Android :: How Bad Is Bing And Touchwiz?
Sep 16, 2010
I've been deciding on phones for about a month or so now and have done NOTHING but research almost 24/7 and was all over the Incredible. It seems like a VERY good phone, but now I'm a bit torn, again, The Fascinate is out now and im mildly curious about how bad Bing and touchwiz REALLY is. I hear a lot of hoopla about how its awful and you should avoid it like crazy, but I dont know how much of that is just "new phone hate" or how sound that criticism is. I would MUCH rather stay with Google and Sense, but I cant escape the feeling that I might be making a mistake choosing the older phone over the newer fascinate. Really my biggest features I want out of this phone is a good phone, capable browser (I like me some internetz), decent camera/video, music player and GPS navigation.
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Jun 29, 2010
I know most everyone here are probably Google fans but Im not huge loyal fan to either. I like them both. Is there a Bing app out there anywhere for Android?
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Nov 14, 2010
Is anybody using Bing maps? I was trying it and looks good. The only complain I have is that doesn't allow to save a place in the map as it did on Windows. I was trying to save home as I did before.
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Oct 22, 2010
Just tested it out, I sent a bing map to the phone and it opened up bing in the browser. Was hoping to at least have an option to 'open with' google maps. Any workarounds, you creative people? I wish chrometophone would auto-convert bing maps to google maps on the fly.
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Aug 27, 2010
According to the VZW documents, you cannot replace Bing on the Fascinate! Verizon Wireless Samsung Fascinate training documents leaked Boy Genius Report Looks like I might have to pass on this phone, or at least wait till root and a nice rom is cooked up. VZW must hate samsung to sabotage the phone so badly.
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Jul 8, 2010
in what format the msn (bing) videos are? I have flash 10 in my device and I get a message 'no video format was found for your phone". anyone else having the same issue... how to resolve this?
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Oct 13, 2010
I was gonna by a Fascinate when i get my new every 2 but the /forced Bing is a huge turn off. I'd like my Google Android phone to be exactly that, a Google Android phone.
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Sep 13, 2010
I'm super bummed. I'm currently evaluating Android phones and have looked at a lot of them (basically all of the decent HTC phones and the Samsung Epic). The Fascinate is a real stand out and I'd love to keep it. But, as per my thoughts on Bing, I'm going to cash this and go with Sprint. Before I walk away though, I wanted to check here. Anyone heard of a decent approach to getting this phone back to using Google, as God intended it? Specifically, I want to use the dedicated search button to pull up Google text and voice search. Adding Google as a bookmark to the browser isn't really a solution, IMO.
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Sep 11, 2010
Is anyone working on a fix to adjust the default navigation link to point to Google Nav instead of Bing Maps?
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Nov 22, 2010
When I use Bing voice search, I always get the following message "due to a temporary connection or service issue, we can't get results. Please try again later." This has been an issue over the last 10 days or so. Anyone else have this problem? I brought it to Verizon tech and they couldn't figure it out. Google voice search works fine. I speak loudly and clearly in a quiet environment, using different search terms.
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Jan 2, 2011
Any way to get the Bing daily background as my Android phone's background?
(on an automated daily basis without user intervention)
There are a lot of wallpaper switching apps, but none of them link to Bing's daily image.
If there were an app that would set the wallpaper from a URL [URL] ....... on a daily basis, then I could scrape the Bing image and host it for retrieval.
If I could even just find a wallpaper app that switches on a daily RSS feed, I could create my own feed to expose Bing's daily image.
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Oct 25, 2010
Is there a way to make the search key default to Google instead of Bing?
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Oct 16, 2010
So I was getting rid of Bing and I was really tired and accidentally deleted the I500_BingSearchAndroid_07152010.apk instead of renaming it. Is there any way or restoring this short of restoring from an older Nandroid backup I have?
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Nov 17, 2010
How to do I de-bing and make google my primary search engine? Also will this be corrected when the 2.2 update is available?
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Jun 28, 2010
ALL THANKS GOES TO rolle3K: TouchWiz30_rolle.apk ... at uploaded.to - Free File Hosting, Free Image Hosting, Free Music Hosting, Free Video Hosting, ... (I got it from bais on MoDaCo). It is an apk and it has been tested and proven to work on FroYo and �clair (not sure about Cupcake/Donut). Install through adb or a file explorer. I tried it out, not too bad. Still prefer LauncherPro but I can show this off if an iPhone fanboy talks about how great iPhone UI is. Couple of notes: -To edit bottom dock, go into menu, press edit, this allows you to move icons around between dock and menu. -To edit order of homescreens or # of homescreens, go home, press menu and then edit. Couple of flaws: -Cannot set your own icons for bottom dock (you can change which apps are there but cannot use custom icons). Cannot set a default homescreen.
