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Open Home full feature 1.5 build

Hey guys,
Is anyone brave enough to test the full feature 1.5 build of Open Home Full? We know we can always find some brave ones here
It requires that you are running android 1.5 on your phone (aka Cupcake). This build has full supports of 1.5 widgets and also a good amount of stability and performance improvements.
We had not done a lot of testing on this build; also this build will expire in a month (5/30). If you want to test the latest and greatest, feel free to install and try this build.
*Remember safe mode is hold menu button when powering on*, if you see anything wrong, just enter safe mode and then uninstall it.
Do NOT install unless you are running android 1.5
Download the apk at
http://groups.google.com/group/openhome/files

I assume since I'm running the dudes build and it supports widgets it may work. I can always remove if necessary . This doesnt remove open home right? just a different version?
EDIT: it replaces the existing open home

Hmm, I was impressed with the demo of OpenHome when I downloaded it a couple days ago. I'll take a look.

downloading it now. I have just flashed the holiday cupcake build so I assume it'll work with this. I'll let you know.

So far so good. I am glad to have openhome back again in 1.5
I have added all widgets, and they all work as expected. Are some of these the 1.5 "stock" widgets? I assume so because i see 2 music widgets listed, one looks like your own and the other a stock one.
I'll let you know how it goes after some proper usage. great work so far though. thankyou.
oh, p.s .. Will this be a free upgrade for those who had previosly purchased open home full ?

Works well enough. I like it.
Normally use full edition but will keep this until it is updated.
Suggestion: How about that calendar widget from Haykuro's build so those with dude's builds can use it?

Using it. Works well so far. I'm an OH Full user too, will I have any problems going back to the market app when it gets updated/released?
Ps. Is there any way to add support for Jeff Sharky's weather widgets? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509729

Weather widgets ok here. Problem with battery percentage widget though

Mi|enko said:
Using it. Works well so far. I'm an OH Full user too, will I have any problems going back to the market app when it gets updated/released?
Ps. Is there any way to add support for Jeff Sharky's weather widgets? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509729
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It's already supported. That weather widget is working fine for me.

Hey guys i like the changes the menus are a little more intuitive now! Shame it doesn't seem to maintain your icons from older version, but weirdly kept my fonts theme etc - not sure if that qualigfies as a bug or not really
One problem i have found though is it seems to scrap folder icons the second you open bettercut again, not a huge problem but ....

BUGS!
I have almost 200 apps to SD so it's convenient to have my favorite "few" on the desktop. After I installed the new apk file... everything was GONE! Huge inconvenience! Then when I pull up the app menu I can watch them appear one after another like the app is doing a search for the installed apps. I also tried Picture Frame. It seems like it pulls up the Camera app, then the gallery. I selected my picture. Cropped it. Saved it. Then it went back to "select picture" again. Strange. Also... AnyCut Open Home Edition doesn't work. Definite bugs.
Other then that I love it. Thanks! Is this going to be in an update and when will it be available in Market? I purchased the full version months ago.

faithnolonger said:
Hey guys i like the changes the menus are a little more intuitive now! Shame it doesn't seem to maintain your icons from older version, but weirdly kept my fonts theme etc - not sure if that qualigfies as a bug or not really
One problem i have found though is it seems to scrap folder icons the second you open bettercut again, not a huge problem but ....
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I don't think it has anything to do with bettercut because I don't have it installed and it still goes back to the default folder icons randomly, sometimes it comes back sometimes it doesn't.
Binary100100 said:
I have almost 200 apps to SD so it's convenient to have my favorite "few" on the desktop. After I installed the new apk file... everything was GONE! Huge inconvenience! Then when I pull up the app menu I can watch them appear one after another like the app is doing a search for the installed apps. I also tried Picture Frame. It seems like it pulls up the Camera app, then the gallery. I selected my picture. Cropped it. Saved it. Then it went back to "select picture" again. Strange. Also... AnyCut Open Home Edition doesn't work. Definite bugs.
Other then that I love it. Thanks! Is this going to be in an update and when will it be available in Market? I purchased the full version months ago.
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Yea that kind of pissed me off when I realized it took all my stuff off the screen and the dock. It works fine besides these few issues though.

