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in case those of you looking for it.
the update also indicates that the market is broken. and why you cannot see the app.
there IS a link to the .apk in this post to dl.
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/2010/06/adw-launcher-0-7-7/
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THANK YOU! I've been looking for this for 2 days!

this works on the sense ui(evo)?????????
cuz i thot adw didnt work on sense

Its a launcher. Once you select this as your launcher you cannot use sense (widgets) unless off course you just switch back your launcher to htc sense.
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does this use less juice than using sense?

how do you change the bottom icons ?

Very nice posting this on ppcgeeks, I hope you dont mind.

joey3002 said:
does this use less juice than using sense?
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still has sense frameworks, so still running **** in the background. i havnt noticed much, maybe a little less battery usage
Sporkman said:
how do you change the bottom icons ?
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take an icon from your app drawer, drag it to the main body of your background, then drag the icon to the launcher and drop.
Konfuzion said:
Very nice posting this on ppcgeeks, I hope you dont mind.
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sure. i dont take credit for it, as i didnt develop it. just found it wasnt showing in market.

What widgets are those btw? Beautiful or some others? Forgive my ignorance, my EVO arrives tomorrow and it'll be my first Android device, just trying to compile a list of all the stuff I wanna try and I certainly like the overall look you've put together w/ADW and that stuff. Love the wallpaper too btw, I've got the very same one in rotation w/others on my desktop, heh.

Impulses said:
What widgets are those btw? Beautiful or some others? Forgive my ignorance, my EVO arrives tomorrow and it'll be my first Android device, just trying to compile a list of all the stuff I wanna try and I certainly like the overall look you've put together w/ADW and that stuff. Love the wallpaper too btw, I've got the very same one in rotation w/others on my desktop, heh.
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beautiful widgets for the time/weather & the vibrate widget.
es task manager is the task killer icon on the right of the battery widget.
battery widget is "batterylife" by curvefish in the app market.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Love the launcher, any way to the HTC widgets??
I use the bookmarks, agenda and clock with time/temps .

CorruptedSanity said:
Love the launcher, any way to the HTC widgets??
I use the bookmarks, agenda and clock with time/temps .
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unfortunately not.
smooth calendar, or android agenda widget is a good replacement for the htc agenda with some more customizable options.
beautiful widgets is another good replacement for the htc clock. with many types of skins.
the bookmarks im not to sure. never use them personally. if i did i would just use the android bookmark "shortcuts"

fdot said:
unfortunately not.
smooth calendar, or android agenda widget is a good replacement for the htc agenda with some more customizable options.
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Ok will give it a try. But cannot see an Android Agenda widget. All I see is an Android calendar widgej which is very "lite".
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does this use less battery life and/or memory than say stock sense?

one thing that i noticed is when you turn on your screen and then drag down to unlock, the wallpaper will shift downward as well. is there a fix to this?
i am going to have to dump adw if there isn't a fix for this.. it drives me up the wall.

bump bump bump

afitchguy07 said:
one thing that i noticed is when you turn on your screen and then drag down to unlock, the wallpaper will shift downward as well. is there a fix to this?
i am going to have to dump adw if there isn't a fix for this.. it drives me up the wall.
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If you have the device held horizontally its going to do that. If that is what you are talking about. Not a glitch.

I like the RAB and LAB buttons. Very useful.
I have the LAB as Phone (to make calls) and RAB as a folder.
The problem is I cannot add/remove apps from the folder.
I initially created the folder on the desktop, added about 10 apps to it then dragged it to the RAB. Excellent. I have access to those 10 apps almost 90% of the time.
Problem is I cannot add a new app shortcut to that folder.
Is there a way to undock/shift the folder from RAB back to desktop to add app shortcuts then back to RAB?
Because I tried adding an app shortcut to the folder by dragging it from desktop to RAB but that app got registered as the bew RAB and I lost the folder. Had to redo it all over.
otherwise its great.
thanks

this any different from ADW.Launcher in market?

webOS like multitasking on ANDROID

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s92BLUj6r0
app is called itching thumb... its free. can be used as a task switcher or a home replacement launcher.
app will let you easily switch between apps using a like cards preview of all running apps, similar to palm pres and pixie. Great app and very stable. no FC on my evo....(knock on wood)...just select it as your home button, and your good to go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s92BLUj6r0
Itching Thumb (Task Manager)
by Johan Cloetens
5,000 downloads, 138 ratings (3.7 avg)
Free
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Edit: update is out, it's a manual one. It gets rid of the bottom dock in itching thumb.

nice nice thx

Very nice. Looks nicer than visual task switcher.

