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Fresh 0.4 + Bootscreen-Anims-Lockscreen

Has anyone installed the Bootscreen-anims-lockscreen-signed.zip after installing the fresh-cdma-hero-0.4-MR.zip?
I previously had installed the bootscreen package on top of MoDaCo 1.1 and it was awesome. When I tried to install it on top of Fresh 0.4, it would not boot.
Anyone else had success or problems with this combination?

Use this one http://www.4shared.com/file/155693549/bc10459/gutted-hero-15-extras-signed.html

Is this just the bootscreen, animations and lockscreen? That is all I want.

That and optimized rosie which is more responsive than the included one.

Thanks. Just DL'd and installed it. Just what I was looking for.

Thanks, ruskiyab! I just put this on my fresh .5d ROM and it is quite nice! Love the simple quiet boot up and the simple lock screen. Much easier checking the time now with the big bold numbers!

Walking around the mall bored as gf shops. Gonna give this a shot...

scirio said:
Walking around the mall bored as gf shops. Gonna give this a shot...
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This is why I love the Hero!
The optimized Rosie is AWESOME! I love the way apps launch now, very similar animation to a Mac computer!

can you select the htc wallpapers with this mod, i had a compressed rosie running on modaco's 1.1 and everytime i went to change the wallpaper all the images just appeared black

Can the above be used with the MoDaCo 1.1 ROM? the way the thread played out it seemed like it may only be for Gutted.

I have installed it on MoDaCo 1.1, Fresh 0.4 and Gutted. Works on all three for me.

Launcher with Screen Indicator

Update:
I have put one for OS 2.1 version. this one is with scrollbar, no customized screens yet. 800k looks very small.
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hi all friends,
I have mod the original launcher little bit, to add a screen indicator, the source code version is 1.6.
how to install :
Code:
adb remount
adb push Launcher.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
Hope you like it.

updated, change the indicator picture little bit.
if you want to change it, the images are under res\drawable-port and res\drawable-land
I put a 2.1 version in the attachment. with scrollbar instead of image .
thanks.

Looks cool

This is pretty cool, I have often wished Android came with this functionality by default.
I made some screenshots in case people want to see without pushing the apk. They're JPG so obviously it looks a little better on the phone.
Keep in mind this Launcher has 3 screens, so if you're coming from a 5-screen Launcher you'll have to re-organise your icons beforehand.

Super Jamie said:
This is pretty cool, I have often wished Android came with this functionality by default.
I made some screenshots in case people want to see without pushing the apk. They're JPG so obviously it looks a little better on the phone.
Keep in mind this Launcher has 3 screens, so if you're coming from a 5-screen Launcher you'll have to re-organise your icons beforehand.
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Yeah, reminds me the bottom lines on Home++, its great.

I wonder if it's possible to change either anderweb's or this one to be similar to the scroll bar on sense roms or espresso.

Ace42 said:
I wonder if it's possible to change either anderweb's or this one to be similar to the scroll bar on sense roms or espresso.
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Scrolbars? never used a sense rom, any pic or vid?

AnderWeb said:
Scrolbars? never used a sense rom, any pic or vid?
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at the bottom of the phone screen theres a white scroll bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=jsNvqArBe-A&feature=related

I make the mod by several line of code, if make the scrollbar, I think need more coding. let me think if it's possible.

qingcai said:
I make the mod by several line of code, if make the scrollbar, I think need more coding. let me think if it's possible.
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Oh it would be really cool if you could make something similar like the sense bar.

Haha this is clever, good job!

Ace42 said:
Oh it would be really cool if you could make something similar like the sense bar.
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when i first saw AnderWeb's launcher, that's the first thing that i tried to do, but really haven't figured out something yet. The closest I came was the sense ui in my adw themed launcher2 thread. i do agree. Getting this will be awesome! Seems like we are slowly but surely gettin' donut to run like sense/2.0 without having to ever switch roms. All thanks to the great devs we have here on xda. Keep up the good work!

looks lots of people like sense ui.

