is if there was a facebook app (3rd party alternative) for the galaxy tab?
it seems to be gone from the market.
Friend Me for Facebook is a great app for tablets
FriendCaster Tab for Facebook is also a great app, but it is still Beta and crashes a lot.
Personally I'm FriendCaster Tab for now and it has a lot of nice features
I have no problem just using the full FB website on my Tab.
Same as tried friendcaste and friend me but not complete so just use the web
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Great post! Never even thought about using the web. Will try that
No matter what you use, the full site, the mobile site, or the sideloaded phone app...it is near impossible to tag people properly (just one complaint). In the full site you click a pic and it opens in that theater/lightbox popup thingy over the page, and if you click on the pic to tag, the tagging prompt opens but then when you click in it to start typing a name, it just goes away and you have to start again. You can never really get it. And I don't think the app lets you tag at all.
I am still in utter disbelief that there is no official Android tablet Facebook app. I mean, what's the holdup? Isn't this at the top of someone's (Facebook and/or Google/Android) to-do list?? I just don't understand.....it's been months now...
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I am still in utter disbelief that there is no official Android tablet Facebook app. I mean, what's the holdup? Isn't this at the top of someone's (Facebook and/or Google/Android) to-do list?? I just don't understand.....it's been months now...
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uhh, It should be pointed out that there is no official Facebook app for the iPad either.
I paid for friendcaster and loved it, I even used it on my phone over the official Facebook app but the last update ruined it for me on both devices. The news feed will leave stuff out and now on my tab I can't connect it to my contacts. I also have heywire texting app and it would pull the pictures from the contacts so I could see a pic of the person I am texting instead of just a name. Also when I click a photo someone posted it will load a completely different photo from the album.
I hope it gets work out in a new update, I finally paid for the app and less than a week later the update hit so for now I just go to the site.
Rhinodad said:
I have no problem just using the full FB website on my Tab.
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How are you able to use chat?
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How are you able to use chat?
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Two ways to do this...
1. With stock browser, everytime you open it you have to change the browser settings to desktop mode. This is handled in other forums and is really a pain in the butt because the settings don't stick.
2. Download for free one of the other browsers from the market, I use dolphin for pad. In the settings you can have it permanently set to desktop mode. This allows for the chat to show up on the website as if you were on a computer.
I personally use the website to check my stuff and use one of two free apps for chatting. Either go chat or the friendcaster chat.
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Stardate Tab 10.1 said:
Two ways to do this...
1. With stock browser, everytime you open it you have to change the browser settings to desktop mode. This is handled in other forums and is really a pain in the butt because the settings don't stick.
2. Download for free one of the other browsers from the market, I use dolphin for pad. In the settings you can have it permanently set to desktop mode. This allows for the chat to show up on the website as if you were on a computer.
I personally use the website to check my stuff and use one of two free apps for chatting. Either go chat or the friendcaster chat.
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So I used to run the desktop ua mod and I could see the chat in the stock browser. My problem, however, is that after typing I am unable to send the message. Pressing enter just clears out the text and nothing seems to get sent.
Same thing when I try dolphin or opera
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All i did i searched/google for the facebook apk online, installed it havent had a proble with it ever since and just few days ago I updated to the new release.
wodascared said:
is if there was a facebook app (3rd party alternative) for the galaxy tab?
it seems to be gone from the market.
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Related
And what do they do?
What apps can you absolutely not live without on your phone?
1.) Twitter - Social networking that needs no explination
2.) Facebook - Social networking that needs no explination
3.) Titanium Back Up - Backs up all my apps
4.) Chrome 2 Phone - Streams PC chrome pages to phone's browser
5.) Shazam - Music Tagging app
6.) Polaris Office - Best office client I've found for a mobile device
7.) Set-CPU - Allows overclocking of your device if your kernel supports it.
8.) SystemAppRemover - Removes bloatware embedded into the phone
9.) Word With Friends - Fun crossword puzzler with friends
10.) Google Music - All your music with none of the space.... *To the cloud!*
I hope this thread will unearth some hidden gem apps and make users more aware of how they can take advantage of their hardware and get more use out of their phones.
