Question, who would like to make a wallpaper that is an animated back ground like what used to float behind max headroom in the 80s?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fkIidxp74&feature=related For an idea what I'm talking about.
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Seriously why isn't this a thing yet?
Would be even better if it had a head and did speech output and recognition, but with the stutter. Hell, make the head a separate widget that you can tap on so you slide the screen over to it and there he is.
Whoa
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I want this....Max Headroom was awesome growing up.
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Yes please!
Max headroom was a legend.
Cheers.
Seriously this should be a thing.
Either hire Matt to do the voice work, or take soundbites from the show/his other projects. It doesn't have to be perfect (since that's how it was in the show partly, might even make it better.
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Anyone use these?i got one called speed view.it gives you zero to sixty times and quarter mile times...but the most amazing thing, at night you can put your phone on your dash (i lay a non skid pad down) and it will display information on your windshield just as good as a stock hud would do...you can have just your speed or a combination of things like speed and heading/compass..very cool, just thought I would share yet another, I can't believe my phone can do this
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Yes! I use it too. Is sick!!!
Very awesome
Thank!
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I like to use my landscape mode sometimes for keyboard preferences but I notice the iPhones rotate screen is much smoother and nicer and you see the rotation anyway we can get that?
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I say we fix a2dp, s.o.d, reboots, freezes, get an update and end world hunger... THEN we can make our phones more like the iphone... until then... it's kind of a small issue to me and I can live with it.
Edit: hell I forgot to throw gps on that list too...
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If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
jsapp said:
If you want to make the phone more like the iPhone, why not just get an iPhone in the first place?
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Amen... it's snappier than an Iphone, the screen is bigger, Widgets, replaceable battery, not controlled by Steve jobs, almost COMPLETELY customizable... shall I go on?
I got to tell you. I didn't even notice any issue with the screen rotation... even as I go through 360 degrees(which the iPhone doesn't do). Barely an issue at all, and if that is all you are complaining about, well I guess it could be worse...
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My last phone (which was not an Iphone) had multiple choices for screen rotation graphics. The pretty rotation (which is not unique to an iphone or invented by Bill Gates) just delays the actual rotated screen.
The G2X got it right to just snap the screen in the rotated position. How ever, the issue when it goes to sleep and comes back in portrait when it was in landscape is annoying and should be fixed. Maybe some one that that was a good thing.
I actually love my g2x and would never downgrade to an iPhone but I just noticed there smooth transition into the different landscape and portrait modes you can see the transition instead of it just switching so fast
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I agree with the op. After getting a text and setting it down flat on a table it goes into landscape mode. You have to pick up the phone tilt it verticle before you can read it. Annoying! Samething goes when pulling it from your pocket though not as bad.
That's one thing the iPhone got right.
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You don't have to tilt it back to portrait, you can simply press the capacitive back button. I agree to an extent overall though a little glamour would be nice, I reneger the G1 had a special option where it had a fancy rotation animation deal. Either way it is not even close to something we actually need and I'm fine with what it is now.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
I agree with the OP about the rotation transition not being aesthetically pleasing, but at the same time think about all the important pros we have over other operating systems (mainly Apple's iOS). We have Widgets, full adobe flash, we almost have the ability to fully customize all aspects of our phone without even rooting it! etc... etc... We even have the largest dev support (I'm referring to Android as a whole) out of any OS developing community. Unfortunately we can't have all the pros that we want, but we do have a good majority of pros vs the cons.
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we are supposed to get hardware acceleration enabled in icecream sandwich.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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yep and honeycomb has the rotate animations, so they will most likely be in to ice cream sandwich too.
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That's if we're lucky enough to officially get Ice Cream Sandwich from LG.
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this is something the windows phones actually do really really well
Yea I have a Transformer running 3.1 and the rotation animations are nice.
I have a pretty good method for using the rotation aspect on the G2x and it requires CM7. I Disable rotation but keep a notification button in the pull down for rotation toggling. This way it always stays in portrait unless I toggle orientation on, then I can rotate it for a specific website or video, then toggle it off.
I had an iPad 1 and 2... and they would rotate all crazy ways if you sat them flat too. Best option is that if you don't want it to rotate randomly, then just disable it completely.
Here's an idea. How about only allow rotating when keyboard is up? That would be sweet.
However I don't use landscape keyboard layout. But good idea. Maybe get a keyboard developer to include that as an option.
i know that in CM7.1 you are able to decide how you want your layout. you can have it landscape, portrait , or the way it is set up now. pretty cool.
I was wondering if anybody has found or is willing to make a home replacement app that looks like the old danger sidekicks. That would be really badass.
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The Hiptop ring chooser seems impractical for so many apps. At the end there, the Danger OS was looking awfully dated.. I can't see the ring chooser coming back.
