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Just noticed ALOT of the custom dialers esp the diamond replicas use huge buttons, the only oem style buttons i was able to find were from poorlyducks. Not sure if the diamond actually uses huge buttons, or users just prefer it that way.
Just a few words xboxhaxorz, big fat assed thumbs I'm guilty myself.
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Yeah, I noticed this too. I guess we all prefer usability of the phone over aesthetics.
For the TyTnII, I highly recommended using Minimal Dialer
I love Minimal Dialer. Makes my phone look that much slicker.
ill admit i got some tiny digits, guess lots of others are the exact opposite
lol just found this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=394678 way BIG
no 3g video call dialer skin for htc touch dual?
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no 3g video call dialer skin for htc touch dual?
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sigh. a quick search turns up this link
Hi everyone,
There are a few deal-breakers for me coming from WebOS. Is there anyway I can sync my exchange calendar and have email signature for exchange account?
Is there anyway I can make the icons larger? I love the screen real estate for browsing etc., but it just look ugly to have tiny little icons sprinkled sparsely in this beautiful large screen.
Edit: I should mention that I'm on O2's leaked beta 2.1 (on ATT), not the official one.
I've rooted my phone, but I don't know what I can do to fix these issues. Thanks for your help!
I came from webos as well, i just wanted someting with better multimedia and screen. I think the streak is great at least until palm launches something new. I like android but i will switch back for sure to webos for sure.
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For the icon size you could change the dpi but then you loose a lot of screen real estate, it would just look like a blown up screen of an evo.
You can change the dpi through build.prop in the system folder
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CM10 / AOSP Rom Wishlist
We all know CM just recently announce CM10 will be coming just around the corner, so what will we be expecting?
All the Android 4.1 JellyBean goodies of course!
Still, there's a couple more things couldn't be added to enhance the stock android experience.
NOTE
Would like to clarify something before you start posting, CM10 will run as pure android 4.1 user experience with other enhancement make the phone more customizable. As it runs on AOSP framework, there will be strictly no TOUCHwiZ, NO SENSe, NO OTHER NONSENSE related request in this thread, just pure android.
As none dev, you should only bug report, request CM10/Trebuche launcher related features, anything beyond that you'll be on your own! (Either develop a ROM base of CM10 source with the features you've wanted YOURSELF, or FIND OTHER ROMS that suites your taste, no reason to rage and flame in this thread)
Special Note:
To new Android users particularly coming from iOS: It's understandable coming from iOS to Android is a huge change between two different OS, it's also understandable that you're not used to DIY stuff like rooting your own phone, reading simple instruction and the known issue;mainly because you're too used to getting spoon fed back in iOS.This leads to asking dumb question, flaming in the particular thread, harassing at developers who practically offer their ROM for free! Long story short, LEARN TO READ! Make use of the search tool bar, trust me when I say it's useful. I was the same when back then, tho I had a lil' experience coming from symbian s60v3 &v5 development, DailyMobile forum.
Hope CM10 project related personals read this. Let's thanks them in advance for their hardwork!
I'll go first,
I've read a couple post in XDA and was hinted that Chrome for Android will not be the default browser for Android 4.1 JellyBean as Chrome for Android will only be available as default browser for Nexus 7, not part of Android 4.1 update (kind of misleading there).
So here's my request:
-Make Chrome for Android as CM10 default browser.
Tablet UI!!!
Just like paranoid AOSP rom, or was it AOKP.
Tablet ui kind of homescreen will definitely look amazing on SGSIII 4.7inch HD screen!
Trebuchet: swipe down to open notifications. Helps for big screens.
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Trebuchet: add the possibility to select random transition effect
Trebuchet: icons and widgets automatically rearrange when adding new icons or widgets like stock jb launcher
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-Make Chrome for Android as CM10 default browser.
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As Google mentionned, it'll be part of Google Apps. If not, then it won't be the default browser as we can't pack proprietary apps in the ROM.
Freeme3 said:
Tablet UI!!!
Just like paranoid AOSP rom, or was it AOKP.
Tablet ui kind of homescreen will definitely look amazing on SGSIII 4.7inch HD screen!
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We said no for CM9, same will apply for CM10.
nadimsoze said:
Trebuchet: swipe down to open notifications. Helps for big screens.
