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How to Delete Extra Home Screen on Android Phone?


How to delete home screen page(s)
on Android Jelly Bean Version

 

Go to your home screen

Tap and hold the screen until you feel it vibrates.

You will then see the screen looks like the image on the left.

Then tap/touch the X button at the upper right corner

 

 

How to delete home screen page(s)
on Android Gingerbread Version




On the home screen

tap/touch the MENU


















tap/touch Edit






tap/touch and hold the page that you want to delete until it vibrates.

For example I am going to remove the blank page.














Hold that page down to the Remove area and you will see that this page turns red as it is approaching.











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  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM

    this was so helpful my one year old kept deleting my home screen pages so i rest my phone to fix it but thanks to this i now kno wat i have to do to fix it..... thanx!

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  2. xxxx123May 2, 2013 at 5:45 AM

    Very helpful! I read the manual and did not find it how to remove it. Thanks a lot!

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  3. UnknownMay 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! The extra home screens were driving me mad.

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousMay 24, 2013 at 2:05 AM

    VERY VERY HELPFUL... Especially with your pictorial directions!

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  5. AnonymousJune 15, 2013 at 11:34 PM

    Thank you so much,was driving me mad too

    ReplyDelete
  6. UnknownJune 18, 2013 at 2:39 AM

    Thank you. It helped me a lot. In just 2 seconds.

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  7. AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    Thanks a mil...

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  8. AnonymousJuly 25, 2013 at 9:11 AM

    Thanx alotttt... was drivin me krazzy!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. AnonymousJuly 28, 2013 at 3:59 AM

    Thanks, been wanting to do this for a year

    ReplyDelete
  10. AnonymousAugust 3, 2013 at 3:59 AM

    Thank you very much for this.

    ReplyDelete
  11. AnonymousAugust 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM

    it is really helpful, you are really a good instructor!

    ReplyDelete
  12. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2013 at 10:22 PM

    Thanks for that :-)

    ReplyDelete
  13. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 1:13 PM

    Very helpful

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  14. JackieOctober 10, 2013 at 11:14 AM

    Thank you...not sure how I added them but they were driving me nuts...LOL..

    ReplyDelete
  15. AnonymousOctober 17, 2013 at 11:31 PM

    Awesome the pictorial worked really well

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  16. AnonymousOctober 18, 2013 at 6:09 AM

    I`m using S3, when I do this, it says TouchWiz crashed , I cant delete any page, it just keeps crashing.. What should I do?

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  17. ALOctober 19, 2013 at 4:57 AM

    Yes, very good, a big help. Only one thing......my big sausage fingers on the keyboard of this phone tend to 'miss type' Grrrrrrrrrr :-)

    ReplyDelete
  18. AnonymousNovember 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM

    A big thank you from an older person of 60+ who is trying to get to grips with this phone.

    ReplyDelete
  19. AnonymousDecember 28, 2013 at 1:17 AM

    I`m also using S3, it says "TouchWiz crashed" when I try to delete a page. I cant delete any page, it just keeps crashing. What should I do?

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    1. UnknownJanuary 10, 2014 at 6:10 AM

      Found this online just for u. ''Go to the developer options under settings, and change the animations to 10x. it will be slow, but go back and it should delete the extra pages. After change them back.
      Dont know why or how, but it worked for me.''
      You're welcome

      Delete
  20. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2014 at 1:42 PM

    thanks, really helpful

    ReplyDelete

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