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Question about mobile google.com...

How do I get to google without using this ridiculous crippled page for weak mobile devices? I want the full google search that leads me to full websites, rather than a crippled google search that leads me to parsed websites for use with eight year old Nokia browsers, so someone please enlighten me, as I can't seem to find the answer to this.

Xero said:
How do I get to google without using this ridiculous crippled page for weak mobile devices? I want the full google search that leads me to full websites, rather than a crippled google search that leads me to parsed websites for use with eight year old Nokia browsers, so someone please enlighten me, as I can't seem to find the answer to this.
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You can click on "Preferences" on the bottom of Google's homepage to change whether Google formats the results for your phone or not. Is that what you're looking for?

I checked, there's not even an option for that in prefs.

Xero said:
I checked, there's not even an option for that in prefs.
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Strange, I have that option. What browser are you using?

PIE.. wasn't too impressed with the performance of anything else.

Xero said:
PIE.. wasn't too impressed with the performance of anything else.
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Okay, so here's where I think I might be confused by what you're saying. When I search using Google with PIE, I get every result I would normally get on my laptop/desktop. The only difference is that the resulting pages will be formatted differently to look a bit better on a mobile device, but the pages are complete.
The only thing I can see that you might be talking about is that there's an option on Google.com to search "Mobile Web (Beta)", under the search button, which does bring up limited, or "crippled" results. But you have to manually click that option each time you search.

I wish it were that simple.. when I go to google.com, it brings me straight to a mobile version of google, with no option of changing to a non-mobile version.
It's not so much that I have a mobile version of google, as it is that google wants to parse all of the sites I go to from the search results.

Xero said:
I wish it were that simple.. when I go to google.com, it brings me straight to a mobile version of google, with no option of changing to a non-mobile version.
It's not so much that I have a mobile version of google, as it is that google wants to parse all of the sites I go to from the search results.
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Well, yeah, I get taken directly to www.google.com/m rather than the standard www.google.com when I'm using PIE. Is that the same mobile site you're directed to? If it is, I might be at a loss on this one. I'm not getting the same limitations you are and I can't seem to replicate it either.

Most of the time I find their reformatted page better for viewing. However if you navigate to a link where you actually need to view the full page unaltered you can click the "view in html" link at the bottom and it will bring you to the unaltered page. Hope that helps.

[REQUEST] Widget that just displays some text

I am just after a widget that lets me enter my own text, maybe select some basic formatting options and that's it. I want to have some little headings on my different home screens.

nice idea. something that looks like stock froyo would be great. something skinnable would be better.

Banner or TextWidget
Did either of you think to search the Market before posting here?

djmcnz said:
Banner or TextWidget
Did either of you think to search the Market before posting here?
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Not sure if you'll be able to hear me up there on your high horse, but for your information I searched for 'text widget' on AppBrain (cos I have very poor connection on my phone at work) and nothing relevant came up.
Sorry to waste your time and thanks for your help

3Shirts said:
Not sure if you'll be able to hear me up there on your high horse, but for your information I searched for 'text widget' on AppBrain (cos I have very poor connection on my phone at work) and nothing relevant came up.
Sorry to waste your time and thanks for your help
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I can hear an irritating squeak.
"text widget" was the exact search string I used to return the results... perhaps it's a different market?

djmcnz said:
I can hear an irritating squeak.
"text widget" was the exact search string I used to return the results... perhaps it's a different market?
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I think so, see for yourself http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=text+widget

Pwnd, thread lock in 5..4..3....jk but try searching on cyrket next time I find it to be more accurate

Cyrket/androlib are market front ends, appbrain is not. Appbrain filters out the junk..
So if looking for a real market then appbrain is indeed not what your looking for
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

While Appbrain does filter it doesn't completely remove apps from view it just makes them much less prominent if they are assesed to be junk. Have a look at this search http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=woman
You can see how most of these results have been filtered, doesn't stop them being viewable or installable if you really want to.
Indeed if you search for textwidget as one word http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=textwidget you do get the app suggested above, so it's not filtered out

Google Maps 4.6

google maps 4.6 is available, some great new features.

Yeah what are they? I updates but I haven't check it out yet
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Layers
A lot of new layers like "My Maps, Terrain, and so on".
What's the "OP" next to my nick name?

OP means you are the Original Poster in this thread

I can't find it in the Market. I have a HTC Legend and I'm from Romania. Could you please help me get it from another source or in another way?

Brazil Navigation
This update enables the Navigation features in Brazil.
tks google!!!!!!!!!!!

Glue said:
I can't find it in the Market. I have a HTC Legend and I'm from Romania. Could you please help me get it from another source or in another way?
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Install failed on i9000 ZSJP8 ROM. Really sad...

plz put the link

Mr.zeus said:
plz put the link
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http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-maps/com.google.android.apps.maps
Really though, what were you expecting?
As for new functions, I'm pretty sure Terrain and My maps were already there.

