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(Q) Foyo 2.2 with sense ROM

Hi Guys is there a froyo rom with sense for the legend? really hating the software on my legend after the last update and my texts are all wrong Would love froyo with sense on my device.
Thanks

way too fat

No... Sense is too fat. Try the Azure build... you won't miss the HTC stuff

owenw said:
Sense is too fat.
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Agree But it seems like azure doesn't use jit, so it's performance is almost the same as stock htc rom with sense

False...
Firecold said:
But it seems like azure doesn't use jit, so it's performance is almost the same as stock htc rom with sense
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Who told you that?

JIT was disabled until v0.6. Ali Ba said it somewhere...
We're at v1.0.1, so JIT is there and working

TheGrammarFreak said:
JIT was disabled until v0.6. Ali Ba said it somewhere...
We're at v1.0.1, so JIT is there and working
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Exactly

Ok will try this with the notfancywidget widget don't like my homescreen without the sense clock lol
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Jammie_1989 said:
Ok will try this with the notfancywidget widget don't like my homescreen without the sense clock lol
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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try Beautiful widgets, the weather clock is very customizable. costs a couple of bucks, but totally worth it if you miss the clock.

i've tried the azure, but it's almost unusable without htc's stuff (no smart dialer, facebook and twitter integration with contacts)

in my opinion azure is the best.i am getting best performance than any other rom.
i don't miss htc sense ui........i am using better widgets and some twitter and Facebook widgets i manage to get my nostalgic feeling of htc sense..........so my opinion to go for azure rom...........
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makaze said:
no...facebook and twitter integration with contacts
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Froyo offers contact-linking out of the box which basically means any app can add information to your contacts. The official Twitter and Facebook apps synchronize contacts and with 2.2 you can select which ones to link (just like with Sense on 2.1 ROMs).
If you tell me you need Sense for this then I'm quite sure you didn't even try.

ali ba said:
Froyo offers contact-linking out of the box which basically means any app can add information to your contacts. The official Twitter and Facebook apps synchronize contacts and with 2.2 you can select which ones to link (just like with Sense on 2.1 ROMs).
If you tell me you need Sense for this then I'm quite sure you didn't even try.
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Thanks Ali ba for these explanations. I can understand makaze because I also tried a froyo rom, not azure, maybe a couple of months ago and I went back really fast to myprevious rom because I missed exactly these two things, facebook contact sync and smart dialing.
Like makaze , when I saw these problems, I thought it was because the sense absence, and I didnt search a lot for a way around, they just were 2 very important issues. But if you say facebook contacts syncsworks, I wil try azure tomorro!! by the way, does anyone know how to install a smar dialer like htc's? with that it would be just perfect

I like a clean rom, what I need I can install myself, when I buy a Computer, I also format it and reinstall it without the software of the pc maker.
Dialer one I use, is nearly the same as HTC and
http://www.appbrain.com/app/kz.mek.DialerOne
Sense Theme,
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.haxzamatic.adwsenses
Beautiful Widgets,
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.levelup.beautifulwidgets
Smooth Calendar,
http://www.appbrain.com/app/se.catharsis.android.calendar

the above theme wont work on azure 1.0 ... smooth calendar wont sync as no sync option with fb or twitt..manual :| ... and Beautiful widgets work .

dhanu007 said:
the above theme wont work on azure 1.0 ... smooth calendar wont sync as no sync option with fb or twitt..manual :| ... and Beautiful widgets work .
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I have same issue such as you , no life without sense !
try zeam launcher
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/zeam-launcher_guca.html

Syncing with facebook and twitter is working fine here, lets not give out false information to anyone reading this. Facebook integration is supported fine in Azure ROM (and others)!

