I started with a Verizon Tab because of the price. But I have switched to an AT&T model because I don't need data all the time, just occasionally and you can't start and stop the data with Verizon like you can with AT&T. So, I have a new TAB and while I knew that the various carriers put their own bloatware on, I didn't realize that the widgets weren't standard. There is a news and weather widget that I really liked that downloaded from user selectable categories. Could someone tell me what that widget is so that I can located it in the Market?
Thanks.
Update. I downloaded the Verizon user manual and it is the Google News and Weather App. I don't seem to find it in the market, but I am looking.
ourtech said:
I started with a Verizon Tab because of the price. But I have switched to an AT&T model because I don't need data all the time, just occasionally and you can't start and stop the data with Verizon like you can with AT&T. So, I have a new TAB and while I knew that the various carriers put their own bloatware on, I didn't realize that the widgets weren't standard. There is a news and weather widget that I really liked that downloaded from user selectable categories. Could someone tell me what that widget is so that I can located it in the Market?
Thanks.
Update. I downloaded the Verizon user manual and it is the Google News and Weather App. I don't seem to find it in the market, but I am looking.
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Just search for GenieWidget.apk or if you have skype I can send it to you.
How's it going this weekend XDA?
I popped the AT&T 2.3.3 Rom and it is working really nicely. I am a minimalist by nature and I feel the stock ROMs stripped of bloatware are the simplest and sweetest when you balance function and aesthetics.
However, after a few weeks on this ROM, I am noticing some issues where Froyo and Gingerbread overlap. I know that many Froyo apps are not designed for, or in some cases, updated to support Gingerbread. However, these apps seem to run fine on my Gingerbread setup after I restored them from my TiBu backup. However, when I search for the app in Marketplace, they do not show up.
The root of the issue is that I have a Blueant T1 Bluetooth headset that is supposed to be able to auto update it's firmware through the Android app. When the headset is connected, the app indicates that the firmware can be updated and it should do so automatically. However, when you cliock on the link to update, it says that the app doesn't exist in the marketplace, presumably the problem is that my device does not officially support Gingerbread and the conflict might thereby wipe the app from the Marketplace. I can see that the app is there in the Marketplace when I am not logged in via my phone(ie on the pc), but if I try to download it it disappears.
I have also noticed this with other apps, ie Google Body. It apparently needs Gingerbread to function, but 'My device is not supported'.
Any thoughts? Is it that my phone is sending it's model and make which is not compatible, or that the discrepancy between what I should have on the phone vs what I do have doesn't jive with the Marketplace?
Am I facing a build.prop tweak or is there another way to work around this? Any and all input will be useful.
Thanks!
Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm struggling to find any tracker app that can actually provide my phones location. I've searched through the forum but can only find old posts.
All apps (lookout, wheres my droid, android lost) can all send messages to email accounts but none can pinpoint my position!
This used to work, I'm starting to think it must be a frozen app (that is needed) or ROM issue etc.
Has anyone managed to get their GPS position working?
I am on odexed JVR (with loads of apps removed/frozen)
Thx Dudes.
I would also like to hear about the same.
If you provide a list of the apps you have frozen, I'm sure someone could let you know whether or not one is necessary.
Personally, I use SeekDroid to remotely locate my phone, and I have absolutely no problem acquiring its GPS location.
List of frozen/removed apps
Here is my list of frozen/removed bloatware/apps...!!!
aldiko
allshare
android live wallpaper
buddies now
chocouk
com.sec.android.samsungapps.una (Kies etc)
control freak
daily briefing
DRM* X 3
days 1.0
DRM***
dual clock
email 2.3.4
feeds and updates
Galaxy Tuner 2.3
Gallery (Use Quickpic)
Google Search
home sc creen tips
layer 4.0.4
live wallpaper picker
magic smoke wallpaper
mini diary
MTP (connects to Kies)
press reader
print via Bluetooth
roseeuk
Samsung account
Samsung apps
sns 1.0
sns account
social hub
software update 1.5.0
talk 1.3
write and go
wssynclnps (Kies)
Y! Finance
Hmm... does Google Maps work? Or is your GPS troubles specific to those lost-phone-finding apps?
