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Shortcut to "Call Log" possible?

Can AnyCut - or some other technique - create a shortcut to my 'Call Log'?
Long-press on 'talk' invokes Voice Dialer which is rather useless.
thanks

Shortcut directly to "Call Log" or "Recent Calls"
d0g said:
Can AnyCut - or some other technique - create a shortcut to my 'Call Log'?
Long-press on 'talk' invokes Voice Dialer which is rather useless.
thanks
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I have searched all over for a way to make a shortcut to the call log or recent calls on the siii ..many people are also asking the same question with no real answer other than downloading a dialer app from market. ..but I have found the activity with nova launcher under so here are the directions to make said short cut with the Nova home launcher
1.long press home screen choose shortcuts
2.activities
3. Contacts (my phone lists 45 contact activities)
3.com.sec.android.app.dialertab.calllog.logselectactivity
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Calendar and dialing from calendar entry

Is it possible to dial from the calendar entry. Sense UI highlights the number and allows you to click on it and dial. Anything like that available?

[Q] BetterCut and swipe gestures in Launcher Pro

Hey, I am looking for a little help here.
In the newest version of LauncherPro (7.3.0) it is possible to assign shortcuts to swipe gestures on the dock icons.
I would like to use swipe gestures for connecting with custom shortcuts made in BetterCut. E.g. swiping message icon would open up a new message (no specific contact); swiping Gmail => New mail; swiping Calendar => New Event; swiping Contacts => New Contact. You probably get the picture now, and I think this would really be useful.
I have the code ready for BetterCut to at least make new messages and new events. If anyone has the code needed for making a new event I would appreciate it as well.
New email:
Code:
AnyCut > Make your own
Action = android.intent.action.SENDTO
Data = mailto:
type: <empty>
New message:
Code:
AnyCut -> Make your own
Action: android.intent.action.SENDTO
Data: sms:
type: <empty>
New contact:
Code:
action: android.intent.action.INSERT
data: content://contacts/people
type: <empty>
The problem is that when trying to assign these shortcuts to swipe gestures BetterCut prompts the messages: "Shortcut X created" [...] "No more room on this homescreen" and the shortcut is placed on the homescreen itself intead being assigned to the swipe gesture. When swiping the icon it simply opens up BetterCut instead of the newly made shortcut. This probably has as much if not more to do with the way BetterCut is behaving as it does with LauncherPro, so what I am looking for is actually a way around this to be able to add custom made shortcuts in BetterCut to the swipe gestures in the dock. I tried working my way around it by using FolderOrganizer and creating a shortcut here instead of in the dock. However, the same thing happens: The shortcut will be placed on the homescreen instead of in FolderOrganizer.
Any help is appreciated.

No luck getting any help here, but for future reference I will post my solution here.
First of all, Launcher Pro 0.7.4 just came out, and it makes it possible to add activities as both regular and dock shortcuts. There you will find most of the shortcuts I was looking in the original post.
Till this came out I used another solution, which is more flexible but also more complicated; Android Scripting Environment. Here are two code examples in python for adding a new contact and composing a new text message:
New contact in ASE, python:
Code:
import android
droid = android.Android()
droid.startActivity('android.intent.action.INSERT', 'content://contacts/people')
droid.makeToast('Add new contact')
droid.exit()
New message in ASE, python:
Code:
import android
droid = android.Android()
droid.startActivity('android.intent.action.SENDTO', 'sms:')
droid.makeToast('New message')
droid.exit()

[Q] How to change app name and ico in app drawer

I've instaled Handcet SMS and uninstalled default SMS application, is there a way to change Handcent SMS name to, let's say MSG and ico to default one?
(More i care about name)

Desktop Visualizer app from Market. From the Homescreen where you want the shortcut just open DV, select an app for the shortcut to open, name it, and select an Icon to use. (You can select another app to use it's icon).
Perfect for what you need.
Some Launchers also allow you to edit shortcuts.

HTC Sense Refugee - Looking for Help with TouchWiz equivalents

As a recent refugee from HTC Sense, there are a couple of features from HTC Sense that I'd love to be able to replicate on the GSIII.
#1 - to help with conference code entry, on HTC Sense if you click on a phone number from an appointment entry, the dialer is displayed with the phone number populated, you click call, and when the call is connected the appointment entry is shown in the space above the number keypad so that you can see the appointment details including conference call codes
#2 - is there an equivalent widget to the 3x3 contact favorites widget included with HTC Sense that allows you to set a default # to dial for the contact and/or display the contact full details?
#3 - can you set homescreen shortcuts to individual mailboxes? i.e., i have 3 different ActiveSync accounts and I like the ability to have a unique shortcut to get to each one (even better is if the shortcut shows the # unred for each mailbox)
#4 - suggestions for a HTC Sense like dialer? the TouchWiz dialer takes more clicks to find contacts than I recall from Sense
Thanks so much for the suggestions.

morgej said:
As a recent refugee from HTC Sense, there are a couple of features from HTC Sense that I'd love to be able to replicate on the GSIII.
#1 - to help with conference code entry, on HTC Sense if you click on a phone number from an appointment entry, the dialer is displayed with the phone number populated, you click call, and when the call is connected the appointment entry is shown in the space above the number keypad so that you can see the appointment details including conference call codes
#2 - is there an equivalent widget to the 3x3 contact favorites widget included with HTC Sense that allows you to set a default # to dial for the contact and/or display the contact full details?
#3 - can you set homescreen shortcuts to individual mailboxes? i.e., i have 3 different ActiveSync accounts and I like the ability to have a unique shortcut to get to each one (even better is if the shortcut shows the # unred for each mailbox)
#4 - suggestions for a HTC Sense like dialer? the TouchWiz dialer takes more clicks to find contacts than I recall from Sense
Thanks so much for the suggestions.
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Don't know all of these, but i think I can make a few recommendations.
For your dialer, I would try a 3rd party one. Some should be a little smarter than the touchwiz one. Search for a dialer in the playstore and try them out.
If you want shortcuts, Nova or apex launcher allows you to make many more customizations than the stock touchwiz launcher. I'm pretty sure you can set specific shortcuts for your mailboxes through them.
Touchwiz definitely has its limitations, those widgets sound pretty cool. I don't know any widgets off the top of my head that are equivalent.
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