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Sorry if this has been asked before, just got my galaxy nexus today. Prefer chrome to stock browser... Are there going to be any negative repercussions if I disable the stock browser entirely?
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Nope. I've disabled it and using Chrome since the day it became available.
martonikaj said:
Nope. I've disabled it and using Chrome since the day it became available.
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how can you use chrome, it doesn't have flash...
Hydera5 said:
how can you use chrome, it doesn't have flash...
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can't remember the last time I used Flash in a mobile browser.... well over a year now since I've done it.
How do you not use flash?? I'm sure you have been to sites and there was a video box just empty. I can't stand that. I love watching videos on my phone.
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The only reason why I haven't disabled it is because I use the scrolling bookmark widget.
I've watched loads of videos with the chrome browser. I'm not sure flash is that wide spread any more...
JayDaKissEP said:
How do you not use flash?? I'm sure you have been to sites and there was a video box just empty. I can't stand that. I love watching videos on my phone.
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I watch plenty of video on the web. Its just all HTML5.
danger-rat said:
I've watched loads of videos with the chrome browser. I'm not sure flash is that wide spread any more...
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It really isn't lol. Any website dev that's worth anything has already transitioned away from Flash to make their site iPhone/iPad friendly.
Lol... Awkward, when so many people think flash is one of the biggest reasons to choose Android over UPS devices, when really there are much better reasons than an antiquated web standard... Seriously, I hate flash. Generally have it disabled on Android anyway.
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Yeah, I haven't used flash since I got my phone (3 months). However, I do keep the stock browser enabled because I like the "request desktop site" option. It's useful for the sites where you lose functionality for being on a mobile site (amazon is a good example).
Just my .02
I've disabled the stock browser, no side effects, only thing I miss is the desktop view, and keep forgetting chrome doesn't have that yet..hoping future updates will rectify this
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I dont even add it anymore to my builds, adopted chrome, resource hungry flash must die
leonironchef said:
I've disabled the stock browser, no side effects, only thing I miss is the desktop view, and keep forgetting chrome doesn't have that yet..hoping future updates will rectify this
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This and full screen + quick controls. I think it'll be hard to implement though because they're using a swipe in from the side for switching between tabs... We'll see how they do that.
Chrome is gonna be the wave of the future on Android so we better get used to it
maybe I'm the only one having this issue... does anyone else have an insanely difficult time getting chrome to copy or cut and paste effectively? I seem to have to share the page in Gmail, copy the link from the Gmail app, then paste it where I want it. If I try to just copy from chrome when I go to paste it somewhere, the paste dialog comes up, but nothing will paste. This has happened to me on multiple ROMs. Any ideas?
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crimson12 said:
maybe I'm the only one having this issue... does anyone else have an insanely difficult time getting chrome to copy or cut and paste effectively? I seem to have to share the page in Gmail, copy the link from the Gmail app, then paste it where I want it. If I try to just copy from chrome when I go to paste it somewhere, the paste dialog comes up, but nothing will paste. This has happened to me on multiple ROMs. Any ideas?
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Copy/paste working fine for me.
Hmm guess I'll reflash my ROM and see how it goes
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The whole flash vs. No-flash is insanely funny.
People will argue that iOS devices suck because they don't have flash (not true) but when a Google browser for their Android device comes out without flash support, it no big deal!
Even look at the Firefox mobile reviews... It is mostly negative reviews because of the lack of flash, but then you read the Chrome for Android reviews and it's all 5 stars and the comment that flash isn't important.
Big LOL. Personally, I use flash all day. Many sites I visit use flash and there is no way around it. My local newspaper is flash; restaurant menus are often flash; many product review sites still use flash and flash games - well... They are obviously flash.
To each, his own... But don't be content with having less features!
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Hello everybody!
I'm looking for new things to do with my GSIII. I was so excited to get mine and now that I have it I'm like "uhhhhh what now?"
I'm looking to try things to do, apps to try, tweaks, etc.
Any suggestions should be posted here for people who are just antsy for something to try.
Pictures to take, apps to try, tweaks, etc.
So lets have it.......
Nevell said:
Hello everybody!
I'm looking for new things to do with my GSIII. I was so excited to get mine and now that I have it I'm like "uhhhhh what now?"
I'm looking to try things to do, apps to try, tweaks, etc.
Any suggestions should be posted here for people who are just antsy for something to try.
Pictures to take, apps to try, tweaks, etc.
So lets have it.......
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Make a phone call. Those are rare nowadays.
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download wifikill and troll all the apple devices connected to the open network at your closest starbucks.
cnstarz said:
download wifikill and troll all the apple devices connected to the open network at your closest starbucks.
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Great find. Never heard of that app before.
