When I moved from my Galaxy Nexus to the Nexus 4 I simply exported my Apex Launcher settings and desktop data on the Gnex, copied the 2 files onto the N4, and then imported them. That got me 95% of my desktop layout and icons working. Yet when I do this from the N4 to the SGS4, nothing comes over. After the import I simply get a mostly blank looking stock Apex layout. What gives? Anyone else using Apex Launcher on the SGS4?
Probably because it's a completely different phone with different everything. Might just have to start over
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Uh, that's kind of the point of import/export.
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Uh, that's kind of the point of import/export.
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I think what the poster means is that PERHAPS Apex is not yet aware of how the S4 is laid out make the export part of the process effective. Despite the fact that your exporting from apex to apex.
Maybe you got a bad export? Did you do both settings and desktop in Apex; separate files? I restored N4 to S4 just fine. It did everything except the widgets, but that's normal.
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Maybe you got a bad export? Did you do both settings and desktop in Apex; separate files? I restored N4 to S4 just fine. It did everything except the widgets, but that's normal.
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Yes I did both. Thanks for the info, that is what I was hoping to learn - if something is wrong on my end or if it's an issue with Apex and the S4. Seems to be the former. It's odd because after performing the exports on the N4, Apex reports that they were saved successfully and if I re-import on the N4 everything stays the same so it seems like the files are correct, yet the "date modified" on the files is an old date from 2012. Not sure what's going on here.
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ok so this is kinda weird.....I have my messager icon on the bottom and occasionally it will open up a different app.....not sure if it's entirely related to launcher pro.....but I am running it along with Bonsai ROM 3.0....anyone experience this?
On on bonsai to.with launcher pro and never had this happen.before. maybe your phone is trying.to tell you something. Lol
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Sure you aren't accidentally swiping it and your swipe gesture is set to another app?
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I'll wager $947 on that one.
I've tried almost every launcher and have never seen (random) behavior like that.
While it is highly possible the problem is what was posted above, I have seen elsewhere that people were having their sms app open something else. It doesn't seem widespread though.
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You sure you don't have it set up as a different app, with the messenger icon as it's custom icon?
I had some funny behavior like this when I had restored /data after flashing a rom. Some apps were being launched with the wrong icons and a lot of contacts were linking to the wrong info. I wiped data, reflashed and then used Titanium to restore everything and the problem went away.
It's only happened once and I restore /data a lot, so maybe that was it, maybe it wasn't. I was quite glad to have the problem disappear.
I've had this happen to me before too a few times. For instance, I'll hit the browser icon, and it'll take me to messaging.
I cant offer an explanation though.
You'll lose that bet cause I had that issue too ... lol
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I too had this problem!!!
Good evening all. I just recently received my Galaxy Tab 7.7 this past week. First off all I can say is WOW, the screen, size, weight, etc. absolutely an incredible little critter. Anyhow I was wondering if it is normal for this device to NOT automatically put my apps in alphabetical order? My Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and my Epic Touch 4G do it but I have to manually do it on my 7.7 everytime I install something.
I havent tried it if it works on the tab with a touchwiz by look for an app called Appzorter, it works on all Galaxy based phones with TW that I've tried.
Get adw lancher ex.. it organize it for u in the drawer,plus its more efficient then tw. Wit it installed the tab seem much faster.
On my galaxy note on gingerbread w/ stock Touchwiz launcher it doesn't alphabetically organize unless you change the app drawer layout to "List". (The ICS leak ROMS for the Note do however) Waiting to get my 7.7 so not sure if it has a "List" option as my 10.1's and 7" on Honeycomb were always in alphabetical order like you mentioned, OP.
Like the poster above said get an aftermarket launcher and you can alphabetize them.
I am also trying to figure out how to do this. With my 6810, even when I organize them manually several of them go back to the last page on their own. Ive tried Appzorter, but for some STRANGE reason it shows as not available for my 7.7. but my EVO 3D can download and install it? So I tried to just copy the APK and sideload, but it just force closes over and over. Ive also tried ADW, but I dont like the top grey bar that is always visible on the home screen. Couldnt find any option to change that. Loving my 7.7, except for the ridiculous app drawer. Even the 7.0 plus I had auto alphabetized the app drawer, but my $600 tab cant?
