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As the title really, I'm not struck on the desire dialer, is there anyway to replace it with the standard android dialer?
andrewpmoore said:
As the title really, I'm not struck on the desire dialer, is there anyway to replace it with the standard android dialer?
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I don't think the standard Android componenets are available on the Desire, like the Dialer or the Home, and not sure if the Dialer can be installed as an application.
But was wondering why would you want to replace the HTC dialer with the Android one? HTC Dialer is waaaaay better in my opinion!
salahag said:
I don't think the standard Android componenets are available on the Desire, like the Dialer or the Home, and not sure if the Dialer can be installed as an application.
But was wondering why would you want to replace the HTC dialer with the Android one? HTC Dialer is waaaaay better in my opinion!
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I think it's each to their own. After owning HTC devices (WM) for years, I eventually got sick of HTC's design and generally avoid their applications. I know lots of people like sense ui and their applications, but I'd prefer my desire to be just more like the nexus one.
I'd have got a nexus one I could have got one on contract in the uk on my network operator.
Yes I get what you mean, I'd go for the pure android too, if it had HTC's Dialer, Keyboard and easier moving between screens (On Sense UI just a little quick swipe moves the homescreens).
What I meant about being better is not the design or interface, but the way you can easily and in a second find your contact. Where as you click, it brilliantly searches in numbers and names.
Hi there, mine Omnias coming Tuesday. I was wondering if it was possible to put Swype on these Windows Phone 7 devices. I hope so because I can't imagine living without it now! Has anyone tried to put it on?
Pete
Doubt it, but hey the stock keyboard is awesome anyway so no need
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Yes, it doesn't work, I am sure someone will come up with it (or something like it) soon, The app store seems to have grown 10 fold in the last few days, stuff arriving all the time!
wwfc, Indeed the in-built keyboard is good, but IMO Swype is the next gen input method and with very little practice I can get close to normal typing speed with it. I miss it!
There are two or three variations of it out there and I have checked that at least one of them (SlideIT) is working on a WP7 version.
Pete
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Yes, it doesn't work, I am sure someone will come up with it (or something like it) soon, The app store seems to have grown 10 fold in the last few days, stuff arriving all the time!
wwfc, Indeed the in-built keyboard is good, but IMO Swype is the next gen input method and with very little practice I can get close to normal typing speed with it. I miss it!
There are two or three variations of it out there and I have checked that at least one of them (SlideIT) is working on a WP7 version.
Pete
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I'd like T9 for text messages. So much easier to hit a smaller number of bigger keys quickly.
SivEd said:
There are two or three variations of it out there and I have checked that at least one of them (SlideIT) is working on a WP7 version.
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Where can you get SlideIT? I can't see it on Marketplace...
You can't yet I am afraid, the author said he is working on a Windows Phone 7 version... No sign yet and the comments about how long other platforms have been waiting for updates is discouraging. Could be a while yet.
There is also ShapeWriter, but I don't know if they are doing a wp7 version.
I understand that you might prefer T9, so many people can do it with their eyes closed (and walking or on a bus, for sure). The standard keyboard tries to predict what you are trying to type, but it gets it wrong too often for me and the sheer hassle of having to concentrate on pointing exactly at the key you want and then missing and having to hit backspace - and missing that! Is a PITA.
Swype lets you be inaccurate and that, combined with the one "press" per WORD is how you can be so fast. Plus it's correction techniques are much faster than the standard keyboards.
I am sure there must be a "hook" in for other input methods.
Now I have SatNav, it's my biggest miss on WP7. That and the lack of hackability... And no iPlayer... And no copy and paste... And no multitasking... No Google maps (streetview)... Hmmm, can't wait for this Jan update!
Heppy Xmas,
Pete
I do hear the WP7 keyboard can be considered to top the iPhone's.
However, I do have a question for Swype users. What happens when you swype from o to r? I personally use both or and our extensively. On my WM6, it often prioritises one and hence I have to go back, tap the word, then select the word I want. That's grossly inefficient for inputting a two/three letter word.
