Version 2.

5 User Manual
Setup Wizard
Language selection Text size selection

Choose your preferred language. Choose your preferred text size.

You can choose different language You can choose from 3 different
than in the rest of the phone. text sizes:

Some special characters or more Default

non-standard languages may not Bigger
be present in your device. See the Biggest
documentation of your phone or
tablet for information on supported Some of the texts may not fit the
languages. screen with larger fonts selected.
In that case you can always scroll
them to see the rest of them.

Color theme selection Security

Choose your preferred color Choose whether the user can

theme. You can choose from the 3 delete certain items - call history,
basic color schemes at first: messages and contacts.

Light (default) It is better to disable deleting of

Dark these items for security reasons.
Blue
You can setup these settings in-
You can download additional dividually later in the Preferences
themes later in the Preferences dialogue.
dialogue.
Setup wizard complete

After the initial setup, you can

choose to go directly to the Home
screen or you can continue cus-
tomizing BIG Launcher in the Pref-
erences dialogue.
Home Screen Date & time
This area shows the actual date
and time. It can also show en-
larged battery and mobile network
strength. These options must be
enabled under Appearance in the
Preferences.

When tapped, the common alarm

application is launched and you
can set the alarm. You can change
the alarm application under the
Home screen setup in the Prefer-
ences.

When the alarm is active, the

alarm icon is displayed next
Phone to the clock.
This button enters the telephony
section of the BIG Launcher. The
icon blinks when there is a missed Messages
call. This button enters the messaging
section of the BIG Launcher. The
icon blinks when there is an unread
Camera .
This button runs the default camera
app. You can change this under
the Home screen setup in the Pref- Gallery
erences. This button runs the default gallery
app. You can change this under
SOS the Home screen setup in the Pref-
This button enters the SOS screen. erences.

In order to use the SOS function,

numbers for SOS call and SOS All applications list
SMS must be configured in the This button shows the list of all ap-
preferences. plications installed in the phone.
Menu Button Portrait / Landscape Mode
Preferences
You can configure BIG Launcher
options in the Preferences dia-
logue. To reach it, you have to
push your device’s Menu button on
the BIG Launcher’s Home screen.
The pop-up menu will appear.

Some phone models don’t have

the menu button. In this case, you
have to press the three dots (⋮) be- By default, BIG Launcher will automat-
side the clock in the top bar of the ically rotate based on the orientation of
Home screen. the phone. You can turn off this behav-
ior in the Appearance section of the
The Preferences can be also pass- Preferences.
word protected to disallow any
changes to be made to the BIG
Launcher settings. You can set
up the password protection in the
Preferences.

System settings
This will show the default system
settings of the device. This item
can be also password protected
or completely hidden. This can be
done in the Preferences.

Set buttons
This will allow you to quickly
change the functionality of any
button. More customization options
are available in the Preferences.
Different layouts
You can choose different button layout for each screen in the Preferences - Customize buttons and screens section.

Warning! Layouts 2x2 and 1x1 don’t include the menu top info bar with menu button. If your device doesn’t have the hardware menu
button, you won’t be able to get into Preferences as usual. The shortcut for settings will be created automatically when choosing
these layouts. However, if you change it or remove it, the only way of getting to Preferences again is to hold the first (top-left) button
on the Home screen for 30 seconds.

2x4 (default) 3x4 2x2 1x1 Layout settings

Phone My Contacts
My contacts Search
This button shows the list of all You can tap this box and begin
contacts in the device. typing of the name. If present, the
contact will appear below.
Starred
This button shows the list of Contacts
starred contacts. You can add/re- All the contacts with at least one
move star from the contact in the phone number will show in this
Contact detail screen. list. If you want to show also the
contacts without assigned phone
Dial number number, you can enable this option
This button opens the dialer for in the Preferences.
dialing an unsaved phone number.
You can tap any contact to show
Add contact the Contact detail screen.
This button opens the Contacts
editor for creating a new contact. Contact photos will be shown if
you assign the photo in the system
Recent calls contact editor, or you have your
There is a complete list of call contacts synchronized with Face-
history in this section. You can tap book, LinkedIn, Google+ or any
each item to bring up the Call detail other social network application.
screen. The calls are classified by
different icons:

Received call

Missed call

Outgoing call
Contact Detail Call Detail
You can see various contact in- When you tap any item in the Call
formation in the Contact Detail log, a Call detail screen will appear.
screen. Every contact can have Here you can see the complete
multiple phone numbers, e-mails history of calls with this contact.
and other data included.

