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Question about ADW Launcher

I searched some but could not find. I've been using LauncherPro so I'm kind of new to ADW and I've got two questions:
1) With the app drawer open, I made the icon to launch my app drawer disappear after I returned to the homescreen. How do I get it to re-appear? I know it had something to do with the arrows but I can't make it come back for the life of me.
2) Is there a way to keep the wallpaper from moving as I slide homescreens? That option is available in LauncherPro but I can't find it in ADW. If not, then is there a way to customize what part of my wallpaper appears on each homescreen?
I like the fact that ADW has themes. That's why I want to try and stick with it but I don't feel like I've mastered it at all yet. If there's a tutorial you could point out, that would help.
Thanks.

1) Put your finger in the area where your launcher icon should be and swipe down. Swiping up hides it.
Don't know about number 2
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BigRick10 said:
1) Put your finger in the area where your launcher icon should be and swipe down. Swiping up hides it.
Don't know about number 2
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thanks, that worked. I could've sworn I tried that before, but oh well.

Default Froyo Launcher?

Any chance to get the default Froyo launcher for our phone? I really don't like ADW that much but use it as it's the best option but would love to have the standard one.

Have you tried launcher pro?

Yea but I don't line the 4 icon dock at the bottom.
I like the simplicity of ADW/default but ADW eats up alot of resources.

if you mean launcher2 from the nexus one than here you go

Jonas.M said:
if you mean launcher2 from the nexus one than here you go
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When I try to install the apk using ADB I get the following error
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]
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Is this from the 2.1 or 2.2 Nexus build?
Thanks
[edit]I just pulled one off a Nexus one 2.2 build and it works fine, uploading it here incase anyone else wants it. Thanks for the tip.

Seems to work ok, except for the telephone button. Any way to change that?

could you post a pic of how that launcher looks?

Almost like LauncherPro when it's default, except for only 3 buttons and then dots on the side saying what page you're on.

can we install the launcher from decepticon on 2.1?

decepticon said:
When I try to install the apk using ADB I get the following error
Is this from the 2.1 or 2.2 Nexus build?
Thanks
[edit]I just pulled one off a Nexus one 2.2 build and it works fine, uploading it here incase anyone else wants it. Thanks for the tip.
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you should paste it into /system/app that works mine is from the n1 froyo build, too

Dumb question - I assume you have to be rooted to use this?

can some one snap a piture?
i still like LauncherPro better, so far no other launcher has been able to beat it yet on usefulness and looks and simplicity and effectiveness and... well the list goes on and on

decepticon said:
Yea but I don't line the 4 icon dock at the bottom.
I like the simplicity of ADW/default but ADW eats up alot of resources.
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In launcher pro you can set the dock shortcut to blank. That way you can keep as many dock shortcuts as you like. Mine has 5 so if you set the left and right ones to blank you can have 3 in the middle. Then simply change the shortcut functions to whatever you want them to be. It works for me
From my Galaxy S loonie-phone

is this launcher also usable on eclair 2.1, i've tried both versions posted in this forum and put them into /system/app but it doesn't seem to work, when i press the home button the default tw launcher launches

AWD EX home launcher!

New home launcher ADW EX. Its just adw with a few more customizations. It's on the market.
Anyone using it yet? I just bought it and its amazing! Everybody post pics of your launcher and show off your personal taste!
If you experience any stutter or freeze issue its probably a memory leak caused by one of your widgets, a quick adw reset will fix it. Just go to the menu scroll down and adw reset.
Anybody with suggestions should email the dev from the market place. He replies quite quick and is open to suggestions.
HTC Vision S-OFF CM6.1 Stable Oc'd to 1.5ghz on Pershoots Kernel

I ran into this earlier today on the Nexus S forum and thought about reposting it, but I got too carried away playing with it and forgot...
Menu > ADW Settings > General Behavior > Animation and Effects > Wallpaper Scrolling

