I did a search of the forum and found no applicable threads. This may seem like a noob question and I guess it is. I have had an SGSII running unnamed rom for over a year. It died today and was forced to buy a new SGS III. I am not familiar with ICS and it appears I cannot add contact shortcuts to the home screen. Anycut app is not avail. through the Playstore so I can't use that.
Any input would help. Thanks.
If I remember correctly, there is a contact widget in the widgets tab in the app drawer.
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that or use Android Power Widget . they have options that look like the "contacts" widget from HTC Sense.
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I seem to have stumbled on a quirk I haven't seen mentioned yet and am looking for help with it.
I'm using folders to categorize apps and when I add them to the homescreen as shortcuts, they work as expected. If however I then add more items to the folder, it doesn't seem to update the shortcuts properly. The number in the corner stays the same and the new items are not displayed.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Yup. Same for me.
Also for the TW app drawer, if I reboot the phone, the app orderings would mess up. I've organized mine to a certain order...and it varies a little bit everytime I reboot which is extremely annoying.
Unfortunately still the case in the new KE7 build. I'm surprised it's not bugging more people, is this not an oft-used feature?
you forgot that there are other launchers , i use go launcher
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you forgot that there are other launchers , i use go launcher
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Sorry for bumping the thread but..i just wanted to say thank you for that useful information.may i ask what color of your jeans you prefer?
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I don't think this a bug.. it seems that whenever you drag the folder fo you home launcher it is treated as a single entity and not linked to your folder in your app drawer.
The only solution for this is wheneved you update your folder, simply delete the old one from your home launcher and drag the updated one from your app drawer again.
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Hey everyone. I was wondering if there was a method to change the icon set in Touchwiz 4.0 (yes im rooted) to something else other then what they have as stock.
And furthermore, ARE there any icon sets out there? I saw a couple of cool looking screens in the post your screenshot thread, but i'm not sure if that was because they were using some different launcher.
Thanks,
diabolical
I am also interested in this. I really like touch wiz ui and all the features but i strongly dislike the childlike icons. Is there anyway we can change the icons without changing launchers?
I was wondering if we can have the
HTC Sensation XE Lock screen (with the circle to launch)
on the Samsung Galaxy S ll
The HTC lockscreen is cool. Just get the app Agilelock. It duplicates it perfectly. Only issue i found is right when you install, it pops up a message that you cant read, unless you can read some form of chinese. Hit the right button. The left button will download something.
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The HTC lockscreen is cool. Just get the app Agilelock. It duplicates it perfectly. Only issue i found is right when you install, it pops up a message that you cant read, unless you can read some form of chinese. Hit the right button. The left button will download something.
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Can we get - HTC Sense 3.0
will that include the Lock screen
will we have to install a Rom to get it or its a App
Thanks for ur Help
Rep + THANKS
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Hey everyone. I was wondering if there was a method to change the icon set in Touchwiz 4.0 (yes im rooted) to something else other then what they have as stock.
And furthermore, ARE there any icon sets out there? I saw a couple of cool looking screens in the post your screenshot thread, but i'm not sure if that was because they were using some different launcher.
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They probably used a theme (with a custom launcher). I think launcher themes change entire icon sets. Other than that, idk.
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I was wondering if we can have the
HTC Sensation XE Lock screen (with the circle to launch)
on the Samsung Galaxy S ll
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MagicLocker
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.lockscreen.magiclocker
HTC Sense 3 Theme
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.lockscreen.magiclocker.theme.free.ml.sence3
Change icons on any launcher. Here Desktop visualizer
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr
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Hello I am a new user of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and for the time I like to keep things simple as you can see with my home tab screenshot.
What I noticed through another thread in the forum "post your home screen" is that I am the only one who has that page navigation squares at the top of the home screen.
My question is, is how can I hide it too?
Isn't it kinda funny when in a thread "pot your home screens" there is nobody that has the squares instead of me, and nobody wants to answer me how? :silly:
They use a different launcher. Personally, I use apex launcher. You can get it from the play store!
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I myself use adw launcher ex, it allows a custom ammount of screens. If you read the thread you mentioned, you'd know a lot of people use different launchers, no way to remove it from the stock touchwiz launcher, though.
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Hi folks.
My first post.
I am not entirely sure if I should post this question into the Nexus 4 forum (as that’s the device I have) or if there is a Apex related forum? Or whether it is best to put it in this Android Q&A forum. As this is not device specific I have decided to post it here. Please more it is that's the wrong move to make.
MY QUESTION - APPS IN APEX LAUNCHER
When I install an app (which is typically via the Play Store) the app icon does not end up on my home screen. Or what I think Apex calls a drawer. Occasionally an app does appear there automatically, but perhaps a couple out of the 50 or so apps I've installed.
