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[Q] TouchWiz 3.0 VS 4.0?

Hi , i'd like to know, what are the huge advantages of having 4.0 instead of 3.0? are there many huge differences? tbh, i kind of like the look of 3. (like the black background on launcher etc)
but i see everyone going to 4.0..
what are the huge advantages?
is it slower than 3.0? does it require more RAM to run? can you have both?

It looks MUCH better. Just search for 'Touchwiz 4.5' here on XDA. It's a heavy modified version of the original TW4.
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Lunchbox115 said:
It looks MUCH better. Just search for 'Touchwiz 4.5' here on XDA. It's a heavy modified version of the original TW4.
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thanks forthe reply bt are tberebany performance differences?
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TW 4 is better than 3. Try TW 4.5, it´s great.

Proelio said:
TW 4 is better than 3. Try TW 4.5, it´s great.
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Cheers for that, but is 4,5 the official version, or is it the xda version
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4.5 is the modded XDA-version. Samsung didn't officially release TW4 for our SGS (only for SGS2).
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Some one could just answer the guy, isit(T4) faster and what are the benefits over Tw3, he,s just being told "touch 4.5" is great. Probably is but we arn't getting to the root.Can't you just see the guy sitting there, to embarrassed to ask 1 more time, lol,.....any one know , he he?

Well, he should just try TW4, there are some ROMs with it too. It looks better (in my opinion). I would not say that it's faster.
And he doesn't have to be ashamed, XDA is a big forum and forums are here that people can ask questions.

Yeh haha xD
thanks for the replies guys!
When i get my sgs as a backup i will be looking to install touchwoz 4.0 then, cheeers
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touchwiz 4/4.5 has loads of FC and its not stable for some users including me... even though its fast and smooth i still prefer launcher pro

definitelly TW4 is much better than TW3
- TW3 does not have the 5 icon dock (only modded versions do)
- TW4 has better environment for placing shortcuts, widgets, wallpapers
- TW4 has better options to organize apps in app drawer (folders)
- TW4 is easier to scroll to any desktop within a second
- TW4 needs more resourses, but e.g. on JUWE 5.1 and Talon kernel it is smooth
I have never tried the TW4.5

s3icc0 said:
definitelly TW4 is much better than TW3
- TW3 does not have the 5 icon dock (only modded versions do)
- TW4 has better environment for placing shortcuts, widgets, wallpapers
- TW4 has better options to organize apps in app drawer (folders)
- TW4 is easier to scroll to any desktop within a second
- TW4 needs more resourses, but e.g. on JUWE 5.1 and Talon kernel it is smooth
I have never tried the TW4.5
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thanks! So touchwiz 4 requires more ram?
It flies on the sgs2, but wondering how it would cope on the sgs1.
But thanks for the info!
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deadey3 said:
touchwiz 4/4.5 has loads of FC and its not stable for some users including me... even though its fast and smooth i still prefer launcher pro
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Thanks what does FC mean?
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FC = force close = when a program (app) stopps unexpected

Lunchbox115 said:
FC = force close = when a program (app) stopps unexpected
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Amen to that

olyloh6696 said:
thanks! So touchwiz 4 requires more ram?
It flies on the sgs2, but wondering how it would cope on the sgs1.
But thanks for the info!
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wonder no more: touchwiz 4.5 (you should probably get this one as opposed to touchwiz 4, but i can't since i haven't tried it) flies on sgsl as well; faster, in fact, than TW 3 (using xxkph, by the way; it's important because gingerbread adds 10 mb more to the ram)
it looks better, particularly 4.5 since i guess all those snazzy transition animations are xda's work (i've had hands-on time with the sgs 2 and those animations aren't there). and once you slap a theme over all of it...lets just say you're going to make your friends jealous
again, while i can't vouch for 4, 4.5 has one bug and it's that the stock samsung widgets won't work on it. it comes with a manager that lets you download fixed versions of those widgets AND sgs 2 widgets (all of them, except for calendar in my case, work)
trust me, take the jump to 4.5, you won't regret it (at least, i hope not )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883

An Xmas gift for non-MIUI user from MIUI team -- MiLocker lockscreen app

If you are drooling over fancy lockscreen themes for MIUI but you don't have a MIUI rom, here u r. Now we've extracted the MIUI lockscreen as an app, you can install it on any Android rom(only 2.3 for now), enjoy.
search MiLocker in android market.
http://app.miui.com/index_en.html

It doesn't fit on my qvga display

awesome! works perfectly on my arc s
happy x-mas

gmp009 said:
It doesn't fit on my qvga display
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did you mean the app UI or theme?

I find a bug. when you listen music you can't use that commands on stock hands free like double tab etc.
When you click 1 time on handsfree music stop and display wake up.
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I mean whole software it show me half of the lockscreen...

Just installed on my DX2 & works great..Thanks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391871
Not to threadjack, here's the resized version. Any issues, read comments.
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Boring on sense rom..... Uncustomizable.....widgetlocker is way smoother.