Check out Wave Launcher. Not to my taste, but you might like it.
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i think this might be more practical if the trackpad on this new SK were more usuable....
I agree. the Wheel was very functional on a non-Touch device, but with Touch, it becomes pointless. I had Sidekicks from the early days as well (CSK, SK2, SK LX-07). I *do* miss the splash screens though. but there are SO many apps you can put on the phone it would be hard to keep track just by scrolling up and down.
I miss the d-pad and trackball.
They were great for selecting links in the browser, moving around in text documents, and for selecting text.
Getting that kind of precision with this touch screen or the new trackpad is very difficult. Pinch to zoom before I select a link isn't a good alternative.
Sometimes, there really is no substitute for good old fashioned hardware control. The keyboard on this device proves that point. Now, I want my hardware trackball and d-pad back.
The touch screen is great for scrolling around and general navigation. But, it's very clumsy when it's time for precise selection.
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I came to Android from Blackberry. Whether it was the old trackball or the optical trackpad, it was possible to adjust the sensitivity, thus adjusting your scrolling speed. Set the sensitivity lower, you have smoother, slower, line-by-line scrolling. Higher, and you have faster scrolling that jumps page by page. I know most people probably dont use the trackpad on the sk4g because it is touchscreen, but i would be interested to know if there is a way to adjust the sensitivity of the trackpad? anyone who knows please reply.
Nope not that i know of. you could ask the mt3g og forums they have a track ball
no disrespect, but "not that i know of" is not a definitive answer. secondly, why would i ask the mt3g forum? its a completely different device, in case you werent aware.
Well they have a trackball like blackberries had and also this issue hasn't been asked before on sk4g xda forums
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can i hear from anyone else?
Yeah I don't think you can adjust sensitivity. Never seen it before.
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can i hear from anyone else?
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Not as of yet, personally im looking into it since no one else really has, and as you can tell the development on this device is kinda of lacking. But maybe there is a app from the MT4G or some other phone with an optical track pad that will work. Im looking into this.
I was browsing forums today and found some pretty cool apps.
Fyi I'm running seans latest SKYICS and about 50% supercharged.
BLOCK STORY
It's basically minecraft meets skyrim. Has quite a few monsters, side quests, etc. Way more features than Minecraft Pocket Edition.
KEYBOARD MANAGER
This app requires root. Basically, it lets you have a different keyboard for portrait and landscape. Which is way useful for me because I love Swype and Swiftkey but hate the dictionary bar when in landscape mode. This allows me to use the Samsung keyboard in landscape and Swiftkey in portrait.
BEATS AUDIO INSTALLER
Also requires root. I'm currently at work and have it installed but haven't listened yet. Give me an hour and a half till I get off work and I'll let ya know if there is a difference in my car. Which has two 12 inch kicker subs and a premium speaker set that came stock. So ill test the hell out of it.
FLIPBOARD
Probably my favorite. I'm sure most of you know what it is. I love keeping current on news.
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Suggestion .. if you're gonna post about Applications/Games/Utilities .. might be an idea to post the links to these .. whether they're on Google Play or here on XDA.
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Installed Beats using DJ ICS rom, works nice, definitely better sound at slightly less volume.
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Google currents is also good for news etc. Both good apps guess it depends on preference.
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Suggestion .. if you're gonna post about Applications/Games/Utilities .. might be an idea to post the links to these .. whether they're on Google Play or here on XDA.
Just a suggestion
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Google Currents crashes on MIUI.
I have to stick with Pulse...
Block Story is... I don't even know... I can't get the hang of the controls. And the tilt is annoying.
I like block story lol its a bit hard to find people sometimes wish there was a minimap or something but eh
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Hey block story is a lot deeper than mine craft.
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We should make this a sticky and post on what apps we think are good
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What happened with the beats audio?
I noticed an increase in bass, but there was a faint static in the background when playing over bluetooth. I ended up getting rid of it, my bass is loud enough lol.
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I noticed an increase in bass, but there was a faint static in the background when playing over bluetooth. I ended up getting rid of it, my bass is loud enough lol.
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Try Volume+ from play store. It does the same thing as beats and has a beats setting. Maybe it will work better.
SwiftKey X Beta! It keeps getting better. You can find it on their twitter or website. I'm not sure if you have to have the purchased version or not, because I have the purchased version.
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I know it's old news but I'm loving loving LOVING Pulse. It replaced a few apps and is much more convent for finding everything. Messed with Flipboard for a while, but it seems to just shove whatever articles at you from various sources on a given subject and thats cool, but Pulse is a bit better. Have some control.
Jetaudio is definitely the best music player, great bass and a 20 band equalizer
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