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Walkthrough of android 2.0 with loads of screenshots

It seems 2.0 is much closer than was initially thought. Wonder if this update is coming to magics and g1s or if it's only coming on new, higher res screen phones.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/16/android-2-0-screenshot-walkthrough/

wow me like!

very cool, i wonder when the release for this is gonna be

F-in sweet!

That is beautiful! So suddenly it seems like i have to buy a new phone... Wonder if this is going to run smooth on our weak phones.

ododoo said:
That is beautiful! So suddenly it seems like i have to buy a new phone... Wonder if this is going to run smooth on our weak phones.
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It looks great but from what is on display it doesnt look too heavy, like sense.

It's funny how things get leaked from HTC all the time and so early in progress
Really looking forward to this update.

DMaverick50 said:
It looks great but from what is on display it doesnt look too heavy, like sense.
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I really hope so. Anybody knows what phone the screenshots are taken from? It looks pretty hi-res..

ododoo said:
I really hope so. Anybody knows what phone the screenshots are taken from? It looks pretty hi-res..
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Possibly the Moto Sholes/Droid? With blur turned off?

Why is it that 32a users still havent gotten 1.6 and now we are already waiting for 2.0?
HTC you suck....
FrAsErTaG said:
Possibly the Moto Sholes/Droid? With blur turned off?
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One of the pictures actually says "model: droid" so aparently you are right...

Looks like they finally hired some REAL designers to replace the freaking ugly icons android uses now.

Awesome
I wonder how long we will have to wait

ah this looks so sweet, im bored of 1.6 and there really isnt a hero rom that runs smooth enough on a voda magic. this looks much better, lets hope it get released for porting and is smooth!!

Can't wait for 2.0, I like what I see, the new icons are so much better. And finally multi-select in the email app! Hope there's a leak soon

How do we which of these are these are features of 2.0 which are features of the moto droid rom? The artwork, icons and lockscreen etc, for example, I bet they are not standard features of android 2.0.
Still looks pretty cool though! Someone needs to do a nandroid of it and post it here!!

emich said:
I wonder how long we will have to wait
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I read Q2 2010 somewhere. Will add a link as soon as I find it again.

looks so good. hope we dont have to wait another year for it.

st0kes said:
How do we which of these are these are features of 2.0 which are features of the moto droid rom? The artwork, icons and lockscreen etc, for example, I bet they are not standard features of android 2.0.
Still looks pretty cool though! Someone needs to do a nandroid of it and post it here!!
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It seems that Droid is a Google Experience phone and therefore Motorola could not have messed with the ROM.

I like some of the "squareness", it seems cleaner and less "bubbly". As mentioned by others, I'm concerned that some of the things I like are actually Motorola-specific, although it's mostly all visual stuff so I can see themes being able to mimic this anyhow if necessary. I bet the icons and the lock screen are Motorola's.
I'm a little ambivolent about the "driver mode" stuff. I don't know that drivers should be doing anything with their phones AT ALL while they are at the wheel. I think it would have been better to eschew that custom screen and just have optional use of voice commands throughout the interface. Then again, it's still legal to use phones while driving in many countries, so I suppose this was necessary to stay ahead of the competition.

that looks sweet. can't wait.
i just hope i see official support for bluetooth profiles like obex.
and also more video support for avi, mkv etc.

[email protected]@K...touchwiz 3.0?

i just saw this video and heard a rumor that the 2nd gen samsung moment running android 2.1 will have this UI built in it. looks amazing and super fast! if this is released could it be ported to the hero at all? looks like a great alternative to sense IMO.
thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjhhXFVexMk
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/06/samsung-moment-2-with-sprint-branding-and-touchwiz-3-0-peeks-out/

Eww... it's still TouchWiz though. I despise TouchWiz

mrinehart93 said:
Eww... it's still TouchWiz though. I despise TouchWiz
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never heard of it till now and i think it looks pretty sweet.

PM me with a leak or rom dump and I'll try to port it.

mrinehart93 said:
Eww... it's still TouchWiz though. I despise TouchWiz
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It seems waay different from the Behold 2's TouchWiz tho. Dare I say "better".

obelisk79 said:
PM me with a leak or rom dump and I'll try to port it.
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ill try to find it tonight.

i've never tried it but i think it looks pretty sleek also.
although after having a moment for 3 weeks and returning it for the hero it will take a lot more than a sleek ui to ever get me to buy another samsung phone.

