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So the other galaxy s phones have touchwiz 3.0 and the epic has 2.5? Why would they take away all the internal storage and dumb down the software?
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A quick search and you'll discover that the Epic has TW 2.5 because of the phyiscal keyboard, which uses landscape mode more often than the other phones in the Galaxy S Series. TW 3.0 was not fully optimized enough for landscape mode at the time of release.
The choice was to further delay the release of the phone or use a modified version of TW 2.5, and most of us are happy to have the phone with 2.5 than have no phone at all.
If you must have 3.0, I suggest a different phone on a different carrier or wait to purcahse our Epic after the update (date TBA)...

I know very little about touchwiz except from playing with the epic so can someone tell me what touchwiz 3 provides over 2.5?

Im roaming in a 1xrtt area so searching for things is a nono. And im only asking a question, no need to get defensive bruh. But anyways, so the other galaxy s' cant use landscape mode as efficiently? Or just the home screen?
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I think touchwiz 3.0 is just alot more eyecandy like the puzzle lock screen and the updated media player. Idk im not well versed in touchwiz. I wish they gave an option to go vanilla. I hated when they took that option off from the hero when they updated it to eclair
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I think touchwiz 3.0 is just alot more eyecandy like the puzzle lock screen and the updated media player. Idk im not well versed in touchwiz. I wish they gave an option to go vanilla. I hated when they took that option off from the hero when they updated it to eclair
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It's part eyecandy and part functionality. 3.0 supports changing the icons at the bottom bar and adding and removing pages from the home screen, for starters. 3.0 is a nice jump ahead of what 2.5 offers.

I have 3.0 on mine...
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i hated touchwiz, i feel launcherpro is tons better!

bsnyder217 said:
I have 3.0 on mine...
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Can you take a screenshot of your media player?

SiL3nTKiLL said:
i hated touchwiz, i feel launcherpro is tons better!
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I've been using LauncherPro since day 1, with the 3d launcher, and have never looked back!!!

bsnyder217 said:
I have 3.0 on mine...
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No you dont.

I ment to say that i have the touchwiz 3.0 launcher..
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SparksMod HotSauce rom

Everyone needs to try out this Rom!!!! I am proud cm supporter who likes trying diff roms and dis one is the all time winner. Slickest look ever worked into all the little details. Go get sum HotSauce
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I would hardly call it a "rom", its more like a "theme". There is no actual development done, just someone else's kernel pasted into cm6.1.1, and a half dozen png's changed....
LOL
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Well, whatever you would like to call it, i stand corrected. BUT, it looks better than any rom, mod, theme, I've ever seen.
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post screens

GhostZini said:
Everyone needs to try out this Rom!!!! I am proud cm supporter who likes trying diff roms and dis one is the all time winner. Slickest look ever worked into all the little details. Go get sum HotSauce
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I guess we are all entitled to our own opinions
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886184

sorry but sense is the best looking

Really, sense? U must be kidding. I've tried sense roms b4, but u must admit cyanogen rom based builds are supreme. Try HotSauce. I dare you. U wont go back to that sense bs again
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no doubt CM have a good quality rom, but we talking about looks here, sense is awesome for the animation, i have try CM and agreed it is a good rom but i missed things like Friends stream, News stream and little things that sense has. its not as quick but its not that bad either

Looks meh. I prefer stock Gingerbread with ADW EX.

What ginger rom build r u using?
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TheBiles said:
Looks meh. I prefer stock Gingerbread with ADW EX.
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+1 Gingerbread looks better. The only thing i liked in SparksMod are fancy animations.
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Im sold on SparksMod brother, but whuteva floats ur boat. That's the great thing bout opensource dev'ing. It's a beautiful thing.
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Doesn't this belong in G2 and Desire Z Themes and Apps? http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=760

The battery life on Hot Sauce is HORRIBLE

Not if u set profiles in set cpu, not a problem for me
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Gingerbread + ADW EX ftw.

[Q] sense gingerbread rom?

I haven't been a member here for long. I love what you guys do I'm running gingerbread right now on my HTC mytouch 4g I love it but I also miss the sense and the way the glacier looks. Is there anyway someone can combine the glacier with gingerbread. That would just be great. Thanks guys hope someone can help
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jjusino16 said:
I haven't been a member here for long. I love what you guys do I'm running gingerbread right now on my HTC mytouch 4g I love it but I also miss the sense and the way the glacier looks. Is there anyway someone can combine the glacier with gingerbread. That would just be great. Thanks guys hope someone can help
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+1 to this l, bro. However, given that there are no sense-based phones with an official gingerbread update from HTC, this seems highly unlikely to happen until then. Otherwise the rom will need to be built from scratch, which makes such a thing highly undeaireable from the Dev standpoint, I'd imagine.
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Ah I see. Hopefully soon there will be am update. I love sense and gingerbread. The my touch 4g is such a good phone
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jjusino16 said:
Ah I see. Hopefully soon there will be am update. I love sense and gingerbread. The my touch 4g is such a good phone
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Amen to that Idk why people hate on sense so much, its so awesome, and true sense has very little actual bloat.
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jmwils3 said:
Amen to that Idk why people hate on sense so much, its so awesome, and true sense has very little actual bloat.
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Sence roms = 256mb
AOSP roms = 80mb
No bloat?

