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Default Vertical Scrolling App Drawer

I don't like the app drawer for the bionic, reminds me to much of the iphone or a samsung with its side scrolling. I miss my vertical scrolling drawer from my droidx. Is there a setting in phone or a app I can download to fix this? I already tried adw launcher and it fixed drawer but I don't like how it changed my home screen, I couldn't find a setting to get home screen back to the way it was. If anyone has any idea please let me know.
 
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Launcher Pro, ADW Launcher or Go Launcher. All 3 have app drawer settings you can tweak easily. No root required.
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I think you guys missed this part:

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I don't like the app drawer for the bionic, reminds me to much of the iphone or a samsung with its side scrolling. I miss my vertical scrolling drawer from my droidx. Is there a setting in phone or a app I can download to fix this? I already tried adw launcher and it fixed drawer but I don't like how it changed my home screen, I couldn't find a setting to get home screen back to the way it was. If anyone has any idea please let me know.
If you want to use a vertical scrolling launcher, you must use a homescreen replacement such as Launcher Pro or ADW. Otherwise, the BLUR launcher is stuck with page side scrolling.

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I think you guys missed this part:



If you want to use a vertical scrolling launcher, you must use a homescreen replacement such as Launcher Pro or ADW. Otherwise, the BLUR launcher is stuck with page side scrolling.
Yeah thx for pointing that out. I know this is gonna sound crazy but I actually like Blur now, looks good and not to obtrusive. I guess if I could get one of those launchers to emulate the look of my homescreen I could make it work.
 
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I love the new motor blur (or whatever it is called) and I have been feeling the same way as you. I don't like side swiping through the app drawer going up and down is so much better! Heres the thing, I had the Motorola Atrix which is almost the exact same phone with the same motoblur and same look but in the setting you can change the drawer to vertical. I just got the Bionic and I see that there is no App Drawer setting WTH is up with that. AND WHY DOES VZW put SO MUCH BLOATWARE on the phone that too drives me crazy What if I don't want the blockbuster app on my phone! At least let me uninstall it I mean it is MY phone now right? I rooted previous phones before but I don't want to do that this time I seem to lose stability before and I would just like it to work, I'm starting to wonder if I should have waited for the Nexus Prime but I did not cause my last few phones were samsung and they all had issues so I don't really want to do samsung anymore. Charge sucked, Nexus S 4g sucked with major reception issues, Galaxy S crashed non stop and reset non stop but my Motorola Atrix I loved! but att sucked.
I can't be happy I guess if only I could get the Atrix on the verizon network Oh well, thats my 2 cents (Also I have a 2gig data cap for 30/month that is rediculous they should make the cap a little bigger for $30 damn and then I have to pay more for hotspot. If your making me pay for my data usage why can't I use it the way I want. Why do you nickel and dime everything? Sometimes better business is looking out for the customer and not doing such annoying business practices if it was not for ur good service where I live I'd be with T-Mobile because Hot-spot is free or sprint cause they don't limit my bandwidth as I see it is the moment VZW put a cap on my data is the moment hotspot should be free cause I am now paying for my own data to use the way I want.) Don't know why I wrote so much guess I wanted to vent
 
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Lol I agree with every single statement. I believe you may have found a solution to our common dilemma, if we could pull the app drawer from the Atrix that would resolve our issue, maybe I'll head on over to dev thread and see what's up. As far as limited data it sux but it is doable as long as you supplement your data connection with Wi-Fi as much as possible, I.E using Wi-Fi @ home and as many locations you frequent as possible. Installing apps with no way to remove them is wrong, so I'm guessing someone is gonna have to hit em with a class action lawsuit(looks at California) to get them to stop doing that or if you wanna root a custom rom or bloat freeze.
 
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I read about a homescreen launcher the other day that allows use of Blur widgets. I forget the name but will try to find it again...
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ADW doesn't bar blur widgets at all....and yes Berzerker I missed that part.
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