So I finally bought Beautiful Widgets on my TF101. Tried out the widgets, saw that it was mostly clock and weather widgets, which is fine except that they aren't really any more beautiful or useful than the stock Asus clock and weather widgets. Decided to get the refund well within the 15-minute window.
It's probably better on a phone if you want a Sense-like experience, but on a tablet it was pretty underwhelming. IMPO (in my pointless opinion).
Triplanetary said:
So I finally bought Beautiful Widgets on my TF101. Tried out the widgets, saw that it was mostly clock and weather widgets, which is fine except that they aren't really any more beautiful or useful than the stock Asus clock and weather widgets. Decided to get the refund well within the 15-minute window.
It's probably better on a phone if you want a Sense-like experience, but on a tablet it was pretty underwhelming. IMPO (in my pointless opinion).
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You know there's like 10s of thousands of downloadable themes for Beautiful Widgets right?
I use ICS Blue clock theme with SteelBlue weather theme. Looks gorgeous to me
http://i.imgur.com/hQIN8.png
PoorCollegeGuy said:
You know there's like 10s of thousands of downloadable themes for Beautiful Widgets right?
I use ICS Blue clock theme with SteelBlue weather theme. Looks gorgeous to me
http://i.imgur.com/hQIN8.png
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Yeah, I did know that. And that's actually a really nice layout you have there. Is that your tablet or a phone? Hard to tell since you're not using the stock launcher.
I guess it's a phone, look at the statusbar.
If you're interested in widgets, try wizz, I really liked that a lot for my Transformer.
It has awesome Facebook/Twitter/Calendar widgets, but is only really useful when bought.
Triplanetary said:
So I finally bought Beautiful Widgets on my TF101. Tried out the widgets, saw that it was mostly clock and weather widgets, which is fine except that they aren't really any more beautiful or useful than the stock Asus clock and weather widgets. Decided to get the refund well within the 15-minute window.
It's probably better on a phone if you want a Sense-like experience, but on a tablet it was pretty underwhelming. IMPO (in my pointless opinion).
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BW is over hyped.
Tried both in my previous G2X and TF101, not impressed with the theme selection.
When you get Beautiful Widgets for .10, it's worth it
I like the various themes, although I stick with the same few.
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Or use SimiClock for something like this:
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When you get Beautiful Widgets for .10, it's worth it
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Oh man, I know. I was excited when I saw that BW was part of that sale, but then I remembered that the Android Market doesn't take PayPal. I didn't have a debit card at the time.
Maybe try HD Widgets I like them on my TF
Sorry about the quality of the shot it wont let me upload the full size says wrong exstension or something
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I got BW ages ago and dis not like it. Over hyped. HD is better but like eveeything UI is a matter of personal preference.
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Look at the clock / weather widget combo, that's awesome. One of the (slightly) few reasons I love my HD2. Why can't something like this appear on Android devices, something like this would ROCK on the Evo.
Why would you want 3 clocks? I've seen widgets a lot like that (for android), I think it was beautiful widgets.
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Why would you want 3 clocks? I've seen widgets a lot like that (for android), I think it was beautiful widgets.
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Yes, the redundancy is very overwhelming.
Beautiful widgets, you can even clone that if your up to the challenge using the available tools.
But as the previous posters said, 3 clocks? OCD much?
something like this?
drifter.anu.edu.au/android/like_this.png
can't add outside links, apparently I'm a new user.
beautiful widgets has several skins and you can add your own. IMO its the best clock/weather app you can find.
I don't mean the analog clock, although it's still nice. I meant the look of the whole widget, beautiful widgets looks cheap, at least the weather animations do :/
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I don't mean the analog clock, although it's still nice. I meant the look of the whole widget, beautiful widgets looks cheap, at least the weather animations do :/
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It is completely customizable, 100%, create your own and make it look the way you want it to look.
And there are a few dozen different weather animations, from silly to amazingly real.
Obviously you do not have it yet or you would know this, but its worth the few bucks.
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It is completely customizable, 100%, create your own and make it look the way you want it to look.
And there are a few dozen different weather animations, from silly to amazingly real.
Obviously you do not have it yet or you would know this, but its worth the few bucks.
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I have BW, the latest update too, I just dont know how to create me own, I guess ill do some research.
Check mine out:
(Ignore the flying toasters)
lololol. Now if only you could get the "Clock" icon to show the correct time too I guess it does twice a day at 2:52.
nolageek said:
Check mine out:
(Ignore the flying toasters)
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You must never be late for appointments
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Cool.
How do you create your own?
I just bought the captivate yesterday, What tweaks should I do and is it a must to root the phone to sideload apps? and what apps and widgets should I download, I remember some from my nexus one but Im hoping some of you can help me with great apps and games
First of all, CONGRATS on buying this sexy phone !
