Ok, this may be a totally dumb question, but how the hell do I control/interact with Google Earth on my Nexus (4.0.2). I cannot seem to get it to tilt and pan etc using touch. I see no other icons or menus with control options? Am I missing something simple?
Uninstall and redownload.
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Ok. I'll try that. but this was the pre-installed Earth that came on my phone. Not sure I can uninstall. will try though. It's updated itself since I got the phone so should have the latest version, but will try. thanks
Ok I uninstalled the updates to the app, but I cannot uninstall this "system app". So I disabled it, forced stop. Enabled it again and will now download updates to make it 6.1 again.
I'm not sure what I should be seeing when using this app. There are no controls.
Just go to market and search for your application on the menus, then press your app Earth and there will be an option to update.. That's what i've done.
Cheers!
I have the very latest google earth from the market. 6.1 something.
Here is a screenshot. Does this look right? how do I tilt the screen to get the 3d angle? all I can do is drag around, and rotate. I cannot tilt so I can see topography?
ARGH. Im sure its just me not knowing how to use it.
Screen shot - where are the tilt controls?
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I too would like to learn how to tilt the view in Google Earth.
But I am bemused by the responses so far. Why is it necessary to uninstall and reinstall? Are you suggesting that the factory installation (with updates) is somehow broken?
Use two fingers to rotate/tilt.
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Hold two fingers to the screen and instead of pinching, just slide both up or down to change viewing angle or rotate them in a circular motion around a centred point in order to spin.
Flanimal said:
I too would like to learn how to tilt the view in Google Earth.
But I am bemused by the responses so far. Why is it necessary to uninstall and reinstall? Are you suggesting that the factory installation (with updates) is somehow broken?
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I thought so, because the OP said other icons and controls were also missing. I also did not realize it was a system app (it was a Market app on my Fascinate and treated by my ROM as a user app)
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drewstiff said:
Hold two fingers to the screen and instead of pinching, just slide both up or down to change viewing angle or rotate them in a circular motion around a centred point in order to spin.
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What he said ^^^
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drewstiff said:
Hold two fingers to the screen and instead of pinching, just slide both up or down to change viewing angle or rotate them in a circular motion around a centred point in order to spin.
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How the hell did I not figure that out!! Never used multi-touch in that way before.
Thats great. Exactly the solution I needed. thank you.
I've been using touchscreen for 2 years, so I cannot be the first person not to figure that out. No hint on the app itself or help about how to do that.
anyway, cheers
Thanks to all from me too.
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Google maps works the exact same way. If you go to maps and drag 2 fingers down you will get that "3d" view. It's cool. They must be trying to get some continuity from app to app.
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Although I'd agree it's not massively obvious in the app, there's always Menu > Help. Which has this to say:
To tilt your screen, touch the Look-Around icon and ensure it's enabled. To tilt up, touch the screen and move down. To tilt down, touch the screen and move up.
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Spotted the problem? The "Look Around" button doesn't seem to exist any more, so the help is out of date! Wonderful.
I can confirm the "two finger draggy-spin" method works fine though
I know the solution. This was happening to me too but i figured out. This is how to do it. Enable auto rotation open Google earth and tilt your device then hold two fingers and swipe downward or upward. I hope i helped so thank me. Ok!!!!!!
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I myself am not a programmer, but I do have a good idea for anyone that has some free time.
If someone could make an app that when the touch screen is tapped/pressed it makes a ripple or dot or some sort of signal of where the screen is tapped.
I've seen this in Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows...
Whenever i attempt to press a button and i am not hitting it i would like to know where i am actually pressing so i can adjust.
If this already exists please point me in the right direction.
Thanks
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I myself am not a programmer, but I do have a good idea for anyone that has some free time.
If someone could make an app that when the touch screen is tapped/pressed it makes a ripple or dot or some sort of signal of where the screen is tapped.
I've seen this in Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows...
Whenever i attempt to press a button and i am not hitting it i would like to know where i am actually pressing so i can adjust.
If this already exists please point me in the right direction.
Thanks
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why you want this?
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Whenever i attempt to press a button and i am not hitting it i would like to know where i am actually pressing so i can adjust.
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I wanna know where im tapping the screen, ive now also seen screen shots where people have an arrow cursor, that would also be pretty handy if anyone knows how to get that
so basically like Windows Vista's water ripple on Tablet PC
yes exactly
i'm kinda suprised it's not out there already. the palm pre has it and it's a nice feature. kinda reassuring. lets hope someone can pull it together...
yea i would see it as a staple in touch screen devices, but maybe it takes too much memory or it gets in the way? im not sure but i know i would definitely use it
I am all for this as well, it would be really nice to have.
