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Could we please stop asking "why?"

I have been a long time xda'r and Android fan boy ever since I got my G1 on launch day. The phone I had before my G1 was a iPhone and I did love that phone.....till my G1 and haven't looked back since.
One thing that really kinda peeves me is when someone asks a question like "how do I install the stock launcher" and you see people respond with "Why would you want to get rid of TWLauncher?" One of the beautiful things about android is the deep level of customization you can do.
Dont like your back ground: Change it.
Dont like the stock mms app: install a different one.
Dont like the notification bar color: Use metamorph and install a different one.
You have your tastes and preferences, but yours isn't the only one. If there was only one way to think, we would be asking Steve

Well said.
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gunks said:
Stalk....fail...
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it seems you missed the point of the thread....FAIL

MonkySlap said:
it seems you missed the point of the thread....FAIL
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+1
Agree 100% of this. Unfortunately, most people don't understand the idea of an opinion.

MonkySlap said:
I have been a long time xda'r and Android fan boy ever since I got my G1 on launch day. The phone I had before my G1 was a iPhone and I did love that phone.....till my G1 and haven't looked back since.
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Why?
MonkySlap said:
One thing that really kinda peeves me is when someone asks a question like "how do I install the stock launcher" and you see people respond with "Why would you want to get rid of TWLauncher?" One of the beautiful things about android is the deep level of customization you can do.
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Why?
MonkySlap said:
Dont like your back ground: Change it.
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Why?
MonkySlap said:
Dont like the stock mms app: install a different one.
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Why?
MonkySlap said:
Dont like the notification bar color: Use metamorph and install a different one.
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Why?
MonkySlap said:
You have your tastes and preferences, but yours isn't the only one. If there was only one way to think, we would be asking Steve what to think
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Most Importantly... Why?
Just Kidding, Great Points Man

@zaduma
Why #1) Because I saw the potential in a open sourced mobile os, plus 3g, and GPS, and love to tinker with electronics to name some.
Why 2-5) Its in the statement you quoted
Why #6) Because you touch yourself at night zaduma

[Q] Is there anyway to add HTC Sense to this phone?

Is it possible to add HTC Sense to the Samsung Epic? Is there a launcher that can do this or just complete different UI theme or even a complete ROM? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

youngnick09 said:
Is it possible to add HTC Sense to the Samsung Epic? Is there a launcher that can do this or just complete different UI theme or even a complete ROM? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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LauncherPro is an alternative launcher that can be used with the epic -- However, although there is 'HTC Sense' themse for the launcher itself, I think they would have to be ported over for it to work.
TouchWiz is great, I had hero before epic. In my opinion TW definitely out performs Sense, and isn't as bulky. First question everyone will ask you is "Why not just bye the evo if you wanted Sense?"

id_twin said:
LauncherPro is an alternative launcher that can be used with the epic -- However, although there is 'HTC Sense' themse for the launcher itself, I think they would have to be ported over for it to work.
TouchWiz is great, I had hero before epic. In my opinion TW definitely out performs Sense, and isn't as bulky. First question everyone will ask you is "Why not just bye the evo if you wanted Sense?"
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I have the Epic Experience ROM currently flashed I think, and it has Launcher Pro (I also think, ha). What you're saying is that there are HTC Sense themes for Launcher Pro? Mind explaining how I would be able to change the theme of Launcher Pro to have HTC Sense? And there's a simple, easy answer for that question; The Epic has a nice keyboard that the EVO does not.

