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Has anyone had a problem with not being able to hold, grab and move widgets and shortcuts on their homepages? Since last night, anything that is in the bottom 2 rows on any of my pages cannot be moved. A long press just activates the program. Severely irritating since I tend to place most of my shortcuts along the bottom to see the top of my background... Does anyone know of a way to delete a widget WITHOUT having to hold and drag to Remove (which I can't do since I can't pick them up >.< )?
KRMarx said:
Has anyone had a problem with not being able to hold, grab and move widgets and shortcuts on their homepages? Since last night, anything that is in the bottom 2 rows on any of my pages cannot be moved. A long press just activates the program. Severely irritating since I tend to place most of my shortcuts along the bottom to see the top of my background... Does anyone know of a way to delete a widget WITHOUT having to hold and drag to Remove (which I can't do since I can't pick them up >.< )?
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Sounds like the touch input service has fouled. A reboot should fix it.
And yes, I have seen that on AOSP with home++ as well as 1.5.
gbhil said:
Sounds like the touch input service has fouled. A reboot should fix it.
And yes, I have seen that on AOSP with home++ as well as 1.5.
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I had actually decided to reboot the phone before I got the subscription note that you'd replied. It seems to have worked... but that's only the 4th time today I've reboot the phone. Wonder what's mucking things up...
KRMarx said:
I had actually decided to reboot the phone before I got the subscription note that you'd replied. It seems to have worked... but that's only the 4th time today I've reboot the phone. Wonder what's mucking things up...
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someone in the swype thread reported this as well..are you using swype by any chance?
thedudejdog said:
someone in the swype thread reported this as well..are you using swype by any chance?
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yeah, I am. guess that might explain it...
yes... it is swype... it's in beta... i put a list of known issues in read on the thread
skanndelus said:
yes... it is swype... it's in beta... i put a list of known issues in read on the thread
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Ahh. Well thanks for letting me know. Another mystery solved!
Hello,
Has anyone noticed that you no longer have the "select input method" notification in update 7? I had it in update 4. When I went over to update 7 (and subsequently 8), that option is missing. So the only way to change input method is to go all the way into settings. The notification is available after the base zx install, but the update wipes it out. Is there a simple setting somewhere to turn it back on? I searched in this and the dev forums and cannot find it.
Otherwise it's a great ROM. Thanks dev!
This is a one time thing. U don't change input method all the time on the fly. It is a bug none the less, but one that may only bother a select few users... maybe only u
Did the dev explicitly say that? GB was long press in the input part to bring up the option to change input method. I'm pretty sure the notification is ICS's replacement, as the stock Nexus does this. You have to explicitly turn it off in a custom rom. Some kind of shortcut is needed for many many multi-lingual users. I use English most of the time except for a chat app. Don't have to have the notification if bothers others, but a shortcut to bring up the dialog should definitely be available.
seanzscreams, can you please comment? It's a great ROM and thanks.
freakius said:
Did the dev explicitly say that? GB was long press in the input part to bring up the option to change input method. I'm pretty sure the notification is ICS's replacement, as the stock Nexus does this. You have to explicitly turn it off in a custom rom. Some kind of shortcut is needed for many many multi-lingual users. I use English most of the time except for a chat app. Don't have to have the notification if bothers others, but a shortcut to bring up the dialog should definitely be available.
seanzscreams, can you please comment? It's a great ROM and thanks.
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If ur looking for dev feedback, comment in the rom dev thread, send a pm, or both. He probably won't see it here.
icenight89 said:
If ur looking for dev feedback, comment in the rom dev thread, send a pm, or both. He probably won't see it here.
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Geez, ice !! You ever sleep or what.! You are on almost all the threads !!
Lol!!
chappatti said:
Geez, ice !! You ever sleep or what.! You are on almost all the threads !!
Lol!!
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I get bored easily lol, xda is what keeps me entertained . My current goal is 3000 posts in the next two months and a 500+ thanks meter. Helping people is good
base to update changes a lot
I've noticed that the non-wipe updates on this ROM do change or eliminate some of the cooler features of the base. For instance, the settings in the base have the different colored, more detailed icons, while the update changes them all to boring blue.
As for the input method, I believe that in ICS, you change that under settings, language and input. In ICS, you can choose multiple keyboards or input methods, with one as "default". I haven't experimented yet, but perhaps the option to switch only shows up if you have multiple input methods selected? Can anyone verify this?
I'm new, so I hope this helps...
