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I have Swype ver 6826 installed (fixed-by-JD) that I picked up a couple of months ago on the Nexus forums. Generally it works ok, however when entering text in the default browser, Swype slows down so that you have to pause between each word as you wait for it to enter the text you have swyped. Highly annoying!
At first I thought this was Swype's fault, but I have now tested it in Steel and DolphinHD and text entry is absolutely fine & quick in those browsers. So what gives? What has HTC done to the default browser that cripples/slows Swype down?
I prefer the default browser over Steel or Dolphin, so would rather fix it if poss, than change browsers.
One final question - can someone with a rooted Desire please advise me if this problem still exists on a vanilla(ish) Android build (either 2.1 or 2.2) that doesn't have all the Sense crap integrated into it? Also, is the default browser on the Desire the same as vanilla 2.1 Android - or if not, what are the differences?
I am THIS close to rooting anyway, since I'm getting hacked off with having had no space for new apps pretty much since the first week I got the phone. If rooting fixes this issue as well then I'm gonna go ahead and do it!
Hi,
Noticed the default browser seems a little less stable after upgrading to Froyo.
On some pages it just dies. Can open the page fine in Opera Mini.
Emailed HTC support and they suggest a hard reset.
Didn't expect that to work and I was right.
Anyone else seen this?
Here is a page which causes a crash for me. Please try it and see if it does the
same on your Desire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11079055
Thanks
Peter
I've seen it crash out on some pages. Sometimes just the scroll is completely disabled and unable to be used. A bit annoying to say the least and I've found no fix to it yet.
I have noticed it too, it seems it happens when on a bbc (could be others too) site with more than one flash video content window on the same page.
Yes crashes for me too... seems to be related to Javascript - the page will load if you disable it...
Only seems to happen on BBC pages... only half joking when I say its a deliberate anti-Android measure from the Apple-loving BBC...
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Same here. Especially when being brought to the browser via HTC Peep or Seismic.
Same here, have had lots of crashes to desktop with stock froyo when loading www.bbc.co.uk/football
Thanks all. HTC's response of send your Desire back for a repair now seems like a poor answer from them. Did anyone notice this happening before the 2.2 Froyo update?
Or perhaps someone on 2.1 can see if that link crashes now.
This has been happening ever since the 2.2 upgrade.
Wonder if HTC will acknowledge its the firmware, not the hardware. Was fine before. Also, if you disable javascript, load the page, then re-enable it and refresh it'll often play the video without crashing, but as soon as you navigate to another page and try to play another video, it's back to the homescreen!
Odd that they would prefer to get me to send a handset back rather than say... sorry.. it's a bug. S/W bugs happen. As long as they get fixed not a big deal (well no in the mobile phone sector). Planes
I have responded say that I don't believe it's a hardware problem. Opera loads the page fine. See what they come back with.
www.bbc.co.uk/f1 was causing the default browser to quit, but today it is working fine.
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www.bbc.co.uk/f1 was causing the default browser to quit, but today it is working fine.
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I've only seen this on BBC pages so far - there were a couple of threads in the Q&A section about this a few days back (here), but to date I know of no solution other than disabling the plugins.
I've just come back from a month travelling the states and since the official froyo release hadn't come out when I left I have been using Android 2.1 daily whilst in the USA to keep up with the football news at bbc.co.uk/football and never had a problem. Since I got back to the UK and upgraded to 2.2 I have problems accessing this page without getting a crash back to the homepage.
Therefore, I am certain that this is a problem caused by the official 2.2 rom
it's good to know I'm not the only one having these problems on the BBC site. I've been running 2.2 since the OTA launch and have been having no problems until now.
The problem seems to have started (at least for me) some time this week, as I was able to stream some of the BBC F1 content on Wednesday(25/08). It was only when I was trying to access content yesterday (27/08) that this problem started.
Is this happening just with the BBC, or are there other sites that have this issue?
I first noticed this problem on Monday 23rd August (when i updated to Froyo) and haven't encountered it on any other sites yet.
