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I've had some problems getting HTC apps working in cm6 latest nightly.
I get my apks from DC froyo.
First I tried an easy install which failed.
Then I moved it to the system/app folder and chmod and chowned to make sure the permissions and owners were the same as stock.
Right now the HTC internet browser opens but force closes.
How can I get it working?
Aren't the HTC apps tied to the Sense framework? If so, I don't think it'll be possible to get them working on a non-sense ROM.
I could be completely wrong.
Sent from my HTC Evo 4G using XDA app.
jkinnison90 said:
Aren't the HTC apps tied to the Sense framework? If so, I don't think it'll be possible to get them working on a non-sense ROM.
I could be completely wrong.
Sent from my HTC Evo 4G using XDA app.
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No you are not completely wrong. You are completely correct. Sense is deeply integrated into Android. It's not like there are just some added libraries. The source code that compiles into the framework.jar and framework-res.apk, etc are directly modified by HTC. This means Sense is no mere skin. It is a complete integration into Android. Regardless, without this framework HTC apps will only run on Sense phones. Some can be ported over but it's a difficult process so most likely the apps you want will not be ported over. Out of curiosity though, which apps are you trying to use on CM6?
If you want Sense, go back to Sense.
topdnbass said:
How can I get it working?
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Use DC.
Can't use HTC apps without Sense. Please check the FAQ in the future.
if you provide the applications you're trying to run, perhaps alternatives can be suggested for you.
I personally like the HTC Tip Calulator widget....
and the HTC Notes....
But you can't use them on adw.
I don't want an app shortcut, I want a widget.
I prefer AOSP thankyou very much.
I just like the option of having some apps that I got used to.
HTC_ime for example. The keyboard.
Even though I use swype.
The camera app which pwns the stock.
Got flashlight and car panel working.
FM radio and weather would be nice too.
There were some nice Widgets but the only one I miss is the clock.
Any porting tips?
topdnbass said:
I prefer AOSP thankyou very much.
I just like the option of having some apps that I got used to.
HTC_ime for example. The keyboard.
Even though I use swype.
The camera app which pwns the stock.
Got flashlight and car panel working.
FM radio and weather would be nice too.
There were some nice Widgets but the only one I miss is the clock.
Any porting tips?
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i liked the HTC keyboard as well. I'm assuming that you did your due diligence and found this did not work? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7429254#post7429254
4G and FM Radio is not working in CM6 yet.
this is listed in the CM6 OP.
i'm not sure what HTC browser your talking about. perhaps try installing Dolphin HD browser.
last nights CM6 build incorporated a new camera app and deathray (er...Flashlight app w/ widget). just get the nightly build and flash over what you have...i wipe 'cache' and 'dalvik cache' ...you loose no settings.
i use 'MyWeather' but then, i don't care for weather widgets. have you even looked on the android market for this? maybe try browsing from a computer on a site like www.appbrain.com
i use digital clock widget to provide my time date...many folks praise Beautiful Widgets.
here is a post that may be of use..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7312516#post7312516
tips...
- everyone once in a while...copy a nand backup onto your pc (ie: what if you SD card gets lost or borked?)
- read the entire forum for the ROM you're playing with
- use the search function liberally. (both on xda and google)
- read more
DraginMagik said:
i liked the HTC keyboard as well. I'm assuming that you did your due diligence and found this did not work? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7429254#post7429254
4G and FM Radio is not working in CM6 yet.
this is listed in the CM6 OP.
i'm not sure what HTC browser your talking about. perhaps try installing Dolphin HD browser.
last nights CM6 build incorporated a new camera app and deathray (er...Flashlight app w/ widget). just get the nightly build and flash over what you have...i wipe 'cache' and 'dalvik cache' ...you loose no settings.
i use 'MyWeather' but then, i don't care for weather widgets. have you even looked on the android market for this? maybe try browsing from a computer on a site like www.appbrain.com
i use digital clock widget to provide my time date...many folks praise Beautiful Widgets.
here is a post that may be of use..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7312516#post7312516
tips...
- everyone once in a while...copy a nand backup onto your pc (ie: what if you SD card gets lost or borked?)
- read the entire forum for the ROM you're playing with
- use the search function liberally. (both on xda and google)
- read more
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Thanks for your post, but.
This isn't about anything specific, i simply want to know how to get apps ported, without the java source.
That said, I AM using dolphin, but I prefer the copy-paste that I can only find with HTC sense, I was hoping the browser on stock sense would help.
I've come across that thread, and use Swype without much issue, but having no trackball () makes me wish I had some arrow keys.. Not available in that thread.
Since my OP I have customized ADW and i'm quite pleased with it overall.
Now I just want to be able to use any app I wish. Regardless of alternatives!
Beautiful widgets is good, but has no analog clocks last I checked.
I do use it either way, but again, this isn't about anything specific.
