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Stumbled on how to not Use Sense Ui on 2.1

Turns out that the release has no native launcher. I installed an app called Launcher Pro Beta and now when you hit the home the option to use either is there..
-Scott

sponge66 said:
Turns out that the release has no native launcher. I installed an app called Launcher Pro Beta and now when you hit the home the option to use either is there..
-Scott
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You could do that. Or...
If you don't use Launch pro beta, you can do this:
*On the phone
1. Menu
2. Settings
3. Applications
4. Manage Applications
5. Find HTC Sense
6. Clear Defaults and Force Stop
7. Click "OK" to confirm
8. Then hit the Home button; you'll get an option for Home (Vanilla launcher) or HTC Sense (Roise/Espresso) and which one you want to make your default.
Enjoy.

Ya I tried that, But Sense kept restarting. For some reason there is no native launcher to switch to on 2.1. Maybe i'm missing something Thanx

you are correct, there is no "vanilla" android launcher on the 2.1 for hero

sponge66 said:
Ya I tried that, But Sense kept restarting. For some reason there is no native launcher to switch to on 2.1. Maybe i'm missing something Thanx
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eagles16 said:
you are correct, there is no "vanilla" android launcher on the 2.1 for hero
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By "Vanilla", I meant this -- Notice the grey launcher:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
In 2.1 -- you'll get the "Nexus" Launcher; which looks like a cube. Both of these are considered: "Vanilla" -- that is, they are natively part of Android and not altered by a the phone's manufacturer. (e.g. HTC Sense)

apparently htc decided to be douchey and not include it, is there anyway this can be ripped off something else and loaded as an apk

eagles16 said:
apparently htc decided to be douchey and not include it, is there anyway this can be ripped off something else and loaded as an apk
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Grab Aloysius's ROM and pull the launcher.apk and use it as the alternate for HTC Sense; a.k.a Roise.

[Off-and-on lurker, first post. Hi all, and thanks for all the great information!]
I ran into this as well, and ended up trying both Helix and LauncherPro. However, I ended up having to get rid of them and going back to SenseUI because they were absolutely sapping my battery life. Anyone else have this issue, or any idea what the problem might be? I made sure to force close Sense and anything else that I knew I wouldn't be running under the alternate launcher first, but the problem persisted.

Dell Stage (Launcher) on HTC Desire

Dell Stage (Streak's upcoming froyo launcher)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Video preview
I just read out about it at http://goo.gl/YncFW and I kinda liked it, so thought I'd share it here on xda.
I have done no modifications. So it would also work on some other phones.
I only tested on my desire.
hope u like it
Bugs: Doesn't auto-rotate (Oxygen 0.1.1)
Download: http://www.multiupload.com/JVJ2JZIBDC
Tip: Install widgets before the launcher itself (StageLauncher-release.apk) to get the full experience

This looks amazing! Ill give it a try asap
Sent from my Galaxy Tab

it works on defrost or sense roms? or all?

Unzipping the files to my SD Card right now.

Pff looks really nice, works smooth to!
Only thing is i cannot sign into Facebook...entered the correct username+password. Says it's incorrect...
One other thing, when i press the phone icon in the launcher bar it says that the needed application isn't installed. Can i clear these settings to use stock Desire dialer? Or can i download the Dell dialer somewhere?

agoNITE said:
Pff looks really nice, works smooth to!
Only thing is i cannot sign into Facebook...entered the correct username+password. Says it's incorrect...
One other thing, when i press the phone icon in the launcher bar it says that the needed application isn't installed. Can i clear these settings to use stock Desire dialer? Or can i download the Dell dialer somewhere?
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It looks really nic, but I'm having the same issues (facebook problem+phone icon) + when I try to set up an email account it says "com.dell.launcher has stopped unexpectedly"..
would be great to be able to scroll upd and down in the music widget instead of showing 12 random albums..

It wont recognise the phone app because the froyo launcher only recognises the stock Android dialer, which can't be installed on HTC phones. Made a thread on this, Google search stock froyo launcher HTC desire and its the first one. Haven't tried it with this dell skin yet, just got everything sorted on my on phone so not gonna mess with it for a good while!

This works fine. Except for the Facebook and email widget.
Sent from humanity's last hope.

simonthor said:
This works fine. Except for the Facebook and email widget.
Sent from humanity's last hope.
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Well, if 2 out of 5 widgets don't work you can't really say that it "works fine", right?

Wow, i love the launcher and the gallery and music widget. Is it somehow possible to use the widgets with the sense launcher or the sense widgets with the sense launcher?

charliebigpot said:
Well, if 2 out of 5 widgets don't work you can't really say that it "works fine", right?
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Lol. XD you're right about that. I meant that it runs fine and could be used as a normal everyday launcher.
Sent from humanity's last hope.

email works for me with this version....
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30158445

AndroHero said:
email works for me with this version....
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30158445
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not for me.. what a pity, I guess I'll have to be a bit more patient.. sooner or later there will be a fully functioning version. Anyway, thx for the upload!

AndroHero said:
email works for me with this version....
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30158445
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How about facebook?

simonthor said:
How about facebook?
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no forget it email dosent work either, i thought it did, i think the launcher is missing an email app and social networking app off the dell i think, there just widgets no applications to go with them

Tested it, what a crap , awoid it if you can

facebook not work,can't login
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Android Facebook App... Weirdness / Problem?!

