[Q] Is this ICS? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have seen many ICS versions and they all have 5 thumbnails..Why does mine have four?

what thumbnail?
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Sir, are you referring to the column of icons that can be placed on your screen?

Yes I am talking about how after you unlock your phone and there are buttons such as contacts and applications. I updated mine through Odin and there are only 4 buttons not five as I usually see on ICS and graphically ithasn't changed much also I am now having problems with my WIFI button on the pull down notification place. It seems I may have installed a crap firmware

anz2k8 said:
Yes I am talking about how after you unlock your phone and there are buttons such as contacts and applications. I updated mine through Odin and there are only 4 buttons not five as I usually see on ICS and graphically ithasn't changed much also I am now having problems with my WIFI button on the pull down notification place. It seems I may have installed a crap firmware
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use a custom launcher if you want more than 4

It sounds like you installed the official Samsung ICS update, which has TouchWiz. Which will have 4 dock shortcuts. But were expecting the AOSP launcher, which has 5 dock shortcuts. As RoRo1990 said, just install a launcher. Like Apex or Trebuchet.
EDIT: Also, you should note that official Samsung releases, since they have TouchWiz, won't look too different from the previous version.

anz2k8 said:
I have seen many ICS versions and they all have 5 thumbnails..Why does mine have four?
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im using go launcher ex try it...
Cheers!

Thanks you see many i previously saw had 5 so i immediately assumed i had the wrong one

anz2k8 said:
Thanks you see many i previously saw had 5 so i immediately assumed i had the wrong one
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Install apex or nice launcher from market if you want 5
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[Request] Gingerbread launcher with seven home screens

I'm running the latest CM7 nightly on my Droid Incredible. I have the paid versions of both ADW and Launcher Pro, but at the end of the day I always go back to the stock Gingerbread launcher. It's fast, minimal, and it just works. My only complaint is that that launcher2 only has five home screens, and I would like seven. A Google search brought me to a launcher2 mod over on XDA that has seven home screens, but whenever I press the phone shortcut I get a message telling me that "this application is not installed on your phone" (the mod is from the Samsung Epic 4G, I believe it's looking for the Touchwiz dialer and not the stock Gingerbread dialer). Would it be possible to mod the stock Gingerbread launcher to have seven screens and a working phone shortcut?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110857
Did you try to push the file using root explorer or just install the apk the normal way... the instructions say to push it via root explorer.
Hit thanks if I helped please!
mauricehall said:
Did you try to push the file using root explorer or just install the apk the normal way... the instructions say to push it via root explorer.
Hit thanks if I helped please!
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I pushed with root explorer. I think the problem is that the launcher is looking for the Touckwiz dialer, not the stock Gingerbread dialer.
Did you change permissions ?
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creepinm3 said:
Did you change permissions ?
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Yep. I changed permissions and the problem persisted.
matoya said:
I'm running the latest CM7 nightly on my Droid Incredible. I have the paid versions of both ADW and Launcher Pro, but at the end of the day I always go back to the stock Gingerbread launcher. It's fast, minimal, and it just works. My only complaint is that that launcher2 only has five home screens, and I would like seven. A Google search brought me to a launcher2 mod over on XDA that has seven home screens, but whenever I press the phone shortcut I get a message telling me that "this application is not installed on your phone" (the mod is from the Samsung Epic 4G, I believe it's looking for the Touchwiz dialer and not the stock Gingerbread dialer). Would it be possible to mod the stock Gingerbread launcher to have seven screens and a working phone shortcut?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110857
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I'll get ya set up later today.
And here ya go. Modified and built from AOSP source. Should work with mdpi devices as well.
Launcher2.apk
gtg465x said:
And here ya go. Modified and built from AOSP source. Should work with mdpi devices as well.
Launcher2.apk
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It works perfectly! Many thanks.
gtg465x said:
And here ya go. Modified and built from AOSP source. Should work with mdpi devices as well.
Launcher2.apk
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Could also create a version with 3 homescreens instead? Would appreciate it immensely
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I've been using my new launcher since yesterday and it's great, though I've found one small problem. starts, like when I power my phone back on in the morning, the widgets on the two home screens on the far right disappear. Again, this is a small problem and other then than that the launcher works perfectly.
matoya said:
I've been using my new launcher since yesterday and it's great, though I've found one small problem. starts, like when I power my phone back on in the morning, the widgets on the two home screens on the far right disappear. Again, this is a small problem and other then than that the launcher works perfectly.
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Can you try clearing launcher data? That may fix it.
gtg465x said:
Can you try clearing launcher data? That may fix it.
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I cleared launcher data and unfortunately the problem still persists.
EDIT-The widgets also disappear if I connect my phone to my computer and turn on USB storage.
matoya said:
I cleared launcher data and unfortunately the problem still persists.
EDIT-The widgets also disappear if I connect my phone to my computer and turn on USB storage.
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Can you try moving the widget apps from sd card to phone?
gtg465x said:
Can you try moving the widget apps from sd card to phone?
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That didn't work either, unfortunately.
matoya said:
That didn't work either, unfortunately.
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K. Could be some code I missed. Will look at it later. Although I'm pretty sure widgets were sticking on screen 6 fine for me earlier when I was using it.
gtg465x said:
K. Could be some code I missed. Will look at it later. Although I'm pretty sure widgets were sticking on screen 6 fine for me earlier when I was using it.
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Thanks in advance. I'll just keep putting my widgets back until the problem gets sorted out.
This seemed like itworked fine on a mdpi phone except the app drawer is off
http://i.imgur.com/0REc1.png
I want a HTC Status!!!
ninjasauce said:
This seemed like itworked fine on a mdpi phone except the app drawer is off
http://i.imgur.com/0REc1.png
I want a HTC Status!!!
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Who needs an app drawer?
lmao just kidding
matoya said:
Thanks in advance. I'll just keep putting my widgets back until the problem gets sorted out.
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See if this one fixes the widgets disappearing.
Launcher2.apk
gtg465x said:
See if this one fixes the widgets disappearing.
Launcher2.apk
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That did the trick. I rebooted my phone a couple times just to make sure and each time my widgets were right where I left them. Thanks again, gtg, you're awesome.

