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[Q] How to remove the row of dots at the top of the homescreen pages

Does anyone know if there is a way to remove the row of dots at the top of the home screens that reference which page you are on? I only use a couple pages anyway and they are taking up space I would rather have to use differently.
Thanks in advance!

Get launcher pro or ADW launcher
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I do not believe there is a way to remove those, could be wrong. Have you tried ADW or LauncherPro?

Thanks for the quick replies. This is my first Android phone and wanted to get a good feel for it stock before I started trying home screen replacements. I will keep that in mind though in case there is no other alternative.

^ the TouchWiz is actually pretty unique. You will find ADW and LauncherPro to be much more like a stock android phone (with a ton of options added). Matter of preference of course, but I would strongly encourage trying one or both and playing with ALL of the options. I think most would agree it's better than TW.
Let us know what you think....

You could always press the menu button while at your home screen, select edit, and delete all those pages. You'd only have one home screen, but the row of dots would be gone. There might still be a single dot with only one home screen though
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Thanks for the idea arr. I like the setup I have now with 2 home screens more than I would with 1 home screen without the dots.
So far it looks like adw or launcher pro are the best alternatives.
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gancho said:
Thanks for the idea arr. I like the setup I have now with 2 home screens more than I would with 1 home screen without the dots.
So far it looks like adw or launcher pro are the best alternatives.
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ADW is very capable of replicating the style of TW as well with the horizontal drawer, and even has a galaxy s theme. Included are the option to add page dots or remove them in ADW as well. You'll find it runs smoother too, but say goodbye to samsung widgets.

LauncherPro (Or ADW) on Xoom makes it much, much better

I started using LauncherPro and it's like a whole new tablet (I heard ADW works, too). Some things that I love about it (I hold in Landscape always). See screenshot to see what I mean
http://i.imgur.com/kTuHF.jpg
-Full use of screen real estate (I have set to 10 x10 grid). I can now have icons all the way to the edges and top/bottom of screen. No more enforced white space
-Widgets
- First, LauncherPro widgets...I prefer the list view of Bookmarks
- Resizable widgets - an absolute necessity imho. Can even resize things like original bookmark widget, gmail, etc.
- Method of adding - I love the vertical list view of what I'm adding vs. having to scroll horizontally through pages and pages of widgets.
-Dock - I love having my 5 favorite apps on the right side of screen. It feels natural holding the device and choosing with thumb. Still have top/right link to open App Drawer (Wonder if ADW allows for more than 5 icons in your dock)
-Folders - why isn't there folders capabilities in Honeycomb?
-Screen Preview - Being able to click home and see all 5 (or even 7) screens and quickly jump

How did you install launcher pro on it? I would also like to use this.
Thought he was still rewriting it. ?
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I own LauncherPro but was hesitant on loading it on Honeycomb. You layout looks real nice. Have you had any force closures?

Downloaded from his website and side loaded it. Here is the link to the latest version which I used.
http://www.launcherpro.com/apk/LauncherPro-0.8.3.apk
Also go to Settings > Applications > and check "Unknown Sources" to install.

keitht said:
I own LauncherPro but was hesitant on loading it on Honeycomb. You layout looks real nice. Have you had any force closures?
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Just loaded it on this morning and started fiddling with the layout, but so far no force closes.

Sweet. No fc or any? Worst case scenario installing this is just fc it right? Now software dmg or anything? Noob question.
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I'm definitely looking forward to Honeycomb hitting AOSP so that re-sizable widgets/folders/sense-style previews can be added to the stock launcher...

Seems kinda sluggish than the stock one.
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dadsterflip said:
Seems kinda sluggish than the stock one.
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Not sure what you mean by sluggish. Only thing that seemed slow to me was swiping through screens and launching app drawer until tweaked settings.
Preferences > Advanced >
Turned off Elastic Scrolling
Set Min Scrolling Speed to 100
Set App Drawer opening speed to 10
Set Screen Previews to 10

I love that you are a redditor. I thought you were when i saw the imgur lnk, then i knew for sure when i saw the reddit is fun app.

