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Which Widget could you not live without?

So, with widgets now in full swing, I thought I would find out from you folks, which widgets could you not live without????
Personally, I love the FML widget. I look at it several times a day. I love how its customizable to fit any theme! Im sure I would be VERY UPSET to lose this one!
I also love the Android and Me widget and the 10,000 things to know widget.
So what about you guys?

def the bbc news widget for me. (being british)
really hope to see a decent sms widget, facebook widget, and contacts widget - bit like the ones on the hero.

from hero i cant live without the messaging preview widget
that thing is the best
dont have to keep going into the app now to preview a message to know if i feel like responding or not...
it lags the phone a little but oh well...

Flipclock with weather from hero

I've never got the hype with widgets - they seem to kill my battery and tbh I can just click one icon on my homescreen for whichever app I like.

Really the only widgets I use are the retro clock/date, wifi on/off and brightness. That is in addition to the music and google in another window.

DavidCarson said:
I've never got the hype with widgets - they seem to kill my battery and tbh I can just click one icon on my homescreen for whichever app I like.
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I'm with you on this one. Though it is good to see next appointment in your calendar on the home screen. So calendar is the only widget that I use.

Clock widget is late

Hi,
My wife got a Milestone some weeks ago and we've noticed that the clock widget keeps getting late (the system clock is always perfectly in time) if the phone is inactive for some time or if it's been used a lot. I've installed another clock widget and the same thing keeps happening. I've tried both widgets on my Samsung Vibrant and this doesn't happen. Did this happen to anyone else?
thanks
Rafa

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Fancy Widget
There another clock and weather widget called Fancy Widget on the Android Market. I've used that widget on my Motorola Milestone and it works fine.

We've tried 2 clock widgets already and both had the same trouble.

We've just realized that all clock related apps are progressively getting late. The phones' stock clock is always on time, but all other apps are late. Any thoughts on where the issue is?

We´ve tested without the task killer and the issue persists. I was starting to think this could cpu related, but I think that´s impossible, otherwise there would be thousands of Milestone users complaining about this.

rawfa said:
We´ve tested without the task killer and the issue persists. I was starting to think this could cpu related, but I think that´s impossible, otherwise there would be thousands of Milestone users complaining about this.
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This doesnt happen to me...
I have used several clock widgets from the market and various roms.
How much is the time drift?
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk

The time drift is gradual. It starts with 1 minute and if it can go up to 10...but then if you lock the phone and then unlock it the system updates the time to the correct time.

Lock screen that show launcher

Anyone know lockscreen that can see launcher screen
Example
I have widget clock on screen when the phone get to lock screen
it can show widget clock not hide it.

The easiest way to do this is use widget locker and then put whatever widgets you want on the lockscreen. its paid app but well worth the price.

agreed, Widget Locker is the way to go. Saves me a lot of time. money well spent

If use widget locker you use double memory for one widget right?
example
I have one pure calendar on widget locker and another on screen it use 2 time memory
I think if lockscreen that not hide widget it not drain memory
Thanks

I haven't seen a double usage I use simiclock on both wl and home screen and no double
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Widget locker has a very minimal impact on battery if that's what you're worried about. Somewhere in the app the dev goes into detail on how he avoids causing excessive battery drain.

Weird clock problem

Sometimes the clock just doesn't get updated at all. Check out the screen shot.the clock on the notification bar works fine but the one on the home screen stops updating itself. This happens with stock clock and beautiful widgets as well.
I am on stock ROM and non rooted phone
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Anyone?
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I have a different clock related problem: often, when I set the timer or the stopwatch feature and then let the screen timeout, the clock forgets that its timing something. When I go to check on it, it has reset to zero.

I have the same problem here, the standard Samsung clock and the beweather clock stops working at random.I
have got the problem since the ICS update...

Is either the launcher problem or task killer killing the clock. You can use the clock widget that comes with your launcher. If you are using task killer, make sure your clock is in your ignore list.

[Q] [ZOOPER][TASKER][POPUP WIDGETS]How to hide a widget when pop-up widgets activate?

I'm trying to hide my main home screen widget whenever I open a pop-up widget. I build all my widgets with zooper, and attach them to shortcuts in my dock with pop-up widget.
The only widget that's always showing is my clock that sits on the home screen, but I want it to hide every any time I open one of the pop-ups (they all are transparent). I got tasker because I thought it could handle this for me (never used it before), but I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can make this work? I'm not married to Tasker, but I want to stick with zooper.
Thanks!
EDIT: In case it matters, It's a HTC One M8, Android 5, not rooted, using nova launcher