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So... I'm trying to slowly step away from Sense as Im beginning to really get frustrated with the lag and the memory hogging.
I'd like to use the Helix Launcher, or something simliar... but I can't really find any good widgets!
Like, I love the HTC clock/weather. I've tried "Beautiful Widgets" but its really not so beautiful for $2.
So, let this kind of be a "post some screenshots" of your favorite widgets.
I love to show off my phone, and making the phone's UI both efficient and sexy at the same time.
However the stock android widgets are just plain as hell, and the Market is as you all know impossible to browse through.
poor_red_neck said:
So... I'm trying to slowly step away from Sense as Im beginning to really get frustrated with the lag and the memory hogging.
I'd like to use the Helix Launcher, or something simliar... but I can't really find any good widgets!
Like, I love the HTC clock/weather. I've tried "Beautiful Widgets" but its really not so beautiful for $2.
So, let this kind of be a "post some screenshots" of your favorite widgets.
I love to show off my phone, and making the phone's UI both efficient and sexy at the same time.
However the stock android widgets are just plain as hell, and the Market is as you all know impossible to browse through.
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beautiful widgets are perfect.. I think some ppl here even use them over the htc clock even when using sense.. There are tonss of skins to choose from, you just have to download them (from the app, without having to install any extra app). And it also includes all the toggles like wifi and it even has a smaller version of the clock that takes less room
I'm gonna vote BW as well. After downloading a nice theme from inside the app, this thing beats the crap out of the HTC clock any day (for me anyways). Other than that, I don't really know. I would like to hear of some other nice widgets to use
mixzing music player has an awesome music widget and its free defintely recommend
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beautiful widgets are perfect
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+10000 10char
Thousands?
When I was browsing through the clock widgets I only found like 30 or so... wouldn't load anything else after that.
Maybe I'll give it another shot I guess. Only $2 right?
i wouldnt mind going vanilla if there was anything similiar to the bookmark widget, my most used widget. also, i just LOVE the htc weather clock widget with the animations, BW doesnt offer that (i know about the animations upon entering the app, but its not the same as weather animation wallpapers)
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Thousands?
When I was browsing through the clock widgets I only found like 30 or so... wouldn't load anything else after that.
Maybe I'll give it another shot I guess. Only $2 right?
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Lol he isnt saying thousands to choose from.. he was saying +10000 to liking BW
1. It's 2 bucks... 2 DOLLARS!
2. The phone is so much snappier running Helix, and ASOP, especially running the IC3 ROM.
I didn't think I would like things without the HTC sense stuff... but it runs so smooth, and the BW gets pretty close to looking just like sense.
I don't see BW as being that great. I feel it is kind of sluggish, which imo doesn't justify going away from Sence. And I have tried it. Don't much like the pure apps either. But it's all choices I guess.
Sense works perfect for me. No sluggishness at all!
Sense is very sluggish for me unless I constantly kill unused apps. I just downloaded Home and Helix, I am going to try both of them with BW, which I downloaded a few weeks ago to use with Launcher PRO.
Here's my home screen.
Running DarchDroid 2.7 with Launcher Pro.
Beautifull Smaller Home Widget, as well as SetCPU, Brightness, and GPS widgets
The simpler the better for me.
Just the People widget is out at this time, but it sounds like more widgets will be coming to LauncherPro Plus soon
http://www.launcherpro.com/
Thanks, jniggle for actually giving the OP what he wanted! Nice home screen, btw!
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Here's my home screen.
Running DarchDroid 2.7 with Launcher Pro.
Beautifull Smaller Home Widget, as well as SetCPU, Brightness, and GPS widgets
The simpler the better for me.
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don't know if you've seen OneClick widgets, but you might try it out. I think you would like the icons next to your other transparent stuff.
mbuchholz
i like mine simple
Hi guys,
Been using ADW for a while now and really like it, but recently getting more and more force closes. Can anyone else recommend a good one? I tried panda but that seemed to slow my phone down a lot. Thanks to anyone who can help
HelixLauncher or Zeam Launcher is good.
got them both installed now. Zeam seems really fast. Can our x10 only take up to 1.5.1? Thats all I could find to download
What version of ADW did you have? I'm using 1.0.1 I haven't had a single force close with it, and I can't say any other home replacement is even close to being as good as ADW!
adw has been my favourite and it was 1.0.1 that I had, but it has just started forcing close and i dont know why
Adw look really nice but it does not work well on the x10, horizontsl slide is very sensitive. That means that you pick up icons while sliding the program menu. Fix that and ill replace Zeam.
