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I hated my phone. I think that MS doesn’t know how to make a phone feel like a phone. That's my opinion and you know what they say about opinions... Anyway, thanks to the work of some fantastic programmers, I have gotten my phone to where it feels a little nicer. On to what I did.
I wanted to tackle making the phone prettier to use. I don’t like how the today screen background doesn't act as the background of the phone app. I think that's stupid. For fixing this, I downloaded a few dialer skins from Zombienexus. (http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/GH_ShowArticle.asp?HID=35&CATID=1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12) I'm not sure who this person is, but his dialer replacement is fantastic. I chose the "Springwood_BlackBars" theme. It's a dim picture taken of a rain forest. Looks really nice. Nice and professional. This took care of my today screen and my phone dialer. Now, both have a good (great) background.
Next up. I hate my contacts. I can't mash a letter corresponding to my contact's last name with my finger. My fingers are too fat. I don't like using the stylus for doing this because phones don’t' require stylus.... enter Contact Manager v0.10 (http://www.pocketcm.com). The guy that created this is freaking awesome. It's a contact app that pulls from your list of contacts and puts them into a list that makes them easy to select with a finger. If you drag your finger down, the list will spring down and continue scrolling with this elastic effect. If you drag your finger down one side of the screen or the other, a little tab will pop up following your finger from top to bottom with each letter of the alphabet in it starting with "a" at the top and "Z" at the bottom. Where you stop is where the list scrolls to, nice animation and all.
Now, this contacts manager is kind of plain looking off the bat. But, the creator gives you an ini file to customize. After thoroughly tweaking the ini, I now have my today screen background (the springwood) as the background behind my contacts. Though, in words this may not sound like much, but in practice, the phone is freaking sweet now. the only other thing I did, was use a softkey tweak (http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/change_softkey_buttons.html) so that my contacts softkey invokes the new contactmanager app.
I wish I had screen shots of what my phone looks like. Showing it to friends has convinced them that wm5 phones CAN look like ... phones.
I'd love to see somebody "can" all three of these things together. I think a program that allows you to set the background for all three places would be very nice... What's best, all of the pieces I used are free (but, be sure and donate, these guys really out did themselves with this stuff).
Hope this helps somebody else make their phone a little more friendly.
Jason
NOTE: Contacts manager is a little funky when in landscape mode. It works, but display is a bit "off" and "tabs" no longer work. (but, who uses their phone in Landscape mode?)
Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
Sorry about that:
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Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
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hey Contact Manager v0.10 is made by one of our members @ xda developers, check out updates in the development and hacking forum.
Did'nt even know that. THat's cool... Great job Tene: ... here's link to that thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314048&highlight=contactsmanager
I have been looking for some solutions to de-complicating the Droid 2 and have been stumped so far.
1) Is there a way to put large photos on a home screen that link to a direct dial? The current/stock contacts widget photos are too small and the direct dial link is also not the photo itself. I just want to put two medium-large photos on the screen and give them a tap to dial the contacts.
2) Is there any way to make the app icons bigger?
3) Can the voice dialer be made more simple? Rather than "dial [contact] mobile 1," is there a way to just say "dial [contact]?"
4) When making a call, the screen stays on and buttons get pressed. Any way to disable this?
- I do not want to root the phone at the moment.
Thank you in advance for any help provided.
I'm not sure about 1 or 2 but the default google search bar you can say call (contact) and it will dial the person you said and the backlight is supposed to turn off when the phone is against your face because of a small sensor somewhere on the front of the screen. If its not working you either accidently disabled it some or the phone is not working properly. Check your apps and see if anything you downloaded may be doing that. Hope that helps a little.
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for #1 search the market for clickable picture frame. awesome app, can do direct call, direct text, etc.
Thank you!
The clickable picture frame is exactly what I needed.
I am still working on the other issues.
The screen proximity sensor seems to work correctly for me, but the phone user still has trouble with it. We're troubleshooting bit by bit.
The best weather app is [email protected] http://www.weather-android.com
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Hi there
There seem to be a small error with the lock screen.
See attached screenshot.
There is a slight, however clear, difference between the two lock screens.
Someone know how to fix it? Will the PA upgrade to beta work? (kinda hate betas, but also errors like this)
Thanks in advance!
It's an edit to the lock screen xml file, something like:
android:gravity="center" or
android:gravity="center_vertical"
This would be on the line that displays this. I won't be in front of my computer until later tonight (5 or 6 PM Central time) and I can take a look at it.
Have you edited apk files before, used apktool to compile and decompile apks?
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Okay, cool. Just tell me what to do, and I'll give it a go.
And no btw, haven't done any of what you mentioned. Only flashing some ROMS/kernels and stuff like that.
Furthermore, I would also like to mention, that I can either put the clock left, center or right. Whatever I choose, the clock on the lock screen with the Jelly Bean widget, is always a bit off to the right.. Compared to the screen where I press my pin code, of course.
