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[App][Updated 12-3-2010] DeliciousDroid - Delicious Bookmarks for Android v1.0.0

I've been developing a client app for Delicious for android and its pretty close to being ready to release! Thanks to all the guys that helped me test it! If you find any issues, concerns, or have any suggestions to make it better, let me know in this thread or by opening an issue on the project site.
* UPDATE v1.0.0
Initial Market release! No real changes over 0.5.0.
Changelog
Features
Why DeliciousDroid? Aren't there other Delicious clients already in the market? Here are some of the features of DeliciousDroid:
Supports OAuth authentication (for Yahoo based accounts)
Notification of new bookmarks in inbox
Background sync for bookmarks and network contacts
Bookmarks are cached to allow offline viewing and to reduce network traffic
Accounts managed through Android's built-in account manager
New bookmarks by network contacts displayed as status updates
Bookmarks can be added in several ways:
A menu in the app
Directly from the browser via the "Share" menu
By long pressing a friend's bookmark and choosing "Add"
Bookmarks can be edited by long pressing and choosing "Edit"
Bookmark details can be viewed by long pressing and choosing "View Details"
Bookmarks can be deleted by long pressing and choosing "Delete"
Bookmark titles, tags and notes are searchable from both the global search and from within the app
Support for live folders, add a folder to your home screen that takes you straight to bookmarks within a specific tag
Code is licensed under the GPL v3 and is available on Github
Note: Requires Android 2.x (API Level 5+). Android 1.5 and 1.6 are not and will not be supported.
Known Issues
These are some of the known issues in the current build of DeliciousDroid. Feel free to open an issue on the Google code project site if you encounter a bug/issue not listed here, or have an idea for an enhancement.
Only a single Delicious account is currently supported.
Clicking inbox notification just takes you to the main app. As far as I can tell, delicious does not provide any way to get the contents of your inbox via the api. There is a feed for it, but it requires having a secret key that is used as a parameter.
Viewing the bookmark list for your network contacts only shows up to 100 bookmarks, this is a limitation of the api.
Syncing is handled by the OS and appears to happen every 24 hours. Froyo (Android 2.2) allows for setting a different sync interval, but I'd like to maintain compatibility with 2.1 for now.
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Installation
DeliciousDroid is available on the Android Market. Make sure and rate it up or leave a comment if you like it!

Nice! I have *THREE* installed right now.. Two which view Delicious in two different ways, one I like the view of but it's online-only, the other I don't like the view, but it caches.. And the third to Share to Delicious.
Hopefully this one can replace all three. Having 3 is really ridiculous.

First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.
Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.
Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.
Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash
So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!

khaytsus said:
First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.
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Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.
khaytsus said:
Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.
Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.
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Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.
khaytsus said:
Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash
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I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.

khaytsus said:
So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!
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I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.
Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?

Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views. And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.
But working ok and plays nice with browser.

maxpower47 said:
Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.
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It'll make the initial install a lot smoother, less confusing.
maxpower47 said:
Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.
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If you can, I'd suggest checking it by default.
maxpower47 said:
I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.
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Cool. Odd that's getting tacked on there, but you'll fix it.
maxpower47 said:
I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.
Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?
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Nexus One using Enom's 2.12.3 ROM (I'm a little behind, not a ROM flashing addict) and using a legacy Delicious account.
I'm going to try Sharing from the browser later, and maybe try Yahoo, although Yahoo's password management is all screwed up on my account. I can't login to IM, but I can login to Yahoo Mail, and I can't login to some other thing.. all using the same Yahoo account. Maybe I need to change the password again, maybe it'll "sync" then.

ishkarioth said:
Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views.
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If you uninstall/reinstall the app does it do it again? If so, can you provide me some more details about your setup? Delicious username, authentication type (delicious or yahoo), etc. You can PM me if you don't want to post it on here.
ishkarioth said:
And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.
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Ok, I think I know what's causing that. It should be fixed in the next build, probably tomorrow.

Uninstalled and reinstalled, repeated items are gone. BTW, using classic delicious login.
Thanks.