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power461 said:
Trebuchet: add the possibility to select random transition effect
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Will forward to nebkat
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Trebuchet: icons and widgets automatically rearrange when adding new icons or widgets like stock jb launcher
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Obviously Trebuchet will be rebased on Jelly Bean's launcher code.
What I would like to see is:
- ability to set ascending incoming call ringtone volume
- ability to set peak and off peak hours for Exchange mail
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Ability to check notifications when in a full-screen app, a nicer camera app (perhaps a UI overhaul to make the viewfinder bigger).
Smaller dial pad to allow more than 1 contact prediction. The dial pad takes 80% real estate but used 20% of the time.
If I can get maybe 5 predictions I'll have the correct prediction in far fewer touches.
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One thing that annoys me:
I've got some contacts with more than one Phone Number, and when using T9 in the Dialer, I'm nearly always calling the wrong number of these contacts. I would love to see an option to either choose every time which number to call, or an option to always automatically call the most frequent number.
I know I could also store two contacts for these to numbers, but that's so 1990-like
A new camera app with transparent interface. The AOSP camera is horrible and it's the number 1 reason people don't use AOSP. Most people just flash CM, like it, then fire up the camera, and return to stock ROM.
Please don't say we can't change AOSP apps, if Apollo music player can replace the AOSP one, certainly a better camera app can be integrated to CM.
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A new camera app with transparent interface. The AOSP camera is horrible and it's the number 1 reason people don't use AOSP. Most people just flash CM, like it, then fire up the camera, and return to stock ROM.
Please don't say we can't change AOSP apps, if Apollo music player can replace the AOSP one, certainly a better camera app can be integrated to CM.
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Use one in the play store?
For example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.cameraZoom
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RoadXY said:
Use one in the play store?
For example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.cameraZoom
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Better Quality pictures and videos in par with Stock SGS 3 will be nicer than just a diffent camera app...I won't mind the same Camera app If the Quality is on par with the Stock
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Apollo: in my opinion would be great to have the possibility to sort by album but not basing on single folder but on mp3 info.
For example if I have an album with more CD and I have a folder for each CD, apollo lists different album with the same name and in my opinion is ugly, basing on mp3 info I would get a single album with all the song.
Or better to have the possibility to select between these possibility.
I see this feature in only few player such as poweramp.
Pinch to zoom for web browsing just like in CM7 please!
Ability to hide the on-screen navigation buttons and utilise the hardware/capacitive buttons instead. Maximise screen space.
On-screen buttons suck!
Trebuchet:
- scrollable dock
- hide apps in app drawer
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eternise said:
Pinch to zoom for web browsing just like in CM7 please!
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I'm sorry but what do you mean?
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Mounting samba share in the system so I can open video files without the use of upnp
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Gadzooks1123 said:
Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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Install the Paranoid Android ROM.
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How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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Gadzooks1123 said:
How about a way on stock ROM? Just a mod or tweak or something?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418867
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Is there a way to get the tablet UI on the 2013 Nexus 7 yet????
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The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/
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The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
"It's very clear what Google is doing - keeping users' attention on two general parts of the homescreen UI. The search / voice / notification area, and the app drawer / nav button area. Just like a modern Android phone. It makes sense - the experience across all [stock-ish] devices is now extremely consistent."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/
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Except that that is simply not the case.
On phones the navigation buttons never leave the short side of the screen leaving them easily accessible with your right thumb while in landscape. On tablets the nav bar is terrible with the buttons spread out across the bottom while holding your device in landscape. The centred buttons are barely reachable on a 7" tablet like this. On 10" devices unless you are some kind of mutant, bred to be a piano virtuoso, good luck getting your thumbs where they need to go while cradling the tablet in 2 hands. Similarly the top-of-screen based notification pull down is simply not an ergonomic solution to something that you will be doing thousands of times with your device. Again this is not so bad on a device of this size, but is seriously ridiculous on large tablets.
It is all well and good for Google to say that they want users to have the same user experience across all devices, but they do not deliver on that. Given no other option, I would far rather use this tablet in full phone mode, with navigation buttons that never leave the short edge of the screen, than use the new "Tablet UI". I have actually clicked the DPI up to 340 and find the phone UI much easier to use than the default one, with the obvious exception of the full screen notification shade (which just looks ugly on this device). At least though, this configuration would be more condusive to one handed landscape navigation.
