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[Android General] blackhand1001:
Android 4.4 kills the old webkit android renderer and replaces it with chrome-webview. Unfortunately google didn't update the aosp browser at all in 4.4 so its only partially working. The address bar no longer autohides, it has visual glitches, is missing the history tab, and no longer has text wrapping. Its also significantly laggier than the old native webkit engine. Not only does this change effect the aosp browser, but it also breaks a lot of apps that rely on webview. This wouldn't be a big deal if the performance improved due to the change but it doesn't. It performs much worse than the old webkit engine.

It also is very disappointing to see google ship the kit kat source code with broken components. The fact that chrome still performs this badly a year and a half after coming to android is embarrassing.

Does anyone know of a way to port the old webkit engine to a standalone app, or revert the changes made to integrate chromium-webview?
[Android General] PresidentMcCain:
This is why we need someone to compile 4.3 AOSP Browser with self-contained libwebcore.so + 4.3 webview library to fully get the original AOSP browser experience.

The closest we can get on 4.4 right now is Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack in terms of responsiveness and smoothness.. but it still has a few bugs, like the jumping pinch-zoom bug. However Dolphin Jetpack only works because it's a 100% in-house browser engine that replaces WebView in Dolphin. If you don't install Jetpack, Dolphin will be using the same buggy Chromium WebView.
[Android General] blackhand1001:
Yes, definitely. I was trying to figure out how to do this myself but its a little above my head right now.
[Android General] blackhand1001:
I started looking at the source code for the browser. What would be the best way to move the library into the app itself rather than rely on the android frameworks webview.
[Android General] PresidentMcCain:
I don't know, figured you might know.
[Android General] blackhand1001:
Hopefully more people see this and someone that has some idea where to start can help out.
[Android General] DT84:
Would that fix even Currents, Search and all the other apps based on WebView? Wouldn't that fix just the aosp browser?
[Android General] blackhand1001:
Just the aosp browser. But thats a step in the right direction.
[Android General] radeon_x:
Someone needs to make this happen... 4.4 is unusable to me in its current state because the browsing experience is so bad. Start a bounty maybe? :)
[Android General] Harcoreta:
i agree with you!

How about to compile a android 4.3 version for nexus 5? or port a Nexus 4 ROM ;)
[Android General] iamnotkurtcobain:
The browsing experience on 4.4 is horrible and frustrating.. We have phones with quad cores and 2.3 ghz and web browsing is slower and laggier than on 4.3 lol. Good work Google!! Chrome on Android sucks so hard. And the shi%#@ chromium engine. One step forward, two steps back. I moved from 4.4 back to 4.3 BECAUSE of the horrible webview performance. Fix that &#&@ Google! Hopefully they add a fix or something like that. Instagram lags too and Google Now results and so many other apps. It's sad...

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[Android General] PresidentMcCain:
Dolphin Browser + Dolphin Jetpack seems to work wonders on Kitkat. Nearly as good as 4.3 AOSP Browser performance, especially after the pinch zoom bug was fixed.
[Android General] iamnotkurtcobain:
I don't like Dolphin... Performance still worse than aosp 4.3 browser..

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[Android General] Natakranta:
Yes, Dolphin with Jetpack enabled is fast and double tap to zoom wraps text correctly. It's also much more battery friendly then Opera for Android, which wraps the text as well after double tap to zoom, but stutters sometimes horribly. Dolphin is almost always smooth, It's closest to AOSP Browser I found so far working on 4.4. Though Dolphin with Jetpack enabled (required to wrap text) has one major flaw - most of the time it covers xda forum pages with grey semi transparent overlay, in whole, or most part of the page. Sometimes it disappears, sometimes not. Enabling and disabling immersive mode sometimes helps, mostly not. I wrote to them about it. Dolphin devs are supposed to work on it, but so far last two updates of Jetpack did not fix it. Are you experiencing this grey obscuring layer on xda forum threads as well? (It does not happen on list of threads, only within a thread, over the text)

I miss AOSP Browser so much. Star the

Issue 62378: KitKat WebView text wrap no longer works

to fix webview.

