I installed this to get Live Wallpapers on my Eris. I decided I didn't care for it and used the nand backup I previously made to restore. I thought all was well until I cleared default on Sense again and saw the Nexus Launcher was still there, and it's still functional. Live Wallpapers is still an option as well, but all of them are gone except the two Cube wallpapers.
Am I missing something? I thought I just had to go into recovery and restore my Nand backup to go back to how my phone was before installing this new patch
I tried searching, but I'm not exactly sure what to search for.. if I missed it, please go easy on me..
Which rom are you running?
I ask because some roms have nexus launcher built in but not default.
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Which rom are you running?
I ask because some roms have nexus launcher built in but not default.
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I'm running 'Rooted 2.1 v0.8T2', found in this tutorial.
I can see the Nexus Launcher being default in some ROMs, but what about the Live Wallpapers?
Am I suppose to 'Wipe' before restoring a Nand backup?
edit: Did a wipe, and even wiped cache then restored my backup... they're still there.
edit2: I remembered that I installed the Nexus lock screen mod. Thinking that maybe the launcher came with it, I reverted to an older backup and NOPE! the damned Nexus launcher is still there, as are Live Wallpapers..
Okay, sorry for the double post but this deserves it.. I think.
I did a completely fresh install of the Rooted 2.1 v0.8T2 linked to above. I saw in recovery that it wiped data and cache before installing.
Upon first boot, I was presented with a pop-up asking me which home screen I'd like to use, and Nexus Launcher was an option!
This would lead one to believe that it was included in the ROM, except that my email and applications were all preserved and working and this, in fact, was not a fresh installation as it was intended to be.
Ugh..
edit: Widgets were out of place, as expected, but all applications and my mail accounts and emails are preserved.. how does this happen? I wiped manually, and I saw it wipe data and cache upon installation..
edit2: Okay! I was giving up, and decided to re-install that 'Rooted 2.1 v0.8T2' again, and this time it presented me with the setup upon first boot (last time, it just booted up like the phone had been restarted). All of my customizations and email accounts are gone, but Nexus Launcher and Live Wallpapers are still there lol.
Ivan mentions nothing about having Nexus Launcher and Live Wallpapers installed by default in this ROM, but he also says he didn't have time for a full walk-through.. so I'm going to assume it's in there by default at this point.
Yeah, the nexus launcher is included in that rom.
It really shouldn't be a problem..
you can dl Home Switcher in the market and it lets you switch back and forth through your home apps.
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Yeah, the nexus launcher is included in that rom.
It really shouldn't be a problem..
you can dl Home Switcher in the market and it lets you switch back and forth through your home apps.
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Haha, thanks That explains that away..
Now, about this recovery not doing it's job properly... oh well, nevermind, it eventually worked anyway.
Thanks for the input
Yeah, I have no idea about that, lol.
I didn't even know the nexus launcher was included until I started reading through the posts on Ivan's thread, because I never got a popup asking which one I'd like to use, lol. But Home Switcher showed me, cool little app. Hate the nexus launcher though, lags like crazzzy on my phone.
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Yeah, I have no idea about that, lol.
I didn't even know the nexus launcher was included until I started reading through the posts on Ivan's thread, because I never got a popup asking which one I'd like to use, lol. But Home Switcher showed me, cool little app. Hate the nexus launcher though, lags like crazzzy on my phone.
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It seems to work well on mine until I open a couple of apps, then it freezes and won't even FC.. leaving me to soft reset with a battery pull.
I gave it a shot, but decided to stick with Sense for now
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I am currently running the OTA 2.1 rooted rom.. been liking it, but not LOVING sense anymore.. seems to just lag a lot.
Im trying to find a rom that has the following:
The HTC weather/clock widget. (i love this.. dont know why)
Working google maps/nav
working Live wallpapers with jcase's opengl patch.
working/non crashing google voice.
facebook integration / maybe friendstream?
flan lock screen (or working lock 2.0.. I found with sense and lock 2.0 it was always buggy/laggy when the phone would ring.. no matter how many times I tried to unlock it i would miss the call)
has anyone seen this all in a rom? would love some suggestions.
Ty
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I am currently running the OTA 2.1 rooted rom.. been liking it, but not LOVING sense anymore.. seems to just lag a lot.
Im trying to find a rom that has the following:
The HTC weather/clock widget. (i love this.. dont know why)
Working google maps/nav
working Live wallpapers with jcase's opengl patch.
working/non crashing google voice.
facebook integration / maybe friendstream?
flan lock screen (or working lock 2.0.. I found with sense and lock 2.0 it was always buggy/laggy when the phone would ring.. no matter how many times I tried to unlock it i would miss the call)
has anyone seen this all in a rom? would love some suggestions.
