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Is there any way to resize any widget without having to install a launcher. A tweak of some sort?
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I am interessed to. Maybe with ICS..
App developers don't give much love for 5 x 1, .... 5 x 5 widgets. how come?
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App developers don't give much love for 5 x 1, .... 5 x 5 widgets. how come?
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Once more 5" devices come into play there will be more "love" for bigger widgets. For now use a custom launcher if you want widgets to fit properly.
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I know this. Was just wondering if there was a dev who has a gnote and knows if a tweak like this is possible?
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Thanks for your reply. I'm just surprised that app devs don't take advantage of this.... Whoever does it first will get Note users switching to them perhaps... is that hard for them to do.
am just curious why even run the stock launcher?....adw ex is blazing fast and so many options,,, why do you like stock?...
wish777 said:
am just curious why even run the stock launcher?....adw ex is blazing fast and so many options,,, why do you like stock?...
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I personally like stock launcher because of S Memo widget. I like to handwrite on SMemo for my task for the day and just cross them off just like I do in real memo pad. I deploy about 3-5 SMemo widget on my launcher.
This is the main reason I switched from iphone to galaxy note. So far I'm loving this feature a lot and it's hard for me to let it go.
Just wondering does adw ex allow SMemo widget? If not, is there other app like SMemo perhaps I can use in adw ex similarly? I'd love to try.
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am just curious why even run the stock launcher?....adw ex is blazing fast and so many options,,, why do you like stock?...
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As much as I like Vanilla savor, I would also enjoy TW launcher if it had more features like rezising widgets and scrolling widgets. The launcher is pretty and there's absolute no lag!
whats wrong with using Go Launcher? 7 X 7 is pretty sexy.
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I personally like stock launcher because of S Memo widget. I like to handwrite on SMemo for my task for the day and just cross them off just like I do in real memo pad. I deploy about 3-5 SMemo widget on my launcher.
This is the main reason I switched from iphone to galaxy note. So far I'm loving this feature a lot and it's hard for me to let it go.
Just wondering does adw ex allow SMemo widget? If not, is there other app like SMemo perhaps I can use in adw ex similarly? I'd love to try.
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Yes it does. I just tested. Resizing it is fun too. Can fill the screen if you want.
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Yes it does. I just tested. Resizing it is fun too. Can fill the screen if you want.
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Oh my God. I checked it out last night and this launcher rocks. I am very impressed.
Yes indeed it does everything stock launcher can do for my specific needs plus more customization..
Thanks a lot this is such a nice treat before official ICS arrival.
Hello everyone, ive loved android ever since i moved from the original iphone to the g1. Never much liked stock launchers until now actually. I used adw, go for a long time. Now with touchwiz on the s 3 i tried apex and nova for a 5x5 grid but i keep going back to touchwiz for features.
Just wondering what does everyone dislike about touchwiz?
Features i like (other launchers may have them and I dont know)
-holding page indicator to slide between screens especially in widgets. I have so many.
-widget view in general and adding to screen
-quickness of page sliding and behavior motion
-hiding apps in app drawer
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The old touch wiz was absolutely unusable. This version I think is actually quite nice. I find myself missing some features from it using cm9.
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Other than the UI which is horrible....I'm actually a fan of the new TW. AOKP/CM9 aren't quite necessary anymore due to the beast under the hood! Especially with an OC kernel...losing functions like the camera and motion is not worth it (maybe with further development in the future we may get more goodies but as of now)....I'll stick with TW and TSF Shell!
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I agree. I like cm9 simplicity but I miss my tw stuff. I personally can say Samsung put up some competition for cmteam
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TouchWiz 4 has made significant improvements. I always thought that Samsung was confused with the previous versions of TouchWiz, like they wanted to look and feel like iOS, but didn't know they're using a better and competing operating system. I'm sure if Google didn't force manufacturers using Android to have a back button and settings button, Samsung would skip on that. TouchWiz 4 cuts down on that a lot, though the icons still piss me off. TouchWiz 4 is light on memory, RAM, and is smooth.
I still prefer Sense. Sense, although a resource hog, still has a few features over TouchWiz 4. At the same time TouchWiz 4 has features over Sense 4. But, the features that matter more to me are on Sense 4.
So, I guess I hate older versions of TouchWiz, but TouchWiz 4 isn't so bad. Not bad at all.
Still supporting the people trying to bring Sense 4 to this phone and other Samsung devices.
