Hi
First time question about how do I load my internet favorite short cuts onto the G Tablet ?
I tried doing it with a UBS mini drive & thought they went but did not find them on the GTablet.
This is no problem moving them from desk top to lap top & sharing them with friends.
Your suggestions please.
Thanks !!
Are you talking about bookmarks? If so, I just synced my Google Bookmarks with Dolphin HD. Got this from another forum and it worked perfectly:
First, you need the "Bookmarks to SD" add-on for Dolphin, available from the market. Download and install it.
Open Dolphin then Menu > More > Settings > Add-ons Management > Bookmarks to SD
Select Sync from the top of the screen and then choose the first option to sync Dolphin bookmarks to Gmail.
Sign in to your Gmail account and the Dolphin bookmarks are sent to your account.
Then choose the second option to sync Gmail bookmarks to your stock web browser.
Exit Dolphin and add the LauncherPro bookmarks widget to a homescreen.
From any homescreen choose Menu > Preferences [not Settings] > LP Widget Settings > Bookmarks Widget > Get missing thumbnails.
Your phone will now grab thumbnails for your bookmarks.
On the LaucherPro bookmarks widget, press the sync icon at the bottom of the screen and all Dolphin bookmarks are now scrollable in the LP widget
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I am not looking to do this from a phone but from my desktop to a USB thumb drive to the GTab, if possible.
Any ideas out there ?
Thanks.
Bill in FL
You can do this directly from a desktop to your Gtab using the method I posted above. No need for a thumb drive.
I am really wondering if there might be a simpler way to do this ?
If I put them onto a SD mini drive from my desktop, which is Window, & use the SD mini drive in the GTablet will it recognize this Windows based info & install it ?
Thanks !!
Not sure. You can give it a shot. I found the other way pretty simple and it only took me a couple of minutes.
wtfjr said:
Hi
First time question about how do I load my internet favorite short cuts onto the G Tablet ?
I tried doing it with a UBS mini drive & thought they went but did not find them on the GTablet.
This is no problem moving them from desk top to lap top & sharing them with friends.
Your suggestions please.
Thanks !!
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You don't say what browser you are using on tab or PC. If you use Firefox on both there is a sync app.
Rumbleweed said:
You don't say what browser you are using on tab or PC. If you use Firefox on both there is a sync app.
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You dont need any app to sync if you have firefox on both. The sync is built into both the desktop and mobile versions of the browser.
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Is there any way to import bookmarks from a desktop browser (any really, I'll work out the conversion) or from an html/xml file into the standard browser on the SGS2 (Internet app) in a way the retains folder structure? All of the methods I've tried (e.g., MyBookmarks, GMarks, importing into Dolphin browser and then exporting) at best manage to put the bookmarks into "Most visited" as a flat list. Kies can create bookmarks but, as far as I can tell, only one at a time, and there's no way to create folders. The app itself can create folders but there doesn't seem to be a way to import bookmarks. Any ideas?
Work around i used on SGS 1 was to save bookmarks on PC as html .
Copy that to a folder on SD card open that html bookmark file load the relevant site and then bookmark it in the phone .
Import bookmarks never got that to work .
However the same method may work with Dolphin use the Dolphin Bookmarks to SD app save existing bookmarks this creates a folder .
Navigate to Tunny Browser file open open bookmarks and paste in bookmarks from PC .
jje
I use google chrome on my desktop, so I use this app https://market.android.com/details?id=com.h.chromemarks&feature=search_result 'ChromeMarks' to sync my bookmarks.
Then I just open up the app on my phone, and upon clicking on a bookmark, it will ask my which browser to use. You can select a default action aswell, so it just goes straight to browser A forexample.
Ok just tested this method copy bookmarks to phone from PC into Dolphin Browser .
Install Dolphin Bookmarks to SD from market .
Run app and export bookmarks to create folder bookmarks .
On PC save bookmarks as bookmarks.html .
Copy to phone Via USB Dropbox Wifi whatever . to internal sd card Tunny Browser Bookmarks folder .
Open Bookmarks to SD and Import selection the file you just copied across .
Worked with my two hundred odd bookmarks .
jje
Very interested in everyone's comments and experience on this thread as I'm a browser addict and the good rendering speed was a big part of the reason why I bought an SGS2.
