Hey guys. I bought my Xperia Arc S a couple of months ago and It had the GB OS, I decided to upgrade it to the ICS with SUS and have been enjoying it for 4 weeks now, It even kept my old desktop widgets, config, preferences and everything. The problem I have is that yesterday I deleted my old photos and videos widget (the one that lets you scroll through all of your pictures on your desktop) and I found that there's a very simillar widget in the ICS version, however, on GB it was 2x2 and now it is 4x2 and it's really wasting so much space. visually, it has room for two 1x1 widgets on each side, that's how I used to have it, but now there is just an empty space on each side, I tried nova launcher but it won't let me use the photo and pictures widget, Is there any way I can get my old GB widget back or resize the ICS one? Thanks a lot for your help.
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Also annoyed about this... Any solution? Don't want to download more apps that consumes my storage.
It must be in there somewhere as it (2x2) was present after the upgrade, but now can't get it back (only 4x2) after I accidentally removed it.
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Unfortunately stock Sony Widget cannot be used on alternative launcher and yes, .............. it's really annoying
I didn't found any solution, I've asked around , but the default answer is :"Play Store it's full of widgets"
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Ok, so I'm using Launcher pro Plus along with Smooth Calendar and The LPP Calendar widget on another home screen.
For some reason, my SGS totally hung and I got the low memory warning. I checked my applications list and I see 'calendar storage' taking nearly 97 mb. I cleared the data and re-started my phone, got my calendar synched again and I see that it's 1.57 mb. Is that memory leak because of LPP? Or smooth calendar? I'm using the latest version of LPP in which the known Calendar memory usage problem has been fixed.
Any help?
i guess thats from calendar
in case it helps; if it does reocure; do look at the bat usage see if you can figure out which is runing the most ; maybe it can help seek out the faulty soft.
ps; i use LPP and only its widgets.. i dont have any memory leeks.. but start ups are usually acompanied by a FC and relaunch of LPP.
hope you find your prob.
Hey World, does anyone know if there is a way to get the HTC notes widget to work on Launcher Pro. My wife is an avid notes taker and really liked that widget. I recently put launcher pro on there cause she liked how you can expand the home screen to hold more apps. If anyone knows of a way or maybe another widget that can flip pages like the HTC widget that would be cool. I've looked all over the market.
Anything sense = sense only.
If you really searched the market I have to believe you did not read.
I searched for notes widget, scrolled down twice and found an app called simple notes. It cycles the notes on the widget when you press the crease. I know this because 1. I read the app description and 2. I tried it.
There I did your work for you. Now go install it on your wifes phone and tell her you found it all on your own.
this initially happened with the gosms widget where it doesnt refresh everytime i get a new sms. i reinstalled gosms and it still had the problem. and now even the clock widget of sonyericsson and the other widgets likr goweather, the date widget doesnt refresh anymore. how do i go about this? are you also having the same problem?
How about Timescape? You can use it to see the messages
I don't use timescape. It's not too private.
Anyway, it's not the issue though.
Even the clock widget (stock SE's digital clock) sometimes don't refresh with the time showed in the status bar. Even the weather widget etc.
MaLt- said:
I don't use timescape. It's not too private.
Anyway, it's not the issue though.
Even the clock widget (stock SE's digital clock) sometimes don't refresh with the time showed in the status bar. Even the weather widget etc.
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ever since the 2.3.3 update ive had the same issue, particularly with the clock. its always out of sync. tried stopping home, reloading the widgets etc, nothing seems to work and its completely random
I'm still with 2.3.2.
I tried using GoLauncherEx and so far they are working fine. But it still happens.
I have noticed that the widgets don't refresh when I'm using the default SE home..
Can someone help me with this?
I've discovered this to be a reproducible (but not solvable) problem. This might be an Android prob, as there are one or two other short threads on this site for other phones. For me it looks like the common thread is an incoming call while using an app. But fixing it... who knows?
I have been able to reproduce it three times:
1. after a week using my Arc, a new clock widget stopped updating except when foregrounded, and not until the next minute ticked over. I also noticed a weather widget wouldn't update reliably.
2. after two months without a solution, i completely reset the phone. All good. While playing a game, I received a call. Afterwards, the widgets wouldn't refresh except as above.
