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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Croak:
Sliding across the notifications bar to adjust brightness.

The Touchwiz Corporate Email client is MUCH better than stock Android. Much.

The Notification panel is the best stock panel on Android, and nothing aftermarket even comes close.

The stock Clock application has a great "Smart Alarm".

Task Manager, which is just a long-press of the Home button away.

Built in "My Files" application, no need to download something like Astro.

Memo and Mini Diary are quite useful.

Very solid SNS integration into Contacts, complete with pictures.

A pretty damned good stock dialer.

A pretty good stock keyboard (and Swype too!)

The best stock Music Player IMHO. Equalizer presets!

The best stock Video Player, bar none. Divx, MKV, AVI, it plays them all.

AllShare actually works, and is actually useful and fun.

Ability to change system fonts on the fly, and to download or create your own.

Road SMS just for ****s and giggles.

Integrated Calendar (Exchange, Google, etc.)

Car Home and Desk Home launchers are nice.

How friendly TW3.0 is to 3rd party launchers.

I'm sure there's more, but the long and short of it is, TouchWiz 3.0 is pretty damned good. I don't use the TWLauncher either, but most of that is habit, having used ADW and LauncherPro for months.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EarlZ:
I love TW3.0 I've tried all other launchers and they dont really compare to the functionality that TW3.0 offers altho most of the launchers are just home screen and application drawer replacements.

My only gripe is that samsung should have added a msg counter on the messaging icon like on the wave... everything else is great for me!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yrizan:
Nothing of these things have to do with touchwiz. Im on launcher pro and can do the same. The only thing missing are the samsung widgets.

Ps. On launcher pro you get msg and call counter in the dock icons :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] uberberben:
What i like in TW3.0 is that apps are divided to pages. I don't like scrolling, scrolling and scrolling to find my apps in other launchers. I know on which page i have app that i need right now so i jump quickly there and launch it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TMReuffurth:
I tried ADW Launcher and LauncherPro but don´t like them. They feel a lot more incomplete and slower compared to TW3. I can´t complain about the speed of TW3 and i really like the the Screenlock, and the notifications for missed calls and sms
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mithent:
Twlauncher isn't the only part of the phone that's changed by TouchWiz, as listed above.

I also use LauncherPro, mainly because I prefer its vertical sliding application list, but the notification icons and integration with media players is nice. I have no argument with the lock screen either - again, the music player integration is useful. The Task Manager in newer builds is also pretty decent and good to see in a stock ROM.

The TouchWiz customisations you can't remove/bypass are pretty good, and because you can change default handlers in Android, it's no big deal to use alternative launchers and applications. I was concerned about not having HTC Sense, but happy with this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The.Opethian:
I currently switched from LauncherPro to TouchWiz recently, just because I like variation. I might use ADW instead next week. There's nothing bad about TouchWiz to make me not use it. Nice to see other people supporting the stock software.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coooolboyz:
TouchWiz 3.0 is Good!!

I am not sure why there is so much of TouchWiz hate. But once one would come out of the "only Sense/ADW is good", they would really see what all functionalities have been added to TouchWiz to make it look good and actually work well.

I really like it.

And I really wonder if Sense can do this much!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kempas:
This works on Launcher Pro too, it's not unique to TW

Just download an alternative like Launcher Pro or ADW and Home Switcher to easily switch between them.

That's just an application, irrespective of the launcher. Switch launcher and that is still there.

As above, stock applications, not launcher specific.

Ditto, all stock, not dependent on launcher.

[/QUOTE]

Agreed!

I like certain aspect of TW, sort of like the horizontal scroll applications page but wish there was a way to reorder things alphabetically without clearing the data. Manually sorting applications according to type etc. is useful but then sort of duplicates what the home screens are for. Like the icon display on TW as well with their button backgrounds as opposed to plain icons in Launcher Pro.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MAMBO04:
I think touchwiz is pretty good, one cool feature is sliding your finger left or right on a contact either calls them or composes s message! Until someone ports Sense to the SGS ill stick to touchwiz :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Karupan:
I don't "like" touchwiz, but don't hate it either. The widgets that come with it are pretty cool. I like the people(social networking) and the yahoo finance widgets in particular.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kempas:
That is a feature of the contacts manager, not Touch Wiz. It works the same under a different launcher.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] snapper.fishes:
No greyish pull up tab underneath? Never liked that bit.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jokuvuan:
I agree with you, but what do you mean by this? How do you adjust the brightness from the notifications bar?

