I haven't seen this anywhere. I love ICS on my Skyrocket, but despise the dialer. The market dialers are OK, but for some reason I'm hooked on the GB dialer. Anyone know of a ROM or a way to have ICS w/stock GB dialer?
Can't be done, its a part of the phone.apk which holds essential library and low level hooks.
I highly recommend u look into exdialer. Yes, it is a 3rd party alternative, but its unfortunately the best u can do
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nothing like stock app ... especially the phone app.
about the best you can do is use a third party dialer and find a theme for it.
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Hey everyone,
I love my Infuse but the only thing is I absolutely HATE TouchWiz. I love HTC's Sense but unfortunately AFAIK there isn't a way of getting that on here.
Anyways back to my main point, what is the easiest way to get rid of TouchWiz and Samsung's Dialer, E-Mail Client and SMS Client? I much prefer the stock Android version of everything so if someone could please point me in the right direction that would be great.
My phone IS rooted BTW incase that makes things easier
Thanks!
CM 7 is in the process of being ported to the infuse, check the development section - still doesn't have all bugs worked out yet, but that's your only alternative to TouchWiz
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Until CM7 is available you could change the launcher and use market apps to do SMS, Email, etc...
Just delete/move or freeze the APKs using a root-enabled file explorer or Titanium Backup. Then you can install some alternative apps, lockscreens, and launchers.
Alternatively, you might want to check out some of the ROMs in the dev section. You can easily get a close-to-AOSP feel with Infused v2 and the lockscreen addon.
Yeah I'm always watching the CM7 thread to see what's new, etc.
Am I able to get the AOSP APK's for the dialer, sms and e-mail from somewhere? I would change my launcher but without the AOSP APK's I don't see the point
I am currently on Infused V2 with the lockscreen addon, just want to get rid of the Samsung feel ;-)
Thanks for everyone's help!
the dialer and contacts would be difficult to permanantly change. way back designgears tried an aosp look rom for the captivate and he wasn't able to change the dialer. you can get go contacts/dialer which is a single app much like aosp with added features and is themeable.
you can change the sms to aosp I believe but I'm not sure why you'd want to, it is really limited. there are many market apps you can use. go sms pro and handcent are very popular.
and there are many launcher in the market for you to choose. the gingerbread one from Eugene373 is same as gtg puts in his roms I believe.
I guess I will just wait until CM7 is all ready
I like simplicity, I think the Samsung SMS, E-mail and dialer are way too bloated. I look at it this way, if the main used functions of my phone are simple and basic then I won't have too many problems with the phone with daily use.
RJ45 said:
I guess I will just wait until CM7 is all ready
I like simplicity, I think the Samsung SMS, E-mail and dialer are way too bloated. I look at it this way, if the main used functions of my phone are simple and basic then I won't have too many problems with the phone with daily use.
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well it sounds like you might like go dialer/contacts then, it has some additional features but isn't very complicated at all. only issue is that every time it gets upgraded the defaults get cleared and you need to set them back to go contacts for like 4-5 different scenarios. it is a good app but the defaults system on android can get annoying. and I do believe aosp sms will work on this phone, just haven't seen it tried. it was done many times on the sgs phones because earlier versions of tw sms had weird problems with the time stamps, especially on custom roms, that and the theme was pretty gross.
Well I know SMS is possible for sure because I was using Refuse 1.7 before I upgraded to Infuse and it has the AOSP SMS which was nice
Hopefully CM7 gets finished up sooner than later
As mentioned, you have many options in the market...
popular launcher apps
go launcher
zeam launcher (i use on nook)
launcher pro (i use on infuse)
adw launcher (have on my son's phone)
android 2.3 launcher
SPB Shell 3D (looks like an amazing launcher)
and more
sms
chomp
go
handcent (i use)
and more
Dialers
I rarely make calls so I have not really looked into changing the dialer.
For those that want to run the proper AOSP apps..
