Anyone know if there is a way to do this with stock app?
When i hit phone, it is annoying to always be on the dialer screen. Yes, I can speed dial a couple contacts, but I have a favorites list of 20 or so, and I would like to land there first.
Any ideas other then an alternate launcher? Would an alternate launcher even do this?
That was a nice feature of the iPhone. 99% of the time I am calling 1 of the people on my favorites list as well, this would be nice if it was possible.
I do not know if it is or not.
Would also appreciate this setting.
A work around that might be useful:
From your home screen find a screen that is fairly empty and long press like you are adding a widget. Select "Shortcuts" then select "Direct Dial" Choose someone from your contacts list. You now have a direct dial shortcut to that contact on your screen.
yeeter said:
A work around that might be useful:
From your home screen find a screen that is fairly empty and long press like you are adding a widget. Select "Shortcuts" then select "Direct Dial" Choose someone from your contacts list. You now have a direct dial shortcut to that contact on your screen.
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I actually did that. I even made my own icon that matched the Launcher Pro icons and added it to my dock. It direct dials my best friend.
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Not a bad idea but not really a solution/work around for a shortcut to your top 10-20+ favorites.
I agree - not a good solution if you have many on a fav list. For a 2 or 3 I just use speed dial from the dialer.
Has anyone tried Dialer One?
(from the thread looking for an alternate dialer) I'm too new they don't trust me with linking to it.
Another possible alternative is to add a Folder Widget end select "Starred Contacts" from the list.
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What app do you use to grab a screen shot?
Regarding Screen Cap:
If you are rooted there is a market app. Another way is to use the ddms.bat tool that is in the SDK - it launches the Dalvik Debug Monitor on your computer and this can do a screen cap (Menu - Device - Screen Cap)
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What app do you use to grab a screen shot?
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no app when I took that. It was using the android sdk to do it. Guide on how to do it is found here: http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/07/21/how-to-take-screenshots-of-your-android-based-phone-from-windows/
Launcher Pro ( the paid version ) also has a favorites widget that will let you configure either full screen or 1x4.
Why not just use dialer one? You can do exactly this with dialer one + you can do so much more, like custom backgrounds and change all the text colors etc.
I just added the folder of starred contacts. Really nice, actually.
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This small tweak was done as a personal preference on my part. Don't know if others will find value in it or not, but figured I'd share since I spent to them to make the tweak.
It has always bothered me that when I pull up the dialer, that the bottom right button provides for the ability to 'View Call History', when the call history is already presented by default when opening the dialer.
For me, it would be more convenient, when opening the dialer, to have the button default to my contacts list, rather than call history, so this is what this mod/tweak accomplishes. That is, it modifies the functionality of the bottom right button on the dialer taskbar, in order to default, when pressed, to your 'All Contacts' list, rather than the 'Call History'.
Old Dialer Setup w/ Call History Button (bottom right):
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New Dialer Setup w/ All Contacts Button (bottom right):
Note: This mod is provided as a MetaMorph, as such, it will only change the button behavior and icon, but NOT the look (color) of your dialer. This mod also includes the NO Haptic feedback when dialing
XML MetaMorph Control File <--- Apply using the latest MetaMorph Application
That has always bothered me too, but I just dealt with it. Now that you created this update I will have to try it out. Thanks
Works like a charm.
Tibedabeeto said:
Works like a charm.
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Cool. It just seems to make more sense to me, providing quicker access to your contacts, as opposed to call history.
Isn't it faster to just type the name of the contact you want? And if they have multiple numbers, swiping left and right will let you scroll through the numbers.
c00ller said:
Isn't it faster to just type the name of the contact you want? And if they have multiple numbers, swiping left and right will let you scroll through the numbers.
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Different strokes for different folks I guess. What mod have you published that I can critique?
Sorry if I came off as condescending toward your mod. Didn't mean it like that.
I know I've never really made this big of a request before but hopefully someone can fulfill it!
Heres my current problem:
As you can see when I select any of the 3 tabs in question (Music, (People)/Contacts and (Pictures)/Images) nothing happens and it just stays on the previous tab, as well but unnoticeable when I click the lock button, nothing happens same when I click the red power button...
But I'd love to be able to have this fully working and keep the clock I'm using plus the option to add remove widgets... I'm using SenseFlipClock and maybe add english to it instead of whatever language it's in now that and maybe a notification row above the 4 buttoned row like this:
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With or without the glossy black tabs and instead of the phone symbol make it a bold @ symbol for e-mails, making the envelope symbol open my text messages, the phone symbol below works already, so I see no sense in having two... As for this I was thinking make the gap between the two rows smaller and small notification boxes/buttons for E-mail, Voicemail and Text with numeric entries such as 2 for two text messages and so for each maybe even if possible e-mail being colored red numbers, voicemails colored blue numbers and text messages being colored green numbers.
The power button open psShutXP and the lock button windows default lock tool...
I'd be ever so grateful and willing to donate money to whoever if someone could mod this for me... I've tried fixing it myself but couldn't figure it and asked how to fix it at TL Forums and someone said to ask here I also couldn't find JC anywhere... Hopefully this isn't asking to much. Thanks
Theme file:
JC NeoLight: http://www.throttlelauncher.com/por...9/catid,5/sobi2Id,549/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/
SenseFlipClock: http://www.throttlelauncher.com/por...9/catid,4/sobi2Id,627/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/
Moved as not theme release.
stylez said:
Moved as not theme release.
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Where was it moved to or which section?
n1nj4Lo said:
Where was it moved to or which section?
