is anyone getting super slow home screen loading. i feel like when hitting the home button the loading just takes forever. I use my epic touch and it just feels so much more snappier even on the stock rom then the S3. i feel as if the s3 is slower in some cases. no matter what app you click on or even in the settings menu if you hit the home button it feels like it just takes forever to go to the home screen. theres just overall lag throughout the phone. whether its clicking on the text entry box for the keyboard to open up or sometimes just scrolling through the home screens and i dont even have alot of stuff on them. does anyone else feel like they see all this or that the epic touch was smoother/snappier? i just expected super fast and i dont feel like i got.
btw ive had them all, og evo, nexus s 4g, evo 3d, epic touch, galaxy nexus. all rooted and running like butter i just dont see this in the s3
lmk thank you inadvance
Yes there is a delay, not too bad but noticable.
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If you press the home button twice then S-Voice pops up. The lag is the phone waiting to see if your going to press the home button twice. Just disable s-voice and it will be much more responsive. I read about this in another forum.
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If you press the home button twice then S-Voice pops up. The lag is the phone waiting to see if your going to press the home button twice. Just disable s-voice and it will be much more responsive. I read about this in another forum.
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thank you this is 100 times better without s voice being enabled thank you again. I was really disappointed with it until now. Much appreciated
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Wish I had my SGSIII.
Would love to be able to adjust the lag, shortening it keeping the S-voice functionality.
myn said:
Wish I had my SGSIII.
Would love to be able to adjust the lag, shortening it keeping the S-voice functionality.
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soon grasshopper... soon lol if your the same myn that I used to use those awesome roms from on my og evo then you need to get the S3 and develop for it cuz your amazing
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soon grasshopper... soon lol if your the same myn that I used to use those awesome roms from on my og evo then you need to get the S3 and develop for it cuz your amazing
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The one and the same my friend. I wasn't a fan of sense, but I do respect myn and his work, so I'd be more trying on the G S III.
Yeah the lag kinda sucks. I disabled S Voice which was good but then I wanted to use it. I'm just dealing with the lag now. Maybe there will be a setting in a rom one day to modify the delay time.
alexanderd said:
Yeah the lag kinda sucks. I disabled S Voice which was good but then I wanted to use it. I'm just dealing with the lag now. Maybe there will be a setting in a rom one day to modify the delay time.
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can't you just disable the double tap home to open svoice?
nicholaaaas said:
can't you just disable the double tap home to open svoice?
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Yes it can be deactivated within the s voice app
alexanderd said:
Yeah the lag kinda sucks. I disabled S Voice which was good but then I wanted to use it. I'm just dealing with the lag now. Maybe there will be a setting in a rom one day to modify the delay time.
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do you actually use I just don't see the need of it whether it's siri or s-voice. you can open apps and do all the commands faster then the robot can
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myn said:
Wish I had my SGSIII.
Would love to be able to adjust the lag, shortening it keeping the S-voice functionality.
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That makes two of us :/
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alexanderd said:
Yeah the lag kinda sucks. I disabled S Voice which was good but then I wanted to use it. I'm just dealing with the lag now. Maybe there will be a setting in a rom one day to modify the delay time.
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just disable the double click and run it by clicking an icon on the home screen
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edisepic said:
is anyone getting super slow home screen loading. i feel like when hitting the home button the loading just takes forever. I use my epic touch and it just feels so much more snappier even on the stock rom then the S3. i feel as if the s3 is slower in some cases. no matter what app you click on or even in the settings menu if you hit the home button it feels like it just takes forever to go to the home screen. theres just overall lag throughout the phone. whether its clicking on the text entry box for the keyboard to open up or sometimes just scrolling through the home screens and i dont even have alot of stuff on them. does anyone else feel like they see all this or that the epic touch was smoother/snappier? i just expected super fast and i dont feel like i got.
btw ive had them all, og evo, nexus s 4g, evo 3d, epic touch, galaxy nexus. all rooted and running like butter i just dont see this in the s3
lmk thank you inadvance
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i agree with the random lag everywhere
MДЯCЦSДИT said:
That makes two of us :/
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same here! i wonder how we'll be able to switch the double tap home button to "google now" instead of s-voice when jelly bean is available
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Hi guys
I am thinking about upgrading from my 3 months old dhd to s2. What do you think? Any advice on the general usability of the touchwiz ? HTC sense is pretty slick and great but I am disappointed with the display that pretty much sucks.
