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[POLL] Beautiful Widgets or Weather Widget Donate

Just trying to get a general concensus of which is preferred...if you could post a brief reason it would be helpful also.

weather donate
More like the HTC weather UI minus the different cities options.
Never tried beautiful widgets though!

I have both and I prefer beautiful widgets better.
Tho it was diffrent before.
When beautiful widgets was forced to change its skin I choose to use Weather Widget Donate, but once beautiful widgets got skins, it was far better.

I also have both and prefer Beautiful Widgets. I believe there's an HTC like flip clock available as a skin, although I wouldn't know for sure since I've been unable to get the app to download the forecast animations it says it needs as well as it force closing every time I hit the "skins" button in the settings. Anyone else had this problem?

voted for Weather Widget Donate. I have bought both of them but the Weather Widget one just seems better after you click it. I do like the beautiful one as well since you have it skinned.

Beautiful widget, it shows the weather in landscape mode, weather widget doesn't.

I like beautiful widgets better, but weather widgets looks better in my opinion. Most if not all of the beautiful widget skins for the full flip clock hug the top of the screen and sit right underneath the notification bar... the weather widget htc skin sits a bit removed and it looks much better that way in my opinion.

I prefer beautiful widgets skins and it's landscape look.

Here's the SenseUI Style skin... this is as close as you are going to get to the original (however I drew each resource myself instead of porting the ones directly from Sense).
I cant send it to the dev since HTC is already on his case about similarities...
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Download: HTCDesire.zip
Each PNG file is fully optimized for the best performance possible! Enjoy

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Here's the SenseUI Style skin... this is as close as you are going to get to the original (however I drew each resource myself instead of porting the ones directly from Sense).
I cant send it to the dev since HTC is already on his case about similarities...
Download: HTCDesire.zip
Each PNG file is fully optimized for the best performance possible! Enjoy
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Can you take a screenshot of it applied to your n1? I already got a refund for beautiful widgets... if it looks good, I'd probably switch

i actually have it on my Droid...don't have an N1 yet. I'm not rooted and am on a mac so screenshots arent possible. Here's a pic i took a week or so back (this was a previous version of my sense skin, it's even more accurate now).

Is that a widget you installed, or did you install a theme/skin copying the desire?

The main reason I chose Weather Widget Donate was because I could customize the skin greatly, and also display my calendar in the same widget. I don't need to know the time...I need to know my itinerary and the weather.
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I prefer Beautiful widgets, weather widget just wouldn't update the time for me and it really started to annoy me so i rolled back to the old beautiful widgets
I have the old data files to make it look like the HTC widget so im all bless
To get the HTC look on beautiful widgets you need version 2.53 with the animations pack on the sd card

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I think beautiful look alot better, especially before update (I still use the not updated version, I downloaded an .apk file for it. I don't remember where I got it but im sure you could find it if you google it). Although I must say weather widgets is faster at opening the forecast animation. But I don't open the animation that much so i prefer the look of beautiful widgets.

blue_rocket said:
Here's the SenseUI Style skin... this is as close as you are going to get to the original (however I drew each resource myself instead of porting the ones directly from Sense).
I cant send it to the dev since HTC is already on his case about similarities...
Download: HTCDesire.zip
Each PNG file is fully optimized for the best performance possible! Enjoy
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Hi I used it on my N1 and it looks awesome! Thumbs up to you.

How do you actually use that zip?
I downloaded Weather Widget but when I try and install it from the SD card it says it's invalid

masterjonny said:
How do you actually use that zip?
I downloaded Weather Widget but when I try and install it from the SD card it says it's invalid
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Err that skin is for beautiful widgets. At least I only have beautiful widgets.
Just unzip the folder with all the png and copy it to your sdcard\data\beautifulwidgets\skins\
You can see that all the other skin folders are inside as well.
Go back to beautiful widgets and select your new skin, it will be shown as one of your installed skins.

I will say, BW, is much better. I actually remove the htc version on my desire Rom and use it instead. I sort of like the sun to the right, not the middle. It makes it more appealing..

Buy it...by far the best purchase ive made yet for the N1.

Inquiry: Sense Desire "Phone Bar" on N1???

Hey guys,
Was looking to see if its possible to place the "Phone" bar at the bottom of the HTC Sense Desire and place it on the Nexus One, WITHOUT having to change the whole UI or rooting my phone???

Unless there is something like that as a home replacement in the market, no.

Thanks boss. Any suggestions on what to look it under?

as far as i'm aware its not possible as its part of SenseUI.
You could try HelixLauncher which allows you to drop icons next to the app drawer like iphone.

