Does anyone know if there is a tool available to view/edit contacts NOTES so that you see more than just one line at a time (esp when viewing).
If there is a large note attached to the contact it's very annoying when you can only see a line (or line and half in case of editing). Virtually impossible to find the information you are looking for.
When editing I find I can see one line and then bottom part of the line on top. If I try to scroll across the line at the top sometime dissappears because its virtually impossible to scroll by movinng your finger in a perfect horrizontal line.
Ideally I would like to be able to view an entire page of the NOTES field.
Overall, I think the move from Blackberry to Android/Note was the right one but the transition has been painful in a few areas. I'll list them in this one post instead of inundating the forums with single posts with only one question.
Phone Application -
Admittedly, this is the most frustrating part about going with the Note (outside of the loss of a physical keyboard). The phone application is ridiculously inefficient compared to Blackberry.
Is there a way to prevent the phone from locking (PIN required) when I navigate away from the phone application while on a call? There is nothing more frustrating than having to enter my PIN to simply hang up a phone call. Also, while on a phone call only (meaning I don't navigate away from phone), the screen times out and turns off... forcing me to press the side key to get back into phone. Is there a program that can map the capacitive search key while on a phone call so I can hang up a call?
Regarding "Contacts", is there a way to default to keyboard entry upon opening Contacts? Does Android think the average person has only 6 contacts??... Because that's how many contacts show up when you enter Contacts. This forces me to press "search contacts" every single time I enter Contacts... and the magnifying glass is all the way at the tip top of the screen. Using one hand, it's impossible to comfortably extend my thumb all the way to the top of the screen after pressing my Contacts application icon on the very bottom of the screen. Then I am forced to pull all the way back down to the keyboard just to enter the first letter of the person I'm searching for! I call out of my Contacts list 50-100 times a day so this gets very, very cumbersome and time consuming.
Is there a way to change the text size in my contacts list? I'd like to see more than 6 contacts per page... the phone screen is HUGE!
Now this complaint I'm sure a lot of ex Blackberry people can relate with... Blackberry (via an available OPTION) would consolidate call logs into each individual contact. Android, for some strange reason, does not consolidate history to each individual contact. So when I pull up recent history, the top 100 entries can be from only 10 or 15 people Wouldn't it make more sense to have ONE entry PER CONTACT? I wouldn't have to go into Contacts as often if Android actually consolidated phone call logs into one log per contact because I could go into the phone log and call out people from there... instead of seeing a sea of missed, outgoing, incoming calls... from the same person. I really hope there is a way to consolidate these logs.
S Memo -
There is an option to pull up the S Memo pad in phone but for some strange reason, it always defaults to "drawing" mode instead of entering text. I'm often in a flustered state when on a phone call and/or listening to voicemail and trying to jot down notes... so having to punch that tiny little "T" at the very upper left hand corner of the screen is a pain.
Is there a way to decrease the font size? I never did understand why some native programs have no adjustments for font size... not everyone is 80 years old w/bad vision. I mean... what's the point of having such a high res screen if the font size is a quarter inch tall? Blackberry allowed text size to be adjusted in ALL native applications.
I'm assuming there is no way to increase the amount of text I can enter onto one S Memo page? It seems extremely limited (about ~100 words max).
Am I the only one that seems to have notes that don't save? I recall entering text into several notes and backing out supposedly automatically saves what was inputed... but often times the text is not there when I return to the note. Are others having this issue?
Finally, is there an alternative memo program that anyone could recommend that is as simple and easy to search as Blackberry's memopad?
Alarm Clock -
I realize that there are a ton of alarm apps out there but I've heard horror stories about apps that crash and/or don't work properly. I need a reliable alarm clock so would prefer to stick with the native application. It actually works perfectly... except that the alarm lasts for only 60 seconds. I've slept right through the alarm several times already. Is there any way to make it loop for a longer period? Say 5 or 10 minutes?
I have a ton of other questions but if anyone can help with these for now it would be much appreciated!
U have a button dedicated to search at the bottom. I use dw contacts. Not the cheapest solution but very customizable
There's an app to increase/decrease font size, I haven't used it but I saw someone mentioning it here the other day, the alarm is fine, I have never had any issues with any android alarm, and you can add as many alarms as you want, I get up at 3am to go to work and I can't ever be late so I have set like 4 alarms to go off in set times in order so if I don't hear one the others will follow.
As the issue with being able to reach the full length of the screen one handed , it is what it is, a big a$$ screen that for the most part demands two handed control.
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Do you have to use a PIN?
Go to settings, display, screen timeout. You can change how quickly or slowly your screen times out on you.