Ty
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well you cannot get rid of sense and have the htc weather widget. there are vanilla roms (which removes ALL sense related items) but you would lose the weather you want. there is also a senseless theme you can apply to any rom to remove sense related stuff. errors i have seen with jcase's opengl patch mess up navi. i had lwp for a few days and removed it as it just eats away battery and does lag the phone up.
you can get the n1 lock screen on any ROM as all you have to do is delete the htclockscreen.apk and it will give you that. you just need to flash to all the differnt ROMS, make NAND backups of the ones you like and find one that fits you and then keep it. i flash almost daily as these devs keep putting sick ass ROMs out, but I am currently at aloyious v6 as i need nav and dont care for lwp. but he does have a version out that does have lwp and not nav. so you do have a choice.
So Far today I have flashed:
Vanilla Rom - didnt have the htc clock.. I really like that.. After reading some more I came across the same conclusion, if I want the htc clock.. I need sense.
loaded up jcase's patch for opengl.. ran wallpapers for about 20 min, and yep.. had enough... I guess I do really like sense?
EvilEris1.1 - google login bug - that was a show stopper for me, other than that it seemed fast.
Sensable 2.0 - Currently playing with and the only issue I have had so far is that the text in the dialer is grey and you can barely read it.
Im going to make a nandroid backup of this one and try aloyious v6
IS there a way to name the nandroid backups? it uses the date as the name. would love something a little more intuative.
Thanks for the response and the tips.
Yes, you can change the name. Just plugin your phone via USB and hit mount and then go to the NAND directory. There will be another dir and then just open that one and then all your NAND backups will be there. I name mine after each one as I cannot remember which ROM I flashed before which.
Also, dont forget to wipe data and dalvik when going back to a NAND backup.
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Yes, you can change the name. Just plugin your phone via USB and hit mount and then go to the NAND directory. There will be another dir and then just open that one and then all your NAND backups will be there. I name mine after each one as I cannot remember which ROM I flashed before which.
Also, dont forget to wipe data and dalvik when going back to a NAND backup.
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Ok, cool.. I didnt know if it needed the DIR name to be the date in order to work.. I was working off a spreadhseet with
THIS DIR = THIS ROM
Sooo much easier now
Thank you again.
Seeing how the time is on the lockscreen and also in the not. bar, I decided that I could live without the flip clock taking up half of my home screen. Here's what I did.
Flashed Eris_Official 0.81T2
Flashed Senless patch
falshed Nexus One patch
flashed Nexus Launcher Wtih LP's patch.
Now I enjoy a mostly vanilla rom, with the HTC dialer, nexus launcher and live wallpapers and it's smooth as butter and bug free.
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Seeing how the time is on the lockscreen and also in the not. bar, I decided that I could live without the flip clock taking up half of my home screen. Here's what I did.
Flashed Eris_Official 0.81T2
Flashed Senless patch
falshed Nexus One patch
flashed Nexus Launcher Wtih LP's patch.
Now I enjoy a mostly vanilla rom, with the HTC dialer, nexus launcher and live wallpapers and it's smooth as butter and bug free.
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How about google maps navigation? I keep reading about the nav bug with live wallpapers.
I've heard that too, but haven't noticed a problem.
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If I'm using GO Launcher EX do I still need the TW launcher? And can I cause any real harm by removing it?
I froze it and used it for a while and found no problems without TWLauncher.
Reason I did that was I noticed I had both running and was causing slow downs.
Ive been trying to like the GO stuff cause of the customization, and every time I switch I come back to stock for some odd reason.
Good to know. Thank you!
EDIT: Just removed it from my phone. Thanks again
It's a really really good idea to have at least two launchers. That way if something causes your launcher to crash, all you need is a shortcut (swipepad,tasker ,ect) to get to settings or an app like home launcher. It royally sucks to have to flash an old backup or an entire rom just because your launcher quick working.
All it can take to crash a launcher is a bad theme or something equally simple.
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I don't mind and have noticed significant gains in battery since removing it.
If you're stock and want stock updates, you need TW. Kies sometimes won't see your phone if you use a different launcher. Not sure about this phone but noticed it on my captivate and Infuse.
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I don't use Kies and I'm getting much better battery life (about 3 additional hours) with TW launcher gone. Thanks for the warning though
Im new here but have done some experimenting with my captivate and like you I have noticed how running go and tw drags it down. I wanna either uninstall it or maybe just turn it off but I cant find the damned on/off switch. Gimme a lil guidance please????
