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New Bing App Out - Verizon only. APK here.

Title says it all. If you'd like to try out the new Bing search app but are not on Verizon, download the .apk below. Post below if you have any problems or thoughts about the app.
Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace.
The app homepage features the Bing image of the day, complete with clickable hotspots that you can explore and discover related trivia. Did you miss one of the latest images? Don’t worry; you can still swipe through up to 7 days’ worth of Bing images.
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More info: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs...for-mobile-comes-to-your-verizon-android.aspx
I'm not on Verizon so it's not showing up in my market. Can someone post an .apk for the rest of us?
edit: I have a co-worker with an unrooted Verizon Android phone. Is there a way I can get the app without rooting his phone?
edit: .apk attached. Installed on Evo and seems to work just fine. Some nice features here.

Thanks gthing. works great!

Or if you have rooted and have the market access app you can simply change to 310012 and search the market.

Installed on my EVO and it works great.
The traffic it shows on the map is a lot more accurate than google maps.

Works great.. i would like to see a Bing navigation app to compete with google.. that probably won't happen though.

Is your EVO rooted?

cmjrjd said:
Is your EVO rooted?
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Yes. Why, are you having problems getting it to install?

Works fine on stock HTC Desire with Froyo OTA. Thanks for sharing!

works fine on a stock 2.2 evo (NOT rooted or anything "special" done)

Works on my XDAndroid on Sprint Touch Pro2
The App even works on XDAndroid on my Sprint Touch pro2. Awesome !!

Some initial thoughts:
The widget seems to perform faster then Google's at coming up with search suggestions. I also actually like the way the search results look more than Google. You can click anywhere on the result to go to the page, rather than just the title. Seems a bit more mobile friendly.
The Bing app also has a built-in browser. The search widget seems to be the only way to access it, or through the search box at the top of the app. It seems very capable and feels very fast. Might just be placebo effect, but it might be faster at loading pages then the built in browser. It is probably using the same engine as the built in browser, so who knows.
The browser does have a "favorites" feature which I assume is like bookmarks, but I'm unable to figure out how to add something to it. Also, the search box doesn't go away as you scroll down the page - a feature that used to bother me on the default browser but I have come to like. There appears to be no way to open a result in the default browser, if you wanted its features like saving images, adding bookmarks, etc. which is a drawback.
The image search is really cool, definitely better than Google's (as was the desktop version until recently), although it seems to be mysteriously lacking the feature to save or send images or set wallpapers from the images you find. You can pretty much search and view, that's it.
Movies feature is nice. Don't know if I'd use it over Flickster. It does have all the info available on one page, which is nice, but doesn't have movie trailers and you can't search by theater, just by movie.
Maps is okay. Google Maps is just such a mature product with Latitude, layers, labs, etc. that I couldn't see myself switching to Bing maps any time soon. Another poster said it had better traffic data, but it doesn't have Navigation (just directions). Might be a sufficient alternative if for some reason Google Maps is bugging out or something.
The news section just shows headlines for articles which link to the original articles on their respective pages. The interface looks the same to the search results. Nice for some simple browsing maybe.
The last thing is the picture of the day. Today's is of some mountains in China somewhere. The image actually looks a bit crappy, like it is compressed weird or something, but that might just be today. If you dismiss the menu at the bottom of the app, you will get highlight spots where you can click and learn more about the image. A nice feature, but they have it on their home page, too, and I never use it (or Bing, for that matter).
I'll play around with it a little more to see if it sticks. Overall I'd say it's a nice initial offering from Bing, and better than the crap that usually comes out of Microsoft. Missing features like the ability to save images, open links in a full featured browser, and add favorites(?) are the biggest drawbacks.

when i downloaded the file it saved as a .cab
do i change it to .apk?

I tried DLing this straight to my Evo but it won't install. Do I need to DL it to my computer and install it via HTC Sync?

is there any way someone could put up the .apk file up? ii want it, but I'm not on verizon.
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derrickmadden said:
is there any way someone could put up the .apk file up? ii want it, but I'm not on verizon.
Sent From My Thoughts Using My Mind. And My Moment.
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It's posted on the OP.

