Widgets and 2.3.3 - Nexus S General

Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?

b84cops said:
Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?
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another issue with 2.3.3

All my widgets disappeared and I had to place them back...
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how did you get them back? a long press does nothing for me now!

hmmm. my widgets work just fine. long press also works. did you try a reboot?
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Only problem I am having with 2.3.3 is the screen colors. It's terrible, definitely gotta get use to it..
Widgets work fine. Try a reboot or a battery pull.

Works fine here, using LauncherPro Plus.
I chose to clear the dalvik cache before rebooting, after applying the update. Perhaps that helped me?

b84cops said:
how did you get them back? a long press does nothing for me now!
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Haven't used ADW in a long time but isn't there an option to lock your screens? Which in turn wouldn't allow you to modify anything.
Press menu and check that out.

no problem here. all widgets work fine and i didnt have to mess with them at all.

This happened to me today but I'm still on 2.3.2...
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Rebooted and long pressed. I did have it lose them a couple more times though. It's fine now... I think.
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SupaDupaFly24 said:
Only problem I am having with 2.3.3 is the screen colors. It's terrible, definitely gotta get use to it..
Widgets work fine. Try a reboot or a battery pull.
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I noticed that too, the call interface is gray or something, the color seems different. What were you referring to?
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brmayhem said:
Haven't used ADW in a long time but isn't there an option to lock your screens? Which in turn wouldn't allow you to modify anything.
Press menu and check that out.
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This. From the home screen you can also press:
Menu>Add
To add a widget.
Menu>More>Unlock Desktop
To unlock the home screen if locked.
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Hearing about glitches already worries me =T

onthecouchagain said:
Hearing about glitches already worries me =T
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You and me both
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b84cops said:
Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?
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Google voice widget doesn't load properly either :-(
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The few widgets I use are working the same. Only problem I ran into was having to reinstall Swype.
Running on stock android.

Not sure how it got locked, but the unlock feature did the trick.
Thanks!
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Widgetlocker

I just bought the widget locker app from the market...BEST 2 DOLLARS EVER SPENT!!! You would not believe the features this app has. Rotary lockscreen, iphone lockscreen, widgets and shortcuts on your lockscreen. And, my favorite part, NO HAPTIC FEEDBACK ON THE SLIDER!!! I would definitly recomend this app
*I attached a screenshot. The second shot has the iphone slider. Third is sense pull-down
I actually just got this app this weekend so im fairly new to it. How'd you get all those different sliders like rotary, iphone, and sense.
Open WidgetLocker settings then check under 'Look & Feel' > 'Sliders & Layout'.
Spitemare said:
Open WidgetLocker settings then check under 'Look & Feel' > 'Sliders & Layout'.
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Cool thanks!
I like the app but the couldn't get the security pattern to work with it. It was either a double lockscreen with a pattern, or no pattern at all. If they had that working I'd buy it again
Meh. Its ok. Not quite the best two bucks I ever spent. Its a little slow starting and doesn't actually replace the stock lock screen so much as cover over it. When u wake the phone u see a flash of the stock slider before widget locker takes over. Petty, but that annoys me. Using unlock patterns with it is also flakey. I do like the app, but in its current state its more the quality of a free app. Hopefully they continue to dev and provide some updates. If not, I don't figure ill be using it long.
That about sums it up. Neat app, needs work. If you have 2 bucks to spare, give it a try.
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juliend said:
Meh. Its ok. Not quite the best two bucks I ever spent. Its a little slow starting and doesn't actually replace the stock lock screen so much as cover over it. When u wake the phone u see a flash of the stock slider before widget locker takes over. Petty, but that annoys me. Using unlock patterns with it is also flakey. I do like the app, but in its current state its more the quality of a free app. Hopefully they continue to dev and provide some updates. If not, I don't figure ill be using it long.
That about sums it up. Neat app, needs work. If you have 2 bucks to spare, give it a try.
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Hmmm, to bad. The settings are really touchy and you definitly dont have it right if your seeing the stock lockscreen when you wake the phone. To bad people put negative feedback out there when they dont even know how it works, see it all the time with apps in the market
mikeyinid said:
Hmmm, to bad. The settings are really touchy and you definitly dont have it right if your seeing the stock lockscreen when you wake the phone. To bad people put negative feedback out there when they dont even know how it works, see it all the time with apps in the market
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I get same thing, the app can't open itself fast enough all the time to cover up the default lock screen. It is a cool app but not worth 2 dollars when there are so many apps out there that offer more for less.
No free app I know of let's you customize sliders and put widgets and shortcuts on the lock screen. You can bypass the 5 second transition from stock lock screen to widget locker in the settings.
Not meaning to sound negative. It is a cool app. I just expect a paid app to be a bit more refined. Less buggy, let's say. I will continue using and playing with it for a while.
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juliend said:
Not meaning to sound negative. It is a cool app. I just expect a paid app to be a bit more refined. Less buggy, let's say. I will continue using and playing with it for a while.
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If your seeing the stock lock screen your settings are wrong. I never see it and forget I'm even using an app
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Can you explain the bugs your having? I haven't ran across any
Check out No Lock app on the market if ur default lockscreen is getting in the way.
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JDunc said:
Can you explain the bugs your having? I haven't ran across any
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some reboots when unlocking, and sometimes the stock lock screen appears before widget locker. I have changed the settings both using root bypass and home helper. Both of those options alleviate the issue, but do not fix it entirely.

