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Hi guys
I know this topic area has been posted before, but I wondered whether there was a way to sort the apps alphabetically now specifically that FroYo has been released?
I tried looking at one method, but I couldn't find what they were suggesting under settings.
in the list-mode it's alpabetical though.
I know. But I don't like it. I like Grid View. I know it's picky but it'd be a really simple thing for Samsung to do... :/
Search in market for TouchWiz Application Sorter.
It requires rooted phone and stock TouchWiz 3.0.
Hope I'm not hijacking here, but is there any launcher except Touchwhiz that has a list display? I'd actually prefer a pure text list display with no icons, but that's unlikely I'd guess.
There is a modified version of touchwiz for froyo in either the Apps or development forums that does that and s also supports landscape mode. Works great
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Hi
because of the Touchwiz 3.0 issue with not sorting alphabetically in grid view (crazy development by the way) i switched to GO Launcher EX which is much much better. It has many more features and is still quite small.
Cheers
Alex
I know this topic is rather old, but there is a solution.. although a dumb one.
1. Go into settings.
2. Go into Applications
3. Select all applications
4. Go down to TWLauncher or something to that effect.
5. Clear Data
Back out of everything... you'll notice TouchWiz is not working anymore. Press the home button and wait a bit or restart your device.
Everything now sorted properly.
**NOTE: I've had my home screens reset too, although this doesn't happen all the time.. If you decide to use this method, be prepared to add stuff to your home screen again (widgets, modified 4 buttons at the bottom, etc)**
"appzorter" downloadable from the market for free works fine to sort the apps alphabetically in the app drawer on touchwiz UI
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"appzorter" downloadable from the market for free works fine to sort the apps alphabetically in the app drawer on touchwiz UI
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Thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Best app for sorting apps: appzorter. Download it from the Android market. It's free.
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I updated my Nexus 7 to android 4.2, rooted it, edited the prop.build to change the LCD density to 160. Looks like Googles removing the tablet UI.
Yes this has been known since Nexus 10 was announced
Hopefully paranoidandroid can do something with it
i dont mind the phablet UI but I just want the tablet Youtube app.
i hate hate hate the phone youtube app with a passion.
does anyone know how to get the youtube app to scale out?
Ya I'm hoping PA can solve this. Not at all pleased about losing tablet ui. I guess phablet works on the nexus 7 because its meant to be held vertically but I couldn't imagine it on a 10in horizontal tablet.
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Good, tablet ui was ugly and un-userfriendly. The new ui is a lot better especially for new users.
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I can live with the phablet UI, except for the location of the navigation bar buttons. The locations essentially turn my experience into thumb olympics.
Google really needs to give us customization options for the navigation bar. Let us decide where the buttons are. Or potentially let us make the navigation bar be on the side of the screen while in landscape mode, because it's quite awful as of right now.
just updated to 4.2, checked out some of the awesome new features, rooted, adjusted my lcd density to get my tablet ui back only to find i can't.
the big phone ui is horrible, it wastes space by having two separate bars on my screen, and means i can't just hold the tablet at the bottom and still be able to reach all my controls. really disappointing.
Oh, glad I didn't update then! I hate having the status bar at the top AND the button bar at the bottom, the tablet UI is a much better use of space.
i'm a bit confused as to why they've removed the tablet ui altogether when changing the density. unless they have actually removed it entirely from the os meaning that no tablet will have the tablet ui once upgraded to 4.2 unless it's manually put there by the manufacturer.
So there is no tablet ui at all when the lcd density is changed to 160?
nope. i took it down to 170 which gives me the tablet ui for my apps like youtube, and gave me the full tablet ui on 4.1.2, but i just get a smaller phone ui on 4.2.
still worth an upgrade imho, the lock screen password entry is much nicer, multi user support is enabled, gmail has FINALLY added pinch to zoom, and i'm sure there's much more i haven't noticed yet, but i do miss my tablet ui
I definitely preferred it.
The Nexus 10 even uses the phablet UI. They're doing way with the gt tablet UI for conformity because everyone complained about it being "confusing" and Google can't figure out what they want.
So we now have a uniformed UI... Sadly.
Tablet UI was my choice. It was perfect IMO. Everything at the bottom on each side for great thumb control and a quick settings access menu for toggles. Using my N7 on 4.2 seems counter intuitive because I constantly have to shift hands to grab the top bars. I also don't care for the 2 menus. I inadvertently grab the wrong menu often... And the "toggles" are not predictable. Some are direct toggles but others are shortcuts. The major ones like Bluetooth and WiFi are shortcuts.
And the lockscreen widgets are cool... But I hate the little white border every time I unlock that indicates I can scroll. I'd move the lock screen widgets down and have a dedicated settings menu to enable/disable or just use the existing widget picked from the start menu which options of home screen or lock screen placement.
I'm sure they'll work the kinks out soon.
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You can still get Tablet UI from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
See post number 840 on page 84. Download the 4.2-TabletUI.zip and flash in recovery.
Only problem is stock launcher does not fit the screen. Nova Launcher (free from Play Store) works fine. Same Tablet experience as with 4.1.2.
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You can still get Tablet UI from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
See post number 840 on page 84. Download the 4.2-TabletUI.zip and flash in recovery.
