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Hi. I was searching through the threads and roms but I didn't find what I was looking for. So my question is there any AOKP rom in which the samsung motion features are implemented? I mean the features like double tap on the top of the phone and it jumps to the top of a list or palm touch to mute/pause etc.
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Hi. I was searching through the threads and roms but I didn't find what I was looking for. So my question is there any AOKP rom in which the samsung motion features are implemented? I mean the features like double tap on the top of the phone and it jumps to the top of a list or palm touch to mute/pause etc.
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I haven't found any ROM that isn't based on official ones that have those features as well, probably it isn't that easy to extract those features and port them... The thing I miss the most from official ROMs is the screen detecting whether you're looking at it or not...
Install Nova or apex launcher over Touch Wizard. And here it is. LoL
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Install Nova or apex launcher over Touch Wizard. And here it is. LoL
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You didn't get what I mean. Anway I use Nova... I need the features of s3 what samsung implemented not touchwiz features.
Am I the only one who thinks Google messed up many android features in 4.2?
1) Notification power widgets . now you need a 2nd panel for that.
2) AOKP allows revert to old style power widgets, but they are laid out poorly and less elegant compared to <4.2
3) Lockscreen widgets. Can someone PLEASE explain how this is faster/,more efficient than simply setting a lockscreen target? For example, soundhound ID now can be a lockscreen target. If you set it as a lockscreen widget, it takes more swipes/effort to get to.
.if you agre e or have any helpful workarounds for googles ridiculous decisions, I'd love to hear. Much thanks, all.
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Am I the only one who thinks Google messed up many android features in 4.2?
1) Notification power widgets . now you need a 2nd panel for that.
2) AOKP allows revert to old style power widgets, but they are laid out poorly and less elegant compared to <4.2
3) Lockscreen widgets. Can someone PLEASE explain how this is faster/,more efficient than simply setting a lockscreen target? For example, soundhound ID now can be a lockscreen target. If you set it as a lockscreen widget, it takes more swipes/effort to get to.
.if you agre e or have any helpful workarounds for googles ridiculous decisions, I'd love to hear. Much thanks, all.
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I 100% agree.
The lock screen widgets, very sadly, remind me of windows 8. There is no need to have x amount of lock screens. Press the power button and move the lock ring to what ever app you wanna open.
Aren't the notification toggles CM based tho?
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scottspa74 said:
Am I the only one who thinks Google messed up many android features in 4.2?
1) Notification power widgets . now you need a 2nd panel for that.
2) AOKP allows revert to old style power widgets, but they are laid out poorly and less elegant compared to <4.2
3) Lockscreen widgets. Can someone PLEASE explain how this is faster/,more efficient than simply setting a lockscreen target? For example, soundhound ID now can be a lockscreen target. If you set it as a lockscreen widget, it takes more swipes/effort to get to.
.if you agre e or have any helpful workarounds for googles ridiculous decisions, I'd love to hear. Much thanks, all.
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You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but if using cm10.1 you can enable the old style toggles in settings/system/notification drawer, check power widget and configure. You can also disable lockscreen widgets using an app from the Playstore named lockscreen policy. That pretty much solves your issues. Also, as mentioned those toggles were from cm not Google. 4.2+ are the first builds to have toggles.
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At first I preferred 4.1.2 but after using 4.2.2 for awhile I really like it. I ignore the lockscreen widgets and with the toggles set to pull down from either right or left on the status bar it works really well.
I figured I had to adapt to stay current and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. :victory:
Naters
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You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but if using cm10.1 you can enable the old style toggles in settings/system/notification drawer, check power widget and configure. You can also disable lockscreen widgets using an app from the Playstore named lockscreen policy. That pretty much solves your issues. Also, as mentioned those toggles were from cm not Google. 4.2+ are the first builds to have toggles.
