How do I get to my Widgets tab?
I just bought a new Galaxy S III SC-06D from Docomo. When I press the applications button I only get an 'Application' and 'Recommends' tab, no 'Widgets' tab (this is obviously Docomo's custom interface since the 'Recommends' tab is just a bunch of junk apps the provider wants me to install).
The only things I have done to the S3 since I bought it are flash it to the newest version with Samsung Kies, change the language to English, and delete the Homescreens and Apps that my provider installed, and make a new blank home screen. I did not and do not want to root the device (despite wanting to get rid of some of the Docomo junk).
I am new to ICS so it is entirely possible I am missing something very obvious.
*Edit* I fixed the issue on my own. While I was under the impression that my device was using the TouchWiz Launcher (the default UI that comes on any Galaxy S III), Docomo had installed their own crummy launcher called 'Docomo Palette UI' which is specifically designed so that users cannot customize anything and have to see a bunch of Docomo sales stuff.
If anyone else ever has this same problem and sees this thread, just go 'Settings' (the gear icon that appears when you slide your finger from the top edge of the screen)-> Home Selection -> And choose TouchWiz home. You should get the option to set it as the default Launcher after choosing it.
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Hello all, hopefully someone can help!
I have recently upgraded to the Orange branded Samsung Galaxy S2 and upon customising the appearance of the phone I wanted to add the Orange clock widget that you can see when you choose the Orange homescreen instead of the Samsung one (see attached).
After trying to look for the Orange 'clock and alarm' widget under "Orange Widgets" I concluded that it was not actually installed on the device. I doubled checked with the phone simulator on the orange website (http://simulator.orange.co.uk/vdevice-orange/actions/device/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii) and noticed that it does display the 'clock and alarm' widget under the Orange widget list so in theory it *should* be there.
I also noticed that the Orange email application was also not present resulting in a 'gap' on the homescreen where the Orange email app shortcut should be (between 'backup' and 'maps').
Thinking i had a shoddy build I called up Orange and eventually got through to a UK senior techie bloke, (not before I was subjected to the usual "take battery off, reboot, let me send you some settings, read, delete, reboot" saga) and he was surprised as well as he had noticed on his Galaxy S with orange 2.3.3 gingerbread build that these apps were not on his phone. He asked around his department and the consensus seemed to be that these apps were too not available on their devices so the apps may be removed from the "standard" orange gingerbread build.
He said he would raise this internally as it seems weird that they are not there (they were apparently in the Orange 2.2 Froyo build) and there doesn't seem to be any logic for just removing those two apps, as well as the website simulator showing potentially incorrect displays.
So my first question is to any owners of orange branded Samsung Galaxy S2's, do you have the Orange "email" and Orange "clock and alarm" apps on your phone and if so, are they listed under "Orange widgets" or "Orange shortcuts"?
If you have, can you let me know what build you have (i.e. Android 2.3.3. Gingerbread.BVKE2)?
Second question is if anyone knows how I can obtain at least the Orange Clock and Alarm app (aside from asking Orange)?
I know most users like to 'debrand' their phone from the Orange "bloatware" and hence would find this request strange p!) but I really do like the look of the Orange themed clock on the homescreen!
Many Thanks in advance,
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Hi all. As you can see I'm new to this forum as well as I'm to android, so please forgive me if I haven't posted in a right thread. Thanks.
I downloaded go Launcher EX. I recently started using go locker, but when I want to unlock my Samsung Galaxy S4 I need to go through two locks. The first one looks exactly like my wallpaper (Flyer theme) with clock, and the second one comes from go locker (little monster theme). How to get rid of the first one and just leave the one with monster?
By the way, when I go to settings >My device >Lock screen I have 'none' option selected. If I had the third lock screen would show up.
I will appreciate any help.
Hi, i just bought a Chinese dash cam/rear view mirror on amazon, i think its made by phisung
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00P7G994A?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
it works well, but the android system is quite dated (4.0.4), and some of the setting are missing or dont work such as brightness adjustment.
so far i've rooted it using kingo and installed titanium and root explorer, and backed up the existing partitions using adb, but what i'm quite keen to do is modify the main launcher screen. at present i cant change the 7 apps on the main windows phone style launcher screen and I want to replace them with alternatives or replace the launcher.
I've sideloaded nova and a couple of other launchers, but whilst I can load them from the app draw, there is no option to set a new default launcher, and the home button always loads the pre-installed launcher, which is some chinese launcher listed as DX_launcher02 in the app draw and daxun.launcher.activity in system/ app folder, I've tried apps like launcher switcher, which have no effect on the default as the options is greyed out.
I've also tried freezing the built in launcher with Titanium, thinking it might then default to nova, but the home button( both hardware and soft buttons) then just loads a blank screen, so I used the recent app menu to go back to titanium and unfreeze the stock launcher.
I'm suspecting there might be a more complicated way to change the launcher, either by editing apk properties and changing the default app to point the shortcuts/tiles to new apps, or by setting a new default launcher, so if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated?
My friend bought exact same model.
He has problem with auto shutdown. Navigating or not - recording or not - there will be pop up that countdowns 10sec auto shutdown.
To abort shutdown - touch the screen. And of course - touching the screen doesn't help.
Have you found any solution for this?
5" Mirror DashCam
Hi I do not know too much about this Android device, but I bought one (Crane_cvr) frm Tingway and it was full of Chinese software. Trying to delete it was not successful and loading Google Play was impossible. The sellers sent me an "new" h200-2.img file which I installed with Phoenixsuite. However, my functionality of the GPS disappeared. I have even connected another working GPS, to no prevail. Since it seems you have lot more knowledge, do you have an idea how I can get the GPS working? I have now been trying for 2 months. GPS Toolbox / Test / etc .. do not pick up any satellites, but it seems the GPS is detected.
