Ok this is starting to drive me mad. I have 3 phones, a Note Edge, a Note 3, and a Note 2. On the browser "Internet" on all three, when you hover over items that react to a mouse (like a menu) using the S Pen, it reacts as it should, as if you were using a mouse. Now Google Chrome on the other hand (and this is what's starting to drive me mad) does this ONLY on the Note 2. It functions EXACTLY the same as the stock browser in regards to the hover/mouse behavior. Yet, neither my Note 3 nor my Note Edge will do this. WHY? I've replicated all settings, and checked the versions of Chrome installed. Everything is the same but the phone. So why will the newer phones not do this? And most importantly, HOW can I get Chrome on my Note 3 and Note Edge copy this behavior? The ONLY reason I go back to the stock browser is for this function. Everything else I use (bookmarks, etc.) is in Chrome. I've looked all over and can't find a solution. Any ideas?
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1) psolem below reports the mouseover feature working properly in Chrome on the Verizon Note edge. What's the difference here? It be really nice if we could get someone experienced to dig into how this function is triggered.
2) I haven't been here in a bit (kinda gave up hope) but this morning I realized that at some point between now and my last being here, I've broken mouseover on the stock browser as well. Like I said before, if someone who knows a bit more about the inner workings of touchwiz could chime in, that'd be great.
3) I used an app called hiddenapp launcher (activity launcher was crashing every time it tried to load the full list for some reason) to launch (thus may not apply to everyone but I had to hold on each entry to load the shortcut to the home screen first. Then after each shortcut was made the app would crash so I'd open it again and repeat) about 6 different versions of air view it had listed. One of them contained what appeared to be some mouseover related settings but toggling any of them didn't do anything. The last one oddly was the only one that wouldn't open for me (crashed every time I tried to open it). I'm wondering if maybe there's some settings there that aren't accessible on my phone for some reason? Maybe someone who has mouseover working properly could try?
4) I just backed up and factory reset my phone. Mouseover now works in both Chrome and Stock, suggesting something I added is interfering or something I changed broke it. Any ideas what this could be?
jooniloh said:
Ok this is starting to drive me mad. I have 3 phones, a Note Edge, a Note 3, and a Note 2. On the browser "Internet" on all three, when you hover over items that react to a mouse (like a menu) using the S Pen, it reacts as it should, as if you were using a mouse. (Quick thing here. I've been searching all over the internet regarding this, and I'm so sick of hearing people call this Air View. This has nothing to do with Air View. This works when Air View is off. And because everyone is calling this Air View, I get a million irrelevant results every time I search. So let's all just stop calling this Air View. Agreed? Awesome, thanks.) Now Google Chrome on the other hand (and this is what's starting to drive me mad) does this ONLY on the Note 2. It functions EXACTLY the same as the stock browser in regards to the hover/mouse behavior. Yet, neither my Note 3 nor my Note Edge will do this. WHY? I've replicated all settings, and checked the versions of Chrome installed. Everything is the same but the phone. So why will the newer phones not do this? And most importantly, HOW can I get Chrome on my Note 3 and Note Edge copy this behavior? The ONLY reason I go back to the stock browser is for this function. Everything else I use (bookmarks, etc.) is in Chrome. I've looked all over and can't find a solution (mostly because every search string I use turns up useless results thanks to the issue above). Any ideas?
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I would like to try this on my Verizon Note Edge.
Can you provide a specific example to illustrate what you are describing?
Perhaps a specific website where this happens, and which link you were hovering over?
Maybe a screenshot from the Note 2 (working properly) and another from the other devices (not working properly).
When you say "...items that react to a mouse (like a menu) ...", you mean like the drop down navigation menus? Like Frys dot com website when you hover the mouse over the top left red button "Cool Stuff We Sell" a menu drops down without having to click anything or another example weather dot com website when you hover over top left button "Forecast" a menu is exposed without having to click anything. On my Edge, using the S Pen, with both browser choices you mentioned, the menu on the frys webpage will drop down automatically when I hover the pen over it, the menu on weather.com will not drop down unless I click it.
Another thing I notice is the stock browser ("Internet") seems to change the S Pen pointer into a hand with a pointer finger when hovering over a link, similiar to a PC mouse hovering over a link. The Chrome browser did not seem to change the S Pen on-screen pointer to indicate there was a link being hovered over. In fact, Using the Chrome browser, there was no indication the S Pen was hovering over anything to interact with.
psolem said:
I would like to try this on my Verizon Note Edge.
