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JIMV said:
3. This may exist but damned if I know how to do it...The ability to use ALL of a photo as wallpaper (when I select a picture as wallpaper, the phone crops the photo to a fraction of its size...very annoying)
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Are you using the right size image for your phone? Hint: it's not the screen resolution because the image scrolls as you change screens.
 
no1Ltan said:
Please add fine volume control.
Currently I cannot use my cell phone as an MP3 player because there are only 16 volume levels.
It's either too loud or too silent.
Other MP3 players and operating systems have 100 volume levels so that you can find your favorite level for each song.
With Android it's a nightmare to use headphones because the volume buttons of the headphones do the same as the cell phone:
They decrease/increase the volume too inaccurately.
If we have more volume levels, that problem will be gone!

Please!
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Try the poweramp app...very smooth volume changes
 
ylexot said:
Are you using the right size image for your phone? Hint: it's not the screen resolution because the image scrolls as you change screens.
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I do not understand the question...On my PC, if I want a picture as wallpaper, I simply make it so and all of the picture becomes the wallpaper. On my phone, if I select a picture, it grabs the center 1/5 of the picture and refuses to let me shrink it to size..

I get pictures to the phone by hooking the phone up to my computer, opening pictures on the PC, and then opening the phone's files app and move files from the PC to the phone. I have no problem with the pictures in the gallery and get all the photo on the screen BUT, as soon as I choose 'use as wallpaper' the picture is cropped....

Very annoying

Another wild desire...I wish there was an actual book on the various versions of the android OS...I can find stuff on creating apps in 3.0 or 2.2 but I cannot find anything that tells me how to use the systems and I hate trying to read how to do stuff on the same machine I am trying to do it on..

I want an actual paper book that tells me how to use say 2.3...one with a decent index and not written in Klingon. In fact, I find it cheap and cheesy for a $500 phone to come with a 3 page instruction booklet written in micro print. Give me the option to get a real instruction manual.
 
JIMV said:
I do not understand the question...On my PC, if I want a picture as wallpaper, I simply make it so and all of the picture becomes the wallpaper. On my phone, if I select a picture, it grabs the center 1/5 of the picture and refuses to let me shrink it to size..

I get pictures to the phone by hooking the phone up to my computer, opening pictures on the PC, and then opening the phone's files app and move files from the PC to the phone. I have no problem with the pictures in the gallery and get all the photo on the screen BUT, as soon as I choose 'use as wallpaper' the picture is cropped....
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Let me use my phone as an example since I still don't know what you have ;)

The Droid X has a screen resolution of 480x854. However, backgrounds need to be 960x854 to not be cropped/resized. If you try to put a 480x854 image on it, it will the image to 480x427 so that it has the same aspect ratio as 960x854 and then resize it to fit. The reason for that is because when you swipe side to side to the different screens, the background image moves as well. It can't do that using a 480x854 image.
 
I am still confused...If I go to the Gallery app, I can see all of my picture on the screen. As soon as I select the same picture as wallpaper, it crops it to nothing.
 
Sorry, resizing the pictures has zip effect...I get the box, I expand the box, but it refuses to expand beyond about 1/3 the photo and what remains is a cropped mess.

Update...I found my problem...Using Photoshop CS5, if one tries to change the image size to the proper pixels, it does not take. If you change canvas size, all is well
 
This is related to what i said on page 6 where i complained about the scrolling on an android Acer phone giving me eyestrain because it was not smooth enough.

I really think Google should put more effort in speeding up Android because at the moment it is simply being blown away by Windows 7.5. Everyone i see who tries a Windows phone is blown away by the speed of it and are instantly converted to Windows as a result. This could be a problem for Android if nothing is done about it. Android needs dual core and quad core processors to get close to the speed of a single core processor Windows phone. This is an embarrassing situation and something should be done to improve it.

Another thing Google can learn from a Windows phone, and from Nokia in particular, is to include full offline turn by turn navigation on every Android phone. There is a free satnav available for android called Navfree that does this but it should be included on Android phones by standard rather than having to be downloaded from the market.

What is happening at the moment is that buyers think you have to get a Windows phone if you want offline turn by turn navigation and so they opt for a Nokia Lumia instead. Either upgrade google maps so it can do offline turn by turn navigation like on the Nokia Lumia, or include Navfree as standard on all Android handsets.

