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I am a fan of cyanogenmod, as many others, but i hate the stock android camera app. so my request is that someone good with porting/baksmali can port this apk and make it work. i think the camera app is the only disadvantage of stock android/cyanogen.
Wishlist
HTC Gallery
HTC Camera with 720p
HTC Contacts/Phone?
(more?)
Any one else wanting them? let me and devs know by commenting!
Progress:
One developer will work at porting FroYo HTC camera and 720p. (ralle.gade)
+1 on that and i would like htc gallery witch is way faster.
madman_cro said:
+1 on that and i would like htc gallery witch is way faster.
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we just need a dev.
1+ on htc gallery
I am desperate for the HTC camera / 720p camcorder for a ROM without sense
+1!!
count me in hate the stock camera/video app not many settings to play whit
the issue that will probably come to light is that it will no doubt need the htc sense framework, not sure if just the frame work can be ported or not
the contact app would also be sweet ^_^
The contact app is lovely on the stock HTC Desire sense 2.1
What I really miss about the camera is the tap to focus/hold to take photo part. I took some photos at a concert the other night on the stock android camera and it just could NOT hold focus.
may the developers be with us.
The contacts app on Sense is horrible. I find it really slow and unpleasent to use. I'm fairly sure that it plays a large role in Facebook sync not working.
I would love the Sense calendar though.
Also, the Sense browser (well, just the text selection bit) and the Sense USB connection type screen would be amazing!
Or if the official Facebook and Twitter would integrate into a Sense rom like they do in Opendesire / any other Android build, it'd be fantastic.
The upcoming open desire rom may have 720p. Not sure if this means the htc camera or not, but it's a start
Paul O'Briain has posted it over to his Nexus roms, so that could be worth a look at.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
seen htc camera in a couple nexus roms now... no one managed to port it to desire stock froyo yet? only thing keeping me from switching to stock is the awful camera >.<
strife502 said:
seen htc camera in a couple nexus roms now... no one managed to port it to desire stock froyo yet? only thing keeping me from switching to stock is the awful camera >.<
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Same! HTC Camera and Contacts would be nice in CyanogenMod 6!
The text selection would be amazing. The default Froyo text selection is so poor in comparison. I'd happily pay for good text selection.
Come on ppl! I'm not as good as you. You guys can handle it!
Rip those HTC Apk's.
XDA for Rip!
I would like to add HTC Footprints to the list. Or have anyone found a substitute?
Biffy said:
The text selection would be amazing. The default Froyo text selection is so poor in comparison. I'd happily pay for good text selection.
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+1
There is no alternative which can come close to the HTC one.
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GANJDROID said:
+1
There is no alternative which can come close to the HTC one.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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There's a thread in the Dev forum from a chap attempting to port the Nexus/Modaco Camera across to OpenDesire.
YES! that would be fantastic! I'd happily buy him a pint for that
Just installing OD as of right now as it is.
My phone has more Sense than me...
and i DONT like it
Sorry I'm new with this............but what are the pros and cons of having HTC Sense & no HTC Sense?
Please go read. Check this forum, youtube or google it.
For me I have to use Sense as the mail app is much better for use with MS Exchange (proper folder support). And the phone dialler is much better too (still can't believe that the stock dialler doesn't pull from your address book as you type...my first dumb phone 15 years ago did this!)...other than that I don't use Sense and use LauncherPro instead.
euro_e93 said:
Sorry I'm new with this............but what are the pros and cons of having HTC Sense & no HTC Sense?
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it's just personal preference. Although I did notice the sense video player can play the transformer movies while other players cant, so theres one unique feature.
The biggest contra about HTC Sense is the fact it uses resources (RAM) and slows down your phone a little.. But my HD2 never felt to slow cause of Sense.
So I think, like others said, it's just your preferences.
I just upgraded to an Inspire. The main reason I did is because of HTC Sense. I love the look and feel of it and don't like using any other kind of UI on my phone. However, I also love having the best there is...so here is my question.
Is it possible to get HTC Sense onto the Atrix with just a root? Or will a cracked bootloader the key to doing that?
