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After updating fancy widget for the last time my launchers began to become unstable and as of now sense UI forecloses every time I attempt to open it.
cpick78 said:
After updating fancy widget for the last time my launchers began to become unstable and as of now sense UI forecloses every time I attempt to open it.
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...that does not mean its malicious
That means sense sucks
Works great witm CM5 and ADW Launcher.
Great on FroYo and LauncherPro.
blaboy51 said:
That means sense sucks
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haha nexus one ftw!
Fancy Widget works awesome for me on Samsung Moment, Launcher Pro. Malicious?
cpick78 said:
After updating fancy widget for the last time my launchers began to become unstable and as of now sense UI forecloses every time I attempt to open it.
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Check what else you put in there besides fancy widget, version 1. 30 is working great for me on spica i5700 running 2.1 with launcher pro and judging by comments no one so far is experiencing what you are reporting.
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Sense blows. Vanilla android FTW.
Fancy widgets works fine. Do some troubleshooting before you pop off at the mouth.
cpick78 said:
After updating fancy widget for the last time my launchers began to become unstable and as of now sense UI forecloses every time I attempt to open it.
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Edit this topic, you're full of it and clearly clueless.
paperecho said:
Sense blows. Vanilla android FTW.
Fancy widgets works fine. Do some troubleshooting before you pop off at the mouth.
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What's wrong with Sense?
Isnt Fancy widget similair (about the same) compared with HTC's Sense clock widget? Makes me think why you would like to have Fancy widget while you have Sense
LauncherPro + Fancy Widget works like a charm on my Nexus
stevennl said:
Isnt Fancy widget similair (about the same) compared with HTC's Sense clock widget? Makes me think why you would like to have Fancy widget while you have Sense
LauncherPro + Fancy Widget works like a charm on my Nexus
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Yeah, doesn't make sense at all Seriously, yeah, I'd just use the HTC Clock widget.
I still like the whatever-the-app-is when you touch the weather in the Sense Clock widget.. World weather, time, stopwatch, etc all in one place. Played with it in XDAndroid a bit, but using a stock Nexus One and have separate apps for such things now.
You do realise the HTC Clock Widget can only be used on Sense UI, right?
AndyCr15 said:
You do realise the HTC Clock Widget can only be used on Sense UI, right?
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Did you even read the original post?
Yeah, fair play. I thought you were saying you don't know why anyone would use this widget at all.
cpick78 said:
After updating fancy widget for the last time my launchers began to become unstable and as of now sense UI forecloses every time I attempt to open it.
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Just outta curiousity, why the hell would you use fancy widget over the sense clock?
MotoMudder77 said:
Just outta curiousity, why the hell would you use fancy widget over the sense clock?
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well, i dont know about him/her, but i would ALWAYS prefer a knock-off(no offense to dev) over the real thing.........lol. i dont get the op posting this and insulting the dev who put this up. you couldve taken the time to find the real culprit responsible for your issues rather than giving the dev a bad rep. Im sure its more likely a combination of your apps/kernel/rom/recovery image not playing nicely together. you need to locate the issue rather than insulting a dev that tries to provide ppls with no sense, the ability to experience one of its most popular, well-known widgets...im not surprised you got flamed for this one. OP=F A I L
MagnusRagnarok said:
well, i dont know about him/her, but i would ALWAYS prefer a knock-off(no offense to dev) over the real thing.........lol. i dont get the op posting this and insulting the dev who put this up. you couldve taken the time to find the real culprit responsible for your issues rather than giving the dev a bad rep. Im sure its more likely a combination of your apps/kernel/rom/recovery image not playing nicely together. you need to locate the issue rather than insulting a dev that tries to provide ppls with no sense, the ability to experience one of its most popular, well-known widgets...im not surprised you got flamed for this one. OP=F A I L
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God damn, thank god for adblock in Firefox.. Ugh.. Seriously, what is wrong with your signature.
Some strong words without any real proof Could have even asked if anyone else had issues before making a definitive statement.
Hey it would be nice to have a widget that shows clock times across the world, they is a nice on the HTC sense theme, but one for the Froyo
http://www.doubletwist.com/apps/search/?q=world+clock+widget
I personally use DiviClock
Thanx
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SiNJiN76 said:
I personally use DiviClock
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Does something exist like that, that has a list of cities and you just pick the city and it displays the time in a widget?
try moxier world :shrug:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/de.softxperience.android.worldclockwidget
Is exactly what I personally want, except.. to work. It doesn't keep up properly, not sure if it keeps time itself and doesn't keep synced or what, but it's pretty horrid sometimes.... I keep up with a TZ +9.5 from me and sometimes I'll see it as far off as +8.5...
