Anyone had any success in removing widgets from their phones? I was able to do it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab3 10.1 but cannot do it on the Moto 4g LTE. These widgets are not in the Setting/App section. They must reside somewhere in the phone. I have ES File on my phone so if I can find the directory I should be able to remove them.
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks
Motorola doesn't have 100+ extra widgets as separate apps like Samsung does, they are just the widgets of your normal apps (like calendar, browser, gmail, hangout, etc... You can't remove them from a file, but you can do it with autostarts (it's an app, look for it in play store, has a car icon, and requires root)
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vlt96 said:
Motorola doesn't have 100+ extra widgets as separate apps like Samsung does, they are just the widgets of your normal apps (like calendar, browser, gmail, hangout, etc... You can't remove them from a file, but you can do it with autostarts (it's an app, look for it in play store, has a car icon, and requires root)
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Yeah, I was coming to the opinion that this was not going to be as easy as the Samsung Widgets. OK, thanks. I will check out autostarts.
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Tonight Google released Car Home as an independent app in the market. It has a ton of improvements like assignable buttons and drag and drop icons. I can't get it to download with Cyanogen(Koush) nightly 09302010 but I know I can through ADB.
Let me know if you can get it to install through the market.
If u have root explorer just delete car home then install from market
I was able to get it to install from the market on Skyraider Vanilla 3.0 RC3. Works well except for the fact that you cannot assign shortcuts to the customisable buttons (e.g. direct dial shortcuts), only app and navigation shortcuts. Seems like a peculiar oversight.
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Anyone post the apk?
GMK83 said:
Anyone post the apk?
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Why? Its a free app.
tdavis42 said:
Why? Its a free app.
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I wouldn't ask you to post a paid app
I got Car Dock to install from the market after deleting the old car home apk but I cannot see an icon in my apps listing. I checked under Applications-Manage Apps and it is there. Any ideas?
EDIT: Nevermind. AppBrain allowed me to download it. To those who can't get it from the official Market, use AppBrain.
CyanogenMod CarHome Instructions
Car home contains two components, the activity (this is the app we're updating) and the launcher. The activity contains the guts of the program, but the Launcher allows it to show up in the app drawer.
If you're using CM6, you have CarHomeLauncher.apk already in system/app and just need to install the com.google.android.carhome-1.apk file. If you are not using CM6, then you may need to install both the Launcher and the carhome apk if the carhome app doesn't show up in the app drawer.
adb remount
adb shell
mv /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk CarHomeGoogle.apk.bak
install attached apks. Let me know if there's issues.
As an aside, both LauncherPro and ADW have the capabilities to create shortcuts for activities, bypassing the need of the Launcher, but it still will not show up in the drawer.
When I installed from the market it put com.google.android.carhome-1.apk in the /data/app folder, is this the correct location?
When I go to the app from appbrain it shows it as installed but the open button is grayed out.
Reading the app comments it looks like you can't launch it independently anymore but will launch when placed in the dock, I have yet to verify this.
Works, but has to be in the dock.
I'm running a Sense ROM (Virtuous 2.7) and I installed the Google Car Home using Appbrain. If you click on the Sense Car Panel App in your drawer, you're presented with a pop-up to choose which app you want to use: Sense Car Panel or Google Car Home. I just checked the "use as default" box and selected the Google Car Home. Now when I click the "Car Panel" icon in my app drawer the Google Car Home launches instead of the Sense Car Panel.
Where is the information that shows this is a product made by google?
If you're using ADW.Launcher, you can make a new Custom Shortcut, choosing ADW's Activity List, then selecting Car Home's main activity CarHome(.CarHome)
You can then launch it fine without any problems without needing a dock. Atleast it works for me...
tdiman said:
CyanogenMod CarHome Instructions
The key here is to leave the CarHomeLauncher.apk alone in system/app. This way it will show up in the app drawer.
adb remount
adb shell
mv /system/app/CarHomeGoogle.apk CarHomeGoogle.apk.bak
Thats in, now install Car Home from App Brain (don't know why it won't show up in the Market).
