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[Q] ? about the default browser

This might be a noob question but that's ok, I'm a smartphone noob.
I'm running CM6.1.1 and have the default android browser. Is there any where/way to set it up so that when you move from the open browser back to the "desktop" area that the browser actually closes?
It is driving me nuts to be on a site, hit the home key on the phone and then when I come back to the browser later I'm still on that last site I visited instead of the defined homepage for the browser. I can open the "window" key from the browser menu, close the current page & let it open a new widnow at my homepage and then go back to desktop, and I can of course force close under app management. Both options are a pita. I have to believe there is something I can set which will fully close the browser when I move away from it.
Help!

What you're doing is what I've been doing for ages (Menu > Windows > close all current windows then back out to home). I thought I remembered reading that with CM, you should be able to long hold the Back button to properly close an app, but I've never seen that done.

Yeah, I tried building a shortcut to the app manager but you can't build it far enough down. I don't want to just pull up the manager & then go through the selecting the browser & then force close.
I keep seeing something about "Task Killer". Maybe I can install that and build a shortcut that will just always kill the browser and make a habit of using that when I return to the desktop...

If you go to Settings>Applications>Development>Stop app via long press, you can kill the app by holding the back button. works great for me, hope it helps you .
-K

kelsec said:
If you go to Settings>Applications>Development>Stop app via long press, you can kill the app by holding the back button. works great for me, hope it helps you .
-K
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I'll be damned. I never saw this option and thought it was automatically built into CM6. To the OP: I just tested this and it does exactly what both oif us have been dieing for
Thanks kelsec.

np, glad i could help i always keep this option checked, it helps for those problem apps that quit responding or that game that just never closes.

Precisely my need for it as well. Specifically apps like the Facebook app that randomly seems to not want to connect. Force closing it and relaunching was my work around, until now

Removing Vlingo Voice Talk

Man, this thing is so annoying. I have a habit of double-tapping the home button to get to my desktop and I suppose the new function goes to Voice Talk. I don't want it to go there and I can't remove/remap it. Any clue on how to get rid of it?

yah thats in settings, go to motions in settings and uncheck double tap! that should fix it

You'll have to wait till our phones get rooted to completely remove any stock apps.

movieaddict said:
yah thats in settings, go to motions in settings and uncheck double tap! that should fix it
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That does not fix it for me, I have all motion turned off, and still get the vlingo terms of service when I double tap home. Which I then decline every time. Very Annoying.

Same issue here. I want it to behave like Sense and display all of my homescreens (zoomed out). What does the 'home' key have to do with Voice Talk and Vlingo anyway?!

What would u like to do ???
Lol cant get it off either
Tmo Galaxy S2

Damn near a deal breaker
I like the plain voice commands from android and I'd like to do what I've been doing for the last couple of years - push the headset button, say what I want and have it just happen. I'm going to play with this a while longer but I'm going to give the phone back if it doesn't work exactly like I want. It's too much money to live with like I did the Vibrant - till the guys here made it work.
I don't mind something being no removable if there's an option to use something else. If any of you know how to change the settings so the original vlingo by Samsung isn't the automatic choice, that would be greatly appreciated.

Yep checked off double tap and it still goes into voice talk
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Its called voice commander. Uninstall through titaniun backup
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b0ricuaguerrero said:
Its called voice commander. Uninstall through titaniun backup
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Or just freeze it. That's what I did.
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if you want to remove and disable samsung voice talk from your take a look here: http://www.guruht.com/2012/02/how-to-disable-voice-talk-samsung.html
it helped me alot from that bad app, I hate it, wish this help everyone

Just switch to mr X rom its stock rooted and its disabled also no carrier iq
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Yeah......flash something custom and your problem will go by by..
sent from the nuke in my pocket...

This one did the trick!
Froze it using AntTek did the trick!
Thank you so much!! this app might be one of the worst one out there... What is samsung thinking by pushing this piece of %"#$#"!! so annoying!!
Frozen!

