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A few days ago I was prompted to update Live Search. I love this application and was hoping the new version would increase the microscopic street name font size, so I installed 4.0.12158.1. Unfortunately the only difference I have noted is the addition of a "Locate Me" function based on cell tower location. But now half of my searches don't work. With the prior version of Live Search I was able to search for just about anything and quickly find it. Now even my own address cannot be found, which I frequently used in the old version. I can't even find most of my contacts - when I select a contact it searches for the address, then states "We couldn't find any result for blah blah." This is ridiculous. Has anyone upgraded to Live Search 4.0.12158.1 and noticed this horrible problem? Thanks for your assistance.
Same here dude I loved it till I updated a few days ago. Now it lags and is mostly unusable. I think I am going to try to revert back. I used the GPS well in my first version. In the new one, the gps rarely works for me.
I've had the same thing. First time I try to access any of the services, I generally get a connection failed message -- even if I have Opera running in the background. If I wait a few seconds and try again, it then works and I can access all services. Definitely annoying.
I too am having the same issue. I've quit using it until they get this fixed. I thought I was the only one with this problem. Google Maps it is.
Live Search 4.1.2029.1 now available - font size increase?
I am the OP. I Was prompted yesterday to install new version 4.1.2029.1. The street names are now a larger font. Compare the two pics attached. The first was version 3.x, the second is version 4.1.2029.1.
Unfortunately the search problems have not been resolved. I still cannot find my own house even when typing in the address. And 90% of my contacts cannot be found even though they have perfect addresses. Arghhh.
Hi all,
I got my HD2 yesterday and so far I am very happy with it, except for a few minor details. One of the biggest annoyances so far is the Twitter client (HTC Peep). It's useless! When I try to update the latest tweets the entire phone slows down and it takes ages before they are updated. Also, scrolling up and down is extremely slow, except for most of the times when Twitter isn't updating at all.
Are everyone else having this issue as well? Are there an alternative Twitter client that works fine with the HD2?
Thanks!
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Hi all,
I got my HD2 yesterday and so far I am very happy with it, except for a few minor details. One of the biggest annoyances so far is the Twitter client (HTC Peep). It's useless! When I try to update the latest tweets the entire phone slows down and it takes ages before they are updated. Also, scrolling up and down is extremely slow, except for most of the times when Twitter isn't updating at all.
Are everyone else having this issue as well? Are there an alternative Twitter client that works fine with the HD2?
Thanks!
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not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
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not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
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Strange. Mine is extremely slow and actually completely useless.
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not at at all for me. The only gripe i have is when mine updates i have to scroll up a little.
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Second that!
Im using it without problems, its fast..
Only auto update doesnt work...
Maybe you have conflict with any installed SW...What about to try hard reset...
Mine is useless. It takes ages to upload/update, and doesn't automatically move to the top. It looks lovely but, coming from twitterific on the iPhone, its pretty useless as it stands. Its all down to how slow it is. Is this a ROM issue?
Mine also can't "make contact with the service" most of the time. Wile pocket twit works al the time.
Same here, also when it refuses to update it slows down the phone and I have to wait for 5 minutes++ for it to go back to normal.
Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
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Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
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I couldn't recommend Panoramic MoTweets any higher. It's not free, but it's cheap.
Personally, I've not had even the slightest gripe with the twitter tab in Sense, so I'm gonna stick with that, but I used MoTweets for a long time on my HD. Give it a try.
http://www.panoramicsoft.com/mobileapps/motweets/moTweets.php
I'm not a big twitter user, but I've had no problems with mine. Speedy and never fails to update.
I just wish it had a time limit on the notifications (no, I don't want to be notified at 3am thanks), but I think I'll end up with a generic alert management system to cover that anyway.
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I couldn't recommend Panoramic MoTweets any higher. It's not free, but it's cheap.
