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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)...
I am an AOSP stock experience fan boy so I immediately installed the stock 2.1 launcher on my Epic. Turns out it's ridiculously fast and buttery smooth.
3D effect and 5 home screens are included in this .apk. Root is not required for this to work.
Enjoy!
I think I love you..
Where'd you get that apk?
I don't find it as smooth.. I prefer Launcher Pro.
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Where'd you get that apk?
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Some craft Googling! Actually it was "launcher2.apk mediafire". http://www.mediafire.com/?2o55dtwzain
Just installed it so far so good, thanks for posting
does it work n landscape??
Sexy. I like it. I think I'm done with adwlauncher (already)
mike21pr said:
does it work n landscape??
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It works in landscape.
How does it compare to ADW?
This is nice but whatever happened to advanced launcher? It was a good aosp launcher from the 1.5 days and if I remember right you could hide apps from the drawer. Just a wonderin...
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How to Turn Off/Disable TouchWiz:
I assumed not everyone knew this but you can disable the TouchWiz on the Epic:http://phandroid.com/2010/09/01/how-to-disable-touchwiz-on-the-epic-4g/
How to turn TouchWiz off. No Launcher App needed unless you want those personal features. No Root required. This is native:
You can just go to manage applications and hit menu and choose filter. scroll to TWLauncher and clear the default and when you press home button it will ask which home setting. choose the regular home and it will go to stock vanilla 2.1. And of course set the home you personally like as your default so it won't keep asking you which home setting do you want every time you hit the home button.
I just hope they keep this feature when it Froyo hits the device because some devices lose this feature when updated. Like the Hero did when 2.1 came to it. Doesn't make updates come quicker with this feature but it is nice to have. I do remember Samsung saying they would expect Froyo sometime this month for the Galaxy S. Let's hope that has some meaning to all versions.
Eh it doesn't work right in landscape on my phone. I switched back to Adwlauncher
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raiderep said:
This is nice but whatever happened to advanced launcher? It was a good aosp launcher from the 1.5 days and if I remember right you could hide apps from the drawer. Just a wonderin...
sent by an Epic 4g through the cosmos
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It is only for 1.5 unfortunately, I liked it as well, and included it in most of my themes back then.
On the topic of this thread.....I am using ADW installed to /system/app/ and it is blazing fast as well. Suffice to say just about everything is fast on these phones.
Just curious here but you think it will work on the Vibrant and Captivate as well?
EDIT: Works on my Vibrant but fails to load widgets.
I do not know if anyone has already wrote this, i checked in search and i do not see it, but the new Regina Launcher works for the Gtab I downloaded today and it is really cool to have the 3D launcher and the best part is it is FREE!!!!
https://market.android.com/search?q=regina+3d+launcher&so=1&c=apps
Checked out a video of this launcher on YouTube and it looks really, really slick.
I have it on my galaxy S and it works pretty good. It's a bit sluggish but has a lot of potential. Hopefully they continue to improve it.
I'm not sure it would be all that good on a tablet though..
It does look really slick, and is quite smooth on my gtablet. But it's forced into portrait mode, no way to turn it to landscape
Will contact the developer, see what they say.
Yeah, that sucks, I suspect if more and more people let them know that it runs on the Gtab then they might make some teaks to it to run smoother and auto rotate. Just wanted others to know that there is some kind of alternative to the 15.00 SPB shell thats nuts! It is somewhat buggy though esp on reboot
StrangeAttractor said:
It does look really slick, and is quite smooth on my gtablet. But it's forced into portrait mode, no way to turn it to landscape
Will contact the developer, see what they say.
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What ROM's does it work with?
It should work on any rom. I tried it on CM7 and it was nice. Only portrait. When I viewed the drawer, it showed black squares instead of the applications that I had installed.
barakisbrown said:
It should work on any rom. I tried it on CM7 and it was nice. Only portrait. When I viewed the drawer, it showed black squares instead of the applications that I had installed.
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So vagen should work?
Yeah I posted the request on their Facebook fan page and they do not have any plans to implement landscape right now.