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Portrait works much better
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Glenn, you do know you can change the app drawer back to the vertical scrolling type, right? Reason I ask is because I had the same problem when I first installed adw, and had almost given up on it solely because of that, until someone told me I could do that. It is in the adw settings, under drawer settings I believe. The horizontal slide is the galaxy s style, vertical works much more smoothly on x10
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I was going to say the same thing. Vertical slide works MUCH better than horizontal slide.
I'm wondering if the force-close issues in ADW are anything to do with the themes. I love the concept of themes but I'm tempted to disable them in case the size of the graphical components are causing some kind of bottleneck. Or something. I'm just guessing really, it's only really started playing up since I changed the themes.
I used to use HelixLauncher a lot, and liked it... certainly over the stock... but ADW won me over after I changed the drawer to horizontal, and disabled the "new dock" thing at the bottom, which I never used.
I might go back to Helix because ADW is being a bit odd recently. I wonder if that is what is hassling my poor old Beautiful Widgets...
My adw was getting a bit laggy so i uninstalled and reinstalled it. It's back to being super fast again. i use beautiful widgets and everything is fine.
Angie xx
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we have to post alot of requests to Federico to support 1.6
i love launcher pro but i cant use it
here's the link :
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/index.php?sid=3916e5dae42f92bd615b1c8e9acdfdd8
I've been using ADW for ages, and it's definitely my favourite too...
I'd like to say I've had no issues at all, but recently I've been finding that icons occasionally shift a few pixels to the right - like it's stuck a little way into swiping between screens...
It seems this only happens if I go in and out of a landscape based application (such as the camera) - my fix for this is to enable landscape mode in ADW as well, and I haven't had a problem... So while I don't like or used landscape on the home screen, at least my screens don't get stuck a little skewed...
Note, I only found this to be an issue after I upgraded to the 024 firmware... that, of course, doesn't mean there wasn't an upgrade to ADW too, I just don't remember (given I also wiped my device and re-installed everything)...
First time I've been impressed by a launcher other than adw or launcher pro.
Very cool app drawer that you long hold to edit all the items in. You can then click the little x's to uninstall appear or move them around to your liking. There is a recent tab in the appear list. As well as a running tab with a kill all button and a kill each app manager.
It scrolls and transitions as smoothly as launcher pro. The desktop has a lot of neat features too. This is one you guys really need to try out. I dunno if it started as an adw knockoff because of the similar look or not. But it is really stable and really unique now.
Needs widget residing and scrollable widget support. But once it gets that it will definitely be the best on the market. And it has already taken over as the default on my phone.
Imma definitely be recommending it to friends and maybe do a writeup on evobenchers
Grab it on the market. Looks like they also male a pretty sweet sms apply that I'm trying out. All their file sizes are so small I love the low memory footprint of the launcher and the sms app. Keepers
defly a good look!! it's like a mashup of ADW, LauncherPro, and MIUIish, and add a little TouchWiz... I like! Very fast and ingenious
That launcher is slick! Thanks for the find!
Yea it does incorporate a lot of good ideas from them all. I hope launcher pro doesn't try to shut them down or anything since they are a payapp
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That launcher is slick! Thanks for the find!
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Np dude. I figured if I just found it today then a lot of people didn't know about it. After all it must have been only a week ago I searched for "launcher" on the market to try out all the knew ones and didn't see this one for some reason. Maybe it is that new, I dunno.
Definitelyhad to spread the word though.
Not much to say.. new Launcher seems quite interesting..
http://androidspin.com/2011/08/09/app-qqlauncher-pro-talk-about-an-undiscovered-launcher-gem/
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tencent.qqlauncher&feature=search_result
And YES its FREE because we all love free stuff dont we.. Lol enjoy..
Tried it. Its nice but needs work. It will be good once they fix the lag and give transparent effect. Cuz some of my transparent widgits dont go transparent on that launcher.
Its pretty neat tho. Similar to go launcher but more stylish.
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Tried it and I really like it but it doesnt update widgets like my beautiful weather. On a oc it freezes too.
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I have just tested this on my Samsung Galaxy Sii and it looks really good!
One feature I would love to see that is in many other launchers is the ability to "resize" widges on the pages.
This would make it very complete.
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I have just tested this on my Samsung Galaxy Sii and it looks really good!
One feature I would love to see that is in many other launchers is the ability to "resize" widges on the pages.
This would make it very complete.
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you can resize widgets on launcher pro...it just a paid feature, not free on this launcher
@ Jager
I know what he means! With other launchers like the paid LauncherPro
you can overlap widgets, fit them, arrange the grid etc, with QQLauncher
that aint possible or very limited. Besides QQLauncher is laggy as hell on
a very fast phone .
yea, but once we give it time, it willd definitely be a great launcher contender. good find. i'll keep my eye on this one.
