I´ve accidentally set the HTCs' standard video player as the default one. I was looking for it on the apps list to clear the cache so I can set a different app as default video player but I cannot find it. I´d like to know which app is the HTCs' standard.
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Not clear cache, Clear defaults to reset the default app.
Clear defaults is blank (no defaults set). I can only clean the cache or the data. I deleted both and it still launches the HTCs' default app when I click over a video
I´ve even installed a couple of new video apps to see if the system would ask me which one I want to use...but no luck. The only way I can choose to use another app to play my videos is by long pressing the video file and then selecting "open with'...but I don´t want to do that.
Clear defaults works for me... see attached screenshot, it shows the Clear defaults is highlighted. No idea why it is not working for you. Maybe someone else has a better idea.
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For certain actions, like opening a video file, the system prompts me for which application to use to complete the action. A check box in that dialog allows me to set that choice as a default action. If I have set a particular action to use a program by default, how can I break or change this association later? Example: I have car dock open with Google by default, but I want to go back to being prompted for the choice of Google or Locations again. Advice?
I am using Virtuous ROM 0.9.0.
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Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All. Then find the app for which you want to remove the default setting on and scroll down to where it says "Launch by default" and hit clear defaults.
Next time you try to do that certain action it will ask you which app to use.
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Thanks! That is exactly what I needed to know.
Default is Google's Audio Search thing
My default is Google's Audio Search thing.
I can find the app, but it doesn't show that its a default for something. And I know I've set that app manually to the search button and I also know there are more apps that might be assigned to that button.
What do I do now?
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Justin
Hi,
I have a strange problem. When I try to change the wallpaper of the default lockscreen on SGSIII, nothing happens. I get to set the crop size in gallery and then it returns to the settings....without the logscreen wallpaper being changed.
Anyone else experiencing this and know how to fix it?
Are you using the stock gallery to crop the wallpaper or using another app? I also had that trouble but was using a 3rd party app to crop like quickpic and it wouldnt save. I then tried the stock gallery and it worked fine.
isiyou125 said:
Are you using the stock gallery to crop the wallpaper or using another app? I also had that trouble but was using a 3rd party app to crop like quickpic and it wouldnt save. I then tried the stock gallery and it worked fine.
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I have the choice between "gallery" and "wallpaper" and I have tried both of them without any luck.
kimusan said:
I have the choice between "gallery" and "wallpaper" and I have tried both of them without any luck.
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What im really trying to say is that after you click gallery and find the picture you want to use as a wallpaper for the lock screen. did it ask you to complete the action using another program to crop it? like did you install another gallery app? if you did install another gallery app, did you set that as default action? because if you set another program as default, or using another program to "crop" it and not using the stock gallery app, it may not work. if you did set another program as default to crop it, you may need to go into that app and clear defaults in settings => application manager, then use the stock gallery app to crop the picture
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What im really trying to say is that after you click gallery and find the picture you want to use as a wallpaper for the lock screen. did it ask you to complete the action using another program to crop it? like did you install another gallery app? if you did install another gallery app, did you set that as default action? because if you set another program as default, or using another program to "crop" it and not using the stock gallery app, it may not work. if you did set another program as default to crop it, you may need to go into that app and clear defaults in settings => application manager, then use the stock gallery app to crop the picture
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You were absolutely right. Another gallery app had taken over the crop part so even though I used the samsung gallery app for selection of the wall paper, the cropping was still done by the other app.
Clearing defaults helped solving that.
Thanks a mill.
kim
I had this same issue as well when I first got my phone, good tip Thanks!
I also noticed that if you uninstall the stock Gallery app, the wallpaper chooser force closes when you try to change the lockscreen wallpaper. Not your issue here, but maybe someone else will stumble across this who is having the same issue I just spent 30 minutes fighting with.
Hello There, As im exploring The Captivates Somewhat good OS Tweaks of the Phone, Some people May Download better music players, Now the android music player definetly isn't the best one:/ So if you hate having to go ALL THE WAY to that one certain music app heres how to make The Original music player go to your Other Music Player So I was annoyed for days because the default music player was automatically popping up or playing instead of ZPlayer in my case. I could not find a exact answer online so with some determination I figured it out my self and hope this will help out someone else.
1st you want to go to your settings- click applications- manage applications
Click the All applications list, now go to every music player in your app list including your default one make sure the play by default button is not checked, if it is checked clear it. Then be sure that your force quit them all.
2nd now setting default player is not in the settings which is why its so annoying to figure out. Your phone comes with a folder called " My Files" if you haven't gotten rid of that, open that folder and find a music file and when you try to play it from there a choose player window will pop up. Now BEFORE You choose the player you want as your default click the checkbox first will have green checkmark. Then choose what player u want as your default from the list and its set.
To verify go back to settings click applications- manage applications- all applications scroll to the music player u set as default and the box at the bottom should now be checked as your default music player.
For Music Players : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844199
It`s great! thx!
I've been thinking about switching back to Play Music or ubermusic, but the default Samsung one plays nice with the lockscreen and that's just too convenient.
Yes, ive searched, nothing I've found has helped.
Normally I'd just ignore the app, but unfortunately I don't have a choice as its the only way to get a custom lock screen, as far as I can tell. My problem is basically just the threadbare options menu. I don't see any way to prevent it from displaying Picasa Web albums (yeah, sync is diabled) in the app itself, and the Gallery app isn't listed in the app management settings, so I can't clear the cache.
So if someone could point out to me how to clear the cache and to add images that are already on the SD card to the gallery, I'd appreciate it greatly.
Are you talking about gallery? Showing Picasa albums? In gallery click menu then click content to display 5 hen deselect your Picasa and dropbox. go into settings and application manager. Swipe left until you see all apps. Go to gallery and click clear data and cache then reboot all thumbnails will.
Oops did that backwards kill data and cache then go into gallery.
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Thanks! There was nothing in the UI to indicate there were different columns of apps, so I had no idea I could swipe to see more.
I uninstalled the default gallery app and use Simple Gallery. Is there a way to tie the OOS camera to it? When I take a picture the small thumbnail shows up in the circle at lower right, but touching it does nothing, "no photo" pop-up. I have my gallery app set as default on settings.
Not sure if it will help but try installing another gallery app and see what pops up (if anything) when you touch the thumbnail from the camera app.
I have installed a QuickPic gallery (the best gallery app in my opinion) as well as the Open Camera app (used it before on my Samsung Note3 running Resurrection Remix so it kind of installed itself when I connected my google account).
Anyways, not I have a stock camera app opening stock gallery app (when touching the thumbnail) and I have Open Camera app opening the QuickPic, even though the stock gallery is set as default.
I'm thinking the issue may be you uninstalled the stock gallery before changing the defaults and now your camera is still looking for that stock app? It seems some apps can override the system defaults (as is in my case 2 different camera apps opening different gallery apps), and installing another gallery app may bring up the menu where you could choose your default gellery to open from camera app.
Bravo! I dirty flashed the ROM and it works again. Switched default to Simple Gallery, works. Froze OOS gallery, still works! Just need to change it before getting rid of it.
There is a default app in the settings somewhere.
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There is a default app in the settings somewhere.
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Yeah, settings/apps/default. Just saying you need to set you default app, before uninstalling the system one or it won't switch.