Can you provide a specific example to illustrate what you are describing?
Perhaps a specific website where this happens, and which link you were hovering over?
Maybe a screenshot from the Note 2 (working properly) and another from the other devices (not working properly).
When you say "...items that react to a mouse (like a menu) ...", you mean like the drop down navigation menus? Like Frys dot com website when you hover the mouse over the top left red button "Cool Stuff We Sell" a menu drops down without having to click anything or another example weather dot com website when you hover over top left button "Forecast" a menu is exposed without having to click anything. On my Edge, using the S Pen, with both browser choices you mentioned, the menu on the frys webpage will drop down automatically when I hover the pen over it, the menu on weather.com will not drop down unless I click it.
Another thing I notice is the stock browser ("Internet") seems to change the S Pen pointer into a hand with a pointer finger when hovering over a link, similiar to a PC mouse hovering over a link. The Chrome browser did not seem to change the S Pen on-screen pointer to indicate there was a link being hovered over. In fact, Using the Chrome browser, there was no indication the S Pen was hovering over anything to interact with.
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Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about. But you get a reaction using Chrome as well as the stock browser? On the Note Edge? I'm not really concerned about what the printer looks like, but yes, it does change to an hand over links. My main concern is that the mouse hovering actions for me work ONLY on the stock browser on the Note 3/Edge and not on Chrome, but on the Note 2, it does work in Chrome, as well as in the stock browser.
Basically: Chrome + S Pen only works on the Note 2. But why? It's the exact same version of chrome on each. One thing I noticed though in app info is that the Note 2 installation of Chrome was larger by a megabyte or so.
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I would like to try this on my Verizon Note Edge.
On my Edge, using the S Pen, with both browser choices you mentioned, the menu on the frys webpage will drop down automatically when I hover the pen over it
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Can you screenshot this working in Chrome on your note edge? Gimme a moment and I'll add my screenshots of Chrome/Stock on frys.
Edit: The first pic shows the screen when I'm hovering over chrome (on top), and the second screen shows hovering over "Internet" (below). Incidentally, that custom hand icon appears to show up in screenshots while the default circle pointer does not.
Sorry for the delay In response.
The drop down menu via the s pen seems to work for me in both chrome and Internet browsers on this note edge.
The first screen shot is chrome, the second is Internet.
Chrome 40.0.2214.109
Android 4.4.4
Verizon Note Edge SM-N915V
Sorry I never got back. Could you send me a copy of your floating_feature.xml? Think it might be related.
Actually I don't think it's that. Ignore what I said. But check out the first post. I added some updates there.
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I just backed up and factory reset my phone. Mouseover now works in both Chrome and Stock, suggesting something I added is interfering or something I changed broke it. Any ideas what this could be?
I narrowed it down some more. The issue is due to the data of one of my system apps. Still have no idea which though.
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This is not a fix to get the drop down box working like in winmo 6.1/6.5 but it is a fix to be able to launch the task manager from nearly anywhere without having to launch the anything. I thought that it'd be great if I could write a program that let you gesture from anywhere in the phone to launch an app. But I don't have the skill and with every great idea I have someone has already thought of it. So I google searched and got an answer.
The program is called, FTouchSL, I am running the trail version currently but it costs 10 Euro. So about +/- $15. I like it so far and it works great. (You can find the older 'Free' Beta versions by searching.)
What this does is allow you to set 'gestures' and gesture areas that will allow you to launch any program you want, almost anywhere in your phone. For instance, I have mine set up to use two gesture motions to do 2 different thnings.
The first is, up and left, which launches "Showcase" those of you with Shadoline's latest ROMs will know that this is a new task manager. (I think from HTC. I'm not sure) I love this cause now I can access the task manager without leaving the current program im in. No wasted time. I can also easily go back to a proggram I previously had open whilst I'm in another. Say I wan't to go back to Opera after reading a txt message. Do the swipe, taskman opens and bam back to Opera. No need to got find it in the start menue or the home screen.
The second gesture I have set up is, up and right, which minimizes the program. I love that I could set it to minimize because it's just convinient. Lets say I get a txt and I'm in Opera. We all know (Those with 6.5.1) that you have to click the tab, then the main menue button, then exit then yes. Well the problem with this is that Opera is now shut down all the way. Sure you could hit the end button but makng a gesture is so much more... well.... Magical!
I may add a, Down and Right, motion to send me to my txt messages since clicking on the task bar only lets you see the message and not actually go to it. There are a total of 8 gestures that can be set up and 4 'Hot Corner' buttons.
