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Just got a new MotoG which is locked to Vodaphone network for the wife to go with my Retail all Moto G2.
My Moto G2 has about 20 default ringtones to choose from
Her Moto G only has 'Hangouts' for ringtone and 'Hangouts' for text tones, nothing else.
Is this correct/normal. If not, how do I get the default ringtones back?
Both are running 4.4.4, but hers appears to have a different 'skin' where you can swipe left in apps and get to widgets, on mine you can't.
Thanks
It's normal. It's probably a Google Play Edition variant of the Moto G.
You could unlock your bootloader, and install a custom rom which would contain more ring tones and such. Or you could use Zedge app, and download more tone.
mykehdoom said:
It's normal. It's probably a Google Play Edition variant of the Moto G.
You could unlock your bootloader, and install a custom rom which would contain more ring tones and such. Or you could use Zedge app, and download more tone.
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It's not the play edition, It has the motorola assist app, moto camera app, and the moto startup screens.
I was just suprised it only had the 1 ringtone, when mine has so many (also not a play edition).
wrighar said:
It's not the play edition, It has the motorola assist app, moto camera app, and the moto startup screens.
I was just suprised it only had the 1 ringtone, when mine has so many (also not a play edition).
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Was it cheaper than yours?
mykehdoom said:
Was it cheaper than yours?
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it was £90 in the closeout sales in October (reduced from £130 or £140)
Mine was £125 in Argos two weeks later (reduced from £150)
Spec's are the same except I get 5.0" same res screen, dual sims and a sd slot.
wrighar said:
it was £90 in the closeout sales in October (reduced from £130 or £140)
Mine was £125 in Argos two weeks later (reduced from £150)
Spec's are the same except I get 5.0" same res screen, dual sims and a sd slot.
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No idea then. Maybe they did it for a reason. Do you know what launcher the phone has on it?
The Vodafone branded firmware may have different ringtones and carrier bloatware and so on
mykehdoom said:
No idea then. Maybe they did it for a reason. Do you know what launcher the phone has on it?
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They both have the google now / ask google launcher home screen I think.
Although mine has just the screens you need (2 in my case) and small dots to indicate which you are one. it auto expands to a third when you add more apps.
hers looks the same except the ins't the small dots at the bottom of the screen, but a small line/bar shich moved left right depends in which of the 5 (fixed) home screens you are on.
wrighar said:
They both have the google now / ask google launcher home screen I think.
Although mine has just the screens you need (2 in my case) and small dots to indicate which you are one. it auto expands to a third when you add more apps.
hers looks the same except the ins't the small dots at the bottom of the screen, but a small line/bar shich moved left right depends in which of the 5 (fixed) home screens you are on.
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Then her phone has a different launcher. Which is why she can swipe to the widgets. You can install a custom launcher if you want. I personally use Nova Launcher. You can swipe to the widgets on it. And it has themes you can use.
k-kuchen said:
The Vodafone branded firmware may have different ringtones and carrier bloatware and so on
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Maybe.
It does have one Vodaphone app which lets you see your PAYG balance, feed news apps etc. It's Never been used
wrighar said:
Maybe.
It does have one Vodaphone app which lets you see your PAYG balance, feed news apps etc. It's Never been used
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Check your system version in about phone. It will most likely have "Vodafone" in it. You'd have to flash a retail firmware to get exactly the same experience as the other phone
mykehdoom said:
Then her phone has a different launcher. Which is why she can swipe to the widgets. You can install a custom launcher if you want. I personally use Nova Launcher. You can swipe to the widgets on it. And it has themes you can use.
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Ah ha.
I'm on Google Now Launcher 1.1.0.1167994
She's on Launcher 4.4.4-31
They look so similar!
Just got my Mate 9 and I am liking it so far. I've used Nova and Go launcher in the past on other phones, however, I seem to like Huawei's own Home launcher. Simple and clean. However, is there a way I can apply icon packs to it? I want to change some icons, but can't seem to find a way to do that.
Any help or advice is appreciated.
You can change icons in theme manager.
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You can change icons in theme manager.
