Hi, I'm used to Nova launcher, on my previous S7 was possible to add an action which was starting the weather application. On S8 I'm getting message about insufficient right.
Is there any way how to use Samsung weather from Nova launcher?
Thanks.
In short: no.
You can install lookalikes but the original is part of and only for touchwiz.
Why it is working on S7?
That's why i went back to tw... I love the weather widget
1.Go to your weather settings and Select add weather icon to apps screen,
2. download the app xwidget its free,
3. open the app and downlod the s8 widget, add the widget to your home screen
4. click on the widget and Select settings and about
5. Select click Event /open an app / Select the samsung weather app
Sorry for my bad english xDD
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I can't seem to find the answer to this one anywhere, but I'm sure I'm probably just searching for it incorrectly.
How do I un-associate an application?
The issue I'm having is with the weather & toggle widget donate and wanted to try some new clock skins, so I selected the "Market" as my choice for looking for new skins out of the weather app settings screen, but now every time I select the weather/clock widget from my app drawer it opens the Market instead of the settings for the weather & clock app.
Any suggestions/answers?
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chetspartan said:
I can't seem to find the answer to this one anywhere, but I'm sure I'm probably just searching for it incorrectly.
How do I un-associate an application?
The issue I'm having is with the weather & toggle widget donate and wanted to try some new clock skins, so I selected the "Market" as my choice for looking for new skins out of the weather app settings screen, but now every time I select the weather/clock widget from my app drawer it opens the Market instead of the settings for the weather & clock app.
Any suggestions/answers?
Thanks
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Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Menu-Filter-All>Find the app that you have as the default action NOT the one that you use to get the option (In this case you would choose Market)>Clear Defaults. That should do it.
Hmmmm....it's grayed out JAguirre1231. Any other ideas?
How do you add a settings shortcut for battery and wifi manager on the home screen? I've been scouring through the widgets and nothing seems to appear, normally with all other phones a "settings" widget is available and you get to choose which settings you want a link to.
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kingofthebraves said:
How do you add a settings shortcut for battery and wifi manager on the home screen? I've been scouring through the widgets and nothing seems to appear, normally with all other phones a "settings" widget is available and you get to choose which settings you want a link to.
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i was using the galaxy note ii for a while and loved settings widget/shortcut. i moved on to the galaxy note 3 on a different carrier. i also have sm-n9005. both note 3s do not have the settings widget. it is frustrating. what i recommend is installing action launcher by chris lacy. it will add 2 widgets to the widget launcher/menu. choose the activities widget. the list of apps and settings that populates is more extensive than the note ii's version. there you can add bluetooth, data usage, wifi, and tethering one by one. after creating all the shortcuts i needed, uninstalled action launcher. remember to keep touchwiz as your default launcher in the beginning of the process.
(on a side note, action launcher is great. i even purchased the pro key. however, i just don't like the way apps look in folders. in addition, 1x1 widgets do not align properly with regular app icons sometimes. as for 4 row widgets, it automatically adds margins/padding so they look more align with other same sized widgets. some 4 row widgets on touchwiz go edge to edge which is annoying. in regards to the s pen features, air command did not pop up on action. honorable mention, shutters is a great action feature. last mention, i don't use action on the note 3.)
So I recently installed the s8 launcher on my s7 edge and am enjoying all the new style and bixby functio ality, however most of the icons are still from the s7 edge, the easiest way around this is to install nova launcher and customise it so it looks like the s8 but then you lose the bixby screen, is there anyway to get around this?
The other way to get the icons would be to download a theme, but i have no idea how to root my device and am scared to do it just incase something goes wrong.
1. Install activity Launcherhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.szalkowski.activitylauncher&hl=en
2. Open It and select All Activities
3. Scroll Up to Hello Bixby and Create shortcut for it to your homescreen
4. Enjoy ! Nova + Bixby
If design is so important check out the S8 theme in the Themes, Apps, Mods section.
