I just installed an AOSP ICS rom (SlimICS) and am missing the long-press left button = search functionality that stock Touchwiz has.
I know that AOSP doesn't include this, so I'm trying to see if there's a mod that may bring it back. I can't find any settings in the otherwise excellent SlimICS (or its ASS extra settings menu), and unfortunately cannot ask in its thread due to having <10 posts and it being in the dev forum. I also searched for a while but may be trying all the wrong keywords because I don't see anything promising for "aosp long press left button search" or similar.
Would anyone happen to know if this functionality is possible with an AOSP rom? Any pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hey.
It is a TouchWiz feature and Slim is an AOSP rom. Therefore there is at the moment no chance to bring it to this rom because it comes without TouchWiz.
Maybe you could install TouchWiz and get the feature back but I don't know.
Hiya. Right that's what I mean, is there a mod or app that may simulate it atleast? I presume it would be something that binds to the left click and on longpress event launches Google Search.
I just recalled that when I tried it, CM7 had something like that in its settings, letting you change what happened on longpress. I don't know if it was using a mod for that, will look around.
Sorry I dont know.
You could try it with TW 4.5:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
but dont know if you will have success.
I'm on Resurrection ics from and missed this feature too. I have bound it to a direct button and long press menu button of the navigation bar. The latest Nova launcher also has this feature. Hope I helped!
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alejo11 said:
I'm on Resurrection ics from and missed this feature too. I have bound it to a direct button and long press menu button of the navigation bar. The latest Nova launcher also has this feature. Hope I helped!
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It looks like Nova Launcher 1.1.1 may just be doing what I'm describing here. I'm surprised my current choice Go Launcher Ex doesn't have it, considering the multitude of useful features they've managed to add by now.
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I've been playing with my friends android's and i've noticed that the atrix lags:
1) Pinch zoom on the home screen to select to which HS page i wanna go. Instead, we have to press the home button while on the center of the home screen to be able to select the HS page. (not sure if i made myself clear enough)
2) We are stuck in 7 pages! personally, I don't use all 7 pages and I don't like those extra empty pages taking up my ram (even if it's not taking up a considerable amount of ram, it still bugs me when others can just have 3 HS if they wanted to)
3) On the notification drop down list, others have the Power Control buttons to turn on/off wifi and that kinda functions. I know there are apps that add a shortcut bar on the notification screen, but it's not Power Control.
so my question is, Anyone know a way to overcome these issues listed? i can try flashing if necesary.
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1) Pinch zoom on the home screen to select to which HS page i wanna go. Instead, we have to press the home button while on the center of the home screen to be able to select the HS page. (not sure if i made myself clear enough)
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I know that Launcher Pro has this functionality, not sure about other launcher apps.
Kenchinito said:
2) We are stuck in 7 pages! personally, I don't use all 7 pages and I don't like those extra empty pages taking up my ram (even if it's not taking up a considerable amount of ram, it still bugs me when others can just have 3 HS if they wanted to)
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There are a few launcher apps that you may want to look at. The 2 popular ones are "Launcher Pro" and "Go". I think both of them can be configured for the number of pages you want.
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3) On the notification drop down list, others have the Power Control buttons to turn on/off wifi and that kinda functions. I know there are apps that add a shortcut bar on the notification screen, but it's not Power Control.
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Motorola included a few widgets that can toggle some of this functionality, but in the stock Atrix builds this is not available from the notification bar.
All that said and if you are a brave soul, you may want to check out some of the custom ROMs available for the Atrix over in the developer forum. The ROMs are generally much alike and free the Atrix from both Motorola and your carrier. The ROMs differ in there themes and minor features.
Hope this helps you and your friend get the most out of the Atrix.
I would check out ADWLauncher, most of these things can be customized.
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i find launcher pro works the best for me. should definitely try that out.
Yeah, I've been thinking about Launchers, but I've tried launcher pro and I feel like it's taking even more ram. Because it's a launcher that is running on top of our stock HS, am I wrong?
I currently have Alien ROM on my device with the stock theme, because I cannot live without the one touch call/sms contact widget and also the ability to group apps on the app drawer. Tried the Alien theme and liked it, except for the mentioned "flaws"
Kill the blur launcher and use home switcher to set one by default. No more launcher running on top of another.
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Oh! that's a nice one. thanks!
BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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On mine with Launcher Pro I use two fingers to pinch, then keep one finger on the screen sliding it to which HS page I want to pick. I just figured this out based on what you were asking about. It is always fun to find some new feature like this that I didn't know existed before. With the stock home launcher from MotoBlur there is a capability to do it, but I long since forgot what that procedure was when I changed to Launcher Pro. LP has all the customizations you are asking for.