If Google doesn't fix it, and to be honest I don't think they care, I'm realy looking forward to see somebody integrating 4.3 vebview within AOSP Browser so it works stand alone. I'd be willing to pay/donate for it. There are two apps on Play Store pretending to be AOSP Browsers, but they are mere impostors, one force closing on KitKat and the other full of adverts.

I'd be happy to downgrade to 4.3 on my Nexus 5 if that would be possible, just to have AOSP Browser working as it used to.

Nexus is becoming more Google and less Android with every next iteration.

Edit: I added two screen shots showing this grey overlay and without it.
[Android General] obvious:
Is anyone looking at integrating webview back into aosp browser under kitkat yet?
[Android General] iamnotkurtcobain:
We only can hope..

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[Android General] Natakranta:
I thought there would be millions of people complaining about broken text reflow in AOSP Browser and lack of uploading files through Browser, but mostly I fell like I'm the only one who cares. It's been two months now and Google still pretends there is no problem despite people staring that issue on their developer site every day. I stared it a well so I get few emails a day with people posting their complains about webview.

I file like Google is showing me finger and laughing.

Meanwhile Dolphin integrated their in-house WebKit, Jetpack, to their browser and you don't have to have Jetpack as a second app to Dolphin browser to enable it an text wrapping. With list update they fixed as well this grey semitransparent layer popping up on xda posts when you are logged on ( it was not coming up when I was logged out). So Dolphin is my default browser now.

Please somebody integrate old WebKit to Browser, plizzzz :cool:
[Android General] obvious:
Not sure if this helps?

class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
boolean scaleChangedRunnablePending = false;

// Other code here

@Override
void onScaleChanged(final WebView webView, fload oldScale, float newScale) {
if (scaleChangedRunnablePending) return;
view.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
webView.evaluateJavaScript("recalculateWidth();", null);
scaleChangedRunnablePending = false;
}
}, 100);
}
}

// Don't forget to webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());

function recalculateWidth() {
$("#contentRoot").width(window.innerWidth);
}
[Android General] matejdro:
Sadly, nobody appears to care about text reflow. AFAIK at the moment only two browsers support it: Opera and Dolphin Jetpack. Although I'm not sure how are you supposed to browse non-mobile websites without it pleasantly.

Obvious, this is method that needs to be integrated into website
[Android General] iamnotkurtcobain:
This seems THE thing!

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/56054/

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hilbe:
Can I boot directly into the bootloader right out of the box and do an unlock? Just curious if anyone has done this. Seems like booting up, taking the update, logging into google, etc, and doing the unlock later are all a waste of time if the unlock does a factory reset.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Yes that's fine.

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hilbe:
Can you add that to your guide? That would be awesome to know for others, that I don't need to waste time on the first boot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
Sure, will do.

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hilbe:
Can TWRP/CWM take the first update and process it? Curious if I should unlock bootloader, install recovery, and take the update...or just unlock bootloader and take the update.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nepotu:
You'll need the stock recovery for the OTA update.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Climberboi:
Howdy,

moved to here: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/help?nocache=1&z=4895190626527195
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dEris:
From the 3-4 different aosp ROMs, I've noticed the new dialer business search doesn't work (for me at least). However, the N5 port works just fine. Has anyone successfully gotten the new dialer to work in aosp ROM? If so, how?

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[ LTE Nexus 4 | Kit Kat ] ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaughingSam:
I've gotten my HTC ONE M7 to the Team Win Recovery Project v2.5.0.0 but now it is stuck, my touch screen is not working so i cannot access anything and now it has the "Swipe to Unlock" and I can't swipe because the touch screen is not working. What do I do?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
Make sure you downloaded latest version of twrp for Htc one and try to reflash it first
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] jwmcfadden1:
I'm having the worst problem getting fast internet. I have the infamous rom installed with the Bioshock kernel and I have been experiencing 4.5 to 10 mbps. But recently for the past couple days I'm only able to get around 250 kbps. I've done a lot of research and searching and I can't find any tweaks or settings that might help me is there something I'm missing? My speed test results are terribly slow and also are my download and upload speeds.... Is anyone else experiencing this kind of slowness. Admittedly I use a lot of data but I'm on the unlimited data plan and I'm in an area which supposedly has really good reception in Lakeland Florida any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] baseballfanz:
Have you checked with your carrier to see if maybe they're doing work in your area? Is this in a certain area or all over the place? I get slow down here and there too. I usually give it a day before calling to check, most of the time it's back to normal before that.

