Howdy people,
I recently moved from a Nexus One to the Dell Streak best mobile decision of my life!
Thanks to DJ Steves 1.5.1 froyo rom , LauncherPro Plus and Meltus' Streak SMS LED mod, this phone is PERFECT!
I love using the phone in portrait instead of landscape and using Widget Locker for my lock screen, I have a portrait orientation lockscreen that unlocks to portrait orientation without refreshing the widgets.
The Nexus One had a big theming community with several people sharing their homescreens, screenshots and widget/dock combinations.
I'd love to see what the Streak community have done to customize their device!
So show off your goods!
I'll start us off
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I really only like to use my streak landscape, except for when I'm using the Kindle app and widgetlocker or if the app forces me to use portrait. And if widgetlocker ever gets the ability to resize widgets I will change that to landscape also.
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kirkla79 said:
I really only like to use my streak landscape, except for when I'm using the Kindle app and widgetlocker or if the app forces me to use portrait. And if widgetlocker ever gets the ability to resize widgets I will change that to landscape also.
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Nice desktop and widget; which ones do you use?
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I have both devices; nexus one is a great phone and good for light browsing and great for glancing on info. Streak is a great pocketable tablet great for browsing, reading, writing blog and not awkward to use it as a phone if bluetooth headset is handy...
If you have the chance to keep both devices, don't even think further and if not definitely choose one or the other rather than thinking about purchasing a device which is cross breed promising best of all worlds; a large enough screen to play games and do all other stuff like a bmw x6
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screen 1:
D-clock white widget
circle battery widget
beautiful weather widgets 1x1
widgetsoid
acast (wish this was transparent, hard to find a decent podcasting app for android it seems)
music mod (transparent mod)
screen 2:
setCPU widget
beautiful weather 1x1
the clock, date, and battery are all variations of minimalist text widget
the calender is calendr widget
google voice widget (transparent mod)
the bottom icons are from the aSmoothStar Icon set, except the middle one which I stole from the adw tron theme.
screen 3:
jorte monthly widget
screen 4:
widgetlocker with Unlock Mod
mClock for Time and Date
minimalistic text for battery % and weather
ICE widget
link to transparent mods:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796399
link on how to modify widgetlocker:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825553
subvecto said:
Nice desktop and widget; which ones do you use?
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clockr
OneSeven
Smooth Calendar
Battstat
This is just the main screen. The other screens are the same, but boring: Cal Widget to display an entire screen's worth of calendar, Beautiful Widgets to show weather and then WinAmp, etc, etc.
Love, love, love my Streak. Running DJ_Steve's rom and it is perfect.
I also used to love my Nexus One and had both thinking I would switch between the two depending on the need. But the Streak was pocketable enough for me to keep as my primary phone.
Here's my share of screenshots... using ADW EX. (I have a different look for each launcher ... regular ADW and LauncherPro)
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clockr
OneSeven
Smooth Calendar
Battstat
This is just the main screen. The other screens are the same, but boring: Cal Widget to display an entire screen's worth of calendar, Beautiful Widgets to show weather and then WinAmp, etc, etc.
Love, love, love my Streak. Running DJ_Steve's rom and it is perfect.
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can you post that wallpaper? also what launcher dock is that? Did you change the screen density? just curious cause the clockr and oneseven seem closer than I can get them
I increased the density to 200. It makes everything nice on such a large screen. The stock was pretty but didn't take full advantage of the real estate.
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I increased the density to 200. It makes everything nice on such a large screen. The stock was pretty but didn't take full advantage of the real estate.
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how many rows and columns did you setup in launcher pro?
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how many rows and columns did you setup in launcher pro?
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I think I'm running 7x7.
Here's a shot of my "cluttered" screen with Beautiful Widgets, Data Counter and APNdroid on/off toggle, Power Widget across the bottom and then some frequently used apps.
So here's the main screen and the right-hand screen.
A little best-of my themes :
My actual :
Here is mine after messing with it for a while last night.