betterandroid said:
Hey guys,
Is anyone brave enough to test the full feature 1.5 build of Open Home Full? We know we can always find some brave ones here
It requires that you are running android 1.5 on your phone (aka Cupcake). This build has full supports of 1.5 widgets and also a good amount of stability and performance improvements.
We had not done a lot of testing on this build; also this build will expire in a month (5/30). If you want to test the latest and greatest, feel free to install and try this build.
*Remember safe mode is hold menu button when powering on*, if you see anything wrong, just enter safe mode and then uninstall it.
Do NOT install unless you are running android 1.5
Download the apk at
http://groups.google.com/group/openhome/files
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Hey quick question, is there any way to add a 3d effect on swipe? Like when you swipe to left or right screen, screen shrinks and rotates as a 3d cube. That will be awesome dude, you can name the app something different and charge for it again because I know damn well people will pay for it. I definitely will.

BSDADON said:
It's already supported. That weather widget is working fine for me.
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The reguar widget works for me, but not his. It isn't even displayed as an option.

Trying it out on my new Magic

But it's not 'open' in any sense...

Really dissapointed in losing all of my icons on all 7 screens. Glad that "real" widget support was actually added in. Almost went back to dxTop because of this. Please make the full version available on the market as an upgrade to the old full version. It would be nice to make it detect the old settigns and import them in.

Hey guys.. uhh i accidentally set my home to default instead of open home.. any help would be appreciated!

Dcandvolcom1 said:
Hey guys.. uhh i accidentally set my home to default instead of open home.. any help would be appreciated!
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Opps. You have to wipe now.
Just kidding. You deal with it the same way as if you would set the defaults as any other app. Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Home>Clear defaults.

Been using this app for a few days now.I havent ran into any problems with it pretty smooth.Only down side was losing my icons.But no biggie.

Hero FlipClock no weather?

K first off, not sure if this goes here or in Android Development where the Hero ROM's are..
Does anyone know why my FlipClock on any Hero ROM i run not show weather, I've only successfully managed to show weather on it in one ROM but I wasnt able to keep that one.
If so, how do I fix it?

It usually just takes a few minutes to update. Or it could be a rom specific issue, which you never said what rom you used to it's anybody's guess.

yeah sorry=\
I ran it on JacHeroSki, MoDaCo 1.5.1, and Drizzy 1.5.5, none of which work.
When I ran Drizzy's Hero Blur ROM, it WORKED! Much to my surprise.. But I couldnt keep the ROM cause of the SMS bug=\ Waiting until he releases a stable version of it so I can reflash it, but I'd still love to know how to get it working.
Normally when the flip clock is going toload the weather it states the city name then loads, my clock doesnt even do that.

Could it be an issue with your data connection? Are you running 3G?

all you have to do is open the weather app before you put the flip clock widget, if it doesn load withing 3-5 min, remove it and add it again, that should do it

try loading the weather apk. before putting the widget on your screen

K, thanks guys ill give it a try

I actually am having this issue on a G1 I recently installed Maxisma's 1.6.1. When I click the weather widget it tells me "activity is not ready to execute" Strange though as I have the same build installed on my MyTouch and it works just fine. All others with G1's aren't reporting this issue either.
I'm going to have to try loading the weather apk first to see if I can get it to update through there.

Try This
Click on where the weather should be
Once in the weather app, go to settings
Change to farenheight and exit out
Change back to celcius and exit fully out
Remove widget
add it back
Guaranteed to get you your weather, if not, you have another problem

New to rooting....got a few questions before I try.

