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Change number of pages on home screen?

Is it possible to change the number of pages on the home screen? 7 is a bit too many for my usage and it would be nice to trim it down to 5 or 3 and I cant find a way to do it... any ideas?

It is just one long homescreen (7 pages). Just use the part of it you want. Just don't swipe to the blank parts if you don't want to use all the space.
You can also try out some of the "launcher" apps from the Market. Some use Helix, or Home++, and I think there is a new one called ADW launcher.

look at launcherpro in the market. Best home screen replacement IMO. plus you can choose how many screens. Just no HTC widgets, but if you search you'll find some good alternatives
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How 2 turn off the home jumper thing on the bottom screen?

When I'm flipping left and right on my home/widget screens this short cut/jump to screen pops up on the bottom. I can't figure out how to disable it!! I try to go into my drawer/all app list and end up jumping to another home screen. Please help
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You could just use a different launcher? I've moved to ADW Launcher and I'm loving it so far. Lots of options/tweaks.

Drop blur & just use an alternative home launcher such as adw or launcher pro.
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Just downloaded new launcher. Good info thanks y'all.
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I use launcher pro (plus) the beta version is free, basically i turn off homescreen rotation (like it is in moto, which i agree with i'm only gonna hold the homescreen one way)
and i enable 5 rows in the homescreen Gives so much more room to have widgets. as well as icons, it looks kinda messed up if you go landscape homescreen.
It just makes sense to me and wish more wide phones (which is about all the new phones now) should come like that

[Q] More icons with 200 or less LCD density?

So I use that popular LCD changer that most of you use, and set it to 200... or 190. BUT... no matter what it won't let me use the extra space to relocate and use more icons, on either the desktop or the apparently pages. There's enough room for lots more icons per page, but my Tab thinks there isn't and keeps snapping them back to where the original density would limit them to.
???
Is this a limitation of the OEM launcher system? Which reminds me... is there a way to replace the Samsung browser icon on the launcher (to the right of the Alps button) with, say, Dolphin or Firefox?

Think there's already a thread on this I think.
Anyway, changing the density will not change the layout of the home screen (lower dpi wont add an extra column) unless you manually change it with LP/ADW or whatever other home app you use.
And do you mean you want to change the shortcut? Longpress as you do with any other.
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GANJDROID said:
Think there's already a thread on this I think.
Anyway, changing the density will not change the layout of the home screen (lower dpi wont add an extra column) unless you manually change it with LP/ADW or whatever other home app you use.
And do you mean you want to change the shortcut? Longpress as you do with any other.
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if you had used the LCD Density program you would know what he was talking about. thats an idea dont you think?
What he's saying is this:
LCD Density makes things smaller and on the desktop it appears to give more room for more icons however that room / space is not usable at all.

You can use launcherpro to make more icons on the launcher
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Launcher pro replaces the OEM one... can't the OEM launcher be used to do what I want?

I don't think there is anyway to do that in the stock launcher.
You need to use either ADW launcher or launcher pro.
I recommend ADW.
Oh btw if all you want to do is have more icons on the launcher you need not use LCD density changer.
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i use lcd density changer and also adw ex (paid for version of adw). density at 180 and have 10 icons per row and 10 per column... fits the screen perfect and is just right for me.
J.

cylent said:
if you had used the LCD Density program you would know what he was talking about. thats an idea dont you think?
What he's saying is this:
LCD Density makes things smaller and on the desktop it appears to give more room for more icons however that room / space is not usable at all.
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What bit of my post have you ignored? The middle bit?
That's what I said. Changing the density will not change the layout of the desktop. It wont give you more rows because that's not what it does. It makes the phone think the screen is larger thus makes everything smaller.
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Having all of those icons and rows must be an editable option that comes with the paid version of ADW. I can't get more than 4 icons across and 4 down with free ADW and 180 lcd.
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In the free version you should be able to change rows and columns under screen prefs in adw settings
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Thanks, but the only options or any type of settings I see for the free version of ADW are the "Launcher Actions" when you long press the home screen (or other any of the adjoining screens). I'm sure you already know but these are just shortcuts for ADW actions. I suppose I will check out the paid version.
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You press menu>more>ADW Settings then scroll to Desktop Rows/Columns.
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Awesome. Thanks man. Something so simple yet I could not find it. Exactly what I wanted!
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Widget Positioning

Hi,
I am fairly new to the Android world and I have some questions for you guys.
So as I said the Atrix is my first Android phone I've already rooted it and done all the modification we, bell users, can do.
There is one thing that I think is really weird and its the widget positioning. Why do all widgets have 1/8 of free space on top, on bottom and on the side? And why is there already "pre-designed" area to put you widget in? It feels to me like I can't place them like I want... Am I doing something wrong or is there an option somewhere to remove that?
I tried searching Google for that but wasn't able to find the right word so I can get relevant results.
I am currently using Go Laucher.
Thanks for you help and sorry if there is some english mistake, english isn't my first language.

It is like a fixed grid, but you can have some more freedom/customization using apps like luncher pro
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I'll try Laucher Pro then!
Thank you!

suleiman.aql said:
It is like a fixed grid, but you can have some more freedom/customization using apps like luncher pro
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or using go launcher create a 5x5 grid, or use desktop visualizer to use custom icons all over, etc etc

LauncherPro Plus allows widget resizing. Get it if you dont already have it.

Stick with Go Launcher because 1) it's free and 2) it allows widget resizing without paying (ala Launcher Pro Plus).
Set your grid to 4x5 tight or 5x5 extra tight and you will have barely any margins on the sides.

I changed to 5x5 and it helped a lot!!
Thanks to everyone!

I've got a question slightly related, is there a way to set up the original homescreen launcher to come up when I press the home button because I got Go Launcher and pressing home only seems to go there and I have to kill it to get back to the original screen.

Shadohw said:
I've got a question slightly related, is there a way to set up the original homescreen launcher to come up when I press the home button because I got Go Launcher and pressing home only seems to go there and I have to kill it to get back to the original screen.
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settings/applications/manage applications/go launcher/clear defaults

Thanks for the reply, I already did that but i can set the default for the home button as as the original launcher as long as I have other launchers installed, the original just doesn't show up in the list of choices. I have Launcher Pro as well as I was testing which I would like better but when I press home the list comes up with only Go & Pro launchers, I guess I'll just have to go with a third party one then it seems the default launcher doesn't get it's own app or whatever.

just uninstall them if you dont want to use 3rd party launcher....its that simple

Shadohw said:
I've got a question slightly related, is there a way to set up the original homescreen launcher to come up when I press the home button because I got Go Launcher and pressing home only seems to go there and I have to kill it to get back to the original screen.
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get home switcher from the market its free i have like four dif ui on my atrix

[Q] Change home screen and layout?

When I switch on - it always goes to my library page.
How does one change the default home screen? I haven't found it.
Also - I would love to find a way to change the location of the three menu keys.
I'd really like to be able to browse in landscape mode but to have those keys along the right side of the screen.

There are 5 desktop screens, the third one (ie the middle one) is "home". So just move the library widgets to another screen and put whatever widgets you want on your home screen.
Regarding moving the 3 soft keys, no way to do that in stock jelly bean as far as I know,I think you have to be rooted.
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Thanks for this. I was hoping there would be a way to designate the home screen as with the S3

Nova Launcher from the Play Store allows customizations, including how number of desktop screens and which is the default. Plus a lot of other features. No root required.
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