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ICS SMS is a replacement for the stock Messaging app, for those that want the vanilla Holo theme, with or without stock ICS. Currently only supports SMS (Sorry no MMS yet guys!) and aims to provide a minimalistic SMS app, that fits in with the rest of the Ice-Cream Sandwich look and feel.
This app is still in beta, and being actively developed on (unfortunately its not my day job though) so bear this in mind with any feedback!
Download it now from the play store!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidproductions.ics.sms
Any bug reports you have PLEASE attach a logcat of whats going on - it makes the whole process a lot easier!
Any feature requests stick them in a reply here, or get in touch direct, and I'll see about getting it included!
Features
usual messaging features - Wouldn't be a messaging app without one!
POPUP DIALOG!
Customizable notifications
6 Different themes
Ability to disable other messaging notifications (NOTE: This doesn't always play well with GoSMS)
Notification Privacy Mode - Don't display a received message in notifications
'In reply to...' - See what the last message you sent to a person was - straight from the dialog
Call direct from SMS view
SMS Forwarding
Willing to do some more involved testing? Send me a PM, and I'll add you to the list of testers that get development versions of the app before it gets put into the market.
Change Logs
03-07-2012
Option for lighter icon in notifications
02-07-2012
New Theme
New notification type
Bugfixes
29-05-2012
Preliminary MMS integration. Can now view MMS within the app [ALPHA APP ONLY]
Known Issues
No notifications/popups for MMS
Need to download MMS items from stock messaging app
Outside of a few bugs I am pleasantly suprised by this. Obviously Mms support is a huge must, all these new beta messaging apps coming out also miss Mms support so if you want to beat the rush you better work on that quick. Other than that, using the ics framework background that you do, isnt so nice with the new theme engines as whatever background your using gets some interesting themeing images sometimes.
As a praise im loving the pop up, its almost exactly what im looking for the only thing I would like more is if it it was stretched out to full edge of screen but less width and lifted to the top, like miuis pop up. All the pop up add ons are in the middle nowadays except miui's and miui's does it right.
I also LOVE your in reply too button, being able to see the last thing I said real quick is freaking awesome!
Love the idea of being able to do a quick reply for the pop up instead of pressing reply in order to reply. But it could be better if it could sync the contact pictures (facebook) or maybe have a widget for the app.
man can u make a stock ics messaging theme. i really like the app cant wait till it has mms support
Mms is definitely the most requested feature, so that's the next thing that's going to appear in the app. Only problem is that I can't test it myself with my phone plan, so I will have to rely on others for testing. Mms viewing will be the first release, and sending will be second.
Thanks for all the feedback so far! Glad to see its appreciated.
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Can you make a reg link to the play store. Can't click pic links using tapatalk or the xda app
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great app!
just wish you could control font size for near sighted people.
Good, But missing mms and Facebook contact photo sync. Theme and extra features are new otherwise identical feature wise to tim hutts version on market, of which I like the light theme better myself. Also lacks feature of clicking on contact picture in thread to bring up their contact info. I don't care for it but I did notice. Reading white on a black background hurts my eyes. In the theme could you maybe give a light or dark option? At least in thread view, in thread select dark is fine. Maybe consider doing that nice striped background from the aosp dialer or holomusic on background of thread select?
I love devs that keep up on their work and I hope you are working diligently to get mms at least working.
Thanks!
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great app!
just wish you could control font size for near sighted people.
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Is this a problem? It shouldnt be too much work to get this in, i may be able to fit it in with one of the mms updates
OneDeep said:
Can you make a reg link to the play store. Can't click pic links using tapatalk or the xda app
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Great beta! Agree with mms, but also, EMOJI SUPPORT would make it even better. The ability to switch return key with the android as well as emoji would be better
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Nice app, works very smoothly. The UI is nice too. My only thought is that the font size is a bit large, but overall I'm using it over the stock ics messaging app.
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AzureNightwalker said:
Mms is definitely the most requested feature, so that's the next thing that's going to appear in the app. Only problem is that I can't test it myself with my phone plan, so I will have to rely on others for testing. Mms viewing will be the first release, and sending will be second.
