So I rooted my Motorola One a little while back and have wanted to make it more....me. A little more customised and less standard without taking it too far away from the stock android experience.
I run a stock Android ROM (or as close to stock as possible) on Android 10. I don't mind doing some work but I don't want to have to do it everytime an app is updated or changed. I have alot of mainstream apps (Telegram, Outlook, Discord) But a few less common (Session Messaging App, Tasker, VLC)
Is it at all possible to change the icon pack without changing the launcher. I am root if that makes a difference but the only way that I can see if running a custom ROM. Is it possible to do without changing ROM and purely just changing the icon pack?
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Hi guys,
I've had the streak for a while now and still se as main phone but one thing I still can't get around is the dialler.
I'm still using Stage as I prefer it to others, I like the widgets and the home widget with most used apps but the dialer is poor.
I've downloaded others and set them as default but when I press the phone on home screen it still launches stock.
Any ideas?
AFAIK the dialer is hard-coded with Stage UI. Change the launcher and you can customize the dialer. But you then won't be able to use the Stage UI widgets.
Just changing the question a bit - want to flash a new dialer ( launcher-holo/other )
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
AFAIK the dialer is hard-coded with Stage UI. Change the launcher and you can customize the dialer. But you then won't be able to use the Stage UI widgets.
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Ok, Let me extend the question to suit my case here.
I am on DSC 2.2 now, and I wish the dialer was something like Lxdroid 0.2 ROM, or someother dialer which supports T9 & a better call log ( with exact time and call times) than the stock one.
How do I flash only another dialer over the current one?
I am already trying to replace the Battery icon in status bar ( as given in hundertains thread - on replacing stock battery less-informative icon by percentage icon).
Thank you.
Sony.
That's a horse of a different color, since DSC by default doesn't use the Stage UI. You can flash a new dialer over the old, so long as the dialer comes from the same base ROM. For example, you cannot take the modified Olleh/DSC-compatible dialer from Touch of ICS/Traveller ICS and use it on a Cyanogenmod ROM. I tried it and lost phone capability until I restored the Cyanogenmod dialer. LexDroid I believe is based off Cyanogenmod, thus you cannot take it's dialer and move it to DSC and have it work.
A better option is to install one of the dialer replacements from the Play Store.
Hello,
I have started developing a custom launcher and i am in need of help/education. I want it to work like a sandbox, where user only has access to certain applications and is restricted from everything else. I have managed to get a launcher up and running with basic functionality, however i would like to add/edit more things to it:
1. Status Bar. I would like to create new, modify existing or even remove it. If i cannot remove it, can i at least disable it or make it invisible in all the applications? Where do i start? I have not found any information regarding customizing the status bar.
2. Lock screen. I would like to change this one as well. Is there any starting point where i could begin reading about modifying it?
3. Updating Launcher. Say if i install launcher from Google Play and i then want to update it, what will happen? Launcher updates and restarts? If i have 2 Launchers installed, will i see the second one will the first one restarts? Will i have to set default launcher again after update?
Note that solutions for rooted and unrooted devices fit to me so at least i know i can remove / disable the default launcher. I also fully understand that there is no way to restrict user from reflashing rom and such, but that is not a concern to me.
Apologies if this is the wrong forum, I was unsure where to post it as the MIUI rom is not fixed to one phone in particular...
I have just flashed MIUIv5 for my HTC one X phone, absolutely love the rom, the graphical user interface and just about everything.
Unfortunately I am struggling with the launcher. I really love the launcher, but not being able to edit the shortcuts or change the icons with a few clicks is a killer. All the big third party launchers offer this simple feature. Quite a few third party apps end up with ugly icons with a background.
Can anyone recommend an MIUIv5 style launcher that could allow me to edit the icon/app short cuts on the desktop? I have played with Nova, Apex, Holo and they all get close with the various icon packs but the layout just doesn't look the same. I don't need an app drawer either so the MIUI launcher would have been perfect but for the icon/app issue.
