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Soo umm.. What now?

So I recieved my infuse last night, I have downloaded all of my nescassary apps, but now I dont know what to do/or download. Any tips? Or some apps/ themes to download?
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.

Next is root your phone and decide if you want to place a custom Rom on your device.
If you want to place a custom Rom - just read the development section for a few days until you get a feel for what going on -then proceed from there..

I was thinking of that, I rooted my lasnt android, and it gave me major problems, lose all contacts, camera not work, bootloop etc...
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.

Rooting can *lead* to problems but not actually *cause* problems. Only improper flashing and modding can lead to issues. Good news for you though - rooting is not required to get enjoyment out of your device. I should know. I didn't root my Infuse for the first month I had it. I just didn't see the need to do so.
So, what exactly is it that you're trying to do?

Just make it the most enjoyable and personal as it can get. Im gonna end up rooting it eventually. But not now.
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.

return it and get a GSII.

I got it brand new off of craigslist, and I have a gophone. So I cant
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Ryistech said:
So I recieved my infuse last night, I have downloaded all of my nescassary apps, but now I dont know what to do/or download. Any tips? Or some apps/ themes to download?
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.
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Download Appbrain from the market. It's free. You can see popular apps of the day (I almost always find at least one or two to download whenever I go through the entire list) and it can provide recommendations based on what you have installed.
jhong91 said:
return it and get a GSII.
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Lol.

jhong91 said:
return it and get a GSII.
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FAIL .... fail

Okay thanks, ill get that now. Anything else??
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.

Ryistech said:
Okay thanks, ill get that now. Anything else??
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.
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Look at the "Browse Apps" section of Appbrain as much as you can. The list changes daily. You'll start to pick up on what you want and how to find it.

Okay. That app is pretty cool. Haha. So what about personalize and customization?
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Ryistech said:
Okay. That app is pretty cool. Haha. So what about personalize and customization?
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.
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Go to the Themes & Apps section of this forum and find the screenshot thread. It's full of screenshots of other people's customizations. You'll see things you want to do and it'll also spark ideas.

Ive tried that, sadly the ones I like dont have names and were.posted a long time ago
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Ryistech said:
Ive tried that, sadly the ones I like dont have names and were.posted a long time ago
Sent from amazingly huge Samsung Infuse.
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The best way to experiment with finding them is to search what it is and peruse the results. If you saw a calendar widget, search calendar widgets (and other search terms that might turn up results) and sometimes you'll be able to find them. Otherwise, just quote the post and ask the name of whatever you want. Sometimes the poster will answer, and often times, if someone else knows, they'll answer.

And another question. When I use different launchers, launcherpro for example, they are all very laggy, so are there themes that dont need launchers?
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Ryistech said:
And another question. When I use different launchers, launcherpro for example, they are all very laggy, so are there themes that dont need launchers?
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LauncherPro is a bad example. It hasn't been updated in a year. Try a different launcher. I recommend ADW EX. Lots of people like Go Launcher. You could always stick with the TouchWiz launcher too if you want. There's nothing wrong with the TouchWiz launcher. Themes don't generally require a specific launcher unless their respective dev says so.
Like others have said, the best way to find what you like is to simply try things. Become familiar with tools that you can use to backup and restore your setup in case you run into things you don't necessarily like.

CheesyNutz said:
FAIL .... fail
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In all honesty if I could some how convince Amazon to let me to a return I would probably do the same. Not because of the specs and not because I don't love my Infuse but because there will probably be better community support in the form of more devs and longer support.

CheesyNutz said:
FAIL .... fail
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Haha, true ^ ^ ^ ^
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beatblaster said:
LauncherPro is a bad example. It hasn't been updated in a year. Try a different launcher. I recommend ADW EX. Lots of people like Go Launcher. You could always stick with the TouchWiz launcher too if you want. There's nothing wrong with the TouchWiz launcher. Themes don't generally require a specific launcher unless their respective dev says so.
Like others have said, the best way to find what you like is to simply try things. Become familiar with tools that you can use to backup and restore your setup in case you run into things you don't necessarily like.
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I was using launcher pro for awhile and liked it, felt like it wasn't that laggy at all. It just didn't have the ability to customize as much as say ADW or Go, but just before I replaced it they did an update that improved a lot of things, and you can now do mass customization. Currently tho i'm using Crazyhome as my launcher and I really like it.
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DSP Manager

I might be missing something, though I'm pretty sure I'm not, but there isn't any kind of system wide audio equalizer. There was the DSP Manager on my Droid X that allowed you to eff with all that stuff but I can't find anywhere to do it on this phone.
Does anyone know of any application that would work for the SIII?

