As much as I like TouchFlo, there are two annoying issues I can't find workarounds for. The first is regarding contacts tab. I have a ton of contacts and as much as I like the favorites layout its a pain to get to my whole list of contacts through the interface. I think it might be better to just have a click of the contacts tab open up the whole phonebook. Any idea how to pull that one off?
The other issue is mail. I like the layout of the TouchFlo interface, but I hate the fact that when I click the opened envelope icon it just opens up that individual email. Its convenient if you only have one new message, but I get a lot of emails and its a pain to have to click the Inbox button in the button left corner. Any idea how to make a click of the opened envelope toggle the entire Inbox?
Am I just being lazy about this or does anyone else find these issues annoying? Thanks in advance for any advice.
First off am running StarDroid 3.2.1 I don't think it's rom related but user related
I have added pictures of 2 people. They do show up in the phone when I edit the contact. They also show up online when I hover over the contacts name. However they won't show up in the people app or the phone dialer when I scroll to them.I get those grey silhouettes. I do however have one picture visible in there as that contact is linked to a google+ account and that person has picture in there profile.
I do have to say searched the forum for this and came up with this path /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files it does have the thumbnails for the pictures of the google+ people but not of the non google+ people. The pics that are in my gallery are the ones not showing up.
Am I do something wrong? I thought by editing the contact and adding a picture it would show up in the people app and in the dialer. I haven't tested any other functionality of have a picture added to a contact
Also want to add that the pics that I used from the gallery do show up in the people widget when added to a home screem.
Well after google searching and looking on other forums I finally found my answer
"Go to the Linked icon (upper right corner), then press the menu button. It will give you the option to select contact photo. Click it and it will show the photo options."
I then selected the photo cropped it to what I wanted and I was good to go.
RE: GMAIL, HANGOUT, MESSAGES, CONTACTS irritating design decisions
I was using Google Hangouts but am fed up of the way it hides the last message of a thread when the keyboard comes up. If i try and drag the message thread upwards to see what's obscured by the keyboard the keyboard itself then disappears and I'm back to square one.
I've looked briefly at the android default messages app and that's even worse. The valuable screen real estate is eaten up by a left pane when displaying a message thread. Yes you can minimise the pane by dragging left but then you find the messages don't resize to use the screen real estate you've just freed up!
Can anyone recommend a decent messaging app please?
PS Actually the default contacts app does the same, I can't seem to find a way to see a contact, full screen, so a sizeable portion of the screen is taken up by the pane containing a list of your contacts.
PS Also I've just remembered Gmail does the same. When you put your tablet in a landscape position when viewing an email you would expect to see your email full screen. No it squashes your email slightly and gives you an extra pane to view your list of emails without giving you the option to change this.
Does this p|ss anyone else off?
Anyone else figure out how to add apps that are missing from the choices of apps to use when you edit the favorite apps for the edge?
I cannot find Calendar app which I use often.
Hardcore73 said:
Anyone else figure out how to add apps that are missing from the choices of apps to use when you edit the favorite apps for the edge?
I cannot find Calendar app which I use often.
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It's there on mine...well sort of. Here are the steps on how I got to mine and other "missing" apps.
1. Go to the edge setup screen and choose Manage Panels then click the "pencil" in the favorites panel
2. look on your favorites edge for a folder with multiple apps. You may have to scroll vertically on the edge to get to it. Then click on it.
3. Select "Open Folder" and your calendar should be there. you can click the "minus" sign on any of the apps in teh folder and it will place them back into the main Favorites page. From there you can drag and drop the calendar icon into your favorites panel.
There's also an S-Panel Edge you can download from your manage Edge panels screen that will allow you to see your tasks and get to your calendar.
ricerx that was it! Because it was in a folder it would not let me put into the side. You are the man! Thank you.
How do you edit the second fav panel? There is no edit pencil icon on that. This is an AT&T version. The first panel I can edit but second I have no clue how I do that.
I have exactly the same issue with the T-Mobile version.
JoganJani said:
How do you edit the second fav panel? There is no edit pencil icon on that. This is an AT&T version. The first panel I can edit but second I have no clue how I do that.
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I have the exact same problem, but with the T-Mobile version SM-N915T. The favorites star at the top of the second favorites panel which, when pressed, pulls up the favorites list and allows one to alter the app list, is not selectable. Works fine on the first favorites panel, but not the second. Curiously, the second favorites panel's star is not solid (only outlined) whereas the first panel's is solid (filled). Anybody have a fix?
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I have the exact same problem, but with the T-Mobile version SM-N915T. The favorites star at the top of the second favorites panel which, when pressed, pulls up the favorites list and allows one to alter the app list, is not selectable. Works fine on the first favorites panel, but not the second. Curiously, the second favorites panel's star is not solid (only outlined) whereas the first panel's is solid (filled). Anybody have a fix?
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Every model of this phone comes with a carrier specific panel next to the favorites panel that is locked to either carrier-branded or carrier-promoted apps. This can't be changed. I'm sure someone will figure out a mod though.
Hardcore73 said:
Anyone else figure out how to add apps that are missing from the choices of apps to use when you edit the favorite apps for the edge?
I cannot find Calendar app which I use often.
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There is a calendar edge screen app you can download from Samsung. That will give you quick access and a quick glance at your days events.
some games not showing
I'm still having this problem, I have a few game apps that aren not in folders and aren't showing or selection in the favorite applications selection screen
Hi!
I have a strange problem with top bar at facebook app. I didn't find that anybody had encountered such thing.
Everything is shown at following picture
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By default message icon should be in one line with the others. I suppose you know what I mean. It happened unexpectactly. It was looking normal after installing.
Why it happens and how to fix it?
PS. I cannot add a pic from external hosting so you need to remove some dots at 'http' in photo link
Regards,
Kuba