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Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?

Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?

androidmonkey said:
Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?
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Depends on your opinion I guess .. I use retro date (part of retro clock widget) which to me is better, says the date and uses two spots. When I click on it it goes to calendar. Some may not like it because it doesnt display the days events or to-dos, or w/e is on the calendar but to me its short and simple..

androidmonkey said:
Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?
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You have a couple of choices with hero.

If you have not tried the calender widget that is included in the free app "Quick Calendar" you might take a look. I preferred it to the stock one.

I'll go for quick calendar. it displays two upcoming events.

Has Quick Calendar's widget UI improved? Last time I used it, it was just a brick, not much better looking than the default widget.

I'm surprised it's taken this long to create a calendar widget that displays agenda in a non ****ty way.

androidmonkey said:
Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?
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I think Hero's calendar is much better than the standard android one

Diceman4 said:
I think Hero's calendar is much better than the standard android one
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That solves nothing for those of us that would rather not run Hero.

However you may have a better time getting a dev to port the hero widget to cupcake then getting one to write one from scratch. The Hero widgets are very nice IMO.

I would love to see the Hero widget ported over. I cant believe no one has made a better calendar widget. I need something that will show three or more events at a time. Quick Calendar looks better then it used to but I always get force closes from it. I also hate how the widget's size depends on how long the event name is.

The anitime widget it nice just doesnt show events but it shows the entire month, and the clock is nice to and comes with it

uberingram said:
I'm surprised it's taken this long to create a calendar widget that displays agenda in a non ****ty way.
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Me to.
q426669 said:
However you may have a better time getting a dev to port the hero widget to cupcake then getting one to write one from scratch. The Hero widgets are very nice IMO.
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Has anyone ported any of the Hero widgets over? That would be nice.
turboyo said:
The anitime widget it nice just doesnt show events but it shows the entire month, and the clock is nice to and comes with it
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Full calendar doesn't do much for me, especially a clock when you already have a clock in the top bar. More events is what I am looking for. The default widget only shows 1 event.

I use Agenda View in the Calendar. Can anyone tell me how to swiftly jump to the next month's Agenda. Now I have to switch to the month view mode, then click a day on the month, and then come back to the Agenda View. It is very inconvenient.

I use the tCalendar Widget.
Puts the date and day of the week as the Calendar icon. Perfect for what I need.

Have to agree with those that say the stock widget stinks - I'm also in need of one that would show a few more events.
What bugs me is there was a widget like that when Cupcake was first released, and I can't find it anywhere now.

androidmonkey said:
Anyone seen a better Calendar widget than the default?
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Just use Sweeter home.

Icebergxx said:
Just use Sweeter home.
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Again, not a good solution for those of us who would rather not use home replacements. All the people are looking for in here is a widget. I've used sweeter home and its very amazing, but the lag that comes with home replacements I'd just rather not have.

weezerisock said:
Again, not a good solution for those of us who would rather not use home replacements. All the people are looking for in here is a widget. I've used sweeter home and its very amazing, but the lag that comes with home replacements I'd just rather not have.
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agreed. lag = bad

AniWidget has both a plain "Calendar" and a "Google Agenda" components, but the latter one is just a clone of the stock widget, with fancier transparency. Hardly worth the $3.

What's that widget?

[email protected],
i often see the following weather-clock-widget, what's it's name and where do i get it?
pic: http://www.fotosop.nl/files/200912131800501205995540.jpg
thx4help...greetz,
das_coach

That is the HTC-Sense weather widget.. but could also be a modded version since it doesn't seem to be running on HTC-Sense (different launcher app).
Check out Beautiful Widgets in the Market, they used to have a similar widget.
Or check with the maker of the screenshot ;-)

so, is there a way to get the htc additions?
thx4help,
das_coach

Weather and toggle widget donate has the same widget when you skin it

das_coach said:
so, is there a way to get the htc additions?
thx4help,
das_coach
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WEATHER & TOGGLE WIDGET
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i'm curious also if i can place HTC Sense widgets to my phone and how..like contacts and email..

zoloz2005 said:
i'm curious also if i can place HTC Sense widgets to my phone and how..like contacts and email..
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If you are not running a rom with Sense UI then the answer is no because it the apps and widgets require a certain framework that is only available on Sense UI devices.

