Hi, I'm planning buying P7, however I've read somewhere few things which worries me. First of all I've heard that you cannot change launcher and something about changing default apps. I want to use hangouts for sms for example. I'm not sure I'd like huawei stock apps. Can I hide or remove them?
makalele2 said:
Hi, I'm planning buying P7, however I've read somewhere few things which worries me. First of all I've heard that you cannot change launcher and something about changing default apps. I want to use hangouts for sms for example. I'm not sure I'd like huawei stock apps. Can I hide or remove them?
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yes, you can change the default app for home, sms, music, call, camera, gallery, email...with the emui 3.0 update the voice setting is difficult to find but after you know where it is everything goes well..for other app you can choose to freeze them (so the app apk is present but like it's unistalled)
Thanks for the answer. Freeze you mean they're not present on app list in launcher but apk still exist?
You can put the launcher that you want.
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I'm using flipz latest fresh toast rom, and i'm thinking of switching to using launcherpro but i can't figure some things out
At the bottom, the messaging button always goes to the stock messaging app
I did some research and everybody says it goes to whatever you have set as your default
So i went to manage apps and cleared out the data for the messaging app and then set default messenger to chomp through the people contacts
but the messaging button on launcherpro still goes to the stock messenger app
I have dolphin set as my default browser and that works just can't get frigen chomp to open
anyone know how to get this to work correctly?
If you remove Mms.apk, it'll default to your other SMS app.
However, I don't think that should do the trick. I always push the AOSP Mms.apk and then after I do that, launcherpro beta asks me which app should be default. I have a theory that if you rm your Mms.apk (after pulling it to back it up) and repush it, it should reset and then ask you which you want to set as default. I'm on Darchroid, so I can't test this theory myself, and no one in the other thread seemed to want to... So, give it a shot.
I have been told the Mms.apk is required by other programs, so removing it would be a bad idea. I too set the default messaging app to handcent and it is still going to the stock app. The LauncherPro dev said that he plans to make the bottom more customizable in his next release, which he plans to finish in about 2 weeks. I did find out that LauncherPro is not installed as a system app, so I suggest installing the update that came out 2 days ago using the market. It added 2 settings, rotate and home goes to the default page, so it acts like sense.
lineman78 said:
I have been told the Mms.apk is required by other programs, so removing it would be a bad idea. I too set the default messaging app to handcent and it is still going to the stock app. The LauncherPro dev said that he plans to make the bottom more customizable in his next release, which he plans to finish in about 2 weeks. I did find out that LauncherPro is not installed as a system app, so I suggest installing the update that came out 2 days ago using the market. It added 2 settings, rotate and home goes to the default page, so it acts like sense.
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Like I said, I agree that removing Mms.apk is a bad idea.
What I'm saying, because it HAS worked for me every time, is pushing either the AOSP Mms.apk to your phone (it's faster, nicer, and does everything the stock one does - better!) and it WILL ask which SMS app you want to use as your default (I've done it so many times it's silly, and it works every single time) OR (this is the one I HAVE NOT tested that I'm asking someone to test) is removing the HTC stock Mms.apk and the repushing it. I can even provide both the .apks if need be.
I cant get anything on the bottom row to default to anything not handcent or opera mini
This is from the LauncherPro website:
That’s it for now. I think I came up with a pretty nice way to handle the shortcut dock customization. If there are no big bugs in the current release I should be able to start working on it tomorrow, though it probably won’t be ready until next week (going to New Zealand for the weekend).
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LauncherPro seems to ignore defaults and it just opens the stock apps. I am looking forward to being able to customize the shortcut dock. The LauncherPro dev seems to work at a fairly fast pace, so I expect good things to be coming soon.
I'm looking for an app of some kind that will automatically arrange apps in the app drawer in alphabetical order.
I KNOW I can do this myself by dragging them around multiple screens, but its difficult and tedious when you have many apps and have to do it when you install something new.
Can it be that complex to write an app that does this?
A lot of other launchers have this by default, eg Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, so I recommend you try one of them.
Yes, I've been told this too. But I am not really looking to install something that will change the entire appearance of the phone, I just want this one simple feature, and I am happy with the appdrawer otherwise.
TheSippler said:
I'm looking for an app of some kind that will automatically arrange apps in the app drawer in alphabetical order.
I KNOW I can do this myself by dragging them around multiple screens, but its difficult and tedious when you have many apps and have to do it when you install something new.