There are plenty more examples where Swype has been hell to me. A 4-inch capacitive screen with full QWERTY will be a relief.
You can either hop between letters for better accuracy, or squiggle the letter to input manually. There are a list of tips on their website which makes it seem immensely more useful; though I'm not sure I would use it on WP7 as the keyboard is already excellent.
Hi i was wondering if anyone has ported the launcher from the note 2 or s3 to our phone?
currently no, lack of interest also, because all samsungs features is in the touchwiz framework, just like htc sense
what are you missing from touchwiz?
Why would we need touchwiz it's beyond awful
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mediavieja said:
Hi i was wondering if anyone has ported the launcher from the note 2 or s3 to our phone?
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If you want it that bad, you can use Nova/apex launchers with the touchwiz theme.
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adil_ said:
If you want it that bad, you can use Nova/apex launchers with the touchwiz theme.
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I think that he's more interested on the multiwindow ...
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I think that he's more interested on the multiwindow ...
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Uh, it will take a lot more than a launcher to get multi-window. Maybe the CM team or some uberdev will build a multi-window setup that works. That is about the only thing I want on my N4.
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Uh, it will take a lot more than a launcher to get multi-window. Maybe the CM team or some uberdev will build a multi-window setup that works. That is about the only thing I want on my N4.
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+1 for multi-window.
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Yeah well multiwindows for once and also the interface, i didnt know that feature from nova launcher to use a touchwiz theme. ill try it today
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101204
Here you go.. No multi window unfortunately
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multiwindow
you can use floating browser from google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupWeb&feature=also_installed
and for video multiwindow https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupVideo&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiZ3BjLm15d2ViLmhpbmV0Lm5ldC5Qb3B1cFZpZGVvIl0.
hope this helped im planning to get a nexus 4 but idk maybe you can anwser me this id the onscreen button take up screen size from the 4.7 or not ?:good::good::good:
I'd LOVE the smartalarm from touchwiz
Everything else was kinda crap
okay why does it matter why he wants to have the touchwiz launcher? You guys are seriously going to question why he wants it like its any of your buisness, he likes touchwiz, its his choice of liking a different os. Its really stupid for you guys to question and put him down with negativity in comments instead of finding a link and if you dont like it? KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELVES. Thanks to those who provided the link.
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okay why does it matter why he wants to have the touchwiz launcher? You guys are seriously going to question why he wants it like its any of your buisness, he likes touchwiz, its his choice of liking a different os. Its really stupid for you guys to question and put him down with negativity in comments instead of finding a link and if you dont like it? KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELVES. Thanks to those who provided the link.
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I was just Googling some touchwiz launcher stuff for N4 and came to this thread.
Your comment is something that I have always wondered here at XDA. If you are in a particular device's forum, it means you are married to that phone and shall not praise/desire features and stuff which other phones have. It isn't like ditching your current device, XDA is all about development, so if someone seeks features from other phones, I think people should help (if you can) rather than criticizing. And when it comes to likings, everyone has his own preferences... who r we really to judge WHY he is liking this.. Why NOT he likes that.. etc etc. I know a lot of people do not like TW but many do. I ask the TW haters, if you don't like TW then what are you doing in this thread? Why replying? Why bother sneaking in? Just mind your own bloody damn business.
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Uh, it will take a lot more than a launcher to get multi-window. Maybe the CM team or some uberdev will build a multi-window setup that works. That is about the only thing I want on my N4.
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If you start making your own distributions of Android behaving in such fundamentally different ways, I suspect we are going to need to start doing things to prevent you from impacting our app ecosystem. I'm not sure what, but I could imagine things such as restricting how users can interact with Market apps on these devices (not allowing reviews or such).
We have let a lot of things in this area slide -- for example to be allowed to include Market on your device you are supposed to fully pass CTS. However, if you start really diverging from the core Android platform (I would argue this takes you well into the realm of a fork rather than a customization) then some deep issues are going to come up about how we handle these custom builds.
