Hi everybody- seems like samsung's not going to update the touchwiz 3 launcher on galaxy s, so i was wondering, is it possible to port the sgs2 touchwiz 4.0 launcher to original sgs devices? i really love the touchwiz launcher, and 4 seems to be ALOT better then the 3.0 version, so will we get touchwiz 4 on sgs?
naranova7 said:
Hi everybody- seems like samsung's not going to update the touchwiz 3 launcher on galaxy s, so i was wondering, is it possible to port the sgs2 touchwiz 4.0 launcher to original sgs devices? i really love the touchwiz launcher, and 4 seems to be ALOT better then the 3.0 version, so will we get touchwiz 4 on sgs?
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Maybe..who knows? Nobody can't say yes or no until sgs2 is available..then maybe we can expect tw4..but still it probably will take some time to see a ported version.
Btw..wrong section..
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Kurre said:
Maybe..who knows? Nobody can't say yes or no until sgs2 is available..then maybe we can expect tw4..but still it probably will take some time to see a ported version.
Btw..wrong section..
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ummmmmm this sections thing gets me very confused, where should i put it?
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ummmmmm this sections thing gets me very confused, where should i put it?
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Galaxy S I9000 Q&A
Hi fellows!
Since this is talking about TW4, there was a video showing TW4 on the Galaxy S 1 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_17eWhaRFs
This is obviously a fake.. and I hate people lying on others and giving theme false hope, so I made a video here proving that fake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcGXpNSrGfY
So please if you too agree, please share the video on the first one's comment, since that little silly boy blocked me from commenting as I was right.. It would be helpful. Thanks!
As for naranova7's question: We will have to wait for a first system dump from the GSII, then, a lot of people will work on it to do a port. Wait & see.
Ok, the video is obviously fake but how did he made it? Where did he got the icons and widgets?
Well, these are just wallpapers, as I say in the video, the widgets are IN the wallpaper. And the dock icons are also in the wallpapers, so they are just static images.
And it is not TW Launcher, I think it is ADW (see the AppDrawer).
If I had more time I could make one like that, I'll see if I have enough time next week.
has any of you guys tried the new official gingerbread yet? does it have touchwiz 3 or 4?
Tw 3 and no daily breifing
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stupid samsung
TouchWiz 4 = Launcher only?
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Does anyone know of a Touchwiz based rom for the Desire?
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Nope.
10char
You cannot be serious.
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I have forgotten a lot but if I recall it correctly, there is a mod for AOSP ROM to get the touchwiz.
Better ask the other more about this.
out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either
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out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either
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It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.
I own a Desire and a SGS2 and I have to admitt that TouchWiz4 impresses me a lot more than Sense.
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It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.
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from what ive seen, touchwizz is more functional and more customizable than sense which only 'looks nice' but i dont think it does look that nice
guess it is simply an individual matter
i never tried touchwiz, from what ive seen on videos it doesnt really make me want a SGS2.
one desire developer, baadnewz, recently bought SGS2 but he sold it very soon after and bought HTC Sensation reason: "cant live without sense"
so like i said, everyone likes what he/she likes
It's not that I don't like sense I just wanna try something different. I sometimes get tired of the look of sense and wanna try Touchwiz out. Is it just me or is sense just getting boring their are just so many devices with it on them its no longer fresh.
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If you are bored of Sense and wanna try something new, why don't you try MIUI or AOSP?
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It is also true that I tend to prefer Sense over MIUI, Moto-Blur or Touchwiz.
Isn't Blur dead now?
didn't Moto even rename it?
I will also be trying MIUI after my device is able to be rooted.
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I would love to port touchwiz over to galaxy nexus and I would love to get some developers on and plus this would be my first rom ever and I would need help to build this rom
People usually root to get rid of touchwiz.
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I know that people root to get rid of touchwiz but I would like to port touchwiz to galaxy nexus and build it to be better then touchwiz from Samsung
I'm sorry. Looks like you're alone on that boat.
Good luck though
Take a look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535715
i will help anyone who want to get touchwiz ported over to galaxy nexus
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i will help anyone who want to get touchwiz ported over to galaxy nexus
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Not to question you, but do you actually have the skills to do this? Something like this is not an easy task for people that know what they are doing so when you say you will help, does than mean you will test or can you actually contribute?
While some do not like TW, I do not understand why people would complain if there are more options for you phone. If you do not like it, move on to something else but don't tell people not to do it.
