I like to use my landscape mode sometimes for keyboard preferences but I notice the iPhones rotate screen is much smoother and nicer and you see the rotation anyway we can get that?
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I say we fix a2dp, s.o.d, reboots, freezes, get an update and end world hunger... THEN we can make our phones more like the iphone... until then... it's kind of a small issue to me and I can live with it.
Edit: hell I forgot to throw gps on that list too...
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If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
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If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
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Amen... it's snappier than an Iphone, the screen is bigger, Widgets, replaceable battery, not controlled by Steve jobs, almost COMPLETELY customizable... shall I go on?
I got to tell you. I didn't even notice any issue with the screen rotation... even as I go through 360 degrees(which the iPhone doesn't do). Barely an issue at all, and if that is all you are complaining about, well I guess it could be worse...
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My last phone (which was not an Iphone) had multiple choices for screen rotation graphics. The pretty rotation (which is not unique to an iphone or invented by Bill Gates) just delays the actual rotated screen.
The G2X got it right to just snap the screen in the rotated position. How ever, the issue when it goes to sleep and comes back in portrait when it was in landscape is annoying and should be fixed. Maybe some one that that was a good thing.
I actually love my g2x and would never downgrade to an iPhone but I just noticed there smooth transition into the different landscape and portrait modes you can see the transition instead of it just switching so fast
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I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
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You don't have to tilt it back to portrait, you can simply press the capacitive back button. I agree to an extent overall though a little glamour would be nice, I reneger the G1 had a special option where it had a fancy rotation animation deal. Either way it is not even close to something we actually need and I'm fine with what it is now.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
I agree with the OP about the rotation transition not being aesthetically pleasing, but at the same time think about all the important pros we have over other operating systems (mainly Apple's iOS). We have Widgets, full adobe flash, we almost have the ability to fully customize all aspects of our phone without even rooting it! etc... etc... We even have the largest dev support (I'm referring to Android as a whole) out of any OS developing community. Unfortunately we can't have all the pros that we want, but we do have a good majority of pros vs the cons.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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this is something the windows phones actually do really really well
Yea I have a Transformer running 3.1 and the rotation animations are nice.
I have a pretty good method for using the rotation aspect on the G2x and it requires CM7. I Disable rotation but keep a notification button in the pull down for rotation toggling. This way it always stays in portrait unless I toggle orientation on, then I can rotate it for a specific website or video, then toggle it off.
I had an iPad 1 and 2... and they would rotate all crazy ways if you sat them flat too. Best option is that if you don't want it to rotate randomly, then just disable it completely.
Here's an idea. How about only allow rotating when keyboard is up? That would be sweet.
However I don't use landscape keyboard layout. But good idea. Maybe get a keyboard developer to include that as an option.
i know that in CM7.1 you are able to decide how you want your layout. you can have it landscape, portrait , or the way it is set up now. pretty cool.
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Just got the Xoom thursday. Been using it since then. Only got a handful applications & songs. Find it laggy & unresponsive sometimes.
Advice? **** for a dual core. Use it only in portrait. Unrooted.
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Just got the Xoom thursday. Been using it since then. Only got a handful applications & songs. Find it laggy & unresponsive sometimes.
Advice? **** for a dual core. Use it only in portrait. Unrooted.
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If you have opted not to root or install a custom kernel, then the first step I would take in cutting down on any lag is to install a different launcher.
I can recommend ADW Launcher, LauncherPro and GO Launcher. All are great, very customizable, a good deal smoother then the stock UI on Honeycomb and come in both free and donate versions.
Install all three and try them each out, choose the one that suits you best.
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Just got the Xoom thursday. Been using it since then. Only got a handful applications & songs. Find it laggy & unresponsive sometimes.
Advice? **** for a dual core. Use it only in portrait. Unrooted.
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Don't use it in portrait, problem solved!
I am serious though, tablet runs like **** in portrait. It isn't made for it.
I've gone to portrait no more than 2 times since launch. Landscape is much better, afterall.. it is a landscape tab
I'm running 3.1 and I don't really see the supposed UI hardware acceleration improvements. Sometimes swiping screens is pretty fluid and smooth, but many times after getting out of an application, the home screen will stutter into place and some initial swipes are jerky.
I occasionaly use the tablet in portrait when reading comics, using ConnectBot, Nzbget, Words with Friends etc, apps that force portrait and while I agree that it takes longer than it should to switch to portrait, once there it doesn't have any problems.
I am rooted with Tiamat kernel installed and OC'd to 1.4ghz but I don't remember there being any issues even before I did this.
Like P2flol said though, the Xoom was designed to be used in landscape... as all honeycomb tabs have been.
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This is a famous problem!! Only use it in landscape while the front camera is on top! This is the only way to get 60fps all others will give you 30fps!