Problem with using an activities app is that you dont get the full screen app like in standard touchwiz so is there anyway of making the app into a widget so that it can be made fullscreen?
Ive tried to download the theme,* but it keeps saying that the download failed? Is that because of my account status or the download link?
Since I cant install s8 weather due to package error, but I still wanna use s8 look, and default weather application, is there any app or something that I can use to open samsung s7 stock weather app (when I click zooper widget)? When I choose click event in zooper app, there is no option to system default weather app, so is there any app which can help in this?
Kimmy96 said:
Since I cant install s8 weather due to package error, but I still wanna use s8 look, and default weather application, is there any app or something that I can use to open samsung s7 stock weather app (when I click zooper widget)? When I choose click event in zooper app, there is no option to system default weather app, so is there any app which can help in this?
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weatherbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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Oh my god dude thats something so awesome! This works perfectly! I dont need no more s8 weather because of this. =) Best thing of today.
EDIT: donated 3 dollars.
Kimmy96 said:
Oh my god dude thats something so awesome! This works perfectly! I dont need no more s8 weather because of this. =) Best thing of today.
EDIT: donated 3 dollars.
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No problem buddy, Really glad to help :good:
Thanks so much for the donation !
Thank you for the help again. However I managed to install s8 system weather and all other apps which I previously got famous package error. I dont know what happened last night but yesterday I still got that error. Now its gone and im all happier now.
Kimmy96 said:
Thank you for the help again. However I managed to install s8 system weather and all other apps which I previously got famous package error. I dont know what happened last night but yesterday I still got that error. Now its gone and im all happier now.
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Congrats! hope my method will still serve you in the future, you can link to any other activity with it so you can make a widget for anything if you just want to play around and test what activities are possible you can browse in the app itself and select a service and select "try" it will load that service... if you like the service it loads repeat the steps for weather just select the new service you want instead
Sample :
if you use Twitter you could use the same methods to create your own personalised widget that automatically opens twitter at the post a tweet page or facebook to go straight to posting etc
EasyAndroidPro said:
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Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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OMG!!! This works perfectly, thank you so muchh
RafaelRivero16 said:
OMG!!! This works perfectly, thank you so muchh
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Glad to help
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If i remember rightly its because the weather app does not appear in the app draw....
Unfortunately in the S7 Weather Settings there is no option to show the app in the app drawer..
The option is there in the S8 weather Settings though which kinda sucks for you in this situation since you can't install the s8 weather app.
i just found a way to make it possbile though bare with me a sec
---------- Post added at 01:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:01 PM ----------
Steps:
*Do you use Nova Launcher? If YES skip step 1...*
1. Download Quick Shortcut Maker
2. Add your zooper widget on the homescreen
3. In the widget settings select "widget on tap action"
4. Swipe left to "shortcuts" tab and select "activities"
5. Scroll down to "Weather Forcast" and select it
6. Select the bottom weather forcast activity "com.samsung.android.weather.app.weathgerbaseactivity"
7. Tap Create
Done Your widget will now open the default weather app when selected.
*If you have Nova Launcher no need to download quick shortcut maker*
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I confirmed that this same method works in KWGT also. When choosing the tap action, choose "Shortcut" and then choose the Nova Activities at the top of the list and find the Weather Forecast as described above.
Quick question, on my s6 even with nova prime I had the ability to use the Samsung weather widget.
I'm actually quite happy with how stock touchwiz is but randomly i thought lemme install nova, and go to find the weather widget is no longer available. Has anyone got it to work? Or is the only other choice is to use a different app?
I have the s8+
Many thanks.
Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.
FAUguy said:
Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.
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Might give that a go as I bought the pro version almost 7 years ago lol
Download Xwidget from the play Store
andres2428 said:
Download Xwidget from the play Store
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Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?
jlv3 said:
Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?
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It looks almost the same, he can choose the weather app of samsung to opens with the widget
Thank you for a the suggestion guys, just read on a reddit that Samsung is blocking 3rd party apps. I've been messing with beautiful widgets and for now I'm happy with it.