Anyone figured out yet how to change the distance units in Places? Everything else is in metric, but I get the damn distances Places in ****ing miles.

also where do you put filter on Google map search?
eg how can I limit search
oh wait there is a little icon down the bottom left which shows me the search list page.
and yes I see the distance is in eerr.. miles.. I mean who uses that old system..

IceBone said:
Anyone figured out yet how to change the distance units in Places? Everything else is in metric, but I get the damn distances Places in ****ing miles.
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And for me everything (latitude, places...) is in miles

Indeed, latitude is in miles as well.

...and google still has yet to update the android maps API. The google map-kit for iPhone is still light years ahead of the android.
It's impossible to write a decent map app that performs anywhere near as well as google maps.

I would like to see my own layers. Pics of my kids doing stuff at parks, skateboarding, etc. That would be pretty cool. Point at the ocean and see my kid do an off the top on a wave from last spring. Hah.
Just a thought.
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You can do that now. You just can't get information about individual map tiles, even something as simple as onMapFinishedLoading() doesn't exist. That means your layers will (often) load before the map is loaded, which looks like crap.

Thank you very much.I Like it

Curious. Does it pull xif data from Picasa for the image overlay? You would think that would be pretty easy to pull off. I mean I would subscribe to other folks layers to see what they do, where they go,etc. So, if I follow a skateboarder and he shares his layer I can see what trick he did at places I also skate. Video embed would be even more awesome.

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Thanks!!
I installed a NAND rom and was great, but it lacks of most of google apps like Gmail and Google Maps...

[Q] Petty Google Search Annoyance

When I search from either the Google search widget or the HTC browser, instead of returning the results on the standard Google homepage, the results get returned as per the attachment.
Any ideas on how I can fix it? I know it is a trivial issue, but it is really annoying.
Thanks.

Never seen that before. Mine goes to the Google page search results.
Have you tried updating the Google Search app? It's in the Market.

Yep, I tried that with no joy.
I assume it's some kind of Vodafone addition in order to try to gather metrics on usage.
It's just really annoying and I'd very much like to go back to the proper results page...

I'm not sure I get what the problem is... The screenshot looks like the search results on my phone and pc browser.
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Here is an example of the searches side by side.
As I say, it's a petty problem but very annoying.

re:Browser settings
Just open the browser, menu>more>settings> tick mobile view

Unfortunately that setting was already ticked.
I think that someone has created a custom search (Using this: http://www.google.com/cse/) and incorporated that instead. I assume it must be Vodafone.

[APP][5.0+] TorrCrow - Torrent Search Engine

TorrCrow App​
A Highly Customizable and Easy to Use Torrent Search Android App that lets you search for the torrents and gives you the magnet link of the torrent to download. There are lots of customization features users can set them as per their choice.
Features:
Search torrent
Get magnet link of the torrents
Copy the magnet link directly and open torrent download client directly from the app
Voice Search
Browse top torrents
Add torrents to favorite to check them later
Get suggestions for the query while you type based on your recent searches
Turn on/off torrent search engine according to your choice
Change torrent search engine URL manually in case default one doesn't work in your country or your ISP
Change Theme color
Toggle Dark mode
Test a URL whether it is working or not
Join Telegram Channel
Join Telegram Group
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 19.6.0
Stable Release Date: 2021-01-06
Download
Play Store
Pro Version Play Store
Go to TorrCrow Pro to get the PRO version on XDA Labs or PM me
Happy Torrenting

It says unauthorised

Manish54 said:
It says unauthorised
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Where? Can you explain the error more?

Thank you my brother ?

Kris B said:
Thank you my brother
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welcome
Do click on thanks button also

Thanks bro!!!
Anyone knows any torrent player that supports also online subtitles?There is amni torrent player,but seems somehow abandoned with bugs..

kos25k said:
Thanks bro!!!
Anyone knows any torrent player that supports also online subtitles?There is amni torrent player,but seems somehow abandoned with bugs..
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Welcome bro
and I dont know about any such player
BTW do click on Thanks button if you found app useful

shivamgarg said:
Welcome bro
and I dont know about any such player
BTW do click on Thanks button if you found app useful
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I can not get the app to install. I'm on a J7 2107. So that maybe my issue. But I've given XDA lab permission to install from unknown sources. But it still fails right after i hit the continue button.

JustJames806 said:
I can not get the app to install. I'm on a J7 2107. So that maybe my issue. But I've given XDA lab permission to install from unknown sources. But it still fails right after i hit the continue button.
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Try v7a version from the google drive link present on the post

Take some suggestions and inspiration from the app "torrSE" and you'll get a huge user base

scissorscrush said:
Take some suggestions and inspiration from the app "torrSE" and you'll get a huge user base
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I will look into it.
You may also give me suggesstions although, if you have any

shivamgarg said:
I will look into it.
You may also give me suggesstions although, if you have any
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I'll definitely help you. The first thing I noticed in your app is that the number of websites the query searches for is really limited.
2. The search input seems to be very specific.
For eg. I searched for "extraction" and the results came up but when I searched for "extracting hdr" there was nothing in the results.
Hope these help.

