Does anyone know how to configure other specific features of the MyZine widget?
Setting the folder and selections for slideshow in its settings is obvious. But how does one set the default browser + its webpage? Mine shows Yahoo and invokes http://m.yahoo.com even though my default browser is Dolphin HD and both stock ICS browser and Dolphin are set to open on a blank page. Also, anyway to resize some of the squares?
As others have mentioned, this could potentially be a descent widget if it wasn't so quirky...are there any other recommended apps / widgets that display similar contents??? # new emails...RSS/reader updates...weather...slideshow...without being resource intensive and looking descent (maybe w semi-transparent feature)???
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I use a different browser than the stock one (Boat Browser) and I was wondering if there is anyway to get the Bookmark Widget to use that instead of the default browser bookmarks. Is that possible?
Anyone know a solution?
If you select your new browser as your default, I believe it should work.
What is the normal amount of RAM that should be free on the Stock Samsung TouchWiz Galaxy Tab 10.1?
I was using SPB Mobile Shell Experimental Tablet functions, but ran into issues with it not being able to authenticate over WIFI after a reboot. Then it would lock me out until I uninstall/reinstall, clear cache, data, etc... and start all over. It was very fluid, except I could not use Live Wallpaper.
So now I am making a go at it with the stock home (no other home installed.) And notice it is frequently laggy in picture transitions. I have tried live vs static wallpapers, and I still notice lag.
I do use Folder Organizer (free version), and I am curious if it could be the cause. However with no application showing in the task manager, I see 600mb/724mb in the RAM Manager (click on mini apps launch, task manager, ram manager tab.)
Is this normal? Low? I tend to group alot of apps (as you can get more on a screen) via the Folder Organizer, and then I do some accompanying widgets.
On the home/center screen - TouchWiz Clock, Weather, Agenda, AP Mobile, as well as my work folder, favorites folder, and main menu folder.
1 Screen Left - News and Internet Folder - CNN widgets x 2 (world and entertainment), yahoo finance widget
2 Screen Left - Shopping Folder and Games Folder
1 Screen Right - FriendCaster Pro Widget and Social Hub Widget
2 Screen Right - Multimedia Folder, Music Widget, Pandora Widget, and NetW Widgets x 2 - Disc Que and At Home Que
I am using MultiPicture Live Wall Paper and only pulling from the My WallPapers directory. This does a great job of display pictures in full screen, especially the ones ready for 10.1 screens. Most of which come from Wallpaper Wednesday for Galaxy Tabs.
Anyway, I do not feel this is too elaborate, but perhaps it is the FREE folder organizer? The sheer number of apps it has to display. Smallest is 10 apps and biggest is probably 20-30.
If anyone has any feedback, I would appreciate it.
im not sure with stock HC, but with stock Touchwiz it is too much apps running background..some will auto run and some will run when u enable sync.
mine will show some 400+/724 on first touch.
you can see all that bloatwares running background using quick system info
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.uguess.android.sysinfo.pro&feature=search_result
Thank you. That was a good view into things. For some reason it all dropped to 400 used without me seemingly doing anything. Very odd. Maybe the app has automatic feelers for bloated processes or something just went away magically.
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Have about 540 / 724 free with no apps running. That seems to be enough to then load four or five apps and have them keep their memory when switching (as opposed to the annoying having to reload web pages following switching to and from browser). Clear memory drops it down to 456.
Hey guys,
I've been giving a GSM RAZR a thorough going-over this past week for an upcoming review, and in doing so have found a few interesting hidden features. Thought I'd start a thread about 'em, since I haven't seen anything mentioned here (Or elsewhere).
- First up, installing an alternate launcher automatically sets the new launcher as the default. Odd that Moto would do this. Also odd is that the long-press home task switcher/app drawer is specifically part of the Blur Home, so you get whatever task switcher your new home app feels like defaulting you to (Usually Android's standard one).
- You can still create shortcuts to the Blur Home's app drawer and app drawer groupings in alternative launchers (Long press on empty home space/add shortcut/app groups), so you can - for example - use Launcher Pro or ADW with the Moto app drawer by placing a shortcut to 'All Apps' in the dock.
- The above shortcut business also applies to stock Blur Home, letting you use the app drawer groups like folders. That's not really 'hidden', though.
Next up, we're going to need to install Launcher Pro. I'm not a huge Launcher Pro fan, since its development seems to have dried up, but this works regardless of whether Launcher Pro is your default launcher or not. As above, however, installing a new launcher will automatically set said new launcher as the default, and short of uninstalling it or installing a third launcher/a home switcher app, you cannot set Blur Home as the default again.
You can get around that by placing a shortcut to the Blur Home itself on the Launcher Pro desktop. It'll also pop up in 'recent apps' once you have Launcher Pro installed. Strange.
