Here are 2 apps that I love on my Nexus that also work on the Evo. Just install with an app like Astro from the SD card.
Download the Genie Widget here
Download the Launcher2 here
Launcher2 is already built into the EVO at launch.
so what is the genie widget?
The Genie Widget is the News & Weather application/widget that's originally for the nexus one. I really like it.
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Launcher2 is already built into the EVO at launch.
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What'chu talkin' bout schizo?...
Both of these come with the EVO by default.
RavenII said:
What'chu talkin' bout schizo?...
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Download Home Switcher and you'll see Launcher2 is the other thing built into the EVO other than SenseUI
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Download Home Switcher and you'll see Launcher2 is the other thing built into the EVO other than SenseUI
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Or search google and find out how to disable sense UI then when you hit home it asks you which you'd like to use. But I'll point out that if he is pulling Launcher 2 from CM then it may do the 5 wide plus it had some fixes.
I too like the genie widget but is there ANY way to configure the way the widget looks? I'd really just like to make the background solid black and all the text white. Is this possible? Or make the background transparent and the text black. Either would be great.
My evo didn't come with genie widget. It did come with that news/rss reader that is very similar though. But I like the weather in genie widget a lot more because you are really only one click away from radar and can actually see details about the forecast from within the app. The one that comes with the clock kind of sucks. Just tells the highs and lows but with the genie widget weather you can see what time its going to start raining and stuff like that.
brandenk said:
Here are 2 apps that I love on my Nexus that also work on the Evo. Just install with an app like Astro from the SD card.
Download the Genie Widget here
Download the Launcher2 here
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Do you still have this. i have a version of Launcher2 but it's the cube app drawer type and the ADW looking home screen dock. I prefer the older style and i'm wondering if this is indeed what im looking for.
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Having an HD2, I simply loved what Cookie has down with the look and feel of the UI, my only problem is the phone just sucked, lol. Ok, that was too much, my bad you HD2 owners browsing, but I really like how Cookie made a smaller version of the clock/weather widget for the homescreen. Here is a pic, outlined in red of course lol.
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Also, another cool touch was the clock would flip to a new time, here is a video
View video from 0:00-0:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zy_7IiHOSY
I even notice some guy with an iPhone hacked Sense UI with a working flip clock, lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=9HLKL4jVu6A&feature=related
Please does anybody know how to get these 2 working on Android?
when i spoke to the dev for beautiful widgets, he said that there were animation limitations in android that prevented the flip motion. not sure if its laziness, or a true statement. the guy seemed pretty solid though, as he did provide me with the uncensored version of BW that he had from before the HTC C&D letter
Hmmm, make sense I guess but just seems weird though. Any other dev can share some light on this?
Anybody else, bump? I think Home++ does this, not for sure, anyway to extrack just the time/weather widget from it?
Here is some pics of Home++ clock/widget
the clock animation is possible on android on the gsm hero they had animated flip clock
They had the animated clock widget on the GSM Hero when it was first released and pulled it with an update cause everyone was complaining about the phone being slow.
Raadius said:
Anybody else, bump? I think Home++ does this, not for sure, anyway to extrack just the time/weather widget from it?
Here is some pics of Home++ clock/widget
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Mind telling me where you got the weather widget?
myth_mn said:
They had the animated clock widget on the GSM Hero when it was first released and pulled it with an update cause everyone was complaining about the phone being slow.
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Surely there is an .apk or a way to extract it?
Surely someone can port that cookie rom weather widget over...
Having an HD2, I simply loved what Cookie has down with the look and feel of the UI, my only problem is the phone just sucked, lol. Ok, that was too much, my bad you HD2 owners browsing, but I really like how Cookie made a smaller version of the clock/weather widget for the homescreen. Here is a pic, outlined in red of course lol.
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Also, another cool touch was the clock would flip to a new time, here is a video
View video from 0:00-0:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zy_7IiHOSY
I even notice some guy with an iPhone hacked Sense UI with a working flip clock, lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=9HLK...eature=related
I think Home++ does this, not for sure, anyway to extract just the time/weather widget from it?
Here is some pics of Home++ clock/widget
Please does anybody know how to get these 2 working on Android?
Unsure of the name of that program , but you can test out :
I find it almost like the HTC Clock only smaller.
YR.no Widget
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Thanks.
Tried it, ran very slow on my Evo, it was a nightmare so I deleted it.
:/
Well you could try Beautiful widget in the market
Not a fan of Beautiful Widgets
Bump 10char.
Do a search on androidforums for FancyWidget
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Do a search on androidforums for FancyWidget
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Fancy doesn't have a smaller clock, just the large one.
Beautiful Widgets has the smaller home.
beautifual widgets does the job for me
beautiful widgets doesnt have the white flipclock like HTC , only a dark one that doesnt look veyr good
Fancy Widget looks amazing, just liek the real deal, but I have a problem where the time sometimes gets stuck and you have to refresh it manually
Thanks, I will try it out
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What's that Twitter widget called? I'm using the official twitter client but the widget has a white background. Sorry, i'm new so i can't post urls.
edit: Nevermind, found it!
