I just received the Car Dock and I was trying to add an application to the Car Dock window. On my D1 I could add just about anything I wanted. But on the Charge I can't. I was wanting to add the Slacker and SiriusXM apps. Just noticed that I can't add a Direct Dial Contact like I could on the D1.
You have to get a 3rd party car dock app... like cardock home v3.
actually should just be able to tap an available space and select application with that car dock software in your pic
nighteyes_wolf said:
actually should just be able to tap an available space and select application with that car dock software in your pic
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How? Those are the only choice I have. I can do what you suggest on my D1 but not the Charge. UNLESS their is an issue with GummyCharged GBE 1.5 or Gingerbread.
nighteyes_wolf said:
You have to get a 3rd party car dock app... like cardock home v3.
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You might be right. I have since downloaded Car Dock V3 and will play with it on my way home tonight. I do like the Map that is on the original Car Dock. Seems to be different than the App one.
bkhorn said:
How? Those are the only choice I have. I can do what you suggest on my D1 but not the Charge. UNLESS their is an issue with GummyCharged GBE 1.5 or Gingerbread.
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You pick one of those launchers first, then you can select applications.
I'll give it a try.
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Maybe I'm just an idiot, but can someone tell me how to add apps to the empty spots on the second screen of the new car dock? Thanks.
Anyone know?
I second this. Looks like you should be able to add any shortcut you'd like.
Maybe that will be fixed in the official release of Froyo
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Maybe that will be fixed in the official release of Froyo
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I sure as hell hope so.
or maybe they are there for certain apps to take advantage of? which apps i have no clue
just a guess.
i agree, they put those spots there, must be for a reason. I would love to be able to add shortcuts to navigate to common places like home. If this is possible there will be no need for me to attempt making my own car dock app.
jamezracer said:
i agree, they put those spots there, must be for a reason. I would love to be able to add shortcuts to navigate to common places like home. If this is possible there will be no need for me to attempt making my own car dock app.
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There is already a good one: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.bigfwoosh.customcarhome
Even if its not directly settable I'm sure its moddable
3Shirts said:
There is already a good one: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.bigfwoosh.customcarhome
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doesn't look like that is for our resolution though
Even with the final, official release of Froyo, the Car Dock app still has these unused slots. There doesn't appear to be any way to customize the empty buttons. What gives here?
I tried looking for the car home code on googles git hub.
Did'nt find it but it should be there...somewhere.
I was thinking one of the chefs can add some code to populate the blanks and give us an updated apk we can all use
Some interesting things.
1) car home added to the sdk
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pl...6;hp=139e33243bbe92858f39919c220a4d65fe8790bd
This also tells us that its built by the sdk.mk build file
2) the "sdk" git project
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/sdk.git;a=tree
3) all the projects
http://android.git.kernel.org/
Grrrrrrrrrr.
hey everybody,
just got my brand new cardock and played a bit with the 2.2 brand new car home..
It's pretty cool and easy to use but there's something that can make it maybe even better : what about those empty spots on the "second" page? You've got maps, settings, brightness and then 3 empties...
I'm wondering if there's any dev out there willing to mod the app and try to get those empty spots customizable;
What if we could set a direct sms , or direct call, or custom app launch on one of those empty spots? Maybe even better if we could have more than 2 pages...
This is just an idea, but I hoestly don't have the needed tech skilss to make this happen so... anybody willing to contribute/help/make the dream come true?
Everybody's contribution is well appreciated
This is somethine also I want. I want spotify on that second page.
/Söder
Agreed. Would be nice to add apps to those empty spots.
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Has anyone dug into the code and see if the carhome has shortcut intents?
Since there's no way to actually modifiy from the UI, I think that's how google may have coded it.
This is a great idea for a mod. I've used the Car Dock V.2 app in the past, but went back to the stock Car Home. I have zero skill in coding, but I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to create a car home app that retains the look of the Google app, but with some similar functionality to Car Dock V.2 (long press icons to add shortcut, change icon, etc... and add maybe add extra screens). I don't know about the rest of you, but the Exit Car home annoys me too. I much preferred it in 2.1 when you could go into the standard launcher, but the home key would take you back to the car home. Just a couple of thoughts.
I know this is my first post, but I really think the car app is one of those where the stock app, just misses the boat.
So, glad to see some of you feel the same needing of a better car dock app...
I really hoped holiday time could bring a dev/coder to take a look at this thread, but it seems like some more advertising is indeed needed!