Google maps and navigation work really well, GPS accurate to 10m most of the time
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gsw5700 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm struggling to find any tracker app that can actually provide my phones location. I've searched through the forum but can only find old posts.
All apps (lookout, wheres my droid, android lost) can all send messages to email accounts but none can pinpoint my position!
This used to work, I'm starting to think it must be a frozen app (that is needed) or ROM issue etc.
Has anyone managed to get their GPS position working?
I am on odexed JVR (with loads of apps removed/frozen)
Thx Dudes.
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TekTrak works for me
i'm using phone locator, this works ok, and had some great features.
Thx for replies.
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Since the phone is about a week old there aren't any roms just yet. I know this is being worked on by some awesome devs, but in the meantime we should talk about which processes and applications we can safely remove and replace to reduce blur's footprint. The goal is to try to get to stock 2.3.4.
From what I can tell, these things are blur:
Launcher
Widgets
Car Dock Mode
Keyboard
Messaging
Music Player
Status Bar
Calendar
Bedside Dock (Alarm Clock, so blue and ugly)
News (What happened to news and weather?)
Camera/Camcorder
Dialer/contacts suite
Unlock Screen
And then the Verizon bloatware:
blockbuster
amazon kindle
4 verizon wireless apps (Vcast)
DLNA
Citrix
GoToMeeting
Slacker Radio
Videosurf
Zumocast
CityID
IM
I'm sure I may have thought something was blur when it was stock, or visa versa. Please correct me, and I'll gladly update the list. I'm sure I may have missed or miscatagorized some of the bloatware, so please let me know if I messed that up too.
We should assume that the user has root for any replacement and removal methods.
If we can get the links to the stock apps which replace the blur apps all in one place, I think it would be great!
[edit] I've found the stock keyboard in another thread- someone please post it here as I cannot link.
I'm trying to get GMail dark theme working on my rooted XZ1C. I'm currently on Android 8, but it sounds like official Google support for dark GMail is only for Android 10:
https://twitter.com/gmail/status/1181600018316320773
So I figure since I'm rooted, there must be a workaround. Well, there is, but it requires Xposed:
https://repo.xposed.info/module/com.alex193a.gmdtenabler
I do not currently have Xposed installed and I remember back when I was rooting (with J4nn's tools), there were issues with Xposed and this phone that resulted in bootloops. I didn't find anything that indicates this was ever resolved.
Anyone have any ideas on how to either get GMail dark theme or Xposed? Apparently, all that is required to force GMail into enabling the dark theme menu item is modifying an XML file FlagPrefs.xml (which I've already done) and tricking the OS to report API >= 29 (that's what the Xposed module does).
If you are rooted, then just use substratum theme engine. Personally I used swift dark. You can get swiftdark as a standalone app too.
Personally i did not enjoy having to update all the overlays for each update of an app, which is the case with custom overlays.. The Outlook app has dark theme, and supports Gmail, so I'm using this now.
@Dean F - Thanks for the reply. I've been avoiding substratum/swift because I read some people were unhappy with it's level of bugginess, but it may be my best option now that Google has decided to give everyone <10 the middle finger. Is there a quick tutorial somewhere that you recommend to get me going with that? Does Swift standalone app run standalone, or does it require the substratum framework?
I had previously tried Outlook as well, but their Wear OS integration is REALLY bad - they block standard Outlook notifications from going to the watch, and they force you to load a standalone Wear OS Outlook app that has weird, non-standard behavior that I really dislike. But maybe it's time for me to try that again as well.
I was just hoping to get Gmail working since it has a good email experience in my opinion and having a native dark theme is always preferable to me over a 3rd party implementation. I'm so close to getting it working, yet so far away. I was really hoping someone could come up with another way to do what that Xposed module does...
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@Dean F - Thanks for the reply. I've been avoiding substratum/swift because I read some people were unhappy with it's level of bugginess, but it may be my best option now that Google has decided to give everyone <10 the middle finger. Is there a quick tutorial somewhere that you recommend to get me going with that? Does Swift standalone app run standalone, or does it require the substratum framework?