We have been putting a lot of thought and work for a number of years into how to let Android applications run on increasingly diverse and dynamic screens. Doing this correctly, without impacting our app developers in a negative way, is a really challenging problem. I also think it is something that needs to be done at the mainline platform level, not as a customization, because doing it right is going to require new well defined interfaces with applications for them to interact with it, possibly starting with just a facility they need to use to opt in to it.
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googles (dianne hackborns) response when cyanogenmod was about to merge a multiwindow feature (cornerstone).
if its a smaller cm-fork or rom, cornerstone is open source waiting to be cherry-picked - although discontinued and buggy from what i hear.
can't imagine google is very happy about samsung doing it, but they might be too powerful a foe to upset.
another small observation, dianne herself introduced something like per app dpi to jellybean which seems related, still dormant. we might see it one day implemented as a real feature.
With all the news today surrounding the Nexus experience HTC One there was a point i feel was a little lost. While most of the news centered as to if we can port Sense specific features to AOSP roms (we cant), and all the things that the AOSP One (i am calling it the AOSP One because we have not heard otherwise at this point) will be lacking here is what was lost... and to those of us who have been in the community for years its amazing.
We've been recognized by OEM's.... Think years back when Motorola was locking its bootloader down, HTC wasnt far behind and Samsung was not being very helpful. The modding community was pretty much shoved to the side, and while some OEM's started (half-assed until recently) to provide solutions and options to locked down bootloaders, they widely sucked. The dev model of the Motorola Razr series comes with No Warranty whatsoever once you unlock it.
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+Unlocking your DEVELOPER EDITION's bootloader voids all warranties and may cause serious harm to your device. Make sure you understand what this means.
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Of note, there is no MAY like the HTC and NEXUS line have while unlocking.
And up until recently HTC still had issues after unlocking your bootloader with flashing the boot partition and/or adjusting the System partition. It was touchy to say the least.
But finally OEM's are willing to recognize the development community and provide devices that enable us to do what we love to do so much. The price is a 50/50 but a $20 premium is not much of a fee to pay over the stock unlocked model for the One.
For those of us who have been fighting the good fight for years we have done it, we have made a change in the way OEM's work, even if it is a side effort they are still recognizing us and building a device for us. I really honestly wish i could trade in my Tmobile One for the AOSP model, just to show my support for HTC but frankly cannot afford it.
Unfortunately, it won't actually mean anything. It does show that these companies are opening up to development, but the AOSP edition phones themselves will lack so many features that make them distinct. Google has to do some serious discussions with HTC to come out with an open-sourced solution to proprietary hardware like ImageSense and possibly Boomsound as well.
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Unfortunately, it won't actually mean anything. It does show that these companies are opening up to development, but the AOSP edition phones themselves will lack so many features that make them distinct. Google has to do some serious discussions with HTC to come out with an open-sourced solution to proprietary hardware like ImageSense and possibly Boomsound as well.
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Why does everyone think Google & HTC are about to ship some horribly unoptimized phone and open themselves up to the media sh*tshow that would ensue? I don't understand.
HTC is handling the One with SUCH pride and it's such an important device for them, I don't think they'd stand for a noticeably crippled device. And what would that say about vanilla Android if everyone attributes the 'suck' of the device to it's operating system?
Both Google & HTC have probably been working on this for a good while and SOMEONE has raised these issues in-house and I'm sure they're both working together to work out all the kinks & provide a solid device ready to put the Nexus experience into more people's hands.
I also think 4.3 is just around the corner and will continue to achieve parity with third party solutions & ideas, especially in imaging, and hopefully someone will figure out this button situation once and for all.
Interesting thought, but I do believe vanilla Android will be just that. No HTC features. HTC gets to sell a phone.
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Interesting thought, but I do believe vanilla Android will be just that. No HTC features. HTC gets to sell a phone.
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I agree. The Nexus Experience will be nothing more than plain vanilla Android running on a HTC ONE. Anyone expecting anything else is just fooling themselves.
