I've just bought a Sensation 4G and now realized that in Gmail, when turned to landscape mode, text size is bigger. Actually, everything is bigger, including the UI elements and fonts. Is this normal? My last phone did not do this (HTC Desire).
I also get a similar behaviour in Pulse, but zoom works there, so after I pinch to zoom the text size goes back to normal (portrait) but the margins are left bigger.
teomor said:
I've just bought a Sensation 4G and now realized that in Gmail, when turned to landscape mode, text size is bigger. Actually, everything is bigger, including the UI elements and fonts. Is this normal? My last phone did not do this (HTC Desire).
I also get a similar behaviour in Pulse, but zoom works there, so after I pinch to zoom the text size goes back to normal (portrait) but the margins are left bigger.
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Did you figure this out? I'm having a similar issue w/ my new Droid Rezound....
Nope. I think it's a Gmail "feature" if you know what I mean...
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Hey all,
I've searched around for a solution to this but it's a difficult problem to search for!
On some software that I've installed on my htc touch pro the data entry fields (for example a box to enter the data in pocket informant) are too small so the whole date doesn't get displayed. Is there a way of fixing this? I have gone into screen in the system options field and set the font size to smallest but it hasn't made a difference.
Anyone else experience this? Really annoying as very small entry fields you can't see the text at all (for example entering a height in mysporttraining software).
Chris
--EDIT--
Ok I figured out what the problem was. Couple of days ago I used advanced config to edit the size of vertical scroll bars to make them nice and wide. Reason being to help one finger scrolling as the default is too small. Anyway it appears to also change the width of number incremental arrows in text boxes! So they had become huge covering up the text....doh! Reset the size back to default and the textboxes now appear correctly.
Before I bought the T-Mobile HTC HD2, I was using an unlocked iPhone 3GS, and I want to know if you can set a background image for your Sms, like I did for the iPhone when it was unlocked, because that would be really cool. Also, I need figure out how to get rid of that giant clock, is there way in the settings, to get rid of it, or change the display, and if it say the time, in the top left or right corner?
hi not sure about the background for sms but if you install cookies home tab it will allow you to use a smaller clock or remove large clock alltogether and just have small clock in taskbar
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483
Not quite sure whether this is the exact location something like this should go.. but over time I've just put together a list of some issues I have with the current Sense (Mainly its apps) and changes/additions I'd like to see in further updates.
I'm using HTC Legend unrooted.
Ones with asterisk are more significant.
General
*Ability to select default location on sd card to be used by apps for cache/data storage (so root is not clustered with folders)
*Option to choose whether the long press home button action shows recently used apps or currently running apps - latter could be more useful.
*Built in flashlight app which uses camera flash as a torch (so I don't have to root. Don't see why HTC doesnt have this already.. very practical and useful)
Ability to change timestamp on Footprints. For creating footprints of past events/locations.
When manually selected network becomes unavailable, the screen annoyingly switches to the mobile network list to choose a new one, annoyingly interrupting any current tasks. Will continue to switch back to network list periodically if you ignore it. Show alert in notification bar instead.
Allow selecting/copying of text in sms messages. (select text in long press menu)
Allow manual selection of location for weather (seems to not update location until I'm connected to some form of internet.. even though it can figure it out from GPS/phone network)
Sometimes time on clock widget and notification bar are not synchronized (when traveling between timezones, notification bar has manually selected time of the new location, widget keeps time and weather data of previous location)
360 degree rotate angles (does not go landscape when rotated clockwise)
Interface
*Turning page animation for clock widget, hero has it, looks better (doesn't work on my Legend, seen a Desire where it doesn't turn pages either, must be because of the updated 2.1 version.. defeats the purpose of the page-looking background though)
*When pressing home button or otherwise going back to home screen, have a transition effect where current window minimizes to center of screen with home screen objects coming in from the edges when (like effects in nexus one). Currently the home screen sort of slides in from the side... the minimizing and fading into the centre looks much more appealing
*Nice looking orientation rotate effect when rotating phone (like iphone)
When in pinch zoom out mode on home screen (where you can see small versions of each home screen), allow the dragging and re-arrangement of the order of home screens. (Touchwiz is adding this feature, LauncherPro does I believe, need to keep up with the competition)
Music
Re-do cover art display, there's room to move things and make album art larger, have a nicer looking display with maybe 3D effects, something similar to Itunes Cover Flow
Smooth, fast scrolling through cover art without changing song until actually pressing on album.