Go to Titanium Backup and freeze it, make sure to do a backup and have the new launcher ready.
I don't have a sgsII, but I did remove the stock launcher on my LG Thrill and had juice defender screw up my phone on a reboot. When I hard reset the phone was 'light' bricked because there was no launcher.
I finally fixed it by flashing a stock rom. Take the earlier advice and FREEZE it, that way if you ever have to format you'll have it back.
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i made a noob mistake by freezing tw launcher thinking i had go launcher available. i completely forgot i had uninstalled go launcher prior so i was able to get to home screen. i didnt want to wipe and restore.
good thing i had widgetlock with ICS theme slider and had swipe down to enable vlingo incar. i asked it to open titanium backup. then i was able to unfreeze the launcher. if i had just uninstalled tw launcher, i would have to do a reflash.
so it is a good advice to have a 2nd launcher available if anything does go wrong or made a mistake like me. dont remove, just freeze it.
hmm
how can i remove tw luncher?
Crommy said:
how can i remove tw luncher?
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Really? Really? How old is this thread. Man...
Crommy said:
how can i remove tw luncher?
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It says in the thread...
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Its from last year. He just doesn't know how to use Google I assume.
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Really? Really? How old is this thread. Man...
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Hey the mods always b*** about making duplicate threads haha
Here is another launcher for ICS. It is like stock launcher but have options like adw and launcher pro ie transparent app drawer, gestures, lock desktop etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452663
I'm definitely gonna try this out. Not sure how much experience yyouve had with this but installing as system app shouldnt remove the default launcher your rom comes with? ie most ICS roms come with trebuchet launcher?
No, it installs as normal app and you don't need to move it to /system folder for widgets to show up in app drawer.
good find on this launcher, it feels alot like launcher pro but totally revamped for ics
just needs resizable widgets
shreddintyres said:
good find on this launcher, it feels alot like launcher pro but totally revamped for ics
just needs resizable widgets
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That option is in apex settings>advanced.
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Much appreciated
I love you Alex.
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That option is in apex settings>advanced.
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I cant believe i missed that, thanks for the heads up, this is quite an awesome launcher i dont think i can go back to anything that doesnt use ics as a base any more
what do you prefer,this or NOVA?
personally on my galaxy nexus i prefer nova..but only because it's more mature.apex is a month newer,but with already a lot of features..nova,at this time,have more features,but i find apex more speedy and i hadn't got any issues or unstability also on gpu-renderized
works great in ICS passion v 12
Guys and girls, just a heads up - updating Apex Launcher is apparently resulting in Force Close dialog ad nauseam - DO NOT update Apex for now or else you'll be stuck. Thankfully I had Avast installed and using the Avast Application Manager I managed to access Apex's App Info page and uninstalled updates, now back to normal but won't update it for now. Recent Apex reviews on Play Store show that this is not ROM-related or an isolated event. You've been warned. (If you read this that is)...
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Guys and girls, just a heads up - updating Apex Launcher is apparently resulting in Force Close dialog ad nauseam - DO NOT update Apex for now or else you'll be stuck. Thankfully I had Avast installed and using the Avast Application Manager I managed to access Apex's App Info page and uninstalled updates, now back to normal but won't update it for now. Recent Apex reviews on Play Store show that this is not ROM-related or an isolated event. You've been warned. (If you read this that is)...
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Last night my phone auto updated the apex launcher and exactly what you said happened. I went into clockwork recovery and tried to restore and it gave an error and now the phone seems bricked. It won't boot up beyond the vibrant screen, and it won't let me get into recovery. What should I do?
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Last night my phone auto updated the apex launcher and exactly what you said happened. I went into clockwork recovery and tried to restore and it gave an error and now the phone seems bricked. It won't boot up beyond the vibrant screen, and it won't let me get into recovery. What should I do?
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Before you tried the restore, did you delete everything *superwipe or format*?
i used apex laucher and i check auto update . but it has a problem so i flash new rom
so...now that we have an unlocked bootloader and development will start pouring in, i have a question for you all
i have hubs...i love my hubs
(adw ex)
but it takes a hell of a long time to install the hubs..if i flash a new rom, is there any way to restore those widgets?
i would have to install adw ex, i am assuming
can i just save the current settings and then reinstall adw after flashing rom and restore the settings in adw? will that bring everything to what it is now?
just want some info for anyone who has tried this already or knows..
thanks!
