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live widgets

okay so the evo got live walpapers let's see some live widgets who's with me?
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We'd also see massive battery use.
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^ pretty much
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true but I know its a way around that
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um there already "live" widgets. every widget is inherently live, otherwise its just an icon. what specifically are you looking for

how about some live app shortcuts... to use with Desktop Visualizer etc.
they could move around in different directions and such
imagine a blue wallpaper and icons shaped like clouds that are around your screen

adam might be on to something haha
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but what I was sayin tho my widgets don't move they just sit on the screen that gets old after a while I already got moving walpapers the widgets should do some moving too like for the messages widgets the mail icon u just see a little blue picture and lines the lines should be letters...it should look like I'm typing something
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There is a company that is working on some impressive stuff like what you are talking about. Check out tatHome. They have a bunch of videos that shows what they are working on and rumor has it that it will work on android devices.
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Are you talking about something like the PDA in Iron Man 2 that what's his face uses? I thought it was badass to have a phone like that.

wes342 said:
There is a company that is working on some impressive stuff like what you are talking about. Check out tatHome. They have a bunch of videos that shows what they are working on and rumor has it that it will work on android devices.
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I checked out that tathome stuff.....and while it is ridiculously sick....its been in the works for just about a year now. I saw this work of genius seven months or so ago, and its still not out with any word of where its progress is at or perhaps a release date. This would keep me from switching to WP7 by the end of the year....but as of now the UI android has is not as smooth as it sooo could be, as everyone can plainly see in the demo video of tathome.
If anyone has any word on this, I'm quite sure it would be much appreciated by alot of people.

if you build it...they will come...
agreed, tathome looked sick... S E V E N months ago. sad its not released yet, i signed up for beta and STILL no word...not that i care a whole lot, but it did look smooth.
however, the switching back to a winmo device from evo is a bit harsh. i would rather be beaten to death by kimbo slice with a g1 before doing such a thing...

jonfitch said:
I checked out that tathome stuff.....and while it is ridiculously sick....its been in the works for just about a year now. I saw this work of genius seven months or so ago, and its still not out with any word of where its progress is at or perhaps a release date. This would keep me from switching to WP7 by the end of the year....but as of now the UI android has is not as smooth as it sooo could be, as everyone can plainly see in the demo video of tathome.
If anyone has any word on this, I'm quite sure it would be much appreciated by alot of people.
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They had a beta testing program but they closed it. I've been keeping my eye out to see I'd they open it up to testing again.
What's your setup? Sense is real smooth for me.
I'm not impressed with win7.
But a few things look cool.
I'f you want to see the future of android check out mozilla seabird.
Seabird phone with tathome UI would be amazing.
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MagnusRagnarok said:
if you build it...they will come...
agreed, tathome looked sick... S E V E N months ago. sad its not released yet, i signed up for beta and STILL no word...not that i care a whole lot, but it did look smooth.
however, the switching back to a winmo device from evo is a bit harsh. i would rather be beaten to death by kimbo slice with a g1 before doing such a thing...
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Lol I'm sad to say I have friends that still want win7 and iPhones.
Looks like its time for new friends. Lol
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I Like This....
If a dev could port this to the EVO it would be awesome. I hope to see something like this in the near future.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798911

Originalkingpin said:
If a dev could port this to the EVO it would be awesome. I hope to see something like this in the near future.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798911
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This is definitely a must have for the EVO.

If there has been no public development it is because some large company wrote a large check to either shelve it or use it in their own phones.
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Omg. Best theme ever.. But...

Okay.. I have found the theme I really want. Its callrd spb shell 3d I think, problem is that its 15 bucks.. I tried the apk and I get a liscense warning.. Anyway around those?
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Ryistech said:
Okay.. I have found the theme I really want. Its callrd spb shell 3d I think, problem is that its 15 bucks.. I tried the apk and I get a liscense warning.. Anyway around those?
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SPB Shell is not a theme. It's a launcher. And no, there's no way around it. Be a good end user and pay for it. Please.