I had previously tried Outlook as well, but their Wear OS integration is REALLY bad - they block standard Outlook notifications from going to the watch, and they force you to load a standalone Wear OS Outlook app that has weird, non-standard behavior that I really dislike. But maybe it's time for me to try that again as well.
I was just hoping to get Gmail working since it has a good email experience in my opinion and having a native dark theme is always preferable to me over a 3rd party implementation. I'm so close to getting it working, yet so far away. I was really hoping someone could come up with another way to do what that Xposed module does...
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swift dark works well standalone (no substratum needed) on stock roms. just download from the play store
i haven't had any issues with it so far, except that there can be a 1-2 day delay before the themes react to third party app updates, and that when updating roms, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the themes to get them working. very happy with the black themes on swift dark though. they're amoled black (unlike google's dark mode) and much more consistent between apps than google's own themes are
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swift dark works well standalone (no substratum needed) on stock roms. just download from the play store
i haven't had any issues with it so far, except that there can be a 1-2 day delay before the themes react to third party app updates, and that when updating roms, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the themes to get them working. very happy with the black themes on swift dark though. they're amoled black (unlike google's dark mode) and much more consistent between apps than google's own themes are
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Is there anything else required to get Swift to work standalone? I purchased the Swift Black (not dark - does that matter?) and when I start up the app, it wants me to install substratum theme engine. So I installed that, but that app won't run - when I start it, it crashes and Android tells me "subtratum keeps stopping." Is there something I'm missing or doing incorrectly?
EDIT: well, maybe I bought the wrong app - I bought Swift Black Substratum theme. Maybe I need to instead buy Swift Installer?
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Is there anything else required to get Swift to work standalone? I purchased the Swift Black (not dark - does that matter?) and when I start up the app, it wants me to install substratum theme engine. So I installed that, but that app won't run - when I start it, it crashes and Android tells me "subtratum keeps stopping." Is there something I'm missing or doing incorrectly?
EDIT: well, maybe I bought the wrong app - I bought Swift Black Substratum theme. Maybe I need to instead buy Swift Installer?
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my bad, i actually bought swift installer and that worked perfectly w/o the substratum theme engine installed. didn't try the swift black or dark substratum themes
wyt18 said:
my bad, i actually bought swift installer and that worked perfectly w/o the substratum theme engine installed. didn't try the swift black or dark substratum themes
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No worries - I got a refund on the Swift Substratum theme, and I'll try the Swift Installer. Thanks.
Thanks @Dean F and @wyt18 - I've got the Swift Installer installed and set up. It looks promising. I don't auto update my apps and rarely update them anyway, so hopefully this will work out well for me.
Swift is pretty great - easy to use and seems to work well so far. Also gave me dark theme for pretty much all the apps I regularly use. The only thing missing, however, is changing the email body to be light text on a dark background - emails still show up with dark text on a white background. I'm assuming the only way to get that is via the official app dark theme, which I can't get. Is there any workaround for this?
EDIT: I'm giving Outlook another try. Aside from the weird WearOS notification issues, it seems to work OK. And it inverts the colors of the email body itself, making it light text on a dark background.
Well, my quest continues. Swift is cool, but it doesn't make the email message body dark, as the native GMail dark theme does, so it's not much use for GMail. I've used Outlook for a while, and it seems to be pretty solid for Outlook and Hotmail addresses. But the GMail implementation seems buggy - I completely stopped getting my GMail in Outlook yesterday, verified on 2 different phones. I haven't tried removing/re-adding the account in Outlook yet - but if that is a normal thing required to make it work, then it's not much use either. (EDIT: removed/added my GMail in Outlook, and still nothing, no GMails) (EDIT2: uninstalled Outlook from my phone, installed, added GMail account, and still no GMails - all my folders show up in the folder list, but it says my inbox is empty, which it is not. Not sure what is wrong or how this got screwed up. I don't see anything weird on my Google account security page)
So if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'd prefer to somehow force the GMail native dark theme, but I'm open to any other suggestions. I don't understand why Google limited this dark theme to 10 only. My solution today is using GMail via Chrome 78 which has a system wide flag to force all sites to dark. Not ideal, though.