Thanks
*BTW... sorry to the mods if threads like this exist already for this phone.*
•Facebook + Messenger - socialize from my couch
•Paper Camera - Takes awesome sketchbook style photos
•Tapatalk - keep track of forums
•Amazon App Store - Free Paid App Of The Day
•Stock Video App - Plays my movies
•Stock Music App - 5.1 Dolby sounds amazing with nice Skullcandy headphones, otherwise pretty basic.
•Cover Art Downloader - gets album art pretty effectively.
• Audio Tagger - let's me edit mp3 files. I'm really ocd about my music being organized.
•Plants vs Zombies - really fun tower defense style game
•News/Weather widget - gives you weather and news topics of your choice, nice 4x1 layout.
That's basically it for me. Really need to invest in Ti Backup still.
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Ones that I can't imagine not having.
XDA APP- I'd have nothing to do if I didn't
Pure breeze launcher - this above all, seriously
Miren browser
Glympse
Lcd resolution
Astro file manager
Titanium backup
Swipepad
Swipeswitcher
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A few I haven't seen mentioned yet :
Zedge- great app for ringtones, wallpapers, and notifications, complete with a search bar!
Xbox Live statistics- pretty solid app for Xbox live friends. Notifications and messages work and has a dev support.
Vlingo- beats the Google voice search.
PicSayPro- awesome photo editor ...awesome!
Google+ - circles are better ;-)
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Root Explorer pro
Titanium Backup pro
Astro file explorer
XDA app
Email
AutoCad WS
PayPal app
Wells Fargo app
Documents To Go pro
SwiftKey
Juice Defender Ultimate
Angry Birds (all of them)
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get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
Plus 1 on Ti Backup. Its a lifesaver when it comes to apps with a lot of data.
honghsien5 said:
get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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yeah, i hate the facebook app for andoid. the next version will be a lot better. facebook gives the new stuff to ios first and then android. the new version is a lot better. ill prolly try that app out till the next app comes out
@og post
im not a big person on tons of apps, so dont mind the small list
facebook (once updated, till then ^^what he said^^)
netflix
shazam
pandora
dropbox (great for backing up your sd card backups... just encase your phone is lost or stolen)
kjv bible
skype
whatsapp (best app ever)
chrome2phone
speedtest
myatt (best way to pay a bill when you forgot to at home)
music online lite
xda app
the list got longer when i looked at my sexy phone im still missing an rss reader and a reddit app though. hoping someone here mentions a good one
Most of my installed apps are must have . Here's a link to the extensive list I provided someone else with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19278748&postcount=2
I wish people would just post 1 or 2 apps, as huge lists with no explanations are kind of pointless.
With that said, I just got a GS2 and have been trying out some new apps I never bothered with on my Droid 1.
I'm using Plume for Twitter. It seems like the highest rated twitter client, and I can see why. It's really smooth and slick and has a pretty intuitive interface. I'm liking it a lot and see no reason to ever try another Twitter app.
Llama- Ever wanted to try tasker or Locale, or jealous of the Razr's 'smart actions' app, but didn't want to spend money on any of them? This is a free automatic settings manager and so far it seems really powerful. I'm just getting it set up today, so I don't know how well it works in practice, but it seems to be able to do anything the paid apps do if not more. I always wanted to see how one of these apps really worked but didn't want to pay 6 bucks for one like Tasker so I'd say this is worth trying out if you're looking for something like this.
Russellmania said:
I wish people would just post 1 or 2 apps, as huge lists with no explanations are kind of pointless.
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At some point, people just have to give it a closer look and try it themselves. Anything in my list without a brief explanation is self explanatory.
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Some of my favorite, less know apps:
MobiReader Pro: a picture OCR, done completely on your phone. Turns the text in the picture to a text document, where I then use...
CopyPaste Pro: to copy that text and move it to QuickOffice, and use Evernote, and bam! Document for my computer.
FourTracks Pro: for the mobile musician - it allows you to record four tracks much in the same way GarageBand allows you to, and using a couple other programs, I can mix, edit, and produce all on my phone.
ROMToolbox: amazing program. It combines many programs into one. Just look it up on Market. It's worth every penny.
WifiKill: a fun, trolling, but useful program. Kills any other devices connected to your wiring. So say your wife or children are using the internet, downloading movies and whatnot, you can use this app to cut them off, and get all that bandwidth back for yourself.
Finally, N64oid: a great N64 emulator. Nuff said.
