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Touchwiz 4.0 improvements

I have many questions regarding any upgrades to touchwiz. Here they are:
Can you change the default homescreen to something other than the 4th one?
Is the music player changed? Can you resume from last application exit or does it erase the playlist? Is editing playlists easier?
Can you change the bottom 3 icons?
Can you customize the app list screen into your own sorting system? Can you change views?
Can folders sort alphabetically?
Are there additional widgets compared to Touchwiz 3.0?
Is the lock screen improved? Does it still have music player controls?
Are any other samsung custom apps changed i.e. calendar, alarms, etc.?
Thanks for any answers to these questions.

invinciblegod said:
I have many questions regarding any upgrades to touchwiz. Here they are:
Can you change the default homescreen to something other than the 4th one?
Is the music player changed? Can you resume from last application exit or does it erase the playlist? Is editing playlists easier?
Can you change the bottom 3 icons?
Can you customize the app list screen into your own sorting system? Can you change views?
Can folders sort alphabetically?
Are there additional widgets compared to Touchwiz 3.0?
Is the lock screen improved? Does it still have music player controls?
Are any other samsung custom apps changed i.e. calendar, alarms, etc.?
Thanks for any answers to these questions.
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Not sure about the answers to all your questions, however i do know the answer to the first one.
Can you change the default homescreen to something other than the 4th one?- The default homescreen is the first homescreen in touchwiz, not the 4th, and as of now, there are no settings discovered which can change the defaults.
Our community can definitely fix that.
Will try to find out the other answers

ndnesh said:
Not sure about the answers to all your questions, however i do know the answer to the first one.
Can you change the default homescreen to something other than the 4th one?- The default homescreen is the first homescreen in touchwiz, not the 4th, and as of now, there are no settings discovered which can change the defaults.
Our community can definitely fix that.
Will try to find out the other answers
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On TW4 the default is the fourth screen.

Furry Atom said:
On TW4 the default is the fourth screen.
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No it is the first. You don't have to have all 7 screens enabled. For example I only have 4 so having it set to the fourth wouldn't always work

You can change the default homescreen.

ryude said:
You can change the default homescreen.
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How? I haven't found that option yet. You can move homescreens around but you couldn't, say start the homescreen on the 4th one and move left and right from there.

Yes!!! How? I will be very happy to know how i could i set the default home screem to the panel number 04. Tks

Nobody can help us?

No one has found a way to change the default homescreen?????

why_999 said:
No one has found a way to change the default homescreen?????
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Its a bit early most devs have not got sgs2 YET .
jje

JJEgan said:
Its a bit early most devs have not got sgs2 YET .
jje
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Fair enough...

I don't have yet the phone but I saw a youtube vid showing the user changing the arrangement of the screen.
So just switch your desired home screen to the current default panel. I think what he did was he zoomed out until all the screens are displayed, then tap, hold, then drag.

The default homescreen is homescreen 1, the far left one.
Not really sure why the default homescreen matters though? It will stay on the one you last used until you switch to a different one anyway. Moving your homescreens around is pretty easy also with menu->edit.

why_999 said:
No one has found a way to change the default homescreen?????
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080774

[Q] App to lock individual home screen

I have one homescreen that has my emails and calendar. I would either like it hidden or with its own look screen. is there an app or a launcher that does that. i apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post.

I'm a little shaky on understanding what you mean. Are you trying to ask if you could have different wallpapers for each home page? Can you elaborate a bit more?

Protocol 7 said:
I'm a little shaky on understanding what you mean. Are you trying to ask if you could have different wallpapers for each home page? Can you elaborate a bit more?
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I have 3 homescreens. 2 are general, roughly divided by activities and contain and have no easy access to sensitive information. The third homescreen has my emails, my calendar, office access and has widgets to have the information visible on the homscreen. I don't want everyone who has access to the table to have access to those accounts.
When I am working on my tablet i like these things to be there and easily accesbile to me. Therefore, I would like to be able to either hide this homescreen - not accessible by casual presses or swipes, or separately lockscreen it. so even if the tablet is unlocked and active, say I hand it to a colleague, if they scroll through the homescreens, this one either wouldn't show, or would have a second lock screen, without showing the content of the real homescreen.

you can password protect individual applications. http://www.android-password.com/

I Know I can do that, but what i want to do is hide one of the homescreens that has widgets to those apps open.

killersnowman said:
you can password protect individual applications. http://www.android-password.com/
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I think I know what deecee52 is asking for, and I don't think it's possible, But I'd really like to thank you for that link

Not sure if it will help but you can simply install a second launcher and set it up with the widget/app you want to hide and create a invisible shortcut (in the corner of a screen or something).
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or use Regina 3D Launcher
- Secret workspaces where you can hide some of your app shortcuts and widgets for your privacy
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swee08315 said:
I think I know what deecee52 is asking for, and I don't think it's possible, But I'd really like to thank you for that link
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thats why i gave the link and the alternate idea, because at this time i dont think you can lock an entire home screen without that functionality being built into the launcher itself

Thanks for the suggestions. I like the idea of Regina 3d, although it doesn't seem to be on the market anymore.
I've thought of two browsers and widgetlocker, not sure if it will work. Hoping one of our crack devs might look into this for one of the launchers