I sure love it, especially with Vipitus his modifications, but I'm back
on LP. Will give it a try soon.
Gives a real miui type feel, takes to long to respond after app close, I'm on audiophile bump in your trunk or boom in your room, sticking to launcher pro
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Froyo? What's that lol
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Not bad.. I like the look, but got a FC after about 2 minutes of messing with it though. I'll try it again after the next update.
The best feature of this launcher IMHO is the freaking awesome sorted scrolling vertical app drawer. Oh my God... Sexy.
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This launcher is awesome on my D3, super quick to redraw the home page after closing an app or camera and love the alphabetically sorted app drawer. Give this guys some time and it will be a hit. It does need a few featured like widget resizing and editing of icons, also a custom grid size. Will keep for a while to see how it develops
when I click the contact or phone app on the dock it opens the default samsung phone or contact instead of giving the option of the all the phone apps (go dialer,touchpal dialer etc). any plans to add this?
Does anyone know how to replace the dock and app drawer icon? I don't want an entire theme to change it :S
wow this has the best lockscreen I've ever seen
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I've been using Launcher Pro for quite a long time now on my Epic 4G but I've never liked that it seems slow to initialize and at times is just laggy for unknown reasons. So, I switched to QQLauncher Pro 1.4.3 (Build 234). I miss some of the LP icons but overall love how QQLauncher Pro's design is for the setup of each screen, the ability to organize apps into folders, and at least in my case with Android 2.3.4 EH06 installed on my phone, there doesn't seem to be any lagginess to concern me.
However, I have found some quirky bug in that not all icons are rebuilt after a reboot of my phone. Similarly, with all my apps organized into multiple folders, the same 7 apps are found outside their intended folders after a reboot. The only solution is to apply a restore of the launcher settings, although it only corrects the home screens and not the app drawer. For each instance of this corruption, it is always the same apps affected, which is also puzzling since there's nothing they share in common to my knowledge. Most, and perhaps all of them are saved to the memory card to conserve system memory, but there are other apps similarly saved to the memory card that aren't affected, so that does not seem to be the source of the bug.
At this point, I'm not sure if I'll return to Launcher Pro...I have to decide which I think to be the lesser of two evils. QQLauncher really wins a lot of points though for just allowing multiple item selection when building a screen up.
Best launcher so far ...all it needs is an option to switch home screen landscape and more themes
I'd like to push/hold an app from the list-drawer and put it on the desktop, doesn't seem to work atm.
And the lock screen seems to redirect me to the GO SMS Pro app both when using the SMS-unlock and Home-unlock. Anyway to fix this? I'd really like to use the lock screen!
I'm using the latest 2.3 version. Is there any way to disable the task manager/app cleaner(which seems to run automatically)?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tencent.qqlauncher&feature=search_result
Has anyone tried this launcher in the market. looks similar to adw just installed it havent played around with it yet. everything looks ok.
I don't know about that launcher specifically but QQ Chat is a (popular) chinese chat app. We could hack it in to our old motorola flip phones back in the day.
Perhaps this is the same chinese company with another knockoff. I'd say it if looks and feels like ADW, why not just use ADW? Go Launcher seems nice too.
[UPDATE]
Looks neat. While supposedly it isn't as customizable as the popular ones, it does offer some neat features. The Contact list Apps Menu looks appealing and some of the other features. Try it out and give us a review!
I don't know about anybody else but I'm currently using the Regina 3D Launcher and live it. Plus you can add extra home screens.
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Just installed it, I love it so far!
Good but needs more features.
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I love the app menu in list mode... Just doesn't support enough customization for me yet. I think I'll stick with go launcher ex for now, but this is definitely one to watch.
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Tattooed5150 said:
I don't know about anybody else but I'm currently using the Regina 3D Launcher and live it. Plus you can add extra home screens.
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I just gave it a try and it is amazing! I love it so far. It is heavy 3d app so I am not sure if it will run smooth on older phones but it runs great on the G2X.
Thanks.
Initial review
Been playing with this for a most of the day now. Here is what I like about it.
Interesting screen transitions, I like the different swipe animations, Fade in is a nice touch, and I really like Cascade. Card is a fun variation of windmill, but with alot of icons, gets sore on the eyes. And Cube is a nice one as well, although it does get a bit laggy. Other than Cubem, they all work pretty good, even with a heavy live wallpaper working in the background.
The app drawer list setting is a huge plus on this. Something that is lacking in GoLauncher (my usual primary) and Launcher pro. It really makes finding your apps easy, and when you have alot, like I do, its great.