Maazer said:
Man, this thing is so annoying. I have a habit of double-tapping the home button to get to my desktop and I suppose the new function goes to Voice Talk. I don't want it to go there and I can't remove/remap it. Any clue on how to get rid of it?
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UNinstall voice command-voice talk- voice search using titanium backup if rooted. if not rooted- see previous posts.
I prefer the vlingo app from market(which needs voice search app,also available in market).
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n0tr1x said:
UNinstall voice command-voice talk- voice search using titanium backup if rooted. if not rooted- see previous posts.
I prefer the vlingo app from market(which needs voice search app,also available in market).
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It's been gone since the first update from when the phone was released... I don't know exactly which update, but I noticed it being gone after an OTA.

One easy way if your running ICS is to install go Launcher, open app drawer, long press voice command icon, un install, Vlingo gone! Un install go Launcher. No rooting required.

HOLY SHII
This solution that GDF01 is talking about, is not only very easy, but also very awesome! I removed Voice talk and Chat and other stuff, and i ICS-froze Readers Hub and all that stuff, so now I have a fully functional and great phone, without rooting or anything! Thanks!!

How do you prevent the stock task manager from automatically closing important apps

How do you prevent the stock task manager from automatically closing important apps like: Web?? I'm tired of going back to my browser to find that everything i was just doing has disappeared.

Stock task manager doesn't automatically kill apps unless you tell it to...

Well after using other apps, something is ending the Web browser. When I go back to the browser it opens back at whatever homepage i have set in the browser.

No replies...? I guess Android users are content with this type of sloppy design.

That's not the task killers fault, my Sensation 4G did the same thing. When the browser closes itself to default home page, did you have multiple windows opened in the browser?

Wow just cause no one answered you right away doesnt mean you gotta get all snotty.
Btw im surfing the web I will then proceed to reopen my web browser leaving off at the last page I was on.
How I do it ... I don't press the back button. I press home and select the app from there.
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hazard99 said:
Wow just cause no one answered you right away doesnt mean you gotta get all snotty.
Btw im surfing the web I will then proceed to reopen my web browser leaving off at the last page I was on.
How I do it ... I don't press the back button. I press home and select the app from there.
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No op its correct, if you leave the Web browser and go of and do enough tasks that require enough ram, your browser will get booted and you'll lose all your tabs. I've tried using a 3rd party browser like opera but I believe opera will close as well if the ram is demanded, Android is just designed this way.Android central wrote a good article about this.
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No op its correct, if you leave the Web browser and go of and do enough tasks that require enough ram, your browser will get booted and you'll lose all your tabs. I've tried using a 3rd party browser like opera but I believe opera will close as well if the ram is demanded, Android is just designed this way.Android central wrote a good article about this.
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LOL, I knew my earlier comment would get a good response! Interesting, I'm gonna go try to find that article.

If you pressed "back" button then of course you told the browser to quit...
Don't press "back", press "home".

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If you pressed "back" button then of course you told the browser to quit...
Don't press "back", press "home".
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Dude, your wrong. Read post #7.

Im serious aslong as i dont press back im ok . I know its how android works but i guess i never leave the browser alone
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I was looking the other night for an option in the web app because i noticed it to. For some reason it closes out of your websites whenever you exit the program unlike the vibrant and other android phones i have had.

when ever you exit meaning you press the back button?

hazard99 said:
when ever you exit meaning you press the back button?
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Try this: Exit the browser by pressing the Home button, then go play a couple games, check your email, browse through your settings, watch a couple of videos on youtube etc. etc. (you get the point) If you do enough things on the phone that uses a certain amount of Ram then POOF if you go back to the browser, everything will be gone (whatever webpage you were browsing and all your tabs that were open will be gone!) This is unacceptable and I hope there will be a fix, cause I really love this phone.

Search Press and Hold Menu

Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
The problem is that I know that by pressing and holding the menu button I get to the search function but the problem is that it doesn't give me the launch menu like it did on my S2 t989 for example when I held the search key on my S2 t989 a "which app would you like to do this in" menu would come up that would give me direct access to apps like shazam, soundhound, and screencast. Is that feature completely gone or do I have to enable a setting or something for this? I really loved having that menu there.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!

