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[Q] Is there a way to use the Samsung widgets when TouchWiz is not your Launcher?

I really like some of the Samsung widgets, but to not like the Touchwiz launcher. So, I installed Launcher Pro, which I vastly prefer. Unfortunately, now the Samsung widgets are not in the add widget menu.
Is there any trick I can do to get them back?

I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!

sionyboy said:
I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!
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Yeah that is the widget I want most as well.
It is the best I have seen for android so far that integrates both twitter and facebook. I tried out this one on the market called "Socialite", it is *OK*, but not as good as the Samsung one.
So i have to decide, do I want a decent integrated Facebook / Twitter widget, or do I want a decent launcher?

???
Does anybody have an answer to this? I myself like pretty much all the futures in TW - would mainly like to change the 4 icons on the bottom and maybe even have the ability to hide the notification bar.
Is there a way to incorporate TW samsung widgets into launcher pro for example?
Thanks

I suppose Samsung's widgets are tied to the Touchwiz Launcher and incompatible with other launchers
It's a pity because I really like the Accuweather Clock over the other available widgets. But LauncherPro is so much better than the Samsung Launcher, I can't go without a launcher that lets me hide apps from the app drawer due to the massive amount of crap it gets flooded with.

You can change the left 3 icons on the bottom (but not the Applications one).
Just go to the Applications screen and press Menu and choose Edit. Then, move the icons off and put another in place.

I'm pretty sure it's impossible. I wanted to do that but was told by different ppl it was impossible. Same goes for Launcher Pro widgets in Touchwizz (i prefere the LP ones vs the Samsung). They are tied to the launcher u use.

You could put Home Switcher on each of the home screens of TW and LP then just switch between them just like moving to a different page. Just an idea.

Thanks fro the ideas, sounds like it's a no-go for right now at least.....
One more thing, does launcher pro juice the battery as same as TW? And when I used launcher pro in the past, I really liked to use the option "hide notification bar", i think it gives it a cleaner look, but at the same time it won't notify me when i receive an email ( other than the sound), I did search this in the past with no luck, so is there a widget, icon, something that I can install that will show on the screen when I received email, when using LP?
Thanks

I use executive assistant but it is a paid app. Worth it I believe though.

Seeking some widgets...

After using LauncherPro and being fed up with it's poor performance, I decided to switch over to the much lighter weight Zeam Launcher. However I'm looking for certain free or paid widgets to replace what was available to me in TWLauncher as Samsung widgets or the LauncherPro widgets. Specifically, I'm looking for large friends stream, calendar and bookmarks widgets which I could use with Zeam.. Alternately, is there any way I could use the LP or even the Samsung widgets in Zeam Launcher ?

for friend streams Tweetdeck is a good one which can be found othe marker for free.
As for calendar there is another free widget on the market just search up calendar widget.

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for friend streams Tweetdeck is a good one which can be found othe marker for free.
As for calendar there is another free widget on the market just search up calendar widget.
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Well, I didn't really like TweetDeck. I'm looking for a widget that brings twitter and facebook updates straight to my desktop and is scrollable. I'll check out the calendar widgets...

Bump.
Guys, some help please...

Pure widgets are fine.
You can take a look at them on this website: http://koxx3.wordpress.com/pure-widgets-descriptions/
I especially like pure grid calendar and pure messenger.
Both are not free

Madic said:
Pure widgets are fine.
You can take a look at them on this website: http://koxx3.wordpress.com/pure-widgets-descriptions/
I especially like pure grid calendar and pure messenger.
Both are not free
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Thanks! I'll check them out..

New Launcher

any one see this new launcher
http://www.appbrain.com/app/netfront-life-screen/com.access_company.android.nflifescreen
runs fairly good on the captivate, but good for first release, pretty creative launcher compared to all others

I like it. I will run it for a bit. I like the ring concept it is pretty sweet. The previews are nice well.
Wishlist for this home launcher
Add custom wallpaper.
Ability to remove the twitter, mixi, and rss feeds from the ring launcher.
Ability to add a folder to the ring launcher.
Customize number of apps in the ring launcher.

uhmump95 said:
I like it. I will run it for a bit. I like the ring concept it is pretty sweet. The previews are nice well.
Wishlist for this home launcher
Add custom wallpaper.
Ability to remove the twitter, mixi, and rss feeds from the ring launcher.
Ability to add a folder to the ring launcher.
Customize number of apps in the ring launcher.
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i agree with ur wishlist. the biggest one for me is the wallpaper, makes it feel like more my of my own, but its a great launcher as far as features

One more for the wish list.
Have the ability to have the contacts preview show a group instead of all the contacts.

Been keeping up with launcher. It now allows you to remove all of the apps in the ring launcher except for the home one. No more keeping the twitter, misi and rss feeds there. It also now allows you to set your own wall paper. Still has a little lag on my stock captivate and it restarts and loses the widget I am using, but it is still fine.

what launcher do you use?

like the title says what launch/home do you use? and what features does it have that set it apart?
im currently using adw or regina, but i think regina takes up a lot of resources to run.

ZEAM Launcher
Less than ~8 MB in memory footprint, and has a surprising set of customizations available.

LauncherPro. Can set custom dock/app icons on homescreen. Also, built-in widgets for messaging, facebook, gmail, etc. Ability to re-size widgets.

There's a thread titled "best launcher?" on the second page of this section. If you want some ideas, that's a good place to start.

I use Arc Launcher, it's really slick and light on resources.
Does anyone know how to remove screens from Arc Launcher?

SPB Shell 3D. Yes, I was impulsive and spent way too much money on it, but the interface is amazing and it is very smooth. Downside (other than cost) is that it uses about 60 megs of memory on average.

Widgets lagging when used in launchers

Hello!
I recently downloaded the Next 3D Launcher and found it really nice and I really was considering getting its full version despite its unreasonably high price.
However theres a few annoying issues I faced. One of which was that the widgets I placed on the homescreen lags! One example was that when I was scrolling my notes on the notes widget, the scrolling was really laggy, it also happens to my other widgets such as my calender widget etc. Then I recall having the same issue long time ago when I was using the Go Launcher.
I am using a HTC One and yes I have tried checking and unchecking the Hyper fluency and System Persistent options where none of which helped making the widgets smoother. I also cleared my Sense homscreen already. Could there be anything else I could do to make scrolling through my widget smoothly in Next Launcher?