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Has anyone tried this yet? Just wondering how compatible it is with the x10
It works without any problems but still it is much worse than adw
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NotBillable said:
Has anyone tried this yet? Just wondering how compatible it is with the x10
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I've tried it, it is compatible and working really good on the X10.
However, after trying a few home replacement, I would advise to use ADW Launcher
maxld said:
It works without any problems but still it is much worse than adw
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agree.
ADW Launcher is much better than any other launcher.
ADW is good, can't argue with that. But I really love Helix. Battery life is good with Helix
I like GDE
My favorite is GDE
Next to GDE I recommend ADW. GDE is better in may aspects like, icons replacer, Icon renamer, uninstaller, custom doc, loop screen and smoother drawer handling. and no problem for battery.
quickz
Here goes the quick review, ..by a smartfone noob with the same issue..
trying to find the best home replacement / launcher.
(reporting from android 1.6)
# Launchpad Lite:
is just a little app(window) to launch the apps which were used most recently.
+ length of the history is adjustable.
+ shows running apps highlited.
# Tag Home(Launcher):
is a full home replacement (can be linked to HOME button).
+ TAGS! to categorize your apps! (!=something that each of these lame launchers should have - even the standard com.android.launcher!)
+ 4 static links in the bottom bar.
- just 4x4 icons.
- not too many options.
# ADW Launcher:
is a full home-replacement.
installed as service(?) (not shown in app-drawer of standard-home).
+ up to 7 screens.
+ set icon density for 1 screen! (5x7, instead of 4x4 icons)
+ screens-preview.
+ set desktop finger-gesture actions (up & down)!
+ options!!!
- just 2 static links in bottom bar.
# Zeam Launcher:
is a full home replacement.
+ Bottom bar with many(!) static links (scroll left/right).
+ upto 9 screens.
+ set doubletap & home-btn action.
- just 4x4 icons.
# KS Lanucher:
is a home replacement + app (can also be started as app on top)
different concept ... no icons.
right = categories list, left = apps- & services-list
+ show running apps & services.
+ lists app history & apps by date of installation
- just 1 category for yourself (in free version)
# Helix: (mentioned above)
... not found on market.
# GDE: (mentioned above)
Costs $$, so it hasn't been tested.
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Hints for a noob #13:
To get android asking you which home-program you want to use (with option "dont ask again in the future") when clicking the HOME button, follow ...
1.) Open SETTINGS (standard android settings)
2.) Select APPLICATIONS
3.) Select MANAGE APPLICATIONS
4.) Scroll thru list to find the app which is currently configured to be your home-screen.
5.) Open home-screen app.
6.) Click the CLEAR DEFAULTS button, in the section LAUNCH BY DEFAULT.
done.
prost
fjnger said:
# ADW Launcher:
is a full home-replacement.
installed as service(?) (not shown in app-drawer of standard-home).
+ up to 7 screens.
+ set icon density for 1 screen! (5x7, instead of 4x4 icons)
+ screens-preview.
+ set desktop finger-gesture actions (up & down)!
+ options!!!
- just 2 static links in bottom bar.
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You CAN have more than two icons on the bottom with ADW. Disable desktop dots and enabled Secondary Action Buttons. This gets rid of the only "-" for ADW making it nothing but pure awesome!
is the launcher the the same as the stock android launcher? if not could someone post it. thanks
Samsungs own I think, I use Launcher Pro though.
The stock launcher is TouchWiz. Its very good, smoother than launcherpro. And has a superior app drawer. I would use it if not for launcherpros customisation options.
Edit: i especially like the homescreen scrollong method in touchwiz, its much cooloer than lps elastic scrolling!
couldn't agree more!
For information: ADW.Launcher works well on the Tab too, no issues with the high resolution.
I'm using it rather than the stock TouchWiz one mostly so that I can customise the Browser and Email launch buttons. It has some extra nice touches, but can be configured to behave almost exactly like TouchWiz.
Launcher Pro is fast but its application drawer is very limited (it basically dumps a huge scrolling list of icons). Touchwiz is reasonably nice, but managing hundreds of application icons remains hard, despite the "move icon" feature in the application drawer. ADW.Launcher however, provides separate "groups" / "catalogs" panes to divide the application drawer into several distinct buckets of smaller size, which makes it a lot easier to find applications. I just hate browsing endless list of alphabetically-ordered icons
As for QuickDesk, it has some potential, but it is somewhat locked to portrait mode on my Galaxy Tab I am using it anyway as it plays nice with ADW.Launcher (the Home button gets hacked to support single/double tap and launch each of them individually).
