So I received my x and it looks wonderful. I decided to boot it without a sim and not set my google account to it yet. One thing I noticed that I dislike is the google search bar is on every page, is there a way to remove it ? Also the widgets on the Phone seem to be rather weak when compared to my Motorola xt860 which has a much wider selection and some that are much more useful such as quick contacts which is probably my favorite widget. Also is there a stock weather widget b/c I cannot seem to find one.
There's thousands of widgets on play store. And Nova is a great launcher to replace stock, and you can get rid of the google bar on it.
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kj2112 said:
There's thousands of widgets on play store. And Nova is a great launcher to replace stock, and you can get rid of the google bar on it.
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I did check for similar widgets couldn't really find any that were that close. I will check out Nova, but there is no way for this to be done w/ stock ?
Couldn't find a way to get rid of them either so switched to an alternative launcher as well. Nova is very good, but have recently switched from Nova to the Action Launcher Pro. I'd suggest trying that one out as well.
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Is anyone else having issues with the quick contacts widget in alternate launchers? My other stock blur widgets work in Go Launcher except this one. Running Theory's ROM 1.2 if that makes a difference.
Doesn't work for me either in Go Launcher.
I was wondering the same thing. I swear I saw a post stating that the moto blur widgets worked with alternate launchers, but I cant get this widget to work with ADW, LPP or GO launcher.
I like that widget a lot.
Bump... has anyone had any success with getting this to work properly? I actually liked the stock contacts app for the short time I was running the stock launcher.
It would seem it adds the widget, but it's invisible and doesn't function... I am able to long press and delete it with go launcher.
Still no dice in Go Launcher. On the other hand, I have been using this lately and am really liking it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sonyericsson.zwooshi&hl=en
It actually automatically fills up with contacts based on how recently/frequently you interact with them, pretty nice if you ask me.
Its a blur app and u need the blurred launcher.
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moosc said:
Its a blur app and u need the blurred launcher.
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That is not true. Other blur widgets work outside of the blur launcher. Also, this widget shows in the list of available widgets from other launchers but when you add it (in my exerience on Go Launcher) it adds an empty space to your screen that you can't say unless you try to put another widget down as it will say the spot is occupied already. You can delete the empty spot though.
Any update on this issue or do those who use alternate launchers just out of luck with this widget?
+1 you need a blur launcher its built into /system/apps it like having a razor blur camera and downloading it and won't work correctly at least from what I have read over the months on alt launcher you pick the widget and it won't even be visable
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I've tried apex and nova launcher. Both runs very smooth compared to original Motorola launcher.
But after while the system went back to original launcher. I don't know why. Maybe it's running out of memory.
What is your experience with alternate launcher.?
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I flick between Holo Launcher HD and Nova for months as I can never decide which one I like more.
Been using Holo a lot more for the last few weeks and had no problems with it ever going back to the original launcher. I think Holo is better due to the extra options of being able to set swipe up and down shortcuts on the apps on the dock and it seems to be a lot smoother when using Holo Locker (which is a better alternative lock screen to the one that came with the phone as you can stop the annoying vibrate noise as well as choosing which apps you want as the shortcuts)
Do I need root to install alternative Launcher?
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omiez said:
Do I need root to install alternative Launcher?
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Nope, just install from the play store like any other app then press the home button and when it asks you which launcher you want to use you can select the new launcher (on this options screen you can tick the default tick box to make it the default all the time then you'll never see the default one)
i have the xperia launcher, works fine in my razr, very smooth but now im using the stock jelly bean launcher (have ics)
knjigo said:
I've tried apex and nova launcher. Both runs very smooth compared to original Motorola launcher.
But after while the system went back to original launcher. I don't know why. Maybe it's running out of memory.
What is your experience with alternate launcher.?
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I've been using a port of the Sony Xperia T launcher. When the phone asked which launcher to return to, I selected the Xperia launcher permenantly. It works just fine, I haven't had any issues at all.
I've tried apex too.
Like it, very customisable and powerful.
nova
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I've tried apex too.
Like it, very customisable and powerful.
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i use nova launcher. like it because it's smooth fast and not ram hungry (and offers good customisation in grid and icon size).
WP8: fast, no lags; all the advantages of Win8 without the horror of Microsoft experience.. only thing I miss is the moto circle widget.. :-\
Is there any launcher where the circles widgets works? I'm using nova launched and it doesn't work and I miss them!
