This wasn't an issue before android 7.0. What gives, google?! I don't want to root my device, I don't want to install another launcher...I just want to remove the google search bar. Any thoughts?
Outside of the things that you don't want to do, I don't know if there is a way. Installing a new launcher is the easiest way.
How were you able to do it on Marshmallow?
I cannot remember how I did it in the previous versions but I think I just long pressed the bar and it and it gave me the option to remove it.
It's hard to understand how this was always possible and now google chose to take a step back and make it mandatory
I agree, the Google search bar is not needed, especially with Google Assistant and saying 'OK GOOGLE'.
At least allow it to be shrunk to a single icon size.
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I am far from an expert with this stuff, but since I can read and follow basic instructions, I was able to root the Nook Color (from stock 1.3) that I got several months ago. But, now I had the 1.4.1 update pushed through and root is been broken.
The thing is that I am happy with everything that is there, and I don't feel like I need to get the market back because all of the apps I have loaded before work, I just can't get to them. The "home screen" (sorry if that isn't the right word) I had been using only loads when I start up, and now when I press "n" it takes me back to the B&N stock home screen. Is there a way I can change this so I can make it go back to the screen I had been using with root, instead of having to restart everytime I want to get to it? Or, will I have to go through the trouble of re-rooting and reloading all of my apps?
I hope my question makes sense and I thank you for taking the time with someone who is not an expert on this stuff...
I've posted a howto with everything I know about rooting 1.4.1. The community here at XDA is fantastic, and they've made doing this much easier.
The key to happy rooting is to disable automatic OTA updates. There are instructions for doing this in the howto. Don't update until you're sure root and 3rd party apps are available.
If you're really happy with it the way it is, and just want a way to get to the Android launcher, you can install Button Savior, Virtual Button Bar or something equivalent to give you the Android buttons on-screen along one edge, including a Home key. Be sure to set the Android launcher you use as your default home.
Alternately, you could use Folder Organizer and put a shortcut to your launcher in the Notifications group and turn on that feature.
Of course, now you need to figure out HOW to load one of these! Sideloading should work.
First of all, how awesome is this forum !!!
I consider myself a pretty "upright" forum user as in I usually read the pinned, "read this first", Q&A, and search before I make new posts. Whenever I come upon people who don't do that, I kinda frown to my computer screen but beyond that seems like nothing much can be done? The "Here are the similar threads we found:" section is just pure brilliance.
Sorry about the rambling but I will start with a tiny background story first.
So once upon a time, I got warned thru my gmail that my account apparently was "compromised". After I did some preliminary verification to make sure they are not spams, I decided to try the google "2-step verification" process. And I bet most of you knew what comes next: I keep getting bad password popups. After some hours of frustrating struggle, I fixed my gmail on my phone. But Gtalk would not let me do that 1-time psasword verification thing, and thus my play store won't work. (God really who designed them to be linked!? I did not launch Gtalk once in my life.) Before this happened, I was happy with my stock launcher from Samsung and always have the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" motto. In the end, I decided it is "certified broken" and I thought this might be a good time to look into upgrading to Jelly Bean.
hm.. i think i'm making this post unnecessary long so I will just cut through the chase. I never thought "stock" stuff would come in any quality. But amazingly in my first day experience of CM10, I am already missing a bunch of features that I used to take for granted. I have no desire to go back to the last launcher (as this in theory should be a step up overall, i believe). So if anyone have tips for me to how to get these features back, I would very much like some pointers! Thanks in advance.
Just some clarification in case this matter: I bought my phone unlocked in Hong Kong. So there is no service-provider-associated stuff that came with the stock launcher I got.
EDIT: I used the 11-02 nightly build of CM10 and its corresponding Gapp package.
1) Contact list
+ Improved: To my amaze, my chinese contacts got sorted by their pronunciation in english! The original stock launcher lumped all of them in the end of the list.
- What I missed: Slide left on names will message the contact and slide right will call them.
# What I tried: Of course my first solution is to search on App store to find a replacement. For some reasons, only two (with good rating) showed up. Did the search got dumber? Or it got smarter but just not doing what I want?
Go Contacts: I think i remember trying it and personally not a big fan of the GO packages. I didn't give it a second try.
