Where do some of the widgets go when you add them to a home screen? If I press a blank area on my home screen and add a widget, sometimes it flies to the screen and isn't there when I go to that screen. Where are they going? I have even tried this on a home screen with nothing on it.
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Long press on a Home screen is meant to switch the screen to edit mode - and it does, except in the case of the Stocks app. A long press opens the app. I want to remove the widget from the screen and i do not know how to do it.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers,
Peter
Hold your finger on the widget and move it to the bin.
I just picked up a 10.1 tab. It is rooted with recovery and the Overcome 10.1 1.2.1 rom on it. Everything is pretty awesome but I have a couple of questions due to my newness to HC.
I currently have one home screen. If I am on the home screen and I press home it shows my home screen on top of the home screen with a dark, see through, background. Looks pretty silly. What is the purpose of this?
If I long press the icon to the right, that normally brings up running apps on the left, I also get the stupid home screen laid over top of my home screen. Again, what is the purpose.
I got a lot to learn, thanks!
pcm2a said:
I just picked up a 10.1 tab. It is rooted with recovery and the Overcome 10.1 1.2.1 rom on it. Everything is pretty awesome but I have a couple of questions due to my newness to HC.
I currently have one home screen. If I am on the home screen and I press home it shows my home screen on top of the home screen with a dark, see through, background. Looks pretty silly. What is the purpose of this?
If I long press the icon to the right, that normally brings up running apps on the left, I also get the stupid home screen laid over top of my home screen. Again, what is the purpose.
I got a lot to learn, thanks!
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By default, when you press the home button while already on your homescreen, it gives you a preview of all your screens. You only have one screen though so its showing you a translucent preview of your only screen. Press the home button again and it should go away.
The button to the right only needs to be pressed, not long pressed, to bring those up.
FYI, if you long press the home button, it's a built in task killer.
Tivo7 said:
By default, when you press the home button while already on your homescreen, it gives you a preview of all your screens. You only have one screen though so its showing you a translucent preview of your only screen. Press the home button again and it should go away.
The button to the right only needs to be pressed, not long pressed, to bring those up.
FYI, if you long press the home button, it's a built in task killer.
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Lol, that makes perfect sense. I would get the multiple screen previews on my thunderbolt too. Only having one screen was throwing me off.
The button on my right looks like a square on a square appears to bring up a list of running apps with previews on the left side of my screen. Like a task manager to switch running tasks. Long pressing that button doesn't bring up the running tasks but the home screen previews. I'll double check that in a few.
pcm2a said:
Lol, that makes perfect sense. I would get the multiple screen previews on my thunderbolt too. Only having one screen was throwing me off.
The button on my right looks like a square on a square appears to bring up a list of running apps with previews on the left side of my screen. Like a task manager to switch running tasks. Long pressing that button doesn't bring up the running tasks but the home screen previews. I'll double check that in a few.
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The Square on Square is Recent Apps (like your thunderbolt would bring up if you longpress the Home button).
Long pressing the Home button on this Tablet brings up a Task Killer app (which does show your running apps and gives you the ability to end them)
...You can also access this Task Killer program, as well as some others by pressing the bottom middle button (Most ROMs, including the Stock ROM, have this button set as a ^ symbol)
NOTE: There is NO WAY to change the programs that come up when pressing this bottom middle button, they're built into the system in some way that we can't access.
Does anyone know how to assign the default home-screen on touchwiz? Out the box it always had the dots for the screens but it always moved to the center screen when I pressed home.
When I restored the TW settings to another ROM it ended up with numbered dots instead of solid dots. And now whenever I pressed home while on the home-screen it always moves to the last page.
Is there any obvious setting anywhere it dictates which home-screen page is the main one?
Pinch on any home screen to see all. Menu... Set as Home. Tap the screen you want. Tap Done.
Sent from my Galaxy Note LTE
mikegehl said:
Pinch on any home screen to see all. Menu... Set as Home. Tap the screen you want. Tap Done.
Sent from my Galaxy Note LTE
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I must be not pressing the right combination of buttons. Can you explain it again?
I feel like a 5 year old
When you pinch a home screen (thumb and index finger swiped toward each other) , it should show all your homescreens. Then press the menu capacitive button. Only option is to Set as Home. Then just tap on the image of the homescreen you want as the main one.
Sent from my Galaxy Note LTE
Hmm, when I have all the pages showing I press menu but no options shows up. I vaguely remember this when I picked up the phone stock. I wonder if it has anything to do with the SAUROM.
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If you having problems 'pinching' the home screen, you can also hit menu, edit to get to the same view, then hit menu to set home...
PeteN said:
If you having problems 'pinching' the home screen, you can also hit menu, edit to get to the same view, then hit menu to set home...
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I am on Saurom too and I too am not able to set the homescreen. I know I was able to on the stock rom by tapping menu when there was a preview scree but it now no longer works.
I have 4 shortcuts on my home screen that only work some of the time. If I am using chrome and then I press the Home button to go back to the home screen then tap one of of my shortcuts it switches back to chrome (the last page I was on) but it doesn't load the shortcut from my Home Screen.
If I then close all the chrome tabs and then repeat, the Home Screen shortcuts work fine. Does this happen to anyone else and if so it's there a fix?
Cheers
How do I reassign my home screen?
Is there a way to change the home screen?