Maybe that was useful info.
Btw, if you're in CST, and I am in UTC+1, I think that makes your 5-6pm, to my 12-01pm!
I can wait going to sleep until after we solve the problem, or I can wake up again, like, 7-8am UTC+1.. then it's 12-01pm CST
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This happens randomly or when you select center it's not quite centered?
I'll have to download the ROM then take a look at it later, test it, and see what/if I can fix it, so maybe I'll see what I can (or can't) do and I'll just reply here when I have an idea.
That way you're not waiting up all night for me to reply.
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Can you link me to 2.56? I see 2.99 beta 5...
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Well, in the ROM settings I can choose whether to have it left, right or centered. But it is not quite where it should be when I pick either of them.
When I choose the clock position to be:
Right, it is actually a little more to the right than the Pin-code screen;
Left, is actually a little below the Pin-code screen clock,
Center, it is a little to the right, compared to the Pin-code screen.
Do you see what I mean? Look at my screenshots closely, and you can see a small difference between them.
I can also post more from, say, the left and right position of the clock.
EDIT: To use your terminology, I guess the lock screen xml on the "Lock-screen-with-JellyBean-wiget" and the xml on the "Lock-screen-with-pincode" is different. I guess these should be similar? e.g. I would guess you define a "distance from right/left side of screen" when you make the xml, but apparently they have used different values for the two different lockscreens?
EDIT EDIT: suddently it appears to me, that I might not have expressed this the right way. I use two lockscreens at once. First, I pull to the right with the Jelly Bean widget to unlock the phone - then I've setup my nexus to demand a pincode, afterwards. That is why I've posted two SS. Hope you get what I mean!
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I see what you mean, and I d/l'd the ROM and tried a few things (it's actually in framework-res.apk, and the file is kind of an odd file name), but it didn't make any difference. I see what you mean for sure. It's actually to the right and up higher with the swipe than with the PIN unlock screen, which is strange.
I looked in a few other placed, and I could just flat out center that (I didn't try it, but I've done it before) clock, but then the selectability would become irrelevant. I don't have any real time right now/this weekend, as family emergency (funeral ) has been happening all week, so I'm taking some down time this weekend. I may be able to look at this Monday or so if I have time, but if anyone has another solution or if you find one that works in the meantime, by all means do whatever you gotta.
My OCD would drive me crazy with that, and I understand completely why you'd want to center it.
Okay cool. Then we're clear what it's all about.
Thanks for trying it out; you can just take a look at it when you get time. If you got a way to just make it centered all the time, that's fine. I don't need the left/right feature, even though it would be cool of course.
So, just get back to me when you can. I guess I have some OCD-like issues as well, so it annoys me pretty much
Thanks!
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Sv: [Q] How to get centered clock on lock screen. [PA 2.56]
Bump! Can someone help me?
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Hello.
I've been using this certain ROM for quite a while now, and today I decided to try other roms for my HD2, while not making backup of this one that I had used. Not being satisfied with any of the roms I tried, I decided to go back to the old one, just to realize I have no backup of it, nor I know the name. So I need help finding it. I've tried a lot and this one was the most responsive/fastest/most stable one for me, so help is greatly appreciated.
Now, to the things I remember about it, hopefully someone will recognize which rom I'm talking about. It was pretty minimalistic, it was nothing fancy like most of the popular roms now. Came with a greyish stone wall like home wallpaper, there was no google search widget at the top of the screen by default (most roms have that, as far as I noticed), had 5 icons (shortcuts) in the very bottom of the screen, all grayish/whitish. There was 3 home screens you could scroll around with by default, and also the same way you could've scrolled those 5 shortcuts. When nothing was assigned to the shortcut, like when you first scrolled to the next screen, there was a plus sign (+) of the same color as all other. I'm not sure but I think the internet browser shortcut had something like a detective's head silhouette (like a side shot). Could've been a globe, too, looked like a head to me.
The battery levels showed in percentages in the upper right of the screen (without the % sign), with white dots around the white number (percentage) matching the percentage showed. The messaging was set up so it was divided in threads, and each thread looked the simplest it actually could. It said "Me: <my message>" for my sms and had the same format for the other person in thread (in new row, of course), all went left to right, no fancy iphone ballons showing me on the right side, them on left. And it had time stamps underneat the messages. By default only time for today, and date (without timestamp) for any other day.
If I can provide any more information, please let me know. Thanks for reading, hopefully someone knows what rom this is about. I'm not sure how I got to that rom, but I'm guessing it was popular at some time (maybe still is) since it worked flawlessly. Even if it reminds you of some rom that isn't this one for sure, let me know.
Edit: Remembered something, it's big I think. On boot, that animated screen containted while we wait to boot looked like a cube, rotating and disappearing, as if it was made of water, like spilling in the air, or sprinkling. Also not sure, I think it had a letter H on each side of the cube. Also, I'm willing to bet it was gingerbread build.
