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Is it possible to extract Sense UI and somehow create an APK file from it so it can be installed on any Android phone? I Like the HTC Desire, but i also really like the Motorola Droid & the Sony Ericcson X10, but they just dont have that overall edge without Sense. It would be really good if this could be done!
Thanks
Short answer, no. Long answer [idk. ask someone smart cuz I just dk.]
if i had a phone with sense i'd be able to tell you.
it depends on if its embedded or just a package..
if it's like a home replacement then yes.
theoretically its definitely possible but i have never even seen sense in person.
maybe someone with a desire or hero can chime in?
topdnbass said:
if i had a phone with sense i'd be able to tell you.
it depends on if its embedded or just a package..
if it's like a home replacement then yes.
theoretically its definitely possible but i have never even seen sense in person.
maybe someone with a desire or hero can chime in?
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Not without all of Htc's closed-source frameworks
The fact that it hasn't been done yet, and that all non-HTC devices able to run it are in fact running hacked HTC roms, should tell you something.
No worries, there is actually a team whose working on porting the Sense UI to the droid
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No worries, there is actually a team whose working on porting the Sense UI to the droid
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they have ported it, you just cant take the rosie.apk and put it on the market and download it and wola you have sense ui. the rosie.apk is completely depandent on HTC's framework.
I was thinking more along the lines of an update.zip to actually replace those framework files.
I didn't think it would be as simple as an .apk package installation.
I have hardly done any developing for android (yet) but wouldn't a logcat or dalvik readout give you enough info on which files are dependent on sense ui?
You throw those into a zip, sign it and put it on any device with the same version of android that hasn't been butchered by the manufactuer.
Update it and voila.
I doubt HTC went through the trouble to encrypt files specifically for each device..
Hey guys and chiefs.
has anyone of you planned to make a Sony-Ericsson Xperia X8 ROM for HTC Hero?
that would be great because Hardware is very similar (only about 10% slower CPU and a bit less RAM) and my girlfriend is using my old hero. I have the X10 and i love timescape and mediascape but the X8 version is much faster and more cute
would be cool if anyone could port the X8 software when its released
Thanx for replies
Greetz
Blacky
that would be veeeeeeeery nice
GXFX said:
that would be veeeeeeeery nice
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that would be veeeeeeeery nice +1 =D
X10 (and X8 even much more) are very not popular devices, so i think nobody will try to port ROMs from that devices.
One of reasons is eg. no support for multitouch... And if we have genuine 2.1, what can be better in port... ?
Rather somebody could try to run X10/X8 apk's on hero... I think it could be possible, but need support from users of that devices...
So if you're owner of X10/X8, publish here apk's of apps that you'd like to see on hero, if that apks will don't work from scratch, maybe one of our best devs (eg. somebody from TeamVillain or Feeyo, or sbd else) will try to modify that apk's...
honestly why would you want sonys rom?
if you have ever used an x10 then you know anything built by sony has been nothing but garbage...
alan090 said:
honestly why would you want sonys rom?
if you have ever used an x10 then you know anything built by sony has been nothing but garbage...
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totally crap!
i own an X10 with new R2B firmware and its a great device..... i have also an Nexus one and tried an HTC desire and i would never change to one of these devices for daily use......
and what are you talking about bad selled phone??? in japan it is the best selled phone of all the time by Docomo after iPhone.... in europe they sell it very much!!!
and don't compare it if you have only seen the release firmware..... if you would compare this then the hero would be one of the worst android phone ever...... slow like hell!!!!
if you can't believe me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqeAFONSbw
and btw..... the X8 is not yet on the market so don't talk about bad selled device.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aknf9PhLW8A
Go die
Xperia sucks more balls than Mr.Bucket
The hero on the other hand is a masterpiece of art
Rather than discussing about which phone is better (which is the hero) lets talk about the Possibility of a X8 rom for the hero
Mikeytjee said:
Rather than discussing about which phone is better (which is the hero) lets talk about the Possibility of a X8 rom for the hero
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THANX
lets go back to topic
because i don't seem to be the only one who would like X8 IU on Hero
the_black_dragon said:
THANX
lets go back to topic
because i don't seem to be the only one who would like X8 IU on Hero
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Yeah would love to see it aswell!
Is there an X8 dump available?
someone said they were gonna do this befor, but nothing happened.
ive got the dimp/apk's for it if anyone needs them, ive alreadyy made a really small theme of it on my hero but idd love the wholee rom
mojtaba.alhoseine said:
someone said they were gonna do this befor, but nothing happened.
ive got the dimp/apk's for it if anyone needs them, ive alreadyy made a really small theme of it on my hero but idd love the wholee rom
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Send me the dump, including boot.img.
