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Hi to the community, and great thanks to all the developers that help us polish our raw diamonds and make them shine ;-)
I love the phone, really the first usable device without keyboard that relies on dialling via virtual keyboard. Still have the Samsung Armani thing here waiting to go on Ebay...
What I would wish for (and couldn't find anywhere in a couple days of searching the web for it) is a tool that makes the device vibrate when you tap the screen, especially in number/letter entry situations, so that you have a tactile feedback on whether it has registered a keypress.
I would also love to be able to use the g sensor to flip the TouchFlo3D left and right...
If anybody else would like these two things added to the device, or if anyone knows if they already exist, please let me know.
take care
abel
Bump.
Anyone knows how to get vibrate feedback?
Greetings.
I'd like to see this actually, not for every screentap though just for using soft keyboard, it'd be nice to have a bit of feedback (it'd have to be near instant though for it to not annoy).
If only I knew how to go about writing a Windows Mobile app =']
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412491
allready under discussion...
Anybody know of an ebook reader for Windows Mobile 6.1 that you can scroll with a touch interface, like how Opera pages down on a web page?
Altough MobiPocket Reader hasn't finger scrolling feature,but it has feature of auto-scrolling,so you don't need to do anything while reading.
All reader
The soft Allreader+ do it and even in full screen mode
Ok - thanks for the suggestions - I've tried the Allsoft+ reader, and mobipocket.
Both have some nice features, but neither one lets you flick your finger to slide pages up and down like Opera works, or like the iPhone works with various pages. Allsoft+ has some great features, but not ones I'd be willing to pay that much money for when Haali Reader provides them for free.
I've been a long time Haali Reader user -- but unfortunately the AT&T Fuze doesn't have a scroll wheel, and the DPAD is kind of awkward to use for hours of reading. I may go with Mobipocket (free), and see if I can get used to tapping the screen to advance the page, unless somebody knows of another one.
Which Mobipocket reader version do you use? They haven't released one for WM6.1.
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Which Mobipocket reader version do you use? They haven't released one for WM6.1.
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I am using v5.3 build582 on my Smartphones and that's working also on TP. For PPC I think is the same version(I have deleted my installcab accidentialy). It was working perfectly(till hardreset from different purposes).
I use mobipocket, and it's got a lot of bugs on the Fuze, mainly with pagination (it had problems with my previous device, but it's much worse with the fuze). I use GScroll, and it works nicely to scroll pages. If you just scratch downward on the bottom pad, you go forward a page. If you scratch upward, you either go back 1 page, or like 50, which is annoying as crap. Bookmarking your last page read is very important. Whenever your turn off the device, or close and re-open the application, for whatever reason, mobipocket has trouble figuring out what the previous page is. It's very easy to accidentally scratch the bottom pad upward, and then you'll shoot backwards anywhere from 10-50 pages. If you look at the progress bar, it'll say you just went back a page, but that's not so. Mobipocket has a lot of problem with pagination anyway, but this is really annoying.
I haven't tried ereader yet, but it does a much better job of pagination, in my opinion (it's nice to know how many pages you've read, and how many are left-you're pretty much in the dark with mobi). The bummer with ereader is that it doesn't have a full screen mode (unless it's been updated). With the small screen of the fuze, full-screen is important. It also looks a helluva lot better.
Edit: I should add, you can also use the d-pad to go forward and backward, but it's not as cool as using GScroll, and it doesn't alleviate the annoying pagination problems.
Yes,you're right. The last page made me angry all the time. Anyway on Smartphone it is everything correct and I have no alternative against. Maybe the SP version on PPC would work better,just try.
would very much like a decent ebook reader
mobipocket is impossible on touch HD
it is a bit odd that the ebook software market seems so undeveloped
maybe just not many people read books!?!
cheers
Does Gscroll work on the HD? I'd at least demo it (mobilesrc.com)-it's only live 5 min, but you'll see if you can scroll forward with it.
