I have a weird issue which I'm not sure if it's related to Nova launcher or something else.
While opening links from the email app (ie gmail) I am being asked to choose what to open the link with : browser, chrome, talpatalk, .. I chose one and select Always, but despite of that the same question will pop up next time and so on.
Any idea what's wrong?
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First I'll say that the only reason I have not rooted is that my parents are against it so that I get flamed about not being rooted.
My problem is that about half of my contacts that are synced with Facebook will not update that contacts picture when they change their profile picture on Facebook while the other half of my contacts will update. This is very annoying and I have not found a way to get around this. Even manually going under settings to "Accounts and Sync" and telling it to update immediately does not remedy this. I would very much like to know how to fix this and any help would be appreciated.
I have the same exact problem. Except, I'm rooted. I searched around and the only (half) solution that I found was to edit the contact's picture. After you select facebook it'll reset the picture. It works sometimes, and at the other times it doesn't. I'm still looking for away to do this without having to edit contacts. I also notice that some non-facebook contact's pics won't show in the stock messages or a 3rd party messaging app.
I occasionally notice this issue too -- I think it's just a random problem with the sync sometimes, I don't know that there's a perfect fix or a guaranteed way to make it auto-update every single contact's picture after every change. But I set my Facebook sync time to 'Every 4 hours' and I seem to get pretty good sync/update results with that.
Try going and Clearing Data and Clearing Cache from a few places in your Manage Apps menu...this is kinda like 'starting over' with your contacts (make sure they are all synced/backed up to Google first).
First go into Settings-->Accounts and sync and uncheck/turn off anything that says Google or Facebook.
Then go to Settings-->Applications-->Manage applications.
After that menu loads up (can take a minute or so), scroll down and open Contacts Storage, then Delete cache and Delete data. Also go find anything about Facebook (Facebook for Android, Facebook for HTC Sense) and do the same Delete cache and Delete data for those too. Do the same for People (if you have it in the list).
Then exit out of there and go back into your Accounts & sync options. All your contacts will be deleted. Turn back on all the Google and Facebook syncs and everything will start re-syncing. The pictures should all be updated. Sorry for the really long response....I just got to typing and figured I'd include all this.
When i go to write a new message and click contacts I have multiple duplicate entries. When i go to contacts I only have phone selected/not gmail, facebook etc... and that works fine its just when i go to write a new text message and click contacts
You could deselect every display option in the contacts app, but all of your contacts will still appear in the messaging app. You should try to fix the duplicates by linking them together. Like this:
1. Open the contacts app and select someone who appears twice. (You may have to change display options since you only have phone selected)
2. Under "Linked Contacts" in their profile it should say "1 linked contact"-touch that.
3. Choose "Add link Contact" and find their duplicate entry.
4. That should work. You'll just have to clean things up a little bit.
That doesn't work fyi. You can link til you're blue, but integrated fb, sim, fb app, and google contacts show separately in the messaging app. I've never gotten around this.
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I have the N1 running CM 7.0.3. Whenever I tell a process to use a certain default, or remember another setting, for half these apps the setting is lost. E.g. I hold the search softkey to get to Voice Search, and it asks me to agree to use my personalized data. I have to do this daily.
When I open a video from Gmail, it asks me daily whether to open it in Opera, Browser, or YouTube. I check the box to have it remember, but it always forgets. Same with some other defaults. Default launcher however is remembered as being Launcher7.
Then it'll randomly forget other stuff, like my Minimal Reader widget stops displaying any RSS feeds. Another app loses all its settings. Just random occasional intermittent 'memory loss' all over the phone.
Could this be connected to installing apps to SD such as Opera Mobile or YouTube? Voice Search however is not on the SD, and that still forgets my acceptance of its personalized data.
Responded to your other post...
I just noticed that the browser homepage setting does not work anymore. It keeps starting with google.com even if another homepage is set.
Deleted the defafult homepage in setting and input a new homepage but still loaded google.com.
Does this have to do with the GPS/Location? Is there a way to fix this?
Not sure if this relates to a file related to "Location" installed recently for using with the Google Map/GPS. Does anyone know if this relates to the google.com default home page on the browser? It'll get ignored if if another site is set as starting home page.
Does anyone know, is it possible to delete a system file to master reset. It was working before.
Also noticed that everytime when going back to the browser, it will open a new window re-loading to google.com, so if I go back to the browser 5 times, there will be 5 browser windows opened to google.com
How to change default app for opening www links on gmail?
I have tried to clear data and cache on gmail,chrome,browser apk but all links on gmail open in the android browser and i want them to open in chrome...
Nevermind ,i unistalled and reinstalled the app and it worked... Must be a bug or sth....
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after gmail auto updated the links open on the default browser again.... Damn whats wrong with it i dont get it, the funny thing is though that when i long press the link and choose to open it on the default program it opens it in chrome!? Wtf?
I would be happy if the gmail app would ever open a link. Especially the links in the mail from xda-developers not go.