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TouchWiz 4 has made significant improvements. I always thought that Samsung was confused with the previous versions of TouchWiz, like they wanted to look and feel like iOS, but didn't know they're using a better and competing operating system. I'm sure if Google didn't force manufacturers using Android to have a back button and settings button, Samsung would skip on that. TouchWiz 4 cuts down on that a lot, though the icons still piss me off. TouchWiz 4 is light on memory, RAM, and is smooth.
I still prefer Sense. Sense, although a resource hog, still has a few features over TouchWiz 4. At the same time TouchWiz 4 has features over Sense 4. But, the features that matter more to me are on Sense 4.
So, I guess I hate older versions of TouchWiz, but TouchWiz 4 isn't so bad. Not bad at all.
Still supporting the people trying to bring Sense 4 to this phone and other Samsung devices.
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I like the stock touchwiz but as the folder look ugly so i moved to nova but i miss the weather widget from accuweather which came with touchwiz as i cant get the same on nova. If someone knows how i can use that with nova launcher it will be gr8
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Agreeing with the rest of the replies here. I'm running CM10 but I found it hard to find replacements for the video and music player apps. They just worked.
I definitely think is not bad but is not as responsive as cm9(idk it probably just me and have to do a fresh flash ) but sense 4 is so nice looking too but is a hog of memory, I like stock features like battery percentage, great camera app(hated gs2 camera speed),notification toggles, swype right to call, etc but cm9 for some reason is always my favorite I could live with eathier one tho, I think touchwiz would be better if menus would be white like sense or black looking like ICS, the grey color looks outdated somehow , the green battery should be blue as well, and bring the folder option to drag and make a folder on stock launcher
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I still prefer Sense.
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What exactly do you miss about it?
ak789 said:
I like the stock touchwiz but as the folder look ugly so i moved to nova but i miss the weather widget from accuweather which came with touchwiz as i cant get the same on nova. If someone knows how i can use that with nova launcher it will be gr8
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Agreed the folder issue on the launcher is really the only issue I have with TW. Other than that I think it is fine.
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The trashness of the folder view on touchwiz cannot be overstated. Things that are changed for worse (compared to stock) grind my gears. I would miss smart stay but since it never worked for me i can't say that I do. Only the bottom bar for launcher/drawer and tilting to move apps across home screens are things I miss.
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What exactly do you miss about it?
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Im wondering the same thing cuz i used it for a couple of weeks and that it was non sense.
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Hello everyone, ive loved android ever since i moved from the original iphone to the g1. Never much liked stock launchers until now actually. I used adw, go for a long time. Now with touchwiz on the s 3 i tried apex and nova for a 5x5 grid but i keep going back to touchwiz for features.
Just wondering what does everyone dislike about touchwiz?
Features i like (other launchers may have them and I dont know)
-holding page indicator to slide between screens especially in widgets. I have so many.
-widget view in general and adding to screen
-quickness of page sliding and behavior motion
-hiding apps in app drawer
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Just a matter of peoples personal taste I guess. I was actually shocked and baffled that you would even ask this.
I gave TW a few hours, since I had actually grown comfortable with HTC Sense on my TB. However TW was borderline unusable for me. The UI just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, and simple tasks are made more complicated. It just seems ugly and clumsy to me. Having used Sense, Blur, and TW. I would say Sense was by far the best, and TW by far the worst. Custom launchers are better than all of them though.
I was unable to find any features that I cared about that TW gave me, that CM or far better launchers like Nova didn't. However there are many many options that Nova gives you that TW does not.
Like I said in the beginning though, it's a matter of personal taste.
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I personally don't "miss" Sense, however I understand what these other folks are talking about.
Compared to TW, Sense was just a very nice looking UI. Other than just looking better than TW, it was easy to use, and didn't add extra annoyance to using the phone. Other than some limitations of the launcher, I actually really liked everything else sense provided.
I messed around with TW plenty, and I honestly just can't find anything good to say about it. The launcher is awful.
I expected as much though, with Nova installed this phone is bad *** and was everything I hoped for.
Opinions, opinions... I played with the HTC One X and I did not like the aesthetics of the UI on Sense 4.0 at all. It just looked... ugly, bulky, and consumptiuous as far as space goes. TouchWiz 5 just looks nicer to me and it's a lot easier on the phone's resources.
i HATE the way TW looks as well as sense.
ICS based launchers like apex and nova look awesome to me. So based off of that, I stick with apex. Looks great, fast, customizable
I actually was hoping to use TW. But it has one thing missing that my preferences keep me from living without: multiple scrolling docks. I was quite surprised that function was not on TW, given all the raves of how it had improved. That is a basic function available on almost any third party launcher.
