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Ice Cream Sandwich Details

I guess those of you who said/thought the Nexus S and other devices with less than a gig ram would not get ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) officially because of the rumored "Google requires you to have 1gb or more of ram to run ICS" can now put it to rest. Check out the two links below for details.
P.S. Am I the only one that dislike the blue icons/theme? I rather the green icons/theme of Gingerbread. What about you?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...m-sandwich-screenshots-plus-more-ics-details/
http://rootzwiki.com/content.php?r=221-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Pics-RootzWiki-Exclusive
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UOT Kitchen will undoubtedly update for ICS and with that you can make the icons any color you want.

LordButtersI said:
UOT Kitchen will undoubtedly update for ICS and with that you can make the icons any color you want.
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I'm very much aware of that. I was just stating that the official release from GOOGLE will be IMO ugly compared to the green icons most of us learned to love. Do you like the blue icons?
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If you read comments in those sites, the overwhelming consensus Is that those images are faked.
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Fake or not, those blue icons are fugg...
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Android is always linked to green. I dunno why the crappy decision. Are they gonna change "Andy's" color to blue?
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I personally don't mind the blue icons. It reminds me of Cyanogen.
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robavila721 said:
Android is always linked to green. I dunno why the crappy decision. Are they gonna change "Andy's" color to blue?
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I would really like to see what Andy is gonna look like blue. That would really look funny.
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OuncE718 said:
I would really like to see what Andy is gonna look like blue. That would really look funny.
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Probably like this?

Honestly, the thing I wonder about is the "multi-tasking" button on the bottom right of the leaked home screens.. Can't we do something like that now? it should be easy, I mean the home button hold is easy unless working one handed (Like when I'm driving like a dumb ass). It'd be nice to just have a button that does that on Gingerbread.

robavila721 said:
Android is always linked to green.
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Ever seen honeycomb? Blue, blue everywhere.
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bighulk666 said:
Who cares about the icons, fags. Google needs to take their time and release it as bug free as possible.
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mr2324jgf said:
this. ****. is. fake.
No way this is close to what a release will look like from google. It's just a stunt to get attention to another forum. I wouldn't invest too much thought into any of it, ICS will be awesome, because it's android.... and it's new.
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You are probably right on the fake.
As for ICS (besides the stupid Google Android name) would welcome having a real dual core optimized ROM on the G2X and could care less what color the theme was.
ICS for smartphones is supposed to be scheduled for the Fall. That will probably only be for new devices initially. Hopefully, after the code is released, someone will be able to port it over to the G2X.

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I can't believe I'm saying this but that blue actually doesn't look bad on Andy. Come to think of it, Google might do RED, YELLOW & BLUE themes for future updates since their logo consist of blue, red, green and yellow.
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gaww said:
You are probably right on the fake.
As for ICS (besides the stupid Google Android name) would welcome having a real dual core optimized ROM on the G2X and could care less what color the theme was.
ICS for smartphones is supposed to be scheduled for the Fall. That will probably only new devices initially. Hopefully after the code is released, someone will be able to port it over to the G2X.
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I agree with you, we have enough out there to manage themeing the rom ourselves. I'm concerned less with UI features and more about hardware being tweaked and running smoothly. Though I will say, I wouldn't mind having settings and a browser similar to honeycomb... and then when they get the hardware tweaked and that stuff... then you can throw some neatness in it... a better native theme manager would be great. Give us the ability to choose past/present/future lockscreens, status bars... etc... like MIUI but native consuming less resources and what have you.

LordButtersI said:
Ever seen honeycomb? Blue, blue everywhere.
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I was just thinking that about Honeycomb ... Blue is better than many other colors they could have chosen from.
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+1 again on who cares if it is purple with pink polka dots - I want stable, dual core Android on my G2x. Please. I'd pay for stable. My wife NEEDS a stable G2x.

namklak said:
+1 again on who cares if it is purple with pink polka dots - I want stable, dual core Android on my G2x. Please. I'd pay for stable. My wife NEEDS a stable G2x.
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Now I think YOU NEED it to be stable more than she wants it to be. Lol. I know the feeling.
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your wife needs stable so you don't get yelled at. J/K

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Hopefully, after the code is released, someone will be able to port it over to the G2X.
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Hopefully, that's the only way the g2x will see it. LG can't even code gingerbread half a**'ed. But unless nvidia updates and releases the drivers it won't matter anyway.
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Will android ever be pleasing on the eye?

Sure you have various skins etc but I am talking about right at the very core, take even the messaging app as an example iOS has a beautiful glass effect, android has a horrible box, even the menus etc don't come close to Apple, Sure this is all minor but I remember looking at my first iPod touch and thinking WOW just by its appearance, i've never said that about androids appearance, now functionality is a different story completely but this is purely about aesthetics.

