How to remove broken widget from homescreen - Ideos S7 General

Hello.
I have a (broken) widget on my home screen that is broken and that i can't remove.
Any attempt to drag it to the waistbasket, results in the selection screen for a new shortcut.
I can find the widget still in my 3rd party widget list. It's called "Traffic" and has an icon of the green light of a trafficlight.
I need to know where on the S7 the information on that widget is stored, so i can remove it by hand.
Thanks in advance.
PS. Oh, and i have tried all suggestions given by the site when i posted this topic.

If you have root go on data/system and edit appwidget.xml removing that widget.

goodoane said:
If you have root go on data/system and edit appwidget.xml removing that widget.
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Going to try that now....

Did not work. This file only contains the info on the original Emotion widgeds.
The widget i'm talking about is a 3rd party widget.....

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Tips on HOW to show Power Control Widget Icon on your Homescreen

1} Click on Power Control Widget to show on home screen
(It'll will pop out without any icon)
2} Drag down notification bar and click on GPS icon, u'll see de Control Widget
with icon.
Hope it helps~
Cheers~
WTH are you talking about?
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Talking about The power control widget. If u add it The iconen are invisible. With this method u can see them again
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If anyone use rom that has AppWidgetPicker.apk (app that group widget when you add widget to homescreen), you will experience no icon when you add the power widget. Oceangreen's method is use to fix that bug.
Thats like saying long press on the screen to place widgets on the homescreen.
Very useful information - sticky this
bricheun said:
thats like saying long press on the screen to place widgets on the homescreen.
Very useful information - sticky this
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lololololololol
Thanks, it works.
I have Simply Honey 3.1 ROM installed and its an issue that the powercontrol widget doesn't show any icons. I tried this and there it was! The powercontrol widget icons are back!
This is what i did.
1. Added the powercontrol widget to the desktop. (no icons are appeared, only the empty boxes)
2. I pulled down the notifications bar, and enabled GPS toggle. Voila! the powercontrol widget's icon all appeared.
3. I turned off GPS in the powercontrol widget. (all the powercontrol widget's icon, remained)
Yeah it worked! Some custom roms or badly upgraded roms tend to have invisible icons in power control widget. Please state that in the first post so that users wont get confused
Kool, worked like a charm
bricheun said:
Thats like saying long press on the screen to place widgets on the homescreen.
Very useful information - sticky this
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No it's describing a workaround for a bug.
What you've described is a feature.
A bug is the opposite of a feature. In other words you couldn't be more wrong.

[Q] Help with removing Widgets

I've been using Zeam 2.8.8 as my desktop launcher and think it's great for our Nooks. I am having a problem when trying to remove large widgets, i.e 4x2, 2x3. I long press the widget and drag it to the trash can, I'm not that stupid, but when it's in the right spot the widget and trashcan are supposed to both turn red. Problem is on a grayscale like Nook there is no visiable change in color. Is there an app I can use to remove the widget? I've been looking for an app the past three days but not lucky. I also am using ES File manager which allow sys access. Is the wedget listed somewhere in the system files so I can delete it? Go Launcher is more better in terms of widget removal.

[Q] Google apps folder

Hi.
Just got a Nexus 4 after some thieving Spanish barstewards stole my Note 2. Loving the phone so far.
Quick question. Can you add to the Google apps folder on the home screen that is there when you first start it up? I know you can delete from it as I deleted the Youtube widget, but I wanted to add the Google Now widget but when I try to add it as if it was a folder it doesn't work.
Is it just not possible?
Ta.
loftus1961 said:
Hi.
Just got a Nexus 4 after some thieving Spanish barstewards stole my Note 2. Loving the phone so far.
Quick question. Can you add to the Google apps folder on the home screen that is there when you first start it up? I know you can delete from it as I deleted the Youtube widget, but I wanted to add the Google Now widget but when I try to add it as if it was a folder it doesn't work.
Is it just not possible?
Ta.
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Guess I'm not following what you mean exactly by folder?
Are you using the stock launcher or another launcher (ie: apex, nova, etc) .
Normally to add a widget you would simply long-press the home screen, select widgets, and pick that, and should show up as a widget, if you're creating a folder you're probably dragging the app icon onto something else.
Yeah, I thought I wasn't explaining myself very well.
It's stock launcher. On the home screen, when you first set up the phone, there is a widget/folder titled "Google" which is effectively a folder containing the widgets for various Google apps ie Gmail, Google+, maps etc. I wondered whether it is possible to add to this folder (for want of a better word). If I try to drag a widget over it that doesn't work.
Hope that's a bit clearer.
Don't worry - sorted it.