Most Sense like weather/clock widget on STOCK?

Hey, I am on a stock N1, I am looking for a pretty identical widget for weather/clock, you know what you see on say, the Desire. What app and what skin can you recommend? I do not mind paying.

BEAUTIFUL WIDGETS

Fancy widget is also nice and it's free.

Geo411m said:
Fancy widget is also nice and it's free.
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This is perfect!

Geo411m said:
Fancy widget is also nice and it's free.
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I've tried:
Beautiful Widgets
Weather Widget & Toggle
Fancy Widget
Top => Bottom = least realistic to most realistic.
However, top=>bottom = most features to least features.
Fancy Widget comes the closest. I somehow feel it's slightly slower than the other two though. Not sure.

using fancy widgets for a while now and i have 0 problems.
I like it the most cause i want just a clock + weather that looks exactly like the HTC one, and i do not want xxxx features that i don't use anyway.
just a clock + weather + you can choose what happens when you hit the clock. thats it.

Fancy Widget for the win!

watercool said:
just a clock + weather + you can choose what happens when you hit the clock. thats it.
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Beautiful Widgets does that, along with opening the calendar when tapping the date and your weather app of choice when tapping the forecast. Also has an HTC skin thats pretty much spot-on, with dozens more to choose from. Same with Weather & Flip clock. I don't see fancy widget being available for long, HTC will shut them down for copying their look.

Is it just me or has fancy widgets disappeared from the market?

AimanF said:
Is it just me or has fancy widgets disappeared from the market?
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That's the result of a Cease & Desist request from good ole HTC. You won't see it in the Market anymore. They will continue on under a different name and style. Paul has the latest in his r20 build.
-prodigy

I have the final version of Fancy Widget, but not sure if it's okay to post. PM me if anyone wants it.

having more pages on home

Hi !
I was wondering if this could be possible because with all widget fromhtc avaible it's a shame to have only 7 pages ...

light_n_roses said:
Hi !
I was wondering if this could be possible because with all widget fromhtc avaible it's a shame to have only 7 pages ...
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First,
you're in the wrong section theres a question and answer section for things like these.
I dont know what version of Sense you're running. But the one i run which is 3.5 on Runnymede and it does offer a way to add a panel but only if you have less than 7 set up
So as far as im aware you cant add more.
Same goes for any launchers i'm aware they have 7 or less screens.
But anyway damn, to use all 7 and fill them all up I find very hard, unless you're using larger than 1x1 widgets
lol

well sorry for wrong section...anyway It's not that difficoult to fill 7 pages just use 7full page widget are you are there ( news, mail, bookmarks meteo ecc..). It's like you just have 7 tabs on the old manila ( still rocking for me ).
I really would like to see this happen, havig more pages can give chance to add more widgets which make sense considering that htc alone bring 70 widgets !

light_n_roses said:
well sorry for wrong section...anyway It's not that difficoult to fill 7 pages just use 7full page widget are you are there ( news, mail, bookmarks meteo ecc..). It's like you just have 7 tabs on the old manila ( still rocking for me ).
I really would like to see this happen, havig more pages can give chance to add more widgets which make sense considering that htc alone bring 70 widgets !
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and by adding more pages and more widgets to those pages
will make the phone slow way way down

light_n_roses said:
well sorry for wrong section...anyway It's not that difficoult to fill 7 pages just use 7full page widget are you are there ( news, mail, bookmarks meteo ecc..). It's like you just have 7 tabs on the old manila ( still rocking for me ).
I really would like to see this happen, havig more pages can give chance to add more widgets which make sense considering that htc alone bring 70 widgets !
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I here u re: using full screen widgets, the only solution I know of is Go Launcher, I'm using 9 home screens (rarely need the app draw) tho you can add up to 30

Kameirus said:
and by adding more pages and more widgets to those pages
will make the phone slow way way down
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do you think in gonna end up this way or you have made test about this ?

kam333 said:
I here u re: using full screen widgets, the only solution I know of is Go Launcher, I'm using 9 home screens (rarely need the app draw) tho you can add up to 30
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I'll give it a try as soon as I have time ! Thank you very much ! Obviusly it work toghether with sense right ?