Anyway, the reason we want Launcher Pro installed is that it gives you many more options when placing shortcuts on the desktop of any launcher. Under shortcuts (Or in Blur Home's case, Shortcuts/App Actions/) is a new category called Activities. This lets you place a shortcut to any part of an app that can be called as a separate activity. Effectively, you can place a shortcut directly to one part of another app - although, be warned, some of these turn out to be shortcuts to 'Force Close', or 'Reboot the phone' because the OS doesn't expect these apps to be opened in this manner. Some are genuinely useful, however, and some are a little more interesting..
Of note:
- You can create a shortcut directly to Universal Inbox, rather than having to tap Messaging, then Universal Inbox. Yay!
- You can get directly to the Albums view of the crappy stock music player, or the Folders view of the gallery, avoiding those awful splash screens you get when launching either of these normally.
- You can get directly to different views in the calendar, like the Diary/Agenda view.
Now, it gets really interesting. Some of the app activities you can make shortcuts to aren't accessible through the apps themselves, the very definition of 'hidden'. Some of these are obviously hidden because Moto cheaped out on the firmware and bundled things like an FM Radio app into the stock Music player, which doesn't work because the RAZR doesn't have an FM Radio to the best of my knowledge (Even if it did, the app doesn't do much beyond demand you insert headphones and endlessly scan for channels).
- There's a debugging tool for the homescreen, which has settings for things like 'orientation changes', acceleration factor, and 3D widgets. None of these seem to work, unfortunately.
- The most interesting - profiles for the homescreen. If memory serves, a few previous Moto phones had this, and it has of course been an element of Sense for some time. You can choose from Home, Work, and Other, and they do work - widget layouts will be saved. It tends to force close when switching back to one layout from another, and occasionally changes the wallpaper to the Droid 3 stock with the three lines (Funnily enough, that wallpaper isn't in the wallpaper gallery for the GSM RAZR) but it does work.
I'll chuck some screenshots up shortly, and additional features as I find 'em.
Can anyone explain to me what forces a Web page to display in mobile view, especially if you have your User Agent set to Desktop view? Example, when I try to see www.news.com.au it always automatically changes to m.news.com.au which is built for portrait mobile phones, not landscape tablets which have enough screen size to display the desktop view.
Which browser? If its stock, how are you changing the UAString? Just tried that site and was able to bring it up without being redirected. I'm changing it through the hidden debug menu.
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Can change the UA in Dolphin browser.
Can't change it on the stock that I can see, and it auto changes to mobile.news.com.au
(I'm still on the stock ROM until camera works)
Many websites will read the user agent string and change the website view based on that
In the stock browser go to about:useragent
the settings don't usually stay in place though if I remember correctly.
Dolphin HD - More -> Settings and change the user agent
Firefox - about:config and change the string or download an addon that will allow you to change it in the preferences pane
ROMs - I'm using Task 14 which has everything working including the camera. Only ICS ROMs don't have working cameras. Overcome has a stock ROM that is much better than stock and very stable. Task 14 is even better. If you invest the time in reading about doing backups and installing a ROM you won't regret it. If I had my tablet next to yours you'd be blown away by how slow your stock version is by comparison. Battery life is actually better too and I have the Tab overclocked.
In the stock browser, type in about:debug and hit go once. It will look like nothing has happened but go into settings and you'll see an extra debug menu. You can change the UAString in there. The debug menus will disappear when you exit out but whatever you set the string to WILL keep. This about:debug also works on my S2 as well.
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Some websites display mobile versions if they find the word "android" in the browser id string, so it's not enough to change it to desktop. change the UA string to desktop windows or desktop mac os.
OK, this is simply bizarre. On my Mate 10 ALP-L29 8.0.0.119 (C636) I cannot get any browser (I've tried Chrome and Firefox) to save a particular URL/Page to my Homescreen. I've tried it with the default Huawei launcher, and also using Nova and Apex. I make the normal request within the browser to save the page to my homescreen, and then it acts like it's saving, but then there's nothing added to my homescreen!?!
I've got to think I've got some setting somewhere messed up, but can someone simply confirm that they can do this basic action on their Mate 10 and, if so, using which launcher and browser? If I know it can be done, then it's easier to figure out! Thanks.
Edit: once I uninstalled the third-party launchers, I could create an Url homescreen shortcut with Huawei Home. But no love yet for either Nova (which also doesn't work yet with dynamic calendar icons) or Apex (which does).
Continued researching and sort of solved my own problem. This is apparently a known flaw of Oreo with most launchers (although not with Huawei Home, to their credit). There's a beta of Pixel Launcher that solves it, but I can't say I love that launcher. Instead, my workaround was a 2011 app, called Url Shortcut (by KebabApps), still available in the Play store. It has no UI, but when you long-press on your homescreen to add a shortcut (not a widget), it gives you a 1x1 shortcut where you can manually enter the web url and the title you want under the icon. And it works, although you will then need to edit the icon image to your liking.