Long press on a Home screen is meant to switch the screen to edit mode - and it does, except in the case of the Stocks app. A long press opens the app. I want to remove the widget from the screen and i do not know how to do it.
What am I doing wrong?
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Peter
Hold your finger on the widget and move it to the bin.
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I just picked up a 10.1 tab. It is rooted with recovery and the Overcome 10.1 1.2.1 rom on it. Everything is pretty awesome but I have a couple of questions due to my newness to HC.
I currently have one home screen. If I am on the home screen and I press home it shows my home screen on top of the home screen with a dark, see through, background. Looks pretty silly. What is the purpose of this?
If I long press the icon to the right, that normally brings up running apps on the left, I also get the stupid home screen laid over top of my home screen. Again, what is the purpose.
I got a lot to learn, thanks!
pcm2a said:
I just picked up a 10.1 tab. It is rooted with recovery and the Overcome 10.1 1.2.1 rom on it. Everything is pretty awesome but I have a couple of questions due to my newness to HC.
I currently have one home screen. If I am on the home screen and I press home it shows my home screen on top of the home screen with a dark, see through, background. Looks pretty silly. What is the purpose of this?
If I long press the icon to the right, that normally brings up running apps on the left, I also get the stupid home screen laid over top of my home screen. Again, what is the purpose.
I got a lot to learn, thanks!
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By default, when you press the home button while already on your homescreen, it gives you a preview of all your screens. You only have one screen though so its showing you a translucent preview of your only screen. Press the home button again and it should go away.
The button to the right only needs to be pressed, not long pressed, to bring those up.
FYI, if you long press the home button, it's a built in task killer.
Tivo7 said:
By default, when you press the home button while already on your homescreen, it gives you a preview of all your screens. You only have one screen though so its showing you a translucent preview of your only screen. Press the home button again and it should go away.
The button to the right only needs to be pressed, not long pressed, to bring those up.
FYI, if you long press the home button, it's a built in task killer.
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Lol, that makes perfect sense. I would get the multiple screen previews on my thunderbolt too. Only having one screen was throwing me off.
The button on my right looks like a square on a square appears to bring up a list of running apps with previews on the left side of my screen. Like a task manager to switch running tasks. Long pressing that button doesn't bring up the running tasks but the home screen previews. I'll double check that in a few.
pcm2a said:
Lol, that makes perfect sense. I would get the multiple screen previews on my thunderbolt too. Only having one screen was throwing me off.
The button on my right looks like a square on a square appears to bring up a list of running apps with previews on the left side of my screen. Like a task manager to switch running tasks. Long pressing that button doesn't bring up the running tasks but the home screen previews. I'll double check that in a few.
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The Square on Square is Recent Apps (like your thunderbolt would bring up if you longpress the Home button).
Long pressing the Home button on this Tablet brings up a Task Killer app (which does show your running apps and gives you the ability to end them)
...You can also access this Task Killer program, as well as some others by pressing the bottom middle button (Most ROMs, including the Stock ROM, have this button set as a ^ symbol)
NOTE: There is NO WAY to change the programs that come up when pressing this bottom middle button, they're built into the system in some way that we can't access.
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does anyone know of an app that i can put a shortcut on my desktop and when i click it, it changes the screen orientation
i know the phone will automatically do it dependent of the position of the phone, but i want to be able to press a shortcut / widget and it then changes it to landscape / portrait
thanks
There is something similar called Rotation Locker (You can search for it in this very forum)
It can be remapped to Search key long press, so you can just hold down the search key and the thing will pop up.
You can also place the app icon to the homescreen from the app drawer, it will have the same function as the long press search key way.
EDIT: Oh and it will force apps into Portrait/Landscape, so even the apps that don't allow landscape will be in landscape.
just what im looking for....thank you very much
Hello! Do you have any idea to fulfill this option on galaxy s2? This would be easier to turn off the screen without pressing the side button. For instance, if I press and hold the left touchable button I want to switch my screen off, not open the google searcher. Can it be accomplishable?
down load invisible lock widget free from play store and put it any where on the screen u like
sy007 said:
down load invisible lock widget free from play store and put it any where on the screen u like
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Yea, this app is gr8 , but still sth missing. How can i change the searcher button with this app. There were written that" long press button switch the screen off"
Sorry if this has been asked, search functions seems to be down at the moment, but I just got my Sprint S3 on Tuesday and noticed that when you press the home button while on the home screen it shows the screen previews, normal.
Now ever since yesterday when I press the home key it just goes to the home screen but does not do the screen preview. Is there something that I turned off by accident or is my phone acting up, its not really a big deal to me but I just want to make sure my phone is not defective. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks in advance.
There's three functions for the home button so far as I know.
1) Single press, takes you back to your launcher's main screen.
2) Single press with hold, takes you to the task manager that shows you what's currently running along with previews of the apps.
3) Double press, takes you to S Voice.
I'm guessing that you are looking for number 2.
TLS2000 said:
There's three functions for the home button so far as I know.
1) Single press, takes you back to your launcher's main screen.
2) Single press with hold, takes you to the task manager that shows you what's currently running along with previews of the apps.
3) Double press, takes you to S Voice.
I'm guessing that you are looking for number 2.
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Thats really weird because like I said when I first got the phone and was on the home screen and pressed the button again it did the screen previews but now it only does what you listed. I wonder if anyone else had this happen, oh well thanks for the response.
Prior to running ViperDNA I could have swore that when I long pressed the home button I was able to add or remove home screens (I know I could at least remove them). I like to use one home screen on my phone and put shortcuts in folders instead of using multiple screens.
Since going to Viper I had changed my home button long press to screenshot and I am not sure how to eliminate my home screens now. Is there a long press option or another way all together that I am missing to get to where I can eliminate my additional home screens?
If I tap my home button from my home screen I am able to delete by long pressing on a screen I want to remove
cenobite138 said:
If I tap my home button from my home screen I am able to delete by long pressing on a screen I want to remove
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Yup that worked. I feel like a big dummy. All of these options in Viper I guess I assumed it was a long press.