Ehh, kinda pricey for a launcher.
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agreed, but you couldnt have seriously come to this forum asking advice on how to pirate software?.. come on dude.. lol
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Ryistech said:
Okay.. I have found the theme I really want. Its callrd spb shell 3d I think, problem is that its 15 bucks.. I tried the apk and I get a liscense warning.. Anyway around those?
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Holy battery drain Batman! This launcher drains like crazy I bought it a while back I don't recommended using it
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Ridiculous...

Ryistech said:
Ehh, kinda pricey for a launcher.
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If its pricey, just pick any any of the other alternate launchers available

haha, I didnt come here just for that. This site has helped me alot! so wat are some other alternitives to thaf? Im using adw ex now.
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Thanks chris, but im not rooted.. Yet.. Can u check my new post?
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Ryistech said:
Okay.. I have found the theme I really want. Its callrd spb shell 3d I think, problem is that its 15 bucks.. I tried the apk and I get a liscense warning.. Anyway around those?
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buy the F**KING app

BUY IT FFS!
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Miui vs Sense 3.0/3.5

Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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Oh boy. I see this going south. I LOVE miui because it has sms popups, themes galore, a nice dialer, and awesome support.
Sense is beautiful, has many variations, the system apps and widgets go on forever, and it really shows off what android is capable of visually. That said, it seems to take a tremendous amount of work by devs to make sense ROMs easy on the ol' battery. That, from my point of view makes them bloated. But, they can be made into fantastic daily drivers as has been shown repeatedly.
Lately I've used MIUI.
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Supamike88 said:
Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.

TeeJay3800 said:
Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.
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Sorry wasn't getting a response here so I put it in the questions section. Other peoples opinions interest me. Maybe they utilized something in a ROM I didn't
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TeeJay3800 said:
Stop creating multiple threads about the same stupid topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345250
What do other people's opinions matter anyway? Try both, decide for yourself, end of discussion.
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I agree even tho it's sense hands down
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Supamike88 said:
Go! Personally I am using Miui right now. I started on VU and then gave Miui a try. It feels a but quicker on Miui and their seems to be a lot more customization
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wow..... seriously?

I knew my time would come. A fun post about people saying what they like about great roms gets turned into this. Remember guys, this if serious. Android isn't about having fun.
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Supamike88 said:
I knew my time would come. A fun post about people saying what they like about great roms gets turned into this. Remember guys, this if serious. Android isn't about having fun.
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.... as teejay said, you basically posted the same thing twice..

saranhai said:
.... as teejay said, you basically posted the same thing twice..
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I'm sorry about that. Probably should've deleted the one in this section. Sorry again
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Supamike88 said:
I'm sorry about that. Probably should've deleted the one in this section. Sorry again
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You probably think that TJ is being harsh and ruining a fun thing. But you have to take into account that redundant threads like this pollutes the site and when a noob tries to do the right thing and search for a thread he/she needs it'll be harder to find. And all he/she will do is ask the question in a thread that's been answered many times. Thus, it all just creates the circle of problems.
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I ran both.
MIUI on Nexus One, which is incapable of properly running even Sense 2.1, having no devs to completely solve everything (trackball wake) and no graphical power to move it smoothly.
Sense 3.0 on MT4G, which is capable of running it fast and smooth.
Personally, I prefer Sense - it is visually and functionally better. While MIUI fixes a lot of things that stock Android did wrong (T9 dialer, notification bar toggles, launcher - in the aspect of adding widgets, smoothness and effects), it still falls short when it comes to Email, text selection (standard Android has selection position bugs and isn't nearly as comfortable as Sense), and just overall visual experience. But MIUI is small and fast, and on older phones it counts - and it supports A LOT of phones that have no better options. So, for me, if the phone can't run Sense or TouchWiz properly - MIUI would be the next best thing to choose.