Not in terms of Sense widgets There's no other launchers compatible with Sense Widgets

light_n_roses said:
I'll give it a try as soon as I have time ! Thank you very much ! Obviusly it work toghether with sense right ?
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Hey,
smeddy's right about sense widgets, they wont work with any 3rd party launcher,
there's still a few options for sense styled widgets tho, might not sound ideal at 1st but some give you more options to customise than sense does.
free
go widgets with the transparency pack:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex.theme.gowidget.transparency&hl=en
fancy widgets:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets&hl=en
paid
beautiful widgets & pure widgets
im sure there's more, these are the ones i know of

kam333 said:
Hey,
smeddy's right about sense widgets, they wont work with any 3rd party launcher,
there's still a few options for sense styled widgets tho, might not sound ideal at 1st but some give you more options to customise than sense does.
free
go widgets with the transparency pack:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gau.go.launcherex.theme.gowidget.transparency&hl=en
fancy widgets:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidgets&hl=en
paid
beautiful widgets & pure widgets
im sure there's more, these are the ones i know of
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so with one of this I can add more than 7 pages to the home and add in every pages sense widgets ?!?

I have tried fancy widget but it doesn't allow to do this .

light_n_roses said:
so with one of this I can add more than 7 pages to the home and add in every pages sense widgets ?!?
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Hey,
No, you will have to make a choice between having more than 7 screens, or using the original sense widgets.
if ur priority is more than 7 home screens then Go Launcher is the only option (afaik), the apps i listed in the prev post are examples of sense styled widgets that you can use with Go Launcher.
so for example, using GO, you can use fancy widget to replace the sense clock,
use Go twitter, people, facebook or calander widgets to replace the equivalent sense widgets, this is how you can have more screens.
but if you cant do without the original sense widgets, you will be limited to 7 screens, hope this clears things up 4 u
My advice (for what its worth) would be just try it, if you dont like it, uninstall it, nothing lost!
il even get you started, here's the latest beta 2.62 its a bit quicker than the current market version (2.61), then search go widgets & go widget theme transparency in the market
Disclaimer:
I, myself or any member of my family or friends, do not work for, nor have an affiliation with Go Launcher, or any other Go products.

I'll try it but I'm a sense addicted and my goal was to have more than 7 pages with sense !!!

[Q] Circles widget 3d party launcher, picasa gallery sync?

Two separate issues, I have found after swapping my Nexus S (horribly slow since -stock!- Jelly Bean update) to the -really great!- Razr i:
- I prefer Launcher8 to the stock launcher, it is very snappy, good looking on my Razr i.. but I really miss that beautiful Circles widget. If I try to add it to the Launcher8 homescreen, it says '3d party launchers not supported', very annoying. Any workaround/ solution for this problem; to install circles widget (native on the Razr i) to 3d party launchers?
- I had Picasa sync of my Gallery on my Nexus S (really don't know when it came, how I have got it, thought it was stock), and I miss it on my Razr i. Any way to sync my Picasa (or now Google+) albums with the phone gallery?
Any help/ idea/ solution is welcome; thanks in advance.

bmszabo said:
Two separate issues, I have found after swapping my Nexus S (horribly slow since -stock!- Jelly Bean update) to the -really great!- Razr i:
- I prefer Launcher8 to the stock launcher, it is very snappy, good looking on my Razr i.. but I really miss that beautiful Circles widget. If I try to add it to the Launcher8 homescreen, it says '3d party launchers not supported', very annoying. Any workaround/ solution for this problem; to install circles widget (native on the Razr i) to 3d party launchers?
- I had Picasa sync of my Gallery on my Nexus S (really don't know when it came, how I have got it, thought it was stock), and I miss it on my Razr i. Any way to sync my Picasa (or now Google+) albums with the phone gallery?
Any help/ idea/ solution is welcome; thanks in advance.
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Try This one. It has several clock widgets including a Circles look-alike.