Thanks for all the feedback so far! Glad to see its appreciated.
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Id love to test it for you, my brother and I live together and both have unlimited messaging and plenty of data to spare, we both have gnexus and both are rooted so we are damn similar except he uses go sms. I can be the sender or receiver at any time and actually be using the network or wifi. Send me a PM
Edit- the Themes only seem to theme the receiver text and the text in the conversation list. Its nice for someone who doesnt use a custom theme engine but for the most part is a lil outdated, I would suggest opening up a cm9/7 theme engine apk and using the included framework info there so that, your sms app themes with the theme engine, a first since the included sms default app only has like 10% ability to be themed (NOTE - it already does this at like 60%, it just needs alot of clean up so that all themes make it look wonderful). Maybe add this as an option right along with the holo themes you have? Also the pop ups need a Mark as read button so that the Notification will clear from the status bar. And as mentioned before, the worst thing that can happen for a pop up is to pop up right in the middle of everything, move it up and out of the way, and if this is possible, when in landscape mode make it wrap to the top and left borders? I dont know any system that does that, and it moves itself the most out of the way from say a movie or something that your watching on the phone.
Looks great, I just wish it supported MMS but I will definitely use it when it does!
miketoasty said:
Looks great, I just wish it supported MMS but I will definitely use it when it does!
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This and emoji. Nice work!
Just downloaded it and played with it for a bit. So far, it's looking pretty good!
I know it's still being worked on, but here's a couple feature suggestions:
1) Ability to add multiple contacts to recipients. I send "mass" texts all the time, whether it be to 2 people or 20 people.
2) Ability to set a ring tone or vibration for the notification.
Great start though! Can't wait for mms to be built in, and to see the progression of this app!
Using the included phone dialer if I tell it go to SMS it force closes and if I use ex dialer then it goes to a new SMS for existing names. The difference being ex dialer sends it with parentheses and a dash and your SMS app doesn't include those when looking up numbers
jaydubbs said:
This and emoji. Nice work!
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MMS and Emoji Support request also! Awesome
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Using the included phone dialer if I tell it go to SMS it force closes and if I use ex dialer then it goes to a new SMS for existing names. The difference being ex dialer sends it with parentheses and a dash and your SMS app doesn't include those when looking up numbers
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Thanks for the report. Useful information also, i can reproduce it so i will try get a fix over the weekend.
DevinLeFevere said:
MMS and Emoji Support request also! Awesome
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MMS is being worked on now! Emoji will be coming along afterwards.
havens1515 said:
Just downloaded it and played with it for a bit. So far, it's looking pretty good!
I know it's still being worked on, but here's a couple feature suggestions:
1) Ability to add multiple contacts to recipients. I send "mass" texts all the time, whether it be to 2 people or 20 people.
2) Ability to set a ring tone or vibration for the notification.
Great start though! Can't wait for mms to be built in, and to see the progression of this app!
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Good suggestions! I'll try get these included before too long!
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Nice application and a great start. The pop up on its own is enough to make me try this over GO Sms.
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does this app 'parse' the messages if there are too many? like gosms where it only loads a few per thread and if you want to see more you just load them at the top...
Hey guys just curious how miui can display and send emoji (except view iPhone 4s emojis) and similar OS like Shendu cannot. I realize they are all also based on Cyanogenmod7. Any way to extract the code etc. And use it? I've used the font, not the same lol
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G2xer said:
Hey guys just curious how miui can display and send emoji (except view iPhone 4s emojis) and similar OS like Shendu cannot. I realize they are all also based on Cyanogenmod7. Any way to extract the code etc. And use it? I've used the font, not the same lol
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MIUI can display and send emoji? If anything I use an emoji keyboard I downloaded off of the play store but i havent found anything built in to the MIUI OS that supports sending emojis...care to point it out for me?
Please and thank you!
Dustin Bieber said:
MIUI can display and send emoji? If anything I use an emoji keyboard I downloaded off of the play store but i havent found anything built in to the MIUI OS that supports sending emojis...care to point it out for me?