option94 said:
Sence roms = 256mb
AOSP roms = 80mb
No bloat?
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alright, perhaps I need to rephrase. I find that, compared to the crap on the stock rom, a True sense-based ROM is much less bogged down with useless software (IMHO)and includes programs I actually like and use (reader, locations, htc hub for skins, etc). Yes, compared to an AOSP rom or CM, it is much more bloated, but all that comes from the polish applied to the UI which I happen to find quite appealing, but which some do not.

+1 to that... Sense is such a great thing, i love everything it has to offer! just wish the battery life could be a bit better~ other than that i use it as my daily driver!

I know alot of people who don't like sense, when I ask why they can't Answer why. Sense looks good and works great. If someone could combine it with gingerbread I would be hooked. My first sense phone was the hd2 and after coming to the mytouch and seeing how good the sense was I was pleased with what they did.
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htc sense is very nice vs stock android.. stock android is sooooooooo boring and doesnt have all the nice widgets that htc sense hooks it up with and the nice looking ui. but the only good thing about stock android is it doesnt take up as much ram as the htc sense does. thats the only thing ive noticed different. also gingerbread is nice to run but i keep going back to htc sense for all the nice widgets.. i really love the weather one.. ive seen apps like it but they arent the same at all.

s10shane said:
htc sense is very nice vs stock android.. stock android is sooooooooo boring and doesnt have all the nice widgets that htc sense hooks it up with and the nice looking ui. but the only good thing about stock android is it doesnt take up as much ram as the htc sense does. thats the only thing ive noticed different. also gingerbread is nice to run but i keep going back to htc sense for all the nice widgets.. i really love the weather one.. ive seen apps like it but they arent the same at all.
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I for one prefer the AOSP look of Android. And loath Sense, It's so much bloat for not enough to warrant it. and if you want those widgets you get to download what you want. And Launcher Pro has a good chunk of those widgets included in the launcher.
as far as "weather widgets" the one off the LG 2X is perfect enough for me.

Poll Sense or no Sense?

just curious what people are using or like

Using cm7 and the only thing I miss from sense is the Calender app and all the Widgets. Oh and also the browser. But I would say no sense
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For calendar, agenda widget is a better replacement to me. For friend stream and the sms widget, I find pure messenger widget is great replacement.
As you can tell, I much prefer the smoothness and customization of CM myself. But sense is pretty candy I'll admit.
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I'm currently on cm7 and now that almost everything works, I'm liking this better than sense. Also, much easier to theme lol.
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Sense has its ups but all in all I gotta have my aosp. I started with it on the moment and didn't even think twice about putting cm6 and aosp roms on my heroc. So for my shift it was kind of a no brainer. Although the shift did make me start to like sense more then I already did.
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Sense is definitely the most polished and developed of the "skin" frameworks, imo. There is a lot to like about it as mentioned above, but I prefer going without it.

Never liked sense til mikshift...I prefer an aosp build but hate cyanogen..since the g1..so til I have enough time to get a mikaosp I'm pro sense lol
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I like either one. To be honest
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No Sense.
I don't *dislike* Sense. There are a lot of great things about it like the widgets everyone loves and tries to imitate. It just takes up a lot of space and uses a lot of resources to run. Though I have to admit I've never seen it run as amazingly fast and smooth as it does on the Shift.
That said, CM7 is light, fast and awesome. I mostly missed the Sense calendar widget too, but the one in Launcher Pro Plus is pretty slick and fills that gap nicely.

If I had to choose I would defently go with sense best skin out there by far. I think I would also choose it over aosp
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Sense looks ok, but I don't like the inflexibility of it. If I don't want it, I want to be able to delete it, and Sense doesn't like being deleted in my experience. AOSP for me.

