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[Q]Keeping browser alive

I'm not sure if I titled this correctly
How does salvage mod Rom go about it?
When I was on that Rom, anytime I would go away from the browser, when I returned I would be right where I left off.
On synergy and many other roms as soon as you leave the screen weather your going to another app or just turning the screen off the browser wants to reload the page, using data, draining battery and time.
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yamaford said:
I'm not sure if I titled this correctly
How does salvage mod Rom go about it?
When I was on that Rom, anytime I would go away from the browser, when I returned I would be right where I left off.
On synergy and many other roms as soon as you leave the screen weather your going to another app or just turning the screen off the browser wants to reload the page, using data, draining battery and time.
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I'm currently on Synergy RC-2 and after reading your post, I decided to give it a shot because I had never noticed before. Well, I fired up the default browser and then pulled up the Google News page and then I hit the home key and then fired up the Android Market app. After that, I pressed & held the home key until all of my recent app list appeared and then I selected the browser. I was immediately taken to where I left off in my browser (The Google News Page). It did NOT refresh. Now, with RC-2+, I have read where people were experiencing what you described above, but again, when I had it installed, I didn't notice. Are you using RC-2+? As for SalvageMod, it is, without question, my favorite AOSP rom, by the way....

Yes. I'm using +. Might swap over to rc2 tonight. + is running smoothly but i like stock browsers.
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Salvage probably isn't really doing anything special to keep the browser alive in the background. It's just that AOSP uses much, much, much less RAM than a Sense 2.1/3.0 ROM does. So with Synergy, even just going back to the home screen may exhaust memory and cause it to kill the browser. But with Salvage, it's got enough memory to keep it running in the background, and it's just switching back to it when you open it again.
As much as I really do like Synergy and MikG, my experience was that it didn't leave enough memory to multitask effectively. Even after first install it was pretty low on RAM, and once I loaded the apps I use on, it was killing things constantly. I couldn't even check GMail while listening to music, or the music would stop. I'm back on CM7 as a result. Not a knock against either ROM, it's just too tall an order for our phones, at least the way I use my phone.

Touchwiz forgetting app drawer layout?

Several times I have edited my app drawer order, grouping apps by type on each page (a page for games, a page for internet stuff, a page for utilities, etc.), creating folders, etc. Then I hit Menu > Save, and everything is fine, until I reboot my phone. Then it loses the app order, and a few apps get seemingly randomly moved to their own pages, so the total number of pages grows from about 5 to upwards of 8 or 9. It seems like the most recently added apps get moved, but not always. I move them all back how they should be, but they only stay until a reboot.
Anyone else have this happen? Or better, found out why? Or even better, how to make them stay?

Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?

xak944 said:
Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?
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Are you on stock or a custom ROM?
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JohnCorleone said:
Are you on stock or a custom ROM?
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Stock+root.

xak944 said:
Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?
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I don't sort them in the App Drawer. I leave them arranged alphabetically grid or list. I do arrange the ones I most often use somewhere on the 7 Home Screens though.

They will not stay. It is an annoying problem. I use folders now to group my apps. And I have my apps sorted to stop the spacing issue.
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I will try to replicate it. I am using ADW EX so I will switch it up and see what happens
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Still happening on Starburst ROM 1.5, so the problem it's with TouchWiz and is not ROM-specific.
I made a backup of TWLauncher with Titanium, so when my drawer gets really messed up I restore data from the backup (killing the running process) and it does restore my app layout as it was when I made the backup. Not a solution, but a lot quicker than re-sorting 50 apps. If only I could figure out how to trigger a save of the layout...it seems to just do it occasionally and I can't figure out what triggers it (certainly not when the Save button gets pressed...as if that makes sense).
Had anyone replicated this issue on TouchWiz 3.5? (or is it 4.0... whatever the flashable one is that's newer than what ships with the device).

I know what u mean but for me its all good after i fix it a second time untill i change then itll revert to just before i changed
It only happened to me on 4.5 thiugh
Good thing actual tw4 launcher doesnt have that problem
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xak944 said:
Still happening on Starburst ROM 1.5, so the problem it's with TouchWiz and is not ROM-specific.
I made a backup of TWLauncher with Titanium, so when my drawer gets really messed up I restore data from the backup (killing the running process) and it does restore my app layout as it was when I made the backup. Not a solution, but a lot quicker than re-sorting 50 apps. If only I could figure out how to trigger a save of the layout...it seems to just do it occasionally and I can't figure out what triggers it (certainly not when the Save button gets pressed...as if that makes sense).
Had anyone replicated this issue on TouchWiz 3.5? (or is it 4.0... whatever the flashable one is that's newer than what ships with the device).
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Yes, it's a problem with TouchWiz - I can replicate this behaviour on my S2, factory 2.3.5 ROM without root

