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Aversion to LauncherPro?

I ran a few searches and while there are some topics on other sub-forums just thought I'd ask here. Is there a general aversion to using this app?
I've used it on all the ROM's I've flashed and have found that it is more efficient than a stock launcher. It most often runs smoother as well especially the app drawer.
I know there are many who use it here, but overall rosie's get the win on XDA hance all the rosie/Sense mods.
Is it because it is not an open source launcher? Is it the aesthetics? Is there such a thing as "Android Purists"?
What say you!

I love it but won't use it because i love my sense widgets too much and it acts funny.with widget locker
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Been using it since almost Day 1. I change backgrounds and clocks fairly often. Wouldn't use anything else.

You lose all the sense widgets. And in the new sense roms which have been ported to the inc, there are great new ones - so on the new sense roms I can't afford to use launcher unless they have equivalent widgets.
I use launcher pro on cm6.1 which is an aosp rom. There it is the better option because I don't have any possibility of getting the sense widgets anyways...
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Thanks for the replies so far! I use one widget (smooth calender) and forgot about all the sense widgets folks like to use.

I use launcher pro as well. I think its a great home replacement. Gives great options in settings to change almost everything. I currently just have it set to give me 3 home screens and that is it. I don't need any more than that currently.
I replaced the Sense widgets with beautiful widgets and extended controls. I also love launcher pro's ability to make custom shortcuts that can take you directly a page in the setting menus that may be 2 to 3 pages in. Saves a lot of time as I currently have one set directly to the development page. Have to turn that thing on to use PDAnet.(The 3g hotspot just doesn't work for me very well as it drops my laptop every 10 minutes and then it cannot join it again till I restart the hotspot on the phone.)
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I never really liked senses giant phone button at the bottom of the screen all the time. With launcher Pro I can make the dock look like stock android. Once I made the switch I never went back

boomertwo said:
I use launcher pro as well. I think its a great home replacement. Gives great options in settings to change almost everything. I currently just have it set to give me 3 home screens and that is it. I don't need any more than that currently.
I replaced the Sense widgets with beautiful widgets and extended controls. I also love launcher pro's ability to make custom shortcuts that can take you directly a page in the setting menus that may be 2 to 3 pages in. Saves a lot of time as I currently have one set directly to the development page. Have to turn that thing on to use PDAnet.(The 3g hotspot just doesn't work for me very well as it drops my laptop every 10 minutes and then it cannot join it again till I restart the hotspot on the phone.)
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I never really liked senses giant phone button at the bottom of the screen all the time. With launcher Pro I can make the dock look like stock android. Once I made the switch I never went back
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Launcher Pro is great, and Launcher Pro Plus is worth every bit of $2.99. It's one of the only apps I've paid for and it has all of the sense widgets; including multiple bookmark and calendar widgets for example. In addition, having the ability to resize any widget to your liking I find makes it that much more attractive. Like you also said the shortcut option basically eliminates the need for apps like Bettercut. And of course the obvious options to change docks and icons make it a fun alternative for people.

Good stuff I've always like LP as well and got the + version as soon as it went live. A lot of proponents so far!

I think i remember seeing something that the dev of Launcher Pro asked that it not be cooked into custom roms

Therev29 said:
I think i remember seeing something that the dev of Launcher Pro asked that it not be cooked into custom roms
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If the stock launcher isn't used, they cook ADW or launcher 2 into ROMs. But you always have the option of installing LP and even removing the launcher you had previously

Looking for App Drawer Catagories

I see lots of the new phones have categories built into the app drawer. It seems like this would be really useful.
Anyone know of a 3rd party launcher that will do this? I "could" organize my touchwiz screens manually (just by screen number) but it seems like it would be a big pain. So a launcher with built in ability to categorize stuff would be nice.
I see adw EX is $0.10 today only, does that have this feature by chance?

ADW EX does have that feature and imo is the overall best launcher on the market. I use that and Android Pro Widgets and left Launcherpro behind me quite awhile ago. Performance is great, doesn't chew up resources or battery, great options and customization. Definitely worth 10 cents lol.
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Go launcher can have folders you can group your icons into. Free in the market.

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Go launcher can have folders you can group your icons into. Free in the market.
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So do most other launchers on the market.
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Can some one point me to a screenshot of this in action? I'm looking for categories in the app launcher, not folders (I already have folders through touchwiz).
I tried the free adw and launcher pro, and zeem launcher and haven't found any category options.
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Just buy ADW EX. I swear to you it's the best launcher out there, and most definitely has that feature included.
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One that I really like is Tag Home, you might want to give it a try. Comes in Donut (1.6), Eclair (2.1) and Frozen Yogurt (2.2)+ flavors.
Sorry, can't post links without more posts under my belt.
Depending on my mood I switch between it and ADW.
You can add your apps to multiple categories and also give each app a priority level to be higher in the list than its default alphabetic location.
It's the only launcher I've been able to find that has categories that you can actually see which one you're using (for those occasions where you have several apps in common in more than one category).
If only it had integration with Apps Organizer (and therefore Titanium Backup) it would be near perfect.
No way to have fewer that 3 home screens, and no transparency on the app drawer are the only VERY minor things I'd prefer different.

