I know that there was a little conversation in another thread somewhere about it, but I've searched and cannot remember where it was. I was just wondering again if there is any program that will be able to load a skin that takes up half of the screen, to make a bigger more iPhone like keyboard.
Although I don't actually have SPB full screen keyboard, it looks like it may be the sort of thing needed, but I am not sure if it only does full screen or not.
Any comments/help appreciated
Thanks,
James
Are you talking about the Happy Typing Keyboard? I use it for short typing but I still use SPB Full Keyboard for longer messages. Search it by name and you should find it.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317962 , still in development, but when skinned and tweaked, it will be really cool.
I disabled touch flo 3d right away because it seems like pointless eye candy. It seems like a sloppy rough integration that is a greater impedance than an assistant. Or is it just me
Have you modified it with the tweaks to enhance the performance? All it is is really just another shell, your preference there.
its the first thing i disabled. in my opinion its pretty darn ugly...except for the weather thing, its kind of cute. but i like having all my stuff on the home screen where i can see it all at once
As you can see, you are clearly outvoted. They had the same poll over at ppcgeeks (How many are still using TouchFlo3D) and of the 320 people who participated,80% were still using it.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=482651
TF3D brings an essential level of style to Windows Mobile.
Surur
Style, schmile!
If I wanted style I'd have the Jesus phone that Apple makes - with one of the great cases from Vaja.
Instead, I want to look at my screen and gain information. On my day, on the stock market, on the weather and on the number of messages I am currently blowing off.
I too liked the weather bit. I also appreciated that TF3D goes a good job at memory management. Maybe when I get the time to learn how to customize it, I'll return to TF3D.
For now, though it is back to WinMob running Pocket Breeze in full screen mode with panels for pA and Pocket Weather.
I really like it. It gives me access to what I need to see when I glance at the screen (except tasks) and finger-touch access to programs.
It does screw up maybe once a day though requiring a soft reset. I applied the mods recommended and they made my TP freeze a lot so I changed them back to default.
It's actually a great enhancement to WM. almost everything that needs to be readily accessible is "touchable" no need to get irritated and use the tip of my nail to make sure I press it just right. Even the corner X close button works almost flawlessly because the screen touch area is now flush.
I know there has been some whining but this really is the best match, easy touch interface for the simple phone stuff, and the ability to use a keyboard and a stylus for things that just aren't feasable to use efficiently with a finger on a touch screen.
I'm a very happy camper with the Fuze... well except for that ****ing GPS crap.
I'd also like to add that I think most of us really created and adapted ways to be able to not use the touchscreen for a lot of things, and with good reason considering how much I hate using a stylus to navigate a UI. So I think a ton of us bring a certain baggage about using our fingers because it just really did always suck that bad. Which thanks to HTC it really doesn't now. Plus this screen may not be like the capacitive Iphone but man it's definitely a lot smoother, the word "silky" comes to mind with how it feels compared to my Tytn.
I'm not sure which one of the 2 voting options is meant to be good
Some people are just afraid of change. As there still millions of windows 98 users out there. LMAO, people need to move with the times
Touchflo3d is indeed the most beautiful interface I've ever seen. It remained for about one month on my mobile phone. After that I still installed pocket plus (the program who puts icons dirrectly on screen and used only one tab in which I put all my programs).
Reason 1: functionality. It takes several moves in TF3D to do simple tasks. For example if I am in the home screen I cannot start with a single click an app. I have to scroll (and be quite carrefull to go in the desired position) and after that start a program etc. Imagine if in Windows you would be forced to use start, programs every time if you wanted to use an program...it'll kill you. That's why we activate programs by clicking the icon on the screen after all...it's the fastest way. All in all, to be clear, if it would be a contest between a TF3D and a Pocket Plus-type of program, everytime the pocket plus device will "click" the application faster, while in TF3D depends on where TAB are you..
Reason 2: familiarity with Windows way of activating programs. As I said before it's more simple for me to simply activate the icon on screen and not bother with some paradigm of displaying emails or SMS (and related to that, do you want to be able that someone can take a look at your info by simply scrolling to that tab? I don't)
Reason 3 -not quite a reason, but a proof that this a better interface in my opinion: the simple-icon-on-display type of interface is actually validated by the Iphone which we all know as a beautiful device at least.
I like Touchflo3d, but I missed my usual today screen setup.
