Hi,
I've never been into changing launchers as I've heard that it has a negative effect on battery life. What I really want is to get is the something thats as light as vanilla ICS on the galaxy Nexus. What launcher/theme can do this, without having an effect on battery?
Hi mate, are you using a Samsung ROM? Because obviously they have TouchWiz and all of Samsung's style all over them (not for me AT ALL). The closest you can get to vanilla ICS is an AOSP ROM (CM9 or similar) and using the stock theme and launcher (varies from ROM to ROM, its usually Trebuchet though).
I'm personally using Staxx's latest PARANOIDANDROID build, with the ICS Fixer theme (free on the market) and Apex launcher with the stock launcher frozen via Titanium Backup. No battery drain whatsoever from Apex and the ICS Fixer theme just uses the stock Ice Cream Sandwich theme with everything (pop-ups, menus, progress bars etc.) themed to suit Android 4.0. Looks great + has fantastic battery life in my opinion
Hope that helps you out.
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Nova Launcher and Apex are good, but only if you are willing/able to pay for them as without the upgrade they can't even show you unread notifications (something that for me is a must within any launcher).
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On my stock 2.3.3 the applications in the app draw kind off drifted off, or under when scrolling. now i have CM7 rom on my nexus it seems to have other transitions but the applications flow off the screen.
Can i change it back to work like standard?
I think what you are referring to is that cm7 replaces the stock launcher/dock with adw launcher which does not have the 3d affect.
If you want the stock launcher back you can go to the market and search for Gingerbread Launcher by Eugene
Yeh found it last night. I much prefer it
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Or you can go to the cyanomodegen forum (Nexus s themes subsection), grab the zip with the stock launcher and flash it. It replaces ADW launcher with the stock one (my current setup is CM7 + stock launcher + mattedblues theme - I love XDA ).
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Has anyone tried this launcher by Team Syndicate in the market yet? It runs ok, but still has a few bugs.
Yes just as you said. Runs but buggy. I had it on for a couple of hours for a hoot and then uninstalled it. The bugs even caused problems when my other launcher was active.
ive actually been using it for over a week now.AND I LOVEEEEE IT!! I feel with all the CM features and the look and feel that i am already running ICS . I just was notified to udate it thru the market. Maybe they fixed some of those bugs yo were talking about. ^^^^^^^^^^.
Cool, I'll check it out, thankx.
Uninstalled. Im finding a good ICS CM7 theme and ADW is working together perfectly. Looks legit.
G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV
I just installed a ICS ADW theme. That along with the CM7 theme chooser theme and Roboto makes the phone look exactly like ICS.
LordButtersI said:
I just installed a ICS ADW theme. That along with the CM7 theme chooser theme and Roboto makes the phone look exactly like ICS.
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I tried installing this theme however all the ics icons dont populate like the preview shows. For instance i cant get the all apps icon with the little white dots.. Just the default adw 4 squares
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I tried installing this theme however all the ics icons dont populate like the preview shows. For instance i cant get the all apps icon with the little white dots.. Just the default adw 4 squares
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I just changed it manually. The icons are there they just don't automatically change.
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All of the ICS launchers I tried included the on-screen back,home, and task button.... which I don't want or need.
I use Sonny's ICS CM7 theme from the market and stock CM7 ADW. The theme also themes ADW and icons so it looks legit. I still use the stock fonts. Happy so far.
G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV
player911 said:
All of the ICS launchers I tried included the on-screen back,home, and task button.... which I don't want or need.
I use Sonny's ICS CM7 theme from the market and stock CM7 ADW. The theme also themes ADW and icons so it looks legit. I still use the stock fonts. Happy so far.
G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV
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Screen Shot?
So whats the best MIUI rom for the nexus s samoled??
I really like the stock look on orginal ics 4.0.4, but the battery life doesnt satisfy me enought.. So if i choose a miui rom based on 2.3.6 instead of 4.0 versions of miui, is the battery going to be better??
And i would really like to have example 1, 2. 3, top miui roms
Would really appriciate it
I've been sticking to MIUIEXPERIENCE since it has the Xperia launcher included in the ROM. Most MIUI roms don't have a launcher so there is no app drawer.
Since MIUI sticks to the Apple interface, you won't have a launcher in the rom. If you choose Catalyst or Oodie Prime, which are just as well put together, you can download ZEAM launcher form the market or any other launcher if you prefer the app drawer.
Also, all MIUI roms have an app called Themes that comes with it. You use this app to download hundreds of different layouts and icons, including ICS themes.
My gf currently has the skyrocket from [email protected] and just updated to ics. I have the epic touch 4g and I go to settings, all, then clear defaults on two launcher to get the pure ics launcher. However I have noticed that the skyrocket does not have the plain launcher. Only tw launcher. Is there .a yto enable ics launcher without downloading a launcher. I thought Google required all phones on ics to have the default launcher as well.
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My gf currently has the skyrocket from [email protected] and just updated to ics. I have the epic touch 4g and I go to settings, all, then clear defaults on two launcher to get the pure ics launcher. However I have noticed that the skyrocket does not have the plain launcher. Only tw launcher. Is there .a yto enable ics launcher without downloading a launcher. I thought Google required all phones on ics to have the default launcher as well.
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no it only has TW. download Apex Launcher from the Market. Its exactly like the stock ics launcher but better
OFWGKTADGAF said:
no it only has TW. download Apex Launcher from the Market. Its exactly like the stock ics launcher but better
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You can also try Nova launcher
Yeah only he TW trash. Flash CM9. It doesn't have TW. It cones with trebuchet and is the spitting image of the default ics launcher complete with the persistent search bar. But if you don't want to go through the ROM flashing process then apex or nova launcher is for you. Both are virtually the same and amazing. Some have different options but both great. I go with nova prime for the ability to folder some apps in the app drawer which was always something I had been looking for. I'd suggest you and her play around with the available launchers to see which suits best.
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I dont know if this is at all possible without theming but I was curious if you could get the sense 4+ on an aosp rom. Maybe not all the extra apps like the music and messaging and camera but the lockscreen and the widgets. I have tried all sorts of stuff with go launcher and beautiful widgets but they just don't do it justice. Is there a way to port this???? Has it already been done?
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I dont know if this is at all possible without theming but I was curious if you could get the sense 4+ on an aosp rom. Maybe not all the extra apps like the music and messaging and camera but the lockscreen and the widgets. I have tried all sorts of stuff with go launcher and beautiful widgets but they just don't do it justice. Is there a way to port this???? Has it already been done?
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First of all, this should be in the Q&A section. Secondly, the closest you will get is a modded Sense ROM. I jumped ship from sense as fast as I could so I don't really follow the news, but I have heard that Viper ROM is the most AOSP-like Sense ROM.
No... Certain aspects or sense rely on the sense launcher... Like the clock...idk about the lockscreen...but mostly everything else is a no go on a diff launcher
Sense is very heavily tied into the framework. Ports are possible, like when I had a captivate there was a sense port but it was extremely unstable. It's just not worth the hassle really
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you could always use a senseless rom so you could have other launchers but have sense lockscreen still
Go with Viper rom, use Apex or Nova launchers. You will have an Aosp style launcher while still maintaining the lockscreens, and HD Widgets will look just like sense.
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Go with Viper rom, use Apex or Nova launchers. You will have an Aosp style launcher while still maintaining the lockscreens, and HD Widgets will look just like sense.
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In my experience all third-party launchers introduce a notable lag (compared to Rosie) when opening home screens, app drawer, etc. And this is with all possible animations and other eye candy turned off. Seems that as long as Sense is running in the background you have to go through an extra layer to get to the Launcher.