@lestat89: Where would one find these cool themes that you have posted as your favorites? Do you have more?? I just recently bought the Streak, and I'm looking to doctor this thing up!!!! Thanks for the response.....
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A little best-of my themes :
My actual :
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Wow how do u manage to do that ! Im really really impressionné !
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As some of you are asking me for my themes, I compiled my wallpapers and you can download them (empty and modified) here : http://www.partage-facile.com/4FNYY0T1ZY/compil_theme.zip.html
For the utilisation, there are wallpaper modified with transparents shortcut using desktop visualizer. I created a guide in a french forum about the Streak (I'm one of the admins : memnoch), for those who understand the french, it could help you to create a theme like mines : http://streak.forumgratuit.fr/t292-...avec-icones-invisibles-exemple-theme-abstrait
For the theme called "streak", I used shortcut to the differents pages, using this guide (always in french) : http://streak.forumgratuit.fr/t501-tuto-navigation-entre-les-pages-du-home
If it interest a lot of people, I could try to translate theses guides, but it will not be easy for me, sorry.
@ willoxx, are you french ? If yes, take a look at this forum : http://streak.forumgratuit.fr/forum
Are you kidding, I am sure its going to be a instant hit. All the theme wicked. You have got to have a guide for us at the xda forum. Where have you been hiding....lol
mellojoe said:
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clockr
OneSeven
Smooth Calendar
Battstat
This is just the main screen. The other screens are the same, but boring: Cal Widget to display an entire screen's worth of calendar, Beautiful Widgets to show weather and then WinAmp, etc, etc.
Love, love, love my Streak. Running DJ_Steve's rom and it is perfect.
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Hi there, I love ur wallpaper. Could you post it here, or let me know where I can get hold of it.
Many thanks
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If it interest a lot of people, I could try to translate theses guides, but it will not be easy for me, sorry.
definitely interested please do the translation. i think this is the coolest theme i have seen yet.
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Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out witch launcher is the best out there. So I would like you, yes you, over there, yea you, to post your reasons as to why helix,And, launcher pro, panda, or even ahome is the best. So ready...go!
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Also on using launcher pro right now if it helps
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I honestly think launcher pro is the best because of the way the applications appear when you press the button in the tray, the icons on the tray are awesome and I love how
The application come together when You press the button on the tray, but I dont like how you have to pay for their widgets which are awesome, but I guess its worth it
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I like ADW.Launcher. It has lots of options, it's themeable if you want a different look. ADWNotify is an awesome addition to it. It's open source.
best launcher
I have to agree, launcher pro is the best. Im using launcher pro plus and I love it.believe me, I've tried them all
ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro are the two choices that I would personally recommend. Both of them are excellent choices. In the end, it's really up to you to decide which launcher suites you. Try both and play around with it to see which one is better.
Im using a heavily nodded version of touchwiz. Imho its the best launcher. It has landscape and portrait support on the homepage and the apps and it let's you set any page as the homepage unlike regular tw. It also has 4 icons and an app drawer.
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Does anyone have something to day about zeam or ahome
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Does anyone have something to day about zeam or ahome
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I tried them all and zeam is the only one I use now. I like the interface better than all the rest.
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I tried them all and zeam is the only one I use now. I like the interface better than all the rest.
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+1 for Zeam. I have the pay version of Launcher Pro, and have also tried ADW, and TW, but Zeam has worked best for me. It's fast, relatively light weight, gets regular updates, and is not bloated with unnecessary features. I found that I just didn't need all the widgets, etc. that come with the others.
Im an ADW fan boy. I think LP is a little more user friendly. But if you know how to use ADWs settings, and use the bidden gems (hold an app over the trash for 3 seconds to un install, etc.) I find it much better. The latest update of ADW is amazing.
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I too am a fan of zeam. Definitely feels less cumbersome than launcher pro (i have the plus, and I really don't care for any of the widgets). I much prefer zeam's dock, and the action bindings are awesome (i use swipe up for open dialer, swipe down to open app drawer, both of which save be dock space, and use double tap to open notifications)
It now lets you resize widgets and adjust home screen rows and columns- I see no need for launcher pro.
