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[Q] Launchers

Hey,
I'm wondering if there is any point in using launchers anymore. I've been using ADW since I got the phone. But since we have 2.1 are there any benifits to using launchers ? It seems people are recommending launcher pro. What are the benifits to using this over adw or stock? Better battery or anything ? Faster response ?

Hey, I used dxtop pro for a while, on 1.6, transferred it to 2.1 and it killed my battery. Since then changed to launcher pro and it is immense. It saves on battery and its ability to be customized makes using the phone a whole heap easier.
If anything this enhances using the phone.
Excellent replacement give it, give the free one ago and then go from there

It's all about personal preference, I prefer ADW, some Launcher Pro, and some prefer the stock.

Yeah cause most it is based on what you want your homescreen to do
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Personally I use ADW, never quite saw what was supposed to be so awesome with LauncherPro.
ADW does what I need it to, and for me it is easily as fast as LauncherPro.
All down to personal choice really.

I've used ADW launcher when i was on 1.6 but once I've tried LauncherPro on 2.1, i love it! i think both of them are great launchers but i just think that LauncherPro is easier to use. I'm on Plus which is a paid version and they give you exclusive widgets as well, they're pretty neat but to be honest i don't use them lol. You should try both of them so you know, i think it's more about personal preference cuz both of them are awesome launchers

I recently paid for launcher pro, never tried adw but it sounds the same, prefer the fact you csn zoom further out to see all the screens at once and the message, facebook and phone book widgets are awesome similar to the ones on my dads htc which is what I was looking for. Only prob is that I get a force close every now and then. Anyone got a possible solution for that?
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i personally love Zeam....it was what i used on 1.6 and when i changed to 2.1 i tried it but at first didn't like it...but now i've fallen in love because of how simple, yet dynamic it is.

XperiaX10iUser said:
It's all about personal preference, I prefer ADW, some Launcher Pro, and some prefer the stock.
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^ This.
I was using ADW under Android 1.6. With 2.1, I find LauncherPro to be smoother. I like features of both, and miss the features the other has.

tiwey said:
i personally love Zeam....it was what i used on 1.6 and when i changed to 2.1 i tried it but at first didn't like it...but now i've fallen in love because of how simple, yet dynamic it is.
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+1 for zeam, amazing app luv it, cant stand all these xtra thingies all the others have, i used adw on 1.6 and made it minimalistic tried it on 2.1 ****
zeam ftw, all my m8s use it,
THAT SED COULD THEY ALL USE DIFFERENT ICONS FFS! IM SICK OF SEEING THAT BLOODY BOX OF LITTLE SQUARES GRRRRR
rant over
zeam, try it, luv it, marry it, buy it a nice car

Wats special about zeam?
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New ADW EX...

Hi forum...
Have you seen the new ADW EX ?
It is really great on our phone I think... Really nice effects and so on...
But then again, I have always liked ADW over LP, i never understood the fuzz about LP...
But let's not turn this thread into a LP vs ADW fight...
Let us just look at this amazing new ADW EX Launcher...
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It is great love the transitions and less laggy the LP but still wished it was easier to customize ADW.

Its quite good, bought it this weekend and still playing around, like the animated page turning, and it is damn fast...still working on netfront and quicklauncher as well, fortunately i do have home switcher
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It's cool... lovin it

It's great launcher. Very fast, lots of options and effects. Bought it straight away, when heard about it. In example I like 4D drawer and animation when sliding between desktops.

Totally agree! This thing is lightning fast and looks sooo good!
I uninstalled Launcher Pro and so far I am not missing it!
Here are my new homescreens: http://twitpic.com/3k2427/full

Yup, just bought mine, it seriously has no lag even with all the graphics turned on. This is a masterpiece

Woah! It's bloody amazing indeed!
Transitions are outstanding!
Bye Bye Launcher Pro!
Thanks pshdo for informing us.

I agree with all of you too, I have been using launcher pro and installed this new ADW launcher.
The animation is very cool and fast, the switching between pages are very smooth.
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top launcher, 1-10....10!!!!

20 out of 10 for me this launcher rules

yes, it's interesting. I'm spending some time to play around.
can someone tell me how to set the home screen number?

piercewei said:
yes, it's interesting. I'm spending some time to play around.
can someone tell me how to set the home screen number?
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press your menu button then edit dude

Any shots of it would be cool

hugo0220 said:
Any shots of it would be cool
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Screenshots won't do it justice as it will still look like a launcher lol
It is how fast and fluid it is that stands out.
Just tried it on a mates x10, it is awesome. Gonna buy a copy asap.

currently using it, nice n fast, but lp still looks more polished imo
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Any ideas about battery life?
I notice that this is a fair bit smaller in file size then ADW.launcher.
Therefore, I'm wondering if using my ADW.launcher configuration on ADW EX would benefit battery or speed etc?
Any thoughts?

battery is okay, this morning at 8am from the charger at 100%, it's now 6:57pm and i have 87% left. Normal usage, few calls, few times on wifi internet/xda, few sms and an hour tweaking this launcher...not bad ;-)

is it really worth switching over from launcher pro?
I dont seem to have any issues with mine, I customised the screen sliding and app drawer speeds so its very smooth and responsive.
does this new adw app improve battery time at all??