Anyone seeing the below weird problem with the facebook app?
I'm running the latest 1.72 version... and after a fresh installation, the news feed screen looks like the image on the left... after I close and restart the app, it looks like the image on the right!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
So my questions: is this a glitch? is the image on the right the latest version design?
Countless re-installs / clearing data / cache doesn't resolve this issue! Anyone got any ideas?
(Im running Android Revolution HD 5.2.6)

Nope, the app is designed to default to the news screen when it is opened. You have to press back to get to the menu.

raze599 said:
Nope, the app is designed to default to the news screen when it is opened. You have to press back to get to the menu.
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Sorry - maybe I didn't explain properly, if you look at the screenshots I posted, the news feed screen changes after a fresh installation to the old design...

Yeah, it's happened to me plenty of times; shows the old design immediately after first logging in, then shows the correct version from then on. I assume it's just because their app's rubbish.

it is just new changes to reflect the "updates" from the website (dunno why they just can't leave it alone)

ace9988 said:
it is just new changes to reflect the "updates" from the website (dunno why they just can't leave it alone)
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It loads the old version then the new version (rather than just starting with the new one) to reflect changes from the website??

hopscotchjunkie said:
It loads the old version then the new version (rather than just starting with the new one) to reflect changes from the website??
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Hmmm but mine looks totally different? Can someone post a screenshot of their newsfeed screen...

gcarter said:
Hmmm but mine looks totally different? Can someone post a screenshot of their newsfeed screen...
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I wasn't saying that's what happens, I was questioning the guy above who said that because it doesn't make any sense.
You've got the current version, with the photo/status/check in buttons (the image you posted on the right). It just briefly loads the old layout on first login for some reason.

hopscotchjunkie said:
I wasn't saying that's what happens, I was questioning the guy above who said that because it doesn't make any sense.
You've got the current version, with the photo/status/check in buttons (the image you posted on the right). It just briefly loads the old layout on first login for some reason.
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ok good - its not just me then
my confusion started because the screenshots on the market page also show the "old version" news feed layout!

Need testers!!!!

hi guys
im trying to make a homescreen and everything else put together into a new theme based on the windows 8/metro ui
so far im pretty much finnished but now im trying to think of a way of transfering the homescreen layout to you guys so you dont have to set it up which took me about 3 hours
so basicly i need a few people on different roms to try this out for me
there should be no bad affects as its just a homescreen but still its not my fault if somthing does happen
so if you still want to help out download this File and unzip it to the root of your sd card folder ( /sdcard )
so make sure the 2 adw files are on your sd card and the folder metro ui is on sd card to
now make sure you have installed both adw launcher
and desktop visualiser which both can be found in market for free i think
now in adw open the settings by pressing the three lines in the top right then open backup and restore
thenpress restore for both settings and layout
restart adw
hopefull now you should have 4 icons on your desktop
2 big ones
2 small ones
btw the full version so far has nearly 100 icons
please report back to if it works

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
GALAXY task full 14.
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theROMinator said:
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GALAXY task full 14.
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ahh feared this would happen
anyone know another way of making big icons without using desktop visualiser?

BroBot175 said:
ahh feared this would happen
anyone know another way of making big icons without using desktop visualiser?
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Scrap up your own launcher? Too much work... Lol
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theROMinator said:
Scrap up your own launcher? Too much work... Lol
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ahah well i may try just modding some random free launcher

Lock Screen Widget Cropping

I've searched everywhere for this but somehow can't find anybody else with the same problem.
My lockscreen clock widget keeps on cropping itself really badly when I unlock, like it's too big for the widget space.
Weird thing is I've tried wiping, and I've tried several different roms and kernels (PA, AOKP, Rasbean) but still the same issue. So lost as to why nobody else seems to be experiencing this. Screenshot below:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Anybody think of an explanation? It's doing my head in !

It is too big. Your font is way bigger then the standard font the clock widget was designed with. What's the mystery?

pfmiller said:
It is too big. Your font is way bigger then the standard font the clock widget was designed with. What's the mystery?
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Why is it so big? Know of any way to change it? I've looked everywhere in my settings and searched all the internets.
Just don't understand how it still does it on all roms I use. Ahhhhh

Damn. That woman is fine.
That's all I have to add to this topic.

Unfortunately I can't help, but could you share your wallpaper?
And her name if you know it, I used to know it but I completely forgot

Have you tried removing the widget from the screen and adding it again?
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ManUtdRul3 said:
Unfortunately I can't help, but could you share your wallpaper?
And her name if you know it, I used to know it but I completely forgot
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Aha yeah sure, her name is Melanie Iglesias, here's the wallpaper: http://goo.gl/g4FBp
dust. said:
Have you tried removing the widget from the screen and adding it again?
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Yeah no good, gonna try downloading the chronus widget later today and see if that does the same

spncrmoo said:
Aha yeah sure, her name is Melanie Iglesias, here's the wallpaper: http://goo.gl/g4FBp
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Ah yeah I remember now! Seen her in those animated GIFs on tumblr! Thank you!
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