I use all 5 screens but they are so poorly arranged, i have to scroll back and forth to find anything.
Bob
Isn’t that annoying? How come you don’t rearrange? I’d go batty if I had more than the three, I think, and even battier if they didn’t make sense to me.
I downloaded an icon pack and my black wallpaper from the Play store.
On my phone, I use 3 screens. On my “left” screen, I have some shortcut icons to programs I use relatively frequently, but not all the time. On my “Center” screen, I have shortcuts to programs I use all the time and I have a few widgets as well (Google search, Simple Calender, and a couple of countdown widgets). On my “Right” screen, I have folders into which I’ve organized nearly all my other apps.
On my tablet, I use 2 screens. On the left screen, I have shortcuts to my most used apps, as well as my widgets. On the right screen, I have my folders that hold and organize all my other apps.
I separate my regularly used apps into three screens, only because I don’t like desktop clutter. Screen 1 is for most used apps, aligned in an inverted L shape so that there are three apps in a row on the top of the screen, and three in a column on the left side. Screen 2 is my “I’m bored” apps page, which has a few games and a podcast app aligned in a row at the top. Screen 3 is just the Google Search app. I’d put them all in a single screen, but the idea of more than 20% of the desktop being taken up by icons gives me heartburn.
My home panel has my browsers and media stuff. Also:
– A panel with games
– One with the weather widget and news apps. I only check the weather in the morning so don’t need it front & center 24/7
– One with toddler apps (so they’re easy to find when I need a quick book/game)
– One with “Maintenance” apps like Uninstaller, ES File Manager, my overclocking app, etc.
Until recently I had three, but then I decided to embrace folders and I moved all of my music apps to the home screen: now I have two (here’s the other one, which is to the right).
If the screens were panels laid out on the table ( best way to articulate this ! ), the Home Screen would be third from the left. We call it #3.
#1: News. News junkie that I am, various news feeds are on this page. In no particular order, I have News 360, CNN, BBC, Fox News, ABC News, NPR.
#2: Navigation and useful tools. Google Maps, Raindar, Weather Bug, Flashlight, Bubble Level, Gas Buddy and so on.
#3. Home Page. Mail, Contacts, GestureSearch ( a very quick and fantastic Droid app that replaces the poky normal search for a Contact ), Text Messages, Browser, etc.
#4 Speed Dial Widgets for family.
#5 Speed Dial Widgets for business.
I still have one unused screen off to the right, theoretical # 6.
LOVE this phone. It’s fairly old and is a terrific balance of screen that is big enough but not freakishly huge, good functionality, good PHONE service, etc. Nice camera too. It’s a Motorola Droid X2.
ETA: I’ve limited the icons on my Home Page because I want to be able to see my Dearly Beloved’s face alongside mine as we toast on our wedding day. The icons are spread along the bottom half of the Home Page. 
I have 6 screens setup. The farther from the home screen the less often visited, but it takes me a lot longer to find apps if I have to go to the Apps panel, since they’re in kind of random order.
Thanks for the list. As I am a very recent arrival to the Android family, app recommendations are very useful. I did not know about News 360. Very cool. I’ve pared my screen usage down to just three (from seven) by making use of folders. Sure, opening a folder is an extra step but, then again, so is swiping to a new screen. At the very bottom, the row that’s visible on all home screens is Phone (this thing’s still a telephone, right?) Messaging, Apps, Chrome browser and Camera.
Left: My WiFi apps: AirStream, WifFi Manager, WiFi Finder. File Manager (which I mainly use for Dropbox, RedLaser barcode scanner, Flashlight, Play Store and a Books folder. I don’t really read books on my phone; I have a ereader for that. In my books folder is Sun Tzu, Aesop, Quotes DB and Zen Quotes. Stuff like that.
Center screen is the Android Weather widget, Gmail, Twitter, Wapedia, QuickPic and four folders:
Media folder with News360 (thanks Cartooniverse), AP Mobile, BBC, NPR, NYT, New Scientist, Weather Bug (love their app; hate their widget), Raindar (thanks again), Podcast Addict, Pandora, TuneIn Radio (I was already using this on the desktop), Scanner Radio, IMDb, YouTube and Worldscope Webcams.
Navigation folder has Transit, GasBuddy, Google Maps, Smart Compass, Google Earth and Google Sky Map.
Games folder contains Unblock Me, Flow Connect, Bloxorz, Chess Free, Go Free, Game of Life, Fractoid, AutoRap and Pokerstars.
And a Misc. folder with a41CV (a very nice RPN scientific calculator), Alarm Clock, Out of Milk, Skyvi and Instant Heart Rate.
And the right screen has a full screen (4x4) of my calendar in agenda form.
And that’s it. For now.
My phone has 7 panels, I use 6 of them.
Key Ring allowed me to stop carrying around 20 plastic keychain tags with store bar codes to show membership.
Love that !!
One of my more useful off-center pages is configured specifically for when my phone is in the car mount: navigation, audio, data toggle, voice search, and a couple of speed dials.
Some of the apps are duplicated elsewhere, but this page is dedicated for quick access (no folders or changing screens) when on the road.
It sounds great and I was about to install it when I read the list of permissions it wants. Why in the world would it need access to my phone call records?
On my Galaxy s3, I have 4 panels:
Home: Weather widget with time and date, Contacts, Camera, Play Store, Settings, [ Plus default: Phone, SMS, Email, Internet, Apps ]
Panel 1 (Social and Entertainment): Pulse, TuneIn Radio, YouTube, ScoreCenter, Wikipedia, Facebook, Skype, Line, et al.
Panel 2 (Utilities): QuikPic, Juice Defender, Train Schedule, Google Translate, Maps, Clean Master, et al.
Panel 3 (Search & Bookmarks): Google Search widget, LA Times, Yahoo Japan, Google News, Tokyo Disney Resort official site, SDMB, et al.