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(REQ) Galaxy S Port to CDMA Hero

Hey Forums,
Im pretty new and i just recently visited the sprint store and checked out the new Samsung Epic 4g. Its pretty amazing and the UI Is amazing.
My question being is there anyway or anyone who could port a Samsung Galaxy S or the Epic .. or really any of the Samsung Phones ROM over to the CDMA Hero? If so it would be greatly appreciated.
- Anthony

anthonysl318 said:
Hey Forums,
Im pretty new and i just recently visited the sprint store and checked out the new Samsung Epic 4g. Its pretty amazing and the UI Is amazing.
My question being is there anyway or anyone who could port a Samsung Galaxy S or the Epic .. or really any of the Samsung Phones ROM over to the CDMA Hero? If so it would be greatly appreciated.
- Anthony
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If all you want is the launcher UI then a simple search will give you Touchwiz.
This is in no way uniform or a theme, but it is the Touchwiz User Interface Launcher, and as such should give you at least a taste of your Galaxy S craving.
There's also a few slight S based themes here and there. But I doubt you will see a Samsung rom ported to our phones, unless someone that truly likes it, much like yourself, decides to make it happen.
Hope that helps.

I made my own sort of Galaxy S theme. There are as smoothtaste said there are a few themes floating around here. I downloaded them all and made one from them using jaybob's BlackMod as a base. I would share but I did not include the boot animation, or the Galaxy S status bar. Below is a link to a Galaxy S launcher Pro theme, a good one too!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821851&highlight=galaxy
I have puzzle pieces for answering the phone too
The status bar Icons were Galaxy S but I changed them...

is there an actual theme for aospMod?

cordell12 said:
I made my own sort of Galaxy S theme. There are as smoothtaste said there are a few themes floating around here. I downloaded them all and made one from them using jaybob's BlackMod as a base. I would share but I did not include the boot animation, or the Galaxy S status bar. Below is a link to a Galaxy S launcher Pro theme, a good one too!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821851&highlight=galaxy
I have puzzle pieces for answering the phone too
The status bar Icons were Galaxy S but I changed them...
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i made this one for cm6.1
click here

swishersweedz420 said:
i made this one for cm6.1
click here
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This is the theme that got me hooked on Galaxy S look. I had trouble flashing the rom/theme though, it would never let me do the google set up from a clean install Thats why I set out to create my own. I merged parts of all there Galaxy S themes out there, then made my own status bar Yours I used the dark blue and puzzle pieces Thanks
swishersweedz420, would you mind posting just the flashable theme, without it merged into a rom? TY

Yeah I would love a exact port because I agree and think the touchwiz ui and lockscren and all
sent from one ba hero

Gingerbread very bland compared to Froyo?

I got the Nexus S and my other friends have the Galaxy S. Is it just me or is Gingerbread really bland compared to Froyo? I looked at their phones menus and settings screens, notifications, and other UI stuff and theirs are all colorful and my Nexus S is just black and white...

Aria807 said:
I got the Nexus S and my other friends have the Galaxy S. Is it just me or is Gingerbread really bland compared to Froyo? I looked at their phones menus and settings screens, notifications, and other UI stuff and theirs are all colorful and my Nexus S is just black and white...
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All of that color is not Froyo, its TouchWiz. Gingerbread is actually quite a lot prettier and more snazzed up than Froyo, trust me. TouchWiz has a lot of pretty icons but its really a load of bloatware.

Galaxy S phones have touchwiz UI that's why it looks different..

The nexus s comes with a "vanilla" type of android. It is a developers phone. Almost all versions of android are modifications of this system. A good example of that is HTC sense.
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Ah ok. Cuz I really like that colored icons in the Android Settings and the power widgets in the notifications. Kinda sux how gingerbread is so bare for me. Also disappointed in gingerbreads phone book and calendar. I like how theirs have tabs for grouping.

then return it for the galaxy?

You can wait the Galaxy S2
It is much nicer and more powerful than Galaxy S.
But yeah, if you want Google phone, then Nexus S is the best Google phone right now.
Aria807 said:
Ah ok. Cuz I really like that colored icons in the Android Settings and the power widgets in the notifications. Kinda sux how gingerbread is so bare for me. Also disappointed in gingerbreads phone book and calendar. I like how theirs have tabs for grouping.
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I like the Nexus S, I just wish it was more colorful ;\

Aria807 said:
I like the Nexus S, I just wish it was more colorful ;\
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better hope someone makes a theme for it then

Mokurex said:
better hope someone makes a theme for it then
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ditto. the vibrant was its name thats why it stood out but i still think the nexus s stands our in more ways than one. give it a chance.

