It was a matter of time before some of the key system files from the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc would be downloaded for all to dissect. Well that time has come, with the system files making an appearance on xda-developers. A number of apps have been extracted, one of the key being the new home launcher that is used in the 2011 generation of Xperia phones.
We’ve tested the launcher ourselves and it works surprisingly smoothly. Whilst it is not as zippy as the Xperia arc and neo we recently tested, it is not far off. Plus the pinch-to-zoom functionality for the widgets also works quite well, even when a number of widgets are loaded up. You can check out a number of screenshots of the new launcher on our Xperia X10 below as well as full download instructions.
As well as a new home launcher, a few other apps also worked including a Photo, Clock and News widget. The Photo widget caused some serious lag on our handset, but it allows you to scroll through photos/videos that you’ve taken. The Genie widget gives you weather and news for your location whilst the digital clock widget replaces the existing clock widget on your handset. We’ve included all of these apks to download in our instructions below.
Install the Xperia arc Home Launcher
1) Download the files you need from here.
2) Unzip the zip file and you will find four apk files (DigitalClockWidget, GenieWidget, Home and PhotoWidget).
3) Copy the files over to your handset using the USB cable or something like Dropbox (our preferred method).
4) Use Astro (or an alternative file manager) to locate the files and install.
5) Optional: You may want to install ‘Home Switcher’ from the Android Market to easily switch between launchers.
Screenshots of the Xperia arc Home Launcher
The new launcher gives you a tray at the bottom, where you can easily swap out apps to put your favourite ones there. The top of the screen shows you which home screen you are on. What can’t be shown by pictures are some of the nifty animations that exist between transitions.
If you pinch-to-zoom you bring all of your widgets into one screen. We noticed little lag despite having a number of widgets loaded up. The big ‘Exit Overview’ button at the bottom delivers you back to the home screen.
The menu tray screen is different from the X10’s scrollable list. The new Xperia range uses a tray system and as you can see below, the tray shows that there are seven ‘panes’ with all the apps we have downloaded. You just swipe left/right to navigate your apps.
Whilst this may not be everyone’s cup of tea, the settings allow you to sort in many different ways including by favourites, alphabetically and recently installed.
Via xda-developers.
{ 126 comments… read them below or add one }
NICE 😀 really happy with that now I can show off to other X10 users! 😀
Who is really using this slow-piece-of-programming-crap when there are launchers like ADW EX and LauncherPro?
fecking hell just buy a arc,x10 cheapstakes
cant install the clock widget, everything else works great
it looks greaaaat and its very smooth……. xD
The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
….
very nice,smooth enough but i cannot install clock widget.
none the less is a good move.you guys keep the x10 alive!!!!
@hmmmmm
you know what they say… a fool and his money are soon parted….so run along fanboy… buy ur arc…..fool
Clock widget doesnt work for me either, ah well
Awesome. Keep em’ comin’
It’s just what I was looking for. ADW launcher was too heavy for my liking and it kept having a problem with the icons on the drawer disappearing which required me to reset it. Although I like the idea of hiding applications in ADW, I’m okay with the manual sorting of the new this home launcher since I can put the most used ones on the first page.
i don’t want to use the home app as i prefer launcher pro but the photo widget can only be used with the SE home app….oh well, a shame but it’s no biggy…i won’t miss it ….but i would miss my beloved launcher pro…a much cleaner and purer android experience.
Any way to use the animations from this home with another theme by ADW Launcher?
Thank you sooooooooo much 😀
Old build 😛
http://blog.se-nse.net/xperia-arc-gets-system-dumped/
What exactly is the time-date-weather widget in the picture… I cannot find it…
Its works really well on my X10. no buggy isuues here. I like this launcher its really nice and its a sony launcher so goes very well with X10. Thumbs up to XDA and also to this X10 blog for bringing this to us. Oh and “hmmm” “fecking hell just buy a arc,x10 cheapstakes” The Arc is not out yet so we cant buy it and when it does I will be buying it. What wrong with updating what we currently got?