As far as I know, NO third party launchers supported - really a shame, most beautiful widget I've ever seen.
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only thing I miss is the moto circle widget.. :-\
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Funny you should say that. I keep coming back to the moto launcher, despite all its shortcomings, because of the moto circle widget... And I have never cared for a manufacturer homescreen widget before, but this one is really well made.
If someone ever managed to make it work with any launcher, I would switch without hesitation to Lightning Launcher.
Of course, another possibility is to mod the moto launcher and improve it; here is what I would like to see:
* reclaim the space at the top used by the search widget
* configurable number of rows/columns, or in combination with the above mod, increase from 4 to 5 rows
* lockable layout
* custom icons
* custom folders (iphone, or simi folder style)
* vertical paginated app drawer scrolling
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As far as I know, NO third party launchers supported - really a shame, most beautiful widget I've ever seen.
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There is a very similar widget available in Google Play, I think it was called Circles Widget.
Try rings digital weather clock; I have tried all of them, this one is closest to the Original - but still misses lots of functionality.. :-\
im using Apex, its smooth
I use the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Launcher, which is in the Google Play and the developer is Tim Hutt. I found it the best stock launcher porting right now.
I don't like the google search bar at the top of my homescreen. I know changing launchers would fix that, but does anyone know if there's an Xposed module that works on 4.4 moto X to get rid of it? Thanks!
Mike
Or, actually, I love the Trebuchet launcher from CM. Does anyone know where I can find that launcher? Found the xda post for it by nebkat but link is broken, had to dig through post and found a v1.0 apk and OP says CM9. Anything newer?
I just pulled the Trebuchet.apk from the Motorola Droid RAZR/RAZR MAXX (CDMA) CM 10.2.1 (cm-10.2.1-spyder) and put it in system/priv-app and made it rw-r-r. Everything seems to work EXCEPT you can't change number of home screens, default home screen, and number of dock items.
Otherwise, works to remove google search bar, hide dock divider and indicator, split apps and widgets in drawer, and you can hide apps in drawer. Not sure why it FCs on changing number of homescreens and number of dock items though. Any ideas?
I'm on a Verizon Moto X 4.4 developer edition, rooted, unlocked.
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=spyder
Yeah I want the bar gone as well...
Don't think you can. Stock launcher is poo anyway. Get Nova...prime is even better.
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Hi!
I've installed google now launcher, and I like it rather than the stock launcher. But, when I want to use the motorola circle widget, I can´t, because only can use in motorola launcher. What alternative I have to use a circle widget in my screen?
Greetings,
Fernando
fercas said:
Hi!
I've installed google now launcher, and I like it rather than the stock launcher. But, when I want to use the motorola circle widget, I can´t, because only can use in motorola launcher. What alternative I have to use a circle widget in my screen?
Greetings,
Fernando
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I don't remember if someone eventually did it, but the devs were working on a installable moto circle widget. Last I checked, they didn't get it to work, but search the forums to see if they did.
Edit: check this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2936056
one more clock
One more clock on the play store is the closest thing I can find. Pretty cool you can assign 8 different spots to apps when u click on it.
Just got a N6. Haven't done much except unlock bootloader, root, and transfer over most of my old apps and such. Quick question I can't find an easy answer to: Is there any way in the default launcher to forcibly resize widgets/stretch them out? A lot of the ones I'd normally use are 4x1 or 4x2, and it just looks terrible on the 5 column launcher.
In addition, is there any way to get a circles widget with similar functionality to the one from my old Droid Razr Maxx HD? I've found a few that have similar skins (most usefully One More Clock) but none that have the ability to flip the circles and see different cities, notifications, etc.
Thanks in advance!
Nova launcher and Zooper widgets would be my suggestion.
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DebianDog said:
Nova launcher and Zooper widgets would be my suggestion.
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Nova Launcher did fix 95% of my widget problems, so thank you very much for that. A little annoying to no longer be able to swipe left for google now, but I'll take it.
Zooper still isn't quite the same as the original motorola widget, nowhere near the functionality. I'll keep making do with One More Clock I suppose. It looks better now that I can resize the widget at least.
Zooper widget is 100% programmable you can download other templates and make it do anything you want to with whatever image you want to do it with. The widget can have 10 functions if you will if you wish. Check out the discussion group on Google Plus there are also forums dedicated to it here. There's some really impressive widgets out there
In Nova with swipe gestures you can fire up any program you wish not exactly the same as Google now but you can fire up the Google app.
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