I was messing around with maps tonight and was kind of shocked that it happens. I could not get it to work at all in 3d building mode. Or when zoomed in.
At about a city level zoom I can get it to spin. I do not have the hack that enables it either.
Very strange behavior/bug.
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True, albeit very poorly.
Indeed. I was shocked that it did it at all.
Its the screen bug of N1 not a bug in Gmaps. when you fingers are close it snaps in one line thats why rotate doesn't work well
they could have done it better. The optimus one can only detect 2 fingers as well and have the axis switching problem but you can rotate like 40 degrees.
The tweak that was around earlier did a far better job...
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It's not the screen bug. When this feature came out it was disabled on n1 due to the screen.
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The tweak that was around earlier did a far better job...
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Not really, they're both pretty awful
I think they forgot to disable it in this update.
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Not really, they're both pretty awful
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OK, they are both pretty bad, but I still preferred the tweaked method. At least I had some control over when I rotated, rather than it just happening when I'm trying to zoom or tilt...
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Would be nice if they would give us some other control over the rotation, what about trackball rotation or dedicated rotate buttons? Nobody uses the trackball in maps anyway.
I'm confused, because rotate works almost perfectly on my N1 since 5.2.
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I'm confused, because rotate works almost perfectly on my N1 since 5.2.
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Same here. Sure you don't actually rotate your fingers (you drag them) but it now works flawlessly and with better control.
Google enabled an alternative to rotate the map. Swiping two fingers horizontally will do the trick.
My phone language is Japanese. Apart from changes on check-ins, there was a note mentioning this feature when I first launched the Maps after updating to 5.2.
But on my friend's N1 (display language is English), it showed update notes on check-ins only. Didn't mention about rotating maps.
Yes that seems to be the case. I did not see that in the new in maps notes either on my English nexus one.
The two finger swipe actually does work really well. I did not even notice that until now. Just noticed the very weird two finger rotate by accident.
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I just check the two fingers swipe. And it works. Not bad at all.
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Google enabled an alternative to rotate the map. Swiping two fingers horizontally will do the trick.
My phone language is Japanese. Apart from changes on check-ins, there was a note mentioning this feature when I first launched the Maps after updating to 5.2.
But on my friend's N1 (display language is English), it showed update notes on check-ins only. Didn't mention about rotating maps.
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ahhh, that makes much more sense.
Hah, good spot, now rotate is not at all awful!
Works pretty good actually, when you know how!! Thanks!! xD
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awesome discovery!! I can't believe many of us missed that.
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I tried calibrating screen up, down, sideways, while balanced on the tip of my **** etc and the damn accelerometer will not function right! Any other tips? Wiping does nothing...
If you think yours works, you may be wrong. Fast screen rotation does not equal functioning accelerometer. Just download something like sensor debug or hell... see how (****tingly) google sky maps works...
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You did the system/bin/sensorcalibutil_yamaha?
Of course.
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maybe your **** is crooked
i dont' think anyone has gotten google sky maps to work without changing the values. there's a thread on it somewhere
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maybe your **** is crooked
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ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had this problem. I brought mine to a sprint store and they replaced it. The new one works flawlessly, dont even have the auto rotation lag after flashing and google sky works perfect.
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I tried calibrating screen up, down, sideways, while balanced on the tip of my **** etc and the damn accelerometer will not function right! Any other tips? Wiping does nothing...
If you think yours works, you may be wrong. Fast screen rotation does not equal functioning accelerometer. Just download something like sensor debug or hell... see how (****tingly) google sky maps works...
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Do a search and maybe pull up my posts to find some discussions. What ROM are u on? There was a bug in the EC05 leak that would invert the z axis if u ran calibration from the settings menu. Not sure if it was fixed in the final rel.
The fix is something like put the phone upside down and do the settings menu calibration. Then you can finetune the calibration through connectbot command prompts... something like yamah_sensorcalibutl. It's in the forum.....
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My google sky map was funky, then I calibrated the phone upside down and now it is perfect.
Part of the reason for me to root was multi touch. Is there a rom on that for play?
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The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?
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The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?
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lol ..............
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lol ..............
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yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...
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yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...
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I'm not lol
By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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and why would you wanna do that?
Actually I know what he means (after he explained).
On the iphone it types in the order you PRESS the letters.
On the xplay it types in the order you LIFT your fingers.
So if you press H E but lift the E finger before, it'll appear EH.
Hope that clears it up a little bit, I thought it was just me and I just tried to lift my fingers before pressing again, but checking on an iphone just now I realized it's easier over there. Perhaps it was just the heat of the moment haha.
Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.
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Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.
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same here, works like a charm
Well then it looks like he needs a keyboard that supports multitouch. The xperia play supports multitouch already I personally use Swype keyboard but I don't use the slide part and not the tapping so I don't know if it works for you. Try out some android keyboards and see what you like.
But as said above the Xperia play can take up to 4 finger at a time and a developer is planning on expanding it up to 10.