This is probably some new addition like the task manager, right? I'm still using the JF3-firmware...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] d0p3d:
Think the touchwiz is pretty well thought out. I actually like it better then Sense tbh even though I figured I would miss sense after switchin to the sgs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Dark-Master:
I love touchwiz that when I slide, if I touched the app icons first for like 0.2 sec and slide, it will still give me a slide.

If I do it on ADW or LauncherPro, it will act like I'm holding that icon. Like I hold icons from drawer to place at home screen.

I don't know how to explain this, my english is not very good. Hope you understand.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Adevem:
i've been using LauncherPro since i've got my phone and it has basically everything TouchWiz have except for Samsung Widgets. the homescreen / app. drawer / dock is different but that's it lol. still has that cool concept of jigsaw pieces for SMS/Missed calls (which amazes every of my friends)

TouchWiz is great, don't get me wrong. but the dock is too un-customizable. sure i can move 3 icons around but with LauncherPro, i can designate a certain icon to open up the app. drawer with a swipe motion...

...or simply setting the Home button to do that specific action.

well i love both, but the preferable one to me is LauncherPro.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xan:
+1 Didnt know that awesomeness!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kuntri:
I just installed the Touchwiz Launcher. Not to sure how to edit/add widgets/icons to the launcher dock like other Lauancher Apps(LP, ADW, etc.)

Any suggestions! Please advise
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mike.sw:
ppl hate TW not because it's bad but because it's too iphonish (since like 70% android users buy android to stick it up for their apple friends).

i like that you can change locations of the programs in the app screen. not just by name.

i like the pazzle thing when you have missed call or sms on lock screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
You dont need root to install launcher pro.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alovell83:
I think based on the language used you are correct, OP said "interface", however, most of the media I read tend to think of manufacturer customizations as more than just the "look". So, because Samsung has made a great feature that retains its look, feel and execution in LauncherPro doesn't mean you can skip on giving praise to Samsung for their integration. This most specifically affects Samsung Apps, like the music player. Great, in LauncherPro you can play FLAC just like TW, that doesn't mean "Oh, I can do that in LP, it's not specific to TW", well try it on a different phone and tell me it's not because of Samsung.

+1 for options

Agreed!

I like certain aspect of TW, sort of like the horizontal scroll applications page but wish there was a way to reorder things alphabetically without clearing the data. Manually sorting applications according to type etc. is useful but then sort of duplicates what the home screens are for. Like the icon display on TW as well with their button backgrounds as opposed to plain icons in Launcher Pro.[/QUOTE]

See my first reply

This is the main reason I use LauncherPro, I love the bar and the option for 12 icons, where it will wrap so I'm 0 or 1 swipes away from my most requested apps.

If Samsung apps were exclusive to TW, I wouldn't use LP though. LP is great because of some Samsung things like AllShare and the Music player.

Yeah, I actually prefer the default of chronological, I actually wish I had two options, one alphabetical and 1 that would default to chronological but with a re-ordering option like in TW.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mib1800:
TW is slow and laggy. I was using TW for quite some time thinking other launchers cannot be as good as the original TW but I was wrong.

I dropped TW for ADW which is so much smoother (I feel LauncherPro is not as smooth as ADW). Newer version of ADW got horizontal scroll in Appdrawer and grouping of icons which is pretty neat. What I like about ADW is support for "screen" swipe gesture (unlike LP which only recognise gesture at the bar area). With ADW, I can open screen preview/notification by just swiping up/down anywhere on the screen. And ADW supports theme.

The only thing I missed from TW is the Feed&Update widget (which is the only thing that is not available if you use other launchers as it cannot be run as a standalone app unlike stock/diary etc)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JaGuR:
You do know, you can have vertical scroll, App list in TW3 don't you ??

