[Q] Which Widgets!! - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, Which widgets in your opinion make the screen look good and are informative?
I looked around and can't really find anything that stands out.
I have beautiful widgets which is fine but most theme addons look to samey.
What do you think Zedders!!

Go read every last page of the "post your homescreen" thread for some inspiration, tips and ideas.

I have gone through many widgets, but ended having none.
Battery life turned out to be more important to me.

XperienceD said:
Go read every last page of the "post your homescreen" thread for some inspiration, tips and ideas.
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Okay I will have a look at that. Thanks!!

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Post your today screen (with the cab?)

I know its alot to ask concidering that there is already a "post your today screen" thread. I know im always changing my home screen, but i am always spending a heck of alot of time searching for the .cab, so i figured if it can be consolidated in one post that would make it easier for hopefully everybody.
Im using HTCPlus and GPSToday with some regular theme. Nothing too fancy. I'm waiting for spb 2.0.
can you post screen-shot with the .cabs and what not that would probably be more helpful, so people know what it will look like before they install it.
tnx.
CLOCKWO12K said:
can you post screen-shot with the .cabs and what not that would probably be more helpful, so people know what it will look like before they install it.
tnx.
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lol. funny how well people follow instructions
Haxxxess said:
lol. funny how well people follow instructions
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more like too lazy to find a program that takes screen shots, install it, and upload. Its much easier to not do that. Plus I think people already know what those apps look like. by the looks of it, you didn't even post a SS or a cab. ;-)
If you have read my OP in the Post your Todayscreen topic. I have asked people to post a list of programs they use. Ans post the TSK of your background.
Nobody does it... So i don't see why it would work in this thread.
I can change the topic Title maybe
Jewcookie said:
If you have read my OP in the Post your Todayscreen topic. I have asked people to post a list of programs they use. Ans post the TSK of your background.
Nobody does it... So i don't see why it would work in this thread.
I can change the topic Title maybe
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well i am not going to get to in depth on this thread, i fugured it was a good idea, but most people already know what they are looking for and were to get the cab. Soooooo.... with that being said ill let this baby ride for a day or two, if nobody else replies ill just delete....

Flipclock?

