Is there a way to resize the widgets? When I add the stock weather widget it only ads the small widget instead of the larger one that is there when the phone is powered up for the first time. I'm sure i read tbe widgets can be resized? Any tips? Thanks
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Yep! If your hold down on the widget until the 'Remove' box appears and then let go you'll be able to resize a number of the Widgets that come with the S2
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Only certain widgets can be resized, press and hold on a widget for a few seconds and when you let go, it wil be outlined then you can drag the bottom corner to where you want resizing the wiget.
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Ahh yeah! cool... thanks for the tip
Thank you! I've been going insane trying to figure out how to resize the widgets after I accidentally triggered the resize box once.
I get loads of Emails offering to resize my widget .
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I find that now under other launcher, such as apex and nova:
the resizeable samsung widgets do not work.
I mean, yes, apex and nova can resize widget but the result is just plain wrong.
for example: samsung yahoo finance widget.
under touchwiz, it originally at 4x1, but you can resize it to 2x2, 2x4, etc.
but under apex or nova, when i resize it, the size does not change, even if I resize the widget to full screen, it still remains at 4x1, it doesnt expand/shrink vertically and horizontally, the widget just centers itself to the whole screen.
Somebody knows how to fix this?
Or some ICS launchers, other than touchwiz, that can work with these widgets?
For some unknown reason, almost all ics custom roms do not like touchwiz.
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I'm using launcher pro and I love it however I feel like my icons and date/time Widgets are to small. Is there a way to have bigger icons and Widgets?
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You should be able to resize some if the widgets at least, tap and hold on them and a resize box should appear. For the icons maybe an app such as Bettercut would help, you can use custom icons with it, although you'll need to find a set that you're happy with.
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Desktop visualizer will let you create widgets of many sizes (which themselves can be resized by Launcher Pro) with icons or images to launch any application.
the problem i see with widget resizing is that it only changes the amount of space it takes up on the screen without actually scaling up the size of the words. also i will look into bettercut and see what its about thanks.
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the problem i see with widget resizing is that it only changes the amount of space it takes up on the screen without actually scaling up the size of the words. also i will look into bettercut and see what its about thanks.
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If you use Desktop Visualizer to create widgets with images (not app icons), the images will fill the size of the DW widget.
Take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857833
I came here after countless hours of searching. I'm having an issue where the gallery won't let me scale the picture to it's full resolution. Whenever I attempt to crop the image, it won't let me make it bigger than the lockscreen wallpaper size. I have tried countless wallpaper apps to scale the size for me. I have reflashed back to stock and nothing. The only way I can set a homescreen wallpaper is by setting it to lockscreen size since it's locked that way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your responses.
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This is what it looks like when I try and crop it. It won't let me make it bigger than lockscreen size.
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This is what it looks like when I try and crop it. It won't let me make it bigger than lockscreen size.
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i think it's because the background on these doesn't move when you change pages like htc backgrounds.
Get crop wallpaper from play store
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Since I both don't use TouchWiz as my launcher or ever use the default gallery app, I never noticed that before. From some initial poking around I can't see any settings for this. It's quite an odd choice for Samsung to make IMO.
You can of course switch both your launcher and gallery app to get back to scrolling wallpapers. I personally love Apex Pro, and I use QuickPic exclusively on my phones. It's a far faster and smoither, and IMO better equipped gallery app.
QuickPic is free in the market, and you can get the free version of Apex as well. Nova is another great launcher for ICS if you are not a fan of Apex.
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I'm a bit into customizing my home screens to make it look like the ones on mycolorscreen.com and in those UCCW threads.
But there is one thing thats bugging me, and that is the use of app icons on the home screen. I dont like it, its too messy and too iOS'ish.
Some are replacing the app icons with other custom icons, or removes them completely, but i rarely see what i've been trying to do; to make custom icons that open a meny of apps (in one genre..)
Like one icon for music apps, and one for travel apps etc.
I have tried to fix this using tasker widgets, like this:
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and when i click on the music icon, wich is a tasker widget, it opens a tasker scene with a meny of 4 music apps:
This works pretty good, but i would like the tasker widget icons to be just icons, no subtext under the icon. There is no way in tasker to do this i think, i've tried to make a task with no name but it is simply not allowed.
I've also tried to make a uccw widget, but hotspots in uccw can open apps and shortcut, not a meny of apps..
So the reason why i'm posting this is to find anyone who like my idea, and would make an app that can make widgets that open a meny of apps with custom icons (with the option to remove subtext)
Or does anyone know of a way to do this? with another launcer perhaps? (im using ADW EX)
i know that i can make the launcher remove text under icons, but this doen not apply to my tasker widgets.
seriously just create folders with your other apps inside each folder.
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Is there a way to change which widget is on the lockscreen? I'm rooted on ME7 btw.
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Is there a way to change which widget is on the lockscreen? I'm rooted on ME7 btw.
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Make sure you have multiple widgets checked in settings. Then you can pan left or right and add which widgets you want. I dont think you can replace the clock and date widget that shows on the initial screen. Could be wrong. And theres a few apps on the market that allow lock screen customizations.
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You can change the default lock screen.
After you add the widget you want to use as your default, you can do 1 of 2 things.
1. You can long press on the original and drag it to the top and drop it in the trash icon to delete it.
2. You can long press the new widget and drag it to the position that the original is in now.
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You can change the default lock screen.
After you add the widget you want to use as your default, you can do 1 of 2 things.
1. You can long press on the original and drag it to the top and drop it in the trash icon to delete it.
2. You can long press the new widget and drag it to the position that the original is in now.
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Wow. I thought It'd be something more complicated! Lol thanks
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How can I get current weather on the lockscreen? I am rooted on ME7 also. I just need at least the current temp.
OK so almost everyone seems to hate TouchWiz. So what Home Launcher are you using? And why?
I am using Nova launcher Prime. I like to fully customize my home screen.
It has lots of options and themes and it's pretty fast. So how about you?
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Killing Aliens with my S5!
Me too , Nova launcher prime ?
Solo Launcher. Its free and easy to customize. I wish there were more unread count options though and the unread count icon kind of sucks but all in all, I like it.
Stock launcher (with minor mods). It works great and hard to see much reason to install a third party launcher. .
The mods I made were aesthetic e.g. dumping the Accuweather widget, replaced some icons, like the ugly app drawer one, removed the home row icon labels and five icons, instead of four per row.
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I'm using google now launcher
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nova launcher prime
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Me too , Nova launcher prime ?
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Nova launcher prime here...what's that theme
Is there a difference between nova and solo? I'm cheap and don't want to fork out 4 dollars if there's nothing spectacularly different? ?
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Nova. I wanted something simple with 4x5 grid capabilities. No widgets, black wallpaper, black lock screen.