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I see where the icons are in the Theme manager, but those are just the pre-loaded icons. How do I apply icons packs that I've downloaded from the play store?
rimz808 said:
I see where the icons are in the Theme manager, but those are just the pre-loaded icons. How do I apply icons packs that I've downloaded from the play store?
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Didn't try anything from playstore,but if you download a theme you have to put it in HWthemes folder in internal storage.
Other option you can download online themes from the themes manager and apply the icons only.
gm007 said:
Didn't try anything from playstore,but if you download a theme you have to put it in HWthemes folder in internal storage.
Other option you can download online themes from the themes manager and apply the icons only.
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How did you get to that? When I click on my Theme icon, all I get is Local theme. I do not see Featured, Top, etc like your screenshot.
rimz808 said:
How did you get to that? When I click on my Theme icon, all I get is Local theme. I do not see Featured, Top, etc like your screenshot.
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Not sure maybe it's disabled in ur country.
Maybe you can try using different location in hicare or register a new account with another country.
gm007 said:
Not sure maybe it's disabled in ur country.
Maybe you can try using different location in hicare or register a new account with another country.
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I'm in the USA. Yourself? Are other Mate 9 U.S versions able to see more than just Local Theme?
Thanks
rimz808 said:
I'm in the USA. Yourself? Are other Mate 9 U.S versions able to see more than just Local Theme?
Thanks
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I don't think so, probably copyright stuff in there. I do wonder, can you register a huawei Id account? Assuming you have USA firmware.
I also have a l29 but mine is based out of Germany I think.
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I don't think so, probably copyright stuff in there. I do wonder, can you register a huawei Id account? Assuming you have USA firmware.
I also have a l29 but mine is based out of Germany I think.
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Never was informed to register the phone.. something I was looking to do when i first got it, but did not see a place to register it.
rimz808 said:
Never was informed to register the phone.. something I was looking to do when i first got it, but did not see a place to register it.
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do you have huawei id listed in settings?
intruda119 said:
do you have huawei id listed in settings?
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I do not see that in my settings or in About Phone. Am I looking at the right place?
rimz808 said:
I do not see that in my settings or in About Phone. Am I looking at the right place?
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It should be above account setting.
rimz808 said:
I do not see that in my settings or in About Phone. Am I looking at the right place?
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I'm on l29 international version
intruda119 said:
I'm on l29 international version
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I do not have that in my settings. Just Accounts, No Huawei ID nor HIcloud like you have. I am on the US version
I use icon changer from playstore
NikiFue said:
I use icon changer from playstore
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Life saver! That's exactly all that I needed.
Appreciate you sharing that!
rimz808 said:
Life saver! That's exactly all that I needed.
Appreciate you sharing that!
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You're welcome. It's not the perfect solution because if you use app drawer, you can't change icons in app drawer but at least you get a better looking Homescreen.
NikiFue said:
You're welcome. It's not the perfect solution because if you use app drawer, you can't change icons in app drawer but at least you get a better looking Homescreen.
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It's the homescreen icons that I wanted to change, and this worked exactly as I wanted. What icon packs have you tried/like?
I used "clix" for a while, because they loke a bit like the stock icons, but now i have a new theme where all icons i have on my homescreen are included except of the telegram icon, so i made it by myself and applied it with icon changer
I've spend hours looking for a dark/black theme fully compatible with MIUI 10 but alas, to no avail.
I've found some themes I really like but there are two distinct issues.
1. The pull down notification is still in white
2. Lock screen notifications stop working.
Has anybody come across any themes that at least cure these two issues?
Flat Kola
When I was on MiUI 10 Beta on Mi Max 2, I used Flat Kola. It worked for everything except the notification shade.
Give it a try and let me know.
Damionix said:
When I was on MiUI 10 Beta on Mi Max 2, I used Flat Kola. It worked for everything except the notification shade.
Give it a try and let me know.
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Thanks, I'm using Grid TT which is really good but I tried Flat Kola and it's exactly the same problems. The main one is that when you get a message and the screen comes on it does not show the message on the screen as it does with the normal theme.
