Hi there, all. It says a lot about the complete satisfaction I have in the DNA, running on M7, that I'm down to such a "silly" issue...
Is there a way to re-arrange or delete "share" options in the photo share menu? I Googled, but found nada - but, those were all earlier Android versions (2010 and 2011). I'm hoping something's changed? I only use Gmail, really, but it's relegated to the "more" portion of the share options menu.
Thanks much!
Depending on where you are, in camera or gallery the options may be limited. Try Quickpic from the store for viewing etc. Much better than the Gallery plus it's FREE
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Basically I'm looking for a video app that works similar to the gallery video app wherein it "minimizes" / dims the home and time icons etc in the taskbar but has the ease of use and functionality of say moboplayer.
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Don't think it exists yet. See this thread for more details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135600&highlight=moboplayer
Folks are looking for Devs to institute the feature.
Thanks for that. I'm definitely hoping that either the moboplayer dev or at least one developer implements this. It definitely adds to the user experience being able to hide or dim those icons into those dots
I really like the Sony Cradle, but there's one thing that's been bugging me since I got it.
I'd really like to use my tablet as a photo frame when it's in the cradle, and there's the Gallery app to do just that. But unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of settings.
Rather than just pulling in any photos it finds, I'd like to just display a specific folder of images (In an ideal world, it'd hook into Flickr and pull a particular set in, but that's probably asking too much).
Failing that, it'd be great if other applications - including an alternative "gallery" app - were available.
Other options should include duration between pictures, selection of transitions, how to deal with photos of different ratios, and choosing whether to pan/zoom or not.
Has anyone got any solutions?
install quickpic (alternative gallery, fast and free, lets u define paths)
go to settings, applications, gallery
clear defaults
see if quickpic now comes up as option when u dock
Any word on how this worked? I'd like to have something like this, but can't try it until I get home.
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tried it. still only gives the same options. =\
QuickPic is indeed a much nicer program than Gallery, although it could do with some transitions.
Unfortunately, only the three "official" Sony apps come up as options to auto-start when you dock in the cradle - Clock, Gallery and Chumby.
I'm not sure what special inclusions are required for third-party apps to work like that...
Well, quickpic needs some development
Quickpic is nice, but still, what's bugging me is:
"Can't sync Picasa or Facebook or other web albums!"
An app where you could choose whatever album you wanted (including Picasa) I would give a fair amount of money for.
Hi guys!
I've bought an Alwinner A13 Tablet as a Christmas present for my daughter who is 3yrs old. She has been using mine and my husbands HTC Sensations for watching BabyTV and playing various counting and alphabet games, but we twitch every time she drops them...hence the cheap tablet. It is running 4.0.4 has 512 MB RAM and 8GB internal storage. We bought a 16GB SD card to increase the storage.
I want to customise it for her in time for Christmas and was wondering if you guys mind my asking some questions on here in the hope 1 or more of you has done something similar or can point me in the right direction at least.
What I want to do:
Hide, disable and lock out the internet browser, app store and anything else that I may need to do stuff (like install apps for her) but don't want her to see or use.
Disable the system icons / buttons (battery, clock, app home etc)
Make desktop / homescreen icons bigger (approx twice their current size).
Prevent her moving and deleting icons
Create folders on the home screen with custom folder icons (different picture for each folder) that will hold apps and shortcuts to movies on the SD card.
Give App and shortcut icons custom icon images (I have graphics files for these that I can resize)
Play movies directly from shortcut
Minimalistic movie player that just plays the file and then EXITS back to the home screen when the movie is done.
If any of the above requires changing ROM from the installed 4.0.4 to something else or requires the tablet to be Rooted then I've learnt how to do that already.
Any help or advice on how to achieve the above list would be greatly appreciated.
p.s I already looked at the "big icon" app in google market, but it sticks a setup icon next to the icon which you cant lock out..which means my daughter could easily modify the icons.
Thanks
Lyndsey
most of your requirements can be found on go launcher or adw launcher as for movie shprtcuts i dont know if its possoble
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Kids Place + ES file manager
most of this could probably be handled by the Kids Place - Parental Control app on Google Play, you can make shortcuts to basically anything (including movie files) using ES File Explorer by tapping and holding on the video and selecting make shortcut and also has a pretty simple video player built in.
ngoralph said:
most of your requirements can be found on go launcher or adw launcher as for movie shprtcuts i dont know if its possoble
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Thank you for your help!
Do you know if there is a movie player around that I can configure so that it closes down and returns to the home screen after it's finished playing a movie? This functionality is pretty important as I don't think she'll be able to exit the movie player herself.
