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Why LCD Density is set to 240 on the X.

This is a basic public awareness notice: What LCD density does and its drawbacks (the why it does what it does is not addressed b/c I have no clue).
We've all seen or heard about changing the lcd density property in /system/build.prop (and why it is better to edit this through the text editor via root explorer rather than use an app which is shown to be unstable). However, as most of us who have messed with it along with additional rows and columns on the home screens via Launcher Pro and ADW, the big problem is icon overlap or crowding.
Why is this?
I'm still trying to figure out how exactly a LOWER value of LCD Density results in a DENSER display. It doesn't make sense to me. However, it is inescapably linked to letting android keep a 4x4 display as SQUARES for each icon "block". Decrease the # and those squares get tighter width-wise. I'm just not certain then how it works with varying the # of rows and columns.
HOWEVER, in order to prevent overlap, the screen NEEDS to be in 4x4 with an LCD density of 240. That is, to keep the blocks square.
Otherwise, prepare to tweak and fiddle with your homescreens so your icons and icon text don't resemble scrambled mush, and what looks good in portrait won't necessarilly look good or the widgets won't be the same size in landscape. And vice versa.
So, like many other things, fiddling with this property (while cool.... I've finally settled for an lcd density of 210 with homescreens rocking in 6x6 using launcher pro plus) there are trade-offs.
Be aware, and have fun tweaking your settings.

Have you found anyway to avoid the slight blurring of Ui elements when not set to the default density?

I also tried 6x6 with 210 running LPP but my widgets (beautiful Weather, Switch Pro) wouldn't stretch the width of the screen.
I'm back to 4x7 which looks the best, but that doesn't make sense to me either!
EDIT - I have landscape mode disabled because it lags on LPP at the moment. I also don't have text displayed for my icons so if I could just get everything to line up correctly, I don't think the overlap would be that bad. I just can't figure out why the widgets don't stretch (I do have auto-fit checked).
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You have to use Launcher Pro plus to stretch widgets.
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I know. I tried and it doesn't work. Any ideas?
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I know. I tried and it doesn't work. Any ideas?
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....It does too...

Okay, WHAT is the widget that is the text-only battery charging status? I've looked for "battstat" on the market and no joy.

SirBrass said:
Okay, WHAT is the widget that is the text-only battery charging status? I've looked for "battstat" on the market and no joy.
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That's what it is... BattStatt Free by Tomas Persson

MrDanger said:
That's what it is... BattStatt Free by Tomas Persson
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Finally found it. Searching for battstat is no joy, but searching for battstatt returns the app. The search feature in the market is seriously jacked in that way. A regular google search does its job, but google's market app doesn't? wtf google?

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That Analog clock , what is it ? where can i get it ? how is it called ?

Okay...perhaps I should have been more specific. It doesn't work for me. Im glad it works for you but I have tried and tried and cannot get widgets to stretch the width of the screen if I have more than four columns.
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groovejedi said:
Okay...perhaps I should have been more specific. It doesn't work for me. Im glad it works for you but I have tried and tried and cannot get widgets to stretch the width of the screen if I have more than four columns.
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You do have Launcher Pro Plus right?? (Just checking because you can only do it with the paid version)
To be able to stretch it.. you have to press and hold it like you are going to remove it.. then release it. The widget will then be highlighted and at the bottom right of the highlighted widget.. you will see an area for you to drag and resize the widget. After you have resized it, press the back or home button.

Thank you for clarifying...it worked! I feel dumb for not trying that begot so I appreciate it! My dimensions are now 5 x 7. Im going to have to experiment and see what kind of dimensions work best. What are you using?
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groovejedi said:
Thank you for clarifying...it worked! I feel dumb for not trying that begot so I appreciate it! My dimensions are now 5 x 7. Im going to have to experiment and see what kind of dimensions work best. What are you using?
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I'm actually at 5x6

You know.. I just played around with the homescreen rows and columns and I have come to find that... 5x10 is pretty good!! (That's 5 columns x 10 rows)
Yes you have the possibility to overlap... but the row alignment are so small... that you can easily move the widget up one and it looks it would on a 4x4

Is there a way to resize the icons?

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Is there a way to resize the icons?
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You do have Launcher Pro Plus right?? (Just checking because you can only do it with the paid version)
To be able to stretch it.. you have to press and hold it like you are going to remove it.. then release it. The widget will then be highlighted and at the bottom right of the highlighted widget.. you will see an area for you to drag and resize the widget. After you have resized it, press the back or home button.
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I quote myself

Apologies. Saw how to do it right after I asked. Scrolling down helps. SMH

Post your screen shots of Launcher 7

I recently tried this launcher and quickly enjoyed the simplicity wp7 offers but don't want to go to wp7 phone any time soon.
Most of my icons are from the metro ui packs but didn't go with metro ui because the tiles look smaller while launcher 7 tiles take up the right amount of room on my screen.
For the live weather tile I use fancy widget pro you have two options for the weather widget and works well for me.
Update- launcher 7 now has landscape support which is good and much better live contact tile image updates.
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
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Here's my set up now let me see yours!

