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How To Add and Remove Widgets and Home Screens on Samsung’s Wave

wit, July 16th, 2010
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This is a little something that you may not directly know of when you first start using the Samsung’s Wave. How to add/remove widgets and home screens where those widgets are placed on. Usually you will have three home screens and a few widgets already placed on them.

To go into the Widget Editing Mode you have to click on the Widget button in the left upper corner. You will see a scrollable bar appear underneath showing you the widgets installed on your device.

To place a widget on a particular home screen, drag it with your finger upwards and place it where you want it to go. To remove a widget press and hold it until a yellow border appears around it, then drag it back into the bar of available widgets.

You may notice that some widgets have a red stop sign (or a minus sign) on their right upper corner. Those are the widgets that you have installed yourself from Samsung apps store. If you click on the stop sign, you will be able to un-install the widget from your device. Pre-installed widgets cannot be removed.

Another thing to note is that you can only use a widget once on one home screen – i.e. you cannot place the same widget multiple times on different home screens. A widget is used only once. When you are done you can click again on the button in the left upper corner: “Done”. before you do that though, let’s get into the home screen editing mode. To do that, simply tilt your phone into the landscape mode (you should be in portrait mode right now):

Here you are able to scroll and add new home screens (up to 10). You can also remove home screens that do not have any widgets on them – simply click on the stop signs on the right upper corners of the home screens. When you are done, go back into the portrait mode and click on “Done”.

A small thing to note here: the current firmware does not allow you to place shortcuts to your favorite apps on the home screen. I have heard of many people missing this feature – let’s hope Samsung does something about it in the future!

Finally, you can change the wallpaper image of your home screens in Settings. Simply fo into Menu -> Settings -> Display and light .

Enjoy! :-)

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  1. 39 Responses to “How To Add and Remove Widgets and Home Screens on Samsung’s Wave”

  2. By Divakarla Srinivas on Jul 16, 2010 | Reply

    How can replace the items which are there in bottom,

    well in bottom pannel we have keypad, contacts, and messages, and I want to replace the message with HOME KEY or MENY button!! from where i can drag and drop

    Go through this video it has got menu button instead of message button in the bottom panel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGMnw_X2B08

  3. By keiichicute on Aug 25, 2010 | Reply

    that is the early BADA OS version, they replaced the menu button with a message button

  4. By khaja on Dec 6, 2010 | Reply

    i want to remove widget points– like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 this point how to remove…

  5. By vs on Jan 19, 2011 | Reply

    thank you for explaining how to reduce the number of home screens – by tilting the phone while editing widgets [-)

  6. By gagan on Feb 18, 2011 | Reply

    i want to remove widget points– like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 this point how to remove…??

  7. By ruchika on Mar 16, 2011 | Reply

    thanx for your help. it slve my problem

  8. By wachira on Mar 21, 2011 | Reply

    How or where can i get a converter in my wave s8500

  9. By wachira on Mar 21, 2011 | Reply

    still waiting

  10. By krishna on Mar 29, 2011 | Reply

    i dont find any entertainment in my waveII there is no free apps(i.e.not a nice one)where shall I get free NFS AND ASAPHALT 5 AND OTHER APPS

  11. By monica on Apr 27, 2011 | Reply

    i have the samsung wave but the top left widget button isnt there anymore. what do i do?

  12. By Srinath on May 2, 2011 | Reply

    Best explanation to remove widgets. Thanks for the info..!!

  13. By T R Nayak on May 2, 2011 | Reply

    I have the Samsung wave II mobile. By mistake the samsung apps was started and it is showing one d/l and deducting mony every time even it is not connected with internet or inet facility is not activated.
    I want to stop it, How?

  14. By TobyRich on May 7, 2011 | Reply

    i love the phone its a cross between an i phone and an android but u should be able to use google apps and i phone apple stuff because some of thier stuff will work on the phone samsung apps and getjar are good but the phone can do it all in time the bada os if done right will make the i phone second fiddle and some folks know that that iz why they are holding back give 2 mo years its over

  15. By TobyRich on May 7, 2011 | Reply

    you see this phone runs with an os that will make its own apps the wave2pro which i have real simple something like star with wifi and touch sense phone is smarter than smartphone not like the jet like ultra touch and monte we. all know that samsung help make i phone so we know sAmsung can make a better phone like nexus

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  17. By Praveen on Aug 21, 2011 | Reply

    Ya good one usefull tip :-)

  18. By suraj on Aug 24, 2011 | Reply

    how can we add items in widget..
    as thr r 10 by default…

  19. By shaswati on Aug 25, 2011 | Reply

    I want to remove all the widgets from my samsung wave 525 mobile. I am not able to do the same……plz reply me immediately .

  20. By rajeev on Aug 31, 2011 | Reply

    i want to remove widgets from my samsung star 2 mobile phone, hw i can do it

  21. By lafu on Sep 7, 2011 | Reply

    thanks for the simple application how to remove widgets
    of mobile samsung corby ii..its alredy done…good job…

  22. By jai on Sep 9, 2011 | Reply

    how to add musiq player to widgets??????????????

  23. By Davinder Kumar on Sep 12, 2011 | Reply

    Thank you so much for giving these simple steps.

  24. By FABIAN on Sep 13, 2011 | Reply

    muchas gracias por este aporte, me sirvió mucho

  25. By guru on Sep 25, 2011 | Reply

    how to add musiq player to widgets??????????????

  26. By STS88 on Oct 3, 2011 | Reply

    Thank you soooo much for help!

  27. By dilip on Oct 6, 2011 | Reply

    How to add new widgets for wave 525 mobil….plz give solution

  28. By Kushagra on Oct 10, 2011 | Reply

    Thanks keep Sharing…:)

  29. By Kaamini on Oct 12, 2011 | Reply

    Thanks..it was for very helpful for me..:D
    Cheers!!

  30. By Gurtej on Oct 15, 2011 | Reply

    Sir but remove red sign not apear on my phone..help plz

  31. By Tanveer Khan on Oct 27, 2011 | Reply

    Its really great thanks a lot.

  32. By Prabhavathi on Nov 1, 2011 | Reply

    How to remove widgets from the wave 525 in the home screen (eg: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9).

  33. By Deex on Nov 3, 2011 | Reply

    Tank you

  34. By thando on Nov 8, 2011 | Reply

    i want to remove all the widgets on my samsung 525 and the red sign doesnt appear my wall paper doesnt look nice

  35. By pankaj gupta on Dec 13, 2011 | Reply

    thank you its really helpful…

  36. By j0anneg on Dec 22, 2011 | Reply

    thank you so much… i was having a hard time trying to figure out how to delete home screens but everything’s good now because of this :)

  37. By praveen kahera on Dec 26, 2011 | Reply

    thanks it is valuble response

  38. By gopi krishna on Dec 30, 2011 | Reply

    How to remove downloaded games in Samsung wave 525
    Tks in advance

    Gopi

  39. By dj_rockstar on Jan 30, 2012 | Reply

    wave 525 how to create/add shortcuts on main menu homescreen of java apps and games like bada apps ????

  40. By swetha on Feb 13, 2012 | Reply

    i have samsung wave 525.how to add an photo to contact in this mobile

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