Alternatively, APK is attached, although unverified if this works.
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Thanks for posting the APP, it wasn't showing for me in AppBrain or the Market.
I hv installed Google Car Home app yesterday and cannot see it in app drawer, nor in the applications settings despite it is shown in downloads tab in the market app, but open button is inactive. How to run and use it? confused!
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iLHaNroID said:
I hv installed Google Car Home app yesterday and cannot see it in app drawer, nor in the applications settings despite it is shown in downloads tab in the market app, but open button is inactive. How to run and use it? confused!
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I updated my post with a link to a Launcher APK. Install it and it should allow car home to show up in the app drawer. It is from CM6.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8404454&postcount=9
Thank you so much tdiman.. it is now working... happy
just wondering why it is not working orginally and why google retrieved it from the market
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I added the app from a link I found on droid-life. You don't need a home replacement as they state.....
I simply used BetterCut to place the "activity" of the car home on my screen. Once in I started customizing things like removing the Music Icon (since it doesn't work) and replaced it with Mixzing. I also removed the People Icon and Dialer as I can just use the Voice Search to do everything in the car so I don't need to look at the phone.
My only wishes for this: that you could add toggle widgets (such as Vlingo's Safereader) and that google would allow Bluetooth to initiate voice search instead of a call directly.
iLHaNroID said:
Thank you so much tdiman.. it is now working... happy
just wondering why it is not working orginally and why google retrieved it from the market
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You're welcome!
You can't install it in the first place because you can't update apps in system/app through the Marketplace. This is also probably why it doesn't show up in the Marketplace - Verizon doesn't sell any "google experience" phones so they disallow it on Verizon (this is just a theory).
The reason it didn't show up for you might be because whatever ROM you have installed (default HTC Incredible ROM?) doesn't have the Launcher built in.
It is working but there are some bugs, which can be the reason why Google retrieved it back from market; I get FC when trying to set a custom background from gallery and also as soon as tap on the "android settings" option in the app settings menu.
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Thought it best to ask here, than to install/remove a thousand apps, till I find a good one!
Which app do you think is best for creating/ organising the app menu, perhaps as folders etc?
With the new Sense where it doesnt "fast scroll", its becoming tedious scrolling to find the app you want!
Thanks in advance!
I use application folder it seems to do well and easy to add and remove apps from the folder
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Apps organizer because it also integrates with titanium backup
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Apps organizer because it also integrates with titanium backup
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Looks good, but doesnt seem to be able to create folders in the App menu (the standard android app list).
That is what Im looking for, mainly.
I use the Folder Organizer app. It's about US ~1.41 on Android Market or $1.50 on Amazon Appstore. It allows you to make widgets and folders which looks a lot like the iPhone folders. There's several good organizing functions to define label tags and shortcuts, etc.
Ok I see that Polaris Office, Fm Radio etc are in the app section of settings. But how do you get them to work? It show 0.00mb as the file size.
Using a different launcher finds some, but still no FM radio.
I also have Soundhound preinstalled, but it doesn't show up on any launchers.
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Int HOX user, NFS Shi** is installed in the same way for me.
Good thing it's the only thing that does that at least.
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I also have Soundhound preinstalled, but it doesn't show up on any launchers.
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Soundhound shows up using ADW Launcher, but not Sense for me.
One thing I've just found that is really annoying (surprise! It's AT&T) is that while I can disable most of the AT&T bloatware, I can't disable the AT&T Ready2Go app that helps you set up your phone for the first time. A single use app that you can't get rid of? Why?
Soundhound is hidden away within the HTC music app I believe
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Soundhound is hidden away within the HTC music app I believe
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Good call, it is indeed in the Music App!
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Good call, it is indeed in the Music App!
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Soundhound was killing me. If you need quicker access, edit the homescreens and add a shortcut - you'll see "id now" there for soundhound. I've been pulling my hair out as I'm a big soundhound user.