I couldn't get the double click feature working that makes itching thumb pop up. I did, however, bind itching thumb to my long press home button under cm6 settings and this thing is smooth as hell!
It's a shame that it only works in portrait mode though

I cant get it to work? I have it set to my default but when I press home it takes me to the regular lpp home screen?
Swyped from my HTC Evo 4G on the MetroPCS 1X network!

I like it! It's very fast and responsive. And I like that it can be used in conjunction with my current launcher, ADW, or any other that I choose to use. Thanks for posting this.

Max_Pain said:
I cant get it to work? I have it set to my default but when I press home it takes me to the regular lpp home screen?
Swyped from my HTC Evo 4G on the MetroPCS 1X network!
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Double tap on the home button. A single tap will not activate it.
@the OP
Very nice indeed.

Max_Pain said:
I cant get it to work? I have it set to my default but when I press home it takes me to the regular lpp home screen?
Swyped from my HTC Evo 4G on the MetroPCS 1X network!
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did you try double tapping the home screen button?

That wasnt it...but I got it working already
Swyped from my HTC Evo 4G on the MetroPCS 1X network!

Thanks for showing me this magicriggs, I love it!
The extra app launcher on the bottom is sweet too!
Also, nice magic tricks, you're good!

You have to double tap the home screen button.
It doesn't kill the apps correctly, when it does this is gonna be PRO!

I changed the center button in ADW so the swype up gesture opened itching thumb. This and the touchstone are the 2 things I miss from my pre.

This is multitasking done right. Android needs this type of app built in. Gives it a nice feel to the phone.
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yea this is awesome thanks everybody for your kind words! yea as soon as i found this app i knew i had to share with my fellow xda brothers. cheers!

Seems quite awesome - but looks like it's messed up my home button action with LauncherPro.
Instead of bringing me back to the homescreen and opening screen previews (like I've set Launcherpro to do) the screen just flashes when I single press the home button. Hmmm.

Ezalis said:
I changed the center button in ADW so the swype up gesture opened itching thumb. This and the touchstone are the 2 things I miss from my pre.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGdx3UhreE
touchstone mod on the evo

But then the magnets would mess with the compass, and as much as I love the touchstone the compass would take priority.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the dock at the bottom? A lot of the screen shots I've seen have no dock yet mine does and I have no use for it.
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fchipm said:
Seems quite awesome - but looks like it's messed up my home button action with LauncherPro.
Instead of bringing me back to the homescreen and opening screen previews (like I've set Launcherpro to do) the screen just flashes when I single press the home button. Hmmm.
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Upon further playing it seems my issue has to do with the double-click time out setting. Does anyone's home button do what it's supposed to in your launcher?

Oh wow! This is AWESOME. I'm curious what you did to make the status bar and All Programs menu translucent?

Widget locker...any good?

Hi,
Has anyone been using this app on the Nexus S?
I only came across it after I saw the multiple icons on the lockscreen on one of the advertised themes.
Reviews on other sites suggest that there is a lag issue and other errors...none of them seem to be on the Nexus S.
Comments please.....

Im after the same answer, I saw it being used on the home screen post and it looked very good.
I want to start doing some customisazion of my own.

Viperpsych said:
Im after the same answer, I saw it being used on the home screen post and it looked very good.
I want to start doing some customisazion of my own.
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Widget Locker is the best lock screen ever..
heres a pic..
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You can add up to 10 shortcut keys on the unlock screen. So, top left corner is camera, top right camera is LED flashlight, left middle is notes, right middle is google voice, bottom left is unlock andd buttom right is to silence it.
Oh and you can add widgets on the screen so i added a calendar widget.
I love this app and its really worth the money, being able to access some of these apps right from the screen is real convinient, especially the camera and flash light.
The only issue i've run into is that if you turn it on and off real quick, it will show the stock slide to ulock screen, and sometimes it will go back to the original slide to unlock screen, at this point you would just click on widget locker again to start it up.
Overall great app!
Better yet I'll post a video to give you an idea

When i search for it in the market is it the one made by Teslacoil software?

