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Motoblur Homescreen "Feature"

Hello,
new to Android, so please bear with me. I just discovered yet another Motoblur "Feature" which I dont understand, and would like to get rid of.
When I switch between Homescreen pages, a little bar with point symbols and a red House symbol in the middle appears at the bottom of the screen, obscuring the phone and contacts buttons. The bar is partly transparent and disappears after a short moment.
Can anybody explain what this is, and how to get rid of this?
thanks,
Christian

Home Screen Changer
This is the homescreen quick-changer / display-- basically it shows you what homescreen you are on, and if you press one of the dots it changes to that number homescreen.
Also I do not know how to remove it, but if you go to the marketplace and download either: launcherpro, ADW Launcher, HE Launcher, Zeam, etc etc then you will no longer have to use the crappy motoblur one

Since i had ADW launcher installed i had that "feature" no longer, i can customize my home screen in the way i want. So go for ADW launcher, or also, go for launcherPro, which is another free and good one.

[Q] Sense rom that allows status bar to be moved to bottom

As per title. I rooted my dhd a couple of weeks ago and installed cyanogenmod. It's great, although there were a few things I missed about sense. The camera app, the people widget, the high quality profile pictures pulled from facebook for my contacts, and the phone app. But cyanogen pulled a surprise on me by allowing me to move my status bar to the bottom. The cover I have for my phone has a strip that runs along the top of my screen that makes it hard to grab the status bar, so having it on the bottom is great. But the one thing I miss most from sense is being able to zoom mobile web pages. I downloaded and flashed honey sense last night, and while the new lock screen is lovely, all I want is a rom that lets me zoom mobile websites, and move my status bar to the bottom. Any ideas?

Any of the Sense ROMs should alow you to zoom and automatically resize web pages.
As for the Notifications bar, you can use Menu -> Notifications

I know I can click menu/notifications but that doesn't work unless I'm on a homescreen. All the sense roms I've tried have allowed me to zoom, what I was looking for is something that has sense so I can have the zoom functionality on mobile web pages, but has the option to move the status bar to the bottom like cyanogen.

None that I know of.
One of the earlier CoreDroid ROMs did have 360 roatable Rosie on all screens, including Home (5.3 I think).
But I have not come across any that let you to move the notifiaction bar, sorry.

[Q] Dumb down defy? + w/ wificalling

I convinced my dad to get a waterproof smartphone for the free wifi calling.
Its his first smartphone and he wants me to lock down the phone so he doesnt mess anything up. Hes quite talented that way.
This thread says some of the roms dont have tmobile uma wifi calling
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931972&page=3
I dont have the post count for that forum.
In new to android and dont know which rom to use? Motorblur has to go lol.
Phone has a red lens.
He doesnt have a data plan only wifi. He will mostly use wifi for calling but might read email and check weather once in a while but wont be surfing the web or playing games or anything.
If i could i would like a launcher with a single home screen with only about 10 apps and they would be locked from moving. There would be a largish call dock icon on the bottom and a clock widget near the top. The notification bar would have the date and a longer battery icon.
While on the home screen, the menu button would turn a flashlight on and off and the search button would launch the music player. Hitting the home button five times and entering a password would bring up the list of all the installed apps so i could go to the settings or market etc to change things.
The notification bar woud have slightly bigger icon and when swiped down would also show wifi and bluetooth controls like on my moms samsung galaxy. Also liker hers the lock screen would change to the puzzle piece swipe when theres a new message.

Get a custom launcher like Go Launcher EX and hide all the apps you dont want to use from the launcher
Stuff like browser I is a bad idea to remove, just hide the icon to launch it.
For WiFi intensive, I'd suggest going with a stock Blurless Froyo, since CM7 could have some issues when using WiFi.

