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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....
skinien said:
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.
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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.
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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?
Hey guys,
I was just wondering if some of the sense 3.0 widgets can be developed for G2x?? Atleast the sense 3.0 lock screen. Is it anyway possible or on the cards or should i stop dreaming ??
Aneelll said:
Hey guys,
I was just wondering if some of the sense 3.0 widgets can be developed for G2x?? Atleast the sense 3.0 lock screen. Is it anyway possible or on the cards or should i stop dreaming ??
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Its great to dream, but in this case you should stop dreaming. The G2x and sense roms has 2 different framework so it will never work and even if it could it would take tons of modding that wouldn't be worth the trouble. Its similar to trying to put a Ferrari body on a Mercedes chassis.
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There's a app called "Go To Lockscreen" and it pretty much gives you the features of the Sense lock screen. Its a good app.
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im not sure if you wanted sense for the same reason i did. i wanted sense for the dialer + messaging client. althought we probably wont get the sense dialer, there is an app called GO Dialer, and GO Sms that is similar to the sense applications. Stock android dialer SUCKS! anyways hope this helps
slickerxcuh said:
im not sure if you wanted sense for the same reason i did. i wanted sense for the dialer + messaging client. althought we probably wont get the sense dialer, there is an app called GO Dialer, and GO Sms that is similar to the sense applications. Stock android dialer SUCKS! anyways hope this helps
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The lock screen, dialer, messaging client and contacts client are the only good things about Sense. The vanilla clients are boring with less features. What's cool about the Sense contacts client is that contact pictures are just there with no loading. The vanilla contact client lags a little bit and there is a delay in showing the pictures.
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Sense has some neat stuff but most of it is cosmetic.
Launcher Pro already has some Sense-like widgets built in and are themeable. They look like Sense out of the box. You can also customize Launcher Pro's dock bar to match any version of Sense.
Go Dialer and Go SMS are popular because you can theme them to look like whatever you want. I've also used "Dialer One" which was a "HTC SENSE Dialer" Clone at one time. I think they've went down their own path since but still has the same great functionality.
Moral of the story, you can make you phone look and feel like a Stock-Sense rom without having the stock-sense rom.
And I think they're porting Sense over in the O2x forums (directed at the second poster). MIUI, Sense, and CM7 are the 3 roms that should be ported to every phone. Completely do-able though. Nexus One has all 3.... but maybe I was spoiled.
It was possible on my hd2 windows phone. So I would say yes, it is possible. That phone had a much bigger following so I will not say it is propable.
jcbofkc said:
It was possible on my hd2 windows phone. So I would say yes, it is possible. That phone had a much bigger following so I will not say it is propable.
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as things have been said, launcherpro, GoTo LockScreen, things like that can give the customized feeling of not being on stock android...
I think the problem is we are on a LG phone trying to port a HTC client, Samsung Galaxy series never got it to work fully, just my opinion. I am not saying it is not possible, I am one that loves options and would like to see it happen though.
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player911 said:
Sense has some neat stuff but most of it is cosmetic.
Launcher Pro already has some Sense-like widgets built in and are themeable. They look like Sense out of the box. You can also customize Launcher Pro's dock bar to match any version of Sense.
Go Dialer and Go SMS are popular because you can theme them to look like whatever you want. I've also used "Dialer One" which was a "HTC SENSE Dialer" Clone at one time. I think they've went down their own path since but still has the same great functionality.
Moral of the story, you can make you phone look and feel like a Stock-Sense rom without having the stock-sense rom.
And I think they're porting Sense over in the O2x forums (directed at the second poster). MIUI, Sense, and CM7 are the 3 roms that should be ported to every phone. Completely do-able though. Nexus One has all 3.... but maybe I was spoiled.
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You can find software that looks like Sense such as Go Messenger but there is no contacts client out there with the deep integration/features you get with Sense. The Contacts Client is the only thing I like about HTC and I have yet to see one done better. Just ain't going to happen.
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Smh it is being worked on in the o2x forums therefore eventually it will make its way here... just give it time.
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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.
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
SENSE-SENSE