EDIT: Yeah, I tried checking off three different keyboards, but the long-press feature isn't there. Now I remember the notification bar change in ICS. The only way I can find to change the keyboard in this ROM is to go into settings and change the default. Not too bad of a task, but more tedious than before. There may be some shortcut apps in the play store that could help?
Isnt there an option on your status / menu bar... That's were it is in smooth ice
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icenight89 said:
I get bored easily lol, xda is what keeps me entertained . My current goal is 3000 posts in the next two months and a 500+ thanks meter. Helping people is good
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You'll make that in the next week.......!!
Thanks LPMatt and droid512. I know in most other ICS ROMs, including stock, the standard way to change input method is to use the little icon in the status bar. That's what I meant by "change input method notification". I also know you can always go through settings to change. To go through settings, I would have to get out of the app I'm using and it's a lot of hassle. Dating back to eclaire Android has provided the shortcut (used to be long press until ICS changed it to the notification/status bar). Looks like Sky ICS ROM latest update just disabled a standard feature, either intentionally or unintentionally. While icenight89 is quite knowledgeable in general, I think he's misinformed about the nature of the feature because he doesn't have to use different keyboards for different languages. It is indeed a standard feature in ICS, not a "one time thing" or bug. I don't have enough posts to post in the dev forum that's why I posted here to see if any other multi-lingual user of Sky ICS has encountered this. I have also PM'ed the dev.
I'm quite knowledgeable?? Aww shucks, thanks friend.
To be honest, u are absolutely correct, I am not a multi-lingual user so I did not even know this feature was present. Based on the discussion I assume your talking about a quick select shortcut from the drop down menu that let u change ur keyboard on the fly?
If that is so its quite possible and highly likely he disabled it in the latest update, as that feature would be present in either systemui.apk or framework-res.apk, all of which were updated in D-7. My advice? See if u can get D-6 off someone then flash the base, D-6 and then D-8 until he gets around to fixing it
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I'm quite knowledgeable?? Aww shucks, thanks friend.
To be honest, u are absolutely correct, I am not a multi-lingual user so I did not even know this feature was present. Based on the discussion I assume your talking about a quick select shortcut from the drop down menu that let u change ur keyboard on the fly?
If that is so its quite possible and highly likely he disabled it in the latest update, as that feature would be present in either systemui.apk or framework-res.apk, all of which were updated in D-7. My advice? See if u can get D-6 off someone then flash the base, D-6 and then D-8 until he gets around to fixing it
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See you just proved your knowledge in pointing out the 2 possible apk that is present I think D-8 probably has a new one so flashing D-6 then D-8 would overwrite it again. I'll see if I can pull those apk's and use rom kitchen to make a new one until he gets around to changing it. Who knows, it's possible he did it on purpose as i have seen people complain about it since ICS came out. Most non-multilingual users find it annoying. I actually do too. I prefer the old long press way! Thanks again.
nope, just checked. He only changed the framework-res.apk in the D-8 update. What i suggest you do is pull systemui.apk from the original base first and replace it with root explorer. If that fixes it then you can safely flash the new update rom kitchen just the one apk.
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nope, just checked. He only changed the framework-res.apk in the D-8 update. What i suggest you do is pull systemui.apk from the original base first and replace it with root explorer. If that fixes it then you can safely flash the new update rom kitchen just the one apk.
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Got it. Will try. Thanks! How do you check what he changed btw? I've only done the basics in ROM kitchen.
Well tried to put systemUI.apk from zx2 base and didn't work. I guess I'll see if dev will respond or put it back in later. If not, I'll have to decide if the hassle is worth it or change to another ROM. Thanks everyone.
Managed to get the OTA update by setting the time zone to US and clearing data on Google framework - however I have many apps that are working very poorly and widget all seem to be broken.
Apps - buttons dont seem to allign with the text that should be in the button. Some apps buttons when pressed light up like they are being pressed but on release dont launch/do what they were supposed to (or anything at all)
Widgets - Can be dragged to the home screens but then do nothing. Gmail widget shows no mails even though the icon shows mail recieved. Beautiful widgets just give me the box with the loading sign saying loading widget.
I'm very sorry if this is the wrong forum for this type of post but I guess you guys would be able to let me know if its due to a bad install/update or is it just developer updates required, or what action to try.
Thanks
(Long time reader, guide follower, first time poster, be gentle haha)
s71rl2 said:
Managed to get the OTA update by setting the time zone to US and clearing data on Google framework - however I have many apps that are working very poorly and widget all seem to be broken.