Lots of apps want to populate your "Share via..." menu and from the reading I've done, Android provides NO way to edit the built-in menu. I did try a 3rd-party app that you could add/remove, shuffle entries, etc but some of the stock Samsung apps use their own share menu (mainly, Gallery) and I didn't like the inconsistency.
Of course, one way to remove items from the menu is to remove the app itself ! That leads me to my question.....
Why are apps that are NOT installed showing up in my "Share via..." menu ?? I have Picassa and Backup+ Media in the list but the apps are not installed. I suspect there's some non-obvious app-helper that's putting these here that I missed when de-bloating.
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Lots of apps want to populate your "Share via..." menu and from the reading I've done, Android provides NO way to edit the built-in menu. I did try a 3rd-party app that you could add/remove, shuffle entries, etc but some of the stock Samsung apps use their own share menu (mainly, Gallery) and I didn't like the inconsistency.
Of course, one way to remove items from the menu is to remove the app itself ! That leads me to my question.....
Why are apps that are NOT installed showing up in my "Share via..." menu ?? I have Picassa and Backup+ Media in the list but the apps are not installed. I suspect there's some non-obvious app-helper that's putting these here that I missed when de-bloating.
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It has to do with it being coded into the package installer. There should be a mediauploader.apk that registered Picasa to be available for uploading. If you delete or freeze it, it might go away. I'm not exactly sure what would happen, but I know that's where it's located.
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mediauploader.apk ? It is only for Picassa ?
Edit: Moved it and that took care of Picassa. Now to find the Backup+ helper app...
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mediauploader.apk ? It is only for Picassa ?
Edit: Moved it and that took care of Picassa. Now to find the Backup+ helper app...
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You're on your own on that one, I have no idea where that is.
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While playing around with setting wallpapers I must have accidentally deleted the default wallpapers that came with the Nexus 5.
I know there are a gazillion other wallpapers out there but I would like to regain the default ones.
Anyone know
1. In which folder they are normally kept? (I am rooted)
2. How to redownload them?
Thanks.
Try this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506362
Is that what you need?
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You are wonderful. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks.
No problem
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They're built into the launcher so you can't have deleted them. If you're using a different launcher, they may not be available however.
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Anderson2 said:
While playing around with setting wallpapers I must have accidentally deleted the default wallpapers that came with the Nexus 5.
I know there are a gazillion other wallpapers out there but I would like to regain the default ones.
Anyone know
1. In which folder they are normally kept? (I am rooted)
2. How to redownload them?
Thanks.
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First off all the are default in launcher you cant delete them.
Try to extract it from GoogleHome.apk
That is very interesting. I don't remember deleting them but just assumed I must have.
Actually I use the Nova launcher and suddenly discovered I couldn't find them anymore. Maybe the latest Nova update made them inaccessible. Or maybe some setting (xprivacy?) made them inaccessible. Don't know. I didn't think I had deleted them.
Figured it out.
The built-in launcher is no longer available as an option when I click on home. I must have become disabled when I froze something else.
Here are the apps I disabled. Wonder which one messed up the default launcher.
Google search, hangouts, HP print service, iWnn (whatever that is), nfc , wallet, Korean and pinyin keyboards, play books, play movies, play music, play newstand, Google search, cloud print, face unlock, Google Hindi.
They're available to me I'm Nova so it's not an update to that
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Anderson2 said:
Figured it out.
The built-in launcher is no longer available as an option when I click on home. I must have become disabled when I froze something else.
Here are the apps I disabled. Wonder which one messed up the default launcher.
Google search, hangouts, HP print service, iWnn (whatever that is), nfc , wallet, Korean and pinyin keyboards, play books, play movies, play music, play newstand, Google search, cloud print, face unlock, Google Hindi.
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It's probably from Google Search being disabled. that needs to be enabled to access the new Google Launcher, so it probably disables them.
It was indeed Google search. I reenabled it and now the default launcher and wallpapers are back.
Interesting.