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[Q] Recommended Launchers and or ROMs

Hello, I was just making this new post for anyone that has been playing around with the I727 or I727R
I have used ADW launcher but it does not seem to have ALL the features of TWlauncher
Anyone have any recommendations on launcher or rom? have a post

I used ADW in the past but after a lot of freezing and other problem, I switched to Go! launcher and love it.

unibombz said:
Hello, I was just making this new post for anyone that has been playing around with the I727 or I727R
I have used ADW launcher but it does not seem to have ALL the features of TWlauncher
Anyone have any recommendations on launcher or rom? have a post
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Go Launcher ex and skyrocketerrrrr rom and kernel from Da_G its good!

I see, yes I am using ADW, seems ok.
Is there any way to change or add fonts, the phone ships with 3 fonts. I have tried some apps and have installed some fonts but i can not access them from settings>display>screen display>font style

I can not use Da_G rom and kernal on my I727R

unibombz said:
I see, yes I am using ADW, seems ok.
Is there any way to change or add fonts, the phone ships with 3 fonts. I have tried some apps and have installed some fonts but i can not access them from settings>display>screen display>font style
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I use Rom Toolbox for my fonts. Great app! you can download a free or paid version. after installing the font from Rom Toolbox, select Default in settings/display/screen display/font style.

I'm using GO launcher. I used to use Launcher Pro but I didn't want to pay for all the cool widgets that this seems to come with for FREE.

I've been using are but everyone seems to love go launcher
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+1 for Go Launcher.
This is my 1st Android phone (er.. 2nd if you count the SGS2 I exchanged), and this is my first 3rd party launcher. So far, very happy w/ it.

QQlauncher
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I use LauncherPro with Alien #2 on Da_G's kernel.

Alien #2w/touchwiz...like buttah
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kornklown69 said:
QQlauncher
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Thanks for that reference, hadn't found that one yet. Going to give it a try. Regina home works great on this phone, tried it once on my captivate = lots of lag. With the dual processor it flies though. Its a resource killer but great for showing off. I use adw for everyday purposes and LCD resolution app, set to 200. This let's you take advantage of the 4.5" screen IMO.
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bacheezy said:
Alien #2w/touchwiz...like buttah
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what do you mean like buttah??? its SUPER CHOPPY.
the only smooth launcher is launcher pro.

I'm using Go Launcher and love it.
But it does crash sometimes in the sense that the launch icons all turn into "+" symbols. Also sometimes I'll have to press more than once to launch something.

TW is not choppy for me. I don't know man...I have also flipped Willy nilly between different roms (stock root, all alien builds, s-stocketeer (1.0 & 1.5), back too nandroid, & once odin»to stock (almost forgot i flashed CRT off zip as soon as it was posted as well). All without a hitch, not sure if its dumb luck or what. I got my I727
on launch day & have followed forum ocd stylee. I have read several more experienced users @ least temporarily flame out with fc's. My device has been a rock.........so far
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I've been using the ICS Launcher now on mine and have been enjoying it. Very fast scrolling and I love the looks.
I've used Launcher Pro, ADW EX, and SPB Shell in the past. All good launchers. For customizing, ADW Ex is one of my favorites.
You may just have to try them all.

You can use ROM Toolbox for fonts, they have a ton on there. I have tried a few of the other tweaks but they have not worked and I end up restoring.

The Best and most supported Launcher
I have tried ADW EX and all the launchers out there. I am now using and loving " GO LAUNCHER" it constanly has updates, widgets, SMS app and themes for everything- VERY VERY customizable- Alot of themes and wigets are absolutely free !!! Runs fast also- Try it out- you will now be disappointed....

CZ Eddie said:
I'm using Go Launcher and love it.
But it does crash sometimes in the sense that the launch icons all turn into "+" symbols. Also sometimes I'll have to press more than once to launch something.
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those symbols are not a crash.....lol thats just you scrolling through the dock.
it allows for 15 icons in the bottom dock and you scroll though them. or hope thats what it is.
i use Go Launcher as well. will try QQlauncher.