I saw a couple of videos in YouTube and I could see that the home screen takes some time to appear after we press the home button. Are you guys experiencing something like that. I cannot live with such a phone no matter how fast it's processor is
Please advice
Thanks in advance
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Hi guys
I am thinking about upgrading from my 3 months old dhd to s2. What do you think? Any advice on the general usability of the touchwiz ? HTC sense is pretty slick and great but I am disappointed with the display that pretty much sucks.
I saw a couple of videos in YouTube and I could see that the home screen takes some time to appear after we press the home button. Are you guys experiencing something like that. I cannot live with such a phone no matter how fast it's processor is
Please advice
Thanks in advance
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heres a few of older threads about this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091774&highlight=desire
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076991&highlight=desire
maybe some of your answer are found there
evolutiontheory said:
Hi guys
I am thinking about upgrading from my 3 months old dhd to s2. What do you think? Any advice on the general usability of the touchwiz ? HTC sense is pretty slick and great but I am disappointed with the display that pretty much sucks.
I saw a couple of videos in YouTube and I could see that the home screen takes some time to appear after we press the home button. Are you guys experiencing something like that. I cannot live with such a phone no matter how fast it's processor is
Please advice
Thanks in advance
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When you press home, there's a slight delay to let you push the home button again (to activate Voice Talk) if you want to. I'm sure someone'll come out with a mod that lets you toggle VT on/off sooner or later. Flashing a (not yet existent) non-TW based rom'll do it too. It's not a physical/hardware limitation or anything if that's what you're wondering.
Actually if you can't live with a phone that takes ~0.5 seconds longer to go home... well I really don't know what to say.
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When you press home, there's a slight delay to let you push the home button again (to activate Voice Talk) if you want to. I'm sure someone'll come out with a mod that lets you toggle VT on/off sooner or later. Flashing a (not yet existent) non-TW based rom'll do it too. It's not a physical/hardware limitation or anything if that's what you're wondering.
Actually if you can't live with a phone that takes ~0.5 seconds longer to go home... well I really don't know what to say.
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that's because home button is the button which I press the most.
No point in the phone being snappier when the button that you press the most is not snappy at all!
Really? Since the device takes ~0.5 more seconds to go home, there's no point in having a quick phone?
Personally, hitting the home button and watching the animation isn't all I do on my phone.
I usually browse the web/play games/listen to music/watch videos etc on my phone and the extra 0.5 seconds to go home doesn't bother me.
Each to their own I guess.
Hmm think this is a matter of personal preference. But good to know that this lag is only for home screen.
Thank you guys. I checked out the links and amazed at comments that s2 blows dhd out in terms of speed. Dhd s speed was amazing for me. Only problem is the ****ty display. Can't imagine how s2 will be then
i have hd desire hd2 on android and now s2.......s2 is best by far, hd2 on droid a clear second and desire hd 3rd
****ty display? I love it ^^ It's GORGEOUS
evolutiontheory said:
Hmm think this is a matter of personal preference. But good to know that this lag is only for home screen.
Thank you guys. I checked out the links and amazed at comments that s2 blows dhd out in terms of speed. Dhd s speed was amazing for me. Only problem is the ****ty display. Can't imagine how s2 will be then
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I wouldn't really call it lag... it just wants to be sure you don't want to activate Voice Talk everything else is blazing fast as I'm sure you've found out
Shame there's no way to disable vt atm though.
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I did it also, look at my sig and i don't regret it! The only think that you will miss is Sence widgets and a lot af games (ckeck the games that you play to be compatible with SGS2, also look at Chainfire 3D).
If you what to film something with the device that this is your phone, the best camera ever!
I've had the SGS II for about three weeks now and have continuous issues with keyboard input accuracy. From the Samsung and stock Android keyboard, to the ICS hacked version (and then the Market version) as well as Swiftkey X - I make mistake after mistake regardless of whichever one I'm using. I'm coming from a Captivate where the text input seemed a non-issue on any keyboard I used. It almost feels like the touch panel/digitizer isn't aligned with where my fingers are touching.
Does anyone else have issues with keyboard accuracy? I love this phone but this issue is really preventing me from enjoying the experience.
I'd highly recommend the ICS keyboard linked later in this thread. Much better than what I initially posted.
Swiftkey X works perfectly fine for me.