Phone number
When you tap the phone number,
you can choose between calling or
writing a new SMS to this number.

Add star / Remove star

You can mark your favorite con-
tacts with a star. If you star a
contact, it can be quickly accessed
in the Starred list of the Phone
section.

Edit
Deleting of the call history item
This will run the Contact editor so
For the safety reasons, the option
you can make changes to this con-
to delete the call from the history is
tact or add new data.
disabled by default. If you want this
option, you have to turn it on in the
Delete
Phone section of the Preferences.
For the safety reasons, the option
to delete the contact is disabled
by default. If you want this option,
you have to turn it on in the Phone
section of the Preferences.
Contact Editor
When creating a new contact, you Set photo
can choose the location of the con- Allows you to change or remove
tact. You can choose between the the contact photo. A dialogue will
Phone callbook and your Google appear.
account. We recommend storing all
the contact in the Google account. Clear
Clears the photo (only visible when
Add name a contact already includes a photo)
Add the full name of the contact
including surname. Gallery
Opens the system gallery of im-
Add phone ages. You can choose any image
This button allows adding a phone from your phone. May not work on
number to the contact. Contact some non-standard devices.
can have more numbers assigned.
Once entered, you can change the Camera
type of the number after tapping it. Opens the system camera app.
In this dialogue you can also Delete You can take a photo. May not
the number from the contact. work on some non-standard devic-
es. May require the presence of a
Add star / Remove star SD card.
You can mark your favorite con-
tacts with a star. After choosing the photo a crop di-
alogue will appear. Drag the orange
Edit in system app arrows to change size of the area
This button allows you to edit the used for contact photo.
contact in the system contacts
editor. This allows you to use more You can use the yellow button to
options or assign a photo to a rotate the image. Use green button
contact. to save the image. Use red button
to cancel the operation and return
Delete to the previous menu.
This button will delete the contact.
Dialer
Dialer is pretty straightforward.
Press the buttons with numbers
and the number will appear in the
top row. You can erase the last
entered number by tapping the
top row. Special characters can be
entered by the #* button.

To initiate a call, press the button

with green telephone. A dialogue
will appear.

You can turn off this dialogue in the

Preferences and enable the direct
calling after pushing the green
phone button.

Call
This will dial the number.

Call
This will open a SMS message
editor with pre-filled the recipient
number.

Add contact
This allows you to save the number
to a new or existing contact.
Messages Message Editor
Write new When you select the contact with
This will show the Message editor more than one phone number, you
which will allow you to write a new can swap them by tapping the but-
SMS message. ton with the selected phone num-
ber. Then you can select a different
If you don’t like it, you can disable one.
the internal message editor in the
Messages section of the Preferenc-
es.

Recent messages:
This is a history of a message con-
versations. You can tap any item to
open the Conversation thread.

Select contact The maximum length of the SMS

This will allow you to choose a message is 160 characters with
contact from the My contacts list. common alphabet or 70 characters
if an alphabet with special char-
Phone number acter is used. When you’ll be near
If you want to send the SMS to the this limit, a character countdown
number not saved in your contact, will appear on the Send button.
you can write it directly here. Once you reach zero in the remain-
ing characters counter, you can
Message text continue writing - your text will be
Enter you message text here. split into two or more SMS mes-
sages, as showed also on the Send
Send button.
Tap this button to send the mes-
sage.
Conversation Thread Message Detail
The SMS messages are sorted The message detail screen allows
in threads separately for each you the interaction with the mes-
contact. The messages are color sage and the contact. If you tap
coded - outgoing messages have the contact name at the top of this
green border, incoming messages screen, you can see the Contact
have yellow border. Outgoing mes- detail screen, so you can quickly
sage status is indicated by the icon call the contact or edit it.
in its top left corner:
Call now
the message was sent, but not This will call the number the mes-
delivered yet sage was sent from.

