Helix Launcher now on market...best launcher available

Chillout · Mar 16, 2010

It's been a couple hours now since I installed it and so far so good; I'm impressed with the speed of it and having a dock at the bottom again. It's a nice feature that I wasn't able to have on the stock home screen since all the other home replacement options like GDE, home+++, dxtop, etc. always gave me epic lag and FC's like crazy.

goon55 · Mar 16, 2010

brokeoutangel said:
Goon55.... I might be wrong but I think they are referring to the magic smoke Live wallpaper and it and all the live papers have worked on my non rooted stock 2.0.1 version of my n1.

hey thanks, how did you get them to work? They dont work on the stock 2.0 droid right?

visualvalhalla · Mar 17, 2010

Just loaded Helix to my non-rooted Droid running 2.01. It is fast & smooth, much better than GDE that had running the past 3 months.

riffdex · Mar 17, 2010

Droidking said:
I applied the helix launcher and it constantly forceclosed looped on me!! I had to do a complete wipe of my phone to get my phone to work again!! Not worth the headache!!

Um you could have easily uninstalled it and reinstalled. There are some issues that are fixed if u do a fresh install. You could have booted your phone while pressing the menu key on the hardware keyboard, which would boot safe mode, and it would go to default homescreen, and then you could uninstall it.

Redflea said:
For those of you switching between launchers, get Home Switcher from the market - it's free, and will show you all installed home screens and allow you to set/change default and launch whichever one you want.

thnx a lot. I was actually thinking about this earlier wondering if there was an app that would do this.

ceruti82 · Mar 17, 2010

Im not rooted, installed helix, got it all set to how i wanted, and realized i wanted just 4 home screens, not 5~ so when i cut it down to 4~ thats when it went into a FC loop. reboot, same thing.. i uninstalled. will reinstall and set up again later today~ i really liked the quick launch bar at the bottom! and it didnt lag. only had it set up for about 2 hrs before i messed with the screens

one QUESTION i have ~ once i get helix home all set up with widgets, is is better on battery/phone speed to get rid of widgets on stock home? or does it not make a difference ?

also, there is no way to contact dev's besides setting up an account on that forum. i find that odd. usually they want feedback.

thanks!

Chillout · Mar 17, 2010

So has anyone else seen this problem where if you update the number of screens that it sends the launcher into crazy mode? I haven't updated mine since I prefer the 3 screens like I mentioned before but just curious if this could be a potential bigger problem or just isolated to a few random cases?

Humpa · Mar 17, 2010

Chillout said:
So has anyone else seen this problem where if you update the number of screens that it sends the launcher into crazy mode? I haven't updated mine since I prefer the 3 screens like I mentioned before but just curious if this could be a potential bigger problem or just isolated to a few random cases?

As per the warning when you go to change number of screens, you need to delete the stuff on the screens if you are downsizing.

But because of all the people doing it anyway and have FC problems, the new 1.3 version fixes that "issue". But 1.3 is only in the "donate" area at the moment, so it should be on the Market tomorrow or maybe later today.

And for those asking about contacting the dev, just join xda-dev. That's a must have site anyway - at least for anyone who is a modder/tweaker.

Chillout · Mar 17, 2010

Indeed, I found that out the hard way in the past when I would switch up to various home replacement apps; to always make sure you clear off your default home screen first.

bsems1000 · Mar 17, 2010

Does helix affect the beautiful home app? are they the same type of application?

bsems1000 · Mar 17, 2010

Chillout said:
Indeed, I found that out the hard way in the past when I would switch up to various home replacement apps; to always make sure you clear off your default home screen first.

what happends when you dont clear your default home screen? what about the left/right screens

Humpa · Mar 17, 2010

bsems1000 said:
what happends when you dont clear your default home screen? what about the left/right screens

Nothing happens if you don't clear your default Home launcher. That is a different app. The only issue (which is no longer an issue in 1.3) is when decreasing number of homescreens when using Helix (it would cause an error when a page was dropped, yet there were shortcuts on that page, you know?).

bsems1000 · Mar 17, 2010

I got you. thnx. Ill be looking into getting the helix app as soon as my 2.1 rolls in. So i can get the "boom", brand new phone feel : )

ceruti82 · Mar 17, 2010

can you take a screenshot with helix? i liked that feature of home++
ive got it up and running again.. not gonna mess with the # of screens. so far so good!

