I thought it would be cool for us to share the reason behind whatever our home screen setup is, rather than posting a screen shot.
Do you like the home page to be empty & clean looking? Do you organize everything into folders?
Hopefully this thread will bring out some different ideas on how we can organize our home screens.
I personally like the home page to be blank so I can see my wallpaper, other pages with my most commonly used apps.
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I llike my most frequently used widgets and apps on my home screen, but I agree, I would like it if my homescreen was just my walpaper... but I guess I am more of a functional person than an appearance person.
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
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TheBassman369 said:
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
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I think you meant boyfriend
why not explain your homescreen in the thread about homescreens?
Captivate > Themes and apps > Post Your Home Screens
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studacris said:
I think you meant boyfriend
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Umadbro? Seems like I always get the trolls posting.
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TheBassman369 said:
Umadbro? Seems like I always get the trolls posting.
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Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
Fancy Widget clock shows time, weather, and date.
below that is my appointment widget which tells me my next two upcoming calendar events.
Below that is my 4 basic app shortcuts (Nav, Market, Camera, Email).
Nice and organized, and gives me all my most important info at a glance.
To the left of my screen is my list of most used contacts, and to the left of that is my work apps (VNC, RDP, terminal, network testers, etc.)
To the right of my homescreen is my shortcuts for most used apps, semi-grouped into categories (such as games, music related, astronomy related, etc.)
Everything is very symmetric and functional, because that's the knd of person I am.
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Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
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Oh my goodness! I can see where you would get confused! Lol. I'm so used to someone saying something stupid about my posts! Sorry.
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studacris said:
Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
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HAHAHAHA! In the words of Larry the Cable guy, "I don't care WHO y'ar, thats funny right there!
TheBassman369 said:
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
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with or without the L in clock, what does having a girlfreind have to do with it?
ive had some jealous exes but of a clock?
i think the L was the mistake and studa isnt dyslexic he's psychic... lol
Fancy Widgets home screen small on the top, business Calender 2x2 on the right, last call widget to the left of that and a few shortcuts under all that
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TRusselo said:
with or without the L in clock, what does having a girlfreind have to do with it?
ive had some jealous exes but of a clock?
i think the L was the mistake and studa isnt dyslexic he's psychic... lol
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I think the implication was that the picture of his girlfriend would be the background, and hence, if he has a picture as a background, he wouldn't want to obscure it with apps/widgets/etc...
Least that's what I assumed. If it's not that, then I have no idea.
I only have a clock and dockbar on my home screen.
One page right is g search, power control and Atk widgets, and apps.
One page left has camera app. Nice and clean, literally only what I need.
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And I would never use a pic of my bf as a background. I see the chick enough and my phone is my means of getting time to myself lol
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bdgiese90 said:
And I would never use a pic of my bf as a background. I see the chick enough and my phone is my means of getting time to myself lol
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Your bf is a chick?
I have all app shortcuts that I use daily on home. To the right I have power control, astro, battery use, shootme, etc, basically utility screen. To the left I have mort player widget and pandora widget.
I use microbes or light grid wallpaper. Something dark, simple, colorful, but not busy.
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God damn it. B and g are diagonal to each other lol.
My ***GF*** is not a dude, or vise versa. She is actually rather womanly in the best way possible. But anyways.
/offtopic
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Wow lot of gender confusion in this thread.
Strange.
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My ***GF*** is not a dude, or vise versa. She is actually rather womanly in the best way possible.
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So that I don't get confused.......what is the best way possible?
Shammyh said:
I think the implication was that the picture of his girlfriend would be the background, and hence, if he has a picture as a background, he wouldn't want to obscure it with apps/widgets/etc...
Least that's what I assumed. If it's not that, then I have no idea.
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Thank you. Apparently the Captivate isn't the only thing that doesn't have Sense. Lol jk, couldn't resist.
This thread is full of so much win.