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network spoofer is another one with more trolling capabilities.
cnstarz said:
download wifikill and troll all the apple devices connected to the open network at your closest starbucks.
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This is going to change my life. I thank you. Starbucks, here I come...
Don't forget Faceniff which let's you take over someones Facebook account.session if you're on the same Wi-Fi network as they are.
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cnstarz said:
download wifikill and troll all the apple devices connected to the open network at your closest starbucks.
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can someone post a link?
i cant find it in the play store..
thanks.
They aren't in the Google play store. They were taken down. Google search then and you will find them easy. I use them to troll Starbucks and McDonalds when I'm on my lunch break Lol
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apply the latest update, customize your screens with HD widgets or beautiful widgets, try out the different motion settings, install the amazon app store to get free apps everyday, learn the best way to take pictures during the day, at night and during motion....
being disruptive to others is not ideal nor should it be looked upon as a warranted action.
I have the wifikill app I found it on google and it is amazing. Lol
dtr145r said:
can someone post a link?
i cant find it in the play store..
thanks.
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I found the link by using www.google.com
Nevell said:
I have the wifikill app I found it on google and it is amazing. Lol
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Lol yeah I used it to knock my wife's computer off the WiFi while she was trying to waste money online shopping, waited till her cart was full and then killed it so she couldn't complete the transaction lol
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rgregg504 said:
Lol yeah I used it to knock my wife's computer off the WiFi while she was trying to waste money online shopping, waited till her cart was full and then killed it so she couldn't complete the transaction lol
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ROFL that's epic.
I suggest getting and setting up "Llama", I LOVE that app! Switches your profiles based on whatever rules you set. IE It puts my phone in Quiet and enables WiFi when at the office M-F between certain times, goes into Car mode on the way to/from the office, back into quiet if i work at my night job based on if i'm in the area designated, then silent mode to sleep and launches Lightning Bug app to help wife and I sleep.
DesktopVizualizer is another sweet App to customize any icon
LauncherPro and Nova Launcher are GREAT
Dropbox and AwesomeDrop are other favorites to make life easier
Get some game emulators -N64oid, Genisoid, etc -can use PS3 and XBox360 controllers with USB OTG cable
Robin is a sweet "assistant" for car use with 100% hands free aside from swiping your hand above the phone to get "Robin's" attention
Ok after stumbling accross this post, I have managed to do absolutely nothing at all work related today. wifikill is awesome. After turning on my wifi and connecting to a network, wifikill showed 186 connections. Going down the line and dissabling one at a time is truly comical. You dont know who has what ip but looking around you see people going like wtf happened. Great find thanks
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I suggest getting and setting up "Llama", I LOVE that app! Switches your profiles based on whatever rules you set. IE It puts my phone in Quiet and enables WiFi when at the office M-F between certain times, goes into Car mode on the way to/from the office, back into quiet if i work at my night job based on if i'm in the area designated, then silent mode to sleep and launches Lightning Bug app to help wife and I sleep.
DesktopVizualizer is another sweet App to customize any icon
LauncherPro and Nova Launcher are GREAT
Dropbox and AwesomeDrop are other favorites to make life easier
Get some game emulators -N64oid, Genisoid, etc -can use PS3 and XBox360 controllers with USB OTG cable
Robin is a sweet "assistant" for car use with 100% hands free aside from swiping your hand above the phone to get "Robin's" attention
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Where can I find the emulators? I've been looking since I seen a YouTube video with a guy playing GTA with a PlayStation controller.
This "wifikill" sounds highly illegal.
nabbed said:
This "wifikill" sounds highly illegal.
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this. can someone get in trouble for using something like this?
harharharris23 said:
this. can someone get in trouble for using something like this?
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Only if you get caught lol. It was funny to see the people in Starbucks trying to figure out why they couldn't get online, but you would have to really get carried away to get caught or even raise suspicion
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The new Maps is very buggy and missing a lot of features i use. (not talkin about Latitude. i don't use that)
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Maps (old layout) 6.14.4
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pjsv96
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The new Maps is very buggy and missing a lot of features i use. (not talkin about Latitude. i don't use that)
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I dont have it off hand, but just download any rom older than a few weeks and extract it from system/app. Just make sure the play store isnt set to auto update your apps though
i've been running liquid smooth and it didn't come with maps apk in the rom, I had always downloaded it from the play store...
I would really like the apk for maps as well
Go to team blackout's website. They have an inverted version.
[email protected]'$ [email protected]@XY
Or just Google "Google maps apk" I'm sure an older version will show up.
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Is the new one THAT bad? What do y'all think?
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I've got a pretty recent one. I'll try to remember to post it when I get home.