Can it be that complex to write an app that does this?
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Try this, it's free...
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.demidoes.twsorter
Perfect, thanks!
TheSippler said:
Perfect, thanks!
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No problem
I'm currently on Juwes 5.0 ROM and use Launcher PRO as my home screen launcher.
I have noticed that TW Launcher is still running in the background and using quite alot of ram. Can I safely remove TW Launcher or will it mess up other parts of my phone that rely in it?
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I'm currently on Juwes 5.0 ROM and use Launcher PRO as my home screen launcher.
I have noticed that TW Launcher is still running in the background and using quite alot of ram. Can I safely remove TW Launcher or will it mess up other parts of my phone that rely in it?
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On stock rom I deleted it, no problem. I use ADW Launcher EX.
Same as the previous poster - I always remove TW Launcher and it's never caused a problem.
Cool thanks guys guess I will be removing it soon then.
What about the stock email and messaging apps? I don't use them either but I'm sure I remembered reading that if you remove one or both of them it will cause problems?
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Cool thanks guys guess I will be removing it soon then.
What about the stock email and messaging apps? I don't use them either but I'm sure I remembered reading that if you remove one or both of them it will cause problems?
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I use Go SMS and they recommend you don't remove the stock messaging app. Not sure about the email, but I've never found a reason to remove it.
gcogger said:
I use Go SMS and they recommend you don't remove the stock messaging app. Not sure about the email, but I've never found a reason to remove it.
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Well a good reason to remove it would be because it shows up in osmonitor as using ram in the back ground even though I haven't used it ever!
I think its a shame that android isn't modular enough that these things maybe can't be removed or maybe it is samsungs doing because they never thought that anyone would want to use anything but their apps
Deck6rd said:
Cool thanks guys guess I will be removing it soon then.
What about the stock email and messaging apps? I don't use them either but I'm sure I remembered reading that if you remove one or both of them it will cause problems?
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Can't help you there, I use the stock email and messaging apps. But, one time after a flash, my mms apps was missing, and i didn't realize it immediately. I had no problem during theses few hours....
remove using titanium backup.. it can remove almost any system app..
I have removed it with Titanium on overcome 4.0, no problems..Using Go Launcher X..
I have a Rooted HTC One M7 that's all up to date: android 4.4.2 HTC sense v6.0 Software v5.03.651.3
I also have titanium installed & I have uninstalled apps that I don't want that came with the OS using the titanium uninstaller
yes I know you can turn off Blinkfeed but why waste the phone space.
What I want to know is if I uninstall HTC Blinkfeed v6.1.773850
will it F up the phone in anyway???
E-TARD_The_LifeCaster said:
I have a Rooted HTC One M7 that's all up to date
I also have titanium installed & I have uninstalled apps that I don't want that came with the OS using the titanium uninstaller
yes I know you can turn off Blinkfeed but why waste the phone space.
What I want to know is if I uninstall HTC Blinkfeed v6.1.773850
will it F up the phone in anyway??
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Nandroid backup and let us know.
Sent from my kangaroo powered Inverted ViperONE using Tapatalk 2
So that's all the replays I'm going to get
Well I did some looking around & found that the name of the APK for Blinkfeed is "launcherUpdateScreen.apk" that made me fear full about removing it.
So I ask again can I remove it???
I'm running HTC Sense UI everything is stock I have just unlocked & rooted the phone
Oh more ? I have can I delete gmail.apk I don't want it & want to know if I remove it will it F up my phone???
Is there a list of what's safe to remove & what's not safe to remove???
any time I tried to disable or remove Blinkfeed from my m7 the launcher would stop working. good thing before I tried disabling it I did a backup. (Dont bother trying to disable) the best that can be done to is it go into your settings and remove blinkfeed from the page itself.
Thank you
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any time I tried to disable or remove Blinkfeed from my m7 the launcher would stop working. good thing before I tried disabling it I did a backup. (Dont bother trying to disable) the best that can be done to is it go into your settings and remove blinkfeed from the page itself.
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thank you & I have already done just that.
so from here on I will give up on removing it
but do you update Blinkfeed or see any point in updating it when you see Blinkfeed come up in the play store?
also got any input on gmail.apk?
If you don't use Gmail then I'm sure you could remove it. Although I would freeze it first to see if it causes any problems. It may mess with hangouts or other Google Apps.
Use a third party launcher...Nova,Apex,ADW,Next,ect.
