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Go Launcher - Hottest home launcher

I am having problems loading go weather on my d2g. I d/l the app and went into widgets and after clicking it, it doesn't load. What am I doing wrong?

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I've been playing around with other launchers, recently, and I'm trying to decide which I like the best. Go Launcher seems really nice, but I've kinda been sticking with Launcher Pro, because I love how you can hide apps in your app drawer. This doesn't appear to be a feature in Go Launcher, though, unless I just can't find the option to do so.

Is this feature ever going to be added to Go Launcher? If not, well... why not? It's the one feature Launcher Pro has that's keeping me from switching to Go Launcher.
 
Per previous post: I know ADW has this feature when you customize an app drawer besides the deafult group of all. That did send me from Go to ADW, but maybe they'll develop that feature soon?
Maybe someone could help me remember: does Go Launcher allow for eliminating the dock as with ADW? What about hiding the notification bar using gestures? I'm visiting my sister this weekend and I think she would really like this launcher since it's free and stable for her device. TIA
 
MRW1215 said:
I've kinda been sticking with Launcher Pro, because I love how you can hide apps in your app drawer. This doesn't appear to be a feature in Go Launcher, though, unless I just can't find the option to do so.
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You just can't find the option to do so :p

Just open the app drawer then press the menu button and it's there.
 
The Go Team has rolled out several updates a week in the last weeks, addressing a lot of user requests and bug fixes, so the lancher nowadays is really the best.
 
MRW1215 said:
I've been playing around with other launchers, recently, and I'm trying to decide which I like the best. Go Launcher seems really nice, but I've kinda been sticking with Launcher Pro, because I love how you can hide apps in your app drawer. This doesn't appear to be a feature in Go Launcher, though, unless I just can't find the option to do so.

Is this feature ever going to be added to Go Launcher? If not, well... why not? It's the one feature Launcher Pro has that's keeping me from switching to Go Launcher.
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Go Launcher can definitely hide apps in the app drawer. Go to the app drawer, press Menu, then Hide App, then select which apps you want hidden. I use it to hide lots of apps I don't want to see.
 
I would like to be able to scroll from the end of the app list to the start of the app list while in the app drawer (like you can do with home screens). I have 8 or 9 pages of apps and 3 folders on my first page, trying to get some of the end of the alphabet apps to the folders is a true test of patience sometimes.
 
I am having issues with the Bionic. When I come back to the home screen the icons are slow to load. Any others have this issues or tried it out?
 
MacFett said:
I would like to be able to scroll from the end of the app list to the start of the app list while in the app drawer (like you can do with home screens). I have 8 or 9 pages of apps and 3 folders on my first page, trying to get some of the end of the alphabet apps to the folders is a true test of patience sometimes.
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You can loop it...just need to, from the app list, hit the Menu key, then select Scrolling orientation.
 
New GO Launcher user here. So far I'm liking it. However, there are a couple of things bugging me about it:

One major thing, is when I want to move an icon to a different screen it pops up with the preview windows instead of just letting me slide the icon over to the next one. Is there a way to change this?

The same goes for the app drawer. When I want to add an icon to the desktop, I hold my finger on it and it comes up with an iOS type of menu where you can delete apps. I have to admit this is an easier way to delete unwanted apps, but can I go back to the old way? Where I just hold the icon, it dumps be back out to the current screen I'm on and I can drop it wherever I want?

What it comes down to is I really don't like the preview screen in general. I feel It creates another step in doing everything.

Thanks.
 
Yes, preview screens kind of suck, but do work. I often don't want to drag to the next screen, but maybe to 2 over. It lets you move to any one you want (once you get it the other screens to pop up, which can be tricky). I've never thought about using the app drawer to move an app to a screen, I always just long press on the screen I want an app and pick the app I want there. I seldom look at the app drawer unless I want to open an app I seldom use.
 
tcat007 said:
Yes, preview screens kind of suck, but do work. I often don't want to drag to the next screen, but maybe to 2 over. It lets you move to any one you want (once you get it the other screens to pop up, which can be tricky). I've never thought about using the app drawer to move an app to a screen, I always just long press on the screen I want an app and pick the app I want there. I seldom look at the app drawer unless I want to open an app I seldom use.
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Yeah, they work, but so does every other option you can toggle on and off.

I'm coming from using Launcher Pro Plus, and the first thing I changed was the home button. By default it opened the preview screen, now it goes to my home screen.

And the App Drawer is such a quicker way to add an icon (in most launchers at least).

GO Launcher has some nice features but without more options I don't know if I'm ready to switch.
 
IMO, I like the moving icon/widget to another screen preview of all screens better than just moving to the adjacent screen like LP or most oem launchers do. You can even somewhat pick what part of the screen it goes onto from the preview if you're good enough.