Lol yea that was it'
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schnoz said:
I love that you are a redditor. I thought you were when i saw the imgur lnk, then i knew for sure when i saw the reddit is fun app.
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Yeah, same screen name on Reddit. I converted over from Digg when the Digg v4 debacle happened and instantly quadrupled the amount of time I waste online once I figured reddit out.

stevieraveon said:
Yeah, same screen name on Reddit. I converted over from Digg when the Digg v4 debacle happened and instantly quadrupled the amount of time I waste online once I figured reddit out.
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I moved to reddit because of the HD-DVD thing, also the doucheness of Kevin Rose

I have been playing with adwlauncher ex myself. Works great and you can resize the stock Widgets the same way.
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Will my activation code work for the Pro version?

Lars1967 said:
Will my activation code work for the Pro version?
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Yeah, I used my activation code that I used for my Evo and that was how I unlocked widget resizing and LP widgets.

stevieraveon said:
-Full use of screen real estate (I have set to 10 x10 grid). I can now have icons all the way to the edges and top/bottom of screen. No more enforced white space
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Thank you for this! It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out how to use the whole damn screen!! It was those two settings!! Now my screen looks and feels great!!

10X thanks for this!!!
I love LP Pro but I wanted to give the stock launcher a chance.
SOOOO glad I ditched it.
Resizable widgets FTW!!!

stevieraveon said:
I started using LauncherPro and it's like a whole new tablet (I heard ADW works, too). Some things that I love about it (I hold in Landscape always). See screenshot to see what I mean
http://i.imgur.com/kTuHF.jpg
-Full use of screen real estate (I have set to 10 x10 grid). I can now have icons all the way to the edges and top/bottom of screen. No more enforced white space
-Widgets
- First, LauncherPro widgets...I prefer the list view of Bookmarks
- Resizable widgets - an absolute necessity imho. Can even resize things like original bookmark widget, gmail, etc.
- Method of adding - I love the vertical list view of what I'm adding vs. having to scroll horizontally through pages and pages of widgets.
-Dock - I love having my 5 favorite apps on the right side of screen. It feels natural holding the device and choosing with thumb. Still have top/right link to open App Drawer (Wonder if ADW allows for more than 5 icons in your dock)
-Folders - why isn't there folders capabilities in Honeycomb?
-Screen Preview - Being able to click home and see all 5 (or even 7) screens and quickly jump
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Regarding folders, try Apps Organizer in the market. It even allows you to select icons fr your folders!
LOVIN' IT!!!

stevieraveon said:
Yeah, same screen name on Reddit. I converted over from Digg when the Digg v4 debacle happened and instantly quadrupled the amount of time I waste online once I figured reddit out.
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Reddit is bad, I went there once and got many viruses. lol

Home screens

I'm curious to see what everyone's home screen looks like. How do you manage your Home Screen(s)? I'm curious as where people place things, what themes they use, what wallpapers, etc.
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I'm using launcher pro as I like to hide the notification bar.
Only thing is I hate launcher pro's app drawer.

I put nearly all on my homescreen so I barely use the app drawes (don't even have a short cut to it, replaced it with a shortcut directly to mario kart ).
Edit: Should mention I use launcher pro.

My home screen, and the four i have set up, which show up like that when i press the home button.
Using ADW Ex, the paid version of ADW.

