I am using NovaPrime Launcher and thought there was a way to keep the homescreens clean by hiding them. I saw a picture in someone's thread where there were just 2 little lines (like standing up hashmarks) on the homescreen just above the dock.
All you had to do was tap that icon and the stuff on the screen would appear again.
Is that possible on Nova? Or, was it another launcher altogether?
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I have a completely clear screen with no widgets or icons on it, and whenever I try to put any of calender widgets it just says there no more room on the home screen. I also tried others ones and it didn't work like the contacts widgets...any idea whats going on?
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I think I figured out the problem, but not sure how to fix it. I have the paid version of launcherpro where you can resize widgets, the problem is the widget space twice as big as the widget itself and it will not let me resize up or down, only left and right.
Because of this I can only put one widget per screen cause of that "space" that it somehow taking up.
I think because the calender widgets are big and design to fit the screen, that the extra space is causing not to fit, therefore the message comes up "no more space"
Any idea on how to fix this?
check to see what your homescreen grid looks like (i.e. num of columns/rows)
its in the launcher pro preferences / homescreen settings
Thank you!
default is 4 rows and 4 columns.
I would like to have the notification bar off the (top of the) screen so I can have a full screen. If I want to see it I would just touch the top and it would appear and drag down as usual to see notification bar. I do not want to change my launcher as I would rather modify that one feature only.
If anyone could direct me how to do this on my own or with an already available application I would be very grateful.
Im on stock (rooted) G2 Tmobile Rom.
Yo I know you said you didn't want to change your launcher BUT if your using LauncherPro like 90% of the rest of the android community give Go Launcher a shot, it has the almost the EXACT same features as LP but it also includes the ADW ability to set actions for swipe up and down on the home screen (not just the dock) so you can hide the bar and then set down swipe on the home screen to pull down notifications, that's what I do
I just use ADW Launcher, it works very well, i don't care to change launcher.
LOL you don't wanna change your Launcher hmm ur a tuff cookie guy. Joking but for real Launcher Pro is the Best well in my opinion.
I like adw, more customizability. You can do it on lots of launchers but as far as I know you can't do it outside of the launcher. What launcher are you using now? Stock?
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Yo I know you said you didn't want to change your launcher BUT if your using LauncherPro like 90% of the rest of the android community give Go Launcher a shot, it has the almost the EXACT same features as LP but it also includes the ADW ability to set actions for swipe up and down on the home screen (not just the dock) so you can hide the bar and then set down swipe on the home screen to pull down notifications, that's what I do
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I will not take sides, but adw ex have more options in settings than LP. and can I ask where you read that 90% of users use android LP?
Yea it seems that I needed to replace my rom to fix it as it was a rom based feature.. thank you for all your assistance.
Does anyone know of an app that can make your page scrollable? I am using Launcher Pro, and I like how in the folder widgets it can scroll up and down, but you cannot organize the icons in the order you want. Launch-X Pro does the scrolling exactly how I'd like, with the ability to organize icons and even resize them, but it can only go 4x2 and I'd like the option of the whole page. Any ideas?
I'm not going to ask which launcher or anything like that. I already have one in mind if I do decide to go that route.
What I want to know is if they are worth it or not? Do they slow the phone down at all? As it seems as an overlay to an overlay.
I see some, like nova, have a add-on for unread counts for messages and calls and things. Is this saying that without this add-on I won't have a count for missed messages or a notification at all?
Thanks you for the input
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In comparison to the stock LG launcher you'll find you'll actually have a smother experience. Launchers like holo or nova are really light weight and have a smaller footprint in memory than the stock launcher. When you choose a new launcher as default the lg launcher is closed. Or at least resources are being prioritized to the default launcher. I'm a beginner when it comes to how android handles processes so maybe someone else can offer a better explanation. The addons for nova add unread counts to icons on homescreens, app drawer and folders. You'll still get all notifications through the status bar. Its just eye candy and extras you get for the paid version of the launcher.
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I'm not going to ask which launcher or anything like that. I already have one in mind if I do decide to go that route.
What I want to know is if they are worth it or not? Do they slow the phone down at all? As it seems as an overlay to an overlay.
I see some, like nova, have a add-on for unread counts for messages and calls and things. Is this saying that without this add-on I won't have a count for missed messages or a notification at all?
Thanks you for the input
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Won't hurt to check out other launchers. If you dont like them simply uninstall and your back to where you were
ADW is old school and basic, I prefer that. Holo is decent so is Apex, but my go to is always Nova. They're all fun to play with.