Personally, I've not had even the slightest gripe with the twitter tab in Sense, so I'm gonna stick with that, but I used MoTweets for a long time on my HD. Give it a try.
http://www.panoramicsoft.com/mobileapps/motweets/moTweets.php
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Didn't look as good as HTC Peep, but I will give it a try. Thanks!
useless for now :S if someone deletes a tweet you already seen, the changes does not happen on hd2 when you update.
Do they actually test the software before sending it to the masses ?.. darn thing..
Hi, trying to use HTC Peed on my HD2 is near impossible. It slows right down or crashes!
I downloaed moTweets from the Marketplace a few days ago and have to say it's amazing! The interface is beautiful and the screenshots don't do it justice. It alerts you on the notifications bar when new tweets or message arrive.
Plus it has everything you need to retweet, send location, pictures, videos, view links, shorten links. I can't believe they charge under £3 for this. I've removed Peep for my bar and put moTweets on my quick links.
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Didn't look as good as HTC Peep, but I will give it a try. Thanks!
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It's a million times better than Peep. Especially if you live on Twitter
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Hi, trying to use HTC Peed on my HD2 is near impossible. It slows right down or crashes!
I downloaed moTweets from the Marketplace a few days ago and have to say it's amazing! The interface is beautiful and the screenshots don't do it justice. It alerts you on the notifications bar when new tweets or message arrive.
Plus it has everything you need to retweet, send location, pictures, videos, view links, shorten links. I can't believe they charge under £3 for this. I've removed Peep for my bar and put moTweets on my quick links.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem. Anyways, the Norwegian marketplace has 11 (!) apps. Totally useless so far.
Because my Twitter app also would'nt connect via GPRS, but did via WiFi, I contacted HTC NLD for a solution. Their reaction was that this might be a proxy problem.
So of your mobile provider uses proxy Twitter is next to useless. If not, it should work fine.
Check if this is the case by connecting your HD2 to WiFi and start twittering. If the lag or connection issues are gone you have a proxy! Check the provider settings if you're able to connect without a proxy.
Also third party twitter apps will prove to be useless because they use the same proxy. In that case the only option is to connect to internet and twitter on line.
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Same here, also when it refuses to update it slows down the phone and I have to wait for 5 minutes++ for it to go back to normal.
Does anyone know of an alternative/good Twitter client I can use instead of HTC Peep?
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http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini/
Brilliant Twitter App. Very cheap, and rock solid. Gets updates often. . Well supported by developer and.....
Works like a charm when not connected to WiFi too.
I would have liked to use the built in twitter app, but I too can''t get it to work over a non wifi connection, I looked at removing my proxy info, but my proxy box was already unticked so made no difference to the problem.
Thankfully Twikini is supurb (and I had already purchased it previously) so I just use that. Its a much better twitter client all round.
Anyone interested in buying this App, might like to know that it is also available from the marketplace at a considerably cheaper price than direct from the developers website.
There is a free trial version, give it a go. It even comes with a HTC coloured theme so its all looks nice.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem. Anyways, the Norwegian marketplace has 11 (!) apps. Totally useless so far.
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yeah it's ****ing pathetic. I thought it was going to be at least a few hundred apps there.... Been checking there once in a while since I bought the HD2, but still no new apps. Maybe we'll get 1 or two more apps next year if we are lucky woohooo!!
Few things in the world can be more useless than Twitter itself, let alone Twitter clients.
It does the Twitter thing for me but doesn't make coffee, doesn't deliver or send any significant information anywhere and doesn't wake me up in the morning. So yes, it's predictably useless.
Another good Twitter client is PockeTwit: http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/
Does anyone on here use COPILOT LIVE 8 USA? I have some issues and I wonder if anyone else can add some comments as to how to resolve? I have sent these to COPILOT SUPPORT but no response yet.. I am hoping to get all of these resolved:
1. I am alerted that I am at my destination BEFORE I actually get there. It also doesn’t tell me LEFT or right or ahead is my destination. Can this be resolved?
2. I tested 2 addresses today with COPILOT and a GARMIN GPS. The Garmin was dead on while COPILOT was lost and had be going in circles. This was while I was in a development with a LOT of little side streets. Can this be fixed?