I'm using the ported ICS keyboard found on the market and it works very well. There have not been any problems for me at all.
Just installed it and I find myself making the same mistakes as any of the other ones. It's so weird...I've never had this problem on the Captivate and other phones in the past.
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I'm using the ported ICS keyboard found on the market and it works very well. There have not been any problems for me at all.
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+9000
Happy camper here
I see a couple ICS keyboards on the Market, can ya provide a link? I'm always up for finding something new although as I mentioned already, I like SKP.
I am using go keyboard from the market with go launcher and I noticed the button( keys) are bigger. But honestly I don't have any issues with my keyboard calibration works fine. I sometimes not a wrong key but that is my fault and not a calibration issue. Possibly you can calibrate your screen? Never have done it but I think it can be done. Maybe a bad phone also?
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I was able to eliminate this problem by loading the cognition rom. Im not sure exactly why it fixed it but i assume it because it is an international rom that was ported.
im using the swype beta 3.6 doesnt really need to be "accurate" since all you do is "swype" it. but it is fairly accurate for me if i have to type with it.
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
Kadin said:
I'd highly recommend Smart Keyboard Pro as it's the only keyboard app I know of that has a built in calibration tool which has helped me big time. There's a free version but honestly I never looked at it. Bought it on a recommendation and never looked back...
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro&feature=search_result
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I just downloaded this on your recommendation... I love the compact mode for portrait, reminds me of my blackberry keyboard, thank you
LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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This is the exact problem I seem to be having.
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ICS keyboard form the market is awesome, fast and extremely accurate. I havent had any more keyboard problems.
I use the newest update of Swype and its definitely not as smooth and accurate as it was on my cappy. I'm On my second sgs2, and have had accuracy issues on both. It's not horrible, just not as good as my cappy. It's the only thing that was better on my cappy compared to this phone, so I'll deal with it.
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LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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I have the exact same problem. Everytime I hit the n key In the middle I get a period.
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Well its a good thing I posted a solution to the problem and everyone chose to ignore the advice. Good night.
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seh6183 said:
Well its a good thing I posted a solution to the problem and everyone chose to ignore the advice. Good night.
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Yes.. flashing a rom and having no earthly idea why it just magically fixed is quite a solution! Let me jjust drop everything I'm doing, lose all of my time and effort of making my current rom the way i want it so I can flash the rom you are assuming fixed it without any facts or reasoning so I can make you happy.
Goodnight.
Goodnight!!!
..... I didn't want to be left out from saying goodnight
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LMaui said:
I'm using the swype keyboard on mine Galaxy S2, I am a new convert from the iPhone and can barely type on this thing. Thank God for swipe. It appears to me that i have to hit the upper portion of the key to make an accurate key press. If I hit it dead on I get the key below it, strange.
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Yes, it seems like you have to hit the letter you want about 2mm high. At first I thought it was because I was converting over from the iPhone, but two months later I still had problems. I have kind of retrained to hit the buttons on the upper half. I am going to try the ICS keyboard.
And a goodnight too.
1...My skyrocket looks small compared to the note.
2..Have big hands so no issues typing etc
3..Everyone at work today was like wth is that.
So far im loving it. Anyway back to playing..
Let the games begin.
Sent from my awesome GALAXY NOTE..
Congrats man enjoy it I will have mine soon enough
Best comments I've heard bout mine are
"Nice 19" Samsung TV"
"Nice phone does it come with a backpack?"
"Zach Morris wants his cell phone back"
"Can I watch HD porn on your phone?"
I had someone ask me is that the new iPhone?????
brokenartist said:
I had someone ask me is that the new iPhone?????
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I would've give them the WTF look, haha.
After messing with it for awhile, I notice it lags a little.
Skyrocket? My Streak looks small now. And I used to tell people the Streak was the new iPhone XL prototype model. Now I'm going to say it's the new iPhone XXL model.
I knew this phone was big but I could not believe how small my Samsung Skyrocket looked compared to this phone. I don't know if I can ever go back to a small 4.5" screen again. I love the keyboard especially in landscape. The keys are the perfect size now.
NR017 said:
I would've give them the WTF look, haha.
After messing with it for awhile, I notice it lags a little.
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Its because of that stock ****ty rom.
NR017 said:
After messing with it for awhile, I notice it lags a little.
