Idk about you guys but i'm getting a little upset of finding different apps and launchers that don't fit my freaking screen...any cheeper AT&T phones anybody suggest with 480x800 screens???
i believe more and more phones these are going with the qHD (540 x 960) size. maybe you should wait a bit because that size should be supported more in the future.
Usually the apps that don't fit a qHD screen these days are the ones that have a lack of support anyways.
As far as launchers, which ones do not fit the Atrix? I have used LauncherPro, ADW, Go Launcher, Zeam, Nemus, and a few others I don't remember their names but never had a problem. Are you running a custom Rom?
Zach^.^ said:
Idk about you guys but i'm getting a little upset of finding different apps and launchers that don't fit my freaking screen...any cheeper AT&T phones anybody suggest with 480x800 screens???
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You can make most of those apps fit your screen by downloading Spare Parts and toggling "compatibility mode".
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You can make most of those apps fit your screen by downloading Spare Parts and toggling "compatibility mode".
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+1 that will fix most of your problems. Also, where have you found a launcher that doesn't fit the screen? You must really be scraping the bottom of the market to have found those because all of the decent/popular launchers I have tried worked fine.
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Try ADW ex. I'm using that right now, and works just fine. Like earlier posts, I should mention - all the popular ones seem to be working for me. Go Launcher, ADW, Launcher Pro, all seem to work fine.
The guy was just trolling, folks. Can't believe he got this many replies.lol
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WiredPirate said:
You can make most of those apps fit your screen by downloading Spare Parts and toggling "compatibility mode".
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Thanks bro would this work with a launcher? just curious. And i would've been replying quicker but i'v been busy. Oh and the launcher i cant use is the lg home one. I really like it alot! Everything looks good on it but the dock bar doesn't fit.
I'm currently using Go Launcher Ex.
live4nyy said:
Usually the apps that don't fit a qHD screen these days are the ones that have a lack of support anyways.
As far as launchers, which ones do not fit the Atrix? I have used LauncherPro, ADW, Go Launcher, Zeam, Nemus, and a few others I don't remember their names but never had a problem. Are you running a custom Rom?
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Yes, CM7 stable
Zach^.^ said:
Idk about you guys but i'm getting a little upset of finding different apps and launchers that don't fit my freaking screen...any cheeper AT&T phones anybody suggest with 480x800 screens???
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If your Atrix is rooted, give "Font Changer" a try. It's "free" and all you need to do is increase the "density" size. (I believe mine is on 260 for the setting)
Icons, text, and browsing IMO is much better now. Oh and one last thing yo note, if you do increase the density the "default dialer" won't work until you go back to the default size, but there are many 3rd party dialers that get the job done and work fine...
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You should give twlauncher4 a try. Look for it in themes and apps atrix forum. It will give you a Samsung Touchwiz experience, like love it or leave it (my first android was a galaxy s and I really like that launcher).
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Hi all nice developers.
Is it possible to migrate the Samsung Galaxy ROM onto Hero? It looks really fantastic!!
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Hi all nice developers.
Is it possible to migrate the Samsung Galaxy ROM onto Hero? It looks really fantastic!!
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I'm 99.9% sure it can't be done. Even on other HTC models it's already very hard to port over, much less a different brand of phone.
hello Sir , so you can do it and send it to every one ?!
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hello Sir , so you can do it and send it to every one ?!
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The guy said he was 99.9% sure that can´t be done and you ask him to do it? LOL
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The guy said he was 99.9% sure that can´t be done and you ask him to do it? LOL
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In the immortal words of dumd and dumber
" so your saying theres a chance"
what about just porting the touchwiz and the parts it needs at first then the rest of the os
I think due to the Galaxy S being an hdpi device it would be a near impossible job of porting it to our mdpi Hero. I think the nearest you'll get is a theme. I currently have a near complete framework port of all the images, scaled and re-9.png'd it looks cool but it's still not the ROM is it.