I am going to give it a try... I guess that if we want to have the last version of android, now and in future releases, we are gonna have to get use to live without htc sense

i've installed both facebook and twitter but haven't really noticed much of an integration (eg. people photos not downloading, unable to browse their albums directly via phone like in htc's friendfeed, see status updates when opening contact...). but then again, the biggest drawback is that there is no smartdialer and i still can't understand why an smartphone operating system does not include this by default (we're not in 2001)

makaze said:
i've installed both facebook and twitter but haven't really noticed much of an integration (eg. people photos not downloading, unable to browse their albums directly via phone like in htc's friendfeed, see status updates when opening contact...). but then again, the biggest drawback is that there is no smartdialer and i still can't understand why an smartphone operating system does not include this by default (we're not in 2001)
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Why it so hard to read a few post above.
Dialer one I use, is nearly the same as HTC
http://www.appbrain.com/app/kz.mek.DialerOne

[Q] MT4G, Launcher Pro, and Starred contacts in Google Contacts

Hello all. These may seem like a silly question but I am not used to the MySense interface, so I downloaded Launcher Pro Plus.
My question is this, maybe I am just tired tonight, but is there anyway to just get to what I knew as the STARRED (favorite) contacts on my G2. I am using the People Widget on Launcher Pro Plus and have it syncing ONLY my Starred Android contacts, but I DONT know how to get to what were my starred contacts or how i would go about "starring" a contact again.
I DONT really want to use the Fave thing that comes on the MT4G.
Is there anyway to get my contacts to appear like they did on my G2??
Thanks in advance for any help!!!

1. Root your phone.
2. Wait for CM
3. ???????
4. Profit!
But really, I don't have the phone and I have no idea. I'll be watching this thread as I use Google to manage all my contacts and, if there's no way to do it on MT4G, it's not even worth it for me to get it.

It still uses your Google Contacts, but there is an add-on on the HTC MySense skin that I dont like as well as the vanilla Android.
To me it doesnt seem quite as easy to just add a favorite (starred in Vanilla Android) with the MySense interface.

I was trying to figure this out last night as well, I wanted to use launcher pro but want to use the people widget and im not exactly sure how to add people to it as the "add to fave" doesnt do anything

[Q] How do I remove MotoBlur from my Milestone 2?

(I am not sure if this question should be posted here or in Droid2 forum)
Anyone can help me to get MotoBlur out of my Milestone 2?
Is there anyone developing ROMS for this device?
I will be very happy with a standard clean 2.2 or 2.3 for Milestone 2.

pacharru said:
(I am not sure if this question should be posted here or in Droid2 forum)
Anyone can help me to get MotoBlur out of my Milestone 2?
Is there anyone developing ROMS for this device?
I will be very happy with a standard clean 2.2 or 2.3 for Milestone 2.
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You are on milestone 1 forums. Gl on 2.3, its not out yet even for nexus 1.

I think we need a dedicated Milestone 2 forum, someone pls?

pacharru said:
(I am not sure if this question should be posted here or in Droid2 forum)
Anyone can help me to get MotoBlur out of my Milestone 2?
Is there anyone developing ROMS for this device?
I will be very happy with a standard clean 2.2 or 2.3 for Milestone 2.
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just install some home replacement... launcherpro, adw... and set it as default launcher.

GoGs777 said:
just install some home replacement... launcherpro, adw... and set it as default launcher.
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When you install Launcher Pro it automatically becomes the default launcher and you can't get back to Moto. BLUR
You have to uninstall to see blur again

GoGs777 said:
just install some home replacement... launcherpro, adw... and set it as default launcher.
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I already have LauncherPro as default launcher, it is installed since first day.
But this is not answering to my question, my question was how to remove MotoBlur!
EDIT: Motorola´s explanation for MotoBlur:
So what is MOTOBLUR you might ask? Well it’s not a phone as you might initially think. It’s a new service, a new skin which will be able to handle all your social networking needs. Motorola’s own Sanjay Jha showed everyone that half of the US mobile traffic is going to social networking sites. That means Motorola’s future phones will cover that aspect extensively.
MOTOBLUR will be able to sync email, contacts, photos from any source and get it straight to your home screen immediately. Whether it’s coming from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, corporate email, MySpace, Gmail and more, you’ll never miss a thing with MOTOBLUR as the feature lets you manage your email addresses and social networking accounts. Or that’s what Motorola wants us to think.
So let’s check out some features:
Update social status on multiple social networks at once
Great visual experience
Check out friends’ status updates
Browse through messages in aggregated view or by account
Contacts’ status updates shown when receiving an incoming call
Remote delete in case phone gets stolen or lost
MOTOBLUR servers support
All we need now are some really hot Motorola phones to see these features of MOTOBLUR in action!

