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Remove Verizon from the App Drawer

Found this my accident
Remove Verizon from the App Drawer
Press and Hold down the Verizon Logo next to Downloaded then drag up and press Back Arrow

Now that is a good tip! Thank you! I never knew!
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Won't work
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Good tip! I have removed it~

dco it took a couple minutes for me to figure it out too. you have to hold it so it vibrates like you were going to rearrange them. then you can let go. only the verizon button should be lit up. then you put your finger on it and drag it up under the part where it says press and hold icons to rearrange. it should move there instead and then press back

applejacks108 said:
dco it took a couple minutes for me to figure it out too. you have to hold it so it vibrates like you were going to rearrange them. then you can let go. only the verizon button should be lit up. then you put your finger on it and drag it up under the part where it says press and hold icons to rearrange. it should move there instead and then press back
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The key is to bring the app right up to the top left because that is where the app is going. if you don't bring it to that perfect spot were it's going to be it won't take. this help me out a lot thanks but I think this should clear up anyone's confusion. Thanks OP as well, great find all around. man I miss root.

This method also works for other HTC Sense apps that have a similar scrolling
You can do this in Message and Voicemail (even though there is nothing to remove I wanted to remove voice mail), People (Removed online directories), Mail (removed nearly everything), Music (added Genres), News, Quick Lookup, Gallery(remove Flicker), Friend Stream, and when you click on your clock
wont work for Mobile IM

Dude that is amazing! But if you delete something is there a way to re-add it? Sorry if I sound dumb I don't have the Inc2 yet but will next week.

tyvallely said:
Dude that is amazing! But if you delete something is there a way to re-add it? Sorry if I sound dumb I don't have the Inc2 yet but will next week.
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Yup you can just long press on them again
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actually a pretty cool, feature, you can have just the apps like before, or jsut the apps and favorites, or everything.

Worked like a charm...thanks!
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Thanks! this rocks.

ICS 4.0 & All the Little Things! [undocumented features]

Just wondering for those of you who have the device already, have you guys found some neat features/tricks using 4.0 that haven't been documented or heavily advertised?
I would love to make a list of these features for other users to explore...
Lets get this started
List:

Reserved........

I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.

No affiliation with apple. Or siri.
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Nobody's talking about the search app. It's way better than the one in Gingerbread. Much easier to find stuff in your phone : music, app, sms, docs, etc. The old one was returning web search suggestion in 90% of the result... useless.
Search in browser let's you edit suggestion if you want to add something to it. But we lost popular web site suggestion

Just read it on Pocketnow but you can make folders in the favourites bar. Apologies if obvious.

When in the stock browser and you change orientation, tap the screen to make it rotate.

gambiting said:
I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.
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You can do that on stock fascinate.
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mkropf said:
You can do that on stock fascinate.
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which runs TouchWiz, so it's not stock Android

Rotate the phone to the right whilst in any stock app (so the speaker grill and front camera are on the right). Notice that the back, home and task switch buttons have moved to the top of the screen so that they stay on the right.

When using an ics app hold down on an icon in the action bar to get a description of what it does
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Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!

appelflap said:
Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!
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NICE find! Thanks!

This is known about, however you said undocumented and I haven't a single document for the Nexus/ICS apart from on one which came with the phone,telling me how to fix the battery.
Hold the volume down and power key, and you take a screen capture. Which is very handy on occasions
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If you tap the volume button which makes the volume bar appear, you can then press the icon to the left of the volume bar and it toggles between ring and vibrate.
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In settings/about phone. Tap repeatedly on the android version number (4.0...) then a little android appears. Keep ur finger on it and it grows into a screen animation.
If u didn't know about this,I guess u r now thinking this is a joke. Or is it?

Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?

Stea1thmode said:
Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?
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what's supposed to happen?

You can use the front facing camera to record in 720p hd

NexusDro said:
what's supposed to happen?
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I thought it scrolled page by page. try by flicking with 2 fingers.

Removing the blue lip that appears for quickly selecting apps?

Hi
I have a weird "lip" that appears on my Note 2's screen sometimes that slides out and shows you more apps you can open.
I'm not sure how this appears - it appears to happen at random. And I have absolutely no idea how to get rid of it unless I restart the phone.
I'm not sure if it is an app that I installed on the phone or it's something that Samsung preloaded on it.
I have attached a screenshot where this "lip" is appearing over the keyboard. It's very irritating as it protrudes over everything you are doing, as shown!
Any help on how to permanently disable this?
Thanks!

