[Q] Stock browser pie control gone!? - Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Not sure how many of you used the stock browser on the N2, but I found that the stock browser with pie control/quick control was freakin great! To my surprise and extreme disappointment it has vanished on the note 3 along with labs! Is anybody using the stock browser and miss that feature? Anyway to enable it somewhere?

donroja said:
Not sure how many of you used the stock browser on the N2, but I found that the stock browser with pie control/quick control was freakin great! To my surprise and extreme disappointment it has vanished on the note 3 along with labs! Is anybody using the stock browser and miss that feature? Anyway to enable it somewhere?
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Yes. Same here. Very disappointed. AND I cannot get QuickICS browser to work...which used to work fine on my Note 2. QuickICS installs, then when invoked, just give 5 seconds of black screen, then shuts down.

Just like having a NOte 2 again...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser

Thanks Jodeci, I found that, but it wouldn't bring my bookmarks over... In any case I returned the N3 and went back to the N2.
jodeci888 said:
Just like having a NOte 2 again...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser
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ccctexas said:
Yes. Same here. Very disappointed. AND I cannot get QuickICS browser to work...which used to work fine on my Note 2. QuickICS installs, then when invoked, just give 5 seconds of black screen, then shuts down.
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to get QuickICS working, you need to install the AOSP browser as a system app. Get this from the Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller&hl=en
after AOSP browser is installed, quick browser worked.

mintcookies said:
to get QuickICS working, you need to install the AOSP browser as a system app. Get this from the Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller&hl=en
after AOSP browser is installed, quick browser worked.
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the ROOT AOSP browser also brings back google bookmarks sync

mintcookies said:
to get QuickICS working, you need to install the AOSP browser as a system app. Get this from the Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller&hl=en
after AOSP browser is installed, quick browser worked.
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This requires rooting, correct?

ccctexas said:
This requires rooting, correct?
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correct hence the name root aosp browser just kidding, but this one doesn't require root (although it won't sync bookmarks like the root one will)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser

smoothjeff said:
correct hence the name root aosp browser just kidding, but this one doesn't require root (although it won't sync bookmarks like the root one will)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.android.browser
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I do wish this would work on my Note 3. I can get access to APPS folder in the root, but cannot install..or even copy files to it. Guess I will have to root the phone..was trying to run stock for at least a week or so...anyway, there must be something "different" about the S Verizon Note 3. Also, just downloading and installing this bugger from Play, did not work.

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Web Browser experience

Does a modern html5 site like this http://sammystodos.brandonaaron.net
works on Nexus One or Desire?
It seems that the browser doesn't support standards as much as safari on iPhone..
Chrome is by far the best browser on the market, followed by Opera.
Eventually they will merge everything that desktop's Chrome can do into Android..
But so far - yes, that website works fine, except for editing the fields that you added. I assume that can easily be fixed by tweaking the site itself.
I can confirm that its working on the nexus one with to stock browser.
Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
Works for me with the stock browser.
Sent from my Nexus One
DarkDvr said:
Chrome is by far the best browser on the market, followed by Opera.
Eventually they will merge everything that desktop's Chrome can do into Android..
But so far - yes, that website works fine, except for editing the fields that you added. I assume that can easily be fixed by tweaking the site itself.
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Which "Chrome" browser are you speaking of? I see a couple that say they only replace the logo, but none claiming to be anything different than the stock browser.
Sorry can u post a screenshot because I tried it in an emulator and I just see the background
No problem
Thanks a lot!
Rusty! said:
No problem
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Rusty! said:
No problem
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Can you actually type?
I tried it on the Desire browser and it looks exactly like yours, but I cannot type. Holding the Menu button to bring up the keyboard doesn't work either.
Checking the checkboxes and using the trash can icon to delete items do work.
pjcforpres said:
Which "Chrome" browser are you speaking of? I see a couple that say they only replace the logo, but none claiming to be anything different than the stock browser.
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Google Chrome browser. I understand that Android is running a simplified version of Chrome on the PDAs.
http://www.favbrowser.com/chrome-vs-opera-vs-firefox-vs-internet-explorer-vs-safari/
Paul22000 said:
Can you actually type?
I tried it on the Desire browser and it looks exactly like yours, but I cannot type. Holding the Menu button to bring up the keyboard doesn't work either.
Checking the checkboxes and using the trash can icon to delete items do work.
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Ah, no... same on the stock browser
DarkDvr said:
Google Chrome browser. I understand that Android is running a simplified version of Chrome on the PDAs.
http://www.favbrowser.com/chrome-vs-opera-vs-firefox-vs-internet-explorer-vs-safari/
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So the stock Android browser?
The Android browser isn't Chrome. They're both WebKit based though.
Rusty! said:
The Android browser isn't Chrome. They're both WebKit based though.
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Yeah I know.. but I betcha they use a lot of the same code.
Why rewrite the whole thing of they're both based on WebKit and Chrome obviously has awesome code.
I think the N900 might have the best mobile browser, my brother has one and it's pretty slick.
Lazarpandar said:
I think the N900 might have the best mobile browser, my brother has one and it's pretty slick.
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How is it better?
It's Fennec, which can do everything Firefox can do, including making use of the desktop addons, and it supports Flash 9.4
This will be an ongoing problem with HTML5.
"how does it look on this browser ??"
This is what people dont get about Flash. You have complete control over how everything looks. You dont have that control in HTML , everything is still browser dependent.
Not saying this cant be ironed out..but the impression that a <video> tag is going to solve HTMLs shortcomings is silly. As it stands the browsers are already divided over codec support.
Hi guys, i wanna take advantage of this thread to now more real-life web browsing issues.
How well works this sites on the N1 or HTC Desire browser? (without adding any ad-hoc apps)
- www.facebook.com (does the chat work?)
- www.google.com/reader
- www.google.com/analytics
- www.youtube.com/html5 (how well run the html5 video)
Can u compare them to a normal web browser or iphone?

