New TouchWiz update to bring notifications down from anywhere on Screen. - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion

Just came across this, have not tried it, but i think we would all love this functionality..
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Fin...tion-bars-from-anywhere-on-the-screen_id98161

awesome defo a needed update

Im hesistant to update touchwiz from an APK, but i know how verizon lags on ANY updates, let alone one from samsung..

SuBDivisions said:
Im hesistant to update touchwiz from an APK, but i know how verizon lags on ANY updates, let alone one from samsung..
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You can update via the Galaxy Apps app.
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Rydah805 said:
You can update via the Galaxy Apps app.
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How? I don't see it there.

jackdforme said:
How? I don't see it there.
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I just went to the updates section. Galaxy Apps is honestly horrible to receive updates from though. Sometimes it doesn't list available updates.
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This was posted in another thread, you can download and update manually
https://www.sammobile.com/apk/touchwiz-home/samsung-touchwiz-home-6-1-50-1-2/
I tested it and it does add the pull down function. It doesn't actually say that it supports the Note 8 but I haven't found any problems yet.

SuBDivisions said:
Just came across this, have not tried it, but i think we would all love this functionality..
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Fin...tion-bars-from-anywhere-on-the-screen_id98161
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It works great thanks
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This is a much needed function giving the size and asthetics of this device! A+
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Yes! Awesome!
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I have been doing this for years with gestures on Nova launcher. Nice to see Samsung finally did something right.
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My home screen tab is greyed out. Can't seem to find a setting that allows the home screen tab to be accessed. I have not gotten any UI updates, and galaxy apps did not have any updates, I checked it several times. Maybe they will push it soon to VZ Note 8's, dunno.

teegunn said:
My home screen tab is greyed out. Can't seem to find a setting that allows the home screen tab to be accessed. I have not gotten any UI updates, and galaxy apps did not have any updates, I checked it several times. Maybe they will push it soon to VZ Note 8's, dunno.
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Are you saying you installed the .apk and don't see a change? Maybe a reboot? I installed it and it works fine, T-Mobile version.
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Just installed it and it seems to work.

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[Q] Screen On Notifciatons

When I get a text message, my screen lights up. How can I make the screen not turn on when receiving a text notification? I am running GS4 Premium Rom
Go to the messaging app and hit menu.
Somewhere down the list is a checkbox for disabling the screen on when receiving message.
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klabit87 said:
Go to the messaging app and hit menu.
Somewhere down the list is a checkbox for disabling the screen on when receiving message.
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This option is not there in the stock ROM. I'm running ME7, soon to be rooted. How can I make this option appear, so that I can turn it off?
Not sure. I'm not on the latest update. Maybe somebody else can help out
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klabit87 said:
Not sure. I'm not on the latest update. Maybe somebody else can help out
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That option wasn't there on the original stock ROM, either.
stuartv said:
That option wasn't there on the original stock ROM, either.
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It's showing in mine.
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klabit87 said:
It's showing in mine.
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Are you rooted? I'm not.
stuartv said:
Are you rooted? I'm not.
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I am rooted but I swear I remember the option being there.
And I was wrong though It should be go to main messages press menu then settings is where I found it.
I just looked at my changelog and it seems that there were a few things added.
Like I said though, now that I think about it I very well could be wrong but I could have sworn it was there before I rooted and rommed
klabit87 said:
I am rooted but I swear I remember the option being there.
And I was wrong though It should be go to main messages press menu then settings is where I found it.
I just looked at my changelog and it seems that there were a few things added.
Like I said though, now that I think about it I very well could be wrong but I could have sworn it was there before I rooted and rommed
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If you look at the feature in JellyBeans it seems it's something he enabled.
Yeah I saw that earlier. I stand corrected. If you want the mms.apk so you can push it to your phone I will upload it for you guys.
My bad I just thought I was on stock when I made the post earlier this month.
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klabit87 said:
Yeah I saw that earlier. I stand corrected. If you want the mms.apk so you can push it to your phone I will upload it for you guys.
My bad I just thought I was on stock when I made the post earlier this month.
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like they said its a feature they added. also if u want to stop the text message from being displayed on the lock screen u need to either remove or rename the Keyguardwidget file under system/app
klabit87 said:
Yeah I saw that earlier. I stand corrected. If you want the mms.apk so you can push it to your phone I will upload it for you guys.
My bad I just thought I was on stock when I made the post earlier this month.
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Do you know if that mms.apk will work on ME7? If so, I would definitely like to have it.
dansan382 said:
like they said its a feature they added. also if u want to stop the text message from being displayed on the lock screen u need to either remove or rename the Keyguardwidget file under system/app
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On this note guys... is there also a way to stop the music player showing on lockscreen when played? Thanks
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stuartv said:
This option is not there in the stock ROM. I'm running ME7, soon to be rooted. How can I make this option appear, so that I can turn it off?
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Download and install exposed framework and nottach. Its meant for at&t s4 but a lot of features like what your asking about and a bunch more work for our Verizon s4. I'm using it.
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[Q] GE S4 rom by dubsy