I heard that same rumor. I don't think there'd be anything stopping it from being ported being that it would simply be a home replacement. It my not even need to be ported at all.. just push an apk and some libs maybe.
That samsung wave is definitely not an android phone though.

Noiro said:
It seems waay different from the Behold 2's TouchWiz tho. Dare I say "better".
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OMG you said Better............LOL
Maybe they finally learned what went wrong with V2.0 and V1.0
But history does repeat itself.....

What the hell is this touchwiz, is it an overlay like Sense?

Tipharet said:
What the hell is this touchwiz, is it an overlay like Sense?
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yeah it the same concept but I think Sense is Much better some like touchwiz,Motoblur,ect.....

kratos313 said:
yeah it the same concept but I think Sense is Much better some like touchwiz,Motoblur,ect.....
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Damn, TW seems way more polished and fluent.

TouchWiz
Did this ever get ported? Would really love to see this, as I really love it's interface. Sorry if this is posted elsewhere, but I DID search the forums and google didn't come up with anything.

Its horrible. Been playing with it on our demo epic at work and its just bad. It feels really bulky and slow and looks cheap.

This looks cool, but kind of engineered to be over simplified. Reminds me of an iphone, but for kids. Haha
It seems like this version of touchwiz can be ported, but don't some things, like the toggles on the drop down bar, need edits to the frameworks to make them work? Seems to me like a Wave ROM would be a better idea to get sell of the features of touchwiz. I wouldn't mind that, as the Samsung lockscreen looks really cool. (slide in any direction to unlock).
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wingzfan said:
Its horrible. Been playing with it on our demo epic at work and its just bad. It feels really bulky and slow and looks cheap.
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I have an Epic and I am really enjoying the interface, would like to put on my Hero as well. If not the functionality, at least the format/color scheme would be nice.

MeeGo port?

http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/27/nexus-one-meego-port/
any chance of this happening for our hero's? looks pretty cool to me.

+1 This is way cool... There was a similiar post over in the themes section not long ago. I can't find it now but the OP was trying to find a theme that looked very close to this? Since this is a rom this is the place to ask!

i hope we can make this happen, nokia's have a solid OS.

I would like this on our hero
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This needs porting, and MIUI. Oh, and don't forget Sense 2.2!
Not to pile work on any devs or anything... (whistles innocently)
Sent from my Cyanogen flavored frozen yogurt.

http://www.androidcentral.com/miui-rom-nexus-one-and-desire-video

gidkid said:
This needs porting, and MIUI. Oh, and don't forget Sense 2.2!
+1 Yes, this is the other one that looks similiar...MIUI. I could not find it earlier today thanks for bringing it to the forum! Either one would be great but both would be outstanding!
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we need something fast & different for the hero.

fixxxer2008 said:
we need something fast & different for the hero.
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I smell some burnt electronics in the air! I'm in for some testing if either of these come about.

fixxxer2008 said:
http://www.androidcentral.com/miui-rom-nexus-one-and-desire-video
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i want this, can we please get a port!!!

fixxxer2008 said:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/27/nexus-one-meego-port/
any chance of this happening for our hero's? looks pretty cool to me.
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Didn't you say that this would never work for the hero when someone else brought up porting it a week ago?

MIUI is remarkably ugly to me. Looks like it should be running on a toy phone in a mall kiosk or something, heh.

stayclean said:
MIUI is remarkably ugly to me. Looks like it should be running on a toy phone in a mall kiosk or something, heh.
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or is it the fact that it looks like an iphone UI.

theimpaler747 said:
Didn't you say that this would never work for the hero when someone else brought up porting it a week ago?
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i dunno, i might of said that.
id more or less like to see that nokia port.

Porting it will be very hard since the processors are different.

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or is it the fact that it looks like an iphone UI.
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Well, iOS doesn't look that bad at all. However, this basically is a Chinese iOS/2.2 AOSP rom, so I guess it just has to look bootleg as hell...

mrinehart93 said:
Porting it will be very hard since the processors are different.
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oh come on now... we have faith in you guys.

mrinehart93 said:
Porting it will be very hard since the processors are different.
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the processor wouldn't be an issue at all... it's other things like the gpu, touchscreen, buttons, camera, etc. that would make it difficult.

hotaru said:
the processor wouldn't be an issue at all... it's other things like the gpu, touchscreen, buttons, camera, etc. that would make it difficult.
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Nah, I'm pretty sure I read once when there were talks about porting FroYo or something to our phone, the only real candidate was the MyTouch Slide because it had the same CPU tables or something as our phone. Without the same CPU tables (w/e it was), the port was a lot more difficult. But yes, if we did get the cpu to work right, the rest would be difficult.

