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[Q] Widget Issues? (Disappearance)

Ive been using the tasks widget from HTC and got a notification that there was an update for it through the htc hub. When I went to the hub to update it, it would not download and install the update correctly. It would say its installing when it was at only 56%?? Or sometimes even less then that and then the download would just disappear. So I thought maybe i should uninstall and reinstall the widget. Once I did it has never been able to fully download and install again. What should I do? And ive tried other task widgets on the android market and nothing else really looks as good or is over complicated for something so simple.

HTC Sense is crap. It tells me updates are available for widgets, yet won't let me update them. It also won't let me download any new ones. My Friends stream no longer auto updates. It has never properly synced my contacts. There is usually one or two missing or a pic is wrong for one or two.
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[Q] Cleaning up the bloatware - Kidzone?

I tried searching the forums and found nothing...
Like a lot of others, i dont like most of the applications that come bundled on my phone and like to get rid of most of them. I cant seem to figure out what .apk file to remove to get rid of the "Kidzone" application. Any ideas?

If any root-level file explorer works, download Absolute System from the Market. It's about two bucks but it's worth it. You can use it to remove any bloatware from your device.

blackknightavalon said:
If any root-level file explorer works, download Absolute System from the Market. It's about two bucks but it's worth it. You can use it to remove any bloatware from your device.
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Not in this case. We do not have S-OFF.

Freezing the apps with titanium backup lasts between reboots, luckily. Won't remove them completely but they will be prevented from running or showing in the app drawer.
Only problem is I'm having trouble finding the package names of a couple bloatware apps, namely kidzone, highlight, friend stream and t-mobile mall. If anyone could find the names of those packages it would be great. I'll look up the names of the apps I did find in a little while and post them for you.

vimk said:
Freezing the apps with titanium backup lasts between reboots, luckily. Won't remove them completely but they will be prevented from running or showing in the app drawer.
Only problem is I'm having trouble finding the package names of a couple bloatware apps, namely kidzone, highlight, friend stream and t-mobile mall. If anyone could find the names of those packages it would be great. I'll look up the names of the apps I did find in a little while and post them for you.
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Download Absolute System from the Market.
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vimk said:
Freezing the apps with titanium backup lasts between reboots, luckily. Won't remove them completely but they will be prevented from running or showing in the app drawer.
Only problem is I'm having trouble finding the package names of a couple bloatware apps, namely kidzone, highlight, friend stream and t-mobile mall. If anyone could find the names of those packages it would be great. I'll look up the names of the apps I did find in a little while and post them for you.
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I cant figure out what process is Kidzone either, but i think the T-Mobile mall was called "AppPack" (MallLite-4.0.92.apk)

Gumpo10k said:
I cant figure out what process is Kidzone either, but i think the T-Mobile mall was called "AppPack" (MallLite-4.0.92.apk)
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also tried removing the app pack, and it does not remove "kidzone"

Kidzone appears to basically be a locked down version of the home screen that only lets you turn on Youtube, Internet, Bejeweled, and T-Mobile TV from that screen. It requires you to setup a password for the lock screen. It appears to be built into sense. It's not really an application. Mostly a replacement lock screen. There's nothing "kid" about it honestly.

Akujin said:
Kidzone appears to basically be a locked down version of the home screen that only lets you turn on Youtube, Internet, Bejeweled, and T-Mobile TV from that screen. It requires you to setup a password for the lock screen. It appears to be built into sense. It's not really an application. Mostly a replacement lock screen. There's nothing "kid" about it honestly.
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Is there a way to remove the shortcut from the app drawer?

electro_chef said:
Is there a way to remove the shortcut from the app drawer?
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I second that request!

I made a thread in "themes and apps" about cleaning up bloat - still no luck on kidzone though.
I am fiddling around with dumping sense now, that will probably do it. I'll post back here if I can figure out how to make kidzone go away.
Meantime - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16739548#post16739548

