Having An Issue With 2.1 - Come In Here

[leturn]

Have 2.1 update1. Loaded live wallpaper from Market but they only work on stock launcher. Tried on PandaHome and Home++ and no luck. What am I doing wrong

 

[cereal killer]

Received ota today. All seems ok, but can't find or didn't get the "News and Weather Widget" Not a problem since so many apps exist for those items, but would like to know if I got it or not. How do I find out?

Long press on the homescreen/widgets/news and weather

 

[conman50]

ok so i heard 2.1 was supposed to be able to have more home screens, like 5 like the droid eris has.

also i heard i could watch fl;ash movies like news on the internet, but i still cant

can anyone tell me how to do this? thanks

 

[928Droid]

ok so i heard 2.1 was supposed to be able to have more home screens, like 5 like the droid eris has.

also i heard i could watch fl;ash movies like news on the internet, but i still cant

can anyone tell me how to do this? thanks

Sadly, you heard incorrect information on both items.

If you want more than 3 screens, Helix Launcher (free on the market) is currently the best solution. Flash hasn't been released yet, probably still months away.

 

[Candice]

Hello kiddos!

Ok here's the deal, got my 2.1 update this morning and here are a few problems I'm having... (I'm not rooted, FYI)

1) Can't use home++ AND live wallpaper. (totally ok with that, and it's absolutely understandable. Just making it known.)

2) When my phone is "asleep" I don't get any LED notifications for new texts/emails. (or when it's on for that matter, but I read through all 38 pages here and saw a few posts that already mentioned that specific problem, but not when its "asleep".) Any solution?

3) When I use live wallpapers it slows my phone down, definitely enough to notice a HUGE difference. I'm assuming the best option here is to NOT use live wallpaper, right? *shrug*

4) Scrolling seems to be choppy sometimes. Before the update I could "fling" the screen and it would be lightning fast, now...it's like a 90 yr old woman walking with a cane in a snowstorm. Any suggestions?


Any help is greatly appreciated!! TIA!

 

[hookbill]

Hello kiddos!

Ok here's the deal, got my 2.1 update this morning and here are a few problems I'm having... (I'm not rooted, FYI)

1) Can't use home++ AND live wallpaper. (totally ok with that, and it's absolutely understandable. Just making it known.)

2) When my phone is "asleep" I don't get any LED notifications for new texts/emails. (or when it's on for that matter, but I read through all 38 pages here and saw a few posts that already mentioned that specific problem, but not when its "asleep".) Any solution?

3) When I use live wallpapers it slows my phone down, definitely enough to notice a HUGE difference. I'm assuming the best option here is to NOT use live wallpaper, right? *shrug*

4) Scrolling seems to be choppy sometimes. Before the update I could "fling" the screen and it would be lightning fast, now...it's like a 90 yr old woman walking with a cane in a snowstorm. Any suggestions?


Any help is greatly appreciated!! TIA!

2. Try a soft factory reset of the Droid, settings/privacy/factory reset.

3. Only certain live wallpaper does this. Tru using water, I have no issues at all.

4. I have the exact opposite experience. Instructions for #2 should fix that or it's the live wallpaper you are using.

 

[stepp24]

how do you get the launcher2.apk/nexus one launcher to work with the ota update, or is this not possible? is there a work around for this, the current launcher2.apk just force closes.
Thanks

 

[Candice]

Hello kiddos!

Ok here's the deal, got my 2.1 update this morning and here are a few problems I'm having... (I'm not rooted, FYI)

1) Can't use home++ AND live wallpaper. (totally ok with that, and it's absolutely understandable. Just making it known.)

2) When my phone is "asleep" I don't get any LED notifications for new texts/emails. (or when it's on for that matter, but I read through all 38 pages here and saw a few posts that already mentioned that specific problem, but not when its "asleep".) Any solution?

3) When I use live wallpapers it slows my phone down, definitely enough to notice a HUGE difference. I'm assuming the best option here is to NOT use live wallpaper, right? *shrug*

4) Scrolling seems to be choppy sometimes. Before the update I could "fling" the screen and it would be lightning fast, now...it's like a 90 yr old woman walking with a cane in a snowstorm. Any suggestions?


Any help is greatly appreciated!! TIA!

2. Try a soft factory reset of the Droid, settings/privacy/factory reset.

3. Only certain live wallpaper does this. Tru using water, I have no issues at all.

4. I have the exact opposite experience. Instructions for #2 should fix that or it's the live wallpaper you are using.

Thanks! Just reset, it fixed the notification LED. Haven't tested out the live wallpapers just yet, but everything seems pretty speedy.

 

[adrynalyne]

how do you get the launcher2.apk/nexus one launcher to work with the ota update, or is this not possible? is there a work around for this, the current launcher2.apk just force closes.
Thanks

I takes a lot of work, including rooting. As it sands right now, no 2.1 launcher works on stock.

 

[koralyne]

My mothers phone was rooted. She got the notification to update to 2.1, and tried to update, something went wrong, she brought it to me, and it was in the boot up console. I unrooted it, and now it wont show that theres an update. the system info says its still at 2.0.1

Any ideas?

 

[adrynalyne]

Wait for it to re-offer it or manually update.

 

[koralyne]

EDIT: nvm got it.

EDIT2: i booted up the phone after updating, and it got stuck in a boot loop. did a battery pull and it was fine, is this anything to worry about?

also, it doesnt seem to have changed ANYTHING.

whats new in 2.1? i was under the impression we were supposed to get 5 homescreens, and something was gonna change with the app drawer?

 

[stmomma]

I got my update this morning. Live wallpapers are cool, but they kept freezing up on me when rotating from landscape to portrait. I was running Helixlauncher with 5 screens and have temporarily uninstalled to see if that fixes the problem. I will reinstall at some point to see if it works. Apparently, the Nexusmod live wallpaper doesn't work with either the stock browser or helix. I got force closes with both.

 

[CorkYRogers]

Hello kiddos!

Ok here's the deal, got my 2.1 update this morning and here are a few problems I'm having... (I'm not rooted, FYI)

1) Can't use home++ AND live wallpaper. (totally ok with that, and it's absolutely understandable. Just making it known.)

2) When my phone is "asleep" I don't get any LED notifications for new texts/emails. (or when it's on for that matter, but I read through all 38 pages here and saw a few posts that already mentioned that specific problem, but not when its "asleep".) Any solution?

3) When I use live wallpapers it slows my phone down, definitely enough to notice a HUGE difference. I'm assuming the best option here is to NOT use live wallpaper, right? *shrug*

4) Scrolling seems to be choppy sometimes. Before the update I could "fling" the screen and it would be lightning fast, now...it's like a 90 yr old woman walking with a cane in a snowstorm. Any suggestions?


Any help is greatly appreciated!! TIA!

2. Try a soft factory reset of the Droid, settings/privacy/factory reset.

3. Only certain live wallpaper does this. Tru using water, I have no issues at all.

4. I have the exact opposite experience. Instructions for #2 should fix that or it's the live wallpaper you are using.

Thanks! Just reset, it fixed the notification LED. Haven't tested out the live wallpapers just yet, but everything seems pretty speedy.

dumb question about the factory reset...can i use MY BACK-UP PRO to back up my apps/data? if so, how do i access everything after the reset? thanks guy

 

[thebourbonnflip]

Here's my issue....
it seems like the Lock screen keeps disappearing as in whenever i wake the phone..it goes directly to the 'home' page...it kinds of annoys me