I don't know if it is just the Sprint Hero, but the big clock widget that has the weather does not update the time. I am using DC 2.05 and have had the same problem running the stock ROM as well.
I have the transparent 2.1 flan style lockscreen so I can see the homescreen without having to unlock the phone, and unfortunetly their are 3 clocks, the lockscreen one, the one in the upper right and the HTC clock widget is in the middle and always off.
I will give an example (It is not because of the 2.1 lockscreen either, I and many others have had this problem who are using the HTC lock screen)
If i turn my phone on at 6:00 and send a text, and then turn it off,
Then check an email at 6:20, when I turn my phone on I see the transparent lockscreen so I can see the lockscreen time, and the upper right time is 6:20, but the HTC clock widget is at 6:00, becasue that is the last time I turned my phone on. Then after 2-3 seconds after I unlock my phone, the HTC clock will update to 6:20.
I know this seems reiculous but the widget takes up half of the home screen and doesn't even work right.
I have never developed an app or anything, but think I know the problem
I used Beautiful widgets and the main clock that shows the time and the weather always had the right time.
The problem must be that the HTC clock does not have access to, or is not getting the time from the system when the device is off, but rather when the phone is on, it updates it. The beautiful widgets app is, and the minute will change the same time the clock in the upper right does. However, with the HTC clock, when I am on my home screen sometimes it takes 5-6 seconds to change, even when the phone is on. So if my phone was on at 6:00 and I went on the internet for 5 minutes and click home, the HTC clock would stay on 6:00 lag for 5-6 seconds and then change to 6:05. It defeats the purpose of having a big clock..
I have searched and cannot find a fix for this, also I have had this problem when running the stock rom, and have had 2 heros, both having the problem,
any ideas, or way to fix the widget to get system time access?
hum. ive never had a problem with the stock htc clock like that. and ive ran pretty much all the roms out there.. currently on fresh 2.0d...
spiritcrusher33 said:
hum. ive never had a problem with the stock htc clock like that. and ive ran pretty much all the roms out there.. currently on fresh 2.0d...
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What he is saying is the Weather and Clock widget under the Htc Clock widget does not update the time unless you are on the home page. You put your phone to sleep, you open an app, make a call, etc and once you go back to the home screen it takes a couple of seconds to update it. Yeah, I have this issue to.
I think the reason that it doesn't update until you are on that particular home screen is to save battery life. Anything constantly checking something will reduce battery time. Might not be alot, but I think that is why.
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when I turn my phone on I see the transparent lockscreen
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The widgets don't update while the phone is asleep to conserve battery (as was just mentioned). You only see this behavior because you have a modified lockscreen that makes it transparent. That's not how it is was designed by HTC. The extra few seconds to unlock the phone and actually see your home screen would be the delay it usually needs to update the clock.
That or HTC could make all of their widgets continue to use cpu cycles when you aren't looking at them.
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So I'm running the desire Rom, and I chose the clock widget. I went with the standard one with the flip clock and weather. When you choose it, it asks for location, and then a check box for 'full screen animation'. I checked it, and when it gets put on Tue home screen it makes a nice animation of clouds, or sun rays, etc . My question is, how do you make it do that again? I've never seen it happen since I first put the widget there. It doesn't happen when you swipe to it and it refreshed.
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So I'm running the desire Rom, and I chose the clock widget. I went with the standard one with the flip clock and weather. When you choose it, it asks for location, and then a check box for 'full screen animation'. I checked it, and when it gets put on Tue home screen it makes a nice animation of clouds, or sun rays, etc . My question is, how do you make it do that again? I've never seen it happen since I first put the widget there. It doesn't happen when you swipe to it and it refreshed.
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It happens everytime you unlock your device.
Ah, ok. Thanks. I didn't notice because I have it on the first screen to the left oh the main screen.
I wonder why doesn't have the fliping animation.
That was a total shocker to me as well. The flipping made it cool....
I wonder if it will return in a later release
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This is how I know you posted this from your Nexus One with HTC_IME, because I accidently type Tue instead of the all the damn time LOL.
Hello xda forums, I joined the ranks of the rooted Thunderbolt users last night and choose gingeritis 1.0 as my first ROM. So Far I love it but have 2 issues that are somewhat annoying.
1.) The vibrate on keystroke in the keyboard will not turn Off, It is unchecked in settings but still vibrates when I type.
2.) I am using the Weather live wallpaper and whenever I unlock my phone it plays a sound even with the sound on weather disabled.
thanks!
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Hello xda forums, I joined the ranks of the rooted Thunderbolt users last night and choose gingeritis 1.0 as my first ROM. So Far I love it but have 2 issues that are somewhat annoying.
1.) The vibrate on keystroke in the keyboard will not turn Off, It is unchecked in settings but still vibrates when I type.