The others I saw nothing interesting... Except the one wasting most of the widget space on an android icon
I thought it would be cool for us to share the reason behind whatever our home screen setup is, rather than posting a screen shot.
Do you like the home page to be empty & clean looking? Do you organize everything into folders?
Hopefully this thread will bring out some different ideas on how we can organize our home screens.
I personally like the home page to be blank so I can see my wallpaper, other pages with my most commonly used apps.
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I llike my most frequently used widgets and apps on my home screen, but I agree, I would like it if my homescreen was just my walpaper... but I guess I am more of a functional person than an appearance person.
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
CM7 Inspire 4G
TheBassman369 said:
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
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I think you meant boyfriend
why not explain your homescreen in the thread about homescreens?
Captivate > Themes and apps > Post Your Home Screens
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studacris said:
I think you meant boyfriend
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Umadbro? Seems like I always get the trolls posting.
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TheBassman369 said:
Umadbro? Seems like I always get the trolls posting.
CM7 Inspire 4G
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Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
Fancy Widget clock shows time, weather, and date.
below that is my appointment widget which tells me my next two upcoming calendar events.
Below that is my 4 basic app shortcuts (Nav, Market, Camera, Email).
Nice and organized, and gives me all my most important info at a glance.
To the left of my screen is my list of most used contacts, and to the left of that is my work apps (VNC, RDP, terminal, network testers, etc.)
To the right of my homescreen is my shortcuts for most used apps, semi-grouped into categories (such as games, music related, astronomy related, etc.)
Everything is very symmetric and functional, because that's the knd of person I am.
studacris said:
Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
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Oh my goodness! I can see where you would get confused! Lol. I'm so used to someone saying something stupid about my posts! Sorry.
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studacris said:
Omg roflmfao!! I didn't see the "L" in CLOCK
Dyslexia wins again!!!
My bad.
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HAHAHAHA! In the words of Larry the Cable guy, "I don't care WHO y'ar, thats funny right there!
TheBassman369 said:
If I have a girlfriend, my home screen is blank. If I don't, it has a huge clock and a few shortcuts.
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with or without the L in clock, what does having a girlfreind have to do with it?
ive had some jealous exes but of a clock?
i think the L was the mistake and studa isnt dyslexic he's psychic... lol
Fancy Widgets home screen small on the top, business Calender 2x2 on the right, last call widget to the left of that and a few shortcuts under all that
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TRusselo said:
with or without the L in clock, what does having a girlfreind have to do with it?
ive had some jealous exes but of a clock?
i think the L was the mistake and studa isnt dyslexic he's psychic... lol
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I think the implication was that the picture of his girlfriend would be the background, and hence, if he has a picture as a background, he wouldn't want to obscure it with apps/widgets/etc...
Least that's what I assumed. If it's not that, then I have no idea.
I only have a clock and dockbar on my home screen.
One page right is g search, power control and Atk widgets, and apps.
One page left has camera app. Nice and clean, literally only what I need.
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And I would never use a pic of my bf as a background. I see the chick enough and my phone is my means of getting time to myself lol
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bdgiese90 said:
And I would never use a pic of my bf as a background. I see the chick enough and my phone is my means of getting time to myself lol
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Your bf is a chick?
I have all app shortcuts that I use daily on home. To the right I have power control, astro, battery use, shootme, etc, basically utility screen. To the left I have mort player widget and pandora widget.
I use microbes or light grid wallpaper. Something dark, simple, colorful, but not busy.
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God damn it. B and g are diagonal to each other lol.
My ***GF*** is not a dude, or vise versa. She is actually rather womanly in the best way possible. But anyways.
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Wow lot of gender confusion in this thread.
Strange.
bdgiese90 said:
My ***GF*** is not a dude, or vise versa. She is actually rather womanly in the best way possible.
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So that I don't get confused.......what is the best way possible?
Shammyh said:
I think the implication was that the picture of his girlfriend would be the background, and hence, if he has a picture as a background, he wouldn't want to obscure it with apps/widgets/etc...
Least that's what I assumed. If it's not that, then I have no idea.
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Thank you. Apparently the Captivate isn't the only thing that doesn't have Sense. Lol jk, couldn't resist.
This thread is full of so much win.
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The first is that I miss having panoramic wallpapers because having stationary live wallpapers kinda looks lame.
The second is that I want to be able to chose the app drawer style. I want to be able to switch between the current one and the individual ones in other versions of android.
What other stuff do you miss from old Sense?
