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recomend widgets

hi guys,
what widgets can you recommend? i use the phone mainly to keep track of twitter, FB, news, weather. anything else you guys can recommend?
thanks

Touiteur premium - twitter
weatherbug elite - weather
calwidget - calender
bbc - news

ChompSMS now has a messaging widget.
Pure Calender - customizable calender widget.
Battery Life - good battery monitor widget.

AnyWidget 1.0
Lets you make (almost) any widget you want lol

t0mmy said:
AnyWidget 1.0
Lets you make (almost) any widget you want lol
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Where did you find this Widget?
It's not on the Market:
It's not on www.Cyrket.com either.
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AnyWidget 1.0
Lets you make (almost) any widget you want lol
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Where did you find this Widget?
It's not on the Market:
It's not on www.Cyrket.com either.
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oh crap you're right. i think i saved it from adc2, i'll post the apk when i get to the computer
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here's that apk, enjoy

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here's that apk, enjoy
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Thanks!

Beautiful Widgets
Android Agenda Widget
WeatherBug Elite
Curvefish On/Off Widgets
Curvefish Process Manager
Pure Music Widget
aiStsremWidget
MiniInfo
IP Address Widget
SetCPU Widget Mod
SMS Unread Count
Here's some of them:

what's that Gmail message count widget?

trinode said:
what's that Gmail message count widget?
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SMS Unread Count (does Gmail too).

Thanks guys

t0mmy said:
AnyWidget 1.0
Lets you make (almost) any widget you want lol
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Played with it for a while. Looks like it doesn't work too well on Desire. Couldn't really figure out what I would use it for anyway haha.

Battery Monitor Widget and Process Monitor Widget
If you want to fine-tune your phone and get rid of bad behaving apps, those 2 are a must!
Process Monitor Widget is still in an early stage it seems, but can actually replace any ATK widgets and task managers altogether, can't wait for the recording feature that is still in dev!
battery monitor widget is actually the least-battery-draining battery-widget app I found on the market, after testing so many... this one brings you all the data you need as well!

Twitter and facebook feed widgets

I'm lookimgs fo widgets that are simlar to launcher pro widgets any one have any ideas
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You could try installing launcher pro. It's not in the market, but you should be able to find the apk with a little elbow grease.
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Ditto. Load LauncherPro. You have to buy it to get the widget but it is cheap and worth it. Attached is a screenshot of my screen. Upper left is Friends widget which combines FB and Twitter feeds. Totally worth it.

I used LP 0.8.3 plus since I got the Xoom. Wasn't sure how it would turn out but I figured it couldn't hurt. It's been fanatastic. Have to tweak some small settings to make it snappier transitioning screens but it does the job well. The ability to stretch the Widgets and the additional Widgets makes it worth the effort. Feels very customized and it works great.
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For those running Launcher Pro... Are you using the CNN stackable widget as well?
When I installed LP+ and would flip through the CNN widget stacks, I would constantly get Force Closes on Launcher Pro. I finally gave up on it... Maybe I will try again.
Anyone experiencing the same? Or different?
Thanks.

Cnn widget works fine for me (I have it resized a little smaller than what it looks like stock)

keitht said:
Ditto. Load LauncherPro. You have to buy it to get the widget but it is cheap and worth it. Attached is a screenshot of my screen. Upper left is Friends widget which combines FB and Twitter feeds. Totally worth it.
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Launcher Pro looks nice. I'll have to try it.
Is it your birthday Keith? Happy birthday, if it is.

New to Android... so this could possibly be a dumb question.
When using the stock Twitter widget, it only displays one tweet at a time and isn't scrollable. When reading up on Launcher Pro, it said that you can resize and create scrollable widgets. Could I take the stock Twitter app, resize it, AND make it scrollable?
Thanks in advance.

Here is another question related to Launcher Pro... I have my screens setup and all is working well, however, the stackable widgets (CNN, Youtube, etc) do not automatically flip every minute.
I know this is not a big deal, however, I am guessing they also do not refresh every minute as well.
Anyone seeing the same thing?
If this is a known problem, I am assuming this will be fixed when LP+ is actually released to use the Honeycomb engine.

green94 said:
New to Android... so this could possibly be a dumb question.
When using the stock Twitter widget, it only displays one tweet at a time and isn't scrollable. When reading up on Launcher Pro, it said that you can resize and create scrollable widgets. Could I take the stock Twitter app, resize it, AND make it scrollable?
Thanks in advance.
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No.
LPP+ has a very nice twitter widget that is scrollable.
LPP+ does nothing to widgets that aren't LP widgets, other than allow you to resize them. The stock Twitter widget does not have the ability, that I've seen, to be scrollable, there for for me, it gets deleted.
Its very hard if not impossible to find LPP replacement widgets for the Calendar/Agenda, facebook, and twitter widgets. ADW an equally impressive launcher does not have these widgets, but has a couple other tweaks LP doesn't.
There are also themed versions for LPP+ and ADW which are very nice. I'm using a transparent theme, XTG and Love it.
Here's the thread for all the themed versions. Looks like he just added HC too. Make a backup of LP, delete it. Install the themed .apk and restore. Activation codes work and it really adds a nice touch.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783427
Its sad that the stock Launcher is so inadequate. I really tried to like it but the lack of resizing the widgets is a complete fail imo.

