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I won't get picky about it.
But particularly I believe a world of a lot of g1 users, root and non root would really appreciate a home replacement that allows the user to do the following.
Choose which apps to show in the app drawer.
And the ability to move apps out into the "add to home screen" feature that shows up when you longpress the home screen/menu-add. In a new sub section called hidden apps/roughly around there.
So applications to prevent theft on the g1 could be hidden there over being spotted in the app drawer.
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Just an idea.
It is a good idea. Should post it in the dream applications+games section Though.
A layered app menu would be nice...
lbcoder said:
A layered app menu would be nice...
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I was thinking that since the hero widget can't be ported to a normal g1 someone could try to use Sweeter home's layer option for an sms type widget similar to the hero.
I think it could work out very well since you can add layers and transparency.
An option to hide the apps in the tray would be nice!! I'm down for that.
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An option to hide the apps in the tray would be nice!! I'm down for that.
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Haha I know! Lately I've been bothered at having a very long app drawer, and apps like Photovault, password storage apps,and other not so commonly used apps would just fit beautifully in that new folder I'm suggesting.
I'm trying to keep this thread alive with hopes that a dev will see it and take the challenge so keep this thread alive :]
If anyone could do this, it would be the folks over at Better Android (OpenHome). In my humble opinion, they have the best home app on the market. You should forward this request to them!
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If anyone could do this, it would be the folks over at Better Android (OpenHome). In my humble opinion, they have the best home app on the market. You should forward this request to them!
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I would like to, but half the time I've ever emailed better home they've done nothing but send me minimal short dissatisfying responses. But yea I use Open Home/have bought it.
Currently running Cyans build with the a hero theme or some widgets works fine enough with me.
But idk I think A home has a better go about things like this.
And of course Sweeter home is my favorite.
Yeah not sure why folders in the menu havent been figured out yet...I was almost sure someone would have cracked that missing feature long ago...
i would love a folder app or a tab app to put in the drawer,
you can hide icons, or make a whole tab of just games.
also, i wish there was a app that would lock icons on the main screens.
so nobody can move the icons unless you activate them.
anyone get my drift?
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That's a good idea, although 'hiding' apps from the app drawer wont provide any securities because they are plenty to launch an app once you get pass the lock screen.
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I sent him back an email saying that it would still help to weed out duplicates (like having a shortcut, and in the app drawer). I didn't get a response back on that one.
I would like to see this though.
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I sent him back an email saying that it would still help to weed out duplicates (like having a shortcut, and in the app drawer). I didn't get a response back on that one.
I would like to see this though.
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Yea if we made a larger up roar about it and got more emails to the betterandroid guys they'd pretty much have to do it
Ive just made something like this.... you can "throw" away the application shortcuts from the app drawer and "restore" them using an added menu..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538871
Haha rogro82 beat me to it.
I was gonna link his thread, but i guess he already linked his own.
Maybe you should provide screenshots and more details.
Thanks!
MY 2 cents
So far I love the suggestions and it sounds great.
Have you seen DxTop? I used it for a while and loved the one swipe to any of the 4 screens, maybe something like that. Maybe the ability to add more or subtract screens.
And always keep it fast.
I have heard that there is a mod that allows up to 10 screens, but I haven't found it yet. Please PM me if you know what mod I am talking about.
Thanks.
retske said:
So far I love the suggestions and it sounds great.
Have you seen DxTop? I used it for a while and loved the one swipe to any of the 4 screens, maybe something like that. Maybe the ability to add more or subtract screens.
And always keep it fast.
I have heard that there is a mod that allows up to 10 screens, but I haven't found it yet. Please PM me if you know what mod I am talking about.
Thanks.
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retske - Just so you're aware, the app that rogro linked to just a few posts above does all those things without needing to install bloatware (except for the "1 swipe" thing...what's a tap or 2 more?).
SO, Is there any way to flip the screen rotation 180 degrees? I fond it alot more comfortable to hold my phone while charging and listening to music where the plugs are on the bottom instead of the top. Is there an app or mod out there where you can do that? I be looked but to go. ): Thanks!
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I would like this functionality as well. The feature is in Cyanogenmod...is there anyway to unlock it in other ROMs?
LysolPionex said:
I would like this functionality as well. The feature is in Cyanogenmod...is there anyway to unlock it in other ROMs?