The only way I have found to get them onto my drawer (or home screen) is I have to hold my finder on the screen and the "Add to Home screen" menu pops up. From there I can select "Shortcuts" and from the top of that menu I can select "Apps". I can then select just ONE app to appear on my home screen. But the thought of doing this for every app doesn't make sense to me. Is there a way to get them there automatically?
Perhaps I am completely misunderstanding the concept of the home screens. I am switching over from iOS, and there one organises all apps on home screens. Perhaps on Android the home screen is not meant for storing and accessing all the app icons??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you can hold down on the a home screen one of the options is to create a shortcut. Next you go to apex options. Then app drawer, you can then move it onto your dock and move it as you please. Pic. Tutorial attached on nexus 7 but it should be about the same.
Hope this helped~Flainz
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Flainz said:
If you can hold down on the a home screen one of the options is to create a shortcut. Next you go to apex options. Then app drawer, you can then move it onto your dock and move it as you please. Pic. Tutorial attached on nexus 7 but it should be about the same.
Hope this helped~Flainz
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Thanks for taking the time to answer and to post the images.
I do actually have an icon for the App Drawer down on the Dock.
So am I correct in understanding that the App Drawer is the primary place to access apps on Android?
If that is so, then is it correct that the home screens are only for storing some apps, and displaying widgets?
Just now I tried to organise some apps in the App Drawer into folders. But holding on an app (I just now discovered) engages the process to move the app to the Home Screen. At least now I have found a more direct way to get apps onto the home screen. The process I outlined in my OP was somewhat convoluted.
So this is starting to make more sense to me. Please correct anything I have misunderstood:
- Home screens are for quick access to apps I specially want direct access to
- Homes screens are for displaying widgets
- The App Drawer is where all apps can be found, and any I want quicker access to I must manually copy to the home screen
Am I thinking along the right lines here?
One question though. Why is it that occasionally when I install a new app it does in fact appear on the Apex launcher home screen (automatically, or as soon as I move something around like an app icon or a widget)… and yet most apps do not ??
Thanks...
Yup that's how it is, unlike apple if that's what you came from the main home screen is the middle one and if you hold down on any home screen you can access your wallpaper to change it
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PS. I just realized I read your op wrong lol the home screens are basically a place for widgets and storage for app shortcuts you can go into your app drawer and hold down on an app then you can draw it to the home screen or if you do not have Google now you can use Google search to look up your apps. Unlike iOS if you want to uninstall you can not just delete it off of the home screen you can go into Settings>Apps>[app you want to delete]>then uninstall or clear data, for launchers, and app set to default, a clear defaults to revoke the app as launching by default for certain files hope this helps
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PS. I just realized I read your op wrong lol the home screens are basically a place for widgets and storage for app shortcuts you can go into your app drawer and hold down on an app then you can draw it to the home screen or if you do not have Google now you can use Google search to look up your apps. Unlike iOS if you want to uninstall you can not just delete it off of the home screen you can go into Settings>Apps>[app you want to delete]>then uninstall or clear data, for launchers, and app set to default, a clear defaults to revoke the app as launching by default for certain files hope this helps
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Great. Thanks.
Much appreciated. I am greatly enjoying my Nexus Android experience thus far. I had to spend weeks hacking away on my jailbroken iOS device to get it even half as nice and functional as this beast, and I've only had this out of the box for a week!
Nice I'm glad you like and not to mention the extra screen size right xD
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Hello i am having a REALLY hard time setting up my new rom (foxhound 2.7 on my i9300).
Here is the deal: i like samsung's stock widgets. I like the flashlight and i like the turn off all sounds. But on the launcher i want to use for the rest of my (phone's) life, doesn't see them. In fact there are some launchers that do not see all system widgets.
These widgets i speak of are built in my rom, so please don't mention touchwiz, it has nothing to do with this and i CAN apply these widgets to holo launcher hd (for example) and others.
There are many workaorunds for the flashlight widget, and i can learn to live without all other stock widgets of samsung. But i have never found a better "turn off all sounds" feature than samsungs widget. Now i assume i could send a report to go launcher ex dev team and wait forever for them to not fix this problem, or i could find a solution.
What i need is the experience of you guys, please: i need to find a widget that can link to other existing ones in the phone and act as them, and hopefully go launcher ex will allow me to use this widget.
I do not intend to change launcher, but if anyone can offer a VALID alternative to that launcher (it doesn't just lower all sounds to 0, it completely disables the phone sound output. THIS is what i'm looking for, hopefully in a widget but even if not it's fine).
Many app out there claim to be able to mute all sounds, but not as efficiently as this samsung stock widget, please help:banghead:
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Just to give you an option: you could create a Tasker task and widget button to turn off all sounds.
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Thanks. I know i could probably figure out how to do this some way, but tasker is a very detailed app, if you already know how to do this would you mind giving me guided steps?
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Alright i got some 2 raw widgets working, but no matter what action i choose with tasker (in the sound section) i do not get the turn off all sounds effect just like in the samsung widget.
???
And i didnt find any option to enable another widget....any help?
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