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Upgraded to ICS yesterday, so far ok.. nothing amazing. But glad to have it. Is it not possible to make folders by dropping one App on top of another like on the Nexus??
thanks, and sorry if this was asked.. I checked, didn't see.
That's why touchwiz sucks
Your best bet is to get ics launcher like apex
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nandihno said:
That's why touchwiz sucks
Your best bet is to get ics launcher like apex
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Oddly enough, I just tried Apex... but every widget I try adding, I get a message at the bottom saying "there's no more room on this homepage".. even when theres nothing else there! Any suggestions?
Maybe the widgets are too big for the screen you are not running any dpi change on it right? Also you can't add widgets ala ics way unless you are rooted
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kramdens said:
Oddly enough, I just tried Apex... but every widget I try adding, I get a message at the bottom saying "there's no more room on this homepage".. even when theres nothing else there! Any suggestions?
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Bro make it 5 columns and youre golden. Apex defaults to 4 I think.
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octavian90 said:
Bro make it 5 columns and youre golden. Apex defaults to 4 I think.
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Thanks.. did that. That helped get some widgets on the screen, but there's still so many, like the digital clock, or power saving widget, for example that just won't fit on the screen.. can't seem to figure out how to get them to fit!! any other suggestions?? thanks!
Happened to me too when I upgraded my Note to ICS yesterday. I didn't touch any of the TW screens but installed and used Apex immediately. When I tried to add e.g. shortcuts to my XDA favorites it came up with the same error. I then checked with TW and there were the shortcuts, on screen 7 (where was some space). I cleaned up TW, i.e. removed all the widgets, and now it works on both launchers. Very strange indeed...
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Yeah it wont for me either. Although the widget would resize once in the 5 column but it still hovers above as if it is default 4...so a launchrr issue if it defaulted to 5 for the note it would be fine.
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Here at xda rooting is highly encouraged, but what if you don't want to jump ship enjoy what your s3 can do without voiding your warranty in some cases.
Here is what you can do :
1- Widget locker
This app is one of my personal favourites you can customise your lock screen as much as you like add desktop widgets toggles change the sliders etc etc you get the picture.
2- flip fonts
One of the hidden features of the s3 is the ability to change the font type to anything you want there is a thread on the apps and themes section just for that by bala_gamer
3-Custom launcher
These are great want to look like an iPhone no problem there is a launcher for that windows 8 sense they are all available just do a Google search some of them even support themes customise it to your liking
4-custom keyboards
These are amazing the number of keyboards out there is stunning and they have unlimited variations you can swipe to type tap change the colours and themes
5-live wallpapers
These will make your phone come to life from a Facebook and Twitter feeds to simple clocks that you can interact with they are all available
I hope I helped I will be updating this with more apps and links and pics soon
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Mines
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Enjoy your non rooted S3, personally such phone is worthless to me, rooted phones offer so many possibilities I don't want relinquish.
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Enjoy your non rooted S3, personally such phone is worthless to me, rooted phones offer so many possibilities I don't want relinquish.
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My phone is rooted and I customise the hell out of it, this is for people who don't want to root XD
Throwing it against the wall personally, and buying a 9305 instead like I will.
Needs moar ram.
Or wait for s4
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True, but can't buy s4 for some reason s3 lte will be just fine though.
Great thread. Rooting isn't for everyone.
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Simple steps to have fun with your non-rooted galaxy siii:
1) Root it
When 4.2 comes officially to the GS3, dashclock widget will be a great one to use
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When 4.2 comes officially to the GS3, dashclock widget will be a great one to use
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Comon! 4.2.1 is all Samsung are working on at the moment...
Don't forget about Carbon backup
Yay! I'm the 666th thread viewer
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Yay! I'm the 666th thread viewer
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Prove it.
why spend $500 on a phone and not take full control over it? having bloat is very annoying and running apps that require root is amazing.
sent from where i'm at.
Because some people buy a phone and just want it to work. Rooting takes a lot of time if you actually read all the instructions and precautions
No root then no XDA Developers forum exists .
Instead you have a fix my phone my phone is cooler than your phone forum with few posts .
jje
Having a Non Rooted S3 is like having Ferrari FSD (For Sunday Drivers) with speed limiter on board and half of the features disabled.... You can drive it but you'll never know what the real fun is It's good idea for people who can't drive but fancy hot ride same applies to Non Rooted S3 (or any Android device)
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What is the point to get android devices without get it rooted?
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I've replied to that question above
Hi All,
I finally made the jump and bought a Nexus 7 even tho we will most likely see a newer version in May. However it is still freakin awesome! I am running CM 10.1 nightly's but cannot expand the lock screen widgets. Is this possible? I love that new Dashclock widget for the lock screen but it will only show me two of my selected options before it cuts off because I am unable to expand the widget.
I use it on the Note 2 (also running CM10.1) and it works great. Anyone know something that I may have missed?
Thanks in advance
-Chris
I actually forgot how it's done. I remember I did it once on 4.2 but never again could I expand the widgets to maximum size again on 4.2.1 and 4.2.2
Hi there,
Have you tried Apex Launcher?
