I use launcher pro and can not figure out number columns and rows for Widgets to looks correct on screen (aspect ratio-wise).
Any pointers or maybe different launcher?
I also use launcher pro and was having the same issues. This is what worked for me and you might not agree with me.
Ok first I realized that I did not what to use my tablet in portrait view, Why? because I feel like is too long and there would be a lot of space between apps. Now if you disagree with me you might want to stop rearing now. Once I decided I was going to use the tab on landscape mode only I waited till it was in portrait mode, then went to Launcher pro preferences->behavior settings-> and unchecked auto rotation. This will keep the home screen in landscape mode. Then I tried several combinations of columns and rows, my favorite is 8 columns by 6 rows. You can set this by going to Launcher pro preferences-> homescreen settings-> and set the number of rows/columns. this only changes your homescreen, all apps still rotate and work as normal. I will post my homescreen once i figure out how to take a screenshot, drocap2 is not working for some reason.
Let me know what you think.
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So I am now making Launcher Pro my new Home application. The only issue with this is every so often my icons and widgets on my screen will disappear and re appear. Also maybe like twice a day I get a force close while using the phone. My question to all that use Launcher Pro on the Hero, does any of this happen to you? Also is there a way to fix this?
Rom - NfiniteX45 deoxed.
OC - HoneyBunV3
Did other mods like 270 Degree rotation.
Just putting what I have done on my phone because I do not know if this is the reason why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hit menu > preferences > advanced settings > memory usage settings
there are a lot of settings here to tweak for you problem. first, try the bottom setting "prevent force-closes".
Read these 2 posts to understand what the settings mean:
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=74
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=93
Also make sure you save launcher pro as your default home. If you're not sure how, download home switcher from the market.
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Thank you both on your advice. I already had prevent force closing on. As for setting it as my default home, I made sure that was the first thing that I did. I will try to tweak the settings to a lower memory usage. After reading the 2 links it seems like it may help on a lower setting. This whole time I thought leaving it at a moderate setting would make it perform better. I will let you know my results after a day or so on my new settings. If you guys don't mind, can you give me your memory settings since we all have the same device? I know each device can vary but just to give myself a heads up on the scenarios.
While we all have the same device, I doubt we share the same number of homescreens, active widgets, large sized widgets, and shortcuts on the homescreen, if we use the scrollable dock, and if we choose a dock background... all of these affect how much memory LauncherPro takes up, and the more memory it takes up the more likely it is to force-closing / having to reload all icons.
I have 3 homescreens and the following widgets: calendar, music control, digi clock, weather channel (small), some dazzle control widgets, some Apps Organizer widgets, and a few shortcuts to apps. About 50-55% of my availalbe home screen area is full.
I also don't have a scrollable dock or dock background, and I don't use scrollable widgets.
Memory usage preset: medium
Checked: Use homescreen caches and Build caches as needed
Homescreen cache type: normal
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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dpeeps74 said:
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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Thanks for the reply trying all diffrent settings now. I am thinking about making the jump to 2.2 now that I have launcher pro as my home. I was just waiting for it to have everything working before going to 2.2.
Ever since installing 2.2 I don't get any of the issues I was explaining.
I'm on 2.2, have all the memory settings on launcher pro at maximum performance, with 5 home screens, lots of widgets, etc., with autokiller at strict, and I always have 40-50mb of ram free and no slowdowns/force closes. Just so ya can compare.
Anyone else seeing this? Happens every time I restart after creating them. Doesn't make any difference if I put them all in a folder. They still go!
Rheumatoid said:
Anyone else seeing this? Happens every time I restart after creating them. Doesn't make any difference if I put them all in a folder. They still go!
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Happens on my Mate 10 too. Try enabling auto rotate homescreen in settings (pinch to zoom) and rotate homescreen into landscape and then portrait again and see if this refresh brings them into view again.
tboy2000 said:
Happens on my Mate 10 too. Try enabling auto rotate homescreen in settings (pinch to zoom) and rotate homescreen into landscape and then portrait again and see if this refresh brings them into view again.
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Thanks. have auto rotate set but can't find setting to rotate homescreen.
Just been messing about and changed text size from normal to large and they re-appeared!
went again on restart but came back when changed text size back to normal!
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Just been messing about and changed text size from normal to large and they re-appeared!
went again on restart but came back when changed text size back to normal!
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Seems to be that changing any display settings makes them come back. Have turned darken interface colours off and they now seem to stay there after a restart!
I have a weird problem with my Note 8 (running pie)... the screen resolution for my lockscreen seems bugged. The app shortcuts (2 apps at the bottom of the screen) are cropped and the clock seems larger than usual. I am inclined to think that the resolution is stuck in a weird setting. The AOD is affected as well, clock looks bloated and I can't even see the home button.
Tried playing with the display resolution. I'm currently on 1080p... 1440p still has cropped app shortcuts... 720p makes the apps completely disappear!
I've installed a couple of apps that would make the navigation bar disappear (which is my suspect for this weird resolution). Nova Launcher, Fluid Nav Gesture and your very own navigation gestures. Did the whole ADB step to completely remove the nav bar.
Only app that would change the lockscreen is Lock Star from Samsung's Good Lock but I uninstalled it and cleared the partition which did absolutely nothing.