When pressing search button in library mode, search all fields not just one currently active.
Music sync capability of htc sync.
Be able to select album art from sd card/search online.
Photo
*Display color gradients better. (currently sometimes shows gradients very badly, rough and obviously ugly, same for picture set as lock screen wallpaper)
*Be able to choose which folders to find media (so it doesnt pick up all the images used by apps etc)
*Be able organize albums e.g. folders within folders.
*Separate videos from photos - have separate tab thing down the bottom, like where it has Albums, Facebook etc, for videos
Better updating when SD contents is modified, takes forever and initially leaves doubles of media and albums, shows nonexistent albums until finished.
Better caching - not show "searching for media" loading notification every time even if the album list had been loaded seconds before. Especially since it does not properly search for and detect new media.
Add option to add folders/search/refresh manually.
Allow creation of custom albums.
Camera
*Easier switch between camcorder and camera like nexus one and iphone camera app with constant visible slide toggle. The slide out options bar is laggy and inconvenient to change between modes.
*Audio record quality in camcorder is terrible - atleast at high volumes. Recording video at a concert and the sound was so distorted it was impossible to distinguish any of the music, while my relatively cheap Powershot camera recorded it fine.. a phone's mic should be better than a camera's right?
*Use volume rocker for zooming in and out (currently does nothing in camera mode), screen swipe zoom is often unresponsive
People
For a contact links, often does not keep selected display name.
Typing in a phone number of a contact in the global search (press search button while on home screen) does not find that contact
Ook thats it for now. I just wanted to put this up to see if anyone had similar ideas/problems, maybe ways to fix certain ones. Also is there any place to suggest this kind of thing directly to HTC? Silly I know, like they'd care about the opinions of one whiny guy, I can imagine how much emails from people begging for things in updates (see user KISS1 on these two threads:
htt p:// community.htc. com/na/htc-forums/android/f/22/t/4169.aspx
htt p:// community.htc. com/na/htc-forums/android/f/22/t/35.aspx)
lol
Basically the question is how to make it so when you turn your droid x to the side (horizontal) the home screen changes with the move?
As far as I know, the only way the home screen shows horizontal is when it's in the car or multimedia dock
You could use LauncherPro to do this
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Basically the question is how to make it so when you turn your droid x to the side (horizontal) the home screen changes with the move?
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zanix said:
As far as I know, the only way the home screen shows horizontal is when it's in the car or multimedia dock
You could use LauncherPro to do this
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Yea, most of the alternate launchers do this. I use ADW and it has a setting for it.
I ended up turning it back off though. What looks like a 'normal' layout in portrait, always looks funny to me when compressed vertically and stretched horizontally.
It annoyed me, so I leave mine in portrait unless car-docked.
Just my opinion
I've recently started using the stock launcher again, due to a problem of my default home not sticking for some reason. The only thing I really miss is gesture support (zeam, adw), which allowed me to quickly access notifications and previews (to jump to different screens quickly without scrolling). I've mediated my desire to access my notifications quickly, by hitting menu while on a homescreen and tapping notifications (I find this faster and more convenient than pulling it down from the status bar), but I haven't found a way to quickly access previews (other than hitting home when on the default screen). I don't have much use for previews from the default screen since I'm not far away from any other screen. I'm looking for a quick way to access previews so that I can pull them up and jump from screen 1 to screen 7, for example. Long time Sense users, is there a way to do this?
Pinch from any screen.
Yeah you just pinch zoom outwards on any screen to see previews.