I seen this on youtube. I'll search for a link!
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I was wondering if anybody has found or is willing to make a home replacement app that looks like the old danger sidekicks. That would be really badass.
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The Hiptop ring chooser seems impractical for so many apps. At the end there, the Danger OS was looking awfully dated.. I can't see the ring chooser coming back.
Check out Wave Launcher. Not to my taste, but you might like it.
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i think this might be more practical if the trackpad on this new SK were more usuable....
I agree. the Wheel was very functional on a non-Touch device, but with Touch, it becomes pointless. I had Sidekicks from the early days as well (CSK, SK2, SK LX-07). I *do* miss the splash screens though. but there are SO many apps you can put on the phone it would be hard to keep track just by scrolling up and down.
I miss the d-pad and trackball.
They were great for selecting links in the browser, moving around in text documents, and for selecting text.
Getting that kind of precision with this touch screen or the new trackpad is very difficult. Pinch to zoom before I select a link isn't a good alternative.
Sometimes, there really is no substitute for good old fashioned hardware control. The keyboard on this device proves that point. Now, I want my hardware trackball and d-pad back.
The touch screen is great for scrolling around and general navigation. But, it's very clumsy when it's time for precise selection.
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This is a thread to list some cool things you like about the phone. Maybe point out a few things that other people didn't know yet.
For me I would have to say that the keyboard is awesome. Also the fact that it already has a printer option built in. Voice recognition on this phone is awesome. And of course face recognition is great too.
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I've been a Swype user since the Nexus One, but I have to say that the Trace feature on the HTC keyboard is impressive. It's noticeably quicker to render words after swyping/tracing. Only downside I've noticed is you can't place the cursor on previous words and choose alternate suggestions. Unless I'm missing an option for this.
Ha. And I though it was an improved swype this whole time
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Interesting comment about the keyboard. I'll be receiving my HOX today but most reviews say the HTC keyboard is ****. Seeing the entire row of arrows on the bottom leads me to agree (but then again, I haven't used it yet). How does it compare to the stock ICS keyboard? I don't like Swype so I'm sure I won't ever use that feature.
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...And of course face recognition is great too.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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Well that sucks ass. And I tested with everyone in my house and it only worked for me..
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My favorite feature is definitely the screen! I can't keep my eyes off of it. I do not like the HTC Sense keyboard and for those of you that also do not like it you can go to the Play Store and download the stock ICS keyboard and it works great on the One X. It is much more similar to the iPhone keyboard that I am used to and is spaced further apart than stock sense keyboard. Also, you get more screen room for viewing while texting or writing messages if you use the stock ICS keyboard.
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About that. I tried using the face detect to lock my screen and at first i thought to myself, man does this work well.
Then for fun I had my dad look at the camera and guess what, the phone unlocked itself for him too. Now I know we look somewhat alike, but not that close.
Long story short, I wouldn't trust that feature..
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It works for pictures of you as well... It can't distinguish depth.
Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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Well they're working on a modified face unlock that requires you to blink so picture would be useless.
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Haven't heard about this I think It will be great
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http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-before-it-grants-access-to-the-phone_id28559
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I rather enjoy the was the app drawer is done on this phone. Now that said this is both my first HTC and my first ICS phone, so this may be nothing special
Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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Dial a number with the keypad in your hand... phone vibrates when they pick up if you don't have it on your ear.
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That's not really a new feature. I've had that on every HTC phone i've used. Windows mobile, windows phone.
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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I personally hate this feature. A dedicated button? I liked long press home. Now I don't have a quick way to search plus I haven't found a way to assign a long press action to any of them.
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Once we have root it should be long press home button for recent apps, multitask button as menu button, and long press multitask for search. I miss voice search lol it was easier on an inspire
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The battery life left it alone overnight, awesome, especially vs atrix and LG nitro hd.
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The headphone out sound quality. It's clean and detailed. Does anyone know what DAC the LTE version has in it?
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The apps button on the lower right is the coolest so far for me. Swipe up to close apps and you can open any recent apps...
It takes the only good feature of the Blackburry playbook and adds it to Android. Sorry if this is old for HTC... first one for me.
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From what I can tell, by swiping the recent application does not close the application. I have opened several apps and then hit the home button then the recent applications button and swiped them... then opened up the apps again and they are right back where I left them. I think it only deletes the recent app bookmark and not closes the app itself.
Hi everyone. Could someone point me to where I can disable the backlight on the capacitive buttons? Find it annoying they stay on while watching video in a dark setting. Thanks
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I'd like to know, too. Very distracting when watching Netflix in a dark room.
That will most likely be something fixed in a ROM...there is not a way I know of to disable with stock ROM..be a while since bootloader is still locked as of today..checked htcdev.com today...bummer..
