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Hi there,
I've got a problem with non-Sense roms:
with none of them works the browser text reflow. I've tried open desire, setrom and defrost and in none of them does it work.
The funny thing is that I have no problems with Senseroms.
I wiped everything several times and tried it even with dolphin but always the same result: nothing.
What could i've done wrong?
Greetz Martin
ps sry for my bad english
Pretty sure it's a HTC Sense thing, not an Android thing.
you need to double tap on the text once zoomed for it to reflow. its a froyo feature.
Is there no way that it reflows when I do pinch to zoom?
Cyanogen has it in his tree. You have to enable it first though.
But this has always been the Android way: Double-tap to reflow, pinch to zoom without reflowing.
HTC modified their Sense browser to always reflow (which can be quite irritating sometimes).
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Thanks for the answers. So cyanogen Is my only chance then? And how Do i enable the reflow there?
Ah thank you very much for the tip with the cyanogen mod. Finally everything's the way I like it
I love the browser, but for some reason pinch zooming on it SUCKS!! Its really annoying to zoom in and then it moves all the way to almost the opposite side.. basically it doesn't stay in the place on the point I zoom in on.. is there a setting or something ?? Also.. this is the best/most popular browser correct??
Thanks
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Are you using dolphin HD or no
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I use the hd version. Love it. Imo better than the stock browser.
Love that Dolphin HD and can't say I have the pinch to zoom issues. Sometimes I need to adjust but its hardly an issue. Usually on larger pages. :confusedface:
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What version?
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xScope 6 is my favorite browser.
I uninstalled Dolphin Browser HD. But there is still a folder called TunnyBrowser in myfiles. That folder is 6.2mb and contains 25folders and 407 files in it. Is it safe to delete that folder?
I have now switched to Opera
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aditya104 said:
I uninstalled Dolphin Browser HD. But there is still a folder called TunnyBrowser in myfiles. That folder is 6.2mb and contains 25folders and 407 files in it. Is it safe to delete that folder?
I have now switched to Opera
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I believe that folder is the Dolphin cache, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, I have deleted it many times now without an issue.
I am yet to come across a browser that can do anything better than the stock browser. I really think the 2.2 browser is damn good. Maybe Firefox can make me change my mind when it comes out but I doubt it.
SantinoInc said:
I am yet to come across a browser that can do anything better than the stock browser. I really think the 2.2 browser is damn good. Maybe Firefox can make me change my mind when it comes out but I doubt it.
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I doubt it too. The Beta installed at like 50MB in size, and was horrifically slow as well.
I really should give the stock browser another shake, I still have a grudge against it from my android 1.6 days, where the stock browser was fairly horrible.
I use dolphin HD on my EVO. I think its much better then the stock one. Seems to load faster and you can change it to think you are a DESKTOP and get the full web site...
Maybe you all don't notice it, but I bet it happens all the time and maybe you just don't mind??
I am using HD, and if you pinch zoom lets say 60-90% zoom, and take your fingers off the screen, it does not stay where you zoomed in at.. Which means you have to try to find the area, zoomed allllll the way in..
Or you can just zoom out, rinse and repeat the same process, lol..
Seriously, haven't any of you used an Iphone? Talk about perfect (browser wise)
Dolphin HD would be better IMO, but the zoom is BROKEN..
fastfed said:
Maybe you all don't notice it, but I bet it happens all the time and maybe you just don't mind??
I am using HD, and if you pinch zoom lets say 60-90% zoom, and take your fingers off the screen, it does not stay where you zoomed in at.. Which means you have to try to find the area, zoomed allllll the way in..
Or you can just zoom out, rinse and repeat the same process, lol..
Seriously, haven't any of you used an Iphone? Talk about perfect (browser wise)
Dolphin HD would be better IMO, but the zoom is BROKEN..
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+1 on the pinch zoom issue. When I zoom, it jumps back to the left side of the browser window, in some cases, basically taking out of view the part I wanted to zoom into in the first place.
I was wondering what the deal was myself...nice to know I'm not alone.
sigmaxaa said:
+1 on the pinch zoom issue. When I zoom, it jumps back to the left side of the browser window, in some cases, basically taking out of view the part I wanted to zoom into in the first place.
I was wondering what the deal was myself...nice to know I'm not alone.
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My dad has the same phone as me, he just got his and his does it too..
As I said, I think EVERYONE has the issue, but they just don't either notice it, or understand how a zoom feature should work..
I was about to take a video of the issue, but I think it pointless, because everyone has this issue..
I just wish there was a way to fix it.
Just tried zooming in on all corners, left right etc etc and it went where I was zooming. Didn't automatically bump me to the left ... I have seen that happen though at times.
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I think what it does, is its trying to auto correct itself..
Try zooming in "a little" then focus on 1 word, zoom to almost max, let go.. I will bet that word will not be in view anymore.
I had this issue with the old Touch.. Which was just ****ty compared to today.. But compared to the Iphone.. I was hoping the EVO would be atleast on par or better..
I do notice that when zooming in max, or close to, it tends to gather the text and move left, yes. I usually don't zoom even half way so that'd probably be why I've only noticed this occasionally.
