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I've been noticing some weird behavior in the stock browser on my Nexus S. I'll be browsing a site, and when I click a link on the current page I'm on, I see the progress bar at the top load and then finish. However, the browser stays at the current page and doesn't go to the link I click. I've noticed that by scrolling all the way to the top of the current page, I can get it to advance and go the the page I clicked on. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's pretty annoying. It seems to happen pretty frequently when browsing the forums here actually, and other text-heavy sites (usually forums).
Anyone else experiencing this issue or is it just me? Maybe there's some sort of setting I'm missing? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
First off if you spend any time at all on xda on your phone you should download the free app. It makes forum browsing hundreds oftimes easier. Also what rom are you using?
Sent from 1.5GHz CM7 Nexus S.
Ya the xda app is probably a good idea. I'm just on the stock rom w/ root, stock kernel also.
Is it possible that the link you've clicked has opened in another browser window in the background?
Hit menu and windows and see what's opened.
theproskater said:
I've been noticing some weird behavior in the stock browser on my Nexus S. I'll be browsing a site, and when I click a link on the current page I'm on, I see the progress bar at the top load and then finish. However, the browser stays at the current page and doesn't go to the link I click. I've noticed that by scrolling all the way to the top of the current page, I can get it to advance and go the the page I clicked on. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's pretty annoying. It seems to happen pretty frequently when browsing the forums here actually, and other text-heavy sites (usually forums).
Anyone else experiencing this issue or is it just me? Maybe there's some sort of setting I'm missing? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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to avoid this you should FC the browser, and start it again
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.
wrxdrunkie said:
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.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
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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...
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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)
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.
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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?
Vote now!
I hate Chrome on mobile. It is next to useless and with it being available on the play store I no longer want to offer it at all in CROMI going forward.
Give me a good reason to keep supporting it otherwise it goes!
As I'm on your side, I will not give you any reason to incorporate it any longer. I sometimes use it, but I'd just as happily use the stock browser (right after install_ or Firefox (which is my current 'standard' browser, if there is anything like that to be found on Android). Most have speed issues, anyway.
Again: I vote for let it out.
EDIT: With Titanium Backup being incorporated into your excellent ROM, one can backup and re-install without needing moile data access anyway, so, as far as I'm concerned, there's a very valid line of reasoning against incorporating anything other than TB.
I personally use Chrome on all my devices- phone, tablet, PC, laptop, etc, and having all of my bookmarks and tabs is really convienent. And also just love how it looks!
Obviously, it doesn't really matter if you include it because you can just download off the play store but it's just one less thing we need to download
Anyways keep up the great work sdbags!
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Not a fan of chrome here.
I wouldn't miss it.
inlineboy said:
I personally use Chrome on all my devices- phone, tablet, PC, laptop, etc, and having all of my bookmarks and tabs is really convienent. And also just love how it looks!
Obviously, it doesn't really matter if you include it because you can just download off the play store but it's just one less thing we need to download
Anyways keep up the great work sdbags!
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You do know the stock browser also syncs your chrome bookmarks by default on CROMI? Not sure what you mean about tabs?
Thats OK said:
Not a fan of chrome here.
I wouldn't miss it.
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I think it will sneak into 3.1 (in fact I know it will as its sitting there looking ugly, staring at me right now ) but from then on it will disappear as an install option. I've been using it for the last hour and it is like working in treacle even with Browser2Ram installed. It does render pages nicely but there is no full screen option, typing is extremely laggy and dragging pages around is painful. The stock browser is 10000000% slicker and a pleasure to use in comparison. And it has more options.
Nail
Coffin
Final.
Vote for no chrome.
BTW, I think the tab is that the previous user talking about is the "Bookmarks Toolbar" where all the bookmarks shown on the tool bars, it's nice and convinience, but stills not worth to keep Chrome.
I use Chrome on all my devices for the sync abilities. While other browsers sync, they don't sync as comprehensively as Chrome. I also have 2 chromebooks, where it's the only option I have. Having said that, I can always install it like every other app I install.
Is there anything you tweak for the Chrome install?
The tab sync is that if you have a tab open on one device, you can go to another device and have it open the same tab - very useful when browsing on your phone and then deciding to switch to a larger screen, etc.
danger-rat said:
I use Chrome on all my devices for the sync abilities. While other browsers sync, they don't sync as comprehensively as Chrome. I also have 2 chromebooks, where it's the only option I have. Having said that, I can always install it like every other app I install.
Is there anything you tweak for the Chrome install?
The tab sync is that if you have a tab open on one device, you can go to another device and have it open the same tab - very useful when browsing on your phone and then deciding to switch to a larger screen, etc.
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Thanks for clarifying. It's still in the next release but as a data app. Going forward it will then be saved and not disturbed.
chrome
I prefer chrome than stock.. I wouldn't mind downloading from the play store.
I prefer using Dolphin over Chrome, Chrome seems to have an issue downloading files Dolphin does it perfect every time because it has its own download app.
Asus Transformer Infinity running CleanRom 3.0.4
Personally, I don't use Chrome. Stock browser works well for me, especially with the tweaks.
I say the smaller the rom size the faster I can download and install it. Stay true to objective of a clean rom and let users add what they need from the Play Store.
I do use the Google apps and a few of the others. TB was giving me issues by not letting me use my upgraded key when installed from the rom so I had to skip it and download it from play store.
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PAPB0007 said:
Personally, I don't use Chrome. Stock browser works well for me, especially with the tweaks.
I say the smaller the rom size the faster I can download and install it. Stay true to objective of a clean rom and let users add what they need from the Play Store.
I do use the Google apps and a few of the others. TB was giving me issues by not letting me use my upgraded key when installed from the rom so I had to skip it and download it from play store.
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Yeah I've noticed that with tibu on the last few updates - I think it does a check. But I am leaving it in due to if you ever do a full wipe it's handy to be able to recover apps especially if you don't have internet available. It saved me a couple of times recently when in Japan.
sbdags said:
Yeah I've noticed that with tibu on the last few updates - I think it does a check. But I am leaving it in due to if you ever do a full wipe it's handy to be able to recover apps especially if you don't have internet available. It saved me a couple of times recently when in Japan.
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It does check if the Pro license is legit -- you can sometimes (most of the times) keep it active when you select "Auto-... TiBu settings" or something along those lines from the Preferences. It should automatically carry over the license then, at least until you have an internet connection (that's when the first actual check is made). (I had to move the folder last time, so that no longer worked. That was a definite PITA.)
Hi everyone. I'm running cromi-x, and for some reason, for quite a while, search is VERY VERY SLOW. It takes 90 seconds or longer to show any results. I usually give up and just open browser. Does anyone know of a solution?
I don't think this is a CROMI X issue; I think it's a Google search issue. When you have search results displayed, go to Settings>Tablet search and unchecked most, if not all of the apps it searches. I leave Contacts checked so that I can tell Now to email or text someone. Facebook app seems to be the stickiest of all and it won't appear in the tablet search menu. I uninsulated it on my phone and it was night and day difference in usability. I don't use the FB app on my tab so it's not an issue for me.
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Thats just google's latest clusterf*ck. The entire search algorithm is a nightmare.
On an i7 3.2ghz 16gb ram and 60mbps internet, it still takes 10 seconds to load the image search. Worse if I scroll, the loading can take up to half a minute.
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