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Im an ADW fan boy. I think LP is a little more user friendly. But if you know how to use ADWs settings, and use the bidden gems (hold an app over the trash for 3 seconds to un install, etc.) I find it much better. The latest update of ADW is amazing.
Lovellkid
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what's new in the latest ADW?
Rearranged menu settings, trash is located at top now when deleting an app off screen, 1/3/5 icon menu, ui changes that I think are great. Another awesome thing is that if you long press an icon and drop it back in same spot, you can change the icon. So for twidroyd (can't stand their logo) I changed it to the official twitters logo.
Lovellkid
LovellKid said:
Rearranged menu settings, trash is located at top now when deleting an app off screen, 1/3/5 icon menu, ui changes that I think are great. Another awesome thing is that if you long press an icon and drop it back in same spot, you can change the icon. So for twidroyd (can't stand their logo) I changed it to the official twitters logo.
Lovellkid
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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you actually just have to hold on the screen to bring up the menu and then go to custom shortcut -- pick activity -- launcher actions -- open/close app drawer
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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lol that's what i thought at first! so i keep on uninstalling it whenever i accidentally put something on the middle of the dock until i discover where the app drawer is.
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I use Launcher Pro....I only want a drawer button on my home screen.
Widgets to the side--JIC I feel like using them.
Launcher Pro all the way.
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I use launcher pro plus most but I like messing around with all kinds of different things. I kind of liked GDE too but it's too bulky but I liked the customizations you could do with it. I also like adw with all the themes available for it and I think it's pretty similar to launcher pro but no widgets. The notifier is nice though.
Hi,
Can anyone recommend tablet-optimized (or at least something that looks good on a 7-inch android screen) versions of the following apps? I am using PhireMod 6.2 (based on CM7).
E-mail - Currently using the stock e-mail app. I'm looking for an app that would somehow function like GMail does in HoneyComb (where the message list appears in a pane on the left in landscape orientation). App also has to be able to sync Exchange. The closest one I found was "Mail'd" which is a Notion Ink Adam app. The interface of the app was great but using it was frustrating (no way to select all plus a lot of other minor annoyances that drove me back to using stock e-mail)
Calendar Widget w/ Montly view - I have NO idea why but searching "Calendar Widget" on the android market brings up a bazillion apps and widgets that CANNOT display monthly view. I am using Jorte temporarily but I really don't like the way it looks since it was built for smaller screens and it looks weird and fuzzy on the nook. I need a calendar widget that automatically marks days where I have meetings/appointments/shizz pulled from google calendar and exchange server.
RSS/News Reader - Currently using Pulse and I'm fairly happy with it but if there's a tablet optimized version of a better reader, I'd love to know what that is.
Calendar - Currently using Jorte and stock Calendar app. Again, the calendar looks weird on a screen as big and as expansive as the Nook's. I've tried Business Calendar but I don't like the way it looks. Can anyone suggest any other app?
Memo Widget - I own an LG Optimus One and I absolutely love the memo widget on it. It's very simple and you can type notes directly into the widget and you dont have to create a widget for each note you make. The widget allows you to page back and forth through the notes you have created. I tried using the same widget on my Nook but it looks ugly and blurred. I'm looking for a memo/note widget that does the exact thing but more optimized for a larger screen like that Nook's.
Messenger - I'm currently using YM for Android but I'd like to ask if there are any tablet optimized messengers that are compatible with YM and/or Microsoft Office Communicator.
Sorry, that seems like a lot but these little things have been bugging me hehe
Thanks in advance!
Hey pyronix,
For e-mail I use Kaiten Mail, a tablet optimized app by the K9 Mail folks. I love it but sadly it doesn't have a widget. It looks just like Mail'd:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kaitenmail
LauncherPro Plus has nice scrollable widgets
Touch calendar pro has a great monthly widget that shows shared Google calendars in different colors. Not sure if it handles exchange though.
