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I have not rooted my EVO LTE yet. But I installed ADW EX for now and can't stand the menu button on the bottom. It takes up too much space.
I'm not a Sense fan and was hoping version 4.0 was better, but but after a couple of days I still prefer pure Android. Unfortunately I can't figure out why HTC and others are adding permanent home, and back and recent buttons when ICS looks better without them.
Even when I root and install CM9, for example, I'll have a huge menu button that takes up too much space.
Anyone see what I'm talking about?
What can we do about it?
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Man I installed go launcher and I'm wondering the same exact thing. I upgraded to this phone to have a bigger screen than my s2 and I can't even do that without sense..
Does anyone know how to get rid of that menu vertical ... at the bottom?
I think an option is to use Apex or Holo launcher. They seem to be better suited for ics. Just saw a video review of it here http://goo.gl/cykps
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Another option is Nova Launcher. It is a true ICS launcher that is really slick and and does away with the three dot menu.
There is a mod that could be flash to remove menu bar and remaps it. Have you guys tried it?
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If you flash cm9 they remapped the buttons that crap is gone, it's running way better than sense also. Just a few minor issues.
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But is there an official CM9 out for the evo? One thing I'm not liking is the 1gb ram and sense. Sense is still too heavy for 1 gb ram. Sometimes it takes 15-20 seconds to load the sense launcher.
I bought apex pro. Better, but when I jump to different apps then hit the home button, sometimes it takes a few seconds to load the launcher.
That just tells me memory is running out somewhere (sense).
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OP, just to clarify, when you unlock and run CM9 , you WON'T have the big long menu bar. Even on sense, if you're rooted you can get rid of it.
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scottspa74 said:
OP, just to clarify, when you unlock and run CM9 , you WON'T have the big long menu bar. Even on sense, if you're rooted you can get rid of it.
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+1 on Nova.
Running Fresh 1.0 with Nova launcher, no lag but never really had any of the Sense 4.0 reload issues that some talked about anyway. Figured it was just the GS3 people trying to troll but maybe a bad batch of cells went out too..
Anyway, NOVA is sick! Setup the way you want, gives you better visual then GO etc (IMO) and great on footprint (memory). Works very well and as the other user stated, its native to ICS anyway. Give it a shot, blows the doors off anything else I tried and no lag anywhere..
Fresh is great too IMO, there are some great multitasking tips using the ROM toolbox, adjusting heaps etc..works well also,
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OP, just to clarify, when you unlock and run CM9 , you WON'T have the big long menu bar. Even on sense, if you're rooted you can get rid of it.
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What you say would be a solution for my discontent. I'm going to root soon and will remove some of the sense bloatware, but removing the menu also interests me. Regarding CM9 once it's officially supported ill be on board.
I bought apex and almost bought nova instead. They both look interesting.
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Just to let you know the menu button on the bottom shows because those apps having been optimized to ICS, yes after 7-8 months and developers still doing the same, thats the reason you dont see any system apps doing that, cause their optimize, I wish developers would tho
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So it's just a matter of time before more apps are optimized? It is very annoying...
tried nova launcher today it's great!
Born2Evo said:
So it's just a matter of time before more apps are optimized? It is very annoying...
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Yup
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Another option I wouldn't mind would be to hack the recent apps button to make it think it's the menu button. I'm used to long pressing the home button anyways. I think the Sgs3 is like that.
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livpalm said:
Another option I wouldn't mind would be to hack the recent apps button to make it think it's the menu button. I'm used to long pressing the home button anyways. I think the Sgs3 is like that.
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You should look around in the development section. Both issues you mentioned already have fixes.
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jadoe05 said:
You should look around in the development section. Both issues you mentioned already have fixes.
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Will do just that. Thx
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Lost my lock screen shortcuts and can't get them back. Box is checked in "personalize" settings. Any ideas?
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Try changing an icon in your dock.
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Zippernuts said:
Lost my lock screen shortcuts and can't get them back. Box is checked in "personalize" settings. Any ideas?
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Are you completely stock, or have you changed ROMs/kernals/themes?
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Try changing an icon in your dock.
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That didn't work either, I'm completely stock.
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That didn't work either, I'm completely stock.
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Hmmm. Here's what I would try next, just for the hell of it: remove all of your icons from your dock and from your main home screen. Change your wallpaper to something else stock. Reboot. Put one normal, everyday (like the phone dialer or people, etc) icon/shortcut - not a widget - in your dock. Reboot. Check lockscreen. See your shortcut?