You will need to do some google work. First find a LauncherPro sense theme. Then research how to port it over to epic.

youngnick09 said:
Is it possible to add HTC Sense to the Samsung Epic? Is there a launcher that can do this or just complete different UI theme or even a complete ROM? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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You can add Sense UI by buying an EVO

As far as actually adding HTC Sense to this phone: It won't happen mostly because Sense is all closed source.

youngnick09 said:
Is it possible to add HTC Sense to the Samsung Epic? Is there a launcher that can do this or just complete different UI theme or even a complete ROM? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Your question will be answered tomorrow. Wink wink, hint hint, nudge nudge.
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bubby323 said:
Your question will be answered tomorrow. Wink wink, hint hint, nudge nudge.
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So that is Wisdom huh? So is there no AOSP update tonight either?

um....why would you want that ugly shiz

youngnick09 said:
I have the Epic Experience ROM currently flashed I think, and it has Launcher Pro (I also think, ha). What you're saying is that there are HTC Sense themes for Launcher Pro? Mind explaining how I would be able to change the theme of Launcher Pro to have HTC Sense? And there's a simple, easy answer for that question; The Epic has a nice keyboard that the EVO does not.
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Its actually available on launcher pro plus which is the paid version for widgets to become available. You can buy it thru the market or 4shared is your friend. ;-)

Zei said:
um....why would you want that ugly shiz
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I have a evo as well with sense custom rom and it a lot more functional as far as features go. I love sense, to bad its not availble on the epic. You can always get an evo however the evo doesn't compare to the epic in power. Movies, games and eveything looks better on the epic thanks to it gpu and super amoled.

I think ROM devs might be able to port it over, but we might have to wait for HTC to release a phone similar enough to ours first. That's what happened on my old G1, at least.

illogic6 said:
As far as actually adding HTC Sense to this phone: It won't happen mostly because Sense is all closed source.
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That doesn't make it an impossible task, there's always decompilers, computer science forensics, and educated guess-work that could probably accomplish the job. Whether or not anyone would be willing to take the time to do it is another question.
Of course someone who can code could just start from scratch to build something that gives the same front end results as sense whether or not the back end is actually sense probably wouldn't matter to the end user.

where is this iphone rom? has anyone seen this? ios kind of ported to android

I saw a couple youtube videos of ios ported to android.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An1jpm2UHYU&feature=related
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/ios-4-ported-successfully-to-htc-magic/
http://www.coveringweb.com/2010/09/ios-4-successfully-ported-to-htc-device.html
I'm sure there are lots of other vids out there.
well, my question is, where is this? did anyone ever make a working rom out of it? I have an incredible and even though ios is closed i would definitely love to try it, and lets be honest, ios is pretty smooth.
I know its slow, but i'd love to try it. have any android devs spent any time on this?
seriously, i know people would be interested in this rom if devs got it ported (to the incredible!!), as evidence, look how many people like miui
where is it?
thanks

http://www.google.com/search?client...+android+htc&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
there is a ton about this on google^
I know they say it runs super slow, but if someone worked on it i'm sure they could speed it up. (and it be pretty awesome anyway)
the thing is, i dont even know where the rom is (or if it exists, im starting to think it doesnt)

why the hell would you get an android phone to put an iphone theme(rom) on it???? sounds kinda stupid to me, why not just go buy an iphone??

Well it would be pretty cool to try. And the iPhone apps are pretty nice if they'd work.
The ui and apps are pretty good.
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t12icky0 said:
why the hell would you get an android phone to put an iphone theme(rom) on it???? sounds kinda stupid to me, why not just go buy an iphone??
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Are you kidding? I'd LOVE to saunter into an Apple store and make all the fanboi's cry!

Robbzilla said:
Are you kidding? I'd LOVE to saunter into an Apple store and make all the fanboi's cry!
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fanboi: my iphone can everything
android: same here and it CAN ALSO run iOS
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android:how about your phone?
fanboi:
android: and hey, here is Win7
fanboi: Q.Q
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fanboi: my iphone can everything
android: same here and it CAN ALSO run iOS
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android:how about your phone?
fanboi:
android: and hey, here is Win7
fanboi: Q.Q
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YMMD xD
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tktouch12 said:
I saw a couple youtube videos of ios ported to android.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An1jpm2UHYU&feature=related
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/ios-4-ported-successfully-to-htc-magic/
http://www.coveringweb.com/2010/09/ios-4-successfully-ported-to-htc-device.html
I'm sure there are lots of other vids out there.
well, my question is, where is this? did anyone ever make a working rom out of it? I have an incredible and even though ios is closed i would definitely love to try it, and lets be honest, ios is pretty smooth.
I know its slow, but i'd love to try it. have any android devs spent any time on this?
seriously, i know people would be interested in this rom if devs got it ported (to the incredible!!), as evidence, look how many people like miui
where is it?
thanks
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search google man
this is not a ROM. its a chinese made phone with their custom rom in it. its not an android.

