I recently installed CM10 on my Blaze, and overall I love it, but there is one thing I miss. While I'm not a fan of most of Samsung's TouchWiz interface, I do like their calendar and phone/contacts apps. would it be possible to port these into CM10 as the defaults and use them instead of the built in CM10 apps?
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I recently installed CM10 on my Blaze, and overall I love it, but there is one thing I miss. While I'm not a fan of most of Samsung's TouchWiz interface, I do like their calendar and phone/contacts apps. would it be possible to port these into CM10 as the defaults and use them instead of the built in CM10 apps?
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Yes it would be great to run the TouchWiz calendar and contacts.
CM 10 is suppose to be the way it is, dr4stic isn't going to add or customize it to everyone's needs his job is to port it and make sure it works. Although there are ways of adding the touchwiz interface to CM no developer is actually going to take time for this, as few people request it. I have actually before ported certain parts of ROMs to other ROMs. Its a hard process as each ROM has its own unique code. If you are willing to try something like that feel free to message me, maybe I will be able to help you
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The intention wasn't for someone to rewrite the ROM using the touchwiz apps. I was hoping that it wasn't difficult to port them over and install them like any other apk. I don't really know much about it so I wasn't sure if it was possible.
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I'm sure its possible, but my gut says it would require a little coercing - with the likely target being edits to framework.jar. That's just a starting point guess though - these things are rarely as simple as they might seem up front lol.
I'd just recommend using the recently released default Google calendar app available from the play store.
If you've had a Nexus device it is the same as theirs... Hopefully you like it as much as I have.
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Gotta love Samsung's TouchWiz garbage.
I've been having issues with FC's of various TW based things - dialer sections, contacts, whatnot.
I guess TW hates build.prop LCD mods. It seems to be prevalent across the board with Samsung too.
Just a comment - the further we can get away from TW, the better.
TW isn't too bad, I like crushD's TW setup, so far I haven't had any trouble with adding screen animations and other mods
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I would even be willing to deal with tw if we could get ext4. But I know what your saying, I haven't been able to mod jack without some fc's.
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I personal like bionix setup but if we like new phones we need to be patient on development of new hacks or be able to be patient to not quit on developing new hacks
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Hello everyone i just signed up and i own a Samsung Infuse 4G and ive been flashing some roms on it lately and i want to know in your opinion what is the best rom.
i tried zeus, and i like it but i hate build 5.2 and build 6, because of the fact that wallpapers do not scroll. live wallpapers do, but static ones do not. I love build 3 fixed for ZEUS because it has scrollable wall papers and the app drawer is transparent. i dont like the black background when looking through my apps i like it see through.
but, being build 3 it freezes quite a bit. i tried CM7, didnt like it. i want to try something else.
I hate flashing roms and testing them because every time i restore it gives me an error saying "No sdcard/.android.secure Found. Skipping restore of SD card apps." so i have to re install 1 by 1 the apps with titanium backup and its really annoying. once i reach my 10 post mark i will start to post in the developers thread but this is all i can do now.
in a rom in need stability, no freezing no non working elements, all that.
clean, simple and crisp.
no dumb animations to lag the os and use mass ram. clean simple and fast. id even use gingerbread with touchwiz 4.0 like on the samsung galaxy s 2 skyrocket LTE that has a very good stock OS. maybe there is a way to put that on my infuse? I want to try s.u.r.f.a.c.e. rom but that's a hard way to flash it
any suggestions?
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Hello everyone i just signed up and i own a Samsung Infuse 4G and ive been flashing some roms on it lately and i want to know in your opinion what is the best rom.
i tried zeus, and i like it but i hate build 5.2 and build 6, because of the fact that wallpapers do not scroll. live wallpapers do, but static ones do not. I love build 3 fixed for ZEUS because it has scrollable wall papers and the app drawer is transparent. i dont like the black background when looking through my apps i like it see through.
but, being build 3 it freezes quite a bit. i tried CM7, didnt like it. i want to try something else.