I looked at go launcher but I couldn't see it supporting setting folder and shortcut icons. This is pretty important as well, because her reading level is still quite low and therefore she will have to navigate by "familiar" icons (BabyTV Icon to take her to the BabyTV player etc).
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most of this could probably be handled by the Kids Place - Parental Control app on Google Play, you can make shortcuts to basically anything (including movie files) using ES File Explorer by tapping and holding on the video and selecting make shortcut and also has a pretty simple video player built in.
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Okay, I installed Kids place. That wouldn't let me add movie shortcuts or folders to the desktop, only apps. I want to have folders on the desktop with shortcuts inside each folder to movies. Each folder to have an icon depicting the cartoon character of the movies that the shortcuts inside point to.
Having folders with custom icons is something that computers have been capable of for 20 years and yet android can't do this. It's extremely frustrating that there are so many other types of customisations and wazzy effects (launchers seem to prioritise a hundred different ways of scrolling over desktop customisation!!) and yet something so basic is absent or poorly implemented.....
Sorry....had to get that rant off my chest!
I'll keep looking but thanks for the help http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I'm trying out go launcher again. So far it's closest to what I need to do but still has some issues. Such as when you make the icons larger, folder labels disappear inside folders! I had each shortcut inside the folder listed as 1,2,3 etc because my daughter can count, just not read that well yet.
I have a question I hope someone can help with:
Why do all the custom launchers reduce the size of the desktop icons? whichever launcher I load up, when I go from stock ics launcher to the custom launcher, the icons are about 50% of the size. I'm just curious...
You daughter wouldn't be able to go to the homescreen by herself?
It's not that hard to teach her to press the home button when she wants to go to the homescreen.
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You daughter wouldn't be able to go to the homescreen by herself?
It's not that hard to teach her to press the home button when she wants to go to the homescreen.
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Yes, we've already tested that theory out on my phone (HTC Sensation). So we know she can get back to the Homescreen. Thanks for bringing it up though, it's a valid point. We assumed that because she is only 3 she wouldn't be able to find her way around. But in truth she seems to be able to find her way to youtube and play movies there
So we've removed the youtube icons from her tablet now.
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Yes, we've already tested that theory out on my phone (HTC Sensation). So we know she can get back to the Homescreen. Thanks for bringing it up though, it's a valid point. We assumed that because she is only 3 she wouldn't be able to find her way around. But in truth she seems to be able to find her way to youtube and play movies there
So we've removed the youtube icons from her tablet now.
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Kids are MUCH more tech savier then you problably are. In 5 years, she'll know as much as you.
Like a lot of people I'm no fan of Androids share menu, the clutter drives me mad. So I went with Fliktu, but I noticed If I wanted to change my phones wallpaper (which as a new user I like to do) Gallery would crash telling me Fliktu has stopped working, which just puzzled me, I even tried the other Custom Share Menus everyone talks about in AppChooser and Andmade Share and had the same issues. It seems the Share menu is tied in with Wallpaper settings, anyone know how to fix this?
Hi there! I noticed that Sony Xperia 1 III lacks some very common apps that I would like to have, such as:
1. Photo Editor (Google sucks!)
2. File Explorer or File Manager (Google sucks!)
2. Voice recorder
3. Memo or Notepad
Maybe a Photo Gallery different from the one that came with and was taken over by...Google!
My latest phone was a Samsung and I was very happy with their stock apps. Also, I had the Sony Xperia 1 and it had great stock apps, as well.
If you could please dump the .apk of previous Sony versions of those apps above that would work with 1 III or if you could recommend me the best from Google Play, I would really appreciate it.
Many thanks!!!
For photo gallery search for sony album app in apk mirror. This is great gallery, I installed it and it works perfectly fine.
The only thing is in latest version sony broke / removed possibility to rotate picture.
And can't edit videos. I installed the latest version of sony album, sony photo editor and video editor, and I can only edit Photos, there's no option for videos to edit like it was on my XZ3 in Album app.
Now I bought Simple Gallery Pro: Videos & Photos Manager & Editor. It's all I needed.
Hope it helps ya!
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And can't edit videos. I installed the latest version of sony album, sony photo editor and video editor, and I can only edit Photos, there's no option for videos to edit like it was on my XZ3 in Album app.
Now I bought Simple Gallery Pro: Videos & Photos Manager & Editor. It's all I needed.
Hope it helps ya!
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Thank you, Victor!
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For photo gallery search for sony album app in apk mirror. This is great gallery, I installed it and it works perfectly fine.
The only thing is in latest version sony broke / removed possibility to rotate picture.
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Got it . Thanks!