Hey guys, so I got my S4 around July 4th and realized the same day I didn't like touchwiz. Got home, rooted and threw Dubbsy's rom on it.. I have been in love with the rom since I got it, never had an issue with gibberish provider name (except once) the lack of LTE bars didnt bother me because it still worked. The only major issue I ever had with it was my recent apps option stopped working. Well I just got the chance to update it to the newest build of the deoxed version and it has fixed the LTE bars and recent apps works again. It is fantastic and I really appreciate all the work you do! The ONLY issue I have is I only have 3 home screen pages. Is this a limitation of the rom, am i missing something simple??? I could use some help here and if it is a limitation of the rom, no big deal I can live with it until a newer version comes out
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Hey guys, so I got my S4 around July 4th and realized the same day I didn't like touchwiz. Got home, rooted and threw Dubbsy's rom on it.. I have been in love with the rom since I got it, never had an issue with gibberish provider name (except once) the lack of LTE bars didnt bother me because it still worked. The only major issue I ever had with it was my recent apps option stopped working. Well I just got the chance to update it to the newest build of the deoxed version and it has fixed the LTE bars and recent apps works again. It is fantastic and I really appreciate all the work you do! The ONLY issue I have is I only have 3 home screen pages. Is this a limitation of the rom, am i missing something simple??? I could use some help here and if it is a limitation of the rom, no big deal I can live with it until a newer version comes out
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Dubbsy's ROM is nice and stock, with very few modifications.
If you want more home screens, I highly recommend simply throwing Nova Launcher on there. Grab it in the Market. It looks and performs 99% identically to the stock Nexus home screen, but adds a bit of customization. It's what I'm running on Dubbsy's and I've got no issues whatsoever.
If you still have a copy of one of the older versions of the ROM, pull launcher2.apk out of it's /system/app/ folder. I noticed the same thing and use 5 screens myself.
Once you pull the .apk replace the launcher2.apk in your current /system/app/ with it using a root enabled file manager under rw mode. Like the CM installed on the 4.9 edition or Root Explorer.
Once you've done that go ahead and reboot and you should be good.
At least, that's what I did.
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Have you tried just pinching the screen to add some...???
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scottgalit61 said:
Have you tried just pinching the screen to add some...???
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That doesn't work on the stock Google Edition launcher.
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davehasninjas said:
If you still have a copy of one of the older versions of the ROM, pull launcher2.apk out of it's /system/app/ folder. I noticed the same thing and use 5 screens myself.
Once you pull the .apk replace the launcher2.apk in your current /system/app/ with it using a root enabled file manager under rw mode. Like the CM installed on the 4.9 edition or Root Explorer.
Once you've done that go ahead and reboot and you should be good.
At least, that's what I did.
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Is that the only thing it changes? Any major changes to the system??
Yea, I've heard of nova launcher, would prefer a stock option, and if not then i will pick up nova launcher
andrewdexter20 said:
Is that the only thing it changes? Any major changes to the system??
Yea, I've heard of nova launcher, would prefer a stock option, and if not then i will pick up nova launcher
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Yea, it only changes the launcher. That's the only apk you would be replacing, and you wouldn't be using a third party substitute, it would be the genuine launcher since you would've pulled it from one of Dubbsy's older builds. I personally pulled it from 4.7.5 test since that's what I had on my sdcard at the time. Works fine.
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Yea, it only changes the launcher. That's the only apk you would be replacing, and you wouldn't be using a third party substitute, it would be the genuine launcher since you would've pulled it from one of Dubbsy's older builds. I personally pulled it from 4.7.5 test since that's what I had on my sdcard at the time. Works fine.
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It worked perfectly! now I just have to re-arrange my icons, haha.
andrewdexter20 said:
It worked perfectly! now I just have to re-arrange my icons, haha.
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Yea, I had to do the same thing lol, but now you get all 5 home screens back.
Glad I could help.
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So I ran into another issue, when I go into the battery, and click on the graph to see the full data it always crashes. any ideas there?
andrewdexter20 said:
So I ran into another issue, when I go into the battery, and click on the graph to see the full data it always crashes. any ideas there?
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GPS doesn't work either never gets a lock.
s0m3f00l said:
GPS doesn't work either never gets a lock.
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Yea ive noticed that too, guess its the sacrifice for using the rom. oh well, no big deal.
GPS works fine for me.
I thought I only put the 3 page launcher in my odex version. I may have accidentally put it in the deo also. I'll fix that on next release if that's the case.
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andrewdexter20 said:
So I ran into another issue, when I go into the battery, and click on the graph to see the full data it always crashes. any ideas there?
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That's odd, I've never seen that issue before. I would say to do a fresh install and see if it continues. Im not able to reproduce the issue.
s0m3f00l said:
GPS doesn't work either never gets a lock.
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No issues with GPS here. Try and flash back to a stock based ROM, get a GPS lock and then flash back. It's an odd fix, but it seems to work for some.
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That's odd, I've never seen that issue before. I would say to do a fresh install and see if it continues. Im not able to reproduce the issue.
No issues with GPS here. Try and flash back to a stock based ROM, get a GPS lock and then flash back. It's an odd fix, but it seems to work for some.
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Yea I had this issue on the last build, it was weird, it didnt work for weeks then randomly it started working fine, but would randomly freeze once in a blue moon.
The GPS also never got a lock on the last build, and i just double checked, it just sits there saying searching for GPS never gets an exact lock.
im glad i saw this thread,now i wont have to make a new one.i love dubsys rom.but one thing that i cant seem to find is a thethering option.am i missing something. help?
payaso805 said:
im glad i saw this thread,now i wont have to make a new one.i love dubsys rom.but one thing that i cant seem to find is a thethering option.am i missing something. help?
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Under more in wireless and network settings
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Dubbsy said:
Under more in wireless and network settings
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-__- having a hard time finding it.
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-__- having a hard time finding it.
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That doesn't look like Google Edition or BluKuban?
GE is what this thread was talking about
davehasninjas said:
That's odd, I've never seen that issue before. I would say to do a fresh install and see if it continues. Im not able to reproduce the issue.
No issues with GPS here. Try and flash back to a stock based ROM, get a GPS lock and then flash back. It's an odd fix, but it seems to work for some.
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Flashing back to my stock build getting GPS lock and than re flashing the ROM worked for me! Now it seems to be working fine....
What a strange fix...