A Warning - You may have to play with the settings a bit to get this to work right for you. I suggest making the bottom gesture area taller than the Manila Tabs if your using manila or higher than the bottom bar if not. And start the gesture above the Tabs or Bottom bar. For the left and right areas I founf that 80px works well. and set the Delay to 2000 ms or more if you want to. Or else you will have to be very quick about makeing the gesture.
Hello guys,
I couldn't find a thread on this, so here goes my question.
I've tried to reply a comment on my youtube channel but using only my fingers on the touch pannel I was unable to make the "Reply" button to appear.
I can do that when the mouse hovers above the topic.
Any hints?
Thanks you all.
alvaromenezes said:
Hello guys,
I couldn't find a thread on this, so here goes my question.
I've tried to reply a comment on my youtube channel but using only my fingers on the touch pannel I was unable to make the "Reply" button to appear.
I can do that when the mouse hovers above the topic.
Any hints?
Thanks you all.
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I have the same problem any website with drop down menu does not work with touch you need to open keyboard and do that with the mouse. Any help.
alvaromenezes said:
Hello guys,
I couldn't find a thread on this, so here goes my question.
I've tried to reply a comment on my youtube channel but using only my fingers on the touch pannel I was unable to make the "Reply" button to appear.
I can do that when the mouse hovers above the topic.
Any hints?
Thanks you all.
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Have you tried to tap and hold to bring up "reply-button" then push it with a second finger and at the same time release the first finger? I don't have a surface so I'm not sure it will work.
wardh said:
Have you tried to tap and hold to bring up "reply-button" then push it with a second finger and at the same time release the first finger? I don't have a surface so I'm not sure it will work.
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DDI not work as well... thanks for trying.
In the address bar, you will see a small circle with a line through it, like a no entry sign.
Touch it and you can switch off tracking. This seems to allow things like drop down menus etc to work.
Should help with your problem.
killall said:
In the address bar, you will see a small circle with a line through it, like a no entry sign.
Touch it and you can switch off tracking. This seems to allow things like drop down menus etc to work.
Should help with your problem.
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Killall, do you mean the one next to the + Button?
Can you pelas post a Print screen?
Thanks.
The one at the end of the address bar at the bottom of the screen.
I have the exact same problem and have made a video about it. It extends to all sorts of things too - can't play Words with Friends on Facebook for example.
Try switching of Enhanced Protected Mode and you should see the symbol in the address bar.
@killall: what, exactly, are you expecting this to solve?
First of all, tracking protection is disabled by default. Nobody is using it who doesn't know how to enable it.
Second, Tracking Protection will only block things that you tell it to block. If you use a third-party block list (which incidentally makes for a nice ad-blocking feature as well), you should have no problems. If you use the automatic list, be sure to explicitly allow things like jquery and such; a lot of sites depend on those external APIs and load them from the same place, so it looks like a tracking system.
Third, doing this will have no impact on the ability of the browser to distinguish a tap from a click. It's, at best, going to enable some JS and/or Flash that was getting blocked before. That might solve some problems, but won't solve issues where, for example, hover *within* a Flash applet isn't working.
I have the note pro 12.2 P900. I noticed the other day if I use the stylus to select a portion of the screen, I.e. hold the button while drawing a circle on the screen, I believe its called lasso screen capture, it then prompts me to select an app to paste into. No matter what app I choose it will crash.
For example, say on amazon.com (firefox) I lasso screen capture something I want to buy, it then brings up all the apps I can paste into and I select gmail, it will then say unfortunately gmail has stopped. If I choose hangouts it will ask which user, and once I select one it says unfortunately hangouts has stopped. This behavior is the same regardless of where I copy from or where I paste to.
This feature used to work fine. I dont know what I did to break it. Any suggestions On how to fix this?
I just tried it on my p900 and it works OK.
I'm running Civato 's rom if it makes a difference or not.
dadecamp said:
I just tried it on my p900 and it works OK.
I'm running Civato 's rom if it makes a difference or not.
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Thanks. I dont doubt it works. I used to use this feature fine. I dont use it often and I dont know when I broke it. I did root my tablet and I installed xposed. I am mostly sure it still worked after that.
Could this be like a corrupted file cache issue?
I've had the Pixel 4a since tuesday and I like it. I've a few observations I thought I'd put here in case anyone else agrees; there's a fix/workaround etc:
1) The speaker isn't too loud and it's only in the last 20% or so of the volume bar that you can hear the difference. They should change the linearity such that there's more control over the sound difference of the last 20% of the range, if that makes sense. Not a big deal.