Can I please have the dump too? Thanks.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnzyge2yydy
this is all i have, i dont know if anythings missing or not because i havent been in it for months.
but i found it on the x10 section on xda, so if you ask them they probably wouldnt mind giving you one
Thats an X10 dump..
mojtaba.alhoseine said:
someone said they were gonna do this befor, but nothing happened.
ive got the dimp/apk's for it if anyone needs them, ive alreadyy made a really small theme of it on my hero but idd love the wholee rom
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could you upload that theme please?
I don't think that we should port the whole ROM,only the UI.Those blue menus,Timescape,Mediascape and generally all of Sony's stuff that can't be found somewhere else.But I think the ROM should be based on one of Hero's 2.1 ROMs.
tolis626 said:
I don't think that we should port the whole ROM,only the UI.Those blue menus,Timescape,Mediascape and generally all of Sony's stuff that can't be found somewhere else.But I think the ROM should be based on one of Hero's 2.1 ROMs.
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I think that would be impossible because of the framework.
the_black_dragon said:
totally crap!
i own an X10 with new R2B firmware and its a great device..... i have also an Nexus one and tried an HTC desire and i would never change to one of these devices for daily use......
and what are you talking about bad selled phone??? in japan it is the best selled phone of all the time by Docomo after iPhone.... in europe they sell it very much!!!
and don't compare it if you have only seen the release firmware..... if you would compare this then the hero would be one of the worst android phone ever...... slow like hell!!!!
if you can't believe me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqeAFONSbw
and btw..... the X8 is not yet on the market so don't talk about bad selled device.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aknf9PhLW8A
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The whole rom itself is garbage - mediascape timescape everything sony has modified is garbage - even the theme is
I returned my x10 and got an acer liquid with 2.1 - rooted and installed modified by me rom and the performance on this (with the same cpu at lower clock) is that I have 2x the performance in benchmarks than the x10 with the same hardware - so whatever sony has done slowed that chip down quite a bit - I would not trust anything from them after such a botched release - this **** is worse than what I run on my magic - literally was using my magic again after 1 day because 2.1 cyanogen is SO much better than anything sony can cook up... its pretty sad actually - now Im happy with the acer liquid until I get the Galaxy S
Hey all. I'm new to the HD2 but not to android. I'm sure you've all seen the MIUI rom for desire and nexus. (if you haven't go here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-9T44Bt7M&feature=player_embedded
To clarify :"It appears that the ROM has been mostly custom built using only the base from Android 2.2 and then building an exceptional interface on top that could beat anything else that currently exists.
From full FM radio support to completely customizable home screens, dedicated buttons on the lock screen that take you to the SMS app and the phone dialer."
Since its fore the desire/nexus, It should be an easy port to the HD2, I just need halp
I'm sure most of us would love to see this implemented on the HD2. I thought I could do it myself, but I've tried and failed. Below are two links. One for the full rom and the other is a link to the system.ext2 image I made from the /system folder of the ROM. I've tried a couple of different kernel combinations and still can't get it to boot (replaced the system.ext2 in shubcraft with the one I made and it just reboots). I don't yet know enough about android on the hd2 to get this working myself. So I figured I'd start a thread and see where we can get.
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http://fromhindsight.com/crap/system.ext2 -obviously the system.ext2 file I made.
http://fromhindsight.com/crap/miui-n1-0.9.20.zip - Link to the untouched nexus version of the rom.
http://fromhindsight.com/crap/system-english.zip System folder dump from the english port. Thanks to Kingxklick92
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Seems like the hd2 has quite the community following. I'm looking forward to working with you guys
UPDATE: 9-24-2010 : We do have a working test build that is being given out to a few folks. No ETA on a alpha or beta release. Hopefully this weekend. I'm tonight and tomorrow so I'll squeeze in some android time when I can. SARCASTILLO (guy who made hyperdroid) gets the credit for getting this thing booting. To see what we have in action go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7x_6cuHM8g
Hey there biff, did you finally trade in the slide for an HD2? If so, im glad to see you over here now.
P.S. The music in the video makes me want to run up a big flight of stairs and air punch at the top.
i love the idea of "endles" possibilities when it comes to UI for a single phone and i hope you are succesful in porting this for HD2, but i HAVE to say
iOS UI on Android? YUCK *puke*
bbezja1 said:
i love the idea of "endles" possibilities when it comes to UI for a single phone and i hope you are succesful in porting this for HD2, but i HAVE to say
iOS UI on Android? YUCK *puke*
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its not iOS. I wouldn't dream of posting such a thing.