Also, as much as I love this rom, many of the system apps installed I really do not or would not use. Coming from CM and AOSP roms, I would prefer not to have the system monitor apps, root monitor apps, app control, MI credit, cloud and whatever non essential apps. I would prefer it more like a bare bones rom. So my question, which of these system apps can I remove without causing rom instability? I like to install apps, play in root etc without multiple warnings, notifications for this and that.
Otherwise, fantastic stuff. I can see me being an MIUI user for a long time.
I've tried Beanstalk on my i717, and I like the stock Gingerbread I had on it better (I had removed tons of stock bloat with Titanium Backup). I would like to find a debloated, rooted rom, that doesn't add anything (for example, Sauron ROM seems to add a lot of stuff that I wouldn't necessarily use, or that I can add myself like busybox and superuser). Aside from that, I would like a kernel that can overclock, if overclocking doesn't cause instability: otherwise I am fine with 1.5GHz.
Maybe Saurom ROM would be fine for me... I just don't know what everything is in the list of additions, and I would prefer barebones if it runs faster, uses less memory, and is more stable.
Is it possible to have Gingerbread along with SGH-I717ATT-UCMD3-Modem? With Beanstalk and this UCMD3 modem, I am getting LTE on t-mobile, and am quite happy about that. I've heard of the blaze radio, but, it's been a while, and maybe T-mobile has worked on compatibility with AT&T phones, such that the stock UCMD3 may now be best?
The reason I want this, is that the minimum system requirements for Gingerbread is 128MB, while for KitKat it is 340MB (see http://source.android.com/compatibility/downloads.html). Also, I like the use of the menu button, and I like the use of the long press for context sensitive menus. I feel like I am using iOS rather than Android (sick).
Advice or recommendations are most welcome... let me know if I'm missing something!
I'm trying out SauRom, which is a customized stock gingerbread rom, that I found through the rootgalaxynote website. It is labelled as "Multi-DPI". For the stock ROM, I had figured out how to change the DPI on my own, which changed the DPI for both apps and system. Somehow, SauROM doesn't allow me to change the DPI on the system menus and bars (android UI). I guess it considers this a feature, but I don't like it. The things it adds are ok, but not things that I couldn't add myself, so I'd rather just start off with a stock ROM, and uninstall all the trash that comes with it, via Titanium Backup. However, I'm curious to figure out how to undo SauRom's fixed android UI DPI, that isn't affected by the ro.sf.lcd_density variable. Besides the Android UI, also the Contacts app has huge icons as well, even with DPI set to 200. I have to scroll and scroll and scroll.
I continue with the new radio firmware, and still get LTE on T-Mobile. Awesome!
I'm so glad to be back on Gingerbread. No delays, lightning fast.
This question is geared towards an understanding of launcher behaviour and saving power and processing speed for the phone user. I'm contemplating the pro's of using a custom launcher on an older device versus sticking with an outdated UI.
For example, If i download and a use a custom launcher like Nova on a Samsung device, does it work on top of touchwiz or is touchwiz, "shutdown/frozen" ?
Essentially, are they running at the same time or is the stock launcher stopped during the run-time of the custom launcher ?
I have the same question
sr993 said:
This question is geared towards an understanding of launcher behaviour and saving power and processing speed for the phone user. I'm contemplating the pro's of using a custom launcher on an older device versus sticking with an outdated UI.
For example, If i download and a use a custom launcher like Nova on a Samsung device, does it work on top of touchwiz or is touchwiz, "shutdown/frozen" ?
Essentially, are they running at the same time or is the stock launcher stopped during the run-time of the custom launcher ?
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The stock launcher will always be running in the background even if it is not your default launcher.
Btw, using more than one launcher is known to reduce phone performance.
So, if you are rooted, install the custom one as a system app and uninstall the stock one
Augustoandro said:
The stock launcher will always be running in the background even if it is not your default launcher.
Btw, using more than one launcher is known to reduce phone performance.
So, if you are rooted, install the custom one as a system app and uninstall the stock one
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Thank you. :good:
As it happens, i am working with an older samsung flagship model (Note 3). From past modding experiences, i found that touchwiz, in particular, is tightly integrated with the stock apps. I'll try and run two launchers for a few days and see how it goes.
If it's slow, i'll look into ways of removing touchwiz successfully.