I searched and did not find anything...sorry if i missed something...
Alright so I am looking at rooting and only thing that worries me is if i have to send the phone in. How can i make it look like I did not root it. Is there any downside to rooting and what can I do with a rooted phone. Thanks everyone

It's really simple to make it go back to stock, just use the Sprint RUU in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=608434
Downside to rooting might be if you don't have a permissions manager installed you could give root access to malicious program. Haven't heard of it happening yet, but it can.
As for what can be done with a rooted phone, the possibilities are endless...

once you root and flash a recovery rom your all set to go...also do a backup in case. there are a couple really good roms out there, i recommend fresh 1.1 and gumbo kernel. there are some really great themes out there as well. as the above poster said the possibilities are endless and in time we will have as many new roms and themes as the gsm users have.
most important, have fun!

Where can I get the ROMs? I can't seem to find them....and with my luck they are in some place obvious.

There is a sticky at the top of these forums which gives a nice link.
To make it easy, it takes you here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=CDMA Hero ROMs

there is a sticky at the top of the forum that has all of the ROMs in a Wiki site. look there

haha just like I thought...It was in plain sight. Well after trying a couple of ROMs i fell with Fresh....but i've noticed that my clock does not display the weather anymore...whats up with that?

ukn0wnscaa said:
haha just like I thought...It was in plain sight. Well after trying a couple of ROMs i fell with Fresh....but i've noticed that my clock does not display the weather anymore...whats up with that?
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Go into menu, weather, update and then give it a min. If it still doesnt refresh, put your phone in stand by and come back.

kbizzle said:
Go into menu, weather, update and then give it a min. If it still doesnt refresh, put your phone in stand by and come back.
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Nothing. The weather widget has no problems and syncs just fine and shows the correct weather but the clock refuses to. I think everything is set correctly yet it does not want to show.

ukn0wnscaa said:
Nothing. The weather widget has no problems and syncs just fine and shows the correct weather but the clock refuses to. I think everything is set correctly yet it does not want to show.
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Did you try soft resetting your phone or even removing the widget and adding it back to the homescreen?

both. Neither worked oddly. I dont know...ill mess with the GPS and wifi settings also and see if that fixes it. that isnt the biggest problem ever. If you have any idea on whats wrong though let me know.

I have rooted my phone and I am an addict. I am here everyday for about an hour. You will have fun with it. I recommend that before once you root it and get your first rom installed play with it for a while but dont get comfortable. I have used all the roms available for the hero except one of them. My advice to you is install one play with it them switch and use them all before you start installing all of your apps and customizing it. I have put three hours into customizing my phone with a rom and then Im like ooh a and install another rom and I have to start over LOL. You will have fun if you like to tinker I guarantee it. Have fun and good luck.

While I am thinking about it....can I make my lock screen any more useful. I find this so plain

sorry for the double post but I wanted this to bump up. Clock will not show the weather anymore...anyone have a fix? also any way to put something on the lock screen?

Desk clock application

In my job I have the opportunity to work with a large variety of phones that multiple carriers in the United States sell. One interesting feature I saw was on the Blackberry Curve 8500 series, in which when you plug your phone into a USB device, it automatically goes to an analog clock screen.
I know that in 2.1 ROMs for the Hero, we have a nice program called Desk clock, which shows a digital clock moving to random parts of the screen.
My question is, is there a way to configure Desk Clock so that it automatically turns on when I plug my phone into my computer?

+1. An application like this would be just awesome.

There you go
I built a little something for you.
For now, it is really just a prototype.
If installing works and you open it, it will show nothing. This is not a bug, there is just nothing to show. The service listening for power plugins is running in the background, so just hit home and ignore it.
It will try to launch the android 2.1 clock first and then the HTC one when you connect the power supply.
I'll try to give it some kind of UI later, but for now, I've got a train to catch. Have fun with it.

Thanks a lot, MrMooh! I'll test it once I get back from work and post the results.

It works like a charm. It seems it calls the HTC Clock application, not this dedicated 'Desk Clock' app from 2.1, but it's even better for me. Awesome work, thank you so very much, MrMooh.
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Is there a way to make this service run at startup in background?