☞Sent from here☜
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] faiyo:
I've clocked 40mbps on 5ghz wifi n.. it's not the phone, its the connection. infamous alpha rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chandan77:
HI all,

My samsung galaxy mini has got into dead mode,because I installed a custom rom NatureUX-tass-V3.zip

My phone is not turning ON. Even when I'm charging my phone,it is not showing the charging icon and also when I connected it to PC via USB,it is not showing the battery icon. My phone was totally got dead.So,now I jus want to go to download mode,How can I do this.Please help me.....I heard that we can do this by using JTAG blah blah, I couldnt understand ,So give me the clear (procedure)explanation and required files that how can i go to download mode.

Thanks in advance ;)

and sorry for this post if i posted it in wrong area,because I'm new to xda, and I dont know where should I post.

Thanks again :)
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Gave my old LG Revo to a buddy, things POS, but its all he has at the moment. Anyways, I had a version of Ginger-volt rom on there, and it was acting up, so I was just gonna update everything and put the last version that came out on it, or go with whatever the newest most stable rom is....So I booted into CWM and did a nandroid back up, then wiped everything, cache, dalvik, etc etc, booted up fine, went through some stuff, then i went back to restore the back up i just made cause he forgot to tell me about some game data he wanted backed up.....

So anyways, i restored it, wiped the cache, then rebooted, and yea, then it went into boot loop, at first it was between the LG Logo and the Boot Animation, but now it just suts at the LG Logo for quite awhile, like 10min, and then restarts, and does it over and over. And I try and hold down Power and Vol-Down, but it doesn't work, can't get into recovery. So Need some help here. I've tried all the old tricks I remember from my LG Revo days, but nothing has worked thus far. Is there a way to like boot into something like ODIN and just flash the Stock Firmware. Like RSD-Lite maybe ? Can't remember if that was Moto only....Think it may have been lol
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
remembered about the exitrecover.zip thing did that, put sdcard back in phone, booted, holding down power and vol-dwn, and it worked, flashed the .zip and then rebooted, now its doing it once again. WTF. I want this thing back to Stock, and then I am gonna root it and flash a new rom. but before that obviously i need to fix this first. Can someone help me at all. I know there isn't a lot of people left on this forum.
[LG Revolution] betatest3:
Try the LG restore tool i think its LGPSNT or something like that, but you need a .TOT, and the you can reroot, flash a recovery, and install an updated ROM, gingervolt is OLD
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
well i fixed that stuff on my own, couldn't get anyone to respond so I just went based on what I remember, like i said, it's been awhile since i used that phone

BUT NOW ! I got a whole other issue, and its a lot more F'd up, and I have never dealt with this before, so I am just wingin it on what i've tried so far. But i've hit a wall. So after restoring everything and getting Broke-Out rom back on there and everything, I noticed after a lil bit that it had the No Sim-Card icon in the status bar, and couldn't make a call. Then it hit me, and i didnt wnna say it outloud just in case i was wrong, so looked at About Phone>Status, and yep, Completely zero'd out, IMEI/MEID etc etc. I have no idea what to do. I tried following that guide on here but that program DFS or whatever, I entered my IMEI number in this program and hit "Write" and now its in my phone, so i know its communicating with my phone, but that still didnt fix it, I am missing the HEX number, and where it is located on the phone behind the battery, has been complketely rubbed away, so i cant read it. I don't know if Verizon will tell me what the number is, and I didnt wanna call them cause what am I supposed to tell them, not that we care about the warranty on this phone cause its pretty much on its last legs anyways, but i dont wanna cause any problems on my account, cause I know verizon is pretty anti-custom development,

So any ideas on what to do ?
[LG Revolution] Silicon Knight:
Anyone ? Any suggestion on how to go about fixing this ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JLombo:
It's arriving tomorrow and coming from iOS, I'm excited to jump into the Android world.