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Hey pyronix,
For e-mail I use Kaiten Mail, a tablet optimized app by the K9 Mail folks. I love it but sadly it doesn't have a widget. It looks just like Mail'd:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kaitenmail
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kaiten doesn't support push on exchange
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kaiten doesn't support push on exchange
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*sigh* yeah that's why i'm sticking to stock for now.
Yeah, I'd say Kaiten too but your hard requirement of Exchange is currently lacking. It does some, but not all, or maybe not the latest? Something...
For Calendar, have you tried Touch Calendar? You can change the zoom and font size initially to whatever you want, plus easy to pinch zoom. I use it all the time on my Nexus 1 and the NC. There's a free version to try out the app itself, the paid version also has a widget, but not sure if it'll show a whole month or not.
Pulse has a "tablet version" which has panes separated out to view stories and headlines, but it's a Honeycomb feature they're using.. Other versions of Android see the same interface they've had for a while, which IMO is pretty good and keeps getting better... I do wish they had a limit on how far you could scroll, I often way overscroll by accident. Taptu has that feature, but everything else about Taptu sucks
I'm a big fan of Pure Messenger, though I don't use it for IMs. The widget is highly customizable. You can see I've got it filling most of a homescreen with white text and transparent background.
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All of the Pure widgets are really nice on the nook. I have pure grid calendar transparent on the home screen, It launched Business calender when I open it.
Pure messenger is also nice I have it set up for 3 separate widgets one for gmail, coolest part is you can open the email in a pop-up window right on the home screen. I have another set up for Facebook feeds, and a separate one for my corp. email. Check the last few pages of the nook screen shot thread there are lots of great screen shots of the pure widgets.
Whoops. Sorry, I didn't notice you were looking for Exchange support. As others have said it's the only thing Kaiten lacks. Otherwise it's pretty awesome.
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Thanking everyone who replied to this thread
I am using S2 Calendar Widget right now but I will definitely check out the Pure apps later when I get home.
For instant messaging, I'm currently using imo.im which is A LOT better than the yahoo messenger client for android (and much stabler as well).
By the way, if any of you guys are looking for an OCS solution (Microsoft Office Communicator), I found this awesome app called Office Talk on the market. It's free and it works with both my clients' and my corp's office comm (I work for HP and provide IT services to Procter&Gamble lol).
I'm still stuck on stock for e-mail. :|
For memo, I'm attempting to use springpad but I really can't get myself to use it as part of my workflow yet. I really love the memo app that comes w/ the stock rom of my LG Optimus One but when I try to export it to the nook, it's as fugly as hell on the big screen.
Taosaur said:
I'm a big fan of Pure Messenger, though I don't use it for IMs. The widget is highly customizable. You can see I've got it filling most of a homescreen with white text and transparent background.
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What's the widget on the right side of the screen shot that shows you the memory and resource count? It's nice
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What's the widget on the right side of the screen shot that shows you the memory and resource count? It's nice
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That's Elixir, which is technically a system information app, but you can do anything and everything with the widgets. You can make a widget of nothing but app shortcuts, and the apps will be more closely spaced so that you get 3x5 shortcuts in a 2x3 space. The space-saving aspect is no big deal on the NC, but it does open up all kinds of new visual arrangements for grouping apps. I used to use it for toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, too, before I realized those toggles are built into notifications.
Hello,
So I basically want to make a small survey that what launcher are you currently using and how is your battery life. I am trying to narrow down if some launchers are better for the battery life. I am currently using Touchwiz and get about 8 hours of moderate usage every day. Not good.
So how about you guys?
I used LauncherPro for a day but then removed it. It just hasn't evolved enough meanwhile TouchWiz, Sense UI and even MIUI have gone way ahead with their launchers. I don't think you will notice much difference in battery life between different launchers. LauncherPro renders stuff much faster but I don't like its appdrawer and dock.
Now I'm using TouchWiz until someone ports MIUI to SGS2.