[Q] Stock ICS Launcher on ICS LEAK?

Hey guys,
I saw a video on youtube by qbking77(?something like that) of him reviewing the official leak ICS build for SPRINT's SGS2.
He found that by clearing the defaults for Twlauncher apk, pressing home button will give you two options for the launcher, Touchwiz 4.0 and STOCK ICS. I thought this was pretty neat.
Can anyone confirm that AT&T's OFFICIAL LEAK stores inside it the STOCK ICS LAUNCHER too?
I myself have a GT-i9100, btw. was just wondering if that is possible. Thanks guys!
Removing the launcher and not having a fallback will get you nowhere.
He probably hand Trebuchet or similar installed, unless carriers are including Market apps. (Doubtful)
LiLChris06 said:
Removing the launcher and not having a fallback will get you nowhere.
He probably hand Trebuchet or similar installed, unless carriers are including Market apps. (Doubtful)
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Nono not removing it, just clearing defaults from the app options.
And no, it was called "launcher"
And he went from stock tw launcher to stock ics google launcher
And he said sprint/samsung have included this.
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jhong91 said:
Nono not removing it, just clearing defaults from the app options.
And no, it was called "launcher"
And he went from stock tw launcher to stock ics google launcher
And he said sprint/samsung have included this.
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It's not in any I9100 or I777 firmware I've seen, but it's not like you can't install it.
Entropy512 said:
It's not in any I9100 or I777 firmware I've seen, but it's not like you can't install it.
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Oh okay, so this must be something that Sprint and Samsung are pushing! Which means they're giving consumers choice?
I want to link the video that is proof of this but I'm on my phone..will link the video later!
Thx for the response and all the hard work Entropy!
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i think i recall them doing this for the epic also....
but no, the 9100 and the i777 releases do not have Launcher2.apk in them....
Pirateghost said:
i think i recall them doing this for the epic also....
but no, the 9100 and the i777 releases do not have Launcher2.apk in them....
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Okay, thx for the confirmation! Hope all carriers start doing this..
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jhong91 said:
Okay, thx for the confirmation! Hope all carriers start doing this..
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why does it matter?
there are a thousand launchers on the market.
APEX launcher, and NOVA both look identical to stock .... Trebuchet for rooted users...
Pirateghost said:
why does it matter?
there are a thousand launchers on the market.
APEX launcher, and NOVA both look identical to stock .... Trebuchet for rooted users...
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Just the idea that a carrier is giving consumers choice out of the box sounds promising
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jhong91 said:
Just the idea that a carrier is giving consumers choice out of the box sounds promising
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All the carriers give you choice out of the box. Its called Play Store. Apple made "there's an app for that" popular, Android made it true.
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ICS GalaxyS2 looks different than previews - why?

