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For all you all, Nova Launcher does in fact work great with the Prime tablet. Just set the home screen grid to 10 columns by 7 rows for proper sized layouts, and i would stick to the cube or none transition.
but it does work great! just so everyone knows. (not a fan of adw, personally)
i've been using it as well, and i agree it works great, super fast and much cleaner looking than adw imo.
i've been using a 10x8 layout personally.
I use Nova too. I actually hadn't gotten around to changing the layout because I like my screen bare. But I'll have to try that. So far I like it the best, pretty quick.
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Am I doing something wrong? I can't figure out why the dock isn't showing up. Anyone run into this problem?
why do you say it works great?
the icon labels doesnt show in landscape mode, the card stack transition is messed up. hardly can say working great...
however i do agree it has great potential and worth keeping an eye out for.
it has some issues, but it runs very fast and doesn't have any issues that are showstopping.
I really like it! thanks for this post!
Can't see the dock
looreed said:
Am I doing something wrong? I can't figure out why the dock isn't showing up. Anyone run into this problem?
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Same here!!! Is hidden because of the tablet config???
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This is due to the device type... Tablets = No dock by default. This may change with future releases of the Nova launcher.
sunwee said:
why do you say it works great?
the icon labels doesnt show in landscape mode, the card stack transition is messed up. hardly can say working great...
however i do agree it has great potential and worth keeping an eye out for.
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The icon labels only show up when there is enough room for them, I've got my desktop grid set to 7 Rows and 8 Columns and they show up fine. If you add anymore rows, the labels dissappear.
The only problem I have with Nova is that the wallpaper is zoomed regardless of how I crop it. Anyone else have this issue?
xIC-MACIx said:
The icon labels only show up when there is enough room for them, I've got my desktop grid set to 7 Rows and 8 Columns and they show up fine. If you add anymore rows, the labels dissappear.
The only problem I have with Nova is that the wallpaper is zoomed regardless of how I crop it. Anyone else have this issue?
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Yes, I also had this problem with ADW launcher EX.
EDIT: you can use "PicSpeed HD Wallpapers" from the market to set the wallpaper correctly.
xIC-MACIx said:
The icon labels only show up when there is enough room for them, I've got my desktop grid set to 7 Rows and 8 Columns and they show up fine. If you add anymore rows, the labels dissappear.
The only problem I have with Nova is that the wallpaper is zoomed regardless of how I crop it. Anyone else have this issue?
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it has to do more with how HC/ICS handle wallpapers over the launcher, i use the multipicture lwp and it sets them properly.
ok guys... seriously.
NovaLauncher is a modified stock launcher. notice you don't have a dock on your stock launcher on your ICS tablet. well.. that's why you don't have one in NL either. tablet's don't have launchers unless you get a 3rd party launcher that forces one on a tablet, like adw. even launcher pro does it but not well.
secondly i can say that it works great because it does. don't use the card transition. the icons labels DO appear in landscape, just depends on how many ROW you are using in your grid.
why don't you do some investigating and trying things out before flaming the app. it does have great potential, but it also works great NOW!. it's better than the stock launcher, and personally i dislike ADW. so cada loco con su tema.
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Yes, I also had this problem with ADW launcher EX.
EDIT: you can use "PicSpeed HD Wallpapers" from the market to set the wallpaper correctly.
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Picspeed still zooms the wallpapers with adequate ex for me, how do you get it to set right?
NovaLauncher doesn't show up when I search it in the Market. I tried it as two words and one word. Any suggestions?
ReaderLee said:
NovaLauncher doesn't show up when I search it in the Market. I tried it as two words and one word. Any suggestions?
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You won't find it on the marketplace. Grab it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071. Just download and install the NovaLauncher_beta.apk that's all you need. It quite good. Oh one quick hint... Once you installed use Titanium Backup to convert the app into a system app, that way the widget will preview properly as your ICS stock launcher.
By the way... is in fact the best launcher for ICS so far...
Nope Apex Lauchher is better ^
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flak0 said:
Nope Apex Lauchher is better ^
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Why?
chpimentelpr said:
You won't find it on the marketplace. Grab it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071. Just download and install the NovaLauncher_beta.apk that's all you need. It quite good. Oh one quick hint... Once you installed use Titanium Backup to convert the app into a system app, that way the widget will preview properly as your ICS stock launcher.