Great feedback so far guys, keep it comimg. I've just updated the app with fixes for everything mentioned so far, the download link is in the original post.
Changelog

Installed latest version over previous version on my i9000, Yahoo OAuth account.
All the information disappeared when I entered the app.
Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?
edit : did an uninstall, reinstalled the latest version. working again.

kenkiller said:
Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?
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Yea, while you're in the account in the accounts and sync screen hit menu, there should be a "Sync Now" option.

Thanks....totally didn't think to hit the menu button. Did as stated above, everything is fine.

Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.
Thanks a lot, for this app and for this support.

ishkarioth said:
Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.
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Oops, yep, forgot that one. Its fixed for the next build. I've got a couple new features cooking up for it too, so stay tuned...

Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.
Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".
So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?
It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?

khaytsus said:
Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.
Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".
So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?
It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?
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Do you currently use delicious with that account? If you've never logged in to delicious with it then it wont work. You have to go in through the main delicious site to set up a new delicious account that gets linked to your yahoo id, it doesn't create one by default.

Another day, another update, version 0.2.1 is up. Download link on the original post.
http://code.google.com/p/deliciousdroid/wiki/Changelog
Edit: v0.2.0 had a nasty bug preventing Delicious accounts from being added, 0.2.1 fixes this.

Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).
Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?

linuxholgi said:
Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).
Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?
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Could be, I haven't tested it on one yet. I'll get the emulator set up with the Milestone's specs and see if I can reproduce it. I'll either see if I can make a setting to change it or see if I can just detect the resolution and change it automatically.

For those getting a VZWNMN text from 6250

Go to your my Verizon account, remove all email addresses from your vz backup feature in "manage email settings", hit apply. You will then get a text saying VZWUEP: DELETE. This confirms the texts should stop.
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FroyoBaggins said:
Go to your my Verizon account, remove all email addresses from your vz backup feature in "manage email settings", hit apply. You will then get a text saying VZWUEP: DELETE. This confirms the texts should stop.
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Thanks, I have getting texts so frequently from VZW.

Since this was the first hit on google for this problem, I'll post here..
I had to go to vzw.com/sync to find the sync settings. I deleted my email addresses from the page that popped up and it seems to have stopped the 6250 text messages.
Reference this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839147
But now I'm getting texts from 6200 with the text //F1TYPE=SAS;UI=1;CONT=0,0,5; Time to figure out how to kill these too...

dandaman96 said:
Since this was the first hit on google for this problem, I'll post here..
I had to go to vzw.com/sync to find the sync settings. I deleted my email addresses from the page that popped up and it seems to have stopped the 6250 text messages.
Reference this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839147
But now I'm getting texts from 6200 with the text //F1TYPE=SAS;UI=1;CONT=0,0,5; Time to figure out how to kill these too...
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Thanks your method worked since i didn't have the back up app anymore.

I just blocked text from that number lol

My Verizon app or online? I can't find "manage email settings" anywhere.
How did you block text? Can't find that in the stock messaging app anywhere either

coldhardtruth said:
My Verizon app or online? I can't find "manage email settings" anywhere.
How did you block text? Can't find that in the stock messaging app anywhere either
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Just go to your online account and you can set it up that way or I just blocked it through my phone under the settings tab.... Hope this helps

FroyoBaggins said:
Go to your my Verizon account, remove all email addresses from your vz backup feature in "manage email settings", hit apply. You will then get a text saying VZWUEP: DELETE. This confirms the texts should stop.
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Worked like a charm. Thank you so much. This bs drove me nuts

shojus said:
Just go to your online account and you can set it up that way or I just blocked it through my phone under the settings tab.... Hope this helps
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any idea how to do it if it's not the primary line for an account?
I go in to change it and it only pops up the GF's phone info

FroyoBaggins said:
Go to your my Verizon account, remove all email addresses from your vz backup feature in "manage email settings", hit apply. You will then get a text saying VZWUEP: DELETE. This confirms the texts should stop.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
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I am not getting those texts but I am getting some BS spam from a place called XAPUSH .. every so often I get a notification in my top status bar with some lame "buy me" or "this is cool get it" message from them and their advertisers. Thanks, Verizon, for that unwanted bloat on my phone.
There is an "opt out" method but so far it hasnt worked.. you can either install an app from the Market and select opt out and then delete the app.. (I wonder why I have to install an app for this?) or you can go to their web site and enter some phone information and thats supposed to work. Neither one has, yet, for me. Is anyone else getting these?