We need a new Thread for the Milestone 2
Indeed, I have root on my milestone 2.. with clockwork recovery...
but blur is still there... Need Cyanogen...

I've finally got my MS2 from Tim Brasil yesterday. First time on Android and can't figure out what belongs to Motoblur and what cames from Android. Is it just some sofisticated widget? What i'm gonna loose with no Motoblur. And what's the gain? Performance?
Edit: already notice it has its own message app, automatic back up with motoblur server, some contacts attributes, a function to link two ore more contacts from the same person etc. Not sure if I'm gonna miss it or not.

Motoblur is not just a launcher. Many useful widgets like News reader, Weather, Media sharing and the Docking station display rely on Motoblur to run. So make sure you don't want to use those features before you try to remove motoblur

borrego said:
Motoblur is not just a launcher. Many useful widgets like News reader, Weather, Media sharing and the Docking station display rely on Motoblur to run. So make sure you don't want to use those features before you try to remove motoblur
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Motoblur is also a number of services in the background. Services like the over-the-air-update-scanner, remote-data-eraser, remote-device-finder etc. You cannot just apply Launcher Pro, AWD Launcher, or something similar to your MS2 and think Motoblur is gone for good -> you just "hide" the Motoblur-surface, not deactivate the services.

I have actually used titanium backup to remove a large amount of the blur services it has significantly increased both the variety life and speed of my phone. give it a shot!

n3man said:
I have actually used titanium backup to remove a large amount of the blur services it has significantly increased both the variety life and speed of my phone. give it a shot!
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Ditto, I can confirm that there is a very significant difference, second day of owning the phone I had ripped out most of the motobloat and its much faster, battery lasts a solid day of moderate use, I've managed two days (struggling by the end of second day) with calls only.

Shellite said:
Ditto, I can confirm that there is a very significant difference, second day of owning the phone I had ripped out most of the motobloat and its much faster, battery lasts a solid day of moderate use, I've managed two days (struggling by the end of second day) with calls only.
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Which services/apps are safe to remove?

TomaszD84 said:
Which services/apps are safe to remove?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10800001&postcount=26

For those who have not english as their language on the Milestone 2 switch to english and reboot your phone. Then the Apps have the names Shellite postet on his Link above.
Btw.: Sorry if my english is bad. Its not my mothers tounge (i am german ^^)

Alternatively, another forum member translated my list into the german equivalent.
see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10825627&postcount=32

I'm brazilian and i found all of the apps to freeze, just translating the original name.
The list:
Code:
nconnected 2.2
Date and Time 2.2
ES Musica
Help Centre 2.2
HipHop Official
Home screen tips 2.2
News 2.2
Quick Contacts 2.2
Revolver TV
Rock On Altitude
Social Messaging 2.2
Social Messaging Service 2.2
Social Networking 2.2
Social Sharing 2.2
Social Status 2.2
Toggle Widgets 2.2
TrueCountry
Weather 2.2
World Clock 1.0
I installed ADW Launcher EX and then froze 'Home 2.2'. (* DONT FREEZE HOME 2.2 UNLESS YOU HAVE INSTALLED A LAUNCHER REPLACEMENT FIRST *)
In addition to the above I have also frozen these items, which I do not use, but which may impact your usability:
AdService 1.0
blur.res 2.2 (no idea what this is)
BrowserMessage 2.0
com.motorola.phoneaddons 2.2
Data Manager 2.2
Data Manager Service 1.1
Messages 2.2
Messaging 2.2
Sticky Note 2.2
Universal Inbox 2.2
Yahoo Contacts 2.2
I am still experimenting with other apps/packages, I have not tested if MMS still works after freezing messages2.2/messaging2.2, but I dont use it anyway.
So far my phone is running super fast, typically see's ~150-200MB RAM free, plus using Milestone Overclock I'm running 1.25ghz @ 62VSEL.
I'll see if the milestone 2 will be faster without this apps.
EDIT:
I REALLY realized that the phone was much faster after that. I'm using the Zeam Launcher and the transitions are softer.
Don't know if it's a psicological effect but one thing i can tell: With a new launcher and freezing this apps i have a REALLY FASTER phone.

can you please specify, which application does what? I guess Some of them might be actually usefull?
also it would be very usefull to know which ones have the most significant impact on speed and batterylife.
edit: also I love the Facebook widget, is it possible to extract from motomlur and use it with launcherPro?