That Flipclock thats in all of the Cyan 4.x.x screenshots; how do i acquire that? im sorr 4 the noob question, ive looked all over and ive been unsuccessful...
s0xpan said:
That Flipclock thats in all of the Cyan 4.x.x screenshots; how do i acquire that? im sorr 4 the noob question, ive looked all over and ive been unsuccessful...
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I don't suppose you searched for it in Market, did you?
since you at least asked in the correct place i shall tell you. weather widget donate or beautiful widgets. both have the flip style clock
david1171 said:
since you at least asked in the correct place i shall tell you. weather widget donate or beautiful widgets. both have the flip style clock
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I don't recommend the Beautful widgets because they hog up more system resources. But that's based on my experience with it. The Flip Clock for the Weather Widget requires a lot less and can be themed.
Binary100100 said:
I don't recommend the Beautful widgets because they hog up more system resources. But that's based on my experience with it. The Flip Clock for the Weather Widget requires a lot less and can be themed.
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I personally use the weather widget one, but figured I would give him both of them.
david1171 said:
I personally use the weather widget one, but figured I would give him both of them.
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Yeah me too. They both come up when you go on Market and search "Flip Clock", which makes sense.
I use weather widget, he said he searched for it but that ? Has been asked almost as much as help, I think I bricked my phone
gridlock32404 said:
I use weather widget, he said he searched for it but that ? Has been asked almost as much as help, I think I bricked my phone
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i searched for hours on how to make a call from my phone but since i couldn't find a step by step process i made a thread in the wrong forum on xda lol.
david1171 said:
i searched for hours on how to make a call from my phone but since i couldn't find a step by step process i made a thread in the wrong forum on xda lol.
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Bwahahahahaha
Thanks guys, i had searched "flip clock" and got "flip clock widget" and it was not what i wanted lol it was a program with your background and the top....it was such a rip off
smh so who's trying 4.1.1? lol
s0xpan said:
Thanks guys, i had searched "flip clock" and got "flip clock widget" and it was not what i wanted lol it was a program with your background and the top....it was such a rip off
smh so who's trying 4.1.1? lol
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I'm trying it now. So far it's stable... at least for me.
david1171 said:
i searched for hours on how to make a call from my phone but since i couldn't find a step by step process i made a thread in the wrong forum on xda lol.
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wait... you can call from these phones??? whoa. Imagine the possibilities! Next comes texting!!! I'm so excited!!!
david1171 said:
i searched for hours on how to make a call from my phone but since i couldn't find a step by step process i made a thread in the wrong forum on xda lol.
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That's productive. Why does this forum have a such a musky scent of asshole to it?
The majority of screencaps showing off cyanogen's mod typically show the Weather Widget Donate on it's first page, as if to say that it's part of the mod package itself. But, yes of course, why wouldn't everyone just assume that they'd go to the market and download something called "weather widget" when they're looking for a clock. Golly, lusers sure are silly! Thank god you guys are here to keep that pedantic nerd stereotype alive and well.
eabod
pilkro said:
That's productive. Why does this forum have a such a musky scent of asshole to it?
The majority of screencaps showing off cyanogen's mod typically show the Weather Widget Donate on it's first page, as if to say that it's part of the mod package itself. But, yes of course, why wouldn't everyone just assume that they'd go to the market and download something called "weather widget" when they're looking for a clock. Golly, lusers sure are silly! Thank god you guys are here to keep that pedantic nerd stereotype alive and well.