FroyoBaggins said:
Go to your my Verizon account, remove all email addresses from your vz backup feature in "manage email settings", hit apply. You will then get a text saying VZWUEP: DELETE. This confirms the texts should stop.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
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This worked for me. It was a little different path for me to get to the settings page. From the main page when I logged into my account I had to do the following:
Under My Verizon menu, select Back Up My Contacts
A slightly transparent window popped up with all my Back-Up Assistant stuff. Part way down the page on the right side of the window there was a link to click on Email Accounts or Account Settings (I forget exactly now, but you'll know which when you see it). Another menu pops up with a little box listing your email accounts that are used for BA+, and next to each there should be an option to Remove and one to Edit/Modify. If you only have one email address here, then when you mouse over either options the cursor will actually turn into a 'do not enter' logo or something like that which might make you believe you cannot click there. However, you can indeed click it. When you click 'remove' another warning box pops up asking you to make sure, so confirm. Once you do this, your BA+ account is entirely reset and all your contacts disappear, so make sure you don't need any of that stuff before you do this. If it worked, then you'll get that VXWUEP: DELETE text almost immediately (mine took only a couple of seconds). When you get that, you can say goodby to all those annoying VZWNMN text messages!

Hot Carl said:
I am not getting those texts but I am getting some BS spam from a place called XAPUSH .. every so often I get a notification in my top status bar with some lame "buy me" or "this is cool get it" message from them and their advertisers. Thanks, Verizon, for that unwanted bloat on my phone.
There is an "opt out" method but so far it hasnt worked.. you can either install an app from the Market and select opt out and then delete the app.. (I wonder why I have to install an app for this?) or you can go to their web site and enter some phone information and thats supposed to work. Neither one has, yet, for me. Is anyone else getting these?
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Sounds like you are getting air push ads which are different.
I use air push detector from the market which when I run a scan tells me what app I have that is sending me the ads.
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Worked!
dandaman96 said:
Since this was the first hit on google for this problem, I'll post here..
I had to go to vzw.com/sync to find the sync settings. I deleted my email addresses from the page that popped up and it seems to have stopped the 6250 text messages.
Reference this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839147
But now I'm getting texts from 6200 with the text //F1TYPE=SAS;UI=1;CONT=0,0,5; Time to figure out how to kill these too...
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Thank you, this worked for me on my Droid Bionic
Hope you can figure out your 6200 issues :good:

I only got them when I was on ICS and received an email. But recently they've stopped for me. Don't know what happened, but since it stopped and all, I'm all good.
sent from my Sterilized CleanS3

This always happens to new when in on aosp rom
VZW GS3. EXECUTIONER 2.5

The Boot's instructions worked for my father's Droid Razr. He didn't get these messages with his last Razr but got them with this replacement. I think it had to do with removing the Back-up Assistant apps after I rooted it. I didn't remove or disable them on the last phone.

I just blocked (blacklisted)6250 from text settings.
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Gmail notifications

I have an issue where I receive no notifications for gmail. I have searched for answers already and most issues seem to be from sync or notification settings in the app. I have checked both of these and still get no notifications. It has been present on my account across a couple of phones, gmail app versions, etc. Anyone have an idea what to look at next?
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1. clear your cache of Gmail.
2. If you on Android 4.0.x/ 3.x/2.x remove updates and update from the play store.
2. If you on Android 4.1.x or newer check if Show Notifications is enabled. (disabled? Just enable it. enabled? Re-enable it.)
3. Check auto-sync settings to be sure it's enabled and app settings.
4. Reboot your phone.

Have already done all of that, but did it again and still nothing.
This issue has also persisted across multiple phones.
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Keithn said:
Have already done all of that, but did it again and still nothing.
This issue has also persisted across multiple phones.
Sent from my M8
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I found this on internet, maybe it helps?
To configure notifications for sub-folders:
Select an Inbox folder (e.g. Social) from the slide-out window.
From the overflow menu (i.e. the three dots in the upper-right corner) select Label Settings
Toggle on "Label notifications" and configure to your heart's content.
Rinse, repeat with all the other folders.
To not have to put up with this nonsense:
Go to your Gmail Inbox via the web.
Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select "Configure Inbox."
Uncheck all the sub-folders and click Save.
PROFIT!!! Also, get all your mail notified like before since the Inbox will revert to the old style.
(Source)

I found that before and have played around with my label settings and I still have not been able to get it to work
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Also I have 2 gmail accounts, one personal and one work. I can receive notifications from my work email but not my personal.

