For some time at the start of the M5 pro (but not always) creates some gray duplicates of an application (in this case is solid explorer but also happened with other apps). Does that happen to you? Do you have any suggestions?
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Being relatively new to Windows Mobile (long time Palm user), I'm trying to come to grips with some of the quirks of this platform.
I would like to group my shortcuts into logical areas such as applications, utilities, media, etc and was able to create folders and move the shortcut link files into those folders. So far so good.
However when I went into some of these folders by accessing the Programs folder, I was faced with a huge delay before all the icons showed up on screen. I also ran into a problem when uninstalling some programs only to find they left the shortcut behind (because it was not in the expected location I assume). I ended up undoing all I had done and now my shortcuts appear quickly again, but of course there are now a large number of them all in the Programs folder which is what I was trying to avoid.
How do people normally deal with the fact that every program installs a shortcut in the default Programs folder and you end up with an unwieldy number of shortcuts in one place?
I've not had an issue with this, as if the icons are in the programs folder there is sufficiant cache for this to be scrolled relatively quickly.
The last 4-6 applications are available on the quick launch area of start menu anyway...
May I suggestion something like SPB Pocket Plus or some other of SPBs finest apps if you wish to sort your icons out... you can have them on the deskop then for faster access...
I'm using this app to read a book but it doesnnt save progress and I can't use the bookmark function. I see the button at the button that I believe to be the book mark key, but nothing happens when I press it.
Its as if that part of the menu isn't there because tapping affeects the page like normal.
Can anyone enlighten me here because this is easily the best PDF app if bookmarking will work.
//from the nook COLOR
Mine does the same thing, also the button to the right of it with an arrow on the document doesn't do anything on mine. I know I am pushing them correctly because the table of contents button to the left of the bookmark one works just fine. I just got EZpdf reader a couple of days ago so I don't know much about it either.
Its gotta just be the nooks screen vs what the apps used to.. I guess...
But on a positive note, how sweet is the page turning effect if you drag slowly from the bottom corner...
ill answer for you, its really sweet.
//from the nook COLOR
Oh.... interestingly enough, today when I opened my book from the recent docs tab, it loaded right to the chapter I stopped at..? I confirmed this by killing all apps and then starting ezpdf again and sure enough I got the same result.
//from the nook COLOR
Can someone please tell me how to highlight or underline text so I can come back to it easily later?
In my experience, you have to save the document in the internal memory (download folder, for instance). when close it wipe left to right ove the left side of the screen to see the options side panel amd close the document clicking on the X. Doing this, the document should open where you left it off. Bookmarks might work then, but my problem, when i sync the document in the cloud and open it in another device the bookmarks have dissapered. real annoying after spending time bookmarking all the important pages.
Hope this is useful guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482327
When accessing the WLAN for the first time a keyboard does not appear to enter WLAN password. A notification has appeared which is prompting to select keyboard type. The default setting seems to be Remote Keybaord (MyPhoneExplorer). This doesn't seem like a good default.
I can't access new ringtones. It says unable to connect even though I then go on to add and sync a google account. (so there's nothing wrong with the internet)
Under "Clock" the word "StopWatch" doesn't fit inside the screen. It says Stopwa and then runs out of space.
"News and Weather" crashes upon launch.
Gallery crashes when selecting what I assume is a contrast adjuster in the lower left. (Looks like three circles intertwined)
Gallery seems to have issues with images that contain transparency. A garbled version of another image is shown in the transparent parts. (When viewing a single image and swiping left / right to view next)
I'm not crazy about the "Bee-do bee-do" loader screen. Maybe others like it but I'd prefer something more sedate.
My device, running mtk 6572 has minor lags in the ui, which are rarely observable. But whenever i'm scrolling down in any app, no matter how slowly, it goes smoothy but is always interrupted at the borders, like in calendar, at the border between two months,in play store home page, after each app tile; or in es file explorer, after each folder while in list view. It happens in every app but is more visible in these. can the framework files be modified in any way to solve this issue, as I've already tried the smooth scroll tweak in my framework file and am also sure my device is not slow.
I had a hard time finding the fix for this on the Evo 4G LTE so I hope this helps others.
It may apply to other phones.
Warning! Although this fix solved my problem (where other fixes failed),
it apparently affected my lock screen (the HTC sense one, which I have disabled).
So do this at your own risk.
Update: The lock screen thing went away at next reboot, so probably no big deal.
It is apparently common, it's happened to other people for no reason
and sometimes goes away on its own, only to come back later.
It may not even be related to my thumbnail fix.
The lockscreen issue is: The ring won't to slide all the way up and the clock at the top showed overlapping numbers.
You can still access your phone by pulling down the notifications bar at the top,
tapping settings, and then clicking the home button.
I simply disabled the lock screen entirely -
Search the google play store for No Lock Screen, made by Futon Redemption.
The Thumbnail Fix:
If your gallery shows small picture previews (thumbnails) showing a gray warning triangle,
or duplicates of your images, you need to delete your thumbnail cache.
You can try deleting these manually from within the gallery, but it's slow
and you run the risk of deleting the actual pics and not just the thumbnails.
When you delete the thumbnails, the phone will automatically rebuild them,
and the next time you launch the gallery, the duplicates and missing image icons will be gone.
There are a few places where the phone might store these thumbnail caches.
I found several possible locations while googling. Some may be for other phones.
Try these first. They didn't fix the problem for me, but they didn't have any bad side effects either.
Use a file browser like Root Explorer to get to these files/folders and delete them.
Make sure "show hidden files and folders" option is enabled.
• /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails (delete the whole folder)
• /sdcard2/dcim/.thumbnails (ditto)
• /sdcard2/dcim/thumbs.db (possible I accidentally copied this file from windows)
• /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media/cache
• /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
• any thumbnail folders in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/ or /sdcard/DCIM/100ANDRO/
Other possible fixes (these didn't work for me either)
• Settings --> Applications --> All --> Gallery --> Clear Cache. For me, this button was grayed out.
I was able to do "clear data" instead but it didn't work.
• There are a few thumbnail cache cleaning apps. I got "Gallery Refresh" and it didn't work.
OK for real, the actual fix:
• What worked for me is to go to this directory:
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.
Right after doing this and rebooting I got the lock screen issue so once again, use at your own risk.
Thanks, it helped me restoring the thumbnails in a CM13 based ROM (Ressurrection-Remix Marshmallow). The catch was the part about deleting external databases in /data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/ (I did a backup first, just in case...).
It seems that deleting the .thumbnails folder in DCIM now breaks the thumbnails, ie they aren't rebuilt later, at least not for now...