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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.

shakethemall for Eris?

I tried to download shakethemall from the market to add the funky live wallpaper to my Eris (w/live wallpaper support), but the market said it was not there. I used the QR code to find it and everything. Does anyone know how to get this live wallpaper so we can add little falling droids everywhere?
TIA!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643313

You need root.

I have root.

it doesnt work..on ANY of the ROMs, ive tried!
i cant get that, the starfield and a few others to properly work..
so ive given up on the whole live wallpaper thing lol

Get me the fingerprint from the rom of a phone that supports it, and we can do a patch to enable it.

jcase said:
Get me the fingerprint from the rom of a phone that supports it, and we can do a patch to enable it.
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According to the thread I linked in the original post, it works fine on the N1.

Live Wallpapers on leaked 2.1?

I know that we can't have live wallpapers and sense ui running at the same time. I'm also aware the we need root. But I just found out that if you install slide screen, you are promoted to choose which home app is default (sense, stock android home, and slide screen). If we choose the stock one, would it be possible to get live wallpapers working if the devs do some tinkering? Or do we still need the permissions only root can give us?

sms440 said:
I know that we can't have live wallpapers and sense ui running at the same time. I'm also aware the we need root. But I just found out that if you install slide screen, you are promoted to choose which home app is default (sense, stock android home, and slide screen). If we choose the stock one, would it be possible to get live wallpapers working if the devs do some tinkering? Or do we still need the permissions only root can give us?
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You still need root to install them. But you did find a nice way to disable Sense if you desire.

I still believe there is a way to do it, I just don't have the time to tinker. If you have an android programmer that wants to do it, have them contact me and I will drop the details, and the files needed to get it done.

That would be great, that's the only reason I wanted root.

Ha, thanks jadesdan. sorry jcase, but I don't know of any android programmers and I myself can't be of any use. Maybe someone who knows what to do will stumble across this thread and volunteer.

Car Panel (navipanel) from Froyo 2.2 on 2.1 Slide

Team-
I have a STOCK MT3G Slide NOT rooted.
How can I get the Navipanel or Car Panel / dock that we see on later builds of android, is there a way someone can extract the APK or how can I get it installed onto my phone.....I figured I would let the pro's answer this one!
Thanks

Bb8900 said:
Team-
I have a STOCK MT3G Slide NOT rooted.
How can I get the Navipanel or Car Panel / dock that we see on later builds of android, is there a way someone can extract the APK or how can I get it installed onto my phone.....I figured I would let the pro's answer this one!
Thanks
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Car dock is included in the android sdk, however you can extract a working one for your slide from cr's addon pack for ota ver.blah blah, anyway goto this link he posted:http://www.4shared.com/file/F92A1Dcy/_2__MTM_Stock_Addon_191_LWP.html
Extract the zip and goto data/app in the folder, youll find the car dock and 2 other apps too..Navipanel is only featured on the eris(corr if wrong), you'll can probably google navipanel.apk or check the eris section.

or you could just get it from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6684984&postcount=4

Sweet this works, But how do I get the one that has more Eye candy....what I mean by that, I have been using android ROMS for my HTC HD2 and there is an icon that says "Car Home" and it looks really nice with the color icons, display and UI is nicer....How can I get that one?

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Sweet this works, But how do I get the one that has more Eye candy....what I mean by that, I have been using android ROMS for my HTC HD2 and there is an icon that says "Car Home" and it looks really nice with the color icons, display and UI is nicer....How can I get that one?
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Does the ui have multiple squares for the Ui?(froyo ver)

He's talking about the HTC sense car home
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

Ace42 said:
Does the ui have multiple squares for the Ui?(froyo ver)
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Yes, thats the one im looking for....Where can I get it from?

Bb8900 said:
Yes, thats the one im looking for....Where can I get it from?
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Yeah i was thinking that cause i thought the hd2 only had a froyo port not 2.1/1.6 . Give me a min to search my comp for it, no guarantees that it works on stock. Try the 3 attached files of my post.

I downloaded the files but I cannot instal them. I get a "Parse Error".....for all 3....any other ideas??
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No idea, they all worked for me. I think that the car home and car home launcher is the set that I was looking for, thanks for that. the HTC included something called footprints - I have no idea what that is....
I emailed to myself and used gmail to install; how strange, I've not done that before. Astro is installed though, and of course install from untrusted is set. I'm running Eugene's last froyo w/o the OC'ed kernel.

[Q] Live Wallpapers?

