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http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-android-20-support-in-sdk.html
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Developers, start your engines
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-android-20-support-in-sdk.html
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I am suprised none of the devs have crapped their panties yet since it just got released a few mins ago.
This could be good...for the vogue...
"Android 2.0 is designed to run on devices that use virtual keys for HOME, MENU, BACK, and SEARCH, rather than physical keys."
tallnerd1985 said:
I am suprised none of the devs have crapped their panties yet since it just got released a few mins ago.
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lol, your assuming we haven't already been looking at it yet Besides this is just the sdk tools I believe.
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mssmison said:
lol, your assuming we haven't already been looking at it yet Besides this is just the sdk tools I believe.
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Do want though. Do want.
Well I have it booted on vogue. Not much added just a new lock screen like you see in the sholes video some different icons, new square dialer buttons,
Like 1.6 there will probably be terrible app availability.
I wouldn't mind testing out a plane-jane 2.0 ROM if anyone is up for uploading it
I've learned to live without apps ever since the Market stopped working.
zenulator said:
Well I have it booted on vogue. Not much added just a new lock screen like you see in the sholes video some different icons, new square dialer buttons,
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Is it compatibly with our custom ril for data/voice/SMS?
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Like 1.6 there will probably be terrible app availability.
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yeah because the SDK was just released today it will take a little while for developers to update their apps and create new ones. But the 2.0 market isn't even out yet either so there is NO app availability at this time lol. But once hte Droid is released I bet there will be a spike because so many more people will be using Android once it's on Verizon so more developers as well
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yeah because the SDK was just released today it will take a little while for developers to update their apps and create new ones. But the 2.0 market isn't even out yet either so there is NO app availability at this time lol. But once hte Droid is released I bet there will be a spike because so many more people will be using Android once it's on Verizon so more developers as well
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I was talking to a guy in Europe with a G1, and he said he runs 1.6 and has loads of apps, ebuddy, opera and everything. Yet my 1.6 market in Canada doesn't have any apps.
Macmee said:
I was talking to a guy in Europe with a G1, and he said he runs 1.6 and has loads of apps, ebuddy, opera and everything. Yet my 1.6 market in Canada doesn't have any apps.
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It's an issue with our devices and other unlock phones from what I can tell. If i log in with a new "virgin" gmail account, then the donut market has tons of apps. if i setup with my standard gmail account that has been using 1.5 as well, i get almost no apps. the only work around is a new gmail account.
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It's an issue with our devices and other unlock phones from what I can tell. If i log in with a new "virgin" gmail account, then the donut market has tons of apps. if i setup with my standard gmail account that has been using 1.5 as well, i get almost no apps. the only work around is a new gmail account.
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I officially love you. I cleared the cache for google apps and registered a new GMail. Lots of apps are showing up. Thank you
Macmee said:
I officially love you. I cleared the cache for google apps and registered a new GMail. Lots of apps are showing up. Thank you
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Glad it worked for ya. It was a real head-scratcher for a bunch of us when Donut first dropped. I just wish they'd fix it already
zenulator said:
Well I have it booted on vogue. Not much added just a new lock screen like you see in the sholes video some different icons, new square dialer buttons,
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I themed the dialer for donut to have square buttons but still cant get it just quite right.
well chuffed, just got the froyo 2.1 to work on my phone, appears to be the nexus build, as it thinks my phone is a nexus. It runs flash video in the standard web browser which is brilliant!!
interactive backgrounds and menus all smooth.
pretty impressed.
only thing I havent done is write down my contacts telephone numbers as its erased all of them! i'll be able to get them back tho, just be on facebook!
psg
Was that really necessary?
psg001 said:
well chuffed, just got the froyo 2.1 to work on my phone, appears to be the nexus build, as it thinks my phone is a nexus. It runs flash video in the standard web browser which is brilliant!!
interactive backgrounds and menus all smooth.
pretty impressed.
only thing I havent done is write down my contacts telephone numbers as its erased all of them! i'll be able to get them back tho, just be on facebook!
psg
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Nice, congrat
JanssoN said:
Was that really necessary?
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I doubt it.
But still, congrats to him.
Wtf!?
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which build are YOU using =)?
psykick5 said:
I doubt it.
But still, congrats to him.