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Thanks for the lock screen policy suggestion. :thumbup:
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i just use CMs notification widgets its the same as the old one and i make sure the other ones dont pop up. as for lockscreen widgets. i dont use them much but i do like widgetlocker. that thing has so many different addons for notifications its pretty badass. better than the old one of just clock and weather and calendar. i dont use much of the other widgets for anything else though. you can set the lockscreen to always have targets as the primary when waking up so you dont have push the lock button then target what you want to open. then it ends up just working like 4.1.2 just you have a better lockscreen clock/notifications display.
Mods, please change the title of this thread to "First World Problems"
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Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. Was just curious about others opinions
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4.1.1 derp bareback
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4.1.1 derp bareback
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Wrong thread?
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Wrong thread?
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I know, just a suggestion. It suiting my needs better than Cm10.x, wish it were the other way around tho
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Wondering if 4.2 is growing on u any. I really like it the more I use it
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Yeah, I'm liking it better. Also, I just noticed, in the 4.2 gallery (which I've used for a long time, but never noticed this,) when you're in filmstrip view, you can just sweep up to delete pics. Very convenient. :thumbup:
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Yeah there's cool swipe features thru out. I love swiping the bottom of the notification pulldown to toggle between that and your tiles. I like the way Google is going with swiping instead of pressing for said action
checked out gallery. I like it
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I must have some setting wrong, cuz sweep in my notification drawer just closes it. If I pull down from right edge, it does open tiles, though. Honestly, I haven't dug into the settings as much as I ususally do. There's just too many, it's overwhelming lol. Running mikeshepards release of rootbox. Hell, the pie settings, haven't even looked em hahaha
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Yeah there's cool swipe features thru out. I love swiping the bottom of the notification pulldown to toggle between that and your tiles. I like the way Google is going with swiping instead of pressing for said action
checked out gallery. I like it
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The swiping to switch to tiles is a CM feature
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OK. Wasn't sure. Kinda guessed really.
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OK. Wasn't sure. Kinda guessed really.
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But it's in rootbox and PAC, too, I just messed it up somehow, it was working the other day. I'm guessing dastin just means it's not in stock android/AOSP.
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I prefer 4.2 to 4.1
Honestly i feel as 4.2 simply added more "sweets" to 4.1, and we have the choice to ignored these features.i love the toggles, one of the features im impatiently waiting for in the Evo 4.2 Sense 5 update. As far as lock screen widgets go i use one and only 1 widget, daily motivational quotes widget i disable all other ones (Even the camera widget), but for each their own. we could have updates like IOS where we get little to no new eyecandy to play and show off *Shurgs*
Just a quick poll to see what you guys think....I personally don't like Halo at all I feel there is too little functionality as far as moving the window and resizing the window...it is not true multitasking as far as I'm concerned...I definitely prefer TW multi-view....what do you guys think?
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Just a quick poll to see what you guys think....I personally don't like Halo at all I feel there is too little functionality as far as moving the window and resizing the window...it is not true multitasking as far as I'm concerned...I definitely prefer TW multi-view....what do you guys think?
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I really like HALO and what it will be when it is finished. As of right now we don't really have the 100% finished product. I liked the way it would actually pop up over the other app but wouldn't block the other app. I still prefer multi view over HALO but I think, from what we have seen of HALO thus far, that it'll be better than TW multi view when its finished.
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I have the best of both worlds.
I have Multi-Window, and I have this cool thing called Floating Notifications, which is pretty much almost exactly like Halo from what I've seen (or at least for what I use it for)
RemnantKing2 said:
I have the best of both worlds.
I have Multi-Window, and I have this cool thing called Floating Notifications, which is pretty much almost exactly like Halo from what I've seen (or at least for what I use it for)
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Its very very similar, there was either a post about it here or a article on the front page of XDA and I can't remember which. It is similar in some ways but is very different. Its still a damned good app.
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RemnantKing2 said:
I have the best of both worlds.
I have Multi-Window, and I have this cool thing called Floating Notifications, which is pretty much almost exactly like Halo from what I've seen (or at least for what I use it for)
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But doesn't floating notifications take u to the full app if you want to reply to an email or text?
