Impossible scrolling with air mouse

baciok said:
What do you use for mail and documents? I would like to use them too if scrolling works. (on Gmail and Office it doesn't work). Samsung Internet Browser is unfortunately unusable due to the usual stupid scrolling problem ....
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Samsung Internet Browser works. And I also don't have complaints with the Gmail app. With a Minix airmouse (A2 Lite is my choice, but A3 Backlit is also great, but as I keep it active almost all day long I just feel it spends more juice than the A2) you use up and down positions in the middle large square. If it gets a bit "sticky" you select a little bit of text and it solves it. It might take a little getting used to.

Which remote are you using?

I mostly use the gmail app to run my email boxes from gmail and Yahoo. The Outlook mailboxes, I use them through the web browsers.

For documents I use several:

WPS Office is the one I prefer. I had one called QuickOffice in my phones but I never updated when it turned out to become a cloud app. I still don't believe in clouds for most of my data. But I have to accept some Office apps will be better in cloud environment.
For pdf I have "Xodo pdf reader and editor" and "ComicScreen- Comic Viewer" - this one reads also cbr and cbz files among others.
"QuickEdit Text Editor" is a useful text editor.


All the above are freely available at the Google Playstore.

EDITED= The "click and drag to scroll" method, that was present in the U1 and U9-H, being absent from the U22 is probably what is meant by "stupid scrolling problem". If that is the case, I also don't have a straight answer to the whys. The same goes for the copy/paste in browsers functions. In the U22 I couldn't find "click and drag to scroll" in any web browser so far, but copy/paste works in the Samsung Internet Browser.

I agree it would be great if we could have the good stuff back, yet I wouldn't wish to have the sluggishness way of writing that would occur in the U1 and the U9-H occasionally.
 
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Use Minix A3 with button illumination
The "click and drag to scroll"

yeah that's the stupid problem unfortunately ... the apps you mentioned (gmail, samsung internet and office don't work with click and drag to scroll) work with click and drag to scroll?
 
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baciok said:
Use Minix A3 with button illumination
The "click and drag to scroll"

yeah that's the stupid problem unfortunately ... the apps you mentioned (gmail, samsung internet and office don't work with click and drag to scroll) work with click and drag to scroll?
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You are right, they don't work clicking and dragging.
But they do work. I also would prefer to use click and dragging but that doesn't prevent me from prefering the U22 over the previous boxes as the performance speed is far superior.

Once you get used to scrolling with the square, in no time that will start to bother you less and less. But I do agree it is an annoyance. On the other hand we can't keep everything working the way we want as tech progresses, especially because, after all, these are "entertainment devices". :LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
I agree that the external packaging of the U22-XJ box with its included standard IR-Remote gives the impression its an entertainment device, but the piece of paper that came with one of my Neo A3's (see photo below) states,

'A full keyboard on the reverse side, in a familiar layout provides hours of typing comfort. Solid build with large, carefully crafted keys means browsing the web, chatting with friends and more, are completed with absolute ease.'

and having used a A3 for hours most days in recent years, I would agree, except that the click and drag scrolling that does work in the list of emails in gmail for instance, does not work in the emails themselves, does work in the list of tabs in Firefox Beta and Nightly, but not in the search results, and does work on the front page of Chrome, but not in the list of search results in Chrome, proving that click and drag scrolling can work in certain operations in these and other apps, but not in other operations, which I find very irritating, because rather than being something that can be used with absolute ease, I end up endlessly using the wrong up/down buttons or air mouse movements as I move back and forth between various apps with their different means of operation.

Some way needs to be found of making the click and drag scrolling work not just in some operations in apps, but in all operations in all apps where finger movement scrolling is used on smartphones, to fully deliver on the promise of 'absolute ease'.

At some point in the past, the maps at https://gridreferencefinder.com/ that I had moved by click and drag with the A3, stopped working and changed to demanding I use two fingers, but having told GRF about the problem, they simply changed some setting which made using the A3 in GRF work again without the need for two fingers, and it has worked ever since, simple as that, fixed it in a day.

I took my Minix box and A3 to a demonstration of internet devices at the computer club of our local gigabit fibre provider I use, and some who had no idea such devices existed were impressed, so it seemed to me there is a potential significant market out there, but I did not feel I could really recommend a Minix Android box to them, because I felt they would likely find the scrolling issue as frustrating as I do.
 

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Ferrocene said:
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I believe it is clear by now that some accept that a pure Android Box is probably designed to accept more tasks than simply TV entertainment. I can assure you a lot of us are still very happy with the U22 the way it is. At least for me I can highly recommend it without any doubt, especially after all the time we had to find its dos and dont's, and not forgeting that some issues that still exist will be fixed in future updates, as it happened in the past with all the other Minix boxes.

But I came to this reply not to disagree about what you said, as I mostly agree with you, but to remind the odd fact that click and drag works very well inside browsers for the Google maps.
 
Yes click and drag works excellently for me in for instance OS Maps in Bing Maps in the UK and Google Earth, I use both a number of times most days on my U22-XJ and use my A3 remote to go on long, virtual, Google Earth drives for many miles in a variety of countries, in Iceland just yesterday, its brilliant for that, but I have been using computers for 40 years and am well used to finding necessary workarounds, and while I would certainly highly recommend one to my son whose computer capabilities far exceed mine, I get the impression most at the computer club I mentioned are over 60 and have just recently gone direct from dial-up internet at 0.5Mbps if they were lucky, to 1000Mbps and are new to computers etc. and while I demonstrated the capabilities to them, I did not feel I could recommend one, as I feel they might well find it too frustrating and blame me for 'wasting their money', but it would I imagine not take much app tweeking or some other fix, to make it a device I could recommend for all capabilities and ages.

Part of the problem I feel is that punters like me:rolleyes: who get taken in by car, phone and android box sales patter promises of 'absolute ease' of use, then get frustrated with anything less, when what the U22-XJ with a A3 remote delivers technologically from Google Earth in terms of pictures as I drove virtually across Iceland at normal driving speeds yesterday is just staggering, or on https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ on which you can use the A3 to so easily move the maps to see the identification, track, speed and height of planes across the world.

I feel extraordinarily fortunate to be alive when for possibly the first time in the universe it is possible to have such capability in your own home, but seems to me this has been delivered by scientists, engineers and many others relentless determination to improve computer chips and their software etc. over many generations of products, seems to me 'absolute ease' of Neo A3 remote use is so tantalising close, just pointing out what I feel needs to happen to get there.
 
For web browsing old Firefox version 68.11.0 works with air mouse scrolling.

Just make sure turn off auto Android updates or else the app will update to newest and scrolling won't work.
 
luc23 said:
For web browsing old Firefox version 68.11.0 works with air mouse scrolling.

Just make sure turn off auto Android updates or else the app will update to newest and scrolling won't work.
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But that is a very old version comparing to Firefox Beta which also works with the mouse scrolling. Is there a reason to prefer that old version to the new Beta since this one should have the latest security patches and newest features?

For the U22-XJ I just find any Firefox version so far slow to deal with writing. If you write fast it loses pace and scrambles characters. That is what's been keeping me away from it to have in the U22.
 
hey all,does anyone know if this scrolling issue is being looked into/or going to be fixed? is there a list of apps that are effected?

many thanks Jay
 
Can anyone who installed the v7 firmware kindly tell me if this problem is fixed? (Impossible scrolling with air mouse)
And the problem with notifications disappearing?
 
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