That would be nice.
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(Use yer imaginations...) (Loads images and does things to them...)
So if when u click on the screen it takes a screenshot and then does a ripple on that image...
I know Twolf has done ripples in flash, so if flash were an acceptable solution, that would be a method. Have to take more screenshots and load em in to keep it updated..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540643
- You can now add your own background picture, just place bg.jpg in this folder:
> For WM6 (not sure about WM5) the folder is /Application Data/Volatile/FlashRipple4
> For WM2003 the folder is /temp/FlashRipple4
If for some reason this is not the folder, run it once and search for a folder called FlashRipple4 with your Explorer application.
As always, sourcecode and EXE included in the zip, I also included a background image for testing.
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So i don't know how this app exits, but if it could output the coordinates to the registry or a return argument i could at least click on the today screen with them in Mortscript.
I assume BBonz is already half done with the app anyways...
I've been trying to figure out if this is possible from a coding perspective... It seems that (at least with the .net compact framework) that there's no way to hook screen taps. A program like this would actually have to be a driver for the touch panel. The most similar thing anyone has done is TouchResponse. Unfortunately, the author hasn't been online since November...so I can't ask for details on how it was done.
If anyone can help figure out how to create a program, service or driver that can globally hook screen taps and return coordinates...I can probably write this.
Hi xawen,
"If anyone can help figure out how to create a program, service or driver that can globally hook screen taps and return coordinates...I can probably write this."
You can hook all touch events via the PenTrac.dll approach. Have a look at Scilors Multitouch DLL thread. There I explained the approach and posted the sourcecode...
hm, but this is only an approach for the HD2's touch.dll. Not for all Win 6.5 smartphones...
HD2 is good enough for me
no but seriously, tried doing some (very little) research but came up with nothing
Nullstring said:
why you want this?
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What a retarded response, taking up half the page. Jeez
at45 said:
What a retarded response, taking up half the page. Jeez
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That would be severe abuse of a signature.... And agreed. I put him on ignore so I'd never see that mess again.
This may help.
TouchMark
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=594158
HP TouchSmart-like cursor
Has anyone see/used an HP TouchSmart computer? the touchscreen cursor (a white cursor dot appears when the screen is touched) and a ripple appears when a button is clicked... that is exactly what I'm hoping to find for windows mobile. Any ideas anyone?
I am wondering if any developer would like to make a landscape start screen. What this means is I can turn my phone to landscape mode and the start screen changes to landscape. I think that would be a cool feature if possible this could be implemented in some way.
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lovenokia said:
I am wondering if any developer would like to make a landscape start screen. What this means is I can turn my phone to landscape mode and the start screen changes to landscape. I think that would be a cool feature if possible this could be implemented in some way.
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If you mean home page = the home screen then answer would be probably no because the api won't allow you. I could happily be wrong!
Not possible. Even phones with slide keyboard don't have this
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drupad2drupad said:
If you mean home page = the home screen then answer would be probably no because the api won't allow you. I could happily be wrong!
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maybe with a custom rom or skin?
lovenokia said:
maybe with a custom rom or skin?
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it will be like 2 tiles and lots of empty space on the right side of your screen...
why would u want that??
Huh?
I think what the OP is asking for would look something like this (very quick) mock-up:
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Of course it will never happen, but it would be very nice if it did.
yah that is what i am looking for. This couldnt be possible even with a special skin or custom rom. Android people have some pretty radical customs roms(i know it is open source) just wondering why that couldnt be done with windows phone.
lovenokia said:
yah that is what i am looking for. This couldnt be possible even with a special skin or custom rom. Android people have some pretty radical customs roms(i know it is open source) just wondering why that couldnt be done with windows phone.
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Well for one, performance reasons. I remember when I had the Android G1 switching between landscape and portrait lagged as I had to wait for the system to be responsive again after opening the keyboard on the homescreen.
Most windows phones are candybars. Only 2 generation 1 models have slide out keyboards
The OS is designed primarily around portrait use. If you were to make the homescreen landscape it would present some design inconsistencies.
