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I've used many and I highly recommend LauncherPro. It's based off the original home app so you don't have to worry about it messing up your phone like other home replacement apps have for me. I've had random restarts that seemed to be caused by other home apps.

LauncherPro works so well that I actually went and purchased LauncherPro Plus. DEFINITELY worth every penny! "Plus" allows you to use special LauncherPro widgets (calendar, bookmarks, people, friends, twitter, facebook, etc) and will also allow you to resize ANY widget. Which is perfect because sometimes a widget is bigger or smaller than I want it to be.

LauncherPro will give you 7 home screens and you can fully customize the dock (even have three docks you can scroll through). I believe they're actually in the processes of rewriting all the code and they've said we may be able to have up to 9 home screens)
 
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Download Launcher Pro or ADW on the market

FUD aside, I've had ADW since 2 days after I got my phone, and it's been running smooth for over a month. It's never FC'd and I've only restarted it *by choice* three times ever, because I thought something was interfering with its operation. It only takes about 10 seconds to recover from restarting (it's an option under "settings") and you don't lose anything that's open.

I originally tried it because a review I watched for the intercept said that they downloaded it because it made the phone less sluggish than the default home screen, and I've had less of those "hit back or home 2 or 3 times before it does anything" incidents since I installed it.

I haven't tried Launcher Pro, so I can't say what's better or worse, but I would try everything before deciding. The only reason I haven't is because I haven't had any reason to (happy with ADW), and I'm stunningly lazy.
 
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Must be rooted
- Download this zip file and place it in the root of your SD card (drag it to the card). /sdx/zip folder
- Power off your phone.
- Boot into recovery mode (press volume down + call + power).
- Apply the zip from the SD card using that recovery mode menu option.
- Reboot. You're done!

Tap on home screen hold. when add to home screen comes up choose>wallpapers>Live Wallpapers

The zip will install a Live Wallpapers App. After that just grab some free Live wallpaper apps from the Android Market.

Oh, festive!

So I was half-right. We're not "supposed" to be able to use live wallpapers, and yet we can. ;)
 
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Those are drivers modified from the Samsung Moment to work on the Intercept. Not sure if it will work for temp root as I am fully rooted. Most live wallpapers work great, I've tried at least 50.

I was wondering about the temp root thing too. Since I'm no androidologist (yet) I was intending to wait for the official 2.2 update before I permanently root.......if I can wait!

How long is our warranty, anyway?

Edit: I do know that apps like Titanium Backup that require root permissions don't work after you reboot from temp-root, so I'm assuming the wallpaper app would be the same.....though I'd be glad to be wrong.
 
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So you have figured out how to root the intercept? There are a bunch of forums everywhere with people like me asking "how do you root it?" Care to share the process, or a link that shows the process?

Durrr, maybe read the threads that surround this one? :p

Edit: Jokes aside, some folks are reporting permanent root doesn't work, but you can just reroot every time you have to reboot your phone. That seems to work fine for me.
 
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Actually, I had read the threads surrounding this one. It looks like you posted on them after making the post above.

So z4root temp root is working for you? And are you able to boot into recovery mode with temp root and apply the update.zip spoken about above?

I posted the z4root thread in the root thread to make it easier for you to find. It was gettin' kinda far down, so I didn't want to make you read 13 threads to find it. ;)

I haven't tried it yet, and yes, you may proceed to yell at me. :p

Z4root will give you superuser permissions, but if booting into recovery mode involves REbooting, I'm guess that will be a fail.
 
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Must be rooted
- Download this zip file and place it in the root of your SD card (drag it to the card). /sdx/zip folder
- Power off your phone.
- Boot into recovery mode (press volume down + call + power).
- Apply the zip from the SD card using that recovery mode menu option.
- Reboot. You're done!

Tap on home screen hold. when add to home screen comes up choose>wallpapers>Live Wallpapers

The zip will install a Live Wallpapers App. After that just grab some free Live wallpaper apps from the Android Market.

It's not working for me. I followed the instructions and got this message.

E: failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory)
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted

Am I supposed to rename the file? What am I doing incorrectly?
 
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You should already have a "sdx" folder on your SD Card, in that folder should be another folder called "zip", place the zip you downloaded into the "zip" folder, boot to recovery, select apply zip, select the file you put into the "zip" folder, reboot.

If you don't have an "sdx" folder with a "zip" folder inside it then just create one...

I'll try it, thanks.
 
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Can someone help please?
I installed ADW Launcher and the ADW Ubuntu Theme. I configured it to run, now I have an Application Error: ADW Launcher (process android.process.acore)has stopped unexpectedly. Please Try Again (Force Close). This loops over and over, and I cannot get in to kill the app? I need some help figuring this out, please.

Thanks
 
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