So, is anyone else as confused about what to do here? I really want CM7 and an AOSP-like experience. But after using the Das Bamf 2.0 ROM, which only contains flashes of Sense 3.0, and seeing the Preview ROM as well, I am truly torn. The Sense that comes with the TB--to me--leaves alot to be desired. But 3.0? There is a HUGE upgrade! But there is just something about CM7 without the manufacturer bloat, the simple Dialer/Contacts/Notification bar. It's just clean.
I am not sure which one we will have working first as a daily driver (although some are already using both as daily's--I prefer to wait until they are somewhat more refined).
What are you guys going to do given the choice?
CM7?
3.0?
Wait for Unrooted Gingerbread?
I love BAMF GingerREMIX v2.0 Beta #6..It works great, and its stable. Great Battery Life.
Well waiting for unrooted gingerbread is silly. I feel that like the ASOP cm7 is a strong driver but its a bit too plain for me. Also gingerbread isn't that great by itself. I mean cosmetically speaking it isn't much of a change from froyo. I really do like the sense 3.0 aspects. They just add so much but that's just one guys oppion.
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What's so great about Sense 3.0? The only major difference I saw was the lock screen icons. I just got widget locker from the market and that lets you fully customize your lock screen.
I'm torn as well but decided on using BAMF Stripped V1.7. I use ADW EX as my launcher for it and I love it! It gives me the feel of CM7 but it runs much smoother than CM7 ever has on my device. I love CM7/AOSP type stuff but with the BAMF Stripped version my phone runs great and still has some nice stylings to it as well. So basically if you like AOSP/Sense you can run the same ROM as I am and kind of have elements of both.
skinien said:
What's so great about Sense 3.0? The only major difference I saw was the lock screen icons. I just got widget locker from the market and that lets you fully customize your lock screen.
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Lol, because your lockscreen looks like mine and has twitter integration?
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Sense 3.0 FTW! Running Gingeritis Final with Imoseyon's lean 3.0.1 kernel, it's a sweet eye-candy laden setup..
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Lol, because your lockscreen looks like mine and has twitter integration?
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haha, yeah. If I cared about twitter that much I'd just add a twitter widget to my lock screen.
My lock screen currently has:
Pandora widget
Winamp widget
Sound toggle widget
phone, gmail, handcent icons
Clock widget
alarm widget
battery % widget
slide to the right to unlock
slide to the left to open camera
AND I can drag down the notifcation bar from the lock screen.
Beats the hell out of the Sense 3.0 lock screen. But forget that... what's so cool about Sense 3.0?
CM7/AOSP over Sense any day for me.
I'm getting better battery life on CM7 now than on any previous ROM as well.
I started with the OG Droid and ran CM most of the time and loved it. My wife had the Eris and whenever I picked up her phone I could not stand Sense so I ended up putting CM on that as well.
Now that I have had my Thunderbolt since launch day I'm loving Sense. I flashed CM and played with it for about 4 hours, set everything up the way I like it and then went back to Sense without even making a backup of CM.
CM just seems very plain to me now that I have been using Sense for 3 months.
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I've Always have had an HTC device but i did like CM6 on my incredible
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my 50 cent....
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haha, yeah. If I cared about twitter that much I'd just add a twitter widget to my lock screen.
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Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.
"What should I use?" is such a loaded question. Everyone that likes sense is going to tell you to use Sense. Everyone that likes CM7 is going to tell you to use CM7.
I love CM7. But up until recently I felt it was unusable. Mostly bc of battery life. On my phone I could literally watch the meter go down. But when I saw a couple of new releases I had to go back. Battery life pwns Sense now (which for me was also horrible -just less horrible).
I think the 3g/4g/wifi hand-off is still having trouble. But I am in a 3g ONLY area. No 4g to connect to and not 1 public wifi hotspot in my community of 2000 people. So that is no biggie for me.
Bottom line is Cm7 is 10000xinfinity better than Sense. But I love CM7.
MsSassypants said:
Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.
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There are two widgets and one of them is scrollable.
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MsSassypants said:
Haha, yeah. And the twitter widget is not scrollable, and it's fugly.
Bottom line is, if you want pretty go with Sense. If you want better battery life, go CM7.