On your contacts app, just hit the magnifying glass at the bottom right and it'll pull up your keyboard and search function. Or there's teh alphabet running down the right hand side, just click on the letter the name starts with. Or for more customization and ease, install exdialer. It looks good, easy to use, font is small, etc. Exdialer also consolidates your call logs.
There are a ton of memo apps in the market. Personally I love Gnotes. It syncs with google, saves everything, is easy to use, and you can inbed pics, etc.
I don't know about the spen. So far I've only used it to make cute pics to send to my wife and to draw up soccer drills and practice plans.
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U have a button dedicated to search at the bottom. I use dw contacts. Not the cheapest solution but very customizable
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. Does the phone still maintain its ability to keep a log and back up the calls to my computer?
roloracer said:
There's an app to increase/decrease font size, I haven't used it but I saw someone mentioning it here the other day, the alarm is fine, I have never had any issues with any android alarm, and you can add as many alarms as you want, I get up at 3am to go to work and I can't ever be late so I have set like 4 alarms to go off in set times in order so if I don't hear one the others will follow.
As the issue with being able to reach the full length of the screen one handed , it is what it is, a big a$$ screen that for the most part demands two handed control.
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I tried the program Big Font but unfortunately while the font size decreases, it does nothing to decrease the size of the useless silhouette image next to the contact name. So I still only get 6 contacts per massive page. I'm hoping there is another solution.
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Do you have to use a PIN?
Go to settings, display, screen timeout. You can change how quickly or slowly your screen times out on you.
On your contacts app, just hit the magnifying glass at the bottom right and it'll pull up your keyboard and search function. Or there's teh alphabet running down the right hand side, just click on the letter the name starts with. Or for more customization and ease, install exdialer. It looks good, easy to use, font is small, etc. Exdialer also consolidates your call logs.
There are a ton of memo apps in the market. Personally I love Gnotes. It syncs with google, saves everything, is easy to use, and you can inbed pics, etc.
I don't know about the spen. So far I've only used it to make cute pics to send to my wife and to draw up soccer drills and practice plans.
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Yes, unfortunately I do need to use a PIN or some other form of security. I just don't think it makes any sense to require a PIN if I already entered one and then make a phone call. It's just silly that Android would require a PIN if you're clearly using the phone (on a call). Apparently Google thinks that using the phone does not include being on a phone call. Absurd.
As for your advice about using the magnifying glass, it doesn't work. Because if you pull up the contact via the magnifying glass, you cannot dial from it (swipe right for dial, left for text like you would if you clicked the text box at the top of the phone). You have to click on it and then click once again on what you would like to do. Not sure why it's like that but there are a lot of Android "features" that leave me scratching my head.
I'll give Gnote a try. Thanks!
pj737 said:
I tried the program Big Font but unfortunately while the font size decreases, it does nothing to decrease the size of the useless silhouette image next to the contact name. So I still only get 6 contacts per massive page. I'm hoping there is another solution.
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Please don't mix up Google and Samsung. You see Samsung customizes the Android OS, and the stock contacts app is different than the stock Google one. Everything you see is what Samsung did not Google.
If you don't like it I suggest you switch phones or you try third-party apps like exdialer(excontacts comes with it), and it is a very popular choice people use as an alternative. Also, I if you have rooted your phone you can change the DPI, so everything will be smaller and more things can fit on the screen, but like I said you will need ROOT. Download a DPI changer app and go for 240dpi.
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Or if you're brave enough you can always change the lcd density in the build.prop but beware if you make a mistake editing It will brake the rom and unless you have it backed up like in cwm you'll be forced to flash it to bring it back to life.
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Or if you're brave enough you can always change the lcd density in the build.prop but beware if you make a mistake editing It will brake the rom and unless you have it backed up like in cwm you'll be forced to flash it to bring it back to life.
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Just use LCD resolution from the market. Much simpler for a novice
When looking at webpages my screen does not automatically reformat/resize the columns so that I can read the page easily. It does resize the text but not the text column. It does not fit the text to the screen width. This results in me having to scroll left, right, left, right in order to read a page. It is quite frustrating. Coming from a thunderbolt, I am used too it resizing the column when I enlarge the text so I don't have to constantly go left and right to see all of the text.
Is there a setting I am missing or something to cause it to do this? How can I fix this problem?
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Thanks
Anyone?
same problem - think it has to do with font size
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Please see my post of today in which I describe the same problem and note that on my ancient Samsung Droid Charge I had none of those difficulties. But there was no choice of font size.
Do you have the ability to pinch and zoom? Mine doesn't seem to work right if I'm supposed to have it. For me, in the long run, it will be a deal-breaker. I spend an average of 2 hours/day reading on my phone.