This is just a simple tweak to Myn's Sexier Rosie that gives a 5x7 workspace. I have NOT made the standard edits to the various HTC widgets, however - it is more intended to be used in conjunction with Desktop Visualizer and other similar widget programs. HTC Widgets will be truncated and overly small unless edited to fit the 5x7.
So if you like Launcher Pro or other similar launchers, but want the speed of Rosie and don't mind working without 5 launcher bar buttons, hereya go.
As a side note, if anyone has an idea on how to program 5 launcher bar buttons in to Rosie, please contact me, I'd love to chat.
-MDM
<edit: I should probably mention that the rosie graphic included here was designed by DG4FREE, and uses my Steel on Glass text icons.>
Sounds cool can't wait for widget mods.
I really want to try this; but how do I install it?
I tried mounting system as r/w through SUFBS, but no go.
Do I need to push it via adb or something?
Thanks!
UPDATE: I tried adb push to system/app ... but now I don't seem to have Rosie at all...
Which Rom are you using?
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Which Rom are you using?
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Myn Warm Z
Yeah, pretty sure warmZ needs a sense 2.0 Rosie. I'll see if I can do one resl fast for ya later tonite.
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OK, this should do the trick for WarmZ, please let me know if it works, and I'll then update the OP.
Sorry ... it FCs upon launch. Don't worry about it. ADW gives me 5x7 for now...
i would love to see a screenshot. anybody have one?
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Hereya go. Again, this is Sense, not Sense 2. The widget in the bottom left is mClock 4x2, next to Circle Battery 1x1. The line is actually two 1x2 widgets with Desktop Visualizer and a custom graphic. The text icons are 2x1 with Desktop Vizualizer, and there are also two clear 1x1 DV widgets just above the clock.
I use the two line widgets for gmail and sms, and the two clear widgets for alarm and calendar.
The hot chick is my wife.
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Sorry ... it FCs upon launch. Don't worry about it. ADW gives me 5x7 for now...
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Yeah, Sense 2 apks are a little more invved than straight up Sense. About twice the size, so it's possible the there's another reference I need to change. I'll letcha know if I get it.
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What are you guys using? I tired Fancy Widgets but IMO they look bad. Anything close to stock? ( Im talking sense )
Closest to Sense is gonna be Beautiful Widgets. I agree, fancy widget sucks. You'll never get the large weather widget and have it look decent, for some reason the resolution on those large ones look like ****. But I found the small weather widget from Beautiful Widgets looked nice, like so:
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Beautiful Widgets is what is what as well . Goweather is nice but its a cpu hog
from my phone duh
Guessing that BW is a paid app?
Free version of Fancy Widget skinned to look like sense. Not sure if I'm even allowed to distribute the .apk.. but here it is anyways.
for some reason my fancy widgets isnt loading the weather anyone kno how to fix this ?
Fancy widget pro is awesome. There are so many skins for it. You can have one skin for clock and one skin for weather. Its sweet.
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I use fancy widget pro and it looks and displays nicely on cm7.
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http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2700/snap20110508111831.png
Free version of Fancy Widget skinned to look like sense. Not sure if I'm even allowed to distribute the .apk.. but here it is anyways.
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Won't install on Sprint Lovers ROM for me.
here is the market link to the free version of FW
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidget&feature=search_result
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Won't install on Sprint Lovers ROM for me.
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Lol, why do you need it in the first place on a sense ROM?
Hey guys, just wanted to share an ICS search widget mod that works perfectly on our Notes. (Gingerbread) I found this app on the market awhile back, but was pulled down for an unknown reason. I did not write this app & unfortunately I do not even know who to give credit to.
Either way, this is the best method I've found for getting a high res ICS themed search widget - the voice icon also works perfectly. Just install the APK as you would any other application (file manager, root explorer, etc) and the widget will show up in your widget menu.
Here is a screenshot and download link :
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Great find, I've been searching for this for ages! Cheers!
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I am not able to get it running with 5x1, its still 4x1.
Thanks.
dhruvmalik said:
I am not able to get it running with 5x1, its still 4x1.
Thanks.
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You'll need a launcher that allows you to resize widgets, otherwise it will be 4x1 like the stock widget. I use ADW EX w/ 6x1. I know Go Launcher, Launcher Pro, SPB shell 3d, and many others will allow you to resize it.
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You'll need a launcher that allows you to resize widgets, otherwise it will be 4x1 like the stock widget. I use ADW EX w/ 6x1. I know Go Launcher, Launcher Pro, SPB shell 3d, and many others will allow you to resize it.
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How did you get your dock to look like that? I have the background image and the ICS icons, however when I set the background that white line touches the top of the icons rather than there being a "gap" like there should be!
I use Kovdev's ICS theme which i believe works with ADW and Go launcher.
Just reporting it worked for me in my Ace...
Downloaded! Great share!! :thumbup:
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