I wish I could do this for all Hero users too. I saw my coworker has bought a samsung galaxy. This device is really fantastic. Also its customized andriod system is very impressive. For instance the overview of desktops. Not like HTC, all desktops are reduced to a almost unreadable size but are aligned in one line. The menu font can be changed. The contact list looks more like iphone style. For me, the buttons in HTC sence look too bigger. This will also minus some points.
I bought my HTC hero last october. But the device has been slighly dropped to ground twice but looks optically very terrible now. And the microphone in headset does not work properly. Generally speaking the HTC qulity is not quite confident to me. Plus the attractive samsung software, I am now heavily considering to switch to samsung. (Smartphone is a great thing. I cannot help to wasting more money on it)
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I think due to the Galaxy S being an hdpi device it would be a near impossible job of porting it to our mdpi Hero. I think the nearest you'll get is a theme. I currently have a near complete framework port of all the images, scaled and re-9.png'd it looks cool but it's still not the ROM is it.
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when you're done, can you send it to me, rom specific?
I had tried install touchwiz launcher. And its running fine.un installed now.coz I don't like the style.
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when you're done, can you send it to me, rom specific?
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Well the themed framework should run on any 2.2 Froyo ROM. But to achieve the look you need to be able to change the Clock, Date, Notification text colour etc... like in CM6 or Fusion.
orangeclanz said:
I had tried install touchwiz launcher. And its running fine.un installed now.coz I don't like the style.
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Where did you get the launcher from, just any Galaxy S ROM?
Im just about to test http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=713309
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Installed fine,... working... fine.
Google search widget looked stretched, but others seem ok.
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Cool, will check it out
Some screens
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Can only do 1 at a time?... one more then,...
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I tried this on top of a Sense ROM (Villain12) yesterday,.. this morning my alarm didn't sound, the jogball started going crazy, but there was nothing I could do to turn it off.
Maybe best to try on non-Sense/Vanilla ROM.
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I have tried it and it does run, but there are some alignment and graphical issues. This would be due to the resolution it was meant for, Nexus and the like. This guy over here - http://forum.samdroid.net/f42/touchwiz3-launcher-spica-mdpi-screen-1615/ seems to have scaled a version down to fit mdpi devices. Not sure if it works but gonna give it a go. If so, the next cool thing would be to see if we can get some of the widgets to work with it.. ? :S
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I have tried it and it does run, but there are some alignment and graphical issues. This would be due to the resolution it was meant for, Nexus and the like. This guy over here - http://forum.samdroid.net/f42/touchwiz3-launcher-spica-mdpi-screen-1615/ seems to have scaled a version down to fit mdpi devices. Not sure if it works but gonna give it a go. If so, the next cool thing would be to see if we can get some of the widgets to work with it.. ? :S
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works fine on the fusion froyo rom, shame none of the samsung widgets are included.
apart from that, its perfect!
Wow I can't believe that either Android or HTC took such a serious step backwards with this new applications screen. I mean this stinks of way back in my Windows 6.x days. My EVO 4G applications drawer would just scroll and scroll so quickly and smoothly from top to bottom, relative to how fast and hard the finger gesture was. Now here we are again with this lame stepped scrolling app screen environment. You flick down and the screen moves exactly one set of five rows and slams to a stop, like you have reached the end. So you have to flick it again to get another whole five rows. In fact if you move the screen manually and slowly you can even see a thin white break across the screen where the stops are forced to happen. This sucks so much compaired to the beautiful, smooth, fluid animation we had before. Pleeeeease tell me there is a way to change this.
open app tray-hit menu-tap list=problem solved
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Wow I can't believe that either Android or HTC took such a serious step backwards with this new applications screen. I mean this stinks of way back in my Windows 6.x days. My EVO 4G applications drawer would just scroll and scroll so quickly and smoothly from top to bottom, relative to how fast and hard the finger gesture was. Now here we are again with this lame stepped scrolling app screen environment. You flick down and the screen moves exactly one set of five rows and slams to a stop, like you have reached the end. So you have to flick it again to get another whole five rows. In fact if you move the screen manually and slowly you can even see a thin white break across the screen where the stops are forced to happen. This sucks so much compaired to the beautiful, smooth, fluid animation we had before. Pleeeeease tell me there is a way to change this.
