I really like the phone, but the browser is the weak point for me. its just buggy, the text resize-when-zoom puts it JUST too wide, and bla bla bla, finally something to complain about. youtube links wont associate with the youtube app. i'm upset. thats another thread. thanks apple.
Anyway, the best part of the sense browser was you could just tap the address bar and you got a list of most-visited sites automatically. Now, its like any 3rd party browser where you have to at least type the first letter of any site before the list shows up. How do i get back the autolist function like the sense 3 and sense2 browsers?????? This was such a great awesome thing. gone.
Also, do you all know about the gestures??? i couldn't find a help explaining what they all are. I couldn't figure out how to get the address bar without scrolling all the way back up to the top.
Discovered you can finger-swipe a "L" or backwards L shape, down then right or down then left, and it'll bring up the address bar. OK, cool, i can live with that. But seriously people, HOW DO I GET THE STATUS BAR to show up while using the browser!?!? How do i get to pull it down, i can't even figure out how make it appear! someone help!
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i'll stop at those two major issues and whine about other minor problems later in the thread.
1)omnibar / awesomebar list of most visited sites by just tapping in it instead of requiring a typing of a letter.
2) what are the browser gestures, where can i get a list of them, "L" shape will bring up the address bar, but why and how does the broswer totally hide the status bar????? isn't the point of android you can pull down the status bar, see notifications, etc etc please someone help me
seriously no one knows about the default browser's guestures? any of this?
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This seems pretty cool. Basically it lets you search for a contact or (anything else) on your phone by writing the letter on the screen but it lets you access the "Gesture Search" by flipping your phone away and then back. I have installed it and it's indexing my contact list but in my preliminary messing around it seems to work. Check it out.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/flipping-for-gesture-search.html
EDIT: Ok... The actual "flip" to start the program doesn't seem to work for me but the Gesture Search is still cool (starting it with the icon). Maybe they will fix it up for the Vibrant soon.
Update: Wow I'm an idiot. There's an icon right on the address bar that opens the exact window I'm thinking of. In my defense, I don't think I used to have to access it this way. I seem to recall there being a menu option. Who knows. I bricked my G1 so I can't go look.
On my G1 I could long-press on the Back button and get my browser history. I've read elsewhere that this is the case on other phones. This is mysteriously missing from the Vibrant. Plus there used to be a menu option to see it. I can find no way to access the history using the "Web" app. There is a button in settings to clear the History, but what's the point if no one can ever see it?
Same with Bookmarks. I can create bookmarks, but there don't appear anywhere! The button that normally shows bookmarks (if I recall correctly) is now an "Add RSS Feeds" button. The only way I've been able to access bookmarks is by creating a shortcut on my home screen. That's pretty ridiculous.
I seem to remember bookmarks, history, and possibly the open window list all being in one spot with a tabbed interface. All I can get to now is the open window list. EDIT: No, wait, I think it was bookmarks, history, and downloads all in one place. I was using CM5 at the time if that matters.
Am I missing something obvious here?
Also, does anyone else think it's annoying that the browser has it's own brightness setting and you can't just tell it to use the normal brightness setting? I understand the idea behind the future. You spend a lot of time staring at the screen when using the browser, so it's nice to be able to dim it to save battery power, but I sure wish there were an option to just make it use the normal brightness, because I really don't care. This is especially annoying when I have the brightness in the browser all the way up, and I'm using the reddit app at night in my bed, and I click a link. BAM! I'm blinded by the bright screen and have to keep staring at it to go find the setting to lower it.
I think Samsung made some really dumb mistakes with their version of Android. I know that custom roms solve these problems, but users shouldn't have to hack their phone to get basic features like access to browser history and bookmarks.
I dont mine the address bar going away, but getting it back sucks. My Nexus S, all you had to do was scroll up the page a line and it would pop back. SGSIII, I'm having to scroll all the way to the top of the page to get it back.
Is there a setting to change this or am I doing something wrong?
I know there are other browsers, but I prefer the stock one, so please don't tell me to use one of the many others
That's the only way I can get it back as well. I haven't seen any settings for this, though I have found something you might want to try. In your browser go to settings -> Labs -> Check Quick Controls. Sliding your finger from the edge gives you some controls. This gives you an option to pull up the address bar while anywhere on the page. Will probably take some getting use to though. Only weird thing is that when you have quick controls on, scrolling to the top of the page will not bring up the address bar.
A while ago I remember using an app where you could long press the home button at any time and it would open up like a panel on top of what ever you were doing at the time and you can add widgets and apps there. I can't remember what it was called?
Even better would be if people know of other apps like this, where you can either press/swipe and it opens a pane where you can add such things for quick access. Kind of like the side bars but a full screen pane that you can add whatever you like.
EDIT: Found it: 'QuickDesk'
Although it's old and not been updated for a while, so was looking for something like this but more up to date.
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A while ago I remember using an app where you could long press the home button at any time and it would open up like a panel on top of what ever you were doing at the time and you can add widgets and apps there. I can't remember what it was called?
Even better would be if people know of other apps like this, where you can either press/swipe and it opens a pane where you can add such things for quick access. Kind of like the side bars but a full screen pane that you can add whatever you like.
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Well, I would say this is just hard to answer because without anything.... just the imagination its sounds ... ! Anyway let us know are you talking about some launchers because I guess the features you are talking about works out with the launchers.....
I have found the app I was referring to now, 'QuickDesk' although it's old and not been updated for a while, so was looking for something like this but more up to date.
Hello,
Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I'm just curious if it would be possible to remove that little notification "bubble" curve which indicates if you have reached the top or bottom of a page. I don't even know what that little thing is called, and I'd rather remove it as it's rather useless and I don't like the feature at all.
I'm running rooted Lollipop with Nova Launcher on Mlais M52, cheap china phone. Asked my friends with Marshmallow and seems like they are not having that "bubble" on every single menu, just WhatsApp or FB messenger. I'm getting it even in app drawer which makes it rather annoying as I prefer to scroll from top to bottom instead of left and right.
Found something from StackOverflow, but seems like the feature is not called "FadingEdge". I'll add a screenshot with that "bubble curve" if my explanation was way too confusing
-jVRNO
Couldn't figure how to upload a direct screencap to the reply. Here you go:
https://i.imgsafe.org/ba6f39e.png
bump, do anyone know even what's the feature called?