How do I change icons for things? For instance, the icon for Internet is a globe. How do I use the Chrome icon instead and call it "Chrome"? The phone asked me in the beginning whether I wanted "internet" to open Chrome, but although I see an Opera icon in the "installed programs", I can't find a "Chrome" program anywhere so that I can just delete the internet icon and put the direct Chrome icon there instead.
Go to apps, you should find a folder "Google", tap on it, you will find Chrome in it
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Is there any pc interface to rearrange a phone's screens?
Is there any app similar to the Blanks app for iphone?
(Create invisible icons to better organiza folders, etc)
You mean just a dummy to fill the spot where you'd like a blank space? I suppose you could make a do-nothing app (immediately returns) and give it a transparent icon. I've never heard of "Blanks" for IPhone. Is that what it does?
Its actually called iBlank, all it does is create a "homescreen" bookmark that opens safari, then opens iblank, then crashes and returns to the homescreen.
Also, do not need to add any blank icons to my vibrant, I can.place the icon anywhere on my device, but perhaps this is just Samsungs Touchwiz at work.
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I have not found any launcher or appdrawer that simly uses folder icons that is suitable (could choose custom) to the group. All/most launchers uses the iPhone app-miniatures-impossible to easily see-folderstyle. Also icons and foldericons are too small. So here is a suggestion.
3*4 big foldericons, e.x. social (phone, messaging, facebook), office (word, excel, etc), media (camera, pictures, musicplayers), tools, games, settings (settings apps, widgetsettings)
When a new app is installed, it is automatically asked in what folder to put it, or if create a new folder for it.
(I only found 3 icons in my example, and not very intuitive suitable icons, soo you have to imagine 3 more rows)
a extra feature: it could open up a cloud of widgets when sliding a foldericon. Example sliding the social icon pops up a circling cloud of facebook stats, tweets, messages, last phonecalls, and contacts. Or it pops up when simply clicking a icon, and further clicking on the widget opens the app.
Sounds good :thumbup:
Thanks don't hurt ya know?
HTC Desire HD (PACMan)
Samsung GNote 10.1 (Stock)
Sony Xperia Z (borrowed, rooted)
Wexler comes to mind...
With some work it could be done kind of, using SSLauncher: Only 2 pages. One page with informative widgets and hidden buttons to start shortcuts. One page with big folders 2*3 grid, when clicked they open folder showing app icons at normal size.
Minimal, non-distracting, fast. Screenshots below.
Sound almost exactly like folder organizer. You can have a scrollable folder on your home page(like the tools one in screen) or have icons like the those in the screen( tools games) when you click on the icon, you get an app drawer with only the apps you specified as that category. It also asks what you want to categorize an app as when you in install it, on a per app basis,
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Hi.
Just got a Nexus 4 after some thieving Spanish barstewards stole my Note 2. Loving the phone so far.
Quick question. Can you add to the Google apps folder on the home screen that is there when you first start it up? I know you can delete from it as I deleted the Youtube widget, but I wanted to add the Google Now widget but when I try to add it as if it was a folder it doesn't work.
Is it just not possible?
Ta.
loftus1961 said:
Hi.
Just got a Nexus 4 after some thieving Spanish barstewards stole my Note 2. Loving the phone so far.
Quick question. Can you add to the Google apps folder on the home screen that is there when you first start it up? I know you can delete from it as I deleted the Youtube widget, but I wanted to add the Google Now widget but when I try to add it as if it was a folder it doesn't work.
Is it just not possible?
Ta.
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Guess I'm not following what you mean exactly by folder?
Are you using the stock launcher or another launcher (ie: apex, nova, etc) .
Normally to add a widget you would simply long-press the home screen, select widgets, and pick that, and should show up as a widget, if you're creating a folder you're probably dragging the app icon onto something else.
Yeah, I thought I wasn't explaining myself very well.
It's stock launcher. On the home screen, when you first set up the phone, there is a widget/folder titled "Google" which is effectively a folder containing the widgets for various Google apps ie Gmail, Google+, maps etc. I wondered whether it is possible to add to this folder (for want of a better word). If I try to drag a widget over it that doesn't work.
Hope that's a bit clearer.
Don't worry - sorted it.
The default browsing widget only lets you pick the website of Internet app. Is there anyway that I can add my Chrome bookmarks instead?
Also a free widget to show sms messages would be very nice.
Thanks.
Nope. Not unless Google make it.
However, I do have a workaround for you.
Open one of your Chrome favourites. Tap the menu icon and choose 'Add to home screen'. Now go to the Edge Panel settings and change the settings for the Tasks Edge. Now you can add the bookmark on your home screen you just made, to the tasks edge. Remove the bookmark shortcut from your home screen. The edge one will stay.
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Nope. Not unless Google make it.
However, I do have a workaround for you.
Open one of your Chrome favourites. Tap the menu icon and choose 'Add to home screen'. Now go to the Edge Panel settings and change the settings for the Tasks Edge. Now you can add the bookmark on your home screen you just made, to the tasks edge. Remove the bookmark shortcut from your home screen. The edge one will stay.
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Thank you for this work around. It was just what I was looking for!
Chris_c81 said:
Nope. Not unless Google make it.
However, I do have a workaround for you.
Open one of your Chrome favourites. Tap the menu icon and choose 'Add to home screen'. Now go to the Edge Panel settings and change the settings for the Tasks Edge. Now you can add the bookmark on your home screen you just made, to the tasks edge. Remove the bookmark shortcut from your home screen. The edge one will stay.
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Hi Chris, just registered to (also) thank you for this workaround! :good:
It looks like I can't add any app specific shortcut on my home screens.
In Firefox, when I click to add a bookmark to the home screen, nothing happens, no shortcut is created.
And on FB messenger the option to add a chat head shortcut to the homescreen doesn't even show up anywmore.
I tried with stock launcher, lawnchair and Nova, same problem.
Did I miss something?
Btw I just bought that G6 and updated to Oreo right out of the box, so I don't know how it was on Nougat.
(missing Messenger option in attached screen cap)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...uts-on-android-o-when-targetting-less-than-it
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8.0-changes#as
Ok I guess the apps need to be updated to use the new method.
No one else has that problem?