I just bought it and is just amazing! The effects. And everything is awesome and do not believe crap, this is FAST!
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gravis86 said:
I ran into this earlier today on the Nexus S forum and thought about reposting it, but I got too carried away playing with it and forgot...
Menu > ADW Settings > General Behavior > Animation and Effects > Wallpaper Scrolling
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Thanks I found it right before coming back on.
This thing is amazing. I love the new swipe effects. I am using effect 5 and its sweet with my setup!
HTC Vision S-OFF CM6.1 Stable Oc'd to 1.5ghz on Pershoots Kernel

just finished playing around with it for a bit and all i gotta say is...wow. animations switching screens are so sleek and dont lag at all on my CM6.1.1. no FC's or anything. loving it so far. havent defaulted it yet, still trying to see if i truly want it as my default. only thing i wish it had right now is swipe gestures for each dockbar icon (not just the main swipe up/swipe down gestures) because on launcher pro i have 5 different gestures, particularly: quick compose for chomp and screen off and lock because i'd rather quickly swipe up than long press the search button. unfortunately i can't do that to the dockbar in ADW but instead i've made the single swipe up gesture for screen off and lock, and long press search as quick compose. also in launcherpro i had a swipe gesture for battery use shortcut in settings and in ADW i just decided to make a shortcut for it on the desktop. also miss the launcherpro facebook widget but i can live without it.
in conclusion, this launcher is absolutely amazing so far, battery drained pretty quickly but i can't tell if thats just cuz i was literally messing around with it constantly, even to the point where i would just play around with the screen transition animation for days haha or if its actually a battery drainer. i guess we'll see if it really drains a lot of battery tomorrow, assuming i can show some self control with playing with the screen animations

bsktballstar3131 said:
just finished playing around with it for a bit and all i gotta say is...wow. animations switching screens are so sleek and dont lag at all on my CM6.1.1. no FC's or anything. loving it so far. havent defaulted it yet, still trying to see if i truly want it as my default. only thing i wish it had right now is swipe gestures for each dockbar icon (not just the main swipe up/swipe down gestures) because on launcher pro i have 5 different gestures, particularly: quick compose for chomp and screen off and lock because i'd rather quickly swipe up than long press the search button. unfortunately i can't do that to the dockbar in ADW but instead i've made the single swipe up gesture for screen off and lock, and long press search as quick compose. also in launcherpro i had a swipe gesture for battery use shortcut in settings and in ADW i just decided to make a shortcut for it on the desktop. also miss the launcherpro facebook widget but i can live without it.
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God that all sounds entirely too complicated.
Also, it really sounds like your hung on LP.

GlitchZero said:
God that all sounds entirely too complicated.
Also, it really sounds like your hung on LP.
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Lawl! I agree.
Battery seems the same to me. I was messing with my transitions for the hell of it for a bit didn't notice any major draining.
HTC Vision S-OFF CM6.1 Stable Oc'd to 1.5ghz on Pershoots Kernel

Wow is all I can say. Phenomenal animations and extensive options! Thanks for the heads-up!
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I don't know... It seems nice, but I'll just stick with LPP

For those of you interested, if you are upgrading from the "old" ADW, you can restore your old settings by backing up the current launcher and settings config, an use Astro or any explorer to rename adw_settings.xml and adw_launcher.db to adw_EX_settings.xml and adw_EX_launcher.db. Next you can import them in ADW Ex. Both files are in the root of the SD card. At least saves the trouble to figure out again what your original settings were and background etc...
I am a bit dissapointed that such a popular launcher doesn't recognise you were running a previous version and offers the option to import old settings on first startup. Still it is the best launcher IMHO. The new transition effects are cool!
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It tried it. The settings is a mess. ADW Ex is not user friendly, imo.

androidtoy09 said:
It tried it. The settings is a mess. ADW Ex is not user friendly, imo.
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+1
ADW ex is very nice but settings are not very intuitive and are not very user friendly. Now, of course, this a first release and I'm sure things will be cleaned up in updates. Launcher should not hijack "Settings" shortcutin the menu neither.

Can't find a free version for this to try....