You can touch the page in Mobipocket to change pages...it's in the options.
yea a good ebook reader with finger swipe scrolling and zoom would be great.
uBook and Mobipocket both support touch scrolling, but not swiping. You just touch the screen and it changes the page. Both are excellent readers, but uBook requires a lot of messing around with it's options.
allreader +
allreader+ with gscroll is the best team
there is even a zoom
and more, you can switch from black text on white paper to white text on black paper and it's a bless when I read at night
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uBook and Mobipocket both support touch scrolling, but not swiping. You just touch the screen and it changes the page. Both are excellent readers, but uBook requires a lot of messing around with it's options.
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The only problem with tapping the screen to turn pages is that (at least with mobi) you usually have to tap a part of the screen where there are no words, otherwise you bring up the pop-up menu or you accidentally highlight text. If you hit a page with no paragraph breaks, it gets a little tricky and is annoying. Gscroll is totally the way to go.
any news of a new touch ebook reader (like this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-QsuGD4a4 ) Mobipocket isn't so good on an Windows Mobile phone without d-pad....
New touch program for reading ebooks
Hi,
I have just released a program that does what you want. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4894085.
Let me know how you get on.
Cheers,
Jim
Check out iSilo. you can scroll up and down sliding the finger over the screen. Not sure if that is what you want...
I have read many books this year on Allreader+ and I love it. The night theme is great, the autoscroll is also great, and tap to change pages is much nicer than having to flick across the screen. Honestly the less effort to change pages, the better. You have to change pages a lot when reading on a small screen.
The only thing that Allreader+ lacks that I really wish it had is quick inline text editing for all those pesky errors from OCR. I could correct it and then next time I read the book it would be right.
Yeah Allreader+ was my favourite ebook reader until i found someone developed a speed reading app in the XDA Dev and hacking section.
The app is called wordstreamer and its all i use now to read on my pro!
i am fairly new here but i have come to find this place to be the most helpful place on the net to get my HD2 running far better than the stock. I have come to have only one suggestion that i think could possibility make this place just a bit easier to navigate for us mobile internet users.... i have quite a bit of hassle trying to select the page numbers using my big fat fingers on this screen! now with opera 10 and its non finger zooming capabilities it is even worse. is any way that the font could be increased i would really appreciate it. or maybe just a big "next page" button at the end!
My suggestion,
Jyoti, hug me.
Opera Mobile 10 is absolutely terrible at detecting "clicks" on links. On average a text link will need to be tapped at least 10 times before it registers. Often the link will change color like it is being clicked but nothing happens. I'd suggest using the stylus but that is not an option on the HD2.
It really is pathetic how bad it is, especially considering Opera Mobile 9 and Opera Mini 5 detect link presses adequately. Still they pale in comparison to the Android default browser, which can accurately detect presses on tiny text links even on a fully zoomed out page.
She never hugs me. I don't know why. She used to, until she found out that i was keeping count ith my friends of how many hugs I could get a day. Then she stopped.
Good day,
I am reposting these questions as a new thread, hoping to get some qualified answers from people who are coming from a phone that had the the specs (or close to) the ones in the subject line.
I am an HD2\WM 6.5.3 user with poor vision, hence my interest in the Galaxy Note.
1) Can someone tell me if the icons and the icon text is smaller or larger on the GNote?
2) Same question when browsing the internet and reading mail BEFORE zooming in?
I often have to squint or occasionally use a monocle to view some of the program screens on my HD2 and am hoping that the increased DPI of the GNote is not going to make things smaller over all, despite the larger screen size.
Clearly I am hoping for all things to appear larger!
3) And a little off topic but one of the best things I liked about the HD2\Opera 9.7 browser was auto text wrap\reflow when one does a pinch to zoom. HTC seems to include this functionality in their Sense UI on Android as they did with WM and I do not think the built in browser on the GNote does this???