I deleted an unrelated widget because I didn't need it, and (perhaps coincidentally) the other widgets started refreshing properly.
3. a week later, I received a call while using the calendar app. Widgets no longer refresh, except as above. I haven't been able to find a fix this time. Tested widgets like the stock digital clock show the same problem.
If u hav installed beautiful widgets then..
Well after lots of trial and error.. the only solution i found is..
1. uninstall beautiful widgets animation
2. clear data beautiful widgets from settings - apps - beautiful widgets
3. uninstall beautiful widgets..
Living without beautiful widgets is better than facing that refresh problem..
Fix launcher lag
This method worked on my SE Arc S (.42). You need to have root access.
1) Open the following file: /system/build.prop
2) Add this to the end of the file and save it: ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
3) Reboot.
Hope it helps.
As above, I'm looking for a contacts widget that will work with 2.3.3. Does anyone know of any? I've tried a half dozen or so from the market but they either don't work, or don't work the way I want them to.
I'm just looking for a non-scrolling sense type one. I don't want to install any launchers or anything like that, I'm happy with the phone as it is in that respect, so I would rather have a static one.
The closest one to the mark was Contact Widget, it looked the part but was very buggy. It was meant to show 20 contacts at any one time but after I had selected the 20, it then only displayed 4 and pretty much froze. Not sure if that's a 2.3.3 issue or not.
Any recommendations?
If you want one that's non-scrolling, I would suggest not installing anything. Just add shortcuts to your contacts on the home screen. You can also put them into a folder if you so choose.
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If you want one that's non-scrolling, I would suggest not installing anything. Just add shortcuts to your contacts on the home screen. You can also put them into a folder if you so choose.
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Thanks for that, 2 years I've been running android and didn't know that lol.
I eventually found and sorted out elixir which does the job nicely.
Is there a way, without downloading a 3rd party app, to get the samsung calendar and/or email widgets aside from what are on the magazine ux, which are a bit cumbersome in my opinion. I'd prefer to have the same widgets I have on my galaxy S5: full screen month view calendar widget, and the default email widget. Is there a way to do this, also, without doing a different launcher, like Nova, which I've tried and don't love.
Odd Samsung would strip these out, but they clearly want to push this magazine ux thing.
Thanks in advance for the help!
I am also looking for the calendar widget. Someone knows how to get it? I don't like this magazine ux
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Is there a way, without downloading a 3rd party app, to get the samsung calendar and/or email widgets aside from what are on the magazine ux, which are a bit cumbersome in my opinion. I'd prefer to have the same widgets I have on my galaxy S5: full screen month view calendar widget, and the default email widget. Is there a way to do this, also, without doing a different launcher, like Nova, which I've tried and don't love.
Odd Samsung would strip these out, but they clearly want to push this magazine ux thing.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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I too was annoyed at this. I didn't mind losing TouchWiz, but wanted to stay stock for potential future updates (please Google change SD card write access) so I downloaded the "Google Now Launcher" to get rid of the Magazine UX (although I didn't install "Google Now" so not to have that pop up on the home screen). I use "Pure Grid Calendar Widget" from the Play Store. If you choose the "4x4 free" calendar you can set the pixel count for your tablet/preference upon creating the widget. I have it around 1550x1550 pixels for my Tab Pro 8.4 and stretched it to fit most of the screen.
I liked Pure Grid Calendar Widget on my old HD2, but didn't need it on my S3 and S5 because the Samsung Calendar was similar. Enable events in the timeline to show descriptions in month view on the widget. I also wanted a full-screen email widget for 2 accounts, so I downloaded Aqual Mail, which looks and works similar to the S5 Email widget. I stretched that widget to full screen too (or square with some app shortcuts below it).
All in all, Google Now Launcher made the Home Screen interface seem less laggy (along with some adjustments to animations in Develop Options). Add in these two free apps (paid version unlocks additional features) and I it gives a similar feel to my S5 setup. I know you said you didn't want to download any apps, but this seems to be the only option (I didn't check Samsung Apps for a calendar though, don't know if they have something there).
***Note: I don't have any apps installed on the SD Card, but some people say that the shortcuts for apps installed on SD Cards disappear from the Home Screen if you use the Google Now Launcher.