I know everyone likes different go set ups, but to me why would you want to have icons so big that take up a good 2/3 rds of your screen? Unless you don't like wallpapers?
"Ephesians 6:12"

selders59 said:
I know everyone likes different go set ups, but to me why would you want to have icons so big that take up a good 2/3 rds of your screen? Unless you don't like wallpapers?
"Ephesians 6:12"
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Hahaha, I don't emphasize on wall papers so I just made my 1x1 tiles clear and so far it works well for me since i made my important apps tiles huge and keep most at the very bottom of my list.

FROIS 2 icons and random pictures I edited to match the color tone.

Anyone know a good looking analog clock widget that fits well on the 1x1 tile?
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Negrito said:
Anyone know a good looking analog clock widget that fits well on the 1x1 tile?
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Like this one at the bottom.
Its the stock clock widget from cm7 just make sure you choose to cover whole tile with widget when choosing

Meh, that face is too plain. And the theme I'm running doesn't size the stock clock well. But thanks for the response.
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Meh, that face is too plain. And the theme I'm running doesn't size the stock clock well. But thanks for the response.
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No problem, I would check out the market for lite version clocks and see what works as long as they are similar in size there shouldn't be a problem. the dev is working on a way to crop images and widgets for tiles, hopefully it will come out soon

Thanks to this thread I tried this launcher. And I must say. I love it. I love the animations and the look of windows phone 7...

Nothing too fancy yet...
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Wow launcher 7 has really stepped up. These look great. I'm going to go try it again, and post my screen!

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Here is my screen.... I really like this launcher.

pottyvick said:
Here is my screen.... I really like this launcher.
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Do you have chrome as your browser? And nice set up.

teh roxxorz said:
Do you have chrome as your browser? And nice set up.
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No I dont. Its the icon they have for it. I could change it to have the IE icon but i like this one better.

Where do u gt these diff tiles from
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Where do u gt these diff tiles from
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All you do is press the arrow to go to your app list, being there press and hold the app you want to be a tile, then you get to choose your tile size and picture. For pictures just look up metro ui icons in google/internet,ect and you set them and make the tile, hope it helps.

Changed it up a bit...
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Changed it up a bit...
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Where did you get that bar?
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Here's mine as of 3/24/11 I'll be updating with new icons today. Thanks to all the XDA members that provided us with icons.
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Favorite clock/weather widget?

So one of the only things I find myself salivating at on my wife's HTC Incredible 2 is the Sense weather/clock widget. Thing looks badass. I've found some of the ripoffs on the appstore, and have installed Beautiful Widgets, which has some pretty cool clocks, but a lot of them look like janky crap.
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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Do you guys have a favorite or has anyone found one that gives the sense widget a run for its money?

Fancy Widget Pro is great. I prefer it over Beautiful Widgets and Weather Toggle & Widgets.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets
I guess the new version is called just Fancy Widgets

Weather and Toggle Widgets. I use the Digital Clock skin:

Thanks for the suggestions The couple of clocks I've downloaded for Fancy Widgets(I only had free before, but just bought full version) are already way better quality than the ones on Beautiful Widgets. Will try to post a screen shortly

Beautiful Widgets is my favorite. Lots of options and skins

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Fancy Widget Pro is great. I prefer it over Beautiful Widgets and Weather Toggle & Widgets.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets
I guess the new version is called just Fancy Widgets
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Second to that, plus they had it as an Amazon Free App of the day once. Woohoo!

Beautiful Widgets all the way. I've been using the destroy skin with a transparent background. Around 50% that way I can see my screen background.

DroidX Eye Clock widget
At some point in the last nine months I had a DroidX Clock widget on my OG Droid. I really was just a clock widget that used the DroidX Eye as a background, and offered a choice for the eye color (red, blue, green, yellowish). It was lost at some point in one of the many times I flashed different roms to that phone. I have looked a few times in the last couple of months, but have been unable to find it.
If anybody has seen that widget, or has it, I'd love to get it installed on my Droid Charge.
(BTW: Verizon tunred on 4G in my area today, and it is crazy fast... loving it).

Actually. Use go launcher and then get.goweather. your wife will be salivating looking at your phone. They.have an htc style clock that is better than htcs. And the coolness.of go launcher is a "see it to appreciate it" thing. Set your app drawer to have the blind effect. Its awesome lol.