I hate flashing roms and testing them because every time i restore it gives me an error saying "No sdcard/.android.secure Found. Skipping restore of SD card apps." so i have to re install 1 by 1 the apps with titanium backup and its really annoying. once i reach my 10 post mark i will start to post in the developers thread but this is all i can do now.
in a rom in need stability, no freezing no non working elements, all that.
clean, simple and crisp.
no dumb animations to lag the os and use mass ram. clean simple and fast. id even use gingerbread with touchwiz 4.0 like on the samsung galaxy s 2 skyrocket LTE that has a very good stock OS. maybe there is a way to put that on my infuse? I want to try s.u.r.f.a.c.e. rom but that's a hard way to flash it
any suggestions?
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You can always Port your own ROM. Just saying.
If all you don't like about ZEUS is the launcher's look, then you can use one of the alternative launchers available off Market... err Play... or whatever Google is calling its new and improved more privacy breaking app download thing.
Off hand, the two I can think of are GOLauncher and PhoenixLauncher. I currently use GOLauncher on ZEUS and like it quite a bit, plus it's free. I think I'm going to give PhoenixLauncher a go after some of the bugs are worked out.
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If all you don't like about ZEUS is the launcher's look, then you can use one of the alternative launchers available off Market... err Play... or whatever Google is calling its new and improved more privacy breaking app download thing.
Off hand, the two I can think of are GOLauncher and PhoenixLauncher. I currently use GOLauncher on ZEUS and like it quite a bit, but I think I'm going to give PhoenixLauncher a go.
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I agree, and also I'd recommend GoLauncher as I use it on Zeus build 5.2 and love it. Give it a Try!
I don't like those launchers iv tried them, I like touch wiz 4 which Zeus build 3 has, so I am using this for now.
Has anyone flashed the s.u.r.f.a.c.e rom?
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I don't like those launchers iv tried them, I like touch wiz 4 which Zeus build 3 has, so I am using this for now.
Has anyone flashed the s.u.r.f.a.c.e rom?
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Yerp on the surface rom...super lite...has lots of add on apps...smooth,stable....
The reason that wallpapers don't scroll is a SAMSUNG issue, not a Zeus issue, a change they made in the new gb leaks, so they wont change, on any rom built from that leak. Build 3 is no more and outdated, so if you don't want another launcher I suggest keeping build 3 because I removed it from the server. And tw 4 is way too buggy and unstable, that's why it was removed and will not return.
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Alright thanks,
And now I understand that about Zeus,
But anyway great job with it its still an awesome rom. I'll try to flash s.u.r.f.a.c.e
How can I flash surface from my current position (Zeus build 3 with the ruxk kernel)?
Thanks for your replies
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Mindreci said:
I don't like those launchers iv tried them, I like touch wiz 4 which Zeus build 3 has, so I am using this for now.
Has anyone flashed the s.u.r.f.a.c.e rom?
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Well I'm currently running Z.E.U.S Rom Build 6. When I was stock GB (for the short time that was) I used the TouchWizz 4.5 Launcher, and I'm using it now. Scrollable wallpapers plus you can flash icon themes. Here is the XDA Thread Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
And the download itself:
http://www.i900playeraddict.com/android/TW45/HowTo.php?lg=&page=download
Hope that helps man
From what i understand...its bad to restore all apps from TB, as some may not be compatible with other roms due to missing or added files
At least if your restoring the data part too
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From what i understand...its bad to restore all apps from TB, as some may not be compatible with other roms due to missing or added files
At least if your restoring the data part too
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Idk...but i religious use tibu...to backup and restore my apps...only apps...no data... and i keep a copy of my tibu folder on my ext sd..every now and then i will refresh my apps by dl again from GP..