KiamatDusk said:
It's posted on the OP.
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he posted a cab file

rahlquist said:
Or if you have rooted and have the market access app you can simply change to 310012 and search the market.
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Tried this and didn't work on my Xperia X10a

Works great on rooted Evo. Thanks

It works-non rooted Evo
I downloaded it on my non-rooted evo, went through Astro, clicked on it and installed. Works fine, and it's pretty quick too.

works great on stock 2.2 Froyo on Nexus One.

Android Brower Issue-multiple pop up windows

Hey Guys,
I have an issue with some of the browsers available for the android phone.
I would like to access work through my phone via VPN web access. I am sucessfull at this.
When I open my work page, it opens up in a popup window. This is okay too as I allow pop ups under settings.
The issue is, when I click on a case in this pop up window, there is an error thats comes up saying"Cannot open another pop up window, only one pop up window at a time". It is trying to open up my case in another pop up window, which it blocks.
I have used froyo 2.2 on a Nexus one, dell streak, galaxy s tab and motorola droid.
I also used Dolphin HD and Dolphin, with the same results.
I downloaded opera, and there was not even an option for allowing pop ups.
Do you guys have any ideas?
I would like to be able to do my work with out having to lug around a laptop everywhere I go.
Thanks again and Happy Holidays!
Maluman

I would love to find out if this is an Android restriction or there are indeed browsers that support multiple pop ups (or can be tweaked to do so). There are some legit websites that actually rely on pop ups for various purposes (chat rooms for example). Old fashioned and annoying yes, but why punish the end users for it?

Darn, I have the same issue on my HTC EVO. My work website uses pop-ups, but I can't open the link on the pop-up that uses another pop-up! All legitimate pop-ups, not ad-ware. There must be a way to allow trusted sites or something.

Is there a solution to this issue??
Has anyone found an answer/fix to this issue? It is definitely an Android issue b/c I have the new HTC Sensation running Android Gingerbread 2.3, and everyone I know w/ an Android phone from 2 years ago to present has had this same issue....we can not open more than 1 popup window at a time. Like all have posted in this thread, I'm trying to access a number of different applications within my job's website (SWAlife - website for Southwest Airlines employees but specifically for flight attendants to change/trade their trips) and it relies on opening popups within popups but it just doesn't work w/ Android devices.
I've tried the stock browser, Dolphin, Opera mini, Skyfire, rotating the phone horizontally, keeping the setting in Landscape only mode while browsing, and of course, allowing Popups in the browser settings. I also need the browser to allow double-clicks to be just that - a double-click.....not a zoom in and out function.
Please, can someone tell me if there is a fix somewhere to this problem??? I'm interested in buying the new Samsung Galaxy S II but refuse to if I'm not able to access all elements of my job's website. Oh, and someone made a SWAlife app that's accessible with iPhone only (works perfectly & allows popups to open within popups) but I HATE to have to buy an iPhone just b/c of this app. :-(
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!!

You know the SWAlife app is in the Android market too, but you will not be able to check the overtime call out list, not built in to the app yet, same with from iPhone app.
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Yea, I've used the Android SWAlife app for some time but it only employees to make non-rev listings, provides company news and operational updates. No Crew Web Access or FA scheduling. In otherwords, this app is pretty useless :-( The one for iPhone, however, is EXACTLY what we need for Android. It allows pilots and FAs to manipulate their schedules in CWA (Inflight Crew Web Access)....it looks identical to what's in SWAlife on the web and functions just as if you were on a PC. Are you aware of another app in the Market that I might be missing that allows that? Thanks for your help!

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I know this is an old problem, but try xScope browser in the market. I needed to be able to open more than one popup window and the website I was trying and failing to access with about 10 other browsers would not work until I tried this one.

I have the same problem. Your tip sounds good. I will give this browser a try. I hope that the search has an end.

This browser works for my sites where I need more than one pop-up. Thanks for the valuable information.