Active Display App

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2395549
everyone should go check this guy's app out. its the active display lock screen, but us currently only available for 4.3 unless people show interest.
point is, SHOW INTEREST so we can get it.
coltonwood said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2395549
everyone should go check this guy's app out. its the active display lock screen, but us currently only available for 4.3 unless people show interest.
point is, SHOW INTEREST so we can get it.
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If I have time, i will try to compile AOSP 4.3 for our hd2. That is just a MAYBE, since i DON'T really have much of free time.
lolerpro8 said:
If I have time, i will try to compile AOSP 4.3 for our hd2. That is just a MAYBE, since i DON'T really have much of free time.
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hey if you DO start working on it, awesome! would be excited to check out your work sometime in the future!
Yup
coltonwood said:
hey if you DO start working on it, awesome! would be excited to check out your work sometime in the future!
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I have been developing on a less known manufacturer based phones, but i didn't get much attention, so i have quited. Then i was searching for another device, and got hd2 from someone(for free ). Currently im using this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2126053 .
Most stable i could find . Maybe (if i DO have some time) It won't be the best jelly bean rom out there xD
in my op they have a working version for us (alpha version). just a heads up to those interested
coltonwood said:
in my op they have a working version for us (alpha version). just a heads up to those interested
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So which one do we download (if we're on a stock 4.2.2 ROM).... v1.4 or v1.5alpha2 ?
Joe0113 said:
So which one do we download (if we're on a stock 4.2.2 ROM).... v1.4 or v1.5alpha2 ?
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I'm on the 1.5 and its working. but SMS does not work if you are using the stock touchwiz sms. this is because it wakes the screen when you get a message so that ruins it. but hangouts, emails, instagram, etc work fine for me
I disabled Stock SMS notifications and I'm using 88SMS for stock 4.2 look
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I disabled Stock SMS notifications and I'm using 88SMS for stock 4.2 look
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I would think that should work fine then. I tested it with Sliding SMS and it worked perfectly!
For the TTS problem, did you uninstall Samsung TTS and Talk back? The voice-over is really annoying
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HwaA18 said:
For the TTS problem, did you uninstall Samsung TTS and Talk back? The voice-over is really annoying
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mine never had the problem but I'm not sure why yours did though. the Dev may respond on the thread from my op. he seems pretty set on keeping it updated and fixing bugs.
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For the TTS problem, did you uninstall Samsung TTS and Talk back? The voice-over is really annoying
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I think the talkback is just an accessibility bug for samsung devices. Only happens when an app is using accessibility.
dev claims to have fixed the Samsung SMS bug. haven't tried it yet.
added several new options. most notably (for me) was the option to use this as the lock screen. went ahead and went premium!