Quickdesk pro has landscape support. It also acts as a completely different screen to portrait, so you can have FB/Twitter/music widgets in portrait and loads of icons in landscape
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Hi, is it necessary to root the Tab before installing ADW.launcher?
Because I have tried installing it on my non-rooted Tab but the application doesn't want to install...
I'm using it rather than the stock TouchWiz one mostly so that I can customise the Browser and Email launch buttons.
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You can replace these in the stock launcher!
Regards,
Dave
It's funny. Even though TouchWiz 3.0 comes on the Vibrant, I couldn't stand it. So, I use Launcher Pro Plus. On the Tab, I actually like it. It must have been much improved since then?
After testing several launchers, I have now become a fan of ADW.Launcher (mostly due to its categorization feature in the apps drawer) and QuickDesk (due to its quick-access to recent apps, and the ability to long-click to get to the app details, clear data, uninstall, etc.) I like how configurable everything is as well.
Remove Notification Bar
Hi guys,
Got the Tab yesterday and like it a lot. I don't like Samsumg's Touchwiz etc. so straight away I installed Launcher Pro and changed my home-screen etc.
Anyhow, I want to remove or at least stop the ever present notification strip appearing at the top. I had a Nexus One and was able to do this but can't remember how, can it be done on the tab as its wasting space on my homescreen, in the browser etc.
Cheers,
M
One the home screen, click the Menu button, Settings, Appearance Settings, Hide notification bar.
I kinda like TouchWiz. Mainly for the widgets which come in handy, but i absolutely love ADW. It may not have the widgets that LPP has, but imho, its 100x better.
Then QuickDesk Pro for the long press on thevsearch button to top it off
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GANJDROID said:
I kinda like TouchWiz. Mainly for the widgets which come in handy, but i absolutely love ADW. It may not have the widgets that LPP has, but imho, its 100x better.
Then QuickDesk Pro for the long press on thevsearch button to top it off
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ADW.Launcher + QuickDesk => great combo !
I use the home button for both of them (using the "hack" setting for double-click support). Long-press on the Search button indeed brings up a few options, including AudioVolumizer (very useful).
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The stock launcher is TouchWiz. Its very good,
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agree with that. & question - Tabs in Russian retail doesnt have Readers and Media Hub, or is it just mine? I have a wicked bookstore instead)
I was thinking of an app that could easily switch launchers. I've tried the apps on the play store, but it's not fast and easy to switch launchers. I thought of two ways to make this possible:
Option 1) *My personal favorite* Have a shortcut that takes you to another launcher. Add it to your home screen, and click it when you want to use it. I realize you can just add the icons for the launcher, but I'm talking about Touchwiz and Sense. It would be great for the shortcut to be themeable, because I have an all white/transparent thing going on in Launcher8.
Option 2) Click home button multiple times and go to a launcher. You could order it, like, 1 hit: Touchwiz, 2 hits: Nova, and so on. Just go in the app and drag to change order. Best suited for capacitive buttons.
Bonus, because it's not quick and easy) Add a Notification. Once it's hit, you can choose the launcher that the home button will take you to. Check the launcher you want, and hit home. Works best if you want to use a launcher for a certain amount of time.
What do you guys think? If any developer could attempt this, that would be awesome.
you can try "home manager" from the playstore. It helps to switch home from the notification bar.
I received a PM asking how to do this after a post I put in the Best Launcher thread so I thought I might share how I've had my phones set up for some time which gives the best of both worlds. Namely Nova as a launcher and Blinkfeed at the touch of a button for news updates and anything else you fancy which it does. I'm unsure if you will be able to do this with another launcher rather than Nova, I've not tried.
Go to this thread and download HTC Home and HTC Servicepack and install them as any other apk file via a file explorer. Don't forget to leave a thanks. The rest of the apk files in that thread are options, I don't use them myself but if you want things like Facebook and weather to work exactly the same as a HTC device then the options are there.