GO, I prefer vertical scrolling to horizontal scolling in touchwiz and like that you can sort the apps alphabetically (who on earth tought it would be a good idea to make a horizontal scrolling app drawer and sort the apps by install time!?), also the running apps (+task killer) and recent apps tab are real handy
I'm gonna give Launcher Pro a go today. As for the scrolling, I quite like the horizontal scroll, but dislike it for seeming like the iPhone
By the way. How is the performance with some other launchers?
I used to have Go Launcher when using Desire. Now when I got this phone I first changed to Go Launcher also but then I noticed heavy battery usage and also some jerkiness with the scrolling, therefore I switched back to Touchwiz and still here. It is not THAT bad as everybody has been saying.
Launcher pro paid version.
Could have easily had 24hrs moderate use yesterday.
Tbh I don't think the launcher is one of the main factors affecting battery life though.
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By the way. How is the performance with some other launchers?
I used to have Go Launcher when using Desire. Now when I got this phone I first changed to Go Launcher also but then I noticed heavy battery usage and also some jerkiness with the scrolling, therefore I switched back to Touchwiz and still here. It is not THAT bad as everybody has been saying.
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I noticed the similar jerkiness with the go launcher initially and ended up switching over to launcher pro for a bit. When i reinstalled go launcher to use the notification addon, transition was much better and the battery usage was on par with touchwiz
Builtin widgets are better with launcher pro but i like the notification addon for go launcher more.
I have both go launcher ex and launcher pro installed but the default launcher is set to go launcher
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ADW Ex. Very pleased with it.
Currently 30% battery left after 2 days 3 hours, moderate use, but have removed or frozen a lot of bloat and/or stuff I don't use (Facebook, Twitter, games). Freezing TW launcher seems to have helped hugely wrt to battery life.
On KE2 stock.
I've got the following, adw launcher, go launcher ex,launcher 7, launcher pro, spb shell 3d and TW
Lol, for testing purposes
I usually use go launcher but have been trying regina 3d launcher, looks nice but i should imagine it would have more of a drain on the battery although im yet to confirm that.
ADW Launcher EX its the best choice for me, there are many themes you can use to customize it even more, the desktop scrolling efects are just great and i love the posibility to hide the main dock and the notifications bar, the screen just looks awesome then
Have had all the launchers mentioned already for a spin on the phone. I had been for the most part sticking with adw on the N1 but I was not able to get that to perform smoothly on this phone. Right now I'm actually using tw with most all of the wiz removed/frozen. I find I like it.
ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
I'm using Launcher Plus Pro. It's great, but it freezes on almost every boot. Have to wait a minute for force close to pop up, then it works beautifully. I suspect it's because the SGS2 is scanning the SD cards on every boot.
EDIT: Oh and I would have used TW4 if there was a way to alphabetically list apps.
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ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
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don't know what settings are you using, but the notification bubble works for me on every call / sms / gmail...
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don't know what settings are you using, but the notification bubble works for me on every call / sms / gmail...
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In settings bubbles are ON and also the catalogs in the app drawer won't work. Dunno why, weird things.
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thetap said:
ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
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You have installed ADW notifier from the market, yes?
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I'm using Launcher Plus Pro. It's great, but it freezes on almost every boot. Have to wait a minute for force close to pop up, then it works beautifully. I suspect it's because the SGS2 is scanning the SD cards on every boot.
EDIT: Oh and I would have used TW4 if there was a way to alphabetically list apps.
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There is an app on the market called sort apps that will sort the app drawer alphabetically. Requires root. Another thing I did was move the default home to center, instructions are available here. Hard to believe anyone thought that an unsorted app drawer was a good idea. lol
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There is an app on the market called sort apps that will sort the app drawer alphabetically. Requires root. Another thing I did was move the default home to center, instructions are available here. Hard to believe anyone thought that an unsorted app drawer was a good idea. lol
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Can't find it. I've searched for "sort apps", "sortapp", "sortapps" & "sort app".
It popped up on mine (eu generic) used in the states. It also pops up if I just use touch wiz for the search terms.
