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i HATE the fact that i cant get rid of the google search bar.. or even move it!! i just wish i could move it down under my clock widget.. i kno that if i use a diff launcher that gets rid of it.. is there any other way to move or get rid of it??? i really like the stock launcher and would love to be able to keep it but hate the google search bar! is there a rom that has options for moving it or something?? man i would do a headspin if i could keel the stock launch and move that bar
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You'd rather change a rom than change the launcher? 0_0
You can't remove it with on GEL. You can use Nova Launcher to remove it and lose the "Ok Google" feature.
Or maybe someday someone will make a Xposed module for it. I THINK GravityBox has the option, but I'm really not sure.
As you're probably aware the launcher is closed source. I have asked some of the developers this question and the response has been in each case that there are much bigger fish to fry for now. I'm hopeful that someone may eventually take a crack at it. Agree about the search bar. It's a mistake to fix it when so many have very specific launcher layout schemes they use. An incredible blunder fixing it on every single screen. I can't imagine who thought it would be a good idea to waste a row on EVERY screen.
For me it's a deal beaker but not the only one. I also hate that home is fixed to the left without making the screen indicator clickable as touch wiz did. For those not familiar the little dots that show what screen you are at can be made into a shortcut to take you to that screen. This gives you one touch access to any screen removing the penalty of having home fixed on one side.
Just use Nova. Problem solved.
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So I've been giving KitKat a go today and so far I'm not 100% convinced.
While some things have improved, others have changed for the worse.
Or I'm just too stupid to find the proper settings?
1. The Email app
It finally got some love - Google has been working on it.
BUT - I can't select all emails in one account at once? Seriously? The app just downloaded 54 emails after setting it up and now I have to tap every single one of them to mark them as read?
Somebody please tell me I'm missing something here.
2. The sidebar for the apps that was introduced in Jellybean has disappeared. It wasn't an overly useful feature, but I did like it.
3. Contacts
I have yet to find a way to remove or at least reduce the size of the contact pictures.
Also, to remove a contact, you have to open it first. There's no menu when you tap and hold a contact anymore.
What changes do you guys like/dislike?
Did anybody come acrossed the above mentioned and found solutions?
steeserious said:
So I've been giving KitKat a go today and so far I'm not 100% convinced.
While some things have improved, others have changed for the worse.
Or I'm just too stupid to find the proper settings?
1. The Email app
It finally got some love - Google has been working on it.
BUT - I can't select all emails in one account at once? Seriously? The app just downloaded 54 emails after setting it up and now I have to tap every single one of them to mark them as read?
Somebody please tell me I'm missing something here.
2. The sidebar for the apps that was introduced in Jellybean has disappeared. It wasn't an overly useful feature, but I did like it.
3. Contacts
I have yet to find a way to remove or at least reduce the size of the contact pictures.
Also, to remove a contact, you have to open it first. There's no menu when you tap and hold a contact anymore.
What changes do you guys like/dislike?
Did anybody come acrossed the above mentioned and found solutions?
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I know. It's a little annoying. But the smart RAM Management is good.
I am okay with all of these as long as I get 4GB of Internal Storage....
I haven't missed the sidebar, it's still there. Unless we're talking about a different sidebar
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I'm talking about the one in the apps screen, the one you get when you swipe to the left. It allows to change the order and uninstall apps. I haven't seen it in the Kitkat builds from AOSP for XL.
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I'm talking about the one in the apps screen, the one you get when you swipe to the left. It allows to change the order and uninstall apps. I haven't seen it in the Kitkat builds from AOSP for XL.
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You haven't seen it as this feature is in launcher not the rom itself.
Try installing Sony Launcher from 4.2.2 and you will have it.
Alright, I thought about that but haven't looked into it.
Thanks
Does anybody know how to get rid of the avatars in the contacts?
Use at your own risk. I'm not a developer and won't be responsible for any damage you might experience using procedures described bellow. I’ve just adapted the method; all credit goes to Nexus 5 developer hello00.