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So false. Everyone is getting varied battery life with CM7 and Bamf... I'm pretty sure I got battery with Sense.
I REALLY like CM7's speed. Navigating between home screens/texts/into the dialer and contacts is so fluid and smooth. I also really like that I can use ADW to make my **** look cooler.
I liked Sense a lot though too, and I'm torn. I thought the lock screen was awesome and had a lot of functionality. I like how my contacts pretty much sync with facebook instantly... I've been on CM7 for 4 days now and only about 1/4 of people's profile pictures have synced. Sense is pretty, and has a lot of pretty awesome apps (the clock app kicks the **** out of the aosp one).
I'm torn.
bp328i said:
I started with the OG Droid and ran CM most of the time and loved it. My wife had the Eris and whenever I picked up her phone I could not stand Sense so I ended up putting CM on that as well.
Now that I have had my Thunderbolt since launch day I'm loving Sense. I flashed CM and played with it for about 4 hours, set everything up the way I like it and then went back to Sense without even making a backup of CM.
CM just seems very plain to me now that I have been using Sense for 3 months.
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cm7 on D1 was good but not better then Buglessbeast! He needs to come the thunderbolt
I've been using BAMF since the first preview as a daily. I wasnt a fan of sense before but now I'm hooked.
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wad3g said:
CM7/AOSP over Sense any day for me.
I'm getting better battery life on CM7 now than on any previous ROM as well.
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second this!
I was on Bamf 2.0.5 for about a week. I tried CM 7.1 r4 and had issues. I really liked the lockscreen "ring" on Sense 3.0. Especially how you could set 4 apps on the lock screen and drag them to the ring.
However I tried CM 7.1 R6 and I am sold. It is fast, bloat free and my battery life is the best I have ever had on this 4G phone.
3G to 4G can still be a little squirrelly sometimes, but the AOSP ROM is quick and bloatfree.
Can anyone talk about the camera app in CM7 vs Sense 3.0? I heard that stock AOSP camera app has a lot of problems?
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So I've been seein the EVO 3D, and I really like its new sense ui. You can change the lockscreen with weather and when you slide through the screens there is a new carasel look and more. I am just wondering two things. 1. Is there any way to get that Sense ported over to our Inspire's? 2. If we can't, do you think that the Inspire will ever get that update?
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So I've been seein the EVO 3D, and I really like its new sense ui. You can change the lockscreen with weather and when you slide through the screens there is a new carasel look and more. I am just wondering two things. 1. Is there any way to get that Sense ported over to our Inspire's? 2. If we can't, do you think that the Inspire will ever get that update?
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This update is in fact coming to devices with Sense. It's going to the HTC Evo-3D first though. It's kind of to showcase it. Hit Google. There are articles everywhere for it.
As long as it isn't as intrusive as the current sense...
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As long as it isn't as intrusive as the current sense...
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I actually prefer it to vanilla Android. I ran cm for a day and flashed design gears Rom back over it. I have great battery life so far, so it really doesn't bother me. I feel almost "privileged" to have it since I own an HTC device.
You really can't beat the dialer, messaging app and keyboard. I know there are skins to out on other keyboards but I can't get the same performance as I can the built in HTC keyboard.
Plus I'm a huge sucker for the clock....
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I actually prefer it to vanilla Android. I ran cm for a day and flashed design gears Rom back over it. I have great battery life so far, so it really doesn't bother me. I feel almost "privileged" to have it since I own an HTC device.
You really can't beat the dialer, messaging app and keyboard. I know there are skins to out on other keyboards but I can't get the same performance as I can the built in HTC keyboard.
Plus I'm a huge sucker for the clock....
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I love sense as well, but mainly I was refering to it hogging ram and cpu. I am sure there are ways they can optimize it better.
After seeing your screen shot in the other thread I'm flashing a gb Rom back. Killer battery life governs.
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I recently rooted my inspire, first android device, and installed CM7 because it seemed amazing, not saying it isn't. I like CM7, but i like pure Gingerbreads gingerygoodness even better. I am currently running CM7-Phunky Cow "flavored"
and i like it because of the actual launcher and runs higher quadrant scores.
I like pure gingerbread, but i think i may miss the cm7 settings, some i use, also i miss HTC widgets and camera, etc, but i cant stand sense anymore.
