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App Launcher

I have done some searching and cannot seem to find anything, please feel free to sarcastically point me in correct direction if i am wrong.
are there any favourite app launchers, e.g. a 1x1 program/widget than when clicked opened your 4, 8, 16 best apps (customizable) thus saving white space without having to scroll through all prorams to get to U etc?
Many thanks in anticipation
Jody
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There are a few... I use Apps Organizer to arrange under manual icons and labels. Clicked once it opens a layer on the same screen with all the chosen app shortcuts in there. The most major limitation being that it cannot arrange widgets into such "folders".
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You could just create a folder and drag app icons into it?

or you could just do that, sorry getting to grips with this phone still.
creating a folder works surprisingly well, many thanks
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Another option
Another option is Ultimate Faves which lets you select favourite apps or contacts and scroll between the two.

The best way to hide sms messages?

Hello, I need to hide sms messages from one contact. What is the best way? I prefer free app but you can post paid apps too.
Thank you very much.

Have root? Try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.security.firewall. if not try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.project.memoryerrorthree.
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I know there's a modified MMS.apk in Slimbean that allows you to blacklist messages and calls from as many contacts as you want. I've seen it in a few other ROMS too. You can just flash one of those and not have an extra app. Or just extract the apk and move it to system.
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I like root call blocker. It doesn't even make your screen blink

thank you guys, I'm with CM so I try to block contact via sms..

"Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos"
Never used it for sms but works good for pics, I assume the sms is good too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netqin.ps
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Try this...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privatesmsbox
It has no additional icon, you get into by dialing 1234 then dial on the keypad, and it's opens it let's you put anything from one contact there (sms, mms, calls) and you can only get into it by using the code. Also, the default code of 1234 can be changed, and the app doesn't require root. Also gosms has a private box built in to it.
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trying Hide SMS (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keepsafe.sms)
seems, it's simply app and it works fine.

master2828 said:
"Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos"
Never used it for sms but works good for pics, I assume the sms is good too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netqin.ps
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I can +1 that. I use Vault daily and this is by far the best Android privacy app I've seen. It was just a SMS hider, but now hides photos and videos and even locks apps now!
Plus, its privacy is polished to the extent that if you press back from the app, it also disappears from recents menu
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Shady SMS 3.0 PAYG
It may be the best, however, costs about 7 bucks but it's well worth it. The developer always updates and listens to his customers.

that's a built-in option with Handcent.
long press on conversation and select blacklist.

Lucke said:
that's a built-in option with Handcent.
long press on conversation and select blacklist.
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i used root call blocker back when i was with my gf and was cheating on her with another girl..
(i dont do that anymore fyi)

Useful information here friends, thank you.

Try this
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkyeah.privatespacefree
A perfect app to cheat your gf.. not only hide sms, but also hide the contact as well as the call register from certain contact.. Plus you can also hide the icon from you launcher and open it with secret code in dialer.
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nazerro said:
Try this
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkyeah.privatespacefree
A perfect app to cheat your gf.. not only hide sms, but also hide the contact as well as the call register from certain contact.. Plus you can also hide the icon from you launcher and open it with secret code in dialer.
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Daemn! You're a pro at cheating, aren't you?

fr3quency said:
Daemn! You're a pro at cheating, aren't you? [emoji14]
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Hahaha.. No.. The app dev is the real pro..
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Removing bloat, messed up

I was removing some bloat after rooting, and everything I removed seems fine except one thing. Whenever I get an email, and pull down the notification bar and click on it directly, my email app force closes(using stock google app). If I go to the email app itself and then view the email, it's fine. Does anyone have any idea what the apk I removed that could have caused this,and if so does anyone have a backup they can upload, thanks!!

y2kcamaross said:
I was removing some bloat after rooting, and everything I removed seems fine except one thing. Whenever I get an email, and pull down the notification bar and click on it directly, my email app force closes(using stock google app). If I go to the email app itself and then view the email, it's fine. Does anyone have any idea what the apk I removed that could have caused this,and if so does anyone have a backup they can upload, thanks!!
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I believe it's the magazine app.
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njfoses said:
I believe it's the magazine app.
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Do you happen to have the apk, or know where I can get it?