When has vanilla Android been anything overly exciting? My experience with the Nexus 4 was boring as hell. I basically just had a device that just worked without any features, kind of like Apple OS.
Call me crazy but I've always loved the overlay that Samsung and HTC adds to Android.
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What it gives us is longevity and prompt update.
Coming from Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4, I prefer a lot of features in Sense 5 over vanilla android. Even 4.3 won't be able to tempt me to go back to vanilla.
But since updates on these Nexus experience devices are supposed to be maintained by Google, what this means is that the One will be among the first devices to get a fully functional Key Lime Pie rom this fall. Without this new Nexus One, we would probably have to wait at least half a year before HTC can come up with Sense 6 or something on KLM.
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I think what is being missed about a aosp HTC one. No it won't have sense features, if it did, it wouldn't be aosp. What's important is that it will be a pure android experience WITH all of the proprietary hardware drivers. So no it won't have Zoe, but it will have the same quality image capturing as the sense. No, it won't have Beats sound codecs, but the boomsound will have the same awesome sound as sense with beats turned off. All in all it is going to be what we've wanted forever. The bugs in most all aosp builds are from not having proprietary hardware drivers. We will have a base for the devs to build on that is built by the manufacturer. AWESOME
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I think what is being missed about a aosp HTC one. No it won't have sense features, if it did, it wouldn't be aosp. What's important is that it will be a pure android experience WITH all of the proprietary hardware drivers. So no it won't have Zoe, but it will have the same quality image capturing as the sense. No, it won't have Beats sound codecs, but the boomsound will have the same awesome sound as sense with beats turned off. All in all it is going to be what we've wanted forever. The bugs in most all aosp builds are from not having proprietary hardware drivers. We will have a base for the devs to build on that is built by the manufacturer. AWESOME
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It's not just Zoe that you won't get. It's ImageSense that you have to worry about, cos that processes the images to be what it is. We can only hope that the new device would come with open-source versions of drivers for these features as they are embedded deeply into the Sense framework.
Nexus usually means quickest Andriod updates, since no dependencies on OEM skins/overlay development and testing. And ongoing platform support... at least until features can't be supported by hardware.
I've been a long time CyanogenMod fan, but the Sense 5 experience is good so far. Snappy interface, clean, good battery life... but I do some 4.2.2 features from my HOXL. If HTC lags too far behind with Sense 5 development, then it may warrant switching to CM or going naked Android. For now Blinkfeed and Zoe are interesting... wish I could increase the density of icons in Sense...
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It's not just Zoe that you won't get. It's ImageSense that you have to worry about, cos that processes the images to be what it is. We can only hope that the new device would come with open-source versions of drivers for these features as they are embedded deeply into the Sense framework.
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Quoted from The Verge:
"Of course, the big question with running stock on the One is how HTC's unique hardware features will work without its software, and it sounds like there's good news: Barra told me Beats Audio will still work — the hardware optimization is active all the time, but it won't put an icon in the menu bar. HTC's UltraPixel camera module is still present, but it's being made to work with the stock Android camera app — Barra said it'll just "do what it does," adding that more details would be forthcoming as Google and HTC work on the software."
That should settle some worries about Beats and ImageSense support. I wouldn't get my hopes up for Zoe, though...
I am sure they will deliver working htc features like beats, zoe, cam, IR remote and stuff. Otherwise they'd do a huge mistake marketing wise.
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I am sure they will deliver working htc features like beats, zoe, cam, IR remote and stuff. Otherwise they'd do a huge mistake marketing wise.
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They have already gone on record that the ir, zoe, camera enhancements etc won't be added as these are sense specific.
BrickL0rd said:
I am sure they will deliver working htc features like beats, zoe, cam, IR remote and stuff. Otherwise they'd do a huge mistake marketing wise.
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Being proprietary features, they will not just port the whole thing over to AOSP cos it needs Sense to work. What HTC can do is make new drivers that are open-sourced for AOSP that interface with these hardware
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I don't understand.
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What don't you understand?
