ok touchwiz something removed out of custom roms, but what exactly does it add, since I have only used a samsung rom I dont know which bits are touchwiz and which bits arent.
Also is there a list of the apps that are not included without samsung?
thanks
Samsung apps
Dialer
Contacts mms and sms
Twlauncher
STatusbar
Framework
Locksceeen
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chrcol said:
ok touchwiz something removed out of custom roms, but what exactly does it add, since I have only used a samsung rom I dont know which bits are touchwiz and which bits arent.
Also is there a list of the apps that are not included without samsung?
thanks
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Touchwiz is basically the look of your phone ---
The status bar
The icons
The animations( okk they are stock android )
The menus ..settings ..anything and everything u see in a stock rom ( b4 u install anything ) is touchwiz
And custom roms like cm7 use different stuff
The status bar looks better
There are no crappy samsung apps ( though i like the keypad)
The whole ui is better
In short touchwiz sucks :thumbdown: anything thats not touchwiz rocks :thumbup:
P.S. its only my opinion ...and opinions are like a$$#oles --everyone has one
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Dragonoid said:
Touchwiz is basically the look of your phone ---
The status bar
The icons
The animations( okk they are stock android )
The menus ..settings ..anything and everything u see in a stock rom ( b4 u install anything ) is touchwiz
And custom roms like cm7 use different stuff
The status bar looks better
There are no crappy samsung apps ( though i like the keypad)
The whole ui is better
In short touchwiz sucks :thumbdown: anything thats not touchwiz rocks :thumbup:
P.S. its only my opinion ...and opinions are like a$$#oles --everyone has one
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U hater!!
Touchwiz ROCKS
I like the launcher and icons
And lockscreen
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*looks at pics of stock samsung rom* *looks at status bar* *doesnt feel well* *vomits*
Well,what touchwiz does is....it makes your phone ****,ugly and slow
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Well,what touchwiz does is....it makes your phone ****,ugly and slow
Sent from my fingers to your face,take it or leave it.
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Nooooooo .............
Touchwiz izzz awezomeee
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spacecaker said:
Nooooooo .............
Touchwiz izzz awezomeee
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Yaa touchwiz is awsume
spacecaker said:
Nooooooo .............
Touchwiz izzz awezomeee
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Modded touchwiz is awesome xD
Ya I agree..touchwiz is awesome
Simple
comparatively more functional in few areas
can be modded easily..!!
One thing i dislike with the TW is....it does not offer any good function (who needs Samsung Apps anyway ) . HTC Sense is much awesome than TW with functions like FriendStream:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:....
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TW 4 is gangsta people
Defy-ing all limits.
It's Personal taste....
Well as mentioned earlier.....
ROMS and a$$h0l3s.....
Each has their own and like his own.....
Now some Prefer Cyanogen(Dev guys)....
Some Touchwiz(who prefer stock)....
and Some MIUI(iPhone junkies).....
Cyanogen has it's own plus points(Love the gestures everywhere and speeed).....
Touchwiz has it's own(Nice simple UI and no nonsense Dialer and task manager)....
and I don't have used MIUI (but I like the apps and the efforts put behind it)......
But some things are universal
Edit:this line doesnt refer to touchwiz emoboix
Whats sucks will always suck...you cant just change that ( touchwiz i mean)
Like if all of us say that froyo is better than ics ,the facts wont change ...what is better is better...
And touchwiz will suck for eternity
Period
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Dragonoid said:
But some things are universal
Whats sucks will always suck...you cant just change that ( touchwiz i mean)
Like if all of us say that froyo is better than ics ,the facts wont change ...what is better is better...
And touchwiz will suck for eternity
Period
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All I know is Touchwiz ain't universal and I love the Touchwiz on the Galaxy Note
Um y'know, i prefer touchwiz.. it's simple and easy to understand.. i found some difficulties when first time using cyanogenmod.. and y'know, every thing has its own plus points ..
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Yeah sorry I'm gonna have to join the touchwiz haters on this one
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@chrcol - It's basically Samsung's user-interface. Deciding the ways in which your fingers can interact with their phones. Although roms have their own independent preset functionality, Touchwiz is the software that defines how you interact with that, like all the long-presses, page-switching, down to things like creating multiple home pages etc.