Please and thank you!
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You can send emojis and view them through the SMS app. Furthermore, emojis show up in apps such as twitter and instagram. If you want to put them yourself in these apps, emoji keyboard, muliti leng keyboard and go keyboard can do this.
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G2xer said:
You can send emojis and view them through the SMS app. Furthermore, emojis show up in apps such as twitter and instagram. If you want to put them yourself in these apps, emoji keyboard, muliti leng keyboard and go keyboard can do this.
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I misunderstood you, but thanks for the info. I was wondering more along the lines of if there was an option to enable emojis were built in to MIUI somehow; like in the default Android keyboard or something.
I haven't tried sending or viewing emojis very often so I really wouldn't know if they work only on MIUI roms or not, sorry bud!
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I misunderstood you, but thanks for the info. I was wondering more along the lines of if there was an option to enable emojis were built in to MIUI somehow; like in the default Android keyboard or something.
I haven't tried sending or viewing emojis very often so I really wouldn't know if they work only on MIUI roms or not, sorry bud!
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They are built in. They are built into the SMS app. You only need the either keyboards to insert emoji into apps. My question was how can miui view them so that we can apply It to other cm7 roms. Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly!
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My google hangouts icon still uses the gTalk icon. I've tried uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it through play, but it still comes back with the Talk icon. I've also deleted cache and data for the app.
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My google hangouts icon still uses the gTalk icon. I've tried uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it through play, but it still comes back with the Talk icon. I've also deleted cache and data for the app.
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Are you using an icon pack?
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My google hangouts icon still uses the gTalk icon. I've tried uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it through play, but it still comes back with the Talk icon. I've also deleted cache and data for the app.
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I wish I had my gtalk icon back. Hangouts is terrible...
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Are you using an icon pack?
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No. My nova Icon theme is set to default. But that got me thinking: I tried installing another launcher and it has the correct hangouts icon. So I uninstalled nova and reinstalled it, and it is working again. Not sure what the issue was there.
hangout sux....video call doesnt work on mine...if i uninstall updates i have no video camera to make a video call.
I just wanna chime in on the Hangouts bashing.... I can't believe how much they ruined this app.. I mean, instant messaging is pretty simple right? Why change it? Now sometimes I won't get an IM for 45 minutes, I can't see who's online, it FC's all the time... Crap crap crap. I restored my old TiBu backup of the original talk. If anyone else want's it let me know..
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I just wanna chime in on the Hangouts bashing.... I can't believe how much they ruined this app.. I mean, instant messaging is pretty simple right? Why change it? Now sometimes I won't get an IM for 45 minutes, I can't see who's online, it FC's all the time... Crap crap crap. I restored my old TiBu backup of the original talk. If anyone else want's it let me know..
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IF your bckup still has the video call ill take it...on uninstall updtes from app manager u lose it and i for 1 definitely use it. So can u pm or post
nicholi2789 said:
I just wanna chime in on the Hangouts bashing.... I can't believe how much they ruined this app.. I mean, instant messaging is pretty simple right? Why change it? Now sometimes I won't get an IM for 45 minutes, I can't see who's online, it FC's all the time... Crap crap crap. I restored my old TiBu backup of the original talk. If anyone else want's it let me know..
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If your notifications are coming that late and you were getting a lot of FCs, I'm thinking it is a problem with your setup. I have had neither of those issues from the moment it updated and haven't really heard it from other people either. As far as online status, I'm a little split. I liked having it, but on the other hand, we don't have an online status for text messages either and we don't get riled up about that, so I am adjusting to just sending a message when I have one to send. If it is urgent and they don't reply I'll contact them a different way. I see no reason to roll back to talk.
no dice on this?
i want to find out the same
i think it may be something to do with us running custom roms
My google hangouts icon still uses the gTalk icon. I've tried uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it through play, but it still comes back with the Talk icon. I've also deleted cache and data for the app.
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Same issue here on stock nexus 4, i uninstalled it with titanium but no change. Also it doesn't work, i tried to send an im from my girlfriends phone but i didnt received anything.