I dunno for sure, but maybe, and just maybe you can re-size and customize the lock screen widgets.
Hope this helps
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Queiroz1 said:
Hi there,
Have you tried Apex Launcher?
I dunno for sure, but maybe, and just maybe you can re-size and customize the lock screen widgets.
Hope this helps
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I did! That's what I thought but looks like it's built into CM 10.1. but not in the grouper builds i guess.
Swipe down on the widget. From the clock
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Swipe down on the widget. From the clock
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It doesn't behave the same way my Note 2 build does.Only thing I can do is delete or add widget. no re-sizing (that I can see or get to work) .
It really is strange then. Maybe if you pm your Rom dev for some q & a.
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I know there was one floating around for the E4GT, but I'm guessing it's not compatible with the S4.
Would anyone with experience modifying apps and/or theming be willing to teach me how to make the Accuweather Widget transparent?
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I know there was one floating around for the E4GT, but I'm guessing it's not compatible with the S4.
Would anyone with experience modifying apps and/or theming be willing to teach me how to make the Accuweather Widget transparent?
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I don't think you can but today I used the 1weather app and after you add the widget you can customize the Opacity making it very transparent at 0%.
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I know there was one floating around for the E4GT, but I'm guessing it's not compatible with the S4.
Would anyone with experience modifying apps and/or theming be willing to teach me how to make the Accuweather Widget transparent?
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Yep you sure can make it happen. Having a few issues with my new shotty Win8 PC, but already in the process of putting g together some status bar mods and transparency mods. Its been a while lol. But should be able to port the clock from the S3 my Rompnit..PMing him now
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Thanks revere. Looking forward to the status bar ones. If u need nethng tested just holler.
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Thanks revere. Looking forward to the status bar ones. If u need nethng tested just holler.
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Will do my friend, thank you!
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mjs2011 said:
I know there was one floating around for the E4GT, but I'm guessing it's not compatible with the S4.
Would anyone with experience modifying apps and/or theming be willing to teach me how to make the Accuweather Widget transparent?
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I haven't tried this one but it might work for you (halfway down the page): http://droidviews.com/2013/galaxy-s4-launcher-and-weather-widget-for-all-android-phones-on-jelly-bean/
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I haven't tried this one but it might work for you (halfway down the page): http://droidviews.com/2013/galaxy-s4-launcher-and-weather-widget-for-all-android-phones-on-jelly-bean/
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Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Update : didn't work. Phone was full of force closes.
Thank goodness for backups!
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This should work for you, dont think it matters about carriers for it, its not a flashable zip so will have to copy it to /system/app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2279232
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This should work for you, dont think it matters about carriers for it, its not a flashable zip so will have to copy it to /system/app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2279232
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Thanks for trying. Didn't work either. Now the weather widget doesn't show at all.
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Thanks for trying. Didn't work either. Now the weather widget doesn't show at all.
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Was worth a shot...one thing I didn't ask are you on a deodexed rom or stock
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I'm on Deodexed.
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I'm on Deodexed.
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Just sent you a pm with something you can try
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Thanks, I'll give that a try during my lunch break!
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Thanks, I'll give that a try during my lunch break!
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Just wondering how you made out
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Just wondering how you made out
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I actually haven't had the chance to try it yet. I'm actually going to try to figure out how to theme and I thought this could be my first project.
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I actually haven't had the chance to try it yet. I'm actually going to try to figure out how to theme and I thought this could be my first project.
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OK this one is kind of easy doesn't need any XML edits, all I did was edit the images
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I'm watching this with great interest. I too want a transparent weather widget and I wonder why it's not an option? when you select a folder on the home screen the widget DOES go transparent. See the attached screenshot. So it seems that there should be somewhere within the XML to turn this on all the time?
You guys still want a transparent weather widget lol? Just cause I love u guys
Gimme a few seconds and i'll upload it
Here you go guys, Finally lol!
Doeasnt matter what ROM or SYstemUI your on, This is Universal, so it will work anywhere, store & save it. MOre to come!!!!!!
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Freaking perfect. Thanks!
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OMG I was shocked to see the Note 3, just like the Note 2, only has a 4x5 grid on the homescreen. What I don't understand is how Samsung can develop a device with a huge screen, and then totally forget that they can make use of the extra room to place more icons. Even the original Note had 5 columns in the home screen by default (I owned the original Note, the Note 2 and now the Note 3).
I wanted to fix this using something like Assassin tools just like I did when I got my Note 2 a few months ago. Then I read about the Knox warranty void 0x1 on the Note 3. I don't want to void my warranty, although I find it completely rediculous that a user can loose warranty cause he wants to install another (modified) operating system to his device. Suppose Microsoft forbid me to install Linux on my PC!
But okay, we have to deal with it and we probably can't fix this problem (making Samsung change it's strategy) easily. So now it's becoming a challange to solve the wish for a more customizable home screen. How can we do that without root? Yes you could use a custom launcher, but I really like the Touchwiz launcher and it's widgets. Does anybody have ideas how to create a customizable grid on the Touchwiz homescreen to place icons and widgets, without the need to get the phone rooted?