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Sep 1, 2010
My phone should be delivered shortly, and I'm trying to decide what user interface I want to use. I'm new to Android and this is also my first smart phone. Can someone tell me what the advantages and disadvantages of these two user interfaces are?
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Dec 15, 2012
I had a Samsung Nexus S which started to have this strange Android OS battery drain some weeks before the OTA ICS came in. I read thousands of forum posts to try tons of stuff to solve the problem without any success.
I then decided three weeks ago that it's obviously time to get a new phone so that I bought the Galaxy SIII (int). Strangely I still have great problems with my battery life which brought me here to ask some pros now.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy SIII (int)
ROM: StockROM (4.1.1) and CM10 Nightly
Carrier: German E-Plus
What is the most noticeable about the battery drain is, that it appears in standby (over night) in both ROMs, Stock and CM10 likewise with some minor differences. In 10h standby (Wifi on, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC all off, only few widgets, AquaMail on push) battery goes down from 100% to 70%.
After all, I tested both ROMs in the same situation over night and the bettery drain is pretty comparable (see the screenshots).
What I already tried (in both ROMs):
- disable all Google Maps autostarts and disable all location services
- disable apps like Gtalk, G+ etc.
- uninstall AquaMail
without any effect on the standby battery drain...
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Sep 20, 2010
I have an Epic now and will probably end up keeping it just for the Touchwiz UI (shocker I know, but I prefer it over Sense UI). I really like the look and feel of the EVO though, is there any way to get Touchwiz on an EVO? I'm still in my 30-day switch out period and would grab an EVO in a heartbeat if this is possible.
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Apr 20, 2010
I am ok with touchwiz and wonder is there a 1.6 rom including it?
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Aug 28, 2010
I really like touchwiz 3.0 and if it wasnt for that physical keyboard id prob be getting the epic. Anyway I have never rooted i just installed [MOD] TouchWiz for Froyo FRF83 - xda-developers a touchwiz launcher and it works pretty good a little laggy at times but i want more features and widgets. I see this rom [ROM-MOD] Gefrost-R7 (25-08-10) Galaxy S Style 720p A2SD+, Touchwiz, Music mod - xda-developers but idk if thats installable on the evo? i have no idea how to tell if its compatible. And if anyone of u have link to a touchwiz rom let me know.
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Dec 12, 2009
I replaced Touchwiz's home with GDE off of the martet. It makes the phone truly phenomenal. Now, it doesn't officially support cupcake, but if you can buy it off of a G1 or other 1.6/higher device, you will be able to download it on a 1.5. Otherwise, do a build.prop hack. I'll release one of my own, but I contacted the developer first to see if he'd just do it officially, it'd be much cleaner and safer.
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Jul 23, 2010
Does anyone know of any ports of touchwiz (or something similar) that have been done for the eris? I have been thinking about getting the fascinate when it launches but wanted to see how the stock interface feels.
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Apr 29, 2012
Edit the cm version of this touchwiz [URL] to work with qhd 540 x 960 devices like motorola atrix
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May 26, 2012
I just got my hands on a new S3 its an amazing phone and I love it. However, I cant stand Samsung's UI "Touchwiz" I tried looking here on how I can remove it but couldn't find anything. is it possible for me to run vanilla Android and remove Samsung's UI?
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Jul 26, 2012
I love the Samsung camera app, and it works much better than the stock camera app on AOKP on my SII I777, but I understand my ROM needs to be Touchwiz based to run it...Can I install Touchwiz on top of my AOKP ROM to install the official Samsung camera app.
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Apr 3, 2010
I heard that someone somewhere in china or something was using 2.1 on the moment and that it included touchwiz. I don't know if its true or not but I am interested in knowing what the actual touchwiz owners/users think of it. Do you like it? Don't you like it?
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Jul 29, 2010
Just want to know what exactly TouchWiz is, since it seems to be the only thing that keeps me from buying this phone over the iPhone 4 at the moment. Everyone keeps saying that it slows the phone down, and each person has something different to say about the possibility of removing it and the phone running faster. Would be nice to clarify on that, since it seems like some people just got lucky with their phones, they're just used to a slower speed, or that the other people just don't know how to remove all the bloatware properly.
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Oct 10, 2009
will the galaxy (not lite) get the new TouchWiz UI from samsung ? because all the new android phones have thier own nice UI and the galaxy is extreemly generic ..
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Sep 8, 2010
I saw this on another thread. Figured it would belong here well. Anyway, If you don't like the TouchWiz that Samsung has put on, you can follow this to disable it. This is tentative until someone can try it on a Fascinate for sure, but it should work. I have the system dump and the TouchWiz30Launcher.apk is a regular app under /system/app/. I may not be labelled as TWLauncher as on the video, but something similar to it. I will update as soon as I receive mine and more people doing it.
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Mar 13, 2010
I am running gde and was wondering how i can get running touch wiz again because I want to see if the force bug fix works because kkarlin said it is staring to work.
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