TouchWiz disabling question

[Guest Zigo]

A pre-purchase question...

If you disable TouchWiz, do you lose ALL the enhancements Samsung have made to the standard WM UI?

Or can you just turn off certain things (e.g. the home screen widgets) while keeping the nicer UI on all the settings screens, email, calendar, etc.?

Edited September 22, 2009 by Zigo

[Guest tacchan23]

A pre-purchase question...

If you disable TouchWiz, do you lose ALL the enhancements Samsung have made to the standard WM UI?

Or can you just turn off certain things (e.g. the home screen widgets) while keeping the nicer UI on all the settings screens, email, calendar, etc.?

You lose nothing if you disable TouchWiz

[Guest Zigo]

You lose nothing if you disable TouchWiz

So the only thing you lose is the widgets on the home screen?

[Guest alkandery75]

You just lose the fancy start menu... You do not lose Widgets...

[Guest Shadowy]

You just lose the fancy start menu... You do not lose Widgets...

You don't even lose that if you press the cube button rather than tapping Start.

[Guest Zigo]

Ah right. I have read some more and understand it better now.

What I would want to do is disable the home screen widgets to save RAM (and use SPB Mobile Shell instead - does it use less RAM than WidgetPlus?), but keep the Samsung UI overlay (TouchWiz) for all the finger-friendly Windows settings, etc.

So if you disable WidgetPlus but keep TouchWiz, is that what would happen? (i.e. save RAM and keep the UI enhancements)

[Guest tacchan23]

Ah right. I have read some more and understand it better now.

What I would want to do is disable the home screen widgets to save RAM (and use SPB Mobile Shell instead - does it use less RAM than WidgetPlus?), but keep the Samsung UI overlay (TouchWiz) for all the finger-friendly Windows settings, etc.

So if you disable WidgetPlus but keep TouchWiz, is that what would happen? (i.e. save RAM and keep the UI enhancements)

You can disable both WidgetPlus and TouchWiz.

If you look at my pics here http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000-omnia-...mnia2-tips-faq/

you will see i am using SPB mobile shell and I have 2 Settings icons (one for WM settings, one for Samsung settings)

Even if you disable TouchWiz you can access it by pressing the Cube button (but it's so laggy and useless anyway that I remapped the Cube button to something else)

[Guest Zigo]

You can disable both WidgetPlus and TouchWiz.

If you look at my pics here http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000-omnia-...mnia2-tips-faq/

you will see i am using SPB mobile shell and I have 2 Settings icons (one for WM settings, one for Samsung settings)

Even if you disable TouchWiz you can access it by pressing the Cube button (but it's so laggy and useless anyway that I remapped the Cube button to something else)

Thanks, I like your screenshots.

I realise you can disable both WidgetPlus and TouchWiz. What I'm keen to do is keep the Samsung-enhanced UI for things like the Windows settings, contacts, email, etc. If you disable TouchWiz, won't you be dumped back to the default crappy Windows style for these?

I also know there are other programs I could use for contacts, email, etc. (e.g. SPB) but their UI doesn't go as deep as the Windows settings does it?

[Guest tacchan23]

If you disable TouchWiz, won't you be dumped back to the default crappy Windows style for these?

No, if you disable TouchWiz you will still have access to the Samsung Settings, Samsung contacs, Samsungsms-email and so on.

The only change you will notice after disabling TouchWiz is that pressing the Start Menu will access the WM classic menu insted of the Samsung Main Menu (which can be accessed anyway pressing the Cube button, if you not remap as I did, being really laggy and useless)

Edited September 24, 2009 by tacchan23

[Guest Shadowy]

No, if you disable TouchWiz you will still have access to the Samsung Settings, Samsung contacs, Samsungsms-email and so on.

The only change you will notice after disabling TouchWiz is that pressing the Start Menu will access the WM classic menu insted of the Samsung Main Menu (which can be accessed anyway pressing the Cube button, if you not remap as I did, being really laggy and useless)

Interesting, I don't find the menu laggy at all, pretty much instantaneous, I'm very happy to use it. Differents roms maybe? I'm on H9.

[Guest tacchan23]

Interesting, I don't find the menu laggy at all, pretty much instantaneous, I'm very happy to use it. Differents roms maybe? I'm on H9.

yeah, i'm with al old firmware so maybe TouchWiz main menu is improved now (just tested now... for me it takes about 7 seconds form the moment the Main Menu appears to when I am able to scroll between the pages)... but I decided to wait for WM 6.5 before start flashing^^

[Guest Zigo]

No, if you disable TouchWiz you will still have access to the Samsung Settings, Samsung contacs, Samsungsms-email and so on.

The only change you will notice after disabling TouchWiz is that pressing the Start Menu will access the WM classic menu insted of the Samsung Main Menu (which can be accessed anyway pressing the Cube button, if you not remap as I did, being really laggy and useless)

Thank you for clearing that up, I like this news :)