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Horseticuffs
Full werewolf off the buckle
Truly those were our salad days.Who remembers when people really wanted Chrome to come out on mobile and it was going to be the greatest mobile web browser ever? Good times
Vanillalite
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A totally redesigned Opera from the ground up has been pushed to Beta. It's now based on the WebKit engine verses Opera's own. Plus they totally redesigned the UI. Gone are separate bars for address and search and going to a single bar. Basically it looks very much like Chrome with some Opera twists.
Oh yeah BTW this is preliminary, but I'm posting from the new browser. So far the performance is FULL OF WIN! This shits all over the latest Chrome stable in terms of performance, responsiveness, and scrolling.
Opera Beta Play Store
And stock JB browser shits over both the new Opera and Chrome in terms of performance and scrolling.
Vanillalite
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Actually this is the 1st browser I've used that has similar performance to the stock CyanogenMod browser for me.
The latest Chrome has similar performance to the CM10.1 Browser on my GS2, i.e. really good. Opera Beta is not quite up to the same level. It's a bit less smooth overall, but while pages are rendering it's very stuttery. I wouldn't say performance is bad, not like Chrome 18 was, but it definitely isn't great. I also don't like that the maximum scrolling speed is slower than Google's browsers. You do get the pop-up arrow when scrolling quickly to jump to the top/bottom of the page, a feature which I remember liking when Opera was my main browser on Gingerbread, but since ICS I've got used to the insanely fast scrolling letting me navigate even long pages in just a couple of flings.
I don't want to sound to negative about it though. I'm happy that there's another competitive browser on Android.
Regarding the blurriness problem in Chrome 25, from what I could gather from their issues tracker they have a fix for it now which should be available in a beta of m26 in the next few days and they intend to push it out to stable m25 when it's had a bit of testing.
I don't want to sound to negative about it though. I'm happy that there's another competitive browser on Android.
Regarding the blurriness problem in Chrome 25, from what I could gather from their issues tracker they have a fix for it now which should be available in a beta of m26 in the next few days and they intend to push it out to stable m25 when it's had a bit of testing.
Sleeplessnights
Banned
Awesome! Looking though my wishlist to see if anything changes.
Naked Snake
Member
I have to agree
I wish I could do it with a different browser on Android (while keeping Chrome for Windows, which I love).
Wolf Akela
Member
Gonna dip on PvZ for the nth time.
How's NFS:MW?
How's NFS:MW?
Canis lupus
Member
Just discovered Shazam, so awesome! I knew of its existence for years but never had to use it until now.
You may also want to check out SoundHound.
21st century cowboy
Member
Jim Harbaugh
Banned
Doesn't look like anything good in the sale
Yeah its nice. They just signed a deal or something with beat port so they have a lot more edm tracks. It was usually a little weird with remixes sometimes.
playstationfan
Banned
Here are a few apps worth downloading and two e-books which are entertaining and informative.
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spindoctor
Member
All from the same developer. Would that happen to be you?
These all look great, but what I'm really after is a travel guide for some of the islands around Italy. Do you know if such a thing is available on Android?
BastardSamurai
Member
Thanks for the recommendations! Can you help me find a guide to setting up a South American biotope aquarium?
My funny experience about battery percentages. I used to have percentages turned on for my phone and I can't stop checking the percentages trying to calculate how much battery life that I have left. This actually killed my battery life because I kept checking the screen every few minutes.
One day I decided to screw it and turned off the percentages. Now I spend less time checking the battery left on the phone and actually get a longer life out of my battery.
One day I decided to screw it and turned off the percentages. Now I spend less time checking the battery left on the phone and actually get a longer life out of my battery.
Choppasmith
Member
I have to say on average it gains me about 15% Battery for a day at work.
What I do like about it is that I have Facebook and Yahoo Mail set to Hibernate, I get so many random beeps from new notifications it's ridiculous, and Greenify disables it all while giving me a little more battery, so it's win win.
I'm sure I've used Titanium Backup to do this.
Banjotanooki
Member
My S3 has been a bit slow these days and makes random noises every now and then when i check it or charge it. Could it be possibly infected with a virus?
And if so, any apps that can take care of it ?
And if so, any apps that can take care of it ?
Get Beautiful Widgets or HD Widgets (I like the former more for its tablet stylings while the latter, HD Widgets, tends to look more elegant on phones).
