I got a Droid Turbo last month and I love it for everything except one thing. It always opens to my phone page and I have to back out of it to do anything else. This is a real issue when I am trying to get to my home page real quick.
How can I get the phone to open to my home page?
By chance are you just using the swipe lock screen?
reubenray said:
I got a Droid Turbo last month and I love it for everything except one thing. It always opens to my phone page and I have to back out of it to do anything else. This is a real issue when I am trying to get to my home page real quick.
How can I get the phone to open to my home page?
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Swipe up not to the right.
Thanks - that worked.
Swipe left gets you right to the camera also...
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Hi, there's something I'd like to check and I hope you guys can help me if you're running Google's stock ROM, as opposed to any other ROM like Cyanogen's.
You know how the home screen has 5 spaces, right? if you go to spaces 1, 2, 4 or 5 (that is, any space but the central one) and launch an app from there, then use the home button to leave the app? Does it take you to the space you originally were at, or to space 3?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
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Hi, there's something I'd like to check and I hope you guys can help me if you're running Google's stock ROM, as opposed to any other ROM like Cyanogen's.
You know how the home screen has 5 spaces, right? if you go to spaces 1, 2, 4 or 5 (that is, any space but the central one) and launch an app from there, then use the home button to leave the app? Does it take you to the space you originally were at, or to space 3?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
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It brings me back to space 3 (home screen)
Yup takes you back to the main home screen 3, although the dots on the bottom left and right are in the position they were when the app was launched, that started happening after the OTA update.
Trying to root and install a custom rom when i get to spring break and have some free time.
The Home button is to go to the home screen (that is the 3rd screen).
To exit from the app I use the left arrow button (the first one on the left) and I go back to the screen I was before launching the app.
pix said:
The Home button is to go to the home screen (that is the 3rd screen).
To exit from the app I use the left arrow button (the first one on the left) and I go back to the screen I was before launching the app.
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The back button
frandavid100 said:
Hi, there's something I'd like to check and I hope you guys can help me if you're running Google's stock ROM, as opposed to any other ROM like Cyanogen's.
You know how the home screen has 5 spaces, right? if you go to spaces 1, 2, 4 or 5 (that is, any space but the central one) and launch an app from there, then use the home button to leave the app? Does it take you to the space you originally were at, or to space 3?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
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as said - back to homescreen - (space 3) dots out of sequence until i swipe left or right
mind me asking why do you want to know?
cqms13 said:
as said - back to homescreen - (space 3) dots out of sequence until i swipe left or right
mind me asking why do you want to know?
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Mine does the same thing. The dots are not correct. Also some times it will show a blank home screen [none of mine are blank] until I swipe left or right. Weird.
dumbestcrayon said:
Mine does the same thing. The dots are not correct. Also some times it will show a blank home screen [none of mine are blank] until I swipe left or right. Weird.
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I am noticing this very same behavior on mine since the update ran as well. Nice to know that it isn't just me.
edit - I hate misspelling words.
nardoae said:
I am noticing this very same behavior on mine since the update ran as well. Nice to know that it isn't just me.
edit - I hate misspelling words.
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I wonder if it's anything the devs of the ROM can do. ~shrug~
Lol about misspelling. I hate it too. Since Chrome came out I have greatly improved my common spelling errors. [red underline > right click ftw]
After installing the update from TMO, The little bar that flips between mail, home, internet, images, music, etc. "shrinks" into a little black tab in the middle of my screen at the bottom.
This is super super annoying because it takes an extra effort to click on the damn thing and then slide my finger to scroll. This also requires a second tap on the screen when i go to browser because the first one simply 'collapses' the little thing and the second one will actually respond to the internet icon you're tapping on.
Tell me there's a way to turn off the collapse of this stupid thing. I tried looking on here but I don't know what keywords to use to search this out. Something like 'htc sense update hd2 registry change' yields nothing.
TIA
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After installing the update from TMO, The little bar that flips between mail, home, internet, images, music, etc. "shrinks" into a little black tab in the middle of my screen at the bottom.
This is super super annoying because it takes an extra effort to click on the damn thing and then slide my finger to scroll. This also requires a second tap on the screen when i go to browser because the first one simply 'collapses' the little thing and the second one will actually respond to the internet icon you're tapping on.
Tell me there's a way to turn off the collapse of this stupid thing. I tried looking on here but I don't know what keywords to use to search this out. Something like 'htc sense update hd2 registry change' yields nothing.
