Hi everyone, I'm a HTC Incredible S user (stock) from Australia that has been increasingly frustrated with HTC support (lack of stock update to ICS due to carrier, Virgin Mobile), so I decided to take the matter to my own hand.
Question been: I have been browsing around the forum for various ROM to flash (read the important notices and all such), but one question come to mind... since I am using Go Launcher (free version, got sick with stock HTC sense) what are the con for said launcher? Is it recommended to replace stock/ROM launchers with it?
Thanks everyone for helping out.
It's up to you, I don't like Sense <=3.6 either.
I think the more popular launchers here on XDA are Nova and Apex.
The cons are that the Sense launcher will continue to use up memory as a system service but that can now be stopped using this.
Launchers are mostly for customization. Go launcher is among the best available to replace stock launcher. If you're going to root your device then you'll have the liberty to choose whether you want a sense based rom or just plain vanilla rom (rom without sense framework and interface).
As of my experience, I'm liking apex launcher for its simplicity and ease of use, but if you are willing to spend some bucks, i would recommend tsf launcher, nice eye candy yet still not a burden to system resources.
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+1 for Apex - I like how you can change the name and icon for the app in the home screen among other customisations all for free.
Some apps in Google Play are great but their icons are sh1te
Thanks for suggestions guys! Much appreciated!
Just one more question to ask: which ROM is the best recommended to go for right now? I was thinking Nik's JB ROMs, but half afread the phone might not be able to run it smoothly (store mobile Incredible S with stock ICS update lag like hell...)
Thanks very much.
EDIT: opps forgot to mention, without HTC sense...
Smoothest experience and best battery/performance close to stock:
ARHD or The Second Sun rom
Nonverbose's kernel
ultrasmooth rosie
v6 supercharger
Andrev daemon
Project butter hacks
I agree with markj on his suggested rom and tweaks. If you're looking for non sense rom, give nik's jb rom a try.
EDIT : you tried that, my bad the rom still new, nik will further polish it in the future for sure
Personally, for plain-non sense-ics rom, i prefer icecoldsandwich together with those tweaks (minus kernel) mentioned.
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larkhillv7 said:
I agree with markj on his suggested rom and tweaks. If you're looking for non sense rom, give nik's jb rom a try.
EDIT : you tried that, my bad the rom still new, nik will further polish it in the future for sure
Personally, for plain-non sense-ics rom, i prefer icecoldsandwich together with those tweaks (minus kernel) mentioned.
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And minus ultrasmooth Rosie tweak I though, am I right?
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And minus ultrasmooth Rosie tweak I though, am I right?
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Absolutely, no sense no rosie
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Jintso said:
Thanks for suggestions guys! Much appreciated!
Just one more question to ask: which ROM is the best recommended to go for right now? I was thinking Nik's JB ROMs, but half afread the phone might not be able to run it smoothly (store mobile Incredible S with stock ICS update lag like hell...)
Thanks very much.
EDIT: opps forgot to mention, without HTC sense...
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I had the same experience as you when I updated with the OTA stock ICS update... almost hurled my phone at the wall with the lags and rubbish battery life.
IceColdSandwich worked well for me but I'm now using CodeName JB (I like to roll with the cool kids) and both have been very smooth, the latter much more so IMO.
A thing to note if you are snap happy - the camera quality in AOKP/AOSP ROMs will not be as good as Sense ones. Just something I noticed as well as others in XDA.
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I like the sense UI for some reason, just wondering if theres anything new about it coming out soon. Or is it dead now?
Any sense rom will be the same except for maybe a theme being incorporated and apps being added or removed. The froyo sense rom has a couple of extra not found in 2.1, but IMHO cm6 runs much better than sense. I use to love sense roms but for the last 6 months have been on cm6. I do like the HTC keyboard and some other things, but my performance now is a lot better without sense.
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Probably not. The developers feel that sense slows down the performance of the device, which it does. So mostly all devs avoid sense at all. Though there are roms with partial sense, like menus, but no there isn't a full blown sense rom. Sorry.
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Probably not. The developers feel that sense slows down the performance of the device, which it does. So mostly all devs avoid sense at all. Though there are roms with partial sense, like menus, but no there isn't a full blown sense rom. Sorry.
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Do any of you guys know of a
"2.2" Rom that has some of the same "Themed" Sense Widgets?
Such as... Music, Bookmarks, and maybe even the Lockscreen? That's Basically the Only thing keeping me Away from all the Non-Sense Roms, if anyone has a Suggestion Post it Please!!