The closest way to getting this is using power shade: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treydev.pns
Check this thread, there are a few good dark ones there for miui 10.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-8/themes/miui-10-theme-t3810035/post76938463#post76938463
How do I get MIUI 10 on Mi Max 3?
I'm on China rom and I believe I found a near perfect free MIUI 10 black dark theme on the China theme store:
暗黑 Link: http://zhuti.xiaomi.com/detail/004c4bbf-97f1-4036-a8eb-4042a2165bb0
Settings and Contacts are both black, while status bar is grey. I customized by reverting my lockscreen, icons and status bar back to default, and font to Roboto (also on China store) for readability sake.
For Global Rom Theme Store so far the best I've experienced is Darkoid - Blacky. Everything including status bar plus WhatsApp is black. (a shame I can't sideload it on unrooted China rom)
Extraction V10
With LATEST update on MI 8 If You are not in India region, all MIUI 10 Themes are useless. Phone switch to default theme by himself. after few minutes if you install with My Themer or with Miui Theme Creator, whatever, but you can not instal with Default Theme application any downloaded Theme What expert in Xiaomi decided that?!?!?!
shoukanju said:
I'm on China rom and I believe I found a near perfect free MIUI 10 black dark theme on the China theme store:
暗黑 Link: http://zhuti.xiaomi.com/detail/004c4bbf-97f1-4036-a8eb-4042a2165bb0
Settings and Contacts are both black, while status bar is grey. I customized by reverting my lockscreen, icons and status bar back to default, and font to Roboto (also on China store) for readability sake.
For Global Rom Theme Store so far the best I've experienced is Darkoid - Blacky. Everything including status bar plus WhatsApp is black. (a shame I can't sideload it on unrooted China rom)
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Thanks man! It works. I think someone who speaks Chinese could help us navigate through the unintelligible (for most of us) Chinese Theme Store. Very hard to find what you want there although I guess there are enough themes.
albireox said:
Thanks man! It works. I think someone who speaks Chinese could help us navigate through the unintelligible (for most of us) Chinese Theme Store. Very hard to find what you want there although I guess there are enough themes.
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I can partially understand Chinese, but what makes it tough is the fact that the search function of the store is poor. Even searching for Black in Chinese, I never came across this theme despite its first tag is Black.
I just randomly and blindly browsed around until I stumbled upon this and a few more less ideal Black themes, all also tagged Black, and also never turned up on my searches.
MIUI10 compatibility filter would have been great too.
shoukanju said:
I can partially understand Chinese, but what makes it tough is the fact that the search function of the store is poor. Even searching for Black in Chinese, I never came across this theme despite its first tag is Black.
I just randomly and blindly browsed around until I stumbled upon this and a few more less ideal Black themes, all also tagged Black, and also never turned up on my searches.
MIUI10 compatibility filter would have been great too.
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Indeed. I spent some time searching and searching with no results on the Chinese Theme Store. The filter for MIUI10 is enabled but only on the International MIUI10.
shoukanju said:
I can partially understand Chinese, but what makes it tough is the fact that the search function of the store is poor. Even searching for Black in Chinese, I never came across this theme despite its first tag is Black.
I just randomly and blindly browsed around until I stumbled upon this and a few more less ideal Black themes, all also tagged Black, and also never turned up on my searches.
MIUI10 compatibility filter would have been great too.
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When you are doing search, try " V10", that must mean the miui10 compatible.
ptr21 said:
When you are doing search, try " V10", that must mean the miui10 compatible.
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I tried v10. I get more windows 10 & ios 10 results to sieve through. Haha.
V10 is more of a user defined handle rather than a store defined one. Not used as commonly in the China store compared to the Global one.
You want this:
http://en.miui.com/thread-4590347-1-1.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xtHG-BwrDfGk851sWjEBG4A8Hbd5aETa/view
This is the best I've come across: DARK V10
Link: http://zhuti.xiaomi.com/detail/ffdf4011-f46a-481e-9c84-af1a8e1717cb
opasha said:
This is the best I've come across: DARK V10
Link: http://zhuti.xiaomi.com/detail/ffdf4011-f46a-481e-9c84-af1a8e1717cb
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Link is not working properly for me as can't see a theme.