The Faceless Master
Member
Carbon?
Not like the memory footprint has improved... but at least it's just one service and not 3 doing god-knows-what. The whole lot of options kind of make the 1.50 easier to swalow.
The Faceless Master
Member
memory usage isn't what kills your battery though. what kills it are the weather refresh rate and location check if you set it to use GPS to determine location instead of entering it manually.
Any apps like this or Pandora but will work in UK?
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Anybody have an Xperia J (or maybe a V or T)? Is it possible to turn off vibrate when receiving a text? I tried un-checking the vibrate when ringing option but my Xperia J still vibrates when I receive a text. Any help?
Is there an app that will allow controlling media with the volume keys? There used to be a tweak for jailbroken iOS devices where you could hold down volume up to choose the next track, volume down to choose the previous track, and both up & down to play/pause.
Anything that will do that on Android? Prefarably for all songs/podcasts regardless of app. I found Tactile Player which I'll try out, any other options?
Anything that will do that on Android? Prefarably for all songs/podcasts regardless of app. I found Tactile Player which I'll try out, any other options?
Check the Messaging app notification settings, if there's not an option to change it there you could disable notifications and then download SMS Popup which replaces it with a notification you can customise, so you should be able to control vibration that way.
Hydrogen Bluebird
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Thanks PaulLFC, forgot about the messaging settings.
Also, any good apps which allow an alternate way to wake the screen? I don't want to have to press the power button all the time. Is there an app that enables screen waking by pressing the home button or maybe tapping the screen? Thanks GAF.
EDIT:
GAF hasn't let me down so I'll ask for recommendations in the following app categories as well:
web reader app
ebook/PDF reader
file manager
widgets
office suite/doc, spreadsheet, slide viewer/editor.
Also, any good apps which allow an alternate way to wake the screen? I don't want to have to press the power button all the time. Is there an app that enables screen waking by pressing the home button or maybe tapping the screen? Thanks GAF.
EDIT:
GAF hasn't let me down so I'll ask for recommendations in the following app categories as well:
web reader app
ebook/PDF reader
file manager
widgets
office suite/doc, spreadsheet, slide viewer/editor.
Vanillalite
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I know CyanogenMod has this built in. Provided the screen is black you tap up and down for volume or hold it down to skip tracks. Not sure about play/pause though.
Yeah I think I did this on accident one time. I'm assuming that's what it does.
I gotta say I've been using the default browser on CyanogenMod and its pretty good. Usually I just install chrome but the scrolling and loading seems to be faster.
It doesn't sync like chrome does though, right? That's the one thing I'm missing.
It syncs bookmarks with desktop Chrome, as long as you have your account encryption set to passwords only (on the desktop).
Winterfang
Banned
Hello, I have a really quick question.
What's a good simple to use, no bullshit app. In which I can read Powerpoints, Word and PDF document.
What's a good simple to use, no bullshit app. In which I can read Powerpoints, Word and PDF document.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I have to make a reccomendation for a browser here...after looking for a chrome replacement that could do fullscreen, I've been really impressed with Xscope Browser. The really amazing feature here is swiping the screen left to push the current page away and go back, but it's in memory so you can swipe halfway to look at the last page and just let go. There's no loading, it's really something I wish every tablet browser would do on the future.
Plus it has a way to fast jump to the top of the page, double-tap below the status bar. Its full screen is well done, but a little figity sometimes...the fullscreen I wish every browser would use is the one in the iPhone Google Search app, where you scroll down and you're full screen, you scroll up and the bar instantly appears. Why is Android Chrome so outdated feature wise?
Plus it has a way to fast jump to the top of the page, double-tap below the status bar. Its full screen is well done, but a little figity sometimes...the fullscreen I wish every browser would use is the one in the iPhone Google Search app, where you scroll down and you're full screen, you scroll up and the bar instantly appears. Why is Android Chrome so outdated feature wise?
Bit of a strange request - is there an app which will list or log activity of other apps and what they do with the phone?
The main reason is I see "searching for GPS" a lot and I'd like to see which apps search for GPS the most so I can decide if it's worth disabling GPS for certain apps or not.
The main reason is I see "searching for GPS" a lot and I'd like to see which apps search for GPS the most so I can decide if it's worth disabling GPS for certain apps or not.
Not a logging app, but Greenify identifies the app that runs in the background and you can "greenify" them so they don't run in the background unnecessarily.