anyone having issues saving a driving shortcut (for common journeys) from google maps to their homescreen? Everytime I press save to home screen, nothing happens.
I have just received AL00 8GB version of the mate 20 X
I can't even get the shortcut on the homescreen after setting up the route. It's the first time I have seen this problem on any phone. I just have the 20x for 24hours.
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Anyone know how to keep the onscreen/soft keyboard available on the today screen? When you go into outlook, for example, the icon appears between the two soft keys, but on the today screen it does not. The one advantage of having it there would be the ability to start dialing a contact from the today screen so simply typing would open the phone application and begin sorting through contacts. It saves the step of hitting the phone button or sliding the keyboard open to do the same thing. Thanks for the help.
You can map one of the outside buttons to toggle keyboard, it'll pop up on Today.
Yesterday I was doing some exploring, on foot, using Google Maps on my TP2. What I would do was check Google Maps, get a satellite lock, plan the next few minutes' walking, then press the power button to put it in "sleep" mode. A few minutes later I'd repeat the procedure - take the phone out, press the power button to wake it up, go back into Google Maps, etc.
The problem was that when I put the phone in sleep mode, Google Maps was the active application, in the foreground; but when waking up again, Google Maps had been pushed into the background, and the phone was displaying the TouchFlo home tab instead. That meant that every single time I did this I had to go into the task manager and bring Google Maps back to the foreground again.
Is there a way to get the phone to automatically bring up whichever application was running when it was switched into sleep mode and not default back to the home screen?
This is one of my biggest gripes about the Touch Flo.
It just get's in the way of so many things.
Does this happen only if you manually put it into sleep mode, or does it also happen if the screen goes dark on it's own?
This is my biggest gripe. I want to stay in the application I left when the phone went into sleep mode. The funny part is the application is running for a split second right before TF default back to the home screen. Massively irritating. I like TF and all but I want to start the app I was running right when I put the phone in sleep / suspend. It's BS.
So, this explains why the phone defaults back to the home screen when I am in the middle of a call. It is not just that the phone wants to always be on the homescreen, but that the Touch Flo specifically forces its way "in front" of anything else that is running.
That gives me even more of a reason to want to upgrade from the T-Mobile ROM that my phone came with. I like Touch Flo actually but this has become so irritating that I would happily give it up so I can call my voicemail and enter passwords/delete messages without having to open the phone five times per call...
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So, this explains why the phone defaults back to the home screen when I am in the middle of a call.
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That's starting to annoy me as well.
I googled it and found that this may be what many people were looking for but I don't know why it started to behave like this.
I do find the swiping up from home button gesture useful for me to launch Google search but somehow it stop working. There usually should be a semicircle with 'Google' on top when halfway swiping up but what I get now is a search icon that function as it will launch last used app (if swiping gesture is done in launcher) or will do nothing (when gesture done in any app other than launcher). I did not disable Google Search, reboot didn't help, and clearing cache of Google search didn't help too.
I don't know what I did to get this as a result. Any clue on what's happening? Nexus 7 2013 stock kitkat
solution found
Dolphin browser causing this. Uninstalled it and everything is back to normal
Anyone have a problem with the Google launcher regarding all the time?
For me, when I am in another app for a while and I press the home button, I'll see the app drawer icon and nothing else for about 5 seconds and then all my widgets and home screen apps load up. Same happens with the app drawer. It seems as if the Google Experience Launcher crashed and reloaded.
Anyone have this problem?
Does anyone else have this issue?
Maps is open and full screen, I'm driving somewhere and I need to ask Google a question. I used to say 'OK Google where's the nearest gas station', I would then see gas stations on my route.
Now when I say OK Google, Maps closes down to a small floating screen, and Google doesn't answer my question.
I've done some testing and the issue only happens when the phone is landscape. I keep my phone in landscape when in my car and cannot change this.
I never had this issue up until 4-6 weeks ago,
When in portrait and I say 'OK Google' I get a bar at the bottom with the Google Voice icon displayed, see screenshot with yellow arrow.
However In landscape that bar doesn't show and saying ok Google refund me to the home screen
I'm sure that bar at the bottom is 'driving mode'. I turned off driving mode, however now my issue appears in portrait and landscape!
I look to have resolved it! Uninstalling the Google app from Play Store, then clicking 'Update', then restarting phone.
Then go into Google app>settings>voice>Voice Match> Enable hey Google. I now noticed the white bar shown in the attached was showing. I then clicked the blue bar, something like 'enable more features'.
Now the behaviour is that I'm in maps full screen (portrait or landscape) I say OK Google, the same thing happens before where it returns me to home screen and minimises maps to a little floatingng window, however I see the white bar, I say my request 'find Gas station', and make comes up full screen and showed my gas stations on my route!
Darn it, its reverted back to how it was!