Hi,
I've got this really annoying problem where the tablet refreshes every time I move it around.
i.e. if i move it to show someone next to me the web site in chrome the page refreshes. If I lift it up and tap it on my leg it refreshes the tab. It seems to be other apps too - like email, photos etc.
I can't see how to turn this off.
Any ideas?
Did you ever find out what was causing this problem?
Nope, do you have the same?
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I got a Galaxy Tab 10.1 last week and set up bookmark syncing with my Google account. Now, every time I open a bookmark on my tablet it moves it to the end of my bookmark bar on Chrome. For example, ESPN is the first bookmark in Chrome, on the far left. If I use the bookmark folder on my Tab and open ESPN when I go back to my PC ESPN will be all the way at the far right. The same thing happens to folders I have in my Bookmarks Bar, the entire folder moves all the way to the right. I have sync set up on Chrome and it doesn't matter which computer I use, the same thing happens. I move them back on my PC, but as soon as I open them with the Tab they go back to the end on my computer. The Tab is running the TouchWiz update, I never used it without so I can't say if it happened before the update or not.
I've searched around and while there seems to be some sync issues, no one has mentioned anything like this. I'd tried an Iconia and Transformer and neither caused this issue. It seems minor, but it's quite frustrating!
anyone have ideas?
same problem here...
Hello,
My phone started behaving strange, but ONLY when I connect to internet.
The following happens:
1. Google Play loads. WHY ??? I DON'T WANT IT TO!!!
2, Some app starts on the notification bar - the icon is like a star. Once I click on it, it starts opening some page with the browser.
3. I'm getting a notification about software updates.
4. The startup page of "Internet" - the browser becomes some strange web page. I have configured a BLANK startup page. When
I launch the browser not connected to the internet, it shows me a blank page and it doesn't try to open anything. But once connected
to the internet, the startup page changes !! Is that a virus / adware ? How to get rid of it?
Thanks for your help!
OK, as nobody posted anything, again I'm asking the questions and I am answering them too Just in case that somebody ever has the same problem.
To stop Google Play from popping up, just in Accounts, disable all the synchronization options for the google account.
The problem with the home page was solved by clearing all the cookies, browsing history, etc. from the browser.
I've been looking for something that I don't think exists...What I want is a shortcut to just to start Chrome in the 'bookmark' page. I don't want any of the bookmark widgets for the home screen - if you have more than a few bookmarks those become useless anyway.
Does such an animal exist? Or is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?
If you close all the open pages before you close Chrome then when you open it you should get the start page, which will be on the tab you previously had it on. I leave mine on either bookmarks or the sync page and it always starts new pages on the same tab.
For some reason my xda forum app keeps getting uninstalled. I have it in a folder on my home screen, and it's still there but when I click it it opens the play store with the option to install.
Possibly related, my yahoo account keeps getting dropped. I don't get any email and when I open yahoo it makes me login again. And there's tons of email.
Another odd bug I've noticed is the first word swipe typing is usually way off and always a much smaller word the word I wad going for? God I hate not having root
Any info is appreciated
I have a coworker who asked me about his Galaxy S5. He showed me how Facebook has used 2.7GB of mobile data alone (5.71GB of Wi-Fi!). He's a light user who reads his news feed and uploads one or two pictures a week. His video streaming option is set to Wi-Fi only, and Facebook isn't syncing contacts or photos. He isn't rooted, and has everything stock; he hasn't even changed launchers. Not a tech user at all.
One thing he does that seems strange is, after he's done using Facebook, he logs out. I don't know how strange that is. I've never logged out. I secure my phone, but not any of my apps. This guy doesn't mind putting his password in every time. The only thing I can think of is that logging out clears the app's cache, but why would it?
I told him to use Chrome and showed him how to enable data compression, but I don't think that's going to help too much.
I checked my own Facebook usage (HTC One M8) and Facebook has used 0.07GB. So like, 70MB. That sounds more like it.
I'm shocked by the 2.7GB, but the 5.71GB is just nuts. Or when you add them together to get 9.4GB. Unless he's lying and he actually is recording video at the GS5's highest capacity (2K?) and uploading hours and hours of it... I just don't see it.
Just thought I'd throw it out there. It's a pretty niche case.
EDIT: I couldn't get it out of my head that he logs out every time, so I did an experiment with my phone (HTC One M8). Checked my Facebook cache. 64MB. So I open Facebook, and log out. Check the cache again — 3.7MB. Scroll Facebook about 10-20 pages, check cache. Around 6MB. Logged out, cache is back to 3.7MB. Scrolled Facebook even farther and got it up to 8MB. Cleared cache again. 3.7MB again.
Similar results on his GS5.
I'm not sure logging out of Facebook and rebuilding the cache every time accounts for 9GB, but it's a start. The man is a grandfather, and during the cache clearing trials, he opened a video of a baby. I respected his privacy and didn't look, but I wonder if he's been watching that video and having to download it every time. That and other videos.
I told him to stop logging out of Facebook, at least to see if it brings his data usage back down. He already had it set to not use background data, and I showed him how to manually clear it out of memory (home button, recent button, swipe Facebook away). I know he doesn't need to and you probably know he doesn't need to, but he wanted a way to "get rid of it" until he needed it again.