Thanks bewA. Tried it, its cool but hate that it kills the 3d effect when scrolling my apps on N1.

Thats why you use HelixLauncher2 buddy and you still have your pretty 3D scrolling

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Thats why you use HelixLauncher2 buddy and you still have your pretty 3D scrolling
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You da man. Thanks!

No, there was a replacement launcher you could use, it had the curved desire bar with phone on one side and browser on the other, but I can't remember who did it. It's somewhere in this forum though.

Thanks Kitsunisan. Sounds interesting. If you remember or come across it please let me know.

Flash Desire ROM? Heh. I know there's a SweeterHome 2 theme that does it, though.

Well
Okay i know we cant just pull parts of the sense rom onto a stock vanilla rom.
But do you guys believe that it would be worth sacrificing hours and hours of work to finally unlock this possibility? I believe so. I mean adroid is here to stay and if we could somehow create a hybrid stock vanilla rom it would be unreal!!
What do you guys think?

Kind of impossible. You need the Sense UI framework, which is deep in the ROM, and porting it to Stock is really pointless, because it would turn out to be the Desire ROM after porting it.

Totally, I mean there are some things I like about Sense but not all. Like their music player widget is a lot nicer than the stock music player on the N1. However I like the 3d effects on the N1 picture gallery and app menu which Sense doesn't have. So it be really cool to pick it apart and just install the widgets or programs or apps that really surpass the N1 without having to install the entire Sense UI.

Actually, just download the 3D Gallery apk and install it. I did it and love it.

sirjoeyg said:
Totally, I mean there are some things I like about Sense but not all. Like their music player widget is a lot nicer than the stock music player on the N1. However I like the 3d effects on the N1 picture gallery and app menu which Sense doesn't have. So it be really cool to pick it apart and just install the widgets or programs or apps that really surpass the N1 without having to install the entire Sense UI.
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Thats what i meant by a "hybrid" rom, as in a stock rom with the widgets also from sense or just selecting certain sense peices, just finding and working and serious trial and error to finally create one masterpiece...
This may seem impossible but i believe after hearing of working camcorder and camera on g1's with 2.1 eclair from Cyanogen, i think anything is possible from this community.

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Thats what i meant by a "hybrid" rom, as in a stock rom with the widgets also from sense or just selecting certain sense peices, just finding and working and serious trial and errohttp://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon7.gifr to finally create one masterpiece...
This may seem impossible but i believe after hearing of working camcorder and camera on g1's with 2.1 eclair from Cyanogen, i think anything is possible from this community.
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I couldn't agree with you more.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630659&highlight=launcher
And I know I had one that looked just like the Sense bar, but just can't find the thread here. Worked perfectly with CM 5.0.3, anyone know what happened to it?
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Can't for the life of me find where I put that launcher, it's going to be driving me nuts. But I'd imagine you could take the Desire launcher and copy the images for the bar into the three button launcher then resign it.

Ok so here are some of the workarounds I've done Im pretty happy:
'Helixlaunch2'- free on app store. Its not the sense desire bar but looks very cool, is actually more functional and maintains the 3d effects when scrolling through the app menu.
'Pure Music'- Provides AWESOME skins for the music player widget. Very customizable, I like the transparency manageability.
Also 'Pure Grid Calender'- Very nice looking calender widget.

I would like to give his thread a bump as it also interests me.
@kitsunisan please find the link

BUUUUMPPP! This is the most basic mod, I mean come on (of course, I'm not making it either). Anybody know where we can find this hero style drawer? Or at least a metamorph?! I found some for droid and 32b but none for nexus!!

ADW Launcher

in case those of you looking for it.
the update also indicates that the market is broken. and why you cannot see the app.
there IS a link to the .apk in this post to dl.
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/2010/06/adw-launcher-0-7-7/
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THANK YOU! I've been looking for this for 2 days!

this works on the sense ui(evo)?????????
cuz i thot adw didnt work on sense

Its a launcher. Once you select this as your launcher you cannot use sense (widgets) unless off course you just switch back your launcher to htc sense.
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does this use less juice than using sense?

how do you change the bottom icons ?

Very nice posting this on ppcgeeks, I hope you dont mind.

joey3002 said:
does this use less juice than using sense?
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still has sense frameworks, so still running **** in the background. i havnt noticed much, maybe a little less battery usage
Sporkman said:
how do you change the bottom icons ?
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take an icon from your app drawer, drag it to the main body of your background, then drag the icon to the launcher and drop.
Konfuzion said:
Very nice posting this on ppcgeeks, I hope you dont mind.
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sure. i dont take credit for it, as i didnt develop it. just found it wasnt showing in market.