I always believed that the power consumption is one of the most important issues regarding mobile phones. If you live dynamically you simply don’t have everywhere opportunity to charge your phone. And then you find it empty when you need it most. Not to mention that considering possibility not going through the full day with a single charge is unacceptable for me.
One of the most amazing features of the AMOLED screens is zero consumption with totally black color. And then came KitKat which put everything on shiny white color. It could be nice (in matters of taste, there can be no disputes), but besides it drains the battery you are not always in the mood to get a beam of bright light into your eyes.
So I made a little research in the direction to turn my screen back to black without fatal intervention to the stock ROM. I’m rooted, have bloatware removed, on art and so far I managed to made the following alternations:
I replaced the boot logo with attached one and removed the bootanimation. For replacing the boot logo I used Moto x toolkit, the bootanimation I simply delete from data/local/moodle (it is possible to replace it with the custom one as well).
I also replaced the Moto’s SMS and dialer with those from Google Nexus (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519733). Now I have fully functional Google dialer and both apps in black. Short manual if someone is interested (you must be rooted and have one of root managers installed - e.g. root explorer):
1. SMS. Do not delete stock app. Rename it adding .bak or move it to sd or to the computer just in case you want it back.
Take any of the SMS zip files according to your choice from the site above. Extract it and find Mms_Signed in the system/priv-app. Copy Mms_Signed.apk to the Phone – SD. In Root explorer (or equal manager) change rights to rw and copy Mms_Signed.apk to the system/priv-app. Change permissions to rw-r-r. Reboot and find the new SMS app in the application drawer. That’s it.
2. GOOGLE DIALER. Do not delete, remove or freeze anything!!! Copy desired zip from above site to the computer and unzip it. Find both files GoogleDialer.apk and GoogleDialer.odex (if you’re not deodexed) in the system/priv-app and copy them to SD. In Root explorer (or equal manager) change rights to rw and copy both files to the system/priv-app. Change permissions for both to rw-r-r. Reboot. In your launcher (if supports, I use Holo HD, otherwise get Anycut or similar app) open activities, find first Phone activity and start it. You should have the Google Dialer of your choice activated.
I’m attaching screenshots and applications I use.
Thanks the inverted dialer looks awesome.
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Would you make a version of this compatible with the standard Dialer? You realize the MotoX doesn't have the Google Dialer. I liked this one:
natezire71 said:
Would you make a version of this compatible with the standard Dialer? You realize the MotoX doesn't have the Google Dialer. I liked this one:
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Sorry, unfortunatelly I'm not a developer, but I'm sure that someone can make it leaning on Nexus variants. But then, why won't you give the GN dialer a shot? It's virtually Moto x dialer + goodies. Like searching business directly in dialer or finding information about people who you calling due to the data from any website or social app?
Thanks for this. I followed your directions after reboot I opened anycut and there is no phone activity. I had the plain bright white Google dialer working on my X just fine. After replacing and changing permission and reboot it doesn't acknowledge these. I put the old Google dialer back and rebooted and it's back like it was. Not sure how to get these great looking inverted Google dialers to work.
Pwnicorn said:
Thanks for this. I followed your directions after reboot I opened anycut and there is no phone activity. I had the plain bright white Google dialer working on my X just fine. After replacing and changing permission and reboot it doesn't acknowledge these. I put the old Google dialer back and rebooted and it's back like it was. Not sure how to get these great looking inverted Google dialers to work.
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Hi,
did you find the Google Dialer in activities? If you did and chose it, the dropdown menu should appeared and the first activity which has Phone in the name should be selected. If you didn't find that, the Google Dialer wasn't activated properly. After installation and reboot, did you see the notice that 1 application has been upgraded or something like that?
piskr said:
Hi,
did you find the Google Dialer in activities? If you did and chose it, the dropdown menu should appeared and the first activity which has Phone in the name should be selected. If you didn't find that, the Google Dialer wasn't activated properly. After installation and reboot, did you see the notice that 1 application has been upgraded or something like that?