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Install Launcher Pro, ADWex, Launcher7, GoLauncher....I'm sure I'm missing dozens of them....Launcher Pro is the smoothest and most AOSP experience, though ADW is free with no nag and OSS, ADWex is the pay version, Launcher 7 is a Wp7 copycat, very smooth...not too feature rich...Go Launcher I've never used, but, seen good things from....
But you lose your sense widgets....
Screw rosie, I'll throw everything away to do away with that hideous beast
I agree with the OP. Converting it to.list is dooky too. I guess this new app drawer is HTCs was of eliminating the scrolling lag..
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I thought this was a question...
I happen to like how it is now but to each his own..List mode is the best your gonna get until we get some cracked boot loaders and roms
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I agree with the OP. Converting it to.list is dooky too. I guess this new app drawer is HTCs was of eliminating the scrolling lag..
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My thoughts exactly, lol. I was like, hmm, that was an easy way for them to fix the scrolling lag thru the app drawer, haha. I don't mind it, but look forward to the day I can get a custom rom on this bad boy and run some AOSP.
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open app tray-hit menu-tap list=problem solved
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Yeah I was aware of that option but really don't think that is a good trade off.
Thanks
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I agree with the OP. Converting it to.list is dooky too. I guess this new app drawer is HTCs was of eliminating the scrolling lag..
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I guess my lag wasn't that bad, but i would have thought that a dual core proc and 1gig of ram would have been enough to fix that.
Of all the things to complain about. I only knew it was a matter of time before people started acting like it was the end of the world because of something as minor as an app drawer. It was the same with the EVO.
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I guess my lag wasn't that bad, but i would have thought that a dual core proc and 1gig of ram would have been enough to fix that.
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bad coding is bad coding. we weren't dropping frames, they just weren't there to begin with.
ADWex and LP are always liquid smooth to me, on my Moment, Evo4G, Nook Color and everyones phone I put it on who asks to 'make it faster'.....in fact, as much as I hate sense I could deal with it or even--gasp--like it (those are some sexy widgets) if that god damned app drawer wasn't so god damn ugly-laggy-slow .... stock launcher on my moment was smoother....and, well...nuff said
The app drawer has been like that sense the thunderbolt released, I guess u never had a sense 2.1 rom
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I guess my lag wasn't that bad, but i would have thought that a dual core proc and 1gig of ram would have been enough to fix that.
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I think they might be fixing it for "less equipped" phones. I can imagine that several "low end" devices will have Sense 3.0 at some point.
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The app drawer has been like that sense the thunderbolt released, I guess u never had a sense 2.1 rom
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Nope I went straight from my EVO 4G to this and my ROM of choice was always the trusty Sprint Lover's rom, which was the original sense.
Launcher Pro Plus (the $3 is worth it) works very smoothly (I can scroll the whole app list in 1 swipe, no lag). I got Fancy Widgets free from the Amazon Apps store awhile back, and it makes up for the lost Sense widgets. I got addicted to having the scrolling lower launcher bar - there's no way I can go back to just 3 buttons that I can't assign
I actually like the vertical paginated style in the Sense 3.0 drawer. It reminds me of the horizontal paginated in ADW, which is what I always used. I wouldn't go so far to say it's a major step backwards, though. It's not really the end of the world.
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Launcher Pro Plus (the $3 is worth it) works very smoothly (I can scroll the whole app list in 1 swipe, no lag). I got Fancy Widgets free from the Amazon Apps store awhile back, and it makes up for the lost Sense widgets. I got addicted to having the scrolling lower launcher bar - there's no way I can go back to just 3 buttons that I can't assign
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Fancy Widgets doesn't look anywhere even close to as nice as the new Sense 3 widgets man.
