I just installed CM7 due to some random reboots/freezes with Evervolv (that I attribute to kernel issues since I flashed a new one...nevermind that part right now)
Anyway, I'm having a problem with some widgets. My SetCPU widget works fine, but some aren't - my Juice Plotter widget isn't available to select, nor is my SimiClock widget. I've verified that they are both installed, but they just don't show up when I go to add widgets. Any suggestions?
I use Launcher Pro as my app launcher with two rows of dock buttons that lets me access all my vital apps. On my home screen I like to run the SimiClock widget since it gives me a clock, weather, and battery percent. Below that, I have the SetCPU widget just to keep an eye on frequencies and temp (but I use CM to set the frequencies...) next to that, I run juice plotter to see how much battery I have left - it's a very zen type layout for me, and not having this is screwing with me...
Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.
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Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.
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Thank you so much - that was exactly it! Got my beautiful home screen back now
Just something to keep in mind if you continue having issues with launcherpro and cm7..I basically had to dump launcherpro while running cm7. Launcherpro was my first non-stock launcher and it was what I was happy and familiar with...but once I moved to cm7 it became a nightmare. Constant lockups and forcecloses, my homescreens would lag up..
Now, I know full well it could just be a problem more with my phone and the way I use it than a cm7 or LP issue, but it was a consistent issue that came back any time I tried to move back to LP and went away whenever I moved to another launcher (using GOlauncher now).
If you want to store apps on the sd with functional widgets and all, you'll need to go the ext3 route. Look for the darktremor a2sd thread on here. You'll also need to repartition your sd to create this ext3 partition, so make sure to backup your sd first.
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Most apps I've installed are gone after reboot if stored on the SD card. Can anyone can tell me which applications would work if stored on SD card.
I even tried some games but only works if they on the phone memory.
If you are using launcher pro then there is a bug. I don't know if it with the launcher or ROM but it happens to me and a couple of other people I have read. If you restart your phone then just force close launcherpro, press home button and when it restarts it will see all your apps. I am guessing it is something to do with it loading before the SD card has initialised so it doesn't pick them up. Small price to pay for a great from and a blazing fast launcher though IMO!
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despite the apps going missing from the app drawer in Launcher Pro, it's still possible to add shortcuts to the 'missing' apps on your homescreens
only if you use usb storage they dissapear and dont reappear... go into advanced task killer and kill launcher pro ... press home and all will be fixed
Thnx for info just force close launcher pro and they all back. Also, when you install widgets if they go to sd first then move them to phone and restart the phone only then you can see them.
Hey guys,
no need to 'kill' LauncherPro. Just go to manage apps and clear the defaults for the app. Then press your home button, and reapply the default choice to use LauncherPro. That fixed it for me
I'm debating going to launcher pro but was wondering a little something.
If I just change my default launcher to launcher pro, is sense then disabled or do I have to remove all the sense widgets from my current sense setup first??
I'd like to leave my setup as is and change over to launcher pro, in case i decide to go back to sense.
Thanks all!!
I haven't used Launcher Pro, but have gotten quite familiar with ADW.Launcher. In my experience, you don't have to do anything to Sense when you start using an alternate launcher. If you clear the defaults for your alternate launcher, you can pop right back into Sense and still have everything just the way you left it.
well i was wondering if i set LP as default, can i delete htc sense from phone? like the dock
You don't have to do anything with Sense. You can switch back and forth between the two (download Home Switcher in the market to easily switch back and forth). The only thing is Sense widgets only work with Sense (you can't add the Friendstream widget to one of your screens when using Launcherpro). The dock you see with Sense is different than the dock in Launcherpro.
Yeah, used to go from one to the other when I first started dealing with the different launchers. Can still have your regular "Sense" setup and switch between your "ADW" launcher (or even LPro for that matter). Pretty handy and quick. Just hit the home button when not checked as default. If you need that home button to display all screens at once, there are swipe functions for that.
