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Weather Apps?

I'm a HUGE fan of the weather, now that hurricane season is here, I will furiously keep my eyes to the sky. Are there any apps out there other than local weather apps to keep my eyes on tropics here or elsewhere?
edit: Sorry, here in Fl. or elsewhere.

There is a weather channel app I think, There's also the Beautiful Widgets, Weather Widgets..The List goes on.
But honestly, it's personal choice. I think those app and widgets give you Weather reports outside of your current country too.

Yeah, I know about those, I was thinking more along the lines of radar and tracking. I guess NOAA type stuff. Maybe too intricate for the average app programs.

NAVIGuide or something like that from the market

flip3547 said:
Yeah, I know about those, I was thinking more along the lines of radar and tracking. I guess NOAA type stuff. Maybe too intricate for the average app programs.
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Just type navi* and search should find it...

Macrophage001 said:
There is a weather channel app I think, There's also the Beautiful Widgets, Weather Widgets..The List goes on.
But honestly, it's personal choice. I think those app and widgets give you Weather reports outside of your current country too.
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Weather Widgets allows you to set your weather to someplace other than you actually are. Just go into the settings.

Try Radar Now (think that's the name). Very basic app but it shows refreshed radar images extremely well.
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I use radar now on a daily basis, I'm going to look into Naviguide next, Thanks.

Maybe a hurricane tracker app, I'm still searching. Reading as much as possible. Really want to learn to create things from scratch!
Thank you to all that have chimed in!!!

Favorite live wallpaper

What is everyone's favorite live wallpaper and where you got it from?

Galactic Core. In the market.

the mario live wallpaper is easily the best

Flying Toast
New user, so can't post a link, but look it up on Appbrain. It's in the market.

Mario live wallpaper. And it doesn't consume my battery as other people have mentioned before
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Nexusmod, but I think that recently got removed from the market. I also like aSpiritBomb and Pixel Zombies. Both of those are in the market, but kind of drain battery.

halo45121 said:
Nexusmod, but I think that recently got removed from the market. I also like aSpiritBomb and Pixel Zombies. Both of those are in the market, but kind of drain battery.
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I don't know man my mario wallpaper does nothing to my battery. I don't understand you guys taking bout your live wallpaper drains battery
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Starfield. Unfortunately you have to look for a link to those file sharing sites.

khoavuong said:
Starfield. Unfortunately you have to look for a link to those file sharing sites.
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do you have a valid link?
I could not find it

This is the thread that i was looking for!

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do you have a valid link?
I could not find it
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http://www.filestube.com/f5439908a519bae703ea,g/com-kalicinscy-wallpaper-starfield.html

Found another one: Justpictures!
It's actually an image viewer (better than the default, in fact), but it also gives you a live wallpaper that cycles through select favorited pics. Probably doesn't drag down the system like other live wallpapers, too. Free, too.

Thunderstorm live by far my fav
pay app .99 worth every cent for me

Nevermind. I figured it out.

my fav is NexusKang live wallpaper 'found in the market.

I really like the Light Grid wallpaper. It isn't interactive, or move when you switch screens. It is really costomizable; different colors, different size blocks, etc.
Personally I like having seasonal wallpaper, and being able to change the colors frequently is a way to have consistency and variety together.
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Wakka something or other. Its really pacman. Free. And customizable to the point that the board will form around your widgets. That and galactic core.
From a phone on an app

If someone knows of a wallpaper that uses the camera and works on the galaxy s please post the name.
From a phone on an app

shake them all, and zoomfield are pretty cool. i use zoomfield most of the time

'Seeds of Life' is awesome, and goes great with Samsung's TouchJizz if you have any sense of humor. You can find it in the market, along with 'Aquarium Free', 'AndWobble2 Premium' (if you're creative), and 'Bokeh Rainbow'

[APP] Regina Launcher

http://www.androidcentral.com/andro...mpaign=Feed:+androidcentral+(Android+Central)
I found this on AndroidCentral. Its a really nice launcher and its free!
Share your thoughts here
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It does have a lot of animations and stuff, but it's not for me.
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Very interesting. Runs smooth on the Epic. One thing I really like about this one is that the pages/workspaces aren't compartmentalized. In other words you can put a button or a widget literally anywhere on the page rather than within the confines of the 4 x 5 grid (or whatever yours is set up as). There are hidden workspaces that are brought up by tapping out a code in the corners of the screens. The hidden workspace is a secondary collection of three additional workspaces...all ready for you to customize and hide.
Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
Transitions are sweet, widgets are ok. I think the weather widget may be useless to many as the cities available appear limited, and you have to install add-ons to get it to work properly.
If you are intrigued by the SPB 3D launcher, you'll really like this one. It's a pretty giant step above SPB, and free. I can't wait to see how far they take this one.

Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two

gpeterson said:
Every time I try to change the wallpaper to something from my gallery the Media Scanner starts...that's annoying, but may not be a "Regina" thing as my phone is heavily modded. Once I finally did get to my gallery to change the wallpaper...guess what! Each workspace can have it OWN wallpaper! No kidding! Nice little surprise there.
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hah my gallery was doing the same thing. i didnt know what was going on.

ksmullins88 said:
Nice, i like it. its kindof like spb shell but its free! hah it has some good widgets and some good features. kind of slow but i think i might try it out for a day or two
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That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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acer1096xxx said:
That's what I was thinking
I like it, but they need to fix the transition speeds, and have a feature to turn that off.
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Agreed its OK
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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?

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For those talking about transition speed, have you all tried Spare Parts?
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I thought about that. But I'm not rooted as of now. Good suggestion to keep in mind though
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I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.

Toast95135 said:
I tried it and didn't like it. It's better then SPB (imo) but ultimately it doesn't do anything better, smoother or easier to use then what I already have on ADW EX. Sometimes it would be difficult to swipe between screens quickly which was annoying, the weather widget is pretty much useless, no widget resizing (I use desktop visualizer a lot for pics), and I didn't care for the style of app drawer. YMMV though.
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Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.

acer1096xxx said:
Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I had to play around with the weather, but I finally got Charleston WV in there. If I can find that, then Chicago should be there. Im really liking it so far. Used Spare Parts to change animations to fast and its awesome. Love how you can have a different wallpaper for each screen, and also four private workspaces. It takes a little bit to figure out, but I am really impressed. You can also remove the weather and clock and use your beautiful widgets or whatever clock/weather that you normally use. Now if I can figure out a way to edit the icons or they fix that, I will be really impressed.
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Guys. If you need to find your city and it's not in the list, simply go to Settings for the Clock & Weather Widget, click "Add Custom City", and type in your ZIP Code. The clock becomes a bit funky but after a bit of messing around, you should be able to get it to run nicely.
acer1096xxx said:
Actually, widget size can be resized on some by clicking the little "i" button. I agree the app drawer is lame; the weather widget needs work (doesn't even have Chicago!). But give it some time. It doesn't even have a v1.0 yet.
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I was thinking the same thing as I was setting up my home screens in Spanish Class. Chi-Town represent!

No one has put yet that you can scroll through "workspaces" with the dock by dragging it left or right. Press home or pinch-to-zoom out to look at the sense style overview, then hold on a screen to go into add/delete screen mode. And there was something else that I can't remember right now lol.
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I just downloaded this, and I like it so far. I like the clean look and feel to it. I have LP+ and will try this out for a couple of days to see it I like it.
I did find Green Bay in the weather, but after I set the weather to GB, the clock time is way off.

[QUOTE=Original Android
Thanks! Got it to work!
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When you set location you need to set your time zone.
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whats YMMV?

ksmullins88 said:
whats YMMV?
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Your mileage may very

Its regina not your phone
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Customization quandary

Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V

I leave spaces where I swipe to make sure I don't open apps by accident lol
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my first screen all email and to-do list
My 1st screen contains 3 email widgets, Note and calendar widgets.
I have attached an image or a link to the image
https://plus.google.com/photos/103527527678489279036/albums/5767576432424806353

I always have this problem with my Android devices lol. Even my phones have open spaces because I don't know what to put in them. Sometimes I find myself just putting a large widget there I'm never going to use because of it.
This is no exception! I have like 2 screens with stuff, and one of them is the big Play Library widget that was already there in the first place. I must admit I've become quite fond of it.

I am having the same problem too. I have had nothing but phones from HTC with Sense so I am used to using widgets and UI that are more polished and feel the same. The different app widget designs with the Nexus bother me some.
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Well, I'd like to think that my screen is somewhat organized. It's simple, but it works.
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EmilVee said:
Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V
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Easy fill up the background with fish & you won't notice the space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImZpc2hub29kbGUua29pcG9uZF9mcmVlIl0.
I love live wallpaper.

One and custom launchers

I was thinking about this. If we choose to use a custom launcher, we will likely lose blinkfeed, right? I've got a dozen or so Apex tricks that I have come to rely on. I wonder how this will work??

I know in the past when i used a One X using a custom launcher pretty much removed all the Sense apps so I could see that happening again this time

i must be one of the only people looking forward to blinkfeed!
i almost always had a sports news widget on my homescreen (though not the main one to be fair) and for a large amount of time twitter and facebook too - to have all of that on a dedicated screen (not even a widget) should be really great for me.

