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It's a nice phone but I'm a themer at heart so I would be too tempted to put Nova or something on this phone the day I got it so I could install custom icons and layouts etc. Do you think a 3rd party launcher would cause lag issues on top of Sense 5? I suppose it would also make the blinkfeed screen disappear as well?
omnius1 said:
It's a nice phone but I'm a themer at heart so I would be too tempted to put Nova or something on this phone the day I got it so I could install custom icons and layouts etc. Do you think a 3rd party launcher would cause lag issues on top of Sense 5? I suppose it would also make the blinkfeed screen disappear as well?
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Putting Nova will get rid of Blinkfeed.
As for lag? I don't think so.
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Putting Nova will get rid of Blinkfeed.
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On that note, would blinkfeed still run using CPU/battery/RAM in the background if I were to install a 3rd party launcher?
Won't know till you really try it. I use Nova on my s3 and it lags ever so slightly. I can't stand touchwiz, so just deal with it.
There are many options we have though. If not feeling blinkfeed, just move it to a different screen and don't update it, problem solved for sense.
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omnius1 said:
On that note, would blinkfeed still run using CPU/battery/RAM in the background if I were to install a 3rd party launcher?
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Disable all feeds and it won't do a thing.
I suppose you could always wait until the phone gets cm10. Sense 5 and blinkfeed won't even be on the phone anymore using up your ram.
Running Apex or Nova on this phone will hinder it just like wings hinder birds.
I use Nova on my S3 and no lag at all times (AOSP ROM) but when I get the HTC One ill just leave it as it is for now
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If you're rooted, then just install Nova, go to /system/app and change the Launcher.apk to Launcher.apk.bak and reboot. Or delete it completely. Or use Titanium, back it up and delete it.
I guess I should have specified, I meant how they'd perform on the One without root on the phone as-is
Been messing around with null ROM for a day now and I've decided I like TouchWiz better
But soon after I turn the Gear on all my custom apps disappear from the TouchWiz apps folder and so I have to launch Apex to access any of them
Is there any way to keep them there or add them to the home screen? All the apps installed by null ROM stay there; Root browser, SuperSU, etc
What if I install the apps I want on the home screen via custom recovery?
Edit: Actually found out they disappear from the TouchWiz apps drawer when you get a Bluetooth connection
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Been messing around with null ROM for a day now and I've decided I like TouchWiz better
But soon after I turn the Gear on all my custom apps disappear from the TouchWiz apps folder and so I have to launch Apex to access any of them
Is there any way to keep them there or add them to the home screen? All the apps installed by null ROM stay there; Root browser, SuperSU, etc
What if I install the apps I want on the home screen via custom recovery?
Edit: Actually found out they disappear from the TouchWiz apps drawer when you get a Bluetooth connection
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I think there's a build prop edit that's in a guide somewhere on here by fOmey.. How come you prefer touch whiz? I'm using nova with chrooma live wallpaper. Looks pretty cool and the launcher gives me all the customisation I could want
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I think there's a build prop edit that's in a guide somewhere on here by fOmey.. How come you prefer touch whiz? I'm using nova with chrooma live wallpaper. Looks pretty cool and the launcher gives me all the customisation I could want
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I just like the movement and gestures on it as well as the more sleek look, while a normal launcher does work fine it looks fiddly to me. Plus I like having the watch face up front and center, I use WatchStyler. If I were to use a watch face on a launcher I'd have to get rid of the dock which makes getting more apps a bit fiddly
Edit: Did find the thread you were talking about http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606999
Unfortunately it's only for rooted phones, and that's just not possible for me on my Fire Phone right now
https://plus.google.com/106975101901250307319/posts/1v9cVdXYiQ6
That's what my watch currently looks like. I use a nova launcher prime gesture to hide the dock. I'm using an old version of gmd gesture control to hide the status bar and control gestures in app.
I don't use watch style anymore because I didn't like the battery drain. The watch face is stock just long press on the launcher and add widget. When I've time I'll create a better one with zooper. Been busy working on voice control with the gear, I use it to remote control ok Google on my phone.