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Haven't thought much about this but there's been a few times where I wanted this to work, it would be nice feature indeed, but no biggie. I'm actually hoping for the cyannogenmod "CRT on" animation to be added as well.
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cyanogen is the only only rom to have that functionality to my knowledge and you would have to ask your rom dev to implement it. same goes for the old tv on and off animation but that is something google themselves implemented with 2.3 so its buried in the code somewhere. and im sure if you ask your rom dev nicely and maby donate a coupple bucks im sure they would be more than happy to enable those features
Agreed! Just donate/ask nicely! or flash cm7
EDIT (May 14): New beta released (beta 4). This will be the final beta. The market version will be released begin next week
The new beta contains a new customizable toolbar and a new keyboard for one handed operation.
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Hi,
Because the expiration date of the current beta will expire tomorrow and because I've postponed the final release with one or two weeks, I decided to publish a new beta.
New in this beta:
* Possibility to resize the width of the right and left keyblocks. Very convenient. You can now adjust the keyboard fully to the range of your thumbs.
* New themes.
* New regular qwerty keyboard, so one can also enjoy all the features on a standard keyboard layout.
* small bug fixes
The beta can be downloaded from thumb4beta.blogspot.com
awesome, downloading now
Downloading. Its a great second keyboard for those longer emails
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Freaking wow. Bought this a while back but this is just great now. Thank u much
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thanks alot... this has been great so far
I posted something on the Androidcentral on what I think would make it a better keyboard, I still stand by that but I take back what I said, this keyboard is pretty awesome. I just needed to get adapted to the style is all. Thank you so much I will buy when it comes out of beta.
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Nice... I love how I can press the button to adjust the stylebof keyboard. Awesome. I love it. Perfect.
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thanks for the new beta! gonna give it more tries, but I gotta say, SwiftKey predicts insanely well. I'll compare both again
This keyboard makes its ten times easier to type. Awesome work
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Bought this keyboard one day after owning my Xoom cause the stock one just doesn't cut it and swype is unavailable. After using this for only 5 minutes and setting things up how i wanted, i won't even bother with swype if it comes out for the xoom. This keyboard ROCKS. All the little changes and mods you can make are just superb. I wish all keybaords were this adaptable and modifyable. Seriously.
You did an awesome job on this. Will totally install the beta when i get home from work. Love the current build in the market, can't wait to take this for a spin.
Simply - thank you. I will be buying the released version as soon as it is in the market.
Love this release. addresses all my issues from Beta2
now if I could combine this with swift key, I would be set! Honestly however is there an option to put the space bar on both sides?
I just wanted to say that since the first beta I have used and enjoyed using the keyboard. Its very awesome and works great. The only thing that bothers me is having the special keys and numbers in the middle but I am getting used to it. I have my xoom locked in landscape so sometimes typing 1 handed sucks
Keep up the awesome work
James
would it be possible to include a checkbox to remove the numberpad from the middle of the keyboard in landscape. With the market app i can type one handed in landscape mode since there is no keypad in the middle, i can just walk my fingers to the keys with ease, with no effort, not really even needing to look. However with the keypad in the middle, all the other keys are smaller, so it is much harder and i actually have to focus now. LOL Other then that i am loving this.
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I just wanted to say that since the first beta I have used and enjoyed using the keyboard. Its very awesome and works great. The only thing that bothers me is having the special keys and numbers in the middle but I am getting used to it. I have my xoom locked in landscape so sometimes typing 1 handed sucks
Keep up the awesome work
James
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If you shrink the left and right keyblocks in the settings (see keyboard dimensions), the keys in the middle move to the left and right a bit.
Legato Bluesummers said:
would it be possible to include a checkbox to remove the numberpad from the middle of the keyboard in landscape. With the market app i can type one handed in landscape mode since there is no keypad in the middle, i can just walk my fingers to the keys with ease, with no effort, not really even needing to look. However with the keypad in the middle, all the other keys are smaller, so it is much harder and i actually have to focus now. LOL Other then that i am loving this.
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The market keyboard has also a numpad in the middle.
kevdog said:
now if I could combine this with swift key, I would be set! Honestly however is there an option to put the space bar on both sides?