If the new TW was ported with all the new features in the SGS3 I am sure people would jump on it. Even the TW haters.
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I would love to port touchwiz over to galaxy nexus and I would love to get some developers on and plus this would be my first rom ever and I would need help to build this rom
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why????????????????????
Bigjim1488 said:
why????????????????????
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Compared to sense its a God sent oh how I hate sense ui
by me, for me and I love you
Galaxy s3 end of this month, why bother???
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may just start project with port galaxy s3 to nexus
This is blasphemy...that is all
LOL, why in the world would you want to have touchwiz on the nexus?
As I say that, it's better than sense 4.0. Nothing is better than stock ICS imo.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
U can install it as a normal apk, or if u're rooted u can also push it to /system/app to enable delete apps directly from app drawer. In that same section u'll find another thread with tw launcher. This is of course TW4. Anyways, i've lived the tw experience and my final thought was "i'm never going back" , it was for sure my worst android experience.
And finally, as a response to the guy that claims that tw is a God in comparison to sense, i would propose to go jump off a cliff. They both suck and are no way close to vanilla feel, but if i had to choose between those 2 , i would go with sense, i've tried all sense versions up to sense 3.5 and neither tw3 nor tw4 are not even close.
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rayiskon said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
U can install it as a normal apk, or if u're rooted u can also push it to /system/app to enable delete apps directly from app drawer. In that same section u'll find another thread with tw launcher. This is of course TW4. Anyways, i've lived the tw experience and my final thought was "i'm never going back" , it was for sure my worst android experience.
And finally, as a response to the guy that claims that tw is a God in comparison to sense, i would propose to go jump off a cliff. They both suck and are no way close to vanilla feel, but if i had to choose between those 2 , i would go with sense, i've tried all sense versions up to sense 3.5 and neither tw3 nor tw4 are not even close.
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A bit much there. Some people like like touchwiz because of some of the features it brings to the table that, quite frankly, should be in the Galaxy Nexus. The one that is bothering the HELL out of me right now is Wifi-Direct.
The S2, running Gingerbread, has a fully functioning, built-in Wifi-Direct Application. The Nexus? Does not. (Also every single video codec native to it without needing an app)
The S3, will have a better camera app, S-Beam, and a whole host of other features, that are only included with TouchWiz.
The features I've mentioned are not limited by the hardware differences between the S2 or even the S3 in comparison to the Nexus.
It's not always about looks, it's about features as well. I doubt telling someone to go jump off a cliff if they don't agree with your opinion on design is warranted.
Not a fan of touchwiz or sense
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Jump off a cliff was metaphoric of course (didn't expect i would need to explain that). Anyways, all this stuff is a matter of taste, and yes there are people who like tw, for whatever reasons. As i mentioned i spent time in both worlds, the only feature I liked in tw was the memo app. The features in sense such as widgets (weather, stocks, htc email, news feed and so on), more practical and nicer lockscreen, better transition and scrolling animations, recent apps and settings shortcuts in starus bar, and visually nicer and more colorful UI etc... plus, the whole general feel and smoothness of sense, i'm not talking about sense 4, although htc will polish the software on one x in future updates. Unless someone hadn't lived with both UI's his/her arguements are not valid.
Anyways back on topic, the "features" u mentioned in ur post above are directly integrated into the samsung framework and other system files, and u can see the progress of such ports in the gnex dev section. But that's not the point, people who NEED TW features should go and buy samsung phones with tw, gnex is clearly not the best choice for them.
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OK some of you guys need to understand that if wants to bring TW to the galaxy nexus so be it. I'm tired of reading crap about how "why would you want it" if you don't want it don't flash it when there's a touchwiz rom simple as that. Don't sit here and tell him you hate TW for what ever reason. He is asking for help to port it. If u are not going to contribute then don't say anything at all.
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Why buy a gnex if you want a manufacturer overlay?
Seems kind of strange to me. I got a gnex because I wanted pure google.
The Sensation forum is also full of people complaining they don't want sense.
It's all very strange, like buying a vw golf and being disappointed that you can't put a 7 litre v10 in it.
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Why buy a gnex if you want a manufacturer overlay?
Seems kind of strange to me. I got a gnex because I wanted pure google.
The Sensation forum is also full of people complaining they don't want sense.
It's all very strange, like buying a vw golf and being disappointed that you can't put a 7 litre v10 in it.
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So you're last sentence is inferring the Galaxy Nexus is a mid range Android "vehicle" and Sense is a more advanced custom engine that it can't handle?
