Update 2.11.605.19 710RD New App Association Feature

[Wildman]

Has anyone notice the new App Association option that is listed under Settings / Applications / App Association?  It appears to work well because this option allows you to change the default application for a specific option easily, normally you would have to clear the default application and then set the new one with the a pop up window but now it is easy as 1.2.3.

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[Ann154]

Different.  Can you set some of those to not have a default?  I sometimes like to have a choice for various functions.

[Wildman]

If this is possible I havent seen a option for this, it appears that is you go to the application and clear the default it automatically sets the default back to the default stock application for this option.  I think they disabled the popup option menu.

[mjandroid]

Yes I have found it after 10 hours. After the ota update the phone, on its own, reset my default to email not gmail. PITA. Finally found this setting (6 htc tech reps and 3 verizon tech reps were clueless). I do not like what this update has done. I fear the CL at Verizon may be correct when he/she says they may have disabled the popup option menu. Well, it was PERFECT for me before the update. Let me explain. Prior to the update - when I used gmail mail all people/contacts were associated with gmail and if I wanted to send an email it went through my Gmail address. Gmail is for my business accounts. However, my personal EMAIL was a pop3 account. There were times - when responding to certain applications that I wanted a choice to use email or gmail (i.e personal email or business email). In those situations a POP UP would appear and allow me the option of replying via EMAIL OR GMAIL (i.e. personal or business). NOW THANK YOU HTC, I do not have that option. All applications ( except when sending a pop3 email) appear to be set to ALWAYS use the GMAIL default when responding to ANY situation. SO if I want to respond to something and it not AUTOMATICALLY going through GMAIL (business email account) I HAVE to go to settings/applications/app associations and change the default to email from gmail. Then after I have sent the email - I HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHANGE THE DEFAULT IN APP ASSOOCIATION TO GMAIL. Can you tell I am not happy about this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PLEASE FIX THIS.

My phone was working perfectly; loved it. Then along comes this damn update and I have problems with the phone and it is not working in a manner I find acceptable. If anyone has an answer to the issues above I would appreciate it.

Loved my Thunderbolt - now - not so much.......

M

[BakerGeckos]

Yeah, I don't think I want this new version either. Applications That I use and select a different app to open each time now default to the browser is kinda lame to me. This substantially changes the way my device works and for Verizon to FORCE this upon us is not right. There should be full disclosure and acceptace from the user not just FORCED acceptance..

My 2 cents worth.

[Wildman]

Android or HTC would have made the feature change not Verizon, other HTC devices are starting to have this feature also... I haven't had any issues using this feature so I dont see the problem.

[Ann154]

I would have to say that it was HTC that modified the code to have this feature. It is not present in the stock Android 4.0 operating system on the Galaxy Nexus. I have the action to open a browser from a link set without a default on the Nexus because I like to choose a which browser to use.

[mjandroid]

My 2 cents.

Wildman, I appreciate your responses, but just because you don't see a problem with this new "feature" doesn't mean there isn't one or that others find this change unwarranted or objectionable. I don't understand the concept of fixing something that wasn't (in my opinion) broken. This "feature" has reduced the functionality of the phone as far as I am concerned.

Ann154, are you saying that on your Galaxy Nexus running stock Android 4.0 that your phone, with certain applications, gives you the option on whether to use email or gmail to respond? Please reread my initial post if it helps you with the question. If so, then your premise that HTC made this change, seems logical to me.  Can you or anyone else out there explain to me why HTC would think that taking away features with this ota up-date was necessary or appropriate?

Community Leader, feel free to jump in anytime.

If others read this and have opinions I am interested in hearing them.

Thanks

[Wildman]

Basically I was reporting that it worked without issue for me, I was in no way trying to change your view of the feature for you...  Basically I believe this feature was intending to resolve the need for users to have to figure our how to access this feature through the normal applications menus.. Some users felt uncomfortable clearing the default data because they was afraid that his would cause issue..

I am unsure what you are different because when I click to send a email from a app or another message I get the pop up option to select the account I want to use for this option.

[mjandroid]

Hey Wildman,

Thanks for the response and the clarification. So you still get the POP UP  that allows you to choose on certain apps to respond via email or Gmail?

So you think this post from May 12th may not be accurate and there is something odd about the settings on my phone (after the update) that can be changed so that the POP UP option will once again work properly?

If this is possible I havent seen a option for this, it appears that is you go to the application and clear the default it automatically sets the default back to the default stock application for this option.  I think they disabled the popup option menu.

Any light you can shed would be helpful.

[Wildman]

To be honest I do not know what I did different but I use Dolphin as my default browser but when I request to send a file from the browser I still have the pop up menu to give option of which app I want to use..  I am not sure if this is a per app thing but the sms and others apps pop up the same menu when I want to send items from them also..

[Ann154]

Hopefully this works to attach a screenshot through email.

Native selection of applications to open the browser.

[Wildman]

The only thing Ann is that I only saw this new option placed on the HTC devices so far and the new feature is the difference...  Have you got a chance to update your TB to the update yet or are you still waiting for the SIM Card adapter you picked up?

[Ann154]

I got the adapter today. I will see if it fits tonight when I get home. Hopefully I don't have to wait long for the update to come through.

[Wildman]

Actually it looks like they are limiting downloads like before, usually as soon as you check for updates it find them now, probably because many have move on to other devices and the networks not being hammered like the other updates.  Hope all goes good..

[Ann154]

I had to do some trimming with an exact-o knife on the adapter, but the Tbolt is up and running on the network. Now to grab the update...

[Ann154]

After only a few minutes of checking a few links after installing this update, I'm officially not happy with this option. I click on YouTube links daily through Google+. The link automatically is opened in the default browser. I don't even get an option to open with the YouTube application!

There is something I have to check yet with the email application default, but if this is any indication I'm going to have some problems.

[Ann154]

Yep, the email application default is a problem.

[Wildman]

The only thing I can see I did different was use K9 instead of stock app that could cause mine to function differently.

[demmo86rt]

The new app association "feature" can be blamed purely on Apple.  One of their many, many lawsuits against Android manufacturers had to do with the pop-up feature when clicking a hyperlink (phone number, link to a video, website, basically anything found in this menu).  This new menu is HTC's workaround, and will most likely be included in all of their phones from here on out.  This is also why the AT&T One X and Sprint EVO 4G LTE were held up in customs, causing many customers to not get their phones on time.

http://betabeat.com/2011/12/19/apple-htc-lawsuit-12192011/

http://phandroid.com/2012/05/15/sprint-htc-evo-4g-lte-and-att-htc-one-x-delayed-apple-to-blame/

[Wildman]

Another battle for the companies that will effect customers again.   Thanks for the information because I never concidered that was why things was changed..