If these problems are ignored then i can see Windows winning a lot of customers from Android in the future including myself.
 
Something I would like to see is a direct link from the settings 'Android version' info to an actual how to manual that only applies to that version of Android. Every new version does something differently and 'help' really sucks.
 
I am new here, but so far what irritates me is no control over the permissions granted to apps, why every app in the market needs full internet access, and most of them also my location?
I do not want to root my phone, in case I screw up, so I would love to have a pre loaded permission manager.
 
All great suggestions with, for my needs, the laptop connection and java, want to see my video cam on my N810 while I am away like I can using my N82 cellphone!

Even if T-mobile forced Edge only for this, one phone not two to carry, also not to have to use the N810 if 3G and web cam were working.
 
App Drawer Folders, similar to golauncher with all the spam apps added by your carrier, its nice to be able to do something if you can't delete them
 
I really want better app integration with the os. For example, why can't we have a single widget for controlling whatever music application is playing at the time? (obviously said application would have to implement the apis to make this possible)

This works really well in iOS. There's a widget in the multitasking bar that can control spotify as well as the built in music player. I assume it works for other apps too but haven't tried this.

To expand on this, I would also like project majel (assuming it's real) to allow apps to integrate with it and support their own voice commands. Eg:

"spotify play tracks by adele"
"play tracks by Adele in spotify"

This should also default to using the currently running music app to play songs. So if music is currently running, "play tracks by adele" will use that, but if spotify is playing it'd use that instead.

I'm using music as an example because it's something that I would use extensively, but obviously it could be extended to other things too.

I also want Google to put its foot down and make it so that all manufacturer skins are OPTIONAL. They can be installed by default, but they should be uninstallable. Os integration won't work too well if Samsung is just going to replace project majel with s voice for example!

Discuss!
 
yes, many carriers think that you would love to have your phone cluttered up with useless apps you will never use, and also lock them so you cannot delete them (unless rooted)

But I use the golauncher app which has a very nice app drawer, great for organizing... I really would like to see it on Android it self.. Without the folders, I have 5 pages of apps.. that is such a hassle to look for something not to mention it just looks like a mess. With the folders I have them all fit on to 1 page and it looks nice and organized.
 
Being able to select multiple addresses from contact lists for SMS and email.
Ability to send SMS and emails to groups.
 
it would be nice if google would recognize these are our devices that weve bought with our money and maybe go a little more lax on the "insta-brick" security features. availability of a windows/mac based phone "flasher" could only help 3rd party and home user development.
 
I wish all my Android products could answer my phone. It could probably be done through a Bluetooth app. You know?, your phone rings while watching a movie on your tablet... no need to get up and walk across the room to pick up your phone, just put the movie on hold and answer it right from your tablet... what do you think? Is it possible?
 
CalDAV and CardDAV support, so you don't have to sync with Google Calendar and GMail contacts. Would be useful for business use so you don't have to have a Google Account.

Turn off conversation view for SMS/Messaging. It's not even a proper conversation view... if you've not sent an SMS to someone for a year it's deemed to be part of the same conversation! It's actually just messages grouped by contact in ascending date order. Even descending date order would be better. I'd prefer to have the option to choose how my messages are grouped, rather than being stuck grouped by contact. There isn't even an advanced search.

A decent IMAP client, which doesn't list every single directory (even sub-directory) of IMAP folders in the top level. Not great if you want to use it with your office shared e-mail system which has 10,000+ IMAP folders nested. And the junk folder is somehow listed at the very end of all of them.

Disable contact integration with applications. I decided to use the Twitter application one time and it merged all my followers and people I'm following into my phone address book. Without asking. With no way to undo. There's just an option to hide them. But my phone contacts .vcf backup files are now 3MB whereas they were 100KB before that. Never using an application like that again, definitely sticking to the mobile websites. Thankfully I've never used the Facebook application, that would have been a disaster!
 
I wish I could just create my own thread so I could ask everyone about the problem I'm having instead of making stupid posts until I'm able to.
 
Add clipboard to the default list of share actions please. This feature is so basic that installing an app to enable it feels quite silly.
 
Hello All,

Were I work my phone has to be on vibrate. I was wondering if there was an app out there somewhere that you can setup a timer for when you want your phone to ring and when you want it to vibrate. If there is please let me know were I can find it or if someone can create an app to do this. Thanks.
 
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