Hello Friends,
Finally i got my Nexus 4 (Amazing!!!)
Anyway , i have few question regarding the phone , functionality.
1. By Native - the Home-screen comes with 5 screens .
Is there anyway to decrease the amount of screen?
2. The "recent apps" screen contain many apps.
Is there anyway to close them all instead of 1 by 1?
3. I have seen on a custom ROM , there is an option to add additional buttons (back/recent apps/menu etc...)
Is it anyway to add the same?
Anyway this is what i have found on a stock rom.
Thanks in Advance.
For number of home screens, you can add a custom launcher - Nova, for example. It's even faster than stock and much more customizable. You can't do much with stock launcher, though. But it's my favourite.
However, you must flash a custom ROM in order to use a "close all" in recents, or maybe there's an app for that, I don't know.
For custom navbar, custom ROM is your answer as well. But not every ROM, CM10.1 probably has it, or AOKP...
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Hi,
So I just successfully installed JP9 firmware and I have Froyo running perfectly on my Galaxy 3, but there are several Orange apps pre-installed which I want to get rid of + the ugly TouchWiz UI.
So first I'd like to know how to root G3 and then get rid of these two things.
Many thanks for your help.
try titanium backup... it can remove any system file..
Absolute system root is what I used for the exact same thing. To bad you'll have to "pay" for it.
You could also try doing it via adb but for some reason that rom didn't have read\write capability.
Oh and whatever software you use, don't delete oranges home screen selector. For some reason the rom wouldn't launch for me after that.
Oh2 and be sure to have alternative launcher installed before removing any launchers..
ibr4him said:
Hi,
So I just successfully installed JP9 firmware and I have Froyo running perfectly on my Galaxy 3, but there are several Orange apps pre-installed which I want to get rid of + the ugly TouchWiz UI.
So first I'd like to know how to root G3 and then get rid of these two things.
Many thanks for your help.
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Orange ROM is restricted to the user and applications. My suggestion is to upgrade to a much faster ROM of Froyo, that is precooked. This will remove your Orange branding on the phone (i.e. debrand it) and will mean you can remove any unnecessary applications still on the phne). In it's current state, because it's Orange's Firmware, there's not a lot you can do to it.
I'm Orange branded, used z4root, and Super Manager to remove the Orange crap all apart from homescreen selector. I removed Layar and Thinkfree Office too as never used. Left TW on just in case want in the future so don't know if that would break it but the rest is now gone for good and I have 20mb more phone storage
id suggest keeping touchwiz as a backup launcher expecially if you are using a third party launcher
you can get rid of touchwiz by installing launchers like laucher,adw,golauncher etc .
or use this awesome theme: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149113
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When i got my phone i immediately installed Kyrillos 5.7 so I have no idea how TouchWiz works. Is it that much worse than other launchers that everyone wants it gone?
Already answered on another thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17323708#post17323708
Hi all,
I currently have CM10.1.2 stable on my Nexus 4.
I know that the official 4.3 will be released soon and I would like to come back to stock rom, when it becomes available.
The main reasons I have CM instead of Stock are the possibility to:
1) customize tiles that are available in the quick setting
2) open quick setting with just a finger
3) set the vibration pattern for SMS (I use three long vibrations)
and ... stop!
I think these are really a few naive things .. is there an easy way to have such features on the stock ROM?
Thank you.
The first 2 features would be too hard but the third could be done quite easily if you are rooted. You can take the Mms.apk from cm and put it into the system/app directory of the stock rom.
giaomnitel1 said:
Hi all,
I currently have CM10.1.2 stable on my Nexus 4.
I know that the official 4.3 will be released soon and I would like to come back to stock rom, when it becomes available.
The main reasons I have CM instead of Stock are the possibility to:
1) customize tiles that are available in the quick setting
2) open quick setting with just a finger
3) set the vibration pattern for SMS (I use three long vibrations)
and ... stop!
I think these are really a few naive things .. is there an easy way to have such features on the stock ROM?
Thank you.
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Simple answer for 1 & 2 are no. These require complete framework re-writes. Make no mistake that making things like this are never easy.
Thank you.
So no way to customize the tiles in the quick setting?
What about this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999125
Hello,
I want that quick toggles setting (That right swap, with your finger) like an Custom ROM.