Each to his own, I like the non gloss, but then I use the same windows theme that's on 98.. soo.. Just me maybe
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I completely agree with you.
That said, MIUI should fix all of your problems.

MacaronyMax said:
Each to his own, I like the non gloss, but then I use the same windows theme that's on 98.. soo.. Just me maybe
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Oh mate you need to fast forward 10 years

Have you seen Android 4.0?

Pickx said:
I completely agree with you.
That said, MIUI should fix all of your problems.
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Just google MIUI it looks very promising

kennethpenn said:
Have you seen Android 4.0?
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Is this Ice Cream sandwich I hear about, It is beautiful

Touchwiz is easy on the eyes so is sense in my opinion
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OP, I'm not sure what you're after, but with a little work, I've gotten my Android looking much more pleasing than my jailbroken iPhone ever did. The previous suggestion of MIUI is what might be right for you. For SMS specifically, GoSMS looks fantastic, and is customizeable to boot.

That is the joy of Android. You are never stuck with what you have. You have the ability to customize everything.

slugger09 said:
Oh mate you need to fast forward 10 years
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I do not! It's aweesum
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Touchwiz is easy on the eyes so is sense in my opinion
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Oh and this, I use Touchwiz

It has always been like that: If you want it just working for normal use, looking sharp and staying out of trouble, take the iPhone. If you are willing to put effort in it, take Android and you can make everything just a little bit better. If you are not willing to, dont..

WebOS on Droid Charge

With the announcement of webOS moving to a open source platform, am I the only one wishing for a port of webOS to the Charges' hardware? Sure its not the most powerful phone or neither does it have the strongest developer base, but I'm still hoping for it one day. This is coming from a person who had a Palm Pre Plus prior to my D'Charge, so therefore I'm very familiar with the way webOS works and I still today miss it the fluidity of the platform. So let me know, am I alone?

In theory, I suppose it could be done, as WebOS is also Linux based. However, it would take a LOT of work-I think the time put into such a project would not equal the number of people who would want to use it.
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+1 I'd love to see that, but CM7 and/or ICS comes first!

I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...

imnuts said:
I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...
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In all honesty I would like to see ICS before I would like to see WebOS, but I feel like these ports would be coming from different teams. From one corner their will be developers working to get ICS to all non-nexus devices and in the other corner their will be people working to get WebOS on android devices and once its done here it will be picked up by other developers and tweaked to work on the particular device they're developing for.

imnuts said:
I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...
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Is it true your working on ics now?
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Like the OP I too am a webOS convert. WebOS definitely has its strong point over Android ( no tomatos please ). But until HP gets their act together and decides on a reliable direction webOS has no chance or future.
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Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
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Lockett said:
Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
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Wp7 isn't open source
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Lockett said:
Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
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WP7 is impossible. One, it's closed source. Two, it's not Linux based, unlike webOS and Android.
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Yea, I knew it was going to be impossible. They did manage to dual boot Android and WP7 on the HD2. One can dream though, right? Lol
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Lockett said:
Yea, I knew it was going to be impossible. They did manage to dual boot Android and WP7 on the HD2. One can dream though, right? Lol
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you can port other version of windows phone on devices that ship with it, but not on ones that dont
unless you like getting sued my MS
i think on this device priority is some form of working aosp anyway, not webos

starbuckk said:
Like the OP I too am a webOS convert. WebOS definitely has its strong point over Android ( no tomatos please ). But until HP gets their act together and decides on a reliable direction webOS has no chance or future.
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I guess we'll have to wait and see, I even dusted off the old Pre Plus today and played with it for awhile and when I went back to my D'Charge I kept catching myself swiping up to get out of my email.

g.davis17 said:
In all honesty I would like to see ICS before I would like to see WebOS, but I feel like these ports would be coming from different teams. From one corner their will be developers working to get ICS to all non-nexus devices and in the other corner their will be people working to get WebOS on android devices and once its done here it will be picked up by other developers and tweaked to work on the particular device they're developing for.
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just not enough developers over here...HTC is big in the development department...they have lots of development going on over there, not so much for our Samsung. Then again we got sicker screens and thinner devices..

g.davis17 said:
I guess we'll have to wait and see, I even dusted off the old Pre Plus today and played with it for awhile and when I went back to my D'Charge I kept catching myself swiping up to get out of my email.
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Indeed. I still try to swipe delete emails and text messages.
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With the release of Isis (the open-source webOS browser), is there any chance of it being ported to the Charge, or Android in general?
Also webOS. I would love to have webOS on this phone.

not going to happen

drewcam888 said:
not going to happen
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why not?

Well it is possible but a dev would have to take an interest in it and considering this phone has kinda died out with the exception of a few that's not likely to happen
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WebOS is going to be outdated soon.