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honghsien5 said:
get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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Will look into that. ;-)
autonomous-inc said:
Some of my favorite, less
WifiKill: a fun, trolling, but useful program. Kills any other devices connected to your wiring. So say your wife or children are using the internet, downloading movies and whatnot, you can use this app to cut them off, and get all that bandwidth back for yourself.
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Couldn't find wifikill
Its not wifi killer is it?
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hussarfilms said:
Couldn't find wifikill
Its not wifi killer is it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282900
i think he's referring to that app.
Tasker - Control everything
Minimalistic Text - Great widget tool
Ti Backup - Who on this forum does not use this?
g+ - Love it
ES File Manager
World of Goo - Fantastic game
honghsien5 said:
get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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can you remove the 'take photo' icon/app from friendcaster that installed automatically?
polobreaka said:
can you remove the 'take photo' icon/app from friendcaster that installed automatically?
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i don't think so.
i have no idea why friendcaster has that app but i usually just ignore it.
btw, facebook is going to update today so i'm gonna check it out and see if it's better now or not.
honghsien5 said:
i don't think so.
i have no idea why friendcaster has that app but i usually just ignore it.
btw, facebook is going to update today so i'm gonna check it out and see if it's better now or not.
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the new update of fb looks the same as ios version.
http://lifehacker.com/5866050/faceb...-boost-plus-notification-and-interface-tweaks
edit: i dont see the updated fb in market.
polobreaka said:
the new update of fb looks the same as ios version.
http://lifehacker.com/5866050/faceb...-boost-plus-notification-and-interface-tweaks
edit: i dont see the updated fb in market.
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Should be out soon.
i sit in front of the computer all day at work and people txt me, and i have to reply back on my phone. i searched a few apps that allows sms to your desktop but all the apps i found just got mediocre reviews. which one do people recommend?
Koush makes an app called desksms that does just that
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Airdroid will do that for you: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sand.airdroid I use it all the time and I LOVE it (free)
+1 to Airdroid.
DeskSMS gets my vote!
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unknown1205 said:
i sit in front of the computer all day at work and people txt me, and i have to reply back on my phone. i searched a few apps that allows sms to your desktop but all the apps i found just got mediocre reviews. which one do people recommend?
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There are also MightyText and CrossTxT which are both free. But CrossTxT requires a beta signup
johan12330 said:
There's also MightyText and CrossTxT which are both free. But CrossTxT requires a beta signup
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MightyText user here. All you need is chrome installed with Mightytext. There making a Firefox add on soon though. MightyText rocks.
Airdron u can usee
Google Voice. Free TXT, and you can reply from the web or even from the email notification.
OK...Love this phone, but there is one thing bothering me that I can't find the answer to. I've looked in the One X/S forums, and tried searching to see if there are any apps that would help. So far, no luck.
I know, due to the Apple patent BS, that they had to remove the functionality of popping up the menu when you click on a link to ask what app you wanted to open it in. For the life of me, I cannot find any way of setting the YouTube app to be the default app to open up Youtube URLs. I've cleared the settings in the browser, but every time I open up a Youtube link, it sends it to the browser.
Probably even harder, but I would also like to make Google Maps URLs open in the Maps app when clicked from the browser. I looked for those defaults, and the Maps app is set for those URLs, but in the browser, it still opens in the browser.
This is the one thing that is seriously bothering me about this phone.
Might be a glitch,try a different browser like chrome beta
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It isn't necessarily happening just in the browser. The Maps issue is, but if I open a map link in G+ it opens it in Maps. But if I am in Reddit News or G+ and hit a Youtube link, it always opens in the browser.
I would like to know this as well. Viewing YouTube videos through the browser is very bad and doesn't do full screen correctly.
Mainly for reddit news app.
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Did you look under settings, app associations? I think that's how google made it work.
"We're coming from a pure power source."
Yeah, there isn't a way to add a new one, and there are some for Maps but none for YouTube. I think that is why Maps links in G+ work right, but YouTube always opens in browser.
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This thread should answer your questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657319
It's because of the stupid Apple patent that held our phones up in customs HTC put in their own custom app Associations link which kills internet links.
I'm thinking of rooting just to get rid of this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26155244&postcount=19
There is an HTC link app, you can try opening it up and configuring it, if that doesn't work try renaming it.