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+1
psg001 said:
well chuffed, just got the froyo 2.1 to work on my phone, appears to be the nexus build, as it thinks my phone is a nexus. It runs flash video in the standard web browser which is brilliant!!
interactive backgrounds and menus all smooth.
pretty impressed.
only thing I havent done is write down my contacts telephone numbers as its erased all of them! i'll be able to get them back tho, just be on facebook!
psg
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But was it worth the work?
hey it is impressive, i'm a total noobie to this and it looked really complicated!! Its probably quite an old build, using darkstone HD2Froyo V2.1 - Release Date: 17.Aug.2010
everything seems to work really well. voice activated searches, interactive wall papers, camera, phone, internet browser 3G, weather and news, menus are smooth to flick between.
what builds are other people using??
other people are using the newest builds lol. hey nothing wrong with the old ones. if they ain't broke why fix it? but many of us have developed an addiction to flashing the newest of the newest builds of wm and android, and always having to reinstall apps/games. sometimes it becomes almost daily, and i always swear to myself i'm not going to reinstall everything until i'm certain i'm keeping this build for a while...but i always do lol. have fun!
Ok, I admit it, I went back from Cyanogen 6.0 to a Fresh Sense UI to update my PRI and get another taste of the 4G speed. I have no intention of this being a hater, fanboy post but wow, the Sense UI environment just does not compare to Cyanogen. Cyanogen is just so much cleaner, faster and user friendly. And now with the RC for 6.1, it is simply amazing. I felt like the phone was lagging a bit under the Sense UI and felt over wrought with some silly interfaces.
I felt obligated to post this to 1. congratulate and thank Team Douche for an amazing AOSP that i never really fully appreciated until I regressed and 2. sincerely invite all of you Sense users to give Cyanogen a try. Again, I am no Android fan boy, just a guy who stumbled into XDA, thought this Rooting thing sounded interesting and gave Cyanogen a try. Now I am a very satisfied user.
I know the lack of 4G is a big deal and I do miss the speed but hopefully this will be resolved soon and when it is, I think Android will take a major step forward again.
Meh, glad you found what you like. I use a rom that had 4g and I've removed sense from it. I don't lag at all. And yes, I've run CM6, installed 3 different times. It offers nothing that a 4g rom with sense removed does. Well, besides the obvious: no 4g, horrible picture gallery, worse battery on average.
To each their own.
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/shrug i dont think anyone really cares im sure most flash roms like changing socks
You are probably right, no one cares but as Pao23 said "to each their own." And although XDA users are flash happy most Android users are still stock. I am just sharing an experience that might give someone some confidence in finding an option that might work better for them.
I wish I could run Cyanogen full time... But I use my phone for work email (exchange) and the aosp email client is horrible compared to the sense version. You can't even view the GAL on aosp, just a background lookup and resolve. On sense I can pull up the GAL and call a person directly through the company directory. I also love the copy paste features of sense as well. Full support for email tagging, way better calendar and meeting handling just to name a few. I guess I just expect a higher level of exchange support because of my prior WM experience and I know I am likely in the minority for big time exchange use.
Until someone figures out how to at least port the email over, or the aosp email client gets a huge makeover I'm stuck on sense.
I loved cyanogen... only reason I went back to sense is because of how much better the contact app is organized. I couldn't figure it out on aosp... but with sense I can manually sync my contacts rather than let the fb app try to get my contacts. That and other features of the sense contacts app. Wish i could figure it out
I didn't think about it, but I use my company directory through exchange quite often a well. I manage construction so am in the field generally.
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The Cyanogen RC 6.1 released today is supposed to contain enhancements to the mail client but to what extent I don't know as I don't use it. I can see how that could be a big limiting factor for you guys.
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I loved cyanogen... only reason I went back to sense is because of how much better the contact app is organized. I couldn't figure it out on aosp... but with sense I can manually sync my contacts rather than let the fb app try to get my contacts. That and other features of the sense contacts app. Wish i could figure it out
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really strange i fined the Cm6 contacts much better i have 600 + contacts and with sense i loads them all in to my phone :/
CheesyNutz said:
really strange i fined the Cm6 contacts much better i have 600 + contacts and with sense i loads them all in to my phone :/
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how'd you go about linking your contacts? i don't want to have to rename all my contacts so they can link properly
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how'd you go about linking your contacts? i don't want to have to rename all my contacts so they can link properly
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i have my "phone contacts" synced to my gmail acccount and use facebook to sync pics but with sense .... and HTC _facebook it syncs EVERY facebook contact
that's 1 of the reason i love CM6 it only syncs the contacts on my phone with facebook
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how'd you go about linking your contacts? i don't want to have to rename all my contacts so they can link properly
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Not so automatic but: Edit contact, hit menu, choose join. First name, last name, email, etc. one of those have to be similar.
Award Tour said:
Not so automatic but: Edit contact, hit menu, choose join. First name, last name, email, etc. one of those have to be similar.