3. when you get to your destination, it doesn’t give you the option to CLEAR the route. It asks me what I want to do but if I close the BOX, since I don’t want to do any of that, it keeps the route I am on. I noticed this as I use COPILOT to get home. Then today, I turned on copilot and it still said it was running the route to my house. I couldn’t find any way to clear it except to delete next stop. Then it cleared the route. I also see no way to click CANCEL ROUTE if you decide you don’t want to navigate to where you set. My Garmin has an "X" that I can hit to cancel route.
4. Program is missing a LOT of POI's .. For instance, I was sitting in a parking lot of WAL-MART which has been there for many years. It didn’t know this Wal-Mart existed. It did know about other ones nearby but not this one. Same with TARGET, I was sitting in a target parking lot and it didn’t know target was there.
5. Routing is wrong on some trips.. Sometimes it will tell me to turn left when you can't or when LEFT is the completely wrong way to go. How to fix?
6. I entered in SPEED TRAP DATA but it NEVER alerts me to any of them. I said YES to the fact I was importing SPEED TRAP data but it never did anything.. MEANWHILE, my Garmin did alert me.
7. It would be nice if I could pull addresses out of my EVO 4G address book so I don’t have to re-type them in and also if you could do voice entry of the data Like GOOGLE and SPRINT navigation already do.
8. It appears the maps are SEVERAL YEARS out of date. How do I get updated maps?
9. If I want to select a POI to travel to... I select the category, then pick my POI or type in the name.. Lets say WALMART. Then I find the walmart but then decide that wasn’t what I wanted. I then hit my back arrow on my phone and select a different category or maybe just type in a different name of a POI. When I then search for the new one, it brings me to the orig category and POI and NOT the new one. I have to completely back out back the main screen of copilot and then start over with finding a POI. I have to do this every time..
I hope someone can help resolve these issues... Thanks...
1. CoPilot alerts you with an audible alert slightly before the exact destination. I don't know why. But there is no fix for it, as I doubt they consider it a problem. CoPilot does not tell you that the destination is on the left or right. If you look closely on the map though for the destination flag, it will be drawn on the left or right side of the road. You can tell from that.
2. Read the review in the Android Market and Apple App Store for ALK's products in the US. ALK' maps are notoriously bad and out of date. They try and do their maps in-house instead of buying them from Navteq or TeleAtlas. As a result, customers suffer, but you also pay less.
3. ALK has known about this issue for a LONG time. I personally have sent the issue to them a year ago. The only way to cancel the route is to select the "remove next waypoint" option, or something to that effect, don't recall the exact name.
4. Same issue as the maps. They are bad. Try using the Google Search instead of the POI search within the app.
5. Buy a different app. The maps are bad, these are the repercussions of that.
6. Traffic camera alert functionality works. I have used it in the past. Don't say what you did wrong, but that function does work.
7. Don't hold your breath.
8. You don't. The maps are what they are. You can submit errors and they will correct them within 45 days supposedly. But when you are starting with maps as bad as they are, you'd be submitting problems every time you use the product.
9. Can't help you with that one.
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Does anyone on here use COPILOT LIVE 8 USA? I have some issues and I wonder if anyone else can add some comments as to how to resolve? I have sent these to COPILOT SUPPORT but no response yet.. I am hoping to get all of these resolved:
1. I am alerted that I am at my destination BEFORE I actually get there. It also doesn’t tell me LEFT or right or ahead is my destination. Can this be resolved?
2. I tested 2 addresses today with COPILOT and a GARMIN GPS. The Garmin was dead on while COPILOT was lost and had be going in circles. This was while I was in a development with a LOT of little side streets. Can this be fixed?
