Now that we have our first ICS ROM, lets talk about what we like and dont like about the newest Android OS. I dont know about everyone else, but I have never touched Android 4.0 before our latest CM9 ROM. I have only seen videos on it. So my eagerness to play with it was very high. Now that I have it, I must say, overall, its really nice. I love the UI. Even the phone and contacts app, which I didnt even care about in Gingerbread. The Speech to Text is pretty cool. And when I get a phone call, it looks much better than GB.
So what else is there? Anyone find any cool stuff specific to ICS? Any cool ICS apps? Nifty little tips and tricks?
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Now that we have our first ICS ROM, lets talk about what we like and dont like about the newest Android OS. I dont know about everyone else, but I have never touched Android 4.0 before our latest CM9 ROM. I have only seen videos on it. So my eagerness to play with it was very high. Now that I have it, I must say, overall, its really nice. I love the UI. Even the phone and contacts app, which I didnt even care about in Gingerbread. The Speech to Text is pretty cool. And when I get a phone call, it looks much better than GB.
So what else is there? Anyone find any cool stuff specific to ICS? Any cool ICS apps? Nifty little tips and tricks?
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The speech to text being finally something that is worthwhile for me is huge...I hated it in all earlier builds personally
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I find the stock keyboard to be a lot better for some reason. Maybe its just in my head. lol
No I agree and the error correction is better as well
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Have you noticed that the LED turns color when plugged in based on the battery percentage? Dont know if this is an ICS or CM9 feature. I like it but I kinda wish it would turn of when fully charged though.
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Have you noticed that the LED turns color when plugged in based on the battery percentage? Dont know if this is an ICS or CM9 feature. I like it but I kinda wish it would turn of when fully charged though.
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So thats what the yellowish green light was indicating. Light is green @ 100%. Awesome!
I am really happy with the build, as I have only tested ICS on the Kindle Fire and other more fortunate phones. My app set though is so specific that the layout looks exactly the same regardless of android version. Thats fine, I just wanted my purchase to be worthwhile
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Have you noticed that the LED turns color when plugged in based on the battery percentage? Dont know if this is an ICS or CM9 feature. I like it but I kinda wish it would turn of when fully charged though.
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Yes...and I am not sure which it is a feature of and I thought it did but I am probably mistaken
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I'm with all you guys. This rom is smokin cool! Can't wait for bug fixes. Definitely my every day rom when that time comes. Just like cm7 is now. Awesome job dragonzkiller
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Yes...and I am not sure which it is a feature of and I thought it did but I am probably mistaken
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No, it doesnt turn off for me. Stays on until you unplug the phone. I tried using LEDs Hack to turn the light off for when I go to sleep. It works but when I turn it back on, my lights on the buttons stay lit. I need to restart to turn them off.
I only ran it for weekend, but as others have pointed out, the speed and accuracy of the speech to text is impressive. Apex, while not native, is also a really nice addition in the launcher category. I really hope to see it reach the level of "daily driver" so I can mess with it more.
I don't know if you listen to a lot of music but try that Apollo music player I posted in the cm9 thread really nice ICS look and from what I read its what they have been putting in the "official" CM9
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Seeing that (last I heard anyway) Google hasnt released the API to integrate their Google music service into third party apps, that app probably doesnt work with my music uploaded to Google music right? I dont have music stored on my phone anymore. The app looks pretty slick though.
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Seeing that (last I heard anyway) Google hasnt released the API to integrate their Google music service into third party apps, that app probably doesnt work with my music uploaded to Google music right? I dont have music stored on my phone anymore. The app looks pretty slick though.
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Honestly I have no clue at all...although I did not see an option for it so I doubt it
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Honestly I have no clue at all...although I did not see an option for it so I doubt it
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I really wish google would release that for developers to use with their music apps. I'd like to start using a different app for music again.
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I really wish google would release that for developers to use with their music apps. I'd like to start using a different app for music again.
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Agrees and in all honesty I don't see why they don't...maybe the thought is if they are going to offer it as a free service(not the purchases but the upload and storage) then they have a right to control how you use it...not that I agree but I assume that's the thought process
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The stock messaging app lacks LED customization but is elegant and practical. I say the same about the contacts (People) app.
