I think I'm missing something but navigation from a Google Now card (an automatic suggestion) doesn't work or make any sense.
When you get a card like 60m to Home or 50m to Work and you tap on it you get 2 options, Navigate or Open on the phone, but both seem to be doing the same, Navigate gives you no feed back, it actually looks broken because it doesn't do anything and goes back to main screen, it did however opened navigation on the phone without letting you know, at least the Open on the phone option tells you what it did.
However if you actually do ask for an address it does give you the navigation on the watch screen using card directions.
Am I missing something, does anybody else have the same behaviour?
Same here, and I wondered too. Looks bogus for me.
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So I have a habit of sliding the phone open and then pressing the hardware messaging key, and no matter what, it never seems to work. I press the button, and Ill see the today screen, but no messaging window. I have to slide it back closed and open again and everything sorts itself out.
I've tried looking, but haven't seen anyone complain about this particular problem. Anyone else fret about this? any solutions?
no one has this problem?
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I find my X01HT in landscape mode when i wake him um with the "on" button, and have to wait for it to "think" a litle bit to obey me, while that, if I try to push any command he will go crazy and the image will stay locked in the last scene and will not get actualized... Kind of annoying thing, using black Satin... But i'll try schaps now to see if that goes away...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1504436&posted=1#post1504436
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Im on WM5.
Vijay, I don't want to disable orientation permanently. Just sometimes, I want to start messaging, so in stanby mode itself, ill open and start it up. thats what confuses the 8525, thats all. I have to close the phone, and then slide it open again for it to regain consciousness!
Its no biggie, but i was just wondering if any1 else had a similar issue.
FINALLY... WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
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shlomki said:
I've come to notice that no one REALLY knew how to fully disable screen rotation on WM devices.
Some offered 3rd party apps to get the job done, some only knew how to disable automatic rotation, but when the device went into standby and woke up again - the screen rotated back. So that didnt really work.
So if you're as desperate as i was about screen rotation,
this is what you need to do:
1. Get dotfred's free taskmanager HERE, and run it.
2. Go to "Devices" tab, and look for "MIS1:" device (oem_misc.dll)
3. Long-Tap on it, and tap on "Stop"
4. Long-Tap on it again, and now choose "Set Manual"
5. Go to "Notifications" tab, and look for "Notifications\NamedEvents\VCPowerWakeupEvent"
6. Tap on it to make it selected
7. Disable it
(In dotfred's taskmanager, there should be a button for disabling it, but for some reason some devices couldn't see the button icons, although the buttons are still clickable. Under the notifications list there is an empty light-blue line - the buttons are there, eventough you can't see them.
The disable buttons is somewhere i the middle of that light-blue line, just tap the center until a message box popps up and asks if you'd like to disable this notification - Tap on yes.)All those steps are a one time deal - they stick even after an SR.
This has been tested on htc universal and works great.
The screen will keep its orientation even if you flip your screen, take out your built in keyboard, or turn the device off and back on.
The only time your screen will revert back to the original orientation is when you soft reset your device.
Hope this helps
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This seems pretty cool. Basically it lets you search for a contact or (anything else) on your phone by writing the letter on the screen but it lets you access the "Gesture Search" by flipping your phone away and then back. I have installed it and it's indexing my contact list but in my preliminary messing around it seems to work. Check it out.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/flipping-for-gesture-search.html
EDIT: Ok... The actual "flip" to start the program doesn't seem to work for me but the Gesture Search is still cool (starting it with the icon). Maybe they will fix it up for the Vibrant soon.
Update: Wow I'm an idiot. There's an icon right on the address bar that opens the exact window I'm thinking of. In my defense, I don't think I used to have to access it this way. I seem to recall there being a menu option. Who knows. I bricked my G1 so I can't go look.
On my G1 I could long-press on the Back button and get my browser history. I've read elsewhere that this is the case on other phones. This is mysteriously missing from the Vibrant. Plus there used to be a menu option to see it. I can find no way to access the history using the "Web" app. There is a button in settings to clear the History, but what's the point if no one can ever see it?
Same with Bookmarks. I can create bookmarks, but there don't appear anywhere! The button that normally shows bookmarks (if I recall correctly) is now an "Add RSS Feeds" button. The only way I've been able to access bookmarks is by creating a shortcut on my home screen. That's pretty ridiculous.
I seem to remember bookmarks, history, and possibly the open window list all being in one spot with a tabbed interface. All I can get to now is the open window list. EDIT: No, wait, I think it was bookmarks, history, and downloads all in one place. I was using CM5 at the time if that matters.
Am I missing something obvious here?
Also, does anyone else think it's annoying that the browser has it's own brightness setting and you can't just tell it to use the normal brightness setting? I understand the idea behind the future. You spend a lot of time staring at the screen when using the browser, so it's nice to be able to dim it to save battery power, but I sure wish there were an option to just make it use the normal brightness, because I really don't care. This is especially annoying when I have the brightness in the browser all the way up, and I'm using the reddit app at night in my bed, and I click a link. BAM! I'm blinded by the bright screen and have to keep staring at it to go find the setting to lower it.