Launcher [request]

Is there any way someone can port touchwiz 4.0 from the T-Mobile galaxy s 2 to work with our kj6 roms? (Valahalla, octane v3, etc). I know about touchwiz 4.5 but its very unstable on my phone for some reason and its app sorting in the app drawer does not work. I love how smooth tw4 is compared to others like launcher pro and adw and I just think it looks soo much better. I appreciate it if anyone can help. I'm sure other memebers would like this as well. Thanks!
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icy56 said:
Is there any way someone can port touchwiz 4.0 from the T-Mobile galaxy s 2 to work with our kj6 roms? (Valahalla, octane v3, etc). I know about touchwiz 4.5 but its very unstable on my phone for some reason and its app sorting in the app drawer does not work. I love how smooth tw4 is compared to others like launcher pro and adw and I just think it looks soo much better. I appreciate it if anyone can help. I'm sure other memebers would like this as well. Thanks!
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Try that 360 launcher I posted until you find what you are looking for. Its smooth and stable and gets updated every few Weeks very beautiful like miui launcher with an app drawer also zeam launcher is smooth
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icy56 said:
Is there any way someone can port touchwiz 4.0 from the T-Mobile galaxy s 2 to work with our kj6 roms? (Valahalla, octane v3, etc). I know about touchwiz 4.5 but its very unstable on my phone for some reason and its app sorting in the app drawer does not work. I love how smooth tw4 is compared to others like launcher pro and adw and I just think it looks soo much better. I appreciate it if anyone can help. I'm sure other memebers would like this as well. Thanks!
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Try flashing this in CWM.
Tested on a highly modified KJ6, but it worked.

Doesn't work on Valhalla
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Doesn't work on Valhalla
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didn't work on new octane either
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Heres the post that he got the zip from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158266
Follow the instructions and it will work.
Furthermore, I'm running Valhalla- it comes with this launcher, the modified touchwiz 4, on there. You do not need this for valhalla.

finch8423 said:
Heres the post that he got the zip from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158266
Follow the instructions and it will work.
Furthermore, I'm running Valhalla- it comes with this launcher, the modified touchwiz 4, on there. You do not need this for valhalla.
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That's tw4.5 though..... it has made my phone reboot ever since froyo days. Whenever I do something ram intensive on that launcher, my phone reboots. I never experience that with others like launcher pro. And how the app drawer doesn't sort properly is a pain. Thanks for the help though..
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finch8423 said:
Heres the post that he got the zip from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158266
Follow the instructions and it will work.
Furthermore, I'm running Valhalla- it comes with this launcher, the modified touchwiz 4, on there. You do not need this for valhalla.
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Actually I made the cwm zip from an apk I found while googling for touch wiz 4.0 apk lol it worked so I thought it was worth posting. I've never used 4 or 4.5 and I got the wrong one, lol sorry for the confusion. It was mislabeled and I have no experience with the either of them. Sorry for getting confused guys ill try to find 4.0 tonight again lol
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icy56 said:
That's tw4.5 though..... it has made my phone reboot ever since froyo days. Whenever I do something ram intensive on that launcher, my phone reboots. I never experience that with others like launcher pro. And how the app drawer doesn't sort properly is a pain. Thanks for the help though..
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The 4.5 comes from the fact that it was a modified version of 4. This launcher automatically comes configured with the stay in ram feature selected- it's been awhile but I am sure that Launcherpro has that feature as well, but it is by default off. Try disabling that and see if it just fc's the launcher (thus resulting in a restart of the launcher) as opposed to your phone crashing. Thats really the only thing that would separate it from other launchers. You can turn the 3d effects off as well to help with the ram. I always make sure to kill passive processes- then again I do not use octane so I am not sure how it runs.
I never had problems with the app drawer. You can change the sorting preferences in the preferences menu of the launcher. It is by default on unrestricted, but you can change it to alphabetical.