Don't have a picture, but just wanted to comment. My buddy bought one on one of those classifieds site and it's an AMAZING PHONE!!!!!! You guys are all lucky! Saving for one and contemplating getting rid of my LG E900h

Driving me crazy

Hi guys,
I have tried search, but can't find it any where,I love this phone but how do I set a default screen as my home?I use screen 4 as my centre, but if I press the centre button it always takes me to screen 1, can this be changed? Also stock room being used.
Thanks guys if you can help
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yeah its a touchwiz feature, if you want to call it that. Screen 1 is the default home page and cannot be changed without being modded. You might want to check the sgs2 section under apps/themes and find the modded touchwiz versions.
This link is for modded versions of touchwiz. If your rooted make a backup and try a couple versions and report back. If not, you made want to contact the OP of that thread and see if he can mod the note version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275768

Thank you for your reply, nice to know it wasn't just me,I am rooting the phone on Wednesday, changes will be made.
Thanks again.
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androidflea said:
Thank you for your reply, nice to know it wasn't just me,I am rooting the phone on Wednesday, changes will be made.
Thanks again.
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Just don't forget that the TouchWiz for SGS2 isn't the same as the Note. It only has 4 icons at the bottom etc. The Notes TW needs to be edited separately.

Just move your favorite screen to screen 1.

This might be a good reason to try one of the many other awesome launchers out there. ADW and LauncherPro are two good ones to try, no rooting necessary.

Should try clicking on my link first before saying that. The OP of the thread I posted has ported the notes and a couple other modded version to allow a bigger grid then the 4x4 of sgs2. Once your rooted, make a backup first, then it wouldnt hurt to try. If things go wrong just recover your backup.
Im one the rare people that actually likes/can deal with touchwiz.
akselic said:
Just don't forget that the TouchWiz for SGS2 isn't the same as the Note. It only has 4 icons at the bottom etc. The Notes TW needs to be edited separately.
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intruda119 said:
yeah its a touchwiz feature, if you want to call it that. Screen 1 is the default home page and cannot be changed without being modded. You might want to check the sgs2 section under apps/themes and find the modded touchwiz versions.
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Sorry, but this just isn't true!
From your homescreen, press menu and then edit. You will get a screen showing all your homescreens in a sort of "star" formation. Long press on the screen you want to move and then when it becomes "moveable" drag it to the top left of the star (where your current page 1 is).
Job done!
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
Sorry, but this just isn't true!
From your homescreen, press menu and then edit. You will get a screen showing all your homescreens in a sort of "star" formation. Long press on the screen you want to move and then when it becomes "moveable" drag it to the top left of the star (where your current page 1 is).
Job done!
Regards,
Dave
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I guess he wanted to move the home to page 3 lets say so his home screen is on he mid of the rest of the screens. Even now it is too because you can go from page 1 to the last one who is located to the left. You couldn't do that on previous version if I am not mistakenon
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Really appreciate all you're help here guys, but what I want is to press the centre button and not have it go to the first screen, screen four is my choice.
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I get what he's saying. I have 3 screens and I want screen 2 to be the home screen. Of course I did like that one poster said and edited it, dragging screen 2 to the home position, so now everything I want on my home screen is on the home screen, and but it's still screen 1, not 2. Yes, I I know I can still scroll left to get to screen 3 (as if it were screen 2 to 1 transition), but the scrolling wallpaper goes backwards. I want my home screen to be in the center of my wallpaper.
I tried ADW Launcher since they had the $0.10 sale on it, and it was great, up until I finished adding my last icons and widgets, then it got laggy. If it hadn't been for the lag, it would've been perfect.

[App] 3D launcher for tablet\phone that isn't $15

Well i was look for new launcher came across this.
I installed it works OK still needs some work have a look!
Called Full screen launcher full version has alot more 3D effects.
I don't have paid so if anyone does let me know.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.isodroid.fslfree
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I bought the full version to try it out. So far so good. Runs pretty smoothly on the Iconia. Thanks for the heads up.