Browser "Refresh" question

Hey guys just recently got my AT&T One X, and I am having this annoying "problem" on my browser. Most of the times when I leave the browser then I go back in it it refresh the page instead of staying like when I left the page. This happen on my iPhone when I have to many tabs open or runs too many apps. Most of the apps on my ONE X are not running and coming back from the lock screen and going into the browser the "page" refresh by itself. Pretty annoying for me plus it uses more data. Just wondering if anyone is having this issue. I also tried the "Dolphin browser" and it happen on this browser too.
On a side note I have the Galaxy Note GT7000 and the above issue rarely happen, but on the ONE X this issue happens let say 7 out of the 10 times do something or go back to the browser.

What browser are you using? This happens for me as well but only in chrome beta, I assumed it was a chrome software problem. When I use dolphin HD this does not happen.
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It's not a browser issue but multitasking. Apparently when we multitask on the one x it refreshes the apps. I don't know if this is a feature or a bug.
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karan1203 said:
It's not a browser issue but multitasking. Apparently when we multitask on the one x it refreshes the apps. I don't know if this is a feature or a bug.
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The real issue is the one x has murdered multitasking somehow. I use 3 apps. email, chrome (or internet), and mail. sometimes another or 2. after a few minutes the one x kills those processes and when I relaunch the app is has to load. There is some VERY screwy stuff going on.

beaups said:
The real issue is the one x has murdered multitasking somehow. I use 3 apps. email, chrome (or internet), and mail. sometimes another or 2. after a few minutes the one x kills those processes and when I relaunch the app is has to load. There is some VERY screwy stuff going on.
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I'm glad I'm not alone, it's really bad on the One X especially with chrome. I can't answer a google talk and switch directly back without a full page refresh.
Not to mention the fact that the switcher is horribly implemented and shows almost no information.

PeterHTC said:
I, too, had the "loading" issue every time I closed an app and went back to my home screen.
Here's the solution, although, it works for MOST and not ALL people.
Go to Settings=>Developer Options, and scroll down to the section entitled "Apps."
The first entry should be "Don't keep activities."
Make sure this is UNCHECKED. If it's already UNCHECKED, check it and reboot, and then go back in and UNCHECK it and reboot.
It solved my "Loading" problem immediately..
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I saw this in another thread, does anyone want to try it?

I'm guessing this is one of the ways HTC is trying to save battery life. Is this similar to how the iPhone does it?

mbaran said:
I saw this in another thread, does anyone want to try it?
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Doesn't work. I tried it last night.

Cryosx said:
I'm guessing this is one of the ways HTC is trying to save battery life. Is this similar to how the iPhone does it?
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No, it's actually worse than iPhone here.
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This is actually with the stock browser. I also tried Dolphin browser and it is happening as well.

Happens to me also. It doesn't multitask at all, yesterday I was trying to type something into the phone keypad and the numbers I entered kept disappearing when I'd come back to the app. The browser reloads all the time and I downloaded every browser from the market, all of them did it. One thing I loved about wp is that tabs wouldn't reload even weeks later.

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Happens to me also. It doesn't multitask at all, yesterday I was trying to type something into the phone keypad and the numbers I entered kept disappearing when I'd come back to the app. The browser reloads all the time and I downloaded every browser from the market, all of them did it. One thing I loved about wp is that tabs wouldn't reload even weeks later.
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We have the same issue but some people here don't have this problem, only by using Chrome.

glad someone else noticed this.. there is almost no true multi-tasking that is happening.. this has to be a bug. I tried the developer option above, didn't change anything.

Went back to the store to play with the DEMO and tried all 3 phones and the problem is there. This is a big software issue, to me is pretty annoying. It is a great phone but this is not good for me. To bad this phone can't be rooted to run a different ROM!! Dammit AT&T!!!!