I saw a post for a replacement dialer and contacts here by seansk that has an ICS theme I really like, and I was wondering what other apps you guys may be using to get your phone the way you like? Or in a general sense, what apps you guys have that are worth paying for?
Figured I would ask in case someone else has a cool find.. until ICS is officially released, that seems to be the direction I have been trying to theme toward look-wise, but feel free to share anything cool
I'm using widget locker with ICS unlockers, golauncher and gosms with ics theme, exdialer and excontacts with ics theme.. the only app I know I paid for looks wise was beautiful widgets, but I've been using the included weather&clock widget that is included in bulletproof.
I was thinking of flashing the ICS battery with percentage in the bulletproof fourth bar sensi-fy thread, but I haven't found a screen of what it looks like yet..
If you're really proud of your setup, post some screens too!
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I saw a post for a replacement dialer and contacts here by seansk that has an ICS theme I really like, and I was wondering what other apps you guys may be using to get your phone the way you like? Or in a general sense, what apps you guys have that are worth paying for?
Figured I would ask in case someone else has a cool find.. until ICS is officially released, that seems to be the direction I have been trying to theme toward look-wise, but feel free to share anything cool
I'm using widget locker with ICS unlockers, golauncher and gosms with ics theme, exdialer and excontacts with ics theme.. the only app I know I paid for looks wise was beautiful widgets, but I've been using the included weather&clock widget that is included in bulletproof.
I was thinking of flashing the ICS battery with percentage in the bulletproof fourth bar sensi-fy thread, but I haven't found a screen of what it looks like yet..
If you're really proud of your setup, post some screens too!
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yea I love it that dialer with ICS
1. ADW ex with ICS theme,
2. also flashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366170 from the forum. they really did a good job...the have blue overglow effect and status bar looks great plus some other things...very nice work.
3. also a cool trick even if you use a third party launcher, go back to Sense launcher and make the skin blue in the settings, I think its under skin or themes or something like that...now all your check marks, progress bars everything becomes blue...like ICS...
4. oh yea and also widget locker with ICS lock
seansk said:
yea I love it that dialer with ICS
1. ADW ex with ICS theme,
2. also flashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366170 from the forum. they really did a good job...the have blue overglow effect and status bar looks great plus some other things...very nice work.
3. also a cool trick even if you use a third party launcher, go back to Sense launcher and make the skin blue in the settings, I think its under skin or themes or something like that...now all your check marks, progress bars everything becomes blue...like ICS...
4. oh yea and also widget locker with ICS lock
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I'm gonna give your second suggestion a shot, are you using the ics.zip or the bliss_ics.zip? I didn't see him say what the difference is.. and the few "skins" or "scenes" that came with bulletproof don't seem to make a difference.. but I'd be interested in giving it a try.
Besides the dots being blue when I switch screens in golauncher, this seems to be where the theming is for golauncher.. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13692699/2012-01-26_13-42-33.jpg can you post screens for how the launcher ex ics looks?
I was happy with your exdialer and excontacts ics, so another thanks for awesome suggestions
Edit: Okay, it REALLY didn't like the bliss_ics.zip, it constantly would pop up a box that said:
%a%1
Noon
And would have an input method button.. no matter how many times I clicked it, it kept coming up, and the status bar never loaded.. so maybe it doesn't like bulletproof? I'm flashing the rom again, should be fine, but wish that theme worked, it looked sweet
Bliss is for the Verizon phone that is sense 3.5, so you're phone will hate it.
This is the ICS battery addon for craigtut's theme
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I like it, but it's annoying the black on black sometimes, it's talked about in his thread.
Here is my ADW EX with ICS theme
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Silentbtdeadly said:
I'm gonna give your second suggestion a shot, are you using the ics.zip or the bliss_ics.zip? I didn't see him say what the difference is.. and the few "skins" or "scenes" that came with bulletproof don't seem to make a difference.. but I'd be interested in giving it a try.
Besides the dots being blue when I switch screens in golauncher, this seems to be where the theming is for golauncher.. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13692699/2012-01-26_13-42-33.jpg can you post screens for how the launcher ex ics looks?