I'm looking forward to blinkfeed myself. I thought more people would love that feature. I think it's great.
Sense 5 is so sexy. Why would anyone want to install a different launcher on it?
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djbenny1 said:
i must be one of the only people looking forward to blinkfeed!
i almost always had a sports news widget on my homescreen (though not the main one to be fair) and for a large amount of time twitter and facebook too - to have all of that on a dedicated screen (not even a widget) should be really great for me.
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My wife is probably going to love it. I would prefer to be able to move it to off center. I'm not totally thrilled with any FB or Twitter (-Caster is my favorite on both) widget, but I use them for feeds as well. I can see liking it, providing it's fairly customizable.

djbenny1 said:
i must be one of the only people looking forward to blinkfeed!
i almost always had a sports news widget on my homescreen (though not the main one to be fair) and for a large amount of time twitter and facebook too - to have all of that on a dedicated screen (not even a widget) should be really great for me.
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I'm going to give it a go. I only use 3 homescreens currently anyway and my default one if very sparse with only 4 apps. The idea of blink feed seems good, as long as it can sync with all the stuff I look at on currents I will be pretty happy.
Still no word on the menu button for legacy apps though.

Yes, using a custom launcher will mean you'll lose blinkfeed.
The only way around that will be to wait until someone has made blinkfeed into a separate flashable zip. At that point, you'll be able to set up your custom launcher as you'd like and then I guess you'd just be able to flash blinkfeed to have the functionality of both.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

HTC Widgets only work on stock launcher, I don't see why Blinkfeed would be any different.
M.

Far as I can tell blink feed is another screen on sense. No sense=no blink. Personally I hope a dev can get rid of it. I don't need a news thing and I don't use Facebook or twitter so it seems kinda useless. Id like to see a messaging panel on it with a quick reply like on the Ubuntu touch where its in the notification.
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I am looking forward to trying out blinkfeed as it now follows holo guidelines and they have dropped the horrid 3d look for a much more modern flat look and if I don't like it I will put on a custom launcher.
Does anyone know if you can move the blinkfeed to another home screen as it would in my opinion be much nicer in the middle screen so you can swipe left or right for widgets/apps

It is one of the things I like too. But I also like being able to turn off icon labels, create my on gestures, etc. in Apex. Seems like it might be kind of like switching to an iphone -- if you want blinkfeed, you lose ability to customize.
Meanwhile, I'm sittin' on my hands until I see a few audio reviews.

BaronInkjet said:
I was thinking about this. If we choose to use a custom launcher, we will likely lose blinkfeed, right? I've got a dozen or so Apex tricks that I have come to rely on. I wonder how this will work??
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Hi. I pre-ordered and already have my hands on a shiny new HTC One, and BlinkFeed was not one of the reasons I bought it. One of the first things I did after getting the phone was installing Apex Launcher. I use its gestures too and I like the customizability it offers. Thankfully for me, BlinkFeed indeed goes away with a custom launcher

coming from a iOS device im looking forward on all the HTC features. iphone really gets so boring. does the blinkfeed feature use a lot of power and will using a custom launcher make the battery last longer?

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treoreloaded said:
coming from a iOS device im looking forward on all the HTC features. iphone really gets so boring. does the blinkfeed feature use a lot of power and will using a custom launcher make the battery last longer?
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My One is in for repairs but in the week I was using it i didn't notice any noticeable battery drain from Blinkfeed the the first few days battery life doesn't tend to be good as it needs a couple of charging cycles but certainly battery life is very good.
I'm a big fan of Nova I use it on my Nexus7 but i doubt I will be on my one.
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treoreloaded said:
coming from a iOS device im looking forward on all the HTC features. iphone really gets so boring. does the blinkfeed feature use a lot of power and will using a custom launcher make the battery last longer?
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I have been using Blinkfeed for over 2 weeks and still get good battery life

coupetastic-droid said:
I'm looking forward to blinkfeed myself. I thought more people would love that feature. I think it's great.
Sense 5 is so sexy. Why would anyone want to install a different launcher on it?
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i love blink feed tried different launchers but the sense is the best

treoreloaded said:
coming from a iOS device im looking forward on all the HTC features. iphone really gets so boring. does the blinkfeed feature use a lot of power and will using a custom launcher make the battery last longer?
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hey, i'm surprised about the battery life with blinkfeed. Also the data traffic is less, in one week i had used only 40mb for blinkfeed. I think thats great.