A little background... I'm running the perma root method that shows version 9.9.9 and 1.4.0 and have access to play market etc. I also have the nice ICS bar buttons. I downloaded go launcher ex today and it runs fast, looks good, etc. My problem is that it is sized wrong! The fonts are huge or small depending and the bar at the bottom often sinks down into where the notification bar is. It's annoying and I believe it's because of the dpi or something that is stock on the nook. Is there anything I can do to size this right so that the fonts and sizes are correct on the nook tablet? Again, I'm not running cm7 or 9, just stock rooted.
From what I remember when I was running rooted 1.40 months ago, Go Launcher didn't play nice. There is a stable version though, something like 2.67, I am going off memory, you may want to double check. I had to freeze Go launcher so as not to get any updates. Any version after that was a little wonky. You may want to try out CM7 or CM9, Go Launcher works really well with both.
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A little background... I'm running the perma root method that shows version 9.9.9 and 1.4.0 and have access to play market etc. I also have the nice ICS bar buttons. I downloaded go launcher ex today and it runs fast, looks good, etc. My problem is that it is sized wrong! The fonts are huge or small depending and the bar at the bottom often sinks down into where the notification bar is. It's annoying and I believe it's because of the dpi or something that is stock on the nook. Is there anything I can do to size this right so that the fonts and sizes are correct on the nook tablet? Again, I'm not running cm7 or 9, just stock rooted.
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I'm running 3.01 from Amazon, sideloaded on NT stock tablet 1.4, which should behave the same as your rooted version without the root access. (I don't run Google Play because it wouldn't ever install correctly and I have an SD card from which I run CM7 which does have the Play Store.) I have adjusted all icon and icon label and font sizes, icon grid spacing, etc. to sizes that look just fine. Go Launcher has many customization features under the preferences item on the menu.
I was running go launcher on 4.1.0 rooted and it was fine. I even changed the rows and columns to get more on the home screen. When I restored to go back to stock over the weekend go launcher updated to the latest and still worked well.
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I got the Woot G-Tab and it arrived yesterday. Charged pretty fast, but I had no opportunity to try it out. I had hoped to check out the installed OS before upgrading, but ended up just installing the Vegan Tab ROM with the update and the recommended kernel, but when I began placing apps (icons) on the screens, it only lets me put 4 horizontally and 4 vertically for 16 per screen. They look lost! I'd like to either be able to put more items per screen or make the icons I do have larger so the screen doesn't look so EMPTY!
Also, the soft buttons to the right of the screen include the browser, the screen you go to to place items on the home screen and a phone icon. Why is there a phone icon when this is not a phone? Is it a relic from the OS that was modified to Vegan?
The default Android launcher was indeed made for a phone. Try Launcher Pro, ADW or Zeam. All of them allow you to modify your homescreens to your liking.
You could try this launcher. Working well for me.
VTL.Launcher BETA 1.1 (Tablet Oriented Launcher
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12566279#post12566279
I actually was okay with the stock ROM (3588), but it wasn't rooted, I couldn't get Google's app suite on it and I didn't like the launcher. I installed the Cyanogen 7.0.0 custom ROM and while all of the above gripes are solved video playback has a noticeable stutter (just the picture, sound is okay) and the fonts and of the UI seems fuzzy or stretched (as if its not using the full 1024x600 resolution). Also the fact that the internal memory doesn't mount as /sdcard is urking me (I don't have a microSD card).
Is there a custom ROM that is a nice blend between the stock ROM and the Cyanogen 7 ROM (and doesn't have that ugly spacing between apps in the launcher)?
I would suggest you try Vegan Ginger. It's got some more of the Vega flavor added to CM7.
If you are still on CM7, replace the launcher (try VTL-Launcher in the Themes/Apps section). VTL is geared more for tablets. You can also change the number of rows & columns that will make better use of the screen.
All Gingerbread based roms are going to have some video issues. nVidia has not released drivers for our system for GB. There is an ongoing 'movement' to try and fix that. Seems to be having some success.
Vegan Ginger also mounts the /Sdcard & /sdcard2 the way you are used to. CM7 standard is to put internal memory on /emmc. I expect sooner or later we will have to move that route.
try vegan 5.1.1 with vtl. first look up .nomedia and market fix.
Thanks! VTL Launcher works great, except I can't get into an individual widget's settings since the launcher's long press takes precedence over the widget's long press. I'll try Vegan next if the issue becomes a real problem.
Thanks again!
What about installing the stock ROM (3588), rooting it, install Google Apps and replacing the stock launcher (with VTL Launcher)... is this possible?? Particularly rooting the stock ROM and getting the Google Apps installed since I've yet to come across any posts/articles about these.
Install the stock rom and then the enhancement pack. It will give you root and the market
rats! The 3588 enhancement pack doesn't have root. it also doesn't have the long press the home button for app switching feature.
On to Vegan Tab I guess...
If VEGAn is where you're headed and you like to watch ripped dvds on your gTab I would suggest you stay with froyo VEGAn 5.1 with the 5.1.1 supplemental as that version has hardware acceleration and the Ginger Edition of VEGAn doesn't.
