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Changing the bottom tray

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I was wondering if there's a way to modify the permanent tray at the bottom of the screen? I want to put my chompsms link in place of the default messaging link. Thank you in advance.
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Try using launcher pro it allows you to do this and is more customizable than samsung's default launcher. I just started using it myself and prefer it a lot more

If you open the app tray and press the menu button you will get an option for view type. Select customize. Press menu button again and select edit. You can now change the center two icons
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crazycaveman said:
Try using launcher pro it allows you to do this and is more customizable than samsung's default launcher. I just started using it myself and prefer it a lot more
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if you're talking about customization, try ADW Launcher.
inb4 another ADW Launcher and Launcher Pro debate.

zephiK said:
if you're talking about customization, try ADW Launcher.
inb4 another ADW Launcher and Launcher Pro debate.
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Actually you are the beginning of it...

Launcher pro > LIFE ITSELF

You learn something new everyday. No idea the menu button did anything in the app tray. Thank you. And I've tried both launchers. This is probably blasphemy but I don't like either. *runs and ducks for cover*
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hitman21888 said:
You learn something new everyday. No idea the menu button did anything in the app tray. Thank you. And I've tried both launchers. This is probably blasphemy but I don't like either. *runs and ducks for cover*
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i also think the stock setup is good. its better now that i know we can change the 2 icons.

The K-Zoo Kid said:
Launcher pro > LIFE ITSELF
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ADW > Launcher pro > LIFE ITSELF

Launcher pro

hitman21888 said:
You learn something new everyday. No idea the menu button did anything in the app tray. Thank you. And I've tried both launchers. This is probably blasphemy but I don't like either. *runs and ducks for cover*
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There are tons of these types of apps in the market. Here's a list of the ones I thought were good:
Open Home
Live Home
Launcher Pro
ADW
aHome
dxTop
Of those, I'd have to say Launcher Pro and Live Home are my favorites.

Absoluelty horrible Glitch on 2.2 (Please Read)

Hey guys, I found a nasty little bug that has made my epic unusable. Basically if you have all your home screen pages filled up and decide to create a shortcut of an app (in this case it was dolphin browser) from inside the app, Touch Wiz will crash no matter how many time you reboot the phone. All other programs work just fine, however touchwiz will without fail crash. I am trying to find a way around this without reflashing but it looks like that is my only option. Be warned everyone EB13 is not ready for prime time.
Edit: Found a quick work around, just install launcher pro from the market and hit the home button and switch your launcher to launcher pro. Now can anyone tell me how to switch back?

So why not use something other than tw? Why would you load up that many icons on 7 pages? Home Switcher from market...
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Edit: Found a quick work around, just install launcher pro from the market and hit the home button and switch your launcher to launcher pro. Now can anyone tell me how to switch back?[/QUOTE]
Download home switcher for froyo on the market its free
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Top Nurse said:
So why not use something other than tw? Why would you load up that many icons on 7 pages? Home Switcher from market...
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I didnt I had 3 full pages. Also turns out even turning off touchwiz and switching back to it ruins it. Also not the appropriate place for this but isn't possible to add more homescreens to launcher pro. But thankyou for the advice.

ishal said:
I didnt I had 3 full pages. Also turns out even turning off touchwiz and switching back to it ruins it. Also not the appropriate place for this but isn't possible to add more homescreens to launcher pro. But thankyou for the advice.
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Yes you can add screens to launcherpro by hitting (from launcherpro) menu>preferences>homescreen settngs. To fix touchwiz, hit menu>settings>applications>all, scroll down to TWlauncher cick it, and clear everything.
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Sounds like a bug in Touchwiz, not Froyo.

Thank you XDA for helping me through what was pretty much me over reacting.

I would really urge you to play around with Launcher Pro for a while. Try the different settings and see what they all do. I can't imagine using Touchwiz now. I love the way launcherpro both looks and works.

dr_gibberish said:
I would really urge you to play around with Launcher Pro for a while. Try the different settings and see what they all do. I can't imagine using Touchwiz now. I love the way launcherpro both looks and works.
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Aug 31st... the first day I had my phone I moved to Launcher Pro and haven't looked back... not a single reason to use TW