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Is it possible for there to be a HTC Sense Gingerbread ROM? I like Sense and I like Gingerbread. Thank you
well Kifno is making a "gingersense" when it will be done or stable? idk? but what you can do is get AOSPCMod and then download launcher pro and can put a sense like dock background, to make it more sense like. its what i do too, cause i agree with your statment haha
Or heLauncher. It has different layouts like sense and the one in the espresso roms.
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yeah that too, i personally never tried that launcher though =]
but you can follow Kifnos thread to see the development of it or whatever.
itllbe very exciting if he finishes it. Cause all his other roms are just amazing
Awesome
Thanks a lot =D. I'm getting the hero and I want Gingerbread. So i'll download the launcher for now
yeah thats the best we Hero user got (as far as my knowledge) =\
warm regards and happy rooting
Does anyone know if these screen animations are available for the Inc S?? I think it's pretty cool and I'd love to know if this works for the Incredible S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClA8sU5SH8&feature=related
Yep. Those are on CyanogenMod 7. You can simply enable them in the Cyanogen-menu. But it's also available for AndroidRevolution HD (CRT-Screen Animation). Works very nice
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Yep. Those are on CyanogenMod 7. You can simply enable them in the Cyanogen-menu. But it's also available for AndroidRevolution HD (CRT-Screen Animation). Works very nice
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Do you have a preference for CM7 over RevHD?? I'm kinda new to this and so far RevHD is the only one I tried. Do you have any feedback on CM7 vs RevHD??
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Yep. Those are on CyanogenMod 7. You can simply enable them in the Cyanogen-menu. But it's also available for AndroidRevolution HD (CRT-Screen Animation). Works very nice
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Do you have a link to AndroidRevolution HD (CRT-Screen Animation) for Incredible S?? I can find it for ARHD 5.1.1. but I'm using the Incredible S version 1.1.3... Are they the same??
Sure. I had ARHD since i rooted my phone (as alpharevx launched public). It's a very nice rom - the best if you want Sense. But i'll never regret my switch to CM7 (about a month ago). It's totally smooth & faster than any rom i had before. Also the configuration possibilities are amazing.
In ArHD you have to flash that animation seperately. In CM7, it's included.
Yeah, you should be able to install that animation, cause it's linked in the IncS-thread. The files for sense 3.0 are the same for the IncS and the DHD version.
P.s. if you still have questions, feel free to contact me
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DesGehtDiNixO said:
Sure. I had ARHD since i rooted my phone (as alpharevx launched public). It's a very nice rom - the best if you want Sense. But i'll never regret my switch to CM7 (about a month ago). It's totally smooth & faster than any rom i had before. Also the configuration possibilities are amazing.
In ArHD you have to flash that animation seperately. In CM7, it's included.
Yeah, you should be able to install that animation, cause it's linked in the IncS-thread. The files for sense 3.0 are the same for the IncS and the DHD version.
P.s. if you still have questions, feel free to contact me
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Awesome thanks so much man, I may just have to try out CM7, I've been thinking about it but I didn't really know how they compare. Thanks again for the feedback!!
No problem. Yeah, you should really try out CM7, it's definetely worth it. I just updated to Nightly #46, and all nightlies were stable for me without any force closes. Daily use
And as i told u before, just ask me if there are some other questions
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Hey, Im having an issue with the crt animation, after I flash the crt animation for desire hd on my IS, the 4 buttons doesn't light up, and the worst part is I didn't do nanddroid backup before I flash the crt animation.
Are there any way i can get all 4 buttons back?
Hey man, I tried out CM7 last night and I must say it seems really really god and fast so far. I love how everything is darker and easily themed. Thanks for the push
@wpra3: try to reflash ArHD without wiping.
@johnblundon: yep, that's pretty cool in CM, that makes it kinda 'clean'. I think the first setup needs a little time, because some settings are on a different place, but then, it's just perfect & fast. No problem
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@wpra3: try to reflash ArHD without wiping.
@johnblundon: yep, that's pretty cool in CM, that makes it kinda 'clean'. I think the first setup needs a little time, because some settings are on a different place, but then, it's just perfect & fast. No problem
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Seems great so far man, super fast. Thanks again for the advice before I tried it, being kinda new I'm always a little nervous trying something new, nice to have someone else with he same phone to look to before jumping into it
why do button backlights fail with CRT animation on Sense ROMs in the first place ?
Because the DRHD (the mod is taken from that version) doesn't have the rotating backlight.
