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ADW questions...

Ok when I use ADW do i turn off HTC sense and if so how do I. I tried to turn it off but it popped right back off. Do I have to turn all the widgets off then turn it off?
Also how do I get the count numbers to appear in the launcher bar for messages and emails plus voicemails?
Thanks, Thomas

Go to settings>applications>manage applications>htc sense> click clear defaults tab then press home key and choose the launcher you wish to use and set it as default if you like

twilk73 said:
Ok when I use ADW do i turn off HTC sense and if so how do I. I tried to turn it off but it popped right back off. Do I have to turn all the widgets off then turn it off?
Also how do I get the count numbers to appear in the launcher bar for messages and emails plus voicemails?
Thanks, Thomas
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I think Launcher Pro is the only launcher (besides Sense) that does this.

twin001 said:
I think Launcher Pro is the only launcher (besides Sense) that does this.
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Man I was really liking the settings in ADW. I flashed a new rom and forgot to back up first so I lost a crap load so I guess while im at it ill give launcher pro a second chase lol.
Is there a setting in LP that allows me to lower the phone bar and have apps pop up below it? In ADW i had all the phone settings like phone, messages, apps, mail, Vmail and then if I swiped up the task bar would lower and I had all my favorit contacts stored down there. Its a really cool feature. I just dont know if I can deal with not having notification numbers lol I have been using HTC phones for so long now I am use to seeing them and not seeing them will take some getting use to.
Maybe there is an app in the market or someone has something I can dowload to use so I can get the notifaction icons to display numbers?

I know how you feel. I love both launcher pro and ADW but there are some features from both that i just wish I could just merge into one. Like the ability to change drawer background color/opacity like in ADW or the 3D drawer in launcher pro, the Galaxy S homescreen dots in ADW, the dock in ADW or the ability to swipe to the next dock in launcher pro. I wish launcher pro was as smooth in scrolling as ADW.
But they don't want to "copy" each other's features apparently... It just makes it harder to choose which one I want to use though because there are certain times when I prefer a certain aesthetic or feature of one and I have to keep switching back and forth.
I personally think they should just work together on one bad-a** launcher. I'd honestly pay a healthy amount for that app if they decided to charge...

sfox8 said:
I know how you feel. I love both launcher pro and ADW but there are some features from both that i just wish I could just merge into one. Like the ability to change drawer background color/opacity like in ADW or the 3D drawer in launcher pro, the Galaxy S homescreen dots in ADW, the dock in ADW or the ability to swipe to the next dock in launcher pro. I wish launcher pro was as smooth in scrolling as ADW.
But they don't want to "copy" each other's features apparently... It just makes it harder to choose which one I want to use though because there are certain times when I prefer a certain aesthetic or feature of one and I have to keep switching back and forth.
I personally think they should just work together on one bad-a** launcher. I'd honestly pay a healthy amount for that app if they decided to charge...
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Love the swipe feature in ADW and if you close the dock in ADW you can actually set apps, icons or even peope icons down there if you set say 15 people down there that dock will swipe back and forth. So there are very few things in LP that i like that ADW doesnt have. But like you said it goes both ways. Really if ADW had a notification counter that would seal the deal because swiping the finger to open or close a specific action is so freaking awsome plus the galaxy dots at the top like you said are nice but not a deal breaker. LP does have a scroll bar you can use at the bottom but its not very noticable and seem to always be on unlike the galaxy dots. Well ADW is my choice but I choose to not use it its going to be because it doesn notify my with a number icon lol. I am trying LP now and I noticed that if you use the regular mail app icon for gmail it wont post a number too it will only post a number to the gmail app. Which for me sucks because the gmail app sucks. Well its not as refind as the stock mail app is the stock mail app is really nice compaired to the gmail one. The gmail one looks rather raw. So as of this moment the only thing giving me any notification numbers is the messages with LP so really i mise well use ADW lol and just get use to looking it the notification bar for updates. If thats the case why not just swipe the notifaction bar down every time to check text or mail so why even have the icons on the screen hoggin up space. I mean if I gotta send an email or text im clicking on my person file anyway. Blah the phone has only been out for a month soo I guess we are still working our way to a good launcher. HTC sense has weak options and the widgets are pigs. Most the time the lag when you use them and the 7 screens is way to much for me. I could get buy with just 3 using ADW.
Sorry for rambling.