Halo will be great when it's finished for that purpose but of course it doesn't have the same functionality as Multi-Window. Although I think the best implementation of MW is the tablet style with resizeable Windows.
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But doesn't floating notifications take u to the full app if you want to reply to an email or text?
Halo will be great when it's finished for that purpose but of course it doesn't have the same functionality as Multi-Window. Although I think the best implementation of MW is the tablet style with resizeable Windows.
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It takes you to the full app yes, that is not what HALO is intended to do though if you watched the second set of HALO videos. It is intended to pop up in a half sized box that only covers the middle of what you're doing while leaving the edges of the app uncovered so you can switch back quickly. There are also going to be other features, I'd bet, and it wouldn't surprise me if it turned into multiple resizable windows that you could launch and place anywhere ion the screen. That's what I'm hoping it'll turn in to in the end.
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Yes that's what I'm saying. floating notifications is the same thing as a stock status bar pretty much. The whole point of Halo is to be able to truly handle notifications while in an app. I'm not a developer but I'd imagine if they can get social apps into halo it's possible to expand it to all apps. like I said, I think the resize able windows in touch wiz tablets is the ultimate culmination of this, unfortunately there isn't a stable rom capable of it for the vzw gn2 yet.
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Yes that's what I'm saying. floating notifications is the same thing as a stock status bar pretty much. The whole point of Halo is to be able to truly handle notifications while in an app. I'm not a developer but I'd imagine if they can get social apps into halo it's possible to expand it to all apps. like I said, I think the resize able windows in touch wiz tablets is the ultimate culmination of this, unfortunately there isn't a stable rom capable of it for the vzw gn2 yet.
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There isn't a stable DD that I have found yet capable of resizable multi windows but it won't be too much longer, there was discussion of it in one of the threads not too long ago and someone was talking about making a flashable zip that would work on all TW ROMs.
And honestly I think HALO will be better when they finish it and add all the options to it they have in store. They have released the code as of today but it is still far from being finished.
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There isn't a stable DD that I have found yet capable of resizable multi windows but it won't be too much longer, there was discussion of it in one of the threads not too long ago and someone was talking about making a flashable zip that would work on all TW ROMs.
And honestly I think HALO will be better when they finish it and add all the options to it they have in store. They have released the code as of today but it is still far from being finished.
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I'm trying a moon rom port now with resizeable windows working pretty good.
Can I get halo on a tw rom or only aosp
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Can I get halo on a tw rom or only aosp
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only on aosp.
Although I would say Trans Nebula Tab has changed this whole discussion. Super stable ROM with floating windows on a SCHI605VRAMC3 base.
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Can I get halo on a tw rom or only aosp
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Only on AOSP roms my friend
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Can I get halo on a tw rom or only aosp
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Actually there was an app released shortly after halo was released that did this on any ROM. I don't remember the name but I know it's definitely out there.
Edit: Just found it while looking through my previously installed apps, it's called floating notifications and it can be found in the Play Store.
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I'm assuming I'm not alone here, as I have seen many people across the forums saying that they have either already gone to, or are thinking of flashing an AOSP ROM, and are worried about losing all of those Samsung Goodies (Like hover, air gestures, eye control, TW Camera, etc.) They generally also seem to want the customizability of a custom rom, as well. So, let's discuss how people have gone about getting that JB feel on a TW ROM.
The way I currently have this set up is with the Hyperdrive 5.7 ROM as a base. With just that, you get a smoother, faster, and enormously feature-packed TW ROM. The customization you can accomplish with this ROM is very impressive, especially considering it is TouchWiz. On top of this, I'm running - yep, you guessed it - Nova Launcher.
Nova Launcher is, in my opinion, the obvious choice for getting stock JB feel on any device. Nova allows the important customizations made to Hyperdrive to continue working, while adding the JB feel right on top. I've also run the script from within Hyperdrive to enable the Nexus 4 Softkeys, and I've shut off the lights on the capacitive keys on the device itself. This makes them completely invisible, so the device looks much more like a Nexus device, if you like that sort of thing.