Please see my post
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hi folks,
i'm interested to find out whether it's only me or if more people have asked themselves why google put the hamburger menu to the upper left corner of the screen. i mean considering the fact that displays get larger and larger and the fact that in many apps that spot is, will and has to be used every other moment while using an app, IMHO it is the worst possible placing for the so called "hamburger menu" at lest we can to try out what might be the reasons for google to make their choice, because even if we don't like something, it's easier if we know the reasons, at least if thei're valid
the goal would be, of course only if there will be many who agree and feel bothered, to brake loose a discussion and finally bring this topic to
the attention of a larger community and to google in the process.
thanks for any participation, opinions, proposals etc.
my favourite spot would be lower right corner but should this by design not be a good choice, i can see no reason what could make the upper right corner not a better alternative than the current choice.
below you find 4 sample images to illustrate what i mean and what i find preferable. self evidently the examples for the preferred spots are not "hamburgers"
In use:
N7000 TouchWizz_4.1.2
N7100 CM11_CMKernel_Xposed
I9100_Black CM11 CMKernel Xposed
I9100_White CM11_CMKernel_Xposed
Nexus 4 Cataclysm_Franco_Dalvik_Bionic
Nexus 5 32GB Black CM11_ElementalX_Xposed
One+ 1 64GB Black CM11_Boeffla-Kernel_Xposed
http://philosophy.net.magnamentis.com/quintessenz/en-quintessence-r-1.htm
magnamentis said:
hi folks,
i'm interested to find out whether it's only me or if more people have asked themselves why google put the hamburger menu to the upper left corner of the screen. i mean considering the fact that displays get larger and larger and the fact that in many apps that spot is, will and has to be used every other moment while using an app, IMHO it is the worst possible placing for the so called "hamburger menu" at lest we can to try out what might be the reasons for google to make their choice, because even if we don't like something, it's easier if we know the reasons, at least if thei're valid
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Maybe you already know or are not interested anymore but here's my thoughts.
They must have a good reason to do so. I also don't like a button on top because display size and if using one hand its hard to reach. But when that menu can be opened by sliding which seems to the case more often then its better. Althoough not all apps might want sliding enabled because other reasons. The placement on top has probably also to do with that the bottom area is a more interactive space for other interactions to happen with thumb or not... Or because now only a title bar on top is needed and no bar below which saves space and looks more simple (most likely). Why left or right? I don't know but also prefer right side for button because its easier to reach but that also depends on if this button (depending on items on menu) will be used more often than others. And maybe with certain apps left side is seen as a 'starting' point just like the 'start' button in windows that is placed left
EDIT: i see that the hamburger button is used indeed for categories/places within an app and usually to slide open which makes sense to me. Unless it's used as a small settings menu but you can't have both i guess.
kaizokan said:
Maybe you already know or are not interested anymore but here's my thoughts.
They must have a good reason to do so. I also don't like a button on top because display size and if using one hand its hard to reach. But when that menu can be opened by sliding which seems to the case more often then its better. Althoough not all apps might want sliding enabled because other reasons. The placement on top has probably also to do with that the bottom area is a more interactive space for other interactions to happen with thumb or not... Or because now only a title bar on top is needed and no bar below which saves space and looks more simple (most likely). Why left or right? I don't know but also prefer right side for button because its easier to reach but that also depends on if this button (depending on items on menu) will be used more often than others. And maybe with certain apps left side is seen as a 'starting' point just like the 'start' button in windows that is placed left
EDIT: i see that the hamburger button is used indeed for categories/places within an app and usually to slide open which makes sense to me. Unless it's used as a small settings menu but you can't have both i guess.
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sure, all you say is correct, that's why my proposal was top right, still slidable and none of the reasons you mentioned would interfere, just that the top right for all right-handers (the majority) is at shorter distance than the top left which for a main in-app-nav-tool is the farthest away possible.
thanks for taking you time and the meaning of the thread is/was to get this kind of replies and not getting simply agreement, because i'm sure that they discussed all 4 corners and deciced for top-left for a reason. this does not automatically make it the best decision but if we could find out what the real reason was and understand their point of view, it would be easier to take it as a given fact. so there are two solutions: a) understanding or b) correction
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Hi everyone
So I'm new to this customisable widget stuff and have been trying to edit a good template I found. Anyway, it's a clock with a rectangular background and I want to put another, smaller rectangle in the middle but this rectangle will only sit in front of the text, which is a pain.
Unless I've missed it, I'd love it to have a "Send Forward" and "Send Backward" button.
Thanks