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A locked bootloader would likely not prove to be a problem, but the porting of the framework would almost certainly be very difficult since Sense cannot function without the full custom HTC framework.
Okay. Well I guess I should look and see if there any Sense ports to Motorola devices then. Would the port have to be device-specific? Or would a port to an older Motorola device work just as well?
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to get sense running on a non-HTC device, you would need a custom kernel (which a locked bootloader won't allow) with a custom bootclasspath in init.rc. you would also need to bring over all the HTC Sense framework with modified binaries to support your platform (android hardware legacy binaries) and modify egl.cfg to support the GPU in the phone. after that, there's of course other hardware lib's that would need to be modified to get GPS and bluetooth working (usually through more hex hacking) and, last but not least, decompiling and recompiling the sense framework to interface properly with the RIL.
so basically you'd have to overcome a (potentially/likely) locked bootloader and troubleshoot constantly to figure out what's wrong with each piece of hardware in the device (feasible, but long and frustrating). there are several devices out there that aren't intended to run Sense that do (the OG droid/milestone being one), and the process is long and complicated. jamezelle (who ported Sense to the droid/milestone) helped us ATTEMPT to port it to the SGS devices (myself and rafyvitto on the Captivate) and it ended up being more than either of us could handle and died.
That sounds like a complete pain in the a** lol. At least you gave it a shot. That's a lot more than I would be capable of doing. But oh well then...I guess I will have to wait for an HTC device with a dual or quad core chip and in the mean time, I can have a blast with my Inspire. Thank you both for your quick feedback.
Sent from my Inspire 4G.
what exactly do you want from sense? you can mimic a bunch of it with other launchers and widgets. Launcher pro has a bunch of sense like widgets, and Beautiful Widgets will give you a couple more. You won't have the sense launcher bar, or lock screen, but to be honest i think those are crap.
cegna09 said:
what exactly do you want from sense? you can mimic a bunch of it with other launchers and widgets. Launcher pro has a bunch of sense like widgets, and Beautiful Widgets will give you a couple more. You won't have the sense launcher bar, or lock screen, but to be honest i think those are crap.
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Exactly, With Launcher Pro Plus you basically get all the sense widgets, and there is a theme to make it look exactly the same as SenseUI.
Squeak22 said:
Exactly, With Launcher Pro Plus you basically get all the sense widgets, and there is a theme to make it look exactly the same as SenseUI.
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What is the theme called? interesting
OK but how can we get rid of MotoBlur completely and put launcher pro on the basic android? Does it need root or unlocked bootloader?
sservati said:
OK but how can we get rid of MotoBlur completely and put launcher pro on the basic android? Does it need root or unlocked bootloader?
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LauncherPro is just an alternative launcher, just install it from the marketplace >_>
motoblur isn't JUST a launcher, it's a whole framework. just like sense is a framework and launcher. removing motoblur is far more involved than changing launchers...
Another thing to consider is the legality of doing so.
Android is open source, but Sense is proprietary. In principles HTC can take legal action even for those devs who are making their custom roms loaded with Sense. But so far HTC has not done so, and I kind of feel that HTC is relatively open (relative to other manufacturers, like Motorola) to devs customizing their phones.
But as you said, Sense is the reason why you are getting the Inspire 4G, it is a valuable piece of proprietary to HTC. Once people go crazy and start porting Sense to every other major competing devices, it's only a matter of time before HTC starts issuing cease and desist letters to all the devs.
I would like to see this happen i would donate but only if it wasnt ridiculously buggy...would have to be somewhat stable
Yea. TBH at this point I am ACTUALLY considering Telus Desire HD instead of Atrix on bell simply because of sense.
Its not only the great looking widgets... but the various built in applications and the design of interface that looks much more nicer imo.
Sense brings ALOT of usability to android, and Personally.... I cant run Clean Android.
Only reason I pick up android is BECAUSE of sense. So... would donate if its possible, otherwise will wait for HTC dual core or will get Desire HD.
Battery life on any sense device is horendous...i got the desire hd on telus for my girlfriend and it last ok for her but if your a power user that 1350mah battery is going to die really fast especially at hsdpa
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why is this one of the first things posted in dev sections? Sense sucks.