My EVO is still lost in the wirefly black hole so I can't confirm if this works
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Thanks for the replies. I saw that link app as a default in an app called Default App Manager, but couldn't do anything with it. Suspected that was the culprit.
The HTC workaround doesn't seem so bad, but they should have given us more control to manually set things. Wonder if they have an API for it. I wouldn't be opposed to writing a more full featured app. Will have to do some more research.
I don't blame HTC, I blame Apples's patent trolling.
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i just came to post about this, it seriously is a problem. youtube links in texts, emails, anywhere go to the browser. its terribly annoying!!!
shouldn't the Youtube app itself have a setting to make it default for youtube links? that app has like nothing in the actual settings. grrrrrrrrr
This whole 'new' way to choose what link opens which app sounds like a huge pain. I f*ckin hate apple. Buncha tech nazi's. How did they even get awarded that patent anyway? How much money did they throw at the patent office?
"We're coming from a pure power source."
wlpywd said:
i just came to post about this, it seriously is a problem. youtube links in texts, emails, anywhere go to the browser. its terribly annoying!!!
shouldn't the Youtube app itself have a setting to make it default for youtube links? that app has like nothing in the actual settings. grrrrrrrrr
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It's not the app that decides it's the os. The problem is Apple made them take out the app chooser
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I've tried everything! Different browsers, settings within FB, even disabled FB app.
Any help will be appreciated..
I'm having the same issue. I use dolphin and it's set to desktop. Then in browser I open Facebook.com and go to bottom left and click desktop and it keeps reverting back to mobile version.
I use Opera Mobile. Have the options set to desktop. Facebook comes up just as it would on my laptop. Never shows the mobile version.
Opera Mobile settings...Settings>Advanced>User Agent
Dannydeez said:
I use Opera Mobile. Have the options set to desktop. Facebook comes up just as it would on my laptop. Never shows the mobile version.
Opera Mobile settings...Settings>Advanced>User Agent
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I'll check it out thanks.
djscissorhands said:
I'm having the same issue. I use dolphin and it's set to desktop. Then in browser I open Facebook.com and go to bottom left and click desktop and it keeps reverting back to mobile version.
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I use Dolphin too. UNFORTUNATELY, you'll have to toggle the desktop top switch every time the mobile version tries to load.
1. Load the Facebook page.
2. When you see m.facebook.com in the browser, immediately stop the load.
3. Toggle the desktop switch to Android mode and then right back to Desktop mode.
4. Type the letter 'F' which should pull up the desktop version of Facebook if you were ever able to access it. If not, go into the browser bar and edit out the 'm.' in the mobile Facebook web address and then load the page.
Change from mob
You have to open your browser and open the menu. Make sure that view desktop site has a check next to it.
carlos64030 said:
I use Dolphin too. UNFORTUNATELY, you'll have to toggle the desktop top switch every time the mobile version tries to load.
1. Load the Facebook page.
2. When you see m.facebook.com in the browser, immediately stop the load.
3. Toggle the desktop switch to Android mode and then right back to Desktop mode.
4. Type the letter 'F' which should pull up the desktop version of Facebook if you were ever able to access it. If not, go into the browser bar and edit out the 'm.' in the mobile Facebook web address and then load the page.
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What a pain in the a**! Glad the rest of the sites I visit doesn't do this or I'd be returning the phone.
rc51rider said:
What a pain in the a**! Glad the rest of the sites I visit doesn't do this or I'd be returning the phone.
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Try using Google Chrome. It's not as feature packed or convenient like Dolphin, but it won't give you Facebook mobile issues either.
carlos64030 said:
I use Dolphin too. UNFORTUNATELY, you'll have to toggle the desktop top switch every time the mobile version tries to load.
1. Load the Facebook page.
2. When you see m.facebook.com in the browser, immediately stop the load.
3. Toggle the desktop switch to Android mode and then right back to Desktop mode.
4. Type the letter 'F' which should pull up the desktop version of Facebook if you were ever able to access it. If not, go into the browser bar and edit out the 'm.' in the mobile Facebook web address and then load the page.
