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Nexus 7 For The Elderly

An elderly relative of mine shall be getting herself a Nexus 7 tomorrow, which she plans to use mainly for e-Reading plus a bit of media usage in the form of BBC iPlayer. I was looking for an easy-to-use interface for her. Any launcher recommendations or simple customisations to make it just a little bit easier? I am sure she could use it as is, but making it easier so I don't have to teach her so much will be good.

How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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wiithepeng said:
How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.

wiithepeng said:
How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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I was more just on about launchers which would allow her to have a nice, clean UI that isn't too cluttered.

Anyone know of such a launcher?

Catch22! said:
Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.
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Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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wiithepeng said:
Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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Well, thanks anyway.

Brad387 said:
Well, thanks anyway.
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No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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wiithepeng said:
No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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Thanks. I can install Apex on my Galaxy Note, so I'll fiddle around and see what I can do on it.

Just empty the desktop from every single icon . Than..
1.on home screen Add icons that this person will use the most e.g BBC iPlayer (not sure bits going to work without flash), chrome, play store and a nice looking clock widget or something
2. Set each other screen with categories e.g one for books where you place the appropriate widgets and icons . One for videos and one for whatever else like notes calendar and other productivity ....
3. Do that person a favour and download some games .. yes games . You'd be surprised how often older people like to play ... ideal games would be mahjong, card games , also things like Bejeweled ,Zuma, scrabble type games
Stock android launcher is good enough trust me you just have to know how to organise it. Also wait for chameleon that might change things
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What wallpaper apps do you guys use????

Very curious as I love to set my own pictures and I know they have to be a decent size but I'm having trouble. Seems like pictures I set as wallpaper look great but then afew mins later it turns all huge and uglier.
Would love to know if their are great apps for the note. Cheers
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islandmixed said:
Very curious as I love to set my own pictures and I know they have to be a decent size but I'm having trouble. Seems like pictures I set as wallpaper look great but then afew mins later it turns all huge and uglier.
Would love to know if their are great apps for the note. Cheers
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Use QuickPick from play store
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Zedge is good on play store

Personally. I think this thread is pointless
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I dont use any

Using the Note 2 LWP

snowman77 said:
Personally. I think this thread is pointless
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Carry ya ass from it then...
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Thanks to all...ill check em out. Prob I forgot to mention was I want my pics not so zoomed in to the screen. I like to see the whole picture with the background but when I do set it' it just goes all zoomed again.
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Wallpapers Bay for Tablet FTW!!!

Ive had the same problem before I think.. on some roms.. that the walpaper isn't set to the size shown when selecting it, not even when using crop tool. It zoom in a lot! .. but for me the size became normal again, as croped, after reboot.. Have you tried to reboot when it happens? =) Those issues happened on my phone on some roms while using gallery app to set a background.
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islandmixed said:
Very curious as I love to set my own pictures and I know they have to be a decent size but I'm having trouble. Seems like pictures I set as wallpaper look great but then afew mins later it turns all huge and uglier.
Would love to know if their are great apps for the note. Cheers
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I use wallbase, picspeed and zedge. And i will rate wallbase as best. We can download wallpapers of any resolution. And the next best is picspeed because it gives wallpapers that fits to your mobile resolution, and zedge works the same way, but for Galaxy Note it has very few wallpapers while browsing through the app.
P. M. Vinay Kumar,
HTC P3400i (sold),
Samsung Galaxy S, rooted(sold),
Samsung Galaxy Note (using now),
stock ICS, Not rooted yet.

Making phone look different.

Hi.
Im sick of seeing icons everytime I turn on my phone, is there anything I can use to make it different? I dont care it its like windows with the blocks, just something different then the 4 icons each row.
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Use folders, each folder can be of a different type i.e. Games, Web based, Productivity and Entertainment.
The only limit is you imagination, don't forget you can always nest folders as well.

Good idea. I was thinking about making some round doughnut things as well but don't know how.
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There's lots of launchers.. Windows 8 launchers for example.. Need to experiment with them... And look up the theme section in android general..

soulzero said:
There's lots of launchers.. Windows 8 launchers for example.. Need to experiment with them... And look up the theme section in android general..
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I tried that and liked it. Except the stock lock screen still active even when I turn it off. So I have the stock one and the W8 one. Its annoying.
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You can make it look however you want, you imagination is the limit. Just go onto the homescreens thread and look there for inspiration.
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Thing is I don't know how. I have thought of round moving circles that have apps around it. But no clue how
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Go to www.mycolorscreen.com it is a great place to learn about making homescreens. Most of them have step by step guide and list what apps were used to
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Oh awesome thank you so very much!
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Tried making a couple and you need to be a brainiac to figure out half the apps you need lol
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Look different is good
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Who here has not rooted and put a custom ROM on their nexus 4?

I really see no need to since its already vanilla android and theirs nothing wrong with this phone... if you have rooted and put a rom onto it why did you do it?
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hegemytouch said:
I really see no need to since its already vanilla android and theirs nothing wrong with this phone... if you have rooted and put a rom onto it why did you do it?
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i think you meant 'custom rom' not 'stock rom' in the title
and i put cyanogenmod on my phone because of the extended functionality and settings whilst still having the vanilla experience.