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...uchwiz-has-that-vanilla-android-does-not-have
One of the biggest debates about getting ICS onto 'lesser phones' is that of Samsung not being able to fit Touchwiz 4.0 in with ICS on even a device as good as the Galaxy S. But as other posters have made clear, Touchwiz is not the 'be all and end all', even if it is very good; most importantly it is unique to Samsung, and they won't be renting out other peoples systems. I still don't see the problem with tweaking our current Touchwiz 3 though...
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Well,what touchwiz does is....it makes your phone ****,ugly and slow
Sent from my fingers to your face,take it or leave it.
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Agree with that!
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Some features are good.
I flashed the official CM7 on my Ace. Most things are nice. What I miss about Touchwiz is the Dialer, and also the Contacts: Swipe right on a contact to make a call, swipe left to compose a message.
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Ok, this is a serious question guys.
I am coming from a HTC Inspire 4G, where a full ROM was under a hundred meg, why is it even with almost everything removed, ROMs for my beloved Note are over 300meg..?
Look forward to everyones answers!!
Cheers
FYI your Inspire's stock Sense ROM is over 350MB. Sense and TouchWiz are big ROMs with added features and so on. The ROMs under 100MB is CM7 and MIUI. Since we don't have these for the Note yet, we'll have to settle with TouchWiz ROMs for the time being.
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I install Zeam straight away once I install a ROM, what are the features that TouchWiz offers?! I doubt I use any of them lol.
Totally forgot Inspire was sense I installed a clean ASOP rom as soon as I got it.
Probably been answered a hundreds time around here but I can't find anything for SGN, how do i build my own ROM a guide would be awesome, I'd really love to throw together an ASOP inspired ROM and try and get the size down and speed up!
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I install Zeam straight away once I install a ROM, what are the features that TouchWiz offers?! I doubt I use any of them lol.
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They're not just the UI, it's also the apps.
Android itself doesn't support S-Pen in 2.3, so that's Samsung.
The calendar app - samsung
widgets - samsung
custom apps and UI (like rubberbanding effects, custom font setting, etc)
There are a lot of under the hood things that has been changed. Touchwiz is something essential for ANY ROM and it takes A LOT of work to remove it. I mean A LOT. Samsung designed it to be run with Touchwiz, so any dev. has to work a lot to get everything working fine without any touchwiz and that's a lot of work.
And the numbers of pixels of Note is 2.6 times of WVGA. So, all the graphic files for the UI will be larger too.
Can you do it?
Folks over at sgs2 have been trying to port it over for quite sometime now. I doubt you will see it anytime soon. Besides do you really want sense?
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Yes, I want Sence I've had so many HTC with Sense and like it especially 3.5.
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Folks over at sgs2 have been trying to port it over for quite sometime now. I doubt you will see it anytime soon. Besides do you really want sense?
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Do i want sense? Yes, Its great! Touchwiz is not as refined.
Sense features i miss
The great Audio player, Better than power amp (In my opinion)
Fantastic lockscreen (customizable)
Great People, weather and calendar widgets
Perfect Dialpad
Well designed SMS and email client
And all the other sense themed widgets.
I know i lot of these features can be added with apps from the market, But none i have found so far have the Tidy uniform look of sense. Parts of touchwiz look like they have been made by a colour blind monkey! Also one of my biggest gripes with touchwiz is the lockscreen (poor animation, lack of customization and sometimes unresponsive) If i try to use a different lockscreen, NoLED stops working, which i like because the lack of a physical notification LED.
So far i have tried-
SPB shell 3D - expensive, and still needs some work for are device, but looks cool. More looks over substance
Launcher Pro - Its OK, just basic
Go laucher, Go Locker, Go Contacts - Good attempt, just not as refined and not optimized for the screen resolution of the note
The note, hardware wise, is the best Phone (yes it is a phone) I have owned. Personally i feel touchwiz needs some work.
Now others may love touhwiz, So i do not want this thread to turn into a fanboi thread of either way! This is just my opinion, its not intended to irritate anybody.
For one, i would love to see a sense rom for such great hardware!
Overall i like the note, and with any luck ICS will null my gripes.
Sorry to OP if i have hijacked this thread, Just sparked all my (common) sense thoughts off at once
Also best place for questions is the Q&A section.
Take it easy
O_G
MacRoy said:
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no wont be done
For me TouchWiz and Sense is same ****. Go Launcher is normal. Holo is the best launcher I ever use. I hope samsung will not forget or ignore about this.