They should Port this two...
Mi UI...
miui.cn

go vote Android as the best OS!!!!

wmpoweruser.com keep tweeting every few hours telling people to vote WP7 as the best OS in this wall street journal poll.
it' only fair we android fanboys fight back! haha
go vote!
http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/question-day-229/topics/makes-best-mobile-operating-system

Voted! Go Android!

Heheh voted and nice to see that Android is in the lead!!

Based on my experiences with this phone, I can't rate it as the best of anything. Unfortunately.

MikeyMike01 said:
Based on my experiences with this phone, I can't rate it as the best of anything. Unfortunately.
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Typical. You're not basing your vote off of the phone. You base it off the OS the phone runs.
Sent from my Captivate

miztaken1312 said:
Typical. You're not basing your vote off of the phone. You base it off the OS the phone runs.
Sent from my Captivate
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And Android has been a buggy unstable nightmare. I spend most of my time with my phone trying to get it to work.
Don't get me wrong, I love it when it works. It refuses to work quite often.
The ROM I'm tinkering with (see signature) seems promising.

MikeyMike01 said:
Based on my experiences with this phone, I can't rate it as the best of anything. Unfortunately.
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Try out a g2 or nexus one, or high end motorola, or low end samsung without touch wiz or an lg or other phone with a vanilla rom. The cappy has a great gpu and screen but the original stock rom wasnt very good with unreliable gps and at least for me big problems connecting to samsung kies or a windows pc's in general. The leaked froyo generally works a lot better and still has major bugs that don't bother me too much. The official froyo should make people happier even if it's taking too long.
Remember how much the iphones sucked untill ios 3 came out when it could finally do the things you'd expect it to do in the os like picture/video text and copy/paste. And it was already on its second or third hardware version.
But that's a bad example because android was already ahead in many areas (multi taking, app drawer, folders, notifications that didn't stop what you were doing, widgets) and still is. And in ios3 you still had a crappy camera.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using Tapatalk

I'm fully aware that Android is a gazillion times better than what Samsung is presenting.
I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

How the hell can someone go vote WM7 as the best mobile OS, when no device actually HAS the OS on it? Because they like the concept of it, it automatically makes it better the OS's that have already proven themselves? Hmmmm.......

Mikeymike try DG s aosp rom. Its the most vanilla android rom we have for now. It still has some touchwhiz in it but what's not is pretty awesome. Like most of us on att this is my first android phone and I didn't care for TW much so I used LP. Tw reminded me too much of ios . I'm looking forward to a complete.aosp rom
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

dressanderc said:
How the hell can someone go vote WM7 as the best mobile OS, when no device actually HAS the OS on it? Because they like the concept of it, it automatically makes it better the OS's that have already proven themselves? Hmmmm.......
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They aren't voting for Phone 7 per-say, but maybe WinMo6/6.5

miztaken1312 said:
They aren't voting for Phone 7 per-say, but maybe WinMo6/6.5
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Oh, gotcha. I didnt go to the site, just went off what the OP said.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Definitely voted. I'm glad apple isn't first, this made my day

800k votes for google... the mob has spoken

Now Android has over a millino votes, good job people! We won, by a freaking long shot

AlecKyle said:
Now Android has over a millino votes, good job people! We won, by a freaking long shot
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Yea...I saw that....lol..The only OS even close(10/27/2010) was MS with 14xxx votes. I pray there not voting on WinMo 6..lol..Majority are voting on the CONCEPT of WinMo7...Did you guys see the votes for iOS??lol..It was pathetic..and I like the iPhone..lol
And were at about 1.14 Million.

