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SO I have this SGSII now and using Lightning ROM on it, which has apparently the stock Calendar App. I can sync my google calendar etc and it works but there is the following nagging small issue.
If I create an event in google calendar and put a valid "google locatable address" in the "location bar" then it does show up in the event details. If I have phone number in the description it also shows up in the event details (in the sammy)
there is a hyperlink for the phone to dial the number also which is great.... HOWEVER, even if the location does show up there is no hyperlink on it, to directly locate the address in the stock "google maps" app!!!
I have to go to "edit event" and then scroll down, to the location box, and then there is the "map button" next to it which if clicked takes me to map... thats rather pain in the A**... Is there a issue-tracker for this app, where I can file an enhancement request ??
Ghat
I expect you'd report it here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list.
Looking a bit further, seems to be this? http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17984
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This is my first android phone so I don't have anything to compare it with, but it seems to me like the global search doesn't work very well. I've selected all the search options in the settings so I know that's not the problem. It just doesn't seem to want to post results for some of the data on the phone. For example, if I type the name steve I expect a list of my contacts named steve to appear in the list. What actually happens is that it provide a list of internet searches, and maybe a few seemingly nonsensical music entries. If I press the "g" button and choose contacts then it's all good and the proper results appear.
The same happens with music. If I try to search for an artist using global search, it just provides me with internet suggestions, no actual music suggestions, even if just a moment ago the same artist appeared as a nonsense entry while I tried searching for contacts!
Anyone have any suggestions on making it work better?
maledyris said:
This is my first android phone so I don't have anything to compare it with, but it seems to me like the global search doesn't work very well. I've selected all the search options in the settings so I know that's not the problem. It just doesn't seem to want to post results for some of the data on the phone. For example, if I type the name steve I expect a list of my contacts named steve to appear in the list. What actually happens is that it provide a list of internet searches, and maybe a few seemingly nonsensical music entries. If I press the "g" button and choose contacts then it's all good and the proper results appear.
The same happens with music. If I try to search for an artist using global search, it just provides me with internet suggestions, no actual music suggestions, even if just a moment ago the same artist appeared as a nonsense entry while I tried searching for contacts!
Anyone have any suggestions on making it work better?
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Ive never tried to search for contacts in Google search, untill now. I selected "contacts" to be a searchable item.. It didn't work for me either. =( You can open Contacts first and then hit the search key. This will allow you to search contacts in the exact way you want, only in the contacts app not the search app. Additionally, if you have LauncherPro, use this trick: You most likely have a contacts icon on your dock. Set up a "swipe gesture" for Contact search. That way, you can touch the Contact's icon to bring up Contacts/ and swipe the same Contact's icon to bring up Contacts Search. This setup have worked very well for me!
Music results did work tho! Search returned music results from mp3s stored on my phone. I have WinAmp installed, I just selected WinAmp as a searchable item in search settings.
I previously had a Milestone and in the calendar app there any address I entered into the location field would be clickable and offer an option to open maps or navigate to it. In the samsung app I can add a location but it is not clickable. I have seen that you can open the map from the edit screen but this seems only to let you get a single map image rather than giving full functionality. Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?
Edit: I tried installing Jorte calendar and that has clickable address links working. When viewing the same event in both only Jorte allows me to click through.
Looking into this it seems the feature is simply missing from the samsung app rather than not activated and has been since the original galaxy. Is this something that can easily be modded?
I am needing this feature as well. When I had my captivate, stock did not have this but with the cognition rom it seemed to work. I don't know how it was modded to work. However, when I updated my captivate to the 2.2 stock firmware I897UCKB1, it had this feature. Now that I have a SGS2 its very disappointing that it doesn't have this again. I use the Clickable address location in calendar every day to get to appointments. It is so frustrating to have to open the appointment, edit the appointment, copy the address from location, hit home, open maps, hit search, paste the address, and hit search again while driving. This could all be done with one click if the location was clickable. I am willing to donate $15 to anyone able to give a solution using the SGS2 stock calendar app. Thanks.
