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Best way to remove app labels in Sense?

Title says it all. Just got into myn's TwoPointTwo and the Sense he's themed along with Manup have made me go back to Sense. I know other home replacements allow ways to remove labels, but I was looking for an app/theme to fix the labels.
I've tried BetterCut, but it seems to still have a mini-label if I use a space as the title for the icon. (Won't let you have a blank label for an icon.)
Any help is welcome!

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Has no one seen a way to do this?
Sent from my Evo.

Desktop Visualizer should do this, its free in the marketplace.

Thanks for the suggestion, but this still leaves app labels in sense, albeit smaller ones. Anyone else have a suggestion?
Sent from my Evo.

Until someone figures out how to edit Sense to hide the icons I think FolderOrganizer is the best bet. I've used BetterCut but found it to be painfully slow. And, I do not think it will hide the labels anyway, only change icons)
The other thing I have grown to love about Folder Organizer is that it shrinks the icons a little bit which I prefer. When using Launcher Pro I could hide the labels at the icon's regular size but after going back and forth between Cyanogen and Sense ROMs I have come to prefer the look of smaller ones.
Here are some screenshots of my homescreen. I am currently running Matted Blues Sense ROM with custom icons:
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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Only suggestion I have is try multicon...if u do a 1x1 widget and set it to one app, it'll remove the label...however, it will enlarge the icon...a lot. If u set it to 1x2 and do 3 icons, it looks pretty good, so long as the icons are high quality.
Aside from that, I haven't seen any widget type apps that will allow removal of text...
Let us know if u do find anything.
Via EVO on XDA app...

Via EVO on XDA app...

I’ve been looking for something to remove labels from the icons on the home screen since I first got my HTC Incredible 9 months ago and finally found the solution this week. I use Multicon to put 2 apps in a 1x1 square at opposite corners without labels for most apps which looks nice, but occasionally wanted an app to be easy to push on the fly so just wanted the one large app icon, but hate the labels underneath. There are two options for this.
Option 1: You can use Multicon with a 1x1 widget and reduce it to 1 column 1 row. This will produce an icon with no label, but the icon will be larger than it would normally be which some people may not like. Depending on the resolution of the icon itself it may appear slightly blurry.
Option 2: Finally, I found an app that will let you have an icon almost exactly the same as adding the app to the homescreen normally, just without the label underneath. All you need is the free/lite version of Folder Organizer.
Here is the link: Not allowed - just search for Folder Organizer Lite
Longpress home screen. Add > Widget > Folder Organizer Item > Apps > Unclick “Show Text under Icon” at top > Scroll down and select your app > Done.
This results in a nice app icon in 1x1 space with no label underneath and no black spot where the label would be – very nice and clean looking!
FYI - this is using the HTC Sense UI

Resizing wallpaper

Whatever I do with the orange resizing guide line box, I can't get wallpapers to fit on my homescreen exactly as I see them in the gallery. They're always too big for the screen. Even the default ones that came with the phone. They look nice but I can't see the whole image. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know, may be you are not stretching the orange lines to the max edges/corners of the screen, which is needed to set a wallpaper properly for portrait view. Be sure to check the portrait mode before stretching just under the pic also.

ithehappy said:
I don't know, may be you are not stretching the orange lines to the max edges/corners of the screen, which is needed to set a wallpaper properly for portrait view. Be sure to check the portrait mode before stretching just under the pic also.
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I am stretching the lines to the edges, as far as they'll go. When in landscape mode, I can stretch the lines to the edges, but when in portrait mode, it doesn't.
Either way, I can't get the whole image visible that you can see in screenshot 1.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

That's a scrollable wallpaper mate. It's very normal.

Hello, i used to have this problem. I have found this app,crop wallpaper.
It lets you use a full size wallpaper in portrait mode without loss of quality or the annoying zooming in. Very useful app, just disable "Wallpaper Scrolling" in your launcher settings first.

