Greetings!
I've been considering an Xperia ZL and I had a question about the gallery integration. I've used an HTC One and a Galaxy S4 and while I won't comment on other aspects, I'm curious if the Xperia ZL gallery works in the same way with regards to Facebook integration. On those phones, I can pull up a contact and have their Facebook albums show up. I find this really convenient. I first found this when I had a Windows phone and that "People Hub" was really slick. The One does it similarly in that I navigate to the gallery, then I can choose to view friends' albums without having to go into the Facebook app.
Is there something similar on here? That would be icing on the cake for me and I would really appreciate if someone could educate me. All the reviews gloss over this feature, if it's there.
Thanks!
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Is there any way to control what pictures are used on the people hubs live tile? For some reason this thing alway grabs the same few people out of Linkedin that I haven't talked to in years. I have no interest in seeing these people's mugs every time I turn on the phone.
Anyone know how to control this other than de-friending the people in question?
Thanks
Don't use Linked In, but on my Focus with Mango, I select a picture as a favorite. Only pictures I select as Favorites show up in the Live Tile. I have about 200 photos on my phone. Currently I have 10 of those as Favorites. Not one picture outside of the Favorites has shown up since Mango upgrade.
Is that for the photo's hub or people hub? I know I can do that for the pictures hub but the people hub tile shows pics of your contacts. It's not just linked in BTW, it will grab a few Facebook friends. Again it seems like I get the same ones over and over and usually its people I don't really want to see every time I look at my phone
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Is that for the photo's hub or people hub? I know I can do that for the pictures hub but the people hub tile shows pics of your contacts. It's not just linked in BTW, it will grab a few Facebook friends. Again it seems like I get the same ones over and over and usually its people I don't really want to see every time I look at my phone
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maybe you should get more better looking friends...
but seriously, it seems to be random, and afaik there is no way to select who it shows.
adiliyo said:
maybe you should get more better looking friends...
but seriously, it seems to be random, and afaik there is no way to select who it shows.
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Well can't argue with that. No doubt they're not all super models
I agree that it seems randomish. But it's really not for me. It still seems to pull the same few over and over again.
Oh well I guess its just the way it is.
Hi, I have a HTC Titan, and before that I had a Diamond. When I receive a call from any contats only apperars the telephone number. In my Diamond appears the photo ou contact name. How can I fix it?
Hey guys
I was wondering if anyone could give a quick comparison between Galaxy Nexus Exchange email and that of HTC Sense. Is it as good? Better? If you could have Sense email on your Gnex, would you use that instead?
I strongly dislike Sense, so I may not be the best candidate here. I came from a bunch of Moto phones, and then briefly used Touchwiz on a Stratosphere, so I can speak more to the Moto Exchange client and the Touchwiz one (which isn't stock Android, although it looked similar).
Early Moto clients were severely lacking, didn't have folder display options, couldn't search, etc. The current Android client in ICS is very good. Server-side search is there and works (you need E2k7 or 2010 for this to work, I don't think Exchange 2003 has server-side search). You can pick a folder to view, and set the sync amount for each folder individually (it's not clearly obvious that this is how it works, but it changeable on a per-folder basis). I usually take a month from my inbox, but I have a "save" folder that has important info and I like to sync the whole thing (it's only about 50-60 messages give or take). Moto wouldn't allow this on the Droid 2. I think the option may have shown up on the D3, but that phone had issues for many people with randomly dropping the "Push" option I believe.
The Sammy client on the Stratosphere was decent, but missing a few features that Moto added in D3. The Android client seems pretty thorough now - I don't feel like I'm missing anything at least, and it's really cool to finally have a standard UI between gmail and Exchange.
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Hey guys
I was wondering if anyone could give a quick comparison between Galaxy Nexus Exchange email and that of HTC Sense. Is it as good? Better? If you could have Sense email on your Gnex, would you use that instead?
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I'm coming off a Thunderbolt and relied heavily on HTC Mail because of Exchange. I did prefer HTC Mail due to it's UI more than anything else. That was up to Gingerbread.