2.) I am using the Weather live wallpaper and whenever I unlock my phone it plays a sound even with the sound on weather disabled.
thanks!
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+ 1 for me. I have the same problem.animations also continue for weather even though animation is disabled.
raider3bravo said:
+ 1 for me. I have the same problem.animations also continue for weather even though animation is disabled.
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you may be able to post to the gingeritis dev thread as you have more posts then me!
fix all issues
i had this problem and a charging problem and well quite a few others nothing to extreme but i decided i was going to find out why, i had originally flashed this rom at the same time as the radio so i backed up and reflashed the rom that fixed all my issues completely.
I Flashed and it seemed to help the audio issue, untill I set the lockscreen to weather and the sound returned, it appears to be the lockscreen with the issue of playing the sound.
For the weather sounds there is an option under the weather settings to disable it, and as for weather animations you have to remove the clock widget and re-add it, it will then ask you if you want to enable the weather animation or not. If the setting for sounds isn't working, try turning it on and off again. I'm not sure if this will help, but I got mine to successfully go away.
Had the same problems on Gingeritis but it's working fine now
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For the weather sounds there is an option under the weather settings to disable it, and as for weather animations you have to remove the clock widget and re-add it, it will then ask you if you want to enable the weather animation or not. If the setting for sounds isn't working, try turning it on and off again. I'm not sure if this will help, but I got mine to successfully go away.
Had the same problems on Gingeritis but it's working fine now
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It appears the weather sound is coming from using the weather lock screen, any other lock screen does not play the weather sound. I have enabled and disabled the sound frequently without luck, but it only plays the sound if the weather lockscreen is used.
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For the weather sounds there is an option under the weather settings to disable it, and as for weather animations you have to remove the clock widget and re-add it, it will then ask you if you want to enable the weather animation or not. If the setting for sounds isn't working, try turning it on and off again. I'm not sure if this will help, but I got mine to successfully go away.
Had the same problems on Gingeritis but it's working fine now
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Awesome. I'll give you a thanks when I get to my computer.
also just a side note ive seen many people flash this rom and the mr2 radio at the same time and not have the white behind the text on notifications making them very hard to read. hope this helps a simple reflash fixes it all
Well it seems the weather sound is back even when not unlocking, it appears to be appearing when the weather background updates...
Just curious, how many of you guys use the lock screen? I for one, since the day I bought my inspire, disabled the lock screen. I simply have no use for it.
How about you guys?
I use the app "No Lock", works perfect for me.....
Bounce between Widgetlocker and the Sense 3.0 lockscreen. She lives in my pocket and needs to be restrained when I'm not paying attention to her. Touchscreen & all that.
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I bounce around with mine. Sometimes I like it, sometimes not. But I same as you use no lock to rid myself of it. Most times I don't feel i need a second screen to go through just to get to my apps and stuff
I have the rotary unlock and a PIN after that. I figure that with my phone rooted someone who doesn't know what they're doing messing with settings could really cause problems and some apps have my credit card info so i like to have it locked, it's pretty quick to unlock.
Disabled it the hour I got it and never looked back...
I use Executive Assistant as the lockscreen and disable the regular one
I never use stock 2.2 sense lock, only 3.0. I like widgetlocker, but I'm running cm7, so i use default on the lens setting. looks great.
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Just curious, how many of you guys use the lock screen? I for one, since the day I bought my inspire, disabled the lock screen. I simply have no use for it.
How about you guys?
I use the app "No Lock", works perfect for me.....
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I love it. I use the sliding tab lockscreen with the four tabs. I use it quite often.
I definitely use mine (Widgetlocker). I place everything I might want/need to see on it. Currently I have an icon for the app Screen Off and Lock, and the following widgets: Watchdog, CurrentWidget, SetCPU, Next Alarm, and MissedIt (unread counts). I disabled interactions for everything except the icon for Screen Off and Lock (I set the timeout for the lockscreen to be 30 seconds, giving me plenty of time to look at my device information. I use the Screen Off app to turn it off as soon as I'm done).
I've had mine for nearly a week. I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep it and finally ditch the Grand Old HD2. I've managed to get many of my questions about this phone answered here over the last few days, but here are some I'm not convinced I know the answer to...perhaps someone can help:
- Can I adjust the number of rows/columns on Sense screens? I'd been using HyperDroid CM7 on my HD2 for a while, and seeing, like, 4 icons on the entire Sensation screen is corny/cartoony. I'd like to get more stuff squashed onto each screen.
- Can I add/remove Sense home screens? There are 7. I'd like to change that.
- Can I change or add more buttons to bottom or home screen? I see, from left to right, the apps, phone, and personalize buttons. I'd love to dump the personalize button, shrink the phone button, and add several more.
