[HOW TO] Home Screen in Landscape Orientation - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

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I discovered an app that allows the home screen to work in landscape mode, as well as the dialer and most apps. It does cut off the labels on some of the icons, and make widgets sized a bit odd sometimes, but for the most part it works and is AMAZING if you want to HDMI out through a MHL cable and would like it to stay landscape locked while mirroring.
The app is called "Orientation Lock" by "coin soft" and is available for free download via the android market. It does not require root.
I thought i'd share this because I've seen people ask if there's any way to run home screen in landscape and I always just see people reply with "install a 3rd party launcher" so I thought i'd share the solution for people who'd like to stay on TW. Another note is that this works across most ROMS that are TW based I've tried it on stock, stock telus, dabomb v1.0, and have even since installed a 5 icon dock mod, which does not make this method not function, but does hide the 5th icon while in landscape mode. This method can also be used to view your app drawer in landscape as well. If you have any apps you'd like to mirror via MHL cable in landscape but only view in portrait by default, wasting a HUGE portion of the screen on your big shiny hdtv, you can force landscape.
Please hit "thanks" if I have helped you!
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[FIX] HTC World Clock Disappearing

EDIT: An alternative home launcher must be installed to take advantage of the "Activities" option. I have LauncherPro installed.
This is a simple workaround for those of us who have had a problem with the World Clock disappearing from the app drawer...I have attacthed the apk if you can't find it on your system!
First-Verify that Htc Clock is installed by performing a Google search with the search soft key (This is the only way it will work)...
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Second-Long press any home screen and tap shortcut...
Third-Tap Activities (It may take a few seconds to load)...
Fourth-Tap Clock...
Fifth-Tap WorldClockTabControl...
Sixth-Place Clock Shortcut on any screen and enjoy
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I don't think it's ever been in my app drawer. You get to it by tapping on a widget on the homescreen.
And for your workaround, you need LauncherPro installed. It does not have to be the launcher you are using. The "activities" is a LP feature, not a sense one.
I've only had this phone a couple of weeks but I remember when I first got it there was a shortcut in the app drawer....however, a few days later i recieved and OTA so maybe that's why it disappeared. Either way, this may help someone find a quicker way to get up for work in the mornings
Please read the second part of my post. You left something out of your instructions.
oops....your are very correct. forgot all about that part
This method does not work for me (the apk fails to instal). Does the phone have to be rooted?
I messed up again. Wrong apk. Bear with me, I'm still learning. Lol
I'm away from my computer for the nxt couple of days, send me a pm and I'll email you my old desk clock to use untill I can post the correct apk.
In the meantime you can always access deskclock by tapping the time on clock widget
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Honeycomb Launcher Beta

Yup, Honeycomb Launcher!!!
This is not mine but I thought I would share. I've been running it for a few hours now and I'm in love. Its got some work to be done but I'm keeping it lol. For me, the widgets don't work except for the analog clock that comes with the app and when I hold down on the empty space on the screen to pull up the toast pop-up it freezes for about a minute then force closes, so if you install this beware of this bug. It is also a little laggy when moving apps. Also the battery icon in the dock doesnt work.
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LINKS:
-Original Thread
-Market Link
-Honeycomb Launcher Beta v1 .apk
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sorry for the double pics to those of you viewing this on the app. its the only way i could get large pics on the desktop site while keeping them viewable from the app.
Is this the same one thats on the market?
Edit: I see it is. I played around with it some. I wish they would have the same grid size in both portrait and landscape. I also thought is fd'ed too much for me.
I actually kinda like how it stretches in landscape lol i really cant wait for them to get this finished...
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I actually kinda like how it stretches in landscape lol i really cant wait for them to get this finished...
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I wish there was a really clean landscape only/mostly launcher like this one that worked well, landscape view is amazing lol
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I threw this honeycomb style theme together that goes great with this launcher...
That looks so cool.

Google Now images

How do you download or find the information on Google now search? I think your supposed to slide up, but that never works. I'm running twa_priv's 20120917 cm10 Rom if that helps, but I had the same problem on hashcode's Roms and jandycane, so it's probably not the Rom I have. . Is there a solution, or is it just a flaw in the app?
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no flaws just simply slide finger upward from the home key on the status bar... also did you flash gapps after your rom?
Hold the home button
To make sure you have it you can also go into your App drawer and launch "Voice Search". Maybe it does not work for all roms but I know for mine this attempts to pull up Google now
Google now works perfectly. I just am not able to see any information on images through the app. Sliding up doesn't do anything most of the time. Doing that has only brought up the information (ie similar images, more sizes, website source, full size image) once. Shouldn't it just be as simple as sliding my finger up on the screen? Usually when I do that, no matter how straight I do it, it just tries to slide sideways to the next picture. Yes I flashed g-apps. I don't think you can even get Google now without flashing it.
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Sorry I didn't do a very good job telling my problem in the first description. I was talking about the image search part of the app, not the app itself.
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SpyKit Camera for S3

Hi everybody, let me present you SpyKit, and app designed for taking spy pictures in a very simple yet powerful way!
The motivation was to address the main problems in most of the existing spy cameras: lack of polisheness and counter intuitive user interfaces.
Right now this is the only spy camera that works when you screen is truly turned off!
How to use it?
The first thing you have to do is activate it through the main switch in the upper right corner. You can also put a widget in your desktop for quickly enable it.
Then there two ways you can use the app:
-> Using your device buttons. (PLAY, PAUSE, VOLUME UP/DOWN)
By default all buttons are mapped to the Single Picture Action.
-> Using the Motion Detection feature.
By default motion detection is mapped to the Continuous Shooting Action
You, of course, can change this mappings at the settings screen.
SpyKit, by default, displays a floating preview which you can drag and resize as you like. It allows you to keep using your other apps while the preview is active!.
If you don't want the preview to be shown, you can disable it at the settings screen.
Screenshots
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We are trying to make a good quality app and we would love to hear what you think what we have built so far, from new ideas to even translation things (we are not native english speakers).
Thank you all!

Power Menu -

Here is a little holiday weekend gift for everyone.
Since we don't yet have a built-in custom power menu, here is a 6 way power menu
which can be used to replace the stock built-in power button completely so we can
reboot download mode, recovery mode, power down, soft reboot and screen off
without the need of the usual 3 finger salute. It even looks like it's part of the firmware.
You can add this power menu to your home screens. (this is not a widget)
Here is the download link for it: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347809104
Install it like any other apk... Requires root access.
Here is a screen shot of what it looks like:
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Thanks for this. Works good.
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What launcher are you using for those icons?
re: Fancy Icons
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What launcher are you using for those icons?
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The icons works with most 3rd party launchers like Next Launcher 3D,
Nova, ADW, Action, Smart and Go Launcher.
However it will NOT work with the stock touchwiz launcher at all.
Personally I like the Next Launcher 3D the best.
You need to get the "Cobalt Icon Pack from the playstore to get it working.
Here is the direct link for the "Cobalt" icon pack at the playstore in case you
want to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dustinb.icons.cobalt
Good luck,
Have a great day!

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