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thanks, will give it a shot again... hope it works...
I think 4G is just a total battery waster, so I never even used it when I was on a Sense ROM. In my book, if you want to know the difference between a Sense ROM and CM6.1, just take LauncherPro and hit "restart LP" in the settings. In CM6.1 it takes about a second for it to completely load up. On Sense ROMs it takes anywhere from 6-10 seconds for everything to completely load. This is just unacceptable to me.
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I think 4G is just a total battery waster, so I never even used it when I was on a Sense ROM. In my book, if you want to know the difference between a Sense ROM and CM6.1, just take LauncherPro and hit "restart LP" in the settings. In CM6.1 it takes about a second for it to completely load up. On Sense ROMs it takes anywhere from 6-10 seconds for everything to completely load. This is just unacceptable to me.
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Just did it, took a little under 2 seconds.
Not to mention sitting here at my desk at work, using my phone as wifi so the IT guys can't see what Roms/kernals I download, I'm putting out 4g wifi rather then crappy Sprint 1mb/s 3g wifi.
Install said sense rom, remove sense, done.
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Just did it, took a little under 2 seconds.
Not to mention sitting here at my desk at work, using my phone as wifi so the IT guys can't see what Roms/kernals I download, I'm putting out 4g wifi rather then crappy Sprint 1mb/s 3g wifi.
Install said sense rom, remove sense, done.
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What's your setup? I've got 4 5x5 homescreens packed with icons and another full of scrollable widgets. Even OCed it took forever.
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What's your setup? I've got 4 5x5 homescreens packed with icons and another full of scrollable widgets. Even OCed it took forever.
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I just have the one row of icons on each page plus the littles like Bwidgets, search, control bar. I've never loaded my screens up because I don't like the look, but I'll put a bunch on there and see how it does and get back to ya.
What all widgets just so I know and can try to imitate? I run 5x5 too.
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I just have the one row of icons on each page plus the littles like Bwidgets, search, control bar. I've never loaded my screens up because I don't like the look, but I'll put a bunch on there and see how it does and get back to ya.
What all widgets just so I know and can try to imitate? I run 5x5 too.
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Pure Messenger (50 message max), Pure Calendar (6 month view), Palmary Weather Pro Quarter, TerraClock Clock (S), and Extended Controls (1x9 switches).
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TheBiles said:
Pure Messenger (50 message max), Pure Calendar (6 month view), Palmary Weather Pro Quarter, TerraClock Clock (S), and Extended Controls (1x9 switches).
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Nevermind, you pay for too much stuff.
As a question though, I've never found myself restarting my LP before now, why do you do it often enough to actually influence your Rom choice?
Pao23 said:
Nevermind, you pay for too much stuff.
As a question though, I've never found myself restarting my LP before now, why do you do it often enough to actually influence your Rom choice?
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It does it on its own because I use so many awesome memory-hogging widgets. It's just like 2 or 3 times a day while I'm using another app or something.
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So I recently flashed a new AOSP rom and to my surprise I could no longer add a facebook account under the accounts option. After doing some more research I found that Google has "switched" it off so it will no longer let you add a facebook account.
http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/02/22/google-android-facebook-contacts/
Friendcaster app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree&hl=en
Only reason i liked it was cause there picture would pop up without me having to do anything but nothing i can live without
Think it has anything to do with them trying to integrate G+ more and have people use that to sync contacts ? I don't personally use G+ but do like Facebook pics in my contacts..
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Well this certainly does explain why I haven't been able to fix the contact sync; I thought it was just me, lol.
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Well this certainly does explain why I haven't been able to fix the contact sync; I thought it was just me, lol.
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Me too. Btw I have a new rom that needs more testing I'll pm it to ya
You guys can try friendcaster the sync still works on there.
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Only reason i liked it was cause there picture would pop up without me having to do anything but nothing i can live without
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Yeah I don't really use facebook really at all anymore. G+ is way better
csdj92 said:
You guys can try friendcaster the sync still works on there.
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I tried that once and it kept giving me the notifications over and over again for messages I received even after I read them..kind of annoying. Other then that it worked ok I guess.
Did you turn off notifications.
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No why would I do that? I like to know when I have a message but not over and over again for the same message I already read...
FriendStream
sparksco said:
No why would I do that? I like to know when I have a message but not over and over again for the same message I already read...
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.....FriendStream works too, without the annoying messages.
blackshark said:
.....FriendStream works too, without the annoying messages.
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Sparksco is an AOSP user majorly so you bring up FriendStream to him and he'll probably just give you the middle finger
FriendStream works too, without the messages.....