ICS Browser + is a really cool alternate browser that has some nice features. Id suggest it to anyone looking for a new browser.
Boid is a Twitter app optimized for ICS that features some very stylish layouts, navigation speed and simplicity making its ease of access level very high. Its Beta-ness shows in its lack of push notifications and semi frequent failure to retrieve new mentions and tweets.
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The stock messaging app lacks LED customization but is elegant and practical. I say the same about the contacts (People) app.
ICS Browser + is a really cool alternate browser that has some nice features. Id suggest it to anyone looking for a new browser.
Boid is a Twitter app optimized for ICS that features some very stylish layouts, navigation speed and simplicity making its ease of access level very high. Its Beta-ness shows in its lack of push notifications and semi frequent failure to retrieve new mentions and tweets.
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I actually like the messaging app a lot. But I use SMS enhancer for receiving messages and customizing the LED. I love the new look to the phone and contacts app. But still, nothing beats the speech to text feature which I am currently using to write this post.
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I actually like the messaging app a lot. But I use SMS enhancer for receiving messages and customizing the LED. I love the new look to the phone and contacts app. But still, nothing beats the speech to text feature which I am currently using to write this post.
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I have yet to experiment with the speech to text feature it is pretty darn cool I just wrote this whole thing well I spoke it
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I actually like the messaging app a lot. But I use SMS enhancer for receiving messages and customizing the LED. I love the new look to the phone and contacts app. But still, nothing beats the speech to text feature which I am currently using to write this post.
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Unfortunately, you guys don't have Chrome yet. But I love chrome. It is awesome on a tablet. It is like using a PC... And pretty good on a phone too. The best feature is to send tabs from PC to phone or browse open tabs on PC!!!
I like the launcher in general, nice little touches here and there... The nicer recent apps layout. The better and cooler looking lock screen and incoming phone call screen. iPhone, you can kiss my sweet ass! Awesomer Email app... For some reason, the Email app in GB had no search feature (what!? ) and was dark themed, while Gmail had both search and light themed... Nice to see consistency and a easier on the eyes theme...
OH! How did I forget! The Gmail and Email widgets! I LOVE them! I use them all the time and they are effing scrollable!! Lock screen music controls are more awesome than GB (I use Google Music)... The circlemod battery icon (I dunno if your CM9 has it) is very cool! Folders are nice too...
Overall, it is awesome as an OS! Best version of Android, so far!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Unfortunately, you guys don't have Chrome yet. But I love chrome. It is awesome on a tablet. It is like using a PC... And pretty good on a phone too. The best feature is to send tabs from PC to phone or browse open tabs on PC!!!
I like the launcher in general, nice little touches here and there... The nicer recent apps layout. The better and cooler looking lock screen and incoming phone call screen. iPhone, you can kiss my sweet ass! Awesomer Email app... For some reason, the Email app in GB had no search feature (what!? ) and was dark themed, while Gmail had both search and light themed... Nice to see consistency and a easier on the eyes theme...
OH! How did I forget! The Gmail and Email widgets! I LOVE them! I use them all the time and they are effing scrollable!! Lock screen music controls are more awesome than GB (I use Google Music)... The circlemod battery icon (I dunno if your CM9 has it) is very cool! Folders are nice too...
Overall, it is awesome as an OS! Best version of Android, so far!
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Facking LOVE the Gmail widget
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I used to use Handcent quite some time ago but found out that it was causing some problems with people receiving my messages and pictures. In addition, it started hanging and would generally slow down. Lastly I was told that it does not necessarily play nice with some other applications, namely LightFlow.
When I eventually put Eclipse on my DX2, I simply did not re-download Handcent and was just using the stock SMS until today, using CM7 and still, the stock SMS.
What does everyone else use, are there any decent alternatives to the stock SMS and if so, what makes it a better alternative?
All I've ever used is handcent, seems to be working nice for me, never used liteflow though.
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I'm a huge fan of chompSMS. I've tried Handcent and GoSMS, but I always end up coming back to chomp. The only thing I wish they would add is the ability to multi-select message threads to delete, instead of having to do it one by one or deleting them all at once. I emailed them and suggested that and they responded that it was planned for an upcoming update, so maybe I'll get my wish.
