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[Q] Recently used apps in Notification area - ala new Sense

Hey all,
Does anyone know of an app that achieves the display of recently used apps in the notification dropdown area?
Essentially, performing the same function that a long press on the home button does, but obviously eliminating the need to press a button.
I've been looking for something like this for a good while, and was pleasantly surprised to see HTC had included this very function in their latest version of Sense.... when I went to the HTC London meet last week .
Unfortunately, the HTC guys demoing informed me there is currently no way to obtain this feature for current handsets.
To see what I am referring to, see the video below...
46sec <---> 51 sec
Is there an app that exists for this?
Thanks in advance,
c_man

I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.

FuryriderX said:
I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.
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I think that's discussed in another thread - I remember reading its not a 'proper' power down, that allows for such a quick start up.
Anyway, back on topic...

Actually I have been looking for something similar... My wife has a mytouch slide... And when you pull down notification tray it has recent 4 now I haven't tried scrolling sideways like that guy did... But that shows that it is possible cause the slide shows 4 recent...
Just have to find someone to port that I guess
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Rather than a port, which sounds like more effort, I thought an app to enable this functionality may exist.
It seems not?

its going to need a port i think, i would hope for a slightly modified version that would allow us to pin apps to it or even widgets a la galaxy s.

If you hold down the home button for a couple seconds you'll get a list of the eight last used apps.

smart bar does this an more. recent apps in drop down and/or favs and/or you can choose a certain app and/or many many more options, i cant remember. you have option to enable all or only recent apps via settings and checking off the check boxs.
i use on my a81e tablet and it works well. my long press of home button is buggy due to fw so this come in handy very much
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Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.

c_man said:
Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.
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I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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kjhadfield said:
I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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No worries
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[REQ] Request Editing of Google Car Dock App

I know I for one (and I'm sure many others) would LOVE to see an app that can edit the oem car dock app. I've used the other's on the market, and they are ok, but the oem one is the "nicest" one I think. If only we could customize it. I'm kind of suprised dev's haven't ripped into this already....

Me too I think its a great idea why cant we select which sat nav and music player we wish to use. Any great app developers out there that can do this or has it already been done.
ATB

jlechner said:
I know I for one (and I'm sure many others) would LOVE to see an app that can edit the oem car dock app. I've used the other's on the market, and they are ok, but the oem one is the "nicest" one I think. If only we could customize it. I'm kind of suprised dev's haven't ripped into this already....
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I am guessing you meant the HTC car panel app? The Google one can be customized already. I would like to be a ble to customize the HTC one. I don't use footprints. I would rather see that button remapped to places.

[Q] Some annoying issues regarding the phone.

Hey,
I just got my myTouch 4G Slide, and I have a few annoying issues. It could be due to the fact that I bought it in China (it even has some apps with Chinese names).
I don't like the "genius" button - I won't use that, and it doesn't work whatsoever. Is there a way to replace its function with, say, search button (like I had on my previous Android phone)?
Music: firstly, I don't even have a music application - I have to open it with the File Explorer (so I can't multitask). Could be because it's Chinese. The main problem is that the music is played from the speaker in the back of the phone. I like to sometimes listen to music without earphones. Is it possible to play music from the same speaker I use to talk?
When I scroll the applications menu, it "jumps" rather than scrolls smoothly - kinda like the difference between scrolling with the mouse wheel, and hitting "Page Down". Is it also a Chinese issue?
Pictures: so far I'm loving the camera. The only issue is that the pictures it produces are named IMG001, IMG002 and so on. That's really annoying. Is it possible to have the pictures named like on my previous phone, which was simply the time it was taken (yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss)?
Thanks a lot for all helpers!

ronash said:
Hey,
I just got my myTouch 4G Slide, and I have a few annoying issues. It could be due to the fact that I bought it in China (it even has some apps with Chinese names).
[*]I don't like the "genius" button - I won't use that, and it doesn't work whatsoever. Is there a way to replace its function with, say, search button (like I had on my previous Android phone)?
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Thanks a lot for all helpers!
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Go here for a solution.
ronash said:
[*]Music: firstly, I don't even have a music application - I have to open it with the File Explorer (so I can't multitask). Could be because it's Chinese. The main problem is that the music is played from the speaker in the back of the phone. I like to sometimes listen to music without earphones. Is it possible to play music from the same speaker I use to talk?
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The music icon in the app drawer is one of the apps hidden by Rosie (Sense Launcher). /system/customize/MNS/default.xml has the hidden app list in it.
I don't know if it's possibly to play music through the front-facing speaker at this time, though there's no reason why it can't be. A fun project for someone.
ronash said:
[*]When I scroll the applications menu, it "jumps" rather than scrolls smoothly - kinda like the difference between scrolling with the mouse wheel, and hitting "Page Down". Is it also a Chinese issue?
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Yea, that's the way it's supposed to be. I don't like it either. You have to edit the Sense launcher directly to change it.
I just spent all day digging around in a decompiled Rosie.apk (Sense launcher) pulling out Kidzone by it's teeth. I've been fixing that kind of stuff since before the sun came up today, funny you should post those questions.
ronash said:
[*]Pictures: so far I'm loving the camera. The only issue is that the pictures it produces are named IMG001, IMG002 and so on. That's really annoying. Is it possible to have the pictures named like on my previous phone, which was simply the time it was taken (yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss)?
Thanks a lot for all helpers!
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Dunno about this one. I don't think it's a native option, but don't see why it couldn't be written in after the fact.

Thanks for the reply.
Firstly I think we can be sure all the things I posted in OP are solvable - simply because (I think) Android is a Turing-complete machine
As for the "genius" key, I suppose it requires root etc.? Well I guess I would have to root it sometime
For music, how do I un-hide it, then? It really makes no sense to hide such a basic application!
I hope you'll keep me and the rest of the forum updated with the other stuff mentioned. Best of luck!
Have a nice weekend,
Ron.

Can't you get google music from the market? If not, download a room, pull the apk and install it. And this phone is much much much much better rooted. Thanks six btw, enjoying the rom.
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The music icon is in the media room icon, along with video player, slacker radio and a couple other items. It took me a while to find it when I got my phone last month.
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Haha I rooted my phone within an hour of getting it
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dung8604 said:
Haha I rooted my phone within an hour of getting it
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You have to... i dunno wut da fuhhh T Mo did with this "OS Overlay?"

So, are there any available solutions to the presented problems (except for the first one)?
In addition, I think that when I firstly got the phone and got a call, I got two circles (accept/reject), which I had to drag to a ring (a bit similar to the lock screen). Now it just gives me the standard accept-reject buttons. I couldn't find anything about it in the settings - what have gone wrong?

I believe the answering screen alters depending on whether your screen was locked, or unlocked, at the moment you received your call. Correct me if I'm wrong...

Anyone knows why they removed the Stocks app? Or it is hidden? If hidden how to enable it?

dung8604 said:
Haha I rooted my phone within an hour of getting it
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How did you root it and what did you install in it?
I'm just a bit scared of doing that.

Updated to 4.3 OTA, what happened to Google maps??

My wife took the update this morning. She is stock unrooted. She has never been rooted and will not let me root the phone. Anyway, she used to have all of these widgets for Google maps. Each widget was a route, and it would show a green, yellow, or red traffic light, depending on traffic conditions. After she updated, all of those widgets disappeared. She is also complaining that some of her routes have changed. I put her routes in on google maps on my desktop. It did the routes incorrectly, but let me drag and drop to change them. I can't seem to do that on the phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get her google maps back to where they were before and how I might get those widgets back?
Thanks
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usmaak said:
My wife took the update this morning. She is stock unrooted. She has never been rooted and will not let me root the phone. Anyway, she used to have all of these widgets for Google maps. Each widget was a route, and it would show a green, yellow, or red traffic light, depending on traffic conditions. After she updated, all of those widgets disappeared. She is also complaining that some of her routes have changed. I put her routes in on google maps on my desktop. It did the routes incorrectly, but let me drag and drop to change them. I can't seem to do that on the phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get her google maps back to where they were before and how I might get those widgets back?
Thanks
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The only thing I can think of off hand is maybe it's the newer version of maps. When they updated it i know the navigation option disappeared
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You can always try this. I haven't used it but it might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2566159

ShapesBlue said:
The only thing I can think of off hand is maybe it's the newer version of maps. When they updated it i know the navigation option disappeared
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What navigation option are you speaking of? I'm fully updated and still have navigation.

ThePagel said:
What navigation option are you speaking of? I'm fully updated and still have navigation.
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He's talking about the old version you have an app called "Navigation" with a red icon and then "Map" with map icon. Now Navigation is merged into the Map app as one. Happened on mine too. If you still have the Navigation in the app draw then you're ...."The One".

buhohitr said:
He's talking about the old version you have an app called "Navigation" with a red icon and then "Map" with map icon. Now Navigation is merged into the Map app as one. Happened on mine too. If you still have the Navigation in the app draw then you're ...."The One".
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Oh, I always got to navigation from the map app and ignored the nav icon. So that would be why I didn't notice a change.

Thanks for the responses. I tried the various apk files in the post above. They all pretty much crashed on my phone. And I was unable to set up a traffic widget. After searching online and seeing numerous complaints about this, I found the route alert app. It has a decent widget with two buttons. One button gives the route time. The other brings up a route map with traffic. I will miss the green/yellow/red light widget, but this seems like a good substitute. Originally,the app did not get my route right. But it let me set a waypoint to get it to route correctly. Pretty cool.

usmaak said:
Thanks for the responses. I tried the various apk files in the post above. They all pretty much crashed on my phone. And I was unable to set up a traffic widget. After searching online and seeing numerous complaints about this, I found the route alert app. It has a decent widget with two buttons. One button gives the route time. The other brings up a route map with traffic. I will miss the green/yellow/red light widget, but this seems like a good substitute. Originally,the app did not get my route right. But it let me set a waypoint to get it to route correctly. Pretty cool.
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Hey, if you're the one who set the route then why you need the app? just kidding..This app seems kind of cool, ability to set your own route and traffic alert.. wondering how accurate is the traffic alert. This would be an awesome feature.

HTC Stock Media Apps By Frago V3

Hi Guys,after seeing a lot of people asking for a fully working HTC Stock Music App & Widget i decide to share my mod
Features
100% Fully working widget
100% Fully working media server-Share to tv,dlna,etc...
100% Fully working Visualizer
100% Fully working albums download
100% Fully working HTC Car
Intallation
Backup ur system to be sure if something goes wrong,
Download the zip ,Copy it to ur HTC A9
Boot in twrp
Wipe dalvik cache-cache
Install it like any other zip from twrp,
Enjoy,,,
V3
Added HTC Car App,
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xtx10t21h47dt41/HTC_Stock_Media_Apps_By_Frago_V3.zip]

It works. Thanks.

Bug Report: Some songs are overlapping with one another.

theNdroid said:
Bug Report: Some songs are overlapping with one another.
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Thanks, but weird, i have tons of music and i don't have this

Lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago) said:
Thanks, but weird, i have tons of music and i don't have this
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I have over 1,000 songs, I have a lot of music too. However, the issue only happens once in a while. Sometimes songs disappear as I'm scrolling and then they'll reappear as I continue to scroll.
Not trying to say anything negative about your project, just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you were doing any type of debugging.
Keep up the good work ?

theNdroid said:
I have over 1,000 songs, I have a lot of music too. However, the issue only happens once in a while. Sometimes songs disappear as I'm scrolling and then they'll reappear as I continue to scroll.
Not trying to say anything negative about your project, just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you were doing any type of debugging.
Keep up the good work
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Thanks i will update the project soon

Thread Updated

@lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago)Can you please add the Car app from M9?
Thank you

vegetaleb said:
@lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago)Can you please add the Car app from M9?
Thank you
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Will try

V3
Added HTC Car App,
Enjoy,,,

vegetaleb said:
@lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago)Can you please add the Car app from M9?
Thank you
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Try the V3 and report please

Any chance anyone can make the widget transparent?

One question before i Root my phone and install TWRP
Is your Media apps package any different then the .apk HTC Music and HTC Car that you can also find online? Both work on my A9, just the Car app only allows the Phone app and Speak app to run while driving (MirrorLink)

Blindek said:
One question before i Root my phone and install TWRP
Is your Media apps package any different then the .apk HTC Music and HTC Car that you can also find online? Both work on my A9, just the Car app only allows the Phone app and Speak app to run while driving (MirrorLink)
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Yes is more stable

could you bring back FM radio too? on the sprint version there's no radio app but on the verge's video there is!!
https://youtu.be/XsHa2euofJA?t=41s
edit: using the next radio app, i'm able to listen to local radio but i'd like to use the native app cause it has soundhound implementation

syntenza said:
could you bring back FM radio too? on the sprint version there's no radio app but on the verge's video there is!!
https://youtu.be/XsHa2euofJA?t=41s
edit: using the next radio app, i'm able to listen to local radio but i'd like to use the native app cause it has soundhound implementation
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Im sorry but i dont have this device anyone,Im going for htc 10!!!

Thats really a pity. Spirit FM doesn't work and stock FM Radio apk from A9 does also not work out of the Box with CM13. I guess there some drivers missing. Anyone a solution for that?