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Looks like Car Home is proprietary Google software like GMail. I couldn't find any source and/or the ability to use shortcut intents
Prof-KOS is probably right, would be easier just to make a look alike
I think Google did a very disappointing job on with car dock in froyo
For now I have configured one screen of adw launcher with things I need for car mode. Then I have installed dock nothingness to disable the car home. And also car dock settings app to switch on-off Bluetooth etc...
Is it possible to even color the car dock icons, maybe with a morph???
Hey guys, did you try custom car home?
It's doing pretty much what I was looking for so if anybody is interested may give it a try
Let me know your thoughts, It's pretty basic but usefull for me
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moskuito said:
Hey guys, did you try custom car home?
It's doing pretty much what I was looking for so if anybody is interested may give it a try
Let me know your thoughts, It's pretty basic but usefull for me
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Google just updated the Android Car Home, now it's a stand alone app and customizable.
Great! Too bad I can't update through the market with CM6, guess because it's a system app..
Could anybody post the app or remind me the adb commands to do the trick?
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Great! Too bad I can't update through the market with CM6, guess because it's a system app..
Could anybody post the app or remind me the adb commands to do the trick?
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Uninstall with Titanium Backup. Reboot. Install from Market (when available again)
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Uninstall with Titanium Backup. Reboot. Install from Market (when available again)
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ye, anyway I found my way out with adb so made it on time and got it from the market... is it really disappeared in the meantime? Saw also modaco tweeting about that...
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I pulled out the apk if anybody should need it...
I had two Car Home 2.2's in Titanium Backup-- one was "CarHomeGoogle.apk" and one was "CarHomeLauncher.apk"
I deleted both of them, and now there's no icon for Car Home-- I have a feeling I shouldn't have deleted CarHomeLauncher, but I forgot I needed to reboot after I removed CarHomeGoogle. D'oh.
Anyone have that launcher apk?
moskuito, I couldn't get that apk you posted to install by directly downloading it from here to my phone
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I had two Car Home 2.2's in Titanium Backup-- one was "CarHomeGoogle.apk" and one was "CarHomeLauncher.apk"
I deleted both of them, and now there's no icon for Car Home-- I have a feeling I shouldn't have deleted CarHomeLauncher, but I forgot I needed to reboot after I removed CarHomeGoogle. D'oh.
Anyone have that launcher apk?
moskuito, I couldn't get that apk you posted to install by directly downloading it from here to my phone
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I did the same thing, I just pulled it from the gapps zip though, but Here ya go. Move it into /system/app/
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I had two Car Home 2.2's in Titanium Backup-- one was "CarHomeGoogle.apk" and one was "CarHomeLauncher.apk"
I deleted both of them, and now there's no icon for Car Home-- I have a feeling I shouldn't have deleted CarHomeLauncher, but I forgot I needed to reboot after I removed CarHomeGoogle. D'oh.
Anyone have that launcher apk?
moskuito, I couldn't get that apk you posted to install by directly downloading it from here to my phone
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I did the same at first so I went to a CM6 zip and extracted the two apks..
Jutst installed back CarHomeLauncher and everything is working fine, don't know what CarHomeGoogle works for.. anyway, here they are..
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see JCopernicus already posted..
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I did the same thing, I just pulled it from the gapps zip though, but Here ya go. Move it into /system/app/
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Oh, duh, thanks for doing that for me!
link to new gapps please
edit sorry I got it to work. Thanks
Hi I was watching a browser speed test video on androidcentral and they had a galaxy s phone and when they pulled down the notification bar at the top were a set of power buttons letting you turn on blue tooth, wifi or gps from any screen (really useful IMO)
So i ws wondering if this was part of touchwiz or an app or something we can port to the droid x. I find myself wantng to turn on wifi bt and gps alot in apps and ont want to go to the home screen to do it. i think this is so cool, anyone can elaborate?
thanks!
i believe it's part of touchwiz and it IS very handy. i don't use it all the time but it's a lot easier than finding the screen with the quick toggles.....if you're even using them.
Yea my friend has the one for T-mobile and i didnt' know it till i pulled down the notification bar, and I thought the same thing...sooo useful. I use my phone for navi a lot and it's annoying to go through screens to find the widget.
Quick Desk Beta
Check out the app Quick Desk Beta its essentially the same idea but instead of pulling your notification bar down you double press your home button and it pulls up a transparent screen that you can put any widgets on like wifi toggle or your music player. I used it all the time with my D1 when id be on a web page and forget to turn wifi on or want to listen to music while on the web but not want to go home and find the widgets then back to browser. I just got the DX and haven't tried it yet on it im still figuring out all these new moto blur things but i would think it should work with the DX. Hope that helps you out alittle
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i believe it's part of touchwiz and it IS very handy. i don't use it all the time but it's a lot easier than finding the screen with the quick toggles.....if you're even using them.