It is not necessary. Using the homescreen in landscape mode provides no tangible benefit over portrait mode and could be annoying when lying in bed etc.
well see when i am using my phone in landscape mode, it gets annoying for the screen to go back to portrait so this is why i am wondering if this is possible. There are some phone that can go into portrat mode and dont have a qwerty(non windows phones)
The quick mock-up looks like Windows 8.
yah it looks good but i dont know if it will happen
Nice mockup!
I too am pining for lanscape start, hubs, index search
is there a registry edit maybe in order to add this functionality when I dock my Titan?
I have been using the dock for my Titan a lot lately and wish the start screen would rotate to landscape when I dock or the tiles themselves could simply stay in portrait just rotate accordingly when I dock because the screen is now a landscape position sure there will be a huge black bar off to the right but that's fine and for the hubs and index search too.
there has be some type of edit to change the system into rotating start screen?
Sorry but I think that is impossible, Windows Phone 7 is really closed about the homescreen and mofidications
maybe the app "htc dock mode" could be something for you
Maybe in windows phone it a landscape start screen could come alive
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modification*
changing the home button to long-press only..
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because of this!
I was closing out of texts at least half the time because I usually type pretty fast. This wasn't as big of a deal with the text messaging apps like the stock one and go sms because I could open it back up and finish my text but with IMO my message would be cleared. Huge pain it was
Love the Zelda buttons. Good taste
The extra button functionality might push me into rooting for the very first time...
correction: flashing custom ROM
rooting itself won't get you that.
I modded my thumbs to not hit the home button.
adrynalyne said:
I modded my thumbs to not hit the home button.
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too expensive for me
ap3604 said:
Love the Zelda buttons. Good taste
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hah thanks. I "made" them yesterday from some pictures I found on deviantart. My gf thinks I have a problem
Swyping for the most part solves this problem, although even when I type it rarely happens.
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Swyping for the most part solves this problem, although even when I type it rarely happens.
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I can't swype.. I don't know what it is but I'm just not good at it. Maybe it's the same reason I'm always hitting the home button
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I can't swype.. I don't know what it is but I'm just not good at it. Maybe it's the same reason I'm always hitting the home button
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lol, there is a learning curve with Swype. It's not just a pick up and use type thing, it takes some patience. Once you get used to it though its much faster.
Try the new SwiftKey beta keyboard. Don't need to hit the space bar very often.
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I don't want to sound like I'm living under a rock but what's the ROM/App that allow you to do this? I want to get some zelda love too.
I run stock rooted and toggled the full screen mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497558
I then use LMT:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
LMT offers all kinds of customization with long press.
Getting the extra screen real estate is awesome. All video apps run full screen now including browsing, flash video and gaming.
No custom rom required.
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correction: flashing custom ROM
rooting itself won't get you that.
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He is using liquid. It is a feature developed by aokp so it obviously on it as well.
bunklung said:
I run stock rooted and toggled the full screen mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497558
I then use LMT:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
LMT offers all kinds of customization with long press.
Getting the extra screen real estate is awesome. All video apps run full screen now including browsing, flash video and gaming.
No custom rom required.
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This++++
It is awesome running full screen and then just using Pie in LMT to handle the buttons.
meatlikeproduct said:
I can't swype.. I don't know what it is but I'm just not good at it. Maybe it's the same reason I'm always hitting the home button
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A thing I've noticed when showing people swype, is that the faster a typist you are, the easier it is to learn swype. I type 120 WPM myself, so I have a pretty good mental picture of where all of the keys are.
This is why android is #1, customization.
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Aokp
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I have several calculators, but none of them work very well with multi windows. Suggestions?
Ratlegion said:
I have several calculators, but none of them work very well with multi windows. Suggestions?
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Try "Calculator" app.
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Calc app works perfectly with multi window....
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If you guys are talking about the stock app, how can you say it works perfectly when the dimensions of the app force you to use more than three quarters of the screen to use it? Could you recommend one that uses half the screen, because if I am expected to give up so much real estate for it, it would be better to completely switch from one app to another. I had thought the whole idea of multitasking was to do more than one thing at a time.
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Honestly, if you guys are just attempting to be rude, I'd rather not have the help because I was intending to get answers to a serious question.
If the video player that comes stock didn't show the full dimensions of the movie but "worked perfectly" with multi window by merely running and displaying half of the screen, I doubt that would be good enough for you. Of course, you could just expand the window to get more of the picture, but that defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
Ratlegion said:
If you guys are talking about the stock app, how can you say it works perfectly when the dimensions of the app force you to use more than three quarters of the screen to use it? Could you recommend one that uses half the screen, because if I am expected to give up so much real estate for it, it would be better to completely switch from one app to another. I had thought the whole idea of multitasking was to do more than one thing at a time.