I use GOsms. Works great for me.
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I use GOsms. Works great for me.
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/filler +1
I have used Metro Messaging Beta for a while. It was when I was going through my WP7 phase. lol. I actually liked it though. It didnt have any cool features (it was actually very limited) but with how simple it was, it was nice to use. I have recently just gone back to the stock sms app though. I also use SMS Popup so when I get a message, I dont even have to open the sms app.
I too, use GOsms. I like the customization and different themes it offers.
Just make sure to manually go into stock notifications and disable. Other wise you will get multi notifications at some point. It will ask you at setup to disable, but for some reason you will still have to manual disable through stock app.
You could always give it a go!
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I too, use GOsms. I like the customization and different themes it offers.
Just make sure to manually go into stock notifications and disable. Other wise you will get multi notifications at some point. It will ask you at setup to disable, but for some reason you will still have to manual disable through stock app.
You could always give it a go!
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+ 1, exactly what I was going to say. Love the customization.
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I like the customization of Handcent better, can change a lot of things for individual contacts in handcent.
I just delete the SMS/mms apk in every ROM and put handcent in system/app
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So I guess it's +++++++1 for GO SMS. I use GO SMS on mine.
Ciao!
GoSMS here BUT the MMS sending on it is whack. I have it set up for 1.2 MB and preserve image resolution yet when I send a pic it'll degrade the picture image. This is for pics under 1.2MBs...
Any one use a different phone/call app besides the stock one?
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Any one use a different phone/call app besides the stock one?
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GO SMS is what I use, I like how it pops up a window without you having to swipe notifications, and the overall customizability of it. As Elite49 said, you cant go over 1.2mb in size but it just let it shrink my photos to fit and it works just fine. Be sure to get all the plug in for it too, there are tons of themes and emotocons etc...
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GO SMS is what I use, I like how it pops up a window without you having to swipe notifications, and the overall customizability of it. As Elite49 said, you cant go over 1.2mb in size but it just let it shrink my photos to fit and it works just fine. Be sure to get all the plug in for it too, there are tons of themes and emotocons etc...
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Does yours degrade the pics when their not over 1.2MB? I find it extremely annoying seeing a pic thats under that somehow look like crap when I go to send it.
Another vote for GO SMS here!
IDMA.DROID.X2 said:
All I've ever used is handcent, seems to be working nice for me, never used liteflow though.
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handcent is definatly the best imo. only one ive ever used on a rooted android
goSMS for me too!
Go SMS Pro!!!!!
When life sucks I just enjoy the head
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Any one use a different phone/call app besides the stock one?
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touchpal contacts. for answer to above q. and go sms is by far the best sms app out there
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Never had a reason to try anything but Gosms, it works, and you can make it look however you want. all i plan to ever use atm
Does anyone know his I can get ios like notifications on my evo 3d?
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yep. its easy. trade your evo in and buy an iphone jk. had to do it tho but also I don't even know what theirs looks like so sorry buddy.
Um? Push notifications? Gotta find apps that support them. Android does but I'm surprised at how few apps take advantage. Something that just looks like ios notifications? Uh... Wish I knew what they looked like to help.
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go to market and get the iphone notifier app...
what kind of notifications are you talking about?
ios 5 style notifications that appear on the top of your screen instead of the status bar.
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ios 5 style notifications that appear on the top of your screen instead of the status bar.
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Have you tried miui closest to rom.to looking like iphone os
lol i've actually wanted the same thing a few times.
let's see if i can explain a bit better.
you know that time when you're playing a game or watching a video or doing something full screen and you get a text? you feel the phone vibrate, but you cant read it or see who it's from or anythign. ios has a neat little toast-like notification that pops down from the top for a second before dissapearing again to tell you the info.
the easiest way to do this for android without making a whole new notification system would be to add toast notifications to messages and stuff.
yes that is exactly what I need. Can anyone find something like that?
Tasker would probably be able to do it, though it may be a bit of a pain to set up, especially if you're not familiar with how Tasker works. There may be a tutorial somewhere for doing something like that.
what is tasker?