I used my GS3 stock for awhile and quite got used to TouchWiz. My only complaint is how the Launcher organizes things in the app drawer. I can set it to do alphabetical, which I prefer, but folders are also placed in alphabetical order instead of at the beginning of the drawer.
I tried to go back to GoLauncher (what I used on my TBolt) but I found it to be rather sluggish.
The current versions of both Sense and Touchwiz are much better than stock ICS imo. I went to CM9 because of how much people rave about 'stock ICS' but it was pretty underwhelming. Back to TW now and enjoying it.
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The current versions of both Sense and Touchwiz are much better than stock ICS imo. I went to CM9 because of how much people rave about 'stock ICS' but it was pretty underwhelming. Back to TW now and enjoying it.
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The happens to a lot people,personally like cm7 but no how it look , so I prefer since back then now days I take both, there nice but like I said cm9 just feels more responsive to me
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The happens to a lot people,personally like cm7 but no how it look , so I prefer since back then now days I take both, there nice but like I said cm9 just feels more responsive to me
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Personally, I like Sense a lot (I LOVE the sense widgets), but even when I was using my rezound daily I used Apex Launcher for a number of reasons.
When I wanted a sense widget, I swapped back to sense with home switcher.
Would you be ashamed to show your friends this? The launcher does not lag atleast. And Apple is smart using the whole screen..
Yes. Yes I would.
Because my friends would laugh at me for copying a ui that's outdated and boring.
Whatever Android fanbois say about iPhone launcher, there is one area which it's much much better than any launcher Android has to offer: The shape and size of the icons. The icons are big and easy to press. They are all the same size. On Android, icons are small and they are all different size, which results in an inconsistent UI and displeases the eye.
So, I can understand the appeal of running an iPhone like launcher on Android. I wish we could get icons to look like that with normal launchers like Apex or Nova.
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Whatever Android fanbois say about iPhone launcher, there is one area which it's much much better than any launcher Android has to offer: The shape and size of the icons. The icons are big and easy to press. They are all the same size. On Android, icons are small and they are all different size, which results in an inconsistent UI and displeases the eye.
So, I can understand the appeal of running an iPhone like launcher on Android. I wish we could get icons to look like that with normal launchers like Apex or Nova.
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+1 and not so big spaces. Look at where the dock's at; Perfect. And the glass.
That dock + somewhat like that icons + nova would be awesome!
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Whatever Android fanbois say about iPhone launcher, there is one area which it's much much better than any launcher Android has to offer: The shape and size of the icons. The icons are big and easy to press. They are all the same size. On Android, icons are small and they are all different size, which results in an inconsistent UI and displeases the eye.
So, I can understand the appeal of running an iPhone like launcher on Android. I wish we could get icons to look like that with normal launchers like Apex or Nova.
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I don't feel this way at all, actually. I love the variation of the Android icons. They're all 1x1 so really you can press the area they're in and still launch that app. I love the uniqueness of every icon though. It does a good job of portraying a pretty prominent aspect of Android, which is that you can do things your own way as a developer and leave it up to the user to decide if and how they use your program.
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Whatever Android fanbois say about iPhone launcher, there is one area which it's much much better than any launcher Android has to offer: The shape and size of the icons. The icons are big and easy to press. They are all the same size. On Android, icons are small and they are all different size, which results in an inconsistent UI and displeases the eye.
So, I can understand the appeal of running an iPhone like launcher on Android. I wish we could get icons to look like that with normal launchers like Apex or Nova.
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Nova Prime any day of the week.
Theshawty said:
Nova Prime any day of the week.
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Hahahaha
endrit9 said:
Would you be ashamed to show your friends this? The launcher does not lag atleast. And Apple is smart using the whole screen..
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Which launcher is this?
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I agree to some extent that the variety in the shape of android icons can be rather frustrating at times when trying to make a pleasing UI. There are however launchers that allow you to choose the size of the icons. 20*20, 50*50, 47*47 its up to you. However as some are not uniformly square it can still be distracting for purists. Luckily there are talented graphic/icon artist making great icons we can use.
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Which launcher is this?
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iLauncher
Could you at least use mihome?
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Could you at least use mihome?
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Haha, already returned to tw.. Felt kinda wierd. $ wasted :/
I personally hate the look of jphone launcher. By the way im using nova and its perfect.
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Why in the world would u put iOS on Android phone.. If u want to be a swag*** get an iphone
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And hence the beauty of android! You can have your cake, and eat it to!
I would never do this because it isn't how I want my screens to look. But android lets us all have it the way we want.
Simply No !
Theshawty said:
Nova Prime any day of the week.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA EPIC!
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Theshawty said:
Nova Prime any day of the week.
