Are there any apps out there to tweak Sense UI? Things such as reduce the number of screens, tweak the screen transition speed, colors, etc?
Thank you
Skitzi said:
Are there any apps out there to tweak Sense UI? Things such as reduce the number of screens, tweak the screen transition speed, colors, etc?
Thank you
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In regards to the transitions -- you an app called Spare parts. To change the color of Sense and what not, this would have to done by theming (modifying) the exiting files and changing the colors.
I plan on creating a theme, but as of right now -- I'm in the process of creating a new bootscreen.
I don't think you can mess with the Sense UI very much. The # of screens is set in stone. If you want the sense UI feel, but want less homescreens, download LauncherPro Beta from the market. It allows for 3-7 homescreens, and they have that little bounce when swiping left and right. It also has the 3D app drawer (you must enable it in the settings). Not sure how ADW launcher compares to LauncherPro, but it has similar functionality, but looks a little more like the Froyo launcher on the N1.
Also, get Fancy Widget, which is an almost identical copy of the HTC flip clock with weather.
Also, Smooth Calendar is very close to the stock 1 X 4 calendar widget.
There is a 4G toggle on this board, so you can turn on/off the 4G radio in one click.
I don't miss HTC Sense one bit.
Thank you for the input. I found my self trying out Launcher Pro and love it! I appreciate the info
Hello all,
I'm having a devil of a time with this one. It's probably been answered before, but there are so many threads and responses on here. Perhaps some of you can save me a lot of time and effort here?
I have an HTC Wildfire with the nightly build of Cyanogenmod. Everything's fine, except that the wallpapers (even the stock cyanogenmod ones) are all grossly oversized, showing only a small part of the image, which is all pixelated and blurred of course. Any new picture I've put on there has the same effect. Even resizing one to recommended defaults for the screensize using PS only does the same thing. I've tried setting the crop from the gallery to the full size of the image, but that doesn't work either.
I have the scrollable wallpaper option turned off in ADW as well. I just can't find ANYTHING to simply have a nice image sized properly on the background of the screen. It simply seems that the mod won't scale the image properly. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
SAME PROBLEM!
but im using htc aria. i already have wallpaper suitable for my aria resolution. (also have try so many resolution)
my step :
-click menu
-wallpaper
-choose from gallery
-size for cropping the image very accurate. all crop.
but at homescreen, wallpaper go to center of that image.and it also going enlarge.
help me pleasee.....
:: noob user need help
Try Wallpaper Set & Save to set your wallpaper. It's free in the market.
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Hi!
Is there a way to disable 3D Barrel effect when changing homescreens in Sense 3.0 ? Other launchers works much smoother and faster but there is lack of HTC widgets...
EniHS said:
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Is there a way to disable 3D Barrel effect when changing homescreens in Sense 3.0 ? Other launchers works much smoother and faster but there is lack of HTC widgets...
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I also asked for this. I believe it's not possible.
EniHS said:
Other launchers works much smoother and faster but there is lack of HTC widgets...
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Just go with another launcher. For each HTC widget, there's always a much better alternative/equivalent in the Market. Plus, you get the advantage of a much more configurable, smoother launcher with better transition effects, transparency, skins, etc, etc.
sjgore said:
Just go with another launcher. For each HTC widget, there's always a much better alternative/equivalent in the Market. Plus, you get the advantage of a much more configurable, smoother launcher with better transition effects, transparency, skins, etc, etc.
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Thanks. I would go for Launcher Pro, because its widgets are similar to HTC's (f.e. big, slightly transparent Agenda), but there is no good HTC clock widget. I found in the Market app named LP Sense Skin + Clock Widget, but this clock is not optimized for qHD
Another thing that annoys me is the HTC dock in the lockscreen and another android dock in Launcher Pro in homescreen. Is there a way to change lockscreen in Sense 3.0?
I wish there was an option to turn these animations off...
Well I guess LauncherPro is the exception in that it comes with its own widgets. Most home screen replacements are just the launcher, and you use your own widgets.
If it helps, here are some equivalents:
HTC Clock > Beautiful Widgets
HTC Weather > Beautiful Widgets
HTC Toggle Widgets > Beautiful Widgets
HTC Agenda > Android Agenda Widget
HTC Calendar View > Pure Calendar Widget
HTC FriendStream > Tweetdeck
I actually quite like still having the HTC lockscreen with its four shortcuts, and then a different set of shortcuts in ADWLauncher.EX.
As you're discovering right now, Sense 3.0 isn't very configurable at all.
I want both lol. LauncherPro Plus and Sense 3.0. LPP for the configurability and just general awesomeness, but Sense 3.0 for the app drawer and dock that LPP can't have
Can we use Sense 2.1 Launcher to disable that 3D effect?
I don't have Sensation right now. Can anyone try that with a dumb sense launcher.apk from Incredible S etc.?
I can't stand the bloody carousel effect when unlocking the device either. Just a time waste!
I seriously don't get it why htc wouldn't want let us get rid of this absurd effect!!!
For the rest, I'd rather not change for another launcher, I quite like the widgets and such. But wish htc would read us and provide a more configurable update some time later.
eadred said:
I can't stand the bloody carousel effect when unlocking the device either. Just a time waste!
I seriously don't get it why htc wouldn't want let us get rid of this absurd effect!!!
For the rest, I'd rather not change for another launcher, I quite like the widgets and such. But wish htc would read us and provide a more configurable update some time later.
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Yeah, widgets. Thats why I asked the question above. I hope someone may try.
I went for LauncherPro. It is very configurable (number of columns, rows etc), much faster and smoother than Sense and has very similar widgets to HTC's (Friends, Calendar, Bookmarks).
For HTC like weather clock I went for Beautiful Widgets and its SuperClock.