Brian Gove said:
I might be missing something, though I'm pretty sure I'm not, but there isn't any kind of system wide audio equalizer. There was the DSP Manager on my Droid X that allowed you to eff with all that stuff but I can't find anywhere to do it on this phone.
Does anyone know of any application that would work for the SIII?
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Did you have CM on your Droid X? I believe DSPManager is a CM app, and it works fine on the GSIII.

dsDoan said:
Did you have CM on your Droid X? I believe DSPManager is a CM app, and it works fine on the GSIII.
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Oh, I thought it was a regular app lol. I did have CM7 running on it more often than not so all the apps blended together far as my memory. Can I put that on my SIII even though I'm running Synergy? Or would I have to have CM flashed?

Brian Gove said:
Oh, I thought it was a regular app lol. I did have CM7 running on it more often than not so all the apps blended together far as my memory. Can I put that on my SIII even though I'm running Synergy? Or would I have to have CM flashed?
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You can put it on while running Synergy. I have. Make sure you have a back up as you have to restore the app after every flash of Synergy. At least, that's my experience. Kind of annoying when I'm flashing the latest every other night, but whatever.

Could you post the APK for me? I don't have my X anymore and I can't find it in the market or anything

Brian Gove said:
Could you post the APK for me? I don't have my X anymore and I can't find it in the market or anything
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Here you go. I used Google to do a search for Dsp manager apk and it was the FIRST link that popped up. You must have exhausted yourself searching.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425973
Game.... Set..... Match.
I love irony...... Do you?
Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies

Schaweet said:
Here you go. I used Google to do a search for Dsp manager apk and it was the FIRST link that popped up. You must have exhausted yourself searching.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425973
Game.... Set..... Match.
I love irony...... Do you?
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Actually I didn't search at all. Didn't even think about searching. Why would I when sixandseveneighths said he had the apk? Can you explain to me the point?
And now I bet you're going to come back with me being lazy and wanting everyone else to do stuff for me... right? Damn straight, I took the easy way out and asked him to post the file he had.
-Sent from my Synergistic SIII

Brian Gove said:
Actually I didn't search at all. Didn't even think about searching. Why would I when sixandseveneighths said he had the apk? Can you explain to me the point?
And now I bet you're going to come back with me being lazy and wanting everyone else to do stuff for me... right? Damn straight, I took the easy way out and asked him to post the file he had.
-Sent from my Synergistic SIII
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I was the lazy one, blame me. I should have posted the apk.

Brian Gove said:
Actually I didn't search at all. Didn't even think about searching. Why would I when sixandseveneighths said he had the apk? Can you explain to me the point?
And now I bet you're going to come back with me being lazy and wanting everyone else to do stuff for me... right? Damn straight, I took the easy way out and asked him to post the file he had.
-Sent from my Synergistic SIII
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Good job, the first step is admitting you have a problem. I just think it's funny based on your PM rage fest on me and then you go and do it not more than 1 hour later and prove my point.
It's all good. DSP manager sucks compared to the equalizer app in the market in my opinion.
Here is the link in case you have trouble searching for it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer
Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies

Schaweet said:
Good job, the first step is admitting you have a problem. I just think it's funny based on your PM rage fest on me and then you go and do it not more than 1 hour later and prove my point.
It's all good. DSP manager sucks compared to the equalizer app in the market in my opinion.
Here is the link in case you have trouble searching for it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer
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When someone has something that's just a matter of if they will give it to you, why would you go searching for it instead of just asking if they will give it to you? And there was no rage or even anger in my pms towards you. Just stating facts that you with all your reading and searching ability overlooked. :good:
And are you stalking my posts now? You got some sort of little boy crush on me now or something? Weirdo

Coolest Features of the GS3?