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well i was wondering if i set LP as default, can i delete htc sense from phone? like the dock
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If you are rooted you can delete /system/app/rosie.apk, but it wouldn't really provide any benefit. It doesn't start automatically and take up ram or anything.
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I have tried this on a couple roms so far, same problem.
I have Fresh Evo running currently, with Launcher Pro as my choice for daily use.
Before it was Baked Snack.
Every time I reboot, or change battery, etc, I have to go through the default choice again. It won't save. I've checked through applications and once they're set all looks fine. I do know how to set them that way as well.
But once the phone has been cycled, I have to give the choice again at start and when exiting gmail or the first app I exit.
Anyone else know of this? Fix? Ideas?
I don't think it's a rom issue, which would be a lot easier to get an answer for.
Thanks.
please forgive me if this sounds silly or has already been asked/answered. I have searched the forums but couldn't find anything related, maybe due to it being either a given or silly question.
What's the rule-of-thumb when it comes to running multiple launchers? If one is currently active, are the others running in the background? Should I be concerned with battery and memory resources?
I currently main Go Launcher EX, but have also purchased ADW Launcher EX (loved it on the Eris), and Launcher Pro Plus. All are installed... I switch between them occasionally, and tend to go back to Go Launcher EX.
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no takers??
thanx anyway.
I'm not sure either, but I use titanium pro, and it lets you freeze the launchers or apps you aren't using, so they don't appear in the app drawer. When you want to use it again, just defrost it. Hope this helps.
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I'm not sure either, but I use titanium pro, and it lets you freeze the launchers or apps you aren't using, so they don't appear in the app drawer. When you want to use it again, just defrost it. Hope this helps.
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Thanx for the advice! I'll use Bloat Freezer to disable the ones I'm not using!
I'm not positive but once you set one as your default launcher I'm pretty sure the others you have installed do not run in the background. So you shouldn't have to worry about battery life if you have more than 1 downloaded and installed. I am using Go EX now but I also have adw ex installed. Have you checked out the honeycomb theme for go launcher ex? I like it a lot.
I use LauncherPro and I know when I switch over to rosie every now and then, the HTC loading screen appears for a few seconds before showing my home screens, so it's not running in the background (at least not at any capacity worth noting). If you switch constantly without ever rebooting your phone it may be a different story.
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I have 4 currently installed and notice no difference from when I first got my phone.
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awesome! Thanx for the replies! I've removed Launcher Pro and kept Go EX and ADW EX. At the moment, I haven't figured out how they're different, but like Go EX better because it doesn't do the 180 degree screen flip thingy. I remember ADW having an option of disabling that on my Eris, but I haven't been able to find it.
I am not familiar with Launcher.
If I have multiple launcher on my phone, do I able to switch between them from time to time?
Do I need root rights to do this?
I am using HTC sense and would like to try android default launcher or others.
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I am not familiar with Launcher.
If I have multiple launcher on my phone, do I able to switch between them from time to time?
Do I need root rights to do this?
I am using HTC sense and would like to try android default launcher or others.
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Yup you can switch between them as often as you'd like no root permission are required.
Home switcher for froyo works great.
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If its not you're main launcher, its not running..no need to freeze the others
I often get the circling arrow type of refresh notification when trying to open the drawer in launchers like Apex and Nova. I have the latest radio and set my build.prop to keep launcher in memory. I have almost 200 apps. Is there any way to make ameliorate the problem? It "refreshes" way too often and takes way too much time. I've been using Smart Task Bar and even when installing new apps, as far as I can recall, it has never made me wait to show all apps. What do you guys think is the problem here? Would moving apps to SD help? I vaguely recall it makes the startup slower.
You cannot lock the home launcher process in memory via the build.prop like you can with GB in ICS.
Second, I feel like Smart Taskbar is hijacking the launcher process and as such your home launcher is not getting the appropriate priority it needs to stay in memory. Every time you see the app reloading animation that means your launcher has been killed and has reloaded.