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I feel as if the stock launcher is the cause. I've been messing around with different launchers and have noticed that there isn't any lag on some of the others. Such as Zeam or even Launcher Pro
Anyone notice the auto brightness is really touchy? I feel like it is constantly adjusting, so I just turned it off.
Oh and Fruit Ninja with the s-pen isn't even fair
If you think that your skyrocket is small you should see my wifes iphone4 or my atrix after holding this thing!
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Anyone notice the auto brightness is really touchy? I feel like it is constantly adjusting, so I just turned it off.
Oh and Fruit Ninja with the s-pen isn't even fair
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S-pen and wheres my water..i never even thought..thanks
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Yeah the s-pen is gonna be very handy for alot of stuff...and for the hell of it I put my wife iphone next the note. Freaking tiny.lol
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I can't wait to line my Note side-by-side with my Streak, Aria, and Pre 3 once I get it. 2 giants and 2 midgets.
The aria is smaller lengthwise than our screen is widthwise I bet lmao
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Anyone notice the auto brightness is really touchy? I feel like it is constantly adjusting, so I just turned it off.
Oh and Fruit Ninja with the s-pen isn't even fair
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Yes that is something I noticed right away. My Atrix looks so small already. Hope I can get used to the size but I think I like it.
LTE is not in my area yet so I tried to see if I could just pop that sim in but no data worked just calls. Maybe the apn settings?
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After messing with it for awhile, I notice it lags a little.
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coming from a iP 3gs trying to run iOS 5, it takes a lot for me to notice lag anymore.
jimmer411 said:
The aria is smaller lengthwise than our screen is widthwise I bet lmao
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I laid my Aria flat across my Streak from left-to-right. It goes up to like the 4 capacitive buttons, then the rest sticks out.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of it still sticks out when it's laid sideways on the Note.
my wrist pops as I stretch my thumb out to reach the 'qwas' keys with my thumb.....and this thing is like "back pocket" big...but so gorgeous. Already noticed the pen only works on this, not even my tiny skyrocket.
This will be so sweet for remote desktop. no more Galaxy Tab to lug around.
I love this freaking phone so far!!! Web browsing is an absolute pleasure on this beast. I was shocked that it really doesn't take much to to get used to the S-Pen, get better every time I show someone how it works. Oh and LTE is the bomb in Atlanta!!!!!! On my second speed test inside the home depot I work at I got 50 mbps down and 12 mbps up!! SWEET!!!
I'm not in the mood to buy a new phone that is worse off than my current one. Since none of the reviews mentioned it for the One X, I don't expect them to bother looking at it for the EVOLTE. Any news on this?
Same concern here.
Also seems as if the SGS3 is following suit with the same aggressive multitasking system.
dont buy it then lol
im still getting it. people love to ***** about the smallest things.
Perhaps a reviewer who has it can tell us
flex360 said:
dont buy it then lol
im still getting it. people love to ***** about the smallest things.
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This isn't my asking if the back cover gets fingerprints. This is a real functionality issue.
Saneless One said:
I'm not in the mood to buy a new phone that is worse off than my current one. Since none of the reviews mentioned it for the One X, I don't expect them to bother looking at it for the EVOLTE. Any news on this?
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It's an issue to people who aren't on XDA & feel it's an issue.
Not worried about it. Root, Custom Kernels & a Custom ROM will be dictating how aggressive the TK runs.
I think most people don't realize that it's probably more of an ICS issue than an OEM one. When the Galaxy Nexus first came out people were complaining about the same thing, but you don't hear much about it anymore with the update to 4.0.3 and 4.0.4.
My Evo 3D with the ICS leak (4.0.3) doesn't do this so I'm not to worried about the Evo LTE doing it either.
I have a loaner Evo lte and it doesn't seem to have this issue. I started playing a video on youtube, then jumped to the browser. I surfed the internet for over a minute, and switched back to youtube. The video was on pause. Once I hit play it restarted where I left off. Then after watching the video for more than a minute, I switched back to the browser. The webpage did not reload and displayed what I was previously viewing. Seems all good to me.
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I have a loaner Evo lte and it doesn't seem to have this issue. I started playing a video on youtube, then jumped to the browser. I surfed the internet for over a minute, and switched back to youtube. The video was on pause. Once I hit play it restarted where I left off. Then after watching the video for more than a minute, I switched back to the browser. The webpage did not reload and displayed what I was previously viewing. Seems all good to me.