Just had a play about with it. Was using ADW.Launcher before this. Got to say i really like this. Took 5-10 mins to figure out where the options were located, as they differ from the original ADW.Launcher.
The amount of customization options available are amazing.
I also like the new text effect on the Desktop shortcuts (Seem a little bolder) This can also be changed, as can the Icon sizes
All in all, looks great. Looking forward to future updates

Best Launcher?

I'm looking for a free launcher for my rooted Play, I'm currently using 360Launcher.
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Erosinelysium said:
I'm looking for a free launcher for my rooted Play, I'm currently using 360Launcher.
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I have tried ADW, LauncherPro (used for 6 months) and finally used GO Launcher. I have been using GO exclusively for over a year now and love it. Its free and has a ton of add-ons and themes and the GO Team is constantly making updates and improvements. I think there has been like 3 updates just this week alone. Anyway my vote goes to GO Launcher. I use the ICS theme and its pretty sweet, and GO has a ton of performance options.

Definitely Go Launcher

I find GO Launcher to be very sluggish and slow, using FTL or Zeam myself for the speed increase.

I doubt GO Launcher can be sluggish on an Xperia Play WodgeFTW...
It's got decent RAM and a good processor.

I was always a huge fan of Go Launcher but I got sick of it recently (it occasionally failed to load my widgets after a reboot) and wanted a change.
I'm currently using Nemus Launcher and love it. It has a scrollable dock bar, can resize widgets and is lightweight and silky smooth. I don't miss Go at all.

Magnumutz said:
I doubt GO Launcher can be sluggish on an Xperia Play WodgeFTW...
It's got decent RAM and a good processor.
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GoLauncher uses almost 30mb for me -_-
It's pretty smooth but not smooth as LauncherPro

ssLauncher for me

Same, I got the pro versions of every launcher (free of course) but the I got go launcher and never looked back
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Im trying to pick one too, GOLauncher seems best so far, now that I see I can be rid of those annoying + signs in the dock. Im using it alongside DesktopVisualizeR to make that whole, magazine page tile look.

I use to use go launcher until I realized how much memory it uses. I swithched to sslauncher which does a lot and uses low memory resources. its really quick too

I use to use GOlauncher, and it was ok, then i switched to ADW Launcher Pro (PAID) and i love it! I am about to try out ssLauncher though its suppose to be 100 times more customizable.

stock launcher..

Thanks guys ^^
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I use zeam and sslauncher, cause they seem to be the lightest ones. The latter is far more customizable, but zeam has gestures. I love the stock look though.. I would've kept it if you hadn't to go deep to reduce the number of screens to 1.

Magnumutz said:
I doubt GO Launcher can be sluggish on an Xperia Play WodgeFTW...
It's got decent RAM and a good processor.
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Actually, I find go launcher needs to be restarted every few hours or so for unless I'm running cm7. The stock roms don't seem to be able to run it well. Also, my ZTE Blade which I bought for £89 off contract has more ram (512mb vs 400mb on the play) was able to run it considerably smoother without needing it to be restarted, and it's really mystifying why Sony decided not to have 1gb in there to begin with.
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I've never decided on a specific launcher, I just can't get used to one before moving to another... I'm using HeLauncher2 right now, but I'm trying to get the Xperia S Launcher on my R800x, it says Missing Shared Library whenever I try to install it though.

brochador said:
stock launcher..
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LOL.. I feel the same bro. I had tried many launchers, but always miss the stock one.
But if i have to choose alternative launcher which is the best, so i never doubt, go launcher is the one...

Launcher 7 for me.
I love the style of Windows phone.
All the tile options allow me to express myself.
My phone is like rainbow at the moment and it is a joy to use.

I've tried ADW, GO, and several others, and I found one that is lightweight and extremely customizable. It's called ZEAM launcher. try it out, it's not even a half a megabyte, if I remember correctly.

FTL Launcher

I just thought I would share a launcher that I just came across today. It is called FTL launcher and you can grab the lite version free from the market (play store).
It is by far the fastest and lightest launcher I have used. It does not have any fancy bells or whistles and is pretty straightforward. If you are like me your goal is to have the snappiest smoothest phone possible and this really does just that.
Just thought I would share with you guys and see what you think.
I did not create, develop or contribute to this app in anyway. Just sharing with gs4g community

Will try now...

Thanks for sharing. It is blazing fast. Liking it so far.
Edited for Swype misspelling lol.
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Has anyone else gave this a try? It blows Zeam out of the water IMO.