Thanks in advance
it works well, but the android system is quite dated (4.0.4), and some of the setting are missing or dont work such as brightness adjustment.
so far i've rooted it using kingo and installed titanium and root explorer, and backed up the existing partitions using adb, but what i'm quite keen to do is modify the main launcher screen. at present i cant change the 7 apps on the main windows phone style launcher screen and I want to replace them with alternatives or replace the launcher.
I've sideloaded nova and a couple of other launchers, but whilst I can load them from the app draw, there is no option to set a new default launcher, and the home button always loads the pre-installed launcher, which is some chinese launcher listed as DX_launcher02 in the app draw and daxun.launcher.activity in system/ app folder, I've tried apps like launcher switcher, which have no effect on the default as the options is greyed out.
I've also tried freezing the built in launcher with Titanium, thinking it might then default to nova, but the home button( both hardware and soft buttons) then just loads a blank screen, so I used the recent app menu to go back to titanium and unfreeze the stock launcher.
I'm suspecting there might be a more complicated way to change the launcher, either by editing apk properties and changing the default app to point the shortcuts/tiles to new apps, or by setting a new default launcher, so if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated?[/QUOTE]
Hi,
my mirror for unknown reason got bootloop :/
Maybe someone know what firmware will be good for Phisung Android 4.4 ROM 16GB A33 Quad core model?
https://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/...70819957744860
Hello, i have a i9305 device and i updated to 4.4.4 kitkat as soon as it has been released and there are a lot of features missing from 4.3.
For example, on 4.3 you had many gestures options, like tap to go top page, or shake to refresh. That kind of features are just missing.
Other thing i notice related to gestures:
When you use the phone after factory reset for first time, if you select a shortcut from the desktop you will be notice to turn a gesture on wich allow you to rotate screens by keep pressing the icon and rotate the phone using the gyroscope. If you refuse to turn on for the first time, even if you go to settings / gestures, you dont have any option to turn that on again. The same happens when you go to gallery.
Other thing, scrolling wallpapers, i know it has been turned off many time ago in 4.2.2 JB, but it was a bad idea. There are a lot of non used "animated wallpapers" wich no one uses. Why the scrolling wallpaper? Its the better one.
Other bad features: They updated to 4.4.4 kit kat, but the items still be almost the same. There are a lof of low cost samsung devices with the new icons, new camera app etc etc, why does the samsung s3 doesnt have that?
And now my biggest problem, the camera app.
All new samsung devices, even the ones just costing 100€ on fisic store have the new camera app wich allow you to have a button to select the shooting modes, and the newest devices have the new camera app with option to download mods. Why does the s3 not? Here, in portugal, the s3 lte its more expensive than s4 and even more expensive its worse than s4.
Do you know if a upgrade to lollipop is comming? Do you think they will fix that stuff in lollipop?
By the way: I want a camera app like lenovo camera app or s4 camera app on s3. The thing is, that camerera apps crashes when you do some stuff. Do you know how to get one full working on s3 kit kat?
THANK YOU FOR READ AND FOR YOUR HELP
Fredyarcol said:
Hello, i have a i9305 device and i updated to 4.4.4 kitkat as soon as it has been released and there are a lot of features missing from 4.3.
For example, on 4.3 you had many gestures options, like tap to go top page, or shake to refresh. That kind of features are just missing.
Other thing i notice related to gestures:
When you use the phone after factory reset for first time, if you select a shortcut from the desktop you will be notice to turn a gesture on wich allow you to rotate screens by keep pressing the icon and rotate the phone using the gyroscope. If you refuse to turn on for the first time, even if you go to settings / gestures, you dont have any option to turn that on again. The same happens when you go to gallery.
Other thing, scrolling wallpapers, i know it has been turned off many time ago in 4.2.2 JB, but it was a bad idea. There are a lot of non used "animated wallpapers" wich no one uses. Why the scrolling wallpaper? Its the better one.
Other bad features: They updated to 4.4.4 kit kat, but the items still be almost the same. There are a lof of low cost samsung devices with the new icons, new camera app etc etc, why does the samsung s3 doesnt have that?
And now my biggest problem, the camera app.
All new samsung devices, even the ones just costing 100€ on fisic store have the new camera app wich allow you to have a button to select the shooting modes, and the newest devices have the new camera app with option to download mods. Why does the s3 not? Here, in portugal, the s3 lte its more expensive than s4 and even more expensive its worse than s4.
Do you know if a upgrade to lollipop is comming? Do you think they will fix that stuff in lollipop?
By the way: I want a camera app like lenovo camera app or s4 camera app on s3. The thing is, that camerera apps crashes when you do some stuff. Do you know how to get one full working on s3 kit kat?
THANK YOU FOR READ AND FOR YOUR HELP
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I installed Good Lock Multistar from the Samsung app store, and while it has a lot of useful features, it seems a little gimped.
For example, I've seen YouTube videos that allows you to add multi window pairings to the home screen, but this version doesn't allow you to do that.
Has anyone had a different experience and if so, do you have any helpful tips?
I think it was removed for One UI because Samsung now uses Stock Android Muöti Window instead of its own version. Therefor the feature was removed since it is not supported by stock multi window
Actually I found that you can now create pairings through the edge screen. It's actually a better option since you can bring it up from any screen.