Looks smooth, but lag with the media icon.
The clock widget is identical to Beautiful Widgets
clock doesn’t work
Does this work on the mini/mini pro?
will do this one i have beta 4 installed on my x10. looks amazing 🙂
clock does not install, but x10 is cool now, would be happy if we able to install the timescape widget of arc into x10, x10 lives again
Looks promising! I will try this soon
Nifty. It looks nice.
zodiac:
I agree with you Launcher Pro is a much better home launcher. Nevertheless, SE made an effort to make their launcher similar to Launcher Pro
wil it work on a custom firmware?? or i shud be on the official FW?
It works very good in my SGS. jajaaja
Cool, but widgets don’t line up properly with new icon layout.
Hi ,
Can somebody please please mail the megaupload files to my email address.
iamdipayan@gmail.com
I am at my office and i cant have access to megaupload.Please help me somebody .
Please.
Thanks a lot ..please mail me 4 apk files. please….
thanks a lot .
Dipayan.
http://getandroidstuff.com/gingerbread-update-htc-desire-hd-desire-desire-incredible-q2/
Shame on U SE..
U M Fuckers…. thieves.
Read that link
Installed it on my X10i,while not being featured, the launcher is definitely more usable than the stock version on the x10. The horizontal swipe also makes it neater than the vertical swipe which is how the default worked.
To install the clock widget, you must first be rooted to remove the original ‘digitalclockwidget’ from your phone (via titanium backup or similar).
Overall, very nice widgets, would be interesting to see the ‘new’ timescape widget…
I’ll give this a bash when I get home from work.
Looks a lot better than the stock X10 UI.
Okey, now I’ve tested it on the mini pro and it works. It works even better than the stock home launcher 😀 The widgets works fine too, no lagg 🙂
Thanks to all my friends..for sending the file in my mail.
Thanks and regards,
Dipayan
I am trying the files right now.its really good….thanks….i wish i had the time scape and other widgets also……uffff…. its awesome
I just finished looking at it and I cant really suggest using this day to day. I really feel like I need a firm press rather then a simple swipe. Anything feature this launcher has Launcher pro has it beat, and its much slower as well. Really I have no idea why someone would run these kinda stock skins when LP and ADW are vastly better.
But the best way to judge this would be in how the core ui looks, and I like it more then most companies skins.
Just installed on my MiniPro and it works fine. ‘Home Switcher’ from the Android Market not available for download
so the galaxy s and the htc desire will be getting a 2.3 update… you have to hand it to SE… they con you with arrogance…just priceless. well its nothing new… x10 users can just join the queue of angry SE customers behind the satio, and vivaz folks….long live SE…long live x10. At least I don’t think they will succeed in doing the same to arc owners as that phone is already lacking in the hardware department…it will be owned by the small minority of fanboys…and they never complain even a SE make them eat shit for breakfast, lunch and dinner…fact is fact…joe…..hmmmm… to name a few of the mindless drones
Hi There,
I just installed the new launcher and it looks nice, but the clock widget is not working!
I removed the old one using Titanium Backup and restarted the phone and then tried to install the new clock widget using Astro but it won’t work.(keeps telling that the widget is not installed)
Please help me…
Stefan.
Hmmm – the launcher is working, but any idea how to get the clock shown above to work? all i´m getting is the old digital one ????
Works on Motorola Defy!!
Works on my Droid X, except for the Genie Widget. The widget overlay is cool and I like the animations, so it’s good as far as a stock home app goes, but I’ll stick with LauncherPro.
I’m having the same problem Stefan. I tried most of last night and in the end downgraded to 1.6 and reinstalled 2.1 (which actually helped, I was able to get the latest fw with dual touch by doing so, so i’m not complaining). Just been trying most of today as well though to get it to work, then saw that the old one needed to be removed (which i’d done already) i’ve tried various ways of removing it and installing the widget from the arc but, nothings working :(.
what about the xperia arc timescape widget?