Anyone have recomendations on ROMS, or CM7 Flavours/Mods?
Use Ultimate Droid
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I have tried that and it seems alot heavier then CM7, and that's not really what im aiming for, plus the theme is wierd on it, im not sure how i'd go with changing that.
What's the reason you use it?
Its very smooth and fast and my speed increased and its just perfect for me
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Right now Cm7 is starting to make me not like my phone for some reason so let's put it this way, is there a Stable, User-Friendly, non sense rom out there thats gingerbread?
The nature of all custom roms are beta's nothing more, every rom including the stock non rooted rom is subject to hiccups.
Chrisj7 said:
Right now Cm7 is starting to make me not like my phone for some reason so let's put it this way, is there a Stable, User-Friendly, non sense rom out there thats gingerbread?
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Have you tried MIUI?
davidusr said:
Have you tried MIUI?
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+1. Gingerbread, works great, smooth, slick, and not an lick of Sense. If you are looking to try something different, you owe it to yourself to give it a go. C'mon over to the Dark Side, the water is great!
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Have you tried MIUI?
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Pure GB. Fully customizable. Great Quadrant scores (for what they're worth). No problems whatsoever...
And I jumped to the "Dark Side" straight from the latest CM7 build...and haven't looked back....
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knuckleheadAj3 said:
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Pure GB. Fully customizable. Great Quadrant scores (for what they're worth). No problems whatsoever...
And I jumped to the "Dark Side" straight from the latest CM7 build...and haven't looked back....
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Well i guess im going to try miui, but how do i get it looking more like gingerbread, that seems heavily modded visualy... And is it using gingerbread launcher or an app launcher
If you're looking for a Gingerbread build with Sense, try RCMix 5.9.x, available for download directly via CWM.
He said he "can't stand Sense anymore".
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Chrisj7 said:
Well i guess im going to try miui, but how do i get it looking more like gingerbread, that seems heavily modded visualy... And is it using gingerbread launcher or an app launcher
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It's using a home launcher.
If you want a pure GB home launcher, or have it look like CM7, just download ADW Launcher or Launcher Pro.
I'm currenrly running ADWEx on mine...
MIUI is fully customizable, and even has its own dedicated dev forum...
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I'm borrowing my buddys inspire for two days to see how I like it. I own an Atrix. Right away I can see that the screen and build quality of this phone is much better than my Atrix. I also really like sense.
I asked my friend to put gingerbread and 3.0 sense on this phone so I can try it out. While the features are great the phone just doesnt feel as fast as my Atrix I need to find out exactly what Rom is on this phone so I can tell you guys, but my question is, is there anyway to put REAL sense 3.0 on this phone as well as gingerbread? Or are these things just themes?
I would try to find this info myself but you guys have like 30 roms listed in the dev forum. Also can you tell me if its possible to make the inspire very snappy while having sense 3.0 and gingerbread? So far I'm very much liking the phone and am considering making the switch.
If I'm understanding correctly, sense will backup all my settings and apps so that if I switch phones I won't have to do anything to get it back to the way I had it. Is this accurate?
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Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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Motoblur is the worst UI you can have. The sense 3.0 rom is a tad clunky but it looks nice I suppose. Try out cm7 or miui and you'll think this phones hardware runs circles around your atrix.
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akira02rex said:
Motoblur is the worst UI you can have. The sense 3.0 rom is a tad clunky but it looks nice I suppose. Try out cm7 or miui and you'll think this phones hardware runs circles around your atrix.
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Is cm7 a gingerbread Rom?
Will cm7 remove sense from the phone? I would like to keep sense.
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CM7 is basically vinilla android with some improvements so no sense, miui is the best rom ever period, rcmix kingdom is sense 3.0 but is still not a solid rom. i had an atrix, hjad hardware problems with it and got it traded, then i started looking at the inspire fourms and i became more and more unhappy with my atrix and switched it for an inspire and it was the best desision ever but if you want to back up all your apps and restore them it wont work when switching roms 100% of the time so i would recommend BUYING titanium backup because if yourestore apps with the free version it takes forever due to the fact that you have to hit yes for every app, wait for it to install, then hit done, for every app
cordell507 said:
CM7 is basically vinilla android with some improvements so no sense, miui is the best rom ever period, rcmix kingdom is sense 3.0 but is still not a solid rom
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I disagree. Miui is horrible. Blah.... It lasted 12 hours on my phone. And that only cause I went to sleep.