Keithn said:
I have an issue where I receive no notifications for gmail. I have searched for answers already and most issues seem to be from sync or notification settings in the app. I have checked both of these and still get no notifications. It has been present on my account across a couple of phones, gmail app versions, etc. Anyone have an idea what to look at next?
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If you have android 4.0+ go to settings> aplications >all and fing gmail, click on it,and enable notifications, maybe is disabled.
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Notifications are enabled. The app can send notifications, just one of my 2 accounts will not notify me
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Keithn said:
Notifications are enabled. The app can send notifications, just one of my 2 accounts will not notify me
Sent from my M8
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I may be wrong but it is likely that you can only get notification from the email account you signed in your phone during the setup of your accounts. If you have a multi-user acount set up it is likely only the principal account will get notifications. Best luck.

The account I'm receiving notifications for is not the original account I setup with
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rapatu2010 said:
I may be wrong but it is likely that you can only get notification from the email account you signed in your phone during the setup of your accounts. If you have a multi-user acount set up it is likely only the principal account will get notifications. Best luck.
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I have 5 gmail accounts setup, they all notify fine. That's not the issue.
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Keithn said:
The account I'm receiving notifications for is not the original account I setup with
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Sorry I don't have any suggestions that you haven't already tried.
However, you could get an app to read new emails directly from your gmail and give notifications. I use enotify, only because it has a notification reminder setting, but it does receive direct push from your mail account just like the gmail app is supposed to be doing.
If that app doesn't work either, I would say something is likely wrong with your gmail account beyond your fixing, and you may want to look for a gmail support page to contact them about the issue.
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Still not notifying. Thanks for the help everyone. I guess I'm going to have to try and see if google can help
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Anyone know the best way to get support? There doesn't really seem to be an easy way to figure this out.

Keithn said:
Still not notifying. Thanks for the help everyone. I guess I'm going to have to try and see if google can help
Sent from my M8
Anyone know the best way to get support? There doesn't really seem to be an easy way to figure this out.
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yea i see that now lol, what a pia.
i looked for like 30 minutes and this was the best i could come up with, dont know if it will be of any help.
telephone: +1 650 253 0000

I made a post in the support forums. I'll see where that goes for now. What is that number for?
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Keithn said:
I made a post in the support forums. I'll see where that goes for now. What is that number for?
Sent from my M8
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contact information from here.
btw, some of these forums on xda move fast, its best to quote the people you are replying to so it doesn't get missed or overlooked.
thanks

bweN diorD said:
contact information from here.
btw, some of these forums on xda move fast, its best to quote the people you are replying to so it doesn't get missed or overlooked.
thanks
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Didn't catch the number before thank you.
Once I get this figured out I'll post back here so that others can use the info of necessary.
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Keithn said:
Didn't catch the number before thank you.
Once I get this figured out I'll post back here so that others can use the info of necessary.
Sent from my M8
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Thanks, hope you get it sorted out quick. I'm curious to know what the problem is.
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bweN diorD said:
Thanks, hope you get it sorted out quick. I'm curious to know what the problem is.
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Still not solved. It has moved to googles support team so if I hear anything back (been about a week) I'll post again. For now I just made another gmail and am forwarding to that.
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How to add calendar event on S3?

Hello, is there an app for this?
Haven't found anything.
Thanks!

same questions
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MichaelGG said:
Hello, is there an app for this?
Haven't found anything.
Thanks!
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spegma said:
same questions
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You know what's odd is I set a couple of appointments while playing around with the phone (I still haven't cracked open the operating instructions). I was only able to set something for the same day no matter what I tried. Funny thing is after seeing this post I can't even find how I ever did that!! Strange!!

