Attached a screenshot.
How do I get rid of them? They are not in the app list in settings and if I hold down on the icons, the only options are Select Item and Add to Home. If I just tap to open, it just says App does not exist.
I'm not rooted. This happened right after first setup.
Looks like a bookmark that you added to desktop, and then was restored from the cloud incompletely.
Did you use an alternate browser on your previous phone/firmware?
Do these sites appear on your current browser's bookmarks list? Maybe add those to the launcher to see whether it'll "overwrite" these old entries
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Looks like a bookmark that you added to desktop, and then was restored from the cloud incompletely.
Did you use an alternate browser on your previous phone/firmware?
Do these sites appear on your current browser's bookmarks list? Maybe add those to the launcher to see whether it'll "overwrite" these old entries
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From a fresh factory reset, before even signing in with my account, and before even connecting to WiFi, I did the de-bloating first. My guess is that something interrupted the process of setting up these shortcuts after debloat.
I never used the browser (chrome). Would these be related to the Samsung browser maybe?
Tried to clear launcher app data&cache?
I ended up just installing the actual apps in the play store, then immediately uninstalling them and that did the trick.
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Just upgraded to a new sprint gs3. Went to add facebook to accounts and checked the play store first, it says facebook is installed. Cool, but I'm not sure if that came from Sprint or from the automatic app download that happens when you add an existing account. Any way, all is cool, except the fact that facebook doesn't show up in the list of apps so I can put a shortcut on a home screen.
Has anyone else seen this? Am I missing something? In the store, there's an option to uninstall, so I guess I could uninstall/reinstall, but I'd kind of like to understand what's going on before doing that.
Any ideas?
Problem solved. I was expecting the apps to be in alphabetical order in the app drawer and they aren't (facebook was on the last page). Sorry for the silly question.
When in the app drawer hit the menu button / view type then select alphabetical order
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thanks - I remembered that about a half second after I realized the drawer wasn't in alphabetical order. Appreciate you going to the trouble to post the screen shot though!
I've read a couple threads in which the people keep getting the popup asking you to switch to a certain browser once or always. I'm trying to use Chrome always and it keeps on popping up the same message. I'm getting this primarily when using my widget from Android Pro Widgets for bookmarks. I also get the same popups when using the chrome bookmark widget. How do I set Chrome or any browser to open every time without the popup asking me if I want to use "x" browser on every link?
Also, how do I change my gmail bookmarks which are saved to my phone? I've got lots of old or auto generated bookmarks I'd like to clean out and I've deleted them from chrome but they keep popping back up.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I've read a couple threads in which the people keep getting the popup asking you to switch to a certain browser once or always. I'm trying to use Chrome always and it keeps on popping up the same message. I'm getting this primarily when using my widget from Android Pro Widgets for bookmarks. I also get the same popups when using the chrome bookmark widget. How do I set Chrome or any browser to open every time without the popup asking me if I want to use "x" browser on every link?
Also, how do I change my gmail bookmarks which are saved to my phone? I've got lots of old or auto generated bookmarks I'd like to clean out and I've deleted them from chrome but they keep popping back up.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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go to apps and select the internet app you dont want to use that is popping up and go to clear defaults. than next time you do something that triggers browsers it will give you the options you have installed. This works for any app's defaults such as launchers.
I'm trying to use the bookmark widget. I place the widget on a screen and get the Choose a Bookmark box but the box is empty. I do have Bookmarks in Chrome. Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks.
A lot of people seem to be having the same problem, me included. I found a minor fix for it but it's still a bit annoying.
If you want to add a bookmark to the home screen then first find chrome in Google Play and uninstall the updates. Now you should be able to add bookmarks to your home screen, when you have added all the bookmarks you want you can reinstall the latest chrome updates. Being able to add bookmarks still doesn't work but you have the bookmarks you placed already.
Thanks. That workaround should be good enough.
Never realized that opening Google chrome in Samsung Galaxy Tab A, chrome does not show bookmarks bar. Every time use the three dots for options to select bookmarks. There is no access to chrome appearance section to show bookmarks bar.
Tried entering chrome://settings into Chrome's address bar, but does not take me to chrome settings.
It may be a simple solution, but I need help please
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Never realized that opening Google chrome in Samsung Galaxy Tab A, chrome does not show bookmarks bar. Every time use the three dots for options to select bookmarks. There is no access to chrome appearance section to show bookmarks bar.
Tried entering chrome://settings into Chrome's address bar, but does not take me to chrome settings.
It may be a simple solution, but I need help please
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I'm in the same boat
OK, I have a hack.
1) Synch your bookmarks to your desktop browser
2) On your desktop export the bookmark to an html file
--> Feel free to edit the html fle. Get rid of links you don't want. Microsoft Word will edit html.
3) Copy it onto your tablet
4) In your file manager of choice, select the file and create a shortcut onto your homescreen
--> I use Solid Explorer. If you select the file, click on the three verticle dots, "create shortcut"
5) Now, from the home screen, click on the short cut
So this works if you don't add to your favorites everyday. You can repeat this on a monthly basis. Or more or less often depending on your patience. I work at a semicontor factory, and sometimes need to VPN in to the factory to access the manufacturing system. I have a "Work Links" file that has all of the manufacturing links I use on a regular basis. It isn't something I need to update very often.
You can do the same thing with multiple html files.
I think, but haven't tried, that you should be able to go into Chrome settings and set the html file as your home page. That will be left up to you.
Good luck,
Joe
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I played with this myself.
So enter "file:///sdcard" into your Android Chrome browser. Navigate to the bookmark html file you created. Hard press the file and "copy link address". Now go to the homepage setting and paste the file link in.
My html file was in the main device memory, under "documents", "professional docs":
file:///sdcard/Documents/Professional%20Docs/Work%20Bookmarks.html
I pasted this into the homepage and sure enough, home opens the local file.
Joe
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One more update
So if you are synching with Google, you can request a data archive
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/chrome?pli=1
After it completes the backup, there is a link to a zip file. Download it. Inside the file is the bookmarks html file.
Still a hack, but you don't need the desktop.
Joe
Thank you for the descriptive explanation. I was able to get te bookmarks as my homepage.
I can't seem to be able to remove all the extra homescreens so I have to remove all the shortcuts on them one by one. I also can't seem to be able to make folders in the app drawer as any kind of movement on the icon immediately tries to place it as a shortcut on the home screen.
Failing that, what suggestions do you have for alternate launchers or has that feature not been properly implemented yet?
Also why aren't my Google photos restored from online backup showing up in the gallery app?
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I can't seem to be able to remove all the extra homescreens so I have to remove all the shortcuts on them one by one. I also can't seem to be able to make folders in the app drawer as any kind of movement on the icon immediately tries to place it as a shortcut on the home screen.
Failing that, what suggestions do you have for alternate launchers or has that feature not been properly implemented yet?
Also why aren't my Google photos restored from online backup showing up in the gallery app?
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You can set alternate launchers as default without any issues (need to use navigation buttons instead of gestures by default but there's a workaround) on v3.16 / v4.13.
I use Poco Launcher and these features are supported in that.
The gallery app has a weird sorting order as well that you can modify in its settings, however, if you can see your restored photos in Google Photos, I would recommend changing the default gallery app as well. I use Gallery Go but I think Photos works as a default gallery as well.