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After reading the forums and experimenting myself, I've come to the conclusion that there are a few possible improvements. And I'd like to maintain a thread here to keep track of them. I will keep this topic updated and will include links from the concerning topics.
It will take a little time to get this topic up to date... (please bear with me)
Custom ringtones
Solution available
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Excluding music/sounds from MediaScape
Battery issues
Work in progress
Hyves/Facebook/Twitter updates are unreliable
Timescape
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Hi, What does it mean exactly? I have a problem namely that the new E-mail doesn't appear in the Timescape, even if the mails have been downloaded manually (because the automatic E-mail sync also doesn't work many times). Also many times doesn't refresh the Timescape widget on the main screen.
Can I do anything with it?
podani said:
Timescape integration with GMail
Partial solution available
Hi, What does it mean exactly? I have a problem namely that the new E-mail doesn't appear in the Timescape, even if the mails have been downloaded manually (because the automatic E-mail sync also doesn't work many times). Also many times doesn't refresh the Timescape widget on the main screen.
Can I do anything with it?
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I also configured an IMAP account for Gmail, those messages do show up in timescape. I hope they do full gmail and calendar integration for Timescape 2.1. :/
Hi!
I would really like to try out a CyanogenMod build on my HD2. Till now I have only played with the Sense builds. The reason for that is the Sense contacts, calendar and dialer apps integration, and exchange server integration for business mail.
The most important part to me are
the abillity to link Facebook, Twitter and Google contacts together in the contacts app (exchange is not important to me for contacts)
the T9 dialer functionality
the Facebook for Sense integration into the calendar app
and the exchange email client
Does anybody know of any good substitute apps for the above mentioned features? I'm not interested in the HTC widgets and HTC camera.
paalkr said:
Hi!
I would really like to try out a CyanogenMod build on my HD2. Till now I have only played with the Sense builds. The reason for that is the Sense contacts, calendar and dialer apps integration, and exchange server integration for business mail.
The most important part to me are
the abillity to link Facebook, Twitter and Google contacts together in the contacts app (exchange is not important to me for contacts)
the T9 dialer functionality
the Facebook for Sense integration into the calendar app
and the exchange email client
Does anybody know of any good substitute apps for the above mentioned features? I'm not interested in the HTC widgets and HTC camera.
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1. Shockingly, the Facebook and Twitter app would take care of that.
2. Dialer One seems to be pretty popular
3. Dunno
4. Built-in, called Email
Thanks for answering. Does Facebook and Twitter now combine similar contacts into one contact? I think that the newest version of the native Facebook Android app actually syncs with the calendar by default now.
I think it adds the contact but won't merge contacts with the same name. I'm having the same issue. Gone from sense to CM 7
StephanV said:
1. Shockingly, the Facebook and Twitter app would take care of that.
2. Dialer One seems to be pretty popular
3. Dunno
4. Built-in, called Email
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So you are saying that, it links together facebook contact with the contact in your phone, making his profile picture as caller id picture on your phone for example ?
I would recommend you to try launcher pro on top of cyanogenmod7 , even though it doesn't have everything that sense has, it has a launcher that's pretty close to sense , it has widgets like the calendar with agenda, a friends stream for facebook and twitter, or you can do them individually, a favorites widget just like sense, good animation when scrolling thru the pages in the homescreen. I really like it!
roloracer said:
I would recommend you to try launcher pro on top of cyanogenmod7 , even though it doesn't have everything that sense has, it has a launcher that's pretty close to sense , it has widgets like the calendar with agenda, a friends stream for facebook and twitter, or you can do them individually, a favorites widget just like sense, good animation when scrolling thru the pages in the homescreen. I really like it!
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Sorry for interupting, but im intrested in Sense like dialer, and sense like people ( for example, persons facebook profile picture appears as my contact picture, caller id ect..)
isnt CleanDroid a CM desire build?
Apparently if you go to edit the contact then press menu again then you can join contacts similar to linking them where sense is available. This was written by someone else on here. Can see who but credit goes to them as this does work.
jamiemagee said:
Apparently if you go to edit the contact then press menu again then you can join contacts similar to linking them where sense is available. This was written by someone else on here. Can see who but credit goes to them as this does work.
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Yes, i did that, but pictures for contacts from facebook are ugly and low res
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if you want your facebook events and birthdays you can add them to your google calendar via ical link.
Hi,does anyone have an issue with adding Facebook account to the list of accounts under the "Account&Sync" setting? Each time I select the Facebook icon,it doesn't do anything which makes it impossible to create the FB account. I'm trying to make my Facebook contacts available/visible in the stock android contact app just like the HTC phones
Same problem here.
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same here...
i think the facebook app is not compatible fully to honeycomb
cheers guys,i thought as much i.e. the fb app not being compatible
will the facebook will be compatible, because it's suppose to be SOCIAL NETWORK Friendly, (social jogger...)
so should be 100% facebook compatible, but the problem come from facebook as well so far the latest version is not stable.
both of part have to works on it.
I ll wait.
Google has specifically mentioned that Facebook account sync (contact sync) has been disabled in 3.0 and upwards due to privacy issues which facebook has not addressed.
I just got my a500 this week and love it. Already have it rooted and have started reviewing Rom's for it, although I will probably leave it stock 3.1, until 3.2 Honeycomb is released (today hopefully, 8/25)...