Apps - buttons dont seem to allign with the text that should be in the button. Some apps buttons when pressed light up like they are being pressed but on release dont launch/do what they were supposed to (or anything at all)
Widgets - Can be dragged to the home screens but then do nothing. Gmail widget shows no mails even though the icon shows mail recieved. Beautiful widgets just give me the box with the loading sign saying loading widget.
I'm very sorry if this is the wrong forum for this type of post but I guess you guys would be able to let me know if its due to a bad install/update or is it just developer updates required, or what action to try.
Thanks
(Long time reader, guide follower, first time poster, be gentle haha)
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i understand this is your first post, but just for future reference please search before starting a new thread... theres a HUGE JB thread in the nexus s general section
Link to said threads seeing as obviously I'm not searching using the correct phrase or words would be helpful. After all its fairly unlikely that after 14 months without having to make a thread I'm normally pretty good at searching for what I'm looking for...
s71rl2 said:
Link to said threads seeing as obviously I'm not searching using the correct phrase or words would be helpful. After all its fairly unlikely that after 14 months without having to make a thread I'm normally pretty good at searching for what I'm looking for...
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How to force JB update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786856
JB issues thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786770
General OTA discussion thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736645
All on the very first page
NYYFan325 said:
How to force JB update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786856
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Already have JB
NYYFan325 said:
JB issues thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786770
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Dont have an issue with start up/boot animation.
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General OTA discussion thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736645
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101 pages will have to go through that later.
Thanks for the links though I have found an issue thread regarding certain apps and widgets elsewhere.
NYYFan325 said:
How to force JB update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786856
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Thanks for using my post :good:
This, I am *sure*, has been asked before, and answered. In fact I'm fairly sure I already know the answer, at least according to the official reviews... but then XDA people have a habit of changing the "official rules"
Anyway, I was wondering if it is possible to customise the apps that appear in the pop-up folder, that comes up when you remove the s-pen from the holder.
Im pretty sure you can't, and that its mentioned as such in a review I read before buying the Note a couple days ago. (On ICS at least... I dont know if this has changed for Jellybean?)
But I figured, if anyone has found a way to change this, you guys would have!
I did try searching for the answer in the forums... but my problem was I didnt really know what that pop-up menu/folder thing is actually *called*, which made it difficult. I'm sorry if I missed something obvious!!
Thanks for any help
Should I take that as a no? Or at least a "not yet".
No, not the side folder however a lot of apps have been added to the pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen, in the themes section there's a thread with links to apps that have been modified to work in this.
Theres also a thread floating around that tells you how to alter an apk file to make it capable of this. The downside is that since you altered the apk file you can no longer update that particular app without then editing the files in the apk file to once again make it pop-up menu compatible...
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No, not the side folder however a lot of apps have been added to the pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen, in the themes section there's a thread with links to apps that have been modified to work in this.
Theres also a thread floating around that tells you how to alter an apk file to make it capable of this. The downside is that since you altered the apk file you can no longer update that particular app without then editing the files in the apk file to once again make it pop-up menu compatible...
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Yeah I knew about the multiview menu alterations already, its a thread I've been following for a while. I was only asking because, after deleting pen physics, there is a gap in the pen folder I would have liked to make use of.
Too bad
nirurin said:
This, I am *sure*, has been asked before, and answered. In fact I'm fairly sure I already know the answer, at least according to the official reviews... but then XDA people have a habit of changing the "official rules"
Anyway, I was wondering if it is possible to customise the apps that appear in the pop-up folder, that comes up when you remove the s-pen from the holder.
Im pretty sure you can't, and that its mentioned as such in a review I read before buying the Note a couple days ago. (On ICS at least... I dont know if this has changed for Jellybean?)
But I figured, if anyone has found a way to change this, you guys would have!
I did try searching for the answer in the forums... but my problem was I didnt really know what that pop-up menu/folder thing is actually *called*, which made it difficult. I'm sorry if I missed something obvious!!
Thanks for any help
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If you go into Settings, and select under System, 'Pen', the last option is called 'Options after detaching pen'. You can pick one or more things to show up. Not sure if this is what you mean, but there you go...
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If you go into Settings, and select under System, 'Pen', the last option is called 'Options after detaching pen'. You can pick one or more things to show up. Not sure if this is what you mean, but there you go...
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Nah, I did know about that one. One of the options in that settings menu is "Open shortcuts toolbar". Thats the toolbar I am talking about.
Problem is, the toolbar has like 5 or 6 default apps in it.. only about 3 of them is any use. It would be nice to be able to change them to apps of my own choosing!!
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Nah, I did know about that one. One of the options in that settings menu is "Open shortcuts toolbar". Thats the toolbar I am talking about.