Just edit it, when in the App Screen
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
I tried the other launchers. Sure, they are more customizable. But seriously, I don't give a crap. I don't need a ton of shortcuts on my home screen, that's what the appdrawer is for. :)

I use TWLauncher for one single reason: Reordering of apps in the appdrawer. I have all the built in software ordered alphabetically on the first few app-screens followed by all installed apps in alphabetical order on the rest of the app-screens. I wish I could get it sorted that way automatically, but that's not possible with any launcher, so I do it manually in TW for now.

If you wonder why I do it that way, I'll just say "Because I can, and it makes perfect sense to me".

Ideally, I'd want a launcher with a 3 tab app-drawer... Stock (hardcoded apps)/User Apps (user installed apps)/Games
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nirvana388:
I'm glad someone finally started a thread like this, I've been meaning to, there's been way too much TW3 hate going on around the web. I think some ppl in this thread missed the point, we're more discussing the overall Galaxy S rom bonus features rather then just the TW launcher.

I really like all the behind the scenes stuff that Samsung built in, it is clear they put a lot of time and thought into it. The missed notifications and media controls in the notification bar/lock screen especially. Croak got almost all the things i can think of, save for the swiping in the contacts list, swipe right to call default #, swipe left to msg default #, I love that feature.

It's a shame that the most noticeable part of TW3 is the iphone-esque launcher. Android fans unfortunately just focus on this and blast touchwiz/sammy while never looking at all of the nice features Samsung added that you don't see just by looking at a picture of the phone's homescreen. I admit I felt the same when I saw the first pics of the S when it was announced but after actually using one for a few weeks I just keep finding new features that continue to impress me. Samsung really doesn't deserve all the criticism they've been getting from the Android community for the UI as the only downside really is the launcher if it's not your taste, and it can be replaced quite easily.

Edit~ I forgot to mention Samsung's inclusion of the wifi hotspot and vlingo for voice commands/text input. Both of these will be obsolete when the phone gets Froyo but it was nice of Sammy to through those in while we have 2.1 for the time being.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] The.Opethian:
I gave up on LauncherPro recently. :( Customising the dock icons would take ages. It's been three weeks now since I clicked on the " + " icon to add a shortcut and only now has the options appeared to let me choose as to which app should I be using it for.

Okay I'm exaggerating, but it's never been easy to modify those icons. TouchWiz launcher is not bad at all, and it's snappy for me. LauncherPro takes 5 minutes each time I try to modify the dock icons. WTF is up with that.

We could have been great together you know...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Val3r10:
Exactly!

I would use the TWlauncher (only the horizontal sliding app-drawer) with launcher pro.

Does anybody know the action to associate to a LP icon to exec TWlauncher ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] allotrios:
that's a galaxy s problem

it also exists on twlauncher

try longpressing on the desktop, then select sortcut, then app

it takes ages

no idea why it happens :o
[Off-topic] Vulpix:
Is anyone able to access the marketplace? I'm in the Asia region, but not sure if it matters. Me and another guy are unable to get into the marketplace. Anyone else having the same issue? HTC Desire.
[Off-topic] jjones1983:
It's down for me too, and o thought it was just my ROM!

From My HD2 via XDA app
[Off-topic] Vulpix:
Godamnit, I hit the clear data button because I thought it was a ROM thing too even though it has been working fine the past week. :(
[Off-topic] JAguirre1231:
I'm unable to access downloads or search but everything else is fine. They're probably just doing mandatory maintenance or something, if not well.... >:O
[Off-topic] melwan:
It's down for me in Canada as well. Moreover, the Nav app says Navigation is not available in my area LOL

I just used it few hours ago. Someone forgot to feed the hamsters I think.
[Off-topic] Vulpix:
Damnit google, buy some nuclear powered hamsters already!
[Off-topic] vincent1190:
its down for me too im in the us i thought it was cause i was using simple mobile on my vibrant
[Off-topic] cmstlist:
Crazy, and I thought my Milestone was just being stupid. It's down for me as well.