the message was sent and it is Reply

reported as delivered This will open the SMS message
editor with pre-filled number of the
the delivery information is not contact.
available
Forward
You can quickly write back to the This will open the SMS message
recipient by tapping the Reply editor without contact and with the
button - SMS message editor will SMS pasted into the editor.
appear with pre-filled number of
the contact. Resend
Similar as forward, but the recipient
If you tap the contact name at the will be pre-filled. Useful for failed
top of this screen, you can see the messages.
Contact detail screen, so you can
quickly call the contact or edit it. Delete
For the safety reasons, the option
If you tap any of the messages, the to delete the message is disabled
Message detail screen will show by default. If you want this option,
up. you have to turn it on in the Mes-
sages section of the Preferences.
SOS All Applications List
SOS screen allows automatic You can launch all the applications
sending the emergency SMS with installed in your device from this
device geolocation and/or calling screen. They are sorted alphabeti-
the predefined number with loud- cally.
speaker turned on.
You can hide unwanted apps from
To avoid activating of this option this list in the Applications section
by mistake, you can define the of the Preferences.
amount of seconds to wait before
calling and/or sending the SMS. Search
You can tap this box and begin
All the configuration is done in the typing the name of the app you
Preferences. Before using, you want to search for, it will appear
have to turn on the SOS option and below. You can turn this box of in
configure the numbers for calling the Preferences.
and/or sending the SMS. Without
this, SOS will not work. Most recent
This is constantly updated short-
Please note, that due to limitation list of the apps most recently
of the Android system, you can’t launched. You can change the
set common emergency numbers number of the items in this list in
(911, 112, etc.) as an SOS number. the Applications section of the
Preferences.
Customize Buttons and Screens Example of the Screens Hierarchy
All the buttons can be customized
in the Preferences. You can also
add unlimited number of screens.

To access the screen from anoth-

er screen, you have to link one of
its button as a shortcut to another
screen. This way, you can create
non-linear structures of screens,
like the folders on a computer. It
allows you to make completely
custom UI suited just for you.

To modify any screen, just select it

from the Screens list.

Set buttons
This allows you to customize the
buttons on the selected screen.

Set name
This allows you to rename the
screen.

Set icon
This allows you to change the icon
of the screen. It is displayed on the
buttons leading to this screen.

Set/Remove background
Allows you to choose custom
background from your gallery of
images.
Customize Buttons
Application
Clear
This creates a shortcut to the
This clears the selected button.
selected app in your device.
On the Home screen, it returns
App’s internal icon will be used
the default function of the but-
as a button icon. This can be
ton.
changed by Change icon op-
tion.
Revert
(only on Home screen)
Contact details
This reverts the function of the
This opens the Contact detail
button to the original - Phone,
screen of selected contact in
Messages, etc.
your phone when the selected
button is pressed. A contact
Change icon
photo will be used as a button
This allows you to change the
icon.
icon of the selected button.
You can choose from internal
Direct call/SMS
icons, installed icon packs or
This allows to directly call or
themes. You can download
send SMS to selected number
additional icon packs online.
of one of your contacts when
You can also choose from icon
the selected button is pressed.
packs from other launchers
A contact photo will be used as
(Nova, Apex, etc.)
a button icon.
Set label
Go to screen
You can set a text label which
This creates a shortcut to an-
will be displayed on in the
other custom screen. You can
lower part of the button. It uses
choose from existing screens
big letters, so we recommend
or you can create a new one.
to use only short words.
A screen’s icon will be used as
You can invert the label colors
a button icon. You can change
in the Preferences - Screens’
this by the Change icon option,
options section.
or by changing the screen’s
icon in its settings.
Wi-Fi toggle SOS
This creates an active widget This will create the shortcut to
for turning on/off the Wi-Fi the SOS screen.
of the device. The button will
change the color of its icon: External Shortcut
green means Wi-Fi is on, red This will allow to use a short-
means Wi-Fi is off. cut to a special functions of
installed Apps (bookmarks,
Bluetooth toggle switches etc.)
This creates an active widget
for turning on/off the Bluetooth External Widget
of the device. The button will This allows you to insert a sys-
change the color of its icon: tem widget on a button. Not all
green means Bluetooth is on, widgets are suitable for this.
red means Bluetooth is off. Please note if you choose cus-
tom icon for a button, it will be
Airplane mode overwritten by the widget, so it
This creates an active widget won’t be visible.
for turning on/off the Airplane
mode (all radio devices off).
The button will change the col-
or of its icon: green means Air-
plane mode is on, red means
Airplane mode off.
Please note that Airplane mode
isn’t available on devices with
Android 4.3 and newer.

