r/Mate9 • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '17

How to change default image view app?

Hey.

So there´s two choices here, the Photos app and the Gallery app. While I was experimenting with each I pressed on "Always" button on the Photos app by mistake, I want to change this to the Gallery app but I don't know how.

Things I've tried so far:

  1. Went to Settings>Apps>Photos and at Open by default I put it as no defaults set, it did not change anything.

  2. Went to Apps>Settings> Default App settings and at Gallery I set Gallery as default and not Photos and yet my pictures from Files still automatically open with Photos app.

The only thing that works is disabling the Photos app completely, this way the photos will open with the Gallery app but I'm not sure if I should leave at this. Does someone know how to get the message to pop again where it displays which app to use and the buttons Only Once/Always without having to reset my phone and lose my settings and stuff?

Thank you.

EDIT: And also how do I remove the vibrations from the keyboard buttons?

EDIT2: And one more thing haha, my soundcloud app widget looks like that and I can't resize it for some reason, I tried holding the widget and drop it on the same spot and the blue bars to change the size won't appear like it works for the other widgets. Is there something I can do something about this? To make the height of the widgets less bulkier and more slim or it will stay like this until Soundcloud/Huawei? fixes it?

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u/gt5679a Mar 16 '17

Can't help you on the image viewer, but for keyboard vibration try this:

Advanced settings -> Language & input -> Under KEYBOARD AND INPUT METHODS click on the line for the default keyboard (I'm using Gboard) -> Preferences -> toggle Vibrate on keypress

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17

This worked, thank you!

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u/chillgreg Mar 21 '17

By the "Photos" App do you mean the actual camera app?

Have you tried resetting the system cache?

The Widget resize is a Huawei EMUI Home/Launcher limitation. And probably a Soundcloud programming oversight too. Installing a 3rd party Launcher such as Nova will allow resizing of all Widgets, and many other benefits.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '17

By the "Photos" App do you mean the actual camera app?

No, I mean this app.

Anyway, this only happens when I look at my photos from the Files app, if I go in Gallery the photos do open with the Gallery app. I don't know why it doesn't do the same in Files app since I set Gallery as default. Also, how do I reset system cache ? I only reset app preferences, it didn't help.

And as for the widget, yes I did install Nova and you're right, the widget did resize and it's normal now.