So I am still trying to figure out how to turn on that one feature where you can reject calls by saying "Reject!" Maybe its not supported on my ROM (I'm on the newest Synergies builds).
Therefore, I was wondering if some of you could list some of your most favorite features of the GS3....whatever that may be in order to make your day-to-day operations easier.
Thanks!

ghilliek9 said:
So I am still trying to figure out how to turn on that one feature where you can reject calls by saying "Reject!" Maybe its not supported on my ROM (I'm on the newest Synergies builds).
Therefore, I was wondering if some of you could list some of your most favorite features of the GS3....whatever that may be in order to make your day-to-day operations easier.
Thanks!
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My favorite feature? The unlocked bootloader
I've been running CM10 for a week or so now and I have to say that I really miss the tw camera on the stock GS3. I don't know if you consider the camera software a feature or not but that app is amazing.

Relentless D said:
My favorite feature? The unlocked bootloader
I've been running CM10 for a week or so now and I have to say that I really miss the tw camera on the stock GS3. I don't know if you consider the camera software a feature or not but that app is amazing.
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Yeah I think there are ways you can take it out of the TW ROM and place it into CM10...I'm just waiting for CM10 to stabalize and off I go! I've had it for a few days and seems good! the HDR Camera+ and Camera360 are great too!

I haven't seen anything like that. The TW camera app is what has kept me from going to CM10. I also like the TW calendar more than AOSP.

ghilliek9 said:
Yeah I think there are ways you can take it out of the TW ROM and place it into CM10...I'm just waiting for CM10 to stabalize and off I go! I've had it for a few days and seems good! the HDR Camera+ and Camera360 are great too!
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Believe me, I've tried to get it in there. I've ported over various tw framework files along with it but just can't get it to work.
Let me qualify this by saying that I'm no dev and don't *really* know what I'm doing
MB when JB is released officially for this phone it can be ported.

Relentless D said:
Believe me, I've tried to get it in there. I've ported over various tw framework files along with it but just can't get it to work.
Let me qualify this by saying that I'm no dev and don't *really* know what I'm doing
MB when JB is released officially for this phone it can be ported.
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well, clearly you do know what you're doing/talking about. I must have mixed it up with some other apps. But hey, its good to know! I'll have to keep that in mind, thanks!

killer feature
Unofficial AOKP Jellybean is working breat for me. Only ROM I've used so far and I have had zero issues mentioned in its thread.
I hated TW and VZW bloat was too much

Personally, the one thing I would love if it worked right is the smart stay. I love the idea behind it, but in practicallity, unless I have the phone oriented just right it won't work. I've check the camera without moving, and I've had more than 3/4 of my face in easy view and still the screen would shut off.

noingwhat said:
Personally, the one thing I would love if it worked right is the smart stay. I love the idea behind it, but in practicallity, unless I have the phone oriented just right it won't work. I've check the camera without moving, and I've had more than 3/4 of my face in easy view and still the screen would shut off.
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The smart stay doesn't actually recognize your face. It throws that little eyeball notification in the status bar so it will distract you and your eyes move to "see what it is" the camera picks up your eye movement(or doesn't) and either keeps the screen on or not.
-Sent from my Synergistic SIII

Coolest feature of the GS3?
Ummmm, that would be ummmmmm, the GS3. Lol!
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Im on Synergy and the voice commands still work. Make sure its check on in the settings under language and input.

ghilliek9 said:
Yeah I think there are ways you can take it out of the TW ROM and place it into CM10...I'm just waiting for CM10 to stabalize and off I go! I've had it for a few days and seems good! the HDR Camera+ and Camera360 are great too!
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i think the tw cam is based on code from the touchwiz framework. i doubt you can use it on cm10. but the aosp camera in the i9300 forum is really nice if you want cm10. i also love the phone and contacts apps. and the motion controls are really cool.