Alternative
Advanced clock pro is an alterative if you like a modern look. I also use aix weather.

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Advanced clock pro is an alterative if you like a modern look. I also use aix weather.
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Hey LANAtron what theme r u using? looks like AB that status bar and battery are bad ass, please share.
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GunnerMikes Alien theme 1.3
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Check out GS Flip Clock wallpaper. I'm running version 4.3 on my Samsung Tab and it's fantastic. It is as close as you can get to the HTC version. It had some growing pains initially, but as of version 4.3 everything seems to be working great.
I didn't pay for it, so I must have found the apk via Google. I remember searching for quite a while because HTC had been putting the smack down on any developers who used the flip clock style.
Currently it is on the market (website only, it didn't show up when I searched using the market app on my Charge) for $2.00. Since I'm a "noob" I can't post the direct link. Search for GSFlipClockWallpaper by Sergey Golovanov

everyone can say me which is the weather/clock that appears in the first tile of this launcher 7 home?
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holy old threads batman!

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everyone can say me which is the weather/clock that appears in the first tile of this launcher 7 home?
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That's a Windows phone. Oops that's Launcher 7. My bad.

stueycaster said:
That's a Windows phone. Oops that's Launcher 7. My bad.
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exactly. It's launcher 7, and I want to know which is the weather/clock widget in the first tile.

I wish I knew. Sorry man.

[I9003]Post your screen shots here

Post your screen shots taken in your galaxy sl I9003
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Here are some of my screen shots.
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You should change the title to "Post your Home Screens" and edit your first post. And why the triple post?

Some of my phone's screenshots
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OK. here is mine
My five screens from left to right
My 3 panels from left to right

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hey mann which launcher r u using ....please post it here with the excellent theme u r using..

Here are some screens from mine!
Using LauncherPro. The music widget is from PowerAMP, a really great music player. The wallpaper is Starfield 3D Live Wallpaper, good looking, smooth, configurable and not resource hungry (unless one tunes it that way)!
RoCk oN!

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hey mann which launcher r u using ....please post it here with the excellent theme u r using..
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I'm using Go Launcher EX , and as for the theme
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wed.go.launcherex.theme.cube
- I've customized the animation transitions to make sure the phone is always stress tested and to see how RAM optimizations would really affect it.
Cylinder effect for the Appdrawer and Cube (Out) for the homescreen transitions.
Ironically not many wallpaper's look good with the black status bar of SGSL, I was wondering If anyone could change the color to white and green like Huwawei or HTC phones that would be amazingly appreciated , Most wallpaper's that look good are grunge textures or materials Wood, Glass etc.
As for the clock, it's the SGII Digital Clock widget that I took from the SGSII thread. It's amazing if you ask me.

Misledz said:
I'm using Go Launcher EX , and as for the theme
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wed.go.launcherex.theme.cube
- I've customized the animation transitions to make sure the phone is always stress tested and to see how RAM optimizations would really affect it.
Cylinder effect for the Appdrawer and Cube (Out) for the homescreen transitions.
Ironically not many wallpaper's look good with the black status bar of SGSL, I was wondering If anyone could change the color to white and green like Huwawei or HTC phones that would be amazingly appreciated , Most wallpaper's that look good are grunge textures or materials Wood, Glass etc.
As for the clock, it's the SGII Digital Clock widget that I took from the SGSII thread. It's amazing if you ask me.
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I found a link in google where the apk of this theme can be downloaded free from filesonic. Will it be illegal?

Misledz said:
I'm using Go Launcher EX , and as for the theme
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wed.go.launcherex.theme.cube
- I've customized the animation transitions to make sure the phone is always stress tested and to see how RAM optimizations would really affect it.
Cylinder effect for the Appdrawer and Cube (Out) for the homescreen transitions.
Ironically not many wallpaper's look good with the black status bar of SGSL, I was wondering If anyone could change the color to white and green like Huwawei or HTC phones that would be amazingly appreciated , Most wallpaper's that look good are grunge textures or materials Wood, Glass etc.
As for the clock, it's the SGII Digital Clock widget that I took from the SGSII thread. It's amazing if you ask me.
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heyy man can u give me cube launcher because here in india only credit cards are accepted with android market our debit card doesn't work.i don't have a credit card.

Some of my other screens

I made two nandroid backups with each of my favourite themes, both designed by Ronhoover for XXKPE (fonts are from Trip's Legend X theme) :
Click on the thumbnails and enlarge the p[icture]s, you will see hordes of pretty girls smiling all around my screenshots
Than you Ronhoover for this great success I owe you

Post some new screenshots

i posted similar thread in general section too *clash*

If you want some eyecandy go to www.mycolorscreen.com ..its not just for our phone but sure you will get new ideas..just try
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Some simple and minimal customizations..
The circles on the homescreen constitute a clock..
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I think this thread should be in the general section. By the way here is my simple screen shot.