Yuup
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Viperpsych said:
When i search for it in the market is it the one made by Teslacoil software?
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That's the one.
Also, it is a known issue that this app will not work along side NoLed.

Heres a vid of the app.
http://s976.photobucket.com/albums/ae249/Garcia650/?action=view&current=2011-02-01_02-34-24_880.mp4
Also, if you notice in the vid, when I turn it on from sleep mode, it shows the stock slider, thats because turn it off and on within 3-5 seconds, it will show the stock slider.

Cheers for that i'm sold.
Just downloaded it.

Awesome!
Thanks a lot. Just downloaded it.
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It's a must have app... I made a video about it a while ago. I like my lockscreen with my calendar events and music. Also, if your rooted go to advance and set it to rooted device.

I would recommend widgetlocker. One of my favorite android apps

docsamsom said:
Hi,
Has anyone been using this app on the Nexus S?
I only came across it after I saw the multiple icons on the lockscreen on one of the advertised themes.
Reviews on other sites suggest that there is a lag issue and other errors...none of them seem to be on the Nexus S.
Comments please.....
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why go for a paid app when you can get it for free?
Widgetsoid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11061235&postcount=13

AllGamer said:
why go for a paid app when you can get it for free?
Widgetsoid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11061235&postcount=13
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Widgetlocker is like quickdesk not like extended controls. You can customize your lock screen with widgets, shortcuts, toggles, apps, weather, etc..etc..

(dev of WidgetLocker)
Just wanted to let you guys know that my primary phone is a Nexus S. So the coming update is definitely well tested on this phone
Also I've been talking to the dev of NoLED trying to resolve the conflict between the two apps. Not solved yet though.

[email protected] said:
(dev of WidgetLocker)
Just wanted to let you guys know that my primary phone is a Nexus S. So the coming update is definitely well tested on this phone
Also I've been talking to the dev of NoLED trying to resolve the conflict between the two apps. Not solved yet though.
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i purchased your app, it does what it says it do, but whenever i wake my phone... theres a bunch of clicking sound... to the point where i turned off the app...
know whats up?

Kevin,
Good to hear you two are working on this. Can't wait for the update.

royalsego said:
i purchased your app, it does what it says it do, but whenever i wake my phone... theres a bunch of clicking sound... to the point where i turned off the app...
know whats up?
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I had the issue when I was using CM7 nightly ROm with Netarchy 1.2.2 kernel. But I was also having other issues such as the lockscreen spontaneously coming on and off. The lockscreen on/off was happening even when i disabled widget locker . so I dont think it was the app.
Since I flashed another kernel, it seems to have resolved.
Hope that helps.

ADW Launcher 2 (Pre-Alpha)

Video by 96edwy:
New widget options on long-press:
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When you are on a home screen and long press on a widget, you now see more options than before including shortcuts to the Application info and Market pages for the app. You can also quickly set up custom shortcuts using ADW’s menus rather than the standard Android process.
New app drawer functions on long press:
These new app drawer functions are probably the most impressive. You can now long press on apps from within the drawer to see a variety of options, giving you more control over the look and feel. You can also add folders directly in, plus a bunch of other shortcuts. After playing with the new app drawer for 30 seconds, you see how amazing these new tweaks will be once this thing gets fine-tuned and is ready for release.

sweet just downloaded..
out of curiosity AnderWeb (sc) still work on this?
for a beta.. it's very.. alpha or RC phase imo..

darkamikaze said:
sweet just downloaded..
out of curiosity AnderWeb (sc) still work on this?
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According to his posts on Twitter where I got this from, yes.

can you post his twitter account please.
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iynfynity said:
can you post his twitter account please.
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http://twitter.com/#!/anderwebs

wow I am surprised this is thread isn't getting attention. with so many ADW users I'm surprised I had to stumble upon the beta 2 version. I have been looking forward to a skinnable app drawer launcher for sooooo long and I love ADW.

many people like Adw but as a launcher it does not have anything special. Lets say similar to Go launcher.
Adw has only cosmetic things. None of them are usefull very much.

yken said:
many people like Adw but as a launcher it does not have anything special. Lets say similar to Go launcher.
Adw has only cosmetic things. None of them are usefull very much.
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I disagree with that statement..
second Hidden dock
adjustable column rows
drag and drop apps to the dockbar
probably more that i can't think of on the top of my head..
and to whoever said something about the dockbar background.. if you purchase ADW Ex it offers that feature to easily switch out the dockbar bg :x
Go Launcher is good don't get me wrong, (currently using it) just that only reason I'm not on ADW is cause my theme just works too well to not have the ability to have a looping theme.

with Go launcher:
* you can kill applications
* you can hide icons
* you can uninstall
* you can create folders
* it has built-in task manager
* it has built-in recent
from straight app-drawer.
Adw has none of these. But it has many dock backgrounds, themes, fancy colors...etc.
You decide?