Vanilla android is...plain. Some folks would like some added features on top of their dessert. I like my ice cream with some sprinkles and perhaps gummy bears on top of it. You feels me, bro?
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scream4cheese said:
Vanilla android is...plain. Some folks would like some added features on top their dessert. I like my ice cream with some sprinkles and perhaps gummy bears on top of it. You feels me, bro?
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Makes sense brah...
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built in pie control (i like it better than lmt), more configurations for the status bar including making it clear, ability to change lockscreen shortcuts without an app like widgetlocker, being able to add or delete whatever i want from the system/app folder, cpu and screen adjustments (kernel), ribbons (i like it better than sidebar), adaway, and a bunch of other reasons.

I rooted Samsung and HTC phones in the past just to get rid of (freeze) the crapware / bloatware that could not be disabled.
I have no need to root the Nexus 4 as it's fine just the way it is.
I was a flash-a-holic in the past but that phase passed. I think the last custom ROM I used was over a year ago on my Galaxy Tab 10.1

raqball said:
I rooted Samsung and HTC phones in the past just to get rid of (freeze) the crapware / bloatware that could not be disabled.
I have no need to root the Nexus 4 as it's fine just the way it is.
I was a flash-a-holic in the past but that phase passed. I think the last custom ROM I used was over a year ago on my Galaxy Tab 10.1
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Sounds like me with the HTC androids I use to have... This is my first vanilla android and I love it just the way out is.
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Mine is still unmolested, but I'm not sure how long that will last. I've had it for a month, but I miss some of the very simple additions like quick reply from status bar.
It gets credit for working perfectly out of the box, but there are some convenience features that I do want back.
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We've already had this thread here
Real reason to root the Nexus 4
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[PORT]Rockchip has Split Screen support

Just seen this on the wire and thought how awesome it looks.
Rockchip is a chinese chip manufacture that powers devices like the popular MK808 and other handheld devices. Looks like they've been busy as today they announced they have a Split screen solution similar to Samsung that runs on Stock Android, except it can run any app.
Oh man does this look yummy.

How likely is it that we will get this on the Nexus 7?
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StrangerWeather said:
How likely is it that we will get this on the Nexus 7?
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very very very very likely as Nexus 7 is one the best and popular high end device....IMO

Wow I want this, I don't have an N7 yet, but soon.
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Can't wait!
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Split screen solution similar to Samsung.
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Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, But Samsung implementation seems to only be custom apps that work in window form, but this seems to be a framework implementation?
Meaning this should work well with all Play Store apps as long as they followed the Android development guidelines and have a tablet UI. (fragments, panels etc)

Why is this thread has a PORT prefix in the title?

lionsson said:
Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, But Samsung implementation seems to only be custom apps that work in window form, but this seems to be a framework implementation?
Meaning this should work well with all Play Store apps as long as they followed the Android development guidelines and have a tablet UI. (fragments, panels etc)
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You are correct about how Samsung multi window works.
I don't know what the guidelines are for this multi window feature.
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I wrote an article on this yesterday.
I can't wait to see how it properly functions on some of the well known devices.
@StrangerWeather its very likely the N7 will get it as its probably the most popular 7" tab on the market.

Fatal1ty_18_RUS said:
Why is this thread has a PORT prefix in the title?
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Because it would require a port from Rock chip devices to our N7.
This seems really cool because the Samsung required specific apps where here, he used anything, such as the stock settings app. So it should work with any app.
Plus I like how they all control and flip back and forth. Really nice.
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Saw this on Android police and the implementation of gestures, Window resizing, management etc was nice and it's better than Samsung's Multi Window feature.
Wish this gets ported to custom ROMS soon.
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Hopefully in the final release it uses the phablet layouts when in split screen. Ideally it would recalculate screen metrics based on the window size.
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blackhand1001 said:
Hopefully in the final release it uses the phablet layouts when in split screen. Ideally it would recalculate screen metrics based on the window size.
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A port would be awesome. Can't wait for it!

player911 said:
Because it would require a port from Rock chip devices to our N7.
This seems really cool because the Samsung required specific apps where here, he used anything, such as the stock settings app. So it should work with any app.
Plus I like how they all control and flip back and forth. Really nice.
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So if I wanted someone to make a guide on how to root would I make a thread called "[GIUDE][HOW-TO] How to root Nexus 7"?
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The rumor has it that Paranoid Android team is developing something like this. In fact CM team had tried to publish their version of multi window(project Cornersrone) but Google wouldn't let them. Multi window is totally possible to make for N7 and whatever modern android device. In near future!
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Quite frankly, in the era of 1080p displays, there should be multi-window baked in to the OS. It's a feature that I think would really propel Android forward.
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Useful on a tablet but pointless on a phone. May be Google will bring this in KLP?
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rakeshishere said:
Useful on a tablet but pointless on a phone. May be Google will bring this in KLP?
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I sure as hell hope so. Who said Sammy devices can have fun with this all alone?