I don't know if someone had this issue, but I was just curious if I'm "special".
From time to time, when using the default launcher (GEL), setting the wallpaper doesn't stick.
It's either I get a plain black, it's either some of the default wallpapers are set, or some glitches / graphical glitches appear on the wallpaper.
I tried a few "tricks" (closing the Google search processes, launcher and whatnot) but that doesn't work. At times System.UI closes and everything works afterwards.
Usually a reboot fixes everything.
Was just curious if something is "software" broken, or the pics I use for wallpapers (regular pics downloaded from some threads here) are just doing something fishy.
Using 4.4.1 all stock no root, no unlock, just plain N5.
HTC have announced that they will release Blinkfeed and Service Apps to the Play Store for use on non-HTC phones.
http://www.androidheadlines.com/201...-and-service-pack-apps-in-the-play-store.html
Just a quick update....
No news about the official apps from HTC but devs have ported the M8 version of Blinkfeed that's already on the play store.
New thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735764
USE THIS THREAD FROM NOW ON, DOWNLOAD LINKS ARE IN THE OP
ALL CREDITS GO TO GAKUGAKU
REMEMBER TO THANK THE DEV'S AND TO MAKE A BACKUP FIRST
Requires Android 4.4+
Confirmed working on: CM11 / INFAMOUS IOAP / .... (Should work on any AOSP based rom)
(Old thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696399)
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Clock: To get the clock to show at the top you must set Blinkfeed as the home page.
Weather: To get the weather to show in the Blinkfeed header you must go into phone settings/accounts and add HTC weather. There are settings for Celsius/Fahrenheit and update interval in the top right corner as well.
Not Working: Facebook Feed, Instagram Feed.
Version 12 has a 4 x 5 home screen grid size, it cuts off some of the icon label text. To solve this you need to download the xposed module 'app settings' and reduce the HTC Blinkfeed launcher font size to 92%.
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HOW TO INSTALL - NEW
- Backup your ROM.
- Download Htc_BlinkFeed_vXX.zip
- Extract Htc_BlinkFeed_vXX.zip
- Normally install the apk files(Twitter Weather Prism hsp)
- Enjoy!
CHANGELOG
Updated to v8: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51621342&postcount=644 (Old thread)
Updated to v9: Now available in black/orange/magenta. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51743554&postcount=1085 (Old thread)
Updated to v10: (Green background). Now has Twitter working. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51928423&postcount=1329 (Old thread)
Updated to v12: Choose Blinkfeed colour in launcher. Now has 4 x 5 homescreen grid by default. New thread opened by gakugaku, link can be found above, download links are in the OP. Added Custom RSS App for Blinkfeed, also can be found in the OP.
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SIDE NOTE:
Just in case anyone didn't know, you can use this basically as a Blinkfeed app if you want to use Nova (probably will work with other launchers as well). Just follow the steps below:
- Flash the zip in the OP, this installs the Blinkfeed launcher.
- When you boot into system set Nova back to the default launcher (Always).
- In Nova, long press on any space on the screen. Select Shortcuts > Activities > HTC Blinkfeed > HTC Blinkfeed (Launcher)
- This creates a HTC Blinkfeed shortcut on your screen.
- Click on the HTC Blinkfeed shortcut, delete all pages apart from Blinkfeed, delete all the icons in the dock (Apart from the app drawer icon).
- Now when you press the HTC Blinkfeed shortcut from inside Nova it will take you directly to Blinkfeed.
- Pressing the home button will take you back to Nova.
Any .apk file yet? Would love to install it on my AOSP device
rkhighlight said:
Any .apk file yet? Would love to install it on my AOSP device
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Not 100% sure how it's going to work yet, all will be revealed today I assume. It's a step in the right direction though in my opinion. The bad news is it might be only M8 onwards and require sense framework. Basically just splitting up the apps like Google did so they can release the updates quicker.
It's possible to obtain this on our One S?
I will see it in Play store?
tommy92tc said:
It's possible to obtain this on our One S?
I will see it in Play store?
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No, from what I can gather its only for 4.4.2 HTC devices onwards. Therefore completely useless to us!
rosswhite said:
No, from what I can gather its only for 4.4.2 HTC devices onwards. Therefore completely useless to us!
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Oh ok
rosswhite said:
No, from what I can gather its only for 4.4.2 HTC devices onwards. Therefore completely useless to us!
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Maybe not, we'll have to wait and see.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/128...ware-for-android-devices-from-other-companies
Hej, I just found the supposedly .apk of Blinkfeed at APKleacher.
