How many pages have you got ? I have 7 home and 5 app pages. Is there any way to gain more app pages as i am running out of space?
Other Launchers may give you more home screens, but why not used Folders, you can easily group items and thus use less pages, I have three home screens and only 1 page in my app draw.
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How to arrange icons on the OS, where i had installed apps the uninstalled them i have like 3-4 pages with like 5-6 icons to a page. With a different Launcher its auto sorts icons. Anything we can do to fix this i cant come across any other method than manually sorting them page after page.?!
Thanks, Xenon.
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Do you mean on your home screens? Just long press on any icon, hold and drag into position.
Not sure if any launcher does auto-arranging on the home screen, does not seem to be possible with stock or ADW at least.
In the app drawer you're totally right. It irritated me to.
At the moment it seems the only way is to manually sort them [Menu>Edit]
I would like to know if there is an app/widget that I can use to jump between home screens which aren't next to each other?
For example, if I number my home screens from 1 -> x from leftmost to rightmost screen. I would like to be able to press a widget which allows me to jump from screen 1 to screen 4, or 5, or 6 e.t.c. without having to slide through 2 and 3 and so on.
I presume that this may have to be part of a custom launcher which is no problem. I have bought most of them now anyway so don't mind if I have to switch to another.
Tasker should let you do this. i tried to test it but I use ADW ex, doesn't seem to be supported.
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Go to the current system Home Screen.
If the Page parameter is greater than 0, the home screen is requested to start on that page.
At the time of writing, Launcher Pro and Car Dock Home (v3) supported this option. If your Home Screen app doesn't support it, you could contact the developer and refer them to Tasker's developer page: tasker.dinglisch.net/developer.html for info on how to include it.
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Most of the launchers, that I have used has this screen selection when swiping with 2 fingers.
One that surely has it is Zeam Launcher.
In ADW EX, you can add a link to another screen the same way you add any other shortcut. I believe when you choose Add, it's inside the top option (ADW Shortcuts?) and then at the bottom.
I have no phone, so this is subject to change
Thanks for the tips everyone. It certainly was a lot easier than I thought heh. The implementation within ADW EX is working fantastically.
The x10 mini pro has a "two-level" home screen:
the "top" hold the clock, and widgets.
the "bottom" holds the application icons.
Since there are many applications installed, the home screen extends beyond the screen width, which results in "windows", and so it is necessary to scroll left and right to see all the different "windows" and the icons they contain. When pressing the "home" button, the phone will bring up the last viewed "window" of the home screen.
Is there a way to make the "home" button always show the first (left most) "window" of the bottom home screen, namely, the left most window of the icons?.
TIA,
Mike.
In a way, yes...and in a way, no.
The screen(s) with all your apps in is known as the "app drawer". The stock launcher for the X10 Mini Pro will always do what you say, it will always go to the last viewed page of the drawer when you open it.
In theory, you could dig deep into the code of the SemcHome app and make it do what you want. I've no idea what you'd need to do, but it's theoretically possible.
The easiest way is probably just to install a different launcher. Have a look on the Market. I'm using Go Launcher Ex which does the same thing but it does let me put more app icons on one screen (I've got 16 instead of the stock launcher's 9) and you can group apps into individual folders. Or you can just hide the ones you don't need.
So this won't do exactly what you asked for, but it might give you a decent alternative.
Thanks.
Is it possible to place applications and shortcuts icons on the "top" home screen, say in the same screen as the clock?.
Thanks,
Mike
Yes, bascially. Although, again, you'll still need a different launcher for this.
A lot of phones will let you do this from stock but, because ours has a smaller screen, we can only put stuff into the four corners. Download a new launcher and you can cover your screen with app's and shortcuts as much as you want!
You can add shortcuts to the homescreen by long holding an App in the app draw and dragging away from its location to the Homescreen
Thanks all for replying.
ryant: The long press and drag method isn't working on my x10MP with android 2.1 .
I can move the app icon around in the app drawer (left and right screens), but not "up" to where the clock and other widgets live. Have you tried this on an x10MP with a stock launcher?.
Also, I've now found the "multicon" app which allows to place multiple widgets on screen, which is a good enough solution for me.
I have like 5 pages that could easily be 3, if each page was full. 3 pages are half full.
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I have so many apps on my home screen that it is extended to several panels. I can swipe several times to get to a specific part but would like to go to a certain part directly. My old Note 4 had numbers to tap, e.g. tapping 3 would go directly to the third panel. Can this phone do this and if so how? Thanks for help!