Received an update for my google maps last night. Can anyone confirm what changed from the received update a few days ago? Searched online and only find info about iOS updating nothing about Android. Just curious
Seems to be smoother than the initial release. A lot if people are claiming the settings are easier to navigate through but honestly I didn't use the settings before so I can't personally comment.
It was likely a general bug fix following the initial release of a fully overhauled app
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Dubbsy said:
Seems to be smoother than the initial release. A lot if people are claiming the settings are easier to navigate through but honestly I didn't use the settings before so I can't personally comment.
It was likely a general bug fix following the initial release of a fully overhauled app
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Curious about the "active traffic". Supposedly it reroutes on the fly... anyone seen this?
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Curious about the "active traffic". Supposedly it reroutes on the fly... anyone seen this?
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Saw it mentioned in the changelog but, haven't put it to use, cars navigation does this already.
I think it includes the button to cache offline maps
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ChrisNee1988 said:
I think it includes the button to cache offline maps
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That was in the menu before.... at the bottom "make this map area available offline" at least for me it was
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That was in the menu before.... at the bottom "make this map area available offline" at least for me it was
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it was taken out then added back in in the latest update, now its at the very bottom of the search screen
I tried it for about two minutes, and I couldn't find the option to change route after nav started, or to avoid tolls after its already started navigating.
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I tried it for about two minutes, and I couldn't find the option to change route after nav started, or to avoid tolls after its already started navigating.
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That is easy and has been available since the previous version. I thought it was kind of redundant the few times I used it and had to go to the Routes & Layers tab and see three different routes (if available) pop up. I used that option that way a few times in the past, I want to see it do it automatically like the Garmins with HD-Traffic, since that is how they showed it in the examples.
Was there the option to avoid tolls? On the old maps, it was three touches from currently navigating to turn off tolls
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jova33 said:
Was there the option to avoid tolls? On the old maps, it was three touches from currently navigating to turn off tolls
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Kinda a pain but....
click the "X" in the lower left corner to cancel current route
touch the address at the top
click route options
check avoid tolls
click done
select new route and continue
I like to set navigation shortcuts on my home screen. One touch for home, mom's house, sister's house, and ect. So it's one touch to start navigation, and then when I'm getting within a hundred miles from tolls, three touches to avoid them.
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Samsung dialers used to include a function where you could slide right over a contact to call and slide left to message them. They removed this a while ago and changed to the default android behavior, so I switched to using exdialer since it retained this. Just the other day, exdialer was updated and no longer does this in the contacts (still works in the recent call list) . I've looked around a bit for another app that has this functionality, but I can't seem to find one.
Anyone know of one out there?
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Any and every Samsung TW(touchwiz) based rom has this function. Shostock, Aberration, all TW roms. Cm9,AOSP and AOKP roms DO NOT have this feature. So you need to try a TW rom, I dual boot Shostock2 and Aberration, and both have this feature.
He's talking about alternative dialer apps if I'm not mistaken. I don't use any, so unfortunately i can't help.
exDialer in the Play store. It's free and has the swipe to call/SMS functionality you're looking for.
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exDialer in the Play store. It's free and has the swipe to call/SMS functionality you're looking for.
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Nope, as the op mentioned, it was removed in the latest update (or at least doesn't work correctly on JB ). The toggle is still in the settings, and it works from the call history, but swiping left or right in contacts just changes pages.
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Nope, as the op mentioned, it was removed in the latest update (or at least doesn't work correctly on JB ). The toggle is still in the settings, and it works from the call history, but swiping left or right in contacts just changes pages.
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It still works in exDialer. You have to click the button in preferences to allow swiping to dial from contacts. I've just tried it and confirmed it still works. However, I don't know how it worked before as I've never used it before today, so not sure if it's a new setting previously unavailable.
Also, I'm running Task's AOKP JB. Make sure you set a # as default, too, the first time you try it for each person.
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It still works in exDialer. You have to click the button in preferences to allow swiping to dial from contacts. I've just tried it and confirmed it still works. However, I don't know how it worked before as I've never used it before today, so not sure if it's a new setting previously unavailable.
Also, I'm running Task's AOKP JB. Make sure you set a # as default, too, the first time you try it for each person.
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Yep, I'm an idiot. There are actually TWO toggles to enable swipe a contact to dial. The one towards the top of the list is for the dialer only, and then there is another one lower in the list for contacts.
Thanks JankAU for pushing me to figure this out - it had been a moderate annoyance. Hope this also helps out the OP.
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Yep, I'm an idiot. There are actually TWO toggles to enable swipe a contact to dial. The one towards the top of the list is for the dialer only, and then there is another one lower in the list for contacts.
Thanks JankAU for pushing me to figure this out - it had been a moderate annoyance. Hope this also helps out the OP.
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No worries, brother. We've got bigger issues, like keeping Task around, ya know? And to be honest, I thought you were right the first time because I was swiping from history. I had to figure it out as well, so it worked out for both of us!