By the way... is in fact the best launcher for ICS so far...
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Thanks alot!
the solution i've discovered for wallpapers is that it must be at least the 1920x1408 for a tablet. doesn't matter which app you use
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the solution i've discovered for wallpapers is that it must be at least the 1920x1408 for a tablet. doesn't matter which app you use
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You haven't tried multi picture live wallpaper then... 1280x800 fits perfect.
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Hi guys, recently this has been bugging me a lot. No matter which launcher I use (Nova, Action, Trebuchet, Themer), or ROM (Scrubber, Resurrection, crDroid) I use, many apps look kind of fuzzy in app drawer, but they look crispy on home screen. Any idea why?? It makes the great screen on XZU look pixelated, kind of..
Thanks in advance!
That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Thanks. Actually, I just tried dpi of 480, and it seems to make icons sharper. Especially in Themer, icons look so much better, where with lower dpi, icons looked pixelated and ugly. Thanks a lot. You've been helpful.
Hi all, this is my first post on here (ever) so go easy!
After owning 3x Mate 9's (MHA-L09 & L29) over the course of the last year, I decided to treat myself and have just received my shiny new Mocha Brown Mate 10 (ALP-L29), imported to the UK from Singapore.
I've noticed one or two "teething" issues however, most niggling being the size of the icons/home screen grid and notifications on the pull down menu, they're all huge!
I have view mode and text size set to "small" in display settings though it doesn't help.
I think, could be wrong, that EMUI 5.0 on the Mate 9 had a "smallest" setting?
Anyway, I was able to shrink the icons, widgets etc to a much smaller size.
Can anyone help with this or am I going to have to hope (and pray) for a software update that addresses this?
It's such a big, beautiful display and is a shame filling it with giant icons....
Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks.
When both view mode is set to small on mate 9 and Mate 10, yes the mate 9 icons are slightly smaller.
tboy2000 said:
When both view mode is set to small on mate 9 and Mate 10, yes the mate 9 icons are slightly smaller.
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I thought so, must be a coming fix for this?
Just feels like the fantastic screen real estate is wasted.
There should really be a 6x6 grid option built in to stock Emui don't you think?
I know Nova can provide it, but really want to stay stock for now with phone being so new!
(I may even be first in UK with it, not sure!)
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(I may even be first in UK with it, not sure!)
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I have had it for a week and am in the UK ?
tboy2000 said:
I have had it for a week and am in the UK
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2nd then! What's your impressions so far?
Especially relating to launcher scale?
I've also noticed another issue where I can't delete Gmail emails from the notification shade.
any fix for this? i tried to use nova launcher but it crashed every time after i added weather widget.
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any fix for this? i tried to use nova launcher but it crashed every time after i added weather widget.
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Someone said Huawei Widgets and Nova launcher together has some problems. Maybe try another weather widget from play store?
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olbapnauj said:
any fix for this? i tried to use nova launcher but it crashed every time after i added weather widget.
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With the last nova update, no crash anymore dude
I tried to persist with the stock launcher but it got the best of me. It just lacks so many features.
I've used alot of launchers but obviously Nova is a good starting point ( it didn't crash for me) and also evie is another one. My every day launcher is action launcher and it is excellent on the mate 10. Launchers come down to personal preference but in my opinion there are plenty out there that are better than the stock one.
Also pixel 2 launcher apk on this great forums is very good and smooth
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Someone said Huawei Widgets and Nova launcher together has some problems. Maybe try another weather widget from play store?
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I got the crash when I add the Huawei weather widget. I guess it is not compatible with Nova Launcher.
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I got the crash when I add the Huawei weather widget. I guess it is not compatible with Nova Launcher.
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Same here. BLA-029 .119(C636). Latest version of Nova launcher. Can anyone confirm if they are NOT having this problem? Thanks all.
Same problem here. Seems like view mode doesn't affect the size of the icons on the home screen and the size of the notification toggles. I've had the phone for 2 hours and its been bugging me ever since. I hope someone can fix this. I really hate my icons looking so big.
For smaller icons in stock launcher you have to find an icon pack with smaller icons size. I did it in app Huawei Themes https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.deishelon.lab.thememanager You can install new theme from this app which is called "card", and then apply icons from this theme in the native Huawei's theme app. For me icons from card theme look nicely and are smaller than original ones. Give it a try.
