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Just wondering is it possible to use custom notification bars, dialers, and keyboard themes without flashing a new rom? I found some notification bars and dialers Id like to use from the Magnolia rom yet keep my HTC Sense. I dont use any launchers or anything. I prefer HTC Sense over the others.
I am rooted and I do run the HeyItsLou Kernel v8
You can use metamorph or ninjamorph, free from the market, to apply the images.
Or you can create an update zip containing the apk's and flash them in recovery.
I tried Metamorph, but nothing happened.
If you are running a deodexed 2.2 or 2.3 ROM you can use the Kitchen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990829
Im running the stock HTC rom with the HeyItsLou v8 Kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941030
Somewhere in there I found some cool skins for HTC SENSE. This will only change a few things though. Not dialer and keyboards.
But themed Keys are easy to find. I'm sure you know all this, but I'm just trying to participate.
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I already found the themes I like I just cant get them to install.
Forgot to say that no ROOT is required
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Do you have HTC HUB? And is it HTC SENSE 2.0?
I haven't had any problems installing them, but I'll try to help as much a possible.
Install just like a normal THIRD PARTY .APK
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Not familiar with HTC Hub. Not even sure what version of HTC Sense I have. I dont know how to check for versions.
Me either (dont know how to check sense version.)
But there are some signs. When you press personalize, does a path drawer come up and have Skins, Wallpaper, Scenes, Widgets, Apps, Shortcuts, Folders, etc..?
If it just has the last four mentioned when you tap and hold your home screen, then you don't have HTC SENSE 2.0
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When I hit personalize I get scenes, home wallpaper, and default ring tone. Im almost positive I have Sense v1.
So how can I get these things to work with Metamorph? I have all the files downloaded and ready to go.
I'm not sure, because I never needed or wanted to use MetaMORPH.
Can you post a screenie of your Home and Personalize menu?
And what phone do you have? I'm sure you just unpack the zip in MetaMORPH.
I don't know much about it.
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I have the HTC Incredible through Verizon.
Okay. So now we know your stock ROM was Sense 1.0, what Sense Rom do you have now?
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Oh, and a really nice ROM for DInc w/ Sense 2.0 is Myns Warm Z twopointtwo. You can change the skins to the ones you have downloaded.
By far my Favorite ROM for DInc when I had mine two days ago. Lol.
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The stock HTC sense rom. I havent flashed any custom roms. I like the default one from HTC. I just want to change some minor things. I have a dialer picked out. I want to get rid of the verizon branding in my notification bar, and I want to change the battery icon and thats it.
Okay then you have to use metamorph. I'm pretty sure there's a tutorial somewhere around here. On the Myns Warm thread, there's a video tutorial on using MetaMORPH to change keyboards. I'm positive it works the same for battery and dialer.
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After some researching I think my issue is with the amount of space in the /system folder. Only issue is I cant see that folder with Adao File Manager.
whitedragon551 said:
After some researching I think my issue is with the amount of space in the /system folder. Only issue is I cant see that folder with Adao File Manager.
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Root Explorer is the best in my opinion. I can view everything.
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On the stock att rom making changes. I want to get the aosp lockscreen active. I read if you deleted HtcLockscreen.apk it would automatically to trigger the default aosp lockscreen. However I did just that using titanium backup and I still have the sense lockscreen. Anyone know something I don't? Thanks
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I'm using the PureVelocity custom rom, which has Sense, but it has the Advanced Settings app (looks just like LeeDroid Tweaks), which offers to activate the AOSP lockscreen instead of the sense lockscreen. I wonder if you can use that app to achieve this? I use (and really like) the AOSP lockscreen feature.
Seeing that you mentioned your HtcLockScreen.apk, I looked for mine. I was wondering if Advanced Settings app simply replaces the HtcLockScreen.apk with the appropriate AOSP one? Mine is 1.07mb and has an MD5 of fe31e3aaf782ce16b74ea5c08007ac25
I figured it out! Delete HtcLockscreen.apk and idlescreen_base.apk and reboot, and aosp all the way!
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So apparently the HTC lockscreen is just an overlay. Maybe just maybe there is a full aosp rom underneath all the sense bs
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Argh... Freaking stays locked when getting a call or alarm. Freaking htc, there's always a catch.
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Cor-master said:
Argh... Freaking stays locked when getting a call or alarm. Freaking htc, there's always a catch.
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One of the things I noticed also. When phone rings, I have to do the AOSP unlock screen, then hit to answer the call. Not *too* huge a deal for me... It's easy to get over because I love how stable this rom is.
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Argh... Freaking stays locked when getting a call or alarm. Freaking htc, there's always a catch.