I carry an HTC Inspire/Desire as a phone and love certain features of that device, in particular the keyboard and spell checker, but more importantly the way my contacts are sync'd between my exchange email and facebook, etc.
Are there any efforts to bring Sense to the a500, or any 10inch tabs for that matter and if not, anyone have a suggested app for sync'ing facebook contacts, exchange and other contacts into one app, as well as maybe a good keyboard with spell check?
conley_jb said:
I just got my a500 this week and love it. Already have it rooted and have started reviewing Rom's for it, although I will probably leave it stock 3.1, until 3.2 Honeycomb is released (today hopefully, 8/25)...
I carry an HTC Inspire/Desire as a phone and love certain features of that device, in particular the keyboard and spell checker, but more importantly the way my contacts are sync'd between my exchange email and facebook, etc.
Are there any efforts to bring Sense to the a500, or any 10inch tabs for that matter and if not, anyone have a suggested app for sync'ing facebook contacts, exchange and other contacts into one app, as well as maybe a good keyboard with spell check?
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If you want Exchange synced properly, I would recommend Touchdown. I have it on both my Inspire and my Iconia and it works perfectly. Documents to go works well and if you want a Sense like appearance, try Beautiful Widgets.
As it relates to Exchange, not sure what features(besides contacts syncing with FB) I am missing on stock ROM... I've read several people asking about Exchange email capability etc, and I was able to get the stock acer program to access mine fine... all my contacts, calendars, etc pull in fine, the only thing I wish I had was the app from my HTC Inspire that will link FB contacts to the contacts on the phone.
Any news about this, I'm also looking for a contacts app that could link FB, Twitter, Skype, pic, email etc to the contacts, I don't need the social updates tabs each contact has in Sense just the linking?
TheOnlyPsycho said:
Any news about this, I'm also looking for a contacts app that could link FB, Twitter, Skype, pic, email etc to the contacts, I don't need the social updates tabs each contact has in Sense just the linking?
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Apw for social networking calendar messages, people ect.
If you search I've already posted a couple threads/post on how to make the a500 look as close to HTC as I could with apps and mods
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dincdoes.me said:
Apw for social networking calendar messages, people ect.
If you search I've already posted a couple threads/post on how to make the a500 look as close to HTC as I could with apps and mods
Sent from my Inspire 4G using Tapatalk
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I searched earlier but I'm not looking for a way to make my A500 to look like Sense, I'm just looking for a contacts app that has the extra FB Twitter etc fields.
TheOnlyPsycho said:
I searched earlier but I'm not looking for a way to make my A500 to look like Sense, I'm just looking for a contacts app that has the extra FB Twitter etc fields.
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Apw
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dincdoes.me said:
Apw
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Nope, as I said I'm not looking for the People widget I'm lookihg for the People app. In fact I don't even give a s**t if it has a widget. I am looking for an app, that may or may not have anything to do with the original contacts app, that can link the different accounts of a contact in every possible app (Skype, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), I don't need to see any kind of social updates or what so ever, I just need it to put all these accounts in one contact form so when I open a person's contact form from this "People" app I can click on lets say Skype and it opens the Skype profile of this person in the Skype app or as it does already show me the options of "IM with ***", "Call ***", "Video call ***" or opens the Facebook profile in the Facebok app.
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TheOnlyPsycho said:
Nope, as I said I'm not looking for the People widget I'm lookihg for the People app. In fact I don't even give a s**t if it has a widget. I am looking for an app, that may or may not have anything to do with the original contacts app, that can link the different accounts of a contact in every possible app (Skype, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), I don't need to see any kind of social updates or what so ever, I just need it to put all these accounts in one contact form so when I open a person's contact form from this "People" app I can click on lets say Skype and it opens the Skype profile of this person in the Skype app or as it does already show me the options of "IM with ***", "Call ***", "Video call ***" or opens the Facebook profile in the Facebok app.
Sent from my A500 using XDA Premium HD app
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Good luck with your endeavor I've given all I can.. anyone else have an option for him
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Hello,
I'm coming from an HTC One V on Android 4.0 where the Facebook app could sync profile pictures, phone numbers, birthdays, and calendar, and am quite disappointed to discover that Google restricts Facebook functionality on its Nexus devices. I understand that Facebook doesn't want to comply with Google's policies regarding openness either. But for the time being I just want to enjoy full Facebook functionality on my phone and not be held hostage of some corporate wars. I've tried a lot of Facebook sync apps, but none of them replicated the original functionality of the official Facebook app: most of them didn't import phone numbers of missing contacts, and none of them synced the calendar for example, which I rely on quite a lot.
So I'd like to know if it would be possible, on Paranoid Android, to lift the restrictions that Google put in place towards the Facebook app on some of its devices (or restore the favorable exception that was put in place a while ago, if you prefer to see it this way). I think the sync functionality currently exists in the Facebook app, but is not picked up by Android.
Thanks.
This was one of the things I missed coming from my Incredible S. Haxsync works wondrously for me though, check it out
Bobtehblob said:
This was one of the things I missed coming from my Incredible S. Haxsync works wondrously for me though, check it out
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Thanks but it's a paid app. I really don't want to pay for a feature that's supposed to be included in the official app.
Bump.