Problem is, the toolbar has like 5 or 6 default apps in it.. only about 3 of them is any use. It would be nice to be able to change them to apps of my own choosing!!
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Ah, ok, I know you can choose to have only a few or just one, but as far as I know you can only select or deselect the ones shown. As of right now you can't add any others. I think I read somewhere that possibly with 4.1 or 4.2 that may change. :fingers-crossed:
Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm new here.
Okay now that is out of the way, I have installed Lollipop on my Nexus 5 and so far I'm loving almost everything but the one thing that is driving me nuts is that there is no way to close out all recent apps from the recent apps menu. Normally I would have had this feature in a custom rom that I was running or would have used xPosed Framework to achieve thus, however as we all know this isn't compatible with Lollipop at the moment.
Is there any way of achieving this? Has anyone managed to do it or know how I could do it? I understand that it's not necessary on a performance level it's more of an OCD thing for me to close out all the recent apps frequently.
Yes, this is the L Q&A thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2796217
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sassigeek said:
Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm new here.
Okay now that is out of the way, I have installed Lollipop on my Nexus 5 and so far I'm loving almost everything but the one thing that is driving me nuts is that there is no way to close out all recent apps from the recent apps menu. Normally I would have had this feature in a custom rom that I was running or would have used xPosed Framework to achieve thus, however as we all know this isn't compatible with Lollipop at the moment.
Is there any way of achieving this? Has anyone managed to do it or know how I could do it? I understand that it's not necessary on a performance level it's more of an OCD thing for me to close out all the recent apps frequently.
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Not possible right now. Just wait for custom ROMs. I'm sure it will come
It's pointless. Just let the system do its job
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Ben36 said:
It's pointless. Just let the system do its job
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5
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^ ^ ^ ^ THIS!
you're actually wasting battery by clearing all recents. Sure, Clear the one or two apps that are there that you "never" use.
Just know that recents are cached. It uses far fewer CPU cycles (and by extension, battery) to recall an app from cache than starting from scratch. People who regularly clear all recents, ergo start all their regularly used apps from scratch, will enjoy much higher battery drain, so everyone should stop this nonsense. Android knows what it is doing.
rootSU said:
^ ^ ^ ^ THIS!
you're actually wasting battery by clearing all recents. Sure, Clear the one or two apps that are there that you "never" use.
Just know that recents are cached. It uses far fewer CPU cycles (and by extension, battery) to recall an app from cache than starting from scratch. People who regularly clear all recents, ergo start all their regularly used apps from scratch, will enjoy much higher battery drain, so everyone should stop this nonsense. Android knows what it is doing.
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What's funny is that I have the opposite obsession.. for some reason I obsessively open up apps so they show up in recents, lol
I guess Lollipop will ease it since it keeps them through reboots if I remember correctly, and on some days I reboot quite a lot.
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What's funny is that I have the opposite obsession.. for some reason I obsessively open up apps so they show up in recents, lol
I guess Lollipop will ease it since it keeps them through reboots if I remember correctly, and on some days I reboot quite a lot.
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Yeah it does. Would be nice to limit them because I can go back 50 or 60 apps sometimes...
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Yeah it does. Would be nice to limit them because I can go back 50 or 60 apps sometimes...
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On KK, I can only have 16 items in recents, if I open another app it removes the earliest one. Haven't looked, not sure if this is a defined limit or if its to do with the usage of the apps themselves.
I guess thats why they also changed the term "recents" to "overview" in Lollipop, since keeping every single app wouldn't be limiting just to the recent apps? lol
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On KK, I can only have 16 items in recents, if I open another app it removes the earliest one. Haven't looked, not sure if this is a defined limit or if its to do with the usage of the apps themselves.
I guess thats why they also changed the term "recents" to "overview" in Lollipop, since keeping every single app wouldn't be limiting just to the recent apps? lol
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I dunno. Recent is an indeterminate and relative period of time. World War 2 was recent. How many open apps would that be?
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I dunno. Recent is an indeterminate and relative period of time. World War 2 was recent. How many open apps would that be?
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True, but still; on Lollipop, if you never ever clear a single item, they'd be in "overview" forever?
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True, but still; on Lollipop, if you never ever clear a single item, they'd be in "overview" forever?
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Indeed. 85 today for me...
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Indeed. 85 today for me...
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Should swipe some of those away
Maybe we'll see "pin app in recents" as a custom ROM feature to go with "clear all recents", so you can get rid of the less-used apps but not the frequently used ones.
@Darth is right, please post your L related questions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2796217
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