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Home Screen Pinch stopped working

I have a Desire running HTC Sense, and I have just noticed that the home screen pinch has stopped working. Does anyone have any idea's why this would have stopped working?
The only apps I have installed that I think could effect it are the "Home Switcher" and "HelixLauncher2", but I am currently using the Sense launcher as my current and default one.
Thanks,
Rob

Mine stops working every now and then too (i'll bet you've lost pinch to zoom in google maps and photos too?)
A reboot will sort it out, but my money is on some app i've downloaded that screws with it once opened. I don't have the ones you mentioned.

It happens to me all the time when I switch to Android keyboard to use the speech to text functionality. When I switch back to the original keyboard it works fine.

Press 'Home' when on Main screen, does it work? If so, Looks like it may be a 'Pinch Gesture' issue. If not, A Home replacement App Possibly
KYI

zonkkk said:
It happens to me all the time when I switch to Android keyboard to use the speech to text functionality. When I switch back to the original keyboard it works fine.
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Actually, that reminds me that i have swype installed - i'll bet that's what's stopping my pinch to zoom from working. I really don't miss it and would rather have Swype

Rebooting does fix it. I have Swype also so looks like that could be causing it.

My friend and I both have Swype installed and can confirm that this happens to us on a regular basis too.

sellhimechoes said:
My friend and I both have Swype installed and can confirm that this happens to us on a regular basis too.
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even if Swype is not active? it effects the pinch to zoom? what do you do to fix it, change the keyboard layout to android one and than the pinch works or even with that sometimes it stays this way?

I have the same issue, with the home screen, photo's and browsing. Happend twice now, just reboot the phone and it's working fine for a while.
I too believe it's something I have downloaded, doesn't bother me that much and I can't be bothered trying to work out which app in might be. Maybe when I'm bored one day I'll have a look through.

I have the same issue when I have swype keybord activated. its intermittant, but annoying. and a re-boot always seems to fix it.

Not the same as I don't have that keyboard installed I do however have Smart keyboard pro.

Do you guys HAVE to reboot to fix it!!! I think just making any other keyboard the default (by press-holding, and selecting input method) would solve it!!

Interesting, because Swype + Desire port to the N1 doesn't have this problem.

I have the same issue, but I don't have swype installed. I have installed the Scandinavian keyboard with support for gestures tough. I have turned off gestures, going to see if that helps.
Regards,
PK

As far as I can tell, it happens whenever you change input method. So even changing from a 3rd party back to the HTC default will lose it. Reboot always fixes.
Mods, this is a common enough question that it might be worth stickying it? Seen about 5 threads in the last 2 weeks.

DJGibbon said:
As far as I can tell, it happens whenever you change input method. So even changing from a 3rd party back to the HTC default will lose it. Reboot always fixes.
Mods, this is a common enough question that it might be worth stickying it? Seen about 5 threads in the last 2 weeks.
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Exactly this.
If you change keyboards, just reboot and all pinch functionality will return. Annoying, but I don't change often enough to notice it. If you change and change back, then the pinch functionality remains without a reboot.

DJGibbon said:
As far as I can tell, it happens whenever you change input method. So even changing from a 3rd party back to the HTC default will lose it. Reboot always fixes.
Mods, this is a common enough question that it might be worth stickying it? Seen about 5 threads in the last 2 weeks.
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Not true on my device! Switching from HTC keyboard to Scandinavian keyboard by long press in any text field definitely breaks pinch-to-zoom (with or without gestures enabled in the Scandinavian keyboard). Switching back to HTC keyboard restores the pinch-to-zoom functionality in all applications.
Rebooting with Scandinavian keyboard enabled will cause pinch-to-zoom to work until a switch to HTC keyboard and back again is performed.

I'm a noob to Android,just got my Desire yesterday. I installed GOOGLES GOGGLES,GOOGLE MAPS and BATTERY WIDGET,and had the same pinch-problem. I uninstalled the apps again,problem solved. Didn't try to reboot though. But I'm glad to hear that the reboot will solve the problem,would be a shame if we couldn't have any apps installed without problems!

