Database Info

Dialer, that rules 'em all

Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?

I like GoContacts

Try Youlu Address Book..
Very nice dialer application...available free on Market

I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers

Eddie1506 said:
I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try GoContacts, as Fizzler73 suggested. Works very nicely for me since the post
Can search with accented character and spaces, middle names too and phones too
btw. I prefer to have duplicated contact when multiple numbers are present - that way I can tap on number I want to dial and I'm ready to talk. No additional selecting needed.

travikk said:
Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
TouchPal actually supports facebook profile pictures, Since Android 2.2 the option to make data become private was added and facebook in it's never ending quest to annoy it's users marked ALL of it's data as private, so only stock apps ran by user 0 can access it...
this however is easily fixable all you have to do is modify the contacts table to not restrict fb contacts, here's the post with instructions.

Try Angel Dialer/Fast Dialer/Dialer One
i currently use Angel Dialer, but i have been using Fast Dialer for some time. its fast and works perfectly on CM7 Nexus One

[Q] IE9 Mobile or Desktop?

I've tried both mobile and desktop versions of IE9 on WP7.5 and I don't really notice a difference. Which do you prefer and why? Which version has better HTML5 integration?

Funny that when you are actually asking for an opinion you can't get one.

I use desktop mode... All sites work well so no problems...

gentry33 said:
Funny that when you are actually asking for an opinion you can't get one.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You put the pc desktop version of IE on your phone ?.

The only difference between the "desktop version" and the "mobile version" is the user agent.

Meaning what exactly? I'd appreciate your input. Thanks.

@gentry33: Expanding on what the member with the oddly similar name to mine said above, the User Agent String is a (very old name for) a piece of text that every Web client (such as a browser, a seach engine's crawler, or any other program that accesses a web server) sends to the server. The string is supposed to identify the "user agent" - the program that is accessing the server - so that the server knows what the user's capabilities are.
For mobile IE9, there are two user agent strings the browser can send. One of them clearly identifies the device as a mobile browser, and contains portions which are recognized by many web servers as indications that it should serve a mobile-friendly page. The other one looks like the user-agent string sent by desktop IE9, though there is still enough info in it to tell it came from a phone if you know what to look for.
Switching the browser "mode" in Mango just changes which string gets sent. It has no other effect on the browser at all. Some websites will serve a different page when they see the clearly-mobile user agent, so for those sites the browser will appear to be doing something different. It's not, though; the server is sending different HTML, and the browser is rendering it in exactly the same manner that it always does.

GoodDayToDie said:
@gentry33: Expanding on what the member with the oddly similar name to mine said above, the User Agent String is a (very old name for) a piece of text that every Web client (such as a browser, a seach engine's crawler, or any other program that accesses a web server) sends to the server. The string is supposed to identify the "user agent" - the program that is accessing the server - so that the server knows what the user's capabilities are.
For mobile IE9, there are two user agent strings the browser can send. One of them clearly identifies the device as a mobile browser, and contains portions which are recognized by many web servers as indications that it should serve a mobile-friendly page. The other one looks like the user-agent string sent by desktop IE9, though there is still enough info in it to tell it came from a phone if you know what to look for.
Switching the browser "mode" in Mango just changes which string gets sent. It has no other effect on the browser at all. Some websites will serve a different page when they see the clearly-mobile user agent, so for those sites the browser will appear to be doing something different. It's not, though; the server is sending different HTML, and the browser is rendering it in exactly the same manner that it always does.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
To see a live example of this, check here and look for the row with the first column that says "User-Agent." Trying the page on different browsers will (usually) yield different results, as explained by GoodDayToDie.

[Q] Text to pdf with utf-8 support

Searched and can't find any.
I'm looking for a text to pdf converter/printer. The only one I found in the Market is "Text to PDF Converter", however it doesn't support UTF-8 and malforms extended characters.
Anyone know of one that would work?

Text to Speech ONLY in Firefox?

Okay, so I am on ICS and read several articles on firefox on my atrix 2. I was wondering if I can get text to speech on firefox (not Talkback because that enables TTS to everything which I dont want)

[Q] What browser with text reflow on Nexus 5?

Hi all, i need help.
Looking browser is operating correctly text reflow, outside the Opera Classic.
I've tried probably all popular browsers, none of them automatically scales the text to the screen.
Of course need to work on Android 4.4.
Any suggestions?