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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[TIP] How to easily get 1-2 hours extra battery life

Freezing these apps gave me an average of 2 hours extra battery.
You might as well post how to freeze them in my opinion
djricekcn said:
You might as well post how to freeze them in my opinion
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Titanium backup
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Or AntTek App Manager, free.
You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable
I removed them. No need to freeze if your plan on not using them. Free up internal space.
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In case anyone is using aftermarket launchers;
Settings>application manager>all>(application to be frozen)>disable
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Bowsa2511 said:
You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable
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Not sure what you mean by drag the app to app info....
BonesHopkins said:
Not sure what you mean by drag the app to app info....
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From your app drawer, click and hold on the program you want, and it should take you to your home screen....at the top you should see "App Info". Drag the app icon onto that and it'll display the info you need.
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From your app drawer, click and hold on the program you want, and it should take you to your home screen....at the top you should see "App Info". Drag the app icon onto that and it'll display the info you need.
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hrmm...maybe it's because I haven't had my morning tequila shot yet but I don't see any such app info icon when I do what you're saying. I go to the app drawer, click and hold an app, it takes me to the home screen, but there's nothing anywhere that says app info.
Could this be something that's not on the ATT version of the phone?
::edit:: ok...I'm an idiot. I found it....but it's at the bottom of the screen, not at the top.
I just disabled them except for samsung account which I use for Samsung Dive.
Bowsa2511 said:
You can natively freeze them with ICS, in your app drawer (stock TW Launcher) drag the app icon to app info, and click disable
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I don't see any disable option. I see the standard force stop clear data all that jazz
shmag18 said:
I don't see any disable option. I see the standard force stop clear data all that jazz
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I had to uninstall updates and then disable became an option.
Using the app info method works great if you are not rooted.
In the event you are rooted, using TB is easier. both work without any issues for all listed apps in the op.
THANKS!:good:
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Titanium backup
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whoa whoa whoa! not so many steps at once!
Thanks, already using cpu sleeper.
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Do you need to be rooted to do this?
edit, never mind I figured it out, didn't know ICS could do that.
d1ez3 said:
Do you need to be rooted to do this?
edit, never mind I figured it out, didn't know ICS could do that.
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No sir. You can do this with most of the pre-installed carrier software. I believe the option is "disable". When you see it you'll know what I mean. In fact it was the one thing that made me think that I wouldn't have to root my phone. Then I quickly got annoyed by the T-Mobile startup and shut down sounds. Can someone please tell T-Mobile to leave the standard start up and shut down sequence alone. I mean expect that from Verizon; Have you heard any of their phones start up? They're crazy obnoxious.
Great feature! You can also go to settings-applications-all and do or that way. Just uninstall updates and then you will have the disable button. Thanks for the top all.
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so what exactly is media hub and music hub? also what about s suggest, what is that?
S Suggest shows your popular apps.

