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I've been looking all over the internet for an answer to this for a while. In hopes of alleviating other people's headache's, here's how to enable/disable automatically adding home screen icons of newly downloaded apps in the newly released Android Oreo.
You won't find the setting in the Play Store anymore, nor is it in the Google app settings, or the ...
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I havent been able to find an intuitive way to modify a desktop shortcut's URL, but I have found a workaround for the problem.
Put your phone in airplane mode and disable WiFi to turn off all internet access
Open the Chrome browser
Type in the URL you are trying to set a shortcut for
Press enter and the browser will alert you that you are currently in an ...
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There's no built-in functionality for this, but there are a handful of third-party launchers that support locking the desktop. Off the top of my head, I know that both Apex Launcher and ADW.Launcher do.
For Apex, simply double tap on an empty space on the home screen and then select "Lock Desktop" to prevent icons from being added or removed.
On ADW....
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If you don't want use 3rd party apps:
This requires decent computer skills and a rooted phone, but here are the steps for android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Copy /system/home.apk from your phone to pc.
Decompile home.apk using apktool.
Goto [decompiled folder]/res/values/integer.xml
Change <integer name="number_of_desktop_panes">5</integer>, to 7 or ...
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If it doesn't work out of the box, which is the case with many Android phones, then you have a few different options:
A launcher replacement which adds this feature (may not work with all ROMs)
A custom ROM like cyanogen mod, which has this feature built in. You can read more about custom ROMs here
Wait for an official update which adds this feature. (may ...
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To prevent deleting or moving your home screen Icons accidentally
On your Android version 7 or up.
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch and hold delay.
Now Select Short, Medium, or Long or custom delay
It worked for me.
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You can add the Power Control widget to the home screen to control those functions. Open the app drawer, find the Power Control widget, long press and drag it to the home screen.
There are also many widgets in the market that offer expanded functionality when compared to the stock widget.
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Sounds like you tapped into some spam trap. Certain apps place advertisements this way -- though the new playstore rules do no longer allow that. Others do the same in the notification area. Airpush is the best known evil source of such.
I suggest you scan your device for such apps. Try e.g. with TrustGo Ad Detector. Quoting from the apps description:
It ...
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It's part of Samsung's multi window feature, and was added by a system update. To disable it, go to the main Settings app. In the Device group, click on Display. In the General group, there's a Multi window item. Uncheck this setting to turn off the sliding tray.
If you want to use the multi window feature sometimes, but don't want the sliding tray there ...
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For the "typical end user", the easiest ways probably are:
If the "rogue" was installed from Google Play:
On a computer, open the Play Store Website with your favorite web browser
Log in with your Google Account credentials
Hit the "My Android Apps" tab at the upper-right of the page
Look for your "rogue" app
Hit the ...
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More of a status update than an answer: Jelly Bean 4.1.2 allows a landscape rotation on small screens.
I previously had the same experience (accidentally changed the rotation but could not reproduce it) -- I received the system update yesterday and was pleasantly surprised after the reboot :-)
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If they're on your home screen then long press them and drag them to the trash can on the screen. Depending on what phone you have and what version of Android it's running the trash can be in a different place. On the image below the trash can is at the bottom of the screen however I think on Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean it's at the top.
If you want to ...
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Home screen has seven panels that you can customize.
You can't change the number of home screen panels. The quoted part simply means that there are seven panels that can be customized to your liking e.g: add shortcuts, widgets.
If you want to decrease that simply switch to a 3rd party launcher like Go launcher Ex.
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When you are on home screen, press the Menu button, then Edit submenu and you will have all the panels displayed. A long press on one of it will select a panel, then you will be able to move it into the trash.
You will be able to reduce the number of panels but no way to have more than 7 panels on a SGS2.
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AFAIK there's no built-in method to achieve that personalization.
I would go with Apex Launcher by Android Does available from Google Play Store, to use with Android 4.0+, it's free and among the features you'll find:
Customizable homescreens and grid size
Scrollable dock
Infinite & elastic scrolling
Customizable app and folder icons
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Not for a specific person -- but still a shortcut, which simply opens the "compose new mail" screen: Compose Mail Shortcut. There's also Send Mail Shortcut which, from the name, sounds to exactly fit your purpose -- but as it helds no description at all, it's hard to tell. Last but not least: Mail Linker even seems to fit right from its description.
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Have a play with SureLock in the Play store. It is pretty good at locking the home screen down.
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Are you sure you have the google-experience launcher? The one that comeswith the Nexus 5 and has integrated Google Now on the leftmost screen? It does not come with the Nexus 7 update, it is Nexus 5 exclusive. You CAN sideload it, but since you mention "Five Homescreens" you don't have it. You have the stock launcher.
If you are using the Nexus 7 'stock' ...
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Izzy opined it correctly here that the only sensible place for having factory home screen layout is the launcher's APK itself.
Since I don't own a Lenovo device let alone your specific model I used my MTK device running stock 4.2.1 as the testing ground. It has stock launcher (com.android.launcher).
About that thing called factory home screen layout -- ...
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Home Button Pressed when in an app:
Most apps will save their state (any bit of data that would be needed to keep itself consistent when being resumed), and the device will switch to the launcher app.
Home Button Pressed when on the Home screens:
This is configurable by many 3rd party launchers; however a lot of them default to bringing you back to your "...
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From Google Play Store application:
Go into Settings
Uncheck Auto-add shortcuts
That will prevent Google play store from creating shortcuts to the home screen each time a new app is installed.
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Go to settings-->apps-->clear data& cache of launcher(I think it is trebuchet ).
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Is there a way to create an icon on the home screen that will launch one of these scripts?
There is another way (other than this one) if you happen to use Terminal Emulator for Android app. It allows a widget which can be used to execute a script.
Install that app, choose Term Shortcut widget in your current launcher.
Corresponding to Arguments enter:
sh ...
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Yeah, that's by definition – and the reason why you should never move apps to SD if they provide widgets you want to use.
SDCard gets mounted after the boot_completed broadcast has been sent. So apps installed on the SDCard are not able to receive this broadcast, and thus cannot provide their services "in advance". Depending on how fast your "homescreen" ...
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One way is to just make an image of your wallpaper with the words printed on it and then select the new image as your wallpaper. Like this:
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I found the answer in the video beeshyams posted in a comment. There's actually a much more concise video here. I've confirmed that it works correctly in Nox 3.8.1.1, so here are the instructions, which basically just involve disabling Nox Launcher by "removing" the app directly:
Make sure you have an alternate launcher installed first! I don't know what ...
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Press the home button so all screens are shown, then long hold the screen you want as default home screen, then drag it to center of the screen and let go, hey presto.
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Go Launcher
I use this app (instead of HTC Sense) for my HTC Sensation. This works great, and there is a lot of different themes and plugins for it. Great if you're tired of the standard UI on your phone!
It also solves your problem, when you can add multiple items for your different screens. (Just tap on the ones you would like to have easy access to) :)
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this might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138791
you would need to have your phone rooted for this hack. It is for Xperia Play, but would work on other Xperias, as I've done this before on my Xperia Arc S successfully.
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AFAIK the default Android launcher does NOT allow you to do this. However, there are some launchers available on Play Store which let you do this. Regina 3D Launcher is one of them.
The other option I see is what you are already doing, using a live wallpaper like MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.
(I have mentioned some popular apps to do this, there are ...
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