Applications
This will create the shortcut to
the All applications list.
Adding a New Screen Example of a New Screen
When adding a new screen, you During the creation of the Second
have the option to automatically screen, the user has selected to
link the screen to the last button of automatically link this screen to the
the previous screen. This way, you last button of previous screen. As
can create multiple screens very there was only one screen pres-
quickly. The new screen will be ent (Home), the lower right button
linked to the lower right button of of this screen, which was the All
the previous screen. If there is any applications list, was replaced with
functionality already present on this the shortcut to the new Second
button, it will automatically move screen. The icon can be changed
to the bottom right button of the to something else in the Second
newly created screen. screen config.

Please note, that if you choose

not to create this automatic link,
you have to link any button of the
existing screen as a shortcut to the
new screen. Otherwise, you won’t
be able to reach this newly created
screen. On the Second screen, there are
empty buttons ready for customiz-
You can also turn on the swipe ing. In the lower right corner, there
option in the Preferences. When is All applications list button, which
enabled, you don’t need to link was moved there automatically
screens through buttons as they from the Home screen.
are accessible by simple swiping to
left and right directly on the home
screen. Please note that this op-
tion is memory intensive and could
cause problems on older devices.
Preferences
Run setup wizard with buttons. Launcher as a default launcher. After se-
This will run the setup wizard to setup the lecting this option and pressing the Home
basic options of BIG Launcher. Phone >> button on your device, a menu with all the
This section allows you to configure op- installed launchers will appear and you can
Select language tions related to the telephony features of choose a different one.
This allows you to select the language BIG Launcher.
used in BIG Launcher. Some special char- Check for updates
acters or more non-standard languages Messages >> This will take you to the BIG Launcher
may not be present in your device. See the This section allows you to configure op- page on the Google Play Store (or other
documentation of your phone or tablet for tions related to the messaging features of app store you’ve purchased BIG Launch-
information on supported languages. BIG Launcher. er from) to check for new updates. Online
connectivity is required for this.
Appearance >> SOS >>
This section allows you to configure the This section allows you to configure op- Appearance
look and feel of BIG Launcher. tions related to the SOS features of BIG Select theme
Launcher. Light (default), Dark, Blue, Download more
Accessibility >> This allows you to select different color
This section allows you to set the options Applications >> theme. You can choose from 3 basic in-
related to accessibility. This section allows you to configure op- ternal themes, or you can download more
tions related to the application list of BIG themes from the Internet. Online connec-
Preferences menu >> Launcher. tivity is required for this.
This section allows you to setup the Pref-
erences menu options Compatibility Fixes >> Text size
If your device has some issues, try to fix Default, Bigger, Biggest
Customize buttons and screens them here. You can choose between 3 different text
This section allows you to add, modify This section allows you to solve the prob- sizes. Some of the texts may not fit the
and delete the screens and buttons of BIG lems related to incompatibility of some screen with larger fonts selected. In that
Launcher. Please see the Customize But- devices. case you can always scroll them to see the
tons and Screens section of this manual rest of them.
for detailed info. Clear BIG Launcher as a default launch-
er Select screen orientation
Screens’ options >> Next time you press home button you can Automatic (default), Horizontal, Vertical
This section allows you to configure the select another default launcher. This allows you to force the orientation of
settings related to the multiple screens This allows the quick unregistering of BIG
the launcher so it doesn’t automatically ro- This option will add the black bars to the
tate when changing the phone orientation. sides of the screen and render the inter- Talkback: don’t read launcher name
This is useful to keep the interface more face of BIG Launcher more narrow. This Speed up reading the title of every screen.
constant. is useful on devices with large displays When TalkBack is enabled, the Android
and small borders around them. The user system will read the hidden title of every
Apply text size for preferences may have the problem with holding such a screen entered. By default, every screen
Show preferences also in selected text size device and may need more grip and more has its name and BIG Launcher name also
This is useful when you have selected Big- space for his fingers. included, so blind person can’t get lost and
gest font size, but you need smaller texts knows that he’s still in the launcher and
in the Preferences. Accessibility not anywhere else. If you enable this op-
Enable haptic feedback tion, only plain screen title is read on entry,
Full screen Vibrate when touching the menu buttons without the BIG Launcher name.