How do you feel about Sense 4.0

Seriously, I did not like it on my WinMo5 phone. I still don't like it on my 1X.
cons found so far:
- Launcher crashes when you add a widget too wide for the current screen
- Launcher eats so much memory it crashes randomly (or at least, pressing home gives you a loading spinner for a short while)
- Contacts app looks ancient, froyo style.
- CLOOOOCKS ! Why do they need a dozen clocks, each eating storage for nothing.
- IME is weird. Used smartkeyboard pro before finding the basic ICS one perfect.
- No power toggles in the drawer
- No widgets in the drawer.
- Lock screen seems twitchy, phone tried to call from my pocket this morning.
- Most of the app skins are really ugly compared to ICS' ones (settings, contacts..)
Don't get me wrong, the phone is a real beast. Even with sense obviously cluttering the performance, it's a real breeze, it's really fast as hell. Once we get a clean ICS build, I can only imagine how faster it'll get.

First real user review of Sense 4.0, thanks. I'd have to agree with you on some of these, esp the Contacts/Dialer looks like it hasn't changed at all.

only thing I like about sense is the lockscreen (weather skin is amazing!) and answerscreen
settings menu is also nice now
I hate the launcher.. always changed it, I mean it only looks good with the htc clock but then you only get 2 rows for apps on the homescreen..meh
so yea I wonder why so many people praize sense and it feels odd that htc was the only one who could make a animated lockscreen..

Please tell me what is the point of an animated lockscreen? I really don't like knowing my phone is using juice to show me some nice floating clouds.

Is it even possible for a capacitive touch screen phone to pocket dial unless you've got your hand in there with it?
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eyecandy mostly I always like seeing that animation, it also gives it a high tech feeling like it's suposed to be
a wow factor for people who grab your phone as well
some care about it.. some don't , I do.

I cannot imagine what you are doing with your phone thats causing so much crashes ... i would suggest looking at your apps and stuff first ...
Of course, most apps are not yet ICS optimized and causes memory issues and what not ... so not necessary that its HTC Sense's fault !!

Crashes are frequent and Sense starts pretty fast, but it's definitely not my apps. Crashed a few time without installing a single thing. Anyway, stable or not, ICS base launcher is way better, IMHO.

I like the new lock screen showing your unread messages but I dont like the email app. The font size is too big even when set to small.
I have a Sensation and there was a smallest setting that worked really well. Its like they made the fonts too large over compensating for the higher resolution of the screen.

I had my One X for 4 days now and I have to say I can't wait to get a rom without Sense. I hope for CM9 since I am coming from a Galaxy S with CM9.
The Lockscreen that launches 4 Apps is the only good thing about sense.

I actually love the look and feel of Sense 4.0, can't agree with you.

ICS builds I tested had ring lockscreen with up to 8 shortcuts.
EDIT: ok, now everytime I hit the "home" button, sense reloads -_-'

I might be wrong but didn't Google say that every phone using ICS should provide an option to the user to use stock launcher..am sure read on some tech blog....I dont have the phone, but if thats the case then in theory u should be able to clear the default setting for sense launcher in settings/apps menu and hopefully then get a prompt to select launcher
either way...do let me know , if this works
Edit :- or else there's always Go Launcher (with ICS theme done by the GOLauncher Team)
Cheers,
M

meletios said:
I might be wrong but didn't Google say that every phone using ICS should provide an option to the user to use stock launcher..am sure read on some tech blog....I dont have the phone, but if thats the case then in theory u should be able to clear the default setting for sense launcher in settings/apps menu and hopefully then get a prompt to select launcher
either way...do let me know , if this works
Cheers,
M
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You wish... You have to use sense AND sense keyboard.
I restored from titanium a MeDroidMod Launcher (looks very ICS-ish to me, don't know what has been modded here) backup from my old N1 sd, and it works. Status bar still sensucks, but at least I have a stable and simple ICS launcher without all the candies. According to the app/running/cached memory usage value, the launcher eats 22Mo where Sense ate 55...

meletios said:
I might be wrong but didn't Google say that every phone using ICS should provide an option to the user to use stock launcher..am sure read on some tech blog....I dont have the phone, but if thats the case then in theory u should be able to clear the default setting for sense launcher in settings/apps menu and hopefully then get a prompt to select launcher
either way...do let me know , if this works
Edit :- or else there's always Go Launcher (with ICS theme done by the GOLauncher Team)
Cheers,
M
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I remember the statement but if it's only to include the launcher then it's pointless
even on stock ics everyone gets nova or apex launcher lol, think they'll have to use the default android skin as well
btw. it only has sense launcher now

As useless Rosie was, it was at least pretty.. sense 4.0 looks like pre ICS stock android, and doesnt seem to be much less bloated.
Thankz god we have XDA, just a pity ure buying a phone knowing you wont be able to fully enjoy as stock.