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I want to try and replace the sense contacts with the aosp contacts to try and fix this issue. While i'm searching the forums and poking around in roms, removing and replacing apps to try and figure this out on my own, i thought maybe if somebody knew for sure if this would or would not work they could chime in. If it will work i need to know what files to remove and what files to add. Thanks in advance!
I don't have the skill needed, but the only sense ROM I have found with aokp dialer is Paul O'Brien's MCR ROM. I am pretty sure it involves some framework changes, hope you get this fixed up, would definitely use it.
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Also, you may want to check ex dialer, it saves directly to Google... plus it has some sweet add ons
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I don't have the skill needed, but the only sense ROM I have found with aokp dialer is Paul O'Brien's MCR ROM. I am pretty sure it involves some framework changes, hope you get this fixed up, would definitely use it.
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yeah just used his kitchen to make a rom without the sense dialer and contacts, adding the others. Its almost done now. hopefully it'll be as easy as removing and replacing a couple of apks.. probably not if it requires framework changes though
So ex dialer is good eh? i wanted to try without going third party first but i am down if it is highly recommended.
Ex dialer and dialer one are my favorite alternatives
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yeah just used his kitchen to make a rom without the sense dialer and contacts, adding the others. Its almost done now. hopefully it'll be as easy as removing and replacing a couple of apks.. probably not if it requires framework changes though
So ex dialer is good eh? i wanted to try without going third party first but i am down if it is highly recommended.
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I am new to third party dialers, but I despise HTC's smartdial, but ex dialer seems like an option, plus it has sweet action like slide to call/txt ala Samsung Touch with, pretty sweet
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yeah just used his kitchen to make a rom without the sense dialer and contacts, adding the others. Its almost done now. hopefully it'll be as easy as removing and replacing a couple of apks.. probably not if it requires framework changes though
So ex dialer is good eh? i wanted to try without going third party first but i am down if it is highly recommended.
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hi, did you get this to work? I'm also interested in replacing the sense dialer.
Has anyone tried adding in the apk to the system folder and trying it that way? (And of course fixing permissions to rw r r.)
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I actually prefer TW to AOSP now - I NEVER thought I'd say that!
I've always supported the crusade for more OEMs to release vanilla builds until now. After spending a while using TW I actually prefer it to AOSP. Any time I've given CM10 a try I've found myself actually missing TW.
Who's with me?
Me!
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Definitely not stock Touchwiz, but cleaned up and modded yes.
But development is still new. Wait until JB is released and then definitely wait until the device no longer receives new updates. I will miss AOSP more than TW at that point.
I agree. AOSP is fast but in my opinion a little plain. Touchwiz on Jellybean should be the ultimate duo.
Me too
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That is Samsung's intention so its good to see value actually being added.
Agreed. Can't wait for JB Touchwiz. I've rocked AOSP or some form of it for about a year now and honestly Touchwiz on the S3 is a nice change of scenery. :good:
Its the reason why I haven't installed CM so far, Samsung actually got it right. Can't wait till JB is out.
AOSP just doesn't feel the same anymore. Not as polished...
If you knew me, you would know this is crazy talk from me. Never thought those words would leave my mouth...
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I find no reason to hate TW. It very neat, colorful, simple animations.
I think people who say they hate TW believe it is one of the requirements to be an XDA member.
/agrees
TW clock, Camera, video player, Calendar & Widget > AOSP IMHO
i dont mind the way touch wiz homescreen looks but i don't like how they made replacements for stock apps. I don't see why they couldn't just skin the stock ones. I also just prefer pure google.
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I find no reason to hate TW. It very neat, colorful, simple animations.
I think people who say they hate TW believe it is one of the requirements to be an XDA member.
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Lol or thru don't like the colorfulness of it. Or they don't like iphonish look.
But imo its kinda cool. *shrug*
GS3
Loving TW on the S3!
A lot of people also think TW is just a launcher so they say it sucks. Iol
I just can't stand the huge fonts and spacing everywhere. And when you select small fonts, then some apps are unusable and others are still huge.