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Of all the things to complain about. I only knew it was a matter of time before people started acting like it was the end of the world because of something as minor as an app drawer. It was the same with the EVO.
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yup, people complains for everything this days, remember the 30 days return policy mi gente!!
I remember seeing a review that you're able to pinch the app draw to see all the apps at the same time, then select the screen with the app you want. Just like the home screen on the regular Evo.
Is this how it works? Cause that would eliminate a reason to fast scroll for me & also explain why there's a line every 5 rows
lol @ some of you guys getting upset at people who don't like the app drawer.... calm down little fellas... we aren't insulting you.
I love the phone so far, hate the app drawer... using anything other than sense 3.0 on this phone right now would be silly IMO.
I have it working on the Droid X². Though the OP states after a few hours it crapped out, so if you give me a few days I will let you know of any problems.
As of right now the only problem is it stretches the widgets across the screen.
I have had it installed for about 6 hrs so far other than that seems ok. I would like to run it a few days to make sure so you don't brick yourself. If interested check back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313294
We already have the ability to make our screen rotate, with zero issues.
The one in moto-ginger-funk has been patched for rotation as well and it has no issues.
Mine doesnt seem to stretch widgets.
Go launcher ex has a setting for it also
Thanks for testing tho!
Its good to see people experimenting and trying to bring things to us THANKS!
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Go launcher ex has a setting for it also
Thanks for testing tho!
Its good to see people experimenting and trying to bring things to us THANKS!
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+1, appreciated fer sure
Wait, is this something the stock home CAN'T do?! I haven't seen a Blur launcher on my X2 in months. I use GO Launcher and homescreen rotate is old news to me. My gf's D3 can rotate the stock homescreen, but I know she has fancier Blur than us.
It definitely doesn't rotate when stock.
I am stock 2.3.4 (finally!!) Rooted and no setting for it and doesn't do it.
Wow. D3 got lucky with their Blur
Thanks for this it's working great. Spent the weekend checking out all the roms from this site & eventually went back to my stock, deodexed, manually debloated nandroid cuz I actually kinda like blur (it grows on you, like a rash). But I missed the rotating home from motogingerfunk & this was just what I wanted.
Hey ash, maybe try the stock, deodexed from peperm1nt-thats what I'm running & this works fine for me.
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The only stock Blur Homes that rotate have an actual keyboard.. ie d2 d3 etc
Go launcher ex has a setting for it also
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Were talking about the stock Blur Home Launcher...
mastafunk said:
The one in moto-ginger-funk has been patched for rotation as well and it has no issues.
Mine doesnt seem to stretch widgets.
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Sorry I missed that line I look over the same things day after day. Just for something to help others. 2.3.4 didn't work well for me though I still skim the same pages just to see what's different. It was my mistake. I am fairly new at this but up for a good brick once in a while to help others. If I could get apk mgr to work right I would be kicking out some cool theming but not a lot of time to learn. Anyhow thanks for the heads up about the one you have I'm going to give it a shot see how much difference there is.
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I've been a huge fan of Nova Launcher for years, every time I get a new phone I give the stock launcher a try but end up back with Nova.
Can the stock launcher compete? Does it have any Pixel only features that might change my mind?
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Probably not, the stock launcher is pretty basic in terms of customisation.
I like the option to have different icon shapes and density tbh
I'll obviously give it a go, but most likely change to AIO
I'll look at it but there's not much chance I won't go to Action Launcher which I've used on phones/tablets for years.
I'm probably going try it for a while, but will probably go back to Niagara Launcher.
Have to say, I spent about 15 minutes with it then installed Nova!!!
Nova FTW! I can't wait to the Kinda Coral arrives so I can put my fingers on it.