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Being proprietary features, they will not just port the whole thing over to AOSP cos it needs Sense to work. What HTC can do is make new drivers that are open-sourced for AOSP that interface with these hardware
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This is sad. I've been running CM10.1-nightlies for about a week and I really like AOSP/Nexus-style, but the camera in original/sense-based roms are better than CM, at least right now. (Can't really compare to alpha-nightlies)
If HTC were to release the camera-app for playstore that'd be awesome, and I would actually not mind paying a dollar or so for it. But if you're right about it being a driver issue as well I'm not quite sure how they'd be able to solve that with just a camera-app, haven't had time to read up on those parts of Android yet since I'm fairly new to this world (as my post count would suggest).
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This is sad. I've been running CM10.1-nightlies for about a week and I really like AOSP/Nexus-style, but the camera in original/sense-based roms are better than CM, at least right now. (Can't really compare to alpha-nightlies)
If HTC were to release the camera-app for playstore that'd be awesome, and I would actually not mind paying a dollar or so for it. But if you're right about it being a driver issue as well I'm not quite sure how they'd be able to solve that with just a camera-app, haven't had time to read up on those parts of Android yet since I'm fairly new to this world (as my post count would suggest).
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Welcome to Android! An app would be great, but I don't think that would be enough. It's a HTC-only feature that requires the Sense framework to work, so to me the only logical way to proceed is to create a second set of drivers that are open-source and compatible with AOSP.
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Welcome to Android! An app would be great, but I don't think that would be enough. It's a HTC-only feature that requires the Sense framework to work, so to me the only logical way to proceed is to create a second set of drivers that are open-source and compatible with AOSP.
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Would a 3rd party camera app suffice in these sort of circumstances?
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Would a 3rd party camera app suffice in these sort of circumstances?
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Nope. ImageSense is a proprietary piece of hardware exclusive to HTC and Sense and is not accessible/fully accessible through 3rd party apps. They'll still have the Ultrapixels to play with though
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Nope. ImageSense is a proprietary piece of hardware exclusive to HTC and Sense and is not accessible/fully accessible through 3rd party apps. They'll still have the Ultrapixels to play with though
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When 4.2.2 is released for the sense edition phones I am sure there will be camera comparisons between both editions and I reckon there won't be that much of a difference between them.
if they dont include these sense based features they cant sell it for the same price - ergo it has to be alot cheaper hence everyone would buy the stockandroid ONE and flash SENSE custom Roms on it.
I'd do it this way
Hey everyone! Long time lurker and this is my first post
Here's the thing, I really like Samsung's stock keyboard's layout but it's lacking in one area; customized text shortcuts! For example when someone types "u" it would automatically be replaced with "you". I'm sure that I'm not the only one who'd really like that.
I noticed Google Keyboard, and a lot of other keyboards, support this feature but Samsung's doesn't. I have tried many keyboards to find one that seems polished and clean enough but I disliked all of them.
So, is there anyway one of the developers could make a mod that installs this feature into Samsung's keyboard? I'd be really grateful and a sizeable donation will be offered.
Thanks again in advance!
Really? No one?
Well thanks anyway.
Xupack said:
Hey everyone! Long time lurker and this is my first post
Here's the thing, I really like Samsung's stock keyboard's layout but it's lacking in one area; customized text shortcuts! For example when someone types "u" it would automatically be replaced with "you". I'm sure that I'm not the only one who'd really like that.
I noticed Google Keyboard, and a lot of other keyboards, support this feature but Samsung's doesn't. I have tried many keyboards to find one that seems polished and clean enough but I disliked all of them.
So, is there anyway one of the developers could make a mod that installs this feature into Samsung's keyboard? I'd be really grateful and a sizeable donation will be offered.
Thanks again in advance!
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Devs don't generally operate in the fashion you are requesting here. There are only a handful of ROMs for this device which are very modest, and not spread across all versions. The phone came out about 2 weeks ago, be patient, or use Google keyboard, like me.
Turn off autoreplacement..you will still get predictive text but you can either choose what it suggests...or not.
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