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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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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+1
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.
hd779 said:
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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Rom Challenge

Does anyone know of an rooted S2 ROM that is pretty much stock Samsung ICS 4.03 that gives me 5 horizontal icons on home screen and 5 x 5 in the apps drawer.
Alternatively any way to achieve this this with an existing rooted ROM?
Don't want to do it through an alternative launcher as I am happy with TW.
Thanks in advance.
macqueena said:
Does anyone know of an rooted S2 ROM that is pretty much stock Samsung ICS 4.03 that gives me 5 horizontal icons on home screen and 5 x 5 in the apps drawer.
Alternatively any way to achieve this this with an existing rooted ROM?
Don't want to do it through an alternative launcher as I am happy with TW.
Thanks in advance.
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This is probably the best for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
TW wont do that out of the box.
Look into TW 4.5 - not sure if it'll work on ICS, but I used it on GB and it allowed you to change the grid size IIRC.
Oh and it's a launcher thing, not a ROM thing.
Otherwise, find other launcher i guess...
Use apex launcher
On home screen touch the menu key
Go apex settings > home screen settings > portrait grid
Change to 5x5 or whatever u want
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STFU!!
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Not even funny
jeremija8 said:
This is probably the best for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
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Not even funny
rikta said:
TW wont do that out of the box.
Look into TW 4.5 - not sure if it'll work on ICS, but I used it on GB and it allowed you to change the grid size IIRC.
Oh and it's a launcher thing, not a ROM thing.
Otherwise, find other launcher i guess...
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Thanks for that I have TW4.5 on my current ROM which is running 4.0.3 and have had on previous ROM's but this is the first time I have seen 5 horizontal icons on the home page, had never seen it as an option either.
I will investigate some more as I don't really want to use another launcher.
It's not even funny to post "Rom Challenge " in android development section.
That's my mistake I will withdraw the post. Thanks.
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And I will lock this. Don't be lazy and search and read the rom threads. Also (I just noticed after I posted lolz) post in the correct sections....
Cheers

[Request] Working Floating Multi-Window

Is there a flashable zip for floating multi-windows on VZW GN2? I searched and found a couple of threads but they seemed somewhat complicated and quite buggy. I had this feature on my GS3 with Synergyrom and loved it, I'm sure it would be even nicer on the bigger screen. Sorry if there is a simple answer that I overlooked.
Here is a simple way of getting floating multi Window. I know of no other mods at this time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2217447
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JeramyEggs said:
Here is a simple way of getting floating multi Window. I know of no other mods at this time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2217447
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Thanks I'll look that over
I tried that mod.... The only issue is the lock screen gets screwed up when you change the resolution.
gramsey1911 said:
I tried that mod.... The only issue is the lock screen gets screwed up when you change the resolution.
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Is it because it's built into the rom that it works so well on Synergy for the GS3? If so is it something that can be done for GN2? I ask because I don't fully understand what can just be flashed and what has to be built in to the framework of the rom to make it work properly.
Doogiedog said:
Is it because it's built into the rom that it works so well on Synergy for the GS3? If so is it something that can be done for GN2? I ask because I don't fully understand what can just be flashed and what has to be built in to the framework of the rom to make it work properly.
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Talk to echelon or trevE over in the Verizon s3 forum. They may be able to help us out.
gramsey1911 said:
I tried that mod.... The only issue is the lock screen gets screwed up when you change the resolution.
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Ihave the same problem, but I deal with the three shortcuts instead of five. Then I use an spp to control jist the lockscreen rotation. Im my opinion, the benefits far outweigh losing two shortcuts.
You can also change the dpi if you want all of your shortcuts as lpng as you can deal with smaller icons.
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This seems to have no effect on my VZW Note 2. Running Jelly "Beans" with Nova Launcher and Widget Locker.
Are you hitting the save button in the right corner of xposed after you change your settings ?
HughesNet said:
This seems to have no effect on my VZW Note 2. Running Jelly "Beans" with Nova Launcher and Widget Locker.
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Yeah same here on beans 13 didn't change multi Window at all. Tw launcher. Beans stock kernel.
Tried both resolutions. Tried different dpi.
It would be really cool to have this. I am not smart enough. Lol. But i know there are tons of smart people in these forums.
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wyckedfunk said:
Are you hitting the save button in the right corner of xposed after you change your settings ?
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Yes, just like I do when I change DPI on all my other apps. I know how to use it. It just isn't working with Beans 13 for some reason.
Great trick! Working quite well on sprint!
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