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I didn't see that notification that an app was updating which I thought odd because I've inverted a lot of my apps and always got that after reboot. Just to be sure, I remove the old dialer and odex, replace with the inverted ones, fix permission, reboot, etc. Do I leave them named googledialer? I had an issue when I put the regular white google dialer on where it needed to be renamed to just "dialer". I tried it both ways though. I'm hoping I just missed something
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I didn't see that notification that an app was updating which I thought odd because I've inverted a lot of my apps and always got that after reboot. Just to be sure, I remove the old dialer and odex, replace with the inverted ones, fix permission, reboot, etc. Do I leave them named googledialer? I had an issue when I put the regular white google dialer on where it needed to be renamed to just "dialer". I tried it both ways though. I'm hoping I just missed something
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Keeping the name Google dialer is OK. But tell me, when you say that pushing the black dialer doesn't cause any app update and you can't activate it, what about the ordinary white Google dialer? How did you manage to install and enable it? Did you get it in the Application drawer or had to find it in activities?
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Keeping the name Google dialer is OK. But tell me, when you say that pushing the black dialer doesn't cause any app update and you can't activate it, what about the ordinary white Google dialer? How did you manage to install and enable it? Did you get it in the Application drawer or had to find it in activities?
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With the other Google dialer I swapped out the dialer apk and renamed it dialer rebooted and it was there. The file I used didn't have an odex file just an apk. I'm wondering since I replaced the dialer with the Google one of trying to install a different one is causing a conflict. Though, even after I remove the old Google dialer it still doesn't give the apps upgrading message. I.. ugh don't know what I did with the stock dialer apk. I put it somewhere but can't find it. Wondering if I put out back how it was it shouldn't cause a conflict. Not having an unlocked BL shouldn't be an issue I don't think. Thanks for your help.
Okay, I figured it out. Since I installed the generic Google dialer before the inverted one together they're causing conflicts obviously. Alone this apk and odex won't work. Got it to work freezing the white dialer but had no way to end calls. Basically I need the moto x's stock dialer.apk . I have no idea where I put it when I switched. Searched all over. If anyone has it you'd make my day.
UPDATE. Got the stock dialer back now and have the inverted Google dialer calling. Force closes after a call is placed. Going to clear data and see if that fixes it. This has become an obsession... I've played around so much that now I have to figure out how to make it work like others have.
Pwnicorn said:
Okay, I figured it out. Since I installed the generic Google dialer before the inverted one together they're causing conflicts obviously. Alone this apk and odex won't work. Got it to work freezing the white dialer but had no way to end calls. Basically I need the moto x's stock dialer.apk . I have no idea where I put it when I switched. Searched all over. If anyone has it you'd make my day.
UPDATE. Got the stock dialer back now and have the inverted Google dialer calling. Force closes after a call is placed. Going to clear data and see if that fixes it. This has become an obsession... I've played around so much that now I have to figure out how to make it work like others have.
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You likely generated a conflict between two Google dialer apps. If I were you, I'd clean up everything and start form the beggining. Firstly I'd get the original dialer into function, install it, set permission, clean data and cache and reboot. Then, when I have original dialer totally working, I'd push solely the black apk and odex to the system, set permissions and reboot. That should do the job.
piskr said:
You likely generated a conflict between two Google dialer apps. If I were you, I'd clean up everything and start form the beggining. Firstly I'd get the original dialer into function, install it, set permission, clean data and cache and reboot. Then, when I have original dialer totally working, I'd push solely the black apk and odex to the system, set permissions and reboot. That should do the job.
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Thanks for the advice. I put the stock dialer back. It's one from the att ROM I download and pulled out. Set permissions, cleared data, reboot. It updates on reboot though no icon is shown. I add it on my desktop with activity and launch it. Opens fine, alas when I dial a number it goes off on a fc death cycle, the only way to end the call it's through my status bar. I think that when I put the white Google dialer in I must of done something. It works fine when I put it back. The white google dialer was just an apk, no other files were included in the download and it functions as a stand alone dialer starting and ending calls all as one. I had to rename it dialer to make it work. Something in that changed it. Oh well, can't restore backups with my locked bootloader so I don't want to fiddle too much with it. I have the white Google dialer apk that functions all as one of you want to see it. Thanks again for the help.