Try this application it proves that the Xperia play supports 4 fingers.
Multi Touch Tester
This is not ios where you are locked to one single keyboard my friend
There is a thing called android market where you can download apps from
There are tons of keyboards available one or the other will have what you are looking for
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I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...
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I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...
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Swype is not on the market. Its here. Sign up and they will send you the download link. Takes a while to get used to but once you do it is way faster than normal typing.
Swype is far superior to a regular keyboard. One of the many reasons I prefer android to ios or blackberry.
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I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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Will try, ty
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I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol
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I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol
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Mate, you're meant to swype with swype, not type! Lol
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Oh I know but sometimes you need to type out the words if you know they wont be in the dictionary like codes, emails, passwords, etc.
The only thing I don't like is deleting words, it's very slow and if I press backspace a lot it goes slow and if I hit it too many times it will delete more than I wanted.
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On cwm you can go all the way down just keep on clicking down with the volume and than once at the bottom of the screen it will start moving
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Couple of tips.
- Don't like the Market spewing new apps on your home screen? Just disable it in the settings.
- The persistant search bar can be disabled in Trebuchet's settings.
- Nova Launcher is an alternate to Trebuchet. I'm using it. It has a couple of useful features, like grid size. You can also disable widgets in the drawer, and get your standard long-press menu back. I highly recommend doing this if you use Beautiful Widgets, as that will spam up your widget drawer. Use AppWidgetPicker 2.0 pushed to /system/app to take care of this.
- Want your 4G toggle? There's a widget for it. It'll show up in the quick panel later.
Unfortunately, the voice actions are not available as of yet. Voice Search can be downloaded from the Market, but the speech-to-text as demonstrated on the GNexus is nowhere to be seen. It's an upstream issue.
sooper seekret CM dev IRC channel said:
<@wispoffates> I think CM9 needs to fix it internally
<@wispoffates> the option in kb config is there someone must have removed the button on purpose
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I haven't explored VVM yet, but will post when I've got something. EDIT: As of right now, VVM is just plain not happening. I switched to Google Voice, which works well at the moment.
I love it. It doesn't feel like an alpha. The only feature I hate is that the cancel and ok buttons have switched so the cancel button is now on the left side and ok is on the right side. I keep cancelling when I think I'm pressing ok because I'm used to the other way.
Not that I won't get used to it.
I think the whole launch was beautifully executed, the only thing keeping me from staying on CM9 at the moment is that I cant restore the data from my apps.
The soft keyboard is a pain and I can't figure out how to set a static IP for wifi. Battery percentage doesn't work. I like how the LED notifications are fixed and how haptic feedback is back and working way better. The ROM overall is very fast. I backed up all my apps and contacts/SMS with mybackup pro and everything works perfect! Has anybody figured out how to get visual voicemail working?
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Only thing I'm not digging is no face recognition unlock... hope they incorporate soon... or maybe I'm missing something
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Its on there. Change your settings under the security settings.
I like it so far. Just hope they keep fixing bugs and adding features as they get introduced to cm9.
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This really doesn't feel like an alpha. Its not perfect but man I can't believe we were spoiled with this. Thank you to everyone who gave this to us. The og epic feels new.
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Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
i have been running it for an hour and I like it so far but It can't be daily driver at the moment..
Most of my favorite games don't work or freeze (my biggest complaint)
asphalt 6 crashes
blood and glory doesnt work
deadspace doesnt work well due to the multi touch issue
street fighter IV crashes
few lags, but the rom is really smooth
camera recording issue (already noted by cm) and few minor bugs (like showing battery percentage in status bar doesn't show) and a few fc's here and there..
I haven't used the GPS for a while but it fine so far.
The CM team is amazing for the awesome rom (cm7 as well) and I am loving it so far...i am definitely donating
I think this rom is more a beta because it only has a few quirks to work out imo
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Its on there. Change your settings under the security settings.
I like it so far. Just hope they keep fixing bugs and adding features as they get introduced to cm9.
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Yep I found it now... but can't get it to work for the life of me... played with it for an hour but nothing...
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luna_c666 said:
Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
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Get the Swype beta.
luna_c666 said:
Can we get swype to work (does it work now? Why haven't I tried before asking this question smh) ?
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You don't need swype beta. Just download one of the themed swypes in the apps section and flash it. Just make sure you mount system in CWM and unmount when you're done.
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The blue theme looks great with ICS!
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I love it. It doesn't feel like an alpha. The only feature I hate is that the cancel and ok buttons have switched so the cancel button is now on the left side and ok is on the right side. I keep cancelling when I think I'm pressing ok because I'm used to the other way.
Not that I won't get used to it.
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Its killing me too.
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I think the whole launch was beautifully executed, the only thing keeping me from staying on CM9 at the moment is that I cant restore the data from my apps.
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Why not? Titanium backup is working fine...
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Only thing I'm not digging is no face recognition unlock... hope they incorporate soon... or maybe I'm missing something
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Its part of the gapps. did you install them?