I want to unlock apk's so they work anywhere. Any rom. Not just with HTC apps, but even the touchwiz apps!
Don't care about 4G, and i know that there are bugs being worked out with CM6 but i'm following it closely. On the 8/11 nightly build right now.
Finally, I read too much. I know a lot more than I put on..
Been "playing" with android roms since Dream (especially CM).
The problem which I have won't be solved by simply looking around for a version of the APK that works.
I want to know how they are being ported/unlocked .
If you can help, then thankyou very much!
Otherwise, I don't need your irrelevant tips. (No offense intended)
topdnbass said:
I've come across that thread, and use Swype without much issue, but having no trackball () makes me wish I had some arrow keys.. Not available in that thread.
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Swype from the Swype key to the SYM key. Voila.
i ve seen alot of people mentioning that they dont want to have sense on their android( different tastes)
i personally like the looks of sense but it reminds me so much of the windows mobile nightmares that i avoid it.
even though its not same as using sense with winmo...
but for those of you that dont want to use sense,
download LAUNCHER PRO or any other launcher app that is available on the market. once installed the phone will ask you which one would you like to use by default, very simple.
i did that on mattc build and new froyostone build as well...
im posting this because not that many people are aware of this.
i discovered it by accident as well.
u still have sense items like dialer and other aspects of sense even if u download launcher
does launcher pro do landscape mode?
Nevermind... I should know to reasearch before asking by now.
the main reason i dont like sense is even after disabling , there iis still like 10 apps running in the background lol
if you use launcher pro (which I like becuase you can get more icons on the page) you dont have access to the sense widgets, and I cant find a clock I like as much as the standard sense/weather clock (ANYONE??).
i found myself setting up launcher pro to look like my winmo sense. But I still think winmo sense looks way better.
I would love to use sens rather than froyo att his point. but I got used to having my dpis at 180. And I still want my sense widgets and clock but then I wont be able to shrink the resolution much, or fit more icons.
thatruth132 said:
the main reason i dont like sense is even after disabling , there iis still like 10 apps running in the background lol
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I agree. HTC sense is BLOATWARE even if you just "disable" it.
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
(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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(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
Hi guys, the flipout is now very cheap indeed in the UK (it's around £50 with Orange PAYG). I managed to lose my previous phone under a train and so I've been looking at this.
Is it worth picking up this phone? I gather from looking at the posts that it can be unlocked and rooted.
Some (noob) questions:
1) Can the phone be unlocked for free? Can it be done by debranding it?
2) Can you install a different launcher? A search on the forum doesn't say anything about changing the launcher.
3) Can you get rid of Motoblur? i've never used it but it sounds ****.
Thanks in advance guys
1. dont know!
2. Launcher Pro is very nice. many thinks can be changed and its very fast!
3. dont try the motoblur free versions of the flipout..there are many bugs with connection and akku standby! i have the italian rom installed with the update of 1.19.2 and i ignored motoblur. i have deleted all widget with motoblur and use the widget of the launcher pro which can also connect to facebook, twitter...and in my opinion your contacts will be clean..if you use motoblur it will add facevook contacts to your normal conntacts...
Yeah, LauncherPro and ADW work perfectly for me, just make sure to delete all of Motoblur's widgets and ****. Juicedefender Ultimate helps as well, for saving battery.
I got some issue with Launch pro.
When I press home button to return from some apps, the screen turn black and the status bar rotate to the side of the screen, and after probably 300ms, it turns back.
Not a big issue, but pretty annoy. Using ADW launcher without any issue. Much smoother than the stock launcher.
I'm back to the stock Launcher. My problem was that with any other Launcher, from time to time a process called "android.process.acore" would start eating cpu.
Schallstoerer said:
3. dont try the motoblur free versions of the flipout..there are many bugs with connection and akku standby!
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Could you explain a bit more? What are the problems? I have the moto free firmware installed. Problems I heard about are
1. something about not using all channels, which can be solved by modifying a file on /system/etc
2. Whenever you install a new firmware, the battery meter gets out of sync and need to be reset. There is an app on the market for doing that.
Are these the problems you are referring to, or are there others?
Thanks!
@ ghostwheel
ya, these are the problems! and you´re right..it can be fixed. i only wanted to say that you can use the original firmeware without motoblur by ignoring it. so you dont have to fix anything and you can use the 1.19.2 update. sry for my bad english =/
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Could you explain a bit more? What are the problems? I have the moto free firmware installed. Problems I heard about are
1. something about not using all channels, which can be solved by modifying a file on /system/etc
2. Whenever you install a new firmware, the battery meter gets out of sync and need to be reset. There is an app on the market for doing that.
Are these the problems you are referring to, or are there others?
Thanks!
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Hey ghostwheel
if tried the motoblur free version now.
to use alle awailable channels i have to modifi the baseband file, right!?
which app do you mean for reseting the battery?