The home-screen is what you usually get to see first after unlocking your fresh started device, where your widgets etc. are placed, and where all activity usually starts.
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What happens to a running program when “home” button is pressed in Android phone?
One thing puzzles me. It looks like if I use some program on Android and press the "home" button I see the home screen and can rerun the program and see that program in the same state as it was before ...
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Can I make home screen contact icons update their picture?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make contact icons on the home screen update their picture when the contact's picture is changed, without needing to delete the shortcut and recreate it. ...
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What is the default resolution of a wallpaper that fits the homescreen exactly in an Android phone?
On an Android phone the wallpaper spans across all of the home screens.
So what size should pictures be to fit properly as custom wallpapers?
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How would you uninstall a rogue Home (Launcher) application?
If you were to install a Home Screen application that does not give you access to the System Settings screen (to go to Manage Applications), and also does not let you launch Apps (such as the Market ...
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How can I tap once on my home screen and start composing an email to a specified contact?
I'm looking for a widget, shortcut, etc. that will let me tap it once and the next screen I see if the compose email screen for someone.
For example, if I have a contact Joe whose email is ...
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How do I change the home screen's Email icon to go to GMail instead of the default Email app on the Samsung Galaxy S?
On the bottom of the home screen there is an icon for EMail. I don't ever want to use the default Email app. I only use GMail and would rather use the Google GMail app. How do I change where the icon ...
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Dashboard/Home Screen icons take up to 10 seconds to load after pressing the Home button
I have an issue where the Home Screen (dashboard?) icons can take over 10 seconds to load when I press the home key. After this happens once, the icons will stay there if I open a program and then ...
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Change the number of home screen panels in Android
A phone user manual (HTC Wildfire S. Android 2.2) says
'Home screen has seven panels that you can customise'.
The system settings do not contain an option to modify the number of panels.
I was ...
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Launcher without home screen?
Is there a launcher software for my Android device (in this case Galaxy S2) that doesn't have a home screen, but only the App drawer?
If I can give example it would be an iOS; you unlock and you are ...
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Nexus 7 , Android Ver. 4.2.2, Locking icons down on home screen
We have a set of 30 Nexus 7's that are checked out by students who constantly delete/move/add icons on the home screen. We would like to lock the home screen icons so that they cannot be ...
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How do I copy pictures onto a folder on the home screen?
I have some pictures that I want to copy to a folder on the home screen, but I can't see any way to do that. The home screen isn't a directory like all the others, so I can't copy files there. Is ...
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Keep the home launcher from being killed
I have a Motorola Milestone, and I've come to learn that it has a relatively low memory (runtime memory, not storage capacity). The problem that comes with this is that whenever too many apps want to ...
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How to get out of broken home screen replacement?
I was writing my own home screen replacement, and while trying it out on my ZTE Blade I got into a bit of trouble.
I have hooked the HOME-button, and set my app as the default for it. Too late I ...
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Is there a bug in the management of icon movement?
I have been using my Nexus one, Android Version 2.2.2, build number FRG83G, since December.
I had no problem moving icons on the screen for two months.
Lately, I think after the latest update asking ...
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Configuring identical home screens on multiple devices
I need to modify the home screen icons' disposition and add new shortcuts, but I need to do it programmatically from a flashable ZIP through recovery.
I need this because I will have to do it on ...
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How can I remove unwanted app icons from the screen?
I'm new to using an android. Apps I have never visited nor installed are showing up on my screen (Slots, Candy Crush, Expedia, Droid Games). If I touch them, I go to their site. I would like to ...
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How can I replace HTC Sense?
I saw not using HTC Sense as a power-saving tip on another question, but I just wanted to know what the easiest way to replace HTC Sense is and what it requires me to do?
Do I lose all my widgets too ...
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What are the differences between: LauncherPro “Keep in memory” and “Lock home in memory.”
LauncherPro has an option for "Keep in memory".
CyanogenMod settings has an option for "Lock home in memory".
How do these work? Do they conflict with each other? What problems might they cause? ...
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Adding (lots of) icons to home screen on ICS tablet
I just upgraded my Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung's 3.2 variation to CyanogenMod's ICS RC1. Most everything seems a little slicker or simpler. However, there is one big shortcoming: it seems ...
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Why does the home screen stay empty (no application icons/no widgets) sometimes?
I have a Motorola Milestone, and sometimes when I press Home to go back to the Home Screen, the screen shows no application icons, no widgets.
It simply stays blank, with the wallpaper on background. ...
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Is it possible to change the name underneath the icons on the home pages?
Just wondering: is it possible to change the name which is displayed underneath the icons on the home pages ?
I added some short cuts to internet pages on these pages, and they use way too long names ...
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How can I enable auto-rotate for the home screen?
I have a "handset" with Android 2.3.4, and the "flip" feature works for every app and screen, except the desktop. That is, if I flip my phone any screen or app will flip too, yet the desktop remains ...
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How can I force the Sense UI home screen on my Evo to landscape?
I have an Evo running with very default settings. How can I force the home screen (Which I believe to be running Sense UI if I'm not confused) to be in landscape format. I use my kickstand all the ...
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How did I get my Nexus 7 homescreen into landscape?
I was playing around on my Nexus 7 today and somehow ended up in a landscape version of the homescreen. I haven't downloaded any apps that mess with it like Ultimate Rotation Control, or rooted it or ...
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Large gaps between home screen icons, can it be reduced?
The icons on the Samsung Galaxy S3 have large gaps between them, enough so that if they were moved closer together you could fit at least one more row and maybe one more column. Is there a way to ...