Motorola's circle widget is bound to the Motorola Launcher, so you have to chose a similar looking widget from the store (admitting that none of them is as good as the Motorola one )

ifrxda said:
Motorola's circle widget is bound to the Motorola Launcher, so you have to chose a similar looking widget from the store (admitting that none of them is as good as the Motorola one )
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Yes, thanks, I have seen One More Clock Widget Free, as well.. But, 1, it is HUGE, 2, according to the reviews it is a battery killer.. So I think I better stay w/o the beautiful Circles widget, on Launcher8..
BTW: anybody, any suggestion, idea about my other issue: Picasa web album sync on the Razr i? Would love to have it again..

Isn't Picasa tied to Google+ now? At least, Picasaweb is. Maybe you should try logging into the Google+ app in order to sync your photos? You can disable notifications and stuff from Google+ in the app settings in case you don't need that much integration.

bmszabo said:
Yes, thanks, I have seen One More Clock Widget Free, as well.. But, 1, it is HUGE, 2, according to the reviews it is a battery killer.. So I think I better stay w/o the beautiful Circles widget, on Launcher8..
BTW: anybody, any suggestion, idea about my other issue: Picasa web album sync on the Razr i? Would love to have it again..
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Motorala decided to disable the picasa sync in the stock motgallery.apk. Why? I don't know
you can use the original android gallery instead if you are rooted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946964
I use the just pictures app from the market. works fine and is free.
greetz.

Thanks for info; and for the tip!

My solution to get a similar Circles in Apex Launcher was to install UCCW then a skin named UCCW Skin - MotoBlur Clock. It's not perfect but works for me.

aberst said:
My solution to get a similar Circles in Apex Launcher was to install UCCW then a skin named UCCW Skin - MotoBlur Clock. It's not perfect but works for me.
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Thanks! But: any skin with more hotspots (weather, alarm, battery), just like the real one?

bmszabo said:
Thanks! But: any skin with more hotspots (weather, alarm, battery), just like the real one?
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Believe me, there is none like the real one

ifrxda said:
Believe me, there is none like the real one
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Can be; and it looks like.. but; there is no launcher like Launcher8 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5seC5sYXVuY2hlcjgiXQ..), it looks, works great on my Razr i.. so I have to do without circles widget..:crying:

Actually, IMHO this is the one getting closest to The Original: Rings Digital Weather Clock (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lkZ2V0cy5idWJibGVkaWdpdGFsd2VhdGhlcmNsb2NrIl0.).. but it drains battery.

bmszabo said:
Thanks! But: any skin with more hotspots (weather, alarm, battery), just like the real one?
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The skin I mentioned is locked, but you can make your own in skin in UCCW, I will make a comment to the developer to see if he can include more hotspots, which are useful though.
EDIT: My bad... I didn't see the developer includes a link to the uzip (which you can modify), I will download it to put more hotspots in weather and battery.

bmszabo said:
Can be; and it looks like.. but; there is no launcher like Launcher8 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5seC5sYXVuY2hlcjgiXQ..), it looks, works great on my Razr i.. so I have to do without circles widget..:crying:
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Wow, tried this launcher, not bad. It survived my first high threshold :good:, now going to stick deeper into it.

boriwei said:
Motorala decided to disable the picasa sync in the stock motgallery.apk. Why? I don't know
you can use the original android gallery instead if you are rooted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946964
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Hi! Do you try to use Motgallery2.apk from this link? On my Razr i its doesnt work, gallery crashed.
WBR

Rastafaryanin said:
Hi! Do you try to use Motgallery2.apk from this link? On my Razr i its doesnt work, gallery crashed.
WBR
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Hi,
the gallery worked for me but I tried it on ICS.
I don't know if the apk works on JB because I use the JustPictures app now.
greetz