The best I've found is one called Reloaded V10 . It does the main thing of making dark all the drop down notifications and dialer etc, also does WhatsApp which is a bonus for me.
I'm on the Global MIUI10 and could not get themes at first. The way to get around it was to set my Region to Hong Kong (in Additional Settings)
https://en.miui.com/thread-3054744-1-1.html
wozhere said:
You want this:
http://en.miui.com/thread-4590347-1-1.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xtHG-BwrDfGk851sWjEBG4A8Hbd5aETa/view
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Thank you for this, first try and everything works I highly recommend this.
mbl1979 said:
Thank you for this, first try and everything works I highly recommend this.
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How do you install it on Mi8 Miui 10 10.1.2.0 Global Stable?
Thanks in advance!
Very beautiful theme
Sent from my Samsung SM-G532M using XDA Labs
Hi, recently got a mi mix 3 have global rom installed but I don't see the option for face unlock feature, on reviews people use that option.
So it's only a feature for the rom Chinese rom?
Or where it's that option? Any help here?
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It's under the lock screen and password settings.
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It's under the lock screen and password settings.
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I don't that option on mine
I found the solution.
I only change the region to Taiwan and there appear
Hi everyone , just one question the face unlock of Mi mix 3 work by night ? IR face unlock ? Thank you
palexis06 said:
Hi everyone , just one question the face unlock of Mi mix 3 work by night ? IR face unlock ? Thank you
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It works at night but not using ir
if your looking for safety it's not the most safe. My brother can use face unlock on my Mi Mix 3. And no we are not twins
tssphysicsboi said:
It works at night but not using ir
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Ok thank you I hope so it's work by night like the Poco f1 because for 600$ face Unlock is for me something important ?
Hello,
is there any option or patch to enable face unlock regardless of the region choosen in settings?
I own Mix 3 which originally came with global stable 10.0.11.0 (PEEMIFH) ROM. Face unlock is disabled for my region, but, as almost everyone here knows, it's easy to bypass the restiction by choosing some other region. But in that case some other region-specific apps (bloatware) are also installed. The closest region that enables face unlock without other bloatware is UK (!!) in my case.
Digging around menus I also found that for India or Hong Kong (I'm not sure) as choosen region, there's an option "wallpaper carrousel" enabled, what could be nice to have... Maybe there are other region-specific apps which could be usefull in other regions... BTW, what criteria are used to enable/disable some options for different regions?
Or to enable google assistant in English even though other language is choosen? And enable to start it using AI-key?
So, the idea is to create an app or patch which could enable or disable restricted options regardless of the region the phone is used. Or something like that already exist?
(sorry for the long post)
tssphysicsboi said:
It works at night but not using ir
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So it hasn't IR like Poco or Mi8, what a strange... At night it use the screen brightness, right?
I have received my oppo find 2x pro WOW it's amazing am just loading up my apps from play store
I read there is a oppo app store like there is on Samsung how do I download it?? Any ideas
Also is there a theme system I can see the installed theme so presume we can add others have worked out I can change shape and sizes of my icons but it would be amazing if I could change themes
Defo so glad I got this instead of the p40 pro I don't need to mess with downloading apps
Thanks
https://www.heytapmobi.com/m/store.html
mancuk29 said:
Also is there a theme system I can see the installed theme so presume we can add others have worked out I can change shape and sizes of my icons but it would be amazing if I could change themes
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The theme store isn't supported on UK devices due to legal concerns, it's unclear whether this will change in the future, Oppo are very new to European markets so they're being as safe as possible in this regard
kevinireland11 said:
https://www.heytapmobi.com/m/store.html
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The website looks Chinese?? Does it convert it to English just want to check before I click ?
mancuk29 said:
The website looks Chinese?? Does it convert it to English just want to check before I click ?
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Yes, just download from the Chinese site, then install the .apk & it'll be English, you'll also have some updates for your factory apps