I love this phone!!!

I am so sick and tired of people dissing this phone. The devs are so brilliant. The roms are stable and fast. This phone is truly a beast.
Sorry for the random post but I'm drunk. I love you guys and this phone.
G2X foreva!!!!!!!!!
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Love drunk
I agree. This phone is beast. Now if I could just settle on a ROM. If I drank as much as I flash new ROMs my liver would be failing
using Galnet Scotland's latest miui build. Smooth and quick and gorgeous!

Too bad miui has such an iphone look to it.
If I wanted iphone, I would've bought one.

I don't get why people have suck a huge issue with the "it looks like an iPhone" then install a custom launcher... have you tried it yet? Yes the system looks a little iphonish, I'll give you that, lol.
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I like the iphone look with the android functionality, themes, kernel mods, etc. Got a brother on the new iphone. He misses his Evo.
To each his own.

Beekersguy said:
Too bad miui has such an iphone look to it.
If I wanted iphone, I would've bought one.
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you do realize miui is highly customizable right? check any miui screenshot thread the default look is easily changed if you don't like it.

Beekersguy said:
Too bad miui has such an iphone look to it.
If I wanted iphone, I would've bought one.
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It's such a pet peeve when people compare MIUI to the iPhone. In no way are they even remotely the same.
The only thing that's similar about it is the fact that it has no launcher. Other than that, MIUI is more Android than anything else.
Does iOS have widgets? What about transition effects? A pull down notification tray with an array of toggles? Hundreds of themes and really nice lock screens?
The list goes on.

Beekersguy said:
Too bad miui has such an iphone look to it.
If I wanted iphone, I would've bought one.
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Used to say the same thing too until i gave a couple miui roms a try from the mt4g/g2x. I agree with mackster above for all the reasons listed and more.
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[Q] iOS 7 Rom?

After hard search, I can't seem to find an iOS 7 rom. One that actually looks aesthetically pleasing. I know, I know. Why would you want iOS on an Android, but what's wrong with having the best of both worlds?!!?
iOS is gorgeous. It honestly is. But nothing beats the customization on Android. So if someone can help me out and show me something. I know MIUI has a iphone themed rom but I don't really care for it. I want the new iOS.
Thanks!

buy an i-phone

Branski81 said:
After hard search, I can't seem to find an iOS 7 rom. One that actually looks aesthetically pleasing. I know, I know. Why would you want iOS on an Android, but what's wrong with having the best of both worlds?!!?
iOS is gorgeous. It honestly is. But nothing beats the customization on Android. So if someone can help me out and show me something. I know MIUI has a iphone themed rom but I don't really care for it. I want the new iOS.
Thanks!
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To each their own. Avoiding IOS is why I don't have an iPhone. I have no problem with their hardware.
Anyway, try looking for IOS7 launcher / ilauncher as apps. Maybe even a theme chooser theme if you just want the visuals. I looked real quick at some themes, but I didn't think they looked very good.
Good Luck.

Kidhudi,
Its people like you why I f*cking refuse to come on these forums. I thought I'd havemore luck after I explained I want what I want. Go be a smartass elsewhere. This is why beginners and iphone users hate android douches like you.
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Branski81 said:
Kidhudi,
Its people like you why I f*cking refuse to come on these forums. I thought I'd havemore luck after I explained I want what I want. Go be a smartass elsewhere. This is why beginners and iphone users hate android douches like you.
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Try Espier Launcher. It will give full IOS7 experience on android.
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mdsinor said:
To each their own. Avoiding IOS is why I don't have an iPhone. I have no problem with their hardware.
Anyway, try looking for IOS7 launcher / ilauncher as apps. Maybe even a theme chooser theme if you just want the visuals. I looked real quick at some themes, but I didn't think they looked very good.
Good Luck.
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Yeah, I didn't find much. Most android developers stay away from it. Which kind of surprises me. You'd think with so much variety among us, wed find someone making an iOS 7 ROM. To be honest, I love the look of iOS, BUT I will never give up he customization and endless possibilities. To each his own though, right? Thanks for the reply!
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Branski81 said:
Kidhudi,
Its people like you why I f*cking refuse to come on these forums. I thought I'd have more luck after I explained I want what I want. Go be a smartass elsewhere. This is why beginners and iphone users hate android douches like you.
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Bro i was actually serious. you will probably never see a better rom than MIUI that can look like ios. and i guarantee you will never see ios7 ported to this phone. it is tough enough to get different andoid phones ported to another phone. the ONLY fool proof way to get ios7 is to buy an apple product. i wasn't trying to be a ****. sorry if you took it out of context.
thanks redndian i never saw that launcher i will give it a whirl. peace.

HI LAUNCHER and all their apps look pretty convincing.
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