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I was just going to say, that won't work for calls. I'd recommend using Holics 1.2 (not 1.3) as it has an AT&T build.prop. The LeeDroid tweeks allow you to use the AOSP screen without any issues. Not sure what it does different, but it works.
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I was just going to say, that won't work for calls. I'd recommend using Holics 1.2 (not 1.3) as it has an AT&T build.prop. The LeeDroid tweeks allow you to use the AOSP screen without any issues. Not sure what it does different, but it works.
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Actually I had Holics on before, and the aosp option in Lee Droid tweaks did the same thing, unless it's fixed now
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Actually I had Holics on before, and the aosp option in Lee Droid tweaks did the same thing, unless it's fixed now
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I only tried it out for a few minutes (I prefer the sense version for quick access to multiple items), but I thought I tested the calls and they worked... Now that I think of it, it's entirely possible I'm thinking back to my brief stint with the de-sensed rom... In which case, Wajee might me able to tell you what you need to do to properly remove the HTC lockscreen crap to make it work 100%.
I'm still on Holics 1.2 so I'll try it out for you right now.
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Aye, as you thought, you have to unlock to accept a call if the screen is already locked. Works fine if the phone is unlocked when a call is placed or received though.
I think the issue is how sense receives calls. If you notice, you have the screen on and receive a call, then you'll have answer and ignore buttons. However if your phones locked you'll have call and ignore lockscreen shortcuts that you have to drag into a ring. I'm thinking it because the dialer is basically attached to the lockscreen, so the screen is still locked but it shows dialer information on it. Similar to how if you have a missed call, or the text it'll show you a picture of the caller on the lockscreen, or how it'll show weather information in the morning. I think the best solution would be an app that would auto unlocked the screen when receiving a call, or a custom aosp lockscreen that would show dialer information on it. I've been googling but all I'm finding is xda threads from other sense 3.6 phones that are having the same issue and people looking for solutions just like me.
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I mainly want it because while I like the sense lockscreen, rosie is a "Just Ok" launcher. I like being able to use nova and apex, I want instant camera access. You can still use the lockscreen shortcuts with a different launcher, but rosie will continue to run and use resources and occasionally you'll find yourself on the rosie home screen, for no apparent reason. Usually happens to me when closing apps with the back button. I froze rosie with TB but guess what? Yep lockscreen shortcuts no longer work.
This is really what the worst part about sense is. It's literally a system wide machine that won't work right without all its parts.
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Been searching high and low for an app that will automatically unlock the lock screen with no dice. Figured someone would of made one
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I'm still looking for a solution to get me past a pin lock to answer calls.
Other people have had success using tasker and secure settings if you don' have a pin.
sccrgoalie1 said:
I'm still looking for a solution to get me past a pin lock to answer calls.
Other people have had success using tasker and secure settings if you don' have a pin.
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Dear friend, you can try "HD Caller ID" from Play store, it is light weight but can do what you want
Am I missing something here or does the 4.2.2 really not have widgets on the lockscreen?
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Thanks to HTC, no. We have to wait for someone to make it so we can flash the stock 4.2.2 lockscreen. People in the ARHD thread got it to work by renaming or removing the HTC lockscreen apk but supposedly some could add widgets and some couldn't. That thread moves way to fast so I can't find any of the info for that now so have no idea how to get it to work or if it really does work.
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I have renamed the lockscreen and now I have stock. But I can't add widgets to it. I saw some people on the arhd thread who can ....
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It's ridiculous that HTC didn't add this option.
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for some reason if you dirty flash from a 4.1.2 ROM to a 4.2.2 one you get the ability to add lockscreen widgets to the stock lock screen (which you get by deleting HtcLockscreen.apk)
I suspect HTC removed whatever bits of system ui from 4.2.2 that supported them, and dirty flashing is the only way (so far) to get those bits.
Do they work on stock lockscreen?
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And I thought Samsung's implementation of Lockscreen widgets was dumb... at least they can do it. Bad HTC, that's a very bad HTC. I'm gonna get a rolled up newspaper.
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Do they work on stock lockscreen?
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No that's what I was talking about
Hopefully someone will figure out how to add them in. So dumb that HTC would do that.
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Is there anyone working on this ?
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Mine works. I just flashed the 4.2.2 rom TWICE, then deleted HTCLockscreen.apk (or add a .bak to the end of it) and it worked. I went back to 4.1 right not so I don't have a screenshot, but it did work for me.
HTCs lockscreen system is bad enough already. You can't even have a different wallpaper than your home screen unless you are willing to lose out on the function of the other lockscreens. God forbid us being able to have a different wallpaper AND having notifications on our lockscreen. I really hope someone works on this. Because from what I can tell torxx and mike couldn't really care less widgets on the lockscreen. Torxx just told me to use something like widgetlocker but that thing causes lag sometimes and mike says he hates lockscreen widgets period.