TIA
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It sounds to me like you have cookies home tab enabled?! That is strange are you sure you didn't flash to a custom rom?! I have that one my phone and I have the update but the only way I was able to get that was with CHT. I have attached examples.
Yep! I do have cookies home tab installed! Dang..so is the setting in that to change it? :bangs head:
I'll take a look.
WTHAT A MORON. Thats its. The 'retractable slider' setting. I can't believe I didn't realize that was cookie and not HTC.
Thanks a million for pushing me in the right direction.
Awesome! Glad I could help! I had that enable for a while but it became a little annoying so I took it off! Hahahaha it does make it look really cool!
Hey, thanks for the info. I'm glad I learned about that.
I also have Cookies, and didn't know about that.
Now I have just enabled that feature. Why? I don't find that "ribbon" at the bottom very useful, as it is not very customizable. Nice to have the settings button there at the right, but one can also do that with a Quick Link. I like the music app, but one can also do a quick link for that. Withouth that ribbon, there is room for another row of quick links. (I find it unfortunate that that "ribbon" is so uncustomizable. You cannot choose what is in it, but only what to remove (other than settings and home). (I don't really need that home icon either, because there is a hardware button for home.) I don't like how that "People" tab goes to "HTC People". I'd rather go straight to the regular contacts list. But it can't be changed (AFAIK), only removed.
So by retracting it, I remove the whole thing (can slide it back if I want), but can put the links I like in that ribbon into quick links, for which there is now more room.
Thank you.
Anyone else try out these slide-out browser quick controls?
I 'love' them. I turned them on a few days after getting the tab and havent looked back.
How about you?
To enable this feature for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked. Now in the browser, slide in from the side and a wheel of sorts will pop out with all your controls.
Very slick feature.
I have been using them since day one. Love it.
Yes, they're handy once you get the hang of them.
Very nice, thanks for sharing that tip!
To enable this festure for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked.
Where is this? Dont have an entry for "labs" under "settings"?
Settings in the browser, not general setting on the tablet. Top right corner in the browser.
I think it actually comes enabled by default on the Xoom; needless to say it was refreshing to see when I first started using the tablet. Using the menu in the upper right hand corner is not as user friendly.
The only thing I have noticed is that it is difficult to initiate controls with the acer case, because the edge comes right up to the screen. I usually have to attempt the gesture a couple of times in order for the controls to come up.
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The only thing I have noticed is that it is difficult to initiate controls with the acer case, because the edge comes right up to the screen. I usually have to attempt the gesture a couple of times in order for the controls to come up.
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I've never had that problem. Simply slide your finger 'into' the screen, from the bezel. Works like a charm every time and I love how it appears at the exact position your finger made the sliding motion into the page, rather than a single static location.
If I had one feature request, it would be 1 more button you could use to hold it as a handle to slide the wheel up or down the side, and tap it to pin it or unpin it.
Heh - didn't even know this existed until I saw this thread. Not sure I like it though - I usually close the last tab to close the browser (since back makes you step through all pages viewed and home would leave it open.)
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Heh - didn't even know this existed until I saw this thread. Not sure I like it though - I usually close the last tab to close the browser (since back makes you step through all pages viewed and home would leave it open.)
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How do you close the browser with last tab? The tab disappears and browser turns full screen everytime specially when there's only one tab left. I find it hard to bring the tab to appear again.
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funny I know... I open up a new blank one... close the last one and then hit the back button to close the whole thing out... he he... I woudn't mind if the tabs were up there all thetime or use a quick menu to pop it up and down...
You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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Yup. I just tried that and it does indeed work. Thanks for the tip!
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You can actually just do a long press on the webpage and it will bring up the tabs at the top, then you can close them.
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That's how I do it right now, but sometimes it selects the text for copy/paste instead of displaying the tab. You really have to find an empty spot on the browser page to make it work. Adding a new tab and closing, then closing the last tab requires a really fast finger to catch the last tab. Sometimes I'm slow to click on the last tab and it just hides again. How I wish the default browser has an option to exit, similar to Dolphin browser.
Why the desire to have an exit, to hide the porn your surfing?
Keeping the browser in memory is useful, because that is alot of what I use this thing for.
gammaRascal said:
Anyone else try out these slide-out browser quick controls?