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What is the Practical difference between the Home screen and the Launcher screen?
It seems that on my Nexus One, the home screen and launcher screen essentially serve the same purpose: Host application icons, allowing you to launch them.
Are there any other differences, other than ...
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Is it possible to add home screens to a Sony Xperia?
I've an Xperia Mini/Pro. I would like to add another home screen. At the moment there are 5 different home screen. Is it possible to add more to the Xperia launcher ?
I don't want to change launcher, ...
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Is there any way to make my Motorola Droid use Landscape mode on the Home Screen w/out sliding out the keyboard?
Its all in the title, but again for clairity: Is there any way to make my Motorola Droid use Landscape mode on the Home Screen w/out sliding out the keyboard?
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Hide / Add / Replace dock icons on home screen
I have Samsung galaxy Y and I do have 2 questions about dock settings on home screen.
Is it possible to Hide / Modify dock on home screen?
Is it possible to make it toggle on touch the home screen?
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How to hide the top page navigation on tablet home screen?
I am a new user of Galaxy Tab and I noticed in comparison with some other home tab screen-shots in another forum, that my tab is the only who has the top page navigation squares shown.
I have only ...
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how to copy android home shortcuts from one device to another?
I have 2 Android (2.2) Galaxy Tab mini tablets with android 2.2 I am setting them up for show presentations.
I put on both of them a directory filled with content. The directory is identical in both ...
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How to put a shortcut to a settings submenu on a home screen
Use case: I would like to change the input language for voice input without having to click through "Settings/voice input and output/voice recognition settings/Language" And I have a couple of ...
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How do you move an app shortcut between launcher screens?
So I have a few icons and folders on the leftmost launcher screen. I want to move them to the middle one. You'd think that you'd do it by dragging the icons to the dots on the lower left/ lower ...
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How do you save a contact onto the home screen?
I can't figure out how to save a contact shortcut on the home screen for easy dialing (Ice Cream Sandwich on Galaxy Nexus).
Long-pressing on the home screen prompts me to choose a wallpaper. ...
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Missing icons at the bottom of the home screen
My son has recently got a Samsung Galaxy Ace android phone. Somehow he has managed to remove three of the four icons that are normally at the bottom of the screen ( typically the green icon for making ...
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Home screen bottom bar buttons
I don't understand why the Android 2.3 SDK docs show the home screen dock as beeing this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Google_Nexus_S_smartphone.jpg
And I have this, unchanged ...
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Shortcut for email to a specific person
I am new to Android, and would like to know whether it is possible to add a desktop shortcut so that when I press it, I can send an email to a specific person, and I just need to put the subject and ...
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If I tap and hold on the homescreen, nothing happens
I wanted to uninstall and move some applications from my homescreen, but when I tap and hold to get the menu for uninstalling and editing, nothing happens. The icon is selected, but there is no ...
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How do I change the desktop icon created from a website bookmark?
I created a desktop icon from a bookmark for Wikipedia.com. Here is a screenshot of the result:
The blue background doesn't look great, I'm wondering if this should be transparent.
Here is the ...
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Homescreen is blank on 2.2 Droid
I have a Motorola Droid on Verizon, and a lot of times when I unlock it, my homescreen will be blank; no icons, no widgets. Nothing in my app tray, either. I have to wait for about a minute for ...
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How to make custom apps to appear by default in the lower dock panel in my custom ROM
At the very bottom of my device (MT6577 + ICS + TouchWiz Launcher) are the default icons for "phone", "contacts", "web", and "applications". I want to replace them with my own apps in my custom ROM so ...
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Switching to TouchNooter home from Stock Home
So I have just rooted my Nook with TouchNooter.
When I press the home button it asked me which I want to set as the default GO Launcher or Home. I chose Home as the default.
Now, I can't figure out ...
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It takes a long time to load the home screen
Returning to home screen after sending an SMS or making a call takes up to 7 seconds on an average where as it used to be much faster six months back. Its a Aug 2011 model. System hangs often coming ...
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How to Sort shortcuts in a folder?
I have made many folders on home screen on froyo containing shortcuts of applications.
Is there any way I can sort those shortcuts by names?
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Disappearing Icons on Galaxy S2
On my Samsung Galaxy S2, sometimes all of the icons will disappear from the home screens except for the 4 built in icons (phone, messaging, web, applications). This sometimes happens at startup, and ...
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How can I set some handy settings on the main screen?
I want to be able to set Wifi, bluetooth, GPS on and off quite easily but I can't find where I should do this.
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iPhone-to-Android convert: how do I change the lock screen, set up 2-click speed dialing, etc.
I just left my iPhone 3G for a Samsung Galaxy S II Android phone. I am trying to recreate certain iPhone behaviors and am wondering if it's possible, and how.
Android 2.3's default lock screen is ...
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Home screens maxed out (oops)… now I can't edit?
Someone was playing with my coworker's Samsung Galaxy Gio (Froyo), and added an eighth home screen. Now hitting Settings->Edit makes the phone crash, as does minimizing (pinching) on any home screen - ...
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In ICS 4.0.3 using ADWLauncher EX, how can I make only three home screens instead of five?
I just upgraded my android phone to ICS. When I had Gingerbread (2.3), I remember the option to change the number of home screens. I also had ADW launcher in 2.3 before. Now I can't find the option in ...
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ICS: Add Google Contact Group To Home Screen
Please note I'm using Ice Cream Sandwich.
I'd like to add a shortcut to a Google Contacts Group such as 'Co-Workers' to my home screen. Can I do that?
