Hello.
Let me start by asking a question on whether it is possible to remove the "Applications" icon on the main screen.
The reason i want to remove is because of this program.
Faster Drawer (seems i cannot post links, so do search it on the android market)
Basically another app drawer program, but presents the layout "contact style".
Depending on preferences, but i like the layout of the icons better than the stock.
Has there been any attempts to remove the icon or such?
You know inside of the stock app drawer you can choose to view them as a list... "contact style". Just hit menu while in your app drawer. And this should be under Q&A.
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Never mind. I can simply usee an alternate launcher to remove the home button.
consider this question closed.
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Hi.
I am using cyanogenMod 6.1, I replaced the Applications shortcut from ADWLauncher by mistake with another shortcut. (The middle shortcut) I am wondering how I can restore it.
Any help is very welcome.
thanks.
Long press on the home screen> custom shortcut> launcher action> open/close app drawer.
Drag new icon to dock bar...
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Thank you, Now it is working properly.
I wasn't paying attention earlier today and was trying to remove an Icon from my home screen. I am running the new version of Cyanogen ROM.
Not used to the "Delete" area being on top of the screen. So, when I went to delete the icon off of the screen, I in fact moved it into the section of ADW where the "App Drawer" is located.
So now I don't have access to my app drawer. I have "Phone / Dumb Icon / Browser" instead of "Phone / App Drawer / Browser"
How in the heck do I get the app drawer back in the middle???
I tried to do a "Restore" of ADW Lancher, but I've never made a back up of it.
Long press home screen>Custom shortcut>Pick your activity>Activities>ADW.Launcher>ADW.Launcher(Open/close app drawer)
Drag it back to where you want it
THANK YOU!
Sorry for the trouble.
I think I've seen more threads on this subject than I've seen on Gingerbread! xD
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LOL, yeah. I got rid of the open/close app drawer altogether and have a swipe up action to open my app drawer. This way it give me one more shortcut on the dock anyway.
Same thing happened to me last night. Took me an hour to figure out how to get it back. LOL
Hello,
I bought the Galaxy recently,and changed his rom.
Rom comes with Launchrpro,and I am very satisfied with it.
But I want to stay with the original rom menu (TW). is this possible?
In addition, I want to get the applications menu in folders.is this possible?
Thanks
I don't know which rom you are using but if that rom gives you both option then go to
settings> application> manage application> choose TW> set default (you can clear defaults too)
Hope this works for you.
There are custom roms that offer touchwiz, and you can always install it afterwards too (e.g. From apk found off the forums, or via sgs tools app).
Doc rom kitchen is a great place to start.
The app menu is launcher specific, afaik there aren't any that allow you to arrange your apps into folders, and launcherpro is the only one that lets you hide icons.
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Tnx but I know that I can switch to TW.
I want to stay with Launchrpro and replace just the menu like TW.
azriel18 said:
Tnx but I know that I can switch to TW.
I want to stay with Launchrpro and replace just the menu like TW.
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What menu are you talking about? (screenies would be nice)
The first picture(left) is the menu I want to go back to.
This second picture menu I have now, in the launcherpro
I wish to keep launcherpro because of the comfortable home screens.
That menu is called app drawer a part of the launcher and what you want I believe not possible with launcherpro. If you want the horizontal scrolling + menu in app drawer I mean. You are better off with another launcher. Like ADW launcher or some modified TW.
As near as I can tell, what you are showing in the first pic is the TWLauncher homescreen, while in the second you are showing the App Drawer in LauncherPro.
It is easy to reproduce a similar homescreen in Launcher Pro. On your main screen, just press the button to open your App Drawer (the thing shown in your second picture). The press and hold the icon for an App you wish to put on your homescreen. Your view will switch to your homescreen, with a garbage can at the bottom. Position the icon where you with it, or drop it into the trash and start again. Once you have everything on the first homescreen that you want, go to the second screen, reopen the App Drawer, and add apps just as you did before.
You can control the number of homescreens you have, and which opens by default, from the Launcher Pro Preferences menu.
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As near as I can tell, what you are showing in the first pic is the TWLauncher homescreen, while in the second you are showing the App Drawer in LauncherPro
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As you can see if you look closely BOTH pics are app drawer . Look first pic, grey bar down (home screen has it black) and Home button which doesnt exist in the homescreen since there is the Applications button
To OP look what I wrote you up . Or you could kinda put all yours apps on your homescreen like rschenck said.
Try Go Launcher, free in market. It lets you have the "side swiping" app drawer/menu
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As you can see if you look closely BOTH pics are app drawer .
