Is it possible to rearrange or alter the appearance of an app drawer in 4.2. I am running CM10.1 RC4, but being based on Stock AOSP 4.2.2, I figured it would be one in the same.
What I want is for the icons inside of the bubble to appear in a ring. If this isnt possible I will just deal with them how they are. I can't believe I didn't employ use of these sooner, they're wonderful!
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I'm a beginner, but I've been trying to read up the various posts/wikis around, so I think I have the basics down. I have root and started playing around with various Sense ROMs (because I was familiar with the default Inc ROM, whatever it's called, stock ROM or something?) but a friend has been raving about how he loves Cyanogen (albeit he has a DRIOD) so I tried it out, and liked it.
I really liked the combo weather/clock widget that is included with the HTC Sense UI though, and I was hoping I could somehow copy the .apk files over to the SD card, and then install them after flashing a non-Sense ROM. I've found a few that look promising, like weather.apk and com.htc.WeatherWidget.apk, but after copying them over, nothing would show up in the app or widget menus, so I think I'm either missing files, or it just won't work.
From the little I know, I'm guessing it's perhaps because there are some system files or calls or something specific to the Sense UI that the widget requires to run?
I saw in Titanium backup that certain apps appear to be tied to certain ROMs, for example TB won't let me install "cyanogen settings" on a non-cyanogen ROM.
Is there just a fundamental difference in the code or somewhere that will stop the weather widget from working? Or can I edit or copy enough files to get this to work? Are there replacements for the weather widget? I saw several posts about something called beautiful widgets, but I also heard that it's either no longer available, doesn't work well, or has other problems.
Less importantly, I also prefer the sense keyboard, calculator, and dialer to the cyanogen ones, can any of those be ported over? Or do they have the same problems?
You cannot use Sense widgets with launchers other than Sense. They are tightly integrated.
There's nothing wrong with BW. It's highly customizable and functional. It's definitely still in the market and definitely still being supported.
Cool, I'll go get that.
Any ideas about the calc/dialer/launcher? I don't think those count as widgets, but maybe they're integrated into Sense also.
They are integrated, with the exception of the HTC keyboard. Search for HTC_IME.
If you want your sense items, you will need to run a sense Rom =/
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DialerOne
DialerOne will allow for speed dialing in an AOSP ROM.
If you used that feature w/ the Sense-based ROMs, that app is a nice way to get speed dial back. Note that it will replace whatever stock dialer is on the ROM.
Also, the only other place I know of that gives the cool clock/weather for AOSP ROMs is BeautifulWidgets - a paid app from the market.
FWIW - the HTC Flashlight does work in AOSP ROMs.
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Fancy Widget Pro
You can skin Fancy Widget Pro to look like the Sense Flip Clock. This is the closest thing to it.
Thanks, I guess the short answer was basically that I just need to get replacements for everything, or learn to like the AOSP versions. Did get Beautiful Widgets though, looks good.
with custom 5 icon docks for touchwiz is it possible to relocate the "applications" icon from its far right position? it is not possible with a otb rom.
Have you tried an application like LauncherPro, or Go Launcher? They offer settings to change your dock, to have the icons in whatever order you want, linking to whatever you want, with any icons you want (there is even an ICS icon pack).
yes, im actually using go launcher on my g2x i like the look and feel of touchwiz. kind of bored with stock android atm. appreciate the insight.
Currently running deodexed LP3 and ICS Domination 4.1 Theme and I really like touchwiz over nova, apex, trebuchet launchers etc etc.
The only thing I'm missing is a 5 icon dock with the app drawer icon in the middle.
I've decompiled the tw apk but I don't understand where to make the changes so I'm begging someone here who know how to make it for me
I'm sure more than me would appreciate it.
the original TW launcher didn't allow you to change dock settings, and also its laggy, bad, no choices for animations transitions etc..
Go with apex launcher, its the best for ICS, and go to its Setting>Dock settings>Number of dock icons then change the value to 5
Tried Apex and the others, don't like them. Touchwiz is the way to go. Definitely not laggy, and I don't need all thoose fancy choices for settings.
Somehow you can "hack" it to allow 5 icons, it's been done before and I have decompiled older versions that are changed to allow 5 icons but they differ in the smali code so I have no clue where to look. And I don't have the time to learn smali either.
Fairly certain the older versions containing 5 dock icons were ported from a variant of the Galaxy S II (may have been the 4G Touch?) so I guess until someone figures out how to port it from GB to ICS, or the 4G Touch gets ICS, you may be out of luck.
BJ van Beethoven said:
Fairly certain the older versions containing 5 dock icons were ported from a variant of the Galaxy S II (may have been the 4G Touch?) so I guess until someone figures out how to port it from GB to ICS, or the 4G Touch gets ICS, you may be out of luck.
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The SGS2 TouchWiz has 5 icons; however, the middle one opens the app drawer and is unchangeable.
I upgraded from an early December 10.0 Cyanogen on Verizon GNex to yesterday's latest nightly. The Android updates look great, but one funny difference.. The old build allowed "extra" icons in the Trebuchet dock (I used to have 7 icons there). The current version only allows five or fewer. Anyone know the reason for the change or if the ability to add the extra icons will be back? (or if there is some way to get it back?)
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I upgraded from an early December 10.0 Cyanogen on Verizon GNex to yesterday's latest nightly. The Android updates look great, but one funny difference.. The old build allowed "extra" icons in the Trebuchet dock (I used to have 7 icons there). The current version only allows five or fewer. Anyone know the reason for the change or if the ability to add the extra icons will be back? (or if there is some way to get it back?)
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Go with Apex or Nova launcher, they allow up to 7 icons in the dock.
does anyone know is this in the works? I had an m8 and recall they had a Google edotion. I would love to just have plain android and then AOSP roms derivative from that.
If you change the communications color in HTC themes to match the Google phone app color and install messenger, you have that AOSP feel.
To top it off, move phone app to bottom left and the camera pp on the bottom right to have AOSP lockscreen layout. You can also change the phone and camera icon to match that of the AOSP lockscreen so it looks identical (won't change icons on 3rd party launchers like Google now) Then install Google now launcher, camera, and keyboard ?.
Viper10 rom has the option to remove Sense during install if you wan to go that route.
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Viper10 rom has the option to remove Sense during install if you wan to go that route.
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Wow that sounds great, so does it then install a stock Nexus type AOSP OS ?
Nope, its based on HTC. I see that a CM build is in the works, but very unstable.
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