What are some must have apps I should download when I'm all set up?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4rkkn16ht:
Welcome to Android, but be more specific of what apps do you want?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriMoon:
Depending on your needs the answers will vary like the previous poster stated...

IMHO, the most useful apps (for me) are:

- Flash (Get latest from adobe archives, because they have stopped developing for Android)

- A Tor based browser to circumvent any national blocks. (There is a combined package)

- Google Drive, so you can edit/share spreadsheets etc without filling your SD card.

I'm sure there will be many more things you will get interested in...

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Well that's all for now, 3M

Click the THANKS button if i was helpful in anyway ^^
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkretch:
Here are some that I get on new devices

Latest Flash player for Android Version 11.1.115.81

this is a direct download link, check download folder for the apk file.

SwiFTP

it enables an Android phone or tablet to easily share files with computers or other devices over a wifi network. These computers only need to have an FTP client, which all computers do. You can walk around with your MP3/video/ebook/whatever collection and share it seamlessly with almost any wifi-enabled system.

AppSales

Battery HD

Clean Master (Cleaner) - FREE

Google Earth

MyScript Calculator

File Manager HD for Tablet

Helium - App Sync and Backup

Chrome Browser

Flipboard
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vansderp:
Device: Maguro

ROM: crDroid build 16

I know this error is often due to 3G/4G connection in 4.3, but I had no problem with this before when I was with CarbonROM.

However when I flashed Vanir yesterday with a custom kernel, 'process.android.com.phone stopped working' kept popping up..

I tried switching ROM to crDroid which many other folks had no trouble flashing Mpokang v10 kernel with, and the same error occurred.

I tried wiping data, cache and dalvik, and reflash again but to no avail.

I'm desperate for help folks, please lend a hand. Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spamcakes:
Try flashing again but sticking with stock kernel that comes with the rom, it has something to do with changes in the latest CM nightlies that most aosp roms are based on. Wait for your favorite kernel devs to update or repack the kernel yourself.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vansderp:
Funny thing is other folks are flashing custom kernels on the same build as I am on and having no troubles. any ideas?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] reven:
I just wanted to say that I got my mini two weeks ago, and it's awsome! I have to say that I got some sorprises like I have to recharge the battery every day, I still don't know how to send pics and I have to change the language. But other that that it's great, and I thank this forum because I learn so much!

Cheers!
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] TheBrit:
You using it a lot then? :wink:

Get yourself a desk cradle, it will charge everytime you dock it to your PC. A search in the Magician Accessories forum should provide some recommendations. :)

This one http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=125641 is quite poplular, plays your music and works as a handsfree. 8)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] stevedebi:
Check your settings: turn the backlight down to lowest intensity, set the device to turn off the backlight at 30 seconds and turn off the device after 1 minute. These three settings should allow at least 1.5 - 2 days of normal use without recharging.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] infected86:
Yehh my dad Bought that "machine" to, in Germany ( Even That we are from Israel and German For Us is Like Hebrew For YOu, but that aint the point)

the options that XDA MIni gives are awsome .

you can easlly send you pictures this way:

In The active sync , enter to the parameters and and allow the Sync of "Files"

after you do that , a new folder will appear on you "destop", you will notice that quikly.

