing happened so I panicked and killed the app. This is where my problem starts. The tablet froze. I had hard shutdown. I restart the thing and it has factory reset. I thought this was just an ok thing where i could reload all my existing apps on. Nope, the internal memory doesn't exist i.e. I goto Memory and Storage to look at what is being used. I see the Memory card, ext1 (An external memory card), and there is blank space with question marks which are supposed to show the system memory.
In light of this, I restarted and the same thing happened. I have attempted a recovery via recovery mode: nothing. I even cleared the cache.
My question is: What could have gone wrong and how do I fix it?
Apps installed at time:
BusyBox, Connect Bot, 2X Remote Desktop Client, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash Player, Advanced Task Killer, ADW.Launcher, bvnC, AndSMB, Barcode Scanner, BatteryLife, BBC Iplayer, BBC Media Player, BBC News, Chess Free, ColorLights, DroidEdit Pro, Ebay, ES File Explorer, Facebook messenger, SnapSave, Snapchat, Falldown classic, Flappy Birds, FING NEtwork tools, Firefox beta, Mozilla firefox, Hackers Keyboard, (Google Play-Music-Games-Services-Movies etc etc), Hungry Shark, Kingsoft Office, Maps, MetOffice Weather, Minecraft, Multi-touch paint, oRBot, Sense Analog Clock, skype, snake 2k, superUser, Tank Hero, trap!, VLC For android, VMWare Horizon view client, Youtube.
Hello
Why the tabs in the browser are reloading after moving it to the foreground?
Succession of actions:
1) I opened the browser & some tabs (for example, five) inside it.
2) I opened some website inside each tab.
3) I pressed "Home" button, returned to the desktop (main screen).
4) I runned some other apps.
5) I let my phone to rest for a while.
6) I opened the browser again (by tapping the shortcut on the desktop or selecting the browser in the list of the recently runned apps).
7) My browser reloaded the contents of the each tab when I trying to accessing it.
What is the reason of the behaviour described above in the p.7?
Sometimes, when the amount and the "power" of apps, mentioned in the p.4, were relatively small, there were no reloading of the pages during the second access to the browser. Sometimes, after the relatively small system load during the p.4, but relatively big "rest period" during the p.5, the pages reloading rook place in the p.7.
What's the problem? The lack of memory resources or are there some kind of "invalidation period", after which the page content considered to be obsolete and has to be invalidated?
I bought Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro 1.5 weeks ago hoped that this issue stayed in the past, but it didn't.
P.S. As far as I heard, the Android OS has quite another RAM management model than the Windows one. In Windows the RAM block, assosiated with the app X, remains "busy" and locked from using by other apps for the period of the app X execution, up to X closing, while in Android there are no clear and distinct app closing, only moving to background take place. So then Android needs a RAM and there are no free RAM of the desired amount, the system unloads the "oldest" app in background and uses the RAM block, previously assosiated with this app, for the new purposes. If so, are there any ways to "lock" some apps (such a particular browser) in order to prevent their unloading and avoid the tabs reloading then re-accessing them?
I purchased from new, the above tablet in 2013. Has worked perfectly until now. It runs the latest android 5.1. It remains a standard tablet, not rooted. There's plenty of internal storage memory and I use a SD card which runs at 50%
I have set a security pattern which is used to access the tablet. When I switch on and swipe my pattern, the screen goes into a frenzy and I can't access anything. Apps open up, settings menu flashes up and down the screen.
Seems to charge ok and seems to retain its charge. The only thing I've done recently is loaded Facebook, Messenger, (both have since been deleted) Classic Solitaire and a third party Classic Notes app.
Can anyone help
bluesti said:
I purchased from new, the above tablet in 2013. Has worked perfectly until now. It runs the latest android 5.1. It remains a standard tablet, not rooted. There's plenty of internal storage memory and I use a SD card which runs at 50%
I have set a security pattern which is used to access the tablet. When I switch on and swipe my pattern, the screen goes into a frenzy and I can't access anything. Apps open up, settings menu flashes up and down the screen.
Seems to charge ok and seems to retain its charge. The only thing I've done recently is loaded Facebook, Messenger, (both have since been deleted) Classic Solitaire and a third party Classic Notes app.
Can anyone help
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