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[REQUEST] Galaxy S Vibrant/Captivate build?

I hate to start a new thread, but I'm sure I am not the only one that wants to request a Galaxy S build. Preferably Vibrant, but Captivate would work too.
I hope devs look into this as IMO the Vibrant's Touch wiz interface would give everyone something different to look at. I personally like it over Stock, and MOST definitely over Sense.
Just a thought...

I'm hoping that there will be an end to the many slightly different versions of sense and hope we will see galaxy s, droid, streak builds looked into soon.
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Hmm!
I think that we may not need a build for this but an .apk for Touchwiz that we can install over a Clean Stock Rom.
I noticed one on the forum a while ago.
If this is of course what you are meaning:I never had a Galaxy S before and don't know what else it got.

ForceField said:
Hmm!
I think that we may not need a build for this but an .apk for Touchwiz that we can install over a Clean Stock Rom.
I noticed one on the forum a while ago.
If this is of course what you are meaning:I never had a Galaxy S before and don't know what else it got.
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it was an incomplete .apk which only gave you the launcher

JJbdoggg said:
it was an incomplete .apk which only gave you the launcher
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I do remember it was only about 2 ~ 3 mb and considering the size maybe a lot of things where removed to make it compatible with other devices.
Ok,I will Google a little to see what's the Galaxy S got
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Found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTQVRCC8xiA

why do you prefer the Samsung software over the all mighty sense UI !!!

al mighty? the sense ui is hideous. For me personally, i cant stand having a 240dpi on a 4.3" screen. Even though 180 sounds worse, thats the setting we change it to for icons to seem like the actually fit on the screen.
Also, why do we need 10 versions of Sense? Why not have the option for the TouchWiz interface. It's fresh and something new to look at. Plus, there are little things like the lockscreen, when if you have missed calls or messages, you drag a puzzle piece into the blank spot that matches what you want to instantly view when you unlock it.
their widgets are also very nice. anywho, i would just enjoy something different. And others would too.

I agree to what he said

agreed it would be a nice change of pace, always good to see something new.
just my opinion...
plus i know the vibrant has an incredibly high frame rate

well.. i had a galaxy S... the first thing done was to use launcherpro and get rid of that hideous touchwiz!
check the forums of those devices... people are asking for vanilla or sense roms

I had a Vibrant, touchwiz was the laggiest piece of software I've used and changed the whole android experience.

i want this cant wait to somebody pull this out there hats

Does anyone have a copy of the touch whiz .apk
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callmecooper said:
al mighty? the sense ui is hideous. For me personally, i cant stand having a 240dpi on a 4.3" screen. Even though 180 sounds worse, thats the setting we change it to for icons to seem like the actually fit on the screen.
Also, why do we need 10 versions of Sense? Why not have the option for the TouchWiz interface. It's fresh and something new to look at. Plus, there are little things like the lockscreen, when if you have missed calls or messages, you drag a puzzle piece into the blank spot that matches what you want to instantly view when you unlock it.
their widgets are also very nice. anywho, i would just enjoy something different. And others would too.
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To be fair on both sides , the new Sense on Desire HD has lower dpi for menus, etc so it looks much much cleaner ... and since HTC seems to have recognized that aspect I am sure in future the launcher and widgets will also be improved

+1 , i would deffinatly donate, the main reason i want a captivate/vibrant rom is for the video player! my friends vibrant video player plays a 480p .avi video flawlessly, while my hd2 plays it terribly while looking all blurry, but on my friends vibrant its sharp, i know theres a screen size diffrence but still it shouldnt make the movie look that much worse.
and im thinking the problem may be the media player cuz the ones ive tried dont go full screen like the vibrants

I sold my galaxy s for my hd2 and am so pleased I did as I now get to run sense ui or nexus builds. touch wiz was terrible iphone like and laggy. you can download some of the widgets from the galaxy s forum section but they are not a patch on htc sense widgets. The only good thing about the galaxy s build was its camera app