- I'm pretty sure many of the things I want to do are not possible with just an out of the box T-Mo Sensation and HTC Sense...so, are there apps that lets me do any of these things?
- Can I adjust when backlight goes off? I seem to be able to only adjust the amount of time the entire screen stays on.
- Auto-brightness is wacky. I'll just be sitting somewhere, in what seems like perfectly level/stable lighting conditions, and the screen just arbitrarily dims and brightens every few seconds.
- How do I get rid of that irritating page-by-page scrolling of apps list? I'd like one long, smooth-scrolling list. And is there a way to have a favorite apps list, other than placing them on the home screens?
- How do I turn off the dial/key press sounds when I'm dialing a phone number?
- I get a lot of static when I use my BT headset with the T-Mobile silicone case on the phone. If I take the phone out of the case, the call is much clearer. Any way to otherwise compensate (so I don't have to take the case off all the time)?
Thanks.
The quick answer to every question right now is no. The slightly longer answer is yes, but you will need to install a custom launcher: Launcher Pro or ADW come to mind first. They won't get rid of Sense and will actually use up more memory, but what you want will be accomplished. The really long answer is no, but soon. Most of what you want to change are things built into the HTC Rom. S-Off is supposedly coming soon. The great devs of the forum are hard at work. Once they do that, the bootloader will be unlocked, the cooks will do what they do, and we will begin to see custom Roms. Then you will have your removed bloatware, customizable anything, different launchers, stock-Sense lite-Sense full-CM7-MIUI-or anything else you can think of Roms.
The day is coming. We will have a true superphone any day now.
Best wishes.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Figgered that much. Any experiences with my BT/static or flickering backlight issues?
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Figgered that much. Any experiences with my BT/static or flickering backlight issues?
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Nope. My has worked perfect. Closest thing I have to a problem is it gets a little toasty when tethering and charging simultaneously.
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mychal said:
I've had mine for nearly a week. I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep it and finally ditch the Grand Old HD2. I've managed to get many of my questions about this phone answered here over the last few days, but here are some I'm not convinced I know the answer to...perhaps someone can help:
- Can I adjust the number of rows/columns on Sense screens? I'd been using HyperDroid CM7 on my HD2 for a while, and seeing, like, 4 icons on the entire Sensation screen is corny/cartoony. I'd like to get more stuff squashed onto each screen.
- Can I add/remove Sense home screens? There are 7. I'd like to change that.
- Can I change or add more buttons to bottom or home screen? I see, from left to right, the apps, phone, and personalize buttons. I'd love to dump the personalize button, shrink the phone button, and add several more.
- I'm pretty sure many of the things I want to do are not possible with just an out of the box T-Mo Sensation and HTC Sense...so, are there apps that lets me do any of these things?
- Can I adjust when backlight goes off? I seem to be able to only adjust the amount of time the entire screen stays on.
- Auto-brightness is wacky. I'll just be sitting somewhere, in what seems like perfectly level/stable lighting conditions, and the screen just arbitrarily dims and brightens every few seconds.
- How do I get rid of that irritating page-by-page scrolling of apps list? I'd like one long, smooth-scrolling list. And is there a way to have a favorite apps list, other than placing them on the home screens?
- How do I turn off the dial/key press sounds when I'm dialing a phone number?
- I get a lot of static when I use my BT headset with the T-Mobile silicone case on the phone. If I take the phone out of the case, the call is much clearer. Any way to otherwise compensate (so I don't have to take the case off all the time)?
Thanks.
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for the backlight off thing go to settings->brightness and uncheck the box next to automatic brightness and adjust the slider to your liking
To take off the sound while dialing go to settings->sound and uncheck the box that says Audible touch tones
hope it helps
Thanks for the sound setting info. I know about the automatic brightness setting. Turning off doesn't fix the fact that automatic brightness doesn't seem to work.
Any idea how to, when using the Mail application, to move to Next or Previous messages? No swiping motion I'm trying is working, and the best I can find is Settings and then the arrow keys. It'd be much easier if there was a button or swipe right on the message screen itself.
Hey I want to know something. Is there a difference between the Tmobile version and the Unlock sensation
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Hey I want to know something. Is there a difference between the Tmobile version and the Unlock sensation
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You mean the unbranded one. The t-mobile version has bloatware on it, the rest is the same.
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Any idea how to, when using the Mail application, to move to Next or Previous messages? No swiping motion I'm trying is working, and the best I can find is Settings and then the arrow keys. It'd be much easier if there was a button or swipe right on the message screen itself.
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I have the same question. Also, I can only see the most recent emails on my inbox. I guess I am missing a setting somewhere to be able to sync or view more messages.
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You mean the unbranded one. The t-mobile version has bloatware on it, the rest is the same.
