I use Nova with the unread plug in. It adds counts to text, Facebook, Gmail, hangouts and more. I believe you need nova prime to use it though.
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Back when I was on Verizon with both HTC and Samsung to alleviate the battery drain I would force close the stock launcher, reboot, force close again and it would stay closed after that. The battery drain was coming from the phone keeping 2 launchers awake and active, using cpu. I don't get the drain on my G2 even without force closing the stock launcher, it doesn't keep trying to be the foreground dominant launcher like Touch Wiz and Sense.Yeah Nova drains battery and using a ton of RAM. I liked it but uninstalled for that reason. After uninstalling nova my better life basically doubled.