I just started using GDE and have changed it to my default home, I'm asking if there is a way to block it from starting up, and if not a way to uninstall it altogether.
On a second question is there a way to use the HTC widgets like peep, home, ect.. and put them on GDE or home?
as with completely removing sense i dont know if its possible but sense ui is required for the widgets
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when you install another home program dont you get a pop up that asks you which home screen you want to use? did it to me when i installed open home, u can click on a check box to make it default
98classic said:
when you install another home program dont you get a pop up that asks you which home screen you want to use? did it to me when i installed open home, u can click on a check box to make it default
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yes it did, i chose gde and i prefer it over sense, check out some of my screens over in the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584379&page=5 thread. only gripe is i cant use all those nice htc widgets
Apparently to your misery of missing the htc widgets in alternative home launcher htc widget are not classed as android widgets they are specifically written to run on sense.
Market widgets run on android so they can be shown on other home launcher, only shortcuts of htc apps applies but that's not you want and you get the point overall htc widgets and htc sense are made for htc phones.
I agree sense is too simplistic on the downside and I too use a market home launcher.
Maybe try an AOSP custom rom, usually come looking like the original android interface.
If your on a deodoxed rom yes it is possible to delete sense all together u need rootexplorer and an already installed home alternative such as gde then u go to root explorer then system apps then delete rosie utility apk that's the launcher sense uses then u can go through and delete all the HTC apks and yes if u delete the HTC lockscreen you'll be on the default android lockscreen I was able to do this on nfinites sense froyo rom
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Is there a way to remove a home screen (one of the seven) after I have deleted all the apps/widgets off of it? I find that I really only need 4 or 5 of therse screens. Thanks!
pixelpop said:
Is there a way to remove a home screen (one of the seven) after I have deleted all the apps/widgets off of it? I find that I really only need 4 or 5 of therse screens. Thanks!
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The only way I know to do this is remove roise and that gives you 5 screens. You can then install any custom launcher and set how many screens you want. I dont think custom launchers work with sense but i may be wrong. I have made my own rom with no sense and use custom launcher. Runs a lot faster.
pixelpop said:
Is there a way to remove a home screen (one of the seven) after I have deleted all the apps/widgets off of it? I find that I really only need 4 or 5 of therse screens. Thanks!
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you could get a new home replacement on the market that will let you customize how many screens you have.
some ppl reported they don't see some launchers in market..
search for "Launcher" and try these out:
LauncherPro Beta
HelixLauncher
ADW.Launcher
For 2.1 Tag Home
They are all customizable (screens, docking shortcuts, programs layout, etc)
NOTE: Sense Widgets are built into Sense, so if you're gonna use different launcher some widgets will disappear..
I have an Evo and some of the launchers don't show up, which is rather annoying...it would be nice to have LauncherPro as an alternative to the stock Launcher (hard to get to on the Evo but you can enable it) or Sense.
Is there a way to turn off sense or maybe install APK's to replace the crapware. I'd like to get the standard android Contacts app instead of this pain to use sense version.
Thanks for and information, I'll be eagerly awaiting root and CM5
I also want to remove the UI tmobile has placed on it.
Just want android 2.1 vanialla or with htc sense
You can always choose a launcher program. helix launcher, adw launcher, and launcherpro are the 3 best. I use adw launcher. helix is the only one in the market right now, the others you have to get apk file. adw launcher has the apk on their website now since google is haveing market issues. This will give you a great stock-like experience and can be customized a little beyond stock which is nice but you don't have to if you want it very stock.
there is a way to sort of remove sense but once you do it i dont know if you can get it back without hard reseting it. Go to settings/applications/manage applications then find htc sense click on it then clear the memory after that push the home key and it should give you the option to pick the regular android launcher.
disclaimer this worked on older versions of sense ie the 1.5 based heros have not tried on the slide yet
http://www.androidspin.com/2010/01/25/remove-sense-defaults-to-speed-up-your-phone/
neva dinova said:
there is a way to sort of remove sense but once you do it i dont know if you can get it back without hard reseting it. Go to settings/applications/manage applications then find htc sense click on it then clear the memory after that push the home key and it should give you the option to pick the regular android launcher.
disclaimer this worked on older versions of sense ie the 1.5 based heros have not tried on the slide yet
http://www.androidspin.com/2010/01/25/remove-sense-defaults-to-speed-up-your-phone/
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this does not work on slide it does notihng
hansalvato said:
this does not work on slide it does notihng
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Actually it does, it resets your quicklinks or shortcuts on your screen.
