Hi, first post.
Getting ready to upgrade from my current Galaxy S Captivate. Not sure that I want to wait for the Nexus Prime so I've been testing out the GS2. One difference I've noticed is how pinch to zoom and formatting is handled. I really like the way the Captivate handles it -- you pinch to zoom then not until you tap the screen does the text reformat USING the current text size you zoomed to. In the case of the GS2 -- pinch to zoom works the same way but when you tap the screen it makes the text smaller as it tries to fit more of the text to one screen.
Is this because of OS differences or am I missing a setting some where.
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is there any software out now that can do this or would someone be interested in making one thanks in advance if there is already a thread i couldn't find it so point me in the right direction
No, the screens on Windows Mobile devices can only recognise a single touch at any one time.
HTC Album will zoom in/out with a circular swipe, think zooming with a telephoto lens clockwise=zoom in, anticlockwise=zoom out.
yeah iv know that but i was messing with it trying to zoom in and out by sliding fingers away from each other and it worked a couple times i don't know how i havnt done anything and are u sure it cant recognize multiple touches
It can't with the current screen as mentioned above. Maybe the next generation.
Now that we have VGA screens, I noticed (and maybe it was doing this before) that you can zoom in all the way in "aerial" views.
Google Maps seem to have 18 layers of zoom. But the closest zoom, and I'm guessing is because of the VGA screen, still far out. I can only get in to a block radius.
MSLive search has 17 layers of zoom. Here's the weird part. Certain locations I can zoom all the way down to its lowest zoom line on the left of the screen.
But if I look at my city, I'm missing the two lowest zoom. I can only get it to about a 5 block zoom? I could go all the way to my house before.
Did both google and MS change the way you can zoom, or is this something new with VGA screens?
Also, is there a way to adjust text on the screen? Its formatted for QVGA so on a VGA screen, all the street names are micro small.
I'm guessing that you're actually getting the same zoom level as on a qvga device, but it all looks much smaller on a vga screen due to its smaller pixels.
The "zoom level" is actually about photo resolution. If you were able to get a high-resolution picture of your house on a qvga device, that same picture will look about half as big (but sharper) on a vga screen, and the vga screen will show a lot more of the surrounding scenery, so it seems like you're not "zoomed in" as far as before. But resolution-wise, you get the same level of detail.
Or, to put it the other way around: on your qvga phone, the picture of your house was displayed bigger because of the screen's bigger pixels, but it was also blockier so that the "bigger" picture didn't provide more detail.
As to the zoom levels missing in the MSLive app, that has nothing to do with your screen; it's just that MSLive doesn't have the high-detail sattelite data for your region yet.
I guessed that too, but that still doesn't explain why I can't zoom all they way like before in my town, yet I can zoom all they way elsewhere.
These two apps have always needed the ability to adjust the line thickness on maps with vga devices too. Sometimes it just gets too hard to read.
i wonder if theres a hack that someone could do...to fix the line thickness...
Forgive me for not searching but I only have my nexus one right now and when I start typing in the xda search box with my phone the search box disappears immediately each time I type the first letter.
First of all xda seems to be pretty good with scrolling. Yahoo, espn, most other sites however don't. This is about the issue with scrolling where images get kind of fuzzy (almost like the resolution drops) and it makes the scrolling seem jittery because the lines and characters are rapidly switching width with every frame while scrolling. It's most noticeable when you stop scrolling but leave your finger on the screen and then really look at the image before removing your finger, once you remove your finger the screen will become as crisp as before you initially applied your finger to scroll.
I think the only reason this bothers me is because the iPhone screen doesn't change at all when scrolling and so it appears more clear/crisp/smooth. Honestly I wish I never fiddled with the 3gs to begin with because I can't stop comparing it to my truly amazing nexus one.
I'm wondering is this a hardware issue or software? I recall a recent pro-iphone article about poor image quality that was soundly refuted by the incomparable people here at xda with the explanation that it was simply a software issue not a hardware defect and I believe the issue was centered around the gallery app and touching the images?
Are these two issues essentially the same in that they can both be resolved with software updates? I just compared the nexus browser scrolling with that of my g1 and mytouch, and although they both are extremely jumpy/jittery I don't notice the change in image quality when removing/applying my finger like on the nexus so it must be the nexus hardware or else 2.1. I'm basically looking for an explanation about what different things make images/characters/lines change in quality and make scrolling so jerky and what can be done.