Checking my Nexus One (no SIM) as well... Yep it's down.

Oh look the internets agree!

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=android+market
[Off-topic] Dread 7us:
Down here in Oregon too
[Off-topic] fllash:
Down in Australia as well.

Crazy eh? I cant go 5 minutes without the Market.

Imagine what would happen if everything Google failed at once?

Josh.
[Off-topic] teorigoni:
Down here too (Italy), I'm using an N1 with the latest Cyanogen... I thought it was the build and re-installed the stock rom but same issue :(
[Off-topic] melwan:
Maybe a revamped Market is in order? ;)

That or someone is getting fired tomorrow :p

EDIT: I just realized how addicted I am :eek:
[Off-topic] Vulpix:
It's up now. No change at all though. :(
[General Questions and Answers] anilgulati:
Hi

My Asus PDA 527 does not switch on. I tried hard/soft reset and also tried using a charged battery from another asus pda. No joy. The device does not show red LEd when I try to charge it with either USB or Charger. Anyone has got any solution for this , kindly help.

regards

Anil
[EVO 4G General] mjz147:
I have no idea how to develop android apps or anything like that, I do have a few questions or ideas on how to do this though.

Basically what I am asking is, is it possible to increase the size on an icon on the home screen, whether its using adw.launcher, launcher pro, or the stock launcher?

I know you can increase the size of widgets on adw.launcher but I want the icons.

Better cut lets you change the icon, but not the size. I think I read that standard icons on android phones are 48x48.

Is their anyway to possibly explore the .apk and rechange the icon dimensions or image size, and resign it and then install it?

Or is their a program available that lets you stretch icons on the homescreen.

I have tried better cut, and have icons that are higher resolutions, and haven't had any luck. Also i checked the market and their are no icon packs or anything similar to the ones I want

Could someone explain if this is possible please? thanks.
[EVO 4G General] mjz147:
Anyone have a suggestion?
[EVO 4G General] chaoticallysweet:
desktop visualizer---change size

Folder organizer---change icon

Sent from my blah blah blah
[EVO 4G General] mjz147:
Thank you so much.
[EVO 4G General] biggggant:
the developer who make more icons also makes a widget that lets you have large icons..dont remember the name but if you look for moreicons in the market you should be able to find this app
[Captivate Android Development] jdsemler:
Update: I installed Spare Parts, as mentioned by appelflap later in this thread, disabled compatibility mode, then followed the directions in this post, and I have a working status bar, good resolution, and in a better place in most cases. :)

Update: Check out appelflap's APK that makes this whole process a lot easier. Note that some users are reporting a black screen after using the file, so be prepared in case you have to use adb shell to put your original build.prop file in place. If you do not want to risk it, Notepad++ makes for an easy edit once you pull the file to your PC. If you have fallen prey to the black screen problem, lpsi2000 found a solution that uses an update.zip approach.

In the /system/build.prop file, I changed this line:

to this:

This is a setting that Google normally recommends if you have a larger screen (like Dell's Streak), but the side effect of using it on the 800x480 screen of the captivate is that everything is smaller.

With this, menus have smaller text (more options on screen), in-app buttons are smaller, and it just has the same feeling of being on a PC and moving from a low resolution LCD monitor to a high resolution LCD monitor.

There are a couple of glitches so far. It appears that some apps want to render in the previous resolution. For example, Skyfire and Root Explorer would not render in full screen, Android Market renders full screen but the search is in the old resolution, and the status bar is slightly garbled but still usable. Also, the dial pad is smaller (as you would expect showing a picture made for a low res display on a high res display) but the rest of the phone app is fine. The camera app fills the screen just like it did before.

With this setting, I really feel like I'm getting some use out of the high resolution display on this phone.

The apps that are rending in the low res mode of the original setting seem to be pulling their setting from somewhere else. Does anybody have an idea where that setting may be? After trying this, I can't imagine going back to what almost seems like an "accessibility mode".