I am just happy to have the 3d app tray back
G2 cm6

HOLY **** that is amazing actually! I'm incredibly impressed. Yeah opening up the app drawer is laggy a bit but I mean it's brand freakin new. I love it. Thanks for pointing me in its direction

Yup I really like this but the only problem is that delay it has when opening the app drawer. Other than that, really great launcher.
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xl DIGITAL lx said:
Yup I really like this but the only problem is that delay it has when opening the app drawer. Other than that, really great launcher.
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Your right itt does have a 1-2 second delay when oppening the drawer. But I rather that then the lagg the old adw got wile scrolling thru the drawer without the apps loading in there.
HTC Vision S-OFF CM6.1 Stable Oc'd to 1.5ghz on Pershoots Kernel

Yea I really like the new adw but my only complaint would be that I used to be able to have a transparent appdrawr background since I use the faded theme with black backgrounds which always looks good to me... I hate I can't find how to get it back like that and have to have a colored background
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ctraywick1 said:
Yea I really like the new adw but my only complaint would be that I used to be able to have a transparent appdrawr background since I use the faded theme with black backgrounds which always looks good to me... I hate I can't find how to get it back like that and have to have a colored background
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You can still set the app drawer background to transparent, it just won't work with Vertical 4D app drawer style.
Just set the background color bar all the way to the left.

ctraywick1 said:
Yea I really like the new adw but my only complaint would be that I used to be able to have a transparent appdrawr background since I use the faded theme with black backgrounds which always looks good to me... I hate I can't find how to get it back like that and have to have a colored background
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I don't use themes so I'm not sure if or how they affect settings. Did you try ADW Settings > UI Settings > Drawer Settings > Background color - slide the slider all the way to the left. (a bit late as EuroSpeed beat me to it. This is what happens when I answer a phone call in the middle of replying and get distracted)
My First impression
I got this last night and so far I like it very much. The "vertical old" App drawer style is much snappier. It doesn't lag like the ADW built in to CM 6.1.1 even though I have the background transparent and my live wallpaper running just as I did on the built in version. There are some things that I don't like such as the fact that it has removed the phone settings from the menu button and placed them under the ADW settings. Also, I have the Home button binding set to: Move to default desktop/show previews. If you start at the default desktop, go to settings and press the home button to return home it automatically goes to the previews instead of the default desktop and then the previews. Not a big deal but slightly annoying- I'm sure it will be addressed in an update. Overall, I really like this.

Paradox ROM Questions

First of all, please don't kill me for posting questions that have already been answered as I've already tried looking for them but with such a big thread like that of the Paradox ROM, it's just impossible.
1. On the dock, I know it is possible to change the icons for applications. However, whenever I go into Preferences, I don't know which command to put nor how to switch the positions. Also, it is set to show 5 icons but only shows 4. Oh, and whenever I set it to 3, the remainder one doesn't show up on the application drawer.
2. It seems I'm not getting the best out of battery life. Is there something else I need to do or a mod that there is to install?
3. I think that's it for now. .-.
I would post this under the ROM thread but I can't because I'm new and stuff.
Thank you very much in advance to anyone who takes the time to help me out. c:
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I use a different Launcher, but... TW 4.5 (which is what is installed) isn't necessarily finished - so yes, you have to manually remove the apps from the dock before you set the dock count to 3.
do you want to show 5 or 3 icons lol. you are asking about both.
5 icons: you have to add the 5th. when you first do, you can't move the application drawer icon, but it will jump to the middle, so just place your other apps accordingly: the one in the 4th position will end in the 5th, the one in the middle will end up in the 4th.
Battery Life - you running LOVE? or are you running mark 2 (can't remember the name of it) I get great life out of LOVE,..
btw - i run the sony ericson launcher (fixed one) and it's awesome lol. seems really snappy, and I just really like the little details (when you throw something on a homescreen away, the garbage can lid actually bounces, and it vibrates along with the bounce) that have been added. They just give a truly finished feel to the launcher.