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BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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Been looking for that exact feature...
Thanks so much!
/BD
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I am using ADW EX with cm9. Everything is great but one thing is bothering me and I have not been able to find a solution. In landscape mode on the top of the screen is a bar with a menu button on the right. This just takes up space as I have a menu button on the bottom. Anyone know where I can go to remove this? I will attach a photo
Thanks!
Hmm ... I used to use ADW EX with CM9 and I don't recall that. Perhaps try turning off the persistent search (I think it's in CM settings).
Thanks will give that a try
Was not sure if it was a cm9 setting or something with ics's version of adw ex
Looks like that didn't fix it
The cm settings only change the cm launcher which is trebuchet, I am using adw ex.
I'll try installing ADW EX again tonight and giving it a try.
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I'm not sure what that is. I don't see an option to remove it, and I don't really see any reference to it in the change notice. He has added some "unique" features in the past that he later gives options to disable (e.g. the "one dock to rule them all"), and I do see a couple of comments in the reviews about it. Perhaps there will be more functionality (and an option to disable) in a future update.
Hey thanks a ton for atleast helping me understand what's going on
The status bars appear to be locked in cm9, apart from removing the search setting and clock details. I haven't been able to get the bottom status bar to appear/disappear with an up or down swipe trying several launchers. Have to wait for an update or go searching for the status bar details in the programming. Not to fussed at the moment, just waiting eagerly for 3.0 kernel to get integrated.
Its specific to adw.
I've been using adw ex on my Xoom through Honeycomb roms and ICS roms and they've always been there. Its a bit redundant but..oh well.
Thanks..hopefully ads devs address this by giving us an option to shut it off
I wouldn't count on it. The app was last updated December 7th.
Hopefully apex or nova launcher will enable docks for tablets soon instead. The dock is the only reason I still use ads ex.
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I use it because it let's me create icons that are shortcuts to each home screen. Those I can then edit with simple text app. Do you know of any other launchers that do this
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Hey
I am using ADW EX with cm9. Everything is great but one thing is bothering me and I have not been able to find a solution. In landscape mode on the top of the screen is a bar with a menu button on the right. This just takes up space as I have a menu button on the bottom. Anyone know where I can go to remove this? I will attach a photo
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Go to adw settings, UI Settings, Screen Preferences, Show desktop Indicator. Uncheck Show Desktop Indicator and it will disappear. If left on you can select what is shown and where. I leave mine off as I know which screen I am on.
Good Luck!
That's not the right thing. He's talking about the empty space with the menu button in it.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it looks as if show desktop indicator was already unchecked =/
Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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For ICS ROMs, I haven't tried many different yet, but at least on the Horny Porny Unicorn, with Apex launcher, free version, you definitely can make folder(s) on the Home screen(s), only on the home screens, not in the App Drawer.
Your other question seems to be called "Program Manager" where it lists how many apps and which app currently opened. In ICS, honestly I couldn't find anything similar to that (note: that Program Manager will only work on Samsung framework). I currently just use Task Manager to deal with it.
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Ok, so I am not exactly a noob with android. But ICS, yes. I just upgraded last week. I flashed Siyah kernel and Omega rom as that was close to what I used to have with GB and UnNamed rom. I then moved Omega to 2nd rom and flashed Task's AOKP rom as primary making it duel boot. I ABSOLUTELY love AOKP!! However, I miss two things that I enjoyed having in Omega and UnNamed and that is the ability to put applications into folders and the Active Applications monitor widget.
Using folders to organize my apps just makes sense to me and it made it easier to put the lesser used apps away. I know that I can organize apps on the homescreens, but that area is reserved for widgets and apps that are used most of the time. My question for this is: why are developers NOT including this feature? Is there something I am missing? Is there an easier way to organize apps that I am not seeing?
As far as the Active Applications widget, I used that widget to tell me what I have left open when navigating away from a program or hitting the home button to go to another app temporally. I would also use it to go back to said apps that I left open. I also used it to kill those apps. The widget would tell me, at a glance, how many programs I left open. This seems like a feature that would be important, yet I cannot find it anywhere!
I did google searches and forum searches to no avail. This worries me as since I am the only person asking, there must be something better or I am missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would ask Task directly, but I cannot post to his thread.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe holding down the home button shows you recent apps and is also a built in task killer. Also with folders as previous posts have said to add folders to the home screen just drag one icon on another and ur good to go.
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Tbh you don't need an active application widget. Also, you can put folders on your home screen so I don't know why you think you can't.
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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Your right! I can put folders on my home screen, but like I originality said, you cant put folders in the apps screen where they are needed. The home screen is reserved for things like often used apps and widgets.