[Q] what do you all think about different home launchers

im just wondering what you all think about the launchers like metro ui, zune home, spark*, slidescreen, etc... all the launcers that are just different from what is normally seen, at least from what i see. whats your opinion on them and do you know about any others?

Actually I just switched from touch-wiz for the Samsung to generic Android in Paragon 5.1 and really like it. Naked!
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I like LauncherPRO, mostly because it has five icons to the bottom that can be swiped sideways to show an additional 10 icons (all customisable) and you can either tap the icon or swipe upwards to initiate a second function. (Like have a maps icon, tap it to launch maps or swipe upwards to run Navigation.) These, of course, can be edited to do whatever you want.

yeah i do too but im talking about completely different launchers the whole interface

What?
From the looks of your first post, it sounds like you're referring to launchers, but from the look of this last post, it looks like you're talking themes or ROMs or something a bit more drastic.

sorry. im probabably being too vague. so most of the popular launchers have screens that you go through and are pretty much the same (go launcher, launcher pro, adw launcher). all these are really similar other than their different ways of customization. im looking for launchers that drastically change the interface, like metro ui for example it changes the interface to the windows 7 interface, slidescreen changes it to some interface with a bunch of information, as do the others

The only Launcher I have experience with that changes fairly drastically are SlideScreen and Spark, but you're already mentioned all of them. Sorry.

Tried slidescreen for a while but it felt gimmicky. I simply stick with LP or ADW.

[Solved] Make LP look like ADW?

I am on CM7 and had been using ADW but it seemed really sluggish between screens. I installed LP and it is really smooth now. I do not like the way LP looks though (the 5 icons). Can I make it look like ADW did in CM7?
I have figured out how to change the icons but not make it only 3 icons.

RyanTX said:
I am on CM7 and had been using ADW but it seemed really sluggish between screens. I installed LP and it is really smooth now. I do not like the way LP looks though (the 5 icons). Can I make it look like ADW did in CM7?
I have figured out how to change the icons but not make it only 3 icons.
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If you long press on the icon you want to remove you can set the shortcut to "Blank" and then change the icon if need be.

RyanTX said:
I am on CM7 and had been using ADW but it seemed really sluggish between screens. I installed LP and it is really smooth now. I do not like the way LP looks though (the 5 icons). Can I make it look like ADW did in CM7?
I have figured out how to change the icons but not make it only 3 icons.
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Did you try playing with ADW's settings? There are presets and also you can disable some of the animations to smooth things out.

redsunrising said:
If you long press on the icon you want to remove you can set the shortcut to "Blank" and then change the icon if need be.
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Perfect, exactly what I was looking for!
C Brown -
Yes, I played with the settings a bit. The lagginess that I am referring to is that when I swipe from screen to screen, the screen ends up being like a half second behind my finger. With LP it's in sync. That may seem like a stupid complaint, but it bothers me.

RyanTX said:
Perfect, exactly what I was looking for!
C Brown -
Yes, I played with the settings a bit. The lagginess that I am referring to is that when I swipe from screen to screen, the screen ends up being like a half second behind my finger. With LP it's in sync. That may seem like a stupid complaint, but it bothers me.
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I had the exact same complaints. LP wins in my opinion. Plus is also quite nice if you think you'll stick with it.

I've often been back and forth between the two.
ADWex LauncherPro Plus
Excellent customization. Widgets.
Pre-made themes. Super smooth scrolling.
Icon packs. Option of blanking out dockbar icon.
Both are great, and I've thoroughly been familiarized with each one. But these are basically the only differences.
I personally ended up going with LP because I am anal about how smooth scrolling is... but if ADW had the same elegance, I would pick ADW because it definitely has way more options for customization.

[Q] Working custom icons in ICS?