So, for me, I am going to keep using the old tablet UI as long as Google leaves the code in there for me to use and hope that they come to their senses one day over at the AOSP and realize that they've actually taken a step backwards in terms of user friendliness.
No need for nay-sayers to jump in when someone asks for a customized user experience. That's the beauty of Android! It isn't a one size fits all, apple-corer OS. The only limit is your imagination, and how much time you want to spend learning and tweaking. I say tweak on, young man, tweak on!
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The Nexus 7 comes with a tablet UI, unless you are talking about the old UI from HoneyComb that was depreciated a while ago. I don't understand why people are still hung up on legacy layouts.
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Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/
The ipad has a tablet ui too and its really useful. Less pressing on the back button when navigating thru the settings ap
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Because it's functional. The notification area is always visible even when apps are running full screen.
I can see the clock. I can see if the downloading is finished. I can see if a new email has come in.
The new Mod for tablet UI is working nicely.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tablet-ui-mod-for-the-2013-nexus-7-on-stock-rooted-jss15q/
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The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.
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The new UI is much better looking, to be fair. And the notification area on the old one felt a bit rushed - for example, if a notification came in, it hijacked the entire notification area so you couldn't get to other notifications until it was gone - or at least, that's what I thought until I figured out that (for whatever reason), notifications could be cancelled by pressing somewhere else on the navbar (in other words, that 'feature' was a nuisance and user unfriendly in many ways).
I had plenty of moments where I went to get an email by opening the notification drawer when something else suddenly notified me and I ended up somewhere I didn't want to be like Appy Geek instead.
Also, the fact that it was a tap to open instead of at least a swipe upwards made no sense at all.
I get that you power users are happy to have to practice using your technology like it's some sort of art form, but please save the rest of us the bother.
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Agreed, it was a very inconsistent experience. Also, trying to get expandable notifications to work properly with gestures was a pain.
That's what's great about Android on a Nexus device. You get to choose what you like and everyone will be happy.
No one option is better than another. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean someone else should not be using it.
The OP simply wanted to know if it was possible to use Table UI on the N7 v2 and everyone is on a full blown discussion of who prefers what.
Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45084692
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I recommend trying out LMT (better than the pie control in paranoid/CM). I find it much better than having this blasted button bar using space all the time)
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Apex launcher has a tablet ui setting. For the most part is seems stock just bring the app icons to the bottom in landscape mode along with the app drawer in the upper right corner.
Hi Fellas,
I'm wondering.. the G2 provides with 3 power-off animations to choose from. If you notice for those who are having lock screens, the retro TV off isn't very smooth. There is some graphical glitches at times.
Overall, I'm wondering does anyone know a hack to turn off the animations completely? That will definitely speed up the screen off lag.
I would love this too. None of the choices are attractive or smooth.
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I noticed that when you preview them they're not the same as real world use. They're a ton smoother when they're applied than when you preview it. The fade one is the same as stock Android is it not?
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I find retro TV to be the best. It's smooth for me and I think the "graphical glitches" you mentioned is part of the animation.
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I noticed that when you preview them they're not the same as real world use. They're a ton smoother when they're applied than when you preview it. The fade one is the same as stock Android is it not?
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You are absolutely correct.
However, even with real world usage, the glitch does appear intermittently. And I'm pretty sure if I have my lock screen turned off, this glitch is not to be seen.
You can consider it as part of the animation, but I find it ugly The while light of the retro TV animation is supposed to be too fast to be seen as a whole chunk, but with the glitch on, you will see the "chunk" of light with some other colors in it. Not sure if ya guys get what I mean
I've recorded a clip of my retro TV power off animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRgkL5bO7Ak&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Is this the same effect as what you're getting on your side? I know the preview version if it looks horrendous but the actual animation is snappy and I like the look if it.
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I've got the sprint ls980 variant and while I have the menu options to change my screen-off animation, none of them make a difference. The preview work, but the actual animation is unaffected. Also, the old CRT animation that was released with gingerbread looked infinitely better than the retro TV animation on here. LG made so many odd decisions with this phone. Though to be fair, the only other LG phone I've owned was the G2x, and it was vanilla-ish android, so I'm not very familiar with their UI, whatever calling it. Looks a lot like touchwiz to me.
EDIT: I just realized how old this thread is. Sorry for beating this dead horse, everybodies.