Hidden dock in adw= best feature ever
Sent from my HTC Legend

Finally I found replacement for stock GB launcher. Looks like it's based on GB launcher but with additional features . Can't wait for new versions

yken said:
with Go launcher:
* you can kill applications
* you can hide icons
* you can uninstall
* you can create folders
* it has built-in task manager
* it has built-in recent
from straight app-drawer.
Adw has none of these. But it has many dock backgrounds, themes, fancy colors...etc.
You decide?
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With froyo .. you don't need to KILL any applications..
you can hide icons in ADW by creating categories.. and you don't need to go to a menu to make them show when you "hide" them..
you can uninstall apps from adw by holding them to the trashcan..
you can't have folders in the app drawer in adw but like i said before.. categories..
You can always access recent apps by holding the home button.. which I have always done.
As I've said.. Go Launcher is a GREAT launcher.. but don't cast out ADW that easily..

ms_green said:
Hidden dock in adw= best feature ever
Sent from my HTC Legend
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ADW is awesome, I don't really see much use of this function though. How does it benefit you?

QUOTE=darkamikaze
you can uninstall apps from adw by holding them to the trashcan..
You can always access recent apps by holding the home button.. which I have always done.
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Uninstallig apps works the same way in go launcher, furthermore, you can also uninstall them directly in the drawer.
Accessing recent apps pressing the home button works as well, however, there also is a category for that in the drawer.
Don't get me wrong - I love adw and have been using it for month,but go launcher is really awesome as well.
Lets see what adw launcher 2 will be capable of.
Sry, quoting wasn't working for some reason....
Sent from my HTC Legend

zerkai said:
ADW is awesome, I don't really see much use of this function though. How does it benefit you?
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I use it this way: the regular dock only has one button which opens the app drawer.
When I swipe my finger up the screen, the hidden dock appears containing all the docks apps.
I like that because it prevents me from accidently starting apps.
Sent from my HTC Legend

I just downloaded ADW yesterday (no, not the one attached here ... got it from the market).
Can someone tell me how the hidden dock is supposed to work? I have checked it, but don't know how to call/invoke it.
Thanks

You choose open/close dock as swipe up action and when the dock is closed you drop apps on the bottom part of the screen.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my HTC Legend

This is awesome, but I love me some LauncherPro.
Sent from my CM7 Aria

ms_green said:
Hidden dock in adw= best feature ever
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Totally, it eliminated an entire home screen for me and changed the way I organize entirely.
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yken said:
many people like Adw but as a launcher it does not have anything special. Lets say similar to Go launcher.
Adw has only cosmetic things. None of them are usefull very much.
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Why are you here if you dislike ADW? LOL. This thread is about ADW beta and you can start your own hate thread somewhere else.
That aside, I've just tried the beta and really looking forward to the new functions in ADW EX.

Widget descriptions missing after upgrade to ICS 4.0

Just upgraded to ICS on my AT&T phone, and shortly realized that the widget descriptions in the list do not show up (thus making it really hard to figure out what each is). Holding my finger on an entry does make the text visible, but trying to peek under my finger to see what it says is still annoying.
I've even switched between several different launchers (ADW, Nova), and there is no difference.
Any help? Thanks.
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It's not ICS. It's the launcher. The stock ICS launcher will not allow the “press and hold" to select widgets. You have to go to the app drawer on the stock launcher.
I guarantee that if you switch to the stock launcher, the option won't even be there. It's one of the things that they removed in ICS.
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Fall of Enosis said:
It's not ICS. It's the launcher. The stock ICS launcher will not allow the “press and hold" to select widgets.
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Well, I see now that the stock launcher doesn't allow you to press-and-hold to select widgets. But it seems to be simply a matter of fonts/colors that would fix everything. All other launchers I tried allowed the action of the widget to be added this way, and the descriptor is there and shown when the screen is pressed. It just seems like the default color is the same as the background, so you can't see it.
Oh well, thanks for the info.