HTH!
Try going to personalize under settings and go to lock screen. There should be options for different lock screen options.
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Try going to personalize under settings and go to lock screen. There should be options for different lock screen options.
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I tried that as well I guess they are gone forever.
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What did you install before this happened? You said you are stock, but are you rooted? Delete anything? This wouldn't just disappear without either clicking that setting off, or deleting something you shouldn't have.
I know you said stock... but did you install a different launch.. ie Nova, Apex... etc. and stop/freeze sense. When i did that i lost the lockscreen apps. Kinda sucks but sense needs to be running to have those, regardless of using it or not.... Good luck
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I know you said stock... but did you install a different launch.. ie Nova, Apex... etc. and stop/freeze sense. When i did that i lost the lockscreen apps. Kinda sucks but sense needs to be running to have those, regardless of using it or not.... Good luck
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I'm using nova, still stock No root. I'll try sense and see if they come back them.
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FlyingCaveman said:
I know you said stock... but did you install a different launch.. ie Nova, Apex... etc. and stop/freeze sense. When i did that i lost the lockscreen apps. Kinda sucks but sense needs to be running to have those, regardless of using it or not.... Good luck
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You're right man, switched to sense and they came back. Thanks, just have to decide if it's worth it now, really like nova. Thanks a million.
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Zippernuts said:
You're right man, switched to sense and they came back. Thanks, just have to decide if it's worth it now, really like nova. Thanks a million.
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Lockscreen shortcuts are the icons in the sense dock. Even if you are running nova it will pull them from the sense dock.
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Yeah keep nova installed and just make sure sense is running... A little waste of memory, but with 2gb you'll never notice.
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Yeah keep nova installed and just make sure sense is running... A little waste of memory, but with 2gb you'll never notice.
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The only thing that sucks is that too change the shortcuts i have to enable sense to change them. Then switch back to nova.
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With this you can remove Rosie and still have the shortcuts I think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874278
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The only thing that sucks is that too change the shortcuts i have to enable sense to change them. Then switch back to nova.
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Don't disable Sense. As far as enabling it to change the dock, just go into Nova settings and use the "Default launcher" button towards the bottom. Go to Sense, "Just Once" and set your dock. Hit the Home button and click Nova, "Always". Done.
same prob with htc one
i installed xposer installer and sense 5 tool box and everything was fine. but the next day i decided to re install my ARHD Rom to get rid of the mods had done before and then, my lockscreen apps were gone and widgets on lockscreen are not working...
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i installed xposer installer and sense 5 tool box and everything was fine. but the next day i decided to re install my ARHD Rom to get rid of the mods had done before and then, my lockscreen apps were gone and widgets on lockscreen are not working...
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Now she's at work with her new phone and I'm at work with my old Note 2 so I'm of no help. From my Sensations days I asked her to pinch to zoom to bring up home screen preview and rearrange them there but she said that is no good. The little screen to add another home screen page she says she can drag the home screens around but can't rearrange them. Is there any special trick to rearranging the home screens on the HTC One?
I have the same problem. I've been told that it can't be done with Sense 5.
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Now she's at work with her new phone and I'm at work with my old Note 2 so I'm of no help. From my Sensations days I asked her to pinch to zoom to bring up home screen preview and rearrange them there but she said that is no good. The little screen to add another home screen page she says she can drag the home screens around but can't rearrange them. Is there any special trick to rearranging the home screens on the HTC One?
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Yea its kinda limited right now. Better hope the JB/4.2.2 version of Sense 5 adds that ability.
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I have the same problem. I've been told that it can't be done with Sense 5.
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You've officially made my wife mad... lol.
What I did is add a panel, pick which one I wanted as my home screen, picked it, then populated the screens as I wanted. Not difficult.
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What I did is add a panel, pick which one I wanted as my home screen, picked it, then populated the screens as I wanted. Not difficult.
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This also
I want to that as well especially the icons on the bottom of the page should be movable
vikramdhani said:
I want to that as well especially the icons on the bottom of the page should be movable
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They are. Gotta do it in the drawer though.
blackangst said:
They are. Gotta do it in the drawer though.
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Which is downright stupid and confusing. Maybe I've been using Nexus devices for too long but I never had a learning curve on Android til I got this phone. (I love it but some things just seem like they were not very thought out.)