It was hard to get used to touchwiz after Htv Sense for first few days. I tried to find similar widgets to make it more look and function like htc sense. Then as more I get used to touchwiz the less I hated it. If I had a choice I would still prefer htc sense as already mentioned it is pretty well designed graphically and functionally out of the box. But I discover some touchwiz features missing in htc sense too. For instance uninstalling apps right from the app drawer is awesome just as practical as uninstalling on iphone. Samsung touchwiz seems to have it all as separate widgets and os wise but they are not as a whole package in terms of visual integrity and not as functional as sense considering each app separately. Some of features like remote tracking is not even in default rom unless you add them urself later which takes some research to even find out it's even possible. HTC sense serves it all as a whole package , even the navigating software you can purchase it right from the htc location widget and it is adapted to rest of widgets. Contact integration from different accounts like facebook, google, twitter etc is merged automatically on htc sense by choice which is missing on touchwiz. You have to add your htcsense user id and pass only once on Sense and it is recognized automatically on related apps like "htc likes" but on touchwiz you have to add your samsung account each time again and again for apps like "samsung apps" etc... Considering outstanding hardware features of Gnote I have no intension to go back to htc just for sense as none of their devices are even close to gnote recently but I would definitely like to see samsung engineers put more effort on improving touchwiz in terms of compatible graphic design, integrated all-in features , user friendly ui to make it more competitive against htc sense which seems to be only superiority of htc devices still left.
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Not going to happen people. Have you EVER seen a non HTC device with Sense? Correct, and that won't change.
Moto Milestone had sense port
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Im surprised it took 4 months for this kind of thread to pop up. I will never understand the ram hogging hype. It reminds me of iphone users bragging about a million apps so they can swipe the screen from left to right doing nothing.
But all in all we are using android which gives us plenty of options. If a clone of sense doesnt work. Theres always that option of making it yourself.
I swore launcher pro widgets were a exact replica of htc sense. Matched up with a theme and it was good to go. Plus that customizable widget app that did more things then htc lockscreen. But im guessing this isnt good enough.
Sense used to be great and now it's just too bloated
Thanks for the responses. I guess its each to here own. Now i have been assigned to this forum, i shall put this thread in its correct place.
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sense just has the best dialer avaible. the touchwiz dialer just doesnt find if i search for "uiop" and there is clearly a "qwertz uiop" in the contacts. sense dialer finds that.
aldo the touchwiz keyboard is odd... long press makes caps lock chars... sense gives you signs like "+ -*& %". i solved that with swiftkey x... but for the dialer theres no replacement right now. ex dialer is the closest but it needs 10 seconds or more to load the call log. thats not acceptable.
i like that the phone features of a phone are excelent, not just satisfiyng.
Why are there two of the exact same thread..?
From the exact same person..
Sense is an abomination, why would you want to buy the fastest phone available just to bog it down with bloatware, reducing it to a level of performance of a 1GHz single-core? But, to each his own - sadly, no way to make a Sense rom for a non-HTC device, if only for legality reasons. Sense is, at least partly, proprietary code.
Sense is the best out of the box android UI. Period.
I've just recently got my Galaxy Note and I'll admit I do miss the sense from my HTC Desire HD. Personally, it seems more intuitive when it comes to shortcuts, integration and it is visually appealing. However, I know it slows down the phone as it did that to my HTC Desire HD, especially when I updated to the latest sense. It's very laggy and the amount of animations are completely unnecessary. I don't need an animation of the page swivelling onto the screen when unlocking the phone. I'll miss the ease of access to certain things, but I want to get use to touchwiz.
There is an option to get Sense 3.0 or 3.5
Hi All,
there is an easier way to get sense plus even more ....
that is the only phone HTC HD2
you can get it cheap on ebay aution...
like mine had... and you love it, it flash from WM6.5 to WP7 to android .. to Ubuntu.... and more ...
wilson_sony said:
Hi All,
there is an easier way to get sense plus even more ....
that is the only phone HTC HD2
you can get it cheap on ebay aution...
like mine had... and you love it, it flash from WM6.5 to WP7 to android .. to Ubuntu.... and more ...
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LOL! You come to a Note forum to suggest an HD2? A phone that's so inferior it's not even funny?
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Zamboney said:
LOL! You come to a Note forum to suggest an HD2? A phone that's so inferior it's not even funny?
