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Which Widget could you not live without?

So, with widgets now in full swing, I thought I would find out from you folks, which widgets could you not live without????
Personally, I love the FML widget. I look at it several times a day. I love how its customizable to fit any theme! Im sure I would be VERY UPSET to lose this one!
I also love the Android and Me widget and the 10,000 things to know widget.
So what about you guys?

def the bbc news widget for me. (being british)
really hope to see a decent sms widget, facebook widget, and contacts widget - bit like the ones on the hero.

from hero i cant live without the messaging preview widget
that thing is the best
dont have to keep going into the app now to preview a message to know if i feel like responding or not...
it lags the phone a little but oh well...

Flipclock with weather from hero

I've never got the hype with widgets - they seem to kill my battery and tbh I can just click one icon on my homescreen for whichever app I like.

Really the only widgets I use are the retro clock/date, wifi on/off and brightness. That is in addition to the music and google in another window.

DavidCarson said:
I've never got the hype with widgets - they seem to kill my battery and tbh I can just click one icon on my homescreen for whichever app I like.
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I'm with you on this one. Though it is good to see next appointment in your calendar on the home screen. So calendar is the only widget that I use.

Turn off sense ui for Vanila

I just saw this lifehacker post that shows you how to turn of sense ui on a droid eris. Does anyone know if this works on an aria. And can you switch back and forth between sense and vanila. Thanks
Here is the link
http://lifehacker.com/5600912/turn-off-htcs-sense-ui-on-your-android-phone
http://lifehacker.com/5600912/turn-off-htcs-sense-ui-on-your-android-phone

i use launcherpro much better than sence ui and the other home too

I tried it and it didn't work for me, but maybe that is because I fail at following instructions. Or it could be that it just doesn't work with the Aria. The update on the article does state that it doesn't work on all HTC phones.
Anyway, I manage to clear the defaults but pressing the home key doesn't allow me to set the interface.

It doesn't work on the aria...
I think they completely removed the vanilla launcher fron the aria.
Like it was said before, you can just install another home app. My personl favorite is SlideScreen, which shows any new voicemail, missed calls, sms messages, calendar events, your google reader feed, twitter feed, stocks, and facebook messages (note, I am not part of the SlideScreen team, I've just found it to be really great). I've also tried out HelixLauncher, which I like more than LauncherPro, Sense, or the vanilla launcher.
You should know that the HTC widgets only work with the sense launcher, so if you're looking for a nice flip clock widget you should get Beautiful Widgets, which has a copy of most of HTC's nice widgets.

[Q] Is there a way to use the Samsung widgets when TouchWiz is not your Launcher?

I really like some of the Samsung widgets, but to not like the Touchwiz launcher. So, I installed Launcher Pro, which I vastly prefer. Unfortunately, now the Samsung widgets are not in the add widget menu.
Is there any trick I can do to get them back?

I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!

sionyboy said:
I'd also like to know this, the Facebook Stream widget was really useful, the stock one is awful!
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Yeah that is the widget I want most as well.
It is the best I have seen for android so far that integrates both twitter and facebook. I tried out this one on the market called "Socialite", it is *OK*, but not as good as the Samsung one.
So i have to decide, do I want a decent integrated Facebook / Twitter widget, or do I want a decent launcher?

???
Does anybody have an answer to this? I myself like pretty much all the futures in TW - would mainly like to change the 4 icons on the bottom and maybe even have the ability to hide the notification bar.
Is there a way to incorporate TW samsung widgets into launcher pro for example?
Thanks

I suppose Samsung's widgets are tied to the Touchwiz Launcher and incompatible with other launchers
It's a pity because I really like the Accuweather Clock over the other available widgets. But LauncherPro is so much better than the Samsung Launcher, I can't go without a launcher that lets me hide apps from the app drawer due to the massive amount of crap it gets flooded with.

You can change the left 3 icons on the bottom (but not the Applications one).
Just go to the Applications screen and press Menu and choose Edit. Then, move the icons off and put another in place.

I'm pretty sure it's impossible. I wanted to do that but was told by different ppl it was impossible. Same goes for Launcher Pro widgets in Touchwizz (i prefere the LP ones vs the Samsung). They are tied to the launcher u use.

You could put Home Switcher on each of the home screens of TW and LP then just switch between them just like moving to a different page. Just an idea.

Thanks fro the ideas, sounds like it's a no-go for right now at least.....
One more thing, does launcher pro juice the battery as same as TW? And when I used launcher pro in the past, I really liked to use the option "hide notification bar", i think it gives it a cleaner look, but at the same time it won't notify me when i receive an email ( other than the sound), I did search this in the past with no luck, so is there a widget, icon, something that I can install that will show on the screen when I received email, when using LP?
Thanks

I use executive assistant but it is a paid app. Worth it I believe though.

launcher pro type widgets

i bought launcherpro plus and love the contacts widget. but since the new cognition rolled out and the default android launcher is installed i have grown to like it over lp. anyway does anyone know of any widgets that are similar to the lp contacts, thanks in advance

you could always try folder organizer.. and just put contacts in a widget lol

fosdos4790 said:
i bought launcherpro plus and love the contacts widget. but since the new cognition rolled out and the default android launcher is installed i have grown to like it over lp. anyway does anyone know of any widgets that are similar to the lp contacts, thanks in advance
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Arti's fancy contacts widget is decent, but not as good as LP's contacts widget. Search the market though, there are a couple of different ones out there.

[q] is there a way to get launcher pro or sense widgets?

Right now, I'm running CM 6 and I had launcher pro plus, loved the widgets but i found it was using up quite a bit of my battery. I'm trying to switch back to ADW launcher but I cant find anything close to the widgets that Launcher pro offered(i.e. bookmarks, messaging scroll widget). I've looked at beautiful widgets, pure messenger, and some other ones but can't quite find anything like it.
Is there a way to get sense widgets on cm6 other than launcherpro? Even the clock widget that has alarm+timer+stopwatch when you click it(i have weather widgets so it looks identical). And also the bookmarks4x4 and messaging scrollable widgets.

No you can not get sense widgets unless you are running a 1.5 ROM or Sense its self because the apps need to be ported along with the corresponding framework, which was done on some 1.5 ROM[look it up]. If you really want them search for a stable sense ROM idk if 32A has any but i know 32b does have a stable one by Xillius . Use Launcher Pro or Pro Plus and find a battery optimization apk as-well..

If you want sense... use a senseui rom. Simple as that.
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