stock browser-FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO CHANGE USERAGENT!!

so far i have tested this on two different froyo build browsers and they both work
in the address bar type about:useragent theres a couple different things you can change it to
i also have a stock browser that i modified with a bigger apn file and it just seems to work all around better.
di11igaf said:
so far i have tested this on two different froyo build browsers and they both work
in the address bar type about:useragent theres a couple different things you can change it to
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Changed mine to desktop... it works fine thus far. None of my favorite sites are trying to pull up the mobile version.
try hulu.com and see if that works.
madjsp said:
try hulu.com and see if that works.
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Hulu still gave me the "your using android" message when I set it to desktop.
Changed to Desktop and hulu reported non-supported browser. Sorry.
same here.
Thanks!
i dont use hulu, but it would be nice.
Got a sec to try grooveshark.com? Can't get a desktop browser agent string at the moment...
every time I select desktop it doesn't save it and goes right back to custom. Any help?
rsohne said:
Changed to Desktop and hulu reported non-supported browser. Sorry.
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When I started loading a video Hulu said it is not supported on this platform.
I don't think it is a browser issue... what player does Hulu use?
Mine continues to go back to custom after I leave the menu. Still being sent to wap sites which is getting really annoying.
p4ranoid4ndroid said:
Mine continues to go back to custom after I leave the menu. Still being sent to wap sites which is getting really annoying.
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goes back to custom, but keeps the useragent the same for desktop (or whatever you picked.
mtv.com and southparkstudios finally loads full sites
thanks OP
I have a browser that is modified.
The settings for useragent are in the regulare settings menu.
tjsooley said:
I have a browser that is modified.
The settings for useragent are in the regulare settings menu.
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have the apk by any chance?
This is a froyo browser.
This does work for hulu.
I tested it 2 days ago.
tjsooley said:
This is a froyo browser.
This does work for hulu.
I tested it 2 days ago.
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thanks much, do you know if this apk is deodexed?
andy2na said:
thanks much, do you know if this apk is deodexed?
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yes it has.
Just installed this.. Hulu does not work.
tjsooley said:
This is a froyo browser.
This does work for hulu.
I tested it 2 days ago.
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And what (if any) differences there are between this and the stock Samsung FroYo browser?
Also, I believe Hulu enforces viewing policy based on information it receives from Flash itself, not based on the browser user agent. Hence, different browsers/UAs shouldn't matter.
I can confirm that the "about:useragent" trick works on Cognition Beta 2.2 v9. Only problem is it doesn't persist if the browser is restarted. Still very useful though.
Shammyh said:
And what (if any) differences there are between this and the stock Samsung FroYo browser?
Also, I believe Hulu enforces viewing policy based on information it receives from Flash itself, not based on the browser user agent. Hence, different browser/UAs shouldn't matter.
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Looks like the color scheme is diff. UA aAgent is now in the settings pane.
andy2na said:
goes back to custom, but keeps the useragent the same for desktop (or whatever you picked.
mtv.com and southparkstudios finally loads full sites
thanks OP
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So jealous. Ive been wanting this fix just for southparkstudios and still isnt working for me.

Finally....Stock browser worthy of the Note.

Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC
Great find thanks!
Flashed both files and websites are no longer load mobile version. Double checked with about:useragent command, and the default custom agent has been changed.
The 2nd file also change the stock battery meter on the status bar for some reason.
P.S. the correct link for the user agent is: http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23J by the way.
Please make it a bit clearer when posting modding application,with the GNote has come a wave of new Android users.as myself.
A simple question:Should my device be Rooted to do this mode?.
Bigmille said:
Great find thanks!
Flashed both files and websites are no longer load mobile version. Double checked with about:useragent command, and the default custom agent has been changed.
The 2nd file also change the stock battery meter on the status bar for some reason.
P.S. the correct link for the user agent is: http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23J by the way.
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Seems to be the Kk9 framework with the mods, so you loose your own mods
hagba said:
Please make it a bit clearer when posting modding application,with the GNote has come a wave of new Android users.as myself.
A simple question:Should my device be Rooted to do this mode?.
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You need to root and have ClockWorkMod on your Note to flash those files.
Here is the link on how to root and install CWM5. It's a long read but basicly you download the root programme, the correct modified Kernel file, extract the kernel into the root programme folder (do this 2 times until you get a zip file), then let the programme do the magic (takes 2 mins).
geek78 said:
Seems to be the Kk9 framework with the mods, so you loose your own mods
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I had the green stock battery icon. but after flashing the 2nd file, the battery icon was replaced with a numerical version.
Thank you.And does it also support the text reflow which is not working properly in the stock browser?,I am using the Opera but relutantly mainly for those two reasons.
I have another reason idon't use the stock browser.
You can't have the buttons that let you adjust the text size to the screen as much as you want.
At first i was convinced that it was a mistake on my part, but no, as hard to believe as it is they dropped something as essential as this, they did.
Could someone post firmware specific browser links?
I am for instance currently on XXKKA.
Yes, reflow would be very nice. I use Dolphin HD but reflow doesn't work there either. Rotating the display triggers text reflow though...
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Hmm, my Dolphin HD text flow works great... pull up site in desktop mode, double-tap screen, text reflows to fill screen.
Or else go to More > Settings > Dolphin Settings: Show pinch-zoom button
rockky said:
Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC
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hmm? about:useragent works fine here.
all i do is type in about:useragent in the browser, and then bookmark it to my homescreen. then i just launch my browser from that bookmark, tap the address bar and 'about:useragent' will already be there. then just hit desktop, and ok.
Course cept you have to repeat that over and over. The if not using this id use boat mini. Text reflow works great... Faster than the others.
Souai said:
hmm? about:useragent works fine here.
all i do is type in about:useragent in the browser, and then bookmark it to my homescreen. then i just launch my browser from that bookmark, tap the address bar and 'about:useragent' will already be there. then just hit desktop, and ok.
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rockky said:
Still boggles my mind that Samsung manufactures the best screen displays in the industry then dumbs us down to mobile only displays with no ussragent settings option. (the Verizon Charge is the only Samsung device I know of that does have these options).
Manually putting in the useragent options a pain btw, so I've set the best third party option (that equals stocks speed) to do this: boat browser mini.
BUT... BUT...been waiting for this:
Thanks to padlad we have these options...that have stock android browser with full beautiful Note webpages functioning with its innate very fast accelerated zip.
Thanks Padlad.
Flashable from recovery:
User agent thanks to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/BBR22YH23JBrowser stock no lags, thank to padlad:http://www.multiupload.com/DP63H16VPC
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Hey! Thanks for the thanks!
psionic11 said:
Hmm, my Dolphin HD text flow works great... pull up site in desktop mode, double-tap screen, text reflows to fill screen.
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Doesn't that also work for the stock browser?
why you guys not try firefox? reflow, user agent, plus the powerful adblock plus!
The reflow in stock works once...many third party browsers I can double tap a number of times for continual reflow.
The zoom icon allows continual reflow also but it's not available on stock.
If modded on it'd probably work well.
padlad said:
Hey! Thanks for the thanks!
Doesn't that also work for the stock browser?
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RomBox said:
why you guys not try firefox? reflow, user agent, plus the powerful adblock plus!
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Does Firefox allow flash yet?
Firefox is just slow. Stock is very fast bested only by boat mini browser. (btw text reflows only via he zoom icon... Not touch)
I use rightware's browser benchmark
http://browsermark.rightware.com/browsermark/index.action
Also use a 10 site download test.
Both corroborate the results. Opera mobile is in the money also.
This is speed of course not features.
Will this work on the new kl3... and do we have to flash both??
I don't think it works on the different build. Someone correct me.
I haven't tried.... went back to boat browser mini.
Give Opera a try. It's the only one that uses hardware acceleration.

