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Widget Resizing

I can't seem to get the widget's to resize. I'm using ADWLauncher EX. On the infinty which I also had that launcher, if I wanted to stretch out a widget to fill more space I would just hit resize and drag it and the widget itself would get bigger and fill in the space, however on the Nexus the widget won't resize. Does anyone know a solution to this?

Widgets (in my experience) can be resized with stock launcher and Apex Launcher. I imagine Nova Launcher can also do it. Not entirely sure about any other launcher though, or why it wouldn't work with ADWLauncher + Nexus 10 :/

espionage724 said:
Widgets (in my experience) can be resized with stock launcher and Apex Launcher. I imagine Nova Launcher can also do it. Not entirely sure about any other launcher though, or why it wouldn't work with ADWLauncher + Nexus 10 :/
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I am use the Apex Launcher
I can't residze only eWeather HD widget with apex but I can resize it with nova. WHY?

I figured it out, for whatever reason the allow resize widget option became unchecked in adw. Maybe you just need to find that option in apex and enable it.

Varekai said:
I figured it out, for whatever reason the allow resize widget option became unchecked in adw. Maybe you just need to find that option in apex and enable it.
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Where is this option? I can't seem to find it and am experiencing the same problem.
[google brought me here]
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Nevermind I got it. In case anyone else stumbles upon this thread with the same issue, you go to
ADW Settings > System > Advanced Settings > then check the option called "Overlap Widgets". This will allow you to resize the widgets to your specific liking.

Glad you figured it out.

No icon in bottom right corner?

Purely because it bugs me, anyone know why no icon appears in the bottom right corner of the first app list page only?

alright so it is not just that page of the app drawer, it is now multiple pages and multiply icons missing from the bottom left corner. I currently have my app drawer set on "customizable grid". When I change to "alphabetical grid" all icon slots fill in on all pages but when I go back to customizable gird they disappear. This is going to sound like such n00b question but how to you work the customizable grid? When I press and hold an app it immediately jumps to the home screen for me to place it.

Apparently this is a stupid simple stock Android feature that doesn't need explaining, nothing on the web (I am coming from Windows, BB, and iPhone). For those confused like me press the menu button a second time, then edit, then you can rearrange apps in the app drawer when in the customizable grid option.

My Note 3 is not like that. My pages are full of apps.

He deleted apps from that spot.... If u rearrange it to alphabetical it should fix it
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If u find a way to fix this without alphabetical grid lmk I have been trying to figure it out also I have about 4 empty spots within my drawer
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:silly: nevermind

How to remove Lock Screen Wallpaper!

So, I was looking for a while how to remove the wallpaper on the lockscreen to match the one I have on my homescreen automatically. Some apps that apply wallpaper don't give you the option to select to change the lock screen, and the only way is to go through the touchwiz system wallpaper chooser, and it will prompt. Otherwise, I might have found a solution??
The trick is very simple, head over to the galaxy store and install good lock, then from the good lock settings uninstall it, and it will remove the lock screen wallpaper and it will match your homescreen if you change your wallpaper a lot. I also found if you changed the theme, you'd have to re-do the process over again. Make sure to select your favorite theme first before you do this.
Did anyone find a simpler solution? Please share if you have one!

matteosaeed said:
So, I was looking for a while how to remove the wallpaper on the lockscreen to match the one I have on my homescreen automatically. Some apps that apply wallpaper don't give you the option to select to change the lock screen, and the only way is to go through the touchwiz system wallpaper chooser, and it will prompt. Otherwise, I might have found a solution??
The trick is very simple, head over to the galaxy store and install good lock, then from the good lock settings uninstall it, and it will remove the lock screen wallpaper and it will match your homescreen if you change your wallpaper a lot. I also found if you changed the theme, you'd have to re-do the process over again. Make sure to select your favorite theme first before you do this.
Did anyone find a simpler solution? Please share if you have one!
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Interesting... I was trying to figure this out to use with Muzei. I'm wondering why note 7 doesn't have the ability to choose lockscreen and homescreen wallpaper the way older galaxy's did.
Anyway will try this and report back