Hurl durp. How else are you going to see a whole image in portrait mode. Unless you want black letterboxes at top and bottom.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Mylenthes said:
Hurl durp. How else are you going to see a whole image in portrait mode. Unless you want black letterboxes at top and bottom.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
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I'm not sure if i worded it right but what i meant is that when you try and set a wallpaper that is 480x800, the phone forces you to resize the wallpaper. When this happens you can't resize the orange square so that it covers the whole image, you can only resize it so that it covers 1 third of the image, thus the zooming in and loss of quality. So i use the Crop Wallpaper app to set the wallpaper (480x800) without resizing so the image doesn't zoom in and you don't lose quality. Still, no need to be a **** about it. "Hurl durp" -_-

TekJoe said:
Hello, i used to have this problem. I have found this app,crop wallpaper.
It lets you use a full size wallpaper in portrait mode without loss of quality or the annoying zooming in. Very useful app, just disable "Wallpaper Scrolling" in your launcher settings first.
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Thanks TekJoe, got it ready to install. I'll see how it goes.

[MOD][FIX] {Battlinesvc} Thin battery indicator on status bar (w/Minimalistic Text)

This is an idea borrowed from BattLineSvc app which I used to install on my old WM phone. I've searched the andriod market for similar app but there isn't one for the un rooted phone. So for the sake of un-root users (and myself) here's an alternative.
Mimic version - battlinesvc on GoLauncher EX w/ Minimalistic Text
I've done some mod on the ttf file so that all numerical digits are replaced by emdash. The original letter fonts and symbols are kept intact. The method for customising fonts can be found HERE with the credit goes to the authors and contributors. You can refer to the link if you wish to mod your own font types other than the one included below.
Link for download click here or here
Save ttf file into GOLauncherEx > fonts folder
Steps:
I assume that by this stage you already knew how to work around with the relevant apps.
1. Create Minimalistic text with 6x1 Hor setting (important for the batt bar to stretch across the screen in one single line)
2. Create Custom layout, dump the clock settings, and add in Battery level bars 0% - 100%
2a. Add new row, add in texts or clock(only text format). You may change individual item's font size and text style, but not colour. [Hopefully Minimerlistic team would add in colour option in the future]
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
3. Go to Text style and change all three to size 14, 15, 15 respectively
Colour: Normal(white), Accented and other(green)
Font family: change all to the new mod font; untick bold / italic
4. Change Orientation of Vertical block to Top
5. OK to save and exit to desktop.
6. Now on your desktop, shift the new battery bar to the top most of your screen, drag arrows to resize it for maximize horizontal and minimize vertical(to the max), tap onto the top resizing arrow and drag all the way up beyond the status bar.
From the screen above my status bar and dock bar were hidden. There are settings in GoLauncher Ex for this function.
Battery line will follow under status bar when it hide or unhide. This mod can only be shown on a single page. I have not tested with other possibilities.
Cheers.

Wow, this is great. I used to run that same app on my HTC Touch and missed it dearly! Any chance of re-upping the custom font used? Links appear to be broken. Thx

Great! I'm yet to test this but I thought I'd add my early support as I loved this on my HD2 WM. Thanks!
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

I need some help; the mod font doesn't show up even after I've pasted it into the GoLauncher fonts folder via Astro File Manager.

can i have a copy of the line font? thanks.. u cant send it via PM.. =]

Does this not do the same thing?
https://market.android.com/details?...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5wdnkuYmF0dGVyeWJhciJd

thanks! looks nice on my phone

[Q/Opinion] Launcher 7

Im not sure if this should be in Q&A or Themes &Apps..
Ive been trying to use launcher 7, I really like it actually.
The problem is it seems very buggy and laggy on my phone. I don't use that many tiles and about four widgets. Usually after a few minutes the widgets move all over the screen and out of the tiles.
I haven't seen any complaints in the comments in the market, only praises on how well and stable it is. I've used it both on a TW and cm7 ROM, locked home in memory trying to get it to function correctly.
Has anybody else have the same experience or is it just me and my phone? Am I doing something wrong or is this launcher still a WIP?

Have you ever considered using an app called Desktop Visualizer to create your own Windows 7 launcher? I mean it's not exactly the same but it does allow you to use your own images:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Thanks Im definitely going to check that out.

