Loves sense 3.0?! I just got my sensation & I'm loving it! The only thing I miss is the scrollable background! You would've thought they'd keep that.
I just love all the widgets!
I also don't see the grip about the screen! Maybe because mine is made in China? I don't have no bad angles & I can see it perfectly in the California sun
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No you are not. I think Sense 3.0 is fantastic (didn't have a problem with previous Sense versions as well)
I will back you up on this as well. Sense 3.0 was part of the reason why I got the sensation.
I just wish it was more efficient and the bottom bar was customizable.
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Sense 3.0 is definitely a major improvement still excited to get stock gingerbread on here. 3d transitions aren't bad either.
I love it too
It realy make the phone much atractive
Also a huge fan, dungphp's kingdom sense 3.0 was the last Rom I used for almost 2 months, flashed to my HD2 before I sold it :/
Runs MUCH better on the S4G
I just don't like that damn carousel concept taken from SPB shell, doesn't kill anywhere near as nice/functional, kinds seems more like an afterthought on HTC's part
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In my sensation, i tried using the launcher pro, and ADW Launcher, but used them for a day, and came back to sense 3.0.... i love it... thats the major uplift and the reason for my to upgrade from Desire HD
I like it well enough. I'm excited for other rooms once we get s-off though. Ido with I could disable the turnstile wake up screen and just have my lock screen so I'm not doing two actions to get top the phone!
I love the way it looks. Just wish it wasn't so buggy at times.
no you are not the only one, but I personally gave it up because you can not customize the size of widgets nor add to the number of columns or rows. launcherpro is faster and much more customizable. Also, some live wallpaper is not compatible with it. I do, however, love the lock screen. That is all I use.
Beautiful!
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Yes I'm still loving it!
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I like the sense 3.0 a lot, its come a long way, I just wish we could easily disable some stuff and customize the bottom dock. like 5 or 7 home screens it too many for me.
I'm using Go Launcher EX, its clean, its light, its customizable, its easy.
I have 2 home screens and 2 docks (on the bottom)
With sense I used to have 80-100mb free ram on normal operation (after a boot)
with go launcher I get 150-200
It consumes less, ram, save battery, run's ultra fast after Ive optimized it of course. But even all of this I have my days where I wish I had sense. Im just waiting for the bootloader to unlock so we can have perm access and just hack and slash sense. that would be the best.
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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 have had my Sensation for about a week now. Been playing with both Launcher Pro and the stock sense. Stock sense seems REALLY laggy and kinda buggy. I have been using Launcher Pro for about a year and a half or so and when I loaded it on here and customized it makes the Sensation come alive! If anyone out there hates the lag try Launcher Pro until HTC comes up with an update to fix this.
One downfall is you do lose all of the HTC widgets. The phone still functions the same. And your notification bar and everything else is still there. Just the widgets won't show up when using it. There are widget apps out there like Beautiful Widgets or others that are free.
Just wanted to post this on here. A lot of people talking about lag. This is a great fix for it and speeds up your Sensation to what it should be!
Not trying to pimp Launcher Pro. Just tryin to give suggestions.
Cheers!
Yup, I myself am using adw ex & the phone is now flying. Do miss the sense widgets though. Little bit of give & take I suppose.
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I am using the EXACT setup lol. I always use launcher pro with beautiful widgets. Best combo for me.
I am also using launcher pro. I did get the plus version with the extra widgets. I am somewhat disappointed in them and not sure it was worth the price. However, LP runs great, better than Sense, and I use it along with fancy widgets.
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It's fast for sure. I also use 5 row homescreen grid to fit more icons and widgets to certain screens. Plus version of Launcher Pro is definitely worth the money.
Me too
Ive done the same, ditched sense a few hours after unboxing, Launcher Pro Plus, Beautiful Widgets and Widgetsoid. Fewer FCs and much faster.
Doesn't sense still run in the background even if you use an alternative launcher?
+1 lpp working good for me with the combination of miui fancy widget.
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Doesn't sense still run in the background even if you use an alternative launcher?
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Yes it does, there's no getting rid of it until we're rooted.
Home screens arr very smooth with launcher pro... But my app drawer.lags quite a bit. Same with adw
Anyone else use Folder Organizer?
I really don't like swiping. Much rather click. So I only use one home screen, with folders. Click, click, to access any app, shortcut or bookmark I want. Very fast, zero lag.
Folder Organizer has the advantage of allowing custom icons for the folders, so home page looks like a screen of apps, instead of a bunch or generic folder icons.
One disadvantage, can't link to a widget from inside a folder. But, 3rd party launchers have a similar issue, and I can still put widgets on other home screens if needed.
We have 2 sensations and both running BW and LPP. Our home screens are still not smooth in transitions and often laggy. This is on 2 tmobile sensations. My previous G2x was much faster and smoother.