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Hey there biff, did you finally trade in the slide for an HD2? If so, im glad to see you over here now.
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I did trade. So glad i did. Back on topic now lol.
LOL that's a fast hand on the video.
Let's have a duel
I like the speed of the UI, if it's real..
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I did trade. So glad i did. Back on topic now lol.
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Nice to hear that ! We always lack people like you, however the few Hd2 build developers have magic hands.
Maybe you already know that, but I suggest you to contact them directly for this great project because Hd2 is a very popular phone, so this forum is 99.9% populated by end-users. At the begining kernel developers tried to work into xda forums, but deserted for the Htc-linux Irc because of noise.
This would be so awesome!!!! DEVS, plz plz plz look at this !!
personally i'd love to see this ported! would be something... different!
I'm looking forward to it too. Looks interesting.
I rather run the actual os then the ui
I would definitly try the real OS if it would be possible cool to have all those OS es hehe
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I rather run the actual os then the ui
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To clarify, this is the android OS....
infinitybiff said:
To clarify, this is the android OS....
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he ment iOS
not iOS4 though
It looks nothing like the iOs nor IphoneOS nor firmware 4.0. Some people are here just to make a crowd. Anyway, to the OP, this is great. try to contact DarkSt0ne, Mattc, Dan1j3l. they could help. or, on twitter, contact the htc_linux guys. Hope you can make it and if you base it on the new Desire HD Rom, and include some other languages like japanese, your rom will be one of the greatest. Thank you and good luck
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Hope you can make it and if you base it on the new Desire HD Rom, and include some other languages like japanese, your rom will be one of the greatest. Thank you and good luck
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He meant the Dutch language.
infinitybiff said:
Hey all. I'm new to the HD2 but not to android. I'm sure you've all seen the MUI rom for desire and nexus. (if you haven't go here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-9T44Bt7M&feature=player_embedded
To clarify :"It appears that the ROM has been mostly custom built using only the base from Android 2.2 and then building an exceptional interface on top that could beat anything else that currently exists.
From full FM radio support to completely customizable home screens, dedicated buttons on the lock screen that take you to the SMS app and the phone dialer."
Since its fore the desire/nexus, It should be an easy port to the HD2, I just need halp
I'm sure most of us would love to see this implemented on the HD2. I thought I could do it myself, but I've tried and failed. Below are two links. One for the full rom and the other is a link to the system.ext2 image I made from the /system folder of the ROM. I've tried a couple of different kernel combinations and still can't get it to boot (replaced the system.ext2 in shubcraft with the one I made and it just reboots). I don't yet know enough about android on the hd2 to get this working myself. So I figured I'd start a thread and see where we can get.
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http://fromhindsight.com/crap/system.ext2 -obviously the system.ext2 file I made.
http://fromhindsight.com/crap/miui-n1-0.9.20.zip - Link to the untouched nexus version of the rom.
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Seems like the hd2 has quite the community following. I'm looking forward to working with you guys
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I've been able to create a booting system...
but I don't have a signal... must be the libs or something...
wifi works and the ui is iOs-ish
some of the pop-ups and menus are in chinese so I'm not sure what I'm doing sometimes...
will post something as soon as I get the signal working. and camera... and etc....
Thanks pongster looking forward to the release when ever it is!
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
cruise284 said:
Thanks pongster looking forward to the release when ever it is!
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
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not sure it'll be anytime soon.. just tried making it boot to play with....
looks like its an odexed system (will try to deodex) and using a heavily tweaked launcher ui... pretty sweet... includes google pinyin support OOTB (of course)
Would it by any means be possible to port this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788389 to the legend device?
I would gladly help if anyone would teach me.
Briix said:
Would it by any means be possible to port this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788389 to the legend device?
I would gladly help if anyone would teach me.
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I also wanna know
It probably is possible. However it's not as straight forward as you think. The Legend is somewhat built differently.
superb ui i have ever seen in android..better than iphone. porting is not fully possible........but u can make similar ui..........any way nice one....and aliba want to see this ....[a gifted devlp] [someone send a private message to him]
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Why isn't porting fully possible?
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Why isn't porting fully possible?
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Because of the different hardware.. if it was easy to do so the froyo for desire would also have been ported by now
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Yeah allright. But I suppose it's possible to port some of the stuff? The launcher maybe?
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Yeah allright. But I suppose it's possible to port some of the stuff? The launcher maybe?
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That would be sweet.. I have downloaded the desire Rom for a closer look..
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could u check which launcher it is using.......? if possible could u post in this thread..........
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bump. no one up for the challenge?
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bump. no one up for the challenge?
