One appears to be android without senseUI.. which boots up automatically.
The other is Sense.
below these two options is a don't ask me again.
Now If I choose one of these to be the default, is there any alternative method between navigating between the 2? perhaps with a shortcut icon on the home screens?
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If you dont have homeswitcher.. or you dont plain on every switching agian.. The manual way to switch is....
Go to setting>applications>manage applications
Find the launcher that is set as your default. Htc Sense, Launcher, helix...
Then click on it and scroll down and hit "clear default"
Press the home key again, and it will ask what home screen to use.
XDA user bstromberg in my General Sticky thread raised a good question and found an excellent resource. My intent is to try and modify the default.prop file to enable only 3 screens in TW, where the middle screen is the default home screen... and perhaps instruction for 5 screens where 3 is the default home screen.
socket84 had an extrmely helpful post in the Galaxy S I9000 section, which I believe we can use as a resource.... but I am not as intelligent as some of you and will need hand holding. I think this would be extremely helpful to the community, at least till CM6 comes.
Here is the post I just referenced.
Any takers to make this work, and willing to test it out?
I like this idea!!! The home screen needs to me the middle one!
looks like you would modify this property:
ro.csc.homescreen.screencount=2
In his example it is 2, so that would be 3 screens total (starting at 0, 0 is the first screen, 1 is the second screen, and 2 is the third screen).
I'm using ADW so I can't really test, but this should be easy to test and you should backup the original file before you make the change.
To make your middle screen the home screen, then the other property:
ro.csc.homescreen.defaultscreen
would be 1:
ro.csc.homescreen.defaultscreen=1
EDIT: Reading through the whole thread, it may not be that easy.
Sorry, I should emphasize that I posted this here because there are a lot more qualified people... I feel confident I can make a backup and move the new file to this ones place, reboot and test it... but I really don't know how to edit the document or where to add that code... in XDA I trust, I just got a good source to start shown to me and hoped someone would run with it (I also use LP, but may switch back if this gets worked out).
the3dman13 said:
I like this idea!!! The home screen needs to me the middle one!
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wait yours isn't? both vibrants I got came with Screen 4 as the middle one out of 7... if I press home on another screen it goes back to 4 not 1
^ but if you only use 3 to 5 screens, like i do, i would like to just get rid of the other screens and have 2 or 3 be my default in the center, but it will only ever allow screen 4 to be default, no matter the amount of screens you have (i haven't tried to remove more than 2 screens by the way)
so i too would be very grateful to whoever figured this one out.
it should be noted that your "home" screen defaults to whatever screen you had open last before the device went into sleep mode. so.. in essence there is no true home screen. it just stays on which ever one you last used.
also, there is no need to modify code to remove the extra screens youre not using. just touch the menu key then choose "edit" from the options.. from there you can add or delete screens. you can go all the way down to 1.. and add new screens on either side. for example i have my first screen as #1.. and have two more to the right.. 2 and 3 respectively. when i boot my phone, it always starts on screen #1.
this is an especially useful feature if you would rather just have a single "home" screen with the apps you use most and then use the app tray for all of the rest.
also, IME the middle screen is always the defaut "home" screen when you add an even number of screens on either side from the edit menu.
^ you don't understand.
^ enlighten me
captain_awesome said:
^ enlighten me
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he's talking about no matter what you do the phone will always try to make screen 4 your home screen so say you have 3 pages (i guess you can call it that) it will try to be on 4 but theres no 4 so it will go to 3 even though you actually want it to be page 2 so it wil be in the middle for the home page
1-2-3 always goes to the last screen if theres not a 4th one in your home screen
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he's talking about no matter what you do the phone will always try to make screen 4 your home screen so say you have 3 pages (i guess you can call it that) it will try to be on 4 but theres no 4 so it will go to 3 even though you actually want it to be page 2 so it wil be in the middle for the home page
1-2-3 always goes to the last screen if theres not a 4th one in your home screen
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thats what i was figuring he was saying.. however i was saying that my phone doesnt do that. i deleted all of my home screens, then added more going 1, 2, 3, in that order.. and my phone starts on 1 every time.
if you are in the edit screen and you add pages like this " 2, 1, 3" it will start on the middle page.
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thats what i was figuring he was saying.. however i was saying that my phone doesnt do that. i deleted all of my home screens, then added more going 1, 2, 3, in that order.. and my phone starts on 1 every time.
if you are in the edit screen and you add pages like this " 2, 1, 3" it will start on the middle page.
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So do you restart your phone after you save? Because mine doesn't do that either.
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Only Loki said:
So do you restart your phone after you save? Because mine doesn't do that either.
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+1, doesnt work for me. No matter what order I add screen it always goes back to 4 or 3,2,1 if less than 4 screens.
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if you are in the edit screen and you add pages like this " 2, 1, 3" it will start on the middle page.
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This doesn't work. If I delete all (accept 1 that it wont let you delete), swipe to the right and add a screen that becomes 1, you Cannot add in that order. It will always default 1,2,3,etc.
EDIT: I think what your saying doesn't work because you cannot delete all 7 screens and then decide which one to add in which order. You HAVE to keep one, and no matter what side you add it to it will always keep them numbered in order. So it is impossible to add 1 after 2.
So I added to 2 lines and then just the first line and tried both ways to our default.prop but it did not fix the problem. Right back to 4 for home. It was mentioned in the original post that someone else had they same problem and it was determined that they were using an older version of the ROM and those lines weren't already in there. That is the case with ours so this method doesnt seem to work for us. At least for now.