I go to miui once in a while but find myself coming back to sense 3.0/3.5 only because its just so awesome... Sense is hands down the best thing that happened to android it adds so much to android... Basic stuff like browser ,mail, contacts integration made perfect.... Sense makes android beautiful with brains but miui on the other side is definitely for lower power phones like say moto defy or something like that... Btw love both of them
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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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new to android......

hey guys, im finally moving to android after using wm6.5 for the last 2 years. i hoping you can answer a couple of questions for me.......
my xe is arriving today and im pretty sure i'll be sticking to stock rom as i did on my hd2 but im wondering, how do i go about changing icons to my own designs and can i install user made widgets without having to flash anything. that was the thing i loved about my hd2, i skinned just about the whole phone so im hoping android will be the same.
sorry for the truely newb questions but im totally new to the scene......
thanks for any advice.....

Not sure about widgets, but icons will be easy. There's an app called Desktop Visualizer that lets you do this. You could also run a different launcher that has options for this. Keep in mind your app icons will look the same in your app drawer, though.

Yes you can install any widgets just by putting the APK on your phone and running it.

thanks for the tips guys, im sure i'll soon get the hang of android.....APK sounds like a good start, i'll check it out.....

I tip my hat to you for using wm6.5 for that long sir. Well done.
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vabeachfc3s said:
I tip my hat to you for using wm6.5 for that long sir. Well done.
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yeah, 2 trouble free years......"cht" turns hd2 into the best phone ever, but sensation xe might change that, we'll see........

try go laucher ex, it provides you several scenes and UI customizations

griffin0420 said:
try go laucher ex, it provides you several scenes and UI customizations
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thank you...........keep the tips coming guys..

donwhann said:
yeah, 2 trouble free years......"cht" turns hd2 into the best phone ever, but sensation xe might change that, we'll see........
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You have the HD2 and you never thought about installing Android or WP7?

Donny1987 said:
You have the HD2 and you never thought about installing Android or WP7?
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not once. if you saw my phone running you would more than likely think i was running android anyway. cht is the hd2's saviour. i knew i'd be getting an android phone someday and was more than happy with wm so what was the point...? . i actually like wm6.5 by the way.........

donwhann said:
not once. if you saw my phone running you would more than likely think i was running android anyway. cht is the hd2's saviour. i knew i'd be getting an android phone someday and was more than happy with wm so what was the point...? . i actually like wm6.5 by the way.........
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My HD2 is running CM9 ICS awesome with very few bugs. Hope you keep it. I don't even have my sensation rooted because I get my fix with the HD2. Keep it and start playing once you have your Sensation. PM me and I can give you tips on flashing Android on your HD2. Its never ending development make it the most fun phone to hack.
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crisisinthecity said:
My HD2 is running CM9 ICS awesome with very few bugs. Hope you keep it. I don't even have my sensation rooted because I get my fix with the HD2. Keep it and start playing once you have your Sensation. PM me and I can give you tips on flashing Android on your HD2. Its never ending development make it the most fun phone to hack.
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thank you, i might just do that one day. i'll never get rid of my hd2, best phone i've ever used.......

I've been in the same 6.5.3 boat until very recently.
To be honest, I like my Sensation, but miss some features of my old WM.

The HD2 has the most amazing developer base.
I'd be tweaking all day if I had the choice of 5 OS'es!

The hd2 is prob the best device there is to date lol. That phone is awesome.
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Yeah, I kinda wanna get an HD2 just to try out all the different ROMs.

The go launcher ex is pretty cool. I had it for 3 hours but then I got ics. The widgets go launcher provide are pretty awesome though.
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ungraph said:
The go launcher ex is pretty cool. I had it for 3 hours but then I got ics. The widgets go launcher provide are pretty awesome though.
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yeah i was looking at that earlier, looks pretty good but how come its free, is it on a timed demo or something...?

donwhann said:
yeah i was looking at that earlier, looks pretty good but how come its free, is it on a timed demo or something...?
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Nope, it's totally free.
I remember reading how the Go Dev team are funded but can't remember.

^ Yeah it's free. No catch, ads or anything.