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That sounds awesome, but my real question for you is this:
Is the phone amazing?
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I have a loaner Evo lte and it doesn't seem to have this issue. I started playing a video on youtube, then jumped to the browser. I surfed the internet for over a minute, and switched back to youtube. The video was on pause. Once I hit play it restarted where I left off. Then after watching the video for more than a minute, I switched back to the browser. The webpage did not reload and displayed what I was previously viewing. Seems all good to me.
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Oh great! That is reassuring. I hope it holds true for demanding apps as well.
great!
one x issues http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-one-x-multitasking-problem-apps-killed-off-86498/ and http://www.fun47.com/htc-one-x-and-s-disappointing-in-terms-of-multitasking/
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That sounds awesome, but my real question for you is this:
Is the phone amazing?
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I really liked it. My current phone is the Evo 4G, so I'm a little out of date. The screen is amazing, as expected. The phone is quite a bit bigger which surprised me. Not too big by any means, but definitly bigger than I expected. It's nice and thin and feels more sleek. One thing my wife mentioned was that the machined aluminum edge felt 'sharp', like maybe it needed to be deburred or rounded. It wasn't a compliant, just something she noticed. I had no issue and thought it felt great.
The camera was very nice. It takes pictures very fast. One slight dissapointment was the time it took to turn on the camera when pushing the manual camera button on the side. I expected instant readiness, but it took maybe a second or so. The onscreen camera button launches the camera faster.
I actually like the multitask button. It instantly popped up the app screens and rolled back the previous app. Kinda nice that it doesn't start on the current app and require you to scroll back. My current Evo now seems slow having to hold the 'home' button. I kinds miss the menu button. The menu in differnet apps can be on the bottom, top, or not have one. I found myself hunting for it sometimes.
That's all I can think of now. I had to give it back Sunday night. Overall the phone is great, and I can't wait to get my pre-order from sprint!
settings> Developer Options>Don't kill activities
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settings> Developer Options>Don't kill activities
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For real. Why are people complaining so much? How long have we had ICS now? If you don't know your menus and settings by now, don't even bother complaining here.
General users, yeah, more understandable, but not us. But still, if something isn't working right, check your Settings and see if you can change something. Is it really that hard?
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settings> Developer Options>Don't kill activities
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RegnierD said:
For real. Why are people complaining so much? How long have we had ICS now? If you don't know your menus and settings by now, don't even bother complaining here.
General users, yeah, more understandable, but not us. But still, if something isn't working right, check your Settings and see if you can change something. Is it really that hard?
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If the two of you were staying on top of this story, you would know that checking this doesn't help. Even with that option checked, HTC has changed the settings within the kernel to kill open tasks at a much more aggressive rate than ICS normally would, in order to allow sense to be smoother. They just pushed an update to the international version that helped, but the issue is still there. Personally I don't think it's a big deal, but it is something that can't be changed through checking that item off.
The more you know...
/reading up on an issue and doing some research before posting - is it really that hard?
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If the two of you were staying on top of this story, you would know that checking this doesn't help. Even with that option checked, HTC has changed the settings within the kernel to kill open tasks at a much more aggressive rate than ICS normally would, in order to allow sense to be smoother. They just pushed an update to the international version that helped, but the issue is still there. Personally I don't think it's a big deal, but it is something that can't be changed through checking that item off.
The more you know...
/reading up on an issue and doing some research before posting - is it really that hard?
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I've only had my EVO LTE for a few hours, but I'm already noticing that apps are reloading a lot more than they did on my EVO 4G. Specifically with the stock browser and titanium backup (woot for root!). It's not a deal breaker, but it is annoying.
Phone activation restarted for me. I'm guessing that's the aggresive task killer at work. D:
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I've only had my EVO LTE for a few hours, but I'm already noticing that apps are reloading a lot more than they did on my EVO 4G. Specifically with the stock browser and titanium backup (woot for root!). It's not a deal breaker, but it is annoying.