I tried Dolphin HD on an Andorid SD build on my HD2 but I could not get auto text wrap to work at all, let alone like it does with WM\HTC\Opera.
4) Also, how viewable is the GNote outdoors, in the shade and in the sun?
I would greatly appreciate any\all details and insights anyone can provide before I drop my cash on what I hope to be the answer to my needs.
Thanks in advance, you lucky people.
Text reflow problem in the browser is the only thing that keeping me from getting the SGN ,I also use HD2 WM 6.5 and the Text reflow is amazing on both Opera 9.7 and 10.
However, although I havnt tried it myself but it looks like that the Opera browser supports it,
On both my wifes and sons Samsung galaxy Tabs text reflow is not supported both in stock or Dolphin Hd browsers.
But on my HD2 when I install the MIUI Android SD ROM I notice that i can reflow the text in the browser.
In this thread you can follow discussion for galaxy S II which is suffering from the same syndrom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062327
Good day to you too.
Just going by straight numbers, a 4.3" screen with 800*480 resolution will have a PPI of 217. On a 5.3" screen at 1280*800 resolution, that number jumps to ~285 PPI. (For comparison's sake, Apple's retina display at 3.5" and 960*640 has a PPI of nearly 330.)
In short, the individual pixels on the GNote are going to be smaller than the pixels on a 4.3" 800*480 device. As such, assuming nothing else in the OS has been changed, everything else will appear to be comparatively smaller (but sharper too).
I know there are pixel density apps in the marketplace which allow you to effectively scale up/down Android across the board to emulate the PPI of your preference. Perhaps you may consider trying that out?
Good luck!
Just going by sight (didn't measure), the icons and text on the Note are about the same size as on the sgs by DEFAULT.
But If you root the device then you can change the screen dpi, which well let you make EVERYTHING (all text and graphics, icons etc) smaller or larger to your liking). App LCD Density Changer from the market does this.
Having spent some time with ICS on my HD2, the native browser reflows text very well. I think it would be safe to say that once the Note recieves its ICS update, as Samsung has promised, browsing should be sweet.
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I believe text reflow is Application based. Try different browsers until you find one thats satisfactory. I had a HTC Apache, Fuze, and Tilt2. Opera was my browser of choice on the Fuze and Tilt2. I use Miren on my Note and am more than happy. Dolphin browser is another great one.
As others have stated, Dpi changing apps from the market will more than satisfy your desire for having things bigger and more readable. Just be aware that most stock Samsung Apps are not set to auto re-size with different DPI levels. There are many Launcher and dialer alternatives for free from the market that do auto scale.
I say get the phone. You will be more than happy with it.
To add to the list's of devices that wrap text...the HTC flyer would auto wrap text on the entire page when you zoomed in on the stock browser. Loved it most of the time, other times it got annoying.
From my part I thank you all for the heads up,I have already ordered it couple of hours ago,should recieve it by tomorrow,for sure will be needing more assistance for a full customization,Hopefully you will bear up with us.
The stock browser reflows text fine after i ticked the auto fit pages option in settings.
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The default browser supports text reflow, it's just NOT ENABLED by default. Please take a look at the browser options.
The same for the FM Radio station name, you have to go into settings and enable it.
I've seen too many posts of people complaining of something that is optional. Just go into settings and explore all the possibilities, many things can be changed.
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Text reflow problem in the browser is the only thing that keeping me from getting the SGN ,I also use HD2 WM 6.5 and the Text reflow is amazing on both Opera 9.7 and 10.
However, although I havnt tried it myself but it looks like that the Opera browser supports it,
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I never got to manage automatic text reflow on the samsung stock browsers after froyo (checked every option combination I could think of ) but Opera definitely does this on the Note just zoom in and the text of an article you are reading reflows which is a delight.
I agree with you with people quite easily start to complain.