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Is it availablefor virtuous unity ROM? If so, please send me link to download and instructions ....thanks
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why do sense roms not have crt animations in the first place? Or the network icons that change colours...
Because sense is sense. And i hope that makes sense for you
No..i mean, that's cause it's modified by htc and they deleted that feature
Can't i port the crt animations on my official rom.
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there is CRT screen off animation with rotating buttons and backlighting in VirtiousROM.
First of all - I don't own the One (I have an HTC DNA) but I figured here would be the better place to post it since more people who could answer could see it. I am a complete stranger to this forum section, so if I do something that the people here in this forum are against, I apologize. Also, I'm not sure if this belongs here or in Q&A, so moderators please move if in wrong place.
Now to the actual question,
Is there such a thing as a Sense 5 based launcher that is more customizable? The features I am wanting is things like disabling widget padding, disabling margins, overlapping widgets, and changing app icons/labels. If you don't understand what I am saying, I'll use an anolagy. Apex/Nova is to AOSP launcher, as what I'm asking about is to Sense 5.
All answers are greatly appreciated.
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No. But viper Rom lets you customize the stock sense launcher more than HTC intended.
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Shadow Samurai said:
No. But viper Rom lets you customize the stock sense launcher more than HTC intended.
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Does viper let u change the task launcher into something other than the sense launcher? I hate the card style task launcher and I am looking for something like the S4. Is there something like that our there? Thanks.
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No. But viper Rom lets you customize the stock sense launcher more than HTC intended.
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But can you use those modifications on another ROM? I'm interested it Elliptic ROM for my DNA (which was ported from the One, so you may be familiar with it), and I want to know if there is a way to use these Viper features on the DNA.
1Krima said:
Does viper let u change the task launcher into something other than the sense launcher? I hate the card style task launcher and I am looking for something like the S4. Is there something like that our there? Thanks.
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There are several mods (at least for the DNA) that do this. I am sure there are some for the One.
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1Krima said:
Does viper let u change the task launcher into something other than the sense launcher? I hate the card style task launcher and I am looking for something like the S4. Is there something like that our there? Thanks.
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Do you mean the app switcher? Viper and several other ROMs have an option for the AOSP app switcher.
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But can you use those modifications on another ROM? I'm interested it Elliptic ROM for my DNA (which was ported from the One, so you may be familiar with it), and I want to know if there is a way to use these Viper features on the DNA.
There are several mods (at least for the DNA) that do this. I am sure there are some for the One.
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Could you just pull the prism.apk from the viper launcher? I'm actually curious to know if doing that would work to get the viper sense 5 settings in another ROM, say ARHD for instance..
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Morganmachine91 said:
Could you just pull the prism.apk from the viper launcher? I'm actually curious to know if doing that would work to get the viper sense 5 settings in another ROM, say ARHD for instance..
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Not possible there's viper code everywhere
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I'm currently satisfied with Stock, after trying 99% of the roms out there.
Now I want to flash MIUI v5 (3.9.13 is the latest as far as i know) and see if it is any good.
I see that MIUI isn't very popular here as it is on the Gnex forums or other devices such as sony and samsung forums.
What do you guys think about it - Good or bad ? please state why
Used it, was good but definitely not as slick and fast as stock. Also the recent task manager makes your widgets freeze I'd you clear all.
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nathan96 said:
I'm currently satisfied with Stock, after trying 99% of the roms out there.
Now I want to flash MIUI v5 (3.9.13 is the latest as far as i know) and see if it is any good.
I see that MIUI isn't very popular here as it is on the Gnex forums or other devices such as sony and samsung forums.
What do you guys think about it - Good or bad ? please state why
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Stock is the best.pure Google experience.Though i am using the Touchwiz launcher with franco kernel
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i'm using MIUI for 2 hours a week ago, but i flash a stock ROM back, because some reason:
the +
UI is great.. no chance for stock ROM to beat this up..
Theming.. you can find a ton of theming on the MIUI Theme (or whatever is called)
smooth..
the -
some theme isn't free, you have to pay some theme with MiCredit(What is this? how does it works?)
i don't know why, the gallery won't load any of my pic, this problem i have never find in stock ROM..
too many crap apps that you don't need, i don't know what name of that's apps because it's written with a chinese word..
so i decided to revert back to ultimate stock ROM..
