Hello,
I bought today a M5 10.8 with a cover with keyboard.
I am quite new to this set up, I was more used to have a tablet without keyboard. (Pixel C whose back light is not working since a few days out of warranty).
I tried to search and configure it by myself but I am missing some points for which you can help me.
1. Is it possible to have the PlayStore and Google Photos applications when you are in desktop mode? I can't find them.
2. I like the keyboard cover to type text but it is pretty heavy when you only want to read a comic or watch a movie in your bed (in pure tablet more).
How do you proceed? Do you have an extra basic cover for this usage? Is there some protection pads only for the corners?
3. How do you change the size of the fonts in Chrome in desktop mode? Currently the font is very big, as well as the tab headers which are taking around 20% of the height of the screen.
4. What are the mandatory applications for the desktop mode?
Thanks in advance for your help and advices.
My previous tablets where a Nexus 10 (with no more battery) and a Pixel C (with no more backlight).
Related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9hyjduvtfA
Aside from the kickstand part... what is he running? I see Vegan and Clemsym, but I've set both up and can't figure out 2 things -
1. How he changed the side dock to what is shown in the video.
2. How he increased the available space on the grid for icons.
...again, I find myself trying to figure something out and feel like I'm missing something obvious....
Can someone help??
Answer to both questions is Launcher Pro
Its configured for 5 buttons with the glass dock background.
He also changed the home screen grid column\rows to 10 (within Launcher Pro again)
I'm not the best at explaining myself so bare with me and sorry in advance!
Let's say my Android phone is 1080p
and my TV is 1080p
and I'm connecting my Android device to my TV via HDMI and it's in 1080p resolution...
My question is, will the resolution of the Android interface (GUI) change as well? Example: On a Non-HD Android phone, you'll have maybe 6x6 (rows/columns) of icons... on a HD Android phone, that pretty much stays the same (Why would you want 12x12 of icons on a 5" phone right? it'd be way too small to see all those icons and even harder to touch it with your finger)
So if your Android is connected TV in the same 1080p resolution, will it now display more icons? Or is it pretty much just mirroring the exact look of your phone? On my PadFone, it changes the entire interface from 'phone mode' to 'tablet mode'... That means when the phone is in the tablet, you now have tons more icons, tons more space for widgets, etc, etc... same resolution, but allows more space to be used.
Does that make sense? I'm trying to find an alternate setup to my PadFone, (using a 24" monitor as the phones screen)... but I would just hate to see enormous icons take up the entire monitor (6x6), I want to see more icons, more space.
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
I'm going to ask another question in this thread if you don't mind, 2 birds 1 stone kind of thing...
Let's say my android phone is NFC, and my computer is NFC, and they support the 'mirroring' thing... if I tap my phone to my computer, will it show up on the monitor and I can use the COMPUTER keyboard to write texts? The computer I'm looking at is the new Sony Laptop Tablet:
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/sto...87789#features
ty ty ty in advance!
Hi there
Some days ago I have sadly changed my HTC One M9 Plus after 3 and half years of service, the last of a 10 years experience with HTC from the HD2...what a sad situation about the brand.
Anyway I have bought a Samsung S9 Plus which seems not bad at all but I have some questions about it:
1) I have seen that is it possible to change the resoution of the screen, currently I'm on 2220*1080 but I could go for 2960*1440, anyway some widget already have small text, I have tried the upper resolution and a lot of things (icons etc) doesn't seems define enough to support it. What do you suggest?
2) I miss some HTC hystorc widget like the weather flip-clock and the contact widget for making quick call, do you know if there is a chance to install them on the samsung?
3) Is that possible to change the disposition of the system lower key (home, back and multitasking) ?
4) Is that possible to wake up the phone from the always on with a double tap?
5) Is that possible to have a wallpaper for the home and a different wallpaper for the all apps menu?
Welcome over from HTC. I too was a fan of their products until the last 4 years.
1. Yes, Settings -> Display -> Screen Resolution -> Select WQHD+ although will use more battery.
2. Download Sense Flip or Flipv2 from marketplace.
3. Yes, Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar on the bottom -> Select your preferred order.
4. Not entirely sure if it's possible.
5. Not entirely sure. I prefer using a different launcher like Nova Launcher and use it to mimic Google as much as possible.
Hi there!
Thanks you very much for your answears!
I have tried the 2 widget that emulates the HTC flip clock but I don't I guess it's not the same thing as the original, also the have a low resolution for this phone.
I have also searched a contact widget to add photo of favorites contacts for quick calls, I have found some but they all are too much small for the resolution of the S9+
light_n_roses said:
Hi there!
Thanks you very much for your answears!
I have tried the 2 widget that emulates the HTC flip clock but I don't I guess it's not the same thing as the original, also the have a low resolution for this phone.
I have also searched a contact widget to add photo of favorites contacts for quick calls, I have found some but they all are too much small for the resolution of the S9+
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Use edge panel for favorite contacts with their photos, otherwise you have stock contacts widget which works just fine
Ok edge panel is nice otherwise the contact widget add too much small photo of your contact and also also you need to manually add one by one, you cannot have a table
I got my G8X few weeks ago and I’m loving this device so far. Its’s an all-rounder and the second screen not just a gimmick, it’s actually useful and fun!
I like to use both screens as one huge single screen. The following two apps made it possible for almost any app to use both screens as one:
1. G8X WideMode (to extend the app to display on both screens)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.refy.android.g8x.widemode
2. Rotation Control (to force any orientation on the apps)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crape.rotationcontrol&hl=en_CA
Now, I was looking for games which could work best with this setup, which can use full potential of dual screens. I came across this game named ‘The White Door’. This game works alright on single screen but with this setup on G8X, it works much better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.RustyLake.WhiteDoor&hl=en_CA
What other games do you think would look better on this setup?
Yes, force orientation is a must to cover the hinge
Hi, I was wondering if there was any way to port samsung's multistar to the Xperia 1 IV so that users can use more then 2 apps at once. Or maybe port nubia red magics implementation of it. Flagships from 2022 come with 12+gb of ram, why not utilize it to its maximum potential? (A Samsung device with 8gb of ram can have 5 different apps running in the foreground at once with multistar, surely we can do more with 12gb of ram).
because, sadly, most apps are not done in a way that it really can be used as multitasking on a desktop. Have samsung tablet and while dex seems like am interesting thing it really isn't a desktop experience. Same goes for sony 2 apps implementation, whole it can be handy for some copy/paste or similar situations I find myself most comfortable while simply switching between the apps as needed.
On a desktop you can scroll through the content in the window which is in the background so you can leave just a portion visible and work. On android using touchscreen only that is not possible so I have just a smaller working area and clicking to bring window in front or swiping to another app is the same thing.
kinggo2 said:
because, sadly, most apps are not done in a way that it really can be used as multitasking on a desktop. Have samsung tablet and while dex seems like am interesting thing it really isn't a desktop experience. Same goes for sony 2 apps implementation, whole it can be handy for some copy/paste or similar situations I find myself most comfortable while simply switching between the apps as needed.
On a desktop you can scroll through the content in the window which is in the background so you can leave just a portion visible and work. On android using touchscreen only that is not possible so I have just a smaller working area and clicking to bring window in front or swiping to another app is the same thing.
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Thanks for the reply! for sure, most apps aren't optimized for it, however it seems like for the most part it works just fine with multistar (though I'm not sure how Samsung managed to pull it off)
well, you can use 21:9 multiwindow and then put 3rd app as popup on top. That's more than 2 then.