I agree on the panoramic wallpaper, it was way cooler.
not possible since the carrousels keeps turning...the home screens are not stationary so a panaromic wallpaper is a no go
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not possible since the carrousels keeps turning...the home screens are not stationary so a panaromic wallpaper is a no go
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I say screw the carrousel effect. Its lame and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Just another useless piece of eye candy HTC included in this laggy ass version of Sense....Ill tell you what I would like to see. HTC go back to the drawing board, take out the eye candy, optimize it for speed and give us more customization.
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I liked the way my signal indicator was green to show it had a connection to Google, on my N1. Now I can't tell.
i wish they would make better use of screen real estate.
960x540, and i have less icons/information on the screen than on my old windows mobile - xda diamond...
pretty lame that you have to install 3rd party apps doing a better job at that.
can it be that its android's fault with that crappy 4x4 grid, only increased for tablets?
Man, in the dock, why the hell do I have to endure the Personnalize button? Why can't I replace it with something else? It's a feature I use once a week or so... wtf !
Teslarage said:
Man, in the dock, why the hell do I have to endure the Personnalize button? Why can't I replace it with something else? It's a feature I use once a week or so... wtf !
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Yeah. Not being able to customize the dock sucks.
I like the carousel though, you can keep swiping and it's easier to get to a screen if you're on the last one and want to go to the first.
dead on...
jrwingate6 said:
I say screw the carrousel effect. Its lame and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Just another useless piece of eye candy HTC included in this laggy ass version of Sense....Ill tell you what I would like to see. HTC go back to the drawing board, take out the eye candy, optimize it for speed and give us more customization.
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I need the ability to customize the size of the widgets I put on the screen and I need to be able to add/remove pages &determinie if "I" want 3/4or 5 icon rows or columns.
Sense is too ridgid an interface for me. Launcherpro is he truth.
Its all been pretty much said, Sense 3 does have some nice eye candy but after 2 weeks I was onto good old Launcher Pro
Setting columns and rows is mint!! I have 5 colums and 8 rows totalling 45 possible icons compared to 20 on Sense 3
It would be great if we had different wallpapers, once for the lockscreen and once for home...
sorry for my bad english
I also go with being able to disable the 3D effect. And making use of the extra real estate.
I want to add a non-feature thing as well... fixing it so it doesn't keep closing and restarting.
Resisable widgets and more rows / columns.
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I want it to not take a million MB of ram usage.
+1 for wallpaper landscape we should have a option. Another one is rosie rotation on unlock kind slow things down. And last news app was better on sense 2.1 more organized.
First off...I think I've come to the conclusion I'm a sense guy at heart.
I've used all the major sense ROMs for this bolt. BAMF, Virus (Airborne and Synergy), Chingy stuff, and DroidTh3ory's stuff. (I"m sure a few others I've forgotten).
I've also tried CM7 several times, OMFGB, and recently Th3ory's AOSP run.
I get smaller footprint, more customization, better battery life (I'm told, can't say I've left an AOSP on mine long enough to confirm/deny that personally).
I use my phone for 60% business/40% personal.
I know you can download an app or theme for just about everything...but at what point do you say enough is enough. I'm trying to make AOSP do what Sense already does?...most of the time for free.
Example... Sense 3.0 MMS...cleaner, nicer. Sense email client, way better than AOSP offering. I use Exchange for email. I know all about Touchdown, K9, moxier, Enhanced Email, etc. But on baked in AOSP email you can't even move an email to a sub folder??
The dialer is horrible, IMO. So I downloaded dialer one. I like sense's dialer, if you start typing a name or number, it starts pulling them up. Reminds me of how easy a blackberry is to use for dialing.
I like the people Widget, so I paid for launcher pro plus, their people widget as well as calendar/agenda widget is ok. It would be nice if the facebook pictures synced up properly with their people widget, but I've read this is a known AOSP issue. Again...buying/installing a 3rd party app for something that just works in Sense.
I'm not looking for a flame war. I know there's a HUGE majority of AOSP love out there...I get it. Just looking for opinions.... am I way off base here?
Now, AOSP is not all terrible. The ability to choose different launchers, change the number of home screens, how they rotate, different home dock icons, ability to change row/columns.... There are a lot of pluses for sure... so please don't think I'm kicking dirt on the AOSP guys. I appreciate good work from ALL the developers...it's a thankless and never ending job...
One of the main reasons I am sticking with Sense-based ROMs is the quick lookup feature.
I loved aosp on my Droid 1 and Droid x, when I got the t-bolt I had to deal with sense and now I can't go back to aosp.
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On the CM dialer, you can hit the search key and type someone's name.
I like AOSP cause thats what I learned on. Sense pisses me off more than it helps- too many things that just dont work right for me. For example (and this is small stuff, but stuff that just bugs me), click on the address bar on the browser. Start typing something to search....click enter, aww crap, it automatically put a www. in front of it...back up...delete the www. and try again. I can visit Sense once in a while, but always end up back at AOSP. I dont like re-learning, my original HTC Nexus with AOSP was still the best phone I ever had.