Hide Android notification bar at the top of This gives you better feeling when using
the screen. the BIG Launcher interface, as you can feel Preferences menu
This is useful to avoid accidental dragging the vibration on each touch. Buttons edit in menu
of the top status bar. As this hides the bat- Add quick access to screen editor to menu
tery and signal indicator, it is good prac- Speak on long press When enabled, you can quickly edit the
tice to use this feature in combination of Read the item description on long press. functions of buttons of the current screen.
options below. Please note that full screen (TalkBack must be installed)
mode applies only for BIG Launcher - other When enabled, you can long press any System settings in menu
apps won’t go full screen if you turn on this item of the interface and the phone will Add quick access to system settings to
option. If you have device without physical read aloud the item or its description. This menu
buttons and Android 3.2 or higher, there allows blind people with older phones When enabled, you can quickly get to
will always be a bottom black bar with soft without ‘Touch to explore’ feature to use the System settings from the Preferences
keys, even if you enable this option. the whole interface only by touchscreen. menu. When disabled, only the Preferenc-
It is also useful for reading SMS messag- es option will be shown.
Show big signal indicator es while driving a car. Or you can use this
Useful when using full screen option. feature if you can’t remember the meaning Protect menu
Doesn’t work on most of the Samsung of every icon on the BIG Launcher screens. Protect preferences menu to avoid un-
phones. wanted changes.
Pop-up on long press When enabled, if the user wants to go to
Show big battery indicator Show the item description on long press. the Preferences, he is asked for a pass-
Useful when using full screen option. When enabled, you can long press any word. You can setup the password with
item of the interface to show a pop-up box the option below.
Safe borders size with the item description. This is useful if
Solves accidental touches at the edges of you can’t remember the meaning of every Protect system settings
the screen. icon on the BIG Launcher screens. Protect system settings menu to avoid un-
wanted changes. This way, you can create function related option doesn’t mean that the widget will
When enabled, if the user wants to go screens which can act as sub-menu and support the hardware keyboard control.
to the System settings, he is asked for a aren’t included in the main swipe set.
password. You can setup the password Once removed, you can include screen Enable automatic text labels
with the option below. again in swipe by selecting ‘Add to swipe’: Automatically add text labels to newly cre-
ated buttons.
Password If you assign a new function to a button,
This allows you to setup the password. a text label will be automatically created
Password can be also blank - in that case, based on the function you’ve chosen.
user is still asked for password, but press-
ing OK is enough as the password is blank. Please note that swiping is really memory Invert text label colors
Warning: if you enable Protect menu and intensive and the requirements grow with Enable white text with black outline.
forget your password, there is no way you every screen, widget, icon and background
can clear it. In this case you have to rein- used. If BIG Launcher becomes unstable, Phone
stall BIG Launcher or clear all the settings try to remove some screens from swipe. Set ‘My contacts’ button
via the Applications setup in System pref- This allows you to select a custom app
erences. Swipe type from your installed apps. This app will be
from home to right, loop used instead of internal list of contacts.
Screens’ options Allows you to enable the infinite loop of all
Use swipe to navigate screens screens in swipe. Please note that loop op- Set ‘Dialer’ button
Caution - memory intensive! When active, tion requires more memory and is slower. This allows you to select a custom app
buttons are not accessible by keyboard. from your installed apps. This app will be
This allows you to turn on the alternative Use menu button on all screens used as a dialer instead of the BIG dialer.
navigation between the screens, know as The preferences menu can be accessible
swiping. When enabled, you don’t need on all screens instead of home screen only. Set phone ring tone sound
to assign the ‘Go to screen’ action to the This doesn’t apply to devices without the This allows you to choose a phone ring
buttons. hardware menu button. tone.
When enabled, a new item ‘Remove from
swipe’ in each screen’s preferences shows Activate button around widgets Show contacts with phone only
up, which allows you to remove that Usable for keyboard control only. When en- Show only contacts which have phone
screen from the swipe: abled, pressing a button will give focus on number included
the widget. This option is useful, when you want to
This option makes sense only if you use have quick access to all your contacts
hardware keyboard to control BIG Launch- and not only the ones with phone number.
er and you also use some External Widgets Then you can quickly send them e-mail
on buttons. When disabled, you aren’t simply by clicking their e-mail address in
able to interact with widgets. Enabling this their Contact detail.
 If you disable this, you won’t be able to option you can remove the messaging op-