[Q] ICS Browser lost its 'Home' button

Anyone know what happened to the 'Home' button that used to be available from within the Bookmarks section of the Honeycomb stock browser? It's not even available in the Quick Controls. I just want a quick way of getting to my homepage.
Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab
wolverine423 said:
Not sure about that. Simple solution -> open a new tab
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Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?
tonyblack said:
Yes, there are any number of workarounds I could use and I could try different browsers but I don't want to! I just want the same simple functionality that was previously available in the stock browser and would now appear to be lost.
Am I expecting too much?
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No.
Although, hitting the new tab "+" sign is one step less than opening the bookmarks then hitting home making it slightly more simple.
Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.
yeah i noticed that too about the home button
also using drive with ics somehow when my browser
synced bookmarks they are all gone even wiped out chrome
on laptop, had to restore on laptop but all i can do is add
one by one on tablet............
lowsum said:
Try ICS browser + on google play, lots of customization.
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Thanks for that. ICS Browser + does the job.

Import Chrome Bookmark to Samsung Internet Browser

Does anyone know how to do above? I've googled it for the past 20 minutes and looked around search button
Not a lot of topic opened for this, I'm probably stupid and missed it since no-one cares? But anyone can tell me?
I don't have the Samsung internet browser included on the VZW model.
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markwebb said:
I don't have the Samsung internet browser included on the VZW model.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
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Yes, Verizon removed it like they normally do. So why post in this thread? Lol
Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
If you have a US device I would use CAF Chromium, it's optimized for snapdragon SOCs. Also some versions of it have adblocking.
tw1tch175 said:
If you have a US device I would use CAF Chromium, it's optimized for snapdragon SOCs. Also some versions of it have adblocking.
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Is that in the play store? I see RSBrowser and Rbrowser.
Rsbrowser is one version of it, there are a bunch of versions floating around to side load right now.
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Does anyone know how to do above? I've googled it for the past 20 minutes and looked around search button
Not a lot of topic opened for this, I'm probably stupid and missed it since no-one cares? But anyone can tell me?
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At least until the Note 5 there was no way of doing it, I don't know if it was added on the latest Samsung browser version but I sincerely doubt it.
The only way I managed something similar was exporting my Chrome Bookmarks to a file then add that file to a folder on the phone and then you must open your File manager (My Files) look for the file and click it, it will open in the browser, once there you save it as a Bookmark. Again, just a workaround, not the solution.
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At least until the Note 5 there was no way of doing it, I don't know if it was added on the latest Samsung browser version but I sincerely doubt it.
The only way I managed something similar was exporting my Chrome Bookmarks to a file then add that file to a folder on the phone and then you must open your File manager (My Files) look for the file and click it, it will open in the browser, once there you save it as a Bookmark. Again, just a workaround, not the solution.
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I found a way, download Samsung Sync for Chrome on Desktop, log into Samsung on it, click sync, and you'll see a folder called Chrome in your bookmark and its all there
or just use chrome....
MrPhilo said:
I found a way, download Samsung Sync for Chrome on Desktop, log into Samsung on it, click sync, and you'll see a folder called Chrome in your bookmark and its all there
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Thanks a lot for that, I tried that in the past but never managed to see the chrome Bookmarks on the phone, I just tried it and at first it seemed that it was going to be the same, but after 3 force Internet syncs I finally see the Desktop Bookmarks on teh Samsung browser.
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Rsbrowser is one version of it, there are a bunch of versions floating around to side load right now.
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Damn....That is a quick browser. Espn using Chrome is sloooww.
erasat said:
Thanks a lot for that, I tried that in the past but never managed to see the chrome Bookmarks on the phone, I just tried it and at first it seemed that it was going to be the same, but after 3 force Internet syncs I finally see the Desktop Bookmarks on teh Samsung browser.
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Doesn't seem to work for me... I've pressed the sync button a gazillion times, but I only get the "no bookmarks" logo.
Disable bookmarkprovider and you should be able to sync
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Disable bookmarkprovider and you should be able to sync
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Sorry, could you elaborate? Is this a process on the phone?
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Sorry, could you elaborate? Is this a process on the phone?
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Its located in system/app, you should be able to disable it with Package disabler pro
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Its located in system/app, you should be able to disable it with Package disabler pro
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I disabled it, then pressed the sync button on the Samsung Sync extension on my PC and still nothin...
Willyman said:
I disabled it, then pressed the sync button on the Samsung Sync extension on my PC and still nothin...
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Try an reboot
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Try an reboot
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Nope... didn't work either. Thanks for your suggestions though!
Willyman said:
Nope... didn't work either. Thanks for your suggestions though!
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Try another sync method?
I used my backup pro and with the bookmarkprovider disabled i was able to sync my bookmarks
no matter how many times I sync it, the chrome bookmarks (that show in the samsung internet extension), do NOT show on the mobile samsung browser (S8+)
tried forced sync, delete data and redo, delete and reinstall extension on my chrome on mac.
Help? I want to use the samsung browser I find it much faster.

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