A lot of people have had several issues with this latest update. Google was forced to revert at least one change within a couple days of its release.
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Maps 6.14.3
Here you go. Google Maps 6.14.3. Pulled from the latest T999V update released a week or so ago. Extract it first!
Lieu10ant said:
The new Maps is very buggy and missing a lot of features i use. (not talkin about Latitude. i don't use that)
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Agree bro..
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Just go in to settings> application manager> all tab> Google maps then uninstall update
So simple...
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yeah. that option isn't available on my phone.
my sister hated the new update, but the "uninstall updates" WAS available on her phone. wonder why it's not avail on my phone.
but anyways, thank you SO MUCH for the link!
most roms don't come with google based apps, they all use the "gapps"
Edit: found a newer version. i think this was the most recent version before the new layout
6.14.4
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pjsv96
oh how beautiful the UI looks. thank god i have it back.
Fyi guys, someone around here said google released another update that fixed a lot of issues people had. Cant remember who or where, but figured I'd mention it.
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I uninstalled it completely ..and refused the update. The new update was very buggy and seem to constantly send data back . But just the fact that a force feed us this version pissed me off . One of there main things Google did was removing Latitude (as of Aug. 1st ) . Which I used a lot to keep track of my kids and family, the technology is still there but can only be used on Google Hangout (very buggy). But who really knows why it is they do this things like this...Just buggy.
I have just reverted it on the desktop as well, such a relieve to have the old stuff back.... at least while they let us.
I came looking here to revert the phone apk (blackout is the easy way and awesome). Google messed up sooo bad on this one. Like I search for a chain, and it shows me them one at a time with me having to swipe through them (in seemingly random order as some are up to 40mi away sandwiched in between others that are 2-4mi away, and the one that is only 0.7mi away is 10 swipes away). The old maps just shows you a map with YOU in the center and pins for the 10 results closest to you. When I am "on-the-go" why would I want to instead have the map of the first result you choose at random, which may or may not include my location, and then have to swipe through results while I mentally figure out where each one is in relation to me??? It is just ludicrous! The new maps may be great for casual browsing at home, but I use maps for location-based productivity, there are plenty of other apps for Where should I go / eat / buy. Make the new Maps for tablets and leave my phone and desktop Maps alone (or make them more productive, not less!!!)
Other examples of failure:
- I tell it to navigate somewhere and it shows me a full screen route-list, even if there is only one. Then, after I select that route I want, it shows me that route and I have to click Go before the navigation actually begins. The old version: I instantly get navigation and can choose alternate routes if I want. The new version is dangerous to use while driving. The old one is 100% hands free. WTF Google?
- You used to be able to use Google Now to say "Map of ..." or "Navigate to ..." which does not work correctly anymore.
Have you reported all of this to google?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Have you reported all of this to google?
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Yes, through multiple different PCs/Apps. I just did a survey they sent to me for switching from New to Old on Desktop.
Cool, hopefully enough people will complain and they will fix it.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Cool, hopefully enough people will complain and they will fix it.
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I'd like to see that, but I doubt it. Likely they'll look at us and ask why we havn't updated our phones.
Really wanted to thank the folks on here who pulled the APK, Maps 7 just doesn't work at all on my EVO 3D, it flickers, the prompts are scrambled, it can only function in landscape mode... this is on top of the, slower, feature hidden, beauty update nonsense. So thanks again.
Dogan
I've played beta games with less bugs than this ****e.
I have the old Maps, and I've tried multiple copies of Google Now, but still when I say "Navigate to Target" it shows me Google results for that search instead of opening Navigation and auto routing to the nearest Target.
I really, really miss "Map of [...]" and "Navigate to [...]". I want to be able to do this from google now which is always one button away, not have to open the map program first, click search, then click mic, then say "Target", then click the nearest one, then click navigate. (at least it is not 4 more steps anymore like it was with the new maps)
Please, can someone figure out how to get this simple command working as it used to?
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Edit: Nevermind I guess... mine just started working again. I complained here and in one other thread, then I tried "Navigate to Texas" as I was going to post a screen shot of how that same search that worked for another didn't work for me, and to my surprise it worked. Now it is working every time just how it used to. Very strange. I swear it was not working for me from like 2 months ago until 30min ago. I'm just glad it is back.
This is annoying as shet.... I'm looking at a page where I need to scroll down or up, and instead of it scrolling, it blinks totally white and then loads again scrolled up or down. Its doing the same thing on my S4..anyone else?
EVOme said:
This is annoying as shet.... I'm looking at a page where I need to scroll down or up, and instead of it scrolling, it blinks totally white and then loads again scrolled up or down. Its doing the same thing on my S4..anyone else?