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It's moved here to Q&A from Theme "Releases"
ThrottleLauncher Tab/Page Request
Is there anyway someone could tell me how to important those 3 working pages in from a normal TL TF Theme?
If that would work at all? The thing is those 3 tabs/pages all launch individual app's, I'd rather have one be like a normal contacts page, NOT TO LOAD THE CONTACT APP, then have music to have be an embedded page, or perhaps all 3 be widgets pages... With the 3 widgets pages, I could just load a nitrogen widget on one, then a photo viewer on the second one and a contacts widget on the third one.
But I can't figure out the transition to go through to do this...
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
I have had launcher pro for a very long time now and I don't want to change launchers but I am getting sick if its look. I have customized the dock recentley to my liking but what about the icons? I want to be able to change the icons of things that are placed in one of my 7 home screens but I can't seem to find a way to do that. Please help!
Here is what my.dock looks like now. I really want to change the icons :
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Put whatever icons you want to have as your dock icons onto your phone, long press the icon you want to change, select Custom Icon, navigate to the icon you want and select it.
Custom icon.
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Put whatever icons you want to have as your dock icons onto your phone, long press the icon you want to change, select Custom Icon, navigate to the icon you want and select it.
Custom icon.
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i dont think you understand, i want to customize the icons on my screens, not on my dock, this didnt really help but thanks for your effort! anyone else?
You'll have to re-add all icons, but instead of dragging the shortcut from the app drawer to the screen hit menu>add>shortcut>applications. Pick the app, then it gives you the option to change the icon.
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did you ever figure out how to do this i would like to do this on an old android phone i use as a music player
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You'll have to re-add all icons, but instead of dragging the shortcut from the app drawer to the screen hit menu>add>shortcut>applications. Pick the app, then it gives you the option to change the icon.
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Got to be honest, I thought this was wrong, but hey, you can!
Btw, maybe try 'Folder Organizer' and then you drop short cuts to folders on your screen instead of app shortcuts.
AndyCr15 said:
Got to be honest, I thought this was wrong, but hey, you can!
Btw, maybe try 'Folder Organizer' and then you drop short cuts to folders on your screen instead of app shortcuts.
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thanks! i will deffinetley try that
Does anyone have the carhome app. I found one but when i installed it doesnt show up in my app list
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Its not supposed to show up on your apps list. This is how I do it in launcherpro.
Create a shortcut to 'activities'. Then select carhome.carhome.carhome
Its there but only on the activities list and you have to make a shortcut
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Its not supposed to show up on your apps list. This is how I do it in launcherpro.
Create a shortcut to 'activities'. Then select carhome.carhome.carhome
Its there but only on the activities list and you have to make a shortcut
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It shows up in the apps list of the standard launcher as "Samsung Car Home". Dunno about the TW launcher.
i know googles car home used to show up in my launcher on my dell. but its not there. its supposed to show up in the launcher. i cant even find it in the market but https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.carhome says its installed.
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The market is showing that Googles Car Home is not compatible with the Infuse. Maybe that's why it's not showing up.
i got the app from here by googling "carhome apk" and selecting the droid life link (i can't post links yet). then you need launcher pro to use the app. follow slider's post above to use.
Slider,
I was using "Launcher" and now that I downloaded Launcher Pro it has changed all of my icons when I hit the home button. Is there anyway to copy the settings from "launcher" to "launcher pro"?
Thanks again
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i got the app from here by googling "carhome apk" and selecting the droid life link (i can't post links yet). then you need launcher pro to use the app. follow slider's post above to use.
Slider,
I was using "Launcher" and now that I downloaded Launcher Pro it has changed all of my icons when I hit the home button. Is there anyway to copy the settings from "launcher" to "launcher pro"?
Thanks again
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No, unfortunately not... I think its 2 completely different developers.... sorry....
Um... you can also get the samsung car dock and don't install the samsung car home, instead just use the google car home... Plug it in and bam, google car home comes up... just saying =)
I have multiple launcher setup, but everytime if I press the home button, this menu will come up. And if I check the box "use by default for this action". It will stay there permanently.
My question is once I pick one and check the box. A week later if I want to choose a different one how do I get this menu back? I don't see anywhere to bring it up.
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Go to settings-applications, then to the launcher you made your default, then press the button "clear defaults" and voila.
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Go to settings-applications, then to the launcher you made your default, then press the button "clear defaults" and voila.
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Yes, you can do this each time. And remember how you did since there will be many apps that ask to be the default for certain activities that you may want to change from time to time (like when you get a new app for that task).
But the best way I've seen specifically for Launchers is an app called "Home Switcher". When you use it the app displays all the launchers installed, including the Samsung one, and tells you which is the default. There are buttons next to each selection to clear the default and to launch a new one. I believe it's still free.
Hope this helps!
wow great, I will give it a try.
It seems work great. But when I press the home button, it will go back to the other one. Even though I setup a new default home screen. Home button will go back lol. It will not stay on the new default home screen.
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Yes, you can do this each time. And remember how you did since there will be many apps that ask to be the default for certain activities that you may want to change from time to time (like when you get a new app for that task).
But the best way I've seen specifically for Launchers is an app called "Home Switcher". When you use it the app displays all the launchers installed, including the Samsung one, and tells you which is the default. There are buttons next to each selection to clear the default and to launch a new one. I believe it's still free.
Hope this helps!
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mbworldz
---- It seems work great. But when I press the home button, it will go back to the other one. Even though I setup a new default home screen. Home button will go back lol. It will not stay on the new default home screen.----
- If you selected TWLauncher you can change the default page through 'Menu button/Edit'
- If you selected Launcher you cannot change this. It is set to the middle page.