search for MIUI rom.... ;-)

I'd like to get into the app store... I mean let's be honest the app store is amazing
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irisiris said:
search google man
this is not a ROM. its a chinese made phone with their custom rom in it. its not an android.
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It isnt? They said its an HTC hero with ios on it. Is that wrong?
Gahh Its Lee said:
I'd like to get into the app store... I mean let's be honest the app store is amazing
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Ya, that's really why I would want to try it. And because is like to try using the stock apps on my phone.
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i love the idea of porting iphone apps on android phone. but i simply hate their UI. kinda boring for me....

If you love ios looks but still love android you should try the MIUI rom, better, faster, and its based on android..
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Not iOS
Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not iOS. You can see that the wallpaper scrolls as the user scrolls through the different home screens. That implementation is only on Android. It's probably just a cleverly made skin (right down to folders) used to simulate the iPhone. The two OS' are written in two different Linux kernels which makes it incompatible to be ported.
Yeah it would be neat though.

MIUI with the iphone theme installed?

BodingisanAndroid said:
Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not iOS. You can see that the wallpaper scrolls as the user scrolls through the different home screens. That implementation is only on Android. It's probably just a cleverly made skin (right down to folders) used to simulate the iPhone. The two OS' are written in two different Linux kernels which makes it incompatible to be ported.
Yeah it would be neat though.
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You can put Android on a iPhone.

What exactly is MIUI?

A lot of people want it on their phones, but what is it, and what makes it so good? Is it an aosp type rom kind of like cyanogen. Thanks and forgive the noobnes of the question.
From cellblock D

Zor Omega said:
A lot of people want it on their phones, but what is it, and what makes it so good? Is it an aosp type rom kind of like cyanogen. Thanks and forgive the noobnes of the question.
From cellblock D
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Its a cross breed of iPhone and android. YouTube it so u can see how it looks
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Just another rom, just one with some serious eye candy. 2 things really turn me off of this rom. Its closed source nature (you never know what kind of **** is in there), and the fact it is chinese (which gives me serious doubts about the security of it).
Its slick looking tho.

Yes, it's an AOSP-based rom.

its like Android + Iphone + CIQ + Nike + Great Fire Wall of China

Yeah, I had heard it was chinese, which kind of turned me off to the idea. But other than that, just another aosp rom huh? I just don't understand why people go crazy over it. I've seen what it looks like...nothing special really. Thanks for the info though.
From cellblock D

You won't understand till you run it.
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I ran it on my old evo, wasn't impressed.
It removes the app draw and puts every icon on the main screen, you can move them around, but clutters things.
It's themes are a great concept and look great if you're into what's available.
It messaging app sucks cajones, that's my general opinion.
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bricky23 said:
You won't understand till you run it.
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I guess not. I'd like to try it though, if we could get a port of it that works fully on here.
From cellblock D

gjones77 said:
It removes the app draw and puts every icon on the main screen, you can move them around, but clutters things.
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That alone would be enough for me to not use it, as I keep nothing on my home screens

Zor Omega said:
Yeah, I had heard it was chinese, which kind of turned me off to the idea. But other than that, just another aosp rom huh? I just don't understand why people go crazy over it. I've seen what it looks like...nothing special really. Thanks for the info though.
From cellblock D
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I bet your shoes are made in China. Do you trust them? It's in English and has no spyware, or CIQ. The port for this phone however has several key features missing and no offense to the devs, it isn't quite ready for daily use. No builds have 4G. Epic's has unstable 3G, WiFi, GPS, and camera. The Devs are working hard though and trying to give us something to use.