Afaik, the sense scrolling thing is pretty much the same as nexus scrolling dots with a minor annoyance:
-if you do it graphically identical (following the circular pattern on the drawer 5ab) you are condemned to a fixed number of screens by design.
-if you want customizable screen number, it can be done the same way as Home++ does, with a bottom stright line (same way as the mod on this thread)
so users need to make the choice

It shouldn't be too hard to implement the sense bar, the rogers magic on cupcake has it. i myself hate the sense iu

AnderWeb said:
Afaik, the sense scrolling thing is pretty much the same as nexus scrolling dots with a minor annoyance:
-if you do it graphically identical (following the circular pattern on the drawer 5ab) you are condemned to a fixed number of screens by design.
-if you want customizable screen number, it can be done the same way as Home++ does, with a bottom stright line (same way as the mod on this thread)
so users need to make the choice
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So it would be possible to have it look similar but the bar wouldn't move like in sense?

good idea..but don't work on my super d 1.10.2 :-(
Why?
tnx

AnderWeb said:
Afaik, the sense scrolling thing is pretty much the same as nexus scrolling dots with a minor annoyance:
-if you do it graphically identical (following the circular pattern on the drawer 5ab) you are condemned to a fixed number of screens by design.
-if you want customizable screen number, it can be done the same way as Home++ does, with a bottom stright line (same way as the mod on this thread)
so users need to make the choice
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I wouldn't mind sticking with a set number of homescreens. I myself have become accustomed to using just five homescreens and that alone. I think 5 is plenty, but I'm just one guy and other people have different desires and needs. I wouldn't mind seeing it put into action. I am very much a big fan of sense ui, if you haven't already noticed. lol

borjus86 said:
good idea..but don't work on my super d 1.10.2 :-(
Why?
tnx
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I would try it on super d, and post feed back.

Summarize all friends' comment,
1, scroll bar would be better.
2, customized number of screen would be better.

ADW Laucher smoothest settings

Hey all,
I just wanted to see what most people were setting their scroll speed and desktop overshoot settings to with ADW launcher.
I like mine pretty smooth, but fast and not too bouncy.
Here are the settings that have been working well for me:
desktop scrolling speed: 1155
desktop overshoot: 27
BTW, this is my first thread here... I've been lurking for about a month, so "Hi!"

I used ADW but found that I prefer LauncherPro. Sorry, can't really contribute to the thread, ha. But welcome to the forums!

ncyncy said:
Hey all,
I just wanted to see what most people were setting their scroll speed and desktop overshoot settings to with ADW launcher.
I like mine pretty smooth, but fast and not too bouncy.
Here are the settings that have been working well for me:
desktop scrolling speed: 1155
desktop overshoot: 27
BTW, this is my first thread here... I've been lurking for about a month, so "Hi!"
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i'm still running a stock set up, although that will change tonight lol. how is adw launcher better than sense? i would just like to know your impressions on the differences. thanks!

There are some functional differences such as the ability to set the number of panels you have and being able to set a quick launch bar at the bottom for your 4 most used apps.
Then there are fun differences such as the "overshoot" which is when you swipe to the next screen the one you are going to looks like it's about to pass you by and then "springs" back in to place. Or that swiping up gets rid of the top task bar.
All in all I like it better than sense but the one thing sense brings that ADW does not (at least as far as my limited knowledge goes) is integration. Facebook contact pics and stuff like that.

How is Sense awesome?

I hear a lot of people saying Sense is awesome. This is my first time using Sense.
My favorite part about it is the Weather animations. Is this the awesome part? Not being rude but am i not using Sense to its maximal potential?

Sense overall is the meaning!

Sense is 500mb of pure ****.
Clean android 2.3.4 is perfect for me.
But to be ontopic I think most people love the widgets. The email/friendstream/calendar etc.
Try it out and report back if you like it.

Sense is the best UI on Android IMO - stock Android is FAR too basic

ROM_Guest said:
I hear a lot of people saying Sense is awesome. This is my first time using Sense.
My favorite part about it is the Weather animations. Is this the awesome part? Not being rude but am i not using Sense to its maximal potential?
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i would like to know it too.cause i never had HTC phones and iam using SE phones

I thought I liked vanilla android till sense 3.0 , vanilla android is just that .....vanilla , sense overall IMO just looks better ,widgets etc...etc..,that's why we need s-off so we can make it fly , I don't think I'm ever going back to vanilla, I installed ADW on my sensation and instantly got depressed and took it off ...vanilla just sucks compared to sense 3.0 ,but its all android so its all good

I love that you can go from the lockscreen directly to certain apps

I'm loving all the widgets, the lock screens, the carousel, and all the other neat features.. I love Sense 3.0 better than any other UI!

I like it....but then again I am coming from Touch wiz...

I like the sexy weather animation on the lock screen, also the lock screen itself. Otherwise, I feels really chunky. For the average user it seems to be really user friendly, but I am far from an average user.
However, I am angry at HTC for removing some things from the last Sense
- Reply to text messages from web
- A differerent dock, the older Sense let you choose from a rounded design to a solid block.

It's how you configure and place widgets that makes the UI aesthetically awesome, Sense is merely offering you a starting point.

Sorry, but Sense is just too much razz-ma-tazz bull**** for me. I grew up with Sense on my Hero and when aosp (the dev) came out with his stock Froyo (and later Gingerbread) roms I initially thought they were just so bland, but I grew to really love the way ADW Launcher could be set up to instantly flick from one screen to the next. I really loved not having to wait even a fraction of a second to get to the next rock-steady screen, and I came to hate the way that Sense couldn't be set up to jump instantly to the next screen. And it still can't be set up to do that, and I still hate Sense because of that. And I hate it when I unlock the lockscreen then I have to wait for that stupid carousel to quit spinning. Jeeze, that **** is truly maddening. I didn't buy a smartphone so I could watch the goddamn carousel spinning around. That got old after about 2 minutes, and I REALLY resented that I couldn't deactivate it. My time is valuable to me, that's why I got a dual-core Adreno 220 1.2ghz machine. Sense doesn't do anything for me except waste my time. The second day I had this new phone I put ADW Launcher on it and I've been a happy camper ever since. I've got it set up so all I have to do is touch the flip-screen dots in the lower corners or give the screen a flick and BAM, instant screen change! Very satisfying!
Also, ADW lets me set up 5 rows of icons on each screen, which is perfect on the size screen we have now. Being limited to 4 rows just feels like an awful waste of screen space.
So now I've got a screaming machine all set up like I like it! The only thing I don't have yet is root!

ADW on top of Sense is nice. I do like some of the apks provided with Sense. The Launcher, however, is complete garbage lacking any kind of decent customization for better useability...aesthetics only.

Sdobron said:
ADW on top of Sense is nice. I do like some of the apks provided with Sense. The Launcher, however, is complete garbage lacking any kind of decent customization for better useability...aesthetics only.
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Thanks. That's exactly what I was trying to say.

Sense is awesome because of the widgets and sleekness of it, the effects. also you get those htc apps that are pretty cool too. also the touch input HTC_IME is the best touch screen keyboard IMO.
What i find not so awesome is 7 home screens i wish you can change that. i only use 3 to 5. Sometimes it feels like over kill. Ram hog is a under statement

android with Sense is much more convinient than non-sense android..
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oldjackbob said:
Sorry, but Sense is just too much razz-ma-tazz bull**** for me. I grew up with Sense on my Hero and when aosp (the dev) came out with his stock Froyo (and later Gingerbread) roms I initially thought they were just so bland, but I grew to really love the way ADW Launcher could be set up to instantly flick from one screen to the next. I really loved not having to wait even a fraction of a second to get to the next rock-steady screen, and I came to hate the way that Sense couldn't be set up to jump instantly to the next screen. And it still can't be set up to do that, and I still hate Sense because of that. And I hate it when I unlock the lockscreen then I have to wait for that stupid carousel to quit spinning. Jeeze, that **** is truly maddening. I didn't buiy a smartphone so I could watch the goddamn carousel spinning around. That got old after about 2 minutes, and I REALLY resented that I couldn't deactivate it. My time is valuable to me, that's why I got a dual-core Adreno 220 1.2ghz machine. Sense doesn't do anything for me except waste my time. The second day I had this new phone I put ADW Launcher on it and I've been a happy camper ever since. I've got it set up so all I have to do is touch the flip-screen dots in the lower corners or give the screen a flick and BAM, instant screen change! Very satisfying!
Also, ADW lets me set up 5 rows of icons on each screen, which is perfect on the size screen we have now. Being limited to 4 rows just feels like an awful waste of screen space.
So now I've got a screaming machine all set up like I like it! The only thing I don't have yet is root!
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So with a 1000 word essay on why you hate sense you go and buy a phone with the latest version of sense on it and then you come on a forum and bash it when you knew before you bought it you were going to hate it . People like you aggravate the **** out of me