That's the multitasking bar and you don't want to permanently disable it in my opinion because it is so damn useful.
You invoke it and dispel it in the same way - long press the back button.
Regards,
Dave
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foxmeister said:
That's the multitasking bar and you don't want to permanently disable it in my opinion because it is so damn useful.
You invoke it and dispel it in the same way - long press the back button.
Regards,
Dave
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lmao 'invoke' and 'dispel', give them a chance, not everyone on here is from England!
it means turn on and off.

Ah! Holding the back button down!
Such a simple fix haha. Thanks!

Lennyuk said:
it means turn on and off.
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Somehow that just doesn't have the same ring to it......
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Lennyuk said:
lmao 'invoke' and 'dispel', give them a chance, not everyone on here is from England!
it means turn on and off.
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Yeah but he's obviously one classy mofo

Invoke and dispell sounds way better. Kinda like harry potter.

Paganister said:
Hi
I have a weird "lip" that appears on my Note 2's screen sometimes that slides out and shows you more apps you can open.
I'm not sure how this appears - it appears to happen at random. And I have absolutely no idea how to get rid of it unless I restart the phone.
I'm not sure if it is an app that I installed on the phone or it's something that Samsung preloaded on it.
I have attached a screenshot where this "lip" is appearing over the keyboard. It's very irritating as it protrudes over everything you are doing, as shown!
Any help on how to permanently disable this?
Thanks!
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I know the question has been answered but you may not know that if you bring that "lip" up and you hold a app icon you can drag it out and multitask by running two windows. Just a quick fyi.
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pussyliquor said:
I know the question has been answered but you may not know that if you bring that "lip" up and you hold a app icon you can drag it out and multitask by running two windows. Just a quick fyi.
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Ah, I see! Only seems to work with certain apps at the moment though. I can see its usefulness a little now.
What is the point of clicking Edit on the multitasking list and sticking icons inside the "Drag and drop here" section?

[Q] How do I turn off the blue pull tab app drawer??

I searched but didn't see anything on this.
There is a blue pull tab thing on the left hand side of my screen. I want it gone, but can't find out how to get rid of it.
Thanks!

There's a ton of threads already on this. ..
To show/hide hold the back key for a couple of seconds
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Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.

bleclair said:
Thanks. Guess I didn't know what to call the damn thing to search for it correctly.
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It allows you to access the multi-window feature of the NII, for accessing 2 apps at the same time.

To be fair its not a particularly well advertised feature and with little to no instruction a lot of people won't know what it is for.
But it is for split screen mode.
You can drag apps to the top of bottom part of the screen from that bar to run two apps side by side.

Can a mod be made to make the notification bar auto hide?

Why I'm asking this is because of screen burn in. I know the damage is already done, but I'd like to slow down the process if I can. I know of different ways to slow it down but it will always eventually happen. Maybe for an upcoming version of android, Google or whoever could come up with a theme that didn't always have static images when you're using the phone, thus helping with screen life. Another alternative could be that there's a black bar in the notification area and you have to pull it down to see the different stats that are there currently. Top edge slide down is where the time, signal, connection type, battery, GPS and any other stuff. Bottom edge slide up could be the self hiding app drawer. That's just some brainstorming ideas. I have a feeling that the top and bottom are hard baked into the os. There's different kinds of launchers that look different, why couldn't an auto hiding launcher be there instead of a conventional one?

they have the ability to hide launcher? second option from bottom in my pic
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What rom is that
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I saw that apex launcher can hide the top bar, but I didn't see a way to get at the information if you swiped down on the bar.

I think I found what I was looking for. Go launcher ex has settings that I set that the home screen is completely black. If you slide down gesture, the notification bar appears. If I slide up gesture, the dock appears. If you go the same direction twice, it hides the dock or notif bar. Kinda neat if someone picked up the phone, they wouldn't initially figure out how to operate the phone.
Something I just thought of; while I'm typing this in xda app, the not if bar is showing. I wonder if there's a way to surpress it while using and app. The burn in from the bar and keyboard isn't when the home screen is on, it's when I'm in an app typing or browsing. Hmm...

You could use paranoid android, if in tablet mode you can hold the power button and there will be a thing that hides the statusbar, effectively going into full screen mode

patrao_n said:
What rom is that
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goodness with mashed up theme from the rom updater
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