JdgM3NT4L said:
I bought the full version to try it out. So far so good. Runs pretty smoothly on the Iconia. Thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks for letting us know I haven't bought it but just was looking at it seems pretty cool
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I tried it, but I dont like it. The one long continuous home screen is cool, but I dont like the dullness that is the app drawer. All I want is the stock launcher with the ability to go to 1 home screen and change the grid size. Anyone know of such a thing for honeycomb?

i do not get the need to change to launcher ui.when I have my tablet in my hand im looking at a app I use. Don't care much for all the not needed flash .keep it simple save the CPU cycles and memory for the apps and browser.
With that said the pics look nice. Just dont see tthe point

Good responses I didn't like it cuz I have SPB shell and this launcher still needs alot of work to it in my eyes. That being said FOR THOSE THAT WANT CHANGE and don't wanna spend 15 on a 3D launcher this might be of interest which is why I decided to post
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erica_renee said:
i do not get the need to change to launcher ui.when I have my tablet in my hand im looking at a app I use. Don't care much for all the not needed flash .keep it simple save the CPU cycles and memory for the apps and browser.
With that said the pics look nice. Just dont see tthe point
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keeping it simple is why i want to removeall but 1 home screen and change my grid, but sadlyall these launchers app drawers are so bland

nifterific said:
keeping it simple is why i want to removeall but 1 home screen and change my grid, but sadlyall these launchers app drawers are so bland
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Adwex can change grid size if u have it.
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dincdoes.me said:
Adwex can change grid size if u have it.
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i do, and it suffers from the same bland drawer problem every other launcher does. thanks for the recommendation though.

nifterific said:
keeping it simple is why i want to removeall but 1 home screen and change my grid, but sadlyall these launchers app drawers are so bland
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Who needs an App Drawer when you can have these Folder Cubes.
This video is after an hour or so of goofing with it.
No way was this a quick process. But it was easy to do.
Yes I did move every app from my App Drawer to the Folder
Cube on the desktop.
And no. You haven't lost or began to need reading glasses.
Just try imagine that I took the time to clear up the video a little bit.
There's not a lot that I can do to lessen the pointlessness. So. Much like the video. I didn't
even try to correct that one. Sorry E.R.
Not too bland eh?
It is easy to see that the larger icons take a few seconds to load. I will send a link to this video to the dev and see if there is a way to put large, and even customized icons (for the ones that it doesn't find.) into the cache somewhere. Maybe it will be an easy fix. Other than that I have to say that it is pretty nice on the Iconia. I don't regret buying it one bit. Now to find the Nook Color...

nifterific said:
keeping it simple is why i want to removeall but 1 home screen and change my grid, but sadlyall these launchers app drawers are so bland
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Look for a app called Folder Organizer.. I have it and set it up once it allows you create groups with menus on your home screen .. not exactly what your looking for but you might like it.. also DENSITY CHANGER APP.. im not sure the exact name .. changes the screen density . This changes the icon size not sure if it will allow you to drop more on there or not..
G
Sorry for getting off topic good luck

JdgM3NT4L said:
Who needs an App Drawer when you can have these Folder Cubes.
This video is after an hour or so of goofing with it.
No way was this a quick process. But it was easy to do.
Yes I did move every app from my App Drawer to the Folder
Cube on the desktop.
And no. You haven't lost or began to need reading glasses.
Just try imagine that I took the time to clear up the video a little bit.
There's not a lot that I can do to lessen the pointlessness. So. Much like the video. I didn't
even try to correct that one. Sorry E.R.
Not too bland eh?
It is easy to see that the larger icons take a few seconds to load. I will send a link to this video to the dev and see if there is a way to put large, and even customized icons (for the ones that it doesn't find.) into the cache somewhere. Maybe it will be an easy fix. Other than that I have to say that it is pretty nice on the Iconia. I don't regret buying it one bit. Now to find the Nook Color...
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Looks great man thank you for the video I may have to buy it let us know how the convo with Dev goes please!
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dincdoes.me said:
Looks great man thank you for the video I may have to buy it let us know how the convo with Dev goes please!
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No problem. This app works just as well on the Nook Color as it does on the Acer. (?!?Maybe even better?!?) Thanks again for sharing the find. I'll use this for a solid couple of days and report back on the stability. As well as any news. So far so good though.