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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
Hmmn, doesn't work for me...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
really?

now that you changed that setting, try double tapping a section of text, it should zoom in a lot further, and reflow it.

i'm doing this on the desktop version of www.engadget.com

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
AHA!

i bet you didn't kill the app and reopen it did you??

Dickie

EDIT: ignore, i don't think this is neccessary
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
Did that now that you mentioned it, no go still.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
ok, try enabling Auto-fit pages...

i just disabled that and lost the functionality, re-enabling restored it!!

Dickie

Edit: looks like i must have accidentally clicked that at some point as i believe this is the key to reflow, and have edited the above post to reflect this!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
Yep, I tried that too before you mentioned it, since thats the key to enabling it in the SGSI.

Strange, now I have multiple reports that its working for some, but its not working for me...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
strange... for what its worth, these are my ENABLED settings in the browser:

Default Zoom - medium

Open pages in overview

text encoding - latin-1

block pop-up windows

load images

auto-fit pages

enable javascript

enable plug-ins - always on

Debug after about:debug entered in browser:

use wide viewport

thats it...

Dickie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostfree:
Please can you explain the last steps, seems you're the only person who's got this working.

Edit - Googled and got into the advance menu, view port already enabled but still not working :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dickie2007:
yeah that was already enabled on mine...

all i did was change Default zoom level to close, and enabled auto-fit pages...

thats when i noticed it working, i then changed default zoom back to medium and it still worked, and disabling auto-fit pages disabled text reflow...

Dickie

FWIW:

BB version: I9100XXKDF

KERNEL version: 2.6.35.7-I9100XWKDD-CL161513

root@DELL103 #2

BUILD No.: GINGERBREAD.XWKDA
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turt:
Ok it works to me but it's still not the full reflow!

1) If you want to zoom further after double-tapping, the text does not reflow

2) If you want to "unzoom" after double-tapping, then the text reflows...

So it's still a partial fix.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesking420:
Still not working for me either.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkley:
This is exactly what I get after enabling auto-fit too :)

I guess partial reflow is better than no reflow although I find it a bit strange that if they can do reflow, that they didn't enable it fully...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maedox:
This is a general problem in Android not just SGSII. In all my devices and different ROM's the text has never been adjusted to the correct width when using pinch-zoom.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turt:
That may be true, but HTC Android devices don't suffer this problem... So it can be done ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostfree:
Not quite, it works by double tapping on the SGS and does it automatically on my old HTC Magic and Orange San Fran.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maedox:
What I meant was that it's sort of pointless to discuss it here. It should be reported to Android and/or Samsung directly.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmmmy:
It was already mentioned, but the switch to landscape from portrait and back (or vice versa) will consistently reflow the text after pinch to zoom (or tilt to zoom). Slightly annoying extra step but it's better than scrolling at the end of each line.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marink:
Same for me, just have to double tap when you zoom in again. Better than nothing, and tbh I normally get the size of my text right on the first zoom ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olyloh6696:
pinch to zoom - then double tap

OR

Use another good browser like opera 11 :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Potatoman:
Does Opera 11 support the Hardware Acceleration which the standard browser does though? If so I'm swapping right now. :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olyloh6696:
im not 100% sure. what brenifits does hardware accleration have ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
the word on the street is that opera has supported hardware acceleration on all android handsets for a while now. but i dont know if that referred to opera mini or opera mobile. so i'd assume that if that is in fact true, then it would also apply to the SGS2.

that was always a special case as most of the time hardware acceleration is NOT supported. but supposedly opera made it happen.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobren:
I also see that text reflow after pinch-to-zoom is generally possible on every android device it's a matter of activation by the ROM Builder. Which is Samsung here. What I already saw in the different ROMs that Pinch-Zoom buttons will always work (as far as I saw).

Therefor here is another work-around besides the orientation trick (which also works for me).

- Use Dolphin (I have Mini) Browser

- Activate Pinch-Zoom Buttons in the menu (which isn't possible in the stock browser)

=> now you can double-tap to zoom in with reflow and adjust the size with the pinch buttons.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
i just tested the samsung Infuse last night, and the browser reflows text just like it does on every other android phone including my nexus one. so it seems samsung did it correctly with the Infuse. you guys sure your doing it right? lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobren:
Hi I'm sure ;). This is already my third Android Phone (besides I have a Galaxy Tab). And I used a lot of different ROMs on all of them.

I'm using this feature all the time...

Maybe they left it out intentionally or it's a settings bug since it may be working for some here.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turt:
Yeah me too... I also have a Galaxy Tab so I'm familiar as to how it should work!