I am using Gingerbeast. Its awesome. Fast...I Have been OC'd on it @ 1450mhz for like 2 weeks straight. No Issues. No Sense tho. But sense, its garbage man. Sense is bloatware..... .. Install a launcher, install GO SMS and GO contacts.. Its all you needs. If you want sense for the social stuff, just down load the social apps. But with this phone why? I just use the browser and log into them normally...
Leedroid is the only other Rom I would recommend for Sense. I used it for weeks. Fast, OC-able and All the Sense you could want.
I also +1 Titanium Back up. Its awesome.
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I disagree. Miui is horrible. Blah.... It lasted 12 hours on my phone. And that only cause I went to sleep.
I am using Gingerbeast. Its awesome. Fast...I Have been OC'd on it @ 1450mhz for like 2 weeks straight. No Issues. No Sense tho. But sense, its garbage man. Sense is bloatware..... .. Install a launcher, install GO SMS and GO contacts.. Its all you needs. If you want sense for the social stuff, just down load the social apps. But with this phone why? I just use the browser and log into them normally...
Leedroid is the only other Rom I would recommend for Sense. I used it for weeks. Fast, OC-able and All the Sense you could want.
I also +1 Titanium Back up. Its awesome.
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i cant get off of miui, i've flashed 8+ different ROM's but keep going back to MIUI for amazing battery OC to 1.997, ridiculous speed, stability, and over all beautiful, and the music app is unbeatable, but titanium backup is the best
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Shoot another thing sorry. Everything on this phone appears zoomed in and the fonts are big. Does this have something to do with the resolution of the phone. I expected the opposite since the screen is a tad bigger.
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I'm a coredroid fan, sense 3.0 items, gb, oc'd. Pretty stable
It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
I think I'm going to make the switch from the Atrix based on the build quality alone. Do like the option for sense though.
Is there any other ATT phone that can be reccomended over the inspire at the moment? Or is the inspire at the top of the food chain for build quality, power, and modability?
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cordell507 said:
i cant get off of miui, i've flashed 8+ different ROM's but keep going back to MIUI for amazing battery OC to 1.997, ridiculous speed, stability, and over all beautiful, and the music app is unbeatable, but titanium backup is the best
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PowerAMP is better and I can over clock to 1997mhz on Gingerbeast ...But why would you want to burn your CPU out? I get awesome battery life with GB.. Over nite in standy ---Less then 6%...With miui it was half dead over nite... /Reflashed.
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It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
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Dude, Go SMS, GO Contacts. Bye-bye Sense... Both are free and themeable.
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Dude, Go SMS, GO Contacts. Bye-bye Sense... Both are free and themeable.
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My contacts are synced by Google, I'm not worried about that. I would like the feature of all of my settings and apps to be restored after a phone change or phone wipe.
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if you think you like sense learn to use titanium backup and flash CM7 or MIUI and you wont be able to go back
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if you think you like sense learn to use titanium backup and flash CM7 or MIUI and you wont be able to go back
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As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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Out of all the UI's Sense is the best. I've used miui once but it looks too similar to the iphone so I don't really know what the appeal is there. However there is a large number of people who like the stock look with CM7 because of how you can customize literally everything, after a while that gets repetitive and boring. Personally I prefer Sense because of the hardware acceleration in the UI and the eye candy. Out of all the UI's it's the only one that doesn't look like it was designed by a 10 year old kid.
Go flash Leedroid with all the patches and you'll see what I mean.
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As I am not experienced much yet with an unlocked bootloader, ill take your word for it. I already purchaser TB for my Atrix do that's not an issue. I just never fully understood how to use it so I kinda just sits in my app drawer.
If you could please just briefly highlight the diffrences in cm7 and miui I would really appreciate it. Also do you think flashing to cm7 will remove this "zoomed in, big font issue" I was referring to earlier? Or is it maybe that MOTO blur is zoomed out? Everything looks smaller on the Atrix.
