http://www.cyrket.com/package/uk.co.neilandtheresa.Vault
I tried this out today. Its claim is to "[d]isable apps and remove them from the launcher, without uninstalling them. Stow away apps you rarely use, or hide built-in apps you never use.." Also good for T-Mo US Rom root users to hide that useless Amazon MP3s app.
I tested it out by hiding (the app uses the term 'stowing') a Better Keyboard Skin shortcut, a widget shortcut and normal application.
The App Vault app does have an issue with requesting root permission, it requires it for stowing/unstowing each app (and multiple times for each app) it adjusts instead of having a global permission. Think of it as Vista's UAC for Android, compared to Windows 7's.
Stowing a Better Keyboard skin shortcut does not change any of your Better Keyboard settings. If you had that skin selected, it is still in use. However, you cannot reselect that skin in the app's skin manager anymore. The shortcut was successfully hidden from the launcher.
Stowing a Widget shortcut (I used Battery Status) was less successful than the Better Keyboard Skin. The widget remained on the home screen, but it no longer updated. I could also add the widget to my home screen still, so I did, but it remained at 0%, unable to update to the real percentage. The shortcut was successfully hidden from the launcher, however.
Stowing a normal application (I used the Babbler Facebook app) worked the same as uninstalling the app. Its home screen shortcut turned into the default APK icon and was unable to launch. It's widget remained on the selection screen for widgets, but like the Battery Status widget, it would not update. And like the others, the shortcut was hidden from the launcher.
Overall, it seems the vault is useful when hiding applications you don't use (especially stock apps), but not widgets or commonly used applications. As the Better Keyboard Skin was the only app that was successful in stowing and still being usable, and caused the least upset to me, I think I'll refund the application.
I hope someone can find a better use for it than I can.
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hmm i wonder if i put something like set cpu or autostarts or something that you only configure once and then dont touch if the configurations will stay .. going to try it out
Why wouldn't you just use the modified launcher, you have root already, CM has it as default along with some others.
Caution when using this application.
DO NOT HIDE THE USER PERMISSIONS APPLICATION
if you do this, the app WILL become unusable and you will not be able to access root permissions in any way. the app should really be disabled from being hidden from the get go just to be on the safe side
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Hey guys.
Is it possible in grid view to have the applications in A-Z Alphabetical order as when it is currently in grid view all the apps are jumbled up in no particular order unless you click edit and move them...
That's why I use the list view so I know where things are.. I have over 120 apps or more and it gets difficult tracking down what you want...
I like grid view.. so if anybody has a way of getting them in A-Z order that would be fantastic.
Look forward to your replies.
Thanks
by gridview, do you mean page scrolling left-to-right like touchwiz and iphone? Launcher pro has the vertical which is alphabetical.
I wouldn't agree with your sentiment that the apps are in no-particular order, actually it's categorically incorrect. They are in their chronologically installed order unless you alter the order. Compared to stock android and LauncherPro this gives you a customization that is missing in the stock, I think a combo of both is key. I used to have more apps than you and I loved chronological order because I suffered from 2 things, installing 3 apps at once and only remembering 1 name and also just using an app once and needing it a week after installed but forgetting what it was. Touchwiz was there for me in both cases, with LauncherPro I'm a bit lost, so I have to add them to a homepage of newly installed (as much work as reordering apps in Touchwiz, but not as convenient).
Hi. Yes.. scrolling left to right... Ok so it is in installation order.. but I really need it to be in A-Z ... I already have on my home screen app organiser etc... but it would be handy to have the grid view showing A-Z
well AFAIK you can't get this done with anything. Most use vertical scrolling, TW uses grids but you can't enable alpha sort. As long as I know the name of the app I want I use gesture search, as it'll get me to the right app, sometimes even if I remember the name of the app incorrectly...for instance if I remember the middle or last name but not the first name, it'll still pull it fairly accurately and it refines your searches over time.
I saw this feature in one of the galaxy s vibrant review videos (on youtube)... and that phone also had a black version of the feeds & updates widget... but I have a feeling that the official release vibrant doesn't have these features?
Could anyone with a vibrant confirm this?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but this magically happened when I installed something just then. Lagfix. Before I had lag fix I manually organized ~90% of the icons but I installed quite a few apps after my last organization of apps. After I installed Lagfix, everything was in place, save Superuser Permissions, which is right behind Youtube.