Runs good, but no option to use a custom wallpaper kinda sucks. Plus on most it displays chinese characters, which I don't know how to get rid of. Other than that, it's pretty nice.
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rp076 said:
Just installed on my DX2 & works great..Thanks!
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Seriously? I installed it on mine and it was laggy as h$*l. Could hardly go into settings and the theme downloader was just beyond slow.
I doubt it is my rom (Eclipse 2) but since Liberty isn't on 2.3.5 yet I can't try it out

[Q] Port TW4 from SGS2 to SGS

I would like to have Touchwiz 4 on my I9000, i don't like the Touchwiz 3 that is with XXjvu. I allso tried the TW 4.5. I see some custom rom have Touchwiz 4 in it.
How can I port Touchwiz 4 from SGS2 to SGS. I thought someone would have done it I searched alot but I can't find any resources about it.
Could someone lead me in the right direction
T-ron

Tw 4 will probably make your phone freeze like it did for me. I tried few versions on few Gb roms and had same issue. I would suggest you just to pick one of alternative launchers from market.
They 'll give you more options, they're lighter and they wont freeze your phone.

TouchWiz 4 will eat all your RAM, it's very RAM hungry and will redraw always. That's why people here don't bother anymore porting it...

search for hawkish premium rom and flash the latest version of the rom.. you will get your touchwiz4 without the phone freezing or slowing down!
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TW4 is cool, i always wanted it when i saw it....but believe me it will get pretty boring imo

nabil alami said:
TW4 is cool, i always wanted it when i saw it....but believe me it will get pretty boring imo
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try the hawkish rom..i have both sgs and a sgs2 and both of them run pretty much the same touchwiz..
actually it does get boring but also you get used to its simplicity that you wont like anythng else which is even a bit more complex
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kjshah said:
try the hawkish rom..i have both sgs and a sgs2 and both of them run pretty much the same touchwiz..
actually it does get boring but also you get used to its simplicity that you wont like anythng else which is even a bit more complex
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yea i did once try to flash the hawkish rom but it didn't work :/...but I'm a person who gets bored of the old thing fast loll thats why like i like to keep changing, the same thing is with roms..but i like the ics ui its pretty cool btw check out this awesome ui freakin AWSOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU&list=FLUi34fgtSlXrOQdYuwB4RdA&index=3&feature=plpp_video

nabil alami said:
yea i did once try to flash the hawkish rom but it didn't work :/...but I'm a person who gets bored of the old thing fast loll thats why like i like to keep changing, the same thing is with roms..but i like the ics ui its pretty cool btw check out this awesome ui freakin AWSOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU&list=FLUi34fgtSlXrOQdYuwB4RdA&index=3&feature=plpp_video
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friggin awesome..!! *TSF*
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Galaxy S III touchwiz on Galaxy note?

I wonder if it's possible to rip the software from the S III and port it to the galaxy note. Do you guys think it's possible to see roms running this? On HTC phones it happens but I haven't seen that ever happen with a samsung phone. Any thoughts?

I doubt it would be a direct port, however I'm sure some functionality can be ported via apks
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and touchwiz is utter crap - no matter what version ...

damador said:
and touchwiz is utter crap - no matter what version ...
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It's not crap... I actually happen to like touchwiz better than stock ICS launcher. It's just cleaner and I can put more content on my screen.

Joe momma said:
It's not crap... I actually happen to like touchwiz better than stock ICS launcher. It's just cleaner and I can put more content on my screen.
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+1

I wouldn't really care about about anything on TW5 except improved voice recognition. The current software is horrible.

guitarplayerone said:
I wouldn't really care about about anything on TW5 except improved voice recognition. The current software is horrible.
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I couldn't disagree with your more

I like the water ripple effect when unlocking the phone
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Nayfuslis said:
I like the water ripple effect when unlocking the phone
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I would like to see the whole launcher and apps ported not just the ripple effect lol. Man I really hope someone knows how to go about this.

I like tw4 more than tw5......
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I think the tw launcher is balls but all the other touchwiz stuff is class, I'm just gutted we lost the screen brightness in statusbar! We need that back!

I don't know why people hate the new touchwiz so much. It looks great, and it is the SMOOTHEST launcher I have ever seen. Just look at a video of the S III. There isn't a single stutter. And I love the 3D animations it does when you switch between pages. I also like the shadows that icons have now with the new touchwiz.

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Just look at a video of the S III. There isn't a single stutter.
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And is this down to the launcher......?
No its the quad core processor!
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GR36 said:
And is this down to the launcher......?
No its the quad core processor!
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It also has to do with the launcher. It's optimized to use all of the hardware it can

bump

No offense guys, if you want to have yet ANOTHER war on favorite launchers, which btw is extremely pointless as every person has their preferences on launchers (apex this, nova that, go launcher ftw, apex rules, etc. etc....), then take it to another thread. The OP here is reaching out to Devs and other members of the XDA community about the possibility of adding some touchwiz 5 features to our beloved Note, or even porting it over completely ( which doesn't sound plausible ). I for one would love the new voice recognition and the lock screen effect is pretty slick, so +1 to those features .

What do you guys think of the MIUI v5 for our N4 ?

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...

strykerider said:
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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Hugo Barra ?
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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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