I feel like some people are not understanding.
Default IS (or tries to be) number 4, always.
If you come back from sleep (or even hit home key from any app) it will go to last screen it was on before sleeping, but if you press home again, by default, or mistake, or just making sure you are on home screen because you are driving or doing other things, it always jumps to the real home screen (4) or closest to, if less than 4 screens.
I agree this needs a fix. Minor issue, but annoying none the less. I have 7 screens and only using 3 because I want middle screen to be default, that is how all other phones are, why did Samsung change it?
ok let me clarify..
when i was deleting all of my unused home screens, and went down to just one, i deleted all BUT the middle screen.. which was labled as screen 4 originally. when i added the two other screens back, the screen then became screen 1 and was labeled as such automatically.. follow?
after looking back on my posts i can see where the confusion was. maybe by my deleting the screens in this manner i haphazardly stumbled upon the "right" way to do it..
When you go from 7 to 1, what was 4 is now 1.
Add two screens and now it can be 2. In the middle.
However it is still going to screen 3, since there is not a4 when you press home. Nobody can get it to do what you claim. Can you post a video or be extremely specific?
I still have my doubts and think we're going to have to edit the file.
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When you go from 7 to 1, what was 4 is now 1.
Add two screens and now it can be 2. In the middle.
However it is still going to screen 3, since there is not a4 when you press home. Nobody can get it to do what you claim. Can you post a video or be extremely specific?
I still have my doubts and think we're going to have to edit the file.
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I never use my home key to get back to the first page. I always swipe. after hitting my home key mine goes to 3 too.. but when the phone starts up it always starts on page one.. how odd...
ok sorry for the confusion everybody.
Not sure if this has anything to do with it but I decompiled the TouchWiz30Launcher.apk with apktool and there is a launcher.xml file in /res/layout-land and /res/layout-port if you look in this layout.xml file there is a piece of code: android:layout_height="fill_parent" launcher:defaultScreen="1" />
So I am wondering if it has something to do with this also.
Question. I seem to have lost my home screen on touchwiz.now when I double click home it slides to the last page of however many pages I've set up no matter if I then shuffle them around each other. Additionally, in edit mode none of my home screen pages show a house icon, specifying home screen, ie the one touch wiz defaults to with home screen double click. anyone know how to restore a touchwiz home page?
There's no way to restore any screens once they get deleted on touchwiz . Sorry
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just to be clear i'm not trying to restore a home screen that i've organized widgets and links with.. i'm just trying to reset one of the homescreens to the home one with a home icon. If you edit your homescreens you'll find that one of your screens has a house icon on it and thats the one touchwiz will swing to when you double click the home button.
Anyone?
you found one of the odities of the Touchwiz home screens. If you have less then 5 ( i think) the one on the end becomes your home and you can't change it. If you have 5 or more you can move them around to make the middle one home.
TouchWiz uses pane 4, or the highest number to it as Home. I've never found a way to change this. (aka 3 if you have 3...)
I too had this problem. The only way I found was to leave it on the 7 screen configuration, and just leave the end screens blank.
Hmmm. I seem to have stumbled into this as well. I didn't think it would be possible, but I deleted an empty page and now don't seem to be able to create a new one (now that I have more crap I want to load on one).
yes thats one of the bugs in touchwiz I think. Unless you have 7 screens; the rightmost screen becomes your Home screen. I tried looking for a solution for long time and no go yet. Lets wait for froyo update and may be a new touchwiz! btw you can always install launcher pro or ADWLauncher. But I think touchWiz is more sophisticated that those two.
There is a free app in the market, called SGS Screen Changer that let's you set the default screen when you use the Home Button (needs root and Busybox to work).
Good luck!
hello everybody, i wanted to know if we can mod the home button press for default home screen on our note. like it should go to middle one meaning screen no. 4 rather than one so cause it looks awkward for wallpapers to set home at the corner of them, i know how to change the default screen but it will always be numbered on 1st position. i hope somebody works with this so that we can have a bit extra thanks
you have to use third party launcher for that.
HI guys,
Is there anyway to change the default home screen on TW for the note? I really like TW, I have my main home screen at position 1 and then I have no2 and then I have the last page. The idea is that I start from my home screen and can go left or right (like Nova etc).
Now this does indeed work with TW but if you have a live wallpaper and scroll from first page to last page (in this case left) then the wallpaper does a funny jump to shift the image instead of a smooth scroll from one page to the next.
Is there anyway to set the home page to another page in TW? Or is there anyway to stop live wallpaper scrolling (if it is not an option on the LW settings).
Thanks!
ceanth said:
HI guys,
Is there anyway to change the default home screen on TW for the note? I really like TW, I have my main home screen at position 1 and then I have no2 and then I have the last page. The idea is that I start from my home screen and can go left or right (like Nova etc).
Now this does indeed work with TW but if you have a live wallpaper and scroll from first page to last page (in this case left) then the wallpaper does a funny jump to shift the image instead of a smooth scroll from one page to the next.
Is there anyway to set the home page to another page in TW? Or is there anyway to stop live wallpaper scrolling (if it is not an option on the LW settings).
Thanks!
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Just hit the home button on the top right, and once selected, every time you hit the physical home key, you’ll be taken to that screen
sahilarora2003 said:
Just hit the home button on the top right, and once selected, every time you hit the physical home key, you’ll be taken to that screen
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Ummm I don't understand, hit the home button on the top right?
If i pinch the screen or select Options>Edit I don't see anyway I can define the home screen linked to the physical home key