I had my screens down to three so I know you can remove some on ADW but I can't remember how I did it. Somehow I ended up with five again and now the homescreen button takes me to another screen and not the homescreen. Anyone know how to fix that? Looked in ADW and can't see anyway to fix it there.
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I had my screens down to three so I know you can remove some on ADW but I can't remember how I did it. Somehow I ended up with five again and now the homescreen button takes me to another screen and not the homescreen. Anyone know how to fix that? Looked in ADW and can't see anyway to fix it there.
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if you go to the launcher settings you can change the number of home screens. The home button is automatically allocated to the middle screen so if you have five, screen number 3 is the home. if you have 3 screens, number 2 is home
settings/edit you will see '+' buttons this will add more screens and a pin button to pin your desired home screen and an 'X' button to remove a home screen.
press the windows button while on the home screen (adw launcher) and click edit. it's tricky to use and remember.
^Worked like a champ. Thanks for the replies!
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just want to know if there is a solution to map the home button to close all the running programs and return to initial home page (with big clock appears) from wherever we are
thanks
...why would you want that...?
if we had this button, we could quickly return to the normal standby state without multiple presses...
it is intuitive when we mess up something on the phone...
put it in another way, it is just like an iPhone intuitive home button....
Install a taskmanager that has the "close all" option.
The home button works perfectly well as it is now, brings you back to homescreen so that you can quickly check something or launch another app from the quicklinks without closing what you were doing... the advantage of multitasking.
hollandking said:
if we had this button, we could quickly return to the normal standby state without multiple presses...
it is intuitive when we mess up something on the phone...
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What do you mean "normal standby state"? Just...
...put the phone into standby.
*GASP*
And when you "mess up something on the phone", you're probably going to be soft resetting it.
hollandking said:
put it in another way, it is just like an iPhone intuitive home button....
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I don't think you people who parade the supposed virtues of the iPhone actually understand what "intuitive" means.
A "Home" button taking you to the home screen...that's "intuitive".
A "Home" button taking you to the home screen and closing all your apps...how's that "intuitive"?
That's the equivalent of saying that you think WIN+D in Windows should close all the open programs in addition to showing the desktop.
The home button takes you back to the home screen...
It doesn't close apps; it just brings manila home tab to the front.
It sounds like yours doesn't?
iPhone closes apps with the home button because it does not have multitask. HD2 has multi-task so there's no reason to close apps with the home button...
Anyway, the phone is yours so you can do whatever you want to do with it. AFAIK there's no way to do what you want, but you can install a task manager if you want to close multiple apps at one time...
Thanks for all replies....
I know the "home" button should take me back to home screen...
Actually, I mapped "home" button with AEButton...
1 click: Home Screen
2 clicks: Home Screen + close all apps
They work fine but with one minor step to be perfect...
It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
I want this because many main functions are within "Big Clock" screen,
e.g. calendar(I mapped to PI), alarm, Clock (tap clock = Opera),
Date(tap date = SPB wireless monitor), weather....
Sorry for misleading u all because my bad English...
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It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
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That is the way Manila/Sense works, it is so you can dip in and out of different programs while not losing your place in the quicklinks.
hollandking said:
Thanks for all replies....
I know the "home" button should take me back to home screen...
Actually, I mapped "home" button with AEButton...
1 click: Home Screen
2 clicks: Home Screen + close all apps
They work fine but with one minor step to be perfect...
It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
I want this because many main functions are within "Big Clock" screen,
e.g. calendar(I mapped to PI), alarm, Clock (tap clock = Opera),
Date(tap date = SPB wireless monitor), weather....
Sorry for misleading u all because my bad English...
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hi, i use a 6.5.x rom and use the '<-' back button. pressing it once closes down my actual foreground application and puts me to the last selected manila tab. pressing it again jumps to the first 'bigclock' manila tab.
or if it is not working out that way in your rom, at least the combination home button->back button should bring you to first manila screen anyhow.
mad
ps. strange, while playing around to proof my words, i find out that my home button brings me back to the first manila screen anyway... maybe something didnt work out with your aebutton ore your rom/wm version?
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That is the way Manila/Sense works, it is so you can dip in and out of different programs while not losing your place in the quicklinks.
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This is not how Manila works. I had the same problem. once you click the home button, it goes to home tab. But that was before i was playing with the phone. Now, when i click home button..it goes on the home sreen, but on the last tab i was..i.e. messages, not at the beginning (home icon). I dont know what happened..and im trying to figure it out. It has nothing to do with the rom. I`m using Energy Rom on my HD2. something got messed with the manila settings..because it worked before.
Running the standard Touchwiz interface when you press the home button it takes you to pane number 1.
Is it possible to change it so it takes you to pane number 4 so you can scroll both ways from the home page as on the HTC Desire?
Ollie2 said:
Running the standard Touchwiz interface when you press the home button it takes you to pane number 1.
Is it possible to change it so it takes you to pane number 4 so you can scroll both ways from the home page as on the HTC Desire?
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Don't know on TouchWiz, but Launcher Pro can definitely do this.
Thanks for that, if I get no where with Touchwiz I'll give Launcher Pro a go.
I'm too interested for TouchWiz middle panel being the home.
The home button takes me to home screen #3 out of the five home screens I have. I'm not quite sure how I set it that way. I was using ADW launcher a few days before but now I've changed back to TouchWiz.
If its any help, home screen #3 for me has the most icons and a digital clock app.
