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On the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, you can add the Android built-in "Power Control" widget to your screen, this has a one-click button for turning Wifi on and off on the left-hand end of the bar.
(screen shot is from the home screen of my Galaxy Nexus, but this power bar has been built-in to Android since at least v1.6, though some manufacturer customizations ...
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I have the same issue, N7 with 4.2 with an Exchange Corporate Account that forces a password/pin.
You are correct that it has to do with corporate account. I removed my corporate account and was able to add widgets, even with the security still set to "password to unlock". I also changed to Pin and Slide to unlock and all of them worked as well.
I then ...
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There are some technical reasons explained on the Android developers website that justify why the widget may have stopped working:
Any of this ones aren't recommended to move to an External Storage due to possible failure:
Services
Your running Service will be killed and will not be restarted when external storage is remounted. You can, however, ...
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In short, you can't.
Only the application can interact with itself internally, unless an API was created for that end. External applications aren't able to know what to do in order to follow your desired "path".
The best you could achieve is opening the application, but you still needed to manually tap the buttons.
My recommendation:
I believe you are ...
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Technical answer: Yes.
Practical answer: It's hard.
You'll need:
"Manual intent shortcuts" app to add really custom shortcuts on the desktop ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cwfk.ig88.intents ).
Plus: Knowledge how to generate a specific intent that does exactly what you want to do (install above app and see what information it wants, ...
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If you're using the stock launcher, you can't.
If you use an alternative launcher like Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher (one which has support for scrolling & resizable widgets), then you can. Put the gmail widget on your homescreen by long-pressing and selecting the label of choice. THen long-press the widget itself and from the popup menu, choose RESIZE ...
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There don't seem to be any widgets that let you monitor twitter for certain keywords, but here's a workaround that might do the trick.
Try an application like Meta widget. It can turn any webpage to a widget.
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As you mention GO Launcher EX as your target launcher, you are lucky: There's a complete description on how to migrate your screens, which you can find at AddictiveTips.
Basically, this involves an app called Desk Migrate, which claims to copy home screens from one launcher to another launcher. According to the linked article, it seems do do a nice job. ...
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Is your widget application installed to the SD card? If yes, then that is the problem. When the phone reboots, it takes a few minutes for the SD card to get loaded. This causes an issue for any widgets that are not installed to the internal memory as they aren't available when the phone first boots up, causing them to not load.
So, please verify the widget ...
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I reinstalled CM7 on a spare HTC Desire to check the procedure:
Long press on spare space of homescreen
Select "Widgets"
Select "RenderFX widget"
Choose color (night, red, etc.)
Place Widget.
Results in a toggle switch widget:
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I share my experience and knowledge as an android developer:
Most widgets don't consume (or use just a bit) processor power when they are not visible, but some would consume even if your screen is off and phone is locked. It is based on what task the widget is considered to do, and how developer has written and optimized the code.
As a general rule: more ...
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It doesn't update only when it's visible. Because all widgets are drawn by the host (i.e. the home screen or lock screen), there's no way for the widget provider to tell whether the widget is visible or not.
It would be possible for the service that keeps changing the widget to find out when the screen is turned off. In recent Android versions, you could ...
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Agenda Widget Plus allows a user to do this easily.
As far as full scale calendar app replacements go, give the excellent Jorte Calendar a try - it too has loads of widgets and many customizable settings.
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In my case, running 4.2.1 on a Nexus 7, I started with calendar, clock and '+' widgets on the lock screen. I can scroll between these with a swipe.
Holding down on a widget shrinks it and brings in an 'X Remove' at the top of the screen; dragging the widget to it drops it from the lock screen. (This does not require authentication.) Removing the last widget ...
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I have Nexus 7 and now have JB 4.2.
Same problem with no additional widgets being visible, just the "+" box which does nothing if double tapped, held, dragged etc.
But I do NOT have a corporate account, as this N7 is my own personal device. I bought the N7 from Google direct, a couple of months ago.
I use Go Launcher EX but this is not the culprit ...
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The widgets referred to in the question are TouchWiz-specific widgets. They will only show up in TouchWiz because they don't use the standard Android widget interface. I've found some references to Samsung releasing a TouchWiz SDK to develop such widgets, but those articles are from 2009 and the links they contain now lead to Samsung's developer home page, ...
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You might want to take a look at Pure Calendar Widget. Will cost you about two bucks, but does exactly what you request:
Widget for Agenda / Tasks / TODO (agenda style)
Synced with Google calendars
Show calendars from Google, TouchDown & Moto/LG Exchange
Show tasks from Astrid, Tasks (Team), MyPhoneExplorer, Ultimate To-Do List, TaskSync, ...
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I just downloaded off widget from Google Apps called simple calendar. once you install the widget on to your home screen then you go to the apps area and single tap on the simple calendar icon. takes you into the settings for the simple calendar widget and you will be amazed to see how many different ways you can customize the calendar. you go into one area ...
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You will have to be rooted to control from home screen.
Button Savior Root will do this for you.
You can also download and install Volume Control + which allows you.to.modify the volume without a rooted device - you will have to use the widget or app UI however.
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This has to do with the accounts policies and it's not related to a specific device or version (so far). I have the same limitation on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2, so don't expect that update to fix anything.
Actually, since the policy is enforced by the corporate account, we shouldn't see this as a problem but instead as an acceptable limitation. If you ...
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Android 4.1 ("Jelly Bean") has this. I just went to the "Widgets" section, chose "Photo Gallery", and from the popup, chose "Choose an image", which gave me the chance to (you guessed it) choose an image; after cropping, that image is now just sitting there on my home screen.
Amusingly (or infuriatingly, depending on your mood), tapping the image on my ...
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According to the android developers guide
This grid can vary by device; for example, many handsets offer a 4x4 grid, and tablets can offer a larger, 8x7 grid
That being said, most phones have a 4x4 grid. One exception that I know of is the Galaxy Note which has a 5x5 grid. Also I've read about custom ROMS or mods that change a default 4x4 grid to 4x5 ...
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There are different apps to change rendering effects, I think, and there's also an app to dim your screen way more if you're rooted:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.pruss.superdim
Otherwise, CyanogenMod does not have widgets for this. I think certain custom launchers (such as LauncherPro or ADWLauncher) have the option to create shortcuts ...
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AIX Weather Widget does hourly forecast in a graph. You can find it here: Google Play link
Several different widgets have multiple day forecasts.
Technically, I wrote a widget that does up to 7 day forecast graph, but I could not even get my friends interested in it enough to test on their own hardware. It works for me.
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