Once they're installed go into Nova settings. Then go to Gestures & Inputs -> Home Button -> Shortcuts -> Activities -> Sense Home -> Sense Home (the one with 'Launcher' written underneath).
You're done. This will set it up so that, when you're on Nova's homescreen, pressing the home button will launch Blinkfeed, pressing it again in Blinkfeed will take you back to Nova. At any other time the home button works as normal. You can also set it up so it works with a gesture instead, although I've always found the home button to be the best way of doing it.
Another thing worth doing, I've set up Greenify to automatically close Blinkfeed on sleep, this ensures it doesn't hog any battery in the background.
Thanks bro. It really helps!
This is great. I had some trouble in that the News Republic app I had installed was interfering with blinkfeed (not surprisingly) and not allowing it to populate. Once I removed NR blinkfeed worked great!
Is Blinkfeed significantly different than Flipboard, which can be installed from the Play Store?
Well this isn't working for me. By selecting the sense home launcher it is only opening the sense home app not blink feed.
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Is Blinkfeed significantly different than Flipboard, which can be installed from the Play Store?
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Very much so. Blinkfeed is far better. Do a direct comparison and see what I mean.
joebongo said:
Well this isn't working for me. By selecting the sense home launcher it is only opening the sense home app not blink feed.
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Blinkfeed is part of that home app, swipe to the left. The easiest way of fixing this is to delete Sense home pages, meaning you end up going directly to the Blinkfeed page. The only downside of this is that the clock will always be at the top.
looking for one app to combine news, instagram and facebook feeds into one on my galaxy s7edge! Will this do it?
I am not rooted
help
Hi, Have looked around the internet and have found plenty of reference to the S7 and how to fix this but those fixes dont seem to work for the S8+. Anyway the issue is that having installed Nova Launcher and tried to add the Google Calendar and MyFitnessPal Widgets I have noticed that they are quite large in comparison to that of the stock launcher, they seem out of place, even the google search bar looks odd. Does anyone know of a way to fix this?
Found this in web "Support response: *That's something that Samsung does to either try and prevent you from using 3rd party launchers like Nova, or to stop you from using their widgets within 3rd party launchers. *. I also want to use nova launcher but widgets' resolution is too high, any solutions ?
This particular issue is annoying to say the least. Widgets look like crap on Nova vs stock...BUT I did find a workaround with my S8 and just did it on my S10. I haven't seen this solution posted anywhere, but I'm sure many OCD people like myself will be happy:
Create a new Nova widget for "activities". Scroll down to "touchwiz" or "One UI" (for Samsung, may differ depending on what your stock launcher is called). Expand "One UI" and select the activity that ends with ".Launcher. "
That's it! now you can load your stock launcher with a tap of a button. I use this button to load all my widgets (with the mentioned resolution issue) since they are all organized on the stock launcher just they way I like. A press of the home button will take you back to Nova home screen.
Depending on your icon packs, you can make the icon disappear by selecting no icon so you have a "secret" location to launch your widgets or select any icon you wish.
Alternatively, If you don't want to use an icon, you can do the same with Gestures if you have Nova Prime. Just select the gesture to be an "activity" from the shortcuts tab and select that launcher activity as noted above.
Thank you!
You're brilliant. That's all I wanted t express and I made an account to say this. This had been bugging me for so long!
palakb said:
This particular issue is annoying to say the least. Widgets look like crap on Nova vs stock...BUT I did find a workaround with my S8 and just did it on my S10. I haven't seen this solution posted anywhere, but I'm sure many OCD people like myself will be happy:
Create a new Nova widget for "activities". Scroll down to "touchwiz" or "One UI" (for Samsung, may differ depending on what your stock launcher is called). Expand "One UI" and select the activity that ends with ".Launcher. "
That's it! now you can load your stock launcher with a tap of a button. I use this button to load all my widgets (with the mentioned resolution issue) since they are all organized on the stock launcher just they way I like. A press of the home button will take you back to Nova home screen.
Depending on your icon packs, you can make the icon disappear by selecting no icon so you have a "secret" location to launch your widgets or select any icon you wish.
Alternatively, If you don't want to use an icon, you can do the same with Gestures if you have Nova Prime. Just select the gesture to be an "activity" from the shortcuts tab and select that launcher activity as noted above.
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Brilliant solution. I might say this workaround is even better than solving the actual problem. I love android.