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ok, if your like me then your looking to replace the stock launcher on a daily basis but have yet to do so because they all run with a degree of lag. (except tw)
Well good news!
There is another launcher i found to work very well with the galaxy note and it is called "aShell" - It's based off of ADW
It has a lot of similar features....... heck.... it looks strikingly similar.... almost a clone! I found it to use less memory and it is almost lag-free (i have widgets all over the place on 6 homescreens, btw). Plus it has quite a few features that ADW doesn't have ...... oh, and use the "scatter" transition - it's pretty neat.
Anyway, give the dam thing a try!
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Go Launcher 2.81 is available on the market. I suggest everyone try it. I am running the V6 Supercharger 1000hp setting with Go and it's the best so far... runs almost perfect on my note... with 6 homescreens full of widgets. GIVE it a.... GO
And if it works for you, hit the "THanK" button
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GUYS, if you have CLOCKWORKMOD try my theme out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527002
CHEERS!
BigBison420
thanks for this....always like trying new launchers....just installed and wallpaper scrolling works on this one.
will test this for a few days.....I am a hardcore ADWEx user.
yeah, i'm sure a lot of us will be please with it. i came from go.... using adw till they optimize but then i found this lol... my only discrepancy is the app drawer. but i can live with it for now.
will def try this out......
Edit: i still noticed lag in the app drawer.
adw ex didnt have that. im using go launcher right now, just switched from Spb shell. and will give this one a full test for a couple days and see if i can get ti run smoothly for me.
thanks for posting it up, im always looking for new launchers.
likewise... the launcher is the alpha-omega of the android experience in my opinion.
I've posted feedback to the developer with regards to the app drawer - I believe the launcher is still in the alpha stages, but it has a lot of potential.
I like the different features like the dock icons... if you drag each one of them up they pull up something different... like the phone pulls up the photo contacts and such.. These guys are definitely thinking differently.
yeah, some cool features.....
does it support vertical app drawer scrolling? I didn't see it. But I am at work so I am looking quickly and trying to be productive.
LOL
Mortem Tuam said:
yeah, some cool features.....
does it support vertical app drawer scrolling? I didn't see it. But I am at work so I am looking quickly and trying to be productive.
LOL
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not that i have seen either.
TSF is out on Market. $16.80!!!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tsf.shell
Who's a big spender?
Punchatron said:
TSF is out on Market. $16.80!!!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tsf.shell
Who's a big spender?
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I knew it would be more than SPB....sorry $16.80 is too much scratch
lol, no way I'm dropping $17 on a launcher
Don't know why these "Shell" launchers don't offer a trial version for free in the market. That's a pretty big risk...
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I'll wait until July and ask for it for my b-day
slaydog said:
Don't know why these "Shell" launchers don't offer a trial version for free in the market. That's a pretty big risk...
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I thought android apps came with a 15 minute return policy? You could always try it and request for a refund.
Although, I don't see this particular launcher in my market, I can see it on market.android.com but not on my phone.
I think nemus is smoother and the dock can scroll to allow more apps in the dock and the app drawer will loop screens
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slaydog said:
Don't know why these "Shell" launchers don't offer a trial version for free in the market. That's a pretty big risk...
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Trials are pointless because you can download the cracked app or crack the app and install it (like SPB Crack) for free.
I have done this with apps like widget locker, but when i found myself using them all the time i purchased it. That's my way of weeding out the bull$hit... "create-a-trial" lol
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I think nemus is smoother and the dock can scroll to allow more apps in the dock and the app drawer will loop screens
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This launcher was first released mid-december 2011 - it's still developing.
I haven't tried nemus.... (might install and give it a go)
didn't like nemus....I am a launcher whore and I usually try them out as soon as I see them.
I'm not paying 17 bucks for something I can only test drive for less than 30 minutes. How the h*ll are you suppose to evaluate it in 15 minutes? Maybe if you are hopped up on speed, redbull or something, but most people can't evaluate it
in 15 minutes.
I don't go for cracked software, but I might just to see how it works for a day or two. If I like it, I'll buy it, but most likely it will end up being removed and forgotten.
BigBison420 said:
yeah, i'm sure a lot of us will be please with it. i came from go.... using adw till they optimize but then i found this lol... my only discrepancy is the app drawer. but i can live with it for now.
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thanks. I have been Using GO for a cpl years and now on the Note it lags a bit...i wrote them and they responded that they will work on it. I sure hope so i love GO!
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orangekid said:
lol, no way i'm dropping $17 on a launcher
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oh hell no!
Hi, I just upgraded to ICS and I noticed that many of the new changes in ICS are not available or look different on GalaxyS2. Is this because of Touchwiz?
I also tried swiping along to get to the "widget" area, to no avail.