finch8423 said:
The 4.5 comes from the fact that it was a modified version of 4. This launcher automatically comes configured with the stay in ram feature selected- it's been awhile but I am sure that Launcherpro has that feature as well, but it is by default off. Try disabling that and see if it just fc's the launcher (thus resulting in a restart of the launcher) as opposed to your phone crashing. Thats really the only thing that would separate it from other launchers. You can turn the 3d effects off as well to help with the ram. I always make sure to kill passive processes- then again I do not use octane so I am not sure how it runs.
I never had problems with the app drawer. You can change the sorting preferences in the preferences menu of the launcher. It is by default on unrestricted, but you can change it to alphabetical.
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I tried turning that off, launcher won't even open anymore so I had to reinstall it. Tried running it for a day but it just doesn't work on my phone which is currently running valahlla final. I have the app drawer set to alphabetical but it still doesn't sort properly. If I install a lot of new apps or delete a lot of apps, there are lots of blank spaces and the only way to get rid of the spaces is to manually move each app one by one which is really a big pain. I just want stock touchwiz 4. I hope someone can get it to work on this phone. After playing with my brother's galaxy s 2, none of the launchers on the market feel anywhere close to that smooth.
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Were's our hero? Lol It would be very candid to have full working TW4 launcher on kj6.
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try go launcher im using on gb 2.3.6 and its super smooth and highly customizable the dev updates very often and takes requests

dnahughes said:
try go launcher im using on gb 2.3.6 and its super smooth and highly customizable the dev updates very often and takes requests
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Yeah go launcher is pretty good. Still isn't as fast as launcher pro though. I really wish we had a stock touchwiz 4 launcher for this phone. Tw4.5 freezes too much and no other launcher out there really comes close to how fluid tw4 is. I've tried like every launcher in the market too.
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dnahughes said:
try go launcher im using on gb 2.3.6 and its super smooth and highly customizable the dev updates very often and takes requests
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Why are you resurrecting old threads and posting the same thing in each one?

[Q] problem:2 battery icons

Hello everyone! I am relatively new to the android world and have just started flashing roms and doing all that makes android superior to all other platforms. I have encountered a problem several times now. When flashing a ics themed rom, I get two battery bars(see attached JPEG). This is really bugging me and would like to just have one battery bar(keep the top one). Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thanks to anyone in advance.

Its part of ics launcher bro get a different launcher problem solved
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nrm5110 said:
Its part of ics launcher bro get a different launcher problem solved
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lol yup ^^^ this

...you can change the launcher settings to disable the second bar. Just gotta play with your phone a little more.
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Swiftkey has extreme lag after upgrading to ICS

Has anyone else experienced an extreme amount of lag with Swiftkey after upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich. Swiftkey worked perfectly on Gingerbread, but after installing NexusMod UCLF6 4.0.4 Swiftkey is basically unusable; no settings have been changed and in fact I even updated to Swiftkey 3 afterwards but it still lags like crazy.
Anyone have a suggestion as to how to solve the tremendous amount of lag? Swiftkey is by far my favorite keyboard and I would love to continue using it...

Kaaji1359 said:
Has anyone else experienced an extreme amount of lag with Swiftkey after upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich. Swiftkey worked perfectly on Gingerbread, but after installing NexusMod UCLF6 4.0.4 Swiftkey is basically unusable; no settings have been changed and in fact I even updated to Swiftkey 3 afterwards but it still lags like crazy.
Anyone have a suggestion as to how to solve the tremendous amount of lag? Swiftkey is by far my favorite keyboard and I would love to continue using it...
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Check to see how many apps you have running at startup.
Is it only swift that's laggy, are you having any freezing, is searching slow?
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shaggyskunk said:
Check to see how many apps you have running at startup.
Is it only swift that's laggy, are you having any freezing, is searching slow?
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I haven't noticed any significant lag while searching; it's about the same as Gingerbread. Also I've tried it when there were no active apps and it still lags. I had a few freezes when I first flashed the ROM but I Fixed Permissions and haven't had a freeze yet (might be coincidence?).
The ICS keyboard is a bit laggy as well, just not nearly as much as Swiftkey. For the first 2 or so words Swiftkey/ICS Keyboard are fine, but as the sentence becomes longer it lags even more as it's trying to dictate what I'm typing. Again, this never happened in Gingerbread.