Edit2: Solved. It's the latest hyperdroid, sandy scorpion.
Hi,
The text select cursor (the blue pointy thing) gets hidden behind the keyboard when the text I am entering or selecting is just above the keyboard. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate the issue. This wasn't always the case.
Also earlier the drop down with the word suggestions and correction options would stay over the keyboard but now any part of it that flows over the keyboard is hidden behind it. This also wasn't the case earlier. I couldn't replicate the issue for this thread. But I hope was I explained is clear enough.
I'm running the stock ROM on my N4, version 4.3, build - JWR66Y.
Stock keyboard. I dunno what other information I could share.. do let me know.
Thanks a lot for any help.
I've tried searching for a solution for the problem and I've got none. Hope I ran a search the proper way and didn't miss out on another similar thread.
There is a part of the email body missing on top and bottom. It appears that you are zoomed in. Are you using the stock kernel? Have you changed the resolution of the phone? Are you using any of the accessibility settings?
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There is a part of the email body missing on top and bottom. It appears that you are zoomed in. Are you using the stock kernel? Have you changed the resolution of the phone? Are you using any of the accessibility settings?
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No, I've just typed enough to scroll the screen up a bit. No zooming. No accessibility settings. No custom kernel. Like I said, it's stock.
Ok got you. I just went and tried to replicate this with gmail, as I am using the stock rom and kernel. I basically get the same behavior, except I get no cursor at all. Is that something you enabled somewhere?
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It's got nothing to do with Gmail specifically. I just chose Gmail to illustrate the issue. The same issue / behaviour is exhibited on all apps which have text boxes - messengers, social apps, notes, etc.
The blue pointer cursor won't appear on it's own. You have to tap the text the way you do when you want to move the cursor to a particular point or when you want to select a piece of text.
The cursor shows up upon tapping the text once. From there you can drag it. My point being that it is nearly impossible to drag since 95% of the curson/pointer is hidden behind the keyboard.
Ok, I follow you now. I don't have that problem within none of my apps that use the keyboard. I am rooted but running stock rom, keyboard, and kernel.
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Now see, that's exactly how it used to be for me as well. That's normal behaviour. Hope someone can point out why I'm facing this issue and rectify it.
Thanks for the help.
I am having this exact problem. Is there a way to fix this?
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Is there or has there been any updates on this? I ran into the same issue on my 2013 vanilla Moto X. Now I have that issue on my brand new Nexus 6P. I really want to resolve this. Not only is the cursor hidden, but spelling corrections and other items are being hidden. The keyboard I'm using is by SwiftKey, but the results are the same using the Google Keyboard. Help!
Example 1
Example 2
Facing the same issue on my Note 4 rooted with kitkat 4.4.4 on Stock Touchwiz and Xposed. Driving me nuts. Any solution, guys, please help. Tried with multiple Keyboards. Same issue across all apps, not just Gmail. The blue curor just disappears behind the keyboard. In my earlier note 3 the page would scroll down as I keep selecting, here the selection stops upto the keyboard point.
Anyone? Please help......
Update
I have an update on this issue. It's not a solution unfortunately, but it might be a clue for someone.
I was using the Facebook Messenger app earlier, messaging someone in a chat head (the hovering bubble for anyone who doesn't know), and both the cursor and the spelling corrections were on top of the keyboard. Not hidden behind. What does that mean? That's the first time I've noticed those things working properly
Yes in my previous 4.3 Note3 thats exactly how the text selection cursor behaved so I could continue selecting text. In Note4 it goes BEHIND the keyboard and stops selecting further and in fact just disappears. Only the text selected till that point remains highlighted. Need a mod to bring the cursor on TOP of KB instead of behind like Rawk3rSix pointed out. Some expert developer help and input needed....
An update : I tried the stock Email App instead of Gmail app today and to my surprise the issue is not there at all in Email App. Works like a charm. Im able to select text even with the cursor going below the keyboard. Problem solved for now. Something in the Email App which is there or not there in the Gmail App.
In that stock email app, how do the spelling corrections work for you? Are they ok?
I dont really use spelling correction from the stock Email App. I hate autocorrect anyway.
I use Xposed Module TEXT AIDE which serves the purpose anywhere pan-device
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Stock mail app so much better than GMail :
a. Text selection error resolved
b. No forced Conversation View
c. When forwarding a message and trying to edit the forwarding text, no ridiculous ">" symbols before each line
I use Inbox and Outlook for email
The issue wasn't solved for your texting or messaging app though, right? I use Facebook Messenger and Google Messenger
Yes texting not resolved but since text msgs are usually much smaller, I can live with it.
Clue : Apparently this issue surfaced after the last Kitkat update 4.4.4...... Probably may or may not be there in LP/Marshmallow
Is anyone out there?? This issue is getting old and very frustrating =( help!