EDIT: OK I think I got it. Scroll to the home page u want as default. Tap the options button and press edit. Tap in the middle of the home screen you want (I'm not sure if this does anything) and then press the home button. It should now default to that screen. If it doesn't work, try it a few more times. Careful though, if you press the home button again while on the your custom default screen, it will automatically default to the first screen again.
I've just given this a go and I can't get it to work, it just carries on going to page 1.
Why not just move your favorite page to page one using the edit function?
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Why not just move your favorite page to page one using the edit function?
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Because if you have the middle page as the default you can get to any page in a maximum of 3 swipes whereas it could take up to 6 with page 1 as default.
It's only a little thing but one that would speed up use of the phone when moving between tabs.
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Because if you have the middle page as the default you can get to any page in a maximum of 3 swipes whereas it could take up to 6 with page 1 as default.
It's only a little thing but one that would speed up use of the phone when moving between tabs.
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But you can always press the bubbles - circles at the top to go directly to the screen you want!
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But you can always press the bubbles - circles at the top to go directly to the screen you want!
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Yes you can but as they're at the top of the screen I find I have problems stretching to them when using the phone one handed.
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I've just given this a go and I can't get it to work, it just carries on going to page 1.
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That's strange, it works fine for me.
navmanyeah said:
That's strange, it works fine for me.
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Nope, I tried it a few times, and it doesn't work. It'll take me to page 4 for example when I press the home button, but press it again, and it'll take me to page 1.
This doesn't work for me either!
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Nope, I tried it a few times, and it doesn't work. It'll take me to page 4 for example when I press the home button, but press it again, and it'll take me to page 1.
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Its supposed to do that. Why would you press the home button again, when you're already at your main home screen?
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Its supposed to do that. Why would you press the home button again, when you're already at your main home screen?
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If it's the same for the other guys as me then it goes to the correctly selected page only for the first time.
If you navigate to another page first then press the home button it still goes to page 1.
Ahh, I see now, and yeah it does the same for me. Doesn't seem like there's anyway to truly set the default homescreen.
Oh btw, the method I outlined previously is actually all BS . I just figured out that the home button takes you back to the homescreen you were last on.
When home button is tapped it brings you to the last panel/screen you have until you have more then 4 of them, after that it will bring you to the 4th one if you tap home screen when already in the home screen. I think there should be a way to assign any screen as a default one but I couldn't find how.
Launcher Pro can do it. Of course if you like using the Touch Wiz interface it wouldn't work.
Preferences > Home Screen Settings > Default Screen
I like TW, so no way to do it in TW... that's a shame
Found this after looking through the tips thread. I like touchwiz too, too bad this can't be changed.
seriosuly this sucks, i want 3 screens, and the middle one (#2) to be the home but it always brings me to #3. annoying.
Since 2 days now i have a big issue with my home button. usually when i was pressing it. it was going to my home screen. Now, i get a new page that only show me the clock, meteo and a few apps that are useless on the bottom of the screen. I never asked my phone to change it and i can't find the settings to revert it back to normal. Anyone knows how to fix it ? i dont want to re-install the hole thing.
Thanks !
What launcher do you use? Stock firmware? Rom?
Must be another Launcher installed...
TWLauncher will bring you to Homescreen 1
screenshot would help? are you on a custom rom or launcher?
Just to debunk the obvious: With TW launcher your home screen is the first one, the one to the far left. However, when you exit an app with the Home button, it simply takes you to the last screen you were on. So if you set i.e. the middle screen as your "home" and kept using it thinking it was your actual home screen, you may have thought that the Home button was taking you back to your "home screen," and now you may have noticed that pressing the Home button while you're not in an app takes you to the one to the far left instead.
I don't think you're an idiot, but just for the record.
I just had the same thing happne to me as well. It was alsco discussed in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116748&highlight=home
After turning the phone off and on its back to normal. No idea how it happned
I have my V20 navigation controls hidden for almost all apps because I like the full 5.7" screen always displayed, but it's a pain sometime to swipe up to get access to them. Is there any way to get a 3rd party app that you can put into the Second Screen as an app shortcut, and when you click the app shortcut icon it will navigate DIRECTLY with the one press on the second screen (i.e. go to home screen and back button, mainly)? I don't think it could be a widget because you can't load widgets as a app shortcut on the 2nd screen. Note that I am NOT rooted.
Probably not but I just thought I'd ask.
This actually works in the nav bar as a return to home button, although will not appear on recent apps when used. Now looking for a back button
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devjackey.homebutton
If you have any sort of experience with Tasker I'm sure you can create a simple task that goes back, and just assign it to a button that you throw on the 2nd screen though I just checked and some widgets don't actually work in the 2nd screen. Greenify works fine but my mobile payment app doesnt't.
Seems like it can't be a widget or floating button. Can't find a back button that works by clicking the app shortcut icon like the home button does above (i.e. no app options - click and executes the one function directly). Oh well at least I have half what i need.
A pain to swipe up but easier to reach all the to the top of the screen? Smh. Doesn't make sense.
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A pain to swipe up but easier to reach all the to the top of the screen? Smh. Doesn't make sense.
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I'm often at the top of my screen switching apps and want to get to the home screen. Plus ONE press on a button instead of a swipe up and press and have it hide again. My thumb is on average in the middle of the screen so up and down or the same. Plus if holding the phone in my left hand it's easier to get at the top with my right hand index finger. Just tried the home button above and definitely faster and less annoying then the hidden nav bar. Doesn't seem like there is a similar back button anywhere that i can find.
Tony
All I have to say is software nav FTW!