Can you get the touchwiz widgets to work with nova launcher? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

A friend of mine is convinced there is a way to get the touchwiz widgets to work with nova launcher running on synergy rom. I'm not buying it and figured I'd post it out.
So is it possible?? If so how'd you go about doing it??
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I'm pretty sure all the stock samsung widgets need TW to run.

As far as I know there is no way to get widgets designed for a particular launcher to work in another. It can be one of the drawbacks of using a custom launcher.
What widgets are you interested in? There's probably quality alternatives out there.

Since I posted this today I found Widgets that are pretty much the same thing as the TW ones. Thanks!!
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Could you post what you found so if anyone in the future has this question, it's already resolved?
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what launcher are you using?

I'm using go launcher ex -I love the way the app drawer is organized, but recently after some update is started freezing from time to time...so I'm looking for a new one.
what do you recommend?
There is a thread similar to this in the themes section with some valuable input.
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Exodian said:
There is a thread similar to this in the themes section with some valuable input.
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tried searching for it and didn't find anything relevant - can you please post a link?
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You sure you're on the latest update?
I use go launcher also, and have no problems.
I even uninstalled tw, and go launcher is my only launcher.
If you have titanium backup pro, try freezing tw, and see if that stops the issues you're having.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135967
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Exodian said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135967
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10x that's exactly what i wanted - weird the search didn't catch that...
I'll check it out
MarkP80nj said:
You sure you're on the latest update?
I use go launcher also, and have no problems.
I even uninstalled tw, and go launcher is my only launcher.
If you have titanium backup pro, try freezing tw, and see if that stops the issues you're having.
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I'd be especially careful when freezing TW. Make sure that you NEVER delete your launcher, because if you do even accidentally, you're screwed.
I did that once. Whole damn screen stayed black. I was trying out several launchers and was using sbp shell and did not like it. I messed around not paying attention and deleted it before switching default launchers. For like a half hour I just kept hitting buttons and through the grace of god got the little use this by default pop up for my launchers. I must say the whole experience sucked.
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That sucks. I usually delete tw and what ever launcher comes with my custom roms because I love zeam launcher. I never encountered a tw related problem though
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jager555 said:
That sucks. I usually delete tw and what ever launcher comes with my custom roms because I love zeam launcher. I never encountered a tw related problem though
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Same here, tw gets uninstalled as soon as I make sure go launcher is working properly.
I just freeze it for a couple days, and if nothing happens, I just smack that uninstall button!
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Im using the one called "Gingerbread launcher free" its smooth and i like it

Sidekick 4g

What's the Best Home Launcher For Sidekick 4g HELP .!
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It ain't the stock TouchWiz launcher. That thing has a memory leak.
I don't know if it's Samsung or the Froyo VM. Either way, you can't go wrong. Ditch the stock launcher asap.
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Thanks man but dude the stock launcher really does suckkk
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i'd say you can't go wrong with Launcher Pro, Go Launcher Ex, Zeam, or ADW Ex.... and probably there are others. not sure there is really a best, it sorta comes down to personal preference.
Launcher pro is goood ause its quick but hard to customize and stuff go launcher goood but too much like adw and zeam its ok but laggs at time but I am on gingerclone v2 right now oh by the way do u know any goood widgets
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I haven't used many widgets on the SK at all, but have you tried Fancy Widgets or Beautiful Widgets from the market?
Noo I love weather and toggle our something like that it better to me cause I can havee sense clock on my phonee
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Well, there's a potential hangup right there. Most widgets will run as a service in the background and eat your RAM/CPU. I've seen all kinds of widgets that boast about how compact they are based solely on the size of the app, but the download size really isn't what you are concerned with; it's the amount of your limited memory that is going to be consumed physicaly running the widget on your device.
Android is very reluctant to shut down services. For instance, I've been trying out a new battery and used a nice battery widget to monitor performance. That's all fine and good, but it ate 20 megs
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Thatss crazy I didn't know that but my ram acts kinda funnny it willl be alll goood then it will go down dramaticallly its not funnny and then goes up so what clock widget the bes u may say ?
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Why did you feel the need to make three useless threads in the wrong section?
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I know I apppoligize I am new to this
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Ok, honestly you are seriously abusing this thread you ask a ignorant quistion like this witch is completely an opinion based answer research and try stuff out. What's best for you is probably compltely opposite of what's best for me. PLEASE SEARCH, RESEARCH AND FIGURE IT OUT!!!!!
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I would recommend Go Launcher, with Sira Theme.
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Touchwiz 4?

