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I'm using helixlauncher and normally the four apps that id have on the default home screen are now in the quickbar on the bottom. So Im lookingg for a replacement widget that I can put there so its not so empty, any suggestions?
 
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Here's my current set up. Advanced Task Manager on the bottom left, and Gmail Counter on the bottom right. Got rid of the name of the apps under their options and have Beautiful Widgets dead center.
 
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Here's my current set up. Advanced Task Manager on the bottom left, and Gmail Counter on the bottom right. Got rid of the name of the apps under their options and have Beautiful Widgets dead center.

With the ROM that you are running, can you get rid of the clock in the upper right or shall it plague our Droids forever?
 
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With the ROM that you are running, can you get rid of the clock in the upper right or shall it plague our Droids forever?

I've never heard of a way to get rid of the stock clock entirely, but you could always change its color to match the color of the notification bar. I know that would still leave space for it, which isn't ideal, but thats all I think you can do. Maybe someone else knows of a way.
 
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With the ROM that you are running, can you get rid of the clock in the upper right or shall it plague our Droids forever?

When you asked this, I was assuming you were talking about the actual clock on the top right... that would be the alarm

But if your asking about the actual time at the top right then.. ive no idea. its never been bothersome to me. That's a good question tho. lol
 
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But if your asking about the actual time at the top right then.. ive no idea. its never been bothersome to me. That's a good question tho. lol

Yeah, my husband made me insecure about it. I was so excited to show him how awesome my Droid looked when I put Helix on it with some widgets... "Why do you have a clock widget going when it is already up in the upper right corner?" I have been looking for ways to hide the clock since then.
 
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Yeah, my husband made me insecure about it. I was so excited to show him how awesome my Droid looked when I put Helix on it with some widgets... "Why do you have a clock widget going when it is already up in the upper right corner?" I have been looking for ways to hide the clock since then.


My answer to that uncommon question when presented to me is, 'It's too small, and when im not at the home screen, I can still see the time =D'
 
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Yeah, my husband made me insecure about it. I was so excited to show him how awesome my Droid looked when I put Helix on it with some widgets... "Why do you have a clock widget going when it is already up in the upper right corner?" I have been looking for ways to hide the clock since then.

Their is an option in Helix to hide the notification bar. Hope that this helps. I know when I was running Helix 2 the option was their.
 
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When you asked this, I was assuming you were talking about the actual clock on the top right... that would be the alarm

But if your asking about the actual time at the top right then.. ive no idea. its never been bothersome to me. That's a good question tho. lol

CM allows you to block and/or change the color of the top clock (and the battery easily through Spare Parts. If you want to keep BB, I've heard you can take the .apk from it. But, it's nice to have the option of just having the clock from Beautiful Widgets and not clutter with redundancy.
To the other message above, I do think it's funny that you have two radically different battery statuses :eek:.
 
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im running 10 widgets on 5 screens on helix 2, FB, power control, beautiful widgets, pure grid calendar, mixzing large, news widget, 2 picture frames, mobile buzz, and google buzz. then xscope icon, hello im, handcent, and phone dialer on the main screen with BW. i use the dots on helix 2 so i dont have them on the dock.
 
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I like how:

* The clock widget shows 6:16, and the notification bar shows 6:17
* Battery status widget shows 90%, and the notification bar shows 60%

LOL. Welcome to android, right? I was waiting for someone to say it! The clock lags by about 3 secs on updates so I guess bad timing for a screenshot. The batt meter is better after the last update but the reason I have it there is that it takes me straight to the battery usage screen which I find very convenient.
 
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