WOW! If this is an alpha release, what is the final release gonna be like? Will it give happy ending massages too? Great Work! Love it!
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Would someone who has it installed report about what happens when you put it in a dock?
ie. does it redirect sound, is the sound good? (for example it has full audio range and bass)
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Would someone who has it installed report about what happens when you put it in a dock?
ie. does it redirect sound, is the sound good? (for example it has full audio range and bass)
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Well cm7 doesn't even do that so I wouldn't hold my breath... Also there's no Google car home app for ics right now. Won't let you DL from the market
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Call me an idiot..... but how do i access the Gallery app through the Camera app. I have to back out and launch the Gallery app?
I'm rooted running 4.2.1.
Thanks!
You swipe to the right
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You swipe to the right
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Doesn't work that way for me...only works swiping from right to left.
Either way, its rather un-intuitive. Most casual users wouldnt know this gesture and even then, it sometimes brings up the settings circle if you swipe at a bad angle.
Dang i really am an idiot..... Thanks guys!
Swiping right or left seems to work on my N4. Was relieved when I found this one out, as coming out of the camera app then going into the gallery app seemed very long winded.
When I bought my Nexus 7 it came with the instruction manual as an ebook, but the N4 didn't come with one (unless I havent found it yet).
Hi everyone!
A couple of months ago my mother bought a Nexus 5 because she really disliked that she wasn't able to change anything to her then current mobile phone other than the background: she had an iPhone. Now she's been getting used to the whole Android ecosystem and the look and feels, however, certain simple tasks are still difficult for her. What I then noticed was that none of the official Google apps (camera, gmail and settings f.e.) had the same management. The buttons aren't in the same places and therefore you have to learn what to do per app. There is just no consistency.
That's the reason why I made these mock-up/concepts. Simple and easy to understand. Easy to get from one place to the other. Also, apps which are really close to one-another, like the contacts app with the phone and messages app, are connected via the tab-pullout.
http://i61.tinypic.com/2rp36dd.png
Normal camera lay-out
http://i57.tinypic.com/nebztu.png
Camera with tab open
http://i61.tinypic.com/2cneagn.png
Galery app
http://i58.tinypic.com/x53zok.png
Gmail app
http://i59.tinypic.com/14nk0ax.png
Gmail app with tab open
http://i61.tinypic.com/2n8sin7.png
Missed calls
http://i58.tinypic.com/2zoxmbo.png
Missed calls with tab open
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Messages
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Messages with tab open
http://i59.tinypic.com/2qtzjn8.png
Contacts
http://i61.tinypic.com/10wi450.png
Settings
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Settings with tab open
Feedback is welcome. Please keep in mind that this was just something I decided to do in my spare time and I thought would be fun to show you guys. Also, I am sorry certain texts are in Dutch, I made screenshots from my phone and didn't bother to change them .
EDIT 31-5-2014:
I've been thinking about how I could improve my last concept/mock-up and now I've come up with this idea.
It is a combination between the new looks of the Google Keep-app, Facebook-app and the camera app.
Now all navigation is in the bar on top, including the "sub-navigation". All the actions are in the lower bar, which looks just like the bar in the camera-app. I don't know what would be best: to make the actions disappear like the three-dot menu in the camera-app or like the actions in the facebook-app: disappear when scrolling.
Also, with apps like the music-app or youtube-app which have a thumbnail, they can take up some space on the action bar.
If there is not enough room for the actions, the action bar would be scrolable.
If a message or anything is selected, an action bar will pop-up below that message.
The action bar is in the bottom because it is easier to touch with your thumb on big phones (and maybe with some smaller phones as well).
I've put all the navigation stuff together and i've put all the actions together so it is more clear for newcomers and also so you immediately know where to go to instead of searching for what you want.
your camera ui is better than the stock one for sure. stock one is really annoying
nice job!
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mkwhater said:
your camera ui is better than the stock one for sure. stock one is really annoying
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Thanks! I always get annoyed that the features I always use are in such terrible spots: I hate the rings. This way it also follows the android app guidelines (sort off).
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nice job!
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Thanks!
Nice job man. I want !! Lol
Good work tho
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Your camera UI is really nice. Much MUCH better than stock. If anyone can make a camera app like that I would be all over it
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That's brilliant. Such a simple concept which explains why most avid android users are confused as to why the acreage users keep forgetting what to do, or don't use features at all.
This looks great! I wish we could implement this.
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Updated the first post with a new and improved concept.
Awesome messaging concept. Hopefully you can make an app out of it lol.
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Awesome messaging concept. Hopefully you can make an app out of it lol.
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I hope I can once I've mastered the art of programming. Started 2 weeks ago with making apps, still don't know what on earth I'm doing hahaha.
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I hope I can once I've mastered the art of programming. Started 2 weeks ago with making apps, still don't know what on earth I'm doing hahaha.
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Ill buy you a beer if you do.
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Ill buy you a beer if you do.
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I'll hold you to that!