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jonathan3579 said:
Which is downright stupid and confusing. Maybe I've been using Nexus devices for too long but I never had a learning curve on Android til I got this phone. (I love it but some things just seem like they were not very thought out.)
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I agree there are bunch of stuff that just need too many steps to achieve
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blackangst said:
They are. Gotta do it in the drawer though.
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Can you please walk me through this drawer thing ? like if i want to change the default txt message icon with whatsapp icon
vikramdhani said:
Can you please walk me through this drawer thing ? like if i want to change the default txt message icon with whatsapp icon
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I can help. Just open the app drawer, long press on the app you want to remove. Drag it up and it will load back in the drawer leaving a blank space. Then drag the app you want to replace down to the blank space on the dock.
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They are. Gotta do it in the drawer though.
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jonathan3579 said:
I can help. Just open the app drawer, long press on the app you want to remove. Drag it up and it will load back in the drawer leaving a blank space. Then drag the app you want to replace down to the blank space on the dock.
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Let me try again once my wife is home, we were trying to do that but every time we drag a app out the same app appear on the drawer again so was not sure if there is any other way to get this done.
I will report back after trying it again
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Let me try again once my wife is home, we were trying to do that but every time we drag a app out the same app appear on the drawer again so was not sure if there is any other way to get this done.
I will report back after trying it again
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If that doesn't work for you, drag the other app down to the app you want to replace and it'll make a folder on your dock. Then just remove the app you want gone. Either way, it's more steps than it should be but you'll get the result you want!
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If that doesn't work for you, drag the other app down to the app you want to replace and it'll make a folder on your dock. Then just remove the app you want gone. Either way, it's more steps than it should be but you'll get the result you want!
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Thanks much I will try it out and will update this thread
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So here it I tried dragging the app to the drawer but seems like you can not move a app to the drawer and make a folder.
Is there anything else that can be done ?
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So here it I tried dragging the app to the drawer but seems like you can not move a app to the drawer and make a folder.
Is there anything else that can be done ?
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You might want to retry or do a master reset if none of what we've said is working. I'm including a screenshot of me dragging a random app (Facebook) to my dock to make a folder.
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vikramdhani said:
So here it I tried dragging the app to the drawer but seems like you can not move a app to the drawer and make a folder.
Is there anything else that can be done ?
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No. You dont drag it TO the drawer. You drag it FROM the drawer TO the taskbar. After, of course, dragging the icon you want to replace FROM the task bar TO the drawer.
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jonathan3579 said:
Which is downright stupid and confusing. Maybe I've been using Nexus devices for too long but I never had a learning curve on Android til I got this phone. (I love it but some things just seem like they were not very thought out.)
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It makes sense to me. What didnt make sense on my S2 was to first create a shortcut on a homescreen panel and then drag it to the bottom task bar. Thats two steps. With the One, its one step. From the drawer to the taskbar.
Thank You for these tips. I have been trying to figure this out. I will admit some of these things are strange coming from the Nexus 4 but I can deal with them for this awesome phone.
So when I drag it as per the screenshot. It does add the app to the drawer but then you can not remove either of the apps and this thing is pissing me how
Dont understand why something this simple can be made so difficult by HTC
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vikramdhani said:
So when I drag it as per the screenshot. It does add the app to the drawer but then you can not remove either of the apps and this thing is pissing me how
Dont understand why something this simple can be made so difficult by HTC
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I've got a few more screenshots that will hopefully help from here. Once you've created the folder, click on it to where it brings the two apps up. Then long press the app you wish to remove and drag it to the drawer.
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Does anyone know if this is possible? I keep finding myself pressing back, but then it would just leave me back in the app drawer instead of closing the app drawer and bringing me home. I want to close the app drawer with the back button and not need to press the drawer button.
Bump!
It could be dependent on the launcher you are using. I am using Nova Launcher. When I am in the app drawer and I press back, it brings me back to home.
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It could be dependent on the launcher you are using. I am using Nova Launcher. When I am in the app drawer and I press back, it brings me back to home.
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I am using Sense. I was hoping there would be a mod somewhere to achieve this.
anyone?
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I'm with you on this, very annoying.
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Please someone do this.
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Yeah wtf were they thinking with that lol
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Same here
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Works on Nova launcher but not on Sense.
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SKyRocKeting727 said:
Works on Nova launcher but not on Sense.
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Yea, but would be nice if we could use it on Sense instead of Nova.