RaymondPJR said:
You know what's odd is I set a couple of appointments while playing around with the phone (I still haven't cracked open the operating instructions). I was only able to set something for the same day no matter what I tried. Funny thing is after seeing this post I can't even find how I ever did that!! Strange!!
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Did you try reminder? With that you can create an event for current day. Apparently samsung forgot to add a date chooser for it
Only way to set an event for a specific date is using s-voice. But i would say don't bother it won't understand anyway

10urshin said:
Did you try reminder? With that you can create an event for current day. Apparently samsung forgot to add a date chooser for it
Only way to set an event for a specific date is using s-voice. But i would say don't bother it won't understand anyway
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You're right, it was with S-Voice and it couldn't understand me! If only we could use GNow!

SVoice works pretty well for me setting reminders, I'd say about 90% of the time it works as expected, but once in a while it doesn't work for some reason. Haven't found a pattern to those failures.
What isn't possible (and this is really annoying) is I can't add events to my calendar from the watch.

I use "My tasks in Gear" by Dimitrios Tzimos. It's a paid app but at just over £1 it's a bargain!
The app lets you setup reminders/tasks on your Gear S3 and syncs them to a free android phone app (and I have that syncing with my Google calendar so they appear in my preferred android phone calendar app - Business Calendar).
I've been using it for a few weeks now & it works well. The developer is also very responsive to suggestions and has already added a few features I suggested
There's a video of it here but it's a few months old now and you can't get the app for free anymore like Mr Analytical states.
Any questions, please feel free t ask!

zippyioa said:
I use "My tasks in Gear" by Dimitrios Tzimos. It's a paid app but at just over £1 it's a bargain!
The app lets you setup reminders/tasks on your Gear S3 and syncs them to a free android phone app (and I have that syncing with my Google calendar so they appear in my preferred android phone calendar app - Business Calendar).
I've been using it for a few weeks now & it works well. The developer is also very responsive to suggestions and has already added a few features I suggested
There's a video of it here but it's a few months old now and you can't get the app for free anymore like Mr Analytical states.
Any questions, please feel free t ask!
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Thanks for sharing this, looks like it could be very useful.
Couple questions:
1. Does the process you follow create actual calendar events in w/Google Calendar, or just create tasks in Google Calendar? Hoping this works to create calendar events?
2. Can you use voice input to create tasks on the watch? From what I've seen, third party apps may not have access to the voice input option on the watch.

Redflea said:
Thanks for sharing this, looks like it could be very useful.
Couple questions:
1. Does the process you follow create actual calendar events in w/Google Calendar, or just create tasks in Google Calendar? Hoping this works to create calendar events?
2. Can you use voice input to create tasks on the watch? From what I've seen, third party apps may not have access to the voice input option on the watch.
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So far as I can tell it only allows you to create tasks.
Yes, you can use S-Voice, but it's not intuitive! You must select a field first then you'll get prompted to input using keyboard. Then you rotate dial all the way to last selection to use crappy S-Voice. Screenshots from watch.
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2 questions - 1st, how do you get notifications for calendar events. I've set calendars, schedule etc in Notifications\Manage Apps but no notifications appear on the watch. Works fine for Messages, Gmail, WhatsApp etc.
Q2 How do you get those screenshots - home button and right swipe doesn't work for me !
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Ok sorted the screenshot. Home and quickly swipe left to tight.

Supposedly the latest firmware update from March allows S-voice to create date/time-specific reminders now. Have not tried it yet.

It does but that's the only way you can do it. You can't write or type a reminder with a specific date - it defaults to the current day/date with no option for a different date.

Rick GM said:
2 questions - 1st, how do you get notifications for calendar events. I've set calendars, schedule etc in Notifications\Manage Apps but no notifications appear on the watch. Works fine for Messages, Gmail, WhatsApp etc.
Q2 How do you get those screenshots - home button and right swipe doesn't work for me !
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Ok sorted the screenshot. Home and quickly swipe left to tight.
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You can't get notifications for calendar events. That's really sad! You can only get notifications for 'tasks'.
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I get notifications for calendar events all the time, works fine.
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Can you tell us how you got it to do that?
Also what calendar app?