I've tried every single possible combination but the text does NOT reflow when we pinch-to-zoom.

As a workaround, I use the double-tap to get a correct size, and when it is still too small I use the "pinch-to-zoom + 90° trick". Not exactly a long term solution but it does the job...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tobren:
Hi,

I found out another thing. If I double-tap to make the text Auto-Fit. Then if I zoom out the reflow happens. But only if you zoom out. Also if I zoom back in it doesn't reflow.

Is that the case for others here?

So a work-around (although also not very good) could be setting the zoom or text size to be a little higher and then zooming out. I know it's not great :-).

But now with this behaviour it really seems like a bug to me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turt:
Yeah, I've already commented on this a few pages earlier, indeed it reflows when you zoom out...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RogerPodacter:
hmmm well that's basically exactly what i did to test the infuse. so maybe i tested wrong. i cant remember now. today i'll go over and load a page, and straight away pinch to zoom and see if it reflows the text.

interestingly the infuse browser seems to be hardware accelerated too, and also shows the checker board background, its really smooth, etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalaxyS2_1:
Hey all,

I started a page for this issue on Facebook, I hope it helps us reach Samsung's developers to fix this issue. "Please Samsung, Add Text Reflow to Samsung Galaxy SII".
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad_Petree:
This should have been fixed in the 2.3.5 update :mad: , maybe in the ice cream sándwich update?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenkiller:
I was just looking at a video for the Samsung Epic Touch 4G (variant of the SGS2), and it's stock browser does dynamic reflow with pinch zoom at all times. Maybe someone can port that browser over to our SGS2?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olyloh6696:
I use opera, it has reflow.

Or cm7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krisbo:
+1 for Opera :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Has anybody found ICS firmware that text reflow works on?

I've tried about 3 different Stock ICS FWs and none of them reflow...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olyloh6696:
Try ICS browser +, it has text reflow.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Tried it already, but no luck. Every phone I've ever owned can do this with the stock browser (including my current Atrix), except the SGSII.

Even if you double tap to "force" it to manually fit the screen, it just zooms out...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olyloh6696:
Oh yeah, I see what you mean.. It doesnt work on all phones!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Anybody? It doesn't have to be automatic text reflow I'll even take ANY stock ICS firmware that you can fit-to-zoom by double tabbing the zoomed in text?

I've tried 5 different versions already and when you double tap the zoomed in text it just zooms out. I know that there is ICS firmware that can do this because some claim that it can be done, I just need the ICS firmware version number?... :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Bump...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saquib:
Has anyone updated to a generic Rom ? Can you post a guide if possible please

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intratech:
Check dev forum.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stuclark:
As said above - check the dev forum.

I've done it and it was very easy :)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Four-Fifty-X:
I'm running a stock rooted ROM (with sideloading, HSUPA).

I have a perpetual notification asking me to download the recently released update. I have restarted, and the notification just comes back.

I'm afraid to install the update, since I'm running a rooted ROM--I'm not sure what the results will be.

Has anyone applied the update to a stock rooted ROM?
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
It won't update. It will hang.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Four-Fifty-X:
Got it. Any way to get rid of the notification?
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
Follow the steps in my second link in my sig?

That's about the only way.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Four-Fifty-X:
Oh fahrts. I've been getting the update notification all day. Now, I unrooted, and I can't get the notification or the update...:(
[HTC Inspire 4G] id10terrordfw:
Yes you can. If you still have s-off, try installing gingerbreak 1.2 and see what happens.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] pbarnum:
Is it possible to make different types of window animations?

If it is, and if someone would like to make it, here are some suggestions...

An animation...

with a "3D" sense to it.

where the first window dissolves from a side to the other and the second window appears directly after

that fades from one to the other (like the dropbox app intro)

that looks like a page turning

that is random to many different animations

Thanks!
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] Da Baron:
I downloaded an app called "Anim Mod *Root*" from the Market. Obviously it only works on rooted phones. It offers several animations to choose from like;

bounce,flip,fly-in,fold etc. It works quite well on my phone with no glitches or random reboots or force closures.

Hope this helps?

~

Da Baron
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] pbarnum:
That's exactly what I am looking for, but I'm not looking to buy unfortunately, I can live without...
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] :
Here you go use this in metamorph free version. Its all the animations mixed in one. http://db.tt/rk9K0pe
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bagofsnakes:
I want to max out the memory with a 32gb SDHC. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToneyEricsson:
The SanDisk 32GB is very good,

it performs higher than stated with regards to class and obviously is a highly reliable make.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daveybaby:
Another vote here for sandisk, havent actually tried their 32GB, but every other card i've had from them has been faultless.

