I have the AT&T Tilt. No ROM modifications. Used to, when I scrolled using the wheel on contacts. When I changed letters, it would scroll down showing large "B" "C" "D". etc. in the display. Then I could tap the large letter and look into that letters contacts. Now, for some reason I go from A to Z in contacts seeing every contact, not the large letters. I have about 500 contacts, so it takes forever scrolling to get to the upper letters.
Does anyone know the setting I have changed. Or how to get it back.
John Galbreath Jr. said:
I have the AT&T Tilt. No ROM modifications. Used to, when I scrolled using the wheel on contacts. When I changed letters, it would scroll down showing large "B" "C" "D". etc. in the display. Then I could tap the large letter and look into that letters contacts. Now, for some reason I go from A to Z in contacts seeing every contact, not the large letters. I have about 500 contacts, so it takes forever scrolling to get to the upper letters.
Does anyone know the setting I have changed. Or how to get it back.
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From your post, it's not clear how you are scrolling. You have to hold the up or down button for few seconds for the big letters to come.
I thought I was using the scroll wheel on the side. But, now that I followed your note, it is working with the buttons. Maybe I was using the buttons.
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Something wierd... I did the 1.37 ROM and everything's been cool. At first when you go to contacts, the search was a vertical tab of alphabets on the right side of the screen. (normal placement for the ability to seach/scroll down a list of alphabets.)
For some reason, all of a sudden, now when I click contacts, I get the old style (on previous HTC's) list of alphabets to search from. It's now horizontal at the top of the screen. It lists the abiltiy to search by alphabet (abc, def, ghi, etc, etc)
How did the old style search get on the top of the screen?
Did I make some adjustment somewhere?
Thanks,
Mark
GO to settings or options in contacts and uncheck the top box
zmob123 said:
GO to settings or options in contacts and uncheck the top box
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Thanks, I did a search before I asked the question but there isn't anything on this site or google that gives answers to why I'm so stupid.
Can't believe I missed that...
Thanks.
Since upgrading to Gingerbread I have been aware of the new text selection features, i.e. dragging the little pin to move the cursor. What I can't get right though is selecting text.
Previously I could double-tap and drag in order to highlight words, which made sense, but now whenever I double-tap anything, I get the "Cut" and "Copy" menu before I can even start to drag. The two separate pins don't ever appear that way.
The only way I can seem to make it work is by holding on a word, picking "Select word" and then dragging the two pins when they appear, which seems a little drawn out compared to before.
Anyone any clues? Have the gestures changed? Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way it works now? Wondering if someone with a Nexus S or other custom Gingerbread ROMs can also confirm.
I don't know in which apps you have tried this, but the way it works in the browser and gmail (checked right now) is that you:
1.Tap and hold to go into text-selection mode
2.Drag your finger over the text you want to copy
3.Adjust with arrows as you see fit
4.Click on the selected text to copy it
5.Profit
SBS_ said:
I don't know in which apps you have tried this, but the way it works in the browser and gmail (checked right now) is that you:
1.Tap and hold to go into text-selection mode
2.Drag your finger over the text you want to copy
3.Adjust with arrows as you see fit
4.Click on the selected text to copy it
5.Profit
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Ah ha, I see, that seems to work for reading emails and web pages. I was more meaning inside text-entry boxes like in the SMS app, Google Talk, etc.
My Note has developed an infuriating fault which only happens in notepad apps, which is: I touch the screen in an notepad file and the QWERTY keyboard appears. All good. But when I start to type, although the cursor moves (sometimes to the right, often down a line or two or three first and then to the right) no text appears on screen. However, when I then exit the QWERTY keyboard, the text miraculously appears. This has only started recently and I'm very keen to get to the bottom of it. My notepad of choice is "Note Everything", but I've now duplicated the problem in two other notepad apps. Can anyone please offer any suggestions as to what might be going on here? Many thanks.
Sorry, I can't figure it out...
I can do it in web pages fine, but say, if I'm writing a text message and want to select the text I've written to copy it, I can't make the highlighting thingies appear
Sometimes it's long press, sometimes it's double tap and sometimes it doesn't work at all because only that damn magnification glass comes up.
In a text message, you have to double-tap to select text. Not sure why, but yeah lol..
speaking of this I'm also having trouble dragging the text selector around. it tends to fly to random places.
teeluun said:
speaking of this I'm also having trouble dragging the text selector around. it tends to fly to random places.
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Root + Navbar arrows, I can't live without them
Why do you want to root your device? SwiftKey with enabled navigation arrows it is... But yeah, selecting a text on this phone is a pain in the a*s
I like the stock keyboard more than SwiftKey.
Hi boys n gals. I have a weird one and can not figure it out.
I recently noticed that whenever I use s pen and press on a text field inside chrome it will not bring up on screen kb. It will pop if I point to address bar or any other text field within system but not anything in chrome in webpages or Google search bar on Google page. Even here on title or text box, when I bring the pen near screen it shows the blue draw icon that I am sure it didn't before and that's it, it does nothing. Sometimes the blue draw icon wont show, just the small dot . On screen kb comes on fine if I press these fields with finger but not with s pen. I'm lost, I tried the usual restart tablet clear caches but no bueno. Anyone have any pointers ?
Thank you