Don't you think touchwiz for SGSIII looks like ugly as hell? It looks like pre-honeycomb, anyway my questions is; can I change the entire look of touchwiz, but keep it's functionality...? if so, how easy is it?
I've used an iPhone the past 3 years but have seen the light and preordered an S3 but the whole nature thing is bugging the hell out of me, it should look more like the Google Nexus (which has the "holo" theme I believe")
Just install a new launcher. Apex will make it look just like a Nexus.
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Just install a new launcher. Apex will make it look just like a Nexus.
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On iOS Jailbreak you could install something called Winterboard which allowed for every aspect of the UI to be customised... is this possible on android while keeping functionality intact?
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On iOS Jailbreak you could install something called Winterboard which allowed for every aspect of the UI to be customised... is this possible on android while keeping functionality intact?
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As far as every aspect (notification bar, text color, etc.) you will need a custom rom with framework modified. I'm betting there will be tons and you will be happy. With the launchers, all you will get is an overlay of the home screen ui basically. Icons and such will be able to be modified though with a different launcher. There are tons of launchers to replace touchwiz. I don't think you will be disappointed
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Wait for developer to theme it for u
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Acrylicus said:
Don't you think touchwiz for SGSIII looks like ugly as hell? It looks like pre-honeycomb, anyway my questions is; can I change the entire look of touchwiz, but keep it's functionality...? if so, how easy is it?
I've used an iPhone the past 3 years but have seen the light and preordered an S3 but the whole nature thing is bugging the hell out of me, it should look more like the Google Nexus (which has the "holo" theme I believe")
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The theming on ios (to me) just looks bad.. On android developers and themers make great themes that are easily flashed through cwm and most of them are awesome.. You wont be dissapointed
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Also as mentioned home replacement is another easy option.
There are many that aren't just stock ICS layout, but those such as SPB shell 3D which will change a lot of the layout, whereas others such as go launcher will actually have many different theming options available.
As always its entirely down to preference. No one can tell you what the best one is. Who knows, you may even like the be touchwiz!! :thumbup:
Personally I prefer the Touchwiz icons over stock Android icons. Google isn't very good at all at creating anything that is pleasing visually -- including stock ICS.
You know you can remove the widgets if you don't like them and use other launchers. I use Nova Launcher with Touchwiz icons. I am sure I will do the same on my GS III once it arrives.
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More Moving and Cleaning.
This thread is not about a particular theme nor app.
Moving to General,
Thanks for the understanding.
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I never owned one but I have played with Iphones. They are nice and I love the fact that you can customize app draw name, service provider name, custom sliders, i even seen a Knicks symbol as the signal bar, make ur own icons in the status bar... ( my friend has The Dharma Initiative sybol )lol
I always try to out shine them boys and Im on forums and they post a screen shot and Im blown away. I absolutely love my N1.Overall I thin its better, But do you think we will ever be able to do this with android?
Are you new to Android? Android is 100x much more customizable than the iPhone. Welcome to the forums btw.
ya this is my first android and I heard about how its more customizable, but how can we do the above? I have yet to see a screen shot that has it..
and thank u for the welcoming as I expect ether in this thread...lol
There are two ways to customize.
1 - Download a Home replacement app from the Market (GDE, OpenHome, etc...)
And then download the custom themes and just apply them.
2- (the fun one) root your phone and then just go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=560
and chose a theme you like and just flash it
Being an army veteran anyone would think you'd know these kinda things. Careful with your apple words 'round these parts.
Could you post some screenshots of these so-called customised iPhones? I'm interested.
PISSANDVINEGAR said:
Being an army veteran anyone would think you'd know these kinda things. Careful with your apple words 'round these parts.
Could you post some screenshots of these so-called customised iPhones? I'm interested.
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Lmao apple words??? Im all about android my friend. As for the military part, u make absolutely no sense, almost disrespectful towards our service members. But thats here nor there... http://www.joebuddentv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68683
That's what you call customizable? That's what blew you away? It's the same-old icon grid after icon grid after icon grid like any stock iPhone, only with different icons and background. Do you see widgets? Do you see... oh I don't know, any average SweeterHome theme will let you do better than this tired-looking piece-of-**** UI. The iPhone may have its good points, but customizability is not one of them.
I hear US army training tends to beat intelligence out of people, but I didn't quite realize how badly.
Maybe you can hack your nexus one ..to make it like an iphone..so you can make it look like a nexus one !!
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I came from an iPhone I made look like the hero home screen. It took foreeevver.