Mesquire said:
Yes, it's a problem with TouchWiz - I can replicate this behaviour on my S2, factory 2.3.5 ROM without root
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Bummer. Guess we have to wait for an official update to get an updated launcher.

are you saving the changes ?
You have to make your changes then hit menu again and save changes.
otherwise they don't stick.
after clicking save don't press anything for 30 secs or so
that seems to do it for me
if i save and immediatly go back it doesn't save

xak944 said:
... Then I hit Menu > Save, and everything is fine, until I reboot my phone.
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mjcollum said:
are you saving the changes ?
You have to make your changes then hit menu again and save changes.
otherwise they don't stick.
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Says so right there in the OP.
mjcollum said:
after clicking save don't press anything for 30 secs or so
that seems to do it for me
if i save and immediatly go back it doesn't save
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Okay, I'll do some organizing and give that a try.

hi all,
after updating my galaxy s2 from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 with kies, i had the same problem about sorting applications page.
i didnt reset my phone before or after updating with kies. first i tought that i might be about this. i was looking for a solution and i read these posts. without resetting my phone i just tried to delete files of TW Launcher.
Settings>Applications>Manage applications>All(tab)
find and tap "TW Launcer"
tap "Clear data" button.
after that my home screen and applications screen look default.
applications screen sorted alphabetical.
i customized my home and app screen again and till now didnt change anyting, i mean didnt forget the layout of apps.
i wanted to share this little unprofessional solution with you =)
if there is a better way i want to learn.
finally i have a question, after updating to 2.3.5, when i tap contacts, it opens slowly, after 1 or 1.5 seconds lag(black screen) it opens. but not always. it happens just sometimes.
do you have the same behaviour?
sory for my english. looking forward to see your answers or comments.

i tried and there is no problem anymore

tuncaycoskun said:
i tried and there is no problem anymore
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How about you share what you did?

xak944 said:
How about you share what you did?
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14th post,
see my firs post

I'm really surprised I haven't seen more people complaining about it but I guess most are not running TouchWiz.
To re-explain the problem I'm having..
You arrange all the applications in different panels the way you want (after you hit "applications" not the home screen panels)
After turning the phone off and on again Or plugging it in to the computer via USB and removing it, all the applications are a mess again. Not the way you arranged them and there doesn't seem to be any logic behind it.
It's not just the way they were the last time you turned the phone off or the last time you plugged in the USB cable.
I also thought having folders in an earlier panel may be causing later panels apps to get bumped around but I've tried it with the folders in the last panel and I get the same randomness.
Similar threads Without a solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324365
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296060
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358464

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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Deebo took your bike too?

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!!

Facebook update

So Facebook has finally been updated and we have a menu button, but it looks like they removed the contact sync options :/
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alsex87 said:
So Facebook has finally been updated and we have a menu button, but it looks like they removed the contact sync options :/
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looks great! at least they are listening, I've had a couple of updates over the last week or so!
Lets hope for another quick update which restores the contacts sync

ty for this, wow new UI rocks, I'd throw thanks if i wasn't on xda app
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Yeah it is much better.. they finally matched the mobile web UI. Hope we get contact sync back.
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Given sync was removed from the Nexus S I doubt we'll get it back on the GN.

Finally, a Facebook update thats worthwhile. It looks more like the iOS version now which is surprisingly a good thing!

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So Facebook has finally been updated and we have a menu button, but it looks like they removed the contact sync options :/
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I was about to write the exact same thing.

Facebook's contact sync is still in the app, but it's only accessible through the legacy (read: physical) menu button.
Looks like facebook just got lazy and didn't carry over the entire settings menu into the new ui.
Maybe a nice dev can fix their crap and give you a way to access that 2nd menu?
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Facebook's contact sync is still in the app, but it's only accessible through the legacy (read: physical) menu button.
Looks like facebook just got lazy and didn't carry over the entire settings menu into the new ui.
Maybe a nice dev can fix their crap and give you a way to access that 2nd menu?
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Nah, afaik it's really FB that doesn't let it sync. Got something to do with FB refusing to use Google's APIs. There's a post on that issue somewhere, can't find it atm. Unless FB change their attitude, we won't be seeing sync in Android.