BD619 said:
Use a third party launcher...Nova,Apex,ADW,Next,ect.
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This is exactly what I was going to say. Honestly, there's nothing good about the Sense launcher except for blink feed, so if you're want to "desensitize" your phone, you can do that via Ti. I would freeze HTC Weather, blinkfeed, and service pack. I did that once, and I didn't see any negative effects. Once you're confident with that, you can defrost then delete those apps via Ti. Make a backup if your setup is valuable.
Oh yeah, you'll lose all lock screen shortcuts if you delete blink feed, so keep that in mind.
Thanks for all the replies everyone
Thanks for all the replies everyone
I'm a upper level android user & that's only because I'm a hardcore Linux user
but changing things like the launcher & other things beyond that is too advanced for me.
I have fears of bricking my phone, so I keep everything stock & just root/unlock/s-off etc...
but stay stock.
As for the Blinkfeed I will just leave that turned off & alone
but even with it off should I update Blinkfeed?? there is an update for it in the play store.
As for the gmail I will try & freeze it & see what happens.
the Google user I have for my phone, I don't use the gmail.
the user I made is just for my phone, the only thing I use it for to just to access the play store & that is only to get free apps.
I have another gmail user that I use for email but I don't trust checking email over a phone so I don't. (I work in computer & network security so I'm always paranoid about security)
E-TARD_The_LifeCaster said:
Thanks for all the replies everyone
I'm a upper level android user & that's only because I'm a hardcore Linux user
but changing things like the launcher & other things beyond that is too advanced for me.
I have fears of bricking my phone, so I keep everything stock & just root/unlock/s-off etc...
but stay stock.
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For future reference, root/S-OFF/unlock is a much higher percentage for bricking your phone than installing a launcher APK, which has about a zero percent chance.
So you should feel safe installing Nova or any other launcher that you want if that will help your situation...
well I have confidence in doing that because I have done it soo many time & I understand all of it but there are areas of Android I just have not had the time to learn.
with a third-party launcher does the old one keep running in the background? & can the old be remove all the way?
E-TARD_The_LifeCaster said:
well I have confidence in doing that because I have done it soo many time & I understand all of it but there are areas of Android I just have not had the time to learn.
with a third-party launcher does the old one keep running in the background? & can the old be remove all the way?
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A third party launcher is just another app. When you first install it, it asks you which launcher you want to use by default, or you can select either launcher every time you press the home key.
If you ever want to you can remove the new launcher via uninstalling the app and it just defaults back to the old one, exactly as you had it.
Just think of it as a normal app, it has about as much chance of bricking your phone as Candy Crush.
Hi guys,
I'm getting a problem related to the chinese variant. And it's really irritating, i hope you can help as this is really popular and discussed a lot.
-Google assistant won't stay the default assist app.
-Access with voice match is greyed out.
-when i make google the default assist app, google is greyed out as seen in the third screenshot.
-weirdly enough i don't have default assist app anywhere in settings, I can only access it from google (first screeshot)
I already have disabled breeno stuff and some chinese stuff except breeno space.
I tried some solutions online from deleting cache to re-installing google, but the issue is rom related.
What i haven't tried is unlocking bootloader and rooting then making the assistant a system app. So what I'm trying to say is did anyone have it working like a charm, and how??
Unfortunately that's what the rom does. The only way I had made it to work is using tasker..
My first approach was for event when the secure config was changed tasker will change it back to Google. But this doesn't seem to work all the time.
My second approach was to create a shortcut that set the assistant and then launches the app. See screenshot.
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Unfortunately that's what the rom does. The only way I had made it to work is using tasker..
My first approach was for event when the secure config was changed tasker will change it back to Google. But this doesn't seem to work all the time.
My second approach was to create a shortcut that set the assistant and then launches the app. See screenshot.
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Man this is irritating, using tasker for an assistant ?? this reminds me of an old tcl tv I have running android 4.4 and no matter what I do i can't get apps to function correctly on there
I tried making it a system app. Didnt work. still greyed out. I used android terminal App systemizer
It moved the whole folder to system/apps. I also tried system/priv-apps. But its weird that i can still uninstall google from the app drawer.
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I tried making it a system app. Didnt work. still greyed out. I used android terminal App systemizer
It moved the whole folder to system/apps. I also tried system/priv-apps. But its weird that i can still uninstall google from the app drawer.
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This is absolute bs, i thought root will make it work but now i don't even know why the cn rom is behaving like this.
I really hope someone got it working