So some of you may know, and some may not know that for the past couple of weeks Sduvick and I have been working with the New KG2 Update. We are releasing a ROM possibly by tonight but we need some testers before releasing. This will be no doubt one of if not the fastest and most stable KG2 build yet, after alot of testing and getting the proper mix of KD1 and KG2 we have one of the fastest ROMs to run on our phones. Currently there are NO bugs at all.
Heres a bit about it
Based on a mix of KG2/KD1
Rooted with Latest (SuperUser)
Custom Theme Inspired By MIUI
Deodexed - Optimized - Zipaligned
All app icons themed
Many Apps Themed
Custom Font
KD1 Modem
Transparent Dialer, CallLog, + Swipe to Call/Message in Call log like in messages.
Custom boot Animation + Sound
Custom Shutdown Animation + Sound (VERY Cool)
Light ROM packaged at less than 190MB
Debloated to the Same Extent as my previous ROM
AOSP Lockscreen (Optional, Separate flashable.zip due to Rotation issue's)
Latest and some Custom Tweaks for best Stability and Smoothness.
Build.prop Tweaks
LATEST Touchwiz 4.5 Launcher by FR4gg0r with "M" Theme (Now Stable)
And theres Just too much too name right now (Until Release) but by this and some of the Screenshots im sure you guys will dig it, if you would like to be a beta tester for this ROM Please post Here (DO NOT PM ME) and i will PM the Link to you ASAP and ask the you post some feedback on this Thread. If All goes well this ROM will be Public By Tonight.
30+ ScreenShots HERE
Thanks Everyone !
let me get that sonnn
ill test for you! sorry i forgot to read the dont pm thing i as just so excited i barely finished reading!
im doing this review as i see things i like
to start off.
the rom is only 190 mb so that's amazing for SD card space
the boot animation i personally love
notification bar transparent nice icons love the font!
love the blue theme thats going on
nice background
these icons are amazing
the app drawer transition effect is great
so enough on the looks lets get into things that matter
SPEED: on a scale of 10 i give it an 11
app drawer opens instantly and the transition is smooth
no stock lock screen lag
ill do more of a thorough review later but for now all i can say is im amazed its amazing!
Please PM me!
Hey, you know, I've tried all the ROMs out and I'd like to taste more of your work.
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Hey, you know, I've tried all the ROMs out and I'd like to taste more of your work.
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Sent
and I got a few new PMs that I wont be checking so those PMing me please post here cause this thread is all im paying attention to and I then can send you the link. Thanks to those who are testing !
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1UO6X0KRjc
When I think of Team Platypus
I would love to test the rom..
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ted50 said:
I would love to test the rom..
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Sent, just 2 more testers please and those testing please post feedback of first impression and later on how everything seems to be working. Thanks all
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The phone does not Landscape to Portrait at the home screen. Applications Landscape to Portrait just fine.
I would like full Landscape to Portrait abilities back please.
About to restore data. Lets see how nicely it plays.
Which launcher are you using?
LauncherPro: Menubutton> Preferences >Behavior settings> Enable Auto Rotation
TWlauncher: Menubutton > Preferences >Homescreen Settings> Landscape Mode, Reboot phone
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Which launcher are you using?
LauncherPro: Menubutton> Preferences >Behavior settings> Enable Auto Rotation
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I was using TouchWiz, but I'll stick to LauncherPro if I get that functionality back.
EDIT: New favorite ROM by a rather gaping margin. I hope I wasn't being too anal about the screen rotation! Thanks man ;D
Nope, that's all good, that's why we have beta testers, to know what people want us to fix and what needs to be improved. That would have bugged the hell out of me too, I love my auto-rotation, I just use Launcher Pro so I just restore my backup when I first start up, so I don't ever have to play with settings again, it all just remembers me.
The Pope of Dope said:
The phone does not Landscape to Portrait at the home screen. Applications Landscape to Portrait just fine.
I would like full Landscape to Portrait abilities back please.
About to restore data. Lets see how nicely it plays.
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And if your on TW4Launcher go to preferences>homescreen settings> and select landscape mode and reboot. Landscape on that launcher is a bit buggy but works. If you use you home screen in landscape often I suggest a different launcher like Launcherpro, Adw or goLauncher
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The Pope of Dope said:
The phone does not Landscape to Portrait at the home screen. Applications Landscape to Portrait just fine.