Desktop vizualizer makes icfons at half size, with no way to fix as far as i can tell, i've told them but have gotten no reply.
folder organizer items work, but it places the shortcuts as a widget instead of a shortcut like it did in honeycomb.
so right now i have no way to add normal shortcuts to my homescreen with a custom icon.
does anyone have any apps that work properly?

I used adw for my custom shortcuts
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not really a lot of help. i'm not asking for a custom launcher. ICS launcher is just fine. i just want to be able to actually make custom icons like i could in honeycomb.

i find it really hard to believe that no one running this tablet on ICS with a stock launcher is using custom icons. come on.

neok44 said:
not really a lot of help. i'm not asking for a custom launcher. ICS launcher is just fine. i just want to be able to actually make custom icons like i could in honeycomb.
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Have you tried Nova Launcher? Its basically the Stock Launcher, but allows for editing/resizing Icons and Widgets. Plus, you can install Icon packs for ADW and manually assign Icons of your choice to whatever you want...then resize them if you want.
Nova has a free version, and a Prime version with a few extra fun features. Both are in the Market.

yeah i've tried nova and the others, and personally i don't like/want to use them. i find the stock launcher just fine.
i'm just annoyed because for the first time in android history, i can't make custom icons work right. and i'm just shocked that it seems that no one else here is using custom icons on a stock launcher.

there are some ics roms out there already? are you rooted?

mikeydubbs said:
there are some ics roms out there already? are you rooted?
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no, i'm on the stock ICS update, with the stock ICS launcher.

neok44 said:
yeah i've tried nova and the others, and personally i don't like/want to use them. i find the stock launcher just fine.
i'm just annoyed because for the first time in android history, i can't make custom icons work right. and i'm just shocked that it seems that no one else here is using custom icons on a stock launcher.
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So you seem to be stuck on using the Stock launcher.
Well if you had tried Nova as you said, then I got to know, what about Nova didn't you like? I mean, Nova is basically stock from the look, and it adds the ability to use custom icons or ones from an icon pack, and allows you to resize them...which is what you are complaining about.
So, what is it about needing/wanting to use stock launcher, when Nova is stock with a few added features, one of which is using custom icons.

i don't have my TF rooted, so i lose the widgets menu, it doesn't have the tablet transitions, app drawer is 5x5 instead of 8x5. and to be honest, it's not as smooth as the stock ics launcher for me.
and honestly, i'm just still in a shock that apparently everyone is just using nova or adw.
i refuse to believe that i am the only person on this forum with an ICS transformer that is using the stock launcher with custom icons. that cannot be possible.

[Q] Trying out several launchers

So I'm fairly new to the android OS and recently got an HTC One X. I haven't really done enough research to actually get around to rooting it, but for now I've been having fun running different launchers since I have grown tired of the Sense UI. I have currently messed around with GO Launcher EX and Nova, but there are a few more I also want to experiment with (Apex, Launcher Pro, ADW etc.)
When I switch to a new launcher and save it as default does it erase the screen and widget set up of the previous launcher? If go back to Nova for instance will I have to set the screens up again? I noticed when I went back to Sense from Nova everything I had organized in Sense was gone. Is there an app of something that will save this?

It shouldn't unless you erase the data yourself, though I don't know about Sense itself.
I tried out multiple launchers on my phone and never had loss of configurations (except when intentional).

No, you can safely change and default between Launchers, so long as you don't 'clear data' for that Launcher. Rosie (Sense) included
I've encountered some stability issues with LauncherPro on Android versions greater than Gingerbread, and it hasn't been updated in a long time, but it's still my favourite Launcher for older phones
Have fun!

Try the holo launcher. I love it because it is clean and straightforward.

Thanks for the answers, Holo kind of reminds me of Nova which I liked so I'll try it also!

I liked Nova and Apex almost as much, but Apex won out for me since I really needed infinite scrolling in the app drawer.
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try to backup every time you want to switch different launcher..
i think every launcher have backup-restore feature
sorry for my english.

If you change between launchers it can happen that widgets etc. you had on your screen can disappear due to different stuff the launchers put on your homescreen by default. Other than that all should be the same - if you didnt delete anything vital
From personal experience I favour apex launcher: it's clean, highly customizable, good looking and fast.