[Hero CDMA General] sladehawke:
This is a quick guide for setting up ADW.Launcher and CM6 (changes from defaults only). I'm just posting it here so I can link people to it, My apologies if something better already exists here. I lean towards minimalism for the sake of speed. Do this holding the phone in portrait mode, or I don’t think you will see the alpha sliders in some steps.

1.	Drag and Drop preferred apps onto the left or right action buttons to change them (e.g. I change the R.A.B. to Dolphin Browser by dragging the Dolphin shortcut on the homescreen on top of the button I want to replace (see step 10.b. to add 2 more buttons)

2.	Menu>Settings>Display>Animation>No Animations

3.	Menu>Settings>Display>Brightness>Auto

4.	Menu>Settings>CyanogenMod>User Interface>Uncheck 270 degrees

5.	Menu>Settings>CyanogenMod>User Interface>Auto BackLight>Use Custom>Check

*Then... >Auto BackLight >Other Levels

Set buttons column to all zeros to kill the trackball light and hit ‘Save & Apply’

6.	Menu>Edit> Remove un-needed screens (3 is enough, you widget lovers)

7.	Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>Screen Preferences>

a.	Default Screen (set to middle screen (e.g. “2” if you use 3 screens or “3” if you use 5 screens

b.	Desktop Scrolling Speed: 167 (lower is faster!)

c.	Desktop Overshoot: 20​

8.	Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>Drawer Settings>

a.	Zoom effect speed: 385 (lower is faster!)

b.	Fade App Labels: Uncheck

c.	Background Color: Black, don’t use any alpha (slide right to make it opaque!)​

9.	Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>System Preferences>

a.	Home button binding> “Move to default desktop”

b.	Swipe down actions> “None”

c.	Swipe Up Actions> “None”

d.	Home Orientation> I use portrait for the home screen because flopping annoys me​

10.	Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>UI Settings>

a.	Desktop Dots> Uncheck (useless dots… swipe left/right instead)

b.	Secondary Action Buttons> (adds two more buttons to the dockbar)

c.	TintAB>uncheck

d.	Highlights Press Color> Slide alpha to the right

e.	Highlights Focus Color> Slide alpha to the right

f.	Show desktop indicator> uncheck (really, you know what screen you are on)​

11.	Menu>Settings>Accounts & Sync>Facebook>UNcheck! (refresh manually in the app)

12.	App Drawer>News&Weather>Menu>Settings>Refresh Settings>Uncheck

13. Long hold your finger on a blank space on the home screen to add shortcuts, change wallpapers, etc.

14. After everything is set up the way you want.

a. Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>Backup and Restore>Backup ADW Settings

b. Menu>Settings>ADW.Launcher>Backup and Restore>Backup desktop configuration​

That will make restoring everything after a wipe and reflash so much easier. Between the google backup function of 2.2 and this, all you will have to do is login, wait for everything to download, restore these two xml files, and then restore your widgets into the placeholders.

15. Dialer>Menu>Preferences>View Contact>Text Action for Mobile Only>Check!

MUST have Apps:

• Smart Vibrate for 1.6+ (set longer and custom vibrations)

• GPS Status (for resetting GPS when you get slow locks)

• Google Voice (I laugh at those of you who use Sprint VVM)

• ES File Explorer

Suggested Apps:

• Dolphin Brower (I use the original, but have HD as well, the latter moved to SD using the 2.2 function Menu>settings>application>manage applications>downloaded>(app)>Move to SD

• Bookmarks to SD (I only use the “sync” portion to sync bookmarks to http://bookmarks.google.com

• AK Notepad

• Chrome to Phone

• Yelp

Widgets I use/suggest:

• Clock Widgets: Digi-Clock

• Power Widget: Extended Controls (I have to have airplane mode that “Power Control" doesn’t have)

Do NOT use a task killer. It isn't needed, you don't need one, and they only screw things up. If you want to kill apps manually, just do it through: Menu>Settings>Applications>Running>(app)>Force Stop

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