I am thinking about trading my Note Edge in for a Nexus 6, played with one today at the store and I really liked it, the screen is amazing. But one thing about Lollipop turned me off big time and may be a deal breaker. The white background in the app drawer and settings, this is the ugliest thing ive ever seen, completely blocking the beautiful screen in the background. Looked in the settings on the display phone in the store and could not find anything to change it, please tell me their a way. Because if not, I will not use 5.0 til this is resolved!
Use a launcher off the play store. There are dozens that allow you to customize all you want.
Nova Launcher will allow you to set transparency in your app drawer. You will have to run a custom ROM to get rid of the white settings.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
The settings is black on LS ROM. And Nova launcher works great too for black backgrounds.
Oops.
Thanks guys, I was worried.
I am a huge fan of the inverted themes especially on the Super AMOLED Screens because they have the best blacks. I've been trying to look for an inverted (black theme) Google Play Music App but I can't seem to find it anywhere or figure out how to do it. Does anyone have any advice? All my music is in the cloud so I can't use another app.
Just trying to get some ideas for how to get a stock android look/feel as much as possible on the S6 without rooting it.
Interested to try out the material design theme along with the google now launcher when it's available.
What do changes have you guys made for a stock look and feel on your S6?
In case you hadnt seen it, try this. http://www.xda-developers.com/stock-lollipop-theme-now-available-for-s6-theme-engine/
As above, that theme and the Google Now launcher should do the job
EDIT: Google Now launcher works, but it reverts to stock Samsung app icons
I use nova launcher and Material theme and its great! You can see here https://youtu.be/l0cLB1fPHOg
Plus these are my favourite 3 themes available if you decide for other look https://youtu.be/l0cLB1fPHOg
Vanilla Android Experience on Galaxy S6
Yes Google Now is the way to go and get the Material Theme form the Samsung Theme Store. It's performance s very good and has no noticeable Bugs.
I use the new Material theme from Samsung theme store, then use Nova Launcher (with lollipop animations/looks selected) and use a lollipop icon pack
Cool!
I've ended up going with the Google Now Launcher and the Material Design theme (although i want to use the Material Dark theme if/when it makes it into the theme store)
I managed to get a icon pack that worked with google now launcher - although it doesn't change the icons within the app draw unfortunately. Maybe i'll try look for another icon pack.
Gonna keep tweeking but at the moment very happy with the google now launcher and material design theme to give me that stock look/feel.
Action launcher looks exactly like Google now launcher but is more customizable and supports icon packs. it's got some pretty awesome features too
What would be nice is If you could change the status bar icons e.g. Singal, battery etc to AOSP icons.
Google now launcher + FlyingBlue theme + Simpler Dialer and Contacts
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Just trying to get some ideas for how to get a stock android look/feel as much as possible on the S6 without rooting it.
Interested to try out the material design theme along with the google now launcher when it's available.
What do changes have you guys made for a stock look and feel on your S6?
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nova launcher prime + mianogen icon pack on playstore
material theme by Cameron Bunch on samsung theme store
everything looks good for me
I recently moved from a Nexus 5 to a Galaxy s6. Of course I wanted the pure android look so I installed the google now launcher and the material theme.
The problem I am having is the phone icon still shows the ugly green touchwiz icon as well as the touchwiz camera icon (don't know if that should change or not).
From the screenshots I see it looks like the phone dialer should change as well.
Any ideas?
The icons will not change with the Google Now Launcher. You will need a third party app to do that, or use a launcher like Nova.
The in-call UI will not be themed, but the dialer should before you actually place the call.
Let me know if you have more questions :good:
Install Nova Launcher and then install Moonshine iconpack.
I have been trying out different launchers on my S8. Let me know of any you are familiar with or recommend.
Microsoft Launcher: I am currently using this and pleasantly surprised. I don't login to Microsoft because I don't use those services but see how it could be a good thing for those that do. MS has made a very nice tablet launcher experience. Even the MS Start news app works well enough as a Google Now replacement. I love to hide junk news sources I don't want to read, and can request fewer articles on topics of interest. There are ads in the feed but at least they are subtle and have an indicator so you don't have to click. Loading news is sometimes slow but it could be my connection.
Smart Launcher: looks great but it is a subscription service to reap the full functionality. I saw that they also use MS Smart but it doesn't seem to work well in that launcher. I can't get my head around the launcher subscription service revenue model, who would pay monthly, or the value add to do so.
Nova Launcher: my go-to on phones. However, the tablet experience isn't great. I couldn't figure out how to move the dock to the bottom in landscape.
Apex Launcher: seems nice but also has a subscription model. I didn't spend much time with it.
Action Launcher: another I used for years on phones before switching to Nova. I also couldn't figure out how to move the dock to the bottom in landscape.