Only problem is stock launcher does not fit the screen. Nova Launcher (free from Play Store) works fine. Same Tablet experience as with 4.1.2.
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excellent, works a treat, didn't even have to change my lcd density, and i've been using nova launcher prime since my note upgdaded to ics anyway. cheers!
You honestly disliked the Tablet UI? Each to their own I guess xD.
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wbrands said:
You can still get Tablet UI from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780970&page=84
See post number 840 on page 84. Download the 4.2-TabletUI.zip and flash in recovery.
Only problem is stock launcher does not fit the screen. Nova Launcher (free from Play Store) works fine. Same Tablet experience as with 4.1.2.
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So this is a full ROM update, not some apk you load on top of your existing ROM? If I use it, will it wipe my settings? EDIT: never mind' looked at the wrong post, it looks like post 840 has a patch
I do like the tablet interface best, easier to reach buttons with my thumb (I use my tablet horizontally a lot). Also I don't use a dock on my home screen and with the update I no longer can bring up the app drawer from the status bar.
I may try Chameleon Launcher as my "Tablet UI"
I've been looking at it for a long time and noticed that the price was just cut to $3.99.
Probably cashing in on the people who lost the old UI.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chameleonlauncher&hl=en
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I've been looking at it for a long time and noticed that the price was just cut to $3.99.
Probably cashing in on the people who lost the old UI.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chameleonlauncher&hl=en
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Chameleon is still just a launcher, it won't change you to a tablet ui.
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Chameleon is still just a launcher, it won't change you to a tablet ui.
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True, but it may resolve my issues. And my point was to share info about the price cut with people here as much as anything.
I know a lot of people have been interested but turned off by the former $10 price.
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'm running 10.1.3 and don't feel the need for anything else. On my Nexus 7 I like the Holo launcher but the CM launcher seems to have most of the same capabilities.
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I liked the 10.1 launcher (Trebuchet) well enough on my HD+, but made the move to Nova when I switched to CM 11 -- I didn't like the modality of dragging shortcuts to the left/right to create screens in the early builds, and decided I wanted to be able to impose consistency on my phone and tablet (phone's a GS3, currently running stock TouchWiz).
I have been using apex launcher on all my tablets, android 2.0, cm10.1, cm10.2.
works well easy to setup and use.
I freeze the original launcher to free up resources and never go back.
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Nova Launcher along with Open Mic+ for Google Now which allows me to say "Ok Google" anywhere even using nova and have it do what it should....
famewolf said:
Nova Launcher along with Open Mic+ for Google Now which allows me to say "Ok Google" anywhere even using nova and have it do what it should....
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you can do that with the google experience launcher and you get to swipe left for google now on your home screen.
I've been using Nova Launcher on a Nook HD+ running CM10.1.3 stable since I moved over to CM. The default CM launcher is great, but needed the additional features of Nova Prime, such as hide apps in drawer (needed to hide file manager/terminal and other apps which my younger brothers/sisters could mess with).
Generally, I'm happy with CM10.1.3 with Nova Launcher. Other than that, I have made no other customisations to the ROM.
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you can do that with the google experience launcher and you get to swipe left for google now on your home screen.
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And with nova you can swipe UP and get google now...plus all the nova enhancements that the google launcher doesn't yet support. Nova also has a full screen google now widget if you absolutely need one.
I also pointed out I can say "ok google" (or whatever catch phrase I choose to use) ANYWHERE...not just on the home screen.
I am getting this phone soon and can not wait. BUT, I really do not like the look of MUI. I'm not interested in having some kind of IOS look-a-like with no apps tray. Has anyone else been using Google Now, or any other launcher, for a while? Could someone who knows about these things explain the pros and cons of just using a different Launcher over MUI rather than flashing a new CM based ROM? Do the changes made by MUI interfere with a more traditional Android launcher?
Used miui7 on my my oneplus one for a good while. No trouble at all to just change the launcher. Was one of the first things I did the second time I used it. Mainly because I needed a launcher that would rotate 180°. Miui doesn't do that for the launcher.
But if all you want is an app drawer, you can easily simulate one with miui launcher. Just create a folder, drop every single app in there and place it in the dock area, where a drawer would be. That's all an app drawer is after all.
The only problem is sorting the apps inside the folder since on miui 7 I never found a way of sorting apps inside a folder alphabetically. I just worked around this by swiping up from the home screen and typing in the first letters of whatever app I was searching for.
BTW you're not losing anything by replacing the miui launcher, the miui experience isn't the launcher alone, it's way more than that. If anything, you're gaining extra functionality but just using nova or alike. Can't say about miui8, never used it.
One of the first things I did when I got the Mi5 a couple of days back was to install Nova Launcher for the same reason. The other thing was to swap the hardware buttons around.
It works just as you'd expect - getting an App drawer and the ability to have a centred home screen.
One of the issues with the MIUI base is that you can't change the Lockscreen wallpaper when your active launcher isn't the MIUI launcher. This is easily fixed by switching to the MIUI launcher, changing the lock screen wallpaper from the settings menus, then switching back to your launcher of choice.
I use buzz launcher and think it's great
Change the launcher. Miui is great otherwise!
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