Stock Lollipop Lockscreen on Zenfone 2

Hi guys,
I had been scouring the internet looking for how to setup the stock lock screen on the ZF2 because I hated those 3 bubbles for camera, phone and messaging on the front screen and had no success.
Turns out there is a simple box you have to uncheck to get the stock lock screen working
Go to Settings>Lock screen> and uncheck "Quick access"
I feel really dumb because its been bothering me for more than a month now but I hope this helps anyone else who has this issue!
You can also change the apps that get accessed by clicking on "Quick access" instead of clicking the "on/off" switch.
so is it necessary to make a thread about this easy setting?
you can easily find all tips and tricks about zenfone 2 on YouTube, you can find many videos named "things you need to know after buying asus zenfone 2"., you can find many useful tips and tricks in this forum as well...
Freezing the ASUS weather app makes it even more like stock too. Shame you can't center the clock on the slide lockscreen.
With weather app frozen:
Edit: Actually, after rebooting this removes the clock from the lockscreen completely.
you can also delete "lockscreen" from /system/app. This will give you the real aosp lock screen
kansasboy001 said:
you can also delete "lockscreen" from /system/app. This will give you the real aosp lock screen
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I tried to delete it but get "permission denied". If I freeze the ASUS lockscreen system app, I still get the same lockscreen anyway.
kanagawaben said:
I tried to delete it but get "permission denied". If I freeze the ASUS lockscreen system app, I still get the same lockscreen anyway.
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Fitst of all you need to be rooted, secondly you need to use a file manager like root explorer or root browser to mount rw, but freezing will result in the same thing anyway
kanagawaben said:
I tried to delete it but get "permission denied". If I freeze the ASUS lockscreen system app, I still get the same lockscreen anyway.
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I'm trying to freeze it, but I can't find it in Titanium Backup. Is there another app I can use to freeze it, or is it called something weird?
jfsat said:
I'm trying to freeze it, but I can't find it in Titanium Backup. Is there another app I can use to freeze it, or is it called something weird?
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com.asus.lockscreen 1.0.1
How does the AOSP lockscreen look? I did this on my old phone once, the lockscreen ended up not being worth it. (Buggy/frequent crashes when inputting PIN)
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com.asus.lockscreen 1.0.1
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So I froze that, but my lockscreen didn't change, even after a reboot. I was hoping the lockscreen would be AOSP so that I can set 5 or 6 app shortcuts in there (via GravityBox). What am I doing wrong? Do I need to go into the file system and delete stuff?
With the ASUS lockscreen app frozen I get no change whatsoever in the appearance of the lockscreen (still has the off-centre ASUS Clock/Weather widget and swipe to unlock). With the weather app frozen I get a blank lockscreen with swipe to unlock.
i tried different lockscreens from playstore.for me hi locker is the best
Use hi locker its far better lockscreen than native lollipop or zen ui 's
android lover 2000 said:
Use hi locker its far better lockscreen than native lollipop or zen ui 's
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How do you remove default lock screen? There's no none option only swipe.
EDIT: Never mind, just had to remove guest user.
Use this xposed module with any widget
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.ssrdroide.lockscreenwidgets
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Locking first 2 Tabs

Hi,
After installing new app, a new icon got created on 2nd tab and looking for first empty space
I have no issue of new icon creation
But is there anyway, to configure it to be placed on first empty after 2nd tab
So I want 1st and 2nd tabs to be locked and changed only by me, beyond that it's for new things
Are you saying that whenever you install a new app you don't want it to appear on the first two homescreens? If so you could fill up the empty spaces on the first two homescreens with blank icons or an empty zooper widget or something, you could also disable automatically adding new app icons to the homescreen and manually add them wherever you prefer.
Thanks for the reply
Yes, you got my requirements correct
But thought of direct setting, which could do that
I will try the empty icons and check how it works
malibusa said:
Thanks for the reply
Yes, you got my requirements correct
But thought of direct setting, which could do that
I will try the empty icons and check how it works
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Cool, tbh afaik there's no setting like that on any launcher

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