My app list in TW re-ordered itself alphabetically one day, but I've no idea how it was triggered and haven't been able to replicate.
Also only my own installed apps were re-ordered. The stock apps (that can't be uninstalled/moved) still appear before my own installed apps.
I know this thread is getting old, but there is a way:
Under your applications list, filter it to view all and clear the data for TWLauncher.
When you return to your home screen (it will lag for a bit) the home screen will be returned to factory settings BUT all your apps will be re-ordered alphabetically.
Not an ideal fix, but if you've got 70 apps out of order its probably easier to recreate your home screen than re-order those apps.
^does that work for rooted galaxy s? I cant get to TWlauncer from app list.... unrooted
For some reason com.motorola.blur.home runs with a "niceness" of 6 which means when android is running out of memory this process will be closer to the top of the list of tasks to kill. Which leaves us the problem of the homescreen redraws. This should be something easy to modify once we have root by changing it's nice priority down to zero or even all the way to -19, because there is no real reason for the homescreen to close.
One simple way around this is installing Auto Memory Manager from the Market. AutoKillers are not to be used with Android as it will severely impact battery life and possibly cause data loss among other unwanted side effects. But that is not the point of using this app.
Auto Memory Manager is supposed to control Androids internal memory management but I don't see that it does at all. The whitelist should prevent apps from dying but only does when it runs it's own autokill routines. After installing there isn't much to do but let it run. Just in case it were to kill anything, setting it to the "default" setting and adding Homescreen into it's whitelist would probably be a good idea.
To add a process to the whitelist hit the menu button select running processes and then list. Pressing on anything in the list will pop up a menu with the choice of adding it to the whitelist.
The best test would be to open the browser goto a few sites, open the camera app or any other memory hungry processes and go back to the homescreen.
One thing to note is this will not stop redraws while sliding out the keyboard and in some situations when an app is not in the same orientation that the homescreen was last seen in. Other than that it does seem to work.
Yeah I find it odd that the home screen refereshes itself or releases from memory or what ever it does when u open any app.
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Just picked up the HTC One last week. I'm more of an iOS guy, so I'm not very familiar with the Android platform. I bought the dev edition because I needed an unlocked phone and I figured 64GB would be more useful (since my iPhone is practically full all the time with 64GB); also I didn't want any of the AT&T apps.
Anyways, on the home screen there are the 4 applications (phone, messages, browser, camera); can I replace any of those apps with something else? For example, I use Chrome instead of the default browser app. I haven't figured this out.
The next issue is, can I remove the live feed screen? I'm traveling in China, where [China Mobile] only has Edge (and FB, Twitter, etc. are blocked), so it makes that screen pretty useless.
Finally, I don't have any performance issues, but I noticed in the apps section in Settings where it shows running apps, it says I only have 1.5GB of total RAM; is this normal? (For example, right now it's say — RAM 511Mb/1.5GB)
TIA
alphaod said:
Just picked up the HTC One last week. I'm more of an iOS guy, so I'm not very familiar with the Android platform. I bought the dev edition because I needed an unlocked phone and I figured 64GB would be more useful (since my iPhone is practically full all the time with 64GB); also I didn't want any of the AT&T apps.
Anyways, on the home screen there are the 4 applications (phone, messages, browser, camera); can I replace any of those apps with something else? For example, I use Chrome instead of the default browser app. I haven't figured this out.
The next issue is, can I remove the live feed screen? I'm traveling in China, where [China Mobile] only has Edge (and FB, Twitter, etc. are blocked), so it makes that screen pretty useless.
Finally, I don't have any performance issues, but I noticed in the apps section in Settings where it shows running apps, it says I only have 1.5GB of total RAM; is this normal? (For example, right now it's say — RAM 511Mb/1.5GB)
TIA
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I think you cant disable blinkfeed but you can tell it not to update automatically
If you want to change the default 4 icon on the dock, simply hold and drag any app in to replace them
Yes your ram is normal, that's alot of free ram, and also app you dont use they just freeze in the background, unless they sometimes auto sync/ auto update, which is also normal. no worries
To remove apps from the bar you need to open the app drawer, then press and hold the icon you want to remove and drag it into the app drawer. Then do the reverse to put them back on the bar.
As for the home screen Blinkfeed can't be disabled but you can make a different screen as the home screen. To do this press and hold on one of the screens as if you were adding a widget, you can then select the default home screen from the top.