I am curios about the same thing: what service/app included in motoblur does what?
What is part of motoblur's functionality and what is stock android?
I.e. linking Facebook contacts with Google contacts, is that motoblur or android working there?

ovizii said:
I.e. linking Facebook contacts with Google contacts, is that motoblur or android working there?
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That's motoblur, but could be done using the official facebook app

(Q) tweaking roms, adding apps? liberty no fb notifications

okay basically im trying to add the stock blur account managent social network and email messiging into liberty reason is i feel that the messaging management is better... another thing that i wanna figure out is that facebook never notifys you no noise or anything even when i change notifications

beanstown said:
okay basically im trying to add the stock blur account managent social network and email messiging into liberty reason is i feel that the messaging management is better... another thing that i wanna figure out is that facebook never notifys you no noise or anything even when i change notifications
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No facebook notifications is a problem with the facebook app itself, not a ROM problem. Pushee is an app that is supposed to fix this, though I think they are trying to set up servers for it, so it isn't available yet.

orkillakilla said:
No facebook notifications is a problem with the facebook app itself, not a ROM problem. Pushee is an app that is supposed to fix this, though I think they are trying to set up servers for it, so it isn't available yet.
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thanks alot and what do u suggest is the best app to overclock

Best overclock app by far for the D2 is Droid Overclock. It is available in the market and I believe it is only $1.50 and well worth every penny.
You could use SetCPU, however you would have to load your own kernel module, which can be very complicated, and could possibly put your phone in a bootloop.
Droid Overclock loads a kernel module for you. It gives you choices such as voltage and frequencies. You choose, it does the rest. It also gives you profile choices very similar to SetCPU. It's very user friendly.
As a warning (which the apps tells you too) don't set any boot frequencies till you are sure you phone is stable. I've been able to overclock my D2 to 1.35GHz on ultra low voltage. I would get a random reboot every so often, so I toned it down to 1.25GHz and haven't had a problem.

orkillakilla said:
Best overclock app by far for the D2 is Droid Overclock. It is available in the market and I believe it is only $1.50 and well worth every penny.
You could use SetCPU, however you would have to load your own kernel module, which can be very complicated, and could possibly put your phone in a bootloop.
Droid Overclock loads a kernel module for you. It gives you choices such as voltage and frequencies. You choose, it does the rest. It also gives you profile choices very similar to SetCPU. It's very user friendly.
As a warning (which the apps tells you too) don't set any boot frequencies till you are sure you phone is stable. I've been able to overclock my D2 to 1.35GHz on ultra low voltage. I would get a random reboot every so often, so I toned it down to 1.25GHz and haven't had a problem.
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thanks one last thing and my phones perfect im using launcherplus and for some reason the font on my normal facebook widget is changed and so isnt the widget itself its reeaaaaaaaalyy hard to read lol but all other widgets are fine is that there way of saying use our fb widget but theres is huuuge i just found circle launcher and launcher plus and im tryin to get it to 3 main screens instead of 5 so i dnt want there big widget

beanstown said:
thanks one last thing and my phones perfect im using launcherplus and for some reason the font on my normal facebook widget is changed and so isnt the widget itself its reeaaaaaaaalyy hard to read lol but all other widgets are fine is that there way of saying use our fb widget but theres is huuuge i just found circle launcher and launcher plus and im tryin to get it to 3 main screens instead of 5 so i dnt want there big widget
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Have you tried reinstalling the fb app? I haven't used launcherpro in a while but I though they had a smaller fb widget, though I could be thinking of the messeging widget
Sent from my DROID2

orkillakilla said:
Have you tried reinstalling the fb app? I haven't used launcherpro in a while but I though they had a smaller fb widget, though I could be thinking of the messeging widget
Sent from my DROID2
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no i didnt try reinstallin ill give that a go but i used theres relized that u can make em smaller like windows lol.. what do you use for a launcher as i hear alot of people saying launcherpro+ but i cant find it anywhere..