I have also tried the stock OTA 2.2 and a rooted custom 2.2 rom (leedroid) and both of them would crash on the bbc site
I seem to have fixed it for now. I just cleared data from the internet application and no more crashes on BBC pages. You will lose bookmarks so make sure these are syncd with HTC sync 3 first. This may be a temp fix, so let's see how long it lasts.
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It's caused by flash overload as was mentioned above.
With the stock browser open go to Menu / More / Settings / Enable Plugins and use the arrow to select 'on demand' from the list.
Flash objects on the page will be replaced by a green arrow and will only load when clicked.
The pages should load ok now. If you have several windows open and try to load a heavy flash object the browser will force close.
It's not a perma fix but plugins 'On Demand' allows you to browse at least.
That's not necessarily always the case here. I only use on-demand and many BBC and such sites are crashing the browser in 2.2 whereas they aren't in 2.1. Now all those pages have embedded Flash content and there is never a crash on a Flash-less page so it might well be an Adobe Flash issue. I had no crashes before the last Adobe update.
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Yes crashes for me too... seems to be related to Javascript - the page will load if you disable it...
Only seems to happen on BBC pages... only half joking when I say its a deliberate anti-Android measure from the Apple-loving BBC...
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How do you disable Javascript?
In the browser Settings there's an option to enable/disable it from there...
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it's good to know I'm not the only one having these problems on the BBC site. I've been running 2.2 since the OTA launch and have been having no problems until now.
The problem seems to have started (at least for me) some time this week, as I was able to stream some of the BBC F1 content on Wednesday(25/08). It was only when I was trying to access content yesterday (27/08) that this problem started.
Is this happening just with the BBC, or are there other sites that have this issue?
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It's not just the bbc site,I've got this website where I watch live football online via my desire.it was fine before yesterday,but now when trying to view some of the matches it just crashes and returns me to my homescreen.it was a good thing I didn't do a factory reset,it would've been a waste time.
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Hello everyone
After getting rather chummy with the Virtuous ROM, I ran into a small problem: The screen changes to landscape just fine when the hardware keyboard is used but not when it's closed. I've looked under settings but couldn't find an option to change that.
I remember that on the stock HTC ROM, there was an App installed for this, I believe. Do I have to redownload this? Where would I find it?
Regards and thank you,
Go to settings, Display, and check enable auto rotation
That option is checked and it has always been.
Perhaps I should also mention that Angry Birds, as an example, does display in landscape but it does so out of principle (there doesn't seem to be any other mode).
If you're talking about the homescreen, I don't think that HTC Sense allows Landscape mode without the keyboard out.
I could be wrong, of course, but I do believe it worked when I had the stock ROM installed.
This is not a dealbreaker, of course, it's just I was wondering about that.
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I could be wrong, of course, but I do believe it worked when I had the stock ROM installed.
This is not a dealbreaker, of course, it's just I was wondering about that.
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I have the stock ROM, and nope, it does not switch to landscape mode, except when the keyboard is out. It makes sense since you don't want your homescreen switching back and forth when walking or in a vehicle or something like that.
launcher pro homescreen will switch to landscape when turned, at least on a mt4g rooted running 2.2.1 it does. i havent gotten my G2 yet (this week it should be arriving) so i have yet to try it on a G2 yet.
This problem may not be exclusive to Firefox, or CM10, or the E4GT, but here goes:
Firefox 15.0.1
CyanogenMod 10 (Alpha 5.3 or any recent nightly)
Epic 4G Touch (black, shiny)
Same issue on other CM10 devices
Every time I launch Firefox and try to open XDA Forums' page with it, it crashes. Or on virtually any other page. Pretty much any page. Any search engine. ANYTHING.
Every. Single. Time.
It's really hard to believe that I've sent probably 100+ crash reports to Mozilla (many of them inadvertently), and that I am the only one encountering this problem. No other threads are reporting this. Firefox 15 seems only to cause this issue under Jellybean, but maybe not. Maybe Firefox just can't load web pages.
But if so, how come there are no other reports of this problem on the interwebs?
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This problem may not be exclusive to Firefox, or CM10, or the E4GT, but here goes:
Firefox 15.0.1
CyanogenMod 10 (Alpha 5.3 or any recent nightly)
Epic 4G Touch (black, shiny)
Same issue on other CM10 devices
Every time I launch Firefox and try to open XDA Forums' page with it, it crashes. Or on virtually any other page. Pretty much any page. Any search engine. ANYTHING.