Also, I tried pinning a calender widget to one of my home screens, but it doesn't have the updated Google widget. It just has the Agenda widget. It has the "contacts" widget that looks like the updated ICS google version, but no cal.
What's up with this?
I'm new to Android so my apologies if these are no brainer questions.
Thanks!
Are you sure it actually updated? Go into Settings/About Phone and under "Android Version" what does it say? If it doesn't say 4.x.x then it didn't actually do the upgrade. Otherwise...IDK. lol
doublen1 said:
Are you sure it actually updated? Go into Settings/About Phone and under "Android Version" what does it say? If it doesn't say 4.x.x then it didn't actually do the upgrade. Otherwise...IDK. lol
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No, it did.4.0.3 It just dosen't have the google calendar widget. Anyone with an SII SGH - I777 know what i'm talking about?
Thanks for response in advance
Search the play store
Oh my god...
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Lol...well i could say Google touchwiz, but not sure you would. The reason its different is because Samsung puts their own launcher on their phone that customized the look and feel of the phone and creates their vision of what your phone should look like. In short most around here agrees it sucks. If you want a more traditional look either download a new launcher like nova or start learning how to instal custom rooms.
Everyone get ready for a flood of these kinds of threads. Now we get to play clean up as the masses that for some ungodly reason updated via kies instead of downloading a cwm zip. Or waiting. Or not upgrading at all. I wouldn't care except now there's gonna be 50 bajillon new threads. Sigh.
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Everyone get ready for a flood of these kinds of threads. Now we get to play clean up as the masses that for some ungodly reason updated via kies instead of downloading a cwm zip. Or waiting. Or not upgrading at all. I wouldn't care except now there's gonna be 50 bajillon new threads. Sigh.
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Phalanx7621 said:
Everyone get ready for a flood of these kinds of threads. Now we get to play clean up as the masses that for some ungodly reason updated via kies instead of downloading a cwm zip. Or waiting. Or not upgrading at all. I wouldn't care except now there's gonna be 50 bajillon new threads. Sigh.
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And this is even worse than the other one :banghead:
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Paul, trposer
Hah! Well I know how annoying these post can be, so thank you for the constructive responses.
I'll try out the launchers. I tried GoLauncher, but of course it's not exactly like the regular Google OS ICS ver. I 'might' try custom roms..
Thanks all.
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Lol...well i could say Google touchwiz, but not sure you would. The reason its different is because Samsung puts their own launcher on their phone that customized the look and feel of the phone and creates their vision of what your phone should look like. In short most around here agrees it sucks. If you want a more traditional look either download a new launcher like nova or start learning how to instal custom rooms.
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Hah! Well I know how annoying these posts can be, so thank you for the constructive responses.
I'll try out the launchers. I tried GoLauncher, but of course it's not exactly like the regular Google OS ICS ver. I 'might' try custom roms..
Thanks all.
cacrooks said:
Hi, I just upgraded to ICS and I noticed that many of the new changes in ICS are not available or look different on GalaxyS2. Is this because of Touchwiz?
I also tried swiping along to get to the "widget" area, to no avail.
Also, I tried pinning a calender widget to one of my home screens, but it doesn't have the updated Google widget. It just has the Agenda widget. It has the "contacts" widget that looks like the updated ICS google version, but no cal.
What's up with this?
I'm new to Android so my apologies if these are no brainer questions.
Thanks!
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How different? What different? and compare to which preview?
Sammy TW vs Sammy TW? or Sammy TW vs. AOSP's ?
cacrooks said:
Hah! Well I know how annoying these posts can be, so thank you for the constructive responses.
I'll try out the launchers. I tried GoLauncher, but of course it's not exactly like the regular Google OS ICS ver. I 'might' try custom roms..
Thanks all.
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For an ics look alike launcher you want either nova or apex in the market, both are good
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Yea att, aside from putting the touchwiz skin, removed some features like nfc. Its mostly an internal upgrade although most people expected it to look something like the gnex ui
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There is any settinga to make wallapers scroll ? I can't find any option to do it.
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There is any settinga to make wallapers scroll ? I can't find any option to do it.
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Nope! Not in the stock TW launcher. The good ol'boys over at Sammys has taken that away a few months ago prior to the US release of their Galaxy series phones. Even with my wife's sgII just prior to the ICS official update, Sammy updated the phones to strip that away.
Now, every 'none' Sammy (Samsung) phone out there does have scrolling wallpaper (HTC, etc.) except for your sgsiii.
It has something to do with the visuals, trying very hard to be different from Apple - which does have scrolling wallpaper.
Also, universal search was STRIPPED away from your phone. See:
http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/07/13/universal-search-removed-from-samsung-galaxy-s-iii/
The fine devices made by HTC has these things your looking for. Also, wonder why the new Nexus 7 tab is made by Asus and not from Sammy?