I've only used LauncherPro with this setting, so no idea how the Samsung launcher looks. I attached screenshots of what some things look like. I can put some game screenshots in another post if anybody is interested. 3D games look sharper to me in this mode, but I have no scientific way of testing if it is because it is rendering in higher res or if my own excitement is clouding my vision. :)

Update: I suspect the missing setting is found in the /system.prop file. It has the ro.sf.lcd_density=240 setting. I tried changing it to 160, but it keeps going back to 240 after a reboot of the phone. Any ideas how to make this stick?

Warning:: TWLauncher does not play well with these changes. Make sure to have LauncherPro set up as your default launcher before trying this.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
So you're pulling it off the cappy then editing putting back....do you need to change permissions?
[Captivate Android Development] jdsemler:
The way that I pulled it out to edit on my PC was with this:

You will need root access in order to put the changed file back. What I did was

I then used Root Explorer to copy the build.prop from /sdcard to /system. I didn't change any permissions other than just copying the file and rebooting.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
Wow man that's pretty cool, it's got a few little glitches but nothing serious. One of the things I wish I could so though is make my Beautiful widgets clock go all the way across the top. I'm not sure if this is a placebo effect (I donno if that's possible since this should have nothing to do with it) but it seems like my soft buttons respond more often....I'm prolly nuts but it doesn't seem like I need to push....push...%$^&*^ PUSH.....and back to home.
[Captivate Android Development] jdsemler:
I'm hoping someone will have a great idea on how to keep the /system.prop file from updating itself on boot. I'm thinking that if we can get the ro.sf.lcd_density=240 setting to stick to 160 after a reboot, that might fix the few instances where an app won't render full screen. :)

I've tried chmod 666 system.prop and chown root.root system.prop but it still gets returned to normal after rebooting.
[Captivate Android Development] kennethpenn:
Wow I'm excited to test this out. Couldn't we get someone to code this into the startup script theoretically?

Edit: Tried it out. Really really nice. If only we could get the rest of the apps to work the right way... right res.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
One thing also that's cool is in launcherpro you can add more columns to the drawer so you can fit an insane amount of apps on screen.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
Also out of curiosity, have you tried any other DPI like 200? Our does it need to be either or to keep it proportional?
[Captivate Android Development] darkfalz:
Lower resolution works as well. Here are some comparisons. 160, 240, 320. 200, since someone asked.
[Captivate Android Development] smeltn:
wow, this could REALLY be nice.. Just need to fix everything, but like others have said no HUGE things that cause it to be unusable, but I would love to see everything correct.
[Captivate Android Development] jdsemler:
No, the only reason I chose 160 was because it is listed as "MDPI" in the Android SDK. (We were using "HDPI" with 240.)

I only figured it was a "supported" number, so I started there, but most any number will do. You can see a chart where it recommends certain numbers based on resolution or screen size, but I think these recommendations are to cover everybody, which includes folks who can't (easily) see small text or icons.

The chart that shows Google's recommendations is here.
[Captivate Android Development] phlunkie:
reading around, it seems that the files need to be put back to read only.
[Captivate Android Development] Clienterror:
I thought so also, but you don't need to. All I'm doing is copying it with root explorer to sd, then using astro to edit the line and root explorer to put it back. Reboot and your GTG. Everything works fine.
[Captivate Android Development] phlunkie:
So the settings are sticking after a reboot? I will have to try this when I get home.
[Captivate Android Development] illestChronicle:
After I edited the build.prop and the build.prop.bak files in the /system directory it works fine after reboot. A problem that I have is that TouchWiz force closes after editing the files.
[Captivate Android Development] xan:
Using this on SGS made:

- notification bar unreadable (kindof text overlap@240160 setting).

- Launcher pro works.

- Market scales nice.

- big list's buttons are now nice

//edit: changed to 200 - seems to be great compromise.

@up

Bad practice. U shouldnt have edited ur build.prop.bak file, becouse it is actually a backup of original build.prop, made by RootExplorer (guess). In case u want to revert to original content, u just delete edited file and delete .bak from this one.
[Captivate Android Development] sl8125:
Any pics? Love to see the difference.
[Captivate Android Development] xan:
Here they are.