I think Samsung made some really dumb mistakes with their version of Android. I know that custom roms solve these problems, but users shouldn't have to hack their phone to get basic features like access to browser history and bookmarks.
Yesterday for the first time I got a strange new lock screen I don't remember installing.... When my phone (Nexus 6) is plugged in, and I wake it up, at first I get my regular stock lock screen. But, when I unlock it, this new strange lock screen appears in its place (the first image - which says at the top "0 Words typed today" and "1% beat global users.") When I tap the three-dot menu in the top right, I get the second screen (says "Boost Charge" and gives me option to uncheck.)
Does anyone recognize this? I guess it's possible it's malware of some kind but I am generally pretty careful. It seems like typing stats, but I only have google keyboard, swiftkey and touchpal installed, and none of those seem to be causing this as far as I can tell.
I would like to avoid a factory reset if I can help it, but I don't like the idea of something I didn't choose being on my phone..... Any help as to how this got here?
Same thing happened to me.
Found out it's SwiftKey. Wasn't even using it, so I just uninstalled it.
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Yesterday for the first time I got a strange new lock screen I don't remember installing.... When my phone (Nexus 6) is plugged in, and I wake it up, at first I get my regular stock lock screen. But, when I unlock it, this new strange lock screen appears in its place (the first image - which says at the top "0 Words typed today" and "1% beat global users.") When I tap the three-dot menu in the top right, I get the second screen (says "Boost Charge" and gives me option to uncheck.)
Does anyone recognize this? I guess it's possible it's malware of some kind but I am generally pretty careful. It seems like typing stats, but I only have google keyboard, swiftkey and touchpal installed, and none of those seem to be causing this as far as I can tell.
I would like to avoid a factory reset if I can help it, but I don't like the idea of something I didn't choose being on my phone..... Any help as to how this got here?
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I've got the exact same thing. Annoying as hell. Don't have SwiftKey installed. Mine I believe is coming from TouchPal.
I got this to stop without uninstalling TouchPal. In TouchPal settings, go into General Settings and disable Daily Summary, which causes another annoying pop-up screen once a day. Then click on Power Boost and disable that. Exit, exit, exit.
I think the Power Boost, um, feature? is causing those random pop-ups.
Hope this helps somebody else. The keyboard itself is pretty good, so I'm sure some people won't want to uninstall it.
chrisleonard said:
I got this to stop without uninstalling TouchPal. In TouchPal settings, go into General Settings and disable Daily Summary, which causes another annoying pop-up screen once a day. Then click on Power Boost and disable that. Exit, exit, exit.
I think the Power Boost, um, feature? is causing those random pop-ups.
Hope this helps somebody else. The keyboard itself is pretty good, so I'm sure some people won't want to uninstall it.
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Yep, it's TouchPal. I found the Boost Charge one, but hadn't noticed the separate Daily Summary setting-thanks for the heads up.
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I received the s9+ (at&t) the other day. It worked fine for an hour or two, then the buttons(home, recent, back) disappeared. I still have the navigation bar at the bottom.
I have tried changing all the settings in the navigation bar settings, but the buttons will still not show up. I can even change the colors of the bar, but no buttons.
I can use the home button even though it does not appear. In order to use recent or back, I must quickly press the home button and slide my finger left or right to push either button. This does not work reliably and usually just takes me home.
It is almost as if this is supposed to be an option, but I've found no way to turn it off. Why else would I be able to press and slide to use the buttons?
Contacted Samsung support and after an hour of troubleshooting, they suggested I take it 100 miles to a repair center. I feel this is a software issue that should be patched immediately and shouldn't have to drive my phone or wait to get a replacement phone that may have the same issue.
Any advice would be great!
New to the forums so I can't post an image
I assume you've rebooted the phone, but if not start with that. If that doesn't do it, you might try booting into recovery and clearing cache.
Samsung had me try both. Didn't fix it unfortunately.
I am having this exact same issue. I have attached some screenshots. I changed launchers but it's like that on all apps. It's real bad on some apps such as gmail and the play store because the navigation bar is black and takes up a lot larger space. I've tried everything in the navigation settings. I then went to settings-general management- reset- and reset settings. That didn't help. I was going to factory reset but I didn't want to fully set it up again unless I had to. What other options have you tried? I have the unlocked s9+ on verizon.
https://i.imgur.com/8pEDUgl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lSnDs0v.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mICYxFX.jpg
At this point we are at the mercy of someone to patch. I have read on other forums that it may be related to corporate software loaded on your phone for work. They have uninstalled and it worked.
I have software for work as well but haven't tried uninstalling to test their theory but, I hope someone gets it figured out.
The issue was Airwatch. https://forums.androidcentral.com/a...-my-new-s9-my-navigation-bar-disappeared.html
Airwatch it is then. Let me know if you get a fix, I'm going to be calling my support department as well as soon as I can.