Aria807 said:
I got the Nexus S and my other friends have the Galaxy S. Is it just me or is Gingerbread really bland compared to Froyo? I looked at their phones menus and settings screens, notifications, and other UI stuff and theirs are all colorful and my Nexus S is just black and white...
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Yeah GB has no special stuff on it its PURE android, no fancy stuff to slow it down.
think of it as a Middle to high end PC on windows Vista running with areo and all that CPU intensive disabled running the classic windows look.
A No-Nonsense phone, and a dream for devs

hutzdani said:
Yeah GB has no special stuff on it its PURE android, no fancy stuff to slow it down.
think of it as a Middle to high end PC on windows Vista running with areo and all that CPU intensive disabled running the classic windows look.
A No-Nonsense phone, and a dream for devs
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Why vista...no...
Sent from my MattedBlues CM7 Google Nexus S!

lol I mean I seen screenshots of other ROMs that are more colorful, but just off the bat, I think the Gingerbread does look pretty bland unless you start flashing it.

Aria807 said:
lol I mean I seen screenshots of other ROMs that are more colorful, but just off the bat, I think the Gingerbread does look pretty bland unless you start flashing it.
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Bland as compared to what? 2.2 and below stock? Because that was just white with black letters. That was bland.

Because we know vista is bloated with fancy stuff ( comparable sence / touchwhiz)
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id rather have performance than just looks. i prefer gingerbread over froyo

charlieb620 said:
id rather have performance than just looks. i prefer gingerbread over froyo
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Finally a point I can agree with you on. Besides, I've run stock Froyo, Eclair, and even Donut. They were bland and boring. Gingerbread is fast, sexy, and sleek.

kenvan19 said:
Finally a point I can agree with you on. Besides, I've run stock Froyo, Eclair, and even Donut. They were bland and boring. Gingerbread is fast, sexy, and sleek.
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Yeah I know i am all over the thread but we have one agreement. Lol
Sent From Your Mom's Nexus S.

A more correct analogy would be stock Android is Ubuntu(latest version, in Beta) and TouchWiz is Linux Mint(previous version) running a bad filesystem.
In this case Linux Mint would come with more pre-installed codec's and a better looking UI. Also in this case there isn't as many Developers for Ubuntu, so you might not get a better looking UI or codec's unless you do it yourself.
The performance difference is minimal but noticeable. It obviously looks better and does things the new version can't and but is missing some features of the latest version of Android(NFC).

The only problem with Ics

I mainly like ics but it is too dark and not hapy like gingerbread. gbread is bright and happy looking if we could change that ics would be a whole lot better

samwest39 said:
I mainly like ics but it is too dark and not hapy like gingerbread. gbread is bright and happy looking if we could change that ics would be a whole lot better
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Is Dark, but beautiful, it's simple, and follow a line. in GB, everything was coloful, but weird. I liked a lot more ICS than GB.

ics is nice but wouldent you like a little more color in it

Nope. Even my wallpapers black n' blue
What actually annoys me is how some of the stock icons/apps are brightly coloured (people, messages, etc).

I kind of agree I've played with ICS and like the feel of GB better, maybe it's because I am so used to GB and have not gotten used to ICS. But its darker and more mysterious I do kind of like that. But bright and happy wallpapers don't really fit the dark ominous blue theme of ICS

I just don't like the shade of blue they used, it seems overused.
-Sent from my Droid 2-

Personally I think ICS looks terrible. Its ripped off from old 80's sci-movie computer panels. I mean, I love Tron, its brilliant, but doesnt work so well on a device when you have seen something like MiUI bring out the best in Android. Now that looks stylish and professional. Where ICS looks like its supposed to appeal to geeks and teens only. I am a certified geek, but I just cant get to liking the looks of ICS

samwest39 said:
I mainly like ics but it is too dark and not hapy like gingerbread. gbread is bright and happy looking if we could change that ics would be a whole lot better
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Agreed.
cornelha said:
Personally I think ICS looks terrible. Its ripped off from old 80's sci-movie computer panels. I mean, I love Tron, its brilliant, but doesnt work so well on a device when you have seen something like MiUI bring out the best in Android. Now that looks stylish and professional. Where ICS looks like its supposed to appeal to geeks and teens only. I am a certified geek, but I just cant get to liking the looks of ICS
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm glad i'm not the only one that feels this way. Sometimes with Android it's like you get a peek behind the curtain, and what you see is a Smartphone OS that's made by tweens, for tweens.
Yes, the Googlers are some of the most able people in the tech world, but sometimes it feels like they lack maturity. Certain aspects of their work needs more thought, more polish. Everything is 95% there and then left incomplete, as if in a fit of ADHD they moved on to the next project and forgot all about the previous one.
I think it's the usual paradigm. Coders do not make good Designers. What i'd like to see is a universal Theme Engine included in the OS itself. Much like the T-Mobile one included in CM7, but created by Google. Every device, whether Vanilla Android, or OEM Skinned, should come with a selection of Themes that work with that common engine. Sense/Touchwiz/Vanilla would all just be Themes for users to choose between.
Of course, Google half-arsed it again and didn't even consider Theme support when creating Android. Even Windows Mobile had Theme support going way back. It even had a Selection Pane for choosing between them. Why is technology going backwards in this regard?