Also I believe LPP is messing with my geolocation. Not sure how, but when I remove LPP I don't have geolocation issues(tells me I am in a different state).
I prefer Regina right now but I love messing with launchers
Idk what kind of setup you guys are running or maybe your definition of lag is different then mine, but I have no lag at all.
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Home screens arr very smooth with launcher pro... But my app drawer.lags quite a bit. Same with adw
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You have to keep it for a couple hours and it speeds up. I had the same issue and now its faaaast. I use adw ex. And I have the horizontal drawer.
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i would love to use a launcher but I <3 widgets too much
Go launcher is the only one that works for me. Very smooth and snappy all the way around. Can't wait for s-off so we can unlock the full potential of this CPU.
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You have to keep it for a couple hours and it speeds up. I had the same issue and now its faaaast. I use adw ex. And I have the horizontal drawer.
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I see... Idk if I can put if with lag for that long. haven't had a phone that lagged since my droid Eris. Honestly my droid 2 global was a little more snappy than the sensation. But that was oc'd of course.
Launcher pro is awesome but its still not as fast on the sensation as it is on my nexus one. It will prob be after root. Still, much better than sense.
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Destop visualizer in sense
I have been an ADW launcher user for quite a while
on HD2 (2 of), Desire HD and now sensation.
But I have also been using Desktop Visualizer to add custom icons to empty sense pages - best of both worlds.
i also have ADW as a home page choice - have not set either as the default yet.
Only had sensation for 4 days.
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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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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kable said:
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!
Well i think battery usage is the (almost) first problem of our problems with our phones. Changing launcher might be a little solution for it. Maybe not. I don't know. But I'm pretty sure some of users are bored from Sense UI. Well any suggestions for launchers? Please vote as their battery usage(especially) , customization, best looking etc. specialities.
And sorry for my bad english.
Regards.
im simple i like stock sense, ADW is heavily bloated with stuff(allows you to fully customize but still bloated) i like when ADW came out it was lean mean and simple now it just wild and getting ugly looking honest opinion LauncherPro is simple and light but dev stop supporting he went MIA, GO ex is like ADW
I switched to GO EX three months ago and haven't looked back. I like it better in every way. No more Sense reloading and my battery life is WAY better.
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Nova Launcher is great. I'm using it right now. But Rosie is always a backup plan. It's a little slow, but it has great widgets.
Im using now nova laucher, love it! back up launcher is go launcher
I like the sense widgets but launcher pro is pretty solid in my opinion
Another vote for Nova launcher. A very clean launcher indeed!
Sense is my favourite when using Sense ROM's.
On ROM's like CM7 I like the stock Launcher (since it's quick) and LauncherPro.
ADW EX is okay too.
Never been too keen on GoLauncher though although I do like GoSMS.
I'm using apex atm but I've used launcherproplus for ages its the best one for me I left it because it hasn't been updated for ages
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i've never used sense.
sense is only eating my ram. nothing more
aw1974 said:
I switched to GO EX three months ago and haven't looked back. I like it better in every way. No more Sense reloading and my battery life is WAY better.
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+1 here. HTC's has a few things I like, especially the left hand sided shortcut widget, but Go Launcher has so many more useful features I can't go back to anything else.
GO.
like the posters above, I haven't looked back.
seems to be easier on the battery, lighter on ram, way more home screen customization options, and themes up the wazoo.
replaced most of the widgets with 3rd party and they are working even better for me then stock.
tried VTL launcher for a short period of time. great launcher but just wasn't working for me.
heard great things about Nova. can't wait til ota and try that sucker out.
will be interesting to see what HTC does with Sense and ICS...
I've tried tons of launchers, and my two favorites are Go and Sean. For totally opposite reasons. Zeam is light, fast, and basic, but has awesome functionality.
Go is fast, always being updated, and had awesome customizability.
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nova!!! is the way to go
Launcher pro is laggy on Sensation... It's not even close to its smoothness i have seen on Xperia Ray..
Didn't like the fact that I was limited to a 4x4 grid with the Sense launcher, so got Launcher Pro Plus. Haven't seen the need to switch back, it looks really clean. Runs really well with an overclocked kernel.
i like trebuchet its pretty simple but that may be the reason why i havent seen it lag
rosie is pretty tho, i remember the first time i saw it i was drooling but with time you get bored...still dont get how iphones are still selling
lets see how cool rosie gets once sense get facelifted again (like the time when sense 2.1 jumped to 3.0)
I'm currently using the massively bloated spb shell 3d. It looks awesome though.
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I got the dx launcer it light wieght and IV themed it like a Iphone and don't use hardly any ram but a Lil more battery but I keep it pluged in cuz I like my screen bright other than that this is my pick for now
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AOSP-NOVA
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