I know one which does that, but it's wp7 style... It's called wp7 notifications.
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you know that time when you're playing a game or watching a video or doing something full screen and you get a text? you feel the phone vibrate, but you cant read it or see who it's from or anythign. ios has a neat little toast-like notification that pops down from the top for a second before dissapearing again to tell you the info.
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use MIUI, it does this and I found it annoying so I turned it off.
Try here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480094
Guys! I have 2 apps that do this. 1 was specifically for this, the other I didn't know had it. Text notify (that's the app name) does exactly this but it's near the bottom of the screen. Maybe 1/4 from the bottom. Then I got true caller Id, which might be questionable because it prompts you saying by using this app your contact list gets added to their database... But True caller id puts the notifications at the top like you described. Both apps free.
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I've been using iPhone notifications for a few days now and besides it's ugly look I'm digging it. Check that one out
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Tape an iPhone to your Evo.
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It has S-Note (ability to record your self in app with audio and replay)
S-Memo improvements
S-Pen settings have some features added in.
Browser is definitely improved.
ATT Messages app preinstalled. Sorta.
Voice Talk super responsive!
S-pen still not calibrated just right but better.
Rotation more responsive.
New sounds.
Used allshare to stream my own movies to my mac via XMBC (Success!).
Screen only activates facelock when you manually lock the device, otherwise its just a swipe lock.
Update. 4G is way stronger and faster.
couldn't find any more right now.
SMS send button corrected
claywd said:
It has S-Note (ability to record your self in app with audio and replay)
S-Memo improvements
S-Pen settings have some features added in.
Browser is definitely improved.
ATT Messages app preinstalled. Sorta.
Voice Talk super responsive!
S-pen still not calibrated just right but better.
Rotation more responsive.
New sounds.
Used allshare to stream my own movies to my mac via XMBC (Success!).
Screen only activates facelock when you manually lock the device, otherwise its just a swipe lock.
Update. 4G is way stronger and faster.
couldn't find any more right now.
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agree on all except allshare & facelock...I dont use...
+1 on the 4g is stronger for me in my area...
i noticed theres a lil delay when u unlock the screen then hurry and lock it, it shows the homescreen for a sec then goes to the lock screen
Camera seems quicker and the preview after shooting no longer has the laggy animation.
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I can't change the lock screen wallpaper in the settings.I did some work around magic to get what I wanted
from my big a$$ phone
maybe its a dumb question to ask, but is all share a touchwiz only app?
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+ Palm-sweeping screenshot is working now
- sweeping title bar brightness control still broken
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maybe its a dumb question to ask, but is all share a touchwiz only app?
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Not sure what you mean. I use Go launcher and all share still works.
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It uses frameworks only supported by the stock rom and stock applications.
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+ Palm-sweeping screenshot is working now
- sweeping title bar brightness control still broken
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I've tried and tried to no avail as far as using my palm to get a screenshot. Is it maybe because I'm using ICS perfection based on the newest build?
EDIT: I didn't realize your palm has to touch the screen. Silly me it works flawless. Its actually the quickest way to achieve a screenshot
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It uses frameworks only supported by the stock rom and stock applications.
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thank you for the info, I really miss this feature
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Is it my imagination:
The android keyboard is less forgiving?
I have way more typing errors than with previous bases.
The gallery looks blurry?
My eyes aren't what they used to be, but . . .
still could use more work
As with the previous leaks some of the issues were not addressed. Basically some will find this leak pleasant and others such as myself not worth the hassle (returning once again back to stock). I quess it all depends on how one uses their phones. For me the task manager (jobmanager.apk) is a must, task manager must be used repeatedly to accomplish anything. Next Bluetooth works, however when using it with Pandora and programs via data I lose the ability to control music using headset (some functions work others don't). Trying to connect to a call via Bluetooth during audio playback in news or Pandora is more trouble than its worth. Tap to zoom while viewing pages over zooms not to big an issue but prefer to have it zoom and fit the screen. Last but not least, I still think the note has the worst call quality of any phone I've ever used was hoping a ROM or update would fix this, of course this is my opinion here. I will give the browser one thumbs up (the other hand is being used to display a middle finger to this leak) it far surpasses the previous stock browser, I'm not a fan of the checkerboard effect. I haven't used this leak long enough to find any other problems.