Contants+ with a penguin icon: There's a function that lets you "Hold" on a contact to call them. This is very much inferior to the slidings : ( I need recommendations for contact list app.
2) App drawer
+ I like how the widgets got attached to the horizontal pages. Much nicer option than Homescreen-> menu and keep scrolling through the 1x4 area LOL. I love widgets and I have a lot of them. Yes it was painful.
- You can't custom organize the drawer. You can sort by Name or Install Date and that's it. I used to organize them by functionality. I have over 160 apps on my phone. I don't use all of them all the time but I would say I use close to 70% of them at least once in a while. So while my homescreen is really reserved for Widgets, App drawer is where I launch my less-used apps. I really like the "menu -> edit" function in my old launcher. I can create new page, move the apps around and even uninstall the app right there (with a minus sign on the top right corner of the app icon. Yes I didn't use to understand why one would even need uninstaller app from the store). Please don't hate me if you really just rather sort by Name.
# Funny the problem this time is not about how I can't find a suitable app from the play store to do a better job with the drawer. It's that I CAN'T move the original app drawer icon of the launcher from the bottom middle area. I imagine there's probably a way to replace it but it's obviously not a readily available option or I am missing something.
3) Task manager?
+ I think it's just recent launched apps (or apps in the background) now. It's in a way good that it goes beyond the last 6. Not that I find that old limit bothering really.
- Where's my task manager? I'm a bit OCD when it comes to ram usage and processes/services. Oh how i missed the Hold home button -> recent app screen with a task manager button -> Kill all task. LOL It's not much but it shows just enough: total ram usage, running apps, processes, and even storage space. Scratch that, it's actually very much.
# Right now I am resort to Auto Memory Manager with a blue fish icon. It's sufficient. But I can't access it anywhere.
4) Misc. stuff that I missed and would like help to find them. Note: these have nothing to do with the launcher.
- I used to have this "Windy Weather" live wall paper (or what i believed it was called). There were some wind turbines running on a grass field. It reflects the current weather. I scour the store and I couldn't find anything remotely like that besides having to go back to the GO family or you have to pay. I know it's not recommended but I tried titanium back up to restore it from my old system - no luck.
- Ap news widget. The widget was 2x4. It does not refreshes on its own and only do so with a tiny refresh button on the bottom right corner. It cycles through headlines with pictures that fully stretches the whole 2x4 window (beautifully). Can't find it in the store.
- Pinch on the home screen zooms out and gives you a quick view of all 7(now 5, but I can live with that) pages of home screen.
- That's all for now. I think I am still missing a few things I wanted to mention but I forgot what they are at the moment
anyway, sorry about some of the ranting. Here are some features i like:
+ File Manager is awesome.
+ Camera is great as well. And I love the quick browse gallery. It's weird that the actual gallery don't even have to pinch function while they put it here.
+ The pull down menu is clean. I kinda missed the "auto-rotation" quick set. But it's minor. I usually don't allow auto rotation anyway. I also like the setting button in there. But I used it so much I have to put a short cut on the home screen anyway.
+ The animation when you turn off the screen is COOL
+ The lock screen which gives you direct access to the camera is very convenient as well.
There is no sammy like app with swipe unfortunately.(edit :didnt know ex dialer has it sry_
Try apex launcher,nova launcher,adw ex launcher(i prefer this at the moment,pletora of settings)
autorotation ,play with toggle settings in system settings menu.
Don't bother with ram,free ram is wasted ram.
That windmill wallpaper i think go has something similar to it but i dont use it as it is a huge battery hogger .I just use a plain wallpaper.
I suggest u stay playing a bit with the lockscreen/system settings
Hi, i use ex dialer and it have slide right to call and slide left to sms.
Cheers!
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For dialer I recommend Dialer Ex from Play. I also missed the swipe to call & message function from Sammy roms. This app does it(it also has other great features like theme support etc.!)
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1) ExDialer. You will never look back. You can customize it to your taste and it has the features you ask.
2) You need to use another launcher for that, but in my case I got accustomed to search for apps instead of looking for icons. It's easier and can be done from everywhere in your launcher if you click and hold the Menu key. You can also have folders in the Home screen, that's also a nice way to organize. Why I ended doing this? Because other launchers have too many options.
