Any one here who might know of a widget that will show the new message count of the email's inbox on the TF's locked screen?
Gonna have to use WidgetLocker. Think it's around $1.99..it's worth the cost as it really nice to have widgets on your homescreen. Only problem is that they don't have the Honeycomb lockscreen, so you'll have to deal with a MIUI, iPhone, Rotary, or Sliding tab lockscreen.
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Ok so there are a few PSN widgets on the market none of them really take the cake. The one I have now is my favorit with just a few flaws. First I have PSN Friends Widget, its a great widget that if you go pro it will even send you notifications when a friend signs in to PSN. My biggest grip is that its an odd size widget its a 2x2 and its ugly lol. It does what it should very well but it is ugly. I am going to hit up the developer to see if he will make some skins.
Lets talk PSN dream widget maybe someone could develop and Id be more then happy to donate. Ok so for starters the widget needs to come in more then one size. Like say 4x2 would be perfect. Second, it needs skins. Third, it needs to have settings that allow you to let it sync similar to the weather, as in you can set your time intervals according to how you want it. anywhere from 15mins to 6hrs. You get the point. Lastly it would be great if we could get a notifications in the notification bar whenever someone signs in to PSN. OH and one more thing, the PSN friends widget when you click it has a pop out window that has an option for settings refresh and buy the pro version. I think it would be better if the widget its self was scrollable and then those type of obtions lay at the bottom of the scroll.
The PSN Friends widget does all the above except it doesnt have skins and it doesnt do diffrent sizes and ADW breaks it when it tries some odd sizes.
i was looking at the continuum on verizon and i thought "what's with the awkward location of the soft keys between the two screens" and "why have 2 in the first place." but the idea of a ticker was nice. i also didnt think it was versatile enough. and thought if that was a spot for another 1x4 standard android widget and could scroll through several widgets that you choose it would be better but then why not do it on one screen and put it on the market.
so i had the idea of either a 1x4 widget that actually holds other widgets and/or links and scrolls through them every 5 seconds or so, you could have all your favorite widgets on one screen inside a dock.
or why not a home launcher with a with a dockbar can not only hold a 1/1 icon links/shortcuts but could also hold widgets up to 1x4. add in the ticker widget and then you would always have it on screen, not just on one home screen.
i realize a ticker wouldn't be for everyone, it could get quite annoying but i think i would like to see the option available. a dock bar that holds a widget might get some downloads i think
does anyone else have any thoughts? good idea/bad idea? anyone who can make this sort of thing happen interested? my brother could do it but he wont speak to me anymore.
i know some of the launchers out there can do a lot and this sort of thing may already be possible but take some know how. i mean i saw an lcars theme for a launcher that went against everything i know about the android gui. but i have no idea how to do that sort of thing.
After playing with the Sensation and Sense for a couple days now? The ability to run weather on my lockscreen has literally just blown me away. I don't really care about the prettiest app to do it but in your experience? What's the most reliable lockscreen weather app?
Widgetlocker + your favorite Weather widget
I use WidgetLocker and add Fancy Widgets and/or Beautiful Widgets. Love the options available between those.
Thanks for the suggestions. I've been playing with both for the last couple days. Anything else that puts the weather on the lockscreen?
I like GOTO lockscreen. It's visually impressive (though weather is certainly not the focus of it's visuals and is only a small part) and has practical uses like quickly jumping to phone, SMS, gmail, being able to set phone silent or vibrate, and music lockscreen controls (though this only works with stock music players), weather, battery, phone owner's name on lockscreen.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.innowebtech.g0t0&feature=search_result
Still not satisfied with all of these choices. Anything else out there?
I use go laucher and go weather, but widget weather of HTC is the one!
is there a way to turn off the animation that comes on after the unlock of a phone?
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I use WidgetLocker and add Fancy Widgets and/or Beautiful Widgets. Love the options available between those.
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Those look great, thanks!
Like myself, i guess many users have a nice launcher startpage with clock and calendar info. And a nice lockscreen is just overflow and disturbing.
So i suggest a lockscreen that shows the nice launcher page as background (maybe custom transparency), only differense is that it shows a slider instead of the dock. (kind of like spb 3d shell on windows mobile)
Try using widget locker.
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very nice..I love the lockscreen.
I have already tried Widget locker. But it shows a separate lockscreen. That's not what i'm after.
I mean a lock that appears on top of the launcher screen.
I guess it would be quite light not bloaty.
*Maybe show some animation of a lock (so you see it's lockscreen), and
*dimmed down launcher screen, and
*a full brightness undimmed sliding or button- unlocker at the bottom, temporarily replacing the ordinary launcher buttons.
Found the App Hidden lock. It's a nice start, but not visualy appealing, not showing it's locked unless pressing screen, etc.
New to Android. Loved having essentially what I call 'collapsible widgets' on my old iPhone 4 on the lockscreen (jailbreak.) Essentially when text messages, emails, calendar event reminders, or even SportCenter updates came in, they would show up in a widget on the lockscreen (ala Intelliscreen X app) and you could do an action (like delete/clear the notification), or you could collapse the widget so that there was just a header like 'SMS Messages (3)' with 3 being the number of unread and you could uncollapse it to see the messages. The widgets would just always stack up together. If they didn't all fit, you could scroll down to see them. If all the info in a particular widget that was open didn't fit in the widget's window, you could scroll down to see the rest of the info. All this was done on the lockscreen.
Granted, I didn't have any sensitive information to worry about people seeing. But you could choose, just like Android what shows up and what doesn't.
In running Jelly Bean 4.1 with Sense+ (4.5) on the HTC One X+, I found I had to install WidgetLock to get control of the widgets on the lockscreen. I'm using Pure Calander Widget Agenda and the widget stays the same size no matter if there are no events listed or 20 events. Sort of a waste of lockscreen space.
Is collapsible and/or scrolling widgets just something that is extremely rare for some reason? It looks like maybe the stock Sense 'Productivity' Lock Screen Theme sort of does this (from looking at it - but I've been using WidgetLock from the beginning). The problem with the HTC Sense is the configurability of the lockscreen isn't as flexible as I would like. I wish I could control which apps are in the dock on the lockscreen and how many there are (add app icons to lock screen) and how transparent the widget showing the info is. I hate the big clock too but want the productivity widget (the clock is always on the right in the notification bar - no need to waste space redisplaying it larger - my eyes are fine!)
Also, on Jelly Bean 4.2, I think I read you can add widgets to the lock screen. So does JB 4.2 essentially defeat the purpose of Widget Lock. I love that Widget Lock lets you go from a 4x4 grid to 5x6 (or whatever you want) so I can have 6 docked apps on the lockscreen and there isn't such big spaces between everything. I hope so as I can see the HTC Sense lockscreen sometimes come on for a moment before it gets replaced by Widget Lock. Makes me feel like I have a bit of a hokey setup to get what I want.
iOS had this same issue. But in 5 they greatly improved the lockscreen functionality. Then iOS finally introduced repeating notification settings. That's the next thing Android needs. But that's another subject. Still love JB 4.1. Does the job. Nothing's perfect.
Yes HTC does not allow you to change it's lockscreen. Much like on an iPhone, you would need to root and install custom apps (or apps like widgetlocker) to get the functionality you are looking for.
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