Looking forward for their new work with Hugo Barra - Other than that, they have always been an iOS-Wanna-Be to me, even though they have nice features - Just another experience built on top of Android
They are trying to create their own Android experience. I tried it for a week and return to cm10.1. The reason is because it uses more ram tham cm when i cleared everything. Im not very font of having all apps in my homepage...and the animations make everything slow down a bit. Besides this i like it very much. Waiting for offical rom...
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i'm using MIUI for 2 hours a week ago, but i flash a stock ROM back, because some reason:
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UI is great.. no chance for stock ROM to beat this up..
Theming.. you can find a ton of theming on the MIUI Theme (or whatever is called)
smooth..
the -
some theme isn't free, you have to pay some theme with MiCredit(What is this? how does it works?)
i don't know why, the gallery won't load any of my pic, this problem i have never find in stock ROM..
too many crap apps that you don't need, i don't know what name of that's apps because it's written with a chinese word..
so i decided to revert back to ultimate stock ROM..
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MiCredit = real money if I am not mistaken.
Ensifolk said:
Looking forward for their new work with Hugo Barra - Other than that, they have always been an iOS-Wanna-Be to me, even though they have nice features - Just another experience built on top of Android
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Gemichi said:
They are trying to create their own Android experience. I tried it for a week and return to cm10.1. The reason is because it uses more ram tham cm when i cleared everything. Im not very font of having all apps in my homepage...and the animations make everything slow down a bit. Besides this i like it very much. Waiting for offical rom...
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I just reverted to stock also. I did not experience lag at all, but the overall experience was slow. Ios and EVEN Ubuntu touch feels faster and snappier that that.
I use MIUI as my daily driver and I've got to say it is AMAZING!
BTW to get the Gallery and other devices to recognize your SD data you need a media scanner app
I use the Trinity Kernel and it rocks with great performance and battery life that fits my needs :3
I don't OC the CPU on this Kernel but I do have the GPU OC'd to 480 MHz
All in all it may not be stock android
But its worth a try :3
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nathan96 said:
I'm currently satisfied with Stock, after trying 99% of the roms out there.
Now I want to flash MIUI v5 (3.9.13 is t
Nhe latest as far as i know) and see if it is any good.
I see that MIUI isn't very popular here as it is on the Gnex forums or other devices such as sony and samsung forums.
What do you guys think about it - Good or bad ? please state why
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Why this is not popular here? Cuz there is no official rom for n4. All the versions you see here are ports. Miui experience is thus not the best, but its not too bad. Personally i am hooked to more features like pie and halo etc thus making miui a little less attractive.
What about the Miui roms you see on miui.com and xiaomi.eu/, are there any differences? Both are 3.9.13 and JB...
MIUI is ugly! Chinese imitation of IOS....
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BigDig said:
MIUI is ugly! Chinese imitation of IOS....
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I respect your opinion...however, i just saw iso7 ...it is beautiful but it looks like a cheap imitation of Android Miui. This is not an imatition of IOS... THIS IS ANDROID!!
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ToledoG28 said:
I respect your opinion...however, i just saw iso7 ...it is beautiful but it looks like a cheap imitation of Android Miui. This is not an imatition of IOS... THIS IS ANDROID!!
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If it's made in China it ain't good! My phone is feeling dirty even browsing this thread!
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It's a great rom I'm till using it and love it. I mean it doesn't have that buttery smooth scrolling as the stock vanilla, but it's barley noticeable . Thanks goes to Datsun.510 for porting this rom onto the nexus 4
Looks pretty sweet...I've used the v5 theme, but the experience itself looks compelling, as do the themes:
http://en.miui.com/features.php
Not a big fan of MIUI, kinda reminds me of iOS.
The themes look nice tho but I rather stick to the vanilla android like experience.
nathan96 said:
I'm currently satisfied with Stock, after trying 99% of the roms out there.
Now I want to flash MIUI v5 (3.9.13 is the latest as far as i know) and see if it is any good.
I see that MIUI isn't very popular here as it is on the Gnex forums or other devices such as sony and samsung forums.
What do you guys think about it - Good or bad ? please state why
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Not the best rom out there. Then again that very sentence is subjective. I prefer a less skinned aosp type of rom.
looks good but it works bad in my opinion and since i'm not a big fan of chinese mobile, no offence but let's stick with the identity of pure google! :cyclops:
I fell in love with miui with my Galaxy SL i9003 then with my xperia arc s lt18i and now with my nexus, where battery life, interface and smoothness is incredible... Now I am not using it, but I allways come back
Ehhhhh its OK pretty simple and elegant but it has negatives also...in my opinion its mainly extra useless apps and no app drawer
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