Fixed the multi tasking problem a little bit and now the browser doesn't refresh as much as before.
You have to go to developers option and under apps make sure background is unchecked. If it's already unchecked,check it, restart , uncheck , restart.
Most apps won't refresh now including browser.
Credit to the guy in the bugs thread.
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karan1203 said:
Fixed the multi tasking problem a little bit and now the browser doesn't refresh as much as before.
You have to go to developers option and under apps make sure background is unchecked. If it's already unchecked,check it, restart , uncheck , restart.
Most apps won't refresh now including browser.
Credit to the guy in the bugs thread.
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under developers options and apps theres a "background processes limit" but not just background that can be checked/unchecked...

Don't keep activities. That's what you have to check and uncheck.
My fault I should have checked for exact name.
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karan1203 said:
Don't keep activities. That's what you have to check and uncheck.
My fault I should have checked for exact name.
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yea that defaults to unchecked. and i just tried checking it, backing out, going back in and unchecking it and so far i'm not noticing any difference but we'll see what happens...

Are we absolutely sure it's downloaded again? Or is the DOM of the page simply refreshed? Meaning while minimized, perhaps everything is hidden to improve performance...Then when you come back to it, everything is put back on the page.
Do we know additional data is used and the page is completely downloaded again?
I've seen this too and it just looked like a page refresh and it loads back instantly for me. So I assumed it was purely visual (either by design or by accident). However, it could have also just as easily downloaded everything again very quickly...

tom_m said:
Are we absolutely sure it's downloaded again? Or is the DOM of the page simply refreshed? Meaning while minimized, perhaps everything is hidden to improve performance...Then when you come back to it, everything is put back on the page.
Do we know additional data is used and the page is completely downloaded again?
I've seen this too and it just looked like a page refresh and it loads back instantly for me. So I assumed it was purely visual (either by design or by accident). However, it could have also just as easily downloaded everything again very quickly...
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well isn't the fact that games don't resume where you left them further proof that it's not actually "multitasking" its just starting the app again. it just happens in the browser's case to remember what page you were on. on an ipad for example you can have 20 games open and they all resume exactly where they were when you switch back to them... i think its a multitasking issue with either this phone or android 4.0 in general (i haven't used any other 4.0 phones, just 2.3 on back, so i'm not sure about that)

App Association Links in Sense 4.0 Broken

Apparently in Sense 4.0, whether by accident or by design (I seriously hope it's the former...), HTC broke associating links with apps. I thought this issue was big enough to warrant its own thread.
The main use for this was clicking YouTube links to open in the YouTube app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_hdFSnOEI
Instead, ALL HTML links open in the browser. I am willing to bet Play Store app linksdo the same.
Anyone else really frustrated with this? Is there a way to fix this short of installing a custom ROM
Edit: I want to reiterate that clearing browser defaults doesn't help

KitF said:
Apparently in Sense 4.0, whether by accident or by design (I seriously hope it's the former...), HTC broke associating links with apps. I thought this issue was big enough to warrant its own thread.
The main use for this was clicking YouTube links to open in the YouTube app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_hdFSnOEI
Instead, ALL HTML links open in the browser. I am willing to bet Play Store app linksdo the same.
Anyone else really frustrated with this? Is there a way to fix this short of installing a custom ROM?
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Play store links do open in the browser. I've only been back on Android for a couple days after a 5 month iPhone stint so I didn't think anything of it at the time, but now that you bring this up I am retroactively annoyed.

Thought it was just me. Switching launchers doesn't help either. At the very least we should get to choose how links are handled.

I am annoyed by this as well. Hopefully an update will fix this and at least give us the old option list back. At least the youtube page works most of the time.

I need to stop coming to general section...I am seeing more and more bugs...which I never cared but after reading them suddenly I feel a burn in my pocket lol

What gets me mad is youtube links not opening the app. Not only sense 4, but my last phone (Vivid 4.0 Sense 3.6) had the same issue
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Wasn't there a legal battle against apple where apple sued HTC for opening appropriate based on the nature of text for example opening the dialer when one clicks in the phone number on a website?
Apple won this case right?
Does this have to do something with this?
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Don't think so because clicking a phone number on a web page just brought up the dialer for me

Have you tried "clear defaults" for the stock browser inside the app settings menu? I know I started getting prompted for links through Friendstream and was able to default to Chrome once I did this.

zonk7ate9 said:
Have you tried "clear defaults" for the stock browser inside the app settings menu? I know I started getting prompted for links through Friendstream and was able to default to Chrome once I did this.
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I tried clearing defaults for both Chrome and the stock browser (Internet). It still just defaults to whichever I had last had set as default.

what if you 'press + hold' the link does it give you a coice on what to open it with?