Try hitting menu/settings/apps/manage apps/all.
Find twlauncher and clear data and cache. It will likely blow out anything you had on you screens but may allow you to use it again if that's what you are looking for.
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snowmanwithahat said:
Aug 31st... the first day I had my phone I moved to Launcher Pro and haven't looked back... not a single reason to use TW
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TW is for folk who want their phone to feel more iOSish, and if that's what they want, meh. More power to 'em.
I used LP for a long time, but am giving Go Launcher a whirl these days. I kinda like it even more, but...
Ugh, Launcherpro has THE BEST agenda widget on Android. No free widget I've tried even comes close. Really frustrating.
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snowmanwithahat said:
Aug 31st... the first day I had my phone I moved to Launcher Pro and haven't looked back... not a single reason to use TW
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Amen to that, brotha! I love launcher pro. Really works well.

snowmanwithahat said:
Aug 31st... the first day I had my phone I moved to Launcher Pro and haven't looked back... not a single reason to use TW
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Got my phone in august 31, moved to launcherpro sept 4, havent looked back either, its great, especially with the scrollable dock and all the customizations you can do!!

Meh - LP is pretty good but I suspect most people don't use most of the options, making it kind-of big. I haven't found a better option though. It's pretty darn good.

I use LauncherPro, and I have long since deleted both TouchWiz an the stock launcher from the /system/apps/ folder. It frees up a bit of space.

waitforit... said:
Meh - LP is pretty good but I suspect most people don't use most of the options, making it kind-of big. I haven't found a better option though. It's pretty darn good.
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ADWLauncher EX

tclarkey said:
ADWLauncher EX
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Adw ex is my favorite as well. It seems smoother.
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kelmar13 said:
Try hitting menu/settings/apps/manage apps/all.
Find twlauncher and clear data and cache. It will likely blow out anything you had on you screens but may allow you to use it again if that's what you are looking for.
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Yeah this is what I was going to suggest. It WILL delete all your settings related to the launcher.

Why fill your homescreens with apps anyway...talk about cludered ...
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I am using the paid version of LauncherPro and loving it. Very stable over TW.
Darkk

Can't type in landscape.....

For some reason I can't type in landscape anymore. Anyone else run into this?
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SomeGut said:
For some reason I can't type in landscape anymore. Anyone else run into this?
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Which keyboard are you using? I have had problems using Swype in the Google Search app and I can only use the Swype keyboard in Quickoffice. I mainly use Swiftkey but that has become inconsistent.

The area around the capacitative buttons is sensitive to touch. If you by accident touch in that area the phone becomes touch insensitive....

mgymnop said:
The area around the capacitative buttons is sensitive to touch. If you by accident touch in that area the phone becomes touch insensitive....
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Yes, the screen and capacitive buttons are extremely sensitive, never thought of that. They are almost anticipating my touches...

live4nyy said:
Yes, the screen and capacitive buttons are extremely sensitive, never thought of that. They are almost anticipating my touches...
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The screen becomes unresponsive if you touch the area left to the menu button or right to the search button. In landscape mode the area that is now under the menu button is often accidentally touched by myself and the entire screen is unresponsive. Maybe if they wouldn't had disabled multi finger touch it wouldn't be a problem.

live4nyy said:
Which keyboard are you using? I have had problems using Swype in the Google Search app and I can only use the Swype keyboard in Quickoffice. I mainly use Swiftkey but that has become inconsistent.
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The standard keyboard that comes on the Atrix. I've powered it off and on plus battery pull
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SomeGut said:
The standard keyboard that comes on the Atrix. I've powered it off and on plus battery pull
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Are you rooted? If so, which method did you use? If you used the OneClick method then try running the aRoot method as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11872091&postcount=1

live4nyy said:
Are you rooted? If so, which method did you use? If you used the OneClick method then try running the aRoot method as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11872091&postcount=1
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I used oneclick method a couple of weeks ago. It was working fine and now it doesn't auto rotate.
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SomeGut said:
I used oneclick method a couple of weeks ago. It was working fine and now it doesn't auto rotate.
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Well, first check Settings>Display and make sure the Auto-rotate screen is checked and then I would run the aRoot script.