3) You shouldn't care about running apps. You can kill them by pressing Menu key on the Home and selecting manage apps. There, in "Running" you have the apps that are currently working on the background, the memory they use and you can eventually kill them. I'm against that unless you have an issue with an app (like Media Scanner going rogue).
4) GO Weather. You can download it from the web if it's not on the store and side-load it. But I have it available. I can't help you with the news widget as I never found one useful enough to my usage patterns. I don't think the default launcher can show you all Home screens at once.
Thanks for all the help guys. You are quick to reply : )
android manages ram efficiently u dont need to free ram if u still want to have a kill apps button on recent apps its part of aokp and if u want to have it on cm10 try pacman rom
I looked around but didn't find anything, although that doesn't mean anything.
My question is that when holding the home button,you get a whole semi circle, but just giogke now or whatever that silly thing is. Is there a way of adding programs or shortcuts to this popup. I have zero use for the Google thing so seems a shame if I am unable to add more useful items to this semi circle. Could prove pretty useful.
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I looked around but didn't find anything, although that doesn't mean anything.
My question is that when holding the home button,you get a whole semi circle, but just giogke now or whatever that silly thing is. Is there a way of adding programs or shortcuts to this popup. I have zero use for the Google thing so seems a shame if I am unable to add more useful items to this semi circle. Could prove pretty useful.
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I haven't seen anywhere you can add to that or change it. I love the google now thing, just to be able to tell it to wake me up in an hour if nothing else:laugh:
Try this app if you haven't already though, it will let you launch an app just by sliding in from the side of the screen, or bottom, or whereever you want.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm1vYmkuY29uZHVjdGlvbi5zd2lwZXBhZC5hbmRyb2lkIl0.
Instead of launching Google Now you could get get an app launch list using 'Launch Now', which replaces default behavior. Just serach for it in PlayStore, as I may not insert links (10 posts rule)....
There's a way for people who want to hook into the swipe up action that may not be documented. Apps like "Sudo Quicklaunch" make the system switch the icon to a generic search icon and show you the standard action completion pop-up. (One can see this in the app's promotional video.) I haven't personally tested that app, but I have seen the swipe up reassignment behavior with "Secure Settings." The Secure Settings app actually changes the icon displayed by the swipe up menu, when you tell it to "Always" use that app, and Google Search does the same thing. Coincidentally, the same reassignment behavior appears to be possible with the shop icon in the stock launcher. (I saw it for myself in the days of Honeycomb with the transition from the original Honeycomb Market app to the new, unified Market app, because both were installed, it asked me to choose when I tapped shop.)
Hi everyone. I have 4.4.4 (kitkat) on my old Note 3. I like using the application "Squid" to take notes and sign PDF forms. Since downgrading to kitkat, (I call it an upgrade) I can no longer use the side button of the S-Pen as an eraser tool, like I did in marshmallow.
Instead, I get this screenshot type thing that comes up, after a crop type swipe thing, I really don't even know what it's called, I can't seem to find it on the list in Titanium Backup either. I really would like to totally uninstall this feature. It interferes with use of my S-Pen.
I tried all the settings in the world and, yes, looked it up on Google with no glimpse of hope. I think it may be called Smart Select, or Image Clip? I'm really not even sure.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Hi everyone. I have 4.4.4 (kitkat) on my old Note 3. I like using the application "Squid" to take notes and sign PDF forms. Since downgrading to kitkat, (I call it an upgrade) I can no longer use the side button of the S-Pen as an eraser tool, like I did in marshmallow.
Instead, I get this screenshot type thing that comes up, after a crop type swipe thing, I really don't even know what it's called, I can't seem to find it on the list in Titanium Backup either. I really would like to totally uninstall this feature. It interferes with use of my S-Pen.
I tried all the settings in the world and, yes, looked it up on Google with no glimpse of hope. I think it may be called Smart Select, or Image Clip? I'm really not even sure.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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I imagine the ROM you had previously (marshmallow) was not Touchwiz based, correct? (Resurrection Remix, Lineage, etc...)
To disable the pop up you get upon pushing the button, I'd search in the options menu and look for "Air Command" in Advanced Features somewhere, may be even listed under "S Pen"
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I imagine the ROM you had previously (marshmallow) was not Touchwiz based, correct? (Resurrection Remix, Lineage, etc...)