One word of caution though. When I attempted doing this several years ago, the only launcher that would allow you to place the icons so that they touch each other without leaving a gap was LauncherPro. Every other launcher I tried to use left a gap & didn't make it look so seamless.
You should also be able to find pre-made icon packs & tuts here on XDA.
Here's one to get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783946
Update: Man what a pain. Using the included icon pack, I'm having trouble getting them to align correctly. Not only that in order to resize the home screen icons using Launcher Pro, you need Launcher Pro Plus which is a paid app. So I tried using ADW Launcher...still can't get them to align correctly.
I guess the icon packs were created for a specific sized screen (hence the problem with alignment). I'll continue to give it a go to see if I can get it to work.

Okay got it finally.
First you need to set your launcher to 5 rows & 4 columns.
Then when creating your icons (.png) from whatever image you find they need to be at the following resolutions/pixels:
1x1 = 110x122px
1x2 = 115x264px
2x1 = 230x124px
3x1 = 355x124px
4x1 = 475x124px
You may also be able to find icons packs/sets on the net but they have to be made specifically for screen resolutions of 800x480 in order to align correctly on our screens.
Hope that helps

EL TEJANO said:
Okay got it finally.
First you need to set your launcher to 5 rows & 4 columns.
Then when creating your icons (.png) from whatever image you find they need to be at the following resolutions/pixels:
1x1 = 110x122px
1x2 = 115x264px
2x1 = 230x124px
3x1 = 355x124px
4x1 = 475x124px
You may also be able to find icons packs/sets on the net but they have to be made specifically for screen resolutions of 800x480 in order to align correctly on our screens.
Hope that helps
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I don't use desktop visualizer but had to say thanks anyway. This is exactly the kind of helpful post that deserves thanks. Damn nice of you to share this info with us!

Share your Homescreen from the OPPO Find X5 Pro

With the OPPO Find X5 Pro, there are many different customization options available for your homescreen. Aside from a large number of high-quality wallpapers available to choose from, your can tweak your icons, transitions, and layout until you have everything looking perfect. Here are a few tips to get started customizing your homescreen using the default ColorOS launcher.
Create your own Wallpapers​If you want to use a completely unique wallpaper for your phone, try using the inventive wallpaper system. This will create an abstract wallpaper based on your own original photo. Take a picture of something that features a color palette that you love, then use the inventive wallpaper option to generate a selection of images based on the colors from that photos.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
To access inventive wallpaper:
Press and hold on your homescreen
Select Wallpapers
Select Inventive wallpapers [top right]
Customize your Icons​If you aren't happy with the default look of your icons, you can make some changes to alter the style. Choose between five different shapes, the size of the foreground, the size of the icons, and toggle the icon text on or off.
To access custom icons:
Press and hold on your homescreen
Select Icons
Select Custom
Choose Page Transitions​Transitions in ColorOS are very well done. It's a great way to really show off the 120Hz display with some smooth UI animations. These transitions are triggered when navigating from one page of your homescreen to another.
To access transitions:
Press and hold on your homescreen
Select Transitions
With these tips in mind, you can customize a very nice homescreen. To go even further in your customization process, try using the ColorOS themes app. This is my current homescreen:
The icon style is material, with a 5x6 app grid. The wallpaper is a photo I captured using the camera on the OPPO Find X5 Pro. Share your current homescreen in this thread.
Thanks to OPPO for supporting this thread

I received my Find X5 Pro yesterday and since I'm switching from One UI to ColorOS, I'm surprised to be unable to find certain features I've always considered to be 'standard baked in':
Trying to find a way to have a .mp4 to show as live wallpaper on the lock screen. Any idea how this can be done on a Find X5 Pro?
By lack of an option to organise the App Drawer by grouping apps in folders, I'm now making do with folders on the Start Screen itself:
Any idea how to set a particular Start Screen as 'Home'?

there we go my lovely oppo

Had almost same layout for past few years ... all down to memory now really.

Hey ya go guys

I use smart launcher Pro