You can't beat the social integration Sense has, but with a little bit of work pretty much any aosp rom can be ALMOST equal.
CM7 is great. The theme engine is great as well.
My rom of choice for the last couple weeks has been MIUI, sure there's no wimax or mms but mms is coming I'm sure. When I'm in wimax coverage areas for now I just nandroid.
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JKILO said:
Never liked sense til mikshift...I prefer an aosp build but hate cyanogen..since the g1..so til I have enough time to get a mikaosp I'm pro sense lol
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Just curious as to why you hate cyanogen?
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I was glad to not have Sense on my phone anymore when I flashed CM7. I think stock Android 2.3 just looks cleaner and more professional than Sense, and HTC has made some odd choices with the updated Sense UI (is a themes button on the bottom widget really necessary?) that I don't like.
CM7 all the way for me.

MaxCarnage said:
I think stock Android 2.3 just looks cleaner and more professional than Sense
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Agreed. I was never a huge fan of the AOSP look before, but with the change in 2.3 to the more unified black theme, black status bar, etc. it looks really slick and professional. Sense looks nice in some aspects, but I guess I just don't like the "everything is shiny!" thing going on there.

EmperorX said:
Just curious as to why you hate cyanogen?
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Its overrated and gets way to much hype..too much is changed to make it "better" but imo its just aosp with bloatware
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Do you guys know of any true to the core aosp rom in the works?
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I prefer sense, it just looks the most "refined" to me. And with the Shift, it really flies.
But, I'm running CM7 at the moment, and getting used to it. I still miss some of the sense goodies tho

Haven't been on Sense since I rooted my Hero. When I rooted this, got off sense right away too. Not a big fan of sense, it's just too much.

Sence, just cleaned up a bit.

HTC Sense 3.5 screen shot leak

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/25/htc-sense-3-5-beta-screenshots-leak-bring-tears-of-joy-to-weath/
I keep liking Sense less and less.

I'm starting to like it more and more. Haha but that's just me
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Rosie is ugly as heck. I'm getting tired of Sense but AOSP... I guess I will just have to wait for Ice Cream Sandwich, I hope for a major facelift

Steven 1 said:
I'm starting to like it more and more. Haha but that's just me
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I was gonna say the same, but then again is a matter of choices and preferences, something that should not be forgotten when you are comparing.

Coming soon to an Evo near you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16967342

Ehh, not a big fan of the round icons. I still like Sense, just not as much since all of the sense reboots I used to get before flashing MIUI.

HTC saying 3.5 will be compatible with all of there handsets not just their high range phones. Would be nice to see this happen. Sense is getting nicer and nicer but I run cm7 for the speed and vanilla look
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mattykinsx said:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/25/htc-sense-3-5-beta-screenshots-leak-bring-tears-of-joy-to-weath/
I keep liking Sense less and less.
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I'm with you. Just looks bloated to me.
And what is this obsession with weather updates all over Sense? Are they vampires who need to know the exact status of the sun before they can go outside?

MaxCarnage said:
And what is this obsession with weather updates all over Sense? Are they vampires who need to know the exact status of the sun before they can go outside?
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Hilarious and a great point.
They seem to be in love with the weather.

Papa Smurf151 said:
HTC saying 3.5 will be compatible with all of there handsets not just their high range phones. Would be nice to see this happen. Sense is getting nicer and nicer but I run cm7 for the speed and vanilla look
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I agree with you on the vanilla part. However there are something's of sense that I like. Like the text selector I think it is superior to aosp. I would love to run a sense 3.0 rom without the lockscreen. That ring annoys the crap out of me.
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Khilbron said:
I agree with you on the vanilla part. However there are something's of sense that I like. Like the text selector I think it is superior to aosp. I would love to run a sense 3.0 rom without the lockscreen. That ring annoys the crap out of me.
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Don't get me wrong. When I had my hero I was in love with sense. Its shiney and pretty and has some nice features but I need the snappiness to go with it
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I <3 Sense, it's just fluid and classy looking to me. But different strokes for different folks right? I run AOSP and find myself trying to make it mimic Sense, what's the point in me doing that?

I like sense 2

Theres just way too much going on. I tried Vanilla with CM7. Never looked back.

dw3bb10 said:
Theres just way too much going on. I tried Vanilla with CM7. Never looked back.
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Agreed.
Too much weather too.

Xtazy305 said:
I like sense 2
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I liked TouchFlo.

Khilbron said:
I would love to run a sense 3.0 rom without the lockscreen. That ring annoys the crap out of me.
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Synergy has the option to use the AOSP lockscreen instead (found in settings/display)...if that's what you prefer.

mizzos4 said:
Synergy has the option to use the AOSP lockscreen instead (found in settings/display)...if that's what you prefer.
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So does mikg
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So does mikg
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Except if you do that, you must swipe the bars and unlock your phone to answer a call. I delete most system files related to the ring and it gets rid of everything except for the ring. Works a bit better
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I think the lock screen is the only cool thing about sense, I like running the sense 3 with launcher pro on top, but
the weather lock screen is awesome so
I keep it, and I like the short cuts.
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