As for adding an app shortcut to a homescreen from the app drawer, long press the icon in the app drawer, the red Xs will show up, keep pressing and drag it down to the bottom of the app drawer to the move to screen box. This will bring up that same preview of all your screens and you pick which it goes to. You have to keep pressing the whole time, if you lift your finger it stops.
 
John Redcorn said:
IMO, I like the moving icon/widget to another screen preview of all screens better than just moving to the adjacent screen like LP or most oem launchers do. You can even somewhat pick what part of the screen it goes onto from the preview if you're good enough.

As for adding an app shortcut to a homescreen from the app drawer, long press the icon in the app drawer, the red Xs will show up, keep pressing and drag it down to the bottom of the app drawer to the move to screen box. This will bring up that same preview of all your screens and you pick which it goes to. You have to keep pressing the whole time, if you lift your finger it stops.
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Yes, I realize you can do that with the app drawer, I'm asking if there's a way to speed up the process, to disable the preview screen. Since I'm usually on the screen I want to add the icon to, why do I need to see a list of screens?

It's not a big deal really, more of a picky thing especially since I won't be adding icons all that frequently.

But it's getting clear that there's no way to bypass the preview screen, so maybe I should be submitting it to the devs as an update/enhancement instead of asking.
 
ahh ok I thought you couldn't get one from app drawer to homescreen. I didn't figure it out right away when I first started using it.
 
John Redcorn said:
IMO, I like the moving icon/widget to another screen preview of all screens better than just moving to the adjacent screen like LP or most oem launchers do. You can even somewhat pick what part of the screen it goes onto from the preview if you're good enough.

As for adding an app shortcut to a homescreen from the app drawer, long press the icon in the app drawer, the red Xs will show up, keep pressing and drag it down to the bottom of the app drawer to the move to screen box. This will bring up that same preview of all your screens and you pick which it goes to. You have to keep pressing the whole time, if you lift your finger it stops.
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this may be a stupid question... but if you move it from your app drawer... is it removed from the drawer?

i was under the impression that all apps downloaded stay in the app drawer no matter what
 
rubejb said:
Yes, I realize you can do that with the app drawer, I'm asking if there's a way to speed up the process, to disable the preview screen. Since I'm usually on the screen I want to add the icon to, why do I need to see a list of screens?
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Why go to the app drawer at all? If you're already on the screen, just long press on an empty space if you want to add an app.
 
just a heads up; the recent update allows you to put folders in the dock bar which works well with the drag and drop feature they added in the previous update.

(You can make folders in Auto App Organizer, Folder Organizer, Simi etc.)
 
Lacit1707 said:
this may be a stupid question... but if you move it from your app drawer... is it removed from the drawer?

i was under the impression that all apps downloaded stay in the app drawer no matter what
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They stay there, move is probably a bad choice of words but that's what it says.

I have only 3 homescreens mainly only for widgets and about 6 very high use app shortcuts. I use app drawer for all launching. my app drawer is horizontal scrolling, paginated, just like homescreens but everything's there (except what I've hidden) in alpha order too.
 
I have been playing around with Go Launcher for a few days on my bionic and so far I love it. The one thing that I can't seem to figure out is why my quick contacts widget won't show up. I know that GO has it's own contacts widget, I just don't like it as much as the stock one that came with the Bionic. I's basically 4 decent sized contact photos with the ability to click them and bring up phone, text, email options. Is there a way to do this horozontially with Go Launcher?
 
John Redcorn said:
They stay there, move is probably a bad choice of words but that's what it says.

I have only 3 homescreens mainly only for widgets and about 6 very high use app shortcuts. I use app drawer for all launching. my app drawer is horizontal scrolling, paginated, just like homescreens but everything's there (except what I've hidden) in alpha order too.
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so dragging from the app folder just creates a "shortcut"....

and someone above was saying the new update allows you to put folders on the dock...the dock is the 5 buttons on the bottom correct? Havent you always been able to do that?
 
I would assume a long press on the screen, open Widgets, and look for Quick Contacts. Should be there if it's installed. A 4x1 should do. You can also long click on the widget once on the screen and "resize" to stretch in any direction.

I've always had folders/links in my dockbar, there are 15 positions, I have 5 or 6 folders (actually links from Auto App Organizer that open as folders).

Inadequate said:
I have been playing around with Go Launcher for a few days on my bionic and so far I love it. The one thing that I can't seem to figure out is why my quick contacts widget won't show up. I know that GO has it's own contacts widget, I just don't like it as much as the stock one that came with the Bionic. I's basically 4 decent sized contact photos with the ability to click them and bring up phone, text, email options. Is there a way to do this horozontially with Go Launcher?
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