Ics Google Search on JB? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I miss heavily the ability to just click the Google search bar and search my phone, eg contacts and dictionaries right away.
With JB that needs a few extra steps.
That was a feature I absolutely loved in Ics.
Is there anyway to get it back?
Thx
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I miss the GB one where you just done that it seems so slower and complicated now
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google now in ics
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087177

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Dialers

So I do not like the stock dialer on my S2 and have been looking around. I narrowed it down to DW Dialer and exDialier. Are those the better ones or do you guys suggest anything else?
jhermit said:
So I do not like the stock dialer on my S2 and have been looking around. I narrowed it down to DW Dialer and exDialier. Are those the better ones or do you guys suggest anything else?
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I was using DW, but most of the features I really wanted are in the ICS dialer in ICScrewD, so using that now. DW would be my fall back though. Wish the dev would drop the price for the pro version tho
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It is pricey and uses a ton of memory.
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jhermit said:
It is pricey and uses a ton of memory.
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I didn't feel that way with it installed on my phone. DW Contacts is awesome, especially it's fuzzy search in names/companies (you can choose what it should search)! Just today I needed to search for the guy who installed blinds in my home.. all I needed to type was 'blinds' and found that guy's number. I would miss this feature in stock dialer.
ExDialer is where it's at. It has a couple themes, and as good as stock dialer (functionality) and it's free
+1 for exdialer
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jazzboyrules said:
I didn't feel that way with it installed on my phone. DW Contacts is awesome, especially it's fuzzy search in names/companies (you can choose what it should search)! Just today I needed to search for the guy who installed blinds in my home.. all I needed to type was 'blinds' and found that guy's number. I would miss this feature in stock dialer.
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Google maps did this with my friends house (and mine) after only typing a few letters of the street! Really smart stuff.
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How to show a line beneath bad spelled words like in iOS

Since I have my SGS3 a few weeks ago there's something missing and I don't know why. I'm talking about the in line spell checking.
In ICS when you misspell a word a red dotted line appears underneath that word, so you can easily see the mistake and fix it. This is also present in iOS.
Why don't we have that on our SGS3? I really need it to easily check for any mistakes when writing emails and other stuff.
Right now there is no way to see when a word is incorrectly written. I have to re-read all my text again to see if it's correct and it takes to long compared to just looking for the red dots.
It's it just me or is there a way of enabling this feature? I downloaded the ICS keyboard from the market and it doesn't have this much needed feature.
I don't understand why no one seems to find this to be a problem.
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It's sImple. because you so lazy to explore.. it's in the keyboard setting.
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ascariz said:
It's sImple. because you so lazy to explore.. it's in the keyboard setting.
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No its not. Ive gone over different keyboard settings many many times looking for it and I havent seen any option to enable this. If you know it tell me which setting it is exactly.
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Anyone? There must be a way to enable this feature.
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samsung keyboard, settng, predictive text, spell correction
Thanks but that's not what I mean. I still don't get any visible sign on a misspelled word. I'm not talking about spell checker.
What I want is something like iOS when you misspell a word and a red dotted line appears beneath the word. That way it's very easy to check for misspelled word on very long notes.
I think I saw this same feature on the ICS keynote. A line appears beneath the mistakes word and it gives you a list of optional words to change to.
This does not appear on my SGS3. Maybe it's because it's not stock Android. How can I get this?
Thanks.
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dont quite understand why android must work like ios , ios is not even a benchmark platform
Aimara said:
dont quite understand why android must work like ios , ios is not even a benchmark platform
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No, no, no. It doesn't need to work like iOS. I'm saying that stock Android has this feature but I don't see it on the SGS3 and that is weird. Stock Android shows you a line beneath any word misspelled. Why not the SGS3?
There has to be a way to show it.
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What? He doesn't want all of android to be like iOS just. A feature that is present in stock ICS & jb ROMs. I have it in cm10 I guess Samsung removed it. You could always flash cm9/cm10.
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Use the aosp keyboard, get it from a cm or cm10 rom zip.
look in system/app folder.
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I would like that feature to lol I'm a terrible speller and have to figure it out with autocorrect.
Another reason why I will have to root I suppose.
-JOSH-
Here is latinIME.apk from CM10
http://db.tt/cGyzndc9
Download it and use a root explorer to move it to system/app
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Why dont you try to download the ics keyboard from the play store. It is similar to one present in stock ics and cm....it should give what you want...
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sujoshred said:
Why dont you try to download the ics keyboard from the play store. It is similar to one present in stock ics and cm....it should give what you want...
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I've already downloaded the ICS and JB keyboards and still that feature is not present. It's not present strangely on any keyboard: Swype, swiftkey, go keyboard, etc. It's actually really weird. It's an essential feature and it comes with stock Android. I don't know if this problem is only with Samsung or if HTC has it too.
Will moving the keyboard file to system really work? I will try it.
My last resort would be to use CM10 I guess.
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[Q] CM10 on GS3 lose feature such as smart stay and etc