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Thank you.
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Yea my friend has the one for T-mobile and i didnt' know it till i pulled down the notification bar, and I thought the same thing...sooo useful. I use my phone for navi a lot and it's annoying to go through screens to find the widget.
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yes extremely useful indeed, i need to have this!
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Check out the app Quick Desk Beta its essentially the same idea but instead of pulling your notification bar down you double press your home button and it pulls up a transparent screen that you can put any widgets on like wifi toggle or your music player. I used it all the time with my D1 when id be on a web page and forget to turn wifi on or want to listen to music while on the web but not want to go home and find the widgets then back to browser. I just got the DX and haven't tried it yet on it im still figuring out all these new moto blur things but i would think it should work with the DX. Hope that helps you out alittle
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thanks i will check it out, but i do once in a while use the double tap of the home button for voice dial on my x, but that shouldnt b needed anymore once we get froyo and the new voice search app from google.
i still would like to have this in notification bar and wonder if it could be done as an app or as a theme mod or what. IF anyone has any ideas how this can be ported? maybe i can request a port in the DX android dev forum?
Yes a friend and my inlaws have the Galaxy and I would love to have something like this for the X.
Check out the app Quick Settings. Lets you put whatever settings in there you want. It's not as pretty, but really useful.
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Smart bar works pretty good.
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I would really love this too. I know the Galaxy S has it and certain ROMs have it but I'm not willing to root my DX quite yet.
i use quick settings as well, works really good.
Also you can download the app called Homesmack which can allow you to program the search hard button on the X to bring up the quick settings app. pretty convenient when i want to turn on wifi or bluetooth etc on the fly and saves space on home screens
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I would really love this too. I know the Galaxy S has it and certain ROMs have it but I'm not willing to root my DX quite yet.
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which ROM has these????
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which ROM has these????
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It is not apart of any Droid X ROM or theme yet... it is likely that Fission may get this mod though.
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I use Power Control Plus - can't post a link yet, apparently, but it's easily googled.
It's awesome.
this is the only feature i miss from when i had my Captivate.....i can only hope the guys at team defuse can get this to work on the X!
I use MySettings. It works very well.
I own a Samsung Vibrant and there are two apps that i would like to have on my Galaxy Tab they are Car Home & Desk Home (http://androidspin.com/2010/07/21/car-home-and-desk-home-for-samsung-vibrant-owners/). Does any one know where i can find the equivalent for the Galaxy Tab or any way to port them from the Vibrant to the Tab? I have searched the Market and nothing. Thank you.
EDIT: Ok as heru posted both Car and Desk home can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895638. Once i get to install them i will report back.
While it's not exactly what you're looking for, I have found Better Alarm to be a pretty decent app that is somewhat comparable to the "Desk Home" app. It doesn't have the application shortcuts, but it looks great on your desk (or bedside table in my case).
Actually you can run the Desk Home app from Vibrant in the Tab.
It display fullscreen, but the top part (Date, time & weather) doesn't fully utilize the whole screen (there are empty space on the right side).
you can run them both just rip them from your vibrant
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you can run them both just rip them from your vibrant
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I would if i knew how to. I am hoping someone can get that together and share it with all of us
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I would if i knew how to. I am hoping someone can get that together and share it with all of us
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Download the desk home from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10242757&postcount=6
Instead of Car Home, download and install Car Dock v3 from the market, it scales properly to the Tab's screen and is a lot more versatile.
This free app solves the no-audio-out problem for those of us who are not running the Samsung dock apps and want to use the analog out jack on the desk and car dock.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.muteheadlight.dockredir
It's awesome. Many thanks to whoever wrote it!!!
Agreed, this app works great and gives you the flexibility to configure the car and media dock separately. For instance, I have it automatically redirect my media dock, but leave my car dock as is because I use bluetooth.
thanks go to xcaliburinhand...
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This free app solves the no-audio-out problem for those of us who are not running the Samsung dock apps and want to use the analog out jack on the desk and car dock.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.muteheadlight.dockredir
It's awesome. Many thanks to whoever wrote it!!!
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Regarding "whoever wrote it" - here's a link to the author's original post about the app development (within the thread that inspired it over in the captivate forum). You'll see he's received many "Thanks" for it, and has a Donate/paypal link in his profile info .
Sweet! Finally!!