okay - sorry to post after myself but I got rid of kidzone.
First, I restored a CWM backup I made right after root/busybox installation.
So, my phone state is fresh S-OFF/Root with SU & busybox installed.
It may be important to note that I did a factory reset to my phone just before S-OFF/Root & had a freshly formatted MicroSD card.
I then installed ADW Launcher from the Market, and hit my "home" key. Selected "Use Default" and chose ADW Launcher.
Now my phone defaults to ADW as it's launcher.
I then installed "Absolute System" from the Market, and used it to remove "HTC Sense"
Closed out Absolute System, then scrolled between all 5 ADW desktop screens, powered down the phone, then powered up again. (*NOTE fastboot = off)
Booted fine, was able to ditch sense without issue, and KIDZONE IS GONE!
As always, make sure to do a fresh system backup before messing with anything like this, but Kidzone is linked to sense, and replacing sense with another launcher will remove it.
HTC Sense was the only app removed from the phone, and I haven't checked everything to make sure it works yet, but no HTC crash report to send, and no force close issues. (yet - to be determined)
I've been itching to ditch sense since I got the phone, and this was my first quick test at it. Works good so far.
Edit to add:
Checked the "personalize" option at the top of the "settings" list. This just brings you back to the main desktop, doesn't throw an error.
I knew this one thing would be messed up somehow after ditching sense, but the fact that it doesn't make a problem and just closes the menu is fine by me.
I'll spend the rest of the day testing out my phone without sense to see how it runs. I'll post back how it went tomorrow.
Edit - 11/01/2011:
When I said "without sense" I meant without the sense launcher. I expanded on and clarified that in another thread (that app thread) but never cleared it up here.
To fully remove sense is one heck of a project, and will take much more then just switching your launcher.

This is great info - but with this last method - can you still use the stock/factory camera app? Is the camera fully functional, it might not be a big deal to some but would be cool to retain full factory camera functionality.

Wow, feels like going back in time -
Yep, stock camera app works fine.
It's tied to sense, and there is no true AOSP ROM out there yet, so pretty much no matter what you do you should keep stock camera functionality.
Actually, keeping the stock camera functionality/app is the main reason why there is no AOSP ROM yet, it's been generally decided that losing that would be...undesirable.
Kidzone is part of Rosie.apk, which is the Sense launcher. You lose it once you switch to another launcher (adw, go, etc...) and uninstall rosie.apk

Blue6IX said:
Wow, feels like going back in time -
Yep, stock camera app works fine.
It's tied to sense, and there is no true AOSP ROM out there yet, so pretty much no matter what you do you should keep stock camera functionality.
Actually, keeping the stock camera functionality/app is the main reason why there is no AOSP ROM yet, it's been generally decided that losing that would be...undesirable.
Kidzone is part of Rosie.apk, which is the Sense launcher. You lose it once you switch to another launcher (adw, go, etc...) and uninstall rosie.apk
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Exactly.. + 1 for blue.
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Motorola Razr HD change rom

Hi, I'm totally new to smartphone/android and this is the first one I currently have.
It works pretty fine but friends told me that if it lags that means the original rom is not good I should flash another rom for the phone but I have no idea how and which is good for my phone. One told me to flash it to jelly bean which I searched around but people are using prof words (at least they are to me) and I don't quite understand esp. when it says during the procedure I might brick my phone so I want to have more idea how things are done so and so.
Some info about my razr hd are
Model: TX925
Carrier: Fido (got it from fido, in bc)
Android version: 4.0.4
I believe I already rooted my phone because one of the app called screenshot need the phone to be rooted so I tried that but nothing further.
Thanks in advance for helping me out. ^_^

Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.

Ruxin said:
Not intending to seem condescending, but it's probably safer to not attempt to install a custom ROM. My experience with the ICS stock ROM was that it was mainly lagging in the home screens which can mostly be remedied by installing Nova or Apex.
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Nova and apex is an app?

et4891 said:
Nova and apex is an app?
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Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.

Ruxin said:
Nova and Apex are launcher replacements that can be downloaded in Google Play. Each has a free version, and a premium version with the only difference between the paid and free version being some missing features in the free versions.
Launcher replacements are great as they allow you to customise your home screens a fair bit more: number of home screens, grid size, scrolling animations, ability to hide apps in the app drawer, etc. If you're curious I'd recommend downloading one of them and play around, if you don't like you can just uninstall.
The downsides on the RAZR HD are that you can't have the Motorola circles widget on 3rd party launchers which is disappointing because it's quite nice - and the swipe to left screen quick settings is also lost. The latter I resolved by installing Widgetsoid (free in Play Store) and setting up quick settings in my notification blind.
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Thanks for the respond....just another quick question so I guess it's not a recommendation to flash a different rom for razr hd it's just that lots people are saying flashing a different rom would be better than the stock one is it because razr hd is still new or it's just somehow not good for razr hd to have other rom?
P.S. for the stock TX925 are there any applications I can uninstall? I checked there are lots that runs in background even if I stopped it but it'll somehow start again and some that I just don't know if I should stop it from running.....*as I know sometimes there are apps that can be deleted but comes with the phone and I'm not sure which I can uninstall/delete*

