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Had my aria for a month now and never recognized this...
On your homescreen click to add a widget to it. Now look at the top of the list..
You can download additional HTC widgets not listed. There's a battery widget