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dude i just asked why it was reloading all most of my widgets on my home screen(my evo 3d did not do that)
when i go into settings and hit back botton to exist
it starts reloading my widget on home screen
then it wont accept htc mail widget on home screen
gonna do factory reset and see what happens
anyone with any ideas
Just did a factory reset and it went away
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Me and some other guys kinda highjacked another thread so I decided to open a new one here for people to share their opinions, thought and general arguments and if there are easy solutions to the matters that the DNA makes you sad, I did look through the first 10 pages of this section and didn't find anything similar so people, bash away, and bear in mind that what you say will shape my (and others) opinion and whether I should or shouldn't buy this damn amazing piece of equipment
This seems like a good idea, and I can definitely see this helping a lot of people. I'm extremely happy with my DNA thus far; stellar battery life and performance, and the build quality is superb (especially the literal edge-to-edge glass that feels like it flows off the front of the screen). It's also quite resilient - I had it sitting in the passenger seat of my car, got into a pretty serious accident, and the phone doesn't have a single scratch on it. Obviously I got very lucky, but yeah..
On another note, my only gripe is that I can't seem to delete 3 of the stock bookmarks (Google, VZW Home Page, and Your Guide Mobile). I've tried clearing the app data, but that didn't help. I'm not rooted, but I'd think there should be some sort of workaround.. any tips would be appreciated
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On another note, my only gripe is that I can't seem to delete 3 of the stock bookmarks (Google, VZW Home Page, and Your Guide Mobile). I've tried clearing the app data, but that didn't help. I'm not rooted, but I'd think there should be some sort of workaround.. any tips would be appreciated
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I don't think that without root you'll be able to delete them, not sure though and I'm not suggesting you should root cause apart from the warranty being void there's always a risk of bricking, small but is there... I guess for now you gotta live with it.
One thing that annoyed me about the DNA is that they chose to put Back, Menu, and Multitasking as the buttons. So you still have to have the 3-dot menu on screen. Luckily, if you root the device, you can change the multitasking button to Settings (which is exactly what I wanted), so I'm thrilled to have that. The bloatware remover is great as well.
If you aren't afraid to root it, there is awesome stuff out there for it. I won't be using a rom without Sense because I actually like Sense a lot. The lock screen and camera software are the best that I've seen.
The USB flap is annoying, but I will definitely be getting a wireless charger.
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I don't think that without root you'll be able to delete them, not sure though and I'm not suggesting you should root cause apart from the warranty being void there's always a risk of bricking, small but is there... I guess for now you gotta live with it.
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Ah, alright. I'm planning on rooting it eventually.. at some point.. but as you said, there's always that risk lol. Plus, beyond that small issue with the 3 bookmarks, everything else about the phone is perfect even without root, so I can live with it Thanks for your input though!
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This seems like a good idea, and I can definitely see this helping a lot of people. I'm extremely happy with my DNA thus far; stellar battery life and performance, and the build quality is superb (especially the literal edge-to-edge glass that feels like it flows off the front of the screen). It's also quite resilient - I had it sitting in the passenger seat of my car, got into a pretty serious accident, and the phone doesn't have a single scratch on it. Obviously I got very lucky, but yeah..
On another note, my only gripe is that I can't seem to delete 3 of the stock bookmarks (Google, VZW Home Page, and Your Guide Mobile). I've tried clearing the app data, but that didn't help. I'm not rooted, but I'd think there should be some sort of workaround.. any tips would be appreciated
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I don't know if you can do it with the apps you mentioned, but you can disable a lot of apps through settings without root.
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Kasab said:
I don't know if you can do it with the apps you mentioned, but you can disable a lot of apps through settings without root.
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Yeah, I've disabled a good amount of apps through settings, but I was talking about the preset bookmarks that show up in my browser and in my bookmark widget.. it let me delete the other 7 or so, but these 3 refuse to be deleted
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Symbiotx said:
One thing that annoyed me about the DNA is that they chose to put Back, Menu, and Multitasking as the buttons. So you still have to have the 3-dot menu on screen.
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on the one X you could change it through settings where you choose what the multitasking button does, if I remember correct when you put the button to show the settings menu in single touch and multitask on long press it dissappears, not sure if it works on the dna but give it a try and report back
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Yeah, I've disabled a good amount of apps through settings, but I was talking about the preset bookmarks that show up in my browser and in my bookmark widget.. it let me delete the other 7 or so, but these 3 refuse to be deleted
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I see what you mean. I just tried it myself and couldn't delete those 3 bookmarks either. Guess root is needed to delete them. Unfortunately, currently you cannot write to the system while booted in android on the DNA. You would have to do it through recovery somehow.