Hi. I was also researching this, and came across this app. I wasn't immediately seeing how tasks made it out of this app into Google, but it sounds like you can sync it; not worried about that.
However, I also use Business Calendar.
zippyioa said:
The app lets you setup reminders/tasks on your Gear S3 and syncs them to a free android phone app (and I have that syncing with my Google calendar so they appear in my preferred android phone calendar app - Business Calendar).
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Business Calendar does not have the ability to read Google Reminders, only Google events. So, I would think this app would sync into Google as an Event if you're seeing it in Business Calendar, no?
Further down the thread:
Redflea said:
1. Does the process you follow create actual calendar events in w/Google Calendar, or just create tasks in Google Calendar? Hoping this works to create calendar events?
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and it was confirmed that: So far as I can tell it only allows you to create tasks.
I am assuming Tasks == Google Reminders, which Business Calendar doesn't have the ability to show.
What am I missing?
Thank you...

afh3 said:
Supposedly the latest firmware update from March allows S-voice to create date/time-specific reminders now. Have not tried it yet.
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Now we have Tizen 3.0.1 and the changelog says there is an option to add calendar events. but i can´t do anything.
Must there be a pairing with an samsung device or what?
Also i see on many videos on youtube an email app on the gear s3, where does it come from?
Any news aor tips?

Add Google Contacts & Contacts Sync; Get a neat surprise [JAN 2019]

***UPDATE January 12, 2019***
Please note: This trick does NOT appear to work on the HD 8, 8th generation, FireOS 6.X.X.X. You likely have to be on FireOS 5.6.X.X or lower. Please leave comments of your FireOS version and whether this works or not.
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This neat little trick deserves it's own thread. While you have to uninstall two Amazon system apps, you actually gain the use of other built in FireOS features as a result. If you still have all three Amazon Contacts apps enabled on your tablet, you're able to use this little customization. If not, you'll have to factory reset, as I'm not sure Google Contacts will work properly. You must also have Google Play, Google Account Services, Google Framework and Google Play services installed. You have to install the Google App as well. Please install Activity Launcher as well.
There is very low risk of doing any damage whatsoever to your device, but I feel obligated to say: I can't be responsible if you don't have the same results. So if something does go bad, the worst possible case is a factory reset.
1) Download and install Google Contacts 1.1. You can now export your contacts from a Android device. Just copy them to any storage as a vCard, .vcf etc. Then copy that to the storage of the device you want the contacts list. You can also port it over to your target device's storage using Google drive or Bluetooth.
2) Open Google Contacts and import the file from the storage directory you saved it in. You now have all your contacts. Now download and install Google Contacts Sync 5.1.1-1965118. Go back to Google Contacts. They should be syncing and you should now have more options available to you in Contacts settings. Surprisingly Contacts Sync also assists in syncing portions of your Google account as well as I show below.
3) In contacts, you should see an option to set your profile up. Tap it and Upload a picture and add some information. Tap the arrow in the top left when done, it will save automatically.
SURPRISES
4) Open Activity Launcher and tap the top left, all activities. Scroll down to Settings and tap it. Scroll to Users and tap it. You should see a screen similar to the one below; a 'profile' with the picture you saved in Contacts
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5) Tap on the profile and give yourself a nickname and tap save. Making sure everything is saved, tap the recent apps button (square) and swipe it all out. Now press the power button so it locks your device. You just want to activate your lock-screen. Press it again to turn it back on and look in the top right of your lock screen. Tap on it.
6) Unlock your tablet. Swipe down the status bar all the way. Look at the top right corner. Tap on it a few times.
It was really fun to have found this. I'm glad I finally found a trick that didn't involve nuking more of Amazons apps or functions. Note that both of their contacts apps are 100% android based, so technically were not nuking anything that is directly related to FireOS.
What's even better? It ALL holds after rebooting :highfive: I don't think the 'profile' does much of anything except look cool and expands a little to show your nickname. If you do find other functions for it, please let us know Though I think the way my device is setup currently, this is just a little bit of fun customization.
P.S. If anyone has a problem with the shirtless picture, I'll upload new ones. :good:
EDIT: You can manually uninstall Amazon Contact app and the Amazon Contact Sync app. **DO NOT UNINSTALL AMAZON'S CONTACT STORAGE APP.** Doing so will result in your contacts not working at all. So far I've yet to find a fix, but it's really not necessary.
If a more automated version suits you and check out the Amazon Fire Utility and see if it's right for you
***UPDATE September 1, 2017:*** Google has released their contacts app to be compatible with all Android devices running 5.X and above. You can go to the Play Store and update the app here. You MUST KEEP the contact sync app if you already have it. The little bit of customization as a result of adding contacts, remains the same I believe. Just tap 3 bars at top left > settings > tap your name > set yourself up. I just flashed Fire Nexus to my Fire 7 and the process was still applied. I am not sure why it just doesn't add your picture already associated with your Google Account (if you already have one selected).
If most of your contacts have been duplicated after updating contacts app, go to your google Contacts page on the web and look at the menu on the left. If there isn't one, tap the 3 bars at top left and select duplicates. That will bring up all your duplicate contact names. Then select 'merge all' which will merge them together including the info.
You can no longer uninstall Amazon apps if you are on FireOS 5.4.0.1 or greater.