I would like full Landscape to Portrait abilities back please.
About to restore data. Lets see how nicely it plays.
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i reported the good so i must report the bad (there isnt much minor bugs)
1. as pope of the dope said what happened to landscape (which is weird because the auto-rotation button in the notification bar pull down menu is stuck and i cant unclick it)
2. if you do a pinch gesture you get a force close on the twlauncher
3. random button on the dialer over the "red x"
thats all i can find!
like i said before its amazing ill post a full review tomorrow after i figure out battery life and such
My phone rage quits life when I try to use the following apps: Gallery, WallPaper Wizardri, and Camera.
The camera causes FQs. Gallery & WallpaperWizardri both cannot detect any photos. Very odd.
For the launcher auto-rotation issue, read up about 3 posts.
The pinch gesture may just be broken. I'll look into it, but it's still a beta/buggy port from Fr4gg0r.
And I'll fix the button over the x quick too
@PopeofDope:
That's super weird, might be because you restored a data backup? Try rebooting into CWM and clearing the dalvik-cache in the advanced menu, that might fix the issues, as I don't have them here.
For those wondering, Dalvik is the VM system that runs android, and when you first start your phone, it extracts each apk individually into the dalvik-cache, so that it can run from there rather than having to extract the apk on the fly. However, the dalvik-cache is on the /data partition, so when you restore a backup of the /data partition from an older or different rom, you have to wipe the dalvik-cache so that it can be rebuilt from the new/current system
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Which launcher are you using?
LauncherPro: Menubutton> Preferences >Behavior settings> Enable Auto Rotation
TWlauncher: Menubutton > Preferences >Homescreen Settings> Landscape Mode
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i selected that but i still dont have landscape function?
You also have to reboot after selecting that, not sure why, ask samsung why they created such a weird launcher.
The Pope of Dope said:
My phone rage quits life when I try to use the following apps: Gallery, WallPaper Wizardri, and Camera.
The camera causes FQs. Gallery & WallpaperWizardri both cannot detect any photos. Very odd.
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i can agree with the camera partly
when i press the camera icon it force closes when i press the dedicated camera button it opens fine
but my gallery is fine
Hey there,
maybe it would sound a little bit stupid, but i have wandering around and cant find anything about it. the thing is: I have an HTC Inspire, and it used to come with android Fro Yo, so when i selected a wallpaper it was the kind one that moves when you swipe from window to window and it was nice... then i changed my rom for a RCMIX with android gingerbread and then the options with wallpaper changed and it only allows you to put a steady wallpaper in portrait mode. but my brother bought a new samsung galaxy with gingerbread too, and when he wants to change his wallpaper, it asks him wheter he wants it to be landscape or portrait mode... i really want thins function on my cellphone... is there any rom with an android version that allows you to do that???? please helppppp!!!!!
skotosome said:
Hey there,
maybe it would sound a little bit stupid, but i have wandering around and cant find anything about it. the thing is: I have an HTC Inspire, and it used to come with android Fro Yo, so when i selected a wallpaper it was the kind one that moves when you swipe from window to window and it was nice... then i changed my rom for a RCMIX with android gingerbread and then the options with wallpaper changed and it only allows you to put a steady wallpaper in portrait mode. but my brother bought a new samsung galaxy with gingerbread too, and when he wants to change his wallpaper, it asks him wheter he wants it to be landscape or portrait mode... i really want thins function on my cellphone... is there any rom with an android version that allows you to do that???? please helppppp!!!!!
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Yes.
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Sense 2.1, what your phone came with, had scrolling wallpaper in froyo and gingerbread. The Sense 3.0 roms I used (gb), did not. In aosp/aokp that feature will depend on your launcher.
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well... it just seems that all samsung devices have both options! it just amazes me that you can´t do it in this roms!!! it should be an option!
It doesn't always work on those Samsung. I know the Note was having serious issues with scrolling wallpaper. Any Android phone can give you this option. If you insist on running Sense, you will be limited to the features of whichever version you use.
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