Ok I'd recommend you first check out the "Pimp my Captivate" thread that's stickied at the top, and download the pdf.
When you reach the step where you have to root your phone, don't.
Instead flash the Unleash the Beast rom/update
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751182
Then continue on with the guide as normal, with the exception that you don't have to root anymore, remove the att apps, or use a side load script since there's instruction how to enable it after flashing the Unleash the Beast.
i'm not much of a gamer but depending on how old you are, you might remember labyrinth. that is a pretty fun game to me. the samsung user interface (Touchwiz 3.0) to me was pretty neat, but Launcherpro is much much better. its much more customizable, and the fact that you can have 7 screens + 3 dockbars makes it near impossible for you to run out of room for shortcuts. some people will say that you will need to have an all black background to preserve your battery life, i disagree with it, as i am running live backgrounds like Galaxy without a problem. If youre willing to pay for any apps the first one that i recommend is Beautiful Widgets as it has tons and tons of skins for the weather and clock widget on your home screen.
I rooted mine as it was a simple process, and tried a couple of the lag fixes. if you are happy with the speed of your phone, then dont mess with any of those fixes imo.
I recommend setting up Pandora if you havent already, as well as iheartradio. and ive been using ringdroid to clip songs into ringtones as well.
my captivate lags sometimes, not as smooth as the nexus, will the lag fix help? for example when i put that live wallpaper with the leaves and the water that was also on the nexus, it lags alot when moving from one homescreen page to the next.Also I saw a really great wallpaper from the original galaxy with the water rippling, is there any way to get it on the captivate and also the avatar movie from the vibrant
also is there any way to stop the phone from vibrating with the swype and samsung keyboard?
I also Agree, beautiful widgets has a weather animation, and many skins.
I paired up the Droid Does skin, with the Droid X Live wallpaper
Here's a pic
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what launcher are u using with the droid x theme, adw or launcherpro, btw which one is better. I still havnt tryed adw, I had launcher pro on my n1
Launcherpro is where it's at, when you download it customize it and find the option to enable 3d app drawer- it's great!
You can find the Droid X Live Wallpaper here (many different colors)
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6952878&postcount=13
But for the DROID does clock/weather widget, you need to download or "find" beautiful widgets.
Like I said before though, flash the unleash the beast rom, it's makes the Captivate way faster, and your life easier.
So did anyone ever tell you how to get the avatar movie from the vibrant to work on the captivate? I have the file saved on my phone but can't get it to play.
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The swype options are in settings/locale and text/swype ... Or you can hit the swype key on bottom left of the keyboard.
Somewhere in the android world I have seen a picture of somebody using what appears to be a scrollable app launcher on their screen. This particular one was rounded and was on the side of the screen. Kind of like half of a rotary clock dialer, but instead of numbers it was apps.
Thanks for any ideas you have as to what I may be talking about!
Sounds like circlelauncher ...
Its half rotary cause the launcher is in the top, if its in the middle it will be full circle
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That's not the exact one I was thinking of, but very similar.
The one I remember seeing I believe had a grey background and was only halfthe circle on either the left or right of the screen.
This one will work though if I can't find the one I was thinking of, though the one I remember looked better IMO. But it's possible it was just a particular rom feature.
Thanks!
Yeah...its pretty cool. It helps keep my screens uncluttered
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Bah, I just went through a few hundred pages of google images to see if I could find anything...
I tried searching through every combination of app widget scrollable circular android launcher dock vertical horizontal I could think of. Am I making this up?
If I am, does anyone want to make one?
It kinda sounds like the wonder wheel feature on slickui b
it its not available yet
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not wonderwheel either :/
it's closer to this, if it was scrollable and ran more along the left and right sides of the screen.
Netfront life screen, one of the home replacement apps i reviewed on hubpages
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Just tried out netfront for a minute, and it's actually a lot more then I had wanted (very cool concept though) if I hadn't just bought adw ex the other day I might have kept it for awhile.
I'm beginning to think I imagined this whole concept. Thanks for all of your efforts though, seriously do appreciate them.
There's also a carousel widget one.
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There's also a carousel widget one.
Sent from my eVo
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Is that ultimate faves pro? If so, I was hoping what I was looking for was an actual widget and not a home replacement.
Small bump, still haven't found anything like I was remembering.
Would anyone be interested in making something like this?
It doesn't have to be curved or super fancy, but I'd love a widget (say 3 columns wide or 3 rows long) that I could place any number of apps into and scroll through them.
Of course after it gets made then it could be fancy, if somebody wished.
Not thinking of smart taskbar are you?
No it wasn't that one. Sorry for the long reply I thought I had this thread set up for notifications.
Hmmm I wonder if I just dreamed this.