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thank you for the info, I really miss this feature
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Works on hybrid though
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rangercaptain said:
Is it my imagination:
The android keyboard is less forgiving?
I have way more typing errors than with previous bases.
The gallery looks blurry?
My eyes aren't what they used to be, but . . .
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I'm glad to see that the keyboard problem wasn't just me. I felt like Homer Simpson trying to type. Not only was it generating a lot of typos but it also seemed like the auto-correct was acting like a drunk Marine... way too aggressive and usually wrong. The strange part is that I encountered the exact same problem with the android keyboard, the samsung keyboard, ICS keyboard, A.I. Type, and Swype. Swiftkey has acted fairly good for me though. I imagine there has to be some component, related to autocorrect, that all of the other keyboards share but Swiftkey doesn't.
I seems that the hidden menu:
*#*#4636#*#*
is not working anymore. I think this is a new issue, before this was always working.
I also don't like too much this new keyboard ... too many typos.
So is it the way the screen reads your fingertips, or is the dictionary a suck-hole?
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Yeah, that hurts the people who want to drop to EDGE to save power.
Do you get really annoying glitches with SwiftKey when you use Chrome?
Basically, when I'm typing something into a form, like just Googling something, I get these insane errors/predictions that I can only describe as repeated parts of words.
Example: if I'm trying to type "Plainfield public works" and I delete a letter or something, all of a sudden I have like "plaplaiplaiplaiplaiplaiplai" as a suggestion, and when I try to delete parts of it, it gets even LONGER of a word. Then when I delete the word, it always deletes more than just that stupid word so my whole sentence is messed up. I always have to switch back to HTC keyboard when using Google Chrome which stinks.
Again, this ONLY happens with Chrome, so it isn't a SwiftKey thing in general. I just typed all of this with no issues. I'll try to grab a screen shot of this issue...
Edit: I tried to type "this is so annoying" and didn't even try to backspace anything. This is what I got:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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PsiPhiDan said:
Do you get really annoying glitches with SwiftKey when you use Chrome?
Basically, when I'm typing something into a form, like just Googling something, I get these insane errors/predictions that I can only describe as repeated parts of words.
Example: if I'm trying to type "Plainfield public works" and I delete a letter or something, all of a sudden I have like "plaplaiplaiplaiplaiplaiplai" as a suggestion, and when I try to delete parts of it, it gets even LONGER of a word. Then when I delete the word, it always deletes more than just that stupid word so my whole sentence is messed up. I always have to switch back to HTC keyboard when using Google Chrome which stinks.
Again, this ONLY happens with Chrome, so it isn't a SwiftKey thing in general. I just typed all of this with no issues. I'll try to grab a screen shot of this issue...
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Ooooooh Man you get this to! I get it almost everytime and never thought to switch keyboards as I always just switch to the stock browser but I do indeed have that same exact issue.
Suuuuuuuuuuper annoying.
MonsterMatt said:
Ooooooh Man you get this to! I get it almost everytime and never thought to switch keyboards as I always just switch to the stock browser but I do indeed have that same exact issue.
Suuuuuuuuuuper annoying.
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Yeah it drives me nuts. I love SwiftKey, and I love Chrome, so I hate choosing between the two. It's like choosing between Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper...
I guess I love Chrome more because I've never considered using the stock browser. Since ICS makes switching keyboards so quick and easy, I just do that. I don't understand how a keyboard has issues with only one app though... This is way above my head. Would I report the bug to SwiftKey or Google?
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Getting them here too. Annoying, I say.
It's the very reason I un installed chrome today.. Too much bull crap to worry about. Stock browser is just fine.
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Yeah I get this too, if I had to guess it has something to do with the instant search feature used by Google conflicting with the prediction of SwiftKey.
Try turning off instant search with Google and see if that helps.
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BrianBaker said:
It's the very reason I un installed chrome today.. Too much bull crap to worry about. Stock browser is just fine.