Clone Launcher - This is a nice feature, as it pulls whatever you have placed as screens on Launcher Pro into this launcher. It didn't give me the choice to pull GoLauncher, so it might only work with Launcher pro, not sure.
Its a pretty stable, fast and non-laggy UI. I like using it, however, the following items really are why I keep going back to GoLauncher.
Themes - pretty limited in what you can do. You can change wallpapers BUT only what is offered by the theme. You cannot choose from previous wallpapers, and you cant choose any live wallpapers. You have to get into a different launcher and set those up, then return to QQ. Same with Icons, you cant use anything but what is offered by the theme.
With that said about Icons, they are biggger than most launcher, which is a nice bonus.
Dock - your limited to the 5, with the app drawer static. It isn't easy to change them, you have to remove them, and then add, you can't add directly from the current icon. There is no second or third dock drawer, so you can only put your favorite four down there.
Regarding the QQ widgets, you get Task killer and quick switch. Quick switch works fine, but your limited to WiFi, screen brightness, sound settings and GPRS listed in the widget. You can access GPS, flight mode, etc through selecting the widget.
Task killer I am unsure of. When using it with ZDBox, I get different numbers.When I kill idle tasks using QQ, I end with 339M in use. But when I do the same using ZD, I get 233.6M in use. So not sure why the difference.
For my opinion, I like its stability and different screen transitions as well as the app list, and will keep an eye on this. However, by adding more screen customization (wallpapers, icons, live wallpapers) and more dock choices, this could become a really great launcher.
I will check Regina now, see how that works.
A few other things
Alright, forget Regina, couldn't make it work, too buggy.
BUT I do have some more input regarding QQ.
The lock screen rocks! I love the animations it gives while charging, and its a very responsive lock. Best thing is once you activate it and go with a different launcher, it still works!
I do wish we could change the shortcuts. And whenever I choose the down swipe (Home icon), I go to my SMS app, even when it QQ. So there is a bad connection or something along those lines there. Its still something I can live with, and plan to continue using the lock screen!
Lol I don't know why but I like this launcher. How is the lockscreen for everyone. Is it responsive?
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Lol I don't know why but I like this launcher. How is the lockscreen for everyone. Is it responsive?
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the launcher honestly was very nice, but too little features for my liking unfortunately.
not enough features, but im keepin the app installed cuz i love that lockscreen!
One last update
So played some more with it and used it for the weekend. here are my last points on it.
Folders - You are limited to 12 apps only. No more. So if you got alot that needs to go in a folder (like I do), you will end up with more folders, more confusion, and more 'which folder has what app' issues. But whats cool is that you can find the classification name by checking the box icon on the right. Nice touch guys!
Lock screen - Again, I can't say enough about this. but now am going to say a little bit more. of all the free lock options out there, this is the only one I have found where the volume keys work when the screen is locked and off. HOWEVER, when you use that volume, the screen will come on (thats ok), but then never turn back off (NOT OK!)
I found out while riding the bus home. Left the office and turned up the music player while phone was still in the case. Didn't look at it until I got off the bus and put it in my car dock. Noticed it was on. thought I did that taking it out of the case, but then I noticed the battery was drained alot more than its supposed to for the ride home.
so did a check, unplugged and player going, with the screen off I turned volume up, screen came on, then never turned off (I gave up waiting after 5 minutes).
My stock lock screen is set to turn the screen off after 10 seconds, and all the other lock screens work with that time, so this really needs to get corrected.
Still hoping for updates to both the lock and the launcher! Don't give up developers!
I use it with my Galaxy S2 & love it. I have the iphone theme for obvious reasons
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not enough features, but im keepin the app installed cuz i love that lockscreen!
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Same here!!!!!
I like the lock screen. It sticks around after switching back to ADW EX. Keeping it installed to wait for updates.
It's a decent launcher, I normally use ADW Launcher EX though. Ya it does need some more customization and its got a good lock screen.
But I recently tried Go Launcher EX again(stopped using awhile back due to random fc's , updated version seemed to fix it) and their lock screen app Go Locker, is great! They've got the ICS lock screen theme, Sense, an iPhone clone, and a cool Santa Claus themed lock screen just to name a few. It's worth a look for sure
If somebody could take this launcher, add customize-able dock bars, allow themes from Roms (like MIUI or CM) to work properly, and add more customization to the lockscreen (like change applications, torch, etc) I would pay for it in a heartbeat.
I love this launcher but it still lacks features other launchers have, like I can't leave go launcher for this one YET
HOTLANTA, even though its cold ;-)
Their is also an Asian company that produces a launcher named cclauncher. Its supposed to be a 3d type launcher.
Cclauncher ics has some really good ics animations including the app drawer ics animations, almost identical.
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