I have recently been changing my cons, both with BetterCut and Folder Organizer.
However, the stock message icon refuses to change over with either option. Every time I try to change the icon, it will appear on the screen for maybe 2 seconds and then it will disappear and the old stock icon will appear in its place.
And to compound my confusion, if I switch over to LauncherPro, the icon switches fine. It is only when running Sense as my home launcher that this happens. tried a re-boot to no avail.
Any ideas?
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Twice now, out of the clear blue (that I can tell) the ICS Launcher crashed, so my entire desktop disappeared.
I couldn't find a way to restart it, so my only choice was to reboot the tablet, a pain.
Any suggestions...? Or, at least, a way to re-launch the Launcher without rebooting...
Thanks.
Tap the clock in bottom right corner, tap the setting icon, go down to apps, select all, tap on launcher, tap force close, tap the home button a few times.
Desktop should then reload, may need a while as this restarts launcher from scratch including widgets and app drawer.
Happens to me from time to time since ICS update, hopefully a patch will resolve this soon.
I know this should be obvious, but I can't figure out how to change the dock icons in FTL Launcher Pro. I don't want to change the activity, simply the icons. Shortcuts don't show up on a long press, so creating a custom shortcut doesn't appear to be the solution. Any ideas?
brg7562 said:
I know this should be obvious, but I can't figure out how to change the dock icons in FTL Launcher Pro. I don't want to change the activity, simply the icons. Shortcuts don't show up on a long press, so creating a custom shortcut doesn't appear to be the solution. Any ideas?
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REBOOT then try below...
Basic Instructions:
- On first boot, homescreens will be empty. Long-press anywhere and start adding stuff!
- You can add/change the shortcuts on the dock bar: Long-press the place you want, and wait for the a popup to show, allowing you to choose what activity you want there.
- You can uninstall apps directly from the homescreen: long press the shortcut (even in the app drawer), drag it to the trash can that appears where the dock was. If you drop it immediately FTL will only remove the shortcut, but if you wait a bit before droping, FTL will offer to uninstall the app.
Thanks for the info, I did find those instructions, and they work perfectly for shortcuts on the home screen, but not on the dock for some reason. There's no problem changing a shortcut on the dock to another activity with it's default icon for that activity, just no obvious (at least to me) way to change the default icon or apply a custom shortcut (with desired icon).
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Thanks for the info, I did find those instructions, and they work perfectly for shortcuts on the home screen, but not on the dock for some reason. There's no problem changing a shortcut on the dock to another activity with it's default icon for that activity, just no obvious (at least to me) way to change the default icon or apply a custom shortcut (with desired icon).
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you have to long press on the dock the open area where there is no icon to put an icon there..a window will pop open to select an activity...to put an icon...on your dock and if you want to change the current icons, you also long press on the icon til the menu opens with a listing of app to change to,....
that is how I did it....hope it works out for you...
A long press on the dock icon, window pops open to select an activity (let's say phone). No problem there. Now all I want to is change the phone icon, not the activity. Another long press just repeats the above.
Sorry for my denseness, maybe you can't do what I'm trying to do...but thanks for the response.
Is it possible to add a contact to the dock? I usually have my wife as a contact on the dock, when I press the icon it will give me the choice between messaging, calling various numbers, etc. In old Launcher pro I know how to make this happen, I'm having a hard time in FTL Pro.
Hey,
I have a problem with the launch bar with my One S.
The thing is that, the shortcuts i drag on the launch bar will also appear on the lock screen, but one icon doesn't change on the lock screen.
I had my girlfriends quick contact on the launch bar, changed it to an app, but on the lock screen, there is still the shortcut for her quick contact.
It only changes in the lock screen, when i make a folder out of it. Single shortcuts turn back to her quick contact(only on lock screen, when unlocked the icon is what i changed it to)
Funny thing is that there is only problem with the 2nd-from-right slot. All other slots change as i want.
Any ideas? Have tried all sorts of tehniques, like switching the lock screen shortcut option on & off, restarting several times, cleared cache of lockscreen apps, changed lock screens, etc.
Factory reset definately would help, but this is a last resort
Thanks in advance
This has been driving me batty for months. I note [email protected] is a senior XDA member so I'm hopeful I'll find a solution here.
I'm running Android 5.0.1 on an HTC One (M8). I've had Nova Prime launcher as default for a couple years and love it, but I cannot find the magic formula for designating my primary homescreen (the one with my clock app and primary app icons--there are two screens to the left; three to the right of this screen) as default. when I tap home twice and get all homescreens in view, there are white house icons above every screen EXCEPT the one I want as default, which shows a black house icon. When I want to go to the homescreen, any of the six may come up when home is tapped.
What I'm trying to do is set my chosen homescreen as default so it pops up whenever I tap home. Not sure if it could be a factor, but I'm also using the Next lockscreen widget as well.
It used to be pretty simple to designate the default homescreen, but either it's become more complicated (or I've gotten stupider)
Any help out there?
Thanks
Go into the home screen overview, then tap and hold the home icon of the screen you want to be your default. That icon should turn white and become the default screen.
Thanks, Scottjb
This is what I find bizarre--what you've suggested only seems to work in reverse: 5 of my homescreen icons are white houses--if I tap and hold on one of those it turns black, however if I tap and hold the black house on the screen I want to designate, absolutely nothing happens. Confused here!
My Samsung unlocked S7 just received a Nougat update. Looks ncie but one big issue I am having right away (and feel stupid I cant figure out):
I can no longer remove App Shortcut Icons from my home screen (using Apex Launcher). Used to be I long press on the icon and have an option to drag to "Remove".
Now when I long press I have option to Uninstall the app, but not to just remove the icon from my home screen pages. Any help?
EDIT/UPDATE: Totally weird. The "Remove" option has not reappeared and I can again delete icons from the home screen.