I downloaded the magazineapp, that didn't seem to fix it, I think I'll just re install the original EMAIL client APK, does anyone out there have that or a link to it?

This is driving me crazy, text message notifications don't seem to bother it, and I can set my emails to not notify in the notifaction bar and then they work perfectly when I go to open them. But if I set them to show in notification bar(which i need for my work exchange server) it says sorry, email has closed. Even if I don't pull look at the notification, and go directly to the email, it closes on the first try, the second time is fine

y2kcamaross said:
This is driving me crazy, text message notifications don't seem to bother it, and I can set my emails to not notify in the notifaction bar and then they work perfectly when I go to open them. But if I set them to show in notification bar(which i need for my work exchange server) it says sorry, email has closed. Even if I don't pull look at the notification, and go directly to the email, it closes on the first try, the second time is fine
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Have you tried booting into the stock recovery and clearing cache?

yes, same problems

I'm having the same issue. Using stock email app, connected to exchange 2007 server and keep getting weird force closes when opening items from the notification window. I've been going through unfreezing apps 1 by 1 but so far no joy.
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njfoses said:
I believe it's the magazine app.
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This seems to have fixed it for me... There are 2 magazine apps and I unfroze both. "My Magazine 1.0.0" & "My Magazine - Here and now 1.1.0"

frieked said:
I'm having the same issue. Using stock email app, connected to exchange 2007 server and keep getting weird force closes when opening items from the notification window. I've been going through unfreezing apps 1 by 1 but so far no joy.
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This seems to have fixed it for me... There are 2 magazine apps and I unfroze both. "My Magazine 1.0.0" & "My Magazine - Here and now 1.1.0"
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Can you upload those APKS?

Found the my magazine app but when I go to install it, out data application not installed, anyway to get around that?

y2kcamaross said:
Found the my magazine app but when I go to install it, out data application not installed, anyway to get around that?
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Use a file explorer and drop the apk in the system/app folder and change permissions to match other files in that folder.

frieked said:
I'm having the same issue. Using stock email app, connected to exchange 2007 server and keep getting weird force closes when opening items from the notification window. I've been going through unfreezing apps 1 by 1 but so far no joy.
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This seems to have fixed it for me... There are 2 magazine apps and I unfroze both. "My Magazine 1.0.0" & "My Magazine - Here and now 1.1.0"
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After getting FC with Exchange account after freezing a variety of apps in TiBu (generally the same ones frozen on my VZW S4), I've had to go back to defrosting everything, and only "Turn off" via application manger. I could never quite figure out which one(s) were causing it, but Exchange wanted the magazine app, Ant, and other what would seem entirely unrelated apps to be enabled. As much as I hate crap running that I neither use or want, the Note 3 has so much RAM and horsepower that it really doesn't seem to matter.

tbcpn said:
After getting FC with Exchange account after freezing a variety of apps in TiBu (generally the same ones frozen on my VZW S4), I've had to go back to defrosting everything, and only "Turn off" via application manger. I could never quite figure out which one(s) were causing it, but Exchange wanted the magazine app, Ant, and other what would seem entirely unrelated apps to be enabled. As much as I hate crap running that I neither use or want, the Note 3 has so much RAM and horsepower that it really doesn't seem to matter.
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Did you have the Magazine app frozen. That is one of the few apps that I ran into that caused Exchange to FC.
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sooner2k1 said:
Did you have the Magazine app frozen. That is one of the few apps that I ran into that caused Exchange to FC.
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EDIT: Sorry i missed the piece about exchange in your post. Reading on my phone.
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frieked said:
I'm having the same issue. Using stock email app, connected to exchange 2007 server and keep getting weird force closes when opening items from the notification window. I've been going through unfreezing apps 1 by 1 but so far no joy.
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This seems to have fixed it for me... There are 2 magazine apps and I unfroze both. "My Magazine 1.0.0" & "My Magazine - Here and now 1.1.0"
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Would second that request for those apk files. I trashed them and this is driving me nuts
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760hacker said:
Would second that request for those apk files. I trashed them and this is driving me nuts
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Yes anyone with these two files can you upload because i hate to reinstall when someone with working apks can extract and upload

carycooke said:
Yes anyone with these two files can you upload because i hate to reinstall when someone with working apks can extract and upload
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46568230&postcount=4