What do you guys think? What other options are out there? I'm looking to give some insight to users who may want to get this type of feel on their S4, while also getting some feedback or better/different ways of achieving this. Good luck, and happy theming!
looks good just get rid of the nav bar
Eclipse is the closest anyone can get to aosp ATM. Best ROM out there.
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AmericanCon said:
Eclipse is the closest anyone can get to aosp ATM. Best ROM out there.
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What does the dialer look like? Still the ugly white?
What about incoming call screen?
Just changing the launcher doesn't make it AOSP themed.
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What does the dialer look like? Still the ugly white?
What about incoming call screen?
Just changing the launcher doesn't make it AOSP themed.
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Why don't you just go check out the ROM thread yourself before completely discounting it? No, it does not have the white dialer. It's very well themed and runs great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351840
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Why don't you just go check out the ROM thread yourself before completely discounting it? No, it does not have the white dialer. It's very well themed and runs great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351840
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You and I have our wires crossed. I was responding to the OP, which references a combo of hyperdrive rom and nova launcher.
I wasn't referring to the Eclipse ROM, which I see has AOSP dialer instead of TW dialer.
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Eclipse is the closest anyone can get to aosp ATM. Best ROM out there.
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Yes, but youre losing all of the touchwiz features, which is half of the point of this thread.
Great AOSP ROM for sure, though. :thumbup:
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zxsix said:
What does the dialer look like? Still the ugly white?
What about incoming call screen?
Just changing the launcher doesn't make it AOSP themed.
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Yeah. So the dialer and incoming calls are both part of the TW base. Nova launcher is just that; a home/launcher replacement. Just as you said. Though I am sure there are theming options for these things through third party methods, since many people dislike TW appearances.
I am just trying to get more of an AOSP look/feel, doesn't need to be completely coated in JB.
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Yes, but youre losing all of the touchwiz features, which is half of the point of this thread.
Great AOSP ROM for sure, though. :thumbup:
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Eclipse is a themed TouchWiz ROM with a couple AOSP parts. It is not built on AOSP base. I believe it has the air features and TW camera, as well as many others.
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Yes, but youre losing all of the touchwiz features, which is half of the point of this thread.
Great AOSP ROM for sure, though. :thumbup:
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I fully understood the point of the thread which is why I suggested Eclipse ROM. It's Touchwiz based and includes all the Touchwiz gimmicks as well as the TW camera. It's most certainly NOT an AOSP ROM as you seem to think it is. It's just a very well themed Touchwiz ROM.
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I fully understood the point of the thread which is why I suggested Eclipse ROM. It's Touchwiz based and includes all the Touchwiz gimmicks as well as the TW camera. It's most certainly NOT an AOSP ROM as you seem to think it is. It's just a very well themed Touchwiz ROM.
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You know, its really easy to post a reply without being passive-aggressive about it. I made a mistake and was unaware that Eclipse was Touchwiz, I was misinformed. Now that I have been home and had a chance to look at it, it looks like a really great option! Thanks for posting it here.
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Tortuga said:
Eclipse is a themed TouchWiz ROM with a couple AOSP parts. It is not built on AOSP base. I believe it has the air features and TW camera, as well as many others.
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Thanks for this. My bad, I was misinformed on Eclipse at some point. I checked it out a bit and it looks like a cool option to mix TW and AOSP features.
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You and I have our wires crossed. I was responding to the OP, which references a combo of hyperdrive rom and nova launcher.
I wasn't referring to the Eclipse ROM, which I see has AOSP dialer instead of TW dialer.
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Obviously he wouldn't have known since you quoted him.
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Heart Foxx said:
I'm assuming I'm not alone here, as I have seen many people across the forums saying that they have either already gone to, or are thinking of flashing an AOSP ROM, and are worried about losing all of those Samsung Goodies (Like hover, air gestures, eye control, TW Camera, etc.) They generally also seem to want the customizability of a custom rom, as well. So, let's discuss how people have gone about getting that JB feel on a TW ROM.