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Some of my other screens
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Clock app?

Post Your HOMESCREEN [SGSL]

I'm starting this thread so that everyone can showoff their creativity in making Awesome Homescreens.
I myself put a lot of effort in customizing my Homescreens.
While posting your homescreens, please be specific on what you used to achieve it (eg. Name of widget or wallpaper).
So ill start with 2 homescreens which even got FEATURED on lifehacker.com
1. The Evil Android Homescreen.
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Lifehacker link.
I customized my homescreen to make it look simple, neat and smart, and it goes well with the Gingerbread green color.
I'm using the stock Gingerbread OS on my Samsung Galaxy SL with GO Launcher Ex as the launcher.
I am not using many widgets on my screen as I really like the wallpaper.
The Evil Android under the torn layer.
I've mainly kept all the Internet apps on the center screen. I use Minimalistic Text for the date.
You can tap the date to open any calendar app.
I've not kept any clock widget as the time is always there in the notification bar.
The black circle in the center is the Circle Launcher for more Internet apps which I don't use often but should be accessible quickly if I do need them. I also use Switch Pro for the Data connection and Bluetooth widget.
On the left screen, I again use Minimalistic Text for the battery. You can tap the widget to open the Battery Usage screen. I've kept this screen for things I don't do many times in a day (eg. Keep an alarm, Calculate things, or update or download a new app) but at the same time they shouldn't be far when I need them.
The right screen screen is for other utilities which I use regularly. I use Phantom Music Control for the music widget, which controls PowerAmp.
Though PowerAmp has its own widgets, I couldn't make those fit properly in the area I wanted and also there are no skins available for those widgets. So I'm using the Phantom Music Control widget as it gives options for customization including skins.
The icons are not included with any GO Launcher theme. I found some of them on the internet and others I've photoshopped. I made the wallpaper merging the Evil Android wallpaper which I found on Lifehacker and another from DeviantArt.
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The second Homescreen.
2. The Aged Paper Homescreen.
Lifehacker link.
What I've done here is that I used this wallpaper, and cropped it in multiples of my screen resolution (480x800). That is, since I'm using three screens I cropped it in the resolution 1440x800.
I'm using GO Launcher EX launcher which uses a grid based home screen layout, so I created a grid in Photoshop to map the text icons. Those text icons are not actually icons.
I used the text tool in Photoshop to create them using various handwriting fonts which I found on the internet. Those texts are on the wallpaper itself.
The reason behind this was it gave me freedom to orient the text in any way i wanted and could use more space on the home screen. If I had made an icon file of the text and then had replaced it on the screen then that would had confined the text in the grid box which sometimes results in cropping of the icon depending on available space.
I used MultiPicture Live Wallpaper to set each screen's wallpaper. This allowed me to use the whole image as the wallpaper. After setting each screen's wallpaper I used a "blank" icon to replace each home screen icon.
When it comes to widgets: On the home screen and the left screen I've used Minimalistic Text with one of the fonts. The Data connection and Bluetooth toggle is Switch Prowidgets. Lastly, PowerAmp is on the Right screen.
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Great!!u have great art dude...was really impressed..i was just about to post my homescreen when i saw yours..unbeatable!!
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Nothing fancy. Just plain ICS that I really love Tnx dhiru !

join the facebook group we post our home screens every day xD

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join the facebook group we post our home screens every day xD
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Yup I'm on it... But many who just pass by this forum can view this thread to see our home screens...
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Since today just windows phone style. I liked it, launcher7
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Nice thread
Nice thread with lot of useful things about home screen.
Thanks

I can't post outside links yet...so i uploaded my screenshot
Nice thread anyway!

Nemed said:
I can't post outside links yet...so i uploaded my screenshot
Nice thread anyway!
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Hey. That google search bar... What widget is it?... Looks cool.

ammar786 said:
Hey. That google search bar... What widget is it?... Looks cool.
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It's the search bar of apex launcher

Nemed said:
It's the search bar of apex launcher
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Ohk... It's the Jelly Bean style. I had the ICS style from the start so didn't know what JB style looked like. Thanx anyways.:good:

Just a simple homescreen
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Great homescreens ppl, n nice work there ammar.
Thus is my current simple sense.
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Just some ss from gb 360 launcher .
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My homescreen

HoloLauncher + SIII theme + AccuWeather Widget

This is mine
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This is mine
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Widget?
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Widget?
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One more click free
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