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hey do you even know how to read??? i was the first person to tell him what to search for in the market, his question was answered. i posted a joke but apparently you lacked the comprehension skills to realize it was a joke and not a flame. if i was flaming the OP i would have never gave him/her an answer to begin with. I told the OP both of the widgets, did you just click the second page and not even realize there was one in front of it
pilkro said:
That's productive. Why does this forum have a such a musky scent of asshole to it?
The majority of screencaps showing off cyanogen's mod typically show the Weather Widget Donate on it's first page, as if to say that it's part of the mod package itself. But, yes of course, why wouldn't everyone just assume that they'd go to the market and download something called "weather widget" when they're looking for a clock. Golly, lusers sure are silly! Thank god you guys are here to keep that pedantic nerd stereotype alive and well.
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did someone...NOT show up to class on sarcastic day? and excuse me for wanting to know an answer to a question....and ask the question before i searched...and someone was nice enough to answer and then we did what most people on here who arent afraid of there phones, we joke about intelligence....ii might just not be afraid of being told i might b an idiot....cuz this idiot has gone hero & back w/ no tutorial
*chuckles*
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hey do you even know how to read??? i was the first person to tell him what to search for in the market, his question was answered. i posted a joke but apparently you lacked the comprehension skills to realize it was a joke and not a flame. if i was flaming the OP i would have never gave him/her an answer to begin with. I told the OP both of the widgets, did you just click the second page and not even realize there was one in front of it
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Get em david.
Wow suprised I was not following this thread, I would have had plenty to say, I guess I can feel better knowing that it was in quite capable hands with david.
Now to interupt and add my 2 cents into this
To pilkiro, ummm, where do you get off thinking that just cause you know something technicial and have a thirst for information about the things in your life and just want to give that knowledge back makes you a nerd. Sorry, we can't have a little fun in these threads. go get a ****ing life you freaking retarded moron. Also with respect and no offsense, I hope you brick your phone, good day now
Now back to your regularly schedulued thread already in progress
gridlock32404 said:
Wow suprised I was not following this thread, I would have had plenty to say, I guess I can feel better knowing that it was in quite capable hands with david.
Now to interupt and add my 2 cents into this
To pilkiro, ummm, where do you get off thinking that just cause you know something technicial and have a thirst for information about the things in your life and just want to give that knowledge back makes you a nerd. Sorry, we can't have a little fun in these threads. go get a ****ing life you freaking retarded moron. Also with respect and no offsense, I hope you brick your phone, good day now
Now back to your regularly schedulued thread already in progress
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I second that motion!!!
I'm a beer drinken red neck dyslexic landscaper with a G1 phone LOL
David, Binary, Gridlock and many others have help me over and over and over again. A little fun once in awhile is good for the soul
Uhhh David could you send me the link on how to make calls? Nevermind I'll just post in development
I grew up a philly city boy, that used to design roads, and am laid off with a lot of time on my hands and you can only party so much, and pimping hours are between 7pm and 4am, and I need something to do while I am doing security for my ho's.
Wait I can make phone calls, somebody please get me a link for this, maybe I should make a guide