Ok, I got it figured out. Some how auto rotate was unchecked (not by me, on its own) I just went into settings, display, auto rotate and now it works. I was going crazy here lol. Thanks for the help guys.
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live4nyy said:
Well, first check Settings>Display and make sure the Auto-rotate screen is checked and then I would run the aRoot script.
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Thanks man. For some reason it was unchecked. Appreciate the help.
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SomeGut said:
Thanks man. For some reason it was unchecked. Appreciate the help.
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I think some third party launchers are overwriting settings on the phone by accident. Have you used ADW or anything like that?

live4nyy said:
I think some third party launchers are overwriting settings on the phone by accident. Have you used ADW or anything like that?
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I use launcher pro plus
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SomeGut said:
I use launcher pro plus
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Yeah, there have been issues quite a bit but it always seems someone is using a different launcher. Maybe there needs to be some updates to these launchers to run atop of Blur. Another I noticed is that when I download a 3rd party launcher it automatically uses that launcher as default and when i go into settings I can't remove the Default for it so that might have something to do with it. Have you also done a reboot lately? After a reboot I notice that my phone decides to check the "Stay Awake" option under Applications>Development by itself. So maybe there something to that as well.

live4nyy said:
Yeah, there have been issues quite a bit but it always seems someone is using a different launcher. Maybe there needs to be some updates to these launchers to run atop of Blur. Another I noticed is that when I download a 3rd party launcher it automatically uses that launcher as default and when i go into settings I can't remove the Default for it so that might have something to do with it. Have you also done a reboot lately? After a reboot I notice that my phone decides to check the "Stay Awake" option under Applications>Development by itself. So maybe there something to that as well.
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I was doing reboots to reset the phone earlier but never noticed the stay awake option changing. When I used launcher pro first time it gave me the option to use as default launcher. I just checked the box and it stays launcher pro
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SomeGut said:
I was doing reboots to reset the phone earlier but never noticed the stay awake option changing. When I used launcher pro first time it gave me the option to use as default launcher. I just checked the box and it stays launcher pro
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Weird, it was doing it before I rooted and after. And I must have tried a dozen different launcher apps and not once has it asked me to change the default. Of course, I only had one installed at a time. Do you just have LP installed or do you have others?

live4nyy said:
Weird, it was doing it before I rooted and after. And I must have tried a dozen different launcher apps and not once has it asked me to change the default. Of course, I only had one installed at a time. Do you just have LP installed or do you have others?
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I have others installed but I don't really mess with em. I only have em while experimenting with what launcher I wanted. But I dabble with em on occasion. But if you hit the home key and haven't picked a default it should give u the option to pick your launcher and just under the launchers is a box that says" set as default"
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SomeGut said:
I have others installed but I don't really mess with em. I only have em while experimenting with what launcher I wanted. But I dabble with em on occasion. But if you hit the home key and haven't picked a default it should give u the option to pick your launcher and just under the launchers is a box that says" set as default"
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Yes, I'm aware of that but if you only had one 3rd party launcher installed it won't ask to set it to default. If you want you can uninstall all of your launchers til you're back to Blur and then just download one of them and then hit Home and it will automatically go to the new launcher.
You really don't have to but it does happen that way which tells me that Blur (and all the settings it holds prominence over) is easily manipulated by a different launcher. Have you noticed you can still use all the MotoBlur widgets even while using LP? Can't do that on an HTC Sense phone.

live4nyy said:
Yes, I'm aware of that but if you only had one 3rd party launcher installed it won't ask to set it to default. If you want you can uninstall all of your launchers til you're back to Blur and then just download one of them and then hit Home and it will automatically go to the new launcher.
You really don't have to but it does happen that way which tells me that Blur (and all the settings it holds prominence over) is easily manipulated by a different launcher. Have you noticed you can still use all the MotoBlur widgets even while using LP? Can't do that on an HTC Sense phone.
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Yeah I did notice that. I don't use those though
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ADW.Launcher 2 beta

For those interested. I dont use adw myself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031836
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It's pretty much using the Gingerbread Launcher as a base rather than Froyo. It's odd though, even if you're not using it as your main launcher when you uninstall anything the launcher crashes.
I've experienced this on CM7 as well as EC05.

AproSamurai said:
It's pretty much using the Gingerbread Launcher as a base rather than Froyo. It's odd though, even if you're not using it as your main launcher when you uninstall anything the launcher crashes.
I've experienced this on CM7 as well as EC05.
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Hmm, well, it is just a beta.
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There is nothing that can match GO Launcher EX.I used them all and this is the best one followed by Zeam launcher.