The easy answer is to use secondtoday, that way I get the best of both worlds, one tap on the screen switches between them.
Gigs said:
Touchflo3d is indeed the most beautiful interface I've ever seen. It remained for about one month on my mobile phone. After that I still installed pocket plus (the program who puts icons dirrectly on screen and used only one tab in which I put all my programs).
Reason 1: functionality. It takes several moves in TF3D to do simple tasks. For example if I am in the home screen I cannot start with a single click an app. I have to scroll (and be quite carrefull to go in the desired position) and after that start a program etc. Imagine if in Windows you would be forced to use start, programs every time if you wanted to use an program...it'll kill you. That's why we activate programs by clicking the icon on the screen after all...it's the fastest way. All in all, to be clear, if it would be a contest between a TF3D and a Pocket Plus-type of program, everytime the pocket plus device will "click" the application faster, while in TF3D depends on where TAB are you..
Reason 2: familiarity with Windows way of activating programs. As I said before it's more simple for me to simply activate the icon on screen and not bother with some paradigm of displaying emails or SMS (and related to that, do you want to be able that someone can take a look at your info by simply scrolling to that tab? I don't)
Reason 3 -not quite a reason, but a proof that this a better interface in my opinion: the simple-icon-on-display type of interface is actually validated by the Iphone which we all know as a beautiful device at least.
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Pocket Plus sound like exactly what I need!
nuke1 said:
I'm not sure which one of the 2 voting options is meant to be good
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Bunk = bad and handy gooey is handy GUI or handy Graphical User Interface
migsims said:
It's actually a great enhancement to WM. almost everything that needs to be readily accessible is "touchable" no need to get irritated and use the tip of my nail to make sure I press it just right. Even the corner X close button works almost flawlessly because the screen touch area is now flush.
I know there has been some whining but this really is the best match, easy touch interface for the simple phone stuff, and the ability to use a keyboard and a stylus for things that just aren't feasable to use efficiently with a finger on a touch screen.
I'm a very happy camper with the Fuze... well except for that ****ing GPS crap.
I'd also like to add that I think most of us really created and adapted ways to be able to not use the touchscreen for a lot of things, and with good reason considering how much I hate using a stylus to navigate a UI. So I think a ton of us bring a certain baggage about using our fingers because it just really did always suck that bad. Which thanks to HTC it really doesn't now. Plus this screen may not be like the capacitive Iphone but man it's definitely a lot smoother, the word "silky" comes to mind with how it feels compared to my Tytn.
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maybe thats why I'm having so much trouble with the touch screen. I tap something,,,, wait 5 seconds,,, tap again,,,, wait 6 seconds then give up and get out the stylus. Maybe I should re-enable touchflo to stop this problem
surur said:
As you can see, you are clearly outvoted. They had the same poll over at ppcgeeks (How many are still using TouchFlo3D) and of the 320 people who participated,80% were still using it.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=482651
TF3D brings an essential level of style to Windows Mobile.
Surur
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Thats interesting. Thanks for the link. Maybe I should give touchflo 3D a another shot.
chetmichaels said:
its the first thing i disabled. in my opinion its pretty darn ugly...except for the weather thing, its kind of cute. but i like having all my stuff on the home screen where i can see it all at once
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Me too. Thats why I copied and pasted the links that are in folders within the program folder back up to the program folder. I like having everything in 1 spot. I wish it was alphabetized though.
kareem9nba said:
Have you modified it with the tweaks to enhance the performance? All it is is really just another shell, your preference there.
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Performance wasn't really the issue for me. It just seemed like pointless eye candy.
James, you'll really find SPB Pocket Plus really nice. The thing with it is to remove all the tabs, as they really only generate useless clicks to navigate where your program is, and in final squeeze in one tab only the icons you need. I have 3x5 icons(with no text and large size enabled) and if I really think some of them I don't really need - like powerpoint and so on.To give an exameple this is what I consider usefull:Comunication Manager, Resco Explorer, HTC Album, Igo, Camera, Excel, Word, Coreplayer, sms, activesync,radio, opera, 1-calc (a very nice calculator) and notes. And supplimentary I have enabled the calendar and date plugins in today screen. This is a very nice setup - eficient - and if you set a non transparent background, very nice, kinda stylish look. Now, I have seen that you complained about precision of tapping - beware that in the margins and corners of display you'll have sometimes to get out the stylus. Give that pocket plus a try.It really made my days.
kareem9nba said:
Have you modified it with the tweaks to enhance the performance? All it is is really just another shell, your preference there.