Right now I'm just using the stock ROM rooted, so the moto blur launcher. I have used Launcherpro + and its super fast and smooth. Here is a link the launcherpro
hxxps://market.android.com/details?id=com.fede.launcher&feature=search_result (replace xx with tt)

[Q] First time rooting, a few questions..

1) What do I need to do so I can restore everything exactly the way it was out of the box? Just in case I need to send it under warranty or sell it or something. I understand you can unroot. What about if I change the kernel or rom..?
2) Which rom is closest/similar to the stock mytouch 4g in terms of UI? I like sense because it has Swype and maybe it looks better but i'm comfortable with it. I also don't care too much about color themes and such cause I customize the crap out of it using launcher pro and background changer app.
3) Which kernel is best for more power, better battery life and also reliability? Does flashing a kernel mean it'll erase a rom? What about flashing a rom.. does it erase the current kernel?
4) *answered*

stock build---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
best kernel---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941141
closet rom to stock with tweaks---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984571

charlieb620 said:
stock build---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
best kernel---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941141
closet rom to stock with tweaks---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984571
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Thanks this helps. I looked around and installed CM7 + Faux's Gingerbread kernel just to check it out. I like gingerbread better than Froyo but I miss sense.
Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations on which Sense gingerbread Rom is the best? (reliability, power, battery life, etc.) Basically I love CM7 but the one thing that's missing is the contacts/dialer feature. The contacts do not sync with Facebook and most of my contacts are blank. When I had facebook for mytouch 4g, it would sync all my fb contacts into my address book, allow me to merge duplicates and have the newest Profile picture photos for all the contacts listed. The syncing on CM7 doesn't seem to be working. Any thoughts?
Also, I like that in Froyo (or was it just Sense) that when you click on a contact, a little menu action pop up shows "SMS", "CALL", "Facebook", etc. and it seemed like a more integrated platform. Maybe i'm just missing something like an app or a setting somewhere.

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Thanks this helps. I looked around and installed CM7 + Faux's Gingerbread kernel just to check it out. I like gingerbread better than Froyo but I miss sense.
Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations on which Sense gingerbread Rom is the best? (reliability, power, battery life, etc.) Basically I love CM7 but the one thing that's missing is the contacts/dialer feature. The contacts do not sync with Facebook and most of my contacts are blank. When I had facebook for mytouch 4g, it would sync all my fb contacts into my address book, allow me to merge duplicates and have the newest Profile picture photos for all the contacts listed. The syncing on CM7 doesn't seem to be working. Any thoughts?
Also, I like that in Froyo (or was it just Sense) that when you click on a contact, a little menu action pop up shows "SMS", "CALL", "Facebook", etc. and it seemed like a more integrated platform. Maybe i'm just missing something like an app or a setting somewhere.
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I'm with you about vanilla AOSP ROMs feeling like a lot is missing. Sense is so much better in so many ways to me...it's what Android should have been from the beginning. As far as Gingerbread/Sense ROMs, there is RoyalMint, but since we don't have a good kernel source yet, it's missing a lot of functionality and isn't totally stable. If you want Sense, I would heartily recommend the one in my sig, eViL 4G-HD. It's Froyo, but is fully functional and stable.

You can still merge FB contacts with phone contacts on cm7.
With FB installed open a contact, edit, merge.
I find that most features from sense are in AOSP but there either not automatic, or not as easily accessable.
Flashing a ROM erases the kernal, well it over writes the existing kernal with the one included with the rom. Flashing a kernal does NOT erase the ROM and it is meant to be flashed ROM the kernal.
I preferred faux's kernels myself
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Yes, it is a little more time consuming but it works. With the stock MT4G ROM, all contacts were linked together automatically. I thought that was very cool.