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[Q] Launcher Pro help needed.

Using Launcher Pro and trying to modify the dock background and icons with custom. This thing is pissing me off and I can't find the answer anywhere.
I know how to add these but the problem is this:
1) No one will ever give an answer on what file formats are compatible with LP....jpg, png, ico, etc
2) I have a lot of graphic files on the root of my sd card. However, when trying to pick a custom one from LP, it opens the crappy HTC gallery app every time (even though I have a better one supposedly set as default in settings) and it only shows some jpg wallpapers. No way to browse or try to find additional graphics that I know for a fact are compatible with LP. If I use my other picture program it shows all the graphics but no way to get them to LP.
How can something that should be so simple be such a pain in my rear? Any suggestions?

Here's what little I know from my own experimentation...
For the dock, you can use .png files for icons.
If you want to use custom icons for your applications, they seem to need to be in .jpg format.
The .png files I have on my phone show up as blank photos in the gallery app, you have to guess which one is which, but they are there.
No doubt somebody else has a better grasp of how to make this work smoothly, but that's what I've found.

I have both jpegs and png files and none of them are showing up in the gallery for some reason, not even as a blank file. Just the wallpapers and have no idea why.

Ok...nm....mounted my phone and removed some pictures, then didn't really do anything else and now they show up in gallery.
Buggy deal but seems fixed now.

[Q] Anyone else having a problem with the Google search app on AOSP roms?

This happens in both CM11 and Slimkat, so I'm assuming it's an AOSP issue. Don't know that absolutely for sure though. This happens any time I use the Google search app, whether I use the top bar or the homescreen icon.
Let's say I search for "nova":
The standard results work fine, but if I click the Play Store result for Nova Launcher, nothing happens. It doesn't open the Play Store, it doesn't open a browser, it doesn't prompt what program to use. It just sits.
When I look at image results, it will show a handful of thumbnails, but the others are all grey boxes. No matter how long I wait or how far I scroll down, the rest of the thumbnails will never load. All of the thumbnails (both properly loaded ones and grey boxes) are unclickable, just like the Play Store links.
The search app is convenient for doing quick searches and it really sucks that it doesn't work properly. Is this a known issue with AOSP ROMs? Is there any fix for it?

Can I really be the only person having this problem? It's so easy for me to reproduce that I'd have thought it'd be widespread.

[Q] Contact widget issue

I had to delete and recreate the 1X1 Contact widget and now it has a white box around the contact. Anyone ever seen this and more importantly know how to fix it? I've tried rebooting, recreating etc.... But it's still there and looks ugly and bothers me. Anyone??

Bump. Anyone? Ideas?

I don't believe there is a way unless you change your icons. (Think icon pack from the play store.) The circles you see are Lollipops way of displaying contacts... in an annoying circle. As of yet I have not been able to find a setting to change the way the phone displays the contacts. (Like as a square with the full icon in view.)
Sorry I couldn't be more help.

valerinism said:
I don't believe there is a way unless you change your icons. (Think icon pack from the play store.) The circles you see are Lollipops way of displaying contacts... in an annoying circle. As of yet I have not been able to find a setting to change the way the phone displays the contacts. (Like as a square with the full icon in view.)
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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No, that actually helps. I recall just recently getting a 100-something MB update and from around that same time, the bubble turned into a square. I guess it changed between 5.0.1 and 5.1. I liked it being just the circle, but now it shows the circle INSIDE a square and it's ugly as crap.

If you click on the icon you can modify it selecting an image which you can crop. Then it shows now white around the image.

Samsung S9 Icon Frames Issue

Hi all,
New to the forum, so be gentle!
I just unpacked and configured my new S9+. One issue is that the Icon Frames-Icons only option only works with particular apps (this was not an issue with the S8). Specifically, I notice that certain apps (Google Voice, Google Calendar, Gmail) all have that ugly white border around them. I scoured the internet and couldn't find a fix. Does anyone have guidance on how to remove these borders? Thanks in advance!

Coming from the S7, I noticed the same issue: some icons are displayed as the setting imply, others are not. I didn't have this problem on my S7: all icons were borderless. I tried turning the setting on/off, restarting the phone with no success. It must be the themes app.

It is not the themes app and restarting the phone won't work.
This is a feature of Oreo. Most icons now follow certain design guides for symmetry including all google apps.

It might be so, but not all Google apps follow this new "feature" of Oreo. For example: Maps, Docs, Slides, Hangouts, Translate don't have the border.

Thanks, all. Is the only way to adjust the appearance to use something like Nova Launcher?

I'm seeing the same issue coming from a S7, doesn't look like my wife's S8 has the problem either.

I noticed this too, how can I restore the default icons, I was messing with the themes and lost them?

[Q] Suggestions for Alternative apps for weather, photos etc.

Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!

quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.

virtyx said:
quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.
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Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova

masri1987 said:
Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova
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i was about to upload
how do you find it? its slim, lightweight, fast - and gets the job done without any extra add-ins which is what i like, almost like the huawei launcher plus you can change the display and it recognizes ALL your images on your phone (im looking at you google photo)

masri1987 said:
Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!
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I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link

Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.