3. when you get to your destination, it doesn’t give you the option to CLEAR the route. It asks me what I want to do but if I close the BOX, since I don’t want to do any of that, it keeps the route I am on. I noticed this as I use COPILOT to get home. Then today, I turned on copilot and it still said it was running the route to my house. I couldn’t find any way to clear it except to delete next stop. Then it cleared the route. I also see no way to click CANCEL ROUTE if you decide you don’t want to navigate to where you set. My Garmin has an "X" that I can hit to cancel route.
4. Program is missing a LOT of POI's .. For instance, I was sitting in a parking lot of WAL-MART which has been there for many years. It didn’t know this Wal-Mart existed. It did know about other ones nearby but not this one. Same with TARGET, I was sitting in a target parking lot and it didn’t know target was there.
5. Routing is wrong on some trips.. Sometimes it will tell me to turn left when you can't or when LEFT is the completely wrong way to go. How to fix?
6. I entered in SPEED TRAP DATA but it NEVER alerts me to any of them. I said YES to the fact I was importing SPEED TRAP data but it never did anything.. MEANWHILE, my Garmin did alert me.
7. It would be nice if I could pull addresses out of my EVO 4G address book so I don’t have to re-type them in and also if you could do voice entry of the data Like GOOGLE and SPRINT navigation already do.
8. It appears the maps are SEVERAL YEARS out of date. How do I get updated maps?
9. If I want to select a POI to travel to... I select the category, then pick my POI or type in the name.. Lets say WALMART. Then I find the walmart but then decide that wasn’t what I wanted. I then hit my back arrow on my phone and select a different category or maybe just type in a different name of a POI. When I then search for the new one, it brings me to the orig category and POI and NOT the new one. I have to completely back out back the main screen of copilot and then start over with finding a POI. I have to do this every time..
I hope someone can help resolve these issues... Thanks...
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Thanks. Is there any app like copilot live usa that works? I love the features of copilot over google and sprint navigation. actually it would be nice if I could find and app similar to copilot and my garmin rolled into one.
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What about the navigon app?
edit- apparently navigon is also bad. is there any good paid navigation app?
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I wouldn't say that Navigon is bad. It is just very v1.0 as far as features goes. Biggest issue is that there is no app2sd. It is Navteq data so it is as good as it gets from that perspective. They have yet to announce a map update policy either.
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What about the navigon app?
edit- apparently navigon is also bad. is there any good paid navigation app?
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Does it work in USA? I dont see USA maps talked abut on their site..
Yes, Navigon has a US app.
tried Navigon and it stinks. WHILE the maps and routing is better and traffic seems to be included, its missing a lot of things that copilot does.. the POI icons on navigon and the map as so small you cant read anything while driving. AND in 3D mode, there are NO STREET NAMES. You also can not see a list of directions so you do not know what route is is taking you on. It DOES have some nice features though, but NOT at $61.00 .. My issue now, is trying to get a refund since it took almost 2 hours to download maps which is more then the 15 minute time limit. In fact, once I tested the program for 10 minutes driving I decided COPILOT, even with some of its flaws is better ... M probably have to call credit card company to get refund...
is there ANY program that is worthy of buying for a navigation program? or do I stick to my old garmin?
Your main options are Google Navigation, CoPilot, Navigon or Sprint Navigation. I've used them all. I also have a Garmin 885t and a TomTom 740 Live. I've owned about 6 other devices over the years. I can tell you that Google Navigation is my primary GPS at this point. I like it a lot. I miss nothing from my Garmin. I only miss the ability to detour specific segments of the route from TomTom. I miss nothing from Sprint Navigation. I deleted Navigon. It took way too much room and didn't have app2sd. I have CoPilot installed as a backup should I not have a connection to use Google Navigation. I will remove it and reinstall Navigon if it ever gets app2sd.
im rooted so I was able to put NAVIGON on the SD card. I just dont like some things, which I mentioned. Im actually trying another program that has a 7 day trial and is free from the market for the trial. Its called AURA. it says it uses the latest TOM TOM MAPS.. I ASSUME they are up to date. it also has traffic and other stuff.. Looks good on the web sites BUT I havent tested it yet as I am downloading some of the maps. this program also supports APP2SD without the trick I did for navigon..
so I am playing with AURA but It appears it doesnt speak street names.. thats a deal breaker... I have a support request in to see if it actually does this. I hope it does. it is one heck of a nice program... IM using the USA version
EDIT: Looks like it doesnt speak street names.. I have a support question to ask about this. This program would be AWESOME if it did. its got the NEWEST TOM TOM MAPS and it does almost everything I want. the NON SPEAKING STREET NAMES is a DEAL BREAKER.. I hope they answer my question and fix that issue...