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Care to share those kareem?
jamespaulritter said:
I disabled touch flo 3d right away because it seems like pointless eye candy. It seems like a sloppy rough integration that is a greater impedance than an assistant. Or is it just me
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Definitely NOT at all. We must be on different spectrum of the universe. I like TF3D a great deal, make navigating the phone intuitive and seamless. It is just you.
Without TF3D, my Sprint TP would just be any other run of the mill Win Mobile big screen phone. My 39 cents.
TF3D is totally kickass! I love it for everything. Althought I do wish they had the map intergration that they have in TF2D. I also want the stocks tab and am waiting for the hd manilla to be perfected . Other than that, the original htc theme, with q-style font, my personalized background, tweaks from diamond config, and stock fuze rom, it runs pretty darm fast. Only did a soft reset once and that waas because I was attempting to run a qvga application and it crashed.
Gigs said:
James, you'll really find SPB Pocket Plus really nice. The thing with it is to remove all the tabs, as they really only generate useless clicks to navigate where your program is, and in final squeeze in one tab only the icons you need. I have 3x5 icons(with no text and large size enabled) and if I really think some of them I don't really need - like powerpoint and so on.To give an exameple this is what I consider usefull:Comunication Manager, Resco Explorer, HTC Album, Igo, Camera, Excel, Word, Coreplayer, sms, activesync,radio, opera, 1-calc (a very nice calculator) and notes. And supplimentary I have enabled the calendar and date plugins in today screen. This is a very nice setup - eficient - and if you set a non transparent background, very nice, kinda stylish look. Now, I have seen that you complained about precision of tapping - beware that in the margins and corners of display you'll have sometimes to get out the stylus. Give that pocket plus a try.It really made my days.
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I agree. Let's not turn into a bunch of iPhone cattle. They stick to their phones like cult even when plagued with numerous problems.
Get SPB mobile. It blows TFTD out of the water.
dgduris said:
Style, schmile!
If I wanted style I'd have the Jesus phone that Apple makes - with one of the great cases from Vaja.
Instead, I want to look at my screen and gain information. On my day, on the stock market, on the weather and on the number of messages I am currently blowing off.
I too liked the weather bit. I also appreciated that TF3D goes a good job at memory management. Maybe when I get the time to learn how to customize it, I'll return to TF3D.
For now, though it is back to WinMob running Pocket Breeze in full screen mode with panels for pA and Pocket Weather.
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I didn't know the Lord makes phones
Back to the subject, it's all a personal preference. I think it's great, and makes the phone a lot more fun and a little easier to use, you don't, but nobody is right or wrong on this one.
ababrekar said:
Care to share those kareem?
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They are stickied in the Raphael subforum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=413562
BTW I have been using TFL3D since when I got my TP in August. SPB Shell seems outdated now but I have it installed anyway, accessible via Second Today
Hi Everyone.
I am a brand spankin' new owner of my Droid X. I must say I love the phone except I sorta hate the keyboard. My last phone was a blackberry storm- hated that phone but loved its keyboard! Is there a keyboard that anyone would recommend (preferably free but not mandatory at all)? My thumbs, I have come to realize, are sightly bigger than most. I do not care for swype and the other keyboard has the period next to the space bar so most of sentances.look.like.this.
I appreciate any help.
Also. My battery makes it half way through the day before I have to re-charge. Any pointers/suggestions/apps that could help? Again, Thank You for helping me.
Jon
I really like the gingerbread keyboard. You can find it in the market and it is free.
How long did you try swype for? It takes a little while to get used to but it can work very well. If you go the swype settings (under settings - keyboard settings) you can adjust the speed vs accuracy slider...try sliding it towards accuracy. The droid x is pretty fast and doesn't slow easily.
Swiftkey and the gingerbread keyboard are both great alternatives if you don't like swype.
Battery issues - Juice defender. Turns off 3g connection when not in use, and you can adjust the polling interval to sync gmail/facebook/etc. Phone calls and texts are still always on. I think there's an option in it to set brightness to automatic. If there isn't, there is an option in the phone settings. If battery life remains an issue, there are extended batteries, but I think the require a different cover as well that makes the phone thicker.