I'm happy to say that I won't be missing HTC Mail anytime soon. Stock Android Email client got a UI cleanup like most of the other core apps and does seem to look a lot more polished. It's not "GMail" polished but still vastly more polished than anything else of it's previous iterations.
I think it all comes down to what your functionality wishlist is. HTC Mail had those bottom button that were for quick filtering navs which I didn't really care for. To me, HTC Mail was something that ran off the Android Mail engine just with UI and a few more functionality attached on top of it.
If anything, on ICS Mail, GAL seems very fast when autocompleting contact names, you can still zoom on HTML emails, and has a few more functionality than it did on the pre-ICS builds. Again, really depends on what made you like HTC Mail over the other.
Stock email is much better than htc's version of it and with the 720p screen it makes reading content much better.
Dear Google, I am NOT a teenage girl and don't want smiley default images nor do I really want photos from someone's lame Facebook page as their "contact photo". But Google is not listening, I fear.
Maybe someone reading this knows how to disable contact pictures and/or get rid of the smiley gray image. I can't find any settings for it.
Running Android 4.1 on my new Verizon Nexus. It replaced my broken Droid X which was rooted and modded. This Nexus out of the box is pretty good about allowing apps to be disabled (almost root but not quite).
Thanks for any assistance. I suspect that this is controlled not by the phone but by the GMail contacts that the phone is synching with.
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I will post a solution if I find one. Hope someone else has one.
Yeah I miss my Droid X though it was slooooooow.
Nobody? Bummer.
Just got the M8 and love it as I knew I would. I had the M7
But the galleries for HTC are so different than any other makers. Samsung mainly
Samsung's gallery is straightforward. HTC? Not so much. I never used 100Media, didn't know what it was and my camera/videos/wallpaper folders worked fine
Now I have the Gallery on HTC. I know how to use the basics of it, hide files etc, and I see the Zoe's up top. My question for this gallery is: is there a way to isolate simply the pictures you have taken with a camera, not the videos with it, and not any other pics like my wallpapers. It seems like I get all of them or my vids and camera pics
What is more confusing is the fact that I don't need to use that. I started using Quikpic for the purpose of fixing the date, enabling sorting from date etc. I was told and experienced Android is very inconsistent with that. I love Quik Pik
But with the HTC it is a little confusing
I was told that HTC created the 100Media? ...by the app creator. Yet I could swear that I saw it on previous phones. Nexus, Samsung, etc.
In any case, the Zoe's are supposed to go there. I can answer my own question. They don't appear there because just as another phone that doesn't do Zoe's can't play a Zoe, nor can an app, correct
Help me understand if I changed things to be the way they should be, for this app, and for this phone
I just moved all my camera pics to 100Media I believe it works perfect. New camera pics show there. BUT there are about 5 or 6 files that I delete, could restart the phone and they come back.
Any ideas would be appreciated
Ty
Eric
Greetings! I am researching a new smartphone purchase. I have been using HTCs for the past 6 years or so and have become very accustomed to the Sense UI. So much so that I don't have much comfort with anything else. It really comes down to 2 apps that HTC use that are the deal breakers for me. The mail and the messages apps.
So that leads me to my question for the Robin users. I was wanting to know how similar those two apps were to the HTC sense apps. And in particular in the mail app when an Exchange account is created does the app consolidate all of the folders of the inbox into one display? Or do you have to browse each folder in order to know if there is any new mail in that folder? I have tried and tried to adapt to an AOSP type UI and because of the functionality of these 2 apps I can't get comfortable.
I would appreciate any direction on this before I commit to purchasing one.
Thanks!
The Robin uses Gmail as its email app. You can see how it feels right now by downloading it and adding your email account. The messaging app is very similar to Google Messenger. The only difference between the two is that it doesn't color contact names (they're all a turquoise color) and it doesn't have the quick reply option that Google Messenger does. So again, you can download Google Messenger here and pretty much get the feeling of the app.