My Magazine's really cool primarily because of local and social integration. A lot of folks had trouble with Facebook in the social section. Either it didn't show up as an option or, if it did, it would disappear soon after it was configured. I e-mailed FlipBoard support and this was their response. Social in My Magazine's kind of useless without FB. Oh well.
This annoyed me too
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Very likely the blame goes to FB. They cut a lot of other companies off at the knees and blocked them so turn about is fair play. Tell FB to accept cross app connections.
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Very likely the blame goes to FB. They cut a lot of other companies off at the knees and blocked them so turn about is fair play. Tell FB to accept cross app connections.
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The wierd thing is the functionality is there. Early on in setting up my device it didn't appear but people said they got it back after a hard reset. So I hard reset and sure enough it came back and I was able to get it setup and Facebook posts appeared in my social feed. The next time I looked at the feed Facebook was gone again.
So whatever happened must have occured after My Magazine was designed. Facebook can piss off Flipboard and get away with it. Samsung's a little bit bigger and I'd imagine with their installed base of mobile devices Facebook wouldn't want to have them as an enemy. That's if any of the three really give a crap whether My Magazine's social feed supports Facebook.
Facebook isn't even that great. I'd jump to Google plus in a second if my friends would come with me
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Facebook isn't even that great. I'd jump to Google plus in a second if my friends would come with me
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Agreed, but that's exactly the point - most people won't switch, so we're all stuck with Facebook no matter what.
I have to admit this is a real bummer to me; My Magazine was actually the feature that sold me over to the Note 3 instead of the G2. Now if I can't access my Facebook feed on it, it's not that great, really.
Incidentally, Instagram suffers from the same issue; it's available just after doing a factory reset, but disappears after a short while.
In the best of cases, this is a simple licensing issue, i.e. the deals between Samsung, Flipboard and Facebook/Instagram were not finalized in time for the release of the phone, and will be in a matter of days or weeks. On the other hand, FB has the upper hand in the negotiations (Samsung can't prevent users from downloading the Facebook app on their phones, but Facebook can prevent Samsung/Flipboard from accessing their servers), so maybe they'll never reach a deal.
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Agreed, but that's exactly the point - most people won't switch, so we're all stuck with Facebook no matter what.
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I just switched to G+ even though I haven't got a single friend in my circles. F*ck em, they're all idiots anyway.
dehaani said:
I just switched to G+ even though I haven't got a single friend in my circles. F*ck em, they're all idiots anyway.
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lucky few of my friend is in G+, and also there is 1 subject in 1 of my uni semester , the lecture force the student to use google service include G+ instead of FB, it s a smart move but i piss so many student in that subject><
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the lecture force the student to use google service include G+ instead of FB, it s a smart move but i piss so many student in that subject><
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Wow, the university forces student to use a particular social network? Malaysia boleh! Gila lah!
I'd use G+ a hell of a lot more if they had a reasonable API for 3rd party apps to support. I don't want to have to load up each individual social app to view the networks I'm on, I want to just do it once.
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Wow, the university forces student to use a particular social network? Malaysia boleh! Gila lah!
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HAHAHA!! but that was only for 1 lecture i ever come across , the rest nop. , back to the topic
any one figure out how to work with FB And insta on my magazine??
Granted I'm not the smartest tool in the box.....
But I seem to have Facebook in My Magazine? or am I mistaken?
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I seem to have Facebook in My Magazine? or am I mistaken?