UPDATE: I got it working! There was something wrong with the stock dialer apk I found. I dug around on my computer and found my old one. Switched some stuff out, changed 644, then yad yad..it works great. Thanks so much for the help. Oh, does the caller ID work for you?
Ok guys !
This is my first post ever - so I apologize if it's in the wrong place.
I'm running Nova Launcher Prime 4.0.2 on a Droid Turbo (Verizon). I bought the launcher to remove the Google Persistent Search Bar (which I HATE). I did it, but this newest version seems to have relocated the search bar, from the home screen, to being visible when I click on the "recent apps" button (lower right hand multi-window looking button on device).
Ugghhh ... cant attach a pic - OR post a link to show exactly what I'm talking about ?!?!??! Hope I've been clear enough....
I've been fumbling around this phone for WEEKS trying to figure out how to KILL Google once and for all - but just can't seem to figure it out.
HHHEEEELLLLLPPPPPPP
afaik, recent apps is a rom thing - doesn't have anything to do with launchers...
only search bar that has connections to Nova launcher is the homescreen one - and that one can be removed even with a free version of Nova...
So what do I do ?
60nine said:
afaik, recent apps is a rom thing - doesn't have anything to do with launchers...
only search bar that has connections to Nova launcher is the homescreen one - and that one can be removed even with a free version of Nova...
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Ok - so what do I do to get rid of that monster ?!
Ermm, I'm not sure if this is nova. You can just drag and remove the wretched search bar widget. Not sure what's up with the recent apps stuff.
droid_turbo said:
Ok - so what do I do to get rid of that monster ?!
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i don't know... i never saw a google search bar in recent apps on any device/roms so far...
i'm not familiar with motorola and their roms (i use LG G2) but i'm sure there is a sub-forum for your device here on XDA - try searching...
Recently received oneplus 6. Going well so far.
I have nova launcher as well as root.
But not having any luck finding how to switch from the vertical app window type scroll to a horizontal full window recent apps.
Looked over everything I can think of. Maybe just overlooked.
Any help is appreciated.
Hi, it's funny I had the exact same problem and I just posted about the issue.
You probably did the same as me : you have to unfreeze OnePlus launcher even if you use another one.
It was buggy at first because I had the two layouts overlaying each other. But rebooting fixed the issue.
Tomatot- said:
Hi, it's funny I had the exact same problem and I just posted about the issue.
You probably did the same as me : you have to unfreeze OnePlus launcher even if you use another one.
It was buggy at first because I had the two layouts overlaying each other. But rebooting fixed the issue.
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I haven't had any issues using Nova launcher.
The only problem is I cannot for the life of me find any settings for recent app button.
Changing from vertical to horizontal or vice versa is impossible.
Also noticed it changing on the oneplus launcher ( at one time its vertical next its horizontal )
eracet said:
I haven't had any issues using Nova launcher.
The only problem is I cannot for the life of me find any settings for recent app button.
Changing from vertical to horizontal or vice versa is impossible.
Also noticed it changing on the oneplus launcher ( at one time its vertical next its horizontal )
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If you freeze / disable OnePlus launcher you'll have vertical recents.
If you keep it, it will be horizontal. (Even as not main launcher)
Tried and even rebooted. No dice
In beta3 horizontal recent apps is by default. I am learning to use it with Pill button.
Looks like I am out of luck ...
Sucks because I totally HATE !! The Vertical recent apps (tasks) only.
Thanks for suggestions
eracet said:
Recently received oneplus 6. Going well so far.
I have nova launcher as well as root.
But not having any luck finding how to switch from the vertical app window type scroll to a horizontal full window recent apps.
Looked over everything I can think of. Maybe just overlooked.
Any help is appreciated.
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Believe me you will hate it as it won't jump between two apps nor you can quickly select opened apps.
Vertical is practically far better.
Nova user here, I see the horizontal recent layout just fine.
I would say unfreeze OOS launcher + remove data / cache + make default + reboot. Post reboot, change your launcher back to Nova.
Hope that helps.