The way I currently have this set up is with the Hyperdrive 5.7 ROM as a base. With just that, you get a smoother, faster, and enormously feature-packed TW ROM. The customization you can accomplish with this ROM is very impressive, especially considering it is TouchWiz. On top of this, I'm running - yep, you guessed it - Nova Launcher.
Nova Launcher is, in my opinion, the obvious choice for getting stock JB feel on any device. Nova allows the important customizations made to Hyperdrive to continue working, while adding the JB feel right on top. I've also run the script from within Hyperdrive to enable the Nexus 4 Softkeys, and I've shut off the lights on the capacitive keys on the device itself. This makes them completely invisible, so the device looks much more like a Nexus device, if you like that sort of thing.
What do you guys think? What other options are out there? I'm looking to give some insight to users who may want to get this type of feel on their S4, while also getting some feedback or better/different ways of achieving this. Good luck, and happy theming!
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What is that clock and weather widget (2nd screenshot)?
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What is that clock and weather widget (2nd screenshot)?
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The main portion of it is DashClock. I like the accuweather service more than Yahoo though, so I used overlapping widgets in Nova Launcher. The weather widget on top of Dashclock is a 1x1 weather from Beautiful Widgets.
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this isnt really a [MOD] or a [GUIDE] this is more or less someones review of a ROM and a couple quick customizations in an app that's well known.... very misleading post
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this isnt really a [MOD] or a [GUIDE] this is more or less someones review of a ROM and a couple quick customizations in an app that's well known.... very misleading post
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Thanks for the feedback... kinda new and learning. Updated OP.
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Thanks for the feedback... kinda new and learning. Updated OP.
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no problem, we all start somewhere!!! enjoy the forums!!! and your phone:good:
Where/how do you run the script to make the Nexus soft buttons appear?
coolhands4 said:
Where/how do you run the script to make the Nexus soft buttons appear?
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I am no longer running this ROM, but it is an included script with Hyperdrive. If you go to sbreen's included script installer, it was somewhere in a media folder and you just run it from there. He posted the instructions on the first page of the Hyperdrive thread somewhere.
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...what is the obsession with them? I have thought this for a long time now, but I simply don't get it. They usually cripple or disable certain UI features and I can't imagine one being used on this phone.
This phone's stock launcher is already super fast and it has tons of options, almost to third party levels. Why would anyone use one on this phone? Is it people who are set in their ways and stubborn? What gives? Am I alone?
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Theming, icons, moar settings, gestures.. dunno whether im weird but I can't see the tons of options. I just see features but these are related to lg apps,not lg launcher ... all i want is..fully working knock on nova+cm ofc
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I really like the Interface on smart launcher. I like how it organizes apps, makes 1 hand operation a little easier for me
But I'd rather have knock on to wake haha, so sticking with stock until we can get some custom wake options with a custom kernel or something
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My biggest reason is to be able to set grid size. Now theming is another good one, but I guess just familiarities. I've been using them for years.
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I really like the Interface on smart launcher. I like how it organizes apps, makes 1 hand operation a little easier for me
But I'd rather have knock on to wake haha, so sticking with stock until we can get some custom wake options with a custom kernel or something
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Not sure about smart launcher but with Nova you can knock to wake and knock to sleep if you do it on the statusbar
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My biggest reason is to be able to set grid size. Now theming is another good one, but I guess just familiarities. I've been using them for years.
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ditto.grid size provides more options and control over widget placement. i like simple, functional home screens: time, date, calendar and weather. also prefer to hide the status bar, the option to use multiple docks (vs. on-screen shortcuts) and the ability to hide the dock when not in use. i use gestures to display the the notification screen and dock when needed. simply stated: i can't accomplish this with the stock launcher.
I'm surprisingly content with the stock launcher. Usually there's something that annoys me enough to change but it hasn't happened yet.
Does anyone know if there's a way to replace the dialer? I think it's ugly and much prefer the one I used on CM (from my Nexus).
never found a good one
I hate all stock launchers put out by all the big compaines. LG, Samsung, Motorola, htc, sony, etc...they all suck. It never takes me more than about 5 minutes to put my third party launchers on. I own about all the major ones and even some lesser known ones but my three favorite are next, tsf, and adw ex. For me the desktop like gridless homescreen of next and tsf have kept me with them for a long time now. Being able to size widgets according to your screen and not according to some set grid is so nice.
There are so many reasons to use third party launchers over any stock one but most of those have been listed already. Like themes, gestures, animations, tons of settings to change, and more. but really, if you like the stock launcher, stick with it.
Thanks for all of the replies guys. I see all your points and was just curious. I'm quite happy with the stock launcher myself.
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the stock launcher is amazing... except it redraws all the damn time, and it's even worse on Verizon. I love stock launcher but i simply can't use it without wanting to throw the phone. I use nova, and it hasn't redrawn on me once.
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You probably know the answer. Being a forum member since 2008. Customising, optimising and tinkering with your phone is part of xda cultures or else you wouldn't be here.
-LG G2
kcharng said:
You probably know the answer. Being a forum member since 2008. Customising, optimising and tinkering with your phone is part of xda cultures or else you wouldn't be here.
-LG G2
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To be honest, I've had a ton of phones since then and I never run a third party launcher more than a day. I just don't like them for whatever reason.
I've rooted every phone I've owned, flashed ton of roms, mods, etc. Yet I have always preferred stock launchers. Just how its been for some reason lol.
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x714x said:
Not sure about smart launcher but with Nova you can knock to wake and knock to sleep if you do it on the statusbar
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With nova you can knock anywhere not just the status bar. Knock to wake is working fine without customisation, knock to sleep you will need to download an app call screen off and set double tap shortcut to launch that app.
-LG G2
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
To be honest, I've had a ton of phones since then and I never run a third party launcher more than a day. I just don't like them for whatever reason.
I've rooted every phone I've owned, flashed ton of roms, mods, etc. Yet I have always preferred stock launchers. Just how its been for some reason lol.
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Most who use launcher brought the app at one time or another before G2. Like me they use launchers to customise, pick and choose features to operate their phone a certain way.
The beauty with using launchers is that no matter which phone you end up with, it doesn't matter. You can change brand upgrade android os and keep their screen the same.
-LG G2
I do like the stock launcher just wish I could load an icon pack ?
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My main reason is gestures. With Nova I swipe up for app drawer, down for notifications. I've grown so used to this that I will give up whatever special features a stock launcher has.
Plus I delete my app drawer button so if someone is looking at my phone they can't be nosey and look through my apps that I have downloaded.
bwhite757 said:
My main reason is gestures. With Nova I swipe up for app drawer, down for notifications. I've grown so used to this that I will give up whatever special features a stock launcher has.
Plus I delete my app drawer button so if someone is looking at my phone they can't be nosey and look through my apps that I have downloaded.
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main reason I didn't use nova before... bc of that gray status bar and gray navbar lol you've gotta root and run the black bar mod, man. looks so much better. that gray is so outta place. now nova looks like stock android.
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jayochs said:
main reason I didn't use nova before... bc of that gray status bar and gray navbar lol you've gotta root and run the black bar mod, man. looks so much better. that gray is so outta place. now nova looks like stock android.
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What clock widget are you using?
ant78 said:
What clock widget are you using?
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I'd like to know what clock widget that is as well??
Looks. I just don't like the looks of LG's UI. Or anyone's aside from vanilla for that matter.. As others have stated, the ability to customize almost any aspect of the interface is a big contributor to my love of Android. With stock launchers, I lose some of that ability. Hiding the notification bar is pretty important to me as well. Not sure why but I don't like the look of a different colored bar cluttered with icons at the top of my meticulously arranged home screen lol. Same with nav keys. I use pie. As mentioned by others, I use the 'screen off' app combined with the double tap gesture to retain the knock knock feature.
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