Hi,
you might have some luck looking into the hide calls/sms/apps on the market to see if they have a setting that would allow you to do what your looking for. there are several ones that you could try but please read them carefully because i do know that with some if you lock something (say a photo) this way and forget the password you will not be able to access your information/pics/sms files etc you've locked. all of these are avail in the market & range from free-$12 (loky)
extreme call blocker, lock, secrets, horizon, secret phone settings & loky
not sure if any of these will do what you want but what your asking for to my knowledge can only be done with Regina 3d as meantioned already...which is a great app btw​
Also take a look into child protection type apps. I did come across Smart lock 2.0 which seems rather close to what you had described.

tittieslover said:
Not sure if it will help but you can simply install a second launcher and set it up with the widget/app you want to hide and create a invisible shortcut (in the corner of a screen or something).
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Yeah...! This ll definitely help...
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@htccraze
thanks for the child safe approach. As I said the Regina Launcher is very attractive and the separate workspaces get pretty close to what I would like. It does not yet play well on tablets as it is only in portrait mode. I will definitely report back when I have had time to play around with some of these ideas.

App for changing lock screen wallpaper automatically.

Hello
I'm looking for an app which will change the lock screen wallpaper automatically. I tried the "Wallpaper Changer" from market. But it changes the home screen Wallpapers only. Any app there for lock screen? also I want to use the native lock screen itself. Thanx!

Why don't you try Settings>Display>Screen Display>Lock Screen Wallpaper

or you can go to a image the press the edit button and choose set as lock screen.

At least read the damn post!
The guy is asking for something that automatically changes the wallpaper, I would asume at a predefined or even random time.
@OP
I dont know of any app only for home screen wallpapers though, sorry cant be much of a help.

EarlZ said:
At least read the damn post!
The guy is asking for something that automatically changes the wallpaper, I would asume at a predefined or even random time.
@OP
I dont know of any app only for home screen wallpapers though, sorry cant be much of a help.
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Yes I know how to change it manually. But wanted it auto like every few minutes or whenever I unlock the screen which would have been cool to look at different lock screen Wallpapers everytime u look at the screen
well thanx guys. Hope someone will make an app for this!

I use flikie HD to change my homescreen wallpaper, then I choose the lock screen option to change the picture to my wallpaper.which means it changes as per the schedule i set on flikie
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Hi,
You can probably do that with "Tasker" but this is not the cheapest app

Aimixess said:
Hi,
You can probably do that with "Tasker" but this is not the cheapest app
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You can definitely do this with Tasker. As stated though not the cheapest app if this is the only thing you'll use it for. Steep learning curve too. Still, its an option.

Harsha Raj said:
Hello
I'm looking for an app which will change the lock screen wallpaper automatically. I tried the "Wallpaper Changer" from market. But it changes the home screen Wallpapers only. Any app there for lock screen? also I want to use the native lock screen itself. Thanx!
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Very nice idea, I am also interested in this.
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You can probably do that with "Tasker" but this is not the cheapest app
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It will be nice to select the photo automatically from an local album or even better from Picasa.

stoney73 said:
I use flikie HD to change my homescreen wallpaper, then I choose the lock screen option to change the picture to my wallpaper.which means it changes as per the schedule i set on flikie
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Now this I am not able to make it work. Can u tell me a detailed step by step as to how? Thank you.
And I am not ready to spend that much of bucks on tasker hehe

Use CM locker, its change your wallpaper daily.. Yes daily that's my problem, I need an app that change my lockscreen wallpaper every hour.

Hi guys, try "Hi Locker" from Lockdown Team. You can change it every 1 hour, 2 hours, etc.

[Q] how to set home page screen

Is there any way to set any screen other than 1 as my home screen?

Just move the screen you want to position 1
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Sorry I wasn't clear, but I want my homescreen to be page 4, which is in the center. Main reason is because I want the center of my wallpaper to be on my homescreen.

I have read about a solution to that problem in a different xda forum, but since I don't use TW myself I don't remember the details. Google should be able to find it for you though

Evo 4G63 said:
Sorry I wasn't clear, but I want my homescreen to be page 4, which is in the center. Main reason is because I want the center of my wallpaper to be on my homescreen.
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Just click menu/edit and drag desktop 4 to the top left corner of the screen.
Edit: this will solve your home-screen question but probably won't help with the wallpaper, with ADW you can set the home-screen without re-arranging the desktops.

Is it possible to "show grid" with WidgetLocker application?

I am attempting to make my lock screen appear like the image posted below. This screenshot is actually of the home screen, not the lock screen.
The only lock-screen app I could find that allows widget overlap is "WidgetLocker". If there are others I could play around with, please let me know.
My current strategy is to add both "Dash Clock" and "Circle Battery Widget" to the WidgetLocker (WL) lock screen and attempting to align them via overlap. Unfortunately, it looks like WL only allows overlap via resizing - not by placing one widget on top of another. I think it is still possible, with enough tinkering, but it won't be easy.
One thing that might make this easier would be if I could see the grid when moving widgets on the lock screen. The settings for this app are pretty extensive and I can't find the option if it's there.
Any suggestions that might help me reproduce this lock screen are welcome. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I guess I don't have the privileges to add an image yet. If you're curious, head to bitly slash 19muwsg

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They look similar but are two different questions. Sorry about that, should've been more careful with my wording. :angel: