New launcher (JB 4.2.1)

[Evan_]

Regarding the new stock launcher in JB 4.2.1 (and beyond?)...

1) How do I now switch from the three CPU performance mode? (power saving/balanced/performance)

2) How do I quickly switch wifi, GPS etc on/off without having to go to the settings?

3) The new slim bar at the top, takes up extra space? We now have even less available screen space than before?

I feel slightly annoyed by Google's idea of progress... in similar fashion to the recent YouTube app updates, the philosophy seems to be: remove features and rearrange stuff.

What do you think?

(I've posted this in the WW 4.2.1 update thread, but I think it deserves its own thread. This is not about the 4.2.1 update in general, it's about the new stock launcher)

 

[monsterduc1000]

Regarding the new stock launcher in JB 4.2.1 (and beyond?)...

1) How do I now switch from the three CPU performance mode? (power saving/balanced/performance)

2) How do I quickly switch wifi, GPS etc on/off without having to go to the settings?

3) The new slim bar at the top, takes up extra space? We now have even less available screen space than before?

I feel slightly annoyed by Google's idea of progress... in similar fashion to the recent YouTube app updates, the philosophy seems to be: remove features and rearrange stuff.

What do you think?

(I've posted this in the WW 4.2.1 update thread, but I think it deserves its own thread.This is not about the 4.2.1 update in general, it's about the new stock launcher)

Just switch back to the old launcher in the settings menu.

 

[Evan_]

Just switch back to the old launcher in the settings menu.

Thanks, I saw that option. But it is not a guarantee that it will be there ad infinitum. I wanted to make this post because maybe there is something I was missing in the new launcher.

 

[new ion?]

i believe in 4.2.2 google added a long press functionality to the quick toggles to allow them to be turned on/off quickly. i know i have it on cm10.1 on my phone...

I used the new launcher for about 5 mins before reverting to the old one. I'm sorry, but it's just not practical for a tablet!

also, is it just me or is the multitasking ui kind of dumb?

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[brianl999]

I switched mine to the new launcher (after checking here that I would be able to revert).

I don't think I lasted even a minute. I actually said ew! out loud.

Did not like that the entire bottom is just the three soft buttons, and centered as well, so i can't reach it with my thumb (I use the tablet almost exclusively in landscape mode). There may be a way to change that, but I also didn't care for the time in the small font up top either.

I hope they never force us to use that launcher. I guess there's always Nova Launcher, which I use on my phone, but don't on the tablet.

Thanks,

Brian

 

[Big_Drew]

The 4.2 tablet UI works really well on the N7, but doesn't feel quite right on the 10.1" tabs. I really like having the dock back though, and while I appreciate the 'four corners' approach to the Honeycomb UI, I prefer having everything within my thumbs' reach. If Google used an inverted phone shade in the lower right and the on-screen buttons in the lower left for the future tablet UI, I think we'd have a winner.

 

[linye]

Even with Nova launcher you still get the same layout.

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[nooktablet]

i actually like the idea of three buttons home back recent apps in the center, so i don't have to reach my hand to the left side, i also like that's there are 2 "notification centers" (one is the "real", the other is quick settings). but i don't like to have 2 bars on top and bottom, so i switched to the old style,
i guess i'll use the new style if they combine the 2 bars into one

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[new ion?]

i actually like the idea of three buttons home back recent apps in the center, so i don't have to reach my hand to the left side, i also like that's there are 2 "notification centers" (one is the "real", the other is quick settings). but i don't like to have 2 bars on top and bottom, so i switched to the old style,
i guess i'll use the new style if they combine the 2 bars into one

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If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect

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[nooktablet]

If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect

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That's exactly what I want

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[-angel*]

I think you're talking about 4.1 layout (tablet mode) and 4.2 (phablet) - and as far as I read before you can easily switch between these two somewhere in Asus Settings (or device settings?) Then you should have the old layout with navbar on bottom and on the right status bar (I don't know if they cooked in the Tiles there) :good:

 

[cr4zy.b0y]

I think you're talking about 4.1 layout (tablet mode) and 4.2 (phablet) - and as far as I read before you can easily switch between these two somewhere in Asus Settings (or device settings?) Then you should have the old layout with navbar on bottom and on the right status bar (I don't know if they cooked in the Tiles there) :good:

i think we have in settings a field called "launcher settings" !
and yea, i still use 4.1 launcher because we have the option to lock bottom taskbar when we are playing or whatever we do. :victory:

 

[vap_66]

I'm glad for the 4.1 mode. Played with 4.2 launcher mode for almost an hour, but I just couldn't get used to it. It's just wasting space. Hopefully Asus will keep this in the future too.

 

[new ion?]

i think we have in settings a field called "launcher settings" !
and yea, i still use 4.1 launcher because we have the option to lock bottom taskbar when we are playing or whatever we do. :victory:

You can lock taskbar on 4.2 mode

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[Pupsterface]

If everything was on the bottom bar, with notifications on the left and quick settings on the right of the ui buttons I think it'd be perfect

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This is also exactly what I want, I hope that Google gives us this layout in a future update!

Did anyone notice when using the 4.1 launcher (the older one), the UI is kind of too high on the screen? The top of my app icons are over the "google" button used to make searches and there's quite a big unused space between the system bar and the bottom apps. Not sure if I'm making any sense. Am I alone to have this issue?

 

[new ion?]

No issues here

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[Fermion6]

Maybe I'm confused, but I don't really see how this allows us to multitask better. Is there an option to have two apps on the screen at a time or something? I couldn't see any real difference other than layout, so I just switched back to the old layout since I don't really like the new one. Is there anything else that changed?

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[new ion?]

Maybe I'm confused, but I don't really see how this allows us to multitask better. Is there an option to have two apps on the screen at a time or something? I couldn't see any real difference other than layout, so I just switched back to the old layout since I don't really like the new one. Is there anything else that changed?

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The idea is just to have a uniform layout across all devices.

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[aerdely]

I don't know if any one has tried the old launcher but when i swithed back i couldn't get my weather widget to update. Anyone else run into this issue. Ended up going back to the 4.2.1 launcher because of it.

Got it to work removed the widget, went to apps in the setting and cleared the data and cache then reloaded widget works fine.
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[kyokeun1234]

I might be the minority here but I actually love the new layout
I switch the CPU mode by going to the settings. This might be annoying for some but for me, it's not a big deal as I just leave it on performance mode

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