What widgets are those btw? Beautiful or some others? Forgive my ignorance, my EVO arrives tomorrow and it'll be my first Android device, just trying to compile a list of all the stuff I wanna try and I certainly like the overall look you've put together w/ADW and that stuff. Love the wallpaper too btw, I've got the very same one in rotation w/others on my desktop, heh.

Impulses said:
What widgets are those btw? Beautiful or some others? Forgive my ignorance, my EVO arrives tomorrow and it'll be my first Android device, just trying to compile a list of all the stuff I wanna try and I certainly like the overall look you've put together w/ADW and that stuff. Love the wallpaper too btw, I've got the very same one in rotation w/others on my desktop, heh.
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beautiful widgets for the time/weather & the vibrate widget.
es task manager is the task killer icon on the right of the battery widget.
battery widget is "batterylife" by curvefish in the app market.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Love the launcher, any way to the HTC widgets??
I use the bookmarks, agenda and clock with time/temps .

CorruptedSanity said:
Love the launcher, any way to the HTC widgets??
I use the bookmarks, agenda and clock with time/temps .
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unfortunately not.
smooth calendar, or android agenda widget is a good replacement for the htc agenda with some more customizable options.
beautiful widgets is another good replacement for the htc clock. with many types of skins.
the bookmarks im not to sure. never use them personally. if i did i would just use the android bookmark "shortcuts"

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unfortunately not.
smooth calendar, or android agenda widget is a good replacement for the htc agenda with some more customizable options.
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Ok will give it a try. But cannot see an Android Agenda widget. All I see is an Android calendar widgej which is very "lite".
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does this use less battery life and/or memory than say stock sense?

one thing that i noticed is when you turn on your screen and then drag down to unlock, the wallpaper will shift downward as well. is there a fix to this?
i am going to have to dump adw if there isn't a fix for this.. it drives me up the wall.

bump bump bump

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one thing that i noticed is when you turn on your screen and then drag down to unlock, the wallpaper will shift downward as well. is there a fix to this?
i am going to have to dump adw if there isn't a fix for this.. it drives me up the wall.
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If you have the device held horizontally its going to do that. If that is what you are talking about. Not a glitch.

I like the RAB and LAB buttons. Very useful.
I have the LAB as Phone (to make calls) and RAB as a folder.
The problem is I cannot add/remove apps from the folder.
I initially created the folder on the desktop, added about 10 apps to it then dragged it to the RAB. Excellent. I have access to those 10 apps almost 90% of the time.
Problem is I cannot add a new app shortcut to that folder.
Is there a way to undock/shift the folder from RAB back to desktop to add app shortcuts then back to RAB?
Because I tried adding an app shortcut to the folder by dragging it from desktop to RAB but that app got registered as the bew RAB and I lost the folder. Had to redo it all over.
otherwise its great.
thanks

this any different from ADW.Launcher in market?

New HTC like clock widget

not my app. its called Fancy Widget. something tells me it'll be removed soon so download it while you can!
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not that new been on the market for a good week or so but its nice kinda the same as weather & toggle widget though

Good find! Side note, I used to live in P-Cola too.

I live in Anchorage, Alaska
the complete opposite of there

Why can't these HTC Clock applications replicate the animation that plays when you turn the phone on and the screen is showing the clock.. to me they are worthless without it..
Don't know why.. I just love that effect..

my example in my sig
Thanks so much loving it...

Nice, thanks!

It is quite nice but it is all out of whack in landscape view... on the Droid anyway.

i've used beautiful widgets, and weather and toggle, this is by far the closest replication i've seen, altho i really really wish it displayed the flip animation for the time. that would add so much class.

nice, same as manila 2d by htc on windows mobile... thx...

Eclair~ said:
Why can't these HTC Clock applications replicate the animation that plays when you turn the phone on and the screen is showing the clock.. to me they are worthless without it..
Don't know why.. I just love that effect..
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because stock android doesn't allow animated widgets on the home screen.. get the desire ROM if you want that effect.

Ive been using this Widget for a while, it was the only widget i missed when i went o launcher pro on my Hero.

johnnie93 said:
because stock android doesn't allow animated widgets on the home screen.. get the desire ROM if you want that effect.
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Actually that is not 100% correct. It's because the animated version is proprietary to HTC. Beautiful Widgets used to be virtually identical to the HTC weather widget until HTC hit the company with a C&D letter. Now every update by Beautiful Widgets has to be approved by HTC before they can release an update. Check out Beautiful Widget version 2.35, that was the last version before the C&D.