Can you use android apps on the fire phone? Tasker is massively important to my setup!
That looks pretty nice, if I start having battery problems I might switch over
Yeah the Fire just has Amazon's own Android OS, so it can use any apps, and thanks to a recent update you can actually use the Google Play Store
The only thing I've been having trouble with is Bluetooth tethering, it doesn't have it by default so I've been trying to use PdaNet, but it's not really a big deal
Actually just been messing around with Apex and found how to hide the drawer, so it's quite nice, but it seems WatchStyler is still incompatible with it :'(
Otherwise might switch to it
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That looks pretty nice, if I start having battery problems I might switch over
Yeah the Fire just has Amazon's own Android OS, so it can use any apps, and thanks to a recent update you can actually use the Google Play Store
The only thing I've been having trouble with is Bluetooth tethering, it doesn't have it by default so I've been trying to use PdaNet, but it's not really a big deal
Actually just been messing around with Apex and found how to hide the drawer, so it's quite nice, but it seems WatchStyler is still incompatible with it :'(
Otherwise might switch to it
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Have you read any of the tasgear threads? There's one in the general section and one in the themes and apps section. It takes the watch to a whole new level! I can't stress how useful tasker is with the gear and being able to run it on both phone and watch makes the gear unique.
Well I'm not very well versed in these things, but I've come this far, got the threads saved so I'll take a look
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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What launcher are you using on your OP6T ?
and what do you think of the oneplus launcher ?
I usually use Nova Prime, or Action Launcher Plus, but I'm actually really liking the OnePlus launcher.
I'm using Nova. If the default launcher had more grid options and didn't chop off long app names I would use it plus with Nova companion I can get the Google feed by swiping right.
Lawnchair v2.
But nova doesn't work properly on my T-Mobile oneplus 6t it laggs and sometimes i have to press icon twice to respond
This launcher would be perfect with google feeds, but I'm substituting it with google news until an implementation comes.
I use nova, pixel like launcher, but since the last version of navigation gesture, I have to use Oneplus launcher...i love this, but google feed misses me a lot ...and also the search bar at the bottom
Happy with stock, coming from pixel myself
I always use Nova - have done for years. But today I decided, "Screw it" and factory reset the phone and I'm trying it au naturel. Sure the OnePlus launcher is way behind Nova in terms of features, but I'm not particularly missing anything.
Usually use the Google Now launcher but the stock one on T-Mobile is pretty much that at this point.
I've been using lawnchair. It's been around a while, also opensource, on the play store, and has all of the customisations you might want.
Nova launcher, I tried the op launcher in the beginning but I like nova more. Way more features and options
I started off using Oneplus's launcher, and then a realized I can't re-arrange home screens. That and the spacing of apps icons was terrible. So I switched back to Nova
hartleyshc said:
Lawnchair v2.
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How long has V2 been out kindly ?
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How long has V2 been out kindly ?
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It's in "alpha" status, but is very stable. The only real bug I've had is sometimes it locks up when changing the wallpaper and doesn't reload after changing it. (50/50). In that case the quickest thing is to reboot. It takes no time at all. Sometimes if you wait a minute it will load anyways, but like I said, it's just quicker to reboot.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/deletescape/lawnchair/
Latest version was built about a month ago (Oct 18th). Comes with all of the Google feed goodness built in.
I would like to use CPL but I'm noticing that third party launchers don't use the close animation that the OnePlus Launcher uses which is smoother. Third party launchers just close screens with the drop down animation (which is the worst animation ever) but the OnePlus Launcher uses the same animation the Pixel launcher on the Pixel devices uses which looks much nicer. This forces me to use the OnePlus Launcher even though I would much rather use something with more options -- in particular CPL.
I use nova and it's works flawless,very snappy and smooth
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samtab37 said:
I use nova, pixel like launcher, but since the last version of navigation gesture, I have to use Oneplus launcher...i love this, but google feed misses me a lot ...and also the search bar at the bottom
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The Google feed is there in stock Launcher. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.
