HTC has dropped 4 widgets on the market. Have a look here: http://www.androlib.com/android.developer.htc-corporation-FtE.aspx
They look really nice.
Requires Sense UI!
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HTC has dropped 4 widgets on the market. Have a look here: http://www.androlib.com/android.developer.htc-corporation-FtE.aspx
They look really nice.
Requires Sense UI!
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HTC should release a home application that runs Sense UI. I think it's doable, and if they did they could charge like 20 bucks, and not really have to go from firmware to firmware extremes.
i am not really sure whether i like what i see that HTC is posting on the market. all the widgets they publish are only for HTC Magic and Droid Eris... meanwhile sending C&D's to developers who have been porting HTC widgets to other devices (like HTC Dream/G1)...
to me this looks like they want to push sales of their Magic & Droid Eris models, and make people switch from their old G1's...
don't like it
I see other HTC models(HD,HD2,Touch 3g) all have that clock widget that flips over as every minute passes. Using Beautiful widget gives the same design, but not the same functionality(the eyecandy effect). Is there a way to manipulate that at the moment?
yes!
I too have been wondering if we can retrieve the Fancy "flip" clock again that just seemed to kill our poor slow g1's... But with the nexus i think it might as well come back! I think we've got enough speed
History: HTC took it out in one of the early hero updates.
Therefore unless they add it back we will not have it.
Weather Widgets Donate version has the HTC sense flip clock. Is that what you are talking about?
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Weather Widgets Donate version has the HTC sense flip clock. Is that what you are talking about?
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They want it to actually "flip", the above guy is right, it was removed in early Hero updates due to the lagging of the UI. For some reason that small eye candy caused Sense on Android to be mediocre, we can't have it back unless someone can recreate the effect.. because it is apparent HTC has given up on it for their Android Sense phones. Though, it may be able to optimized and added again.
From what I remember others saying is that that early build was never deodexed so it can't be used cross platform.
This is be done 100% by HTC and there is nothing we can do.
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
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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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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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My EVO 3D with Sense 4.0 and Ice Cream Sandwich has 5 rows and 4 columns of apps on the home screens. The One is 4x4, at least out of the box. Is there a way to change that?
Wait for a developer. On the sense 5 port I've been running, there's a mod to get 5x6.
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5x6 would be amazing. Will I have to root for that? Not that I am opposed... I've rooted every Android I've ever had and "jailbroken" every iPhone before that, but I was kind of hoping that the One would meet all of my needs without having to do so.
Does anybody know how to make the background transparent on the 4x1 clock/weather widget? I would like the one on my home screen to look just like the one on my lockscreen, but I can't find any appearance settings at all, really. It really feels like there are a lot fewer customization options in Sense 5.
Also, in Sense 4 when you went to add a widget there was a button at the top called "Browse all HTC widgets". You could go through their whole library and download whatever you wanted. Does that still exist in Sense 5? I'm really missing my 4x2 music widget, among others.
I feel like I'm getting screwed out of a lot of really cool features that I loved about Sense. I know that a lot of people hated it, but I don't see why I still shouldn't be able to download and use the things that I enjoyed.
I HATE that the HTC clock/weather widget forces you to use Accuweather. Accuweather is an absolute joke. I've seen them miss the temperature by 40 degrees the day before. Today their hourly forecast show it as sunny after 1:00 pm in Indianapolis. Weather.com shows it raining until 6:00 pm. I would just about guarantee weather.com is right.
Hey guys,
I really love the HTC One and Sense 5 but I would love to see some changes to it.
I like Sense 5 but I don't bother switching to a GE Rom. However, I would love the HTC One Flip clock
as a widget on Nova. Not a fake one like HD Widgets but the real deal.
Also, Is it possible to change/theme/mod the notification bar to the Stock android one, we can't just like install a theme and install it like on devices like the Galaxy Nexus I used to have.
Anyone know if this is possible? I could'nt find any thing similar on xda to answer my questions..
Thanks in advance!
L
LarsAussems said:
Hey guys,
I really love the HTC One and Sense 5 but I would love to see some changes to it.
I like Sense 5 but I don't bother switching to a GE Rom. However, I would love the HTC One Flip clock
as a widget on Nova. Not a fake one like HD Widgets but the real deal.
Also, Is it possible to change/theme/mod the notification bar to the Stock android one, we can't just like install a theme and install it like on devices like the Galaxy Nexus I used to have.
Anyone know if this is possible? I could'nt find any thing similar on xda to answer my questions..
Thanks in advance!
L
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Im currently using Viper rom. It has a fantastic themed sense 5 clock in black and red.
Ive also used a Beautiful widget Sense 4 style clock, and it looks spot on.
The Sense flip clock, can only be used on Sense, and I take it this is what you mean when you say HTC One flip clock.
My current set up with out a flip clock. Which is not normal for me. As like you, I love the original Sense 4, or 5 Flip clock
Steve