Google wallet! (though needing hacked lib files/apk is stupid,! )
It's funny to see people's reaction when I use my phone to pay.
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kanc3r said:
Unofficial AOKP Jellybean is working breat for me. Only ROM I've used so far and I have had zero issues mentioned in its thread.
I hated TW and VZW bloat was too much
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That's awesome! Maybe some of the newer builds have cleaned up. When I had it, I never had issues either but read horror stories so just to be safe I went back to TW...maybe I'll try it again.

Brian Gove said:
The smart stay doesn't actually recognize your face. It throws that little eyeball notification in the status bar so it will distract you and your eyes move to "see what it is" the camera picks up your eye movement(or doesn't) and either keeps the screen on or not.
-Sent from my Synergistic SIII
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Hmmm interesting! Good to know lol

Kawirider1228 said:
Im on Synergy and the voice commands still work. Make sure its check on in the settings under language and input.
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I did not have that turned on....thanks!!! I'll have to try it out now! That's what I was looking for!

Brian Gove said:
The smart stay doesn't actually recognize your face. It throws that little eyeball notification in the status bar so it will distract you and your eyes move to "see what it is" the camera picks up your eye movement(or doesn't) and either keeps the screen on or not.
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Seriously? Well that actually sounds really stupid now, because I've actually been trying to train myself to ignore it. I hate that thing and find it really distracting. Also, how then is it supposed to work in an app which displays in full screen mode?

noingwhat said:
Seriously? Well that actually sounds really stupid now, because I've actually been trying to train myself to ignore it. I hate that thing and find it really distracting. Also, how then is it supposed to work in an app which displays in full screen mode?
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It just doesn't.
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-Did my rantings somehow help you? Hit the thanks button [email protected] :silly:
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The one where you lift it like you're calling, to call the person you're messaging/viewing in contacts. Saves like one button press, but I still think it's awesome.
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I think the coolest feature of the phone is the great progress all of the developers have made so far with unlocking the bootloader, getting ROMS ported over and all of the awesome stuff that is to come (MIUI hint hint)

Custom ROM w/ TouchWiz Camera features?..

I was wondering possible to run a custom ROM jelly bean and have samsung's TouchWiz Camera features? I am currently running CM10 9-17 Nightly build. I love the fast Jelly Bean experience but I do miss the touchWiz camera features and speed. I also want to report bugs such a GPS Lock issues, volume issues with both speakerphone & ear piece speaker.(very loud) Please help because I'd rather just know what to install from others than try a million different ROMs risking brickin my phone.
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well there really isn't a million roms... the list is pretty short... if you can follow instructions you won't brick your phone. and besides, these phones are so easy to fix when you screw up
what you're looking for is the JellyWiz rom, based on the leaked tmobile TouchWiz 4.1.1
all in all it works pretty well, not perfect though.

Well since I can't post in the development thread, I'll ask here since I didn't find my answering search.
I'm on CM10-9/17. Is there anyway to get the camera to save pictures to the external sd card?
Back in my Droidx days, after flashing a particular ROM, someone came up with a flashable apk for the Motorola Blur Camera. What are the possibilities of this happening with the S3?

DJSgalaxy said:
Well since I can't post in the development thread, I'll ask here since I didn't find my answering search.
I'm on CM10-9/17. Is there anyway to get the camera to save pictures to the external sd card?
Back in my Droidx days, after flashing a particular ROM, someone came up with a flashable apk for the Motorola Blur Camera. What are the possibilities of this happening with the S3?
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google backs up your gallery anyway.
at least on my S3 my gallery has been restored everytime iveflashed a rom

ddurandSGS3 said:
google backs up your gallery anyway.
at least on my S3 my gallery has been restored everytime iveflashed a rom
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When you do a clean install, the contents on /sd card and /ext_sdcard are never touched. That's why the pictures, videos, music and downloads always appear after a flash.
I like to have music, videos and pictures on the external sd card so if I have to send the phone back for any reason I can keep my personal files.

DJSgalaxy said:
Well since I can't post in the development thread, I'll ask here since I didn't find my answering search.
I'm on CM10-9/17. Is there anyway to get the camera to save pictures to the external sd card?
Back in my Droidx days, after flashing a particular ROM, someone came up with a flashable apk for the Motorola Blur Camera. What are the possibilities of this happening with the S3?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746611

I installed the camera 1.62 and now video recording crashes and burst shot is still slow compared to touchWiz, what's up?
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Brian Gove said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746611
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Thank you very much, sir.