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Quite right, my bad...been a while since I used the TWLauncher.
OP, are you asking to be able to horizontally scroll through apps, or to have buttons for Phone and other key tasks on the same page as all your apps?
I am still thinking that you can either jury rig a solution using Pro, or as Pagot suggests, try other launchers, there are lots of good ones out there...ADW, Pro, GO, Zume, plenty of others.
Ok, so I wanted a better email app than the stock MIUI one, and everyone keeps recommending K9 mail. Thing is, I hate the app icon for it. I worked out that I should be able to use Desktop Visualizer to create a shortcut on the desktop which points to K9, but uses another icon.
Thing is I can create a widget using DV (Long press on screen, select DVwidget etc), however I can't place widgets in the launcher bar. I tried opening the DV app and trying to create a shortcut that way, but when I hit 'Ok' to complete the operation, nothing happens. It just returns to the homescreen and no shortcut is created.
To further complicate things I have had this work once. It just randomly appeared on the desktop a few minutes after creating it, and I was able to move that into the launcher. Now I want to change the icon (again) but as you can see, I'm not having much luck.
Am I missing something here? I know MIUI doesn't have shortcuts on it's desktop, but if that was the case I don't see how I could have got it to work at all?
Any thoughts?
CyanideJack said:
Any thoughts?
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Yeah, i'm thinking how an app icon can invoke such a strong emotion as hate for it. Could we get a screenshot? Share the hate
I do agree that the icon is kinda ugly .
That is a terrible icon ...
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Lol...
Yeah, it's pretty....special...
U can't put Widgets in dock for miui roms... Just Apps... Hope it helps...
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What i would suggest (this is what i used to do while using MIUI), is to use an application called "App Drawer" meant specially for MIUI.
Link t=1154299http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154299
it is only as it states, an app drawer like all regular android phones.
This way you will have a dedicated app drawer & this will help in not cluttering up your home screens.
All icons on your home screen can be inserted into a single folder as these are the actual apps & not shortcuts.
Deleting would mean uninstalling.
so use the app drawer, send the shortcuts to your home screen & use any app for changing the icon like the ones inbuilt in ADW, Nova launchers.
...or you could just swap out the k9 icon for one you like. Use a theme (or make a blank one if you're fond of default) and theme the app name icon with a mail icon (or any icon) you think is nice
theme mtz - icons folder - use a .png and name it com.fsck.k9.apk
(if that doesn't work, the real app name is com.fsck.k9-1.apk)
melissapugs said:
...or you could just swap out the k9 icon for one you like. Use a theme (or make a blank one if you're fond of default) and theme the app name icon with a mail icon (or any icon) you think is nice
theme mtz - icons folder - use a .png and name it com.fsck.k9.apk
(if that doesn't work, the real app name is com.fsck.k9-1.apk)
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Hi All,
I suspect the answer to this question is a flat "no" but I thought I would ask anyway....
Is there any way to change the titles of the apps as they appear on-screen? I don't want to rename them as such i.e. Greenify is called Greenify in all of menus and app lists etc, and I have the app titles on my homescreen hidden using Apex launcher. Every so often, for example on the lockscreen, I will have an app that has quite a long name which is not fully displayed, but might look neater to the eye if it just said "Browser" or "Internet" instead of the whole name of the app.
Is there any app which can do this or is it more like the app title is taken directly from the code within the app? I certainly don't want to infringe any legal copyrights etc by wanting to change the legend (like you can with the name of an icon on Windows desktop).
Hopefully this makes a little bit of sense, please ask if my explanation sounds confused
Many thanks
Weezlerox
weezlerox said:
Hi All,
I suspect the answer to this question is a flat "no" but I thought I would ask anyway....
Is there any way to change the titles of the apps as they appear on-screen? I don't want to rename them as such i.e. Greenify is called Greenify in all of menus and app lists etc, and I have the app titles on my homescreen hidden using Apex launcher. Every so often, for example on the lockscreen, I will have an app that has quite a long name which is not fully displayed, but might look neater to the eye if it just said "Browser" or "Internet" instead of the whole name of the app.
Is there any app which can do this or is it more like the app title is taken directly from the code within the app? I certainly don't want to infringe any legal copyrights etc by wanting to change the legend (like you can with the name of an icon on Windows desktop).
Hopefully this makes a little bit of sense, please ask if my explanation sounds confused
Many thanks
Weezlerox
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You can't change the name of the app systemwide, but with some launchers (for example APEX and NOVA) you can edit the shortcuts on your homescreen. Just longpress the icon on the homescreen and press edit.
Much as I had thought, thanks for confirming this is the case
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