4 X 5 Rosie Launcher mod gives rooted HTC EVO 3Ds more real estate
Rosie, the stock launcher that comes with Sense, has a problem. It was designed for a smaller screen, and even though we have significantly better hardware and more landscape to play with these days, it's still set up for a phone with half an inch less of screen room.
Well, now there's a mod that will take you from four icons wide by four high to four wide by five high, allowing an extra 4 icons to be displayed per screen and not look at all out of place.
There are no options; you simply flash the zip and that's that. If you want to revert back to stock, as far as I can tell you'll have to restore a Nandroid or install a new ROM, so make sure to make one before you flash.
A quick note for the widget fans out there: just because you can fit four more widgets on a screen doesn't mean you have to. The more widgets you have displayed, the more the phone has to work when redrawing the screen or updating what's visible.
[xda-developers]
I flashed this last night and my home screen looks so much
better without all that waisted space
Do your nandroid. I tried it and it broke sense here. Had to restore.
what rom?
Works like a champ on Mean Rom 3.0
hey Paul. shouldn’t someone get some sort of credit for this ?
thesparky007’s thread at xda credits jeffsanace for figuring it out.
works well with viperROM Redline v2.5 RC2.
Yup, definitely should – the thing here is there is no clear line of who did what (credit was given to Jeffsance by TheSparky007 for figuring out everything, but did Jeff or Sparky he make the flashable zip?) so I just directed people to the thread it’s in where credit is vaguely assigned.
Quite fine with changing this to read that JeffSance figured out what to do and TheSparky007 made the zip if that is the case.
Basically was worried that I say Jeff did it, but he didn’t make the zip, people blame him for crashing their phones if the didn’t make a nandroid / follow instruction. Or if I say TheSparky’s thread, but he had nothing to do with it other than promoting something Jeff did, eh..
If you know exactly who did what, lemme know, I’ll slap up the changes.
Didn’t work with Android Revolution HD ROM (continuous Force Closes of Sense). Glad I made that nandroid first!
I’ve used many a widget in my day and never had screen redraw lag or suffered bad battery drain. This is even going back to my old Sprint HTC Hero. ;)
I suppose it depends on the type of widgets being used though. If they do constantly update, that may do it, but I’ve had those with no issues either. :)
All depends on the widget and how well it’s designed. You put a CPU monitor that updates every second and a task killer widget on there you can start to see a slowdown.
Most widgets, not an issue.
Where can I download the zip file?
clock the link that says [xda-developers]
click the link in the first post there
After being in an unfulfilling relationship with Rosie for 29 years and finally divorced, I have no intention of starting a new relationship with Rosie
So her proportions are now a bit taller at 4×5 instead of the previous 4×4? My new partner is Go Launcher EX. You can make her any size you want up to 10×10 if you like 3x BBWs. She’s got a lot of great features but you might be disappointed that she doesn’t like flashing – she’ll hook up with any Android that comes her way whether rooted or not.
I’d highly recommend spending some time with Go Launcher EX before hooking up with Rosie and saying “I do”. It’s also a lot easier to kick Go Launcher EX to the curb if you don’t get along with her than making Rosie your ex because then you might have to get your attorney Nandroid involved.