I have a hox as well and sense absolutely rapes tw in usability and in how polished it is.
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Moved to AOSP JB (CM10 first and now AOKP) about a month ago after using TW for a month. Don't miss it at all. Especially don't miss the steaming pile that is the TW Email client.
Still haven't found any software added by a manufacturer that does anything to make me not want to run AOSP roms. Part of it is principle... Everything with TW could be an addon which runs on top of a vanilla android... but because people with HTC phones or Motos could run it too they tie it deeply into android instead of layering it on top. This hurts consumers because we get updates slower, and there just isn't an option to go vanilla without unlocking and installing a custom ROM, which isn't for everyone.
AOSP works best for me, and it's... OPEN. For me that's a big deal.
Each to their own though... Some people love their iPhones too
The sizes and excessive spacing took some getting used to for me coming from OG droid with steel droid on it. After almost a month since my upgrade I no longer regret as I originally did. Only problem I have now(still stock) is going back to the homescreen, it sometimes crashes, like I can see the weather widget reappear every time. With and without power saving on. I figure once I root n load up a custom Rom it should fix it. Thought it was cuz I didn't reboot my phone in 700 some hours that that might be the cause, since the screen wouldn't turn off while on a phone call, but the reboot didn't fix it. No big deal, just haven't seen that hiccup posted anywhere else, so I figured I'd share my experience.
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I just can't stand the huge fonts and spacing everywhere. And when you select small fonts, then some apps are unusable and others are still huge.
I have a hox as well and sense absolutely rapes tw in usability and in how polished it is.
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They have modified TW launchers galore that reduce the extreme margins, while giving you extra grid space.
I have my font as tiny and it looks pretty good. What apps are giving you compatibility issues? That's odd...
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My first Touchwiz device and loving it so far. The sms /contacts slide to call and text is amazing. That single handedly has been keeping me from aosp lol. I'm going to try aosp eventually though. Waaaay to many roms to pass on them
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They have modified TW launchers galore that reduce the extreme margins, while giving you extra grid space.
I have my font as tiny and it looks pretty good. What apps are giving you compatibility issues? That's odd...
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Its not compatibility, its inconsistency. Set the fonts to tiny and email and SMS font is finally right, but other apps (I think xda and words with friends are two) are nearly unreadable.
I'll restore a nan droid and play with it some more. Also will check out some modified tw launchers, thanks for the tip. I dont mind the launcher, its the apps. Like email and SMS that look like they were coded 20 years ago.
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Just as the title suggests. Is this possible? I know the camera probably depends on touchwiz libs etc. but I really want CM but I love the camera on touchwiz. Is it possible to have an AOSP ROM or CM ROM with the stock camera? Thanks in advance!!
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Just as the title suggests. Is this possible? I know the camera probably depends on touchwiz libs etc. but I really want CM but I love the camera on touchwiz. Is it possible to have an AOSP ROM or CM ROM with the stock camera? Thanks in advance!!
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I believe it can be achieved, because some gapps have their own custom version of the cameras.
If you have the Camera.apk, try to overwrite the current apk after making a backup first, of course.
I asked this same question a long time ago and was told the framework involved would be to extensive. It does work the other way around though. 4.2 camera on touch wiz. I wish it could be done. Probably one of the biggest reasons I still use TW and not aosp
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I asked this same question a long time ago and was told the framework involved would be to extensive. It does work the other way around though. 4.2 camera on touch wiz. I wish it could be done. Probably one of the biggest reasons I still use TW and not aosp
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Thanks for reply guys. This is def the ONLY thing holding me back from switching to CM or any AOSP/AOKP ROM. I use my camera A LOT and the features on the TW camera are awesome, I can't give them up.
Yeah I think the camera is one of the main reasons a lot of us don't switch. It is for me. I haven't even tried aosp yet. I just know I'd miss the TW camera.
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