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Actually that is not 100% correct. It's because the animated version is proprietary to HTC. Beautiful Widgets used to be virtually identical to the HTC weather widget until HTC hit the company with a C&D letter. Now every update by Beautiful Widgets has to be approved by HTC before they can release an update. Check out Beautiful Widget version 2.35, that was the last version before the C&D.
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im pretty sure he meant that when you unlock the screen you get the animation because Beautiful widgets and weather & toggle widget have animations only when you click on the weather.. not on the home screen with out clicking on the weather icon..

nice widget. best to take bacup before it is remove it from the market. as they do with anything that resembles a bit to much on their stuff

Awesome... now i wish i hadnt bought the others.....

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It is quite nice but it is all out of whack in landscape view... on the Droid anyway.
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Yeah, they need a little lesson in 9.patch and xml...
Nevertheless, it's a good looker in portrait.

mine still looks a little wierd in landscape view, all the text is outside the black border

Does anyone notice the slight banding around the numbers? You can see the numbers having a slight halo. The halos disappear when you try to slide the screens. Reminds me of the 16 bit issue of android...

While this installed without issue, I currently have no Weather Forecast showing? It reads my location fine and states 'Leeds' (UK) however no image of sunshine, or should i say rain clouds here in northern England lol! Anyone else experiencing the same? I did a google search and found others noticing the same on other phones but nothing regarding Nexus. Currently running Enom 1.9.2 and ADW Launcher.
Thanks.

Favorite clock/weather widget?

So one of the only things I find myself salivating at on my wife's HTC Incredible 2 is the Sense weather/clock widget. Thing looks badass. I've found some of the ripoffs on the appstore, and have installed Beautiful Widgets, which has some pretty cool clocks, but a lot of them look like janky crap.
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Do you guys have a favorite or has anyone found one that gives the sense widget a run for its money?

Fancy Widget Pro is great. I prefer it over Beautiful Widgets and Weather Toggle & Widgets.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets
I guess the new version is called just Fancy Widgets

Weather and Toggle Widgets. I use the Digital Clock skin:

Thanks for the suggestions The couple of clocks I've downloaded for Fancy Widgets(I only had free before, but just bought full version) are already way better quality than the ones on Beautiful Widgets. Will try to post a screen shortly

Beautiful Widgets is my favorite. Lots of options and skins

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Fancy Widget Pro is great. I prefer it over Beautiful Widgets and Weather Toggle & Widgets.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets
I guess the new version is called just Fancy Widgets
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Second to that, plus they had it as an Amazon Free App of the day once. Woohoo!

Beautiful Widgets all the way. I've been using the destroy skin with a transparent background. Around 50% that way I can see my screen background.

DroidX Eye Clock widget
At some point in the last nine months I had a DroidX Clock widget on my OG Droid. I really was just a clock widget that used the DroidX Eye as a background, and offered a choice for the eye color (red, blue, green, yellowish). It was lost at some point in one of the many times I flashed different roms to that phone. I have looked a few times in the last couple of months, but have been unable to find it.
If anybody has seen that widget, or has it, I'd love to get it installed on my Droid Charge.
(BTW: Verizon tunred on 4G in my area today, and it is crazy fast... loving it).

Actually. Use go launcher and then get.goweather. your wife will be salivating looking at your phone. They.have an htc style clock that is better than htcs. And the coolness.of go launcher is a "see it to appreciate it" thing. Set your app drawer to have the blind effect. Its awesome lol.

Alternative
Advanced clock pro is an alterative if you like a modern look. I also use aix weather.

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Advanced clock pro is an alterative if you like a modern look. I also use aix weather.
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Hey LANAtron what theme r u using? looks like AB that status bar and battery are bad ass, please share.
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Check out GS Flip Clock wallpaper. I'm running version 4.3 on my Samsung Tab and it's fantastic. It is as close as you can get to the HTC version. It had some growing pains initially, but as of version 4.3 everything seems to be working great.
I didn't pay for it, so I must have found the apk via Google. I remember searching for quite a while because HTC had been putting the smack down on any developers who used the flip clock style.
Currently it is on the market (website only, it didn't show up when I searched using the market app on my Charge) for $2.00. Since I'm a "noob" I can't post the direct link. Search for GSFlipClockWallpaper by Sergey Golovanov

everyone can say me which is the weather/clock that appears in the first tile of this launcher 7 home?
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holy old threads batman!

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everyone can say me which is the weather/clock that appears in the first tile of this launcher 7 home?
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That's a Windows phone. Oops that's Launcher 7. My bad.

stueycaster said:
That's a Windows phone. Oops that's Launcher 7. My bad.
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exactly. It's launcher 7, and I want to know which is the weather/clock widget in the first tile.

I wish I knew. Sorry man.