[Q] Keyboard auto-correct settings

Sorry if this has been brought up before. I did some searching, but wasn't able to find any other threads on the topic. Basically, it seems like prediction/auto correct/dictionary randomly turns off, especially in the browser. More frustratingly, it will sometimes turn on for one form, only to turn off again in the next form.
Galaxy Nexus running 4.0.2 on Verizon. Any ideas? Thanks

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I have the same experience. For giggles i tried Swift Key X. Same behavior. So it seems to be more browser-related.

analogkidd said:
I have the same experience. For giggles i tried Swift Key X. Same behavior. So it seems to be more browser-related.
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I agree, definitely browser related. I tried Opera and it wasn't a problem there (though the rest of that browser sucked lol). I really like the stock browser and stock keyboard. Hopefully a fix makes its way out soon... maybe in 4.0.3?
To clarify for others, by the way, it seems like there are a few things I can say about this problem:
-It doesn't occur in all fields, but most. On a certain notorious website, the captcha field enables auto correct, while the message field doesn't.
-It only occurs in the Browser, though i think i noticed it once in Facebook.
-It's immediately obvious when it's on or off. The suggestion bar is missing, and when typing you get no auto correct, no dictionary support, and no spelling corrections. Auto capitalization, however, contniues to work when you start a new sentence.
For the record, I was at Best Buy yesterday, and the Nexus S (Gingerbread, of course) did NOT exhibit this problem in the stock browser.
My apologies for any spelling mistakes, you can probably guess why.

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I agree, definitely browser related. I tried Opera and it wasn't a problem there (though the rest of that browser sucked lol). I really like the stock browser and stock keyboard. Hopefully a fix makes its way out soon... maybe in 4.0.3?
To clarify for others, by the way, it seems like there are a few things I can say about this problem:
-It doesn't occur in all fields, but most. On a certain notorious website, the captcha field enables auto correct, while the message field doesn't.
-It only occurs in the Browser, though i think i noticed it once in Facebook.
-It's immediately obvious when it's on or off. The suggestion bar is missing, and when typing you get no auto correct, no dictionary support, and no spelling corrections. Auto capitalization, however, contniues to work when you start a new sentence.
For the record, I was at Best Buy yesterday, and the Nexus S (Gingerbread, of course) did NOT exhibit this problem in the stock browser.
My apologies for any spelling mistakes, you can probably guess why.
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Yeah this started occurring newly in Android 4.0. I've noticed it on other phones running 4.0, definitely has something to do with the browser.

Hey, just wanted to bump this to say I just installed GummyNex (4.0.3) and the problem is fixed.

[Q] Problems w/Swiftkey 3 and CM9 nightlies

So, i've been flashing CM9 nightlies since i found them (at least 5 now) and just got the update to Swiftkey 3 today while at work. I immediately noticed that it seems to toggle the hw keyboard fn key on instead of just a one press and fn for the next key pressed, and i have to hit it again to get back to typing normally. I like the changes that they made in Swiftkey 3, but if this is a direct issue from the update, i'll have to roll back to the older version.
Anyone else notice this issue or have something similar happen? Suppose it's possible the key is getting stuck, but it worked fine this morning, and the only change was the Swiftkey update.

pvtjoker42 said:
So, i've been flashing CM9 nightlies since i found them (at least 5 now) and just got the update to Swiftkey 3 today while at work. I immediately noticed that it seems to toggle the hw keyboard fn key on instead of just a one press and fn for the next key pressed, and i have to hit it again to get back to typing normally. I like the changes that they made in Swiftkey 3, but if this is a direct issue from the update, i'll have to roll back to the older version.
Anyone else notice this issue or have something similar happen? Suppose it's possible the key is getting stuck, but it worked fine this morning, and the only change was the Swiftkey update.
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The same thing is happening to me running AOKP build 39... Kind of annoying.
Sent from My Epic Ice Cream Sandwich With Sprinkles!!!

It enables a "desktop feel" kind of thing.
If you hold down fn or shift and click the key you need to it will just do it once without locking it.
Kind of like holding down a real shift key. Google Drive does the same thing.

"features" like this should be an option.. as in.. give us the option to turn it on or off. Especially if we've been using an app for a long time and this is a new feature.. Hopefully they'll take the bug report submissions seriously and either make it an option or remove it.

If you need another confirmation on this, I can duplicate the same thing. I rarely use the hardware keyboard, but just wanted to let you know just in case.

I have/had the same problem with the xperia pro - aka mk16i
to the "bug" you described some of my special-keys were wrong and I had to set the layout for the physical keyboard within swiftkey to English

Swiftkey 3 and CM10?

Hey, I just got around to installing CM10 (the latest non-nightly) on my phone, and I was trying to get Swiftkey 3 to work with my phone, but it won't complete installation. The issue is that when it tries to get me to enable Swiftkey 3 inside the app: basically when it tries to switch to the "Settings" app, Settings crashes. This happens 100% of the time. I have also tried manually going into the settings app (from outside Swiftkey's installation application) and enabling it automatically, but Swiftkey doesn't detect that I've done that (which is why I imagine they tell you to hit the "back" key after enabling Swiftkey).
If there's any way to get Swiftkey to work, I would really appreciate the help. I really love using Swiftkey, to the point where using the stock Android keyboard is difficult.