In that folder you will see "My Pictures" folder, or the name of the path that you gave to THE XDA MIni where to save your pictures... enjoy :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Flipside:
And you don't really wanna forget... turning off your bluetooth when not in use, and making sure you're not tracking incoming beams ( infra-red ) :wink:
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
I see some posts around asking for the latest gaaps so I will make the search a little easier for you guys by adding a link below to the PA Gaaps that are always up to date.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942

:D

Sent from my Atrix HD using Carbon rom and XDA 4 Premium
[Motorola Atrix HD] skeevydude:
Those are the only Gapps I flash now. Highly recommended, especially if you're a hardcore nightly addict.
[Motorola Atrix HD] cbcomputing:
I had a problem with Google+ fc'ing over and over. I flashed this package and now it works great!

Running CM 11 and loving it! Looking forward to the next PAC.
[Motorola Atrix HD] iqbal.mch:
could i install the specific apps, instead of installing all in the package
[Motorola Atrix HD] palmbeach05:
and what about the libs inside the gapps package? did you stop to look inside the gapps before asking this question?
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
Well soon the entire android community will enjoy something new and great. No need to install unwanted gapps packages anymore. My project is almost there with great gapps devs like banks, nelly and others. With this project you make your own gapps package online. All the google apps will be up to date and you just choose the apps you want and then click on the apps you want on the package and hit build. Wait 5 mins and will send you the download link to your email. I been away due to this project and all the scripts are working correctly since is not just adding apps but pulling the libs as well. So hear soon from me on this.
[Motorola Atrix HD] Arjomer:
That sounds insane, but I like it.
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
Yes it is insane but overall you will make your own gapps package with what ever apps you need
[Motorola Atrix HD] oscar the grouch:
Like this. The pa micro still has gapps I don't want.
[Motorola Atrix HD] TecknoFreak:
Yes, Site and app will be release by the end of month guys. So far we are looking on a big server due to bandwidth but for the best news now you can make any gapps package in less then 1 min and ready to flash. Also I will have already made gapps packages for those inpatients. lol

I believe this is the best thing so far I can say is the best for android. :D
[Motorola Atrix HD] oscar the grouch:
What apps are minimum to get playstore running.

I froze Google+ and it wouldn't complete downloads.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Roladriz:
First. Also, Thanks!

Can this be home brewed?

EDIT: NVM
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sickopsycho:
Damn right. I'm on slimbean weekly now, gonna nandroid this ***** right now and shoot over to slimkat. THANKS!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ricola1989:
Is GPS working?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kufikugel:
on maguro for 80% gps is working. There seems to be some user with GPS problems where we do not know why exactly...for most it works....on our team phones it works on all phones lol so:

Try to test it with GPSTest from playstore and if it does not work we need logcats
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Roladriz:
It appears to be working for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thetakerfan:
GPS is spotty for me so far, sometimes it works other times it just sits there. Only tested in my house so far, will see how it works tomorrow out in other areas. Other than that, only the noted issues so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MWisBest:
Nice work, glad to see yet another 4.4 ROM for the VZW Galaxy Nexus! I think we're even beating the GSM Galaxy Nexus now!! Haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thetakerfan:
and just when I decide to capture a logcat while trying gps, it worked first time. Of course
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dirtsky:
I just got a build done and testing. I can't believe how smooth it is for being an alpha. This is going to be a sick rom when it hits beta builds. Awesome work!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] schnob:
I'm guessing LTE works on this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jhr5474:
Need Testers?

If you do I am available for testing. :D

been running two other Alpha builds One from here and one from RootzWiki. Strange but for some reason the one from here was like 153mb while the one from there was 328mb I think. That is the one I am running now and I am really digging it this KK will be scrumptrulescent when modded and themed!!!!! SUPERFAST and not that many glitches for Alpha builds. Anyways let me know, I am available for testing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dirtsky:
PM sent
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Enter The Nexus:
I'm down as well. Just PM me and I got you!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ABN85:
I haven't actually flashed any of the 4.4 ROMs yet (just got crdroid 4.3.1 set up with kitkat apps and I like the working data), just thought I'd put my two cents in on the graphical glitches. I've seen several posts for different ROMs talking about glitches in animations, just curious if turning off animations in developer settings would "fix" the problem until it's actually worked out?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] clnzx2:
Data is working fine for me