"JUST ONCE ONCE" options missing

Hi, Note 5 and S6 EDGE+ both have a problem. It defaults a program to the first app you select. I used to be able to click a number and android would as me to choose my VIOP or RC "just once" Now every things is set to "always"There used to be an option to only use it once. Is there any way I can fix this without rooting?

I would also like to know this too
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It's weird for sure. Seems like only sharing from certain apps like the gallery and Internet browsers give this option. But this app helped: app picker classic. It's in the play store. It's not ideal but it's working for me. If you share and choose this app the first time it will add all your other options for each consecutive time.

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It's weird for sure. Seems like only sharing from certain apps like the gallery and Internet browsers give this option. But this app helped: app picker classic. It's in the play store. It's not ideal but it's working for me. If you share and choose this app the first time it will add all your other options for each consecutive time.
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Problem it most of the these kind of apps don't open or get all the apps you want.

I am working with the developer "better open with". He said there is a bug.

I don't think this is a bug but it's the way the new touch wiz was made.

I'm also wondering why they've removed this feature. And is there any way around it without root?

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I don't think this is a bug but it's the way the new touch wiz was made.
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Hi, I doubt it is a touch wiz issue
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I swear I love Samsung but they do some of the dumbest sh!t. LG also removed that feature from some of their devices. What the heck are these manufacturers thinking? What on God's green earth makes them think that you want to handle one type of file the same way everytime? Sometimes I want to open a link with one browser and open another link with another browser because maybe that specific browser works better with that particular websites. I love the just once. Constant clearing defaults is fuking worst than selecting between just one and always.

PreVayl said:
I swear I love Samsung but they do some of the dumbest sh!t. LG also removed that feature from some of their devices. What the heck are these manufacturers thinking? What on God's green earth makes them think that you want to handle one type of file the same way everytime? Sometimes I want to open a link with one browser and open another link with another browser because maybe that specific browser works better with that particular websites. I love the just once. Constant clearing defaults is fuking worst than selecting between just one and always.
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I still has not found a decent fix. All the app pickers out there only show some apps but not all. The only app close is Better Open with. We can't even root now because we loose samsung pay. I am not an apple fan but I love that 3d feature. It is like a right click on a mouse.
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I have this same problem on my S5 mini. PLEASE tell me there is a solution by now? This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. So I send something once to Opera mini because I need to save on data usage and now I am forever stuck with websites opening in Opera Mini and looking like terrible. On Kitkat I NEVER used to select "always" on anything, for choice and security reasons.. Now I cannot.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aboutmycode.betteropenwith

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aboutmycode.betteropenwith
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I have this but it is only for things programmed into the app. I cannot scan an NFC thing and it always come up do I want to use "Tag" or "NFC Reader" or "xyz". Because the app does not know about this "type". It's good to protect and provide choice for websites and images and things but it is not perfect. Why would samsung/google mess this up? Not only is it stupidly inconvenient but it is less secure because now something like a website or any other thing just goes on it's merry way automatically opening and executing with an app all the time, instead of the usual thing where I have the choice to press always, just this once or oh yeah just press the back button to cancel the attempt from the start.

I am not happy with the loss of this functionality.
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One of the workarounds I found for sharing or opening links with different apps was to select "Copy to Clipboard" option when you select the default app for the first time after clearing your old defaults and then go to your target app and paste from clipboard. It's definitely not as straightforward as selecting "Always" vs "One time only" but still better than clearing out defaults after every use for me.

This is actually incredibly annoying. Sometimes I open Youtube videos in Youtube, sometimes I open them in my VLC Remote Control, sometimes I open them in Flyperlink....how this functionality went away is beyond me....frigging Samsung.
Better Open With will have to do for now, thanks for the link.