Most important thing w.r.t. memory cards IMO, is to buy from a reliable source. Ebay is rife with fakes.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Retrosid:
Arc can handle up to class 6?

Or i shall order a class 8 or 10.

When i bought arc i had in the case a 16gb sdhc card, but i want a faster one
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azian_advanced:
someone was able to get between 6.00 to 6.79 MB/s on his Class 6 16GB MicroSD, but that was on an X10. you might get similar results on the Arc.

(source)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjh4:
just got a lexar 32gb class 10 card from amazon (solutek) works great , faster than standard card supplied with arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bagofsnakes:
I guess I'll try the Sandisk, much appreciated guys. Now I just need this phone to be shipped.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartbla:
I Bought a Sandisk Class 4 32GB and it works fine for me.

The data transfer to the card seems faster when I take it out of the phone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yousif666:
I was thinking of getting Lexar MicroSDHC 32 GB Class 10 from amazon for my arc so anyone have it already and how is it? cus i didn't see any sandisk microsd have class 10 32Gb.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diegast:
I've used the original Sandisk MicroSd 8 Gb (Class 2) and a Class 6 variant... When you copy big numbers of mp3 or movies to the phone, it really makes a difference. Example: with a Class 2 it takes about up to 1 or more hours to transfer 1 Gb - a Class 6 does the job in less then 5 minutes...! But if you want to buy a good rated SD because of the HD-camera, then Class 2 should be high enough (according to the experts). Any higher only helps if you transfer data a lot/often (like changing your musiccollection on the Arc).
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiRIus[X]:
i'm on 32gb class10 Lexar, so far so good :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ludovic.audoin:
+1 for The lexar class 10. Very good !!! The best solution with The sandisk class 4.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mesho Arc:
I bought a Kingstone 16GB Class 4, at first it was impressive but now it jams when shoot a video a lot.

speed of the memory:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/27/sonyericssonlt15i201105.png/

btw, if anyone spots a good micro sd 16gb class 6 or higher please inform me.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomatos:
I become a 16GB Class 2 Card but this card was wrong, the write speed is 3Mb/s, then I bought a new 16GB Class 10 Card. This card speed: 11.3/20.9 (write/read) the i am happy :D :D The maked HD video is better and the frame rate is really 30fps :D

UPDATE: The card worked much data disappeared from him then until 5 days. The next day the telephone did not see the card already though. F***ing noname card! Nobody let me not buy it trademarkless card!
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmatch:
Can I use my phones SD card on my nook color?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmatch:
Neverminfld
[G Tablet General] Zaphod-Beeblebrox:
I will not be much help here, but I applaud your efforts.

I hope someone fills in the rest of the picture... I would love to do this to my G-Tab.
[G Tablet General] twistedrotors:
Great post Fosser2!

I too would like to have an internal GPS solution. I have a little electronics experience and I'm willing to go down this road as well.

For the ferrite bead, it looks like it gets soldered in at the L1 pad on the board.

All the other parts you listed look like they'll fit. The 3.3v chips you listed are just regulators. They "regulate" how much voltage goes through them. You feed them 5v (or whatever) and they spit out 3.3v.

What I'm wondering next is what about all the capacitors that are missing (all the C### labels on the board). Those regulators need some and the GPS chip itself looks like it needs some as well. I'll download the data-sheets and dig through those.

Hopefully others will chime in as well. :)

-John
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
Well honestly I'm not sure about all the C#### labels. I think when I order the parts (Thursday) I will only be ordering the GPS, Antenna, the ferrite bead and the antenna connector. I will be using that 3.3v from the mini PCI e header and pray it works. (hopefully bypassing the need for "regulators.") :p I'm just hoping that it will be detected software side. I guess time will tell ;) But for all others keep posting on this topic because your expertise is greatly helpful.
[G Tablet General] roguey:
Another alternative is looking into the Ericson 3307G which the Zpad, uses for GPS. (Gps version)

The 3307G has GPS and 3G, though it is a mPCIE card, so u need to put one of those on the board.

It may be easier though as you can modify the zpad roms for the gtab.
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
For right now, I'm going to roll with the actual gps chip. I did put some though into installing the mPCIE slot but I'm hoping that the GPS is more just dropping in and hoping it works. The mPCIE slot seems like it would be tough to get working software side, but thats just my 2cents.
[G Tablet General] roguey:
well apparently pershoot's kernel supports it (3g version anyway), its just the rom that needs the modifying.

Remember the Zpad and Gtab are basiclly the same thing, main thing missing from the Gtab is the pcie and Antenna.
[G Tablet General] dhanifin:
Looks like a great project. I'll be following your progress.