Yes you can configure which screen and widgets to use on the lock screen.
Select Personalize, Lock screen, and you can select a number of screens and change the widgets to others. There are lock screen for wallpaper, weather (I like), photos, etc. On the clock one, you can press Settings and select one of the alternative clocks.
Very cool
eadred said:
I can't stand the bloody carousel effect when unlocking the device either. Just a time waste!
I seriously don't get it why htc wouldn't want let us get rid of this absurd effect!!!
For the rest, I'd rather not change for another launcher, I quite like the widgets and such. But wish htc would read us and provide a more configurable update some time later.
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OMFG. Here, i am looking for a launcher(tell me if you know one) or ROM that replicates the effect on my desire s, and you guys want to remove it??
The carousel unlock effect is truly annoying.
On the Nexus One I had the nice CRT TV screen-off effect which is good, because its an effect/waste of time AFTER you've done working with your phone and want to lock it. This is the time for graphic flourishes.
HTC instead do a nice effect when I unlock the phone, that is when I want to use the phone immediately, but I get a little waste of time effect instead.
In summary - do the fun graphic stuff when I want to lock (done using the phone, wouldn't mind seeing something cool), as opposed to doing fun graphic stuff when i unlock (when I want to use the phone immediately and really don't want to see any superficial flourishes!).
Is there a clock widget that looks EXACTLY the same as the Sense one? Old version of Fancy Widgets was, but they changed it. So is it possible to just download the old version (apk) and install it?
weather & toggle widget.. download that
download h7c clock within the app
best htc clock out there imo
dbirdflyshi said:
weather & toggle widget.. download that
download h7c clock within the app
best htc clock out there imo
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+1 but the weather animations can be a bit annoying seeing as they occur whenever the phone is unlocked, to any screen, for any reason.I used to use this on my MT3G Slide and I was pretty satisfied with it, though nothing really compares to sense IMO.
dbirdflyshi said:
weather & toggle widget.. download that
download h7c clock within the app
best htc clock out there imo
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Looks awesome... Will try it, thanks.
There is NO widget I can find to replace the htc gallery widget! It's very annoying
eadred said:
I can't stand the bloody carousel effect when unlocking the device either. Just a time waste!
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Just change "show all animations" to "show some animations" in Menu->Settings->Display. That will take care of that.
idavid_ said:
Is there a clock widget that looks EXACTLY the same as the Sense one? Old version of Fancy Widgets was, but they changed it. So is it possible to just download the old version (apk) and install it?
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I have fancy widgets pro APK and I put it on SD card and installed, but it force closes. I think it is not compatable with the QHD screen.
Hey guys, with all the flexibility that Android OS is supposed to have, one restriction that is really aggravating me is the wallpaper size contstraint...
Is there any way to get rid of the wallpaper size restriction? My goal basically is to able to make a wallpaper as wide as the amount of screens I have so that when I go to a different screen it looks like a different wallpaper. To see what i mean, take a wallpaper and use 2 home screens only. When you switch between the two, it loads a half of the wallpaper, so if you made one picture with 2 480x800 pictures, it would look like two seperate wallpapers. What I would like to do is use 3 home screens, and a wallpaper created by using 3 480x800 pictures (1440x800), but whenever I try to set a wallpaper it forces me to crop it to a 960x800 area. Can anyone chime in on if this is at all possible?
Thanks!
I like the idea and would like to know aswell..
I think wallpaper wizardrii works.
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OK. It had been a really long time since I used multi live wallpaper.
My goal was to be able to have, on my 3 screens, individual wallpapers that i compiled randomly, and use a wallpaper changer to always have a different wallpaper on each screen. Multilive does that now! Just set it for random, and eveyr hour, all 3 of my screens update with a different wallpaper. All I did was create 480x800 versions of all the wallpapers i was going to randomly combine into large wide wallpapers, throw them all into a folder, and tell multilive wallpaper to pick from there. It's pretty damn sweet. Also, if a wallpaper that I don't want to see at that time comes around double tapping the screen changes them all up again. It's great.
kravguy said:
I think wallpaper wizardrii works.
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Worked like a camp! Running C.M. 7.1 RC1
I have been reading through many threads about homescreen layouts and wallpapers and lots of posters mention 'hubs' and 'subhubs'. This seems to be a sort of menu structure whereby the home screen has links to one of the subsequent screens. This seems to be to be a great principle to adopt - allowing for a cleaner appearance to the home screen but I haven't a clue what to even use to create it. Anybody willing to explain the basics to me? Do I need a particular launcher or widget set or is it built into Android. I have a transformer infinity running jelly bean.
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I have been reading through many threads about homescreen layouts and wallpapers and lots of posters mention 'hubs' and 'subhubs'. This seems to be a sort of menu structure whereby the home screen has links to one of the subsequent screens. This seems to be to be a great principle to adopt - allowing for a cleaner appearance to the home screen but I haven't a clue what to even use to create it. Anybody willing to explain the basics to me? Do I need a particular launcher or widget set or is it built into Android. I have a transformer infinity running jelly bean.
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I'm not really sure but it could be like the screen structure used with many launchers (ADW, Go, Sense, etc; Sense for sure not sure about the others - haven't used them in quite some time) where if you pinch the homescreen then you are presented with all 7 screens as icons centered around the homescreen. I think the homescreen is like the hub and all the other screens are subhubs. From this screen you can select any screen and be taken directly there not having to page or swipe thru multiple screens just to arrive at your target screen. My HTC DINC2 has this structure in its stock Sense Launcher and I've seen it in other lauchers. Regarding wallpapers, each screen can have its own wallpaper on some lauchers.
Seems to be a minimalist approach at doing the same thing but with links to subhubs (other screens) from the hub (homescreen).
Here's a 3 part tutorial with video links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039586&page=1