What the hell did Samsung do???

Samsung really messed up right now, they're trying to replace Google services with their BS! First they removed Google TTS (which I had to manually put back through root). Holding down the menu button brings up Sfinder instead of Google now, they don't let you OTA if you've rooted. Wtf is going on! I'd personally like the option to choose to open Google apps instead of having to use Sfinder and svoice. Is anyone else feeling kind of pissed about this stuff
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alexnaoumi said:
Samsung really messed up right now, they're trying to replace Google services with their BS! First they removed Google TTS (which I had to manually put back through root). Holding down the menu button brings up Sfinder instead of Google now, they don't let you OTA if you've rooted. Wtf is going on! I'd personally like the option to choose to open Google apps instead of having to use Sfinder and svoice. Is anyone else feeling kind of pissed about this stuff
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Agreed. Hopefully one of our debs will come up with a way to re map or hardware keys soon. As for the no otas, could not believe that.
jre1981 said:
Agreed. Hopefully one of our debs will come up with a way to re map or hardware keys soon. As for the no otas, could not believe that.
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The OTA bs made me think of apple. That's something they would do
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I use nova launcher and Google now works just fine with the menu key. So it must be tied in to tw
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phyba said:
I use nova launcher and Google now works just fine with the menu key. So it must be tied in to tw
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Hold the menu button in Nova and keep it held for an additional second or 2 and Sfinder will pop up. I disabled it through root explorer
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alexnaoumi said:
The OTA bs made me think of apple. That's something they would do
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personally why would you want to OTA with root? Chances are you will lose root. They do that for safety, less problems. I remember phones bricking all the time when you did OTA, just do the updates from xda. And personally... I'd never compare samsung to apple. That is just a horrible thing to do man.:silly:
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personally why would you want to OTA with root? Chances are you will lose root. They do that for safety, less problems. I remember phones bricking all the time when you did OTA, just do the updates from xda. And personally... I'd never compare samsung to apple. That is just a horrible thing to do man.:silly:
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I was unable to boot the MI5 deodexed rom so in my case I needed the latest firmware which wasn't available in a tar file.
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I was unable to boot the MI5 deodexed rom so in my case I needed the latest firmware which wasn't available in a tar file.
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well Id recommend waiting. It might be harder to root again if u go back to stock
Now I'm stock with root and I'm up to date on the latest firmware. It took a while though because of the whole device status blocking an OTA but I got it. Now I'm just gonna wait for more custom roms to release
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alexnaoumi said:
Hold the menu button in Nova and keep it held for an additional second or 2 and Sfinder will pop up. I disabled it through root explorer
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That the reason I root my note 3 , uninstall the annoying s finder using titanium backup . After I remove everything is working fine now! I hope you guys doing well too.
Another annoying thing is that I can no longer hide useless apps from my app drawer. They all have to be there. I HATE THAT! But I love touchwiz
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alexnaoumi said:
Another annoying thing is that I can no longer hide useless apps from my app drawer. They all have to be there. I HATE THAT! But I love touchwiz
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Hello,
Which apps you can't hide?
I was able to turn off a few and are not displaying on my app drawer. I'm stock
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Hello,
Which apps you can't hide?
I was able to turn off a few and are not displaying on my app drawer. I'm stock
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For example, the help app can't be hidden
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Huawei 10 Pro Update - No Launcher

Hi there all,
So, usually when my phone updates, it resets my Launcher from Google Pixel to default. However, by going into app settings, I can always change this back.
I updated last night while sleeping to 8.1 and it appears that now I have no Launcher setting to change in the app section of the settings.
I really don't like the default Launcher. Is this the case for everybody who updated?
Thanks.
It's a known issue with this update and should be sorted in the next one.
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It's a known issue with this update and should be sorted in the next one
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Thanks. Good to know. ??
HairyBrain said:
It's a known issue with this update and should be sorted in the next one.
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or not.
Clearly somebody removed the option on purpose.
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or not.
Clearly somebody removed the option on purpose.
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As much as I love the hardware that doesn't bare thinking about and flies right in the face of the whole principles of Android being open and customisable.
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