After trying for a couple of hours to get the clock widget work i just give up, i installed everything just as shown above but it will not work.
I ended up downloading a Clock widget from the market that looks almost the same, but would like to get the Arc widget going…
So if anyone knows how to solve this problem, please let me (us) know.
Thanks in advance!
Stefan & Bex – I had the same problem, however after trying for hours, I eventually readded the DigitalClockWidget with the X10 FlashTool (after deleting it with that), just so I’d have a digital clock widget and work out how to get the Arc one later but, that enabled/added the Arc one, that I’d been trying ages to install.
i can’t believe you guys are going through so much trouble to for that clock widget… i am not even using anything… i wanted the picture widget but it only works with the arc home app which i just cannot use over launcher pro. try beautiful widgets and stop all this nonsense for SE’s clock widget.
its working good…but wats pinch zoom for widgets…i cant do this
hwz it done
Doesn’t work on my xperia x10 mini pro 🙁
Is there not away to use the clock app with out using x10FlashTools ?
@ zodiac…
I live in Greece -> I can’t buy Beautiful Widgets + even if I could, why not use the free from SE?
I installed the Digital Clock Widget, but all I get is a slightly different version from what I already had. It just has a transparency effect behind the digits. Thus nothing similar to the one in the image.
Mr X10… is the one in the image the SE digital clock widget, or is it sth else? Thanks
@nz
i am not berating anyone for using it free from SE… all i was saying was that people seem to be going through a hell of a lot to install something so insignificant.
Is there a launcher that has 5 rows of icons like the stock SE launcher?
@NZ – The widget used in the image is from Beautiful Widgets, it is NOT the one in the download file. Sorry if this caused confusion, we placed a few widgets to test the pinch-to-zoom feature of the home screen.
i uninstalled the old clock widget via titanium pro and still can’t get the new clock widget to install.
i find the arc launcher a tad quicker and smoother then launcher pro. i think it may have something to do with the optimised weather widget over the one i was using before
ok guys that is a really good idea we gotta do something in facebook someone gotta design some blog for our protest purpose.we gott force se to release froyo its their duty i cant stand seeing gingerbread on 600 mhz phone while i stuck with damn flashless 2.1
To use the Arc clock widget, remove the old clock with Titanium Backup, then do a factory reset and then install the new one. Make sure to backup all your other aps and contacts before you reset to defaults though.
launcher pro WAYYYYY better, dont even bother with this crap (I tried it so its an informed opinion…)
WTF???
just use Root Explorer to start installation of the clock widget…. it has the ability to overwrite system apps…. it has just a new design with Date shown below Time
Yeaaay Thx, our X10i will be : X10 Arc lol !
now i’m waiting for the new timescape and (maybe…) mediascape, and some driver optimised for X10i (because the arc is the REAL X10i “without bugs”)
waiting for the new arc keyboard, official wallpaper arc, apps etc =)
Thx, very good news !
love xperiax10.net & xperiablog.net
Fancy Widget is my favorite home screen clock and has the most accurate weather for my area out of 5 different weather widgets I have used. I set background to transparent so it doesn’t take away from my nice wallpaper and best of all, it’s free! I also concur with Zodiac that folks are wasting a lot of time and effort on a clock widget! Why waste do much time when there are tons of different clocks available. When all I want is clock and nothing else, I use Ambient Time Lite which is pretty cool and adjusts to landscape.
This is really good. Gets a feel of Xperia Arc/Neo on Xperia X10.
I am using both the home launchers by selecitng one at a time. pinch to zoom feature is good to showcase to friends.
perfect!!!!!i am happy
2 out of 3 application in the Media shortcut do not work.
The sorting settings are not remembered after a phone re-start.
Digital clock widget can’t be installed.
Photo widget is pointless as it causes severe lag in phone use.
It does look nice, sorting the apps may be useful and the news and weather widget combined in one is a nice touch.