I'll look into it. I already have an improved version, but it's not what I'd be proud to release. Perhaps at the end of this weekend I will have it finished.

Thanks. I'll be more than happy to do the beta-testing.
Sent from my Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

I would be interested in this too. Seems like a fine idea. I can beta test if need be.
Sent from my Hero using the power of thought!

Alright guys, I quickly made a new version this morning.
It should actually start automatically after booting up and you have a button to manually start and stop the service.
Try it out and tell me the bugs

Works perfectly. If there are any bugs - I can't find them. Thanks, once again.

MrMooh said:
Alright guys, I quickly made a new version this morning.
It should actually start automatically after booting up and you have a button to manually start and stop the service.
Try it out and tell me the bugs
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Mr. Mooh, thank you for this!
Edit: Only thing I'm noticing is I can't change the weather to Fahrenheit, but that's excusable.

kyods said:
Works perfectly. If there are any bugs - I can't find them. Thanks, once again.
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samre here works a treat on villain 5.4. brings up the android clock on mine. but i like it! well done you!

or use tasker (tasker.dinglisch.net), there you can choose to start the app you want when usb / dock plugged and 1000 other features (location based, event based a.s.o...)

Its worked im my sapphire 32b with strokes 2.1 rom version 1.4.2. thx man.

Works great, this was one of the few things I missed about my BlackBerry! MyTouch 1.2 running Cyan 5.07 test 2.

Nice app! Is possible to start the real desk clock ( black screen with time in white ) ? The one that starts with the icon with the pc and the clock...

Great!
The app is for comfort! Great! Thanx!
But I have one comment:
It could be super when the screen goes back to main home screen (not deskclock) after unplugging. It`s just a thing of personal comfort, so maybe somebody can support this.
Thanx again!

thank you dev!
this is neat

New version
I just fired up eclipse and added a few lines. Plugging out the cable will now always get you back to the home screen, no matter what application is running, so don't update if you don't like that behavior.
I could theoretically start the "real" desk clock, but I don't really know what intent to start to make it work. If you find it out, tell me and I will add the option.
PS: Tasker looks like a really good app, thanks for showing me.

It doesn't works in 1.5 roms

CM7.2 on Hero questions

I recently installed the CM7.2 stable that was posted on that site a few weeks ago. Everything works well so far. Just have one problem with navigation never recalculating the route if I deviate from it (using gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip). Also, the clock on the stock (sense) rom had stopwatch, alarms, countdown and also a widget. Is there something that does all that and works on CM7.2? The standard CM7.2 clock is just widget and alarms. Thanks.

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I recently installed the CM7.2 stable that was posted on that site a few weeks ago. Everything works well so far. Just have one problem with navigation never recalculating the route if I deviate from it (using gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip). Also, the clock on the stock (sense) rom had stopwatch, alarms, countdown and also a widget. Is there something that does all that and works on CM7.2? The standard CM7.2 clock is just widget and alarms. Thanks.
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You might want to look at fancy widgets. It's a sense-like clock widget. It doesn't provide all of those things but you can set it so pressing on certain areas lunch an app. For example pressing on hours launch the alarms, but pressing on minutes you can set to launch a stopwatch app.
As far as navigation I haven't tried navigation yet so I'm not sure but are you using the latest maps from the market?

Thanks, I'll have a look. Yeah Maps is up to date (and set to auto update).

LidoShuffle said:
Thanks, I'll have a look. Yeah Maps is up to date (and set to auto update).
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Maps has been slow for me, but if I click the link over to directions, it almost always crashed on me after a short while.

sciencedada said:
Maps has been slow for me, but if I click the link over to directions, it almost always crashed on me after a short while.
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One other thing you guys can try is the opengl mod. Tricking maps into thinking our phones support opengles 2.0
Open /system/build.prop (use something like es file explorer)
Change the line
"ro.opengles.version=65535" to "ro.opengles.version=131072"
That may or may not help at all. Worth a shot though.