Instead, it just opens the pages in the browser (views the youtube webpage, or maps webpage). How can I set the phone to launch the apps, just like every other Android phone I've had?
I'm on the stock rom, rooted.
Thanks,
Dave
I have this same question. Also I've noticed that if I install another browser, say chrome, it won't let me pick a default. It will always default to stock HTC. I'm unrooted stock. Anyone know why? First phone this has happened.
The YouTube thing is annoying too. I much prefer the app...
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This is due to the apple patent that took away some of our functionality.
And this fixes it. Must be rooted, there's a flashable version to if you're unlocked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1693809
Thanks. Modified the file manually, rebooted and everything worked great!
I'm not rooted yet and this is infuriating. I usually email myself a maps link and use it in the car to launch maps to get navigation going. Now the link opens up the browser so I end up having to manually open Maps and paste the address in. If we keep going backwards like this I'll end up having to print directions out again like it's 2001.
You can thank apple for the backwards progress!
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So now that the new Firefox 4 Beta 5 is out, I personally think Firefox is the best Tablet browser available. Its unique approach to tabs works well on a tablet, as does the back button. The earlier versions were super slow, but I think this new one has caught up a lot. I now prefer it greatly to Dolphin HD.
I have installed the following add-ons to maximize my Nook Color internet use:
-Quit Fennec- force closes after last tab closes, a must
-Phony- easy User Agent changer, another must
-readability- fixes messy pages to fit
-Full Screen- Does what it says and makes browsing a joy
What do you all think?
I agree. Seems stable and fast (compared to Dolphin). I also used Sync to import all my passwords and favorites from my desktop.
I'll give it a try, it was even slower and klunkier than Dolphin HD last time I tried it, I use Opera 10 on my NC and it's great. I've tried Mirin too but something about that browser bugs me, can't really put my finger on it.
Can you guys post an apk? I can't get to it from market or Mozilla's website.
Thanks for the tip. Every browser seems to have 1 thing wrong with it so ill definitely give this one a try. I would like opwlera best but i can't get over the terrible way it handles initial zoom.
I agree, I can't find a working link to download the apk. I fennec but it installed an update that didn't work and now I can't install Firefox. Bummer
Would appreciate the apk as well. Thanks
FTP is your friend, as old-school as it is.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...roid-r7/en-US/fennec-4.0b5-en-US.eabi-arm.apk
Thanks for the link. But everytime I try to install this, it seems to progress, asks about permissions, but at the end, says "program not installed". I've enabled usb debugging, used titanium backup to uninstall the previous left overs of Fennec, and I still get this message. A little stumped.
is this compatible with Android 2.1 with the latest dalingrin OC? I cannot get the apk to install. launched the Package Installer and installation would not get through saying "Application not installed"
Also each time I start the installer, it would warn that the app will replace an existing appl, but i do not currently have a fennec/firefox appl installed. Titanium Backup does not show any fennec/firefox app.
Can someone help please?
thanks
finally able to install by tweaking the the build.prop as suggested here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938114&highlight=firefox
if anyone else was having the same problem. that tweak fixed it for me.
I gave this a try based on this thread. While I do like the UI and it has a snappy response, the app itself is not ready for prime-time. If you try to enter numeric information into a field, it causes the insertion point to jump around. For example, I tried to visit the website for a local library and when it asked me to enter in my library card #, instead of "1234..." it would go "1243...". The insertion of characters as I typed them magically skipped around in the field. This was not isolated to just that website. Happened on a registration form on Adobe's site as well. Very annoying.
Looking forward to future updates.
--ex
I personally think Miren browser is the best for the nook. I have it set so that that status bar/tabs stays around all the time, and the floating buttons always hide. The only issue is that it doesn't work well with image links when they are opened in a new tab. In the new tab it will instead go to the link of the picture, not the actual link to the website. I will try this though, I tried the beta a long time ago so it will be nice to see how far they have come.
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For example, I tried to visit the website for a local library and when it asked me to enter in my library card #, instead of "1234..." it would go "1243...". The insertion of characters as I typed them magically skipped around in the field.