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Don't get me wrong--I am thrilled with this phone. But I find it completely shocking that nobody at HTC ever tried to watch a video on it and said, "hey, these three bright lights are really freaking annoying!"
I actually have the opposite problem. Half the time my backlight does not work. It will work awhile after reboot but then will stop again. Not sure how to fix it.
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I've used the app adjbrightness in the past. I haven't tested yet because it requires root and haven't rooted yet. hope this helps.
I would also like a solution for this.
Lots of little quirks with the software where you'd think HTC would have noticed it. This is a big one in my opinion.
How in the world could you forget to time out the lights when a video is being played. Or give a setting for it.
How could you leave out the stock keyboard and ONLY provide your crappy bloated Sense keyboard? atleast have it installed, so users can have the option.
In the browser, wheres the tab button? why have the user hop through menus and different windows when Tabs are the FUTURE! and stock on ICS.
HTC RUINED! the browser.
Excellent hardware, brought down by senseless sense designers.
Sense UI makes absolutely no sense.
I know it sounds silly, with such a big screen, why would we want a UI that consumes so much of the screen? Well I think it would just be kinda neat to see it on the Xoom, who knows maybe people like it more? Is there any possibility of this happening? I have EOS 3 126 and it is running just fine.
Here's some more info for you, even though I don't have the answer.
Nexus runs phone UI, Xoom runs tablet UI.
Nexus can be tweaked to run tablet. My guess is its a build.prop tweak.
See that's what I thought cause that's how you get the Nexus 7 to run the tablet interface, so I don't know of the same thing can be done with a simple build.prop mod.
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To get the phone UI, you need to change the DPI I believe. I tried it and my XOOM didn't boot, had to reflash my ROM. Probably not a good idea.
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Same, I was messing with the DPI but after I did that it just wouldn't boot, which sucks.
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I wish I had a link to the article so this wasn't such an anecdotal response but I'm 99% sure that I read the ui the nexus uses is actually an in between mode for 7ish inch screens. The thing I read said there was a phone, a 7" and a 10" mode. The only reason I bring this up is that I would be interested in seeing that other view too just to compare so if you find anything else on the subject please let us know.
Edit: http://liliputing.com/2012/07/how-to-change-the-nexus-7-user-interface-to-full-tablet-mode.html
That article has a little more detail on the three ui modes and lists the dpi of the nexus 7 (213). As well as what range to set it to to get it to display the full tablet mode. This might be a good place to start from to try to get the xoom to go down to the middle size ui mode
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Well, compare nexus to phone UI. It seems the same.
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Well, compare nexus to phone UI. It seems the same.
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Not really, in landscape the notification tray pulls down covering only the left of the screen and in portrait it only covers the middle of the screen.
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If anyone finds a ROM with nexus style ui plz post it I'd love to try it out on Xoom or gnex and won't get a n7 until Oct or DEC 25
I don't think it is possible t get the Nexus 7 UI n a phone with a smaller display....
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I set the 213 DPI on my Galaxy nexus... it was very similar
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I set the 213 DPI on my Galaxy nexus... it was very similar
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Think you can mess with the DPI on the Xoom?
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it works on JB for me (partially)
i just used the dpi app on the market, in 4.1 it changes to 'hybrid' mode if you like, but the navbar is missing from the bottom! atm im using virtual buttons to emulate home and back buttons! any way to force navbar to appear? EOS JB Wingray Nightlies (143)
Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893923
Very much what I was looking for, thanks
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Very much what I was looking for, thanks
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That's what the thanks button is for.
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I made a universal mod for this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1898907
I really like this on my Xoom, it makes the screen a little weirder to type on but that's only in the beginning, after a while you get used to it. It feels a little slow when dragging the notification window down but it feels faster in some other areas like scrolling through my pages of apps in the app drawer.
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I made a universal mod for this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1898907
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Sorry to double post, but I have to say, your universal mod is SO much better on my Wingray. Much faster, the bar is a lot bigger so the soft keys aren't so small and difficult to tap and it is just overall less glitchy, with the other mod, my Xoom restarted every time I held the power button, with yours everything works just fine. Thank you so much.
Oh and the keyboard is so much bigger and better to type on, it seems the other one makes the screen size feel smaller so it all is very much wasting screen real estate.
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Sorry to double post, but I have to say, your universal mod is SO much better on my Wingray. Much faster, the bar is a lot bigger so the soft keys aren't so small and difficult to tap and it is just overall less glitchy, with the other mod, my Xoom restarted every time I held the power button, with yours everything works just fine. Thank you so much.
Oh and the keyboard is so much bigger and better to type on, it seems the other one makes the screen size feel smaller so it all is very much wasting screen real estate.
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Awesome, glad to hear! Maybe you should write a post like this in my thread.
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