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norbarb said:
There is any settinga to make wallapers scroll ? I can't find any option to do it.
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If you are desperate try scrolling wallpaper app from play store. Works well.
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I tod i'm missing something.. My skyrocket did not had scrolling wallpaper ether.. thanks guys. I use Apex loucher then..
Yeah try another launcher. Apex and Nova are pretty good.
Im using a stock rooted rom but I wanted to know what ROMS you guys were running.. I want something new and stable..
i just updated minin3 maximus and minimus roms.
check them out.
minimus is stock but stripped to the bone (500mb or so)
maximus is pretty heavily modified with an eye toward speed,battery use, and personal customization.
both are fairly mature at this point and should be mostly rock solid stable.
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mjcollum said:
i just updated minin3 maximus and minimus roms.
check them out.
minimus is stock but stripped to the bone (500mb or so)
maximus is pretty heavily modified with an eye toward speed,battery use, and personal customization.
both are fairly mature at this point and should be mostly rock solid stable.
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What he said
Jellybomb 3.0 (Test build)
Looks great, works well, but I'm having an issue with screen timeout. Basically, it won't timeout. It will only dim. I've had the problem with the 2.0 stable build and the test build. I will probably try a stock rom next. It is annoying to have to turn the screen off everytime.
mjcollum said:
i just updated minin3 maximus and minimus roms.
check them out.
minimus is stock but stripped to the bone (500mb or so)
maximus is pretty heavily modified with an eye toward speed,battery use, and personal customization.
both are fairly mature at this point and should be mostly rock solid stable.
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I was actually checking that one out. I think Ill try that one right now and see what the deal is with it.
Thanks
xeonbuilder said:
I was actually checking that one out. I think Ill try that one right now and see what the deal is with it.
Thanks
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I love testing and trying out new ROMs but, Maximus is my solid go to simple and great!
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I got in running and its really smooth. The only thing I dont like is the see through app draw and pull down bar. I just wish it was a little darker to block out the background a little more. Other than that its really nice. Smooth and fast..
Oh, and the live wall paper picker isnt working.. Not a deal breaker.
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xeonbuilder said:
I got in running and its really smooth. The only thing I dont like is the see through app draw and pull down bar. I just wish it was a little darker to block out the background a little more. Other than that its really nice. Smooth and fast..
Oh, and the live wall paper picker isnt working.. Not a deal breaker.
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You can change the opacity of the drawer...
It's under
Wanam xposed > themes > I think it's panel background
There should be an opacity slider.
And live wallpaper should work, the issue is none come installed by default.
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mjcollum said:
You can change the opacity of the drawer...
It's under
Wanam xposed > themes > I think it's panel background
There should be an opacity slider.
And live wallpaper should work, the issue is none come installed by default.
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Sweet. I changed the opacity and its perfect now. Live wallpaper picker crashes every time though. I did a clean install. Not really a big deal but Ill try to figure it out. I hate when things dont work even if I dont really use them..
xeonbuilder said:
Sweet. I changed the opacity and its perfect now. Live wallpaper picker crashes every time though. I did a clean install. Not really a big deal but Ill try to figure it out. I hate when things dont work even if I dont really use them..
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I will also go back and take a look at it for future versions. I never use it so it's possible it doesn't work.
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I will also go back and take a look at it for future versions. I never use it so it's possible it doesn't work.
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Wow. Noob mistake..... Live wallpaper doesnt work because none were installed with the rom so when you select it the thing just crashed...:silly: I downloaded one from the store and it works fine. lol.
Great job on the rom btw. I really like it.
There are a ton of excellent roms in the dev thread. I encourage trying all of them.
Each is unique and awesome.
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I've tried a few and for now I am loving bonsai, cm is going to be my daily driver once a few more bugs get worked out. We have some great devs though!
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I am trying to decide which one to try first myself
mike208 said:
I am trying to decide which one to try first myself
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Micmars a couple posts back said it best. They are all with a try.
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You've gotta do Minimu3 Maximus. I usually get sick of a new RIM within a few hours because they're limited or dysfunctional. I would hate going back to stock after using Minimu3 Maximus. It's the same feeling I had when I switched from apple to android.
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Just switched to Minin3 MaximuS 5.4
I like this rom minus a few minor issues.
For one, the text that displays the list of contacts as you dial them has a white font on a white background. However, when you select the drop down menu, you can read it just fine.
Also, the layout and formatting of the thumbnails in the gallery is off. You have to scroll to see additional pictures even though the gallery window isn't fully populated with thumbnails. Thumbnails to the far right are cut off making it impossible to know which picture it actually is.
There is also the annoying select input, notification that doesn't seem to be able to be cleared even after an input is selected.