You are using apex or nova, maybe. But surely not everybody. All the people around me like the stock ics. Why bloat the OS ? For a colored battery bar ?
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ok Sense 4.0 looks great, BUT what happened to the wonderful rotating carousel? Now Sense rotates three screens to the right, then you have to come all the way back to get to screens to the left of the home screen. Surely it would have been easier to let Sense rotate through all the screens, making selection far faster?

I'd like it (the widgets are AWESOME) IF it
- didn't crash all the time
- had 5 rows as an option!!!!!!!
running nova now due to the crashing. Unbelievable how unoptimised it is

If I could have 6 rows instead of 4 I'd use sense launcher instead of nova, i mean we have a 4,7" 720 screen and it's just a big waste of space to have 4x4 grid, and I really don't like the cube style flipping, I feel a bit old for that. I even disable wallpaper scroll. I want it clean and smooth.

Sense 4.0 what do you think?

Ok Sense 4.0 looks great, BUT what happened to the wonderful rotating carousel? Now from the home screen you can move to the right by three screens, then you have to come all the way back and then move to the left. Crazy it would have been so much quicker to allow Sense to rotate and plus it looked good.

Completely true, I so miss that feature.
I hope by some hack I can regain that feature on my One X with sense 4.0.

I don't miss the carousel, I think it looked really good, don't get me wrong, but the number of times that just because I have moved a bit to fast from one screen to the next did pee me off when it wold shoot past the screen I wanted and go into the carousel. I do miss the continuous home screen scrolling mind.
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First I missed the carrousel also (since one day I own a HOX!) , but the fastest way I select a screen is minimizing the screen till you see the 5 screens and selecting the one I want by tipping on it. Just as fast as it is

You can still use a third party launcher for that feature whilst keeping the rest of Sense.

Tiersten, what third party app will do the carousel with Sense 4?

Radiognome said:
Tiersten, what third party app will do the carousel with Sense 4?
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ADW Launcher EX can do it but the 3 dot menu bar appears which isn't good. Investigating other launchers now...

Apex launcher is my launcher of choice
Free, fast, and really customisable allowing you to have a continuos scroll etc and 'tab overview' and you don't have a three dot menu. plus it can use ADW themes
would post a link but i'm too new apparently...

I think its miles better than stock androideek: blasphemy I know), it would be perfect if it didn't require so many resources.

Anyone Not using Nova?

If so why?

I use to use Nova Prime all the time. I stopped using it when I beta tested One Ui with the Note9 and just never went back.
I think now that Hex is out and samsung seems to have everything I really want now, I just have little interest in it anymore.

I still use nova
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Still use mine to haven't found any that is better[emoji16]
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jbuggy1 said:
Still use mine to haven't found any that is better[emoji16]
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Same here, I have it running on all of my phones.

I prefer action launcher, but the two are similar.

I use Nova Prime...importing/restoring the same exact settings from my OnePlus One days....

Lawnchair v2 launcher is pretty much like nova, but seems more like the pixel. I get tired of customizing Nova everytime and finding my backups.

I used ADW until Samsung support landscape then haven't switch back

First thing I install after unboxing my new phone. Nova all the way

I used to use nova, then switched to..adw... then now using default launcher.. I'm think I'm done with nova hehe. I may switch back to adw...we will see

then: nova, customize to the max
now: stock launcher at any given day, just set it up and be done with it
reason:
perhaps i feel that its due to the age factor
when i was in my university days (early 20s), i have all the time in the world to tinker around with the device, even rooting it and messing up the phone (yet i still have time to fix/reflash/rom my phone EVEN at the university premises)
now that im closer to my 30s, i just DONT have the time to mess around with my phone anymore.
work/reality/love has taken over my time which i just cant afford to allocate for phone tinkering.
not to mention Android has also matured over the years.. back when it was just kitkat or jellybean, there were TONS of mods
but now that most of those mods have baked in to the system, i just dont see any reason for me to mess around with the phone anymore.
i just use whatever that is provided by the phone.
even stock launcher feels sufficient nowadays (one ui launcher, oxygen os launcher, etc)

App launch animations on nova are very bad, its either one ui home or lawnchair v2 with pie animations.

I used ADW waaay back in the day, probably around my Note 2 or Note 3 days. Have used Nova since, it is so much better than the stock launcher even though the stock launcher has improved greatly. Nova still has so many more things you can do than the stock launcher. Plus very easy backup and restore from one device to another. I can't see a single reason to stop using Nova, it is just that much better overall IMHO.

I use Hyperion Launcher now days. Saw an article about it a few weeks ago and decided to give it a go. Im enjoying it quite a bit.

Been using nova for 3 days now..... been having some weird pop up " You're using full screen mode, Home, Back and Recent Button are hidden...blah blah blah "
How do you guys stop this from happening....

Want to use but can't get the fingerprint scanner to always show up on aod and iris recognition not working on lock screen unless I use the default launcher..

I normally always use Nova, but on the Note 10+, with gesture controls enabled, I find that the dock is too low on the phone. I tried increasing the padding, but it didn't really do much. Not sure if anybody else feels the same.

I have been switching between Lawnchair v2 and one ui. I like the stock launcher for the most part but I really like my Google feed to the left of the home screen.

+1 for Nova.