I know that's not what you meant, but the analogy was hmm
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ok so i wanted to know if its possible to port the touchwiz ui to the galaxy nexus from the galaxy s3 im sure there is a post on this but i couldnt find it i like touch wiz so i was curious
Alpha_wolf said:
ok so i wanted to know if its possible to port the touchwiz ui to the galaxy nexus from the galaxy s3 im sure there is a post on this but i couldnt find it i like touch wiz so i was curious
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As of yet it hasn't been done, its possible but certainly not easy. You can watch the CNS developing thread although the dev hasn't said anything in a long time.
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sensation lover said:
As of yet it hasn't been done, its possible but certainly not easy. You can watch the CNS developing thread although the dev hasn't said anything in a long time.
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you think it would need a rom bas like cm10 or slim bean i mean i know its not gonna be a full port but a skin on the rom which is i think as close as it gets
Personally, I dont like TouchWiz. But if you are running CM10 or some other custom ROM, I'm sure you can get a TouchWiz feel with launchers, themes and keyboards. Im sure there are TouchWiz apps around too if you search for them. Thats probably the closest you'll get
EDIT: A few things I found that you may like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1899537
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928929
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thomassafca.theme.touchwiz&hl=en
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Personally, I dont like TouchWiz. But if you are running CM10 or some other custom ROM, I'm sure you can get a TouchWiz feel with launchers, themes and keyboards. Im sure there are TouchWiz apps around too if you search for them. Thats probably the closest you'll get
EDIT: A few things I found that you may like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1899537
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928929
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thomassafca.theme.touchwiz&hl=en
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kewl thanx
ok now what about the lock screen lol i wanna have the ripple but the live wallpaper has to be on my homescreens and i dont like it there lol
Nothing for that lock screen AFAI can find....I'm having some GSIII envy too lol
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jimmyco2008 said:
Nothing for that lock screen AFAI can find....I'm having some GSIII envy too lol
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widget locker
invisible tabs
blank png file (invisible icon)
and app shortcuts at the bottom
no ripple effect but damn close to it
Thanks for the info, but ripple or bust for me :/
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Thanks for the info, but ripple or bust for me :/
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You look at a lockscreen for less than 4 seconds while unlocking. I hardly think that a fancy lockscreen is necessary.
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chefthomas99 said:
You look at a lockscreen for less than 4 seconds while unlocking. I hardly think that a fancy lockscreen is necessary.
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ya i went back to the stock one with some slider shortcuts instead
Sell your Galaxy Nexus and buy a S3.
I'll never understand why people like TouchWiz, or any of the other layovers like Sense & MotoBlur.
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Sell your Galaxy Nexus and buy a S3.
I'll never understand why people like TouchWiz, or any of the other layovers like Sense & MotoBlur.
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i think its the ablity to choose it when you want it im back to stock android for now
I have got a touchwiz port booting !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4cvzfB_4U i can open a tread in the development section only i won' t support it so much that it will be a open development so everybody may send their fixes and together we will build a good rom this is a port of the i9260 ( GALAXY PREMIER/ GALAXY POP)
BTW MODS IF I WANT TO MAKE SUCH A TREAD SHOULD I PUT IT IN
Galaxy Nexus Android Development or Galaxy Nexus Developer Discussion [Developers Only]
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I have got a touchwiz port booting !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4cvzfB_4U i can open a tread in the development section only i won' t support it so much that it will be a open development so everybody may send their fixes and together we will build a good rom this is a port of the i9260 ( GALAXY PREMIER/ GALAXY POP)
BTW MODS IF I WANT TO MAKE SUCH A TREAD SHOULD I PUT IT IN
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ok will it work on the vzw one tho
wad3g said:
Sell your Galaxy Nexus and buy a S3.
I'll never understand why people like TouchWiz, or any of the other layovers like Sense & MotoBlur.
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Sense is pretty cool, so is the xperia UI, anything else is just meh
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ok will it work on the vzw one tho
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Its confirmed to run on sprint gnex ,but because of same hardware of all these devices .you can run it on verizon version too. to play it safe i will add a boot.img pack for all the models. Btw i will open the tread later after school i think
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Its confirmed to run on sprint gnex ,but because of same hardware of all these devices .you can run it on verizon version too. to play it safe i will add a boot.img pack for all the models. Btw i will open the tread later after school i think
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You don't need to replace the boot image. All the Gnex variations use the same kernel.
Unless you compiled your own kernel?