dont remove contact storage or contacts wont work at all, i have done it and had to reset afterwards

Nice find.
@sd_ahadow: possible index canidate

krsmit0 said:
dont remove contact storage or contacts wont work at all, i have done it and had to reset afterwards
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Thanks I made a note in the OP. I was afraid this would be the case. To be honest though, there really isn't a need to get rid of that app. Sorry you had to reset

DragonFire1024 said:
Thanks I made a note in the OP. I was afraid this would be the case. To be honest though, there really isn't a need to get rid of that app. Sorry you had to reset
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Wasn't because if this, I figured out before. Reset several times figuring out the limits

as far as I know, Google didn't make a 'contact storage app' for 5.1. I see some for 5.0 and I am not sure if they will work on here, but here is a list of APKs. Please note I am not sure if these APKs are official or not. Use at your own risk.

krsmit0 said:
Wasn't because if this, I figured out before. Reset several times figuring out the limits
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Heh...I think most of us who have been trying to hack or find tricks in these things have done more resets than 98% of the users who own these things. I probably have at least 1 more left. But I need a break from resetting for a bit

What "neat surprise" am I missing here? Is it just that you have a profile photo?

deepdvd said:
What "neat surprise" am I missing here? Is it just that you have a profile photo?
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Pretty much. It's just customization. Nothing fancy. You would also be surprised how hard it was to get the right mix of Contacts APKs.

Google has released their contacts app to be compatible with all Android devices running 5.X and above. You can go to the Play Store and update the app here. You MUST KEEP the contact sync app if you already have it. The little bit of customization as a result of adding contacts, remains the same I believe. Just tap 3 bars at top left > settings > tap your name > set yourself up. I just flashed Fire Nexus to my Fire 7 and the process was still applied. I am not sure why it just doesn't add your picture already associated with your Google Account (if you already have one selected).
If most of your contacts have been duplicated after updating contacts app, go to your google Contacts page on the web and look at the menu on the left. If there isn't one, tap the 3 bars at top left and select duplicates. That will bring up all your duplicate contact names. Then select 'merge all' which will merge them together including the info.

I just installed Google Contacts and when running it, it would complain that Google Accounts is not installed, despite it is due to it being one of the four apk's for getting google play working. So would installing Google Contacts Sync allow Google Contacts to download the contacts stored in a google account? If yes, then what is the point of exporting/importing your contacts via a file?

badbob001 said:
I just installed Google Contacts and when running it, it would complain that Google Accounts is not installed, despite it is due to it being one of the four apk's for getting google play working. So would installing Google Contacts Sync allow Google Contacts to download the contacts stored in a google account? If yes, then what is the point of exporting/importing your contacts via a file?
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Try installing the Google app. Usually that helps. And yes you need Google contacts sync referenced in the first post. Sync and the Google app also help with some account sync issues.
EDIT: also install YouTube. You need it in order to keep the 4 Google APKs up-to-date.

Is anyone able to help a little? I'm trying to get Handouts working on my 3 daughters Amazon fires. Their contacts from google aren't importing/syncing, so I thought the obvious thing to do would be to install Google Contacts. However when I try this I can't sign in. I get a message saying that there's "no app installed to handle this."
All 3 fires have had Nova Launcher installed, Google Play Services, Google Account Manager etc installed. Hangout physically works fine, but it's the syncing with contacts that's the problem.