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Also widgedlocker won't display dashclock lockscreen widget the right way
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Also widgedlocker won't display dashclock lockscreen widget the right way
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Same thing for me…
I would like display full DashClock Widget…
I don't have the HTCLockscreen on TrickDroid 6.0.1, I search it with ES Explorer but not find… WTF ?
My HTC one is the first of the htc phones i have used to far ( and its not the last for sure ) ... When i got this phone it was on sense 5 version with 4.2.2 android. I have flashed almost all roms and quite happy with it. Until recently i came across a downgraded rom [ROM]HTC new one First sense4+ ROM with Android 4.1.1 by kuaidao ... Thanks for him i got the chance to feel the sense 4 version.... I must say it is an amazing feel of it... I love every single bit of it...It has skins of its own..... more lock screen options and more skins for lock screen... and more than anything... the screen lock is extremely smooth and very helpful,... and trust me its very very very very very smooth.... i just fell in love with... I just don't know why the htc have removed that lock screen and replaces with a naked and more simple lock screen in the sense 5 ..... ... for the first time i was even more happier to have downgraded my sense version from 5 to 4 and android 4.2.3 to 4.1.1 .... everything works perfectly... except few small issues like Chinese language and missing the beats audio...
Now for my request... Is it even possible to take the entire ring lock screen and even the skins and other options and get it on our sense 5 ???? I am sorry if i am sounding noobish... but i am really a noob on these issues...
You can just download morelocal2 and change to your language.. in addtion download keyboard and everything will be perfect..
amitmiz said:
You can just download morelocal2 and change to your language.. in addtion download keyboard and everything will be perfect..
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Thanks . I was wondering if the ring lock screen can be ported to the existing roms
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You could use WidgetLocker or Magic Locker for now.
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You could use WidgetLocker or Magic Locker for now.
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The last time I used it ... It was laggy. Nothing beat the.smoothness of the original. Anyway thanks for rcommending . Will tryv magic locker
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Anybody any solutions??
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Delete HTCLockScreen.apk from system apps. You'll have an AOSP lock screen like this.
Backup first though, on some custom roms it causes bootloops.
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Delete HTCLockScreen.apk from system apps. You'll have an AOSP lock screen like this.
Backup first though, on some custom roms it causes bootloops.
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Bro you got me wrong. I am looking for the ring lockscreen which was there in sense 4.1+ version. Not this one bro. Neverthless thanks for reply.
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Yah, I realized that, I have no idea about the old sense ring lock so I figured I'd give you an alternative. Since the new lock screen is terrible, IMO. But I hope you get it figured out. Good luck. Haha
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Yah, I realized that, I have no idea about the old sense ring lock so I figured I'd give you an alternative. Since the new lock screen is terrible, IMO. But I hope you get it figured out. Good luck. Haha
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I guess its not possible to port that at all. Since it takes a lot of time and enngery to get it done. Somebody if does... Then it's awesome
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You can also go in to settings/personlize/manage home screen pages and remove it completely or touch and hold to add widgets and turn it off there in the top left corner you will see a little blue square that lets you toggle it on or off. I think this is a NEW feature in KitKat . Because I am running the stock rom ust bootloader unlocked and rooted is all I have done so far.
I use the Google Now Launcher, so no issues for me.
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I use the Google Now Launcher, so no issues for me.
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How did you get the Google now launcher to work?
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I followed the instructions on the first link when googling "Google Now Launcher digital trends" Sorry, about not linking. I'm a new user here so I can't post link.
the PrebuiltGmsCore.apk and Velvet.apk seemed to fail install, but the GoogleHome.apk did install and everything seems to work. All in all, I've been enjoying it. I liked the Themer launcher too, but the Google Now Launchers always listening "OK Google" feature has been too nice to give up. I'm not positive but I think the Google Now Launcher is burning through a little more battery life.
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How did you get the Google now launcher to work?
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You'll have to do a Google search for it, it will be an .apk file.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-now-launcher-android-how-to/#!C457e
Thanks! I keep getting parsing errors so I downloaded the apk to my computer and transferred it over. Works great!
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You can also go in to settings/personlize/manage home screen pages and remove it completely or touch and hold to add widgets and turn it off there in the top left corner you will see a little blue square that lets you toggle it on or off. I think this is a NEW feature in KitKat . Because I am running the stock rom ust bootloader unlocked and rooted is all I have done so far.
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not seeing a blue box, just the edit box which merely removes the page
Thanks! I keep getting parsing errors so I downloaded the apk to my computer and transferred it over. Works great!
I highly recommend Google Now Launcher for which you need to download the apk and side load it, as well as Xposed GELS to completely customize your screen.
I use the Google Now Launcher, so no issues for me too.