Does anyone know how to make anycut work or does anyone with bettercut know if it works?
I can not seem to get it to place any of the shortcuts on the home screen.
Would be great to get it or something similar to work to gain access to portions no accessible in the menus..
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BetterCut does not seem to work, either. Anyone have a workaround? I want to be able to edit my shortcut icons and names.
Desktop Visualizer seems to work pretty well. It allows you to use any icon with any application.
Using Astro with this will allow you to create widgets of any of your files on your homescreen. Most file formats are supported. You can also create a new extension to allow Astro to read epub format as well. It already reads most other file types.
This also works for folders on the homescreen. It's made the "Shortcut" and "Folder" selections on the launchers unnecessary.
mad5427 said:
Desktop Visualizer seems to work pretty well. It allows you to use any icon with any application.
Using Astro with this will allow you to create widgets of any of your files on your homescreen. Most file formats are supported. You can also create a new extension to allow Astro to read epub format as well. It already reads most other file types.
This also works for folders on the homescreen. It's made the "Shortcut" and "Folder" selections on the launchers unnecessary.
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How do you get this to work? I am using Launcher Pro. When I long press it goes blank for a sec and then nothing. If I try to launch DV and create from there I get a DVR message saying I don't have permission to create icons on my homescreen.
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Hi all.
HTC hero has 2 ways of showing homescreen - 'touchflo' and 'home' when using 'home', there are some wallpapers available that are not available when using 'touchflo'
Any ideas where these are?
If you use the 'locale' app and use it to change wallpaper - it lists this other gallery.
Cheers
Press the 'menu' key.
this only shows the touchflo wallpaper though....
I've always wondered about this.
It seems like the wallpaper gallery is seperate from the rest of the galleries you find in the album.
For some reason you can't set the lock screen to have an image from the wallpaper gallery that the home screen uses.
The Lockscreen wallpapers lie under /etc/lockscreen/port. Just copy them to the sdcard, and you should be able to pick those.
But I haven't found the standard Android wallpapers.. Could they be in an archive or something? Or on the sdcard, hidden in a temp folder?
edit: found out it's a pain in the ass-droid to copy those files to the sdcard, so I just uploaded them to the web: http://fluesoppen.com/android/lockscreens/
Has anyone had any luck getting the android activity picker to work. Specifically when I go to add a shortcut in ADW launcher, it closes back to the home screen.
When trying the same thing using my G2 logcat mentions com.android.settings/.ActivityPicker
I'm assuming this is missing from the nook file system since they didnt intend on us putting any apps on it yet, but has anyone figured out how to get it working?
Here's what I do:
Download Desktop Visualizer, and install on the Nook: http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
Long press on launcher desktop, and add widget. Selected Desktop Visualizer widget in your desired size. Choose an icon from a picture or an existing application.
Then, hit 'Select Action', and then 'Other'. The list of options you're presented with after selecting other should be the same you'd see in the your shortcut list.
I did this and made two shortcuts/widgets to some gscript scripts I have.
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Here's what I do:
Download Desktop Visualizer, and install on the Nook: http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
Long press on launcher desktop, and add widget. Selected Desktop Visualizer widget in your desired size. Choose an icon from a picture or an existing application.
Then, hit 'Select Action', and then 'Other'. The list of options you're presented with after selecting other should be the same you'd see in the your shortcut list.
I did this and made two shortcuts/widgets to some gscript scripts I have.
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Thanks! Now I finally have decent sized book shortcuts directly on my desktop, without having to switch back and forth between ADW and the default nook homescreen.
tokyomonster said:
Here's what I do:
Download Desktop Visualizer, and install on the Nook: http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
Long press on launcher desktop, and add widget. Selected Desktop Visualizer widget in your desired size. Choose an icon from a picture or an existing application.
Then, hit 'Select Action', and then 'Other'. The list of options you're presented with after selecting other should be the same you'd see in the your shortcut list.
I did this and made two shortcuts/widgets to some gscript scripts I have.
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thanks, tokyomonster. good tip.
*crap wrong section, mod plz move, sry all*
Is anyone else seeing this? Its fully rooted, everything works perfect, but Ive tried 4 different launchers now, and all of them crash the home screen (screen goes black after hitting "create/addshortcut", then resets to the home screen) when I create a shortcut.
I can put everything on the desktop other than shortcuts.
I first noticed it with LauncherPro when I was trying to change shortcuts on the toolbar (to get rid of the phone, contacts, etc) and every time I would try to change it, it would crash, but I was able to change the icon.
GDE is so far the only one that allows me to change icons on the tool bar, but still crashes if I try to add anything to the desktop.