I tried Chrome to phone, Dolphin Bookmark Sync and Firefox Sync plugin all to no avail. It's not that they don't work, it's just that CtP will just create an app with no true integration with your mobile browser, Dolphin doesn't support subfolders and neither does FF.
In fact, the 'best' solution I found was to *gasp* switch from Chrome to Opera on my two desktops, enable OperaSync and now I can use opera mobile on android with all the bookmarks synced between the 3 devices.
Interestingly, Opera is also the only mobile browser to support ALL of the following: 'open in background tab' type click, proper UA spoofing and subfolders in bookmarks, and sync of course.
I can't wait for the next release of Android to come out - hopefully they will make a 'chrome-like' something the default browser and enable a sync over the cloud.
What do you guys think?
cigaro78 said:
In fact, the 'best' solution I found was to *gasp* switch from Chrome to Opera on my two desktops, enable OperaSync and now I can use opera mobile on android with all the bookmarks synced between the 3 devices.
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Yes, this does work well - thanks. The other (similar) possibility that works is to use Firefox Sync within Firefox Mobile and the desktop client. I don't really like the mobile version, though. Opera Mobile is better, but I was (am) really hoping to use the native browser.
Anyone having trouble with the stock ICS browser not loading after enabling the quick controls in the labs menu? All I get is a white screen.
The google account sync also wont sync my browser settings, it keeps saying its experiencing problems.
Labs menu stuff is more of experimental stuff they testing out. A better alternative to stock browser is one called ICS+ browser. Its from the maker of thumb keyboard. Its really good and getting rave reviews right now. Athens maker made a thread in apps n themes section on it. plus it's free and plays flash. Does everything stick does n more, only better n faster. Another good one which is the fastest is Opera Mobile browser.
As far as Google bookmark syncs go, its been happening for a while now. Many people reported it not working right or doing like you said.
Here's how to fix the sync issue
I had a couple of sync issues prior to ICS, and the Browser sync issue after updating to ICS. Yo need to go to your google dashboard: www.google.com/dashboard while signed in on your google accout (the amount of data they have on your prefences for a dozen or so apps is freaking scary) Clear caches and settings in there, then clear the broser cache on TFP. If you can in the state yours is in, I cannot say. You MAY have to har reset or wipe to fix it, but it's not as bad as it used to be. If you have it set to backup your account, settings and market apps, you could have 95% of it back in an hour (I had 170 apps to reinstall, for a seperate issue) and then it's just setting a few prefs, good luck.
demandarin said:
Labs menu stuff is more of experimental stuff they testing out. A better alternative to stock browser is one called ICS+ browser. Its from the maker of thumb keyboard. Its really good and getting rave reviews right now. Athens maker made a thread in apps n themes section on it. plus it's free and plays flash. Does everything stick does n more, only better n faster. Another good one which is the fastest is Opera Mobile browser.
As far as Google bookmark syncs go, its been happening for a while now. Many people reported it not working right or doing like you said.
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I corrected the bookmark sync issue by:
1. On the tablet, disable the sync in Settings > Accounts
2. Go to Google dashboard in Chrome on your PC https://www.google.com/dashboard/
3. Click Stop Sync and delete data from Gogole
4. Refresh the dashboard page until the deletion is complete
5. On the tablet, re-enable the bookmark sync
6. On the PC, sign in to your account in Chrome to start sync again
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I corrected the bookmark sync issue by:
1. On the tablet, disable the sync in Settings > Accounts
2. Go to Google dashboard in Chrome on your PC https://www.google.com/dashboard/
3. Click Stop Sync and delete data from Gogole
4. Refresh the dashboard page until the deletion is complete
5. On the tablet, re-enable the bookmark sync
6. On the PC, sign in to your account in Chrome to start sync again
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THIS order worked for me! As long as you don't sign into chrome before you check it on your TFP, it should work. Hope this helps other people
I've installed Chrome Beta and it seems pretty sweet. One of the reasons I installed it was, I want to be able to carry on from where I left off on my updated (desktop) bookmarks..when out on my mobile!