Adw ex has an option to lock the homescreen so nothing moves. You can set it to be one page and lock it.
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adw launcher works pretty good! I was able to remove all but the one main desktop screen and then lock it. Had to set desktop overshoot to 0 to stop screen from bouncing when flicked.
Where would i ask for the following requests.
-Wider dock bar icons. having 3 or 5 dialer icons on the dock looks crappy lol.
-taller dock bar icon.
-menu button turns a flashlight app on and off
-search button launches a music player app
-home button works normally and goes home, if pressed 30 times in a row then brings up menu for me to get to settings/wallpaper/unlock/app drawer.

I am not sure on ADW EX but Go Launcher EX have the option of changing the dock background. Just use a picture with just 2 or 3 icons as back ground and use transparent icons. I set this way to mimic original DEFY launcher home with just Phone and Contacts in the dock bar. Attached the files here. Got it from here only but forgot the original post.
*** Note sure if I have explained it properly here

Try Launcher 7. You can lock the screen so icons can't be moved, and hide the rest from the app list. MIUI it's simple and easy to use, was great for my wife to learn Android, CM7 can get kind of confusing for some people.
Swyped from my MIUI 1.9.23 Defy

Angelus47 I dont like launcher 7 cant put enough icons/tiles on one screen.
Does MIUI have tmobile wifi calling app?
pprakash Is it better to have button image on the dock background and transparent icons over or is it better to cut the button image across several icon sized wide pieces.
In adw launcher the dock background is set by the theme. Im not sure how to create a theme. On the other hand if i didnt scale the split icons pieces to the right size there would be gaps between them I think.
Right now i have one visual voicemail on the left, one messaging on the right and three dialers in the middle.

perhaps i could find where the images for themes are stored and replace the dock backround image for the default theme.

tmiket said:
pprakash Is it better to have button image on the dock background and transparent icons over or is it better to cut the button image across several icon sized wide pieces.
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With Go Launcher EX I find having the single image as background provided slightly bigger images rather than using individual icons. But I have attached individual icons as well here hopefully it helps you ..

[Q] Problem with status-bar and background

hi all, I have the HTC One X from about 4 months and i've this following problem:
When I open the Sense running app menu (by pressing the multitasking softkey), if I'm going to close apps with the swipe up, sometimes disappears the background and also the status bar. After about 10 seconds back completely normal.
I state that this happens with all launcher that I've tried and also with the various custom ROM that I have installed (Viper, Ordroid, Blade, etc ...).
It's very strange, i don't know what may be the cause of this problem.
I hope you can help me thanks.
p.s. sorry for my not perfect english

Issues on CM12.1 - Blackened expanded status bar / empty 'recent apps' cards

Hey guys,
I'm right now facing some issues on my D-HD phone, which runs CM 12.1 custom ROM from this forum. Also I'm on the 12.1-20151201-unofficial-aceopt (!) build.
Issues:
a) The background of the untouched Lock screen is blacked out, as soon as I swipe to unlock the intended wallpaper is showing for a sec, then the home screen.
b) The status bar, if swiped down, blacks out the whole screen, popup messages aren't stuck to the bar and are hiding behind it.
I can't do a screenshot of it, due to the behavior of the screenshot option, that is killing the expanded status bar.
c) On the screen for recent apps (by button), ALL app preview screens are empty, only the head bars with the app names are appearing.
My phone was bug free, until I started to test an self-programmed app through Android Studio on it (per ADB, app wasn't complex nor corrupted).
I'm using the standard Trebuchet launcher (though I tested others, to see if it causes the problems), and the "Euphoria Dark Theme for CM12" ,which was also installed before the problems appeared.
I also did several reboots.
I did the full forum and google search, but wasn't able to find issues or solutions that are like this.
Do you have an idea, what am I able to do?
Thank you!

Which i have understand with your issues is that,
1)your are not getting transparent status bar, right?
2) after pulling down your notification panel you get black background in that, right ?
3) your lock screen's background is black , right ?
4) and after all these 3 issues you were also facing no animation in you window/scroll etc, right ?
For those all problem just go to settings>about phone and tap about 7 to 8 time on build number then go back you will see developer option there now tap on that find the option some thing like "force high-end graphics" switch on that and reboot your phone your problems will be solved.
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