There's two types of Friendstreams. There's one on Sense roms that I like and works flawlessly without the annoying notifications. Then there's another one from the market that does have annoying messages. On aosp roms you have to use the one from the market. The notifications don't always start doing that right away but after awhile they do. It's a bug in the app itself. Stop acting like I don't know WTF I'm talking about!
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There's two types of Friendstreams. There's one on Sense roms that I like and works flawlessly without the annoying notifications. Then there's another one from the market that does have annoying messages. On aosp roms you have to use the one from the market. The notifications don't always start doing that right away but after awhile they do. It's a bug in the app itself. Stop acting like I don't know WTF I'm talking about!
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Ah ok, I had no clue their was a Freindstream app in the Market, Im just so used to using HTC Sense
notsointeresting said:
Ah ok, I had no clue their was a Freindstream app in the Market, Im just so used to using HTC Sense
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Yeah when I do run sense it works great. Edited OP for AOSP roms!
Facebook contact integration hasn't worked for me properly for a long time on AOSP. But this integration works fine on Sense.
Side note: One thing I learned when I worked at Facebook is that Google HATES Facebook.
Unrelated: I also noticed that Waze isn't as good at getting a GPS lock on AOSP as it is on Sense. I think that's a bug in Waze though.
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Facebook contact integration hasn't worked for me properly for a long time on AOSP. But this integration works fine on Sense.
Side note: One thing I learned when I worked at Facebook is that Google HATES Facebook.
Unrelated: I also noticed that Waze isn't as good at getting a GPS lock on AOSP as it is on Sense. I think that's a bug in Waze though.
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So what else is new?
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So what else is new?
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It's Friday!
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It's Friday!
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Hell ya that's what I'm talkin about. Party like a rock star!
I don't know if ICS or JB with Sense will ever come to the DHD. But the reason I have never stuck with another ROM other than Android Revolution HD is because I end up missing Sense.
When people do change to a non-Sense ROM (haha, nonsense), what are you using for:
Friendstream alternative. With FS, I get both my twitter and FB feeds in one convenient widget. And I like how when a tweet has a link, if I click on the tweet, I can read the tweet and link all within FS. I don't get that with Android Pro Widget or Launcher Pro widget.
Calendar. The HTC calendar is so clean looking. I like the monthly view on a whole screen.
SMS. I know there are alternatives but many look so cartoony, not the clean interface of the HTC version.
But probably Friendstream is the big one. What are people doing?
Thanks.
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I don't know if ICS or JB with Sense will ever come to the DHD. But the reason I have never stuck with another ROM other than Android Revolution HD is because I end up missing Sense.
When people do change to a non-Sense ROM (haha, nonsense), what are you using for:
Friendstream alternative. With FS, I get both my twitter and FB feeds in one convenient widget. And I like how when a tweet has a link, if I click on the tweet, I can read the tweet and link all within FS. I don't get that with Android Pro Widget or Launcher Pro widget.
Calendar. The HTC calendar is so clean looking. I like the monthly view on a whole screen.
SMS. I know there are alternatives but many look so cartoony, not the clean interface of the HTC version.
But probably Friendstream is the big one. What are people doing?
Thanks.
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DHD will be getting official ICS before the end of August
Good to see you're ditching Sense (less eyecandy: more RAM free & better performance), not sure if we have something like FS, maybe rip it from a sense ROM and install it?
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How to get a Friendstream apk? Would that install on any rooted phone?
Also, I forgot to mention a key app. Mail. The mail interface on Sense is nice and clean. On some of these other apps, like K-9, it's not as nice looking. Also, I need features like auto-BCC all emails. And what I like about Sense Mail is I have two mail accounts, one Yahoo, one POP, and both homescreen icons actually tell me how many new mails there are. What's the mail app everyone is using when they switch away from Sense?
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DHD will be getting official ICS before the end of August
Good to see you're ditching Sense (less eyecandy: more RAM free & better performance), not sure if we have something like FS, maybe rip it from a sense ROM and install it?
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You can't. FS requires a Sense framework to run at all. If it were that easy, someone would've done it already.
Hunt3r.j2 said:
You can't. FS requires a Sense framework to run at all. If it were that easy, someone would've done it already.
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Oh yeah, forgot that you need the framework *Facepalm*
Maybe (seriously doubt I'd ever happpen though, don't think its even possible) CM7 with Sense framework?
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Oh yeah, forgot that you need the framework *Facepalm*
Maybe (seriously doubt I'd ever happpen though, don't think its even possible) CM7 with Sense framework?