@Darth Glacious
-Those transparent boxes in the media shorcut can be deleted, just click on them and put them out, you can add everything you want in that folder, you can even create new folders and put them in one of those 4 slots for shorctus.
-True, it always load the custom sorting, i solved this by sorting all my apps alphabetically in custom mode.
-True.
-Yeah, with microsd card it’s impossible to make it work fast.
one stupid question:
which is the procedure to get the old launcher back without having to restore default settings?
is it possible?
can some1 put the files at 4shared,com?
how do we use pinch zoom on widget?????
How exactly do you sort them alphabetically in custom mode?
i cant download the file bc i cant access it
Like the way it automatically creates a folder when you move one app over another one.
Something big is upcoming 🙂
Check out this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=975399&page=3
Trip did it again 😀
in my view there is not much special in arc cock widget….it doesnt make any better than x10 clock
i have installed the files and have rebooted the phone several times, but nothing has happened so far,,,i have to go to astro file manager and chose the weather widget to launch…only after this am i able to viewthe widget, no shortcuts oricons available in the menu…as for the rest of the apps, i get the message “activity not found – com.sonyericsson.home” can someone guide me through the proper procedure in casei am missing any step?
Hey nitin
1st Step WAKE UP
This is sweet i especially like the vibrations when you trash something the lid hits the bin and the phone vibrates. However i miss the little dots to switch between home screens.
When their is GoLauncher around
there is no room for any other launcher.
Installed on my X10a, works well but lags at times. I’m gonna stick to Go Launcher EX or LauncherPro 😀 But overall it’s a cool idea!
I got the clock widgit to work by uninstalling the old one using titanium backup, and after a reboot I also removed it from “manage applications” in the applications menu.. then installed it using astro file manger.
I think an X10 with this home screen, all the up dates and jit installed is still one of the best phones around.
I will be installing a newer rom just to try it but for 99.9% of X10 owners this home screen would have been a more impressive update.
There is also a firmware based on Arc’s 2.3.1 available for X10 on the XDA forums.
That is Awesome!!
Thank you very much!
Can’t wait for the other stuff~~~
Working on X10 mini with Donut?
Thanks!
its a unrelated question..
i am frm india(x10i), i bought x10 in india now i am moving to usa , can i able to use the same power charger frm india in usa?
charger specification:
input:100-240 vac 150 mA 50-60hz
output:5.0vdc~700mA
can anyone give me an answer pls………..?
Don’t work on my x10i. 2.1 (2.1.A.0.435) 🙁
I dont think the link works anymore as when i download, i dont get a folder to unzip. I just get a file which does nothing when i put it on my phone.
anyone have any ideas where i can get this from now?
Works like a charm to the mini handset! Indeed a improved look imho! Very nice.. Happy panda!
sobti: I did like so…
DLed the file at my C:, unzipped it in my DLfolder, connected my phone in my cpu, created a folder on my SDcard, CTRL+X the files from my CPU-DLfolder and CTRL+V on my created folder @ my phones SDcard, DLed astro file manager from the market, opened the astro application and installed the files from there using astro… Hope that helped! 🙂
Clock app with ticker and weather… who cares? It’s just a nice to have. You guys should focus on what’s really important:
1) What’s changed with the PhoneBook from the X 10? Did they resolve duplicates, and pixelled BS images of my contact photos?
2) Will these sound updates fix long awaited X 10 incall volume issues?
3) Are video functions available in HD?
4) Does this Arc system have the new camera functions for the X 10 they’ve been advertising? I believe that’s all software and not a new hardware feature.
Does this work on the minipro too?
@x10 user
Your charger can be used in USA, no problem (110-127V @ 60 Hz). You may need to check about the frequency used ny the carriers in USA (to my understandig this phone was released by AT&T and they use 850 band, I think the X10i doesn’t have that band); maybe you can check the carrier’s pages and decide which carrier can provide the service to your equipment, if you already have decided the carrier, just check it’s web page and find out.