I have tried to backup the settings and what not but everytime I restore them the widgets always states.... problem loading widget, so I have to replace the widget back, a real pain but it has to be done when you flash alot of different roms as far as I can tell. I have tried doing it via titanium backup as well same result.
that's what i was scared of...back in my droid days, i got that "problem loading widget" when restoring settings with launcherpro plus...probably a common problem with all launchers..they just can't accurately save data/widgets in order to restore them...
hopefully something comes out that could support it
i am going to wait to flash any rom because of how long it takes...it really would have to blow me away with its' stats for it to be worth it..
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that's what i was scared of...back in my droid days, i got that "problem loading widget" when restoring settings with launcherpro plus...probably a common problem with all launchers..they just can't accurately save data/widgets in order to restore them...
hopefully something comes out that could support it
i am going to wait to flash any rom because of how long it takes...it really would have to blow me away with its' stats for it to be worth it..
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I'm with you. I have 8 hubs and it took several hours to set this up once.
I remember spending hours on getting pages set up with heavy use of the Minimalistic Text widget on my Droid X2, being all proud about it, and then becoming a flash-addict only to find the dreaded "problem loading widget". Wish they could fix this soon but I'm sitting on the sideline for now as far as unlocking my bootloader anyway.
The question is, how long can I hold out? Getting my flash-fix through my X2 will only satisfy for so long...
i'm sure some people have figured it out...but i just wanted to give an update to my question...
nova launcher is almost perfect in restoring widgets..so as long as you use nova launcher between roms or doing whatever, it'll restore your widgets and settings almost perfectly...
saves a lot of time...especially on my flash happy galaxy nexus...but helps with the prime as well, so in case someone stumbles on this forum, hopefully that'll help them out...
you must use nova launcher first...save your settings, then when you do a clean wipe and flash a rom...install all your old apps via titanium or whatever, then restore settings back with nova and voila, all widgets and such will be restored..
I'm totally new to Android, with the Note being my first device on this side of the line. I have used an iPhone for 4 years, but I couldn't resist this sexy screen and the ability to ditch carrying a phone, iPad, and Moleskine notebook around all the time. I am loving it so far, but I am tired of not having ICS.
Anyway, I want to flash CM9's unofficial release, but I have a couple reservations. I've read how to do it, have ROM Manager, CWM, and all that. I'm already rooted, etc.
So. My question is this: I am already using ADW EX to theme my Gingerbread and have my widgets set up like I want. Is there a way after flashing the CM9 ROM to restore the settings and themes I already spent the time to set up? Through Titanium Backup, maybe?
Or am I going to be reworking settings and layouts for a while?
Thanks a lot, folks.
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Actually, either CM9 or OnlyOne. I had forgotten CM9 didn't have the S-Pen premium suite yet.
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professorbeej said:
I'm totally new to Android, with the Note being my first device on this side of the line. I have used an iPhone for 4 years, but I couldn't resist this sexy screen and the ability to ditch carrying a phone, iPad, and Moleskine notebook around all the time. I am loving it so far, but I am tired of not having ICS.
Anyway, I want to flash CM9's unofficial release, but I have a couple reservations. I've read how to do it, have ROM Manager, CWM, and all that. I'm already rooted, etc.
So. My question is this: I am already using ADW EX to theme my Gingerbread and have my widgets set up like I want. Is there a way after flashing the CM9 ROM to restore the settings and themes I already spent the time to set up? Through Titanium Backup, maybe?
Or am I going to be reworking settings and layouts for a while?
Thanks a lot, folks.
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Welcome aboard my friend! & about your little concern if i believe ADW EX should have a back & restore option for your theme/layout that you already have. Just make sure when it does back it up you move it too your external_sd card that way it wont be deleted if anything were too go wrong. Oh and just like you said use titanium back up and back yo **** up! As sad as this may sound I just recently learned how to utilize TB (titanium backup) the right way lmao xD But yeah.. do what i said and you'll be just fine ill try and post a link or something.
Here are a few links i found useful:
-Back up Multiple ADW Ex configs
http://forums.androidcentral.com/wa...s/121392-back-up-multiple-adw-ex-configs.html < Not so sure about this one but heres a tip: (adw & adw ex) use a different xml file for backup so the conversion from coming back from a back up of ADW to ADW EX might be challenging. I personally haven't tried this even though i do own ADW EX but i prefer Go launcher.
and check this out For sure you'll be pleased!!
http://code.google.com/p/adw-launcher-android/wiki/CompleteGuideToADW#Backup_and_Restore