I love sense. I came from a Droid X and after i got my TB i realized that 80% of apps and widgets and stuff that i downloaded was to make it look and operate like sense. Like a world clock, a stop watch and good calender widget, the sense clock...the list goes on. Yes there are some things i miss from launchers i used but overall sense is good. Very functional and its got the eye candy.
I dont get why you u cant just turn sense off in settings like you could on my htc imagio. Made it much easier for people who prefer one or the other.
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I think the true answer lies somewhere in between, the beauty of the Android OS is customization. Personally, I am using an AOSP dailer with my BAMF Sense ROM.
My girlfriend loves cm7. I can't stand it. I tend to think of AOSP as Android for people that don't care how it looks or works. Android really isn't that elegant all by itself. It's a pig in need of lip stick. I just refuse to pay for something Sense gives me for free is another reason. That HTC clock is coming close to being an icon of Android itself. I personally think its time Google considered making their industrial modern art masterpiece into something pleasing to the eye and brain. I might give AOSP another go at some point. I'm pretty sure I won't like it because I like how Sense ties things together and it Just works. For free.
I've tried going back to AOSP as I loved AOSP on my OG Droid. I am a Sense-aholic now and I cannot go back. Especially running Sense 3.0 on das BAMF 4.9.
razzia17 said:
I loved aosp on my Droid 1 and Droid x, when I got the t-bolt I had to deal with sense and now I can't go back to aosp.
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+1, thats exactly how I was. I thought I was an ASOP only guy after my D1, but every time I try ASOP now I find myself missing some of the things that sense gives you.
Gingeritis 3D is the most stable GB Sense rom I have used yet, battery life is unexpectedly good.
I like the hardware that Motorola has been putting out with android, but Sense blows Blur out of the water...
I've tested a few moto phones...and that being said, I can TOTALLY see the huge love of AOSP for those folks. It's what they're used to and what they know.
But I've owned a sense phone...and use it daily now since release.
I too, can't see spending time and a little money to make it work or trying to make it work like Sense Candy....
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I've tested a few moto phones...and that being said, I can TOTALLY see the huge love of AOSP for those folks. It's what they're used to and what they know.
But I've owned a sense phone...and use it daily now since release.
I too, can't see spending time and a little money to make it work or trying to make it work like Sense Candy....
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I use Sense simply because I don't have time to experiment with all the other ROM options. But whenever I have started to try some other individual app options, I usually find something I like better. Sense weather animations are cool eye-candy, but there are much more functional weather apps when you need them--and you just don't need a weather app on all the time. The stock clock is ridiculously huge and some of the other optional Sense clocks are OK, but there are a million other clocks out there for free. Found a free calendar widget that is much more customizable and therefore nicer looking with my many backgrounds. Touchdown is better email app (but not cheap). One thing at a time, everything is getting replaced. Not sure what elements of Sense I'm still using!
Thanks, Robertus
I love asop. I love being able to use launcher pro and hide apps that i don't want to see. I love the speed. And every app works great on asop. I've tried to go back to sense but i only last a day at the most. I think the dailer on stock android is awesome.
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I started off with Sense and tried the ASOP mods.
ASOP is very minimalistic. BUT Sense is TOO MUCH.
Google needs a good clock and a better calender and better icons. If they fix that, ill be solid with ASOP.
I like rooting so that I can get to enjoy both sense and aosp. Both have pluses and minuses. Can we agree to that?
End of story.
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khanam said:
Both have pluses and minuses. Can we agree to that?
End of story.
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Wow you clearly missed the point of the thread
Just looking for opinions.... am I way off base here
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He was looking for opinions on Sense vs ASOP. He wants to know the pros and cons
I keep trying all the AOSP roms but keep going back to Das BAMF 1.8.6 because it's the most stable, has the least bugs, and the longest battery life. At least for me.
Its a personal preference, so there is no right or wrong answer. I definitely love AOSP. Just cleaner, every app works as intended, moddable.. most importantly (typically) ultra stable and fast.
I personally like the dialer, but usually people get hung up (no pun intended) on that. I love the fact that I can choose to dial, use favourites, have an easy to access call log, etc.. and if I can't manage to find someone in all that.. i can just hit the search key (you remember that little button on the bottom right side).
I do love some of the sense options but not enough to buy the farm. It would be nice to have a middle ground, but I guess i kind of do with AOSP and the mods.
I there any way to enable the quick lookup feature on AOSP? I mainly use quick lookup to easily translated web pages.