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The default browser supports text reflow, it's just NOT ENABLED by default. Please take a look at the browser options.
The same for the FM Radio station name, you have to go into settings and enable it.
I've seen too many posts of people complaining of something that is optional. Just go into settings and explore all the possibilities, many things can be changed.
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I never got to manage automatic text reflow on the samsung stock browsers after froyo (checked every option combination I could think of ) but Opera definitely does this on the Note just zoom in and the text of an article you are reading reflows which is a delight.
I agree with you with people quite easily start to complain.
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Ok mr. Claude,I just got my G Note, one amazing piece of trchnology,first thing I did is to check up the text reflow in the stock browser which didnt work,however after installing the all too familiar Opera Mobile everything is superb.
I recommend you get it.One nice surprise was that it supported the Armenian language OTB in addition to a couple of more which I read.
By the way I am typing from the GN right now with the Opera without enabling auotocorrection and its super fast.
I wanted to thank the people who have replied about this as it helps me and I am sure, others.
I would still like to hear from users of the GNote as to out-of-box icon\text and default text size when in email app, etc. compared to icon\text size when on a 4.3" screen that has 800x480.
And I am sure I will be buyng this bad boy once we get a clearer indication if AT&T here in the USA w/b coming out with an LTE version of the GNote soon or not. (read that as not soon enough but I am willing to wait till Q1 of 2012 if AT&T does end up selling the LTE version).
Again my thanks to those who have responded thus far.
Ok here wr go,in the email application the headers on the HD2 can be pinched to zoom while on the GNote cannont,meanwhile on the GNote Hotmail the pinch to zoom works very well together with the text reflow,I was able to zoom in the email massage till there was just one word on each line!!.But the Gmail doesnt seem to support zoom nor did I find a way to enlarge the fonts,but than again my main email is the hotmail.
Regarding the Icons they are smaller than the HD2 but the text is a bit larger.
However there is one thing that the GNote excells in is the Keyboard,the HD2 Keyboard is a complete crap,thats why I preffered the Swype.
My advice,if it is just for reading webpages and email HD2 is not much worst than the GNote,but for everthing else it is completly different experience.
Dang your still using WinMo?! There are many Android ROMS for HD2 that have text reflow working. Anyway I just got my Note a couple days ago and I was an HD2 user myself for over a year. Great phone. I was also worried the higher res on the Note would make everything look smaller. But in fact it looks pretty close to the same. Higher res + bigger screen = about same appearance for text. Everything else though is MUCH better. AND you get more text on the screen. Obviously. Would I recommend it to you, someone VERY concerned about reading text? Not sure. AMOLED does provide better contrast. You would basically be getting a device that would show you more text not necessarily larger.
I will say this. I'm an ergonomic freak. I loved the HD2's design. Perfect fit in hand, good amount of rubberization on edges, quality materials and REAL buttons and a FRONT power button. I can't stand devices that put the power button WAY up top. Especially as these phones get larger it gets really clumsy to reach for that button every time. When/if ATT does get the Note you can be assured they will remove the front home physical button. Actually there is a pic of it without the button. http://pocketnow.com/android/samsung-preparing-galaxy-note-hardware-for-us-release-image . The power button on the Note is VERY high up on the right hand side. VERY hard to reach on a large device when trying to hold with one hand(which is possible). So without being able to wake the device with the front physical home button this is the only option. I personally wouldn't want anything to do with the ATT version and am glad I purchased the international version for this reason alone.
What are the main uses, for your s-pen please.?
Opposed to alot of people here I barely use it.
It's too small to hold in a comfortable way for me, even though I don't have big hands or anything.
Also it starts turning around and slipping away so it's hard to find the button sometimes.
It might just be me being clumsy though..
I've tried it a couple of times, mostly for Swype when typing, making screenshots, drawing (S-Memo) and editting pictures.
i tried to use s-pen to take notes in meetings but it didnt work well. now i actually dont use s-pen. do some photo editing for just using s-pen thats all
Mine works as a...part of back cover. I dont really use it - sometimes for run, and sometimes to mark something on a picture.