Android way easier to skin. Did you not even see the entire forum dedicated to themes with the FIRSt thread about posting screenshots?
As the subject reads, I would love miui with stock icons. I know some of you may not agree, but people say that my phone looks a lot like an iphone at work when I show it off running miui. That's not a bad thing, I personally don't like it though. Anyway, if someone could come out with a "stock" theme (or whatever your want to call it) then that would be amazing.
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You could just use LauncherPro or a similar dock. The icons will still have the colored box around them, but they will be much smaller. Obviously the four big icons at the bottom will be gone as well.
That's the thing though, I like miui's launcher, but I don't the icons. I don't like their blocky-ness, if that makes much sense.
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I agree. The icons blockiness and the fact the app icons can't go into a "drawer" are the only reasons I went back to Virtuous.
+1000000000
No app drawer
No android stock Icons
Despite the fact that this MIUI Rom is awesome, those 2 things made me going back to my old android stock ROM.
And what is the interest to put an alternative launcher since if you put a launcher (LauncherPro, Zeam,..) You lose the MIUI advantages...
They should considerate that app drawer (and putting app in that drawer) is (in a ergonomic point of view) is the best thing ... Since Day 1 there's a "menu" in every phone, and seeing all my apps on the homescreen is a little bit ... disappointing me !
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As the subject reads, I would love miui with stock icons. I know some of you may not agree, but people say that my phone looks a lot like an iphone at work when I show it off running miui. That's not a bad thing, I personally don't like it though. Anyway, if someone could come out with a "stock" theme (or whatever your want to call it) then that would be amazing.
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There's a theme in the online theme section called Android2.3 that will give you the stock icons
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Check miui.us for themes. I can't remember which one it is but the icons are called Normal Android.
Found it: http://goo.gl/oTpLs
Credit to and Courtesy of miui.us. user Blind
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Can a Samsung Touchwiz phone be reprogrammed to HTC Sense?
Really don't like Touchwiz, and wanted to know if it was possible to reimage, or program the Epic to show up HTC Sense UI?
Kind of wish I kept my EVO 4G.........
There is an HTC Sense rom being worked on, I think.
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There is a Sense port under way, but I'm not sure you understand the amount of work necessary for this kind of thing...as in it could be months before a functioning Rom is out.
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There is a Sense port under way, but I'm not sure you understand the amount of work necessary for this kind of thing...as in it could be months before a functioning Rom is out.
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Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the key issue here is that Sense is a proprietary piece of software unlike Android generally which is open source. So there is no code available for Sense which means someone needs to write this from scratch not just "port" it so it works on the Epic.
Have you tried launcher pro though? It is not as comprehensive an interface as Sense it but it is pretty cool and very flexible and will work on any android phone. Personally I find it does everything I need. I've also heard the Beautiful Widgets gives you a lot of very Sense-like widgets to use on home screens. I believe it is a paid app though, and I haven't tried it myself.
As far as I know, HTC releases the code for Sense with their source code, that's why every AOSP phone has a functional Sense port for it, the problem lies in Samsung's piss poor coding and basically having to rewrite everything.
Download launcherpro and then pay for the Launcher Pro Plus license in the settings. Comes with a bunch of HTC Sense-like widgets and is a great launcher. And you shouldn't have purchased the Epic and given up your evo if you are lamenting your decision over something like a launcher and ignoring or are unaware of the many things the Epic is so much better at.
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Download launcherpro and then pay for the Launcher Pro Plus license in the settings. Comes with a bunch of HTC Sense-like widgets and is a great launcher. And you shouldn't have purchased the Epic and given up your evo if you are lamenting your decision over something like a launcher and ignoring or are unaware of the many things the Epic is so much better at.
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First off, I like the Epic, The reason why I feel in love with phone was cause of the keyboard. Its a nice phone. I just wish Touchwiz had more customization options. I just prefer the HTC Sense, better after really using both of them. Calm down no one is trying to bash the Epic here........ I will try the launch pro and see how it works........
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First off, I like the Epic, The reason why I feel in love with phone was cause of the keyboard. Its a nice phone. I just wish Touchwiz had more customization options. I just prefer the HTC Sense, better after really using both of them. Calm down no one is trying to bash the Epic here........ I will try the launch pro and see how it works........
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Here's some sense style docks to help you out.
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Below are some screen shots of Ice Cream Sandwich. More in the Album linked below.
Looks pretty legit.
Thoughts on ICS?
