Can I increase the amount of apps I can put into a folder?

[sharpcroft]

Folder options

Having switched from a Samsung S4 to a HTC One M8 im frustrated by the 16 apps per folder limit, is there any way around this without rooting?

Thanks and hello from Sharpy

 

[Change]

Re: Folder options

If you revert to vanilla android, it should work. It's a limitation of the SenseUI as far as I know.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Folder options

Google Now Launcher also has a limit of 16 (on the Nexus 5, anyway--I think you can have more on a Nexus 7 due to screen size). 3rd party launchers like Nova might be an option.

 

[sharpcroft]

Re: Folder options

Can SenseUI be removed easily or do I need to flash with another ROM? Bear in mind the phone is a day old!

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Folder options

You don't need to remove it--you can just install a new launcher. Try Nova.

When you install a new launcher, you get the option of choosing which launcher is used by default--Sense or the one you installed. You can always go back to Sense, or uninstall the alternate launcher.

 

[sharpcroft]

Re: Folder options

Nova (pro) installed, worth every one of the 250 Penny's cheers

 

[Mooncatt]

Re: Folder options

You don't need to remove it--you can just install a new launcher. Try Nova.

When you install a new launcher, you get the option of choosing which launcher is used by default--Sense or the one you installed. You can always go back to Sense, or uninstall the alternate launcher.

Just for clarification, the stock launcher is Blinkfeed, not Sense. So you'll see Blinkfeed as one of the options when pressing the home button if you have other launchers installed until you set a new default.

 

[Change]

Re: Folder options

Hi Sharpy, welcome to the AC crowd.

Is folder-in-folder an option on Sense? That way a folder could potentially hold an almost limitless numbers of apps, if sensibly organized by its user. All the apps you stick in there aren't real fullblown apps, of course. They are just pointers, software flags to where the real apps reside. So they are tiny! Tiny-tiny! The real apps and files reside only once on your device for each app. All the other apparent instances where you see or interact with them they are just labeled pins on a wall map pointing to where the real apps and files are. An efficient little housekeeping/tracking database. A handful of MBs in 99% of user cases. If more's needed that can get pulled from the internet or proprietary (potentially galactically HUGE) databases. The app on the device is then only a skin, a front-end, a dashboard, an uplink to other, comparatively ginormous databases. The internet! So memory and storage footprint of that household database can't be an objection to this folder-in-folder thing.

Sorry, just thinking out loud.

That's an interesting theory, and one I hadn't considered previously. Would be simple enough to try... gimme one second here...

And the answer is no. At least not on SenseUI. I dragged a folder onto another folder, and they just swapped places.

 

[sharpcroft]

Re: Folder options

I'd already tried that as well, would be a nice option, surely things like this cannot be to hard to implement? Makes you wonder why they limit apps per folder in the first place?