I did. It is nice and fast. But I am too used to customizing options in GoLauncher.

lumin30 said:
I did. It is nice and fast. But I am too used to customizing options in GoLauncher.
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Thats how I am as well. I love setting the gestures for dock icons. It completely eliminates the need for me to have any icons on my desktop. The only widget I have is Android Weather. It makes for a much less cluttered looking screen
FTL definitely does not have the customization available that Golauncher, ADW, or Prolauncher have but it is WAY smoother on my phone than anything else I have tried. Thanks for the input. I was curious to see what others thought about it.

I have been using Zeam launcher since Redux 1.2 back in the Froyo days. Never liked ADW, Launcher Pro, ICS, Balancer, GB, Go, 360 or those others that are kinda' new. I will use as an alternative to Zeam (which is still my fave). Thanks for this!

Faster than zeam

But has way more bugs
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best launcher ever for skyrocket

called DXHOME and its super fast smooth.
throw an ics theme on and your good to go
EDIT: please dont say it looks like an iphone u can use it and with an ics theme (I use an htc sense theme) it does not look like an iphone. its worth it is smoother than spb shell, go launcher, and all the other popular launcher (i have tried almost all of them and all of the ones u guys have mentioned) and has cool 3d effects and is overall a better user experience
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmRpYW54aW5vcy5keGhvbWUiXQ..

looks like it would make my phone look like an iPhone
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Way too many permissions....
Free App....
Looks Chinese....
Do not know the vendor....
iPhone looking icons???
Would not touch this....
Mine is SPB Shell 3D
Yes it is a shell replacement so asks for more permissions than I am usually comfortable giving but.....
You pay for it... to me it means Quality and Support
Have great Widgets bundled with the shell .... get what you pay for
Trusted vendor has been around for years

If I wanted an iPhone, I would have went out and wasted my money on an iPhone. No thanks.
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That thing is junk

Go Launcher Ex!!!!!! is best ever!!!!!!!!! Don't argue with me because i m just not gonna be convinced to listen to your bs!

Adw ex kills them all!

appdroid said:
Go Launcher Ex!!!!!! is best ever!!!!!!!!! Don't argue with me because i m just not gonna be convinced to listen to your bs!
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Agreed!!!!

Wow just got spb 3d that's ****s way baller
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I tried spb but after seeing it consume 100mb of ram I uninstalldd and got a refund.
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appdroid said:
Go Launcher Ex!!!!!! is best ever!!!!!!!!! Don't argue with me because i m just not gonna be convinced to listen to your bs!
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+ 1 I used to love launcher pre but since the release of go launcher its the only launcher that I use.
~PsyCl0ne
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Will of fire said:
looks like it would make my phone look like an iPhone
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thats why u put an ics theme on it!

theres like 1000 reviews when an app has that many i usually trust it, and it is overwhelmingly 5 stars. i know the dev is chinese but its all in english and not a big deal. u guys should try it before you flame it

Sorry guys, adw launcher ftw. Hands and feets down.
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Dx home is the smoothest launcher yet. If you dont want the iphone look...just go to themes and choose border and then transparent and choose regular system icons. You dont need to download an ics theme. Go launcher sucks hard...never liked it. Qq launcher...adw ex...dx home and zeam are easily the best choices.
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I'm sticking with Launcher Pro, I just tried Launcher Ex and it doesn't do it for me. I haven't had problems with Pro and I unlocked it to get the Facebook and Twitter widgets. It's smooth, I mainly only use widgets on my screens, only one icon, and use the rotating dock (yes, I know Ex has it also), and it just flat out rocks for me.

Riehlthing said:
I'm sticking with Launcher Pro, I just tried Launcher Ex and it doesn't do it for me. I haven't had problems with Pro and I unlocked it to get the Facebook and Twitter widgets. It's smooth, I mainly only use widgets on my screens, only one icon, and use the rotating dock (yes, I know Ex has it also), and it just flat out rocks for me.
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I use to love launcher pro. However since it hasnt been updated since last year makes it obsolete for me.
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Riehlthing said:
I'm sticking with Launcher Pro, I just tried Launcher Ex and it doesn't do it for me. I haven't had problems with Pro and I unlocked it to get the Facebook and Twitter widgets. It's smooth, I mainly only use widgets on my screens, only one icon, and use the rotating dock (yes, I know Ex has it also), and it just flat out rocks for me.
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Same here. Couldn't ask for more with LP.
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pingfl00d said:
Wow just got spb 3d that's ****s way baller
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Watched the video for it, pretty wild but is too much for me honestly. I like it simple.
Also, the guy holding the phone in the video is obviously a robot because he barely moves his left hand. And ive seen terminator one too many times to know not to trust robots.

I tried it out. Actually a very cool launcher after changing the theme. Very smooth and fast.
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