Currently using Pixel Launcher and icons are smaller now but the notification toggles are still huge.
When choosing one of the launchers mentioned in this thread, can you still use the navigation dock?
Hi, anyone know how to change the grid size to more than 5x5? Thats just silly on a screen this of this size and resolution.
I am on the point of adding Nova launcher but holding off until I have exhausted the standard settings as most other thing I am like are already included.
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Hi, anyone know how to change the grid size to more than 5x5?
I am on the point of adding Nova launcher but holding off until I have exhausted the standard settings as most other thing I am like are already included.
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Stock doesn't allow that, that I can see. Nova it is.
I use Nova not only for the grid size, but also for the icon packs and for the reverse parallax wallpaper scrolling view. I also put a drop shadow under the icons to give them more of a 3D look. And I have my app drawer with black background to clearly differentiate between my desktop screens and my app drawer.
Lots of settings to customize.
Hi, yes, all of the above :good:
Have used Nova for many years and looks like there are just too many advantages to miss.
Are the stock launchers completely inactive while Nova is running?
I have removed stock launchers before or trebuchet from CyanogenMod /lineageos but never knew if there was any need.
gazzacbr said:
Hi, yes, all of the above :good:
Have used Nova for many years and looks like there are just too many advantages to miss.
Are the stock launchers completely inactive while Nova is running?
I have removed stock launchers before or trebuchet from CyanogenMod /lineageos but never knew if there was any need.
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Yes, the stock launcher/ROM launchers are inactive while Nova is the primary launcher, but I end up freezing them in Titanium Backup. Otherwise when there's some kind of launcher update I get asked all over again which one I want to use.
But even on non rooted phones for friends I'll install Nova. Just too many tweaks I can't pass up.
Hi, back on Nova already. Good tip about freezing the others :good:
Can't imagine life on an un-rooted phone :silly:
I got my Pixel 6 Pro yesterday and opened it up today and a few things initially that are driving me crazy. I cant change the app drawer to 4x5 or 5x5 or the home screen. I found how but the options are not there. Also, how do I get rid of the massive clock on the lock screen to show a normal clock?
Hi @GrandMstrBud
You can change to 5x5 home app grid by
long pressing the screen,
select 'Wallpaper and Style',
scroll down and select App Grid - to select your choice
Just to confirm I have the Pixel 6 (non pro)
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You can change to 5x5 home app grid by
long pressing the screen,
select 'Wallpaper and Style',
scroll down and select App Grid - to select your choice
Just to confirm I have the Pixel 6 (non pro)
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I found out how that option is just not there. I went to my classic Nova launcher for this
GrandMstrBud said:
I found out how that option is just not there. I went to my classic Nova launcher for this
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Sorry - that is weird...I just assumed 6 and 6 Pro would have the same basic features...
If you transferred your stuff from another phone it may have bugged out and need to clear cache/data to fix the problem.
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Also, how do I get rid of the massive clock on the lock screen to show a normal clock?
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The only fix for this for now is to have a persistent notification running. That will reduce the clock size and move the clock to the upper left corner. I use Today Weather for that. The Persistent Notifications app works too.
Hopefully Google will add the option to resize the lockscreen clock in a future update. I hate it too.
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how do I get rid of the massive clock on the lock screen to show a normal clock?
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Apparently there are some new Tasker projects that tackle this "issue". You can read more about it here: https://www.xda-developers.com/tasker-can-help-you-change-the-size-of-android-12s-aod-clock/
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I found out how that option is just not there. I went to my classic Nova launcher for this
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Myself and my uncle had the same issues with our P6P. The option to change the grid didnt show up. We discovered that for some reason Nova launcher was messing with this option. Deleting Nova from the phone and rebooting and this option should appear. Not sure why this is happening with Nova installed.
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Strange, I do have the option. It's not just that you didn't scroll down?
When I got the Pixel 6, that option wasn't there either. I checked again the next day and only then did I find it. I think I started the device once in between.
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As mentioned before: I had Nova installed on an other device, which was transferred to Pixel 6. Maybe I fixed it with deleting Nova.
Maybe I got it after the november update was installed.
I don't have/cannot find the NFC quick settings switch....