Theme Gallery (webpage) Up And Running HERE!!

Theme Gallery Up And Running HERE!!
Ok I got the swine flu so I decided to do something productive. I have seen many posts on here talking about a theme page and no one made one that is gallery stile. Every one I found is like Themedroid (not functional yet) and others that are forum stile. So I sat down and made a gallery for them. I updated this with all the themes posted here on xda. Yes I sat down and added every theme I could find on xda to punk-in. If you would like your theme removed please email me the name of it and I will gladly remove it for you.
I do not take any credit for the themes I just wanted a better way to view what each looks like. Now make sure you view what is required to run the theme. I am not responsible for bricked phones. Also I had to break them down into old themes, cupcake themes and hero themes. Now If I get good feedback I will organize it much better but for now This is how it has to be.
http://www.punk-in.com/gallery/main.php
Thanks for your input,
[email protected]
just took a very quick look at it because I have somewhere I have to get to. but it looked nice from what I saw. I will look more later. thanks
jc1337 said:
just took a very quick look at it because I have somewhere I have to get to. but it looked nice from what I saw. I will look more later. thanks
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Thanks, I appreciate the input.
Sucks about you gettin swine flu but the site looks nice.
[email protected] said:
Theme Gallery Up And Running HERE!!
Ok I got the swine flu so I decided to do something productive. I have seen many posts on here talking about a theme page and no one made one that is gallery stile. Every one I found is like Themedroid (not functional yet) and others that are forum stile. So I sat down and made a gallery for them. I updated this with all the themes posted here on xda. Yes I sat down and added every theme I could find on xda to punk-in. If you would like your theme removed please email me the name of it and I will gladly remove it for you.
I do not take any credit for the themes I just wanted a better way to view what each looks like. Now make sure you view what is required to run the theme. I am not responsible for bricked phones. Also I had to break them down into old themes, cupcake themes and hero themes. Now If I get good feedback I will organize it much better but for now This is how it has to be.
http://www.punk-in.com/gallery/main.php
Thanks for your input,
[email protected]
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wow dude! What an implementation of a great idea! I like it! Good way to just scan through themes and see what they look like before even going to the threads! Congrats, dude!
PS: Sorry about the swine flu.
Not to shabby. Would be good for new people looking to check out themes. One thing I would change is you have 3 sections: Hero, Cupcake, and old. I would change Cupcake to just Android or something more general since cupcake is kind of old news now. Might confuse people running Donut.
how about section for themes for donut?
Could you organize them by build?
Saw a few that I liked but none that would work for CM 4.1.999
HooliganAMA said:
Could you organize them by build?
Saw a few that I liked but none that would work for CM 4.1.999
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I think you should do that. Searching by build would be the easiest way for me to find a theme I like.
@[email protected]
This is a really well put together site, thank you for taking the time to compile a list of themes out there.
PS: Sorry u got the swin flu
Wow!
Thanks for taking the time to do this. It's great.
You might want to go through alldroid.org as most of the new major themers have moved there
Wow! This is a great help is quickly checking out how the themes look like
Everyone is right the site looks great thanks for all the hard work. I do agree that a little more detail about what ROMs these Themes work for would be nice. Maybe the ROM specific Dev name like Cyan, JAC, Haykuro, etc would be nice but anyone could download a theme and make it work for that rom just by moving the files around. With 7 Zip and the Auto Sign tool it a peice of cake.
Get Well Soon but Enjoy the Time Off
nice work! you should put a search option
thanks for putting my theme
sorry you got that swine flu hope youre better soon!
Thanks so far for the feedback.
Thanks for the input. I feel ok to sit up and check up on some of my projects. I looked at alldroid.org and allot of the themes are there also. I will make a post there and see if they like the idea. I do not want to step on anyone's toes. I am just trying to get away from viewing all the themes via forum. I like to see all of them together and pick the one I like.
I also keep hearing people want it to have a Donut section. I will draw up an android maby eating a donut or something. LOL.
If everyone wants it more organized please give an example. Like All Cyanagin put together? Or all builds separate or how to do it? I would like to get it all set up now so in the future people can just add a pic an a link to there theme and people could look at them and do what they have to do.
Thanks for the feed back and support.
[email protected]
Also if you would like to look at the new punk-in beta site I almost have the home page all done.
http://www.punk-in.com
Barina said:
nice work! you should put a search option
thanks for putting my theme
sorry you got that swine flu hope youre better soon!
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There is a search bar. Just click the link in the upper right hand corner called "sidebar" From there it will pull up a window on the left with a search and login. I know it is hard to find. I am thinking about moving it.
good looking site. i registered. thanx
mmmm... i think you should let the themers do the dark work..
Barina said:
mmmm... i think you should let the themers do the dark work..
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What do you mean? Is there another site that is better. I am just doing this to help but if there is another site that is better I would love to NOT have to maintain this. Please let me know.
Please note: I am trying to get away from the whole forum thing. I really like this site here http://g1wallz.com/ but they only have wallpapers.

