help me out with android, looks, widgets, apps

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Giving android another go before deciding which highest end phone at end of year.

Nice to see setting menu has improved significantly, but struggling to find several things, and massively struggling to get home screen looking decent.
It's Miui, with nova launcher and Voxel icons at the moment.
I like everything I use on a single screen. And like everything to look the same, widgets are all over the place, with each app having totally different look and style.

At the moment.
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The widgets aren't designed for nova launch changing number of icons so don't really fit. Any way around this? The first two rows look fine, all nice, same size and square.

Struggling to find a decent weather app, that has a 3day widget, then inside app, has break down per hour and other such things.

Rainalarm app is fine, but the widget is rubbish, why progress bars, rather than just saying ~6km 100% area, 30% intensity.

Looking for a calendar widget that will show next three events and show the colour associated with them.

Fitbit widget is fine, but again needs to have similar style to other widgets.

Also trying to find a rocket launch schedule app that has a widget, the current app is fine but no widget.

Not a fan of notification areas, just want the number or at least like a red dot displayed by the icon, currently this doesn't happen? How do I enable that or what do I need, message, phone, Facebook, email.

How do I get lock screen to have weather forecast, number of new emails, texts, messages, Facebook etc.

Anyway to change translucency of all icons widgets?

Like the look of Glasklart icon pack. but again same issue, very few designs so don't cover most of the apps I have installed.

How do I select what's shown in notification area? Can't find settings for it.

Can't find an amazon video prime app they announced the other week, where you can download movies rather than just stream?
 
The widgets aren't designed for nova launch changing number of icons so don't really fit. Any way around this? The first two rows look fine, all nice, same size and square.

new version of nova launcher will have the ability to make icon sizes the same

Not a fan of notification areas, just want the number or at least like a red dot displayed by the icon, currently this doesn't happen? How do I enable that or what do I need, message, phone, Facebook, email.

the paid version of nova launcher has notificaion badges with the support of teslaUnread
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How do I select what's shown in notification area? Can't find settings for it.

depending on the version its in the settings, before lollipop its in the apps settings and you untick the "show notifications" box. in lollipop its under sound and notification

for nova themes, just put nova themes into the play store and you will get loads.
 
Thanks. Apps from Google store won't download from mobile data says to large. Must be a setting somewhere? As I have unlimited usage.
 
Remi note 2

Found setting for auto update apps, now set that to. EBay data. Can't see any setting for just downloading though.
 
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Remi note 2

Found setting for auto update apps, now set that to. EBay data. Can't see any setting for just downloading though.

Go to your download app and open it, then in the top right there are 3 little dots, click on that, then settings, download size and set it to unlimited. Hope that sorts it.
 
Was away at the week end, thanks for all the help.
Installed Teslaunread but it's not showing the number by messages/emails/Facebook, despite the toggle switches Being on.

And still can't find setting for downloading under cellular data, all I've been able to see is the one for auto updating apps?
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And wtf, how rubbish is Google maps. Can't download the whole of uk, just a 10mile bit at a time. But downloaded here maps, so much better.
 
I have nova prime and tesla unread and my notifications work fine so not sure why it isn't working for you if you set it up as suggested. Have you double checked the 'Unread count badges' options in nova prime and made sure it is set to be handled by tesla?
 
I found it, and yep it is what you say, that was off :)
Slowly getting there.

Is there any messaging apps that are considered better, same for email client?
 
Simple Calendar Widget is the best Calendar widget I have found. Works well and looks good IMO.
 
Simple Calendar Widget is the best Calendar widget I have found. Works well and looks good IMO.

Thanks, that is nice. Don't suppose you know of a weather widget that looks extremely similar?

That app developer also do a theme called Tornado.
But you don't seem to be able to change the home screen at all. Does anyone know an icon pack that looks similar?
 
Unfortunately not. I never used to bother with a weather app (sticking my head out the window used to do me:)) but then the Z3C comes with a pretty nice simple one as default so I kept that in place.

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