It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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shoryuken_2020 said:
It's not that it's bad to flash a different ROM, but as it was mentioned it's safer to start with installing Nova or Apex and trying those out first.
With respect to what can or can't be uninstalled, you can start by freezing an app first to see what kind of impact it will have on your phone (I would also do a Google search on that app). Typically if the app came with your system but can also be installed from the play store, then I would say it is safe to at least freeze it (others may disagree).
One other way to decide which app to freeze/uninstall is look at some of the custom ROMs and see what apps were removex there.
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Just played around with those two launchers ^_^
If I do want to try flashing a different ROM is there any to recommend?
Also I kept on seeing people posting firmware updates or change firmware what do those actually do?

Flashing another Rom will unlock the verizon razr hd for others carriers?

Sense 7 apps on Lollipop Sense 6

Sense 7 has been out for some months already and one of its best features is theming capability. The Themes app is available on devices running Sense 6 on Lollipop, but most stock apps still follows the old theme system, which only has 4 themes.
Luckily, some of the Sense 7 apps can be installed on Sense 6 without root. Here are the ones I've tested on my M8Sx (single-SIM, WWE Asia). Some of these apps are available on APKMirror and the rest are extracted from Sense 7 ROMs or system dumps of the M8, M9, or A9. They can be uninstalled cleanly - if you can't uninstall them from Settings, try dragging them from the app drawer to the trash icon, or using an application manager.
Camera 7.30.581119 (23 Jul): Not much has changed apart from a few visual tweaks. The app seems to take photos a bit faster.
Contacts 7.0.502006: This also includes the dialler with white buttons.
HTC Mail 9.0.550299
FM Radio 7.0.549341 (26 Jun): Fixed problem with application header.
Calendar 7.01.591006 (6 Aug)
Tasks 7.1.658473 (17 Nov)
Sound Recorder 7.0.549341 (26 Jun): (Note: By default, recordings are stored in the phone's internal storage - if you've set it to Memory card before, you'll have to set it back again in the app.)
Clock Widget 7.50.628268 (21 Nov): Two new clock widgets are available - a THEMABLE transparent one and a solid one. This version is taken from the new A9's system dump.
Other widgets: Auto Rotate, Background Data, Bluetooth, Calendar, Contacts, Data Roaming, Data Controls, GPS, Hotspot, Mobile Network, Music, Power Controls, Profiles, Ringtones, Screen Brightness, Screen Timeout, Sync, Wi-Fi. I haven't got the time to test all of them, so please report if they don't work. Most of the widgets look the same - the only difference is that they now follow the new theme's colour scheme.
Two small apps: Archive Viewer 7.0.623146 and Make more space 4.0.552526 if you want even more consistency.
Personalise 7.1.631213: This app lets you download and apply fonts from the theme system of Sense 7. Tap "Font style" and then the plus icon to download fonts, but don't tap "Apply" - the app will tell you something is missing and try to download the font again. Instead, go back to the font list and select your font. Note: You won't be able to choose Sense 6 themes. Uninstall this version to get the old themes back.
Here are some images of the new apps: http://imgur.com/a/ZaI5u#0
In case you haven't noticed, some of the apps have square dots on the menu button and some have round dots. The ones with round dots are taken from MaximusHD ROM, based on Android 5.1. Perhaps on 5.1, Sense 7 will go with round dots like stock Android.

If i install these apps can i get the original app update released by HTC in play store?

sivajithee said:
If i install these apps can i get the original app update released by HTC in play store?
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Of course. You only need to uninstall the Sense 7 version first.

crystal_ball said:
Of course. You only need to uninstall the Sense 7 version first.
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But how I can know that an update is available when sense 7 version is already installed (already I have installed sense 7 clock and phone app though)..
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how to uninstall the htc contact dialer app v7 or how to uninstall the updates?.. cant find any option to uninstall the updates

sivajithee said:
But how I can know that an update is available when sense 7 version is already installed (already I have installed sense 7 clock and phone app though)..
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how to uninstall the htc contact dialer app v7 or how to uninstall the updates?.. cant find any option to uninstall the updates
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Most of these apps I've listed here are either not on the Play Store (such as Contacts, widgets, Mail, Calendar) or their latest versions are not compatible with the E8 (Camera, Tasks) so there is no need to check for updates.
To uninstall them, drag them from your app drawer to the uninstall icon on your home screen.
By the way, you should uninstall the Sense 7 Clock app (not the widget!). It's available on the Play Store and is compatible with the E8.