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I am needing this feature as well. When I had my captivate, stock did not have this but with the cognition rom it seemed to work. I don't know how it was modded to work. However, when I updated my captivate to the 2.2 stock firmware I897UCKB1, it had this feature. Now that I have a SGS2 its very disappointing that it doesn't have this again. I use the Clickable address location in calendar every day to get to appointments. It is so frustrating to have to open the appointment, edit the appointment, copy the address from location, hit home, open maps, hit search, paste the address, and hit search again while driving. This could all be done with one click if the location was clickable. I am willing to donate $15 to anyone able to give a solution using the SGS2 stock calendar app. Thanks.
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The best i could think of is to do a search of the location before hand copy then copy the link to the description part on the calender entry. Also add the location snapshot (this is just a picture as you might have aready noticed). Now when the appointment pops up, just click the link(set it up to open with maps). This way you can getting the navigation running from the appointment itself.
add another one to the list of people who really need this feature.
i have just come from a year with a htc desire and its something i really miss.
This is a silly oversight. Something that other apps on the market implement without issue. I'm disappointed!
"To complete this voice action, Google needs to use your device contacts"
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So Android voice search has started showing me this (I always say "no"); before, it used to just look up a contact in my contacts list. The "Learn more" link says they have to "send your contacts to Google"...
Is this a new functionality? i.e. was it that before, Google would use the contacts locally to determine a voice match, but now they actually send the whole contact record to their servers?
Or is it doing what it always did, except now they're just telling us about it?
Anyone know?
- Tim
Hi, i often use google search to search the name of apps instead of using the drawer. I've enabled the search on local phone, including app, chrome and contacts. When i type an app name, i got at first (on top) the name of the app, and when i'm going to tap on the icon, three suggestion from web appears on top, and the app goes down. The beavior is very variable, because of the presence of internet connections (in such case no suggestions) and its delay (mobile data vs. Wifi).
It's really annoying beacuse i use the search to open the app quickly, and often i click on the randomly popping-up suggestion, which open Chrome, etc.. (at the end is anything but quick).
There's a way to disable these suggestion, or use directly the phone (local) search?
Thank you.
In EMUI 9, stock Calendar app added "Map" button when creating a new appointment, to find the location.
However in order to work properly you need to press that button and find the location by scrolling and moving the map to the correct place. There is no search option to search for the location you want.
In addition, if you simply type the location you want and save the appointment, the "Show on Map" button in the event opens another app (amap) which does not work in Europe, so you cannot navigate there.
Does anyone have the same issue? Any solution to this, apart from using another app?
I have tested right now:
- I can create a new task without entering the location
- if I write the place name manually, I can't open it in the map, nothing is happening after pressing the location button
- if I select the place on the map, I can open it later in Firefox and Google Maps
IMO, stock Calendar app works good.
A pain in the ass work around is manually typing address in, then when you want to view it on map, click and long hold the address and it will open Google maps and search the address.
It sucks that it won't do it by default, but the weather information on the calendar/schedule needs the location set properly to pull weather data
But the Europe address seems to work for me
eyeb said:
A pain in the ass work around is manually typing address in, then when you want to view it on map, click and long hold the address and it will open Google maps and search the address.
It sucks that it won't do it by default, but the weather information on the calendar/schedule needs the location set properly to pull weather data
But the Europe address seems to work for me
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Thank you very much for your reply. Indeed your suggestion works, with one small tradeoff, the address should be put in English. If I put the address in Greek (my native language) it will not work. But for sure is better than nothing. Thank you very much
domy_os said:
I have tested right now:
- I can create a new task without entering the location
- if I write the place name manually, I can't open it in the map, nothing is happening after pressing the location button
- if I select the place on the map, I can open it later in Firefox and Google Maps
IMO, stock Calendar app works good.
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Correct, this is how it works, I would prefer though to have a search option on the map, instead of selecting it. But we will have to wait for Huawei to improve stock Calendar app for it. Thank you