Some extra things on Sense I like that isn't the widgets or animations. Pure functional things it brings to the table that I really like:
-Quiet Ring on pickup
-Pocket mode where it increases ringtone volume when in your pocket
-Flip the phone face down to activate speaker phone
-I like the Dialer but that's more cosmetics. I do like the dial by name function from the dialer.
-I won't use a ROM unless it has the power controls in the notification window and the newer Sense builds have this (Still prefer Cyanogenmod's implementation though).
-I know some people hate it but I like the facebook linking in the contacts
That's what I can think off of the top of my head. I don't use most of the widgets (I use Fancy Widget instead of the weather clock), though I do really like the people/contact widgets.

Sense 3.0 is way too bloated. HTC needs to take lessons from Samsung (YES, SAMSUNG) and dial it back about 10 notches.

Sense is awesome because:
1. Best phone dialer and contact management
2. Best integration with social networks
3. Best keyboard and amazing auto correction
4. Awesome notification bar with quick access to apps and system settings
5. Best UI for music player with easy streaming to any wireless or Bluetooth capable device
6. Best text selection and copy paste ability. Highlight a word or paragraph in the browser and it will give you a definition, translation, YouTube results, Wikipedia results and more.
7. By far the most useful and integrated widgets of any android UI. Sure there are replacements in the market but they don't work as well as the sense widgets
8. Best gallery app that let's you wirelessly print your pictures to your printer. Also let's you edit your pictures and add effects and it has auto enhance feature that works really well.
9. Awesome browser with great rss integration
10. It's pretty
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[Q] Minimalistic Theme(s)?

Hi everyone.
I come from a Motorola Backflip, that although was a POS device, and didn't get root until ~6 months after release, I used to run CM6/CM7 on it and enjoyed using custom themes. In particular, I really enjoyed those slick, minimalistic themes. I know that there is a popular theme being developed (BlueICS or something) and I don't really dig the extravagant graphics and shading and everything, and much prefer a simple, minimalistic approach to theming. I know that once we get CyanogenMod fully ported to this device, a big number of options will open up for us, but as of right now, is anyone working on any other themes for the existing ROMs we have for this device? Such as a minimalistic theme? Sorry that I don't have any examples of what I'm looking for but I'm sure if you search for some you'll find some good ones around XDA. I'm sure some other people also prefer a similar look to their device and I was just wondering if anyone more capable than myself had considered working on such a theme.

Nova
I know its not the same, but have you tried using Nova?
I am on cleanROM 2.5 SE and I found the Sense a bit to "busy", I flashed the blueICS theme, and I liked the blue icons in notification as well as some of the other changes that were made it it, but I found using the free version of Nova was more then enough to simplify the general feel of the app drawer and desktop. This takes a little work and would be easier to just flash a theme, but its working great for me, and no theme would make it feel perfect for me?
If that makes sense?
or I could be completely off topic...

Hi, yeah, I'm currently running CleanROM DE and using Apex Launcher and I agree that the launcher does make a difference in the overall look/feel of the device but I'm talking about a full, complete themeing of the device (including stock HTC Sense apps. Here, I included some links of some kinds of themes that I'm talking about (yes, I know that some are for Eclair/Froyo/Gingerbread). I also took some screenshots of them in case you don't feel like opening the links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974429
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938394
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6200-themehdpimdpiminimalarrows-for-cm7100811update/

Agree
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Got it, currently I have a stack of paps that allow me to get a similar appearance to the dark theme above. It would be nice if a gracious themer would create such a wonderful