AntekGS3 said:
I installed the camera 1.62 and now video recording crashes and burst shot is still slow compared to touchWiz, what's up?
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It should only crash on recording 1080p. It works fine for me except that. I was posting that more as an answer to saving to your ext SD like DJSgalaxy asked.

Hey I really like jellywiz, it's everything I want from Jelly Bean with all the touchWiz features but I've noticed my headset sounds very low, almost no bass. I thought it was my 3.5mm wire but I plugged my brothers phone in and played music and it sounded fine. Let me know if anybody else out there noticed that issue. Thanks
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Wow, great post.
I have the same problem. Would like the touchwiz camera app. it's way faster than AOSP camera on CM10.

Install this rom and you'll get everything you love about Jelly Bean with TouchWiz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853337
[ROMS] JellyWiz [RLS4] [9/17/12] By Incubus26jc
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Need help with porting Touchwiz home app.

Anyone have an idea on how to fix this issue? I somewhat managed to edit TouchWizHome_ZERO which I took off an HDC Galaxy S7 clone ROM, removing any external dependencies, but while said dependencies are apparently satisfied, I then end up with a null pointer exception upon trying to launch the app.
Here's the modded Touchwiz Home APK:
http://d-h.st/Dvt6
Here's the source files for the app:
http://d-h.st/Mf1j
And as for the original files themselves I got it off this custom ROM:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/thema/finale-rom-samsung-s7-clone-fuer-das-uhappy-up580.780801/

blakegriplingph said:
Anyone have an idea on how to fix this issue? I somewhat managed to edit TouchWizHome_ZERO which I took off an HDC Galaxy S7 clone ROM, removing any external dependencies, but while said dependencies are apparently satisfied, I then end up with a null pointer exception upon trying to launch the app.
Here's the modded Touchwiz Home APK:
http://d-h.st/Dvt6
Here's the source files for the app:
http://d-h.st/Mf1j
And as for the original files themselves I got it off this custom ROM:
http://www.android-hilfe.de/thema/finale-rom-samsung-s7-clone-fuer-das-uhappy-up580.780801/
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I've been trying to do the same my self,
But I think its just more then the touchwiz home apk theres also mods that have to be placed in framework.jar and systemui.apk also....if you have any luck please id like to know!
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rick.wardenburg said:
I've been trying to do the same my self,
But I think its just more then the touchwiz home apk theres also mods that have to be placed in framework.jar and systemui.apk also....if you have any luck please id like to know!
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Well my goal mostly is to rid it of any dependencies by moving most if not all of them to the main app. I know some dude managed to pull that off with the Xperia launcher, turning it into a standalone app.

blakegriplingph said:
Well my goal mostly is to rid it of any dependencies by moving most if not all of them to the main app. I know some dude managed to pull that off with the Xperia launcher, turning it into a standalone app.
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I've Got a few modded tw launcher one being a 2016 idk really what your looking for but it might work for you
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rick.wardenburg said:
I've Got a few modded tw launcher one being a 2016 idk really what your looking for but it might work for you
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Cool, is it standalone? Would love to give those a try.

blakegriplingph said:
Well my goal mostly is to rid it of any dependencies...
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I've Got a few modded tw launcher one being a 2016 idk really what your looking for but it might work for you
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Hey, how did you guys go with this? I'd love to hear more, I'm working on a similar thing with the s9 launcher. The link to your files aren't working either, I'd love to take a look at it if possible?
I managed to port a Samsung clock app to work as a stand alone app on non Samsung devices years ago, I barely remember what I did to get it to work now though

kage00 said:
Hey, how did you guys go with this? I'd love to hear more, I'm working on a similar thing with the s9 launcher. The link to your files aren't working either, I'd love to take a look at it if possible?
I managed to port a Samsung clock app to work as a stand alone app on non Samsung devices years ago, I barely remember what I did to get it to work now though
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I haven't actually managed to continue with this tbh, though I would still like to have some pointers on what to do.