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Never happening
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I don't know if ICS or JB with Sense will ever come to the DHD. But the reason I have never stuck with another ROM other than Android Revolution HD is because I end up missing Sense.
When people do change to a non-Sense ROM (haha, nonsense), what are you using for:
Friendstream alternative. With FS, I get both my twitter and FB feeds in one convenient widget. And I like how when a tweet has a link, if I click on the tweet, I can read the tweet and link all within FS. I don't get that with Android Pro Widget or Launcher Pro widget.
Calendar. The HTC calendar is so clean looking. I like the monthly view on a whole screen.
SMS. I know there are alternatives but many look so cartoony, not the clean interface of the HTC version.
But probably Friendstream is the big one. What are people doing?
Thanks.
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I know what you mean about Sense. I have tried as well and always came back to Sense..
A replacement for Friendstream.. Here are a couple:
- Seesmic (Facebook and Twitter)
- Multipost ( but I think Facebook doesn't work)
- HootSuite
- Tweetdeck
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Oh yeah, forgot that you need the framework *Facepalm*
Maybe (seriously doubt I'd ever happpen though, don't think its even possible) CM7 with Sense framework?
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CM7 with Sense framework would just be a desensed rom.
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How to get a Friendstream apk? Would that install on any rooted phone?
Also, I forgot to mention a key app. Mail. The mail interface on Sense is nice and clean. On some of these other apps, like K-9, it's not as nice looking. Also, I need features like auto-BCC all emails. And what I like about Sense Mail is I have two mail accounts, one Yahoo, one POP, and both homescreen icons actually tell me how many new mails there are. What's the mail app everyone is using when they switch away from Sense?
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For mail use: InoMail
Very clean, iOS looking style, and very fast etc, great mail
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Yup - FS is hard to do without. However... check out APW widgets. The pro version has a friendstream widget which is a perfect replacement. The non-pro you have to have separate twitter and facebook. The calendar widget is also the best sense replacement I have found.
I'd stick with sense, but have a DZ so sense eats up too much RAM.
What I miss most in non-Sense roms is actually the camera. I tried and bought several other camera apps (360 camera, Zoom FX), but none seem as fast or polished as the Sense camera app. Especially with regard to focussing. It autofocusses on faces or otherwise just in the center, but you can always overrule it with tap-to-focus. I haven't found this in any other camera (yet?)
perhaps its just that I have become accustomed to that camera app.
for me, that is the only app that keeps dragging me back to sense roms.
madcow_mda said:
What I miss most in non-Sense roms is actually the camera. I tried and bought several other camera apps (360 camera, Zoom FX), but none seem as fast or polished as the Sense camera app. Especially with regard to focussing. It autofocusses on faces or otherwise just in the center, but you can always overrule it with tap-to-focus. I haven't found this in any other camera (yet?)
perhaps its just that I have become accustomed to that camera app.
for me, that is the only app that keeps dragging me back to sense roms.
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Try using the MIUI camera app
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Never ever Sense
everything else is better than sense.
but the best is an stock android so like google thought it should be.
I like some things about sense and have had my days where I missed it a little. But IMO after I used jelly bean its pure Google for me from now on. Thanks for the alternatives!
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is there an alternative gui to sence ?
Try Android Pro Widgets. Works for me like a charm....
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If their were a sense contender I would have left HTC long time ago ,so no there is no sense alternative,all other launchers are the same ,boring.sense is unique
atrako1973 said:
If their were a sense contender I would have left HTC long time ago ,so no there is no sense alternative,all other launchers are the same ,boring.sense is unique
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*Sigh* yes it is unique.... at least.
Did i miss it the last 18 months? .... This gonna be a hard decissi..... Nope!
Miui has nice style and good cam, too and runs like a kitten on crack :cyclops:
Even though,in my opinion, Miui is no competition to latest ics/jellybean vanilla feeling.
I like Sense for Calendar, Mail, and (mosttly) intuitive dialler. Maybe except mail, no replacements. Therefore, Sense ROMs.
Every time I try switching I keep coming back. The simple Email icons for my two email addresses, it shows the number of NEW messages. I tried Kaiten Mail and the ugly mail icon (looks like a fire hydrant), shows UNREAD messages. The problem with Unread messages is that for my POP email address, I read on my computer, or my phone. So my POP email on my phone is basically all Unread. So the icon shows me 99 Unread all the time. Useless. I just want to see NEW messages, and that's what my simple Sense 3.5 does. Sense is just better.
For Friendstream, if I click a tweet with a link to an article, the article opens up in Friendstream. With other apps like Android Pro Widgets, you have to click the link to the article and open up your browser. Grrrrrr.