Color Me Android

So some of you may or may not remember a little old blog called Color Me Android from back in the day that was a screenshot based site. Well, it went down some months ago, and that was that. However. I tried to put a theme on my phone the other day (It's supposed to be so simple with the theme chooser, yeah?). Unfortunately, because it's so easy with CM7 and MIUI theme engines, that themes are EVERYWHERE. It takes you about a bloody hour just to find one.
So, I brought CMA back.
As a theme site.
It's a visual directory of all CM7/MIUI/ADW - type themes. It's in Open Alpha, and I'm inviting people to come, register, sign in, submit screenshots (Yes, I kept the orignal screenshot part of the site there) and help me find bugs while I finish adding themes. I've got 45 on the site so far. And I'm working my way down that ginormous list of themes that stickied in this forum.
So yeah.
Thoughts/comments/bugs?
or themes you want to see on the site? Tell me below.
http://colormeandroid.com
Sweet man thanks for bringing this back. Its great to have a easier way of finding themes and such.
sick idea. i'll deff be there alot as long as all the themes from miui get added there and lockscreens. =]
kevlars9 said:
Sweet man thanks for bringing this back. Its great to have a easier way of finding themes and such.
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Once you register and log in there's a submit screenshot link that pops up so you can submit and view screenshots (a glorified 'post your homescreen' thread - but it's just like old school cma [hopefully])
shady503403 said:
sick idea. i'll deff be there alot as long as all the themes from miui get added there and lockscreens. =]
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I already have the "official" themes there, and I'm going through the miuiandroid forums to find more. It's gonna take a while to catch up.
Also - I am looking for people to help me add themes. So if you're interested, respond
I like it very much!
Here are some themes I personally use that I would like to see added
EpicBlue N Bold
R3D's Themes
Thanks! This is a great idea
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I like it very much!
Here are some themes I personally use that I would like to see added
EpicBlue N Bold
R3D's Themes
Thanks! This is a great idea
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Thanks for the support! Just added those themes thanks
Is there a reason I can't post screenshots?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
pspunderground said:
Is there a reason I can't post screenshots?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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Sorry, to prevent spam screenshots are sent in as a draft, and have to published by an editor (me). Otherwise people would just fill the form with crap. And it hasn't been notifying me, so I apologize for that. Also - the syntax for posting an image is the image tag in html not bbcode
so
Code:
<img src="url to image">
not
Code:
[img]url to image[/img]
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Sorry, to prevent spam screenshots are sent in as a draft, and have to published by an editor (me). Otherwise people would just fill the form with crap. And it hasn't been notifying me, so I apologize for that. Also - the syntax for posting an image is the image tag in html not bbcode
so
Code:
<img src="url to image">
not
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[img]url to image[/img]
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Ahh, ok. Let me edit this then...
EDIT: OK, I think I fixed it
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Ahh, ok. Let me edit this then...
EDIT: OK, I think I fixed it
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Indeed you did. I can always go in and edit it, but it's nice for the people to know what they're doing. Especially since I'm the only admin/editor for the alpha. That way if I change something, I don't have to worry about telling other people about it
i was wondering what happened to u..i havent seen you around in abit.
i was cleaning out my drive and i found that sig you made for me about a year and change ago lol.
really like the ui of your site, seems user friendly for theme users to interact without searching for hours
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i was wondering what happened to u..i havent seen you around in abit.
i was cleaning out my drive and i found that sig you made for me about a year and change ago lol.
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Aha! I knew your username sounded familiar
aNdroidnut said:
really like the ui of your site, seems user friendly for theme users to interact without searching for hours
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That's the idea! Also going to add instructions for the various things. How to get CM7/MIUI on your device, how to blah blah. And whatnot. One stop theming, hopefully.
hollywooder said:
Aha! I knew your username sounded familiar
That's the idea! Also going to add instructions for the various things. How to get CM7/MIUI on your device, how to blah blah. And whatnot. One stop theming, hopefully.
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Glad to see you're back! I actually found you guys through custom android, or AE, any idea what happened to those guys?
Thanks for all your hard work.
AH. I got my new phone and then went to your site to find some nice styles but noticed its changed a bit.
Am right in thinking the old site was more customised home screens than themes?.......If so is there anyway to see them again because thats what I really liked. People saying what widgets they used and custom graphics to make cool buttons etc.
But still the site is good! Maybe have an option to go back to the old version aswell?
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AH. I got my new phone and then went to your site to find some nice styles but noticed its changed a bit.
Am right in thinking the old site was more customised home screens than themes?.......If so is there anyway to see them again because thats what I really liked. People saying what widgets they used and custom graphics to make cool buttons etc.
But still the site is good! Maybe have an option to go back to the old version aswell?
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Yes, it used to be a screenshot based site. I am going to be bringing that functionality back in the near future. However, I am still working on finding decent hosting. I can't afford anything so I'm looking for a sponsor. Until I find one, production is at a standstill. But yes, the screenshot portion of the site is going to be at screens.colormeandroid.com when I get everything set up eventually.
u had some epic **** back in those nexusOne days!
Hey, I truly truly truly miss Color Me Android. I saw the new site up a little bit ago. Is it back down again? Also, will there be a way of getting the old themes/screen shots back? Like archived? Anyways, Hope to see this again soon, I need inspiration for my Droid!
Take care

How to turn off forum descriptions?

Is there a way to turn off the description of forums on XDA?
It takes way too much space.
Attached is a screenshot of the Nexus 6 General forum, It takes up almost half the screen.
nxt said:
Is there a way to turn off the description of forums on XDA?
It takes way too much space.
Attached is a screenshot of the Nexus 6 General forum, It takes up almost half the screen.
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first off, questions go into q&a, not the general section. secondly, scroll to the bottom of xda, and change the theme. i use the 2010 theme, its a little simpler, with a little less.
simms22 said:
first off, questions go into q&a, not the general section. secondly, scroll to the bottom of xda, and change the theme. i use the 2010 theme, its a little simpler, with a little less.
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Eh, I posted in an xda general help forum, not the nexus 6 forum, someone moved it to nexus 6 forum... shrug....
mods should just delete this.
You may also ad block that portion of the website by adding it.
simms22 said:
i use the 2010 theme, its a little simpler, with a little less.
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I haven't looked at that theme in some time. It is quite refreshing. In this case, I'm not sure progress was good, but at least they're all there so we can choose.

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