I've sync'd with my Chrome d'top bookmarks and all seemed great, but.... I've clicked Back-Back-Back and I'm now at Bookmarks>Mobile Bookmarks.... How the heck do I get back to my list of my Desktop bookmarks??
Can't for the life of me see how!!
Have you tried just putting your finger on "Bookmarks" > Mobile Bookmarks?
Press Bookmarks and itll show Desktop, Other and Mobile Bookmarks.
Sent from my GT-I9100
Yep....that's what I've been doing. I long press bookmarks and all I've got is 'mobile bookmarks' - nothing else. In chrome's settings on both on my phone and desktop pc, it's saying I'm signed in to gmail, but if click on other devices...there's nothing there (apart from some words telling me how great it is etc...)
Edit: NM....sorted it out by signing out on both desktop and phone - and then back in again. Doh!! Thx for your replies though
I have motorola defy running CM10, and I can sync chrome bookmarks using chrome for android. But the app is a bit laggy on defy, so I am using stock android browser and here is a method to sync bookmark between chrome browsers and android browser:
When you go to Android browser it only shows your local bookmarks. Whenever you try to go to settings -> accounts and sync it says that there is a problem in Sync Browser, yet it doesn’t say what exactly the problem is. If you have faced this problem here is the solution you were continuously looking for.
How to Fix Sync Browser Problem in Android?
I identify this problem as a bug when interfacing different Google products. The root cause of problem is Google desktop browser supports encryption for all data types while Android browser supports only for passwords. If you have already encrypted entire data only thing you can do is clear all the data and start it again with only password encryption. Here is how to do it and sync Chrome bookmarks with Android browser.
Go to Google Dashboard confirming your password.
Scroll down to section chrome sync and click on Stop sync and delete data from Google.
This will delete entire synced browser data in Google account and it might take few minutes.
Now open Google chrome, go to Settings.
There you can find sign in section. Click sign in to chrome. Here you will have to generate Application specific password if you have enabled Two Step verification.
Then it will take you to Confirm sync settings window.
Click advance and make sure you have selected encrypt passwords only. If you encrypt all synced data android browser won’t be able to work with them.
Click OK to proceed with syncing.
In your android Smartphone go to Settings -> Apps -> All -> browser and Clear data.
Now go to Settings -> Accounts & sync. You will be able to see Sync browser is working fine now.
Open the browser and go to Bookmarks. Now you can see all the Bookmarks that you have in desktop browser in your Android Smartphone browser as well.
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I hope it help med-range devices owners
source: notesofgenius.com/how-sync-android-browser-chrome/
I had this issue before, i did what you said, it worked. Now just few days ago, as i wiped chrome sync/restarted it, the stock browser sync started to fail again.
Problem is i DID NOT select ENCRYPT ALL, only passwords, yet it definitly refuse to sync, no matter how many time i delete/restart sync on chrome, wipe data on android..
I know it's an old post,but... Thank you! This thing bothered me for last week.I didn't do anything,just changed rom from cm10.1 to paranoid and this sh.t happened.
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This sync browser solution it's only for Android 4.0 and 4.1 not for gingerbread.
You need to use an special .apk that is men't to do just that. I thinkbit called ChromeBookmarSync.apk or something like that. Just google "AOSP browser without root" and you will fibd it. I can't give you any links becouse im on mobile, but you will find it.
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Hi guys,
I started using Chrome some years back on my desktop system. There I have all my bookmarks arranged as folders inside my bookmarks bar.
So far so good. Now on Chrome Android these bookmarks show up as desktop bookmarks.
I have two Android devices:
Nexus 6 --> Everything is fine, I use my desktop bookmark bar and when I close and reopen Chrome it opens the last bookmark page I used - fine.
Sony Z3 Tablet Compact --> I use my desktop bookmark bar and when I close and reopen it ALWAYS opens some stupid list of all bookmarks, unsorted, one huge list. I always have to navigate manually back to desktop bookmark bar bookmarks, every time I restart the browser. This is really annoying.
Uninstalled Chrome, cleared data and cache, but all to no avail.
Anybody any idea on how to fix this? Must be sth do do with Sony's ROM as all the other phones and tablets I have and had do not have that problem.
Thanks,
terry