Mandelbrot.Benoit said:
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LPP+ has a very nice twitter widget that is scrollable.
LPP+ does nothing to widgets that aren't LP widgets, other than allow you to resize them. The stock Twitter widget does not have the ability, that I've seen, to be scrollable, there for for me, it gets deleted.
Its very hard if not impossible to find LPP replacement widgets for the Calendar/Agenda, facebook, and twitter widgets. ADW an equally impressive launcher does not have these widgets, but has a couple other tweaks LP doesn't.
There are also themed versions for LPP+ and ADW which are very nice. I'm using a transparent theme, XTG and Love it.
Here's the thread for all the themed versions. Looks like he just added HC too. Make a backup of LP, delete it. Install the themed .apk and restore. Activation codes work and it really adds a nice touch.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783427
Its sad that the stock Launcher is so inadequate. I really tried to like it but the lack of resizing the widgets is a complete fail imo.
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First off, great information. Really appreciate it.
A few follow up questions:
What are the differences between LPP+ and ADW beyond widgets? Candidly scrollable widgets is my most pressing need at this time, but I'm interested in hearing about the other "tweaks".
Do you use both launchers at the same time?
How do these programs handle battery consumption?
Lastly, which do you recommend for use with Honeycomb?
Thanks again

[Updated 3/15] Replace HTC Widgets through 3rd party Widgets -- LIST!

So I wanted to create a list of widgets that look/function like the HTC Widgets..
Weather - Palmary Weather
http://www.appbrain.com/app/palmary-weather-pro/com.palmarysoft.customweatherpro
Clock - Fancy Widget
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anddoes.fancywidget.pro&feature=search_result
Calendar - Pure Grid Calendar
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_grid_calendar
http://www.appbrain.com/app/calendar-snooze/com.bitfire.development.calendarsnooze <-- Calendar reminders
Music - Player Pro
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&feature=search_result
Contact/People Widget
http://www.appbrain.com/app/contact-widget/br.livroandroid.widget.contatos
http://www.appbrain.com/app/contact-sidebar/albr.android.sidecallbar
http://www.appbrain.com/app/contacts-grid/com.billyfrancisco.contactsgrid
Facebook/Twitter/Friendstream/Contacts Widget (AIO)
http://www.appbrain.com/app/colorize-widget/com.snowbee.colorize
BookMark Widget
http://www.appbrain.com/app/visual-bookmarks/kent.android.imgbookmarks

Launcher Pro + has a lot of Sense-esque widgets built in.

It's not actually a widget, but what about the calendar reminders. I find that the stock reminder stinks...so I use Calendar Snooze. http://www.appbrain.com/app/calendar-snooze/com.bitfire.development.calendarsnooze

HELLZ YEAH !!!
This is a great source..
Thanks for this thread
STICKY PLEASE !! hahaha..
To the OP, please update the original post with all of the suggestions that are posted so that if this list grows to several pages, someone won't have to read through it all to see if it's already been suggested.
Thanks again.

Colorize widget - great replacement for Facebook/Friendstream and agenda calendar. You also have a contacts and messaging widget as well.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.snowbee.colorize&feature=search_result
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keep em coming! just updated the list

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Launcher Pro + has a lot of Sense-esque widgets built in.
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yes it does.. but I don't people to be limited to just Launcher Pro. This is more if people want a HTC look with say GO launcher, ADW, Zeam, etc...

063_XOBX said:
Launcher Pro + has a lot of Sense-esque widgets built in.
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jamice4u said:
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see comment above! I don't want users to be limited to LauncherPRO when GOlauncher EX or ADW EX are worthy launchers..

would the colorize widget be scrollable on touchwiz or only for the previously mentioned launchers? ( I ask since touchwiz has other scrollable widgets.)
edit2: so i just tried to sign in with colorize and I got a suspicious activity alert, although i did get to play a fun guessing game at my friends photos to verify who i am.
edit: Also I just saw on appbrain the dev of visiual bookmarks also has visual contacts
Also if we are going for the look of sense the we need Fancy Widget v1.3 (picture) I can link it if it is not against the rules.

[Q] widgets for htc

there a litrally no widgets in the rooted htc wildfire cm7 ,so is there any widgets that i can use it on my home screen,like calender mail etc

If you are looking at Sense Type Widgets, then you can take a look at Launcher Pro Plus (Paid), which has all the widgets you are looking for.
For the Clock, you can look at Fancy Widgets.

Nivin Abraham said:
there a litrally no widgets in the rooted htc wildfire cm7 ,so is there any widgets that i can use it on my home screen,like calender mail etc
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im not familiar with launcher pro so i cant dismiss 3xeno recommedation but i have found that colorize widgets give me all the widgets i need. calender,agenda,contacts,meggages,bookmarks,faceache (lol facebook),google reader and twitter.

Nova Launcher Prime

Quick question, on my s6 even with nova prime I had the ability to use the Samsung weather widget.
I'm actually quite happy with how stock touchwiz is but randomly i thought lemme install nova, and go to find the weather widget is no longer available. Has anyone got it to work? Or is the only other choice is to use a different app?
I have the s8+
Many thanks.

Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.

FAUguy said:
Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.
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Might give that a go as I bought the pro version almost 7 years ago lol

Download Xwidget from the play Store

andres2428 said:
Download Xwidget from the play Store
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Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?

jlv3 said:
Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?
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It looks almost the same, he can choose the weather app of samsung to opens with the widget

Thank you for a the suggestion guys, just read on a reddit that Samsung is blocking 3rd party apps. I've been messing with beautiful widgets and for now I'm happy with it.