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I don't know if thus is the right place to post this. So mods have at it and move if needed. Would it be possible to have an app that'll animate the screen during use of the autorotate feature? Obviously I have no clue on how to code
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What are you trying to animate?
Are you thinking of something like the animation in an iPhone when you rotate?
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What are you trying to animate?
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Think "rotating an iPhone", he wants that fancy flip the entire screen effect present on Apple products. I love it so much, Steve may be mean - but Apple has perfect graphic and visual designers.
+1 it's extremely well polished. Granted it's not the instantaneous rotation that Android provides but it sure looks nice!
+1
Shouldn't this be in development?
i happened to find in the market an alternate spare parts app that has a selection for rotate animations in it, just an fyi
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i happened to find in the market an alternate spare parts app that has a selection for rotate animations in it, just an fyi
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Do you mean an alternate version of Spare Parts or an application like Spare Parts? If it's an application like Spare Parts, mind giving us the name?
[EDIT] Oh wait I've found it. The market version of Spare Parts. I don't seem to see any difference when enabling the fancy rotation though.
I am blind as well
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I actually thought there would be an animation a long time ago. Anyone remember the G1 zooming cube animation?
There was an animation back on 1.5 however within the source code it was commented out in 1.6 and then deleted all together on 2.1 . I read that it isn't possible to adapt to 2.1 because surface flinger lies on top of open gl. Could any developers get this running again? I'm sure it would be a lot quicker on the nexus one than the magic.
Yeah, that's definitely one of those many little things that make the Nexus look less polished than the iPhone (And don't get me wrong, I hate the iPhone )
+1 to this!
Perhaps something simple like a fading display. Or Have the background rotate first and have the icons and widgets rotate at a slower rate, so it looks like the foreground is trying to "catch up" to the background
I would take anything animated, i hate the fact that when i rotate my screen its just so still!
But i think its better for faster screen rotation.
this much talk and no developers chiming in.. don't think this is going anywhere..
YEAH THIS IS ABOUT AS LIKELY AS GETTING A FRIKKIN FLIP CLOCK THAT FRIKKIN FLIPS... AAHHHH THE OL' JACHERO DAYS! i SEE PHONES HALF AS POWERFUL BY HTC W/ THE CLOCK FRIKKIN FLIPPIN AWAY!
BACK ON TOPIC I TOO WOULD LOVE THIS IN ANY FASHION AS LONG AS THE DELAY (AND IT WILL SLOW THE TRANSITION DOWN) IS MINIMAL! HOWEVER I USE SENSE SO ROTATION IS A WHOLE NOTHER GAME THERE!
Hey it would be nice to have a widget that shows clock times across the world, they is a nice on the HTC sense theme, but one for the Froyo
http://www.doubletwist.com/apps/search/?q=world+clock+widget
I personally use DiviClock
Thanx
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SiNJiN76 said:
I personally use DiviClock
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Does something exist like that, that has a list of cities and you just pick the city and it displays the time in a widget?
try moxier world :shrug:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.softxperience.android.worldclockwidget
Is exactly what I personally want, except.. to work. It doesn't keep up properly, not sure if it keeps time itself and doesn't keep synced or what, but it's pretty horrid sometimes.... I keep up with a TZ +9.5 from me and sometimes I'll see it as far off as +8.5...
The others I saw nothing interesting... Except the one wasting most of the widget space on an android icon
Hey all,
Want a HONEYCOMB style lockscreen?
Try this one. It looks really close, if not the same.
Works for 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.3
GSM & CDMA
*Known bugs
Some user experience a "double lockscreen" this is being worked on. This bug is on all versions paid or free. Reboots sometimes works, or stop the lockscreen and start it again from in app settings.
works landscape and portrait.
SRRY, forgot to ad the thanks, until reminded. Thanks, SunPengfei
I have found that this version works best in our tabs.
Feel free to update through market, but, again,I found this earlier version works best.
Enjoy.