I believe the app your talking about is called Clutch Pad by Steve Albright, it's available in the market for $1.99. Also, if your looking you something similar, but free, I'd recommend either Circle Launcher or SwipePad, both of which allow for launching apps without using the standard launcher.
I know its because most of the apps are designed for phones but I'm disappointed with the lack of widgets that display at even half screen on the TF.like pulse just has very small box widgets,so on this what's the best widgets people are using both in how they display and there fun
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combat goofwing said:
I know its because most of the apps are designed for phones but I'm disappointed with the lack of widgets that display at even half screen on the TF.like pulse just has very small box widgets,so on this what's the best widgets people are using both in how they display and there fun
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sent from my LEE Pad Transformer........I wish
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Hi Combat,
There is a shortage of good ones. The only ones i have at present other than the stock ones are, taptu for news/facebook, beautiful widgets for a nice clock, twitdroid and CNN...
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if u use adw ex u can resize the widgets yo your liking
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if u use adw ex u can resize the widgets yo your liking
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Yes but it's not tablet optimized.
Get colorize hd! Awesome facebook, twitter and calendar widgets!
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if u use adw ex u can resize the widgets yo your liking
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Android 3.1 will be able to resize widgets natively (though the app/widgets need to be programmed to be able to do so).
3.1 will come to the Transformer soon.
ADW or Launcher Pro allow scaled widgets and seem to cope with my transformer well.
I have used both and have just made a skin to blend with my theme using launcher pro.
Launcher Pro and ADW will get more widgets as they develop and will be made tablet friendly (already are?)
I am sure 3.1 will be nice but I don't think it will be as customisable as these extended launchers
It is frustrating that pulse does not scale better - it will come I am sure
This is what I have done with a couple of the widgets from Launcher Pro
The facebook and twitter widgets are nice too
4 widgtes
Rodsky11 said:
Get colorize hd! Awesome facebook, twitter and calendar widgets!
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Where can you get this from? I don't see it on the market or the Dev's site.
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Get colorize hd! Awesome facebook, twitter and calendar widgets!
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Tried looking everywhere for this but cannot find it. Colorize widget exists but it says device not compatible !
Sorry, it appears the Dev took it down.
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Sorry, it appears the Dev took it down.
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Oh well. Hopefully it will be released again. Looks like a cool app.
I've been using ADW.EX for a long while and have grown accustomed to their features and for the most part loved the experience. However, I just say QQ Launcher on AndroidSpin and this.. for lack of a better term... "really put some flavor on my sh*t"
Check it out!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tencent.qqlauncher&feature=search_result
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Don't let the fact that it's chinese fool you. It looks and acts like a pretty solid product.
What say ye?
Looks nice.... I might check it out... Might. Lol.
Infuse, infused...running gingerbread
It's worth a try. You can always go back :-D
Been using Go launcher but this seems to be some good competition, will check out tonight
Looks good but no English? Ah that'll be hard to use lol. Let me know when they translate it though.
Infuse, infused...running gingerbread
Ddot196 said:
Looks good but no English? Ah that'll be hard to use lol. Let me know when they translate it though.
Infuse, infused...running gingerbread
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It's in english, it just is made by a chinese company
Its similar to the miui launcher
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the included widgets are cool. the theme is awesome. it takes a lot from touch wiz 4 or the Sony arc launcher and adds a very nice miui like theme. folders in the drawer and transition animations are nice. and its themeable. not bad
Wow its sweet
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I like it. Competes with Go Launcher.
Either I missed it or it doesn't have many options for making it act how I want. I couldn't find swiping options or anything.
If I missed it, please point me in the right direction so I can give it a fair shake...
thanks
Nice launcher, well Polish but missing a few key features that Go launcher offers. Facebook calendar Widgets also custom user icons. Will keep an eye on it tho.
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Nice launcher. Just needs more themes (it's completely newborn)
Installed. Satisfied.
Thanks for the tip
in ROM Infused 2.0.3 from our great gtg465x
I agree.. it definately needs some more themes and options.. but its not bad for a new product
My Phone Color Problem. Sorry My Bad English. All İcons and Backgrounds Color Problem.
I believe they re-themed certain icons, but I'm not sure.
I really like the MIUI-ish design of the switch shortcuts, but I'm not a fan of the list style of the app drawer. Can you customize the drawer, or is it the list style only?
Wow, I though this launcher was bad, but its amazing! It lags a little bit on the app screen, but that's probably because I need to restart my phone...
Sent from my 4.5" Super Phone.
Cyanogen Mod comes with ADW launcher, but I like this one better.
Is there any setting to get it as default launcher?
Once you install it and click the home button it should bring up a prompt to ask you which launcher you want to use, you can set is as default from there. or you can go into application settings and clear defaults on ADW