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If you changed your homepage from the default 5 screen to 7 and did the procedure mentioned above, your homepage will revert back to 5 screens even if you changed your settings in the "Personalize" to 7 pages. I tried it on mine just to see the effect and ended up hard resetting my device to get it back to actually seeing 7 screens. Please correct me if it's only me, a bug or if anyone has a better solution than doing a hard reset.
Hello Dear Community!
I have now almost decided to move from WinMo to Android. I choose it because of its supposed customisability. So, getting back to the main question: I don't want to do anything aggressive to Sense, like disabling or removing it. I just want to know if its no problem to download and install a different launcher (like ADW) and use it instead of Sense (or "on top of" Sense).
BTW, regarding Widgets: As I understand, I can run both HTC and "plain" Android widgets when using Sense, but I cannot run HTC widgets on non-sense launchers, right?
Thanks for the reply!
You can use ADW or LP, and I believe you're right about the HTC widgets, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Yes, I installed LP and used it for a while, though eventually went back to Sense. the OS will give you the option to set either Sense or LP or any other launcher as the default action for the home button once installed. You can switch them by going into manage applications and press "clear defaults" for whatever launcher is set as the default and it will ask you again when you press home.
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Yes, I installed LP and used it for a while, though eventually went back to Sense. the OS will give you the option to set either Sense or LP or any other launcher as the default action for the home button once installed. You can switch them by going into manage applications and press "clear defaults" for whatever launcher is set as the default and it will ask you again when you press home.
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Thanks for a very practical and informative reply!
Alternatively, you should be able to flash the G2 ROM very soon (if you can't already) as we now have permanent root. That will give you the stock Android launcher.
It is a bit disappointing that I can't use the Sense widgets with Launcher Pro, but I'll get over it. The Sense dock is pretty, but useless compared to a loaded up LP dock with swipe actions.
"Launcher Pro +" adds its own sense like widgets which are very good.
Does anyone know if you can flash and reinstall sense fresh? The point being to get rid of all this bloatware that my carrier added my phone.
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Does anyone know if you can flash and reinstall sense fresh? The point being to get rid of all this bloatware that my carrier added my phone.
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Why would you want to reinstall just Sense for that ? You can just disable the bloatware if you want, or flash a different ROM (e.g. if it's a Bell ROM then you can flash the standard ROM, see the dev forum for details).
Alternatively, I'm sure it will be very soon that someone will post up a way to flash the ROM from the G2, which doesn't have Sense in it.
Hey all!
I know it might sounds stupid, I'm kinda new to this Andorid stuff
I have the MDJ Revolution HD v.1.2 on my HD2 and can't figure out how to remove\delete shourcuts from the all apps screen, Not the home screen, the all apps screen
I tried everything, can't drag them anywhere cause it says my home screen is full and when it's not, i tried to drag them down and delete them but... Nothing
I'ts there a way to totally remove\delete them from the apps screen- it's a mess!
Thanks guys,I hope you'll make my week by helping a new stupid guy solve this out
=)
From homescreen, click menu button to bring up menu c screen, click menu and find application in menu setting screen. On application manager screen, choice and click on application you do not want and uninstall it. Rhis method will uninstall your application,therefore to have it back, you have to reinstall it.
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10507 said:
From homescreen, click menu button to bring up menu c screen, click menu and find application in menu setting screen. On application manager screen, choice and click on application you do not want and uninstall it. Rhis method will uninstall your application,therefore to have it back, you have to reinstall it.
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Thank you for your answer !
But i guess you got me all wrong, i don't want to Uninstall apps.. just to remove the shorucuts of them on the all apps screen( once again, I'm NOT talking about the Home Screen - just about the All Apps screen. I moved my shourcuts to folders like;games, media, etc...
now all I want to do is to remove the annoying shourcuts (Igot too many) from the all apps screen.
