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Hey there guys,
As the title says, i am meaning to ask about the HTC Desire lockscreen.
Our 2.1 Roms, including the ones from the HTC Legend, whenever you want to unlock you pull down the bar and the transition pulls down the lockscreen picture down as well.
On the HTC desire though, you just pull down the bar, and it unlocks in a better (for me) transition. The lockscreen picture stays intact, and the bar is just pulled down. I seem to prefer that.
Here's a video showing this @ 1:01.
Is this possible to achieve?
TIA
EDIT: 14/6/2010
Thanks to HomerSp (many many props) Desire lockscreen is now available!
Get it HERE as an update.zip.
Well..
Everything is possible! And I totally agree with you.
Yes, would be very nice. Perhaps a theme could resolve this or hopefully the official 2.1 will include this.
Now that we're three, anyone mind giving us a hint? I'll try and work on it myself if needed.
Gotha be something in the HTCLockscreen.apk !!
Hax some there making the lockscreen "wallpaper/background" not following the unlock bar. Instead you make it stand still and fadeout to the homescreen when unlock has been done.
Don't ask me how to do this tho
really liked it !
now , we are four
the lockscreen would be nice if it wre to be for the 2.1 roms
Also (thought I might add this in, might be some help), when answering a call only the bar slides down (not the background).
About whether this will be in the official 2.1, I'm not sure if this any indication of what to expect but on the HTC Wildfire (2.1 and similar specs to our Hero), the lockscreen is the same as the one we have in 1.5 (ie bar + background, not just bar).
My guess its just a modified HTCLockscreen.apk
Lennyuk said:
My guess its just a modified HTCLockscreen.apk
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lol me2, hasn't anyone just tried it? i was expecting to be hit with problems when opening this thread, just make a nandroid backup and push the file to /system/app.
kendong2 said:
lol me2, hasn't anyone just tried it? i was expecting to be hit with problems when opening this thread, just make a nandroid backup and push the file to /system/app.
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Yea figured as much as well, thing is i have no idea if, due to the difference in screen size, it would get affected ( i suppose it will).
And due to me not knowing HOW to edit apk's, thought maybe i'd ask first.
I'll be uploading in a while the Lockscreen.apk off of MCR ROM for the Desire. My ROM isn't deodexed, so I can't test it, if any of you guys wanna give it a try, please do so and let me know. Nandroid first, as kendong said.
edit. just remove the HTCLockscreen.apk from system/app/ and push this one via adb.
Well, as noone tried it, i did a nandroid and cooked a Villain rom 5.5.0 with the APK integrated in it.
Freezes on boot. Ill try again and get a logcat, see if someone can help out.
I like the collapsing effect we have on 1.5..
Ok so instead of a cooked rom, i went ahead and installed 5.5.0 Villain Rom today, and removed the normal HtcLockScreen.apk via adb, and pushed the new one.
As expected, same as above, it wouldn't boot. I've got a logcat now.
Anyone mind giving this a look?
I am still not giving up here.
Decompiled the apk's via the APKTool, and i am "trying" to compare the two. Anyone with more knowledge please help me out.
Here are the two decompiled apk's. One from VR 5.5.0 and the other one from the Desire.
I do believe that this might be a problem with /system/frameword/com.htc.resources.apk. If it is, i have no idea how to fix it. This guess is based upon the fact that most themers update that particular apk in order to move from old framework rosies to new ones (1.5 =>2.1).
ANY help is appreciated.
There are 4 changed files located in DesireLock\smali\com\htc\lockscreen
HtcLockScreen$1.smali
HtcLockScreen$5.smali
HtcLockScreen.smali
R$string.smali
Comparing these would probably come up with only the bar going down as these files are smalled then the original hero lockscreen.
xinos said:
There are 4 changed files located in DesireLock\smali\com\htc\lockscreen
HtcLockScreen$1.smali
HtcLockScreen$5.smali
HtcLockScreen.smali
R$string.smali
Comparing these would probably come up with only the bar going down as these files are smalled then the original hero lockscreen.