Still didn't help but thanks anyways
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Still didn't help but thanks anyways
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think we need the odex file that goes with Magazine home. I've asked for him to upload that as well. Then put both in system/app and set permissions to rwrr.
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760hacker said:
think we need the odex file that goes with Magazine home. I've asked for him to upload that as well. Then put both in system/app and set permissions to rwrr.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46574793&postcount=7
ODEX

That worked all 3
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[q] Old notifications from same app deleted in Android N

Hello, I'm in stock unrooted Android n preview 3. It appears that notifications that come from the same app, when I have left another notifications sitting there, will be overridden and disappear.
This is a big problem for me, as I use cloudmagic to track multiple tasks that pop up for me, and I let them sit there. Sometimes I'll have 10 notifications at once that I need to get to. Is there a way to override this behavior that I missing? Sorry if this is already been answered, I did do a search and was unable to come up with any results
Thank you in advance for your help.
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AndroidSlave said:
Hello, I'm in stock unrooted Android n preview 3. It appears that notifications that come from the same app, when I have left another notifications sitting there, will be overridden and disappear.
This is a big problem for me, as I use cloudmagic to track multiple tasks that pop up for me, and I let them sit there. Sometimes I'll have 10 notifications at once that I need to get to. Is there a way to override this behavior that I missing? Sorry if this is already been answered, I did do a search and was unable to come up with any results
Thank you in advance for your help.
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I haven't tried N, so unfamiliar on how the notifications display but the best bet would be to contact the app developer and explain.
AFAIK or understand by a quick search, the behavior is controlled by the app calling the same tag/id with different notification parameters which will overwrite the previous one.
Also have you tried any of the notification managers on play? Could be an easy work around or easier to manage.

hinxnz said:
I haven't tried N, so unfamiliar on how the notifications display but the best bet would be to contact the app developer and explain.
AFAIK or understand by a quick search, the behavior is controlled by the app calling the same tag/id with different notification parameters which will overwrite the previous one.
Also have you tried any of the notification managers on play? Could be an easy work around or easier to manage.
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I did contact the app developer and explained exactly what you said previously. They are blaming it on N. I told them they need a unique intent for each call. They didn't respond.
Can't use a third party notification manager because of special features within the cloud magic reminders
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Issue with Phone App taking over Yelp App

When I use Yelp on my 6T and go to hit the number for any business to call them, it opens up the phone app in place of the yelp app (NOT opening a separate phone app). The phone app actually takes over the Yelp app and if I hit back it doesn't go back to the yelp app, it just minimizes the app.
It gets annoying because every time I call a business through the Yelp app I have to close and reopen the app, do a search again, to continue looking for more businesses.
I've attached a screenshot where it shows the Yelp icon showing that it is the Yelp app but the screen shows the phone app which has taken it over.
Anyone else have this issue?

This is probably because Yelp is not using the (FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) flag when launching the phone app when you click the number.
This is how they designed the app to function when you click the phone number. It's up to the app developer to decide whether to open the new activity in a separate task or not.
There is an Xposed module that fixed this exact issue system wide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-activityforcenewtask-t2646504) but since there is no Xposed for Android Pie you are out of luck.
I suggest using Yelp in a browser if it bothers you that much.

yerger said:
This is probably because Yelp is not using the (FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) flag when launching the phone app when you click the number.
This is how they designed the app to function when you click the call button. It's up to the app developer to decide whether to open the new activity in a separate task or not.
There is an Xposed module that fixed this exact issue system wide (https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-activityforcenewtask-t2646504) but since there is no Xposed for Android Pie you are out of luck.
I suggest using Yelp in a browser if it bothers you that much.
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Ah ok at least it's good to know that how the app is supposed to work and it's not just me. Thank you!

Confirm this issue. Really annoying.
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Confirm this issue. Really annoying. Try using split screen so you can see the number to dial without clicking on the number link via Yelp app