Either way, I might be in on dev for this, downloading the Premier kernel source now, will see what I can't replace with gnex stuff (driver wise), the phones are pretty similar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1669190
I use to run this.... Read through it and see if it works for you.
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You don't need to replace the boot image. All the Gnex variations use the same kernel.
Unless you compiled your own kernel?
Either way, I might be in on dev for this, downloading the Premier kernel source now, will see what I can't replace with gnex stuff (driver wise), the phones are pretty similar.
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I will open the tread today if my internet won't ask like a b*tch. Yesterday it was uploading at only 1kbps .The kernel is just the cm10 kernel with a modded bootclasspath to boot this rom.
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I can't be the only one to miss it.. don't think a ROM exists but maybe some themes or hell, even the HTC clock/weather widget would be kind of nice.
Anyone else?
Nope.
Sense is a huge resource eater in HTC, why bring it to Gnex?
There are plenty of widgets for that.
Not gonna happen since there aren't any TI based HTC phones.
blasphemy!
Search for themes and apps in the play store and even a simple google search. You can find enough stuff to at least make your phone feel somewhat like sense if you REALLY want that ugliness.
Sense slows down the phone since it is a huge memory hog but your best bet for a sense rom would be taking to the sense4all team if they still exist
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Sense slows down the phone since it is a huge memory hog but your best bet for a sense rom would be taking to the sense4all team if they still exist
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They stopped for the Galaxy Nexus even if they still exist.
Were not seeing any other UI's ported for the Gnex except for what we have now(MiUi, Ubuntu, AOSP, any others?)
All u can do is modify the AOSP UI with themes and apps and zip files to make it feel like new UI.
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Would be nice if we could get a nice sense launcher on gnex. Having all the sense features isn't really necessary.
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eqjunkie829 said:
Would be nice if we could get a nice sense launcher on gnex. Having all the sense features isn't really necessary.
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The Sense launcher is all the features...
What is the difference between the 2 launchers? The only thing that I have noticed is that the S4 launcher has a "Home" page indicator (see picture) is there anything else that's different?
Also when dragging widgets to on-screen...you can see every other page available at the bottom.
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Also when dragging widgets to on-screen...you can see every other page available at the bottom.
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I didn't know that, thanks. I'm just wondering if it's worth going from the S3 touchwiz launcher to the S4 touchwiz launcher.
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I didn't know that, thanks. I'm just wondering if it's worth going from the S3 touchwiz launcher to the S4 touchwiz launcher.
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Pretty sure you can't just put the S4 launcher onto the S3.
There are differences to the Touchwiz framework behind the scenes and, moreover, the S4 sits on Android 4.2.2 whereas the S3 is still on 4.1.1.
EDIT : saw from your sig that you're running T-Mobile's 4.1.2 ... wouldn't make a difference!
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Pretty sure you can't just put the S4 launcher onto the S3.
There are differences to the Touchwiz framework behind the scenes and, moreover, the S4 sits on Android 4.2.2 whereas the S3 is still on 4.1.1.
EDIT : saw from your sig that you're running T-Mobile's 4.1.2 ... wouldn't make a difference!
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What wouldn't make a difference?
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What wouldn't make a difference?
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Being on T-Mo's 4.1.2 instead of the official i747 4.1.1 and meaning it still most probably wouldn't work IMO.
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Being on T-Mo's 4.1.2 instead of the official i747 4.1.1 and meaning it still most probably wouldn't work IMO.
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The S4 Touchwiz launcher does work on the S3 as I've tried it this morning, I just didn't see any difference and reverted back to a backup because i didn't really notice any difference.
Was going to try it out again if there are more features than just the 2 that have been mentioned so far
Actually the s4 launcher works fine on the s3; just the international version though. Nobody has ported it to the at and t version yet.
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Actually the s4 launcher works fine on the s3; just the international version though. Nobody has ported it to the at and t version yet.
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Actually it has been ported and works fine on the SGH-I747M and a lot of other devices.
Check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236937
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Actually it has been ported and works fine on the SGH-I747M and a lot of other devices.
Check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236937
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I call shenanigans. There are a lot of accusations on that thread that that launcher is just a themed SGS3 TW launcher.
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I call shenanigans. There are a lot of accusations on that thread that that launcher is just a themed SGS3 TW launcher.
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I think you're about that
That is not how the s4 launcher looks on that link. Besides the smoothness. The only difference I could see is when adding an item to the page, it shows smaller pages to show where you are.