I am not sure if I'm allowed to provide a link, therefor I won't risk it, but would be interesting if someone could validate the authenticity of the file.
Edit: False alarm, the .apk is for Blinked Feed
Just a quick update....
There is still no official date for HTC to release the apps on the playstore, but they will require 4.4.2 to run when available.
Some developers are working on porting the new Blinkfeed and the rest of the HTC apps here.
They have successfully got most of the Blinkfeed functions to work, but are still working on Zoe/Gallery etc.
I have installed CM11 M5 Snapshot and flashed the Blinkfeed V8 file in recovery and it installs a HTC Sense launcher over CM11. The feeds all seem to work apart from Twitter/Facebook etc. It changes the app draw to the one in the attached picture below. The scrolling in Blinkfeed is not quite as smooth as we have with Maximus/Viper but its still pretty good. Anyway if you want to give it a try make a backup first then flash the Blinkfeed V8 zip found in this post, I'm not sure if it works with every AOSP based ROM, only tried with CM11.
Note: To get the clock to show at the top you must set Blinkfeed as the home page.
Edit: I tried the other apps in the OP but none of them work.
ALWAYS REMEMBER TO THANK THE DEV'S AND TO MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!
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Just a quick update....
There is still no official date for HTC to release the apps on the playstore, but they will require 4.4.2 to run when available.
Some developers are working on porting the new Blinkfeed and the rest of the HTC apps here.
They have successfully got most of the Blinkfeed functions to work, but are still working on Zoe/Gallery etc.
I have installed CM11 M5 Snapshot and flashed the Blinkfeed V8 file in recovery and it installs a HTC Sense launcher over CM11. The feeds all seem to work apart from Twitter/Facebook etc. It changes the app draw to the one in the attached picture below. The scrolling in Blinkfeed is not quite as smooth as we have with Maximus/Viper but its still pretty good. Anyway if you want to give it a try flash the Blinkfeed V8 zip found in this post, I'm not sure if it works with every AOSP based ROM, only tried with CM11.
Note: To get the clock to show at the top you must set Blinkfeed as the home page.
Edit: I tried the other apps in the OP but none of them work.
ALWAYS REMEMBER TO THANK THE DEV'S AND TO MAKE A BACKUP!
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still good news though.. seen as most devs are busy stabilizing the 4.4.2 roms having the possibilty of zoe and blinkfeed actually might be closer than most people think..
Updated to v10, now has Twitter working.
work fine all apps in v10??
jccf07 said:
work fine all apps in v10??
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BlinkFeed works correctly apart from Google+ and Facebook. The other sense apps haven't been ported yet.
Works good in CM11 M5! Thanks!
Works good on cm 10.2 :laugh:
danielugolini said:
Works good on cm 10.2 :laugh:
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Interesting.....thought it would only work on 4.4+.
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Interesting.....thought it would only work on 4.4+.
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Sorry, i don't know why I've wrote "cm10.2" I would write Cm11
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Sorry, i don't know why I've wrote "cm10.2" I would write Cm11
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Ah.. That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying. Just for the record, I'm using it with the Infamous IOAP rom and it works fine. :good:
I've been looking into editing the launcher so we can use a 4 x 5 grid on the homescreen, the 4 x 4 grid seems too spaced out to me, but that's probably to be expected as its not designed for our device. Having trouble compiling at the moment, so something is wrong with my setup, if anyone else is able to do this it would be greatly appreciated.
SIDE NOTE:
Just in case anyone didn't know, you can use this basically as a Blinkfeed app if you want to use Nova (probably will work with other launchers as well). Just follow the steps below:
- Flash the zip in the OP, this installs the Blinkfeed launcher.
- When you boot into system set Nova back to the default launcher (Always).
- In Nova, long press on any space on the screen. Select Shortcuts > Activities > HTC Blinkfeed > HTC Blinkfeed (Launcher)
- This creates a HTC Blinkfeed shortcut on your screen.
- Click on the HTC Blinkfeed shortcut, delete all pages apart from Blinkfeed, delete all the icons in the dock (Apart from the app drawer icon).
- Now when you press the HTC Blinkfeed shortcut from inside Nova it will take you directly to Blinkfeed.
- Pressing the home button will take you back to Nova.
I will copy this into the OP.
Updated to v12
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS HAVE CHANGED, PLEASE READ OP
- Change Blinkfeed colour from within launcher
- New 4 x 5 homescreen grid size available
All credits to gakugaku. He has opened a new thread for updates to the launcher, link in the OP.
I have not tested this version.