2) It's annoying that I can't swipe back (ie swipe left from the right edge of the screen) to get rid of the keyboard. Instead a large percentage (10?) of the bottom of the screen is black except for the arrow which closes the keyboard. Waste of space.
3) On a similar note, there's a white line near the bottom of the screen. I guess it's to show that you can swipe up, but I'm not sure. Why would anyone who wasn't sure if they could swipe up see a white line and go "ah - I bet I could swipe up here"? But that's my best guess. And this is on most screens. It's the worst, and the most noticeable, on chrome. You have a full screen site, curving nicely at the top of the screen, and at the bottom the screen starts to curve but then there's the black rectangle, which exists purely to highlight the mystery-white-line-which-might-mean-you-can-swipe-up-here, cuts in, ending the curve and wasting around 5% of the height of the screen. This line doesn't appear in 3 button mode. But isn't the point of gestures that you don't need to waste space on buttons. So...don't waste the space showing me you can swipe up then. There's no swipe down hint, or swiping left/right hint. I don't get it at all. It knows I know you can swipe up, because I've swiped up.
4) Nova launcher problem. It just doesn't stick. Every once in a while it stops being the default launcher and you have to run it again. This has happened on other phones and eventually they fix it. I guess I have to try nova launcher again every month or so. The stock launcher isn't too bad, but:
5) Stock launcher is quite unconfigurable. The 5 icons at the bottom of the screen are sort of like the nova launcher dock (which i always turn off) and are there on every screen.
6) There's a notification history, which is a great idea. If you swiped away a message but then forgot if it was an email, or which whatsapp contact it was, you can see quickly what the most recent message was. You access it via a button under the notification shade which you can press to get at it. But...get this: That button only exists if you currently have unread notifications. If you swiped the last one away, the history button vanishes. You now have to go into settings to read it (why settings? my photos aren't in settings). Why? Who thought that was a good idea? That's when you're most likely to want the history! Doh!
7) Aggressive app killer. This will never change - no matter what google says about ai and machine learning, there's something too complicated about "ok, there's a music player running, playing music, and there are headphones attached, and the headphones are playing music...but...oh, the screen is turned off, which apps can I kill to save battery...well, there's this music player nobody's looking at, that'll do" to ever fix. Really? You're not checking if an app gets reloaded immediately after it gets killed every time it's killed and learning "hmm... it's as if.....he was listening to music and didn't want the app killed?" I guess it's true what they say - most machine learning is just a regex, and this isn't something which can be solved with a regex, so... I've disabled the battery optimisation for this app; time will tell whether that does the trick.
8) Can't disable the sound it makes when taking a screenshot.
9) Google photos can't keep up with quickly deleting a number of photos. To be fair, this happens on the website too. It's odd - you'd think it would be easy. You're not actually doing anything other than marking the fact that a photo is deleted. You're just moving it to the bin; it still exists locally. It's an offline-operation. Why doesn't it just defer until later, or do asynchronously - whatever it's doing. On both web and phone it's so laggy and disorienting that it's easy to end up deleting the wrong photo, the only workaround being to delete literally one picture every 5 seconds. Annoying if you're been taking pics of kids and took a bunch so as to ensure you have at least one without a blur or closed eyes etc.
Well, sounds quite ranty I guess. It's a great phone though - highly recommended. I really bought it for the camera and the fact it's quite a small phone. I recommend the spigen tough armor (sic) case; nice and grippy and feels like it's going to keep it pretty safe.
Maybe these things will be fixed in future updates. I reverted back to 10 and flashed Dirty Unicorns, just a better overall user experience compared to stock at the moment.
I would like to add something: do you also the "bubbles" always appear on the left of the screen even if you have moved them to the right before closing them?
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...Well, sounds quite ranty I guess. It's a great phone though - highly recommended. I really bought it for the camera and the fact it's quite a small phone. I recommend the spigen tough armor (sic) case; nice and grippy and feels like it's going to keep it pretty safe.
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Most observations in original post pertain to Android 11 (AOSP) and have little to do with the device itself. My experience on a couple items:
- Nova has yet to crash since updating to Android 11 (stable on A10 too). That said, you likely interact with the launcher in different ways not to mention app portfolio interactions. Should submit a bug report to developer via contact link in Nova settings.