@x10 user
Update:
Also you’ll need an adapter, you must have the one with 3 round pins (type C, D or M), in USA the plug is A or B.
Wow! I like it so far!
@JPin
thanksfor the reply
@ jpin, one more doubt( i checked, t mobile (freq 2100) provide 3g for x10i frequency but at&t (800) provide only edge for x10i frequency )
if i flash to x10a frm x10i will i able to use at&t 3g?(sorry if the question is dumb)
@x10 user
I’m not an expert, sorry I can’t help on that question, probably someone else reading this may help us (I want to know that as well). I think that is more HW related, but with the excellent guys working in the FW here, you may get some sort of solution. Good luck,
What if i want uninstall all the files i installed to change the arclike theames is it possible…..
but what about the other attributes as shooting on HD camera,
photo, the phone is normal bugs as this is all someone can help me? Hugs
Ouvir
Ler foneticamente
Dicionário – Ver dicionário detalhadoconjunção0.but0.yet0.only
Can someone please email me the files please, I can’t download them for some reason.
sprince83@hotmail.com
Great stuff! This is alot better than old Stock launcher.
Its works fine, thank you for your help, its would be better if you add media applications like video play n music editions..
i was planning to switch to blackberry but now usong android is a whole new fun … loving my decision now… thanx sony ericsson… plz release x10’s 2.2 or 2.3 or direct 3 android version…
Hey Guys,
Can some one please upload or send a link to download the files, the link provided seems to be broken or unavailable. Many thanks.
Hey ppl,
Below link has all the files.
http://www.xperiax10.net/2011/02/27/xperia-arc-home-launcher-now-available-for-x10/
Regs,
no download found by following the link.
Link is broken!
Please fix!!
Found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976267&highlight=arc
been using this home launcher for weeks now and im really satisfied with it..
its really faster than launcher pro.. and i love the new photo gallery..
one thing though, would be very nice we can manage the new gallery..
This service is temporarily not available from your service area.
Can anyone help me?
Works on Motorola Milestone/Droid ROM 2.2.1
It’s great 😀
I am using X8 (not rooted) and installed the arc launcher, it is ok to use by clicking the middle button at first place, but after a reboot, I selected back the original launcher, and I clicked “Use as default”. I cannot change to arc launcher now.
Is there a way for me to change to Arc now?
hey does anyone know how to define the widget size on the home screen ala adw, the widgets seem to be all shapes and sizes and the alignment is all over the place.
Cheers
go mediafire.com to upload things next time Sony, you don’t have to wait to download AT ALL!
great,juste the clock doesn’t work
Hey i downloaded like it said and half works i cant add shortcuts it force stops all the time tho i can add shortcuts. Digital clock doesn’t download and the w Genie widget doesn’t work confused lol
Can anyone tell me the name of the weather widget.
Installed in X8. Working fine with small alignment issue. Looking Gr8.
The Camera settings in X8 like Zoom, Macro… Are not working. Mediascape is also not available in X8. Can anyone provide them.
Thanks
SVR
Hey guys, I need your help, I install this launcher in my xperia x10 mini pro but the apps like the photo widget in the moment of the installation STOP IT with a message “This aplication can not be installed” help me please
Helo how are you
Olá, eu fiz o download do arquivo, instalei, só que o relógio digital não está instalando. Como faço para resolver isso???
abc
I cant install, it asks me to replace deafult launcher and when it try to install just says “not installed”
very nice home
Hey folks, I require your offer, I some assistance with installing this launcher in my xperia x10 smaller than expected ace however the applications like the photograph gadget in the snippet of the establishment STOP IT with a message “This aplication can not be introduced” offer me some assistance with pleasing
I cant install, it asks me to replace deafult launcher and when it try to install just says “not installed”
Yes i am totally agreed with this article and i just want say that this article is very nice and very informative article.I will make sure to be reading your blog more. You made a good point but I can’t help but wonder, what about the other side?
{ 21 trackbacks }