DCRocks said:
That alone would be enough for me to not use it, as I keep nothing on my home screens
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I'm similar in that regard
screen 1: blank
screen 2: weather/clock widget
screen 3 apps i mostly use that have spilled over from my docks and i don't want to go into my drawer for or run as widgets

xboxfanj said:
I bet your shoes are made in China. Do you trust them?
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No............
No I will not make out with you.

Elite11b said:
No............
No I will not make out with you.
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What? WTF????

Miui is awesome. I got great battery life and the customization is ridiculous. I have a fascinate so it was buggy and incomplete but even without mms and camcorder I still use it as my daily rom.
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chris41g said:
its like Android + Iphone + CIQ + Nike + Great Fire Wall of China
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LMAO!!! just cause of that response, now i have to YouTube it.

Verizon Xperia Play App Drawer?

Hey guys, i'm going to be purchasing an xperia play (my first android/smart phone whoo!) soon and I've done my fair share of research over this phone and i've gone to the verion store to check it out, and i like it a lot, but there's just one thing that bothers me. What happened to the app drawer? I know it's stock gingerbread therefore it should have the same app drawer that the Nexus S has, but it doesn't seem the same, the reason I say this is because when you scroll up and down through the apps, it doesn't give you that "cube" like effect, what happened?

jwk94 said:
Hey guys, i'm going to be purchasing an xperia play (my first android/smart phone whoo!) soon and I've done my fair share of research over this phone and i've gone to the verion store to check it out, and i like it a lot, but there's just one thing that bothers me. What happened to the app drawer? I know it's stock gingerbread therefore it should have the same app drawer that the Nexus S has, but it doesn't seem the same, the reason I say this is because when you scroll up and down through the apps, it doesn't give you that "cube" like effect, what happened?
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does that really matter? there is a million launchers on the market that can emulate that cube effect in the app draw, and imo have much better effects too, just download one

jwk94 said:
Hey guys, i'm going to be purchasing an xperia play (my first android/smart phone whoo!) soon and I've done my fair share of research over this phone and i've gone to the verion store to check it out, and i like it a lot, but there's just one thing that bothers me. What happened to the app drawer? I know it's stock gingerbread therefore it should have the same app drawer that the Nexus S has, but it doesn't seem the same, the reason I say this is because when you scroll up and down through the apps, it doesn't give you that "cube" like effect, what happened?
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Thats what LauncherPro is for.

AndroHero said:
does that really matter? there is a million launchers on the market that can emulate that cube effect in the app draw, and imo have much better effects too, just download one
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yeah for me it does matter, it was something that I really liked about gingerbread....

Get over it its very minor
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jwk94 said:
yeah for me it does matter, it was something that I really liked about gingerbread....
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Download the Gingerbread launcher, push it to /system/app and delete the default launcher. Problem solved This isnt ios You know

I don't have the Verizon edition so could be COMPLETELY wrong but perhaps it's enable-able in a settings?
Even if not the other comments are right - think of it this way. It's not that it doesn't have the cube effect, it's that you need to install it via the market - Launcher Pro or Gingerbread Launcher should both have it (ADW too maybe?)
If you get that phone you can definitely get the effect your looking for

Reapman said:
I don't have the Verizon edition so could be COMPLETELY wrong but perhaps it's enable-able in a settings?
Even if not the other comments are right - think of it this way. It's not that it doesn't have the cube effect, it's that you need to install it via the market - Launcher Pro or Gingerbread Launcher should both have it (ADW too maybe?)
If you get that phone you can definitely get the effect your looking for
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Sounds more like it would be a property in the Launcher2.apk file. You can extract it and search if you want.

thatsupnow said:
Get over it its very minor
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to you it is, to me it's not, thank you everybody for the help.