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You based this on the file size difference, didn't you?
Well, substituting the files from the old lockscreen to the new desire lockscreen, then recompiling would make it work, you believe?
If all the other requets are the same, then yes it should be just a few lines actually. But i have no idea what the other differences between say the dialer, or other functionality the desire lockscreen adds/remove's.
I really want this too
Wouldn't it be easier to get the desire lockscreen.apk and put the graphics from the hero into the apk-file and edit the layout so the images fit into the screen?
Hi all, i've been searching for months for an answer to my simple questions but unfortunately i cannot find the remedy anywhere!! Now what i have been wondering is, with the new 2.1 ROMS, where the exit keyboard button is, on the Desire there is a smiley face button instead, i believe this was installed on one ROM, however i preferred to use a stock based ROM as my daily phone, now what i am wondering is, does anyone know where i can get the keyboard with the smiley, possibly as an update ZIP? i am certain it exists somewhere, but i am unable to find it anywhere!
Now my second question is about the stock navbar, i have found a couple of update ZIP's to make it transparent, but what i am after is a complete change of it so it resembles the Froyo navbar or to be honest, anything but the standard one! any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!!
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now what i am wondering is, does anyone know where i can get the keyboard with the smiley, possibly as an update ZIP? i am certain it exists somewhere, but i am unable to find it anywhere!
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Swiftkey has a smiley on the right side of the keyboard and is a very good keyboard as well. It tries to guess what your next word will be and offers a choice to you.
It is in the market so downloading and installing is a breeze.
does sound good however i have quite dubious about installing third party keyboards, i'm almost 99% that i have oreviously seen a HTC IME keyboard?? (sp) that was flashable to the hero, i just can't seem to find it anywhere!!
hmmm.... it seems like you want this keyboard?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
download the low resolution one
brilliant!!! only thing now is how do i install this!?! thanks so much
sassnowwolf said:
brilliant!!! only thing now is how do i install this!?! thanks so much
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Make sure you download the right one for your phone and follow the instruction on the page. I have pasted them here as well and added some addition notes.
Instructions:
* Download and unzip (not flashable update.zip!) This would be on your computer! After downloading extract or unzip the file. There will be 3 files in the folder after extracting counting the read me file.
* Install the two apks (HTC_IME & Clicker) using your favorite method (via a file manager or adb install -r). Sense users shouldn't (and needn't) install Clicker. (Put those two files on your SD card, and then using something like Astro file manager install them. You do this by opening your file manager, find the two files, click on them one at a time, and choose the option to install)
* There is no need to push anything to /system
* Go to Menu, Settings, Language & Keyboard. Activate "HTC_IME mod"
* To change keyboard, long press on lower left key on stock keyboard or any input field. Select input method in the menu.
* See note below if you have earlier versions than v22 installed already!
And as far as downloading 3rd party apps I wouldn't without reading some reviews as well. I have used the Swiftkey keyboard and like it very much. I have had zero issues with it and have tried it on several different roms.
Thanks a lot for your in depth reply, i got the keyboard working and i like it a lot! all i need now is another navbar, does anyone know of any replacements apart from the transparent standard ones?
thanks in advance!
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does sound good however i have quite dubious about installing third party keyboards, i'm almost 99% that i have oreviously seen a HTC IME keyboard?? (sp) that was flashable to the hero, i just can't seem to find it anywhere!!
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You were probably using the HTC_IME MOD keyboard!
Anyway, I am unfamiliar with the term "Navbar". Do you mean the dock style area at the bottom of the screen? Many launchers seem to refer to this as the app drawer.
yes i think thats what it is, i've heard it called the Rosie too? its what separate launchers replace are there any replacements i can flash to the phone like the Expresso navbar? thanks
Hi,
First off thanks to all the developers. I bought a DHD a couple of weeks ago. With the help of some very useful noob guides (thanks again) its all rooted and booted, out of its shackles and ready to fly as it was meant to. I have put cyanogen6.1.0 RC2 on it and I love it.