I was happy with your exdialer and excontacts ics, so another thanks for awesome suggestions
Edit: Okay, it REALLY didn't like the bliss_ics.zip, it constantly would pop up a box that said:
%a%1
Noon
And would have an input method button.. no matter how many times I clicked it, it kept coming up, and the status bar never loaded.. so maybe it doesn't like bulletproof? I'm flashing the rom again, should be fine, but wish that theme worked, it looked sweet
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don't use bliss use the regular, bliss is for sense 3.5. I'll post some screens of my phone soon
eliasadrian said:
Bliss is for the Verizon phone that is sense 3.5, so you're phone will hate it.
This is the ICS battery addon for craigtut's theme
I like it, but it's annoying the black on black sometimes, it's talked about in his thread.
Here is my ADW EX with ICS theme
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I definitely like the look of that launcher theme, I just can't give up the functionality that comes with golauncher.. and definitely thanks for clarifying that about the bliss thing, since it was posted in the amaze section I didn't give it much thought(I'm totally new to htc/sense products). I'd do the whole theme that you have, but that black on black is a deal breaker for me.
Here is my homescreen, I try for a minimalist look, which is hard considering I have over 130 non-system apps(I still need function)..
My solution is a folder within folder setup.. if I click the icon in the bottom right I get:
Then if I click the google app I get my autoapporganizer folder:
Autoapporganizer is kind of ugly, but I can backup the folder setup with titanium backup, the shortcuts don't get weird like widgets do when you flash a new setup, and long pressing an app allows an uninstall that also backs up the app.. I can't find a better looking solution that has nearly as many features.. hmm, wonder if it can be themed..
Here you go lots of screen shots and some camera shots with the amaze...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
This theme looks amazing with my launcher 7 setup
Most of my paid apps are not for looks... Rather useful apps. The obvious must haves for me are:
Root Explorer
LogMeIn Ignition
MyBackup Pro
ROM Toolbox Pro
System Tuner Pro
Others I use are:
Audio Guru (with pro key)
Documents to Go (full version)
VidTrim Pro -video editing
XDA-Premium
My Beach HD LWP
These are all of the paid apps that I purchased AND rated 5 stars. No need to list poor apps I bought and got hustled on
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Fast-Droid said:
This theme looks amazing with my launcher 7 setup
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This looks sick what is setup
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check them out and leave feedback
> Penetrate Pro (WiFi Cracker)
http://goo.gl/0lLel
Farm Invasion USA
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...XNpb25mcmVlIl0.
> Air Push Detector
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...irpushdetector
> COLReminder
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...lapps.reminder
> App Cache Cleaner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...infolife.cache
> Nova Launcher Prime
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hlci5wcmltZSJd
> Screen Filter ( Great battery saver!! )
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
and ofcourse
> XDA
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...YWN0aXZpdHkiXQ..
Well, the essential apps for me are
Xparent Green Tapatalk
Poweramp Full
Kill Screen App
Soundhound Unlimited
Fast For Facebook
System Tuner
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PowerAmp Full
SoundHound∞
XDA premium
Tapatalk
I never liked touchwiz when I bought my vibrant and couldn't wait to throw a pure manilla AOSP build.
I skipped the G2 and waited and bought a Galaxy nexus that I've been using for 7-8 months so far. I love the features of jelly bean and this is where Google leaves them far behind in the dust.
I've been very impressed with Samsung's TW on my T-Mobile G3. It seems they listened to the masses and implemented many useful mods that we shoot straight for after root and recovery. I'm surprised many drop it for ICS CM9 builds. I feel its going backwards. I can understand jelly bean because Google search works perfect and the keyboard is great along with the build and everything also JB brings.
I love this TW and for the first time of my Android experience I'm going to stay on stock based roms.
Just my opinion but this is the beautiful thing about android. There is no right or wrong roms there's user choice. This just happens to be my view. I'm really looking for opinions. With android you get what you want and this awesome community drives the innovation forward.