- Not experiencing the same nonlinearity in volume adjustment. Max volume is fine for my tastes but probably would work well as the sole audio source at an Italian wedding
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Most observations in original post pertain to Android 11 (AOSP) and have little to do with the device itself. My experience on a couple items:
- Nova has yet to crash since updating to Android 11 (stable on A10 too). That said, you likely interact with the launcher in different ways not to mention app portfolio interactions. Should submit a bug report to developer via contact link in Nova settings.
- Not experiencing the same nonlinearity in volume adjustment. Max volume is fine for my tastes but probably would work well as the sole audio source at an Italian wedding
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The device runs Android 11, so that's all I can talk about, not what might happen if it ran a different operating system.
I never said nova launcher crashed; just that it stopped being a default launcher by itself a few times.
The white line at the bottom of the screen is annoying! I liked having the option in Oxygen OS to hide it, hopefully that becomes an option on future updates.
Overall I'm really enjoying the phone after coming from the Nord.
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The device runs Android 11, so that's all I can talk about, not what might happen if it ran a different operating system.
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Not what I said; no reference to an alternate OS
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I never said nova launcher crashed; just that it stopped being a default launcher by itself a few times.
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Almost always the result of excessive memory pressure (also has nothing to do with the device assuming memory is adequate...which it is on the 4a)
For your issue 4 I guess there's bug in Nova launcher. I had similar issue with Nova, but after switching to Lawnchair it sticks permanently.
Default gesture navigation is surely ****ty. I prefer using old 3-buttons navigation.
Hi all,
I've been searching all over the Internet but I can't find any solution.
The edge panel on my Z Fold 2 is correctly enabled in the settings with a handle position on the right side of my screen. Screenshots attached (they're in Dutch, but everything enabled as you can see)
When I try to use it, it only works like 1% of the time. Most of the time, nothing happens.
Is anyone else facing this issue? Does anyone know how to solve this?
Many thanks in advance!
Try disabling all power management... destroyer of worlds.
Clear system cache.
If you've done any major firmware updates... factory reload time.
I had to turn on touch sensitivity. Also, I use 3 different things too get the desired options, edge panel for shortcuts and paired apps, one handed operation for direct access to certain apps/functionality, and an app called panels so I can group certain app# together (like work apps on 1, personal apps on a different one, etc)
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I had to turn on touch sensitivity. Also, I use 3 different things too get the desired options, edge panel for shortcuts and paired apps, one handed operation for direct access to certain apps/functionality, and an app called panels so I can group certain app# together (like work apps on 1, personal apps on a different one, etc)
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This is better and uses less battery.
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Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately, neither work. Even when using the display edge panel functionality in one handed operations +, the edge panel just won't show really lost on what's causing the issue and what could solve it
Is the problem on both front and inside screen? Does playing with the touch width on the one handed app make a difference?
Benny Bosser said:
Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately, neither work. Even when using the display edge panel functionality in one handed operations +, the edge panel just won't show really lost on what's causing the issue and what could solve it
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I wasn't suggesting One Handed Operation plus would fix the Edge panel* but rather replace it.
I had issues with the Edge panel for a while on my 10+, it works fine now. Play with it.
Even works with One Handed Operation plus.
Try clearing it's data.
Make sure all power management is disabled including any 3rd party ones as they will mess it up.
*I use for the cut/paste panel but that's about it
Thanks again to both!
@blackhawk, I understood correctly, played with power management settings, cleared data and tried emgee's suggestion, but nothing works. I'll keep on playing with the settings until I hopefully find a working solution, really strange, don't get what's going on. Thanks again to both for the quick reactions and suggestions.
Maybe interaction & dexterity setting or there's an app or somewhere that lets you define areas of the screen for certain functions and/or not doing anything when touched [email protected] you're always good with what things are called what/where is that.. I'll keep looking/trying.... Edge touch.. Not sure if it's still available but you can find it on samsung apksb or through fine lock which is an alternate way to launch good lock apps
Benny Bosser said:
Thanks again to both!
@blackhawk, I understood correctly, played with power management settings, cleared data and tried emgee's suggestion, but nothing works. I'll keep on playing with the settings until I hopefully find a working solution, really strange, don't get what's going on. Thanks again to both for the quick reactions and suggestions.
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You're welcome.
Make sure touch protection isn't interfering.
You'll get it working... eventually.
Lol it's a game,
it's a tool and a menace all built into one,
the new Ronco Edgenotsomatic
I finally found the solution!
The clue is to swipe up from the bottom of the screen first and then the edge panel works.
I hadn't noticed this yet, since I replaced the controls to the right side with edge gestures, that's why I never noticed.
Still not sure why I need to swipe up first, but it finally works