The only issue I am having so far is to do with the keyboard. I have fat fingers and often mis type or get mis auto corrected. to fix I have to tap on the area of text I need to correct. Problem is fat fingers mean cant put the cursor exactly where I want and a few seconds of unnecessary frustration. On my previous Magic I could scrol with the roller ball.
Anyways to conclude my essay, the HTC sense keyboard that was originally on my phone had arrows that would allow me to move around (good for fat fingers) the cyanogen keyboard doesnt (not so fat finger friendly).
Is there a way I can find the HTC sense Keyboard apk and use on the cyanogen? Where do I find this file?
Sorry for the long post,
here you go this is as close as youll get to sense keyboard
SamuriFish said:
Hi,
Problem is fat fingers mean cant put the cursor exactly where I want and a few seconds of unnecessary frustration.
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Never fear things are much, much better in Gingerbread. Cyanogenmod 7 will alleviate all your woes. I've been told by the developers that it even cures cancer and of course there will be no world hunger if everyone has Gingerbread to eat.
Sent from my Gingerbread eating Desire HD.
When is CM 7 out?
@ fkofilee thanks muchos
Fat finger loving, cancer busting, sweet gingerbread crumbs in the shape of cyanogen 7 for my DHD bird! boom boom! You have my attention.
I just tried the HTC_IME_hi22. I have selected it (ticked it) in my 'Language and Keyboard' and in the settings tried to mess about with swipe gestures to move between words. No luck. The keyboard seems exactly the same as it was before and fat finger issue still persists. Do I need to somehoe deactivate the old keyboard? can I not find the apk from my sense rom and drop it into cyanogen rom?
I see you have enabled the keyboard, but have you selected it? Press and hold on text entry box and choose "Input method", then select "HTC_IME mod". Your new keyboard will now be used.
Elementary my dear watson! Thanks,
Thats exactly what I had not done! the app looks the part, but still no luck from the finger swipe and navigation arrows. Ive had a look at swype and one or two others. they dont have this navigation either. Fat fingers crossed for gingerbread
to serve this key can be changed, thanks
HTC Sense Keyboard for Incredible S/CM7
I realize this is the Desire HD forum, but I thought I would post here first before starting a new thread. I've been searching around for a while, and along with this thread, I found another (link below), that provides links to and HTC sense keyboard .apk that can be used instead of the stock CM7 keyboard. I used the Sense keyboard for almost a year on my Incredible S before I installed CM7, and so really miss the long press for special characters, as well as the auto-correct feature I came to rely on so much.
My question is, If I download and install one of these .apk's (either the one in this thread, or the thread I linked), SHOULD it work on the Incredible S, or do I need to find an .apk specific to my phone. I tired installing the one from the link, but when trying to switch to it in the Messaging app, it just force closes right away.
Apologies if there is already a thread related to this for the Incredible S. I did some searching but couldn't find anything. And of course, Thanks in advance for any help you folks can provide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728833
Guys,
Does anyone knows how can I install Gingerbread keyboard on my DHD/stock ROM/2.3.5/sense 3.0 (of course I have rooted, ENG OFF, S- OFF?
I would appriciate if someone can find me the zip file so I can flash and remove the official htc sense keyboard.
Thanks
mqazimi said:
Guys,
Does anyone knows how can I install Gingerbread keyboard on my DHD/stock ROM/2.3.5/sense 3.0 (of course I have rooted, ENG OFF, S- OFF?
I would appriciate if someone can find me the zip file so I can flash and remove the official htc sense keyboard.
Thanks
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Seriously dude? There is a Q&A thread for things like this for one and yout question has nothing to do with themes.
You can just download gingerbread keyboard from the market and enable it from settings.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Got it.
Thanks
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here you go this is as close as youll get to sense keyboard
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but the HTC_IME_hi22 actually worked on my RaZr. Only problem, there is a bit of a gap on the right side. So the keyboard seems to be slightly 'left aligned' badly put.