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VTL Launcher works great, except I can't get into an individual widget's settings since the launcher's long press takes precedence over the widget's long press.
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Correction: VTL Launcher doesn't get in the way of a widget's long press features - I was doing it wrong. The widget in question is CirlceLauncher (1.6) and I figured out how to really get to an individual launcher's settings/configuration (tap to bring up apps THEN long press to bring up it's settings).
Also long press is a default feature for all desktop launchers by design (for moving shortcuts/widgets/folders around). I should of known that couldn't have been a widget's feature. Thanks for not flaming me everyone!
So far VEGAn Tab beta 5.1 and VTL.Launcher is the winning combo for me. Even though I don't like the notification bar icons, I think I've finally settled on a ROM.
Okay what is different in ics vs gb for the sense roms? What new features?
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First I need to say that I am running Cleanrom, but I think a lot of it is what you'll see in stock.
The original, 3-button dock is no longer there. You have a center app drawer button and 4 custom slots. So a 5 button dock. You can actually group apps in a folder and place them onto the dock. Whatever is placed on the dock is your shortcuts for the lock screen. Change them, and they'll change to whatever you have on lockscreen.
I'm not sure if this is new, but the default Sense Clock widget has a shortened down version now. It takes up half the vertical space that the regular one does.
This could be the rom I'm running, but the status bar has some new icons and the fonts look like the roboto font. The drop down menu does have some ICS elements to it as well. It is now black (could be my rom?) and has the new icons in it. You can swipe the notifications closed or click them and load them (that part isn't new). The Quick settings tab has little switches in it instead of check boxes.
When you hold down the home key to go to recent apps, instead of the popup of 8 recent apps, you have the basic ICS recent apps now. It loads up a window with the list of apps and a preview window of the app in the background. You can scroll up and down and swipe to kill the apps.
I can't really see anything else at the moment that is new/different, but I'll let you know if I see something. Hope that helps.
If that is all thats new for ics... It seems stock Rezound with golauncher would be pretty close minus the Bugs...
I might be way off with this guess though, so correct me if I'm wrong guys
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I was running stock Rezound with Go Launcher up until last night when I flashed Senseless ICS. Go Launcher may let you mimic some of the ICS functionality, but at the cost of eating additional RAM. Sure, it's not much, but most of us here like a lean device. All the 'little' things ICS does stock (swiping apps to end them, better Google apps, better dialer, better contacts) really add up. It's well worth flashing over to a stock ICS ROM, especially given just how stable they're becoming. The improvement in battery life made it worth it for me; my Rezound no longer chews through 10%+ battery on 4G inside of 10 minutes.
I've tried Go Launcher EX and ADW EX launchers on the Flyer and neither will rotate the launcher bar to the bottom of screen when in landscape mode. Searched all the settings and can't see anything that would prevent this. Figure since the Sense launcher can do it the others should as well.
Does anyone know if this is possible and if so point me to the right setting?
I had this same issue with ADW EX which I don't get because the first picture it has on the market shows it running on a honeycomb tablet in landscape mode with the dock on the bottom. Its supposed to be tablet friendly but it actually didn't work for crap in my opinon! my wallpaper was all messed up and off center too!
Anyway google "Go Launcher HD". Its not on the market, at least last I checked it wasn't but I came accross it googling "honeycomb Launchers". Its a beta and needs a lot of work, but its specifically designed for honeycomb!
I have SPB Shell for my phone and could just install that but unsure about how the specs on the flyer would handle it.
Ended up installing VTL Launcher instead and it works as it should. Has a decent amount of options and I like the scrolling dock bar options for each side. Downside is it has no widgets but I just use others from the market for what I need.
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I had this same issue with ADW EX which I don't get because the first picture it has on the market shows it running on a honeycomb tablet in landscape mode with the dock on the bottom. Its supposed to be tablet friendly but it actually didn't work for crap in my opinon! my wallpaper was all messed up and off center too!
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This in particular, and the OP's issue in general, may be due to the software not completely supporting our particular hardware. Every tablet handles apps differently. I recommend contacting the developer, and letting them know the issue, and see what they say. Be sure to specify Flyer (or View, if that is the case) and Honeycomb.
Anyone else experiencing this. The add widgets menu has white text and a white background. This is using Go Launcher, this menu isn't available from the stock launcher since the widgets get selected from the app drawer now. Go Launcher doesn't have the option for widget selection from the app drawer.
Not a huge deal, but still a pain.
I noticed the same issue running Apex launcher. Haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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Can you please post more info as to what version you're running? From the clock on your picture it seems like ICS, and on the other hand, on ICS you do not add widgets with such screen... Also, if possible, how you came to have your version (was it through fastboot, CWM, Nandroid, other)?
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Can you please post more info as to what version you're running? From the clock on your picture it seems like ICS, and on the other hand, on ICS you do not add widgets with such screen... Also, if possible, how you came to have your version (was it through fastboot, CWM, Nandroid, other)?
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Not sure if you read my entire post, but the title line states .211 as my version which would be ICS. Also this is using Go Launcher instead of the stock launcher which is why the menu is there, once again I stated that as well.
As for how I came to be on this version, I'm not at liberty to say......