It's worth it. I use Nova and it's faster and has more organization and customization options than stock LG or AOSP. Just the speed and being able to hide apps from the app drawer is worth it for me. For reference, Nova runs way faster on my Nexus 7 than the JB launcher.
lots of good options. Nova is a great one, but I like Apex and Holo.
To answer your question, if you don't install extensions, then you won't have the message count on the app icon, but that's all it does. I personally don't like it, so I have never installed it.
Honestly though, if you aren't a "power user" who likes to tinker with all of the options in the launcher, Apex, Holo and Nova are all very similar.
Can someone explain the dock as overlay option? Isn't the dock always visible on the home screen?
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BadFish79 said:
Can someone explain the dock as overlay option? Isn't the dock always visible on the home screen?
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Default, the dock is basically an extra row of icons ON the desktop, that carries over from screen to screen.
Dock as overlay changes your dock to being a row of icons that is on a layer separate from your desktop. As an example, you can turn this on and turn on a slide up gesture to toggle dock, which would give you a kind of mini app drawer on top of the desktop. If you did not turn this on, toggling dock would bump your desktop icons up and down, as it would then be a part of the desktop and not be a layer on top of it.
Apology if this has been covered before, but limited forum search capability didn't find any answers for me.
Can anyone suggest a way to avoid having to use screen grid space if I want a Zooper widget to occupy only the space across the top or bottom edge of the screen? The bottom edge could mean below the App Drawer (Is this even possible?)
Please see the attached example Zooper battery gauge which is seen as a gradient just below the screen status area. This widget occupies the top grid row (4x1), wasting grid space since the progress module only needs a few pixels. I want to be able to re-use the 4x1 grid space if needed. (btw, the blue line at the bottom edge of the screen below the App Drawer in the picture is put there by another app)
Thanks for any response.
OK. You can accomplish this best through the launcher itself instead of Zooper. What launcher do you use?
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I use Nova. To accomplish this in Nova, go to Nova settings>desktop. Scroll to the bottom of the page and check "widget overlap" and "overlap when placing". Wala. Now you can lay widgets on top of widgets and no more lost grid space.
Edit: I don't know about putting widgets below the dock. I've never seen that done but you can remove the dock and use the entire space in custom launchers such as Nova. Another launcher I would recommend that is a little rough to figure out to begin with but is probably the most customizable is SSLauncher.
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I see thank you.
I use GO Launcher. I will have to go through it's settings to see if there is something similar.
If anyone has any other ideas, do tell. Thanks!
It seems my GO Launcher does not have an option for Widgets to overlap each other.
Can anyone suggest any other alternative as I am not so much up for changing my Launcher to Nova?
mmediaman said:
Apology if this has been covered before, but limited forum search capability didn't find any answers for me.
Can anyone suggest a way to avoid having to use screen grid space if I want a Zooper widget to occupy only the space across the top or bottom edge of the screen? The bottom edge could mean below the App Drawer (Is this even possible?)
Please see the attached example Zooper battery gauge which is seen as a gradient just below the screen status area. This widget occupies the top grid row (4x1), wasting grid space since the progress module only needs a few pixels. I want to be able to re-use the 4x1 grid space if needed. (btw, the blue line at the bottom edge of the screen below the App Drawer in the picture is put there by another app)
Thanks for any response.
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OK. You can accomplish this best through the launcher itself instead of Zooper. What launcher do you use?
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I use Nova. To accomplish this in Nova, go to Nova settings>desktop. Scroll to the bottom of the page and check "widget overlap" and "overlap when placing". Wala. Now you can lay widgets on top of widgets and no more lost grid space.
Edit: I don't know about putting widgets below the dock. I've never seen that done but you can remove the dock and use the entire space in custom launchers such as Nova. Another launcher I would recommend that is a little rough to figure out to begin with but is probably the most customizable is SSLauncher.
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You can get very thin graphics under the dock in Nova. Set vertical margins to none. Set dock to dock as overlay under the advanced dock settings.. Set dock height to large. Set dock icons to small. Then place a widget as far down as possible. You can get one of those shadow pngs under there.
(That widget at the top will be a new topic at some point. I'm still working on it (thats why the action overlays are visible). It is REALLY complicated. A hundred or so objects, data from tasker, active reconfiguration via tasker, etc. Fixed the issue of reporting LTE signal strength, wifi bars match systemui bars exactly. LTE bars match systemui bars exactly. Email data from google email app, not just gmail. Shadows that work with rotation. The date is always placed centered in the widest space between the hour and minute hand. Etc. Etc.)
Thanks for the reply @brizey.
I think I am convinced I need to change my launcher to NOVA.