It's strange to see such dislike for Sense. I've seen on many occasions in other phones forums, people asking how to put sense on their non HTC devices. I was under the impression it was the best.
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internally MIUI and CM7 are very similar the biggest difference is the way they actually feel when using them, its mainly the ui, with CM7 you can customize EVERTHING but with MIUI most of its their you just have to see if you like it but if you do flash miui id recommend Rey's coustom rom MIUI in the desire hd fourms. but with titanium backup what it does is makes very precise backups of all your apps and saves it to your sd card and when you move roms you just download titanium backup and restore, most of this is done thorough batch which you go to backup/restore, hit menu, and select backup all user apps with data, but NEVER select system data when moving roms because it can cause some serious problems
My opinion:
Love sense. My favorite UI, and I like all roms on this forum. Tried every single one. My absolute favorite aosp rom is gingerbeast. Favorite sense rom is stock rooted and gtg's inspired ace. Then comes miui. As for the atrix, forget it. I had the atrix and it kept overheating, so I got the inspire and it was the best decision ever! Best part-no motoblur
As far as the people who don't like sense, go spend a year on touchwiz or motoblur
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seh6183 said:
It's strange to see one person love miui and another hate it haha
I basically like sense for its ability to keep everything backed up for me. Not for the widgets.
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Well then you might as well flash an aosp rom. Sense wont keep all you stuff backed up throughout roms(I don't remember it restoring any of my stuff)
aosp roms will keep EVERY app backed up and will restore them when you reflash or update the rom. If you uninstall an app, it wont restore it.
Works perfect.
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Out of all the UI's Sense is the best. I've used miui once but it looks too similar to the iphone so I don't really know what the appeal is there. However there is a large number of people who like the stock look with CM7 because of how you can customize literally everything, after a while that gets repetitive and boring. Personally I prefer Sense because of the hardware acceleration in the UI and the eye candy. Out of all the UI's it's the only one that doesn't look like it was designed by a 10 year old kid.
Go flash Leedroid with all the patches and you'll see what I mean.
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What's the snappiest gingerbread Rom that has sense bundled?
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I've become a big fan of CoreDroid, Sergio promised us a new version tonight or tomorrow.
Inspired Ace was good, but I wanted the Sense 3 bits
Thank God for 3rd party launchers. I can't stand Sense and I have given it every chance as well. Apart from the extremely annoying frequent Sense reboots the phone lags and things feel slower than on my old Incredible. Just switching from Sense to LauncherPro without changing anything else I get back over 50MB of RAM. That's ridiculous, talk about bloat.
I still haven't s-off my phone yet but I'm starting to consider it. Especially when we get stable builds from Cyanogen.
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Are you crazy you don't like sense3.0 it runs smooth as glass on my inspire but if you don't use the widgets I can see why you would go for launcher pro. But your nuts if you don't root. I would have had that puppy rooted the minute it came out.
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sammael1069 said:
Are you crazy you don't like sense3.0 it runs smooth as glass on my inspire but if you don't use the widgets I can see why you would go for launcher pro. But your nuts if you don't root. I would have had that puppy rooted the minute it came out.
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Inspire Sense 3.0 and Sensation Sense 3.0 (Stock) are two completely different beasts. The stock build for Sensation has some issues.
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Thank God for 3rd party launchers. I can't stand Sense and I have given it every chance as well. Apart from the extremely annoying frequent Sense reboots the phone lags and things feel slower than on my old Incredible. Just switching from Sense to LauncherPro without changing anything else I get back over 50MB of RAM. That's ridiculous, talk about bloat.
I still haven't s-off my phone yet but I'm starting to consider it. Especially when we get stable builds from Cyanogen.
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Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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What about if you buy a phome for hardware... People do that with computers and dual boot linux etc because they are not a fan of windows
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I really like Sense 3.0, I just wish it was more optimized out of the gate.
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Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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I knew it came with Sense. My Incredible came with Sense and it was lightning fast. As much as I like it its too slow and buggy. Once they update it and hopefully improve things I might give it another shot.
Oh and this phone hardware is reason enough to buy the phone.
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im s-off but i dont want a custom rom i like what i have just want to theme my stock rom a little other than that it runs smooth as a babys ass lol......... maybe its those dump **** apps your installing
LauncherPro locks up my Sensation something fierce.