That is kind of annoying.
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I do notice that when zooming in max, or close to, it tends to gather the text and move left, yes. I usually don't zoom even half way so that'd probably be why I've only noticed this occasionally.
That is kind of annoying.
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Its annoying when some sites are not mobile friendly and you need to zoom in to press submit or something.
Yeah that is very annoying with the screwed up zooming. Mine does that too that's why I switched back to stock browser. Stock seems to load faster imo.
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Is it just me, or does entering text (say, on forums) totally suck in the ICS browser? This is my first Android device so I can't speak of earlier versions, but its painfully bad here. Not only is it extremely laggy, even in portrait mode, but if you try to move the cursor through large blocks of text, it often jumps around, disappears, and generally refuses to cooperate. Earlier I resorted to copying my entire message into an email just so I could correct a single word, because the cursor absolutely refused to let me select anywhere near it. I've tried a variety of browsers and keyboards and none of them really solve this at all.
I understand there's software like Tapatalk to alleviate this, but that's not he point. Not every forum has Tapatalk support, and it doesn't really solve the issue of text entry in the browser anyway.
Anyone running 4.0.4 want to chime in and let us know if these issues have been addressed since 4.0.3? Thanks...
Not just you, but I don't know if we're some of the few or the many...
I'm stock (rooted) 4.0.2 CDMA and I hoped it had just been a problem with the 3rd-party keyboard I was using. Seemed to get a little better with the stock keyboard, but not nearly better enough. I'm also hoping this is fixed in the 4.0.4 update.
Text entry all over the place is horrible. I had to turn off spelling correction or else I'd get massive stutters in portrait mode in the Messaging and Gmail app.
This disappointed me cause it takes away the red squiggly under misspelled words that I was looking forward to.
But specifically talking about the browser, I too notice large amount of lag and stuttering. Maybe even moreso than my 2 year old Nexus One. I also find the little blue anchor used to move the cursor WAY too small, especially for such a large screen. This combination results in an awful time searching using the browser. Stock, 4.0.1. btw. Pretty sad that a phone like this has such fundamental flaws (small but still important). Here's to hoping 4.0.4 fixes this!
I can't tell how it was on 4.0.2 or 3 but I'm on 4.0.4 now and text entry is great! I just tested it right now to see how it was and had no problems. Try Opera mobile to see if it alleviates your woes.
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Flashed 4.0.4 earlier, seems exactly the same. Actually the whole rom performs about the same to me as a 4.0.3 ROM with some performance tweaks. But I didn't play with it much. I did test the text entry in the browser and found no improvement over 4.0.3.
I tried multiple browsers including Opera. Honestly opera is so laggy and jerky to scroll that I didn't even make it to my forum to test text entry before I uninstalled it. I would be miserable replacing the ics browser with that, even despite the text entry problems.
Firefox and nighlty don't exhibit the same problems as the stock browser, but have their own set of quirks and bugs that make text entry equally stupid. Webkit browsers like Dolphin and ICS Browser+ also behave exactly the same as the stock browser.
I also tried a different keyboard to try to alleviate the lag. It helped but not enough to make me use it full time.
tl;dr stock has some serious issues, and so far 3rd party stuff is worse (in my opinion).
I don't understand why the browser seems to think that we don't need predictive text when replying to posts in the XDA forums. I know there's Tapatalk, but I like the browser.
It was my understanding that auto correct was added back in the browser in 4.0.3, no? Not sure about the jump-around bug though, google really needs to fix that.
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It was my understanding that auto correct was added back in the browser in 4.0.3, no? Not sure about the jump-around bug though, google really needs to fix that.
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It absolutely was fixed, but in doing so the keyboard became extremely laggy. :/
Edit: By the way, I forgot to mention another bug with text entry in the browser. When you're zoomed in and typing, the zoom doesn't follow the cursor correctly. You will often start typing off screen before it "catches up" and jumps to the next line.
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It absolutely was fixed, but in doing so the keyboard became extremely laggy. :/
Edit: By the way, I forgot to mention another bug with text entry in the browser. When you're zoomed in and typing, the zoom doesn't follow the cursor correctly. You will often start typing off screen before it "catches up" and jumps to the next line.
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Preaching to the choir...
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David Horn said:
I don't understand why the browser seems to think that we don't need predictive text when replying to posts in the XDA forums. I know there's Tapatalk, but I like the browser.
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I have predictive text.
not encountering these issues on any of the forums i frequent.
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not encountering these issues on any of the forums i frequent.
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The lag is present pretty much anywhere on 4.0.3's browser. There's not much lag in 4.0.2, but there's also no predictive text/spell check in most (read:not ALL) forms on sites.
The cursor bug is only present in large blocks of text.
I've had these issues on every android device be ever had. It just sucks a web text entry boxes.
Just wanted to throw this out there. All of these problems are non-existant on the new Chrome Beta. Its the first browser I like enough to take me away from the stock Browser
But I really like the stock browser's icon. Nothing Nova couldn't solve!