Thank crapple for the change in search function. If you are rooted go to /system/app and find GoogleQuickSearchBox_USA.apk. renameto remove the __USA part.
Dont know bout the other. Sorry.
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Thanks for the quick reply and help. I am rooted and I am actually running FreeGS3 and in my /system/app folder there is only "GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk" there isn't one with "_USA" on it.

Thats odd. I know that used to work. Maybe im forgetting a step, though I dont think I am.
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You know i didn't even know you can launch the search that way,yeah this is my 1st Samsung phone
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Are you on stock?
CM10 has settings under system where you can change the menu button long press action to in-app search.
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At some point whatever action you're trying to do you probably checked the "use as default" box and now you don't get the choice. I still get to choose which app I use for most things, not sure how to go back and remove the default though.

hotsammysliz said:
Hey everyone I tried doing some searching but these words are pretty common so I couldn't find much.
Also another question about the search function that does come up. It does not seem to be the same full search function from before but only for the web. I used to be able to search the apps that are actually on my phone and launch them through that menu as well. Is that possible anymore or has that been disabled too?
Don't get me wrong I LOVE this phone so much I just miss those couple little things. Thanks!
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you can do it throught Google Gow. just go into Google Now>settings>phone search> and select what you want it to search.

I just loaded a custom ROM but when it asked what app to use it gave me this popup.
Clear default app settings by going to Settings>Applications manager>All

[Q] Besides recent apps, a quick way to switch between current and most recent?

While I study for the GRE, I do a lot of switching between OneNote and some other app ( eg dictionary ). Considering the slowness of loading recent apps, it gets a bit annoying considering the number of times I need to switch between the two. Hoping for a way to switch between the two most recent apps without actually going into recent apps.

Can either app work in multi view?

Onenote is for reading so would rather avoid having a split view
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andy_d0 said:
Onenote is for reading so would rather avoid having a split view
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You could try MW enabler (Search for it in the play store) It doesn't require root, and it would allow you to take one (or both) of the apps and shrink them down into a bubble, that you could easily open and close and hide. In your situation it might be an option.
There are some limitations due to it not needing root... the 2 biggest are that it has to uninstall and reinstall the app... you will lose whatever you have unless you have it backed up somewhere (wouldn't think its a big deal for a dictionary) and you need to turn OFF auto updating for those apps, because if they update from the play store you will lose the multi window/bubble feature until you re-activate it.

Yeah not sure if I like that option thanks for the info. If it irritates me enough the next few days I will likely reconsider
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boufa said:
You could try MW enabler (Search for it in the play store) It doesn't require root, and it would allow you to take one (or both) of the apps and shrink them down into a bubble, that you could easily open and close and hide. In your situation it might be an option.
There are some limitations due to it not needing root... the 2 biggest are that it has to uninstall and reinstall the app... you will lose whatever you have unless you have it backed up somewhere (wouldn't think its a big deal for a dictionary) and you need to turn OFF auto updating for those apps, because if they update from the play store you will lose the multi window/bubble feature until you re-activate it.
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Didn't know this was possible without root. Awesome! And it removes it from the list of installed apps for you so no fear of auto updates.
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andy_d0 said:
While I study for the GRE, I do a lot of switching between OneNote and some other app ( eg dictionary ). Considering the slowness of loading recent apps, it gets a bit annoying considering the number of times I need to switch between the two. Hoping for a way to switch between the two most recent apps without actually going into recent apps.
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Give switchr a try. l set it up in "Flow" mode and use a right side edge trigger. Seems to work well for switching between applications.

Umm just drag your finger down and in from the top right corner of the screen while in app. Then you can minimize it to a bubble or have multiple apps open at once on the screen.

right you can windowize the app... then all apps that are windowed can be iconized by pressing the home key.

I'll have to watch a video on YouTube to see what you're referring to. New to this whole multi window thing
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andy_d0 said:
I'll have to watch a video on YouTube to see what you're referring to. New to this whole multi window thing
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This was helpful:

Thank you! I'll watch on my way to work
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