well as the title reads, ive been having trouble making my home launcher my default launcher, the phone wont prompt me to make a default launcher. any ideas as to why this is? ive tried downloading different launchers too, it still doesnt prompt me for a default launcher. im on 2.4.330
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problems with defaulting home launcher
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NiceGuysFinishLast
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Use home switcher for froyo, free in the market.
Ultim8gamr
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I've been having similar issues with the launcherpro launcher. It shows in home switcher that I have no launcher chosen as default. Even though launcherpro is the only launcher that ever opens. But I like that launcher better so its not an issue for now
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NiceGuysFinishLast
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Just to be clear, you ran home switcher. Hit "clear default" and then chose "home" as your default launcher, and it still didn't work?
In my experience with this phone, if you have ANY replacement home app installed, the phone treats is as default. The only time the phone has ever asked me to choose was when I had two replacement home Apps installed (launcher pro and go launcher). For whatever reason, the OS seems to assume that if you installed a home replacement, you don't want to use the built in Moto home. It doesn't even put up a fight. If you want to use Moto's Blur home by default, uninstall any other home replacement.
Yes - just like tebower said - if you have any other home app installed it will overlap the Moto launcher with no way of 'clear default' or anything. You can clear default only if you have more than one 3rd party launcher installed between them, but the only way to switch back to stock launcher is to remove all custom launchers.
Using home switcher app for froyo from market will list moto launcher and will let you go into it while you have others installed, but you can't make hitting home button to default to it. Wired - true.
Ultim8gamr
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Tebower I've noticed the same thing. When I had both adw and LP it gave me the option for a default but with only LP and stock home switcher says no default chosen and even when clearing it doesn't make a difference. Doesn't bother me but I thought I would offer my experience for the op.
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Hoo-wee, all this bother just for a launcher? I guess it must be fun, but it appears
to me that there's a lot of issues with rooting and subsequent "problems" that people
are having with the whole spectrum of the OS. :icon_eek: I guess that we would have to
assume that these are growing pains as we move towards better "roots" ? And of
course then the new Android OS will be out... (job security?)
to me that there's a lot of issues with rooting and subsequent "problems" that people
are having with the whole spectrum of the OS. :icon_eek: I guess that we would have to
assume that these are growing pains as we move towards better "roots" ? And of
course then the new Android OS will be out... (job security?)
thanks a lot, guys, for this thread. I do not have a droid phone and I put an app on google market recently and got two complaints from droid x owners. my app replaces home screen on launch to lock a home key and supposed to return it back by prompting an user to change defaults (the app is for toddlers so I spent a lot of time to make a true lock mode for all the keys). Well, my app works fine on all phones but droid x and you explained why.
Thanks a lot, now I need to find a workaround for droid x.
Thanks a lot, now I need to find a workaround for droid x.
I just finished writing a tiny app that fixes your problem.
Try it out at: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nightshadelabs.motoblurhome
Try it out at: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nightshadelabs.motoblurhome
There are problems because people root and have no idea what it means. Rooting your phone just means giving it administrator level access, that in and of itself does nothing to your phone, it just means you can access any part of your filesystem and make changes to it. What you do with it after that is up to you.