Um, all you have to do is go into your gallery, choose pic, choose set as wallpaper, and then select lockscreen..
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bigmase23 said:
Um, all you have to do is go into your gallery, choose pic, choose set as wallpaper, and then select lockscreen..
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Yeah but that only selects the wallpaper, it doesn't do anything else. It doesn't match. The objective is to match the same screen. I'll try with live wallpapers and repot

matteosaeed said:
So, I was looking for a while how to remove the wallpaper on the lockscreen to match the one I have on my homescreen automatically. Some apps that apply wallpaper don't give you the option to select to change the lock screen, and the only way is to go through the touchwiz system wallpaper chooser, and it will prompt. Otherwise, I might have found a solution??
The trick is very simple, head over to the galaxy store and install good lock, then from the good lock settings uninstall it, and it will remove the lock screen wallpaper and it will match your homescreen if you change your wallpaper a lot. I also found if you changed the theme, you'd have to re-do the process over again. Make sure to select your favorite theme first before you do this.
Did anyone find a simpler solution? Please share if you have one!
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AND IT WORKS! Nice bug find!
I can finally set my Muzei homescreen to match my lockscreen.
I wonder why Samsung took this simple feature away
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bigmase23 said:
Um, all you have to do is go into your gallery, choose pic, choose set as wallpaper, and then select lockscreen..
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Um, no.
You can only choose wallpapers from your gallery but no third party option for wallpaper apps like Muzei or other live wallpapers

bad_HABIT said:
AND IT WORKS! Nice bug find!
I can finally set my Muzei homescreen to match my lockscreen.
I wonder why Samsung took this simple feature away
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Um, no.
You can only choose wallpapers from your gallery but no third party option for wallpaper apps like Muzei or other live wallpapers
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Just save the wallpaper to your gallery .. I've never had a problem..
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bad_HABIT said:
AND IT WORKS! Nice bug find!
I can finally set my Muzei homescreen to match my lockscreen.
I wonder why Samsung took this simple feature away
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Um, no.
You can only choose wallpapers from your gallery but no third party option for wallpaper apps like Muzei or other live wallpapers
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Awesome, glad to hear it worked for you. For a while, it was bugging me. Here is a funny thing. As I am using the phone now like that, sometimes after unlocking the phone, I see flashes of what appears to be stockish android before the tw launcher comes, barely noticeable and very interesting.

bigmase23 said:
Just save the wallpaper to your gallery .. I've never had a problem..
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You're missing the point of Muzei... It's about having it automatically cycle.
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matteosaeed said:
[...] I see flashes of what appears to be stockish android before the tw launcher comes, barely noticeable and very interesting.
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Ohmigah.. stop I can only get so erect.
On a serious note, that is very interesting... A Galaxy device with stock Android UI plus unique Samsung features would be a Android fan's dream.

When I uninstall good lock my lock screen just reverts to the default wallpaper. Am I doing something wrong?

Nice find, OP! Made my day!
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Side note good lock is pretty fu©ki^g cool
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What I did was took a picture of the wall with my phone flat up against it in low-light with my screen darkened. Then I edit picture in gallery (darkness down, contrast down). I did that twice then saved it as a perfectly black picture then I set my wallpaper (home screen and lock screen), using TouchWiz.

Thanks for the tip. Now my live wallpaper is also now on my lock screen.
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Good find,
Thanks!

Why doesn't this work for me?! I want my magic fluids lock screen!!!!!

Works great, thank you. Nice to have again live wallpaper on lock screen.
Currently "good lock" app is not available on Galaxy store, but it is available here:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsun...lease/good-lock-24-0-12-android-apk-download/
Don't try other apps with the same name from Google play because it will not work.

There is also a way to do it. Download and set a live wallpaper as background on both desktop+lockscreen. Then unistall the lwp. There, both desktop+lockscreen should have a blank (black) background. Then when using an app like QuickPic that doesn't give an option to set wallpapers in both desktop+lockscreen, becouse all are blank, setting only desktop wall then lockscreen will also have the same (because it is transparent now)
Maybe some developer could make an app that removes the background wall from both desktop+lockscreen, that way it whould be much easier to do it.

Click zooper widget/open default weather app

Since I cant install s8 weather due to package error, but I still wanna use s8 look, and default weather application, is there any app or something that I can use to open samsung s7 stock weather app (when I click zooper widget)? When I choose click event in zooper app, there is no option to system default weather app, so is there any app which can help in this?