Hm, lets go with 5.
How can I add the other one? Also, do I just get the launcher from the Market or do I have to flash anything?
I'm running LOVE. I just don't know what to do to it lol
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hokay - make sure to select 5 icons in the preferences, go to the app drawer, click the menu softkey, click edit... drag an app to the dock. click save... I wouldn't doubt it if you're forgetting to do that.
It took me a while to find the sony launcher, and I dl'd it at work, so I can get back to you with a Dropbox link tomorrow. sorry, but I'm not burning my phone's data when i only have half a gig a month. It's something you just put onto your phones external (or internal) sd card, and install. super easy. but it's stuck at 5 screens - not modifyable in that sense.

Oh wow, thats easy lol
No problem. Do you also know where I could get the CM7 (or whatever) Launcher?
Btw, thanks a lot for helping!
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Wait, I just tried that and didn't work. As soon as I press menu then edit all the pannels fly back (the three window things I have on my home screen). Wah
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Post some screenshots. It's easier if I can see cuz I suck at explaining and no offense but you kinda do too
I want to help you, but it's much easier if I can see
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I just switch home out and replace with ADW. you just drop icons from desktop to the spot where you want or long press and drag off what you don't.
They even have a bar with infinite shortcuts (scrolls) dunno if free one has this one but definitely has the 1 3 5 icon standard launcher.
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Lol I know I do, sorry.
Seems I cant uoad pictures from my app. I get a log in prompt. /:
I'll give the ADW Launcher a try, thanks!
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find Zeam Launcher. it also has infinte dock, and it was made by an XDA member. it's my number... well... IDK. I really like it, but right now I'm running the corners. I also really like the AOSP launcher... as simple as it is, it's snappy.

Okay, will do.
thanks for all your help guys!
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Icon Grid To 5x5

For the last two years I have been using ADW Launcher. When it came out at the end of 2010 I paid for ADW_EX. It has been great for me. I have tried to use the TouchWiz on the S3 but there have been two main things that kept me from using it regularly. One was fixed (by an answer in another forum).
The one that was fixed was the ability to have shortcuts to individual files on my home screen. In ADW I was able to create a shortcut with Astro File Manager. For some reason Astro does not have a way to do this with TouchWiz. Then someone pointed out that a long press on a file in ES File Manager would create a shortcut. I use a lot of individual files and that feature was great.
Now the last deal breaker for me is the lack of a 5x5 icon grid. Again, in ADW you can have a choice of icon numbers both horizontally and vertically. While 6 or 7 is too much, I like the choice. 4x4 with that gigantic screen indicator is useless. I use a couple of big widgets on my main screen and there is no room left for the important icons.
Now for the question. Is there any way to create a 5x5 icon grid on stock unrooted touchwiz?
From my point of view, Samsung is copying Apple by limiting the choices and configurability. If we could choose our icons and how they act, it would be a lot less like Apple. Personally, when I try an Apple device, I get frustrated because of the lack of control I have. I don't like someone else making my choices. One last part of my rant: I recently tried Windows 8 on a laptop. It looks like everyone is trying to copy Apple.

All this is because the motion scrolling features and eyeball sensor are TouchWiz only. I would like to move my phone to move icons around. I would like to keep the screen on time short to save battery but still be able to have it stay on when I am reading a long web page.

I'm pretty sure all the TW features stick around even if you use a different launcher. I know smart stay and tap to top work on Nova and those are the only ones I use.
Edit: all the motion features still work on other launchers. I just went through them all. Liberate yourself. I use Nova.

Alternatively, if you are rooted you can find a modded stock launcher. Or even flash a more heavily modded rom. This is where Android shines anyway. Not because of what the manufacturers allow, but what open source allows!
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dkmdlb said:
I'm pretty sure all the TW features stick around even if you use a different launcher. I know smart stay and tap to top work on Nova and those are the only ones I use.
Edit: all the motion features still work on other launchers. I just went through them all. Liberate yourself. I use Nova.
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I use nova also with the motion featres
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