Sort by surname edit contacts. tion from this dialogue to allow calling only.
This alternative sorting may not work on all
phones. Add system edit Call with speaker phone on
This option enables you to sort your con- Add access to the system contact editor Set speaker on during outgoing call
tacts by surname instead of the first name. This will add an option to edit the contact Due to Android updated security features,
Please note that you can always use the also in the system editor instead of the BIG this option enables the speaker phone for
quick search function to search in all parts Launcher editor. outgoing calls only. If you want to use this
of the contact name. feature also for incoming calls, your phone
Add contact delete option has to support this and you have to do this
Show Add contact button Add ‘Delete contact’ to the end of contact in the system preferences.
When disabled, you won’t be able to ass detail
new contact. This allows the deleting of the contact from Allow deleting call log items
This controls the visibility of the Add con- the Contact detail screen. Add new screen to call log with delete
tact item in the phone section. option
Show add/remove star When enabled, you can tap any item in the
Use system contact detail Add the ability to set the contact as starred call log and delete that entry.
If you want system contact detail because in contact details
of its special functions This allows to remove the option to set No menu in the dialer
This option disables the internal Contact or unset the contact as starred. Starred Directly dial the number instead of showing
detail screen. When you click any con- contacts can be accessed quickly from the the options
tact a default system contact app will be Phone section. When enabled, the number will be dialed
launched. directly after pushing the phone button in
No menu when calling the contact the dialer.
Add system contact detail Directly dial the number instead of showing
Add access to system contact detail to the the options Messages
end of contact detail When enabled, you can choose whether Use system message editor
This is useful if you want to use the internal you want to call a contact or send him a Disables internal message editor. Use
Contact detail screen, but sometimes you message. when you need special functions or MMS
need the functionality of the system con- editing.
tact app. When enabled, you can quickly Show message option in call dialog
open the system contact details of the You can hide the ‘Send message’ option Copy text to system message applica-
contact you’re currently viewing. in the dialog after tapping contact’s phone tion
number. Instead of sending, SMS text is transfered
Add edit Normally, after tapping the contact in the to system message application. This is
Add access to BIG Launcher contact edi- Phone section, you can choose between useful when you write a lot of MMS or have
tor. calling and sending a message. With this any SMS problem.
When activated, you can normally create sage as read and you will return to your
new SMS message in the internal SMS previous activity. Notification sound
editor. When pressed the ‘Send’ button, a Reply opens the Message editor so you Select custom SMS notification sound.
default system messaging app is launched can quickly reply to the message. The sound will be played when a message
and the text you’ve created in BIG Launch- Call now allows you to quickly call the is received. Please note that if you don’t
er is pasted into the edit window, so you sender of the message. turn the system notifications off, both
just send, or attach some multimedia data Delete will delete this message. sounds will be played - the system noti-
to create MMS. If you press Back button on your device, fication sound along with BIG Launcher
the message will be kept unread and you notification sound. The solution is either
Sticky layout will return to your previous activity. disabling the system notifications or se-
Send button stays at the bottom of the lecting None as a notification sound.
screen. It is more useful on large screen
devices. Vibration duration
none, 0.5s, 1s, 2s
Request delivery notification This affects the length of the vibration
Request information about SMS delivery. when a new SMS is received.
May be taxed by some operators.
When the delivery notification is disabled, Repeat notification
you can’t track whether the recipient have never, every 5, 15, 30, 60 minutes
received the message or not. When you receive a new SMS message,
it is possible that you haven’t heard the no-
Show delete button tification sound. With this option enabled,
Allow deletion of any message the notification sound will play again after a
This option adds the delete button to the period of time, until you read the message.
Message detail screen.
Default messaging app dialogue
Internal SMS notification Ask to be the default messaging app upon
Show message detail upon receiving. May entering the messages
not work on all phones. Applicable only on devices with Android
When enabled, BIG Launcher will show When notifications are active, you may 4.4 or newer.
the message detail when a message is want to turn the system notifications off.
received. The message detail will pop-up You have to do this manually in the system SOS
even when you’re in another app. However SMS messaging app. It is different on ev- Send SMS
on some low-end devices with low amount ery device, but mostly this can be done by Automatically send SMS after pressing