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Last I saw, there was somebody in the G1 forums trying to get MIUI ported to G1. From there, since there would be no resolution difference, it shouldn't be too hard to get it onto other HVGA screens. Also, something optimized for a G1 would run blazing fast on most other devices, I assume.
Search for MIUI for HVGA screens, see what comes up and if you can find the guy. If it works, I'd love to see it get ported to my Hero.
Maybe there is some hope afterall.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794871 - these guys are doing all the hard work resizing the images. If the ROM gets ported to G1, it should be easy to port it from G1 to Legend, right?
Give them some time... week or two... we'll see if they will give up on this or not. Converting images from hdpi to mdpi is not that straight forward job, especially with .9 pngs.
*yawn*
Seems like legend wouldnt see any MIUI.
I wish i hadnt seen that miui demo video
There are some progress in porting the png images for hvga devices though..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858935
Update 12/22/10: We are officially done porting every single png in every apk to be compatible with our phones (mdpi). .....
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So yeah, every png has been ported http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858935
Why haven't a rom been released yet?
EDIT: http://miui-dev.com/forums/showthread.php?1756-Porting-MIUI-to-HTC-Evo - I'm not capable of following the guide myself, but with the ported pngs, it should work if we just follow the guide, right?
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So yeah, every png has been ported http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858935
Why haven't a rom been released yet?
EDIT: http://miui-dev.com/forums/showthread.php?1756-Porting-MIUI-to-HTC-Evo - I'm not capable of following the guide myself, but with the ported pngs, it should work if we just follow the guide, right?
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you are right but seems like devlps in the hero are not taken seriously .[by reading all the post].by the way our devlps can try this beauitiful rom.
note :it is the one the best rom ever build for android [everyone knows that]
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you are right but seems like devlps in the hero are not taken seriously .[by reading all the post].by the way our devlps can try this beauitiful rom.
note :it is the one the best rom ever build for android [everyone knows that]
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I what way is better than cyanogenmod?
qzem said:
I what way is better than cyanogenmod?
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its unique ui......
so no one........
Look interesting ... hope someone make us ROM
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Ok... there are a nice hand full of "sense-less" sense roms out right now, Athena being my favorite of these. But once upon a time, before Incdoes blew up into a monster dev (then crashed and burned) he did the complete opposite. He had his "Best of both worlds" AOSP rom with sense stuff in it (rom thread here) This was my favorite rom at that time.... I like AOSP but also like a lot of the sense... i know i'm not the only one who feels the same, so can this be done now with GB? Hope someone with the skills tries this cuz i think people would like this also......
I still have his v2.0 and v2.1 if someone wants to take a look at them and try for them selves.....
download links....
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15212713/best of 2 worlds/IncDoes_AOSP_v2.0_signed.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15212713/best of 2 worlds/IncDoes_AOSPv2.1_signed.zip
hey stoney.....i would love to try it out...still looking for something different...and I never tried it when he was around...was digging his DesireZ, and am still running it to this day, even though i can't access internal memory...where can I get it?
I agree. I LOVED that rom. Sense widget support with a stock launcher (and feel) for me would be ideal. Great idea trying to bring something of this caliber back!
JoeProcopio said:
hey stoney.....i would love to try it out...still looking for something different...and I never tried it when he was around...was digging his DesireZ, and am still running it to this day, even though i can't access internal memory...where can I get it?
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I'll post v2.0 and 2.1 as soon as I get home, about 30min......
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Yup.... The ones yoe momma told ya about.... Bad Seed Customs!!
WOuld this rom be able to use the sense facebook and such?
Updated OP with download links.....
Edit: Disregard
The only thing I miss from Sense is the camera app. Widgets etc. I never really cared for. The Sense camera is amazing though.
crondable said:
The only thing I miss from Sense is the camera app. Widgets etc. I never really cared for. The Sense camera is amazing though.
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That's one of the major things that takes me back to sense....
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Yup.... The ones yoe momma told ya about.... Bad Seed Customs!!
I'd love to pull is HTC Flashlight and Camera apps for AOSP Gingerbread
bump cuz i want this!!!!!!!
It seems like the think in that rom that worked were just apks werent they?
Most HTC apks should be installable still. Im not sure if that rom used actually sense widgets or not.
I think there are framework issues. Especially since HTC has not released their gingerbread update yet. Even then, I'm sure its proprietary.
Khanam also posted 2.3 in the original thread. This may help whoever wants to take this over.
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found 2.3 in my office pc. its 77.25mb. here is the link. should work. flashing it was finicky when i flashed it way back so dont be surprised if you get FCs. also how i got it to work was by flashing it over cm6. maybe it was just me
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2IMUZX8G
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