Did you just get the phone? Every time I get a new phone (or install a new rom) I spend a lot of time playing around with settings and downloading/trying new apps, so I kill the battery quickly.
I really am a huge fan of Swype, but it does take some people a few days to get used to. Remember that you don't HAVE to Swype everything - you can tap out words that are easier to just tap out (short words) and Swype longer words to save time. Overall, I think that once you get used to it you will really like Swype. Play with it for a few more days before you give up!
I really like Smart Keyboard. There is a free version available in the Market.
It has an option to hide the period and the comma. This enlarges your space bar. To get to the period or the comma, you just go to numbers.
If you download it, be sure to explore all the settings. It seems to download with a Iphone default skin, which I don't find appealing. You get to choose such skins as Galaxy, HTC, or maybe Android.
I love it. I used the free version for maybe ten minutes before I bought Pro. I do believe the free version was fully functional. It's use included an extra splash screen that was supposed to be annoying, but actually not annoying at all IMO.
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i try swipe but i prefere other keyboard
i like thumbs keyboad too
I would say SwiftKey is the best, hands down. Make sure you install the language pack for your country and then choose the option to update the language packs.
SwiftKey is fast and smart.
I give it 13 out of 10. I'd give it 14 if it was skinnable/themable.
I tried Swiftkey and I couldn't get the hang of it when I had my Eris (maybe I should have tried a week). Really Smart Keyboard is nice and you will love the Compact QWERTY (which is just like the Storm I believe). Plus as is mentioned it is customizable. It is free minus you get an annoying popup once the first time you use the keyboard in the day and after five seconds you can tap and get rid of it and you're good (A.K.A. free!).
I tried a few other keyboards and Smart is the best for an onscreen keyboard in Android. It's the closest to the iPhone I could find and best second to a BB keyboard.
I couldn't get the hang of SwiftKey either until I installed and updated the language packs. Initially it was taking correctly spelled words and changing them to things completely unrelated. After that It all worked good.
ok, there are just a few things I need help figuring out, and the problem is, as much of a PC/computer dog that I am, I am so lost...this Moto Droid I've got is amazing, but it's almost too open sourced for me...
I'd like a cool theme, maybe...but what I really want to do is have a nice clean app for the weather, see a glimpse of facebook, a smooth running music player (haven't even used the built in one yet, but I like shuffle and choosing where the song is playing at, if the built in one has it, awesome), I need quick links, and a grid for my apps that lets me put a ton of apps in one spot, because as great as it is that I have 3-5 screens for apps, I want just one, lol, and I need to have a percentage indicator by, or as the battery icon, not as an after market app...preferably with better than by 10's or 20's only...
If I did a theme, it would just be so that I can have more colorful or neon-esque icons/app icons...but not the be all and end all...
I'm taking suggestions, and would love help or explanations on installs or developing myself...
Hello guys,
Now that BT is working on my Nook Color, I'll use it as a netbook pretty often.
That's why I might need to kiss my portrait-only homescreen goodbye.
Now my previous homescreen was portrait-only for a reason: I think it's just impossible to have a functional, constistent layout for both portrait AND landscape mode. Every launcher I've tried squeezes the same rows/columns-setting over landscape mode when switching, breaking almost every layout that might have made sense before.
I know that completely independent row-settings for both modes would probably cause more problems than it would solve, but what about independent layouts? I wouldn't mind setting up 2 homescreens if I knew it was worth it.
Is there any launcher that has this functionality?
Or is there any program like home switcher that can start different launchers depending on the screen rotation?
Sweeter Home lets you design your own layout.
And it uses separate layouts for Portrait and Landscape.
If only one of the two is defined, then it squashes one onto the other like regular launchers. Or you could lock it in to one orientation like I do.
Right now it's in public beta, but pretty much release-worthy. Only "downside" is updating it every few months when the nag popup appears - all settings transfer over, so nothing is lost.
Hm....I'm currently giving this another try. When I first looked at it, it left me in a state of confusion
Now I'm still confused, but I have started to create tablet theme that suits my needs. Let's see where this will end up.
This launcher has loads of potential despite its horrible, horrible interface. Seriously, this must be meant as a parody of bad interfaces. They really make you suffer before you finally end up with your own perfect theme. Per apera ad astra.