Just curious to know if this little machine will support live wallpapers? Been eyeing a Droid X live wallpaper for a while now and wanted to know if wallpapers such as this one will work on the Aria.

NobleRodhos said:
Just curious to know if this little machine will support live wallpapers? Been eyeing a Droid X live wallpaper for a while now and wanted to know if wallpapers such as this one will work on the Aria.
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Root it and yes it will.

Live Wallpapers
I rooted my phone via Unrevoked 2, and running Liberated_Aria R006. I tried loading a live wallpaper, but I can not seem to find how to activate it. When I press menu then Wallpapers, Live wallpaper is not an option. Can I get a little help on where to go from here?
Thanks.

CM6 allows LWP. I don't remember Liberated allows that function since it bases on stock rom

You have to load the zip file from clockwork recovery.
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Live Wallpapers
Thanks for all the help. I got it working.
I found this in one of the XDA forums archives, so I figured I would share it here again. I did the clean install option with Liberated-Aria R006, and no issues so far.
Here is the exact wording from the post by Bobj:
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6/28/10 - Updated to allow LWP in the Sense UI
* This assumes you have your phone rooted and have access to the Clockwork Mod to allow updating your phone with unsigned zip files *
1.) Put the file onto your SD Card in the root directory
2.) Access the Clockwork Mod
4.) install zip from sdcard (option 5)
5.) choose zip from sdcard (option 2)
6.) Click on the file you downloaded and put on your sdcard
6a.) If you run into an error when installing shut off your phone,, unplug it from the USB cable, then reboot it back into Clockwork Mod and start again from step 2
7.) Once done installing, go back one menu and reboot system
8.) Upon reboot you can now choose Live Wallpaper in the wallpaper options
*Issues*
The only issue that I know of at this time is you have to use the settings/personalize/lock screen wallpaper option in order to change the lockscreen wallpaper
If you have any issues let me know, I tested this on a fresh clean stock rom flash then updated to add in the LWP.
*Files*
Clean install of the LWP packages yyy.mediafire.xxx/?t5mjyjjgnjm
Select this if you want to install the LWP on a clean install or install without any LWP
Update install of the LWP packages yyy.mediafire.xxx/?jjowddzzmdw
Select this if you used the previous version with LauncherPro and Home Switcher. This will remove those packages and update to the Sense Enabled LWP.
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Thanks again, and hope this helps.
(Due to that I am a new, please change the yyy to www, and xxx to com in the links.)

Thanks! Works great. Is there no way to use a LWP on the lockscreen though?

z3ddicus said:
Thanks! Works great. Is there no way to use a LWP on the lockscreen though?
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If you are using CM6, then whatever your wallpaper is is your lock screen. (sorry about the double is. 8th grade) If you are using liberated_aria, well my technical knowledge DOES know its bounds. Sorry.

I downloaded it, went into clockwork recovery and tried to install it from there and it didnt work. So i rebooted it and extracted the file, found the .apk, and installed it from there. It gives me the option of live wallpapers and lets me see the selection of live wallpapers, but everytime i try to set one of them, it force closes.
Any suggestions?
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App

Honestly, it's not worth it. At all.
Reasons being, for this little Aria, it takes up an insane amount of battery. As much as the screen brightness when it's cranked all the way up. Also, in CM6, some of the touch screens (eg. Nexus LWP) aren't touch reactive, or at least do not respond quickly to it.
You can do it, but I'd advise just sticking with a regular background.

Maroon Mushroom said:
Honestly, it's not worth it. At all.
Reasons being, for this little Aria, it takes up an insane amount of battery. As much as the screen brightness when it's cranked all the way up. Also, in CM6, some of the touch screens (eg. Nexus LWP) aren't touch reactive, or at least do not respond quickly to it.
You can do it, but I'd advise just sticking with a regular background.
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i agree. it works as says and installs easily. but most of the LWP on the market cost money and the ones that came stock with the install aren't worth having. the floating bubles and the pond with leaves were the only ones worth playing with. but i lost interest quickly. and reflashed a R04 rom and did a clean install of everything to get rid of it.
fun if you're easily amused

asiancuta said:
i agree. it works as says and installs easily. but most of the LWP on the market cost money and the ones that came stock with the install aren't worth having. the floating bubles and the pond with leaves were the only ones worth playing with. but i lost interest quickly. and reflashed a R04 rom and did a clean install of everything to get rid of it.
fun if you're easily amused
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How did you make it work?
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App