Sense doesn't suck lol. It's very customizable and flows pretty well. I haven't tried launcher pro but I'll definitely check it out and see if I like it. I've heard others say good things about it, but as I've said previously, I'm just very used to Sense.
Oh and about battery life. I get just over a days charge with moderate use, ie. Wi-Fi, HSPA, games, GPS, and about an hour of talk-time. I charge my phone every night regardless of how much battery life is left.
Sent from my Inspire 4G.
Sense is really sluggish..
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SN4K3B1T3 said:
Sense is really sluggish..
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Not on this phone. There is no lag and everything flows extremely well.
Sent from my Inspire 4G.
slapdaddy said:
Not on this phone. There is no lag and everything flows extremely well.
Sent from my Inspire 4G.
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I had to oc my desire z all the way to 1.2 or 1.4 cuz it would run really lagy...now on cm7 with way more apps and widgets at 1.1 and its way smoother than sense ever was for me
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SN4K3B1T3 said:
I had to oc my desire z all the way to 1.2 or 1.4 cuz it would run really lagy...now on cm7 with way more apps and widgets at 1.1 and its way smoother than sense ever was for me
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That's a lot of overclock. This is at stock 1GHz and is very smooth...no problems here. I'm wondering what 1.2 would do on the Inspire.
Sent from my Inspire 4G.
I've switched from HTC Diamond2 (windows mobile 6.5x) to S/E Arc, and I miss the HTC interface.
Is it possible to load the android equivalent to this hardware?
Get beautiful widget + Sense theme for ADW launcher
vegetaleb said:
Get beautiful widget + Sense theme for ADW launcher
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thanks
Thanks vegetaleb for the reply! I see that it is possible to mimic the home screen layout really well. However, what Im looking for was the part of Sense that handled calendar related stuff like booking a meeting. In detail, I liked how the clock was changed like it was on a spinning wheel - which made it possible to change the time really fast. Maybe there is something similar in the Android world?
I am missing some Sense apps as well, like the slide down Alarm that you will never find in other apps, if it was a Nexus One with 90% same components as HTC own phones you can ''port'' Sense into it by a custom rom, but when the hardwares are totally different here it's very difficult to do it.
SGS devs tried to port Desire rom but they never could, and they tried hard...
I hope you didn't see the new Sense 3.0, you will return to HTC once Sensation is out
vegetaleb said:
I am missing some Sense apps as well, like the slide down Alarm that you will never find in other apps, if it was a Nexus One with 90% same components as HTC own phones you can ''port'' Sense into it by a custom rom, but when the hardwares are totally different here it's very difficult to do it.
SGS devs tried to port Desire rom but they never could, and they tried hard...
I hope you didn't see the new Sense 3.0, you will return to HTC once Sensation is out
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The phones hardware is identical to (apart from smaller storage,screen etc) to the Desire HD, it would be very portable to this device although the smaller storage would make it harder.
Small storage is not a problem, on N1 the DHD port was working great thanks to EXT3 of 1gb on SD
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The video shows HTC Bliss (a 800Mhz single core phone with Adreno 205) which shows that Sense 3.5 may work on older devices too...
I've seen this few days ago.
Even more uglier than current Sense. Good job, hTC!
AdrianM said:
I've seen this few days ago.
Even more uglier than current Sense. Good job, hTC!
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I totally agree with you man!!These new features are stupid and nothing else but useless...
I'm impressed. Indeed, very nice fingers!
It looks like windows mobile.
Accidentally sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App
super ugly homescreen there
maybe they were so angry about nokia copied there flipclock and decided to remove it lol
i still think that it is uglier than htc sense 3.0 but little better than sense 2.x or less maybe this sense is just to make "nicer" old devices because trust me its ugly..!!!
i hope the grey colors are just a skin and normally are black and maybe it would be better
ehhh ill stick with my AOSP ROM's...gratzi
and that chick has some manly hands, the nails dont make it any better thats for sure!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17203131
Sent from my DHD on a weekend, AKA I'm probably drunk.