SSinisterSS · Mar 17, 2010

tried it, and prefer home++

menu goes all the way up and you cant slide it back down, you have to press back or home.
no 3d app drawr (its 50/50 with me)

Humpa · Mar 17, 2010

SSinisterSS said:
tried it, and prefer home++

menu goes all the way up and you cant slide it back down, you have to press back or home.
no 3d app drawr (its 50/50 with me)

The new 1.3 update gives you the option to have the handle to drag it back down, or to have the extra row or shortcuts visible (drawer goes fullscreen) and no handle.

For people wanting the 3d app drawer (Launcher2), currently the only "real" solution for the Droid is to use the cyanogenmod.

SSinisterSS · Mar 17, 2010

Humpa said:
The new 1.3 update gives you the option to have the handle to drag it back down, or to have the extra row or shortcuts visible (drawer goes fullscreen) and no handle.

For people wanting the 3d app drawer (Launcher2), currently the only "real" solution for the Droid is to use the cyanogenmod.

the market only has 1.2

it says it has live wallpapers, is that only supported for root until tomorrow?

Humpa · Mar 17, 2010

SSinisterSS said:
the market only has 1.2

it says it has live wallpapers, is that only supported for root until tomorrow?

There is a thread over at xda-developers. For all the info, you would want to read that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645683

Nothing to do with "root", but the 1.3 is in the donate area until he pushes it to the Market. I assume later today or tomorrow morning, not sure of the dev's schedule.

EDIT: lwp only work with the ese53 build of the Droid (and any of the 2.1 custom rom's that specifically say they have lwp working).

lone_anarchist · Mar 17, 2010

i had some FC'ing last night, i just installed for the first time rooted and ultimate droid w/ helix launcher OH MY GOD I LOVE IT!! lol but then i just read about 2.1 haha, but as for FCing it would happen when i made a shortcut to a contact, i would open the contact from the screen, then went to edit the contact that way "photo to be exact" went to crop it and click save and it would FC, but this could also be the 2.1 gallery causing this, i tried to edit the picture through the contacts menu and it worked fine. so i took the photo off and tried again from the shortcut and it worked, so idk a glitch or somthing?

Optimus · Mar 17, 2010

I still think home++ has way more features but for a basic improvement over the stock home this is very very nice.

Humpa · Mar 17, 2010

Yeah, but I've tried Home++ and though it has lots of features, it added bugs and lag. Or at least it didn't seem as smooth as the default launcher. I'm sure it is a great program and the dev put a lot of work into it. But when I get one FC or other such error, I stop using that app or whatever - so the couple of times I tried Home++ I always went back rather quickly after a quirk or two rubbed me the wrong way. So for a non-bloated replacement home that works good, this is it.

Chillout · Mar 17, 2010

home+++, dxtop, GDE, they all have more features and yes alot of them are better. My only issue with all those is the epic lag they caused me and also all the FC's. I went back to stock after trying them all and was quite content but now that Helix is here and so far working great, I'm very happy with the new results.

If I could get dxtop to work right, I'd still be with them but the problems it caused didn't outweigh the features for me

I've never rooted, so I'm looking forward to 2.1 for some additional features which hopefully include live wallpapers.

black743 · Mar 17, 2010

I've read a couple of posts here and there about shorter battery life. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any reason why it would affect the battery?

Aaron H · Mar 17, 2010

black743 said:
I've read a couple of posts here and there about shorter battery life. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any reason why it would affect the battery?

It seemed to be a shorter battery life, but I also experienced a rise in temp (1st time ever reaching 105+deg).

Personally, I did not feel it was a smooth as Home++ (transitions between home screens - even without livewallpaper). I switched back to Home++ for now.

BB 0.8 w/ Chevy's 1gig 5 slot
No JIT

LoBatt · Mar 17, 2010

Working well so far for me on DM 1.0. I really liked Home++ but the live wallpapers are pretty cool.

bsems1000 · Mar 17, 2010

So in you guys/girls opinioin.. which home mod would you prefer... i know im going to have to probably try both.. but b/w the helix and home++.. whats the pros and cons of each?

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