Thx for the apps. Would be great if You could extract and upload an sms app
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noctuam said:
Thx for the apps. Would be great if You could extract and upload an sms app
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I tried to install the Messaging app from MaximusHD and also from BinDroid, but I couldn't.

crystal_ball said:
Clock Widget 7.0.497815: It adds two widgets - a THEMEABLE transparent one and a solid one.
Here are some images of the new apps: http://imgur.com/a/ZaI5u#0
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I had a question regarding the themeable clock widget, is it totally themeable? Like even on the homescreen we'll be able to get different clock styles from the themes right? Did you check whether it's working properly or not?
Also, do the dialer and contacts app work properly? Without any crashes and bugs?
Thanks a lot btw.

Silver.Shadow said:
I had a question regarding the themeable clock widget, is it totally themeable? Like even on the homescreen we'll be able to get different clock styles from the themes right? Did you check whether it's working properly or not?
Also, do the dialer and contacts app work properly? Without any crashes and bugs?
Thanks a lot btw.
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The transparent clock is totally themeable, but the solid clock isn't and always looks like the default one on Sense 7. Take a look at the album I've posted and see for yourself.
I haven't got any problems with the contacts and dialler app, but my phone is single-SIM and I extracted that app from a single-SIM ROM so it may not work on dual-SIM phones. Luckily, it's easy to uninstall the app in case anything goes wrong. If the app doesn't work for you, try using the apk from BinDroid.

crystal_ball said:
The transparent clock is totally themeable, but the solid clock isn't and always looks like the default one on Sense 7. Take a look at the album I've posted and see for yourself.
I haven't got any problems with the contacts and dialler app, but my phone is single-SIM and I extracted that app from a single-SIM ROM so it may not work on dual-SIM phones. Luckily, it's easy to uninstall the app in case anything goes wrong. If the app doesn't work for you, try using the apk from BinDroid.
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Have you tried the latest camera app update which came out 3-4 days back? Does it work with the E8 too? Any clue where I can get that apk if it works?
I tried contacting HTC about why the camera isn't available for E8 via playstore. They said it was an issue with Google and will take some time to fix.

Silver.Shadow said:
Have you tried the latest camera app update which came out 3-4 days back? Does it work with the E8 too? Any clue where I can get that apk if it works?
I tried contacting HTC about why the camera isn't available for E8 via playstore. They said it was an issue with Google and will take some time to fix.
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It's on APKMirror. I edited my post yesterday to include the update. APKMirror has a Pushbullet channel to check for app updates, so if you've got Pushbullet you can receive notifications for them.

I installed the programs below and all works very well
•Camera 7.15.563434
•Contacts 7.0.502006
•HTC Mail 9.0.550299
•FM Radio 7.0.549341
•Calendar 7.01.555533
•Data Usage 7.0.488557
•File Manager 7.00.551696
regards
edward

i install htc camera in sense 6.0
and there are no effect
plz help

sajjadalishahi said:
i install htc camera in sense 6.0
and there are no effect
plz help
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There is no effect in sense 7 camera app.

Please include Sense 7 Keyboard app also.

sivajithee said:
Please include Sense 7 Keyboard app also.
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You can download the keyboard and language packs here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/. I've installed the keyboard but next-word prediction only seems to work for English, so I decided not to include it in this thread.

Why my htc Desire 826 can't install music(sense 7).apk?
It says the sign are not the same.
Can you rename the music's sign?

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How to disable new apps from creating shortcut

On sense homescreen? Can't see the option in play store anymore, and not in options anywhere?
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Same here, I didn't find anywhere to turn it off.

It's something that I would have liked to have known before reinstalling all of my apps and all the icons appeared on my homescreen.

I came from an LG g4 and for all the stick LG gets for their os it has some really useful features that I always thought were stock Android. Smart settings used to automatically turn on my Wi-Fi when I got home and off when I left etc app pinning on recent apps so you can close all but leave say spotify running... Also LG also allows custom icons unlike HTC, I love this phone though of course [emoji16][emoji16]
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Bump! I really hate icons being dumped on my homescreen. Wasn't like this on my HTC 10

I think this is an oreo thing. The play store does not have an option to turn off adding a new app on the desktop and HTC Sense does not have that option either. A workaround is to use a third-party launcher, for example, Nova, where I think you can stop this.
Or if you want to use HTC Sense, just remove the icon whenever a new app is installed. :silly: