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What's the best "home" app?

I've been using Home++ for couple of weeks on my N1. but ever since the last update, my N1's force closes everyday.. I mean a lot of FC's recently.....
is it just me or is the update causing this FC's
 
smacinskyjr said:
I agree sweeterhome 2 is a great home replacement, BUT you have to almost be a developer to configure it. Just the average Joe like myself will really struggle with setting it up if we ever can do it.
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Where can I find a tutorial on how to use and set up Sweeterhome? It looks great, but could use a little assistance
 
smacinskyjr said:
I agree sweeterhome 2 is a great home replacement, BUT you have to almost be a developer to configure it. Just the average Joe like myself will really struggle with setting it up if we ever can do it. But i do agree that the possibilities of this home app far exceeds the capabilities of any other home alternatives out there.
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I disagree to some extent. While I *AM* a developer, all you really need to use SweeterHome is a bit of creativity and some free time to get your feet wet.

There are plenty of nice themes already out there available for download, and once you want to start customizing it's all pretty easy to work with. You just gotta get over the overwhelming edit screen, especially with pre-built themes.

It's easiest to start from scratch to learn how the features work then start editing other people's themes to learn their tricks. I got most of my ideas from the DroidForums theme.

While there are advanced features like Intent URIs and whatnot, they're not necessary to create a great theme.
 
zukbang said:
I've been using Home++ for couple of weeks on my N1. but ever since the last update, my N1's force closes everyday.. I mean a lot of FC's recently.....
is it just me or is the update causing this FC's
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i'm also using home++ but haven't run into any FC isssues...
 
zukbang said:
I've been using Home++ for couple of weeks on my N1. but ever since the last update, my N1's force closes everyday.. I mean a lot of FC's recently.....
is it just me or is the update causing this FC's
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I have been using Home++ for about 2 months now. It has become very unstable and I get too many force closes every day. I am shopping around now for a replacement, as the number of FCs have become unacceptable.
 
El Blacksheep said:
I disagree to some extent. While I *AM* a developer, all you really need to use SweeterHome is a bit of creativity and some free time to get your feet wet.

There are plenty of nice themes already out there available for download, and once you want to start customizing it's all pretty easy to work with. You just gotta get over the overwhelming edit screen, especially with pre-built themes.

It's easiest to start from scratch to learn how the features work then start editing other people's themes to learn their tricks. I got most of my ideas from the DroidForums theme.

While there are advanced features like Intent URIs and whatnot, they're not necessary to create a great theme.
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I agree with blacksheep. I am not a developer at all and didn't find it too hard to get started. I learned how most things worked by looking at other people's themes and then ended up starting from scratch to make my own.
 
milrtime83 said:
I agree with blacksheep. I am not a developer at all and didn't find it too hard to get started. I learned how most things worked by looking at other people's themes and then ended up starting from scratch to make my own.
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Yes, el blacksheep's theme SmallCaps is where I learned how to control most of the things, I am now using a modified version of that with different links and a a different main and top screen, if you give yourself some time to get into it is really great!
 
Beantownboy01 said:
I have been using Home++ for about 2 months now. It has become very unstable and I get too many force closes every day. I am shopping around now for a replacement, as the number of FCs have become unacceptable.
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Yeah Home++ FC's almost everyday for me too. I just love having 7 scrolling screens though and the clean look of it. Think I'll stick with it for now and hope they get the bugs worked out. I've been mostly using the stock one in the meantime. I love the new Rotating Earth live wallpaper I've got on that one. I used Anycut to set up a quick shortcut on both homescreens to go back and forth. Am I killing my battery using both like that? I've got all the same shortcuts and widgets on both so I don't have to remember the layout of each one.
 
GDE is the best fo sho, its so customizable and there are a whole lot of cool themes, myu favs are the cliq idroid and the windows 7 ones.
 
I am using Helix Launcher on my eris with 2.1 leak and its very nice. looks like the N1 home userface and you can have little shortcuts on the very button next to the app drawer. also the option to have it turn to landscape mode and add screens (up to 7).
 
Home++ does fc a lot but in the long run its one of the better themes out there. I haven't had the time to try anyother themes but it seems to be the simplest and smoothest theme around.
 
I bought the open home theme but I haven't had a chance to figure it out to use it correctly for what I think I want my screens to look like.
 
Absolutely love the customability of Sweeter Home. I'm a SAHM with no tech skills whatsoever and I have managed to play around with it and figured it out. I love having the springboards to hide/show what I want on the screen. It took me a while to figure things out, but I just downloaded themes and played around with editing until I figured out how to make it do what I wanted it to do.
 
just started using openhome, and i love it. able to customize everything i wasn't able to with DGE. Dont get me wrong, i really like the way DGE has thought all the buttons/ functions through. But i am loving openhome right now.
 
mcbtrain929 said:
this may be a dumb question, but, if you are browsing the internet on your phone and see a picture that you'd like to be your wallpaper, can you somehow save that pic and do that? i'm a white sox fan and would like a white sox wallpaper. can i just find a whitesox pictuLre on the net and make it my wallpaper, or do i have to buy one of these apps and search for white sox related pics? thanks!
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Long press on the image, & choose save image, then go into the downloads section of your gallery & you'll find it.
 
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