Not on mine, I can't use magisk module because I have the latest version of OnePlus launcher one OnePlus 6 that is not compatible with this.
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The Google feed is there in stock Launcher. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.
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I use lawnchair v2 with Google feed integrate and no bugs so far......
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It's in "alpha" status, but is very stable. The only real bug I've had is sometimes it locks up when changing the wallpaper and doesn't reload after changing it. (50/50). In that case the quickest thing is to reboot. It takes no time at all. Sometimes if you wait a minute it will load anyways, but like I said, it's just quicker to reboot.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/deletescape/lawnchair/
Latest version was built about a month ago (Oct 18th). Comes with all of the Google feed goodness built in.
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Hey guy's I've purchased this phone today and I was curious if this phone only plays ball with its own stock pixel launcher, I ask because I'm using nova launcher and when I lock the phone and unlock it again there seems to be a black screen for about a second before it goes to the home screen and also double tap to sleep gestures don't work smoothly
Can anyone shed some light on this for me please and sorry if it is a noob question ?
I've used Lawnchair on my Pixel 4 XL and it ran smoothly for me, none of the issues you mentioned.
I've been using Nova from the get-go and no issues like you've described. Have you looked thru all of Nova's settings? Nothing to do with Transitions? What about trying to change the phone's animations all to 0.5x?
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I've used Lawnchair on my Pixel 4 XL and it ran smoothly for me, none of the issues you mentioned.
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I'm gonna give lawnchair a go I forgot it existed for a second lol ?
velveteen71 said:
I've been using Nova from the get-go and no issues like you've described. Have you looked thru all of Nova's settings? Nothing to do with Transitions? What about trying to change the phone's animations all to 0.5x?
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I love the animations on 1.0 lol I'm just gonna try a different launcher and hope the problem disappears
I too have been using Nova since October and never had any lag issues.
It's not lag per se it's more clunky animations plus I hate that you can't use gestures with another launcher hopefully this gets fixed in Android 11 I love the swipe right from the bottom to switch between recent apps
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It's not lag per se it's more clunky animations plus I hate that you can't use gestures with another launcher hopefully this gets fixed in Android 11 I love the swipe right from the bottom to switch between recent apps
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Google made it possible for 3rd party launchers to work correctly with Android 10's gestures. I am using Action Launcher atm and the bottom right swipe works correctly along the test of the gestures.
Guys, only the pixel launcher fully works with gestures nav on the pixel 4... yes 3rd party launchers kind of work but they are not fully working and glitchy. That's why there even is a magisk module called quickswitch that make lawnchair fully working with the gestures and animations.
Hope that helps...
I think if I've learned anything from these threads... it is that there is no consensus for this topic. My opinion is that Nova is working fine. This opinion conflicts with what feels like half of other opinions.
I think anyone making/reading these threads will need to try it for themselves and form their own opinion.
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Guys, only the pixel launcher fully works with gestures nav on the pixel 4... yes 3rd party launchers kind of work but they are not fully working and glitchy. That's why there even is a magisk module called quickswitch that make lawnchair fully working with the gestures and animations.
Hope that helps...
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I knew I wasn't going crazy lol
justbfree said:
Guys, only the pixel launcher fully works with gestures nav on the pixel 4... yes 3rd party launchers kind of work but they are not fully working and glitchy. That's why there even is a magisk module called quickswitch that make lawnchair fully working with the gestures and animations.
Hope that helps...
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CleverFogs said:
I knew I wasn't going crazy lol
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The only thing in Action Launcher that doesn't work is the apps at the bottom of recents. Everything else works just like pixel launcher. Gestures, animations, copy/share any text on the recents/overview screen. It does everything that the quickstep/quickswitch module can do without it.
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It's not lag per se it's more clunky animations plus I hate that you can't use gestures with another launcher hopefully this gets fixed in Android 11 I love the swipe right from the bottom to switch between recent apps
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I use Nova with all the gestures and animations with no problems, either.