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Here is the Beta apk for the Tapatalk 4 public beta! Once you install the app it will auto update to the latest version.
http://db.tt/MERpi7uS
As a side note THIS IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH ANDROID 4.0+
THAT MEANS DO NOT INSTALL ON GINGERBREAD
HTC ONE! Everything your phone isn't!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapatalk.tapatalk4
Released on the play store! Have fun!
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So far I'm not finding it to be very user friendly...
It takes some getting used to. Its very gesture based. Swipe left or right to change thread pages. Tap the top bar drop down menu (not settings 3 dot) to quickly change forum directory. Tap the Tapatalk logo to bring up all your subscriptions and notifications
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Plus when not viewing a specific thread swiping right open the quick bar.
In addition it uses PUSH notifications as opposed to PULL notifications. Way better on battery and efficiency
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What's the difference between push and pull? I never get notification on my phone but my n7 I do
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Man this beta is sweet. Thanks for the heads up
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
What's the difference between push and pull? I never get notification on my phone but my n7 I do
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PUSH notifications is a Google API in which notifications are pushed to your phone using the Google Framework and Servers.
PULL notifications is where your phone pings a server at designated times.
Push uses no battery. Pull uses a lot.
Something along those lines
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Hey guys. Just thought I'd see what everyone uses their multi app Windows for. I think it's a great idea but I can never think of 2 apps I'd use at the same time.
I turned mine off because i dont like the tab thats on the side of the phone. Texting and browsing is one good use for it. Easy to copy and paste links between the two. Although its pretty easy to swap between the two using the home key too.
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I usually use mines for copying information into a notepad / memo.
YouTube and a browser bc YT stops when its in the background and with a mod'd YouTube apk, I can listen with the screen turned off
I haven't used it once, the phone switches windows so fast
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Student GMail -> calendar. I get notified of school meetings and stuff all the time. Multiwindow makes it very easy to copy over the information into my Google calendar.
But that's really my only use for it. It is nice for this purpose, but I could live without.
Copying links/addresses or other information to a text is a good use, as is from any app to a note taking app.
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Student GMail -> calendar. I get notified of schoo. meetings and stuff all the time. Multiwindow makes it very easy to copy over the information into my Google calendar.
But that's really my only use for it. It is nice for this purpose, but I could live without.
Copying links/addresses or other information to a text is a good use, as is from any app to a note taking app.
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What calendar app do you use? I dont have a calendar app show up on my list
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I turned mine off because i dont like the tab thats on the side of the phone. Texting and browsing is one good use for it. Easy to copy and paste links between the two. Although its pretty easy to swap between the two using the home key too.
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On TW if you hold the back softkey button while multi-window is enabled it hides the bar until you want it again. Simply hold the back button once more for it to show. =)
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What calendar app do you use? I dont have a calendar app show up on my list
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Custom ROM that enables multiwindow for all apps or root with multiwindow manager.
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i usually use it when balancing accts. i like reconciling manually since i always seem to get double entries doing it "automatically". ff up top and anmoney at the bottom. works better with a tablet though.
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I haven't used it once, the phone switches windows so fast
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I have to agree, aside from the cool factor of actually being able to do it, I have not found a practical use for it.
I use it when copy/pasting login credentials from LastPass.
- Dave
Cool thanks guys
I have used it a couple of times to text while I watch a movie or video.
Before I had the phone, I thought I would use the multi-window a lot and was excited about it.
Tried using it a few times and it just wasn't clicking for me.
I think if I could incorporate my apps with it or if it were more intuitive, maybe I would use it. I don't know.
As of now I have it disabled.
I would like a better app switcher, though. Something like Zephyr for the jailbroken iphone.
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I use it when copy/pasting login credentials from LastPass.
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Best example use I've seen yet. Great idea.
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Is there a a way to add apps to the multi task tab? I'm rooted and not running anything other than stock.
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Is there a a way to add apps to the multi task tab? I'm rooted and not running anything other than stock.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.multiwindowmanager&hl=en
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Metallice said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.multiwindowmanager&hl=en
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much!
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In case you don't feel like installing an app...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43746459#post43746459
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Hey everyone. I'm still pretty new to Tasker. I've only been actively using it for about 2-3 weeks. I think I've got a pretty good handle on it, but there's something I can't seem to figure out how to do. I know that by default, Android doesn't allow any app to modify another's notification in the pull-down menu but if I could get take to simulate a tap in the upper right corner where that button is to clear all notifications, wouldn't that do the trick? How so do you get take to do that? I read the was a shell command that you could run that was basically "input tap x-coords y-coords". Tried that but it didn't work. Any ideas?