[Q] Turning off or uninstalling magazines and s finder

Is there anyway to disable magazines and s finder? I really don't use them and it's really annoying to accidentally swipe up or accidentally hold the menu button. I'd rather not root just because of the knox issue. I really depend on this thing for school work and don't want to run the risk of bricking it or anything.

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Is there anyway to disable magazines and s finder? I really don't use them and it's really annoying to accidentally swipe up or accidentally hold the menu button. I'd rather not root just because of the knox issue. I really depend on this thing for school work and don't want to run the risk of bricking it or anything.
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I don't know of a way to turn the whole app off yet but if you open up MyMagazine and hit Menu button > settings > open using the home key > and uncheck.
about S-Finder no idea mate.

I didn't know about the setting mentioned above, but I just rooted my tablet and froze both S-Finder and MyMagazine with Titanium Backup. I don't use those apps anyway and MyMagazine was annoying the [email protected] out of me.

spexwood said:
I didn't know about the setting mentioned above, but I just rooted my tablet and froze both S-Finder and MyMagazine with Titanium Backup. I don't use those apps anyway and MyMagazine was annoying the [email protected] out of me.
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Have you noticed a significant improvement in performance since doing this? I'm really tempted to root, because the sluggishness of this tablet (god I hate admitting this) is becoming increasingly annoying and apparent. I wish we could get rid of it all together.

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Have you noticed a significant improvement in performance since doing this? I'm really tempted to root, because the sluggishness of this tablet (god I hate admitting this) is becoming increasingly annoying and apparent. I wish we could get rid of it all together.
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I did this about 10 minutes after taking my tablet out of the box, so I really can't compare it now to how it was before. The magazine thing was bugging me right out of the box though.
I don't notice any of this so-called "lag" that everyone complains about. To me, this tablet is super fast and smooth. So either I just don't know what this "lag" is, or what I did actually helped (I froze Knox and a bunch of other stuff, so maybe something did help?).
BTW: I should note too that my previous tablet was a single-core Tegra CPU. After the OS was officially upgraded to Android 4.0.3, REAL lag was a part of everyday use for me (it took about a second to switch between home screens!). So after coming to this quad-core CPU, any lag is most likely not seen by me. Everything seems super fast. So basically, I may not see lag simply due to my experiences with a true laggy tablet.
Sorry I can't be of much help.

gina$zanboti said:
Have you noticed a significant improvement in performance since doing this? I'm really tempted to root, because the sluggishness of this tablet (god I hate admitting this) is becoming increasingly annoying and apparent. I wish we could get rid of it all together.
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Rooted Running Clean Rom it feels 10X faster than Stock. Like if should have been out of the box
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Really annoying is the NY Times app. It's not free after the trial, i'm German, i don't need it, but i can only disable it. Already disabled, it produced a notification, so i had to disable these also.

FWIW, I'm rooted and the first thing I did was install Titanium and froze:
All Knox files (obvious reasons)
S-Finder (having it pop up every time I hit the menu key for too long was driving me insane)
Gallery. Sucks up battery and the device actually got hot. Soon's I froze it problem went away.
Index service. A real disaster ! Ditto the above. Between this crap and Gallery the battery actually started to swell.
My Magazine and other useless apps, live wallpapers, screen saver, Yahoo finance. (broke anyway!) Search around the forum and you'll find what else you can freeze.
I use the NY Times app, but I went into the settings and disabled all notifications, as I do with most apps anyway. No more crap now!
Oh, yeah, one more. I had Nova Launcher and got fed up with the crashes and lockups it was causing on a more and more frequent basis on more than one device. I switched to KK Launcher and took care of that. I don't think Nova like Samsungs much-had the same with a Note 8.
Hope this helps!
Rich

Disable S finder
I got my phone damp, and now the annoying S Finder pops up NON STOP. I'm talking every couple seconds. Everything else works fine....but I have to end what I'm doing every couple of seconds because that stupid app pops up and I can't get it to leave. I need help

~nikkilondon said:
I got my phone damp, and now the annoying S Finder pops up NON STOP. I'm talking every couple seconds. Everything else works fine....but I have to end what I'm doing every couple of seconds because that stupid app pops up and I can't get it to leave. I need help
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I have the SAME PROBLEM. S finder will NOT quit popping up unless I have my stylus out & it's touching the screen it's driving me NUTS. did you get yours fixed. I was using my phone on an important call in the rain & it's started & hasn't stopped. I'm going to go crazy. I'm rooted and don't want to go through the trouble of un-rooting to use my warranty but dang

I froze S Finder Via Rom Toolbox Pro & left my Note 3 in some rice for a couple days & it's been fine since