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I am also trying to figure out how to do this. With my 6810, even when I organize them manually several of them go back to the last page on their own. Ive tried Appzorter, but for some STRANGE reason it shows as not available for my 7.7. but my EVO 3D can download and install it? So I tried to just copy the APK and sideload, but it just force closes over and over. Ive also tried ADW, but I dont like the top grey bar that is always visible on the home screen. Couldnt find any option to change that. Loving my 7.7, except for the ridiculous app drawer. Even the 7.0 plus I had auto alphabetized the app drawer, but my $600 tab cant?
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You can hide the top bar on ADW.EX with the "swipe down action" under gestures. I think the one you want is "show/hide statusbar"--I changed swipe down to this, hid it, turned off the gesture, and it hasn't ever come back, including after reboots.
Nevermind. Sorry for the mispost.
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I havent tried it if it works on the tab with a touchwiz by look for an app called Appzorter, it works on all Galaxy based phones with TW that I've tried.
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AppZorter did the trick on my 7.7! Great little app. All sorted alphabetically!
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AppZorter did the trick on my 7.7! Great little app. All sorted alphabetically!
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I actually worked with the dev of the app to get it to work on honeycomb. I no longer use it because I use go launcher, but it definitely works great to sort the app drawer.
One thing that annoyed me deeply under Gingerbread was the fact that I would carefully arrange my apps icons along the apps pages, as I needed them to be, only to find out, a couple of days later, that the system "rearranged" some of them by its own will.
I struggled with this a bit and then just gave up thinking that the move to Honeycomb would solve the problem.
It didn't!...I am having the exact same problem with this new 7.7
Is there a solution to this?
It is kind of critical that icons stay where we want them to when their number starts to proliferate...This is exactly the kind of thing that can give Android a bad name, in what respects to user-friendliness......I don't think iOs suffers from a shortcoming as basic as this one...
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Are you using a different launcher or still TouchWiz? If you aren't try any of the better known launchers (i'm using Go Launcher HD).
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Are you using a different launcher or still TouchWiz? If you aren't try any of the better known launchers (i'm using Go Launcher HD).
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I am staying with TW until ICS comes around...I intend to change it afterwards.
Am I to understand that this specific problem is "launcher-dependent" ?
Thanks!
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In my experience, the icon self-rearrangement happened when I go to the "My apps" or "Frequent" pages. In other words, as long as I remain in the "All" page, the icons seem to stay without this self-arrangement.
I use a program called appzorter for this. It works well in keeping the TW launcher and my sanity.
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I use a program called appzorter for this. It works well in keeping the TW launcher and my sanity.
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Ah...Thanks!
I'll give it a try.
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XDAKhan said:
I am staying with TW until ICS comes around...I intend to change it afterwards.
Am I to understand that this specific problem is "launcher-dependent" ?
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From what i've noticed. The app drawer is part of the launcher, so it would reason why I haven't seen it happen in the other launchers i've tried (I also noticed this in TouchWiz with the Tab 7 Plus I tried before going to the 7.7).
If you are willing to switch to a different launcher after ICS, I strongly suggest you try before hand. If nothing else, it doesn't hurt to try, they can be easily removed.
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I use a program called appzorter for this. It works well in keeping the TW launcher and my sanity.
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Under description, it says "Honeycomb devices are not supported yet."
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Under description, it says "Honeycomb devices are not supported yet."
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No, it seems to work ok, under HC...
It sorts out the apps in alphabetical order and further allows to group them into separate "System" and "Installed" groups, if wanted.
For the moment, it will do...
(Thanks Robroy90!)
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There came a point for me where the app drawer was not useful due to all my apps. Instead I use folder organizer and put my apps in specific folders.
Originally i put those folders on my desktop/docks but realized they were redundant after i added them to a SwipePad panel.
Now my desktops and docks are less cluttered and i only need to swipe in from the side of the screen to get instant access to my apps organized in those folders. I ignore my drawer now.