Album: http://imgur.com/a/GAB2X
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There real an it has some i candy it looks nice now an also i watched video an it was butter
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The closer and closer we get to the Unpacked event we get to see their sweets. Either way the UI is nice and I hope they changed the media player and Music
I found this about a half hour ago, saying that and Samsung are going to postpone http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...d-Google-cancel-Nexus-Prime-phone-launch.html unpacked.
Saw the video and I really really like the UI a lot!! Hopefully the prime will go to tmobile in December or even January, hope it does.... I prefer this because it will be the latest and the greatest smartphone with its non-capacitive button design and latest OS..
if that's real, it looks alright. though, i'm surprised at kernel 3.0.1. the switch to 3.0 was just over two months ago, so it would surprise me to see it on android already (considering Ubuntu is still on 2.6.38 and Fedora is using 2.6.40, i would think the full linux distros would be changing the kernel version to 3.0 before android).
Hopefully with Google improving Androids UI, less manufacturers would mess with it.
^^ the manufacturers will always have their own signature of android launcher to differentiate their devices from the rest.. I don't mind it at all as long as they make the UI better and add useful functionality into it..
Is ICS gonna be 2.4 or 4.0?
I just wish that manufacturers would make their launcher work like any other third party launcher instead of integrating it like they do.
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If it's a straight Google phone, won't the launcher be ICS stock?
Just something I noticed. Where is the "battery use "in the settings?
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I think the fonts are better than current Android versions, but I'm not that impressed.
It's still asking for OEMs to molest it, as well, which is unfortunate.
Not enthused.
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I think the fonts are better than current Android versions, but I'm not that impressed.
It's still asking for OEMs to molest it, as well, which is unfortunate.
Not enthused.
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Lol who cares about fonts performace is where its at
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Hey!
I photoshoped a bit and wanted to ask if there's anyone who's interested or who has the skills to make it real (and if possible, mod it into CM9!).
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I have searched something like it for quite a while, but it's always not quite what I want, and sadly, I have no programming skills at all... all I can do is hope that there are enough others who support this idea.
thanks for reading.
I would love these
I would love this as well.
Something similar is currently being worked on. More info here: http://opendesign.bbqdroid.org/features/?cat=1&feature=3
Its been at 40% for a while. Hopefully there'll be some updates soon
Try this. Very similar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5ubHVjYXMud3A3bm90aWZpY2F0aW9uc2xpdGUiXQ..
MIUI does it (lock screen notifs) ^^
Maybe post a request here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667846http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667846
Its JKay's Deluxe Framework thread which gives you lock screen settings, perhaps with enough requests they will develop what you're looking for.
Of course we would all like this!!!
I really don't understand how android is the best platform when android plain ICS doesn't offer on lockscreen notifications!!!!?!?
How on earth?! Even my nokia can do this!!!
I thought that they'll fix it in ICS but I was wrong! And they didn't even fix it in JB!!!
Very disappointed!
You can to have this with WidgetLocker on Play store
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You can to have this with WidgetLocker on Play store
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Not the notifications specifically though
id love to see this aswell, ive been looking for something similar for a while but cant seem to find anything.
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Logicsystem360 said:
You can to have this with WidgetLocker on Play store
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Not the notifications specifically though
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Well yes you can if you get widgetlocker and buy missed it and install the widget on screen!!!
However this is not acceptable!
Think about how many users (probably around 3/4) can't / don't know how to do it!
You should no have a diploma to be able to enable notifications on screen!
Damn this should be by default in the system!
Iphone, symbian (nokia) WP7 and all can do this! I really don't understand why Android doesn't (i know it can but it doesn't)! It needs OEM (HTC, samsung etc..) intervention to be able to deliver that! Which is simply basics!!!
Those Notifications are unnecessary imo. You already have the notification bar, why do you need it twice?
I would understand this if lockscreen would hide the notification bar. Everything else is easy made by widgetlocker.
Amazing idea bro
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Seems really great addition if someone is able to do it...
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Those Notifications are unnecessary imo. You already have the notification bar, why do you need it twice?
I would understand this if lockscreen would hide the notification bar. Everything else is easy made by widgetlocker.
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Also, don't like the idea of everyone able to be nosey by seeing all of your notifications, from the lock screen.
I think being able to slide down the notification bar, from the lock screen is a better idea, less mess.
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And make it slide like the iphone not tapping. I know, i know, its gonna be too similar but you have to accept the fact that its accident proof and more clean looking(but this could change with JB animations).