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Honestly, if you guys are just attempting to be rude, I'd rather not have the help because I was intending to get answers to a serious question.
If the video player that comes stock didn't show the full dimensions of the movie but "worked perfectly" with multi window by merely running and displaying half of the screen, I doubt that would be good enough for you. Of course, you could just expand the window to get more of the picture, but that defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
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Why rude?I'm just trying to help you .go to google play and type calculator [by xlythe].
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PEACE.
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Office Calculator, AirCalc, and Adding Machine are my favorite Android calculators.
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I second aircal, I use it on jellybam (no multi-window as it is AOSP) but floating calc = better the multi-window calc since you can have 3 things up at a time then lol.
Of course the calc is not super feature rich, but for general math it is good enough for me.
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ardcifliku said:
Why rude?I'm just trying to help you .go to google play and type calculator [by xlythe].
PEACE.
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Thanks. With the dev name, I was able to find it. Without it it seemed as though you were talking about the stock and I didn't know any better. It was pretty far down the list, but I found it and I will try it out. The screen shot surely looks much more promising then the stock one on our devices. The Air also looks to have even greater utility and I will give it a look as well. Thanks again.
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Why rude?I'm just trying to help you .go to google play and type calculator [by xlythe].
PEACE.
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This clarification helped immensely. The app works truly flawless. This is the answer.
I will be posting bugs and maybe you too just so that we can compile them and maybe we can solve them using the reply functions or something.
Here are mine:
Reacting doesn't work right on Facebook it'll being up the options but I have to take my finger off and tap on the reaction I want.
Spire mobile banking app only in landscape
Commenity good sam's credit card log in refreshes when tapping username or password fields (tested on edge and Samsung internet both using desktop and mobile site) only when I use outer screen did it work. I didn't try chrome cause I've been trying to oust chrome.
YouTube randomly launches in multivideo or regular mobile version displaying only one video spread across screen.
Log in button on xda doesn't function on edge only on chrome. Which is what I'm using to post this.
If you got answers or resolutions lmk. If you got bugs post em .
I noticed sometimes when I tap things near the bottom of the screen in an app the phone will briefly flash another app as if it thinks I want to swipe to that app. Sometimes it actually does switch to another app. Does this happen to anyone?
If I use Bixby to set a timer, then move the little on screen timer to somewhere convenient it resets to its default position upon changing folding and/or screen orientation
bryanhayn said:
I noticed sometimes when I tap things near the bottom of the screen in an app the phone will briefly flash another app as if it thinks I want to swipe to that app. Sometimes it actually does switch to another app. Does this happen to anyone?
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I think your finger activated the bottom home/back gesture. You can turn on the gesture guide so there is more offset from bottom so less accidentally activation.
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I think your finger activated the bottom home/back gesture. You can turn on the gesture guide so there is more offset from bottom so less accidentally activation.
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I didn't think of that. Thanks!
I just switched to the lowest gesture sensitivity too.
In hopes that somebody from Samsung may actually come across this I'll add another thing.. this is copied and pasted from multiple Reddit posts I made earlier tonight
On the Z Fold 3 I noticed that if you change minimum width on the main large screen it also affects the smaller screen. Does anybody know if there is a way to have Bixby routines manipulate developer options so that I can set one width for main screen and one width for smaller screen?
Anyways it'd be nice to have this option available rather than just zoom and font size options via Bixby routines
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In hopes that somebody from Samsung may actually come across this I'll add another thing.. this is copied and pasted from multiple Reddit posts I made earlier tonight
On the Z Fold 3 I noticed that if you change minimum width on the main large screen it also affects the smaller screen. Does anybody know if there is a way to have Bixby routines manipulate developer options so that I can set one width for main screen and one width for smaller screen?
Anyways it'd be nice to have this option available rather than just zoom and font size options via Bixby routines
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I doubt Samsung will listen to you. will not waste effort to add codes to cater to this.
I noticed this bug while using my ZF3 at church the other day. I took a pic of it. Anyone else have this?
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I doubt Samsung will listen to you. will not waste effort to add codes to cater to this.
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Yeah thanks for the helpful response bud
Awesome stuff the more this thread gets hits the more eyes we can get on it and hopefully some solutions or even better a dev might be able to help us out.