Also: why can't we set the dpi per app? Same goes here, we have such nice devices with big screens, I'd love to have control over the per app dpi in Touchwiz! Is that possible without root? Anybody have a solution for that?
Or do I have to issue a ticket to the Samsung development team and clearify my wishes? And if so, will they listen?
I don't understand how you could be shocked by it, You must of already known this before buying the phone? the Samsung launcher had always been the same just like the xperia launcher etc
As for customising it if you don't want to root your phone right now when it is possible, im afraid you will have to wait it out. Try some other launchers at the moment besides I'm pretty sure most of the widgets work on different launchers
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I don't understand how you could be shocked by it, You must of already known this before buying the phone?
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This ^^^^
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I don't understand how you could be shocked by it, You must of already known this before buying the phone? the Samsung launcher had always been the same just like the xperia launcher etc
As for customising it if you don't want to root your phone right now when it is possible, im afraid you will have to wait it out. Try some other launchers at the moment besides I'm pretty sure most of the widgets work on different launchers
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Ok I was not shocked in that kind of way (I love the Note series enough to keep buying each increment), but I can imagine that I'm not the only user with such a big screen who wished there was more room to place icons and use apps optimized for big screens. So the shock is that apparentely I am the only one complaining about this, or Samsung doesn't listen....
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Ok I was not shocked in that kind of way (I love the Note series enough to keep buying each increment), but I can imagine that I'm not the only user with such a big screen who wished there was more room to place icons and use apps optimized for big screens. So the shock is that apparentely I am the only one complaining about this, or Samsung doesn't listen....
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Fair enough that's just the Samsung launcher though, it's not the "Note3 launcher" I suggest installing nova launcher or apex and replicating the touchwiz look with themes or icon packs for now, just be patient it was only released a few days a go ^^
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Fair enough that's just the Samsung launcher though, it's not the "Note3 launcher" I suggest installing nova launcher or apex and replicating the touchwiz look with themes or icon packs for now, just be patient it was only released a few days a go ^^
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Okay, I guess you're right... ThanQ!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46021581#post46021581
to deal with the home screen issue I plan on throwing Nova pro on there shortly after i get mine. This is my first Note so i'll prob hold off for a week or two before i install Nova. I saw somewhere that a few widgets didn't work but the S pen and air command worked fine
/Nova Launcher
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OMG I was shocked to see the Note 3, just like the Note 2, only has a 4x5 grid on the homescreen. ....
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Mate, you are new on this board. That´s ok - but for the future: Please double check if your concern hasn´t been discussed before (and believe me: in most cases it HAS been discussed).
My thread is just a few days old. -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457197
EDIT: I just saw that you aren´t that new here - you just have 8 posts in 6 years^^
Multicon widget
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brooon said:
Mate, you are new on this board. That´s ok - but for the future: Please double check if your concern hasn´t been discussed before (and believe me: in most cases it HAS been discussed).
My thread is just a few days old. -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457197
EDIT: I just saw that you aren´t that new here - you just have 8 posts in 6 years^^
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Mate, I tried searching, but your thread didn't show up. Sorry... And yes, I'm a bad poster, I have a lot of knowledge from reading all threads and keep up with the development, but I'm always afraid to give an advise (we know there were brick risks, now KNOX..). But I really appreciate all the good work, knowledge and skills here. Again sorry!
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/Nova Launcher
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durtoffmysboulda said:
to deal with the home screen issue I plan on throwing Nova pro on there shortly after i get mine. This is my first Note so i'll prob hold off for a week or two before i install Nova. I saw somewhere that a few widgets didn't work but the S pen and air command worked fine
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Ok I'll try Nova (just installed Apex today, because I bought it earlier, but I''l give this one a look, since it seems like Touchwiz is not mod-dable without braking warranty). Thanx!!
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Okay! ThanQ for your suggestion!
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Mate, I tried searching, but your thread didn't show up. Sorry...
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Hehe, no problem at all!! To be honest: much more people should open up such a thread, making Samsung realize that it is necessary to work on this.
So: lets keep both (and more) threads (of this kind) up!
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Samsung just says "if you want more options, install another launcher. We're not stopping you."
That's the point of Android. Don't like it, change it.
I got rid of the Stock launcher within the first 30 minutes of purchasing my first Android phone (S3.) Haven't left Apex Pro since.
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Hehe, no problem at all!! To be honest: much more people should open up such a thread, making Samsung realize that it is necessary to work on this.
So: lets keep both (and more) threads (of this kind) up!
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Agreed!!!!
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Okay! ThanQ for your suggestion!
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Let me know what you think. I really like it.
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Let me know what you think. I really like it.
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Yeah it works but I can only make shortcuts to apps, not to (for example) browser bookmarks. Also missing the icon labels. But indeed it's a solution and I like the idea. I'll search for better widget and share when found. Thanx!
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