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Andrew Hart
06-01-2011, 04:54 PM
I've come from an iPhone 3GS where in order to scroll within drop down lists in the browser, you use two fingers to scroll up and down, then 1 finger to make your selection. This doesn't seem to work on the Galaxy S2. Is there another multitouch way to interact with drop down lists?

For example, a site requested my date of birth and the drop down list for year started at 1902 and showed the next five years. The only way I could work out how to get to my year of birth was to select the highest number showing which then closed the list, reselect the list and select the highest number showing which then closed the list, reselect the list and select the highest number showing which then closed the list, reselect the list and select the highest number showing which then closed the list and so on and so forth until I got to my year of birth. Very frustrating and time consuming.

mark22
06-01-2011, 05:27 PM
I'm not sure what you're doing but just scroll the list don't press then scroll.

Andrew Hart
06-01-2011, 06:20 PM
I'm not sure what you're doing but just scroll the list don't press then scroll.

I have to touch the list to select it but then scrolling just scolls the whole page, not the selected drop down list.

It seems some drop-down menus function differently and use the Galaxy S2s operating sytem/theme/browser to convert the list to a scrollable list at the bottom of the screen and you just touch the item you wish to select which activates a selected circle within a circle (not sure what they're called), you then touch 'done'.

Other drop down lists look just like using a full pc browser where you would scroll to the correct option and left click to select.
It is these I am unable to scroll using touch. Any ideas?

Edit: In order to see what I mean, goto: http://awards.t3.com/awards/vote and once you get to the end where you can register to win a Samsung TV, choose to register, and it asks for your details including date of birth via drop-down lists. Do this on your Galaxy SII browser and tell me how to 'scroll' through the list other than the technique I mentioned earlier "reselect the list and select the highest number showing which then closed the list, reselect the list and select the highest number showing which then closed the list and so on and so forth".