Beauty of Android, don't like the look, change it
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I actually LOVE the new look. Its simple,elegant,consistent and much more polished. IMO the whole Android experience/"feel" had been revamped to the better , lets hope OEMs dont mess this up with their skins.

Plus is uses less battery on the Amoled displays, because of all the black!
I like it a lot, but I must say that my phone looks the rather the same as before, and Samsung allready used a lot of black for their own TW skin (think because of the Amoled display)

It's worth noting that the Galaxy nexus is the only device that will see the Holo theme. All the others will be skinned in the normal manufacturer colour schemes.
And i never thought i'd see the day when i would say that's a good thing!

DirkGently said:
It's worth noting that the Galaxy nexus is the only device that will see the Holo theme. All the others will be skinned in the normal manufacturer colour schemes.
And i never thought i'd see the day when i would say that's a good thing!
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Although Android did publish a design website to help developers/designers follow the new Holo theme that ICS brought along. They are also encouriging OEMs to follow these guidlines when designing all those skins, so that Android would mantain a certain touch and feel throughout different devices!
Personally Id love to see that happen. Diversity is a great thing, but I do think certain UI elements need to look the same across all devices. But then again , Android is open source and OEMs can choose not to follow anything and come up with a whole new UI .

I love the new look, i like dark styles anyway, and i think it looks really smart and like some have already said, change it if you dont like it

i like ics because it gives a lot of a abstract feel and the dark tone feels like it save more battery. however a lot of ics theme is blue, i read somewhere that from RED-GREEN-BLUE, the colour tone BLUE uses more battery compare to the rest.

DirkGently said:
It's worth noting that the Galaxy nexus is the only device that will see the Holo theme. All the others will be skinned in the normal manufacturer colour schemes.
And i never thought i'd see the day when i would say that's a good thing!
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The holo theme is to be used inside of apps to create the consistent feel. It has nothing to with sense, touchwiz etc. When you press a menu button inside of an app, google wants a consistent response with no crazy surprises. When you open an app, it looks the same on all devices no matter what the manufacturer UI is....

lowandbehold said:
The holo theme is to be used inside of apps to create the consistent feel. It has nothing to with sense, touchwiz etc. When you press a menu button inside of an app, google wants a consistent response with no crazy surprises. When you open an app, it looks the same on all devices no matter what the manufacturer UI is....
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Just because they want it, doesn't mean anybody will comply! If you were creating an app would you use your design ideas, or theirs?

i really need to learn how to code and make things for android lol

Gingerbread was dark and dull and boring, ICS is dark, but sexy and clean. Froyo was bright and happy but Froyo is almost obsolete now.

Android in the pre-ICS era was inconsistent and all over the place, design-wise. It was about time it looked like a "whole" OS and not something 100 different people quickly put together.
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[Q] Questions about Sense and Android 4.0

Hello guys,
I've just recently got the One S on contract from Netcom and coming from a Samsung phone this really has been a new experience for me all together. But I have a problem. The phone itself works flawlessly and lags nothing compared to the HTC One X - but I really, really, really HATE SENSE.
I just can't seem to get used to it and since I've pretty much done custom flashing on my old Galaxy S since the very start, I just can't wait to replace SENSE as soon as possible - in the mean time, would it be possible to just unlock the device and put a STOCK version of ICS on it? Like one for the One S so that I get to keep stuff such as the HTC browser and maybe the custom Alt+Tab kind of thingy they put on?
Personally would like to build my own custom ROM with some mixed ingredienses but I wouldn't know where to start.
Any ideas? Or do I just have to wait and stick to this in the mean time?

As a stop-gap measure, you could install another launcher. I did this on the HTC Sensation for awhile before we started having either the non-sense options or true AOSP builds like we have now. From my limited experience, this is a flagship device and developers and users and documentarians will show up. The Sensation has a pretty rich community of both sense and AOSP builds now. One cautionary note though. On my Sensation running a modified version of CM9 there are things still being fixed. You may find early versions of ICS will have a variety of issues as developers get things solved. Its particularly hard before source gets released though. Its like peddling a bicycle backwards in a dark tunnel when its raining.