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Nova FTW! I can't wait to the Kinda Coral arrives so I can put my fingers on it.
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I got kinda coral, gotta say though it's more like kinda pinkl
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I got kinda coral, gotta say though it's more like kinda pinkl
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I was worried about that, so I ordered also a Stormy Sky fabric case to be safe.
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I was worried about that, so I ordered also a Stormy Sky fabric case to be safe.
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I ordered a clear case
Nova for me!
Always return home to Nova and I've tried most every launcher.
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I'm probably going try it for a while, but will probably go back to Niagara Launcher.
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This has become my go to launcher with my Pixel 5. Love the setup and layout all around. Replaced the Nova launcher for me.
I've been a HUGE Nova fan for a long time, and if I'm honest, I'll be switching to it very quickly once my Pixel6 comes in. In the last version, when they officially dropped support for the TeslaUnread plugin, I knew the product had lost it's special sauce. Nonetheless, it remains the most customizable and best-featured launcher I've found. And if you're rooted, its just that much more useable. But DAMN....it sure sucks that I can't have PROPER unread count badges on my apps.
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I've been a HUGE Nova fan for a long time, and if I'm honest, I'll be switching to it very quickly once my Pixel6 comes in. In the last version, when they officially dropped support for the TeslaUnread plugin, I knew the product had lost it's special sauce. Nonetheless, it remains the most customizable and best-featured launcher I've found. And if you're rooted, its just that much more useable. But DAMN....it sure sucks that I can't have PROPER unread count badges on my apps.
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I'm not fussed about unread counts, don't really have any, urgh that makes me sound lonely! But this is the first time I'm using Nova without the nav bar so getting used to gestures. Liking it so far
Probably not. Likely switch to Ruthless provided this doesn't restrict widgets or navigation.
I've been thinking about that myself and I think ill switch to Nova. I've had the premium version forever now.
is the stutter when pressing home, gone when using 3rd party launchers?
Nova Prime a must have for my devices.... cheers
I used to use Nova all time, never even bothered setting up the home screen on stock, since android 11 though I had to change that as the experience with 3rd party launchers is not longer good enough for me.
Gestures stopped working properly and I like gestures, yes they still work but lots of animation quirks and other stuff that depending on your device make for a generally inferior experience to stock. Just IMO of course.
If I was a launcher developer I'd be fuming with Google.
Long time Fold user, got myself a Find N today, and love it.
Except for one teeny, tiny, massive issue.
The launcher is... dreadful.
No matter. Install Nova.
No joy.
No matter. ADB. Delete...
Hmm... error.
So, stuck with Launcher from 2011.
Has anyone rooted the Find N? I assume it's *reasonably* simple and allows me to delete the default launcher. The bootloader can certainly be unlocked.
Any thoughts?
Do it! I plan to as well, although I've never rooted a phone before so it will be a new experience for me. The launcher is really holding this thing back.
How do you root? I'm planning to, but haven't found how so far
yes!! we absolutely need someone to root it
What is the big issue with the stock launcher?
It doesn't have outer/inner layouts, and it's limited to a 5x5 grid, which specially in the inner screen makes no sense at all.
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It doesn't have outer/inner layouts, and it's limited to a 5x5 grid, which specially in the inner screen makes no sense at all.
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You mean that the inner and outer display always have to have the same layout?
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You mean that the inner and outer display always have to have the same layout?
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Yes
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Yes
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Worse even that that... There's no app drawer.
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Worse even that that... There's no app drawer.
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I found this, not sure if it applies to this variant though.
rcs1000 said:
Worse even that that... There's no app drawer.
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Ive seen some appdrawers in the videos about the find n
Yes, you can enable app drawer
Maybe I will buy this phone if root is possible. Waiting for this...
As far as i know , no one managed to get nova launcher working
Any luck trying to root, anyone?
Root possible or not ? Apps for banking work with route phone or not ?