Or get the paid version on the market, although I dont see any difference. (especially if your rom has an adblocker or adfree)
HIT THE THANKS BUTTON IF I HAVE HELPED
owh dude , i'm confuse right now . you should add the app with the other thread , and name it some goodies for the buddies .. i'll try it and give u feedback
OP, is this something you've put together yourself? or somebody elses work you're posting?
If its the latter then make sure to give the appropriate credit where its due.
Cheers.
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OP, is this something you've put together yourself? or somebody elses work you're posting?
If its the latter then make sure to give the appropriate credit where its due.
Cheers.
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I allways do, not one to take someones hard work and claim it, post updated with thanks.
Thank you for pointing it out that I forgot to ad thanks.
ps, is your nin theme available for htc desire?
WOW! This was what i was looking for (I just really wanted an auto rotating lockscreen) !
I've found a few things:
The status bar is still openable
There isn't an option to make the wallpaper see-through. Meaning we cannot see the live wallpaper beneath it.
The lock circle gets cut off when moved to extreme points.
Not deal breakers and considering its actually pretty good as is, I can live with those things maybe there will be fixes and additional features!
Thanks!
FC1032 said:
WOW! This was what i was looking for !
I've found a few things:
The status bar is still openable
There isn't an option to make the wallpaper see-through. Meaning we cannot see the live wallpaper beneath it.
The lock circle gets cut off when moved to extreme points.
Not deal breakers and considering its actually pretty good as is, I can live with those things maybe there will be fixes and additional features!
Thanks!
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Try a simple reboot.
I dont have issue 3 and only live walpapers arent seen any other reg is seen.
and i love having issue 1
Hit my thanks button if I helped
I gave this ago last week, its very "clunky"
natious said:
I gave this ago last week, its very "clunky"
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have you tried this version. It seems to work the best.
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have you tried this version. It seems to work the best.
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Is it the version from the market?
If it had some more customization options I'd be all over it, I'm just to use to widget locker now
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
natious said:
Is it the version from the market?
If it had some more customization options I'd be all over it, I'm just to use to widget locker now
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
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Its a version or two back since the current one caused some issues
Works nice, thanks!
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Is it the version from the market?
If it had some more customization options I'd be all over it, I'm just to use to widget locker now
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
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Yeah I'm much the same. Widget locker is in the inner circle with root explorer and titanium backup ect... it does the job, has a million themes/skins extra and works well.
@OP: Hey not having a go, much, but I thought you didn't have a galaxy tab anymore?? x-D
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Yeah I'm much the same. Widget locker is in the inner circle with root explorer and titanium backup ect... it does the job, has a million themes/skins extra and works well.
@OP: Hey not having a go, much, but I thought you didn't have a galaxy tab anymore?? x-D
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I dont. I miss it so much i keep taking my roomates everytime it is left unattended.
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I dont. I miss it so much i keep taking my roomates everytime it is left unattended.
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Lol yup serves em right for being so cavalier with such a sublime piece of tech.... they should just consider themselves lucky they get it back off you IMO.
B-)
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Is there a way to disable the standard lockscreen so you're not having to unlock twice?
very nice! just what i need! thanks serpentine and sungpen!
Thanks , greatly working on mine
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Is there a way to disable the standard lockscreen so you're not having to unlock twice?
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You could try no lock from the market
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
I'd like very much..thanks ssserpentine
is that possible to make it as default home/standard lockscreen? if can, how?
cause after i'm installing it, i can only used when it run or lock the screen manually, not after reboot.
best lockscreen ever! please more options/settings...
The first is that I miss having panoramic wallpapers because having stationary live wallpapers kinda looks lame.
The second is that I want to be able to chose the app drawer style. I want to be able to switch between the current one and the individual ones in other versions of android.
What other stuff do you miss from old Sense?