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There have been a lot of Chrome problems reported. I'm using Firefox and haven't encountered any problems yet.
gksmithlcw said:
There have been a lot of Chrome problems reported. I'm using Firefox and haven't encountered any problems yet.
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Only issue there is I cant get my bookmarks over to Firefox.
EVOme said:
This is annoying as shet.... I'm looking at a page where I need to scroll down or up, and instead of it scrolling, it blinks totally white and then loads again scrolled up or down. Its doing the same thing on my S4..anyone else?
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Same here - it's making browsing xda nearly impossible. I just disabled javascript and it seems to have stopped...?
shmaque said:
Same here - it's making browsing xda nearly impossible. I just disabled javascript and it seems to have stopped...?
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I just tried that and testing now. I installed Firefox due to it and was just getting adjusted to it. We will see if your suggestion works.
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Only issue there is I cant get my bookmarks over to Firefox.
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Heh. I live in FF on all my devices and have everything synced so that's [luckily] not an issue for me.
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Heh. I live in FF on all my devices and have everything synced so that's [luckily] not an issue for me.
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Just the opposite.... Chrome on everything for me..lol
naked browser works really fine like an aosp browser. pretty smooth scrolling compared to chrome, plus working flash plugins
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Try chrome beta, works well for me
I am seeing the same thing here. Hopefully Google will be pushing out an update for Chrome to fix this soon.
As shmaque said, disabling JavaScript in Chrome also stopped this from being a problem for me. Of course that may become a problem of its own when browsing the internet these days. So far so good.
Well, as expected, I ran into some trouble logging in to a couple websites with JavaScript disabled, so I have re-enabled it. The problems that a number of us were seeing were limited to xda-developers.com as noted at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2380099.
Changing the default XDA site layout (located at the bottom of every XDA page) to 2010 has fixed the issue for some of us. Credit goes to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44038082&postcount=17 for bringing the idea to my attention.
Just today there is a new item on my battery stats....mdnsd. It is the top item in battery stats. Anyone have any ideas what it is, why it is suddenly killing my battery, and how to fix it?
This is on stock unrooted OJ6. (It showed up on the second day of use for OJ6.)
As I continue searching for a solution, I find this bug report from mobile Firefox regarding 42.0:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215012
In short, is says it this may be a bug in certain beta firefox mobile, and Stable version 42.0 (which is the version I am using) which causes excessive mdnsd usage. Not sure if this is it, but I'll follow this for a while.
Try another browser. Chrome is impressive but I didn't like their merge tabs feature so I disabled it (right near the top of settings).
I recently kicked FlashFox (not to be confused with Mozilla) to the curb for recent constant running of a collector service; reported the app twice for this (the app kept restarting this service). Switched to Mercury browser for a flash browser.
I hate apps that don't behave... browsers can be the worse offenders here.
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samep said:
Try another browser. Chrome is impressive but I didn't like their merge tabs feature so I disabled it (right near the top of settings).
I recently kicked FlashFox (not to be confused with Mozilla) to the curb for recent constant running of a collector service; reported the app twice for this (the app kept restarting this service). Switched to Mercury browser for a flash browser.
I hate apps that don't behave... browsers can be the worse offenders here.
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Hear ya samep... Been using Firefox since it was netscape... (even paid for it once when it was free) totally fed up with it now. Pc ver keeps ph... Ing up my identity safe password deal on the toolbar. Done, keep it around for nostalgia sake.
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Hear ya samep... Been using Firefox since it was netscape... (even paid for it once when it was free) totally fed up with it now. Pc ver keeps ph... Ing up my identity safe password deal on the toolbar. Done, keep it around for nostalgia sake.
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I don't sign-in or sync browsers. I tend to use my phone a lot for important stuff on the web so I sync my open tabs with titanium as needed and use bank apps. Chrome doesn't get all bogged-down with all those tabs ready to open.
I could just make them shortcuts but I got started on that with temporary browser tests until I could settle on one... creature of habit.
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Give Dolphin browser a try....never a problem....very secure...tabbed and great features... been using it for years
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gdempsey1 said:
Give Dolphin browser a try....never a problem....very secure...tabbed and great features... been using it for years
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Dolphin was my main browser for a couple years but I pretty much use chrome now.
Following. Same thing popped up on my unrooted sg6 edge in the past 3 days. I am a Firefox sync user, but not on beta, just GA from play store. I deinstalled and rebooted, will check in the morning to see if the problem persists.
skipster said:
Following. Same thing popped up on my unrooted sg6 edge in the past 3 days. I am a Firefox sync user, but not on beta, just GA from play store. I deinstalled and rebooted, will check in the morning to see if the problem persists.
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I've dumped Firefox and the mdnsd issue went away.