AOSP for Desire S

i did start this thread in the general section when i had fewer than 10 posts, so sorry about the repost.
i have been wondering if any work has been done porting aosp to the desire s or if anyone could point me to the proper tutorials on how to do it, though i will have little time to work on it during the next 3 months or so.
cheers

Ep1cF4il said:
i did start this thread in the general section when i had fewer than 10 posts, so sorry about the repost.
i have been wondering if any work has been done porting aosp to the desire s or if anyone could point me to the proper tutorials on how to do it, though i will have little time to work on it during the next 3 months or so.
cheers
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cm7 for incredible s is on the way. i think, it will complete for desire s in 1 month too.

proxuser said:
cm7 for incredible s is on the way. i think, it will complete for desire s in 1 month too.
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it would indeed seem that way. just pulled the cm sources to see if adding a new device wasn't too hard a task and it seems there already has been some work done towards porting it to the saga (aka desire s). finally some good news

Hope the port for Saga comes soon. Really look forward to getting rid of Sense.

rubbish said:
Hope the port for Saga comes soon. Really look forward to getting rid of Sense.
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as do i...

rubbish said:
...Really look forward to getting rid of Sense...
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as do i...
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Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?

Dr.Romca said:
Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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for hardware?
i'm waiting for aosp too

Hmm... It is pretty great piece of hardware but Sense is great IMO (and no, I'm not an HTC employee )

deadwilder said:
for hardware?
i'm waiting for aosp too
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NexuS has pretty same hardware. Even better cam..
I sold NexuS because I missed some of the sense things:
the stock dialer has NO t9 search - most dialer from market are crap or slow or somehow frickled on the stock dialer. Even old nokia do have a quick search option...
Stock contacts are ugly.
GAL (global adress list for exchange server) is NOT implemented in android 2.x - only in 3.0; but it's implemented since sense1 (hero)
CM had some issues - espacially with the notification bar/speed settings - on 2.3 - the new sense 3.0 lockscreen and notification bar are very good - so no need for CM at the moment - for _me_
So I deleted most of sense.apk from /system on my DesireS (all widgets, all "htc", like route66, amazon, stockexchange..) and do use adw-launcher instead of rosie (don't delete it cause is needed for lockscreen settings!) - but do have integrated company exchange and a good biult in dialer, cool contacts (with flickr and fb content) and nice lockscreen..

dont know said:
NexuS has pretty same hardware. Even better cam..
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there was one thing i didn't like about the nexus s. had i been able to use my 32GB microsd card, i would've gone for the nexus s.

Dr.Romca said:
Hmm... It is pretty great piece of hardware but Sense is great IMO (and no, I'm not an HTC employee )
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Sense is THE BEST ANDROID UI, EVAR. Don't know why people wanna "DE-SENSE" their phones. I'm gonna flash CM7 to see what the fuss is about , but sense 3.0 first Hopefully, the new official version of CM7 will come for DS too. I'd rather let the ports pass on...........

to each their own. i'm still waiting to see someone make a WebOS like UI for android ^^

Dr.Romca said:
Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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In my case I obviously liked the phone much enough to neglect my dislike towards Sense
I don't complain about having Sense and can live with it but would prefer to run clean Android build when/if it becomes available.

Ep1cF4il said:
to each their own. i'm still waiting to see someone make a WebOS like UI for android ^^
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That would be EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!

shrome99 said:
That would be EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!
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i was sorta kidding, but yes it would be. so would an actual port of WebOS

Ep1cF4il said:
i was sorta kidding, but yes it would be. so would an actual port of WebOS
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I get the sarcasm, but well, imo WebOS is a really good os. It's too new and has veeeeerrry less apps. In abou 1-2 years maybe, it'll become as good as android is today.
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shrome99 said:
I get the sarcasm, but well, imo WebOS is a really good os. It's too new and has veeeeerrry less apps. In abou 1-2 years maybe, it'll become as good as android is today.
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had there been better WebOS devices on the market, i would probably have bought one of those instead. i've been told that app development is a lot easier than on any other platform. and as soon as i get some time, i might just look into writing apps for android.

Dr.Romca said:
Then why in the world did you guys buy an HTC phone?
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There's plenty of HTC phones out there that are running custom ROMs and customised user interfaces that don't rely on Sense. It may be the "out of the box experience" as far as most HTC phones are concerned, but isn't that what all THIS (ie these forums) is about - customisations, and thinking "out of the box"? (no pun intended, haha).
If we all concentrated on Sense and variations on that theme then this community would be a much poorer one.
Peace

sense ftw!

Well, i love sense, but i am porting the cm7 just so people have the choose, and also to make the development on this device more alive
But personally, Sense is the thing!