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Those screenshots seem to be taken from within the Flipboard app, not from within My Magazine.
Actually it is indeed possible to see Flipboard from within My Magazine: when I boot the phone and do not start flipboard, then My Magazine seems to be autonomous, pressing 'back' at the top of the screen after reading an article brings me back to My magazine. If, however, I start the Flipboard app, and then open My Magazine, then pressing 'back' within My Magazine brings me to Flipboard. But not always. If I navigate to the 'Social' tab and back, it doesn't. This is clearly a bug.
Anyway, that actually has to be the silliest part of this story; Facebook works fine in Flipboard, but not in the Flipboard-based My Magazine...
I always forget that the Note 3 has my magazine and I never use it.
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Wish I didn't have to hard reset to get Facebook....I've already got everything set up. Don't feel like doing it twice.
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SaXaPhIDeSoUl said:
Wish I didn't have to hard reset to get Facebook....I've already got everything set up. Don't feel like doing it twice.
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You can setup Facebook and Instagram fine after a hard reset. Within hours they'll be gone. Hopefully whatever's causing FlipBoard to suppress them will get resolved and they'll reappear permanently.
Any news on this issue? My magazine is a very useful and full of potential feature, it's a shame that has these bugs! I hope an update will come soon. ..
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Any news on this issue? My magazine is a very useful and full of potential feature, it's a shame that has these bugs! I hope an update will come soon. ..
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Makes two of us who checks mymagazine for a fix update few times a day.
Despite of Facebook and instagram problem, my country Turkey is not listed for news resources option. This is unbelievable as most other countries(even smallest ones!) are listed in news sources country options.
I was so glad to hear that Note3 was coming with a special flipboard version pre installed as I was a fan of blinkfeed of HTC one, but turns out it is not even a usable version at all. Such a huge waste of a great idea gone sucky. I hope they release an update soon to fix this.
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any news????
Any news ? any Tips ?
I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible and get to the point..
tL:dR = red
I'm looking for a fully featured 3rd party twitter app much like Falcon Pro was back in the day..
I've tried nearly all of them, I've even purchased some that I became very disappointed.
I need an app that notifies me on mentions, DM's, people who follow me, people who retweet me and favorite my tweets as well.. Much like the official one does. I love the official one but:
-Official -- Doesnt notify me anymore for some reason. I've tried all the fixes, nothing works.
-Falcon Pro -- Cant sign in anymore. Gives me the 'date and time setting' error.. Even created a twitter app that the dev says to do to bypass that,, Didnt work either.
-Tweetings -- The best one so far.. Hate the layout tho.. too crowded for my taste when i add more than one account. And the notifications, when upon clicked, (i.e. people who favorite me, and/or retweet me) doesnt take me to the 'tweet' that i posted. Once I click that notification, it just goes away. I would like to go back thru my mentions and 'see' what tweets of mine got favorited and/or retweeted.. If that makes sense.. Tweetings doesnt allow that.
-All other apps that I've tried have splendid ui's but lack the option of push notifications such as who have favorited my tweets and who retweeted my tweets... When people mention me, of course that notifies me, but no other notifications =/
Like I said, the official one was perfect after Falcon pro when bye bye, but it doesnt notify me anymore (been going on for almost a year now).. Falcon pro was my go to! LOVED that thing.. But no longer works for me either
Anybody recommend an app that I may not have tried yet that incorporates my wants..??
I would suggest Carbon for Twitter, however they're having issues with Authentication tokens for new users. I'd have a look at the apps in the play store tbh, I used to use TwitBird it pretty much caters your needs.
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I would suggest Carbon for Twitter, however they're having issues with Authentication tokens for new users. I'd have a look at the apps in the play store tbh, I used to use TwitBird it pretty much caters your needs.
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Tried carbon as well.. it doesnt have the notifications that i mentioned =/ -- it may now though. I havent looked at it in a few months.. Ill check it out.. You said Twitbird..? I think i remember seeing that.. Ill check out that one too.
EDIT: Twitbird is only for ios