Hey guy's. so i installed Timur's Host USB ROM on my Google Nexus 7 3G tablet. i'm setting it up now and have a very stupid problem on my hands. i know i should be able to fix it, but i can't seem to figure it out.
I installed Gapps for my setup and installed a lot of apps. the apps automatically put a shortcut on my homescreen. the problem is i have apps appearing off the screen of my nexus. seems as though theres an extra row/column thats allowing apps to be placed, but isn't visible on my tablet screen. i've tried adjusting the row/columns to the lowest setting, but to no avail. actually seems like that setting doesn't actually change any settings. whats wrong and going on?
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Hey guy's. so i installed Timur's Host USB ROM on my Google Nexus 7 3G tablet. i'm setting it up now and have a very stupid problem on my hands. i know i should be able to fix it, but i can't seem to figure it out.
I installed Gapps for my setup and installed a lot of apps. the apps automatically put a shortcut on my homescreen. the problem is i have apps appearing off the screen of my nexus. seems as though theres an extra row/column thats allowing apps to be placed, but isn't visible on my tablet screen. i've tried adjusting the row/columns to the lowest setting, but to no avail. actually seems like that setting doesn't actually change any settings. whats wrong and going on?
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In google play, go to settings and disable auto add shortcut. For the extra rows, i would install a different launcher, like apex or nova.
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So what your saying is there's no fix?/I'm not an idiot? I just have to download a new launcher over the 1 I have now?
I've had some experience with apex and know it pretty well. Never tried nova. What would people recommend?
Since I am not running that rom, i have no idea if there is a fix. But, a new launcher would fix it. I never use a stock rom launcher anyways. I always use Nova. I havent tried GO launcher lately, as it was a little laggy after jb. It is probably fixed by now though.
If you post the link to timurs rom, or pm it to me, i will add it to my multiboot and play with the launcher.
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just fixed my problem. was playing around with it for a little and figured it out. I didn't have "expand windows to screen size" selected and for some reason it was making them bigger. so yeah. that fixed everything.
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just fixed my problem. was playing around with it for a little and figured it out. I didn't have "expand windows to screen size" selected and for some reason it was making them bigger. so yeah. that fixed everything.
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Cool deal. I just installed it a few minutes ago. Time for me to build a y-cable! Now if timur would incorporate kexec support into his kernels, it would be perfect. Cant live without multirom, lol. Anyways, glad you got it figured out.
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Do you have any other USB ROM related questions?
Why not join the original support thread over at: http://rootzwiki.com/forum/513-nexus-7-development
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OK so I just repeated this 3 times in a row on my phone, I'm wondering if someone else who is also still on stock Touch wiz and not rooted, can try this for me. I just made 3 folders in my drawer for myself and after getting the apps I wanted in each folder, I hit the menu button/edit and tried to move my folder up top with the stock folders and TW will stop the screen goes black for a second and I get a "unfortunately TW has stopped" message. This even happened when just trying to move around the apps inside the folders and not the folders themselves. Remember this is only for the folders I made. Not the stock folders. I just factory reset my phone a day ago too because I had a huge chat on issue where the app was deleted but still sucking my battery. Now I can't edit any folders I make in my app drawer. Idk if this is a bug or if I should be exchanging my phone. Tomorrow is the last day I can so if I should be I'd like to do it today. Any suggestions??
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I saw something similar, I had changed the sort to alphabetical which caused some of the prefilled folders to be emptied and I couldn't get them back. Stuck with empty folders and couldn't delete or move apps into. Looks like a TW bug to me.
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I saw something similar, I had changed the sort to alphabetical which caused some of the prefilled folders to be emptied and I couldn't get them back. Stuck with empty folders and couldn't delete or move apps into. Looks like a TW bug to me.
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Thanks for the reply. I did eventually get it to work without crashing and was able to move not only the apps inside my folders around but also the folders themselves. I agree though I think it is a little bug. I did nothing different the 2nd time around. All I did was give up for 10/15 minutes after my first 3 attempts crashing. Took a break went back n tried again and it worked.
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