You should try V6 Supercharger to reprioritize your home launcher and unfortunately, uninstall Smart Taskbar since if it's using the launcher priority you will always have to deal with a reloading launcher since it'll be killed very often.
On a different device (and possibly Android version) I'm sure Smart Taskbar would be great, but if it's sitting behind all your tasks, all the time, it's using up memory, which is why your launcher keeps getting killed.
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Apex launcher has been fine for me, and I'm at around 160 apps now.
"Move to SD" moves the app to the FAT32 portion of the SD card, which would be much slower overall. I'm using SD-ext which still shows as installed to internal, but all the apps are on an sd-ext partition of the SD card (moving to SD would be pointless from there as it's already on the SD just on a faster/leaner ext4 partition). Besides some applications simply do not like being stored/run from a FAT32 partition.
Thanks for the replies. Although when flashing andromo I picked to have supercharger installed, following your advice, I chose to reinstall via directions from the supercharger thread with script manager and the .sh file. Works better now with less refreshing of launcher. Added bonus, global touch responsiveness significantly improved.
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For quite some time I've been using Nova Launcher (Prime) to my full satisfaction.
Unfortunately, today I noticed that the widgets on my homescreen have ceased to update properly. The widgets affected are Zooper Widget and Simple RSS Widget. The former updates extremely slowly and the latter refuses to update at all.
Now, of course I contacted the developers of those apps first but a quick search on Google informed me that the problem seems to lie within the launcher in use. So, I tried clearing Nova Launcher's cache and restarting the launcher, but unfortunately to no avail. The widgets update only once after but cease to update subsequently.
Anybody here got any suggestions? I'm at a loss.
Do you have greenify running at all? if you are, itll be a good idea to put Nova, Zooper etc all under the exceptions list. this will ensure that they do not hibernate therefore eliminating the possibility of the widgets not updating.
also, you may want to look into other (Task/Ram) cleaner apps such as CM Cleaner where you again may need to put these respective apps into the exceptions list. This is of course if you have this sort of app installed and running.
Worth a shot.
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Do you have greenify running at all? if you are, itll be a good idea to put Nova, Zooper etc all under the exceptions list. this will ensure that they do not hibernate therefore eliminating the possibility of the widgets not updating.
also, you may want to look into other (Task/Ram) cleaner apps such as CM Cleaner where you again may need to put these respective apps into the exceptions list. This is of course if you have this sort of app installed and running.
Worth a shot.
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Thank you for your quick response!
Good thinking! I have no task killer installed, though, so that could not be the problem.
It does look like a hibernating issue, I just don't know what causes it.
Items like temperature, date etc. do update in Zooper. Also the 'on-click action' works. But if I try to move an item, the widget seems to be non-responsive.
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Thank you for your quick response!
Good thinking! I have no task killer installed, though, so that could not be the problem.
It does look like a hibernating issue, I just don't know what causes it.
Items like temperature, date etc. do update in Zooper. Also the 'on-click action' works. But if I try to move an item, the widget seems to be non-responsive.
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You're welcome.
I once had a similar issue Nova when trying to move widgets around....although that was a long time ago. If I remember correctly, I just cleared cache and data for Nova and even went into nova setting and reset everything to default. That worked for me. But I think you mentioned that you have already tried that right?
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You're welcome.
I once had a similar issue Nova when trying to move widgets around....although that was a long time ago. If I remember correctly, I just cleared cache and data for Nova and even went into nova setting and reset everything to default. That worked for me. But I think you mentioned that you have already tried that right?
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Thanks for the tip, but as you said, I've already tried that to no avail.
Update: What seems to happen now is that widgets do update, but it takes about 15 min.
Have you updated the apps recently? Have you tried to clear cache for those apps?
same problem here.
umi max stock no root
no ubdate to the widgets at all
have you find any solution ?
Don't know if still relevant or not but the way I fixed this is going to settings/apps/nova launcher/permissions and enabling all permissions.
Open Nova Settings. Click and hold volume down button for few seconds. Labs option will be enabled. Goto Labs and there you will find restart widgets on resume.