Do we have a Touchwiz 4 rom? I know we can get the launcher but didn't know if we could get things such as the motion gestures and the browser stuff?
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dustinhayes93 said:
Do we have a Touchwiz 4 rom? I know we can get the launcher but didn't know if we could get things such as the motion gestures and the browser stuff?
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It would have to be done through porting. Idk maybe a cappy has something based off of it, but probably not. The only devices who have this are the gs2 and maybe the note, which porting from hem is extremely hard.
Ok thx for the info. I had looked around but didn't really find to much info about it.
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There are TW4 launchers that you can use
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Galaxy note launcher on skyrocket

Just like the title says. I'm running mhx-superlite 3.1 and would really like the 5 icon dock and 5x5 homescreens.
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Use a different launcher
5 icon dock? Use romracers roms
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Nova launcher gives you these options and then some. You can put widgets, folders, I'm the app try. The app try is also scrollable (left to right)
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Apex Launcher, Go Launcher, Trebuchet, all do it.
Thx for the replys everyone but im a touch wiz fan still
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jyazzie110 said:
Thx for the replys everyone but im a touch wiz fan still
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You, and you alone lol
icenight89 said:
You, and you alone lol
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I like the tw launcher too. Its a good launcher that has all the ones I use on a daily basis Idk why everyone hates it
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scuzzbag87 said:
I like the tw launcher too. Its a good launcher that has all the ones I use on a daily basis Idk why everyone hates it
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Honesty though, its all preferqnce really, but power users hate ALL stock launchers, tw included

Launcher

What's your favorite launcher? I'm trying to figure out witch one I like most. Some are to much some are not enough. I'm liking apex at the moment. I've tried go, nova, adw. What's your input?
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Droopydroors said:
What's your favorite launcher? I'm trying to figure out witch one I like most. Some are to much some are not enough. I'm liking apex at the moment. I've tried go, nova, adw. What's your input?
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I used to use Go all the time, but switched to Nova fairly recently, and am very happy with it. The only thing I miss from Go is the "recent apps" window in the app drawer, but the built-in recent apps menu is pretty close in functionality.
I've tried about all of them and keep coming back to Apex. The free version allows you to use some gestures that Nova charges for. I didn't like the recent update because it was giving me problems dropping apps in folders so I am using an older version.
I used to use Go but switched to Nova after I tried all of them, became a favorite of mine.
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I've been playing with the HAX launcher. It's definitely different.
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Nova and tsf shell
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I used GO all the time on my thunderbolt, but when i got my S3 i switched to Apex and now i'm happily using... NOVA, its by far the best
TW
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Nova Launcher and CleanROM 4.5
Droopydroors said:
What's your favorite launcher? I'm trying to figure out witch one I like most. Some are to much some are not enough. I'm liking apex at the moment. I've tried go, nova, adw. What's your input?
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I use Nova Launcher, so fast its really good ( and using CleanROM 4.5) so its really good with performance and stability.
Using nova here as it was on sale for only 25 cents a month or so ago... Hard to pass that up. Before that was just using touchwiz and on my DROID eris back in the day I used adw and maybe go launcher.
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Nova...nuff said
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nyjumpman said:
... tsf shell....
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Is it really worth the $16 price tag?
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