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I have noticed this too. The only (painful) solution I have found is to very slowly type with a pause in-between each letter. Thank goodness it can sync with my desktop Firefox and slurp up all my passwords to avoid this mostly.
OMG SERIOUSLY? I tried Firefox last night for about 20 minutes and it GROUND TO A HALT each time I tried to search or put input in the URL bar. It'd freeze, if I tried to do anything I'd get the FC/Wait dialog, I hit Wait several times.. Finally killed it, tried again... Same thing. Eventually it'd load the page.
If you all think it's great, I wonder wtf is going on with my install. Maybe I need to uninstall it, make sure any old sdcard stuff is cleaned (I had it installed a few betas ago) and try again. Totally unusable for me right now.
I'm hoping the FF Deskop Ad Block Pro extension works with the FF mobile soon. That can make the internet a much more bearable place.
Works for me. But can't t flash to work. Works in dolphin and stock
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Works for me. But can't t flash to work. Works in dolphin and stock
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Yeah, Flash doesn't work so far.
This is the second TB I rooted via the adb process. The first time I did this I ran into 0 issues.
I replaced my original TB about a week ago and went through the adb rooting process on my new TB. It seemed like the second time went smoothly when I rooted my phone. I installed the das BAMF 1.7 Rom after flashing clockwork. All went well except it didn't provide rosie setting app that allows users to select the right fixed homescreen button of their choice.
I decided to go back to das BAMF 1.6.1 since I was familiar with the Rom as it was the one I used on my original TB.
Now to the issues I've experienced:
I am unable to purchase apps from the Android market. I can download the ones I've purchased in the past or download any of the free apps on the market. But I am just not able to purchase a new app from there. A network error message pops up every time I try to do so. Irrelevant I'm sure but I have no issues with the amazon app store.
Browser issues. I'm not sure what it is but viewing select web pages forces my browser to shut down. When I reopen the browser it goes right back to my homepage, not the page I was just on. I've tried the stock browser, opera and dolphin. They all experience the same problem.
Apps closing on their own. Some of the apps that pull information directly from a website will close depending on what is currently being viewed in the app. Example would be the xda app. Some of the threads cause the app to close on its own and when I reopen the app it goes right back to the home view I set it to display, not he thread I was viewing. Another example of this is pulse reader...same thing is going on with this. I realize these app issues are related to the same issue I'm experiencing via my browser but its annoying none the less.
Anyone have any suggestions, experiencing similar problems or can be of any help because I'm stumped.
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This is the second TB I rooted via the adb process. The first time I did this I ran into 0 issues.
I replaced my original TB about a week ago and went through the adb rooting process on my new TB. It seemed like the second time went smoothly when I rooted my phone. I installed the das BAMF 1.7 Rom after flashing clockwork. All went well except it didn't provide rosie setting app that allows users to select the right fixed homescreen button of their choice.
I decided to go back to das BAMF 1.6.1 since I was familiar with the Rom as it was the one I used on my original TB.
Now to the issues I've experienced:
I am unable to purchase apps from the Android market. I can download the ones I've purchased in the past or download any of the free apps on the market. But I am just not able to purchase a new app from there. A network error message pops up every time I try to do so. Irrelevant I'm sure but I have no issues with the amazon app store.
Browser issues. I'm not sure what it is but viewing select web pages forces my browser to shut down. When I reopen the browser it goes right back to my homepage, not the page I was just on. I've tried the stock browser, opera and dolphin. They all experience the same problem.
Apps closing on their own. Some of the apps that pull information directly from a website will close depending on what is currently being viewed in the app. Example would be the xda app. Some of the threads cause the app to close on its own and when I reopen the app it goes right back to the home view I set it to display, not he thread I was viewing. Another example of this is pulse reader...same thing is going on with this. I realize these app issues are related to the same issue I'm experiencing via my browser but its annoying none the less.
Anyone have any suggestions, experiencing similar problems or can be of any help because I'm stumped.
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I would re-download the rom, wipe everything (data/cache/davlik) and flash the rom again. Download flash from the market, and that will stop your browser from closing randomly.
mother effer! of all things I did forget to download flash. that's a little embarrassing but thanks. I'll read download the rom tomorrow and give it a try .