Working fine here,
Have you tried just uninstalling it and reinstalling it?
Heeter

I had the same problem. Everything was generally slower and laggy in an ICS rom. I switched from Seans SkyICS to the Cm9 nightlies and I'm running perfectly fine now.
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aceownstheworld said:
I had the same problem. Everything was generally slower and laggy in an ICS rom. I switched from Seans SkyICS to the Cm9 nightlies and I'm running perfectly fine now.
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I'm currently running NexusMod Beta2; maybe it'll be fixed in future iterations?
I haven't tried reflashing it. Would reflashing the same version actually help fix anything? I don't mind doing that as long as I don't have to spend another 4-5 hours setting everything up just how I like it again

I heard that if you freeze the other keyboards like swype and whatever else in titanium backup then it might fix the problem of lag

whassupmyninja said:
I heard that if you freeze the other keyboards like swype and whatever else in titanium backup then it might fix the problem of lag
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Tried it, still incredibly laggy.

Kaaji1359 said:
Tried it, still incredibly laggy.
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Clear cache, davilik cache? Recovery and Fix permissions?

Lag = user error somewhere
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whassupmyninja said:
Clear cache, davilik cache? Recovery and Fix permissions?
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Tried it.
Also, Illnevertell, explain to me how it's user error when I still experience lag after I wipe everything through CWM (Dalvik, Cache, full wipe), install NexusMod ROM and the first thing I do after it boots (again nothing but the default apps installed) is install Swiftkey 3, go to the default messaging application and try typing. Thanks for your useful insight though.
Regardless I'm just going to live with it for a while until I install CM9.

Maybe swiftkey sucks?
http://support.swiftkey.net/forums/116693-2-swiftkey-bugs-/suggestions/2578931-very-slow-on-ics
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Lag

I'm on Android JB 4.1.2 on my RAZR HD and I have noticed a LOT of LAG, I was wondering, am I the only one with so much lagging on this version? I don't remember having so much lag on ICS.
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all good here man, maybe a factory reset as last resort and see what happens, well yeah besides having to re install your apps

I guess I have no other choice, but fortunately I have all my apps backed up
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Try clearing your app cache. Should run smoother.
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I had the same issue.
Solved it by installing setCpu and changing governour.
Afterwards using Greenify and Autostarts to Freeze and Hibernate.
My Launcher is Nova Launcher Premium.
Last thing I did, was Installing LagFix Premium and everything was fine.
My Phone runs smooth and everythings fine.

Does this really worked for you? I reseted my phone but still hsve some lag in JB 4.1.2 and I only have used 1GB of the 8GB usable, so I don't understand, no App is causing the issue. I think this is the software, JB 4.2.2 run smoothly. But I'll try this steps, thanks man.

Hydr0id said:
Does this really worked for you? I reseted my phone but still hsve some lag in JB 4.1.2 and I only have used 1GB of the 8GB usable, so I don't understand, no App is causing the issue. I think this is the software, JB 4.2.2 run smoothly. But I'll try this steps, thanks man.
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Does it lag anywhere other than the homescreen? The stock launcher on my phone was super laggy.

All of that, when it is more noticeable is when I press the home button to get to the homescreen (it almost takes 10 seconds to show all aps) If I happen to be able to take a screenshot, I will post it here.

I was able to get a screenshot and here it is. You can see the lag on the clock, temperature and battery widget

Hydr0id said:
I was able to get a screenshot and here it is. You can see the lag on the clock, temperature and battery widget
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Wow. Try Nova or Apex launcher and see if you get that same lag.

I'll let you know how it goes

Ok, I tried Apex launcher and is fine, I really like it so far, but the circles widget is not compatible with 3rd party launchers

Hydr0id said:
Ok, I tried Apex launcher and is fine, I really like it so far, but the circles widget is not compatible with 3rd party launchers
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That's the worst part of the circle widget. I'd be awesome if someone could find out how to make it work with other launchers.
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I remember reading another thread and there's a widget in the play store that is fully customizable into looking like the circles widget. I believe it's called uccw.
Make sure you reboot your phone every day or two, this solved a lot of my lag issues. Other launchers never helped me.
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I reseted my phone completely, now downloaded Greenify and set some apps to hibernate, I now have more RAM and speed is good, not great, but good.
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It's a stock JB? Overall speed and performance improved when I updated from ICS. Did you checked on your batt and cpu temp?

I already fixed it, I make a full reset using the stock rom build. Now its a lot more faster.
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