Can any1 help me with this. Am on RaZr, qHD screen.
i am trying to change the mail.apk in my rom. i want the features in the new mail 3.0 version, but cant figure out how to get it to stick. i have tried cooking it into my rom, adb, and root explorer. what else does it take?
i have seen it in other custom roms, but they all are missing something i want. plus, i like making my own.
Thanks for any help, cody
below are two pictures of the different versions. the first one is the one i want.
Which roms have that I've never seen it. Looks awesome though.
Sent from my ADR6300
post the 3.0 apk
this is the apk to the version in my first post. it has a white backgroud. i like the black background that you see in other versions better. i dont remember which rom i got this from, but i see similar versions in a few roms.
my favorite part is the checkboxes on the left. i can go down the list, check the boxes, and mark a bunch read or delete a bunch all in one shot. i have seen cyanogen, droid x, nexes with a similar version that does the same thing. i prefer sense roms though. the galaxy s devices (at least the epic) had a one too. i think this one came from a desire z port or virus rom.
i will try to find a black background version to post if someone is going to open it up to make it work with other roms. the rom i got this from didn't have a black enough bold face font to distinguish from the unread and read emails.
question, what make an apk work with some roms and not the others? framework?
i have done a lot with cab files on windows mobile and they didn't work like apk files do. blackberry had alx, cod, jad, and jar files. android seems to be the toughest to work on multiple devices.
Thanks for any help, Cody
Use Root Explorer to replace mail.apk in your system apps folder.
I wanted to do the exact same thing... find a way to use the Desire Z email app because of it's ability to select emails directly.. I don't think it's a matter of simply replacing the Mail.apk.. that won't work I am pretty sure since the frameworks are different.
this is another version of mail 3.0. this version has a lot better color for the unread email font. the first version was hard to see.
thanks, Cody
did you figure this out? Anyone know if this new version of Mail is included on any of the roms here?
I'd love to get this working as well. In my opinion if you are an exchange user HTC's mail and functionality is lightyears better than the AOSP mail app.
760hacker said:
I'd love to get this working as well. In my opinion if you are an exchange user HTC's mail and functionality is lightyears better than the AOSP mail app.
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I'm an exchange user and I love the patched AOSP mail client. The multi-select is there by default, Global Address List works perfectly, black background, doesn't enforce the admin policy and I can't think of one thing that the HTC client has that this one doesn't. Just my opinion.
P.S. Plus a unified Inbox. That takes the cake!
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I'm an exchange user and I love the patched AOSP mail client. The multi-select is there by default, Global Address List works perfectly, black background, doesn't enforce the admin policy and I can't think of one thing that the HTC client has that this one doesn't. Just my opinion.
P.S. Plus a unified Inbox. That takes the cake!
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The black color is actually one of the things I DON'T like about the AOSP email client. I know this is subjective.. but the white HTC email, contacts and dialer is aesthetically much more pleasing.
kriskmk said:
The black color is actually one of the things I DON'T like about the AOSP email client. I know this is subjective.. but the white HTC email, contacts and dialer is aesthetically much more pleasing.
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I'm not a big fan of it either, but one of the other posts mentioned wanting the HTC mail in black. I wish I knew how to unpack the apk and swap white background and black text.
EDIT: Hmmm... Kind of boring today at work, so maybe I'll play with it and see if I can.
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I'm not a big fan of it either, but one of the other posts mentioned wanting the HTC mail in black. I wish I knew how to unpack the apk and swap white background and black text.
EDIT: Hmmm... Kind of boring today at work, so maybe I'll play with it and see if I can.
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dude.. if you manage to make the desire Z email client work with the current sense roms.. then I'm sending you a donation. I am on magnolia RC3 by the way.
kriskmk said:
dude.. if you manage to make the desire Z email client work with the current sense roms.. then I'm sending you a donation. I am on magnolia RC3 by the way.
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Sorry. I meant I would attempt to change the color scheme in the vanilla Email.apk. I guess I can give an attempt at the new sense client on old sense roms, too.