The memory in the phone is 2 gig but I believe some space is reserved for the Android system.
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I think you cant disable blinkfeed but you can tell it not to update automatically
If you want to change the default 4 icon on the dock, simply hold and drag any app in to replace them
Yes your ram is normal, that's alot of free ram, and also app you dont use they just freeze in the background, unless they sometimes auto sync/ auto update, which is also normal. no worries
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Thanks for answering…
I don't see an option to disable updates altogether, but it does let me set it to update only over WiFi.
As the dock, thanks for that, but the issue is when I drag an app in into the dock, it creates a folder, when I drag the app I don't want out, it creates a shortcut instead of clearing it from the dock.
For the RAM, I know I have a lot of free RAM, but the issue is the phone is suppose to have 2GB of total RAM right? So why does it say only 1.5GB total in the app manager in settings?
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To remove apps from the bar you need to open the app drawer, then press and hold the icon you want to remove and drag it into the app drawer. Then do the reverse to put them back on the bar.
As for the home screen Blinkfeed can't be disabled but you can make a different screen as the home screen. To do this press and hold on one of the screens as if you were adding a widget, you can then select the default home screen from the top.
The memory in the phone is 2 gig but I believe some space is reserved for the Android system.
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So I need to be in app drawer to add/remove apps from the dock, not the home screen? I think that's what I've been missing.
I have now selected a new home screen. That's a good start.
Yeah I hope I haven't been shafted with the RAM issue.
GPU uses that same RAM and that part is not visible for apps of course.
Ram is reserved for gpu.
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Only way to remove blinkfeed is by using a launcher I think
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If you want to get rid of blink feed use something like Nova or Apex Launcher. Both can be customised to your liking, both are fast and memory efficient. You can add gestures to the screen and change swipe animations and lots more. Give them a look
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If you want to get rid of blink feed use something like Nova or Apex Launcher. Both can be customised to your liking, both are fast and memory efficient. You can add gestures to the screen and change swipe animations and lots more. Give them a look
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Excellent. Using Nova launcher did exactly what I wanted.
Can I disable HTC Sense? Or do I have to use Sense to get to my new launcher?
(Totally irrelevant, but this 5 minute limit also extends to editing one's post—which is silly)
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Excellent. Using Nova launcher did exactly what I wanted.
Can I disable HTC Sense? Or do I have to use Sense to get to my new launcher?
(Totally irrelevant, but this 5 minute limit also extends to editing one's post—which is silly)
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I haven't used a HTC device since the HD2. The stock HTC launcher can be disabled. Might need root or you could close it if its still in ram. Shouldn't start up till you decide to switch launchers.
I have some duplicate apps showing in my drawer with a little briefcase due to my work profile being enabled. Is there a way to hide these in the app drawer?
Unfortunately no. You use to be able to in previous iterations of android before Oreo but not anymore...
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I have some duplicate apps showing in my drawer with a little briefcase due to my work profile being enabled. Is there a way to hide these in the app drawer?
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On home screen. Press the screen to get home screen setting, @ bottom of that setting page u see option for Hide Apps.
I use Nova Launcher, will this still work?
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I have some duplicate apps showing in my drawer with a little briefcase due to my work profile being enabled. Is there a way to hide these in the app drawer?
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For anyone looking for ways to hide work profile apps from the drawer, have a look at SRT Vault . Similar to Shelter or Island you can control the work profile. But more than that, a file transfer in and out and the disable/hide app functionality is provided. It's free and in active development.
Hello guys,
I registered new here because I'm clueless with my new android radio.
I installed nova launcher because the stock design is awful but the standart apps are neither shown in the launcher or in the applications tab in settings.
I want to make shortcuts for those apps on homescreen but at the moment I can only launch Apps like Music, Radio and DVD Player via the physical buttons on the radio. Is there anyway to find the root of those Apps and create a shortcut for them?
Just found out that all those features are a part of the com.ts.mainui8 App if that helps.
OK finally found a Solution for my Problem, the App Activity Launcher allows to ceate certain shortcuts, thanks anyway
Hi, I am getting crazy with same problem, I want to start the radio from agama launcher that only launches app, not activity. To go around this I am using tasker to create an app that launches radio activity.
com.ts.MainUI8/com.ts.can.CanExRadioActivity
Something is launched with no error, but result is just a flash on screen and toolbar happearing for just a sec. Probably I need parameters or intent.
How did you start the radio?