I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.

NepoRood said:
I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link
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thanks, tried it out, looking for something a bit more lightweight, just for the purpose of widget use.
krabman said:
Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.
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So i installed action launcher and I cannot find the option to build out tabs or folders within the drawer itself? Also can't remove the multidot drawer icon and just use the swipe up feature by itself
Cool thing is it did import everything almost from nova
Fuzzy13 said:
I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.
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Yeah i just discovered that app ,
I also discovered that any motion photo or any other like top shot (to show you the whole selection of photos taken) etc doesn't show up in 3rd party gallery apps

You just long press and drag the icon up and out, you'll see the remove label at the top of the screen, drop it there and it's gone. The rest will take a bit of reading as Action doesn't work the way normal launchers do so it takes some explaining. Before I do you can create folders in the drawer section of the home settings, it's under folders. I'm saying this because Action doesn't really work the way Dad's old launcher used to do and there are some new paradigms in play. Don't want to deal with that then just imagine the post ends here.
In action you don't really need to make folders in the drawer as it's laid out to use it's killer features, the covers and shutters. For covers you can drop a shortcut you tap as normal to open that app and then you can also swipe or tap the shortcut and it will open a folder with whatever apps you want inside of it. Those are created by dropping one app onto another to create a folder as with most launchers, open the folder you just created and tap the menu (3 dot), choose create cover and now you have it. Tap the first icon you placed and it will simply open that app, swipe it (or double tap if you select that as the opener) and it will open up the folder underneath. I'm not sure if there is an app limit for the folders, I've had 14 in one now. Using my setup for example I use Hangouts as my personal primary text and instant message app but I also use several others; I have a hangouts cover set in the dock, as its a cover I tap it and open hangouts in most cases. Because it's a cover I have the apps for texting that I use infrequently underneath that which I access by swiping the icon instead. This goes on for all the shortcuts I set in the dock. I use a 2 page dock which is all covers save for one which is a shutter and through those have quick access to 47 applications. Much quicker than finding them in a drawer, even when folder the drawer because you will need more touches to get to the app than with a cover.
The shutter is an app shortcut which you use to either open the app or by swiping it open one of that apps widget. An example would be Whatsapp is my work messaging app. I have the icon set and use it as a shutter. I touch it and go into the app as normal. I get a lot of junk messages though that really aren't for me so sometimes I'll swipe it and open up the unread messages widget. This allows me to skip straight to the more important messages first rather than sort through them all in the app itself. The menu(3 dot) when you first open up the shutter will allow you to select the widget you want to use.
Despite all that you can still access the built in long presses if the app/icon has them. What happens in all this is the app drawer itself becomes more of an initial setup bin where the apps are laying until you set your covers and on the odd occasion you go in there to open a seldom used app. In the rare cases you do need to get into the drawer the sea of icons pulled out of the bottom ala Pixel may look cool but it's slower than using the side drawer which I would highly recommend folks try. While not looking cool it's more efficient; particularly for those with many apps. Still want the bottom drawer pullout it's the default action, just get rid of the shortcut and it's there.
You're going to want to menu dive with Action because there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. You can have it match your wallpaper for the launcher theme in the quick theme section. In quickbar you have what amounts to the Goog searchbar with extra functionality that you can adjust. I don't use it as I find little need for it with all the different ways you can get to the search function and it takes up space which can be better spent showing off my carefully selected wallpaper. The icon pack section is self explanatory. Icon appearance will let you change functions and visual cues like notifications counts. App drawers is where you will decide on trying that side drawer and other related settings. Recommend if you do go to a side drawer to tell it to remember where you left it. Otherwise it will always default to the top of the alphabet. Desktop is where you will do the meat and potatos of setting your desktop, the grid, icon scale, scroll effects, infinite scrolling, etc. One thing of interest in the desktop section is it will allow you to create a quickpage. This is a page you can "pullout" from the side that is separate from simply the page to the right of home. I use it for my travel apps of which I have a fair few but only use during that time. Desktop shortcuts will take you to the settings for which functions will show up when long pressing the home screen out in the open. You'll be able to add typical actions like wallpaper, widgets and so on but also custom actions. Docks is where you'll set up the number of dock pages if any, style of dock, dock seperators (or not), etc. Folders and shutters will allow you to change functions there for those tasks. Shortcuts is where you'll define whatever gestures you want.
While all that seems like a lot when you start fiddling with it it'll start making sense. Sorry for the length of that and I hope it wasn't too boring for those that made it this far.
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Oh, yeah... If you use a launcher that allows you to set custom action widgets (Nova, Action Launcher, etc.) you could simply install Action launcher, never use it but get use of the weather widget via custom action in Nova or any other launcher which supports that function.

Huge fan of Today Weather! Can choose which service to receive forecasts from and has a number of widgets.