Only thing I don't understand is that it takes this same effort to close it by pushing the home button as it does the back button. Am I missing something?
ceelo2008 said:
Only thing I don't understand is that it takes this same effort to close it by pushing the home button as it does the back button. Am I missing something?
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It's different, so automatically it's rubbish. Silly, ain't it?
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It's different, so automatically it's rubbish. Silly, ain't it?
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It's rubbish because it doesn't conform to standards and as such is a sore thumb for the user experience. The purpose of conforming to standards is to create consistent operations throughout the product instead of having someone press the back button because it works everywhere else and not work here.
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It's rubbish because it doesn't conform to standards and as such is a sore thumb for the user experience. The purpose of conforming to standards is to create consistent operations throughout the product instead of having someone press the back button because it works everywhere else and not work here.
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I agree to an extent, only because I find that compared to navigation on the One X, the app drawer makes things clumsy and you have one extra thing to think about. I don't like it, it's not intuitive, but this is a beautiful frackin phone so I won't complain too much.
I have literally had my phone for less than a few hours. But I thought it would be a great idea to share likes and dislikes.
Little bit of background, I am coming from a Note 2, so most of my likes/dislikes will be catered toward the upgrade from the Note 2.
Likes -
Mostly Everything LOL,
the screen resolution
the vibrant colors,
super fast,
the plethora of options,
blocking mode finally works,
no wifi nag notification,
wifi toggle works.
Dislikes -
The internet browser no longer sync with google,
can not use multiple lock screen widgets w/password or pattern lock,
4x4 grid on touchwiz (will be switching to nova).
I will update my list once I get to fully dive in. But so far 9.9999999999/10
I had mine for about an half hour. The best thing so far to me is the settings screen is 1 menu instead of 4 tabs . Sometimes its just the little things
Loving mostly everything, but again have only messed with it for a short time.
Only gripes so far is font sizes and in general DPI is just way too big and obnoxious. And lag when typing on the keyboard.
Let's go root!
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xray49er said:
I had mine for about an half hour. The best thing so far to me is the settings screen is 1 menu instead of 4 tabs . Sometimes its just the little things
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Oh yeah I love the fact that it is only one settings screen, instead of the four tabs.
We need root ASAP lol.
dukins said:
Oh yeah I love the fact that it is only one settings screen, instead of the four tabs.
We need root ASAP lol.
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So settings is set up different on vzw? Nice!
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So settings is set up different on vzw? Nice!
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Yep. One screen.
Keyboard is amazing, no need for swiftkey.
Id rather have the tabs so you dont have to scroll dow a huge list like on my note 2. But ghsts not a big deal. Im glad you can use blocking mode, and the wifi is back to normal.
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I don't like that when you get a new message it says now message instead of showing the actual text and who its from
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Getting Samsung keyboard has stopped when trying to write something with S-pen in a text field ie: text message, tapatalk response.
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On the Verizon Model is the gallery as slow as we have been seeing in the review units?
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I don't like that when you get a new message it says now message instead of showing the actual text and who its from
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You can change that in the messenger app settings. Enable message preview and it will scroll the message in the status bar like normal.
I'm so jealous right now. I would have mine now too, if I didn't change the shipping address to the correct one. So they can't ship it until tomorrow. So i am going to call to see if I can pick it up later this evening...
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likes
new settings
wifi toggle and no wifi nag notification
screen
new s pen
faux leather back
dislikes
none so far but only been on a few hours!
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You can change that in the messenger app settings. Enable message preview and it will scroll the message in the status bar like normal.
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Awesome thanks bud
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Agree with pretty much all of the likes so far, which is mostly everything about the device. My 4G speeds seem to have improved too.
Some nitpicks:
-new S-Pen feels much cheaply made than Note 2's
-Flipbook keeps getting activated when I hit the home button and accidentally brush by the screen
-Screen brightness range is WAY TOO SMALL (minimum brightness is too bright)
Several complains: desktop view does not stay on. I do not see the Note 2 developers options. I cannot remove the Verizon bookmarks as I was able to do before and restore from a save.
I think u have to tap on something in the menu 7 times to get dev options to show up. Saw it in a review somewhere
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I think u have to tap on something in the menu 7 times to get dev options to show up. Saw it in a review somewhere
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-Flipbook keeps getting activated when I hit the home button and accidentally brush by the screen
Can you disable Flipbook?
dislike that verizon is giving me a hard to use that verizon30 code