Using Nova, menu/nova settings/look and feel/icon theme/ choose default. That worked for me to change hangout icon.
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My problem was from nova launcher, i had Talk icon in nova, but hangouts in trebuchet. Solution: reinstall nova and do a set everything manual, don't use backup or you will end up again with the talk icon.
Just long press the icon - edit - click the app icon, then choose another icon on Nova Launcher. Easy once you've done it once and know the trick.
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If your notifications are coming that late and you were getting a lot of FCs, I'm thinking it is a problem with your setup. I have had neither of those issues from the moment it updated and haven't really heard it from other people either. As far as online status, I'm a little split. I liked having it, but on the other hand, we don't have an online status for text messages either and we don't get riled up about that, so I am adjusting to just sending a message when I have one to send. If it is urgent and they don't reply I'll contact them a different way. I see no reason to roll back to talk.
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It's not a problem with my setup. Talk works flawlessly.
The things is this isn't text messaging though. This is instant messenger. A completely different format. It's nice to be able to see who's online to talk and not otherwise engaged. You don't get that in text messaging.
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It's not a problem with my setup. Talk works flawlessly.
The things is this isn't text messaging though. This is instant messenger. A completely different format. It's nice to be able to see who's online to talk and not otherwise engaged. You don't get that in text messaging.
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But they actually meant this to be like talk and messages combined. They should be incorporating SMS into it soon.
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The biggest issue I have, and maybe I'm just over looking it, but I can't change my status. I liked being able to be invisible like a ninja or busy if I didn't want to be bothered and so on. Running Goodness 10.0.3 if that means anything.
Optional Icon Solution
If anyone is looking to change the icon and happens to own tasker, it is a very easy fix. Just create a task to open hangouts and pick any icon you want. Then create an icon that simply runs the task. If you own the app, it should be pretty easy to figure out.
So as the title says I just feel sick when I see thoose google emojis, really need to change them, please, tell me there is a way for this. And other question - maybe I can use adblocker without root aswell?
If it's just for texting try another app like Textra, you can select and download up to 4 different emoji styles. Hope this helps.
Ditto. I'd love to get the iphone emojis. Standard android ones look crap imo.
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If it's just for texting try another app like Textra, you can select and download up to 4 different emoji styles. Hope this helps.
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Sadly :/ but nope, need to use also on other apps like SC, IG and so on.
electrolt said:
Sadly :/ but nope, need to use also on other apps like SC, IG and so on.
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Have you looked at installing another keyboard like Kika or Emoji in the play store, there's plenty of them and going by the app screenshots there not the default google type either
I use Swype and uninstalled Honor and Google keyboards altogether.
There are many keyboards in the Play Store with different emojis.
I don't like SwiftKey (only 3 predictions and I think no 2 simultaneous languages supported) but it's probably the most popular.
I'm looking for black themed apps specifically for like Gmail. I've come across in GB insta YouTube vanced and even face Slim. Those have been great, still looking for a decent email application with a black theme. If anyone knows the best apps to get on f-droid share them here.
I'm interested to see who considers what app to be good and why. Also there was a YouTube alternative app that allowed downloading app videos what was that app called? I'm sure someone on here will know.
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I'm looking for black themed apps specifically for like Gmail. I've come across in GB insta YouTube vanced and even face Slim. Those have been great, still looking for a decent email application with a black theme. If anyone knows the best apps to get on f-droid share them here.
I'm interested to see who considers what app to be good and why. Also there was a YouTube alternative app that allowed downloading app videos what was that app called? I'm sure someone on here will know.
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I think the YouTube you're thinking of is called OG YouTube.
As for black email clients, I've been using the Samsung one. It's a little different to get used to but not bad.
Bromite, open source Chromium without Google's crap, if you care about that
Newpipe, very lightweight YouTube client with downloads and dark mode.
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I think the YouTube you're thinking of is called OG YouTube.
As for black email clients, I've been using the Samsung one. It's a little different to get used to but not bad.
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Does the Samsung one use alot of battery to a point of concern?
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Does the Samsung one use alot of battery to a point of concern?