Got it now? I wanna keep my apps, got them all in folders,,, now please help me remove the shourcuts on this all apps screen
thanks again!
That's down to the launcher. What launcher do you use? (Please say launcher pro!)
Oh yeah, and I'm not being all "know-it-all" like, cos I don't, but it's the App Drawer. Other people will at least know what you mean if you call it something we recognise
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That's down to the launcher. What launcher do you use? (Please say launcher pro!)
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I'm afriad I don't use one or know what that is.... Yeah, i know, I'm new to this, and new=stupid.
If you understand my problem with the shourcuts on thr all apps screen i'd love to know what you got to say about it.
thanks man
New don't mean stupid mate - you are stupid if you're stupid though
The launcher is the homescreen, with all your shortcuts and widgets on it, and encapsulates the app drawer as well.
In your case, since it's a HD build, I'm guessing that means Desire HD, and I'm also guessing that you have Sense on there.
Is that right?
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New don't mean stupid mate - you are stupid if you're stupid though
The launcher is the homescreen, with all your shortcuts and widgets on it, and encapsulates the app drawer as well.
In your case, since it's a HD build, I'm guessing that means Desire HD, and I'm also guessing that you have Sense on there.
Is that right?
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Yeah!!! 100% right.
Okay. Do you want to keep Sense? I only ask because I use something called Launcher Pro, which is basically like your desktop, with widgets and shortcuts, but it also encapsulates the app drawer. With Launcher Pro you can hide shortcuts from the app drawer, but I've never seen this in any other launcher, including Sense.
Is there a way to keep sense and still be able to remove the shourcuts i don't want?
I like the sense thing.
Its just weird I can't find a way to deal with this all apps screen and edit it somehow.
btw- thanks for helping, =)
noamke said:
Is there a way to keep sense and still be able to remove the shourcuts i don't want?
I like the sense thing.
Its just weird I can't find a way to deal with this all apps screen and edit it somehow.
btw- thanks for helping, =)
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No worries mate, but as I said, Launcher Pro is the only launcher I know of with this option. It's something that would be in the launcher itself - not something that could easily be added on.
Got it. so I guess Sense and removing shourcuts is something that can't be done,
Thanks again.
noamke said:
Got it. so I guess Sense and removing shourcuts is something that can't be done,
Thanks again.
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Not that I'm aware of. Unless there's some hidden method within Sense itself then I'd imagine that you're asking for new functionality, which would need re-coding and a rebuild of Sense.
I've had a bit of a google and couldn't find anything else either.
I know it's not ideal, but try Launcher Pro. It's in the market and it's free (there's a paid version with some more options). When you press the home button you'll get asked what launcher to use, so you can toggle between Sense and Launcher Pro (and the default Android Launcher) and see which you prefer. It'll mean setting up all your pages again, and you won't have access to the HTC widgets in Launcher Pro, but there's swings and roundabouts.
If you don't like it, you just uninstall it and go back to using Sense. It won't affect your current Sense setup at all, so you won't lose anything.
Hello all,
i couldn't find it with the search tool, so i'll just ask.
I am building my own rom with the dsixda kitchen, but i want to change my main launcher. (the htc sense launcher (sense3)), but i still want it to be in the background, so that Home Switcher can still switch it back. but when i add the launcherpro to the 'app' folder and cook the rom, it still launches Htc senses' launcher. how can i prevent the htc sense launcher from opening and just load launcherpro?
and another question, how can i change the main wallpaper?
thanks in advance.
djpbx
djpbx said:
Hello all,
i couldn't find it with the search tool, so i'll just ask.
I am building my own rom with the dsixda kitchen, but i want to change my main launcher. (the htc sense launcher (sense3)), but i still want it to be in the background, so that Home Switcher can still switch it back. but when i add the launcherpro to the 'app' folder and cook the rom, it still launches Htc senses' launcher. how can i prevent the htc sense launcher from opening and just load launcherpro?
and another question, how can i change the main wallpaper?
thanks in advance.
djpbx
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Ok. To switch launchers and vise versa. You need to click on Application, settings, manage applications. Select all. In that list, look for your both launchers. For each of them, make sure clear default is not selected or checked. Once done, select home button on phone. You should see option to select which launcher you want to be the default one.
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