Kimmy96 said:
Since I cant install s8 weather due to package error, but I still wanna use s8 look, and default weather application, is there any app or something that I can use to open samsung s7 stock weather app (when I click zooper widget)? When I choose click event in zooper app, there is no option to system default weather app, so is there any app which can help in this?
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weatherbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*

EasyAndroidPro said:
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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Oh my god dude thats something so awesome! This works perfectly! I dont need no more s8 weather because of this. =) Best thing of today.
EDIT: donated 3 dollars.

Kimmy96 said:
Oh my god dude thats something so awesome! This works perfectly! I dont need no more s8 weather because of this. =) Best thing of today.
EDIT: donated 3 dollars.
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No problem buddy, Really glad to help :good:
Thanks so much for the donation !

Thank you for the help again. However I managed to install s8 system weather and all other apps which I previously got famous package error. I dont know what happened last night but yesterday I still got that error. Now its gone and im all happier now.

Kimmy96 said:
Thank you for the help again. However I managed to install s8 system weather and all other apps which I previously got famous package error. I dont know what happened last night but yesterday I still got that error. Now its gone and im all happier now.
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Congrats! hope my method will still serve you in the future, you can link to any other activity with it so you can make a widget for anything if you just want to play around and test what activities are possible you can browse in the app itself and select a service and select "try" it will load that service... if you like the service it loads repeat the steps for weather just select the new service you want instead
Sample :
if you use Twitter you could use the same methods to create your own personalised widget that automatically opens twitter at the post a tweet page or facebook to go straight to posting etc

EasyAndroidPro said:
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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OMG!!! This works perfectly, thank you so muchh

RafaelRivero16 said:
OMG!!! This works perfectly, thank you so muchh
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Glad to help

EasyAndroidPro said:
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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I confirmed that this same method works in KWGT also. When choosing the tap action, choose "Shortcut" and then choose the Nova Activities at the top of the list and find the Weather Forecast as described above.

how to change the default icon in an icons pack?

hi guys,
i have a question about an icons pack, when i use it with my launcher, everything work normally but some icons, i don't like them and if i open the icons pack app i find that there are other icons for example icon for "Phone" app there is 8 different designs and settings app has 6 other designs ...ect. but how to change the default one by the other in the icons pack app ?
i hope you understand my question.

With Nova prime hold and drag any app too edit on the top of the screen. Then in that box that pops up just selecting the icon picture will bring you to the icon pack selection. Then from in there the individual icon you want. I'm sure most launchers work in a similar manner. Just look up your launcher on google or youtube and how to change individual icons will get you a tutorial.

Exodusche said:
With Nova prime hold and drag any app too edit on the top of the screen. Then in that box that pops up just selecting the icon picture will bring you to the icon pack selection. Then from in there the individual icon you want. I'm sure most launchers work in a similar manner. Just look up your launcher on google or youtube and how to change individual icons will get you a tutorial.
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Thank you, but i think this option doesn't exist on pixel launcher that i use
What do you think ?

Enable developer options and can change the icon shapes.

Exodusche said:
Enable developer options and can change the icon shapes.
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it's already enabled, and i don't talk about icon shapes

Chouiyekh said:
it's already enabled, and i don't talk about icon shapes
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I figured that just want to throw it out there just in case you where. Yeah that's not possible with a stock launcher as I mentioned before if you can invest in Nova launcher Prime. You can virtually do everything you've ever wanted to do. It's even easy to replicate pixel launchers if you want. And as mentioned in my previous post change each apps icons to whatev
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Chouiyekh said:
it's already enabled, and i don't talk about icon shapes
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I figured that just want to throw it out there just in case you where. Yeah that's not possible with a stock launcher as I mentioned before if you can invest in Nova launcher Prime. You can virtually do everything you've ever wanted to do. It's even easy to replicate pixel launchers if you want. And as mentioned in my previous post change each apps icons to any icon you want within the packs you have installed.

Exodusche said:
I figured that just want to throw it out there just in case you where. Yeah that's not possible with a stock launcher as I mentioned before if you can invest in Nova launcher Prime. You can virtually do everything you've ever wanted to do. It's even easy to replicate pixel launchers if you want. And as mentioned in my previous post change each apps icons to whatev
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I figured that just want to throw it out there just in case you where. Yeah that's not possible with a stock launcher as I mentioned before if you can invest in Nova launcher Prime. You can virtually do everything you've ever wanted to do. It's even easy to replicate pixel launchers if you want. And as mentioned in my previous post change each apps icons to any icon you want within the packs you have installed.
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is there any way to manipulate the icon pack apk and change the default one or leave only the preferred one