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Hey everyone. I'm still pretty new to Tasker. I've only been actively using it for about 2-3 weeks. I think I've got a pretty good handle on it, but there's something I can't seem to figure out how to do. I know that by default, Android doesn't allow any app to modify another's notification in the pull-down menu but if I could get take to simulate a tap in the upper right corner where that button is to clear all notifications, wouldn't that do the trick? How so do you get take to do that? I read the was a shell command that you could run that was basically "input tap x-coords y-coords". Tried that but it didn't work. Any ideas?
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maybe under the script---> Run Shell?
That's where I'm trying to run it from. It doesn't work for me.
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That's where I'm trying to run it from. It doesn't work for me.
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run shell -> input tap x y
x y are the coordinates (activate them to show on screen in developer menu in settings)
is that what you've tried?
Yeah. And it didn't do anything. I even tried different coordinates thinking that maybe I was trying to use coordinated that were too close to the border or something
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Just started using tasker today and am curious, what are you trying to clear notifications for?
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I have a different idea, for whatsapp for example. While i press the vol- buttom , press the mic in whatsapp, so i can use the push to talk function with a real buttom, its difficult to do ? SORRY for my english, plz sorry
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Just started using tasker today and am curious, what are you trying to clear notifications for?
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Welcome to Tasker. As far as what I'm trying to have done with it and my notifications, read the original post. It explains what my goals are
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Tried and tested, run shell -> input tap x y -> ensure use root is ticked, I have been using multiple tasks with this exact command
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Finally figured it out. It was all in the details. I didn't use root and I also had the word 'Input' with a capital 'I' instead of lower case. I guess it has to be all lower case
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I have literally had my phone for less than a few hours. But I thought it would be a great idea to share likes and dislikes.
Little bit of background, I am coming from a Note 2, so most of my likes/dislikes will be catered toward the upgrade from the Note 2.
Likes -
Mostly Everything LOL,
the screen resolution
the vibrant colors,
super fast,
the plethora of options,
blocking mode finally works,
no wifi nag notification,
wifi toggle works.
Dislikes -
The internet browser no longer sync with google,
can not use multiple lock screen widgets w/password or pattern lock,
4x4 grid on touchwiz (will be switching to nova).
I will update my list once I get to fully dive in. But so far 9.9999999999/10
I had mine for about an half hour. The best thing so far to me is the settings screen is 1 menu instead of 4 tabs . Sometimes its just the little things
Loving mostly everything, but again have only messed with it for a short time.
Only gripes so far is font sizes and in general DPI is just way too big and obnoxious. And lag when typing on the keyboard.
Let's go root!
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I had mine for about an half hour. The best thing so far to me is the settings screen is 1 menu instead of 4 tabs . Sometimes its just the little things
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Oh yeah I love the fact that it is only one settings screen, instead of the four tabs.
We need root ASAP lol.
dukins said:
Oh yeah I love the fact that it is only one settings screen, instead of the four tabs.
We need root ASAP lol.
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So settings is set up different on vzw? Nice!
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So settings is set up different on vzw? Nice!
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Yep. One screen.
Keyboard is amazing, no need for swiftkey.
Id rather have the tabs so you dont have to scroll dow a huge list like on my note 2. But ghsts not a big deal. Im glad you can use blocking mode, and the wifi is back to normal.
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I don't like that when you get a new message it says now message instead of showing the actual text and who its from
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Getting Samsung keyboard has stopped when trying to write something with S-pen in a text field ie: text message, tapatalk response.
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On the Verizon Model is the gallery as slow as we have been seeing in the review units?
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I don't like that when you get a new message it says now message instead of showing the actual text and who its from
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You can change that in the messenger app settings. Enable message preview and it will scroll the message in the status bar like normal.
I'm so jealous right now. I would have mine now too, if I didn't change the shipping address to the correct one. So they can't ship it until tomorrow. So i am going to call to see if I can pick it up later this evening...
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likes
new settings
wifi toggle and no wifi nag notification
screen
new s pen
faux leather back
dislikes
none so far but only been on a few hours!
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You can change that in the messenger app settings. Enable message preview and it will scroll the message in the status bar like normal.
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Awesome thanks bud
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Agree with pretty much all of the likes so far, which is mostly everything about the device. My 4G speeds seem to have improved too.
Some nitpicks:
-new S-Pen feels much cheaply made than Note 2's
-Flipbook keeps getting activated when I hit the home button and accidentally brush by the screen
-Screen brightness range is WAY TOO SMALL (minimum brightness is too bright)
Several complains: desktop view does not stay on. I do not see the Note 2 developers options. I cannot remove the Verizon bookmarks as I was able to do before and restore from a save.
I think u have to tap on something in the menu 7 times to get dev options to show up. Saw it in a review somewhere
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I think u have to tap on something in the menu 7 times to get dev options to show up. Saw it in a review somewhere
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tap on build number in about phone
-Flipbook keeps getting activated when I hit the home button and accidentally brush by the screen
Can you disable Flipbook?
dislike that verizon is giving me a hard to use that verizon30 code