I 'love' them. I turned them on a few days after getting the tab and havent looked back.
How about you?
To enable this feature for the stock browser go to settings - labs - quick controls and make sure the box it ticked. Now in the browser, slide in from the side and a wheel of sorts will pop out with all your controls.
Very slick feature.
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Yep, I turned them on the first day I got mine. Love 'em!
Just got my Note 3.
Somehow the Home screen moved from position 4 to position 3.
How can I get it back in 4?
Moving up from S II and also have Note 8 but this seems more complicated.
Thanks
Soft menu key, edit page
Thanks that worked but now another problem.
Removed the weather time thing and I got a "No cards" banner.
What does that mean?
How do I get rid of it?
Tried to move the Google Now widget to the home screen, got this framework with dots that I couldn't do anything with and now I have 2 No Cards littering my home screen.
Any way to make the icons 5 across instead of 4?
Thanks in advance.
Shofar1 said:
Thanks that worked but now another problem.
Removed the weather time thing and I got a "No cards" banner.
What does that mean?
How do I get rid of it?
Tried to move the Google Now widget to the home screen, got this framework with dots that I couldn't do anything with and now I have 2 No Cards littering my home screen.
Any way to make the icons 5 across instead of 4?
Thanks in advance.
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Delete the widget, then choose the correct size you need/require from widget menu and readd to where you want them.
I was able to remove the No Cards and put in Google now.
But I still can't move any of my app icons to the home page. It looks like there is plenty of room but it snaps them back to the previous page.
Also S-Planner: I tried to install (month view) it to the screen next to the home screen, it defaulted to the last screen and every time I try and move it, it returns to last screen.
I even deleted it and tried again, nothing different.
Shofar1 said:
I was able to remove the No Cards and put in Google now.
But I still can't move any of my app icons to the home page. It looks like there is plenty of room but it snaps them back to the previous page.
Also S-Planner: I tried to install (month view) it to the screen next to the home screen, it defaulted to the last screen and every time I try and move it, it returns to last screen.
I even deleted it and tried again, nothing different.
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It won't let you move them to the home page? strange, make sure you are dragging them in fully as sometimes it'll snap them back if you don't.
With the S-Planner widget, again you'll have to resize it for it to sit on the screen you desire.
On my previous 6P running nougat if I held down the middle button on the nav bar I could select information from the screen, whether it was text, phone number, or location. I hate that I dont have this anymore and the only thing that comes up is the assistant. I started a help message chat and they said they would recommend this up the food chain to be implemented again. That was something I used all the time and is frustrating I dont have it anymore.
HyperM3 said:
On my previous 6P running nougat if I held down the middle button on the nav bar I could select information from the screen, whether it was text, phone number, or location. I hate that I dont have this anymore and the only thing that comes up is the assistant. I started a help message chat and they said they would recommend this up the food chain to be implemented again. That was something I used all the time and is frustrating I dont have it anymore.
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This XDA article talks about how to get Now On Tap back.
Dunno if it works, I'm just linking the article.
http://www.xda-developers.com/root-is-now-available-for-the-google-pixel-and-pixel-xl/
CZ Eddie said:
This XDA article talks about how to get Now On Tap back.
Dunno if it works, I'm just linking the article.
http://www.xda-developers.com/root-is-now-available-for-the-google-pixel-and-pixel-xl/
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Cool, thanks for the link. Honestly, this is the first phone Ive had since the Nexus One that I dont feel the need to root. I dont want to go that route just to get on tap back. Hopefully they implement it somehow on a future update.
Can't you just hold the home button down and then swipe up to get the same features as Now On Tap? I can.
acheney1990 said:
Can't you just hold the home button down and then swipe up to get the same features as Now On Tap? I can.
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Yes, yes you can [emoji106]
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acheney1990 said:
Can't you just hold the home button down and then swipe up to get the same features as Now On Tap? I can.
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Holy cow, glad I asked this. I had no idea that gesture would bring up tap. Even the help chat didnt know!! That being said, the few times I tried it, it came up with "nothing on the screen". Only once did it come up with a result. It didnt work on a screenshot of someones phone number. Oh well, work in progress I suppose.
acheney1990 said:
Can't you just hold the home button down and then swipe up to get the same features as Now On Tap? I can.
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It misses a few things (like the ability to select some text on the screen, and have Google research that text), and sharing the current screen (minus the notifications). Hopefully, those will be added to this