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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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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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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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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Look at these official photos from cnet..... Pay particular attention to photos 2 and 15.... Although there are 5-icons in the dock at the bottom, the rest of the screen only has 4 app icons across each row.... Makes me glad I didn't wait to get the Note 2: http://m.cnet.com/photos/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-debuts-photos/10013559
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Look at these official photos from cnet..... Pay particular attention to photos 2 and 15.... Although there are 5-icons in the dock at the bottom, the rest of the screen only has 4 app icons across each row.... Makes me glad I didn't wait to get the Note 2: http://m.cnet.com/photos/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-debuts-photos/10013559
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That's launcher dependent only. Download another launcher and you'll be able to have 5 rows of icons again. But yeah, it's stupid they went back to the default 4 rows on the Note 2. Guess that's the price to pay for a True HD display...
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Yea im not a fan of only 4 icon rows but like android rev said just run another launcher i will stick with nova prime
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very big.. plastic.. but i like it
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Look at these official photos from cnet..... Pay particular attention to photos 2 and 15.... Although there are 5-icons in the dock at the bottom, the rest of the screen only has 4 app icons across each row.... Makes me glad I didn't wait to get the Note 2: http://m.cnet.com/photos/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-debuts-photos/10013559
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Yah but the extra RAM and better processor will make you want to get the note. And if the note 2 is as sexy as the S3...youre definitely gonna wish you waited for the Note 2.
And btw, you can always root and install a tweaked version of the launcher.
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... Your complaing about rows of icons? Thats like complaining about a new car saying you dont like the song the radio is playing... Change it... your on xda man. Most people here tend to switch roms and kernals, changing a launcher or even less (a launcher setting) is a non issue
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... Your complaing about rows of icons? Thats like complaining about a new car saying you dont like the song the radio is playing... Change it... your on xda man. Most people here tend to switch roms and kernals, changing a launcher or even less (a launcher setting) is a non issue
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What a WINNING comment you sir are a gentleman and a scholar
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Lord.... I wasn't complaining about the Note 2..... I was merely pointing out the screen is probably too narrow to natively support 5-icon rows..... I totally understand we are of course, free to install various ROMs on our devices... Heck, I had an old HD2 that I tried out more ROMs on than I can remember.... But as my daily driver phone..... I really prefer not to void it's factory warranty
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Settings ; Launcher Settings ; Screen preferences (different title depending on which launcher) ; Number of rows.
No warranty voiding required at least 5 free top launchers have this option in the play store. I cant wait for this phone in the us
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Although I have tried out several 3rd party launchers in the past, I've always found they slow down things a bit (unless you can natively disable the original launcher without rooting the device)... Otherwise you're running a launcher on top of another launcher
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I guess i just root and take care of all those issues, but then again with 2gb of ram im betting you could handle 2 launchers if you for some reason dont just replace the old one.
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Lord.... I wasn't complaining about the Note 2..... I was merely pointing out the screen is probably too narrow to natively support 5-icon rows..... I totally understand we are of course, free to install various ROMs on our devices... Heck, I had an old HD2 that I tried out more ROMs on than I can remember.... But as my daily driver phone..... I really prefer not to void it's factory warranty
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Just in case anyone's interested, I've got a Note 2 and I've just installed Nova Launcher.
its perfectly fine with five columns of icons.
dunno what possessed Samsung releasing their launcher with only four
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.
Sadly mine became corrupted, I use adw constantly, however whenever I need to show my device off to a customer I need to use stock launcher. Anyone have it able to extract the apk for me? For some odd reason mine only shows a blank greyish screen when I try to use it.
Thanks in advance...
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Yo!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zsdl5tqvnygljjh/Launcher.apk
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Dang did not solve my issue, thanks so much for your effort... maybe it could be the xposed framework, that is only thing I installed since last time I had to get in there and show it off... oh well looks like I am going to go without stock launcher, would rather not lose the resizing capabilities it provides, works wonderfully for resizing only a few apps, and not overall appearance of device.
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Sorry.
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I just have to thank you again for posting that apk.
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Hi all.
Now I have tried everything I can think of and do not find a good solution so I thought to ask for some suggestions.
I have an HTC One with insertcoin. I like to change the appearance of the cell phone as well as I have a leather pouch at home and one at work. Now comes my problem I would therefore like to change the look as smooth any time with a button press, and then the icons, plus wallpaper change plus widgets. Right now it seems the easiest solution would be a triple boot and it is neither easy nor something I want. It's my first question.
Question number 2. Can I somehow have an old and a new version of an app installed simultaneously?
Sincerely bobbin
Umm.. what?
Lol.. There's an app called 'themer' it sounds like what you need (I think), but it's in beta right now and you need a code or something at the moment to activate it. But when it's out of beta, should be what you want (again, I think)..
*s¡gned
I have themer beta maybe when it's out of beta version it will help med but I think I'm looking for something else.
Bobin
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I know what your looking for, if you can s-off my 1.54 hboot, I'll tell you
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What launcher do you use?
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What launcher do you use?
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Nova launcher prime at the moment.
Bobin
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Nova launcher prime at the moment.
Bobin
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Create the setups you want and use Nova to make backups, then switching is as simple as restoring the backups.
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Create the setups you want and use Nova to make backups, then switching is as simple as restoring the backups.
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I have tried it, if do it I need to fix the widgets again and the background pic, not good enough but thanks for the tip.
Bobin
Modaco.SWITCH? Gives you Sense and GPE, and you can have different launchers in each ROM.