scissorscrush said:
I'll definitely help you. The first thing I noticed in your app is that the number of websites the query searches for is really limited.
2. The search input seems to be very specific.
For eg. I searched for "extraction" and the results came up but when I searched for "extracting hdr" there was nothing in the results.
Hope these help.
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Thanks for the suggestions
For the 1st point I am working on adding new providers as much as possible and they are currently so less because 2 of the providers recently stopped working so I removed them. Although I will add new constantly.
And on 2nd point I don't think I can do much because the query directly gets passed to search engines and results came from them is shown here and if you put a query which gives nothing then try putting less complicated query in search box and then in results page you can filter out the torrents using filter input field (search icon in top).

shivamgarg said:
Thanks for the suggestions
For the 1st point I am working on adding new providers as much as possible and they are currently so less because 2 of the providers recently stopped working so I removed them. Although I will add new constantly.
And on 2nd point I don't think I can do much because the query directly gets passed to search engines and results came from them is shown here and if you put a query which gives nothing then try putting less complicated query in search box and then in results page you can filter out the torrents using filter input field (search icon in top).
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If the providers stop working then I suggest add the option to edit the provider by the user. TorrSE has this feature.
2nd... I've tried 1 or 2 torrent search engine and they all search these kind of queries.

scissorscrush said:
If the providers stop working then I suggest add the option to edit the provider by the user. TorrSE has this feature.
2nd... I've tried 1 or 2 torrent search engine and they all search these kind of queries.
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1. Bro there is option to turn on/off search providers manually. I just removed them because if user keeps them on, it will just increase the search time unnecessarily becase it aint gonna give any result so even if it consumes 2 seconds to fetch (empty) results its a waste of that 2 seconds (for every not working search provider) every time user searches anything.
2. I cant do anything about this though bro. Other apps might give result maybe because there are more search providers in that app (this will be solved once I add more search providers),
or maybe you put slightly different query there (as you wrote extracting hdr, the movie name is extraction not extracting)

shivamgarg said:
1. Bro there is option to turn on/off search providers manually. I just removed them because if user keeps them on, it will just increase the search time unnecessarily becase it aint gonna give any result so even if it consumes 2 seconds to fetch (empty) results its a waste of that 2 seconds (for every not working search provider) every time user searches anything.
2. I cant do anything about this though bro. Other apps might give result maybe because there are more search providers in that app (this will be solved once I add more search providers),
or maybe you put slightly different query there (as you wrote extracting hdr, the movie name is extraction not extracting)
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Lol my bad. But I did add extraction, it was just a typo here.
You have the option to turn search provider on or off but I'm talking about editing the link for that provider. Coz you know government always block official websites.

I had less option for search result than TorSe app. Most of the time I don't find what I'm looking for. Maybe the problem lies with search keywords?

scissorscrush said:
Lol my bad. But I did add extraction, it was just a typo here.
You have the option to turn search provider on or off but I'm talking about editing the link for that provider. Coz you know government always block official websites.
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Bro the app have that link change feature also
I removed them because one engine stopped working permanently (switched to completely different site actually i.e. idope => torrentz2k)
and other engine change whole structure of their site (the pirate bay) and any link change wont affect anything.
And second thing is the app gives results for me on "extraction hdr"
Are you on latest version of app?
If not then update the app
If yes then check by turning on/off search providers and see which one is not working for you
and change the url of that engine accordingly
The app also has Test url feature so just check it from there before putting the url there
Edit - Good news, I found the old tpb link and it is working properly now
So in the next update you will have TPB back

AshDevil said:
I had less option for search result than TorSe app. Most of the time I don't find what I'm looking for. Maybe the problem lies with search keywords?
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Try to keep search query short and simple you can filter the results of your liking in results screen
Actually recently The pirate bay stopped working in my app since the site structure changed fully
and it was very good site for torrents so thats why results are less
But keep the app updated I am adding new search providers for more results
Edit - Good news, I found the old tpb link and it is working properly now
So in the next update you will have TPB back

shivamgarg said:
Bro the app have that link change feature also
I removed them because one engine stopped working permanently (switched to completely different site actually i.e. idope => torrentz2k)
and other engine change whole structure of their site (the pirate bay) and any link change wont affect anything.
And second thing is the app gives results for me on "extraction hdr"
Are you on latest version of app?
If not then update the app
If yes then check by turning on/off search providers and see which one is not working for you
and change the url of that engine accordingly
The app also has Test url feature so just check it from there before putting the url there
Edit - Good news, I found the old tpb link and it is working properly now
So in the next update you will have TPB back
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If you have that issue with engine being disabled then I suggest adding loads of websites is the best option.
For hdr thing I changed the website link and it works now. I'm adding 2 screenshots for the same query. Your apps font is too big, which gives less information at a given time.
And sometimes I want the result from a specific website. Now in torrSE it's easy. Instead of scrolling down to that website, it should be on the tabs.
If you want I can give you every working torrent website so you can add them.