Hi,
Would i lose the gs3 features such as smart stay, direct call and etc if i end up rooting and installing CM10 on gs3?
Yes.
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So cm10 is basically a stock jellybean? What other things do u get from it
Text message popups, ability to modify status bar, change theme of the phone if you don't like stock. Just the few things I've found using cm10
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It's kinda sad. stock has some great features that you'll miss out on. Personally I got a modified stock rom (foxhound). Best of two worlds
You can get smart stay with smart stay ex from play store and super video for the floating video feature
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[Q] Emoji's?

Is there a way to send Emoji's with the stock messaging app? Maybe I am just totally looking over something but I don't see it anywhere. I know I can see them when other people send them to me. Well they have a "Android-like" skin to them but they are still there. In stock Android I know you can use them for 4.0 and above.
My wife did some research, could not find a way to use those on Android.
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My wife did some research, could not find a way to use those on Android.
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Oh you can definitely use them on Android. If you run stock Android and it's 4.0 and above, it is built into the native messaging app. If you don't have stock or 4.0 and above, you can download a messaging app like Handcent and you can use them that way. They are definitely ways to use them. I just want to know if there is a way to use them in the native messaging app in Sense
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Are these different than the built in smiley set that you can access by long pressing the 12# button on the lower left of the keyboard?
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Are these different than the built in smiley set that you can access by long pressing the 12# button on the lower left of the keyboard?
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Oh I didn't even see those. I've been using swiftkey. They aren't exactly like regular emoji's but they are I guess. The real set of emoji's has a lot more of them too. I guess that's better than nothing though
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Best Keyboard

Hey guys, I've been using the stock android keyboard for a while and I'm curious, what's the best keyboard you guys have used?
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clank714 said:
Hey guys, I've been using the stock android keyboard for a while and I'm curious, what's the best keyboard you guys have used?
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I prefer swype like interface.
I have used both swiftkey (before swype-like interface) and afterwards, swype, thumb keyboard, and Slideit.
I prefer using swiftkey slightly.
Swype is probably the best in regards to sliding.
Slideit is nice but has a slight lag that messes me up.
Swiftkey has some predictive stuff which can both help or hinder.
I think you can't go wrong with any of the above 3.
For tablets, I just use thumb keyboard.
for me either stock 4.2 keyboard or samsung galaxy s4's keyboard love them both
I like the stock keyboard and Google keyboard from the market. The stock keyboard is tough to type with after having a number of drinks
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richii0207 said:
I like the stock keyboard and Google keyboard from the market. The stock keyboard is tough to type with after having a number of drinks
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Haha. I use SwiftKey, in Pitch color scheme. Jelly Bean keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jlsoft.inputmethod.latin.jelly.free is great too. Just like the stock Google keyboard but with more secondary functions on the keys.
As someone who purchased both swype and swiftkey, I personally use the Samsung keyboard, though I must add that I took the apk from the international version and changed some things to make it work how I wanted it to. Currently I m testing the Google keyboard from the 4.3 leak and its pretty good, haven't used it very long though.
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I've been a swype user since day 1. Even when I had my GS3 but I'm loving the stock Samsung keyboard on the GS4.
Pay for SwiftKey. Best app purchase I have ever made.
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Swype...best ever. I'm pretty sure that's an objective truth.
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Swype...best ever. I'm pretty sure that's an objective truth.
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Wish Swype would for allow for customer autotexts (abbreviations). I use about 100 of these daily.
I used to use swiftkey before I came to the s4 but now I dont seem to think it looks good on the phone it just looks plan so as of now im using stock even though I serverly hate the keyboard because I keep making mistakes on it.
Have you guys tried touchpal?
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Samsung stock keyboard....that top row of numbers is awesome especially for entering passwords over and over
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I've used SwiftKey for nearly a year now. I did try the 4.2 stock keyboard for a week or two but found my way back to SwiftKey. The predictive capabilities are phenomenal and can really save you time.
I like the stock Samsung key board. The numbers on top are great. My only concern is the dictionary. I have added words to the Samsung dictionary, but they still dont show up when texting. Has anyone had success with adding words to the dictionary?

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