Adw launcher ex. Its just the bomb. I hope I get a free upgrade.
cd's or tapes?

schnowdapowda said:
Adw launcher ex. Its just the bomb. I hope I get a free upgrade.
cd's or tapes?
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+1 ADW Launcher EX is by far my favorite home replacement. I love the hidden dockbar. This beta a is not good... At all. They'll fix it before long, I'm sure.
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rygran87 said:
+1 ADW Launcher EX is by far my favorite home replacement. I love the hidden dockbar. This beta a is not good... At all. They'll fix it before long, I'm sure.
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Dumb question, but how do you activate/deactivate the hidden dockbar? I have had this as my home replacement but haven't been able to figure that out....

If you want to enable/disable, go Settings -> More -> ADWSettings -> UI Settings -> Dockbar
If you want to use it, swipe up from bottom of screen to bring up hidden dockbar, swipe down from top of hidden dockbar to hide it.
I always lock my desktop (especially after customizing either dockbars) b/c if I don't I always end up screwing up my dockbars by dragging icons off of them. Some launchers have dockbar launching icon which is handy, but the only thing I don't like is that it doesn't look like you can edit it or move it.

tclarkey said:
Dumb question, but how do you activate/deactivate the hidden dockbar? I have had this as my home replacement but haven't been able to figure that out....
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Move your finger down on the dock i believe just swipe down....
To get back to normal dock swipe up...

I set mine up to open/close with the home button.
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lviv73 said:
There is nothing that can match GO Launcher EX.I used them all and this is the best one followed by Zeam launcher.
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Why does everyone like GO launcher so much? The themes are awful

[STOCK-605.19] iKReaM.605.19.ROM.v1.0.RLS-R3Ds ***UPDATED ON 4-23-12***

delete this, thanks

Now that's an awesome Christmas present. THANK YOU!!!!

damn, just when I went back to skyraider with the ics theme.
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Looks great, as soon as I can get around the root block from the last update I'm gonna have to give this a try.

Sweet. Everything works and looks great . Thanks
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Launcher pro is not showing on the bottom. Is there something I need to do special to get that to load. Thanks

Great rom rock solid and smooth. Only issue I see is that it always shows the sync symbol even though nothing is syncing.
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Nice work here!

I see you added SetCPU for overclocking but yet in the very next line you say it has a Stock HTC Kernel. Is there something I missed, do hope there is an Over clockable Kernel, just to screw around with. Looks like a very sharp looking Rom.
Thanks, Vinny

Can someone tell me how to activate the ics keyboard. Can't seem to locate it .......thanks in advace.
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Looks like Sense to me
Luke

Just wondering is there anywaytp change lockscreen without changing launchers?
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vinnyjr said:
I see you added SetCPU for overclocking but yet in the very next line you say it has a Stock HTC Kernel. Is there something I missed, do hope there is an Over clockable Kernel, just to screw around with. Looks like a very sharp looking Rom.
Thanks, Vinny
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is not setcpu, its called nofrillscpu and is free. the reason i added was in case someone wanted to use a custom kernel the tool was present to o/c the new kernel.

Watoy said:
Just wondering is there anywaytp change lockscreen without changing launchers?
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try that.
AOSP Lockscreen Now by Default
( Sense Lockscreen is in System/app to Restore use Root Explorer Remove .bak from HTCLockscreen.apk.bak )

lukesdiesel said:
Looks like Sense to me
Luke
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it is, i just made some minor changes to look like aosp.

dfurr88 said:
Launcher pro is not showing on the bottom. Is there something I need to do special to get that to load. Thanks
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go to settings > applications > all and find htc sense and clear defaults. then press home and choose launcher pro.

Thanks man love this rom going to use it as my daily
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fkfmfz said:
go to settings > applications > all and find htc sense and clear defaults. then press home and choose launcher pro.
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This is not working for me... it just goes back to sense... never gives me the choice.
Weird.
Any suggestions?
Edit: Ok i rebooted, then the choice came up... but now that I selected Luncher Pro, it has the plain grey icons...
How can I get the cool launcher icons shown on the front page?
Thanks!

Sorry to post another whiney sounding gripe but is there anyway to get rid of the recent apps in the tray? I just long press home for the same functionality.

paulsg63 said:
This is not working for me... it just goes back to sense... never gives me the choice.
Weird.
Any suggestions?
Edit: Ok i rebooted, then the choice came up... but now that I selected Luncher Pro, it has the plain grey icons...
How can I get the cool launcher icons shown on the front page?
Thanks!
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On the dock hold the icon until a pop-up then choose applications, then pick the app and choose default icon.
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