This is my first non-HtC phone and am quite disappointed and frustrated at the lack of pinch to zoom as well as text rewrapping with the default browser on my GSM Galixy Nexus. I tried other browsers(Chrome, Dolphin HD and Opera)but all with mixed results. Dolphin didn't zoom at all, Crhome did but doesn't rewrap and Opera did both but only on certain sites. What's the deal here? Are HtC phones the only ones on the planet that are capable of performing this no-brainer feature on mobile web browsing, or is there a browser or custom rom that anybody can suggest to me, that will do this for me. Having to squint to read text is no fun and quite headache inducing, and text not fitting the screen properly, all but negates the point of having a large screen if I'm constantly having to zoom left and right to read it all. Thanks ahead of time for anyone willing and able to help remedy this maddening issue.
The text will reflow, you just have to double tap the text after you pinch. Its not like htc that doed it automatically.
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The text will reflow, you just have to double tap the text after you pinch. Its not like htc that doed it automatically.
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I can confirm this and thankfully it isn't like the HTC way, it is optional and I love it
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issue pretty much solved
Well thankfully after going through a stock 4.0.1 rom to a custom 4.0.2 to now a 4.0.3 rom I finally have the more consistent pinch to zoom capability with the browser. It doesn't rewrap quite as well but at least it does it. I'm curious as to why you and other prefer it not to work like HTC does it? What's the downside to having it rewrap automatically? I'm fine with double tapping to do it too just as long as it does it. But if you can skip that step altogether, why not?
happyhd2owner said:
Well thankfully after going through a stock 4.0.1 rom to a custom 4.0.2 to now a 4.0.3 rom I finally have the more consistent pinch to zoom capability with the browser. It doesn't rewrap quite as well but at least it does it. I'm curious as to why you and other prefer it not to work like HTC does it? What's the downside to having it rewrap automatically? I'm fine with double tapping to do it too just as long as it does it. But if you can skip that step altogether, why not?
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I just like options haha
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happyhd2owner said:
What's the downside to having it rewrap automatically? I'm fine with double tapping to do it too just as long as it does it. But if you can skip that step altogether, why not?
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I hate this automatic text wrapping feature. The only time I really use pinch to zoom is when I want to fokus on something "small" and hard to hit like a link (I use double tap to zoom in on a paragraph for reading. I find that much more convenient). When the text automatically rewraps after zooming I almost all the time lose my original zoom target. It's so annoying that I was glad to see that Google only rewrap text on demand.
But I think many like the automatic text rewrap. All I can say is that I'm not one of them.
Just fyi the galaxy nexus works the same as my nexus one. Stock android browser has always functioned like this, its not new. Htc always changed it on their devices.
Well, I've since found a rom where the browser does a little better with the zooming in and rewrapping, so I can finally put that behind me. I guess the tid bit that you mentioned about the stock browser acting that way shouldn't have been too big of a surprise to me. When I had the HD2 with Windows 6.5, I was so excited at the ability to port Android roms to it, so I put one on there based off of a Nexus One rom. The browser acted just as you said. Only roms meant for HTc phones and of course genuine HTC sense roms all acted the way I'm used to. I guess I was just so flabbergasted and frustrated that automatic text rewrapping was either not as in demand by other users I would have imagined, or that HTC had some how weren't allowing others to tweak the browser in that way. Double tapping is a fine and fair compromise though.
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I hate this automatic text wrapping feature. The only time I really use pinch to zoom is when I want to fokus on something "small" and hard to hit like a link (I use double tap to zoom in on a paragraph for reading. I find that much more convenient). When the text automatically rewraps after zooming I almost all the time lose my original zoom target. It's so annoying that I was glad to see that Google only rewrap text on demand.
But I think many like the automatic text rewrap. All I can say is that I'm not one of them.
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You might try giving Chrome Beta a try. In the default ICS browser, double tapping pretty much just zooms you in by a random/arbitrary amount. Chrome Beta acts a little more like the iPhone in that when you double tap on an element (like a paragraph or picture) it zooms to fit that element on screen. Works perfectly IMO.
Is there a way to increase the pinch to zoom on the stock web browser? I would like to be able to zoom in even bigger. On the S3, one can make everything huge versus on the S4 not so much. There has to be a way. Looked in settings and see nothing and looked up a bunch of CSC options and don't see anything there either. Been searching everywhere here for an answer, trying multiple search terms and still come up empty handed.
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djcmn said:
Is there a way to increase the pinch to zoom on the stock web browser? I would like to be able to zoom in even bigger. On the S3, one can make everything huge versus on the S4 not so much. There has to be a way. Looked in settings and see nothing and looked up a bunch of CSC options and don't see anything there either. Been searching everywhere here for an answer, trying multiple search terms and still come up empty handed.
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I very VERY strongly suggest you install Dolphin browser with the additional Jetpack addon. It is significantly faster than the built in browser. So fast in fact that the facebook mobile website is faster than the facebook application!
Not only that but think about the built in browser for a moment... it is never updated so you are stuck with the same version that came on your phone when you bought it (excluding flashing new roms). Dolphin on the other hand is updated often and they even implement fixes to help troublesome websites work better.