Lutzoid said:
Is anyone able to help a little? I'm trying to get Handouts working on my 3 daughters Amazon fires. Their contacts from google aren't importing/syncing, so I thought the obvious thing to do would be to install Google Contacts. However when I try this I can't sign in. I get a message saying that there's "no app installed to handle this."
All 3 fires have had Nova Launcher installed, Google Play Services, Google Account Manager etc installed. Hangout physically works fine, but it's the syncing with contacts that's the problem.
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In the first thread, make sure Google contacts sync is installed. Use the link I provided. Also make sure 'contacts storage' is installed. If not, you'll have to find the right APK and install that as well.

Still working 9/26/2018
I just needed to install the following things on my Kindle Fire 7 (5th Gen) Fire OS 5.6.2.0
I had these apps installed previously and the Google Contacts app was not working. It didn't allow me to sync my account.
Google Play
Google Framework
Google Play services
I did have to install them to make Google Contacts app to work (I don't know if all of them are needed, but since I was following the instructions step by step I did install all of services and apps recommended):
Google Account Services
Google App
Activity Launcher
Google Contacts Sync 5.1.1
Instead of installing the Contact apk file provided, I did install the new Google Contacts from the Google Play Store.
After having all that installed. I didn't need to do anything else. I just did open the Google Contacts app and could switch between my google accounts and my contacts were there.
Thanks !!!!

none of this works on fire HD8 8th gen
contacts tries to open but then force closes
and it will not update from the play store either

gdroid666 said:
none of this works on fire HD8 8th gen
contacts tries to open but then force closes
and it will not update from the play store either
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Did you disable/hide the stock Amazon contacts app?
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Did you disable/hide the stock Amazon contacts app?
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no i did not, was i supposed to?
i thought you said to not remove it , so i left it alone
i did see that my contacts are now showing up in the duo app though
but i still can not make or receive any calls ,they all says invite and i use gmail to send the link but it does work
if i video call myself with duo it rings on my phone not on my tablet , duo app on the tablet says my number and sign out so it is logged in
the old contacts app force closes when trying to open , neither duo nor contacts will update from the play store

gdroid666 said:
no i did not, was i supposed to?
i thought you said to not remove it , so i left it alone
i did see that my contacts are now showing up in the duo app though
but i still can not make or receive any calls ,they all says invite and i use gmail to send the link but it does work
if i video call myself with duo it rings on my phone not on my tablet , duo app on the tablet says my number and sign out so it is logged in
the old contacts app force closes when trying to open , neither duo nor contacts will update from the play store
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Yes. You need to disable the Amazon contacts app or hide it. You also need the sync adapter too. If you can disable Amazon sync adapter, do that too. Did you download the contact apps in the op? You need the sync adapter and it needs to be installed prior to installing contacts.
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DragonFire1024 said:
Yes. You need to disable the Amazon contacts app or hide it. You also need the sync adapter too. If you can disable Amazon sync adapter, do that too. Did you download the contact apps in the op? You need the sync adapter and it needs to be installed prior to installing contacts.
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yes i followed the OP directions but it said to install the contacts .apk 1st and then to restore the contacts file and then to install the sync .apk , so should i delete them both and then start over but disable amazon contacts and amazon sync apps 1st or can i just disable amazon contacts and sync and then install the google sync apk and then the contacts apk from the OP? in the OP it said to install the contacts 1.1 apk 1st then if you want to to restore a backup of your contacts and then to install the google sync .apk
also how do i disable or hide the amazon sync and contact app?
can i do it on the tablet or do i need to connect through ADB and use command like PM hide?
what would the ADB commands be ?
also what do you mean by this
"While you have to uninstall two Amazon system apps, you actually gain the use of other built in FireOS features as a result. If you still have all three Amazon Contacts apps enabled on your tablet, you're able to use this little customization"
what are the 3 contact apps i need to check to see if i have 1st? i assume amazon contacts, amazon sync and something else?
EDIT: in setting >apps> manage all apps
i see amazon contact app i do not see google contacts app
also i am above 5.4.0.1 , i am on 6.x.x.x fire HD 8 8th gen
i noticed that it says uninstall does not work above 5.4.0.1 , but what about PM hide ,does that still work?
what are the 2 commands i need to hide the amazon contacts and amazon contacts sync>?