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ADW Launcher
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triplecrown
Member
Looks like we're going to have to wait till everyone wakes up to get an answer. If I find anything out there I'll let you know.
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
I had the same issue before.....All you have to do is download "Home Switcher" from the market and switch back to "Home" as default....Took me 2 hours and backing my phone up to figure out this easy step lol
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
Download the "Home Switcher" app from the market and switch to "Home" as your default. I went through so much last night trying to get it to work, and all I had to do was this. SUX lol, but I'm loving this yo!!!
UBRocked
VZW Nexus Please!!!
Yeah...that will do it but if you don't want to download Home Switcher (I have never even tried it) you can just clear your current the default setting for your current launcher and then when you press the home key...select "Home". You wont find a app for ADW in the drawer and when you install it, it doesn't clear your defaults the way that Helix does. That is why so many people are having issues installing cause it doesn't clear your current defaults the way most others do...so when you install, it looks as though it failed...pressing home doesn't launch the available home screen replacements.
Now if you are getting an error in SPRecovery...that's different. I didn't try it with SPRecovery but it worked fine in Clockwork for me. Just flash Clockwork, place the zip file on the root of your SD card (no need to rename it) and then "install .zip from SD card". Reboot, clear defaults, and be off and running.
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
Yeah...that will do it but if you don't want to download Home Switcher (I have never even tried it) you can just clear your current the default setting for your current launcher and then when you press the home key...select "Home". You wont find a app for ADW in the drawer and when you install it, it doesn't clear your defaults the way that Helix does. That is why so many people are having issues installing cause it doesn't clear your current defaults the way most others do...so when you install, it looks as though it failed.
Now if you are getting an error in SPRecovery...that's different. I didn't try it with SPRecovery but it worked fine in Clockwork for me. Just flash Clockwork, place the zip file on the root of your SD card (no need to rename it) and then "install .zip from SD card". Reboot, clear defaults, and be off and running.
Yeah I did use Clockwork to install mines. I don't know if others had this issue, but I couldn't find "Home" or "Helix" in the applications list, being that "Helix" was applied to my system/apps/ folder. So as an alternative, I had to download "Home Switcher," something I'd never used before either and it worked lol.
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
After using it a few hours, knowing this is still BETA, this is what I've come up with
-The animation when i click on the drawer to come up needs work
-The Galaxy S drawer set up is to sensitive, it jumps two pages when I sometimes want to move just one
-It would be nice to be able to dock four icons, although having two is no biggy for me
Other than that, this thing absolutely FLIES!!! Live Wallpapers work PERFECT, switching orientations is also crazy, because this thing orients it really really nicely. No force close yet....This thing is excellent. Definitely a keeper. I can't wait until the final version comes out....
-The animation when i click on the drawer to come up needs work
-The Galaxy S drawer set up is to sensitive, it jumps two pages when I sometimes want to move just one
-It would be nice to be able to dock four icons, although having two is no biggy for me
Other than that, this thing absolutely FLIES!!! Live Wallpapers work PERFECT, switching orientations is also crazy, because this thing orients it really really nicely. No force close yet....This thing is excellent. Definitely a keeper. I can't wait until the final version comes out....
I can't seem to get in installed either. I've tried installing the zip through both SP and CM recovery. I've tried manually dropping the apk in /system/apps, setting permissions, and rebooting. All I ever see in Home Switcher is my helix launcher. It's the only entry. Not sure what's going wrong. Maybe I'll try again tonight after work, starting with a fresh rom install.
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
Rodeojones
Android Enthusiast
Fab...Maybe you can help me out. After playing with this launcher I'm really enjoying it and I'd like to stick with it for a while. I'm running your ROM which came pre-loaded with Helix 1 and then loaded the themed Helix 2 that you had available. I'd like to remove Helix 2 to free up space to make ADW work faster. How do I do that? There is no "uninstall" option when I bring up the manage apps/filter all screen. I'd rather not try to run Helix 1 & 2 along with ADW as it seems to slow my phone down. Any suggestions?
Well, I was tired last night and thought so. I just tried it again with CM, installed with no errors, but it still didn't show up in home switcher. So tried again with SP, and it gets to installing update and then aborts. Maybe my download got corrupted. I'll download a new copy later and try again.
Rodeojones
Android Enthusiast
No Home. The only option is Helix.
ronaldramsayii
Android Enthusiast
That's weird. If it installed successfully that means it's there. It's just a matter of switching to it. One thing I ended up doing though within Clockwork, I ended up renaming it to update.zip, and installed it. Then I downloaded Home Switcher and it came up. It's there if it installed successfully, it's just a matter of getting to it somehow....
Redflea
Android Expert
Well I did an uninstall and reinstall, and things appear to be OK now w/the home screen scrolling...I must have had a couple of bytes crossed up in the initial install for some reason.
CyanogenMod comes w/a Launcher.apk in /system, which I renamed before this second install, I'm thinking that maybe there was some issue related to that and the ADW launcher install.
UBRocked
VZW Nexus Please!!!
It is better than the other ones I've tried but LWP still seem to slow it down for me. I don't like LWP's so I never have them running other than to test a ROM's speed or in this case, the Launcher's speed. If you like the LWP...this is a step up from what your used to though.
Yeah, maybe it didn't write over the Launcher.apk completely or something. Glad to see it's working better for you.
+1
I am definitely a fan of the vertical app scrolling. I just couldn't get used to the horizontal "pages" of apps...too much like the iPhone for my taste lol
triplecrown
Member
Yea I tried everything everyone has mentioned from trying to use clockwork to trying home switcher to clearing defaults. It's definitely a corrupt download. Is there a chance anyone can post up their .zip from their phone????......Maybe the latest file became corrupt???
SoDroid
Android Enthusiast
I retract my statement regarding LWPs, it did slow down on me, just took a little bit. Although, it is till better than any other home I've tried, but not good enough. Definitely liking the replacement.
Also, I tried a few of the metamorphs in the link I posted on page 1, even thought they say they are for .6 (we are using .7) they do work.
triplecrown
Member
Ok so I finally figured it out. I extracted the .zip with winrar and just put the launcher.apk on my sdcard and installed it through root explorer. All is good now.