Hi!
I use Launcher Pro and set my homescreen to 5 rows and 5 colums (like many other useres here did aswell). Thisway there is room for more widgets and the homescreen isnt so crowded. The downside is that a lot of widgets are not displayed very well.
So i thought we could try to collect all the widget which work perfectly in this layout. (Especially I am looking for a weather widget in 4x1, but please post all widgets which work. I will try to collect them in this post)
And since i am starting the topic, I list the first widget, which is working perfectly, even in 5x5:
Desktop Visualizer
I am hoping for lots of answers
Cheers
Korbi
I was messing around with the homescreen settings on luncher pro and I changed the number of columns and number of rows, so now my Icons and clock widgets are all F'ed up (not lining up). Anyone one knows what the default settings?
Not sure on exact default, but I believe 4 on columns and 5 on rows.
I'm pretty sure its 4 row 4 column pure default. Most people around here use the above stated 4x5 though that have launcher pro plus (To resize widgets)
I have pro and when I re size widgets, the widgets don't change size, just the surface area the widget parameters take up. I have tried on the weather channel wide widget, and the analog clock widget.
Is that normal?
Default is 4x4 but I find that 4 columns by 5 rows works really well in both portrait and landscape.
Tip: once you get it back to normal, make a backup copy through the settings menu, then fool with it to your hearts content and go back whenever you want!
Thanks boys for the replies. Its 4x4. Great F'ing app BTW.
Muckrak3r said:
I have pro and when I re size widgets, the widgets don't change size, just the surface area the widget parameters take up. I have tried on the weather channel wide widget, and the analog clock widget.
Is that normal?
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Most widgets will just do that when you resize, but some widgets (such as the picture frame) will actually resize the entire widget instead of just the space that it takes up.
Basically, do you like your homescreen filled to the brim with widgets? or do you like the cleaner look of icon rows?
Also, are you the kind of person that has 7 homescreens filled to the brim with widgets and icons, or the kind of person that has three homescreens and only uses them for a clock on the middle one and facebook/twitter on the others.
I am deffinetly the 3 homescreens guy.
Both - I have a mixture of widgets (weather, time, FaceBook, news) in addition to applications (gmail, texting, maps etc). 3-5 home screens, give or take.
3 Homescreens.
Main home screen is search widget, weatherbug widget, and Elixir widget. Also 8 icons (SMS, 2 mail, IM app, calender, market, map, and aftermarket browser). Screen to the left; music widget, pandora widget, youtube widget, and 4 icons (all media related). Screen to the right of main home page, power control widget and 12 icons (all related to OC, benchmarking, rooting stuff). Thats it.
3 home screens, calendar on the left,clock and weather in the middle and messages on the left. I like it clean and minimal
I have 7 homescreens with LauncherPro, but only use 4 of them. Main screen has Fancy Widget Pro, Curvefish brightness and 2G/3G toggle widgets, uptime widget, and Moon Phase Pro widget. Left screen has Facebook and Google Search. 2nd left has 4 x 4 Plume widget. Right screen has LauncherPro calendar.
No icons on the home screens, only widgets. I put icons of my most used apps in the LauncherPro dock, which has 3 screens of 5 each. Makes for a clean look.
7 homescreens with LauncherPro. Main (4) is blank, so I can see my spiffy wallpaper in all its centred glory. Most of the rest are icons aside from the power widget and a calendar, leaving a row or two blank to avoid mis-taps when swiping back and forth, and for aesthetics.
3 homescreens. Clock on one, calendar and notepad on the other two.
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One homescreen. Four Simi Folders, and about three icons.
I really can't deal with the swiping cost to change screens.
I have 7 screens but only 6 have junk on them. The home screen is blank minus a clock. I use widgets and icons. I try to make a theme of each pages, i.e. game page, chat page, important page, etc. Plus a few photos on some pages where there were blank spots.
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I use the default (5) homescreens on a stock launcher.
When I first started with Android I was all about widgets, then I realized that I never really use many of them and they just take up RAM/CPU/Battery, and now I've gone to more icons than widgets.
Home screen: 1x1 WatchDog widget, and a 1x4 Weather/News widget, rest icons for normal things like messages, market, XDA, etc.
My other screens have 0-1 widget and are generally categorized. aka I have a screen that is just music/videos/etc. another with productivity apps, and one for games. I use my far left screen for my nerdy apps like ROM manager, Titanium backup, File Explorer, and Terminal Emulator.
One screen. Use the ADW launcher with 5 icon dock. Only 4 shortcuts on the desktop. No widgets. Power control widgets in the notification window. Drawer organized into catalogs.
Htc flip clock widget, the rest of main screen is icons. Other 4 screens are htc widgets(calendar, people, fmradio) and a postit note widget
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A mix between them. Starting to use less widgets due to me not using them and battery drainage.
Widgets all the way.
I moved from iphone cuz of widgets, also cuz everyone in my family got a iphone. Do you know how hard it is to tell which iphone is yours when everyone put on the coffee table. (and no we don't use cases)
Primarily using widgets now and down to 3 screens.
Home Screen has Simi Clock and Simi Folder - Use the Folder Widgets to access regularly used applications. I have 4 icons on this screen - SMS, Gmail, Dialer, Settings.
Right screen - Score Mobile Widget & Scrollable News/RSS Feed Widget
Left Screen - Pure Grid Calendar Widget & Power Control Widget.
News, WeatherEye, ESPN, Facebook and Twidroyd widgets, everything else is icons...
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3 home screens. Left screen is colorized widgets Facebook widget (4x4), center screen has fancy widgets pro home (2x2) and right screen has colorized widgets agenda widget(4x4). 5 Icons in the dockbar(phone, gmail, drawer, sms, browser) and 6 icons in the hidden dockbar(ADW EX).
I'm a fan of the minimalistic look.
I have 5 screens & generally have more widgets then icons.
I have removed the clock and wide weather widget which shows as standard on the s2 and put beautiful widgets however its not as nice as the stock widgets
I've managed to put the clock back but the weather widget isn't wide and only covers half the space
How do i get full width widget back
Pls help thanks
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Hold down finger on widget then it should get an outline you can drag to make it bigger (if using touchwiz)
Press and hold the weather widget.
It will show rectangular box with yellow lines outlining the extents of the widget. Drag the triangular (steel coloured)marker to fit the whole area.
You need to have enough space to expand the widget to its maximum size.
I have tried multiple 1x4 widgets on my homescreen, but notice occasionally they will just auto resize to 1x5. If I start to do a resize on the widget, it will right away automatically snap back to a 1x4 size.
Any idea why this might be? I just want a clean simple well design 1x4 weather widget, but it keeps expanding to 1x5 in size.
Image of the issue: dl.dropbox.com/u/3669352/Screenshot_2013-01-30-12-28-15.png
Much thanks!
Attached a screenshot for an example.
Thanks all.