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Haha what other bullcrap is there, if I may ask? I freaking love Chrome, personally!
Question to those who use stock browser: does SwiftKey still do this when typing in Google, or no? That would explain whether Google Instant is involved.
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It's a known issue with Swiftkey, they are working on a fix.
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Yeah I get this too, if I had to guess it has something to do with the instant search feature used by Google conflicting with the prediction of SwiftKey.
Try turning off instant search with Google and see if that helps.
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Thanks for the idea! I never thought about that, but it makes sense that those two things would be fighting one another. Since it appears to work on the stock browser when Googling, it must be app related. I'm not sure how to turn off instant search though. I'm actually not even sure it uses instant search...
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It's a known issue with Swiftkey, they are working on a fix.
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This is great news, I searched the SwiftKey forum and didn't find anything about this. It seems most threads about a repeated word glitch say it was already solved, and it most certainly hasn't been!
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I use Thumb Keyboard and while I didn't have this exact problem it definitely didn't work right with chrome. I kept getting kicked out of the field I was typing in or suddenly my cursor would move to the middle of the sentence, etc. I spent 20 minutes trying to finish 3 sentences before giving up.
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PsiPhiDan said:
Haha what other bullcrap is there, if I may ask? I freaking love Chrome, personally!
Question to those who use stock browser: does SwiftKey still do this when typing in Google, or no? That would explain whether Google Instant is involved.
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not saying Chrome is bull crap per say but the situation is bull crap and i dont see the need to deal with it in chrome when i can just use the stock browser.
I have the exact same problem with chrome & swiftkey.
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Hopefully this fix this problem soon.
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I use Swype (the beta release) and I get this problem with chrome too. So it's probably not swiftkey's fault, might be a problem with chrome?
Yep. It's annoying when it happens.
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le0ch said:
I use Swype (the beta release) and I get this problem with chrome too. So it's probably not swiftkey's fault, might be a problem with chrome?
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Now that is very interesting... how can SwiftKey offer a fix if the problem isn't on their end?? Or, coincidentally, both keyboards happen to have made the same mistake in their code or whatever. Weird.
Yeah I've had this back even with the 3D, hated the issue because I love both products. So what I do is keep a stock ICS keyboard installed and then upon launching Chrome, Tasker brings up the list of keyboards and I select it. A bit of an annoyance? Yes, but both of the apps are too useful to be without.
(Also, if you're wondering why I don't just have Tasker automatically switch the keyboards, its because it can't :/ It's a security feature within Android that prevents "malicious applications from switching the user to their own IME". More info here. Kind of a shame but I do understand why it was implemented.
Hopefully either Swiftkey or Chrome get it resolved, wherever the issue lies.
I get that bug occasionally, as well as the keyboard not responding at all. It comes up, i hit keys and they light up as if i hit them but they don't get inserted, basically the whole input service locks up as i can't even switch keyboards. None of the other replacement keyboards i've used do this.
Yeah, this is a constant issue and forced me to switch back to stock keyboard.
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erichj said:
Yeah, this is a constant issue and forced me to switch back to stock keyboard.
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I have found if you type really slow, it's fine. Haha, but who wants to do that?
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Today, April 12th, 2013, Facebook Home was released into the play store for public use on a select few devices. However, many people are skeptical are wondering if this is going to be a worthwhile app to use to replace their home screen, and I’ll let you know right now.
The Good
- Interface: When scrolling through the pages and different pictures, the experience you get while using it is very good. If you’re looking for buttery smooth performance, this may be for you
- Chat Heads: Chat Heads are little bubbles that pop up whenever you receive a message (or SMS assuming you set it up in settings) through your Messenger app. You can move it all around your screen and they pop up no matter what screen you’re in. You can stack your messages together, or throw them all away. As well when you do click on the chat head, it comes up in a nice little pop up so you don’t have to leave the app you’re in. And of course, if you’re into emojis, facebook has most of them and they will pop up on your friends iPhone or your normal GO SMS/SMS app that also has the emoji codec.