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I never had to do this with og evo. Pita
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djscissorhands said:
I never had to do this with og evo. Pita
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It has nothing to do with the phone itself. It's facebook's ungodly coding that causes the issue. It probably isn't triggering a cookie that reminds the site to load in desktop version. You can confirm this by trying to do the same on any other mobile site (try Android Police) you'll see it sticks
What will work 100% of the time is what someone mentioned above: setting your user agent (if your browser allows you to) as something like Mozilla. This tricks the website into thinking you're on desktop and never even knows you're on a mobile site.
I downloaded Opera browser as suggested above and I don't have any problems anymore.
Opera browser is pretty sweet BTW
rc51rider said:
I downloaded Opera browser as suggested above and I don't have any problems anymore.
Opera browser is pretty sweet BTW
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Told u man. Ive been using opera mobile for years. I like when you go to download something and it gives you a popup letting you select which folder you want to download to. Oh, wouldnt hurt to hit the thanks button either...:good:
Racer Of All said:
It has nothing to do with the phone itself. It's facebook's ungodly coding that causes the issue. It probably isn't triggering a cookie that reminds the site to load in desktop version. You can confirm this by trying to do the same on any other mobile site (try Android Police) you'll see it sticks
What will work 100% of the time is what someone mentioned above: setting your user agent (if your browser allows you to) as something like Mozilla. This tricks the website into thinking you're on desktop and never even knows you're on a mobile site.
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I think the issue is either with the phone or SENSE. I still have my EVO 3D and the Samsung Galaxy S2. Both of those phones are still running on Gingerbread and neither one of them have Facebook mobile issues.
When I come to this forum, I sometimes need to go back to a topic/thread that I started to reference information but I cannot find a way to do this. If I click on the member icon in the upper right hand corner of the page, all I get is a login popup and no access to my account. What am I missing here? Thanks.
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When I come to this forum, I sometimes need to go back to a topic/thread that I started to reference information but I cannot find a way to do this. If I click on the member icon in the upper right hand corner of the page, all I get is a login popup and no access to my account. What am I missing here? Thanks.
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If you enter your info in the login popup, what happens? It just repeatedly asks you to log in?
You tried different browsers?
ChazzMatt said:
If you enter your info in the login popup, what happens? It just repeatedly asks you to log in? You tried different browsers?
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Yes, it does repeatedly ask me to sign in. I am using the same Opera browser that I have always used. And now, I am not getting any email notices of replies to my threads either. Thanks for the reply.
graywoulf1 said:
Yes, it does repeatedly ask me to sign in. I am using the same Opera browser that I have always used. And now, I am not getting any email notices of replies to my threads either. Thanks for the reply.
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My best guess is something privacy related -- VPN, browser setting -- is blocking this. One browser I use (Brave) won't let me search in XDA threads, while another (Chrome) does.
Just try another browser (like Chrome) temporarily as an experiment. If it works then check your Opera settings.
ChazzMatt said:
My best guess is something privacy related -- VPN, browser setting -- is blocking this. One browser I use (Brave) won't let me search in XDA threads, while another (Chrome) does.
Just try another browser (like Chrome) temporarily as an experiment. If it works then check your Opera settings.
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Thanks for the suggestion to try another browser. Chrome worked just fine so I looked at the settings in my Opera browser and for some reason, this forum was not on the exceptions list any longer. So I added this URL and all is back as it should be again. Thanks for your help. Now if I could get an answer to my problem with making slo-mo videos.
graywoulf1 said:
Yes, it does repeatedly ask me to sign in. I am using the same Opera browser that I have always used. And now, I am not getting any email notices of replies to my threads either. Thanks for the reply.
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I've had this issue sooooooooo many DAMN times on my PC. Using Google to log in. It's a pain in the arse! Download XDA Labs. Easier to login and stay logged in.
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As an edit, on PC, the new MS Edge seems to login fine. Something with chrome gives issues?
BROKEN1981 said:
I've had this issue sooooooooo many DAMN times on my PC. Using Google to log in. It's a pain in the arse! Download XDA Labs. Easier to login and stay logged in.
Sent from my LG-H932 using XDA Labs
As an edit, on PC, the new MS Edge seems to login fine. Something with chrome gives issues?
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Thanks for the suggestion but it was a problem with my Opera browser that I now have fixed. The browser had somehow deleted this forum URL from it's safe list. Once I added the URL back into the list, all is fine. I don't usually use my phone for web related things unless I have to. I don't even check my email on my phone unless I am away from home for a long while.