Take care community
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I love T.W......
I'm new to android coming form iPhone's. I very much like the change. I like this version of TW on the SIII. My only gripe is that one cannot use auto rotation to landscape the home screens. I loaded Apex launcher to be able to have landscape on my home screens. If TW provided this feature, I'd probably still be using TW. I do like the ability to resize widgets that Apex provides though.
i hate touchwiz. it looks like crap and there is nothing i like about it. i like stock android but i got this phone for its hardware and screen. since touchwiz can be removed.
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I'm new to android coming form iPhone's. I very much like the change. I like this version of TW on the SIII. My only gripe is that one cannot use auto rotation to landscape the home screens. I loaded Apex launcher to be able to have landscape on my home screens. If TW provided this feature, I'd probably still be using TW. I do like the ability to resize widgets that Apex provides though.
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Use apex launcher. Its great and problem solved
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I know im in the minority and I will most likely get flamed but....I think..I kinda prefer tw over stock 0_0
Why get flammed, it's all about what you like and this was my point also
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TouchWiz is great, just wish it showed in the app drawer on NFC Task Manager so my phone would kick to the homescreen when it touches the tag by my night stand charger.
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TouchWiz is great, just wish it showed in the app drawer on NFC Task Manager so my phone would kick to the homescreen when it touches the tag by my night stand charger.
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I looked in my box and couldn't find any of those cool tags? Damn t-mobile
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sailindawg said:
I'm new to android coming form iPhone's. I very much like the change. I like this version of TW on the SIII. My only gripe is that one cannot use auto rotation to landscape the home screens. I loaded Apex launcher to be able to have landscape on my home screens. If TW provided this feature, I'd probably still be using TW. I do like the ability to resize widgets that Apex provides though.
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This sums up my reasons for not using TW. I definitely prefer Apex. It is very sharp and feature-filled. It's never "cartoony" or missing something that other launchers leave out.
Apex is wonderful. Looks good and has many useful features while retaining the good things of Touchwiz, but it just isn't as smooth as Samsung's launcher. My biggest gripe with TW is the inability to increase rows/columns on the homescreen. I might give stock ICS another shot though I didn't like it at all the first time I tried it.
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I looked in my box and couldn't find any of those cool tags? Damn t-mobile
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Neither did my Verizon device, I grabbed these for a little over $5 w/ shipping for 5. Work great and are good for fiddling with http://www.buynfctags.com/nfc-tags/stickers/nfc-sticker-ntag.html
Also I just figured out that you can quick - swipe to other screens by sliding across the page indicator with TouchWiz. Pretty cool. For some reason whenever I use Apex Instagram and Seesmic force close. Weird.
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To each his/her own. That's what makes android so great. Personally I don't mind TW at the moment, but I'll probably play around with other stuff once i get bored of it.
This Touchwiz is WAY better than previous versions. I actually always use a launxher, but yet to on mine. Touchwiz is plenty fast and clean to me.
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Touchwiz has a lot of neat features but I don't like their design. The green toggle icons look terrible for me and its just too colorful for me taste. To each his own.
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I do like TW, many cool features.
I'll be keeping TW.
I think touchwiz would be better if they had themes like aokp/cm9(tmobile theme chooser) and will definitely make it much better, sens has something like it but not enough customization, tmobile theme chooser is the best that's why I always like aokp and cm9
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I like the scrolling dock so my screen doesn't look cluttered like the above. Custom home screen/app drawer transitions are really cool. Gestures to hide dock and notification bars are very nice. The ability to rotate home screens to landscape when the phone is in car cradle is essential.
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I like the scrolling dock so my screen doesn't look cluttered like the above. Custom home screen/app drawer transitions are really cool. Gestures to hide dock and notification bars are very nice. The ability to rotate home screens to landscape when the phone is in car cradle is essential.
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Definitely. I don't like having too many icons and Widgets cluttering my screen so a scrollable dock where I put media player shortcuts on are a must. And believe it or not, that ugly manilla folder TW uses is the real reason I can't stick with it!
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