I agree on the panoramic wallpaper, it was way cooler.
not possible since the carrousels keeps turning...the home screens are not stationary so a panaromic wallpaper is a no go
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not possible since the carrousels keeps turning...the home screens are not stationary so a panaromic wallpaper is a no go
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I say screw the carrousel effect. Its lame and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Just another useless piece of eye candy HTC included in this laggy ass version of Sense....Ill tell you what I would like to see. HTC go back to the drawing board, take out the eye candy, optimize it for speed and give us more customization.
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I liked the way my signal indicator was green to show it had a connection to Google, on my N1. Now I can't tell.
i wish they would make better use of screen real estate.
960x540, and i have less icons/information on the screen than on my old windows mobile - xda diamond...
pretty lame that you have to install 3rd party apps doing a better job at that.
can it be that its android's fault with that crappy 4x4 grid, only increased for tablets?
Man, in the dock, why the hell do I have to endure the Personnalize button? Why can't I replace it with something else? It's a feature I use once a week or so... wtf !
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Man, in the dock, why the hell do I have to endure the Personnalize button? Why can't I replace it with something else? It's a feature I use once a week or so... wtf !
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Yeah. Not being able to customize the dock sucks.
I like the carousel though, you can keep swiping and it's easier to get to a screen if you're on the last one and want to go to the first.
dead on...
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I say screw the carrousel effect. Its lame and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Just another useless piece of eye candy HTC included in this laggy ass version of Sense....Ill tell you what I would like to see. HTC go back to the drawing board, take out the eye candy, optimize it for speed and give us more customization.
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I need the ability to customize the size of the widgets I put on the screen and I need to be able to add/remove pages &determinie if "I" want 3/4or 5 icon rows or columns.
Sense is too ridgid an interface for me. Launcherpro is he truth.
Its all been pretty much said, Sense 3 does have some nice eye candy but after 2 weeks I was onto good old Launcher Pro
Setting columns and rows is mint!! I have 5 colums and 8 rows totalling 45 possible icons compared to 20 on Sense 3
It would be great if we had different wallpapers, once for the lockscreen and once for home...
sorry for my bad english
I also go with being able to disable the 3D effect. And making use of the extra real estate.
I want to add a non-feature thing as well... fixing it so it doesn't keep closing and restarting.
Resisable widgets and more rows / columns.
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I want it to not take a million MB of ram usage.
+1 for wallpaper landscape we should have a option. Another one is rosie rotation on unlock kind slow things down. And last news app was better on sense 2.1 more organized.
Hi all,
Tried runnning a non sense rom, miui and c7 and i have to say i struggled to fill the pages on my desktop, theres no full screen weather app half as good as the sense widgets, infact theres no clock as good looking as the sense clock either, the phonebook on non sense rom's doesn't match up contacts with their fb and twitter counterparts and it actually does lag at times, i thought i'd give it a whirl but i have to say i was left wanting.
Any ideas as to what weather app, main clock, bookmarks widget etc that you would use?
Because unless i'm being silly, there really wasn't a great selection out there.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
If I may quote myself:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18030152
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Sense widgets are a bunch of pointless crapware. Why anyone needs a massive obnoxiously gargantuan oversized clock to invade half their screen like a malignant tumor is beyond me. We have this beautiful, huge Sensation screen and you waste half of it on 3-4 numbers? You must really want to seem "cool" in front of your friends. You already have a clock, it's in the notification bar. You can also get a weather notification on the market. Btw combining contacts manually in cm7 takes like 10 minutes tops, once.
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Cool in front of your friends??? Wow! Way to keep XDA friendly and welcoming???
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sergeybrin said:
Sense widgets are a bunch of pointless crapware. Why anyone needs a massive obnoxiously gargantuan oversized clock to invade half their screen like a malignant tumor is beyond me. We have this beautiful, huge Sensation screen and you waste half of it on 3-4 numbers? You must really want to seem "cool" in front of your friends. You already have a clock, it's in the notification bar. You can also get a weather notification on the market. Btw combining contacts manually in cm7 takes like 10 minutes tops, once.
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hahahahaha this made me lol, someones touchy!