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Well that's a good idea. Will look into it. Nevertheless maybe not, maybe I will count that one as a nice feaure of that keyboard.
i'm really liking this keyboard... just needs to get better used to its layout.
the one problem i'm having are the direction keys at the bottom when in portrait mode; they usually don't register correctly, registering a space key instead.
also, i don't agree with the G key existing in the right side in portrait mode and not in landscape mode. IMHO, this should be consistent in both modes.
as a sugestion, i would like an hybrid language mode like used in swiftkey's, where you don't have to switch languages when using more than one, auto-complete used both.
thanks, keep the good work!
Hey mate wicked keyboard, when it says expires dose that mean it will stop working on that date?
Cheers
Check it in market its pretty cool but I think it's a bit buggy
I was on pulse news just browsing and came across it.
If you have problems, disable 2 screens from the browser leave google then enable again
I'm at work so I can't be very descriptive
GREAT!!! it works fine. Some bugs but this is the first version so its nice for a starting version.
I would prefer to have vertical split screen option like in windows 7 that you can have one screen in the left and the other one in the right
raviosopr said:
GREAT!!! it works fine. Some bugs but this is the first version so its nice for a starting version.
I would prefer to have vertical split screen option like in windows 7 that you can have one screen in the left and the other one in the right
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Agreed, they updated it today to iron out some bugs
This is awesome. Perfect for keeping up with various subforums at once. Thanks for increasing my ADD.
This shows a dev who understands how the tablet environment works. Needs the labs quick controls app or something similar to access bookmarks, new tab, etc.
This is definitely awesome! I could be reading XDA and school work at the same time
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This is way cool! I've wanted, for a while now to make dual page browser but sadly I know nothing about creating apps. I even whipped up a chopped screenshot. Excellent find.
Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.
I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Konfuzion said:
I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Thanks, I might hold off on rooting for a while.
The main thing I wanted to check was that I wasn't missing an obvious settings and that the screen was working properly, it's VERY flat and grey compared to my SII.
Overall it's doing a good job but the screen is going to have to take some getting used to.
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Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
This is the difference between AMOLED and LCD. The contrast on the One is pretty much the best available on a phone LCD, but it is still an LCD, and cannot match the black levels of AMOLED.
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
The menus on the SII are white on black because white is a very expensive color to display, battery-wise, on an AMOLED screen. Inverted roms, or themes, will fix this for you.
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
Depends on the app you're using. If you're speaking about within Sense (settings, app drawer, etc) then yeah I guess, but I'm not sure why you would need the long scrolling in such short lists.
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
Uninstall/disable them via settings>apps or kill them with an app.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
rofl
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
Theme
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
You had to root your S2 to get that too.
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.
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Answered within quote.
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Answered within quote.
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Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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The HTC logo doesn't have a capacitive sensor, the "logo button" feature actually uses the first row of pixels immediately above the logo as a button.
Not trying to attack anyone here, just want to make sure that the information is explained a bit more.
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SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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Yep, it's the tradeoff you made when you picked LCD.
If its any consolation, displaying white on your S2 actually caused the display consumption to go up drastically (sometimes double the power required) while on LCD the screen uses a much more consistent amount of power. The whites on your One -should- appear as truer whites, while yes, the black will be more washed out.
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You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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Useful to know, thanks!
Thanks for the input, being brand new to HTC I'm still learning what's available.
Ideally I like Nova so I'd like to keep that. I'd like the general menus to be white text on black BG, I can clean things out with Titanium and stop ads with adfree.
From what I can tell I'm going to need to root the phone and then install a rom.
Are there 'pre-optimized' roms? Are there any Roms which are basically stock except for the colour flip? Can I get 4.3 in there as well? That middle button would be great too. My SII came with swype, I miss that.
I've found instructions on rooting but a little unsure which rom to go for, konfuzion's suggestion of 42One looks ok but I don't know what's out there, supported and up to date.
If you have any more thoughts they're always welcome
I'm gonna need some help on this guys.
I'm in the UK on the EE network, can I download any rom or do I need a specific 'EE' one?
Do I need a rom if I just want superuser privileges and a reversed/inverted menu? (also be able to install titanium backup and adfree)
I think I can handle the rest of it.
Thanks.
Well you most likely have a gsm one so you wouldn't want to flash anything in the sprint one section. And seeing as your gsm i believe there are a few roms over there that are 4.3
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