Well, ive just had confirmation that my phone will arrive on Monday, so ive been poking around looking at roms and such.
If i decide to go with ADW launcher, but still have Sense installed, can i still use the sense widgets? Or do they only work from the sense launcher?
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I know you can disable sense ui (hide it, I know it can't be killed), but I hate it!
I know you can also use the stock home, and I was using helix launcher on my Nexus 1. Does anyone know, can you still use the Sense ui widgets on the stock home screen? Thanks.
system6 said:
I know you can disable sense ui (hide it, I know it can't be killed), but I hate it!
I know you can also use the stock home, and I was using helix launcher on my Nexus 1. Does anyone know, can you still use the Sense ui widgets on the stock home screen? Thanks.
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okay so you hate sense ui but you want the widgets..so then what do you hate about sense ui? because the only thing thats left after the widgets is the dock (and gallery, text messaging, clock, photos but these cant be changed)
and no you cant have the widgets without it
I just want the home screen and the widgets without all the other crap. XD
so no music, photo, sms, clock, browser, teeter, calender, and email?
i dont understand why people hate sense ui so much...its actually faster than stock android 2.1
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I just want the home screen and the widgets without all the other crap. XD
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I in NO way want the home screen. There are a few widgets I like. I don't care for the slide to unlock thing and that ****ty dock. If it means no widgets, oh well...back to Helix! Just a question.... calm yourself.
Unfortunately there's no way to use the sense widgets without the Sense homescreen. But you can find Sense-like widgets on the market.
bobdude5 said:
so no music, photo, sms, clock, browser, teeter, calender, and email?
i dont understand why people hate sense ui so much...its actually faster than stock android 2.1
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Sense is in NO WAY faster than stock android.
BTW, I've noticed a few apps/widgets in the market that have a note about not working properly on a Sense phone (I think beautiful widgets new live wallpaper was one of them). That's another thing I don't want to have to deal with.
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Sense is in NO WAY faster than stock android.
BTW, I've noticed a few apps/widgets in the market that have a note about not working properly on a Sense phone (I think beautiful widgets new live wallpaper was one of them). That's another thing I don't want to have to deal with.
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^100% true and correct. I will just grab Helixlauncher again. I really liked that app as a home replacement. Really no bloat at all... just more screens.
If Froyo comes out the day the phone does or shortly there after, I won't sweat that either... just stock home. Thanks to those who understand and were actually helpful.
Hey all,
So I am not new to Android, but I am new to using a launcher or anything other than regular apps. I want to try the ADW launcher, but I have some questions since I don't really know anything about how launchers work.
Can someone explain to me the very basics of what installing a launcher will do? Also, if I don't like it or don't understand it, can I uninstall and not have to hard reset?
Is there a how-to for using ADW?
Thanks ahead of time!
Install it thru the Android market place just search adw launcher and if you don't like it uninstall like any other app from the Android market
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So I can just uninstall and not have to do any reset?
Can you explain to me what a launcher does (briefly)?
Sorry for such a basic question, but hey we all have to learn sometime.
Thanks!
go hear its anderwebs dev page the dev for adw launcher. it should be able to tell you everything about the launcher and show you some picture of what it looks like and what it does. but yea just install from android market and if you dont like just uninstall like any other app without having to reset your device just go to market/downloads then uninstall.
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/
hears a video of it to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5gRgpuQE_k&feature=fvst
the version in this video is 0.7.1 and it is now on 0.7.8 so theres been plenty of new features since then
I really appreciate the info. I installed it this morning, but couldn't even figure out how to change the settings. I read the instructions on adw's page so I might try again.
My calendar widget wouldn't work and there were also only 5 screens instead of 7. Can you have 7?