Been googling all day for a solution and sadly didn't find any... hopefully you guys can help me because it is so irritating. Not to mention I lose the home button functionality in my AOD.
Sadly since I am a new member I can't post images.
Have you tried changing dpi in developers section in settings, that might help
Finally i upgraded my note 9 to pie. Battery life is certainly better. But I have 2 issues:
I have set a custom screen dpi in developer options to 455 dpi. In oreo it was perfect but in pie somewhere the text is too small like names below the icons, widgets and somewhere the text is too big like clock text in the status bar and text in device care app. Also the icons are way too big in proportion to the text below. Am I missing some setting?
I had set swipe down gesture to open the notification panel under homescreen settings in Samsung launcher. It was working perfect in oreo but in pie it sometimes work 1 in 3 tries and sometimes even 1 in 5 tries, i.e., i swipe down on the screen and nothing happens. Whereas swipe up to open the app drawer works perfect without any issues. Strangely if I disable the notification panel gesture, the default action for swipe up or down becomes opening app drawer and it works just fine without any problem. Anyone else noticed this strange behavior?
If not already, wipe the partition cache as that usually helps with most issues after update.
ankydu said:
Finally i upgraded my note 9 to pie. Battery life is certainly better. But I have 2 issues:
I have set a custom screen dpi in developer options to 455 dpi. In oreo it was perfect but in pie somewhere the text is too small like names below the icons, widgets and somewhere the text is too big like clock text in the status bar and text in device care app. Also the icons are way too big in proportion to the text below. Am I missing some setting?
I had set swipe down gesture to open the notification panel under homescreen settings in Samsung launcher. It was working perfect in oreo but in pie it sometimes work 1 in 3 tries and sometimes even 1 in 5 tries, i.e., i swipe down on the screen and nothing happens. Whereas swipe up to open the app drawer works perfect without any issues. Strangely if I disable the notification panel gesture, the default action for swipe up or down becomes opening app drawer and it works just fine without any problem. Anyone else noticed this strange behavior?
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For the first question: Why not use the scaling, font size, zooming options from the settings menu?
For the second one: no, for me it works perfectly fine.
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For the first question: Why not use the scaling, font size, zooming options from the settings menu?
For the second one: no, for me it works perfectly fine.
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The scaling options available under display settings cannot go till 455 dpi.
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I've got the same problem you mentioned in #2. It's pretty annoying! It's like it's become less sensitive, or the activation area is now higher and in the middle, or your swipe needs to be longer.
Not sure for the first question, but Nova Launcher from the play store (as do many other good launchers) have multiple gestures. Nova Launcher has the gesture that you pull down on the home screen to open notifications and also has swipe up to open app draw as well as many other gestures. I use Nova Launcher with those gestures and it works very well.
I have the same problem swiping down it's so annoying
And strangely flicking up for apps works so easy but more pressure is needed for downwards? Must be a software issue
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I have the same problem swiping down it's so annoying
And strangely flicking up for apps works so easy but more pressure is needed for downwards? Must be a software issue
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Hope so.
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About swipe down, do you have any widget on your homescreen? If you swipe down on a widget, it gets the swipe gesture instead of the homescreen itself so the notification panel doesn't shows up.
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About swipe down, do you have any widget on your homescreen? If you swipe down on a widget, it gets the swipe gesture instead of the homescreen itself so the notification panel doesn't shows up.
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No widgets. I also enabled to view screen touches in developer options. And I can see its registering my swipes everytime but the notifications panel doesn't open everytime.
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I don't know what happened, I was going to pair my smart watch (non-samsung) to my S21 Ultra but it wouldn't, so I rebooted the phone, and it rebooted with the One UI launcher instead of Nova Launcher, so I switched back to Nova, checked the default setting in Nova settings and it was still set to Nova as the default, when trying to leave the Nova settings, it again returned to One UI home, so I checked in settings for default apps, and Nova is still set to the default. So I tried force stopping One UI home, and return home, and again, it opens One UI home, it will not open Nova anymore.
I tried rebooting again, and oddly enough, Nova was the default launcher again. Figured it was just a glitch so I went on with my day and it just happened again but I haven't touched anything, it was on my desk all day untouched and when I picked it up, One UI launcher again.
Now, no matter how many times I reboot, it will always pick the One UI launcher, but the weird thing is when I'm in Nova, I can't swipe to go home because it's already on the default launcher, but when in an app, I swipe to go home and it goes to One UI home, and swiping to go home does nothing within that launcher as well.
So some how, not sure what happened, but the phone is using both launchers at the default now and there's no way to stop One UI from opening.
I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, or if there's a fix for it, but would removing One UI with ADB (if possible) cause issues? Like if I force remove this with ADB will the phone even boot to a different default launcher if One UI home isn't there anymore?
I would do more testing but this is my daily driver so I don't wanna mess with it too much, but this is really annoying that it keeps defaulting to One UI home.
I was having the same issue at first. What I did to fix it was set OneUI as default, exit the menu. Go back into that menu and then change back to Nova Launcher. Reboot. It took a couple of tries repeating the same process, but it eventually sticks. I haven't had any issues since.
Also, side note. The Samsung widgets that aren't transparent, first set them up in OneUI with the settings you want them at. Then when you go back Nova Launcher, remove the the original and readd them. There is only 1 widget that I can't get to go transparent, Reminders.