You are indeed correct.
Hadn't heard of this before, so did some digging and apparently Google got tired of giving FB special access to do a pseudo-sync of contacts (in other words, even though FB data was in the contacts app, it didn't actually sync to google contacts).
I'll have to keep this in mind when I get around to picking up my own Nexus.
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new fb update ! I love the new UI, it looks better than the last version.
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For me the profile pictures is only what I need and for that I have used this software with great success several times
http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/

jvvpc said:
For me the profile pictures is only what I need and for that I have used this software with great success several times
http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/
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Works well!

Does anyone get facebook notifications i have not had any yet on my GN or does anykne know how to fix it?

Is no-one else having the same UI glitches that I have?
When I pull down to refresh, it doesn't pull the feed down, just the bar at the top. Looks really clumsy and I don't think it's meant to behave like this.
Also, it gives me notifications for unread messages every half hour, regardless of whether there are new ones or not.

jvvpc said:
For me the profile pictures is only what I need and for that I have used this software with great success several times
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Works well!
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Does work well. Wish the images were Hi-Res though.

Also, deleting messages doesn't work reliably. I don't get it... If this was iPhone, it'd get fixed immediately but Android seems to get an 'almost works' version every time.

My Note 2 doesn't work with the updated Google Now

Updated Google Now today, and I have a few bugs.
The worst bug: When I tap on the menu key, the menu only quickly flashes.
I cannot get a card back if I accidentally swipe it away.
I cannot remove a stock from the stock card.
The vioce search is not working.
Also, although not a bug, the widget design looks too simplistic, displays minimal info (guess Google wants us to come inside), takes up only 4x3 space as a 4x4 widget. If I shrink it down to 4x3, then it will take 4x2 space, and so on. Drives me nuts.
As their flagship app, I am surprised at the low quality of this major update.
Anyone else care to share their feedback?

Maybe uninstall and re-install? Maybe try a reboot? I'm on rooted bone stock and it works fine.. I think as more cards come up the widget will use more space hence the large 4x4 space required .. Voice search working fine as well as the menu key long press

Thanks for the input. I am on stock rom and have rebooted to make sure I have a clean start. I will try un install and reinstall.

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Maybe uninstall and re-install? Maybe try a reboot? I'm on rooted bone stock and it works fine.. I think as more cards come up the widget will use more space hence the large 4x4 space required .. Voice search working fine as well as the menu key long press
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After you use long press to enter Google now, could you tap on menu again and see what happens? Mine will only flash the menu. Definitely a bug.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. Still the same bugs. I have also seen the same complaints in the play store now.

I finally had to uninstall the update and everything is fine again. Saw a lot of similar complaints on Google play. Can't believe this comes from Google and their flagship app.

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After you use long press to enter Google now, could you tap on menu again and see what happens? Mine will only flash the menu. Definitely a bug.
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Yea.. You're right.. Once in GN the menu is borked..

Yes, my menu button in Google Now is not working either, just to confirm and complain. WTF. Such an obvious mishap. I have not seen other phones complain about it though.

my google now is working as it was before as far as i can tell. I do a long press on the menu button on the 'button' next to the home key or long press on the google search bar to bring me into google now. Then I press the menu key which brings me to settings page
The settings page has the Google Now at the top, then voice, then phone search, then privacy and accounts. Everything works fine running cleanrom 4.0.5

My menu also flashes and then goes away.
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The only work around is clicking the weather card in Google now and pressing settings. It doesn't flash then.
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Same thing happening on my rooted note 2.

On Google Play it looks like most of the issues with the menu key are from GN2 users, except one report from a S3 Mini user.
The other major complaint is that the weather hourly slider is gone after the update.
And the widget sizing problem is popular too.

I cleared data in app settings menu for Google search and all is well.
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Lucky you. I tried the same but no sucess. Are you also on a stock rom?
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I cleared data in app settings menu for Google search and all is well.
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x2h said:
Lucky you. I tried the same but no sucess. Are you also on a stock rom?
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Stockish. Cleanrom 1.2se
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Other devices
There is another thread on xda where someone with the HTC sensation is having the same issue. I have a friend with the international note 2. He said he had the issue first couple tries and then it fixed itself. I tried cleaning data, uninstalling and using a themed Google now apk and nothing works. I'm rooted on clean ROM ace 4.0.5

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There is another thread on xda where someone with the HTC sensation is having the same issue. I have a friend with the international note 2. He said he had the issue first couple tries and then it fixed itself. I tried cleaning data, uninstalling and using a themed Google now apk and nothing works. I'm rooted on clean ROM ace 4.0.5
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I spoke too soon. My fix only lasted for a short while.
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Same problem on my stock sprint note 2.
Where's the fix?

Same bug here (stock unrooted). Clearing cache/data doesn't help. Visiting the weather card does work around the bug.