Hey Guys,
not quite sure if this is the proper forum to ask but I'm looking for a certain wallpaper. I inadvertently didn't backup my Wallpaper folder on my N5 when I started the update to Lollipop (but I thought I did).
Now I searched the Web for hours, installed lots of stock wallpaper apps and stuff but I'm unable to find the WP. It sounds very silly but I like it a lot
Now I restored a Nandroid backup of my previously installed Android 4.4.4 and the Wallpaper is still visible but the source of the picture is gone. I attached the Wallpaper I'm looking for as a screenshot from my Home Screen. Hopefully somebody remembers from where it is and can help me.
Hey, guys.
I live in Canada and my provider is Virgin. I have a P20 with EMUI 9.0 (Android Pie) and I've been using the themes app fine even though I didn't have AppGallery or Huawei Mobile Services installed through 3rd party apps. I used to have options to look at more than my preset themes. Due to the recent US-Huawei ban, I have decided to try out the AppGallery and it installed Huawei Mobile Services app as well. Since Canada didn't show up as one of the regions, I have chosen UK as the region. I have lost all the abilities to change my themes since then. I have attached a screenshot of what my Themes homepage looks like. There is an option to customize but it still only shows stock options and no new installed themes and no way to theme the actual UI. Is there any way around this? I have also factory reset my phone and it didn't help.
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Hey, guys.
I live in Canada and my provider is Virgin. I have a P20 with EMUI 9.0 (Android Pie) and I've been using the themes app fine even though I didn't have AppGallery or Huawei Mobile Services installed through 3rd party apps. I used to have options to look at more than my preset themes. Due to the recent US-Huawei ban, I have decided to try out the AppGallery and it installed Huawei Mobile Services app as well. Since Canada didn't show up as one of the regions, I have chosen UK as the region. I have lost all the abilities to change my themes since then. I have attached a screenshot of what my Themes homepage looks like. There is an option to customize but it still only shows stock options and no new installed themes and no way to theme the actual UI. Is there any way around this? I have also factory reset my phone and it didn't help.
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Hi!
For theme downloads and theme editing I've tried the following apps:
Themes for Huawei / Honor / EMUI - This android app is not only for downloading themes but also for editing. You can modify every theme as you wish - change fonts, icons, emojies, colors.
Theme Editor For EMUI - This android app can import hwt files to edit them. It's not very user-friendly.
Huawei hwtTool - This windows/iOS software is a developer tool from Huawei Dev-Server. It can create and edit themes in the most comfortable way. Your PC.
I think you should try the first app first.
Greetings!
Thanks for these apps. But the problem that I have isn't that I cannot install themes. Once I install a custom theme, there isn't a way to apply it. I used to be able to see custom installed themes in the Huawei factory Themes app but now the options are gone.
As you can see in my original post, the preset themes are the only themes I can see. There used to be an option to choose "My Themes". After I choose Customize option, I get to change the wallpapers and icons but even with those options I only get preset themes.
I even tried to find a place to move a custom hwt file to where the preset themes are placed but couldn't find it.
This is super annoying since P20 doesn't come with native dark mode like the P20 Pro.
dpk0875 said:
Thanks for these apps. But the problem that I have isn't that I cannot install themes. Once I install a custom theme, there isn't a way to apply it. I used to be able to see custom installed themes in the Huawei factory Themes app but now the options are gone.
As you can see in my original post, the preset themes are the only themes I can see. There used to be an option to choose "My Themes". After I choose Customize option, I get to change the wallpapers and icons but even with those options I only get preset themes.
I even tried to find a place to move a custom hwt file to where the preset themes are placed but couldn't find it.
This is super annoying since P20 doesn't come with native dark mode like the P20 Pro.
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I'm having this same problem with my p20
Exact same problem here. Even tried using the Huawei mobile service but it just won't even start. Anyone having a workaround?
same prob here
I have the same issue, but I am sure it was a problem before I added app gallery (I chose Australia lol) and mobile services. It was because I couldn't change themes that I went searching for them in the first place.
I need a dark mode. Any updates?
Hi everyone,
On the stock ROM I found an option to change my wallpaper daily, so every day I get a fresh (Chromecast-like) wallpaper.
The thing is; I am no longer able to find this option and therefore I get a new wallpaper every day, even if I enforce my own wallpaper.
Does anyone know where this can be disabled? I think it was called something like "Auto wallpaper" but I'm unable to find it in Android Settings, HTC Themes or any Google (Home, Services) app.
Never mind, found it as it was an option in the Resplash app :/