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mother effer! of all things I did forget to download flash. that's a little embarrassing but thanks. I'll read download the rom tomorrow and give it a try .
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Same thing happened to me, and I was wondering the same thing, D/L flash and all the browser problems went away.
New noobie here,
I just returned from BN trying out the NT, side by side with the NC. Upside: Definitely felt the new NT has more zip in it, a bit lighter, very promising. Downside: the "customized" web browser is slow, and on certain websites, I can't even "click" or work some buttons. Also, until our dev team can come up with a root, user only has 1 whopping gb to store our contents, out of the 16gb that we all led to believe in the first place.
I've been reading how much progress we've made in the past 24 hours, from the bad news of the bootloader to now people saying sideloading is now able, how feasible that I could load a different browser, i.e. Safari, or Opera apk into a stock machine, while waiting for a reliable root solution?
Thanks for the help!
Im using dolphin right now. I have opera on it, and I saw that some one else was using skyfire.It might have been the wifi sucking at the store too. The stock browser isnt too bad.
Yeah, stock isn't too bad. I've been using Opera all day. What really sucks is the stock keyboard.
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I hear the Kindle keyboard sucks too. What are the odds of getting Swype or something similar on one of these things?
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I hear the Kindle keyboard sucks too. What are the odds of getting Swype or something similar on one of these things?
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100%....if we get access to keyboard settings. Or have su so we can force swype on there like they did over at KF forums.
I'm not crazy about the stock browser as a whole. It locked up on me twice (i'm guessing the websites I hit were the culprit), but in stock trim, I couldn't kill the app. Had to reboot the device.
now that it's sideloaded, and I have ZDbox on it, it's a non issue. But my preference is always DolphinHD, which is now my default browser.
I've been bouncing between Firefox and the stock browser. Both seem fine, though Nightly seems a bit disjointed when rotating the NT (doing a refresh fixes the issue).
Downloading Podcasts with Stock Browser
I was in the store and I tried to download a mp3 podcast from financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour
The stock browser would let me play the mp3 right away, but there was no way I could find to download the mp3. Anyone try this with Opera, Dolphin or Skyfire?
When I click on it, it would give me a choice to just save the image of the button.
Also when downloading pdf files off the web it didn't give me a choice on which folder to download the file. It would default to My Downloads.
Overall I was impressed with the speed and build quality. I like the rubberized bezel of the NT which makes it easier to hold than the NC.
I've heard a lot of good things about chrome so I've been considering making the switch over to it. I'm not rooted or romed so is there anyway to disable the stock browser and get rid of it all together and just use chrome or would that require rooting. Fill me in what's some of the periods and cons of chrome also
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you might be able to disable and or hide from the app list, but cant remove if you are stock. also the chrome browser is good, i like sharing my bookmarks. note that on stock you can share the same bookmarks, but its not as smooth. Also chrome doesnt hide the adressbar, its always there and it takes up space. so for me thats one thing that makes me switch completely. Stock will save downloads to your SDcard if you tell it to, chrome wont. basically stock gives you more options like flash, animated GIFs. chrome handles google chrome sync a lot better. also tab management is better
It all depends on which variation of the stock browser you're using. It may be just as good or even better (in terms of performance).
Are there any extra features you're looking for?
In my honest opinion, Dolphi Browser > all other browsers for Android.
Favorite features:
Dolphin vs. Others
Slide RIGHT for Bookmarks vs having to click Menu>Bookmarks
A button automatically appears while scrolling up to take you to the top of page vs having to scroll up personally the whole time.
Some useful Add-ons vs barely any add-ons.
Fast as HELL!
Loading bar vs no loading bar (on Chrome)
Give it a shot.
Also has synching, but so do the other ones, so I can't bring that up.
Stock would be cool and all if it didn't crash on certain web pages with latest firmware, 2.13. There was a reason I hated stock browser and switched to chrome first day on this phone but I can't remember why.
Also have stock frozen, but u have to be rooted to do that.