As mentioned above, install Nova launcher for now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071
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ok thanks guys. will have to settle with it for now I guess.
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA

Au Contraire!
I am going with the One S because it runs Sense 4 ( best android overlay)
I was going to go with Samsung Galaxy S2 but my friend showed me his, everything about TouchWiz was unappealing from the large text the stale interface.

AndroidBlizzard said:
Au Contraire!
I am going with the One S because it runs Sense 4 ( best android overlay)
I was going to go with Samsung Galaxy S2 but my friend showed me his, everything about TouchWiz was unappealing from the large text the stale interface.
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I guess each one has it's own taste
My gripe with sense is just what you describe as appealing.. the small black text on white background in most of the interface is killing my eye-sight at night. Guess I have been used to the Android 2.3 experience for too long and as much as Sense 4 works wonders - it just not my cup of tea. This could of course be fixed if there was a "black" skin that could be applied. Preferably with as little bright colors as possible (I know, may sound boring but will eventually save a few hours of battery in the long run due to the AMOLED display running "less hot" )

I'm in the same situation as the OP, really enjoyed ICS on my Desire until the display broke (got slammed display first into table... IKEA > HTC)
Anyways here's hoping that I understand these nuggets correctly: "MoDaCo Custom ROMs are based on official ROMs - either shipping or leaked."
"Stock style and Vanilla (ICS) style prebakes will be available as the ROM takes shape."
Source: first post in [ROM] 11 Apr - MoDaCo Custom ROM for the HTC One S - Sense and Vanilla styles in the One S Development forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592126
So hopefully Paulobrien just removes Sense etc from an official ROM. Not sure whats up with the cooking lingo though, maybe there is a dev-chef-lingo dictionary somewhere on XDA!
Also I second your request for where to start learning to build your own ROM! Should post a Q in the noob-friendly thread here.

aureleuz said:
I guess each one has it's own taste
My gripe with sense is just what you describe as appealing.. the small black text on white background in most of the interface is killing my eye-sight at night. Guess I have been used to the Android 2.3 experience for too long and as much as Sense 4 works wonders - it just not my cup of tea. This could of course be fixed if there was a "black" skin that could be applied. Preferably with as little bright colors as possible (I know, may sound boring but will eventually save a few hours of battery in the long run due to the AMOLED display running "less hot" )
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Perhaps you are right
Looking at sense 3.0 interface , the black blackground is weird, sense 4 with white background for settings seems much more natural. I have spent quite some time around my friends who have EVO 3D and Sensation, and I have to admit I will miss the eye catching animations and the easy access carousel function. Of course this is will be my first HTC phone so I can see how people hate the white look of settings. Coming from an iPhone with white settings too, it will be a similar transition for me. Sense just seems to have so much depth and much to explore compared to other Android Overlays. Having ICS along with it just makes the experience much smoother and sweeter.(Pun partially intended )

So... can anybody tell me if the Stock ROMs that have been cooked for the One S recently work good enough to run for production (i.e. HTC camera, launcher, weather widget)
I really would like to feel that AOSP experience again just like on my old Galaxy S. But I don't want to loose any functionality

aureleuz said:
So... can anybody tell me if the Stock ROMs that have been cooked for the One S recently work good enough to run for production (i.e. HTC camera, launcher, weather widget)
I really would like to feel that AOSP experience again just like on my old Galaxy S. But I don't want to loose any functionality
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Try Black Dragon 3.8 Rom. Very stable and keeps all functions working.

LikeaG2root said:
Try Black Dragon 3.8 Rom. Very stable and keeps all functions working.
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Kthx.
Does that include the HTC ImageSense chip-drivers? I really like the way the camera snaps those pics in a fraction of a second!

[Q] How to make Android KitKat look like Jelly Bean or an older version

Hello,
I am a proud and happy owner of a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone. I am considering buying
a new phone, so I went to some shops recently to check a few models out.
I see that hardware has improved marginally, but I am VERY disappointed about the
looks of the new KitKat version of Android. Many icons, that were square have gone
round! The switchers (on/off) are now sliders, which look exactly like on the iPhone
(I have an iPhone as a company phone and I totally hate it !!) Also, the background, for
example for the settings menu is now WHITE !! It is sticking into my eyes, even without
being in a dark room!! And it certainly doesn't contribute much to increasing the battery life...
So, in short, is there a way to make KitKat look like some older Android version, like Jelly Bean or ICS ?