Google search is broken and force closes everytime.
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Haze211 said:
Just switched to Minin3 MaximuS 5.4
I like this rom minus a few minor issues.
For one, the text that displays the list of contacts as you dial them has a white font on a white background. However, when you select the drop down menu, you can read it just fine.
Also, the layout and formatting of the thumbnails in the gallery is off. You have to scroll to see additional pictures even though the gallery window isn't fully populated with thumbnails. Thumbnails to the far right are cut off making it impossible to know which picture it actually is.
There is also the annoying select input, notification that doesn't seem to be able to be cleared even after an input is selected.
Google search is broken and force closes everytime.
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There are fixes for most of the issues coming with his 5.5 release. As far as the gallery issue goes you can open app settings application and set the gallery to either 480 dpi (large) or 290 dpi (small) and everything will fit to screen. Google search you should just be able to uninstall from phone then re Install through play store.
Mj is really quick to help/fix issues if you post over on his thread. I see you're just a couple posts away from being able to.
Hope this helps and welcome to the team. I have been enjoying maximus for months now.
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I used Maximus for a few weeks and loved it, but switched to CM now that it is finally out, and could not be happier thus far.
So after owning g2 on att..we had same issue. Please disregard if its been posted. If you didn't know already here you go. This does not require root.
1. Go to the market. Download Launcher Pro
2. Don't open it. We're using it for a huge benefit it's always left a back door open for us devs..
3. Press on empty home screen to bring up widgets.
4. Scroll to find the activities in form of launcher pro icon
5. Press on It once It will bring up a huge hidden menu..
6. Scroll down to Home
7. Press home and scroll down to hidden menu themes provider (or the first hidden menu themes etc you see)
8. Press it once.
If you did this in the correct order it will bring a nice sweet blue icon on your home screen ..you can put it in a folder but keep it. Press on it to now have your theme picker.
9. Google LG world apk..download It and now enjoy your themes etc..
I hope this made you smile.
Peace.
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Any chance for problems if rooted and modified with g3 tweaksbox? I was going to apply a theme, but don't want issues from the changes I made with xposed.
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durandetto said:
Any chance for problems if rooted and modified with g3 tweaksbox? I was going to apply a theme, but don't want issues from the changes I made with xposed.
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Gave it a shot and yes it does work with exposed. No issues yet.
If I remember right, it's the first "Theme" that shows up in that menu. It's not what the OP called it.
Yeah I have it installed already. I just didn't want to install a theme and mess something up.
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What themes are you talking about? I mean, you don't mean any cm themes do you.
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aheeejd said:
What themes are you talking about? I mean, you don't mean any cm themes do you.
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Lg has themes available similar to like what Miui has but nowhere near as good. Most are pretty lame actually... probably why they dropped them from US varients, but there's a work around.
This topic should have probably been placed in the Themes and Apps forum, but here is some more detailed info on the subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2822847
I've tried a few. One for the g2 locked my phone up hard and made it totally unresponsive. Theme did stick after a battery pull and was fair at best. It was interesting to play around with for a bit but like i said, most are pretty weak.
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engine95 said:
Gave it a shot and yes it does work with exposed. No issues yet.
If I remember right, it's the first "Theme" that shows up in that menu. It's not what the OP called it.
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Correction duly noted. Thank you. I posted off top of my head. I thought it said what I posted. But important thing is the process is quite painless.
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thunderwagn said:
Lg has themes available similar to like what Miui has but nowhere near as good. Most are pretty lame actually... probably why they dropped them from US varients, but there's a work around.
This topic should have probably been placed in the Themes and Apps forum, but here is some more detailed info on the subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2822847
I've tried a few. One for the g2 locked my phone up hard and made it totally unresponsive. Theme did stick after a battery pull and was fair at best. It was interesting to play around with for a bit but like i said, most are pretty weak.
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I also add this is for version of sprint that does have the theme apk or home themes hidden. I don't know why. But this does not require root and is for stock Rom. Or out of box fix. Yes it can be moved to themes and apps if mods feel I've posted in error. Again just trying to help keep this sprint version level with the experience of the rest. The stock themes do suck. But the option is also great to have. Peace. And thank you all for your help.
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I also add this is for version of sprint that does have the theme apk or home themes hidden. I don't know why. But this does not require root and is for stock Rom. Or out of box fix. Yes it can be moved to themes and apps if mods feel I've posted in error. Again just trying to help keep this sprint version level with the experience of the rest. The stock themes do suck. But the option is also great to have. Peace. And thank you all for your help.
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Hope my post didn't come across as snotty. It wasn't my intent if it did ? and thanks for getting this over to the Sprint forums.
I agree, it's a cool option to have. This type of stuff is always fun to tinker with.
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Anyone get this to work without root on L? Tia