Ya I'm not rooted so I am thinking of giving chrome a go but on its reviews in the play store it has a lot of bad reviews saying crashes a lot so Idk yet lol
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stevemoffler said:
Ya I'm not rooted so I am thinking of giving chrome a go but on its reviews in the play store it has a lot of bad reviews saying crashes a lot so Idk yet lol
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Personally, I've never had chrome crash even once that I can remember. Stock crashes everytime I go to stubhub.com.
I know what it was that I didn't like about stock now. It wouldn't ever change from mobile to full site. There's a mod I did to always go to fullsite on both chrome and stock now though so it's kinda besides the point.
Just use dolphin browser its better than chrome
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Just made the jump from stock to chrome, and chrome flllllllllllyyyyyyyssssss its fast compared to stock
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OK for starters I am very well versed in Android. I've been around the block for a long time and I've built my own roms, mods and basic apps. But I am stumped.
Now for record I am rooted and running the newest nightly from CM. (Not that it matters since this issue happens on every nightly). I'm using the Goo GAPPS12122013. I have two Google accounts signed in. Me and the wife, since I used her Nexus 7 credit to buy some apps. Dual accounts works great BTW it also allows syncing of instant uploads which is a plus.
My device is signing me out of stuff. The two culprits is YouTube and TapatalkHD. No joke YouTube will work flawless for a day or 2 and then ill open it and there is no user account signed in. So I have to do it manually. Then TapatalkHD says I'm running an unauthorized copy and must buy it. Nothing even a data wipe for the app fixes it. I have to go into the play store, uninstall it, watch it change to 'bought' then reinstall it and it works fine.
I don't get it, this never happened on my N7 on any rom not even the Gnex does it. All have dual accounts as well.
Any ideas as to what causes this? My Gmail, G+, Drive... they all don't seem to be affected. One commonality is that this issue may arrive after a crash/hardreset occurs. I find it odd though that its just these two every time.
Thanks!
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OK for starters I am very well versed in Android. I've been around the block for a long time and I've built my own roms, mods and basic apps. But I am stumped.
Now for record I am rooted and running the newest nightly from CM. (Not that it matters since this issue happens on every nightly). I'm using the Goo GAPPS12122013. I have two Google accounts signed in. Me and the wife, since I used her Nexus 7 credit to buy some apps. Dual accounts works great BTW it also allows syncing of instant uploads which is a plus.
My device is signing me out of stuff. The two culprits is YouTube and TapatalkHD. No joke YouTube will work flawless for a day or 2 and then ill open it and there is no user account signed in. So I have to do it manually. Then TapatalkHD says I'm running an unauthorized copy and must buy it. Nothing even a data wipe for the app fixes it. I have to go into the play store, uninstall it, watch it change to 'bought' then reinstall it and it works fine.
I don't get it, this never happened on my N7 on any rom not even the Gnex does it. All have dual accounts as well.
Any ideas as to what causes this? My Gmail, G+, Drive... they all don't seem to be affected. One commonality is that this issue may arrive after a crash/hardreset occurs. I find it odd though that its just these two every time.
Thanks!
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I think it's a bug with the latest YouTube app, it started happening as soon as I updated to 4.3.9.
I have it in YouTube as well, currently stock rom
OK excellent, I thought I was going crazy lol..
Any ideas about TapatalkHD besides the fact that it's a super buggy app?
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I don't have quite the same problem but every other dayish (probably) the YouTube widget has the information as if i wasn't signed in, then every time i click on YouTube it says 'Signing in' quickly and the widget goes to my stream. It's never really bothered me but it points to it being something stock.
I am running stock 4.2.2, have other users and have YouTube updated to latest version.
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OK excellent, I thought I was going crazy lol..
Any ideas about TapatalkHD besides the fact that it's a super buggy app?
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No issue with tapatalk HD for me
Yes my you tube app is stuffing me around to, but for me it all started after the new 4.2.2 update laggy home screen and laggy everything really . will wait it out.
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Same issue with Youtube here on both my Nexus 7 and HTC One X (both on 4.2.2). Seems to be a bug with the newest Youtube version.
I want the carousel YouTube back ;(
Same issue here and since I'm always watching my channels feed it's a pain to have to sign in every time...
Also that's on my n4
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