To disable the pop up you get upon pushing the button, I'd search in the options menu and look for "Air Command" in Advanced Features somewhere, may be even listed under "S Pen"
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That's not it. I don't mind Air Command, as it does not interfere with any other app. This selection screenshot tool, the one you get when you hold the side button and move it around, is the one I want to get rid of. I never had it on MM, so it must only be a KK thing.
I got the WearOS 2.0 update the other day, and as reported, I found that the Google Fit integration (swipe right for quick access) was instead directed to TicHealth, which insisted I update that app to access this feature. Uh, no. Can I somehow swap that out for Fit, as Google originally intended?
Not sure what is happening on yours, but my bone-stock Ticwatch E gives me the Fit integration screen when I swipe from the right. I have the Mobvoi app loaded on my phone but do nothing with it. No account log in, no settings,etc, just installed. It gets updated with all the other phone apps.
One thing I have noticed is that when I'm not connected to my phone, some watch faces don't behave like they should. For example, I have one face that let's you change colors by just running your finger around the edge in the face setup then pressing "Set" in the middle. It behaves as if it works, but when you go back to the watch screen, it still has old color - but when connected to the phone, it works perfectly.
I'd say try changing to another watchface and see if it works on that one, then just update the Mobvoi app as a last resort and see if that helps. But I can confirm that it is working as designed on the Ticwatch E.
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Not sure what is happening on yours, but my bone-stock Ticwatch E gives me the Fit integration screen when I swipe from the right. I have the Mobvoi app loaded on my phone but do nothing with it. No account log in, no settings,etc, just installed. It gets updated with all the other phone apps.
One thing I have noticed is that when I'm not connected to my phone, some watch faces don't behave like they should. For example, I have one face that let's you change colors by just running your finger around the edge in the face setup then pressing "Set" in the middle. It behaves as if it works, but when you go back to the watch screen, it still has old color - but when connected to the phone, it works perfectly.
I'd say try changing to another watchface and see if it works on that one, then just update the Mobvoi app as a last resort and see if that helps. But I can confirm that it is working as designed on the Ticwatch E.
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I dunno, man. I haven't made any modifications other than disabling some of the Ticwatch apps. I tried different watch faces, and it's the same result. I swipe right and it asks me to update the TicHealth app.
Then you'll have to bite the bullet and update that Mobvoi app. The update for it may actually be the fix that removes their swipe action and allows Fit integration to work. At this point you have nothing to lose...
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Then you'll have to bite the bullet and update that Mobvoi app. The update for it may actually be the fix that removes their swipe action and allows Fit integration to work. At this point you have nothing to lose...
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Forgot to mention, people have reported that they have done exactly that, only to find it just sticks with TicHealth and offers no option to change that.
You ever find a solution to this? I want Google Fit!
If you wondering how to change tichealth to google fit, All you have to do to change tichealth to google fit is update all apps like wear os apps, google apps, wear os 2.2, etc then swipe left to tichealth and long press the tichealth and there will be an option to choose between tichealth or google fit
dimasnandito said:
All you have to do to change tichealth to google fit is by swipe left to tichealth and long press the tichealth and there will be an option to choose between tichealth or google fit
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Not sure what you're doing, but that doesn't work for me. I must be doing it wrong.
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Not sure what you're doing, but that doesn't work for me. I must be doing it wrong.
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i update all apps like wear os apps, google apps, wear os 2.2, etc then swipe left to tichealth and long press the tichealth and there will be an option to choose between tichealth or google fit
That doesn't work for me.
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You ever find a solution to this? I want Google Fit!
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I figured it out. It's just as he said, swipe right to the Tichealth face, tap and hold, and it brings up the option to change them. It allowed me to do so earlier yesterday, after I picked it up off the charger. Guess it had to update something.
Just swipe to right, long press the screen and choose your favorite app.
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If you wondering how to change tichealth to google fit, All you have to do to change tichealth to google fit is update all apps like wear os apps, google apps, wear os 2.2, etc then swipe left to tichealth and long press the tichealth and there will be an option to choose between tichealth or google fit
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Thanks worked for me.