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well.. i had a galaxy S... the first thing done was to use launcherpro and get rid of that hideous touchwiz!
check the forums of those devices... people are asking for vanilla or sense roms
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Exactly, once you actually use it, its terribly laggy and not very well put together. I can't blame you for wanting something new but I think everyone would get sick of it quick.

jivany said:
Does anyone have a copy of the touch whiz .apk
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Some launchers I've collected from users here on XDA. The "Launcher2" is the 7-homescreen T-Mobile G2 launcher....exactly like the Nexus One launcher but with 7 screens instead of 5. You will need to remove the cooked-in launcher to install all but the TouchWiz launcher. Using Astro file manager, nav to the "System" > "App" folder and locate the launcher and delete it. Then do a reboot. *You will need to install Launcher Pro in the interim to have a launcher at bootup.*
You will want to make a backup of the whole Android build prior to deleting the cooked-in launcher in case the chosen one doesn't install.
The LG zips contain various widgets which will install even if the launcher doesn't.

i dont get it. lower dpi makes it crisp?!
less pixels per inch = better image?
im really confused.

malaeus said:
i dont get it. lower dpi makes it crisp?!
less pixels per inch = better image?
im really confused.
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The below explanation is based on what I was able to recall from good ol college days
WVGA Res - 480 pixels x 800 pixels
Screen Size - Whatever the HD2 has (too lazy to check )
Anyways the above 2 are fixed parameters. Now what dpi means literally is pixels per inch (lets not go into more details here)
So if you fit more pixel in a single inch of screen, effectively your widgets get less space on the screen to fit into. (DPI 240)
And if you put less pixels, the same widgets fit in less amount of space in screen so it looks like a higher res (DPI 180/200)
I hope I was able to convey what I meant

CM7 increased resulation?

Ok i just rooted and installed CM7 2 days ago but I can't stop getting the feeling that my phone screen looks a lot more detailed. Also some of the apps look a lot better, like XDA.
So I was wondering, did something change in Gingerbread or CM7? or is my brain just messing with me cuz custom is too awesome
Also I had a Desire Z with a Sense.

GB is just a nicer UI in my opinion. Also, you get so used to how your phone looks, when you run a different UI or version, it seems to be night and day. But I do agree. I went from froyo to GB, and it just looked sexier all around.

whats resulation? if you mean resolution its the same AFAIK but you can change it yourself. theres a thread about that. i run mine on 190 lcd density with LP for widget resizing. id do the same with sense but it makes it all wonky

i think this is because dithering is turned on by default.
look in settings->cm-settings->performance (only guessed the names because i have it in german)

[Q] decrease text or DPI in sense roms

I installed virtuous unity and I notice that in the phone application I can see the first 6 contacts over the virtual keyboard.
With standard sense for desire z (virtuous sense) I can only see my first 3-4 contacts.
This because virtuous unity is ported from a device with more resolution (I think) but the effect is great!
I hate the standard sense because I can't set the text size.
Large text is good for people that have vision problems, but I don't have, and I would like a rom with "less zoom" to see more objects in my screen.
I switch continuously from sense and cm7, I love cm7 and AOSP for the text size
PS: Spare parts have an options to resize the text, but don't work with all the sense applications. I hate the space waste of senseee!!! but I love sense services and beauty

Try LCD Density Changer from the market.
Sent from my Desire Z running @ 2GHZ

Search around for an app called propmoder
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
Try LCD Density Changer from the market.
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LCD density don't works on sense (brakes all the sense applications..)

im not quite sure but i think u can try this app, i had it sometime ago and i think it has the dpi change option
http://www.mediafire.../?61dsjqqfl6qg6

nonione said:
im not quite sure but i think u can try this app, i had it sometime ago and i think it has the dpi change option
http://www.mediafire.../?61dsjqqfl6qg6
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I don't need a dpi changer.. change dpi in sense roms don't works.
I would love a sense rom with the text dimension and proportions of sense 3.0 ported from other bigger screen terminal.
I think that in bigger screen terminale htc makes smaller proportions in sense..
So an htc HD2 sense rom ported to htc desire z would be great (I think)
Someone can confirm?

LCD density

Only found out the other day this was possible lol
By changing the density you make everything on your screen smaller which looks good. Asop roms work much better with this. Sense roms not as much. The launcher stays the same size and odds and ends.
Try it for yourself
Apps are on market
LCD density changers there's quite a few
Just thought is say for the uninformed roms like absolution has an inbuilt option in there tweak settings for this to happen..twisteds ics Rom comes standard also with this well the one I flashed anyway.
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http://tinyurl.com/89wrvxp

Seriously, you just worked that out? C'mon.... you can't be serious?
I gotta close this one.

[POLL]HDPI Or MDPI-what res you prefer on streak reply must

what resolution you prefer for the streak
MDPI-160dpi
HDPI-240dpi
reply as i want to build a rom from latest nexus one cm7 source.

I love 240 dpi on my streak

240dpi!

MDPI-160dpi - and CM7 please

240 hdpi always
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+1 for 240dpi, could you use LCD Density Modder to change around?

Oh come on guys, all that screen real estate and you wanna clog it up with all that big text at 240
Please give me 160 dpi

cdzo72 said:
oh come on guys, all that screen real estate and you wanna clog it up with all that big text at 240
please give me 160 dpi
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+1000000000

I never keep any icons or wigets on any of the home screens. I use miui plus zeam launcher on almost all my devices. One thing I am confused about is why the rom cook would need to know what dpi people like. I just edit the build.prop and the dpi changes. 160 dpi is too small icons for me and 240 dpi is too large icons I been playing with the build.prop and changed it to 190 dpi which seems to be a good balance. With this streak is the first time I have saw different roms for different dpi.

mine420 said:
I never keep any icons or wigets on any of the home screens. I use miui plus zeam launcher on almost all my devices. One thing I am confused about is why the rom cook would need to know what dpi people like. I just edit the build.prop and the dpi changes. 160 dpi is too small icons for me and 240 dpi is too large icons I been playing with the build.prop and changed it to 190 dpi which seems to be a good balance. With this streak is the first time I have saw different roms for different dpi.
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In most Roms, both the HDPI and MDPI formats are combined. With this one, it was split up for some reason. I would love to have both combined again to make it easier for changes.

tenorntex said:
In most Roms, both the HDPI and MDPI formats are combined. With this one, it was split up for some reason. I would love to have both combined again to make it easier for changes.
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This is only true for dell devices I think, most other manus only have the xDPI assets that specific device uses. At least the rom dumps of the N1/NS are like that.
I def like how dell included mdpi and hdpi though, as it means switching levels still gives you better icons then having them being streched/shrunk to work

CM7 160 DPI please 240 DPI is too much...

I find 200 a good compromise

160 fits in fine

160 is perfect
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160 is perfect
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actually, i like 190 most! fit & suit for me & my thumb
but, gplay doesn't support it
between 160 / 240, i will take 160 since 240 is spacekiller

ubervince said:
I find 200 a good compromise
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Yeah! That's the one for me - 200 DPI, CM7 and the awesome and amazing iKaNDee (free) theme - wow! It's so gorgeous !

tenorntex said:
In most Roms, both the HDPI and MDPI formats are combined. With this one, it was split up for some reason. I would love to have both combined again to make it easier for changes.
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+100
would be better for this ..........

Everyone that isnt using 120/160/240/320 needs to keep in mind that a non-standard dpi will break the market. It's part of their policy now that "list what dpis you support" instead of the older "list what dont work".
You pretty much wont be able to use the market (or at least a lot of stuff will be missing/broken on market) on a non-standard dpi. You can switch back to a standard one and use the market and switch back of so inclined though.