Victor_octo said:
And can't edit videos. I installed the latest version of sony album, sony photo editor and video editor, and I can only edit Photos, there's no option for videos to edit like it was on my XZ3 in Album app.
Now I bought Simple Gallery Pro: Videos & Photos Manager & Editor. It's all I needed.
Hope it helps ya!
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What do you mean by editing? Like cropping and filtering?
To be honest lack of many sony apps and leaving us with google garbage or trash from playstore is making me want to move to iPhone. Not because of built quality nor because of camera.
But because Apple provides many dedicated apps of high quality and ecosystem + it supports its devices for years.
Sony is on opposite route and is obsessed with feature / functions / apps removal.
I bet they hired someone sitting and scanning xperia code wondering what else he can cut off / remove
Mark 3 build quality is good.
But software wise it sucks so much.
Now you cannot even select which pane is the main screen but it always has to be the one on the left. Why so stupid limitation??? Shouldn't android be the system of freedom, options and customization as per user preference?
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Now you cannot even select which pane is the main screen but it always has to be the one on the left. Why so stupid limitation??? Shouldn't android be the system of freedom, options and customization as per user preference?
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For me, one of the attractions of Android is freedom to use any launcher. If you don't like the restrictions of the Sony launcher, then why not use another? I've been using the same Microsoft Launcher as I've used on last two phones and I'm very happy. Or I could use Nova, as I used to on earliuer phones.
Perhaps because launcher that runs all the time consumes also some battery?
And mark 3 has very weak battery life (no matter what mAh capacity says).
That's the main reason.
Do you know the reason why sony cut off those functionalities like possibility to select main screen? In past it was there...
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Perhaps because launcher that runs all the time consumes also some battery?
And mark 3 has very weak battery life (no matter what mAh capacity says).
That's the main reason.
Do you know the reason why sony cut off those functionalities like possibility to select main screen? In past it was there...
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All launchers will use some battery. If you remain with Sony launcher that will also. Looking in battery usage stats on my mark 3, the Microsoft launcher is using no more than any other mainstream launcher. It's not running "all the time" - compared to, say, Google Play Services it's running a tiny amount of time.
I agree battery life on Mark 3 is disappointing - but different launcher is not an issue. Suggest you try one or two - there are some excellent ones out there and setting new default is simple, and reversible.
Im sticking with stock launcher for a different reason, that gesture navigation is broken on 3rd party launchers. If the api is only coming in Android 12, then I guess its until Android 12 comes out...whenever that is.
The whole topic is about sony removing features and functions.
Like OBSESSED!
If this possibility to select hope screen was there why to remove it? It does not require further development...
And all great apps they had replacing with google stock crap... When I saw google crap gallery and saw no Sony album first thing I thought was to give the device back. Thankfully I found it can be downloaded from Internet and installed. Works fine.
And yes you will not find it on Google p(l)ay store... + ...
Software wise xperia devices became pathetic with this approach. + Of course no communication and no changelogs.
Many OEM's are slowly but surely removing their proprietary apps. Good...bad??? Debatable.
The reason is that there are...in most cases...dozens of apps that will do the same thing or better on the Play Store or APK mirror, as well as a number of other sites for use. So if you're missing something, chances are that you will be able to find it, or its equivalent, and be able to accomplish whatever you need.
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Im sticking with stock launcher for a different reason, that gesture navigation is broken on 3rd party launchers.
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Gesture navigation is working perfectly with Microsoft launcher.
Best launcher is Lawnchair, it is light and stable...
Does anyone have any idea if the left side of the screen (when sliding from left to right) can be configured with any other application rather than...Google App (of course) ? I would like to have News Suite set up for that screen.
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Does anyone have any idea if the left side of the screen (when sliding from left to right) can be configured with any other application rather than...Google App (of course) ? I would like to have News Suite set up for that screen.
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Unfortunately no.
Google scam is the only option.
I recommend to disable it.
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To be honest lack of many sony apps and leaving us with google garbage or trash from playstore is making me want to move to iPhone. Not because of built quality nor because of camera.
But because Apple provides many dedicated apps of high quality and ecosystem + it supports its devices for years.
Sony is on opposite route and is obsessed with feature / functions / apps removal.
I bet they hired someone sitting and scanning xperia code wondering what else he can cut off / remove
Mark 3 build quality is good.
But software wise it sucks so much.
Now you cannot even select which pane is the main screen but it always has to be the one on the left. Why so stupid limitation??? Shouldn't android be the system of freedom, options and customization as per user preference?
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Mate, the camera on my iPhone 13 Pro is miles better than on my Xperia 1 III, consistently better point & shoot pictures, both during the day and at night