Homescreen icons and widgets dissappear

Just got my second nexus 4. Rooted then installed cm10. I keep having a problem where one of my home screens keeps losing all icons. It happens to different home screens pages. Did I receive a bad phone? This never happened on my old nexus 4. The only solution is to force stop trebuchet, then my icons come back. Really annoying.
Thanks
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Lol no. It's something to do with the software. Try another full wipe. Do not restore any apps or anything yet, and see if the problem still persists.
exb0 said:
Lol no. It's something to do with the software. Try another full wipe. Do not restore any apps or anything yet, and see if the problem still persists.
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I found the problem. The issue only occurs in nightlies. It happens when you switch from app drawer to home screen really fast. I replicated the bug multiple times by repeatedly switching from drawer to home screen. The problem is gone on rc5.
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vandizzam said:
I found the problem. The issue only occurs in nightlies. It happens when you switch from app drawer to home screen really fast. I replicated the bug multiple times by repeatedly switching from drawer to home screen. The problem is gone on rc5.
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Goodjob!

Is this normal for Nova Launcher Prime to do this?

I know this may sound really stupid but it is really bugging me now.
I have set nova on transparent bar. When I unlock my phone (using stock lockscreen), the notification bar flashes very fast and goes back to transparent. I'm not sure if I explained myself right.
Does your nova do this? Thankssssss.
elektriiqa said:
I know this may sound really stupid but it is really bugging me now.
I have set nova on transparent bar. When I unlock my phone (using stock lockscreen), the notification bar flashes very fast and goes back to transparent. I'm not sure if I explained myself right.
Does your nova do this? Thankssssss.
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No, but you might be using some kind of home proxy, i.e one that launches home from inside an app when you hit the home button.
Open Nova settings and check the default home is actually Nova.
MohammadAG said:
No, but you might be using some kind of home proxy, i.e one that launches home from inside an app when you hit the home button.
Open Nova settings and check the default home is actually Nova.
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The default is Nova in the settings... damn the is annoying me haha
I am using go launcher for long time, is it worth to switch to nova and reorganize all those icons again lol?
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What do you mean?!
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elektriiqa said:
I know this may sound really stupid but it is really bugging me now.
I have set nova on transparent bar. When I unlock my phone (using stock lockscreen), the notification bar flashes very fast and goes back to transparent. I'm not sure if I explained myself right.
Does your nova do this? Thankssssss.
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yep, you're right. It depends on Nova and you can't do anything to solve it.
So nothing's wrong with my phone then?
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elektriiqa said:
So nothing's wrong with my phone then?
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No. Your phone is fine.
I have the same "problem".
im fine with it I think its because lockscreen statusbaris semi transparetn
jozef710i said:
No. Your phone is fine.
I have the same "problem".
im fine with it I think its because lockscreen statusbaris semi transparetn
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Ok thanks man.
smep said:
I am using go launcher for long time, is it worth to switch to nova and reorganize all those icons again lol?
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Once you download and launch nova. There will be some widgets on your home screen prompting you to restore your layout from either a previous nova backup or a different launcher. Just create yourself a backup within go launcher (if it has that option) then restore from that backup. It may not restore everything depending on widgets you have currently but you won't have to start from scratch. I use nothing but nova prime.
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I like go luncher for its RANDOM scrolling effects between pages hhh which i couldn't find that option in nova beside go luncher loads faster while rebooting
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