If I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm super fond of the OneUI launcher and have been using that instead of Nova for a couple of weeks now. Samsung has made OneUI even better in the coming updates, so I just don't even change it now.
@SavXL I am in total agreement. OneUI 4.1 has evolved very well. I had a Samsung Note 9 with the earlier OUI versions which I didn't prefer over Nova.
As a launcher hopper, I will use the OneUI launcher again. Icon pack support would be a nice addition.
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@SavXL I am in total agreement. OneUI 4.1 has evolved very well. I had a Samsung Note 9 with the earlier OUI versions which I didn't prefer over Nova.
As a launcher hopper, I will use the OneUI launcher again. Icon pack support would be a nice addition.
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You can install custom icons for oneUI through galaxy Theme store.
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You can install custom icons for oneUI through galaxy Theme store.
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Indeed! I used Theme Store in the past.
From within OUI launcher icon preferences vs. theme store is my wish for installing icon packs. To be fair, Google's pixel launcher doesn't allow this either.
If you are really advanced, use total launcher and you won't regret it.. Basically you can re create any launcher with it. But 1st time you use it, it's look awful.. By far the most advanced launcher right now if you give it time to understand what you can do with it. But i still use nova when i want something simple to use it in 5 minutes.
Here an example of my theme i created in total launcher. I inspired from htc. (I could create exactly the same launcher htc had if i wanted):
johninsf said:
I have been trying out different launchers on my S8. Let me know of any you are familiar with or recommend.
Microsoft Launcher: I am currently using this and pleasantly surprised. I don't login to Microsoft because I don't use those services but see how it could be a good thing for those that do. MS has made a very nice tablet launcher experience. Even the MS Start news app works well enough as a Google Now replacement. I love to hide junk news sources I don't want to read, and can request fewer articles on topics of interest. There are ads in the feed but at least they are subtle and have an indicator so you don't have to click. Loading news is sometimes slow but it could be my connection.
Smart Launcher: looks great but it is a subscription service to reap the full functionality. I saw that they also use MS Smart but it doesn't seem to work well in that launcher. I can't get my head around the launcher subscription service revenue model, who would pay monthly, or the value add to do so.
Nova Launcher: my go-to on phones. However, the tablet experience isn't great. I couldn't figure out how to move the dock to the bottom in landscape.
Apex Launcher: seems nice but also has a subscription model. I didn't spend much time with it.
Action Launcher: another I used for years on phones before switching to Nova. I also couldn't figure out how to move the dock to the bottom in landscape.
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I'm using nova and the dock moves to the bottom. However, I am facing a weird issue where the status bar icons remain black on dark background.
lenana said:
I'm using nova and the dock moves to the bottom. However, I am facing a weird issue where the status bar icons remain black on dark background.
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Probably issue with nova launcher. Try using oneui and see if issue remains. If not, then issue is due to nova launcher
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Probably issue with nova launcher. Try using oneui and see if issue remains. If not, then issue is due to nova launcher
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The problem persists even with one UI launcher. In fact I uninstalled nova.
lenana said:
The problem persists even with one UI launcher. In fact I uninstalled nova.
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Weird so far I have not gotten this issue on mine
Square Home Launcher by "ChYK the dev" works really well on larger devices. It's like a Windows 10 start menu look, but with lots of options. Takes a bit to get it customized just right, but well worth the time.
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Weird so far I have not gotten this issue on mine
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I changed system font to roboto sans and the issue went away, back to nova launcher. Weird!
lenana said:
I changed system font to roboto sans and the issue went away, back to nova launcher. Weird!
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What method did you use to change to a non-default font? Did you just download it from Samsung's store?
This one: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...v2-1-for-samsung-oneui-1-2-3-no-root.4195613/ ?
I've used Nova Launcher on all four of my tablets. going back to 2014. Just last month I upgraded from a Tab S4 to a Tab S8+.
Transferring was a breeze. The backup function worked like a charm -- all the settings were transferred from my old to the new tablet. And it copied the icons for all the apps -- even those not yet installed. Icon locations and grouped icons were all in the same place they were on the old tablet. Those icons for not installed apps were gray, and clicking them brings a message asking if you want to install them. If you say yes, it opens the app in the Play Store. Then after they install, it goes to full color. For sideloaded apps, just install and the icons turn active. This made it easy to install all the apps I had before. No missing aps.
As far as the launcher goes, all the settings, layouts and defaults are the same. I think the only thing I had to manually install widgets that were on apps that weren't yet installed when I restored the backup on the new tablet.
Joe
Niagara Launcher.
For me it's the best Launcher after testing so many alternatives.
Switched from Nova to Niagara and never looked back.