of memory, it is not 100% reliable. launching it, pressing Menu button, going SOS button
to Settings and finding the option related When enabled, SOS SMS sending will be
OK closes the window, marks the mes- to notifications. active. Please note you have to enter the
number of at least one recipient to the op- the phone’s Wi-Fi is turned on. In the worst This countdown allows the user to cancel
tion below, otherwise it won’t work. case, the phone will use the location based the SOS SMS and return back to previous
on the mobile network, which can work screen to avoid false alarm.
SMS phone well in cities but may be not very precise in
Phone numbers to send SOS to (separated the low population areas. Applications
by comma ,) Show recent applications
You can define more numbers to send Send GPS SMS This will show the recently used apps at
SOS SMS to. If you don’t enter correct Send another SMS when sure about loca- the top of the Applications list. This is
number, SOS SMS will not work. tion useful when you constantly use the same
This option will increase the probability of apps, but you don’t want to create extra
SMS text sending a more accurate position once it screens for them.
SMS text to send is acquired. If the first SOS SMS was sent
It is recommended to keep this text short. only with coarse location and the GPS Recent applications count
Along with GPS coordinates it should fit will get more accurate position later, BIG Number of recently used applications dis-
into 160 characters limit of SMS. Launcher will send another SOS SMS with played
this more accurate position.
SMS wait Allowed applications
Seconds to wait before sending SMS Call You can disable some applications on ap-
Enables countdown between entering the Automatically call after pressing SOS but- plication list
SOS screen and sending the message. ton This will bring you the Applications list.
This countdown allows the user to cancel When enabled, SOS call will be active. You can tap any app to enable/disable it
the SOS SMS and return back to previous Please note you have to enter the number from appearing in this list. This way you
screen to avoid false alarm. of the recipient to the option below, other- can hide unwanted or dangerous apps.
wise it won’t work.
Add GPS location Show search on top
Add GPS location to end of SMS if avail- Call phone Show/hide can be toggled by pressing the
able Phone number to call to search button on your device
This option will add a direct link to Google You can define the SOS number here. This allows you to hide the quick search
Maps with geolocation of the device to the Please note that due to Android securi- box at the top of the Applications list.
SOS SMS. There are several conditions, ty you can’t set the common emergency
that can affect the accuracy of the loca- numbers (like 911 or 112) as an SOS num- Show the Preferences item
tion: the phone must have GPS enabled, in ber. don’t show, above apps, below apps
ideal situation the phone must be located Some devices don’t have the menu button
outside and there should be some time be- Call wait or you don’t want to use it (for example in
tween entering the SOS screen and send- Seconds to wait before call after SMS sent combination with Tecla wheelchair inter-
ing the message to locate the GPS satel- Enables countdown between sending the face). In that case, you can display the
lites. When used in buildings, it helps when SOS SMS and calling the SOS number. Preferences shortcut at the top or bottom
of the Apps list. Note that you can also use Remove talkback text “image button” from
BIG Launcher Preferences standalone app big buttons. This is not needed for ICS.
listed in the apps list. Only useful when you use TalkBack on a
device with Android 2.x
Better app search
Search for the app name also in the middle Clear cache upon pressing the Home
of it. key
When you start typing in the apps search Memory intensive. Can help when you have
field, normally apps which are starting problems with external themes.
with these characters are selected. With General advice: don’t install BIG Launch-
this option turned on, also apps which er’s external themes or icon packs on a SD
has these characters in the middle of their card. Then you won’t need this option at
names will also be shown. all.

Compatibility Fixes DPI of icons

Fix: show missing messages This will force BIG Launcher to load high-
Enable this when you can’t see all the mes- er quality app icons. Can help with blurry
sage threads. May be slower. icons on tablets and low-dpi devices, but
This happens mostly on older phones with use with caution. May not work on some
broken indexing of the messages. devices.

Fix: limit total number of messages Restart application

How many messages will be read to cre- Restart BIG Launcher and clear cache. Use
ate messaging threads. Lower number only if everything other fails.
will make reading faster but will show less If this option doesn’t work and BIG
messages. Launcher is acting strange, try restarting
This option can help when you have too your phone. If it still doesn’t help, try un-
many messages. installing and installing it again. If this also
fails, let write us an email at
Fix: missing icons in menus [email protected]
When you see empty squares instead of
icons in lists. This makes scrolling slower.
This happens on some of the Sony Erics-
son phones from 2011 after updating to
ICS (Android 4.0)

Talkback: image buttons

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