I use it for taking notes and annotations on pdf files..really great...i dont have problems with it at all. I also use it along with graffiti pro as an input method. Kind of reminds me of the good old days of my palm device.
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Thanks guys, I was hoping, it could be integrated to write texts emails etc, that would be magic, I suppose am being too optimistic?.
i use it to write sms sometimes
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i use it to write sms sometimes
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How do you mean you mean you can use it to replace the keyboard, and use it, with for instance go sms or handcent?
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Thanks guys, I was hoping, it could be integrated to write texts emails etc, that would be magic, I suppose am being too optimistic?.
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You can use it to write sms or emails - no problems there. You can either use it to tap keyboard keys, or use handwriting recognition which works really well. Also it's great for some games, editing photos etc.
I've only had my Note for a week, so my experience is only based on that...
I use the S Pen a lot more than I thought I would.
I use it for taking notes in FreeNote. I use the Handwriting (Freehand) mode as I find that suits me best. It took me a few days to decide which mode I liked best.
I don't use it for any text input - I find the handwriting recognition too hit and miss for it to be efficient, so I use Swype for all of my text input. I have been using Swype for almost 2 years on my Galaxy S, so maybe just a creature of habit...
I do often use the stylus for Swype if I happen to have it in my hand. It is a bit quicker and more accurate than using my finger, but only a little - the Swype keys are so big on the Note screen anyway
If I was going to use the SPen for handwriting to text conversion, then I would probably buy WritePad. You choose it as your input method instead of the Samsung keyboard. I tried it out when I was deciding what note taking app to use, and the recognition smarts in that were way better than the Samsung keyboard.
I also use the S Pen for some apps that require finer levels of precision than I can easily get with my finger.
I use some music and audio apps where I want to select regions of a wav file, or a timeline, and it is a lot easier and more accurate with the SPen.
And I use it to play Draw Something
HTH,
Rich
I use it mainly for notes and emails and so.e sms. Just depends where I am at the time. If Im at my desk I find it quite nice to pull out a pen and write away......
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The S-Pen is designed for right-handed people and thus if I draw the characters from right-to-left as us southpaws usually do it fails to recognize them. If I draw them from left-to-right it does recognize them, but then my writing speed drops like a dead fly. As such it is useless for writing anything :/
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The S-Pen is designed for right-handed people and thus if I draw the characters from right-to-left as us southpaws usually do it fails to recognize them. If I draw them from left-to-right it does recognize them, but then my writing speed drops like a dead fly. As such it is useless for writing anything :/
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Go into Settings>Pen Settings
Change it from right handed to left handed.
Or is that just for the screen calibration rather than handwriting recognition?
I use my s pen every day man!
Like a toothpick ofcause.
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Go into Settings>Pen Settings
Change it from right handed to left handed.
Or is that just for the screen calibration rather than handwriting recognition?
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That doesn't change how the handwriting API handles the pen, it only changes the offset. As such it doesn't make the thing any better. I did send mail to Samsung about it, doesn't look like it they care.
Agree. I am also left handed. So I use it to scratch my ear.
I don't really use mine at all except on occasions when I am bored. Although it has sometimes helped with picking a particular narrow cell in a spreadsheet. I used to like Windows Tablet PCs their handwriting recognition was very good. If the note supported real time recognition I might use it more. But ultimately it's all about the screen size for me with the note.
I've found it makes crossword and sudoku puzzles more like the real newspaper versions! I take a screenshot of the puzzle grid from the relevant website, open it in photo editor and draw the letters/numbers directly onto the blanks.
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Its great for drawing with Smemo. I doodle alot and dont have to pull out a tablet or paper and pencil.
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i use it to keep from getting my screen dirty. i drag around swype as if it were my finger.