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Yeah, I've disabled a good amount of apps through settings, but I was talking about the preset bookmarks that show up in my browser and in my bookmark widget.. it let me delete the other 7 or so, but these 3 refuse to be deleted
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Why not try opera or chrome for browser as a default? I personally prefer opera mobile but try a few first, like maxton and skyfire
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Why not try opera or chrome for browser as a default? I personally prefer opera mobile but try a few first, like maxton and skyfire
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That's a good idea too. I almost never use the stock browser anyway. Boat browser has been pretty good to me as well although any of these would work. What I like about 3rd party browsers probably the most (aside from features) is the fact that I can exit the browser. With the stock one it will just keep running even if you back out of it.
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That's a good idea too. I almost never use the stock browser anyway. Boat browser has been pretty good to me as well although any of these would work. What I like about 3rd party browsers probably the most (aside from features) is the fact that I can exit the browser. With the stock one it will just keep running even if you back out of it.
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true, whenever I flash a new rom and reinstall opera I always activate the exit button on options.
phones been surprisingly awsome on stock.
I rooted the phone so i could run wifi tether. No issues with disconnects and I can actually tether my phone and not have to plug it in for 6-8 hours.
Love the screen, not just how good it looks but the waterfall effect the glass has feels amazing to me. Overall, very pleased with my purchase.
the european version was just announced so I think I'm gonna be going for that cause it states a sd card slot in contrast to the dna,
all the other specs remain the same
so I guess I'll be attending another forum soon, hope you find help on this thread and pm me if I can help with anything
http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-butterfly/#specs
My biggest gripe (besides the 3 dot menu button) is the damn messaging app. Every single time I go into it, it 'refreshes.' So many times the app takes a few seconds to load and it shows everyone's phone numbers instead of the names. I just don't understand why.
I'm hesitant to switch to another messaging app because 1) I think they're ugly/love the look of the Sense app and 2) I love how I can see a new message on the Sense lock screen and swipe directly into it.
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My biggest gripe (besides the 3 dot menu button) is the damn messaging app. Every single time I go into it, it 'refreshes.' So many times the app takes a few seconds to load and it shows everyone's phone numbers instead of the names. I just don't understand why.
I'm hesitant to switch to another messaging app because 1) I think they're ugly/love the look of the Sense app and 2) I love how I can see a new message on the Sense lock screen and swipe directly into it.
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It sounds kinda weird, how many contacts and messages do you have? if it's not thousands I guess there might be something wrong
try another messaging app to see if it's persistant or just the sense messaging
I don't have that many contacts, and I definitely don't have that many messages. I limit it to 200 per thread (only a few people reach this), and I even go through and delete it down to like 10 threads that are the most important. Regardless, this shouldn't happen on a phone with 2GB of RAM. Frustrates me to no end.
I posted a thread about this in this section maybe a week or two ago, and a few users chimed in saying they were seeing similar behavior. I don't think it's just me.
Mine does the refresh on sms too. Its like 1 second though so not a big deal.
Had the phone for a week. Battery life has been excellent. This is the first time in 2 years I havent had to charge my phone at work at all. Consistently get well over 4 hours screen on time. Although I've noticed using non-sense launcher its not quite as good but still excellent.
The screen is amazing and even at 5 inches it fits comfortably in the hand. Even pushing this many pixels I have yet to notice anything id call lag.
The 3-dot menu can be annoying if you notice it. Hoping for an update somewhere to deal with that at some point. I've also had issues with Netflix not loading properly but I blame the app. Also, I've noticed when I change lockscreen style, like to productivity or something it doesn't work too smoothly. Not being able to change wallpaper on a screen longpress kinda baffles me as well.
The phone definitely has some quirks and some areas where HTC could have made the operation of things more efficient instead of adding unnecessary steps. But I would definitely recommend this phone to anyone it is really a pleasure to use.
Btw, being left handed, am I the only one that wishes the back button was on the right instead of the left?
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crossmission said:
on the one X you could change it through settings where you choose what the multitasking button does, if I remember correct when you put the button to show the settings menu in single touch and multitask on long press it dissappears, not sure if it works on the dna but give it a try and report back
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Nah, for some reason, they took that out of the DNA. Can't change it in the stock options.
broons said:
Btw, being left handed, am I the only one that wishes the back button was on the right instead of the left?
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I'm right handed and wish it was on the right because my thumb isn't long enough to reach it on the left.
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