quasihellfish said:
Well, I see now that the stock launcher doesn't allow you to press-and-hold to select widgets. But it seems to be simply a matter of fonts/colors that would fix everything. All other launchers I tried allowed the action of the widget to be added this way, and the descriptor is there and shown when the screen is pressed. It just seems like the default color is the same as the background, so you can't see it.
Oh well, thanks for the info.
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You would probably need to decompile the launcher apk and edit the background color... what launcher do you prefer? Maybe I'll look into it as I happen to be on ICS for the time being.
Sent from my phone's mind
Edit: then again, maybe it's something in our framework-res.apk- i'll look into it a bit
Edit#2: yep, thinking it's some leftover stuff in the framework-res.apk... before I had a chance to dig through and try to change it, I found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21101599 - works fine with ADW. Just remove the apk from the zip, put on your sdcard, click on it and install as a normal app.

Yeah I think it's system related altered as the function he's speaking of works on my skyrocket running apex launcher.
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I'm having the same issues. Wouldn't mind the stock ICS method of going to the Widgets tab except there is no way to quickly go to a widget that happens to be at the end of the list (e.g., a widget starting with the letter Y or Z). You have to sit there paging repeatedly until you reach the end. I was looking for a way to quickly search for a widget http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927036 but doesn't seem like that's possible.
I don't know why they switched to this method of widget adding. Sure it's nice to be able to see the widget graphic but that paging gets tedious. Many launchers allow you to do a vertical continuous setting for the app drawer. Could they have a widget tab that does the same thing? Then we could quickly zip to the end.

Using the "App Widget Picker" app mentioned by alteredlikeness seems to be a great workaround for ICS on this phone (thanks!) and doesn't suffer from the same font issue.
I tried a several other launchers, and I have two observations for anyone else curious:
The "Widget Picker" is pretty much required if you're using ADW or Nova as a launcher (and probably others) and you want to be able to add widgets by press-and-holding the home screen, because there is no way to do it from their App drawer (there is no Widgets tab).
If you're using Apex, then you still need the Widget Picker for the same reason UNLESS YOU ARE ROOTED, then you can also have the option of adding widgets the "official" way from the app drawer. Apex popped up a message to that effect when I tried to add a Widget from that tab in the App drawer.

So has anyone come up with a workaround for those of us that aren't rooted? I'm using Go Launcher and I have this issue when viewing widgets.

caferacer73 said:
So has anyone come up with a workaround for those of us that aren't rooted? I'm using Go Launcher and I have this issue when viewing widgets.
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I didn't try it with Go launcher, but you shouldn't need to be rooted. See previous posts. Just install the app "App Widget Picker" and you should be fine. When you go to add a widget, then make sure you select that app instead of the default. Worked for me.

I've haven't had any success using the app widget picker. When I long-press for widgets I do get a new widget list with white text and a black background. When I select a widget, app widget picker crashes. I've tried rebooting and it still crashes. I'm open to suggestions of how to try to fix this.

Apex Launcher alone now has the long-press for widget function, with no text/color issues..
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Hmmm. I'm apparently having the same problem. Honestly, I switched back to the stock launcher a while ago and haven't been using my own suggestion for this app. I can't seem to get it to work either, and I'm out of ideas. I just tried switching back to Nova launcher and ran into a lot of crashes with that, too.

Thanks for checking. Let me know if you come up with anything.

Guys I personally think that this is an Atrix 2 ICS software issue. It always happens and happened to me when I had my A2. On my skyrocket I use Nova and don't have a problem with the press to hold widget function. Works great, and no force close issues.

I'm in the same boat. It would be nice to have a widget picker that worked properly on ADW.
:update:
If you are rooted use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780828

I finally got it to work, but I had to root my phone to do it (used the steps mentioned in the first thread of the Development forum).
In order to install any of the previously mentioned replacement Widget pickers, it needs to be installed into /system/app, and you needed to be rooted to do it. Simply installing the .apk the normal way causes it to crash when you pick the widget from the list.
Needless to say, it was a lot of hoops to go through just for a press-to-hold widget picker, but it now works perfectly.