As far as holding down the home button to kill programs... seems to work on my Omega but not on the AOKP. I turned it on under rom control to Pre-ICS recent when holding down the Home button (after playing will ALL the settings) and all it allows for is showing you the recent apps... not active ones. Anyone know of a task manager widget or something like what I am talking about???
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You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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You meant the app drawer, okay yeah that only works with touchwiz. As for the task manager setting it to pre ics removes a lot of functionality. You can set the back button to kill apps but you can have the task manager that is in samsung roms.
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That works... I played around with that, but I thought it was just a way to kill the app you currently were using and had open. If you open a app and navagate away from it or press the home button, holding down the back button will show those apps and then kill them. Works like a charm! I love this mod...
I guess all I need now is touchwiz or something better that will probably never happen and life will be grand! Thank you so much!!!
If you have Nova Launcher Prime you can have folders in the app drawer. I believe is $4.00 in he play store
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Thanks, I will try it out.
Go Launcher Ex will do folders in the app drawer. I use it with Shostock2.
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In GB, you could add a shortcut for Running Services by going to Shortcuts and then Settings>Running Services. Ever since I upgraded to ICS (AOKP by TasK; I can't remember if the samsung roms that I tried had it), I didn't see that option. There was only Settings>Apps, and then you'd have to switch to the Running Services tab. But there's also a one-click/press method I found.
I don't know if anyone else is interested; google search wasn't helpful, and I found the solution so I thought I'd share.
So this will probably be slightly different depending on the launcher you use, but with Nova and Apex it's basically this:
long press>shorcuts>Activities>Settings>Running services.
There's two entries for running services. They both do the same thing so I don't know why that is. If someone could shed light on that I'd be interested to know.
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In GB, you could add a shortcut for Running Services by going to Shortcuts and then Settings>Running Services. Ever since I upgraded to ICS (AOKP by TasK; I can't remember if the samsung roms that I tried had it), I didn't see that option. There was only Settings>Apps, and then you'd have to switch to the Running Services tab. But there's also a one-click/press method I found.
I don't know if anyone else is interested; google search wasn't helpful, and I found the solution so I thought I'd share.
So this will probably be slightly different depending on the launcher you use, but with Nova and Apex it's basically this:
long press>shorcuts>Activities>Settings>Running services.
There's two entries for running services. They both do the same thing so I don't know why that is. If someone could shed light on that I'd be interested to know.
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If I have my facts straight, this only works if you have a launcher installed that supports the "Activities" shortcut menu. I know Nova supports it...
I think that's right. Like I said it's launcher specific. Trebuchet doesn't seem to even have an option to add shortcuts other than the standard app-launch shortcut.
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I think that's right. Like I said it's launcher specific. Trebuchet doesn't seem to even have an option to add shortcuts other than the standard app-launch shortcut.
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Oh...I missed that in your post...sorry.
all good
Also, I think even if a launcher doesn't have an "activities" option, as long as you install nova or apex (whether u use it or not) there should be a way to get this shortcut. The LG launcher on the root-box rom is a case in point. (Trebuchet is a counter-example). I forgot how I did it tho...
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Also, I think even if a launcher doesn't have an "activities" option, as long as you install nova or apex (whether u use it or not) there should be a way to get this shortcut. The LG launcher on the root-box rom is a case in point. (Trebuchet is a counter-example). I forgot how I did it tho...
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Yeah, this is true. I use go launcher but I have nova installed, and the activities options shows up in the create shortcut menu.
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what would this be good for? i set it up. but there is no kill all option, so its kinda useless.
for nova users:
nova settings>long press menu>then do what he says in op.
phermey said:
what would this be good for? i set it up. but there is no kill all option, so its kinda useless.
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I've always had a shortcut to Running Services on one of my homescreens. It's useful to know what's running in the background when it shouldn't...so I can track down the sources of battery drain. Then I use Autostarts to try to control those services.
What's really useless is a task manager with a kill all option. All it does is cause Android to reopen those services, wasting more battery than it's saving.
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What's really useless is a task manager with a kill all option. All it does is cause Android to reopen those services, wasting more battery than it's saving.
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i agree. i use android assistant. great widget. can immediately see what my running processes are and i can kill if i tap the other side. along with look to see how much memory i will be freeing up. there is also an ignore list to throw those ones that reboot in.
different strokes for different folks i guess.
Id Like to be able to move the App Drawer button from the far right where it defaults. To the Middle.
Is there anyway to do this in Stock? And if not do any roms with touchwhiz allow for this?
As far as I know a lot of the things which are to do with customizing touch-wiz features aren't going to be in stock... but I could be wrong?
There is an existing thread about this, and the currently valid answer appears to be no.
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Try a launcher like Apex. All the buttons and other features can be customized, while everything else can be left stock.