The Bad
- No Dedicated Camera Button: You would think with Facebook relying very heavily on pictures it’d have a dedicated camera button in the corner of the screen or something, but no. You actually have to swipe up, go into apps, swipe right, then scroll and find the camera button and move it into your shortcuts. Kind of an annoying and unnecessary hassle.
- Better Search: So far, Facebook Home makes you have to keep scrolling and scrolling an endless amount of times until you may find content you are actually interested in. To find your friends you must go into the actually Facebook app itself to view specific people if you can find them on Facebook Home.
- More Features: I’m not too huge of a Facebook user. I reply more on Twitter, Google +, and Instagram. While the first two social networks are understandable not to have in Facebook Home, it’d be nice (since Facebook bought out Instagram) if you could make Facebook Home show your Instagram feed instead of your Facebook feed after going into the settings.
- Support: If you watched the event, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned he wanted this to be something everyone, on any phone, can use. But at the moment it’s only supported on the Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3, HTC One, One X, or One X +.
Final Verdict
While Facebook Home does a couple things right, it really needs to work on things still. At the moment, it’s more a beta than anything else. Hopefully in the coming months when Facebook does its scheduled updates, it’ll add more functionality and phone support so more people can actually use it. If you're really big on Facebook this is gonna be fore you. If you use Facebook to connect with a few people and the rest is a bunch of people you don't really care about then at the moment I'd probably steer towards sticking stock or using something like Nova or Action launcher Pro.
I tried this today.... i honestly felt it was a joke. That's my personal opinion. :/
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I don't like Facebook home but the new bubble feature for the messenger is pretty cool.
I didn't like home either. The chatheads are pretty cool though.
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nnnnr14 said:
I don't like Facebook home but the new bubble feature for the messenger is pretty cool.
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Agreed, I love the chat heads
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I didn't like home either. The chatheads are pretty cool though.
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Yeah, I'm actually using Facebook messenger for those. Facebook Home though is uninstalled.
bajasur said:
I tried this today.... i honestly felt it was a joke. That's my personal opinion. :/
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As of now, I'd have to agree. Especially if they start pushing ads into it.
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How do you enable sms integration
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I can't even review it to give it 1 Star in the Play Store lol Facebook is just awful.
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I can't even review it to give it 1 Star in the Play Store lol Facebook is just awful.
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Lol
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While you liked the interface, I thought it was absolutely terrible. It failed at both of it's intended purposes for me. It's useless as a Facebook interface and it's useless as a phone interface.
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How do you enable sms integration
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Open your Facebook Messenger then hit menu/settings/sms/mms
I like chatheads so I'm using mine integrated right now too.
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I cant seem to get chat heads to popup on regular launcher? Under Facebook messager i do not have to option of enabling it. I am on the most current version of it 2.4.2release, Can the Note 2 not do this unless on 4.2.2?
shrike1978 said:
While you liked the interface, I thought it was absolutely terrible. It failed at both of it's intended purposes for me. It's useless as a Facebook interface and it's useless as a phone interface.
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What I mean by liking the interface, I mean the pictures and quality look quite nice. However, navigating through it.. not so pleasant an experience when getting to your apps, settings, into facebooks app itself, etc.
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I cant seem to get chat heads to popup on regular launcher? Under Facebook messager i do not have to option of enabling it. I am on the most current version of it 2.4.2release, Can the Note 2 not do this unless on 4.2.2?
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It didn't work for me right away either. Make sure you messenger is updated first of all (mine wasn't), but even after I did that it still didn't work. I reset my phone though and it seemed to work (make sure Chat Heads are enabled in the Messenger settings as well).
Great whats next? Facebook phone?
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Noitron said:
Great whats next? Facebook phone?
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Is already out. HTC First.
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Hated it!
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I tried it...Wasn't a big fan. I did not make it my home screen...just the lock screen. I left Nova home intact.
Uninstalled
Seeing as Facebook is mostly for tweens these days and looking at the comments so far, it just reinforces why I don't use Facebook.
I use it for my lock screen and chat heads. Still use nova for my home launcher though.
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Pita to send MMS to a non Facebook friend
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droidmakespwn said:
I use it for my lock screen and chat heads. Still use nova for my home launcher though.
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How do you keep it as lock screen only?
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