Maybe I need to mess with it more. I guess I'm just not sure of the benefits of using it. Will it help my battery last longer? Will the MTS be faster? Or is it more of an aesthetic thing?
thnx
I didn't have any problems with it other than lag here and there. It might just need the dev to do a bit of fine tunning, or could be me with my luck. Nice interface. Good features, and a lot of flexibility. I do like sense though and I think I will just deal with all of TMobiles extra crap for the time being. All in all a great replacement though.
Press the menu key while on the home screen, then you can select the ADW settings. You can have 7 screens if you want.
The HTC Sense widgets will not work outside of the sense launcher.
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Press the menu key while on the home screen, then you can select the ADW settings. You can have 7 screens if you want.
The HTC Sense widgets will not work outside of the sense launcher.
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what he said
also keep in mind that My Modes function will not work with a launcher program. I tried Helix, ADW, and launcherpro and since they seem to be just a "skin" so the apps don't rearrange and stuff when you change modes. It meesses it up. Then when you uninstall you have to set up modes again. Just FYI, not sure if you use the modes or not.
Thanks for all of the info. I don't use modes, but I do like the widgets, particularly calendar and weather. Being able to see what I have to do every day right on the home screen(s) is very helpful!
http://androinica.com/2009/09/24/dont-like-the-android-calendar-widget-get-a-pure-one/
And for the weather/clock I am using beautiful widgets. There are options out there
I restored my Sense data and in place of my battery widget this popped up. I'm afraid to remove it because I think it's cool lol.
Hmm. I just replicated it with ADW by adding the power control widget and making it 1x1 in size. A little hard to use, though.
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I have this as well i want to reflash but i dont want to lose it and that guy said he used ADW what and where is that I look in the market place there a 100's of apps saing ADW
This thread is ALL the way back from JULY lol how are you guys finding these posts
btw ADW launcher (see link HERE) is just that, a launcher. It's the launcher that comes standard with CM6. Which you can also download from the market.
anytime i search for adw or launcher pro, i always add "-theme"
that should get rid of MOST of the themes.
adw launcher -theme
launcher pro -theme
Looks pretty cool.
ok i have these two launchers ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro that im currently playing around with.
What id like to know is how do I add the HTC Sense clock and weather widget?
The OEM widget that came with the phone.
My phone is not rooted and im on 2.1
thanks
mikeymike123 said:
ok i have these two launchers ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro that im currently playing around with.
What id like to know is how do I add the HTC Sense clock and weather widget?
The OEM widget that came with the phone.
My phone is not rooted and im on 2.1
thanks
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You can't. No Sense widgets can go on anything but Sense UI.
However, Google search 'Fancy widget 1.3.0' and download that. It's a great clone of the clock widget.
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Thats it !!! thats exactly what im seeing people use with these launchers. Thou I thought it was the OEM clock/weather widget.
Thanks
or search for beautiful widgets, much better than fancy and you can custom it with over hundred skins...
After installing Launcher Pro and using it for a while I love it, but I can`t seem to find any of my motorola/blur widgets anymore. They are in neither the widgets list, nor the launcher pro widgets list. I`ve done some googling around and have seen people complaining that some of the widgets don`t resize properly (or didn`t when the forum threads I found were made) but I can`t seem to find them at all.
Looked around a bit and did some other searching but all the results I`ve found have been dealing with problems resizing/widgets not rendering properly after some amount of time.
Running a rooted bell atrix with 2.3.4.
Any idea what`s going on?
like HTC widgets, you cannot use motorola widgets on a different launcher. you will have to go back to the default homescreen to use them.
which moto widget were you trying to use? They were all easily replaceable with better widgets such as Android Pro Widgets
the motorola works for me on launcherpro; the only widget that doesn't work is the world clock (but it works on adw)
the motorola widgets will be found under just "widgets" instead of a separate motorola/blur category.
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like HTC widgets, you cannot use motorola widgets on a different launcher. you will have to go back to the default homescreen to use them.
which moto widget were you trying to use? They were all easily replaceable with better widgets such as Android Pro Widgets
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