unused but active Widgets!? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I have many different Launchers with many widgets and different layouts installed and i like to switch them every few days.
For my Problem imagine this case:
-ADW.Launcher has a clock widget placed
-LauncherPro has a weather widget placed
now, even though i have the LauncherPro set as default launcher the clock widget stays active (i see it in running tasks)
is there a way to disable this without removing the widgets from the homescreen temporary?
thanks for your help

Noone?
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dxbsuresh said:
Is there any way???? i need the weather widget in my apex launcher...
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Doesn't look like it, I want the s planner widget but that too isn't available without touchwiz.
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jowabi said:
The touchwiz widget apks are system apps. If some brilliant mind could pull them from system/app and (somehow) convert them to installable user apps, we would be able to use them with any launcher.
I'm not sure if this is even feasible...any takers;-)
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jowabi said:
The touchwiz widget apks are system apps. If some brilliant mind could pull them from system/app and (somehow) convert them to installable user apps, we would be able to use them with any launcher.
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Partially true…
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The default weather widget is part of Samsung's TouchWiz so when you change launchers you lose it. Going to another launcher other than Touchwiz will still not give you access to that widget.
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jowabi said:
The touchwiz widget apks are system apps. If some brilliant mind could pull them from system/app and (somehow) convert them to installable user apps, we would be able to use them with any launcher. I'm not sure if this is even feasible...any takers
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