I'm the type of person that loves customization, but only if it looks professional. I was wondering if custom lockers that are available from the play store are legitimate or are they just "apps". By that I mean, if I'm using a custom one, will there ever be a time where a lack of ram can cause it to bug out like not opening, are they going to show my homescreen for a second before running, ect? If so, what makes them different from the stock lock screen? Is the stock locker an app? Is there any way to make a lock screen part of the system? I am rooted and I'm using stock rom, mainly because my phone, ZTE N9810, has no development on it.
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Hi,
I'm wondering if there is a way to remove this annoying requirement when you unlock your screen. I'm liking Android, but I like how iPhone just logs you in as soon as you type in the correct passcode. I want my Android to do that too rather than having to hit "ok" each time I log in.
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are you just using the stock sense rom that came on the phone?
there are different lock screens you can use, and there are certain apps that can modify lockscreen behavior as well.
I'm using GTG's ROM (Stock Rom, rooted, S-off, HSUPA, sideload, etc).
I've looked around, but I don't see an option to disable "ok" requirement.
I'm hoping that there's a hack to make it not require that step.
Personally, I use widget locker. It's a great app for just a few bucks. It's available in the market. It's really customizable and works great on every device I've had.
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Hello there everyone. I have many widgets that I use on my device, and each of them come with different sizes. Because of that, it takes forever to scroll through all of them, even when in reality, I only have 20 different ones in total (But if each has 10 sizes, it adds up...) I found an app that combines them, but it requires root. (Or does it? Here.) I believe that Cyanogen does this on it's own, but I don't want to root my phone or change ROMs because I would be unable to pay for a new phone if something were to go wrong, nor do I have a spare to get me by if it was bricked. I know apps like WidgetLocker override stock apps without root, is there a way to do that with the widget selector?
Also, is the selector a function of the launcher, not the operating system? I'm using GoLauncher if that makes a difference.
Thank you very much.
So it is not possible to achieve the picker I want without root?
In that case, is there a foolproof, 100% successful way to root and change roms? All of the ROM threads I see have endless posts of bugs, things not working, and bricked phones. They also throw around lots of terms (Like flash this... But to where?) without explanations for noobs like me.
Can anyone help me out?
Hi there,
Think you can try Golauncher Pro, it let's you to custom the number of icon you can put on the home screens (default 4 by 4 ) and also lets you to resize the widgets.. hope that's what you are looking for.
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Hi, I'm totally new to smartphone/android and this is the first one I currently have.
It works pretty fine but friends told me that if it lags that means the original rom is not good I should flash another rom for the phone but I have no idea how and which is good for my phone. One told me to flash it to jelly bean which I searched around but people are using prof words (at least they are to me) and I don't quite understand esp. when it says during the procedure I might brick my phone so I want to have more idea how things are done so and so.
Some info about my razr hd are
Model: TX925
Carrier: Fido (got it from fido, in bc)
Android version: 4.0.4
I believe I already rooted my phone because one of the app called screenshot need the phone to be rooted so I tried that but nothing further.
Thanks in advance for helping me out. ^_^
Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.
Ruxin said:
Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.
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Nova and apex is an app?
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Nova and apex is an app?
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Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.
Ruxin said:
Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.
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Thanks for the respond....just another quick question so I guess it's not a recommendation to flash a different rom for razr hd it's just that lots people are saying flashing a different rom would be better than the stock one is it because razr hd is still new or it's just somehow not good for razr hd to have other rom?
P.S. for the stock TX925 are there any applications I can uninstall? I checked there are lots that runs in background even if I stopped it but it'll somehow start again and some that I just don't know if I should stop it from running.....*as I know sometimes there are apps that can be deleted but comes with the phone and I'm not sure which I can uninstall/delete*
It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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Just played around with those two launchers ^_^
If I do want to try flashing a different ROM is there any to recommend?
Also I kept on seeing people posting firmware updates or change firmware what do those actually do?
Flashing another Rom will unlock the verizon razr hd for others carriers?
Do you know any completely different rom? Like miui for example! Lately I really get tired of roms that are just cleaned from bloatwares and everything else is same as the stock. Is it only miui and cyanogen that brings us original new futures? I wonder what is so custom and they call it custom rom. Is it so hard to take notification bar down or anything else and make it different and really custom? They must be sorted as custom and modified roms at least. Many of them are shown in screenshots with themes that not appear anyhow after flash. All we got is - + some apps and endless flashing process just to get back to our favorite. Really if some devs read my appeal please think about it. I am not sure but I guess is not impossible to add functions that stock roms don't have. Even if they seem not so usual surely will be appreciated. If someone know roms that are really different please let me know. Thanks!
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After all, Android is Android, so you won't escape the notifications or the must-have apps (settings, etc.) The really only thing you can do is design an app that replaces the entire lockscreen, settings, laucher, app drawer, etc. To make it a ROM only feature would be .... a lot of work for nothing (as you can simple extract the APK and well... pirate it.
So ROMs are basically a window to the heart of the creator. It's their style, their apps, their child
R: Any completely different rom
Try paranoid android ROM, as far as i know it's the most customizable and you can use "tablet mode" to move the notification bar down etc.
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Hi gang,
I've got an old android device running CM11 that I'm using mainly as an alarm clock.
I'd like to be able to run only the clock app (Gentle Alarm) .... and then if I want to use any other apps like email or whatever, I'd have to unlock the device.
A lock screen widget doesn't quite cut it, as I'd like the full functionality of the alarm clock app (or actually, *any* app I select, for that matter) available, but as soon as I click the home or back button, I'd be taken to my lock screen.
I could see this feature being useful for lots of reasons... say if I had a tablet as a remote control for the TV/stereo that guests could use, yet i didn't want them running other games or apps.
Is this possible?
Am I off my rocker?
So much easier than I thought..... Using CM12+ (Lollipop) I can "pin" an app which will enable it to be the only app which can run - switching to another app or going home presents the user with the lock screen. Perfect.
I feel like a bit of an idiot not realizing this was a built-in feature of the OS. But hopefully this info will help someone else along the way.........