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I just started using it last night and didn't check the battery use tonight before charging my phone. I'll check it out tomorrow night and let you know.
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Does the Samsung one use alot of battery to a point of concern?
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I have the Samsung email client set to sync Auto when received.
It's not using hardly any battery at all.
Check out YouTube Vanced - it's the regular YouTube client but with all the ads removed, has black mode, background play, and a lot more features! It's basically the way YouTube should have been designed in the first place!
https://youtubevanced.com/
AthieN said:
Check out YouTube Vanced - it's the regular YouTube client but with all the ads removed, has black mode, background play, and a lot more features! It's basically the way YouTube should have been designed in the first place!
https://youtubevanced.com/
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i second that. youtube vanced all the way. been using it since my s8+. can't be any happier
even though download doesn't actually work for me. never seen the option even
so i use snaptube along with it
For email im using TypeApp which has a dark theme and fairly customizeable appearance and can support multiple email accounts. Its not on f-droid however so if you dont have/want to use google play store you may be able to find the APK for it online.
If you use the hex theme creator it sets gmail background to whatever you themed background colour to.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=project.vivid.hex.bodhi
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If you use the hex theme creator it sets gmail background to whatever you themed background colour to.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=project.vivid.hex.bodhi
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Thanks for the suggestion, how does the application work? I tried to make it work but am not sure how to get it to work. Is it like substratum?
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Thanks for the suggestion, how does the application work? I tried to make it work but am not sure how to get it to work. Is it like substratum?
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If you personalise, setup the colours and settings you want. Then at the bottom build theme. Once that has finished, go to theme store and apply the hex theme.
Gmail, Google Photos, Play store and some others will theme.
The only issue I have found is multiple accounts in gmail I have to select the account swipe out of the app and back in every time I change account.
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If you personalise, setup the colours and settings you want. Then at the bottom build theme. Once that has finished, go to theme store and apply the hex theme.
Gmail, Google Photos, Play store and some others will theme.
The only issue I have found is multiple accounts in gmail I have to select the account swipe out of the app and back in every time I change account.
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Interesting, I'll have a thorough look at the app hopefully it's as simple as you make it out to be. Cuz it comes packaged with two apps one being the theme selection store and then one of your own personal customisation. Also do you have to reapply the themes after every boot up? Or after every update do you have to uninstall each overlays like substratum if you wish to update?
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Interesting, I'll have a thorough look at the app hopefully it's as simple as you make it out to be. Cuz it comes packaged with two apps one being the theme selection store and then one of your own personal customisation. Also do you have to reapply the themes after every boot up? Or after every update do you have to uninstall each overlays like substratum if you wish to update?
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Forget to mention that you need to turn on night mode in the hex app.
No the theme stays there all the time, when you make changes though, it seems that you have to apply the default theme then apply hex theme again.
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Forget to mention that you need to turn on night mode in the hex app.
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Yeah I tried but it says I can't parse the plugin
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Yeah I tried but it says I can't parse the plugin
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Oh ok, I found the plugin apk, you can try installing see if this fixes the problem.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DI2CgwsNbnFFnSem3C6PZmgd_nAaEww/view?usp=drivesdk
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Oh ok, I found the plugin apk, you can try installing see if this fixes the problem.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DI2CgwsNbnFFnSem3C6PZmgd_nAaEww/view?usp=drivesdk
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Thanks man! Where did you find/ or can I find more plug ins?
Also I'll give this a shot and see how it goes. Hopefully it doesn't drain or consume too much battery
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Oh ok, I found the plugin apk, you can try installing see if this fixes the problem.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DI2CgwsNbnFFnSem3C6PZmgd_nAaEww/view?usp=drivesdk
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There seems to be more components missing and this isn't as simple to do as they make it out. I wish there was a page or resource with all the apks needed to make this app work.
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There seems to be more components missing and this isn't as simple to do as they make it out. I wish there was a page or resource with all the apks needed to make this app work.
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There is this thread here which talks about the app but I think the thread is about theme or similar, I'm a little confused about it.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s10-plus/themes/theme-anxious-t3921645/page98