Every. Single. Time.
It's really hard to believe that I've sent probably 100+ crash reports to Mozilla (many of them inadvertently), and that I am the only one encountering this problem. No other threads are reporting this. Firefox 15 seems only to cause this issue under Jellybean, but maybe not. Maybe Firefox just can't load web pages.
But if so, how come there are no other reports of this problem on the interwebs?
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Have you tried different browsers instead of firefox? I typically use UC Browser. I haven't found any issues with it yet and works great on CM10. Seemingly Firefox doesn't want to play nice currently. Lol.. I'll download it and test it see what happens. I'll leave ya a message on here. But as I stated, i don't use stock browser or firefox (well on my phone i don't)
One more thing i forgot.. I'll have to flash CM10 tonight when i get home. i'll see what happens.
I'm on the same Firefox and CM10 as the OP and get Firefox crashes on almost every page. I assumed it was Firefox but maybe it's the ROM. Either way, I'm glad to see it's happening to someone else.
I just wanted to chime in to say I have the exact same problem on my HTC One XL with CM10 and Firefox. I'm beginning to think it may be a CM10 issue as our phone hardware should be fairly different.
Its just CM10 related. Im running super galaxy v1.8, it works fine. Sure itll be upstream later down the line once bugs are worked out.
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Firefox is bad m'kayyyy
I'm on Phantom Phreakz's CM10 and I bounce between the stock JB brower or Chrome.
I can confirm that this has been happening for a few days on the CM10 nightlies using the Nightly build of Firefox. It crashes whenever it loads a page.
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Hi,
We believe this was an issue on our side (Mozilla) and is now fixed on our developer channel. Can you try out a Nightly build now (http://nightly.mozilla.org) and report back if things are fixed for you?
Well I purchased a couple of i927r's from newegg, got them updated to ICS, rooted. Decided to go with JB rootbox as it seemed to be what I wanted, simple, effective. Just got both phones activated on ST recently, so far been liking them. But a couple issues I am having with them are primarily related to the digital keyboard. I don't really plan on using the physical keyboard much...the phone was at the right price so I guess it's there if I need to use it. But whenever I try to use the digital keyboard for mms, email, searching I hit one letter and it closes. If you keep tapping the word, the keyboard will come back up, but eventually closing again, usually a few keystrokes later.
Both phones do this, both have the most recent rootbox update via goomanager and teamwin. I would post this in the dev thread, but alas I do not have enough posts to. I am searching, but I can't seem to find an answer. I do like the stock digital keyboard, maybe I should try a different one? Anyone else have this issue? The physical keyboard is okay, but I prefer the digital one even on the smaller screen. Thanks for your time.
Have you tried different keyboards.just saying you can try Swype? Or another from the market and see if it still does it.
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Well I purchased a couple of i927r's from newegg, got them updated to ICS, rooted. Decided to go with JB rootbox as it seemed to be what I wanted, simple, effective. Just got both phones activated on ST recently, so far been liking them. But a couple issues I am having with them are primarily related to the digital keyboard. I don't really plan on using the physical keyboard much...the phone was at the right price so I guess it's there if I need to use it. But whenever I try to use the digital keyboard for mms, email, searching I hit one letter and it closes. If you keep tapping the word, the keyboard will come back up, but eventually closing again, usually a few keystrokes later.
Both phones do this, both have the most recent rootbox update via goomanager and teamwin. I would post this in the dev thread, but alas I do not have enough posts to. I am searching, but I can't seem to find an answer. I do like the stock digital keyboard, maybe I should try a different one? Anyone else have this issue? The physical keyboard is okay, but I prefer the digital one even on the smaller screen. Thanks for your time.
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This is a known issue and is still being worked on. in the meantime, run rootbox 4.1 ..
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This is a known issue and is still being worked on. in the meantime, run rootbox 4.1 ..
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The default keyboard crashes when used. It is recommended that a third party keyboard is used until the bug is resolved. There's a fair number available on the play store. Avoid any that are directly based on the jelly bean keyboard