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Sometimes HD2 with sense onboard acts smoother than Note with TW.
So if you want Sense, HD2 is your perfect choice.
Its hardly possible to port Sense to Note or other non-HTC devices.
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Hi guys , I like my Galaxy Note Launcher . Can anyone try to PORT this launcher?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
Is possublw
But only over 2 years sorry
For now try the sgs2 launcher eTc
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don't get it ..why do people like TW UI? it pretty ugly IMO
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don't get it ..why do people like TW UI? it pretty ugly IMO
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No its awesome
Say sorry to touchwiz
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erm..sorry ...but srlsly what's with the hype for TW ? i tried to give it a shot but then it failed to impress i used go laucher ex instead
I want HTC Sense 4.0 instead.
TouchWiz looks ordinary while Sense looks pretty and awesome.
+1 to that..i couldnt agree more...Touchwiz is FU-GLY !!!!!
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Holding on to what I haven't gooooooooooooooooooot
I like TouchWiz, I really do, the same way that I like Sense.
Touchwiz is simple and superb.
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Well guys,there are Pros and Cons for both TW and Sense Sense has a really beautiful UI,but since 4.0,its a real ram hog and it slows down the system.TW is ugly in some places but places like,the dialer is JUST AWESOME,and its stable so,i dont go for both i had go for a hybrid version combining both TW and Sense
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Well guys,there are Pros and Cons for both TW and Sense Sense has a really beautiful UI,but since 4.0,its a real ram hog and it slows down the system.TW is ugly in some places but places like,the dialer is JUST AWESOME,and its stable so,i dont go for both i had go for a hybrid version combining both TW and Sense
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TouchWiz v.Sense
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Well, I'm BIG fan of Sense UI. TouchWiz 4 is good, but not as good as Sense. Quite frankly, samsung needs to change TouchWiz completely just like htc did.
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Well, I'm BIG fan of Sense UI. TouchWiz 4 is good, but not as good as Sense. Quite frankly, samsung needs to change TouchWiz completely just like htc did.
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yes they need to do it so that newer quad core phones works much similar to those of dual cores in terms of speed
Rushyang said:
Well, I'm BIG fan of Sense UI. TouchWiz 4 is good, but not as good as Sense. Quite frankly, samsung needs to change TouchWiz completely just like htc did.
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COULDN'T AGREE MORE! Anyway About TW vs Sense thingy, TW, IMO, doesnt really look really good in it's original look but some devs like the ones from TC made me like it via editing it. I hate normal-looking touchwiz its really ugly for me No offense but it doesn't eat a big chunk of ram, thats the only thing sense aint capable of
hey guys, i think the galaxy note has the best hardware..but it is useless in terms of software...i mean sense is way better than it...i have many issues regarding software, like the contacts sync with the facebook...pic quality is very low and it doesnt allow me to save contacts by the name i want...and many more...so i was looking for a rom...with no touchwiz ui...bt i dnt know wether s pen apps will work on tha or not...i just wanted a rom with s pen apps n no touch wiz ui...can u guys plz suggest me that...i am on lb2...i know ill have o downgrade for it....
But I save contacts in the name I want.If you dont like TW try any other launchers like go-launcher from market
I tried...bt i want a different rom...with s pen apps...
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imilka's v7. (ics based)
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imilka's v7. (ics based)
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What are you on about here? OP said he wanted all the S-pen apps. Where do you find those in AOSP?
hi all
i want to know if someone can do an IOS7 or IOS6 custom rom for i9070 ??
really it will be a great idea
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hi all
i want to know if someone can do an IOS7 or IOS6 custom rom for i9070 ??
really it will be a great idea
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IOS is not open source. So no way. Even if it is it is not possible.
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Apart from the fact that it can't be ported, I think that we all love Android, mod it, customize it, the development and the porting of the ROMs and all other things,. iOS needs Cydia for mods, you can't change ROM, for example (and without mention the "serious stuff") if you want to change the keyboard you need Cydia, if you want to change battery icon or other icons you need Cydia, so for each change to the file system. And about iOS7? For now it can't be jailbreaked, so no Cydia, and no jailbreak=no party at all. It's just a my thought, then each one has their own tastes
The people would've probably ported over iOS 3/4/5/6 if it was possible
Catching my breath, letting it go, turning my cheek for the sake of the show
I expected a question about building an AOSP 4.4 lol