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Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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Personally, I like HTC's hardware. It's Sense I can always do without. I mean, c'mon! This is a forum for phone modding, not for keeping your phone like stock.
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If I can't install the apps I want then the phone is useless. Enjoy limiting what you install on your phone to keep running how you want.
I have been using ADW on it since I got it. I hate Sense and always have. To much eye candy for no apparent reason. Ill take function over form any day of the week.
By the way, I just switched everyone from the other thread regarding this same topic over to ADW from LP and gave them my settings. The 5 that did all agree that ADW is faster than LP with the correct settings. Also, the free version of ADW will not be as fast due to it not having a lot of the settings. You have to purchase ADW EX in order to feel the speed.
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Sense 3 is acceptable to me
But I prefer Google's original launch app
But LaunchPro and ADW are something makes wanna throw the phone right to the wall
Sense is just trash, period. Can't wait to get my CM7!
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
I can't figure it out but my phone hates Sense. Even after I uninstalled the Good for Enterprise app which I thought was causing the issues Sense starts slowing down and then craps out after a little while. It literally restarts Sense after every app install or update or even uninstall. I don't think its a memory issue only because there's plenty free but it doesn't happen right after a reboot either. I can't figure it out but it definitely seems like something is leaking memory or corrupting Sense.
When is T-Mobile releasing our update? I'm good using LP for now but it'd be nice to have a proper functioning stock launcher as an option as well.
Sent from my thumbs to your eyes using a Sensation 4G
I was running ADW EX for a few days. It was fast as ****, but I missed the Sense 3.0. Widgets and interface. My phone has no lag at all and works perfect with Sense as well. If it was laggy, I would definitely drop it for ADW. My brother uses Launcher Pro and is a big fan. To each his own.
Totally agree, to each his own.
For me ... this phone is totally usable with Sense...
Each launcher has it's pluses and minuses. There are quite a few alternatives to Sense widgets but none has completely done it for me. Same goes for HTC's apps, especially People/Phone and Email apps.
The major problem with Sense 3 was the many frequent Launcher restarts, which is almost solved now with the custom rom I'm using (CrystalPyramid), been using it for 3 days and it's been as fast as can be for me. I really can't be happier with my Sensation now.
The only two things I really miss about other launchers are changing home number of rows and resizable widgets.
crisisinthecity said:
I was running ADW EX for a few days. It was fast as ****, but I missed the Sense 3.0. Widgets and interface. My phone has no lag at all and works perfect with Sense as well. If it was laggy, I would definitely drop it for ADW. My brother uses Launcher Pro and is a big fan. To each his own.
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I definitely have an app or something that is messing with Sense. It starts out well enough and then just craps its pants after a while. I would like to use it but can't if I want to maintain my sanity.
Sent from my thumbs to your eyes using a Sensation 4G
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LauncherPro locks up my Sensation something fierce.
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Have you tried playing around with the Memory Usage and other options under LauncherPro's Preferences --> Advanced Settings menu?
I was already pretty happy with LP's performance on my phone, but a couple of experiments with those tweaks made it even better for me. Hopefully it'll make things a little rosier for you too? That is, if you're even interested in LP anymore
I would get the white screen with green HTC logo almost everytime I went out of an app so, started using Launcher Pro. Today just for the frell of it
I decided to download Go Launcher EX. I got say its 1, Free, 2, there are
loads of free themes and 3 customizable!
The guy at T-Mobile said that once this phone gets 2.3.4 and the HTC
update as well then Sense might not be so buggy.
Here's a link to view about the launcher above.
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/go-launcher-ex_ragy.html
Are there are new native CM7 lockscreens? Getting bored of the current ones and would like to try some news ones out. If not then I'll go back to widget locker.
Thanks
The newest one is called Ring. Its a HTC sence 3.0 style lockscrren ( not sure if you have seen it yet, it came out 2 months ago)
Widgetlocker?! Have fun slowing down your phone and wasting battery life by having an app run on top of your stock lock screen. Not replacing it. On top of it.
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Yeah I've used that one for a bit, don't really like it that much though. Hoping there will be an ICS one soon as that looks really nice
Lol, yeah Widget locker does suck a bit, but I like having my phone look good!