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Actually, I believe the internal portion of the antenna is different too. The Tmo Sensation have 4 internal contacts areas for antenna and the international unlock one has 3. People were claiming that to be the problem with the death grip reception issue. Idk if the newer unlocked versions have changed yet. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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mychal said:
Can I adjust when backlight goes off? I seem to be able to only adjust the amount of time the entire screen stays on.
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I have moved across from the HD2 also and i find it irritating that i cant set both backlight off and power off as separate items.
Had the HD2 set that the backlight went off quite quickly to save juice, but it was set to not power down for one minute after that so just a quick screen press would bring it back up.
the Sensation powers down exactly 8 seconds after the screen dims and there is no setting to change that period !!
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Hey I want to know something. Is there a difference between the Tmobile version and the Unlock sensation
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Tmobile has "4g" while the unbranded is 3g I believe
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I don't have to reboot too often, but when I do, I usually get a "Set current time" pop-up message stating "Unable to detect your current time zone. Tab below to select a city." Then is has a menu with various time zones in it. I select Eastern Time, and click Done. But why does this keep coming up?
All the threads I see here and elsewhere on the internet (yes, I cheat on XDA) seem to assume the network is not providing the time information, so we need to uncheck the automatic time update setting. But why should I have to uncheck this? And how will that impact me when I go to another time zone?
Thanks.
mychal said:
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- Can I adjust the number of rows/columns on Sense screens? I'd been using HyperDroid CM7 on my HD2 for a while, and seeing, like, 4 icons on the entire Sensation screen is corny/cartoony. I'd like to get more stuff squashed onto each screen.
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you can somehow:
i used the "more icons widget" it lets you add 4 icons in a place of usually one.
So the 3x1 icons would consist of 11 small icons (+ 1 settings button) available from 1x2 to 1x4 and inverse. Works great on this screen
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.reeyees.moreiconswidget
it costs a bit, but is worth it!
Just got my OTA update for ICS. The stock lock screen has the camera and unlock icons to the left and right so I'm wondering: Is there a way to customize the lock screen by changing the apps you can slide to or by adding different apps to the other directions?
There should be, just seems odd having a free floating circle that only has options to the left and right.
I want a silent/vibrate option there.
I would really love to know this too.
The one thing they've done is that you can pull the status bar right from the lock screen. This gives you access to text, voice mail, calls and other notifications. So if you have a power widget on the status bar you could do all you need from the lock screen.
it will be nice to have two more slides on lock screen... for favorite app and for something else...
The only way (at the moment) to do a Silient mode from the lock screen is to long press the power button, the options are there below the power off option.
I've had to get use to doing it this way, other than putting widgetlocker or other lock screen app on the phone.
I don't think anything like that exists in the stock experience... There is another option. Go ahead and try Widgetlocker. If you can wait CM9 may introduce something to customize the lock screen. It seems like something that they'd include
+1 for WidgetLocker.
In my experience though, I didn't quite like how much RAM it used up so I ended up getting rid of it after awhile. But give it a shot and if you don't mind it constantly running in the background then stick with it.
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+1 for WidgetLocker.
In my experience though, I didn't quite like how much RAM it used up so I ended up getting rid of it after awhile. But give it a shot and if you don't mind it constantly running in the background then stick with it.
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I never had a significant loss of battery loss even while Widgetlocker ran in the background oddly enough. The speed wasn't affected either... Then again I was on CM7. I hear the CM9 people are going to add some settings for the lockscreen on ICS too, which means some more icons for the slider and stuff
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+1 for WidgetLocker.
In my experience though, I didn't quite like how much RAM it used up so I ended up getting rid of it after awhile. But give it a shot and if you don't mind it constantly running in the background then stick with it.
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Well, for me, widgetlocker didn't take a lot of RAM nor my battery significantly lasted shorter. I highly recommend widgetlocker to anybody... Too bad that's it's not free :/
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While I applaud Google for adding the camera icon to the lockscreen, I wish they had kept the silent mode toggle. Considering the design of the ICS lockscreen, it would be simple enough to add additional shortcuts.
I would also appreciate a solution to this. I could swear there were more options than unlock and camera.
This is an old post to reopen. Root and flash CM9's newest nightly. Loads of lock screen options to customize!
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This is an old post to reopen. Root and flash CM9's newest nightly. Loads of lock screen options to customize!
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Exactly. GummyNex also has some pretty cool CM7 style lock screens , like the Ring one.
Nexus S (GSM i9020a)
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Matrix Kernel (CFS - 20.0)
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Well if you have a rooted phone. try downloading CM9 nightlies or wait for the v8 stable version, or any other rom that support 4.04 with customized locker screen. It will allow you to add other features to your lock screen. Eg phone, calender, favourites and even weather under the superclock.
Your stuck if you dont have a rooted phone but im guessing it will come out sooner or later. Or not.. Depends on google