I hope its something stupid Im missing, although, I have found ways around it, its jsut something thats botherin me like a pebble in my shoe lol
Well there is something missing on the NOOK that prevents this from happening. No home app will bring it back. I think the missing component is called "picker" or something like that and just like the market and other Gapps, someone will have to figure out how to add it.
Ah ok, as long as its something thats not working as intended. I must of missed it reading along here somewhere. I did find a way around it with Zeam and App organizer
Zeam allows you to drag icons to your tool bar, then you can drag them from the tool bar to the desktop with no crashing.
And app organizer allows Widgets that act as folders to be created, and widgets have no problem being added
Or you can just hold onto the program icon for a few secs and that will alow you to drag it the desktop.
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Zeam allows you to drag icons to your tool bar, then you can drag them from the tool bar to the desktop with no crashing.
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I'm able to drag apps straight from the app drawer to the desktop with Zeam. Perhaps you're talking about something else though.
I found a work around for this. Since I've seen the question brought up every few days, I'll make a wiki article on this as well.
Requirements:
Desktop Visualizer: http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
Icons for the shortcut you're making [not necessarily required, you can pick an existing app and use that apps icon for the shortcut as well]
Steps:
1. Long press desktop on launcher of choice
2. Add widget
3. Pick the desired widget size from the Desktop Visualizer options
4. Set your icon in Desktop Visualizer
5. Hit the Select Action button in Desktop Visualizer
6. Hit 'Other'
7. The menu you're now at should have the options that would normally be accessible from the shortcuts menu
8. Find the shortcut, finish up in DV, and voila, you're done.
Great tip, thanks ! Used it to toggle WiFi AdHoc/WiFi AP
Proxy Settings are not available
All shortcuts except the Proxy Settings shortcut are available.
Does that mean there is a way to access the WiFi settings directly ? Can only toggle so far.
can anybody help me with a guide etc. im trying to create an icon pack for desktop visuliser i have searched a fair bit but still nothing, im currently applying icons by selecting image from the menu, is there any way of creating an icon set so that it shows up in the menu "icon pack" from within desktop vis, also is there a way of putting the packs on the market place?
The only icon packs available are from the developer of the app. If I were you, I'd contact the dev about either finding a work around or maybe send the dev the icons to see if they'd like to package them up for release.
The way you're doing it now is the way it's supposed to be done. I use Desktop Visualizer for different sizing options, but I use Folder Organizer far more. In Folder Organizer (the paid version) you can assign each app its own icon, and then place it on your homescreen as a widget or shortcut.
Widget size and gallery pics questions
1 - Is there any way to make the widget bigger to fill the 5 column screen? I can use Spare Parts app to make the program screen fit the note screen, but what about the widgets?
2- I noticed that after installing CWM, I can not see any pics stored on my USB storage section via gallery, not sure is this from the CWM or not, but I did 2 reboots and saw the media scanning is on and completed but can see any pics stored on USB storage and must be moved to sdcard (not the external, I dont have one) to be seen in gallery
Stock widgets can be resized by long-pressing then releasing. You will see a grid and you can drag the bottom right corner to any cell.
I use ssLauncher and it allows you to resize any widgets, although some stock widgets are not there and some do not behave well. It also allows movement / sizing almost to the pixel if you wish (20 pixels is default).
As for the images not showing up, look in the main memory area for a file named .nomedia (preceding period, no extension). It may be hidden, and it may be in a lower directory. This prevents the media scanner from searching that folder and any child folders.
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Stock widgets can be resized by long-pressing then releasing. You will see a grid and you can drag the bottom right corner to any cell.
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Yes I know this, but they are not stock widgets, they are installed apps widgets.
jeromepearce said:
I use ssLauncher and it allows you to resize any widgets, although some stock widgets are not there and some do not behave well. It also allows movement / sizing almost to the pixel if you wish (20 pixels is default).
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I used to use Desktop Visualizer before but to change and re-size the apps icons , but it does not re-size the widgets.
jeromepearce said:
As for the images not showing up, look in the main memory area for a file named .nomedia (preceding period, no extension). It may be hidden, and it may be in a lower directory. This prevents the media scanner from searching that folder and any child folders.
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I know this file , people added it to prevent pics from shown in gallery, Even I took a video and it did not shown in gallery!!!
I did not added, but when I looked for it Found it in (application-->SMemo) in 4 different folders, I deleted all of them but still can not see my pics in gallery and each time I reboot the phone 2 of these nomedia files come back in application-->SMemo?
Please Guys I still have the gallery problem, any pics added in usb storage does not show up on gallery
I don't know how to resolve your problem but I find quickpic gallery to be much better than stock and you can specify which folders you want to be visible.
1. All stock widgets are not resizable, few of it can resize in stock.
2. Replied at your other thread