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I keep reading about people who Root their droid. I’m still not sure what that means and was wondering if anyone could provide a explanation or a link that discusses it. I was reading one post and someone rooted their droid and had 5 screens.

Has anyone had issues getting their wallpaper to be sized correctly? For example, I have a specific image that has a 800×1200 resolution. It fills the screen in portrait perfectly when viewing in the gallery. However, when I try to set it as my wallpaper, it has me crop the picture and the largest it allows me to select is the top half. What gives? I want it to look on my wallpaper the same way I see it in my gallery.

I am using Home++ with 4 screens if it makes any difference. Turning on/off wallpaper scroll doesn’t make any difference. Do I need to resize the picture?

I didn’t see this posted on the forums so I figured I’d share. I apologize in advance if it was listed on here and I missed it.

1. go into settings -> applications and check the "unknown sources" box.
2. visit this post from your phone’s browser.
3. tap and download this file onto your phone: http://sites.google.com/site/motodro…/Launcher2.apk
4. tap on the downloaded application once it has finished.
5. install it and hit "done" when finished.
6. tap your "home" button (yes the house).
7. when prompted select "launcher" and check the box to make it your default.
8. done

after you’ve installed and set it as your default launcher, you’ll notice that it wiped out all of the application shortcuts and widgets from your 3 screens. this is sort of an inconvenience, but setting those back up is not difficult. oh, and you’ll now have 5 screens to play with instead of cramming such few things into 3.

Gallery:

http://droidmuff.in/wp-content/uploa…llery_flan.apk
Visit that link on the phones browser download it and install it.
Probably need to use astro file manager to do that.

Genie News and Weather:

http://sites.google.com/site/motodro…edirects=0&d=1
Visit that link on the phones browser download and install it.
Once installed go to a homescreen that has space on it, click the menu button and add new widget and you should see news and weather.

Source

I just did all of them and they all worked for me, at first it slowed the phone down a little but everything is running smoothly now.

I am a new Motorola Droid user as of about 5 days ago, before I got my phone I think I spent half of my day on here silently reading up on everything Droid. As a result I have probably tinkered with my Droid more than anyone I know that has one.

Currently I have Home++ running, and I LOVE the way it is setup. I like the extra screens. The power strip is awesome and makes the whole phone make more sense, with the notification button on the bottom where my short stubby thumb can reach it, and the browser and contact button part of the power strip so I don’t need an icon on my home screen for it.

Problem is, since I have installed it, once a day the phone has locked up, no screen turning on, no nothing which forces me to remove the battery to turn it back on. It generally happens when the phone is sleeping and I get a text. Like I said, once a day or so, not everytime I get a text.

So my question is, does anyone else have this problem, if so how do you cope..lol

I really love this app, but I don’t know 100% if the trade off is worth it. Good news is hopefully I will like 2.1 enough to not need Home++. It will at least give me more screens.

How do I go about moving my widgets onto 1 screen? I want to set 1 up with everything I use frequently, and the other ones for the not so essential apps.