I wanted to mention that the ferrite bead in your link is 22 olms not 300 you list in your post.
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
Good call on that one. Here is what the data sheet specifically says about the ferrite bead.

"A 300 ohm ferrite bead should be used to connect this line to the
RFIN line. This bead will prevent the RF from getting into the power supply, but
will allow the DC voltage onto the RF trace to feed into the antenna. A series
capacitor inside the module prevents this DC voltage from affecting the bias on
the module’s internal LNA.
Maintaining a 50 ohm path between the module and antenna is critical. Errors in
layout can significantly impact the module’s performance. Please review the
layout guidelines elsewhere in this guide carefully to become more familiar with
these considerations."

If you can do me a favor and try to find the proper ferrite bead to meet these specifications that would be great. I'll keep looking on my end.

The other reason that I had this ferrite bead was the user "vsc" recommended it in this post. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12242377&postcount=54

Here is what he said:

2) The GPS receiver datasheet says for the ferrite bead, 300 ohms at 100 MHz. But every bead that meets that specification that I found also doesn't have good isolation at ~1.5 GHz (GPS band). As such I picked a different bead based upon my "good" judgement which will provide isolation between the antenna and LNA supply.
[G Tablet General] rcjpth:
It looks like you are serious about this - but - are you PCB hardware and software engineer? After all the hardware prototype, you have to make the BIOS recognize and get the driver for this motherboard..etc...ouches - lots of work...

Unless you are into this to make the business on it - I would say "waste of time" (sorry - if offended to you). And I assum this could be your hobby to play around with electronic, pcb..etc...but if you are very good at EE/EEE and assembly language, Java - you are welcome to try on this :)

good luck!
[G Tablet General] KorbenD:
The ferrite bead would be soldered onto the PCB at L11 (upper left on the first picture). It goes between pin 17 of the chip and the antenna connector.
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
Currently I'm like 85% sure that the GPS support is built directly into the software. I have been directly talking to roebeet. He said that in his newest firmware "brilliant corners" that he deleted a script that checked to see if there was a gps chip installed and then enabled/disabled it accordingly.

With my Brilliant Corners update, I actually noticed a script that gets run and changes the library file, depending on the GPS installed.

So well I am still unsure about a number of things, I'm going to press my luck and continue with the project :p I will be ordering the parts tomm.
[G Tablet General] twistedrotors:
Here is a 300 Ohm ferrite bead that should work. It's the same package size as the original 22 Ohm one that was posted.

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=445-2171-1-ND

-John
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
Nice job on that find. I'll most likely be using this one in the build.
[G Tablet General] dzasta:
Looking at the pictures, you reference U39. This looks like a BGA IC which is going to be a real PIA to solder, if possible at all. Normally, BGAs are placed on the solder paste with +/- 1mil tolerance using a pick and place machine, then baked with all of the other SMT parts with the board. And even then you get fallout from the BGA shifting during reflow and needs to be x-rayed for voids and shorts. i can only cringe at the prospect of doing this by hand, but i've seen it done before.

In our case, the board is already populated and the only way to solder on the BGA would be find a heat source with a isolated stream (read no generic heat guns) and a crap load of kapton tape to insulate and hold the other SMT parts around U39 down.

Furthermore, the GPS module IC also comes in a QFN package which is also a PIA to solder. Granted, its not a BGA and has no pins directly under the IC but it will take a skilled technician with a industrial grade soldering iron with temperature control.

I'm in no way trying to shoot this idea down. It certainly is do-able but it is a true project with no guaranteed outcome (parts soldered down correctly = GPS will work). I certainly would entertain trying this out and this gives me the perfect excuse to pry open my 2 wk old gtab. i have all of the necessary tools available at my company to do this properly and if its a matter of simply soldering down these parts to see what happens, i can do this.

let me do a little more research on the GPS module. hopefully, the viewsonic design engineers used a reference design straight from linx so we can figure out at least the GPS module schematics so we can understand what needs to be soldered where etc (and find out what U39 is - it says its a uP for micro processor but in our case it might be a serial NMEA converter).

stay tuned. from a practical risk vs reward scenario this isn't worth the time/effort. thankfully, i enjoy doing stuff like this and its the process that i enjoy, the outcome is simply icing on the cake.

sorry for the long post. :cool:
[G Tablet General] fosser2:
Dang, I guess I didn't think much about what the U39 part was. I sure hope that its not the NEMA serial converter. That would blow the whole project. Let me know if you find any schematics for this part. Either way, the project is still happening :p Let me know what else you find. Your help is appreciated.