EDIT: Wow! This mail client is a bear! It's definitely relying on the newer sense framework. I haven't given up, yet.
EDIT2: It's above my head. Sorry.
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Use Root Explorer to replace mail.apk in your system apps folder.
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the first post said i tried that. i wish it was that easy.
jermaine151 said:
Sorry. I meant I would attempt to change the color scheme in the vanilla Email.apk. I guess I can give an attempt at the new sense client on old sense roms, too.
EDIT: Wow! This mail client is a bear! It's definitely relying on the newer sense framework. I haven't given up, yet.
EDIT2: It's above my head. Sorry.
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so, is that the final answer? the new framework is required.
how come some apks work on different frameworks and some dont? wish someone could explane this a little better.
Thanks everyone, Cody
jermaine151 said:
Sorry. I meant I would attempt to change the color scheme in the vanilla Email.apk. I guess I can give an attempt at the new sense client on old sense roms, too.
EDIT: Wow! This mail client is a bear! It's definitely relying on the newer sense framework. I haven't given up, yet.
EDIT2: It's above my head. Sorry.
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aaah.. no problem.. at least you gave it a try.. thanks.
codyppc said:
so, is that the final answer? the new framework is required.
how come some apks work on different frameworks and some dont? wish someone could explane this a little better.
Thanks everyone, Cody
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It's looking for classes (instructions) that aren't in the current framework. I tried to push a few of the new framework files over to Warm TwoPointTwo RLS4 and surprisingly it didn't boot loop. It did, however, FC on the launcher and acore repeatedly.
To explain it better, it's like you know the good old English and that's it. Then a new book comes out that has NEW slang words in it that you must know to understand the book. If you don't have those new words in your vocabulary, the book cannot be read and understood by you. That's how the new Mail.apk is. It's requesting new procedures that the old framework has no clue about so it FC's and throws a Java exception (error).
I hope that helps explain it.
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aaah.. no problem.. at least you gave it a try.. thanks.
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You're welcome Dude. I wish I could've got it working for you.
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I'm an exchange user and I love the patched AOSP mail client. The multi-select is there by default, Global Address List works perfectly, black background, doesn't enforce the admin policy and I can't think of one thing that the HTC client has that this one doesn't. Just my opinion.
P.S. Plus a unified Inbox. That takes the cake!
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I'm an exchange user as well and my biggest issue with the AOSP mail client is that I haven't figured out a way to "move" emails (individually or in a batch) from one folder to another folder.
hsj1906 said:
I'm an exchange user as well and my biggest issue with the AOSP mail client is that I haven't figured out a way to "move" emails (individually or in a batch) from one folder to another folder.
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HUGE issue for me is missing search functionality is the AOSP client. Can't even search email on the phone, much less server searching...
First, I apolgize if this belongs in the general section, I just wasn't sure where to post. I would like to change the look of my dialer (the one you hit the phone icon to bring up), specifically to the look of Jt's AOSP rom dialer posted by Captainkrtek and pictured below. I really can't find anything that says exactly what to change in the contacts apk to get it to look like that. Rather, everything I have done has failed miserably. can anyone give me a little insight into what I take from one to put into the other? Thanks in advance
the touchwiz dialer and aosp dialer don't line up right, you'll need some xml edits (DIP) and images and a bunch of other stuff.
the dialer is TabDialerActivity.apk (or something like that)
DialerTabActivity.apk and framework-res.apk
Big thanks to both of you. I have that apk on my phone, but the aosp rom doesn't, do they hide that somewhere else on aosp? I am just sifting thru the whole rom right now looking for the same files. Also, if they don't line up right, am I just wasting my time?
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Also, if they don't line up right, am I just wasting my time?
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Well, it all depends on what you want. You might want to check Phone.apk also.
Eh, looked there but nothing matches up. I give up. Getting it like that may be more than my noob behind can handle right now. I'm still learning the ins and outs so, I may put this on the back burner next to my custom boot animation. Thanks again for the help. At least now if I find one I like in another theme, I will be able to change it