But now I want it on my Stock ROM on my Nexus 4, the phone is Unlocked en Rooted.
Like: Drag down the notification panel with 2 fingers to see quick settings. - Now I would like to do it with one finger to the right side.
Many Thanks..
Hi,
On stock ROM it's basicly not possible. After the Xposed framework is out for KitKat, you can install GravityBox to edit toggles in quick settings, but I'm not sure about dropping from right/left side.
Cheers, msihp.
Hi,
Oke thanks my friend.
I will try that out.
PS: Your English is better than me!
Bye!
Hi all
So I have an interesting aesthetics / theme question. Here's the background: I have a S5 Dev Edition phone with TWRP. My first custom ROM was Team UBs 24jun version. I really liked the look of it (especially the small fonts and icons) but thought it was a bit unstable so I then installed the unofficial CM 10jun version. That worked well but some apps said they weren't compatible with it. So today I experimented with the new UB 13jul ROM. Unfortunately that wasn't too stable so I went back to the CM one. However after I reinstalled CM it looked quite different, with much larger icons and fonts.
Now in hindsight it looks like I didn't do a complete wipe in between UB and CM the first time around so CM must have picked up the system settings including fonts and icons that UB had installed. This time around after a full wipe CM installed its own defaults, which are much bigger. [I have CM on my Nexus 5 and it looks a lot more like that]. The apps that didn't work by the way do work now.
So my question to you all is do you know what UB's settings are for fonts and icons? I would like to replicate them under CM. Is there a theme setting that contains all of UB's presets?
I should also mention I have the full version of Nova launcher which I installed on CM, and UB had it as well. If it can be changed in Nova setting somewhere please let me now.
thx
PS - I tried to post this in the dev section under UB but it didn't let me, so posted it here.
lexcimer said:
Hi all
So I have an interesting aesthetics / theme question. Here's the background: I have a S5 Dev Edition phone with TWRP. My first custom ROM was Team UBs 24jun version. I really liked the look of it (especially the small fonts and icons) but thought it was a bit unstable so I then installed the unofficial CM 10jun version. That worked well but some apps said they weren't compatible with it. So today I experimented with the new UB 13jul ROM. Unfortunately that wasn't too stable so I went back to the CM one. However after I reinstalled CM it looked quite different, with much larger icons and fonts.
Now in hindsight it looks like I didn't do a complete wipe in between UB and CM the first time around so CM must have picked up the system settings including fonts and icons that UB had installed. This time around after a full wipe CM installed its own defaults, which are much bigger. [I have CM on my Nexus 5 and it looks a lot more like that]. The apps that didn't work by the way do work now.
So my question to you all is do you know what UB's settings are for fonts and icons? I would like to replicate them under CM. Is there a theme setting that contains all of UB's presets?
I should also mention I have the full version of Nova launcher which I installed on CM, and UB had it as well. If it can be changed in Nova setting somewhere please let me now.
thx
PS - I tried to post this in the dev section under UB but it didn't let me, so posted it here.
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Well, the easiest thing you could do is under nova launcher settings, go to look and feel, you can change the font and icon size there. I believe it only applies to launcher settings, so it won't change any of the system fonts or sizes. For those you just go to settings, display and there's a font section there... as far as I know themed roms occasionally change the DPI of the entire system, to give everything a cohesive feeling, but there are also a lot of things that need to also be modified when you change the DPI, so exactly copying the look of a particular ROM is not quite as simple as it sounds.
Hope this helps.
DPI question solved
Hi
So I figured out the best way to set the DPI is to download texdroider from the play store. It handles it across the board for the device and everything looks great. I set my DPI to 370 btw.
Thx
Hey everyone!
New user here, I just picked up a Note 4 N9810W ! Loving it so far! Rooted, installed a custom ROM, all set up and ready to go. However, I do require an app for quick switching between apps.
Previously I used to use PIE on Paranoid Android ROMs, and then later SlimPie on SlimBean roms back when I had an S3
Now, on Lollipop, my ROM did not come with any such feature. I tried a toolbox from the app store, and it works but I would much prefer something built in. Is there something such as the toolbox, PIE, or other thing I can flash to be able to very quickly switch between messaging, gmail, email, etc?
Thanks in advance!