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Home++ Beta (Home replacement with so much potential)

psufan5 said:
Home++ needs work. Its a little slow when switching landscape to portrait when you have widgets open. The slowness makes it unusable. Also, notification bar doesnt show, which I like to always see. Holding notification on the dock brings it back, but takes away from its looks. Id recommend a themes notification widget that mimics the top bar that you can move anywhere.
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email the developer thoughts and suggestions, he responds ;)
 
Latest updates really have this running well on my Droid. Still a few tiny quirks, but no dealbreakers. Way less buggy than my Pandahome trials.
 
The best thing about it I think right now is that it's stable. No real problems using it. And I don't wrap my wallpaper, just leave it as is and let the icons move on a static background. Looks good to me :) Hoping that there will be some updates and that the statistics he's getting from us using the beta will move development.
 
Was a big fan of Panda but it blanked out too often for me.

Unlike everyone else it seems my GDE loved to lag and force close.

Home++ has run just a little slow but is my current default.
 
OstrichSaK said:
I think it's readily apparent from my posts that I have a pretty firm grasp of the English language and it's application. I know the difference between to, too and two and the use of 'to' there was a simple typo. Thanks for catching it. Way to dissect my post until you found a mistake to somehow try to make yourself look better than. Congratulations! (and you tell me to get a life)

Now, back to the topic at hand. Once again you claim you tested Pandahome yet you continue to drive home the fact that it's too busy.... how so? All I asked for was specific reasons. If you truly tested it in depth then it would seem to me that this is a simple question to answer yet here we are... several posts later and you've managed to spark an internet debate because you can't admit you didn't give it a fair chance and don't even know what we're talking about. It's users like you who do nothing to help the community and post to pad your post count or hear yourself talk.

Now, if we can end this personal attack fest and get to the topic at hand which is home page apps I'm sure the rest of the members here would appreciate it. So you can answer my question or not but I choose not to respond to any more of your posts that attack me personally.
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Lol! Man, you're the biggest hypocrit I've ever seen! You call this guy out who is clearly only making his own observations, and start some unreasonable attack on him for reaching a different conclusion than your own. It gets better! You then start preaching how his opinion of the app is somehow "wrong", which alone is an oxymoron, and how he shouldn't be forcing his opinion on anyone else!

For the sake of staying on topic, I happen to agree with the guy. The Droid version of pandahome is currently in beta, and still has lots of bugs in it. Sure, the app has some cool features like the quick launch trays you can pull out; however, the execution is done poorly and the trays themselves are constantly glitching. Pandahome also has a terrible FC habit that ruins the experience. On top of that, my phone always returns to a blank screen after an app is closed. Even further, most of the themes are childish (hello kitty, the 5 disney themes that are the same, and the 8 Michael Jackson themes) and unimagineable. I want to find a cool theme, but even when I see something I almost like, I'm immediately reminded that none of the themes are updated, so they all have widgets, graphics, and icons that are rendered in incredibly low resolution.

Pandahome has great potential, but it's definitely hindered by poor performance. Perhaps it'll be more noteworthy when it's finally stable, but right now it's uninstalled from my phone. I really can't believe panda home has a fanboy right now. Anyway enjoy your app and let me know when it stops having kids designing its awful themes. Also, take your own advice and stop being ridiculous.
 
Excuse my ignorance on the Android OS but is Home++ the same as 'Home' in the Market?? Because I have 'Home' and all it says is something about optimizing the memory.....Is this not what Home++ is used for? It sounds like something to customize the phone? Thanks

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Ok someone posted a link to the developers site. I read about it so I see what it's all about now.
 
tsaunders said:
Where is the 4th screen? I must be missing something.
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Yes, you are missing something. As soon as you download and install the app, you have the fourth screen. You simply need to select Home++ as your home, when you press the home button (the little house at the bottom of your Droid :D). By default, Home++ has four screens, and only four screens, there is nothing further for you to configure related to the number of screens. Give it another shot.
 
Waoh!!! Ive been looking for something to replace my home but i wanted the speed that the simple home screen has (hard to ask for) and for this being a beta i admit i'am pretty happy w/ it. I have tried all of the home applications on my phone right now and was lookin for wat i liked most and this is the one i like most. I would suggest ne one to try this as you have nothing to lose w/ it being free! :)
 
A.C.Sanchez said:
Yes, you are missing something. As soon as you download and install the app, you have the fourth screen. You simply need to select Home++ as your home, when you press the home button (the little house at the bottom of your Droid :D). By default, Home++ has four screens, and only four screens, there is nothing further for you to configure related to the number of screens. Give it another shot.
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I had the same problem. I thought I could not see a fourth screen. It was my wallpaper that was causing the problem. The fourth screen was a split of the left and right edge of my wallpaper. When scrolling I thought I was just between two screens, but that was actually the fourth screen. I changed my wallpaper to one of the Home++ defaults and there it was. Now I need to figure out how to use a picture as wallpaper in Home++ and not see that split on the fourth screen.
 
Will Home++ allow you to hide icons in the app tray? That's one of the primary reasons I still use PandaHome even though it's way to unstable for my taste.
 
OstrichSaK said:
Will Home++ allow you to hide icons in the app tray? That's one of the primary reasons I still use PandaHome even though it's way to unstable for my taste.
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No it doesn't but ill take stable over hiding icons any day. This Home++ just keeps getting better. Simple, clean, not too busy and not a bunch oh clutter.
 
My deal is that I have about 40 sound boards so w/o the ability to organize and hide icons it becomes a mess real fast. If I can find a free app that only hides apps and does it well I'll scrap PandaHome in favor of a more stable home screen app or the stock one even.
 
In the update notes it says "Power buttons visibility. On the way to a total configurable power strip, now you can hide some button you rarely use.", I can't figure out how to hide icons though. I'm probably just missing something, but if anyone could tell me how I'd love you forever! lol :P
 
DustinHarlin said:
In the update notes it says "Power buttons visibility. On the way to a total configurable power strip, now you can hide some button you rarely use.", I can't figure out how to hide icons though. I'm probably just missing something, but if anyone could tell me how I'd love you forever! lol :P
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right now you can only hide a few of them (phone, contacts, search i think)
press menu when on the homescreen, then preferences...it's in there
 
writhum said:
right now you can only hide a few of them (phone, contacts, search i think)
press menu when on the homescreen, then preferences...it's in there
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This is only on the power strip, he is talking about hiding icons in the app tray
 
No I was talking about icons on the powerstrip. I would like to be able to hide icons in the app tray as well, but as far I know you cant do that with Home++, which is ok, I still love it.
 
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