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LOOL
Why would anyone feel ashamed of their launcher? I'd feel ashamed going to a poor country and eating cake infront of starving people.
iPhone's launcher is simple and functional which is why so many love iPhones, android is less boring and more customisable which us why many love android and windows phone is personal which is why people choose that one the plus with android is you can look like you have an iPhone or windows phone launcher if you want, you can look like you have a basic android phone, you can personalise it and look like you have a mobile device from 2069, and if you feel ashamed by how you set your phone, or ridicule anyone else for the phone they use you need psychological help.
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Whatever Android fanbois say about iPhone launcher, there is one area which it's much much better than any launcher Android has to offer: The shape and size of the icons. The icons are big and easy to press. They are all the same size. On Android, icons are small and they are all different size, which results in an inconsistent UI and displeases the eye.
So, I can understand the appeal of running an iPhone like launcher on Android. I wish we could get icons to look like that with normal launchers like Apex or Nova.
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My father in law agrees with you. He likes big and easy to press.
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Im really eagerly waiting for this flashable zip to come out to let my home screen go into landscape mode when tilted sideways just like we had on the note 2.. does anyone have a link or have the zip file for this option? Or is any developer working on this to be released soon?
No developers are on it that I'm aware of. If you use a different launcher like apex or nova you can do that. I'm assuming you would rather have it for touchwiz tho.
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No developers are on it that I'm aware of. If you use a different launcher like apex or nova you can do that. I'm assuming you would rather have it for touchwiz tho.
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Yeah touchwiz looks better and doesnt overlap like other ones(go launcher,or next launcher, didnt really try other ones)thanks though.. ill wait longer..
Im very happy with nova... gave up on all other launchers since. Touchwiz comes close, but there's no condensing. The icons and folders are too busy looking.
Definitely try nova out!!
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Im very happy with nova... gave up on all other launchers since. Touchwiz comes close, but there's no condensing. The icons and folders are too busy looking.
Definitely try nova out!!
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I agree. I used to love my touch wiz launcher but nova does everything touch wiz does but more. I can actually use 5 x 5 rows and columns, landscape if I choose and best of all, no lag!!! Lol. Touch wiz app drawer lags every time u open it and swipe. Plus nova uses a smaller memory footprint
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Wondering what Launcher is most used with the Note 4.
I've always used Nova primarily cause I like the icon gestures options and increased grid options . But new to the Note 4 and just wondering with the Spen and all most would stick with Touch Wiz.
I'm on Nova since this got the smart gestures and works simple the best for me not to much just enough of everything.
I installed nova as I'm used to it also. I don't think it takes away from any of the spen functionality switching to nova though. I may be wrong.
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Using Google Now Launched with closed GEL and loving it. So much better than the touch wiz ****e.
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Using Google Now Launched with closed GEL and loving it. So much better than the touch wiz ****e.
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How did you get gel to.work, not working for me I wonder if cause I have latest google now have anything to do with it from lollipop
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I installed nova as I'm used to it also. I don't think it takes away from any of the spen functionality switching to nova though. I may be wrong.
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The only thing I've noticed we can't do with Nova is ... 'pin' Action memos to our screen. On TW launcher the memos have a pin icon top right which dissapears on 3rd party launcher.
I am using smart launcher for efficiency
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TheChosen28 said:
Using Google Now Launched with closed GEL and loving it. So much better than the touch wiz ****e.
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What's GEL?
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The only thing I've noticed we can't do with Nova is ... 'pin' Action memos to our screen. On TW launcher the memos have a pin icon top right which dissapears on 3rd party launcher.
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But you can put said pinned notes on the homescreen via SNotes correct?
I'm using next launcher 3d here, the 3d settings look awesome xD
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But you can put said pinned notes on the homescreen via SNotes correct?
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Via the widget, yes. That is a different method than pinning individual action memos
And GEL is Google Experience Launcher
Sorry xposed XGel is a tweak to customize the launcher.
I use Action Launcher. It has unique functionality, like the ability to swipe up on a icon and assign any widget to it. It's fast too
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Nova launcher because i can pull down the notification with a swipe from the homescreen without reaching the status bar.
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I use Touchwiz and Nova only but i still much prefer Touchwiz.
Nova since Galaxy S1. I like the customization and its very fast and fluid.
Nova Launcher Prime + Tesla Unread!!
Nova, for me is the best
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Z Launcher
Please add the Nokia Z Launcher to the poll.
I've tried a few since getting my note 4, smart launcher is nice, then Nokia z launcher (which I loved) but the best for me so far is launcher 8 for Android it looks so cool on the note 4 screen