Thanks to anyone who can decipher and helpfully reply to this post
Edit: Here's the only thing I found searching Google. It addresses the issue pretty well but I'm still curious to hear what xda folks think.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=79967f44ddd5d178&hl=en
Apparently the g1/mytouch jumpiness is from the weak processors. It seems clear its software related on the nexus, I just hope its important enough to Google to fix...
DMaverick50 said:
Forgive me for not searching but I only have my nexus one right now and when I start typing in the xda search box with my phone the search box disappears immediately each time I type the first letter.
First of all xda seems to be pretty good with scrolling. Yahoo, espn, most other sites however don't. This is about the issue with scrolling where images get kind of fuzzy (almost like the resolution drops) and it makes the scrolling seem jittery because the lines and characters are rapidly switching width with every frame while scrolling. It's most noticeable when you stop scrolling but leave your finger on the screen and then really look at the image before removing your finger, once you remove your finger the screen will become as crisp as before you initially applied your finger to scroll.
I think the only reason this bothers me is because the iPhone screen doesn't change at all when scrolling and so it appears more clear/crisp/smooth. Honestly I wish I never fiddled with the 3gs to begin with because I can't stop comparing it to my truly amazing nexus one.
I'm wandering is this a hardware issue or software? I recall a recent pro-iphone article about poor image quality that was soundly refuted by the incomparable people here at xda with the explanation that it was simply a software issue not a hardware defect and I believe the issue was centered around the gallery app and touching the images?
Are these two issues essentially the same in that they can both be resolved with software updates? I just compared the nexus browser scrolling with that of my g1 and mytouch, and although they both are extremely jumpy/jittery I don't notice the change in image quality when removing/applying my finger like on the nexus so it must be the nexus hardware or else 2.1. I'm basically looking for an explanation about what different things make images/characters/lines change in quality and make scrolling so jerky and what can be done.
Thanks to anyone who can decipher and helpfully reply to this post
Edit: Here's the only thing I found searching Google. It addresses the issue pretty well but I'm still curious to hear what xda folks think.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=79967f44ddd5d178&hl=en
Apparently the g1/mytouch jumpiness is from the weak processors. It seems clear its software related on the nexus, I just hope its important enough to Google to fix...
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The issue you're seeing is due to how each OS renders the webpages.
The iPhone renders webpages as one huge jpeg file. So scrolling will of course be very smooth. However, that's why when you pinch and zoom in, the text doesn't reflow. You have to pan left and right like a madman. EXTREMELY annoying.
The Nexus One renders the webpage.... well, as a TRUE webpage. It actually renders each element separately. The "fuzzyness" you're seeing is that pictures are downsized in quality while scrolling so that the scrolling is smooth. I've never seen it be laggy or choppy as a result of this (maybe because I'm using the Desire ROM/browser), but the fuzzyness is still there.
Either way, I'd rather have webpages rendered in their true nature. Increased functionality (text reflow, flash, etc) > silly eye candy that personally doesn't bother me and only happens for a split second anyway. Like most things, the iPhone OS is built for the eye first (minus the nasty home screen), functionality second.
that was an awesome reply, thank you
i love the being able to pinch to zoom and then tap or press zoom to format it. i guess if it has to be a choice of smoothness or utility im with you, id hate for the page to not reformat when i zoomed.
I currently have a Touch Pro2 and find the screen to be just a bit too small to optimally view most ebooks/magazines. I've only had the TP2 for about 2 months... and am now looking at the HD2 because of the screen size. My question is mainly about the screen size and legibility of text without too much zooming and panning left/right when viewing ebooks/magazines. With the Touch Pro2 I find myself needing to pan back and forth and zoom a lot to be able to read text properly.
I'm on Android 2.1 on a Galaxy S. Is there away to have the default browser zoom to text boxes correctly?
I'm basically comparing how it works to the iPhone, and when I double tap on a block of text I want to read it zooms in past the width of the text box and I end up having to scroll left and right or having to pinch to zoom out a bit.
Using auto-fit sucks because it reflows the text in a very ugly way, especially if there is an image on top of the article.
Practical example: going to Gizmodo, Engadget or NYTimes and double tapping on an article in the main page. On the iphone it frames it exactly right, you can see the image and the text just fine. On my Galaxy it zooms past the text and image. I tried changing the font size but it still does it.
Is there a browser on the market that does a better job at this? I've tried Skyfire, Opera and Dolphing and they all do the same.
Why is it so hard for the browser to detect the width of the block of text I'm trying to read and zoom just to that point? It's a pain having to pinch every time I want to read something.