I found some that work nice on our ICS official rom.
for camera you can download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2JseW54LmNhbWVyYWljcyJd
it has the pan view very nice indeed
For browser including the browser widget which unfortunately Samsung does not provide us..(sad really) you can get
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5iZWFuc29mdC5icm93c2VycGx1cyJd
I prefer the people app..unfortunately thats not in playstore but the closest and best thing available is
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5nbWFpbC55dXlhbmcyMjYuY29udGFjdHN3aWRnZXQiXQ..
Also if you miss the proper ICS calendar you can get it again from the playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5jb25jZW50cmljbGl2ZXJzLmNhbGVuZGFyIl0.
Update..
If you like the proper ICS gallery and not the GB gallery that we got with ICS
check this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2JseW54LmdhbGxlcnlpY3MiXQ..
Cool... Does this camera app have the funny faces option?
Nop unfortunately it doesnt
exDialer is a nice replacement for the touchwiz dialer.
ICS Launcher on N7000
hey i really dont like the launcher that comes with The ICS Rom its LG's one i want the Actual Official ICS launcher. from google if possible
i seen plenty of launchers but im trying to make a rom and i dont want third party launchers but i dont want the preset LG on either.
Disclaimer this is my honest opinion about this launcher.
Ok so the best launcher for the SGS4G is Go Launcher EX with a Jellybean skin ontop so it looks like jelly bean in some ways and also its very smooth because its go launcher ex. Also go launcher is very flexible.
I would think that this should be in themes and apps....
The problem with anything "GO" is the push adds.
My opinion is ADW premium....now that's perfection.
Yep, back when I was on GB, ADW Premium was my launcher of choice. And since I picked it up for 10 cents on one of the sales, the price was pretty close to right as well.
Go EX has push adds and is a RAM eater, the reason I always preferred it over ADW EX, is that it always remembered my apps order within a folder. ADW always mixed the apps order inside the folder...
Anyway, Apex launcher is a good reason to shift to ICS on my opinion.
ADW since the update is just as good on 4.xxx. GO products are just crap IMO. They started out good and then turned into crap.
GO used to be good but now it's become one big ugly bloat.
Try Holo, it's ICS style but can run on GB.
I consider GO product malware at this point in time, between unclear privacy policies, forcing users to sync with their servers, and push ads.
The only go product I still use is Go SMS 'cause nothing else in google play can compare to that app.
If your on GB I can understand that but ics and beyond has much better stock mms.apk's.
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If your on GB I can understand that but ics and beyond has much better stock mms.apk's.
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REally? I have not even 'cracked' the stock mms... [not on my Note either].
i use go sms for a few of the features but the less apps the better IMO...
I like the quick voice reply feature and some of the other message types that save plan. if they were better marketeers, they'd push that voice reply thing as a safety applet.... people need to stop texting in cars
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REally? I have not even 'cracked' the stock mms... [not on my Note either].
i use go sms for a few of the features but the less apps the better IMO...
I like the quick voice reply feature and some of the other message types that save plan. if they were better marketeers, they'd push that voice reply thing as a safety applet.... people need to stop texting in cars
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Yep the stock app does everything I need it to. With 4.0 and many of the modded stock apps the support for emoji is native now. I dont messaging services like gtalk and fb messenger because I dont trust those type of third party apps anymore. TiB backs up my messages and call logs so those features are useless to me.
Best launcher for me was Zeam Launcher until ADW Launcher updated to what it is now. The paid version is THE S|-|ยก+.
I like the G3 interface and many of the features. I prefer less bloatware than AT&T comes with and I don't need all of Goofles crap either, but I an get rid of them. I just want a rooted ROM with the Nexus dialer. I've tried most of the ROM's posted here and none of them have it. I don't really want to use a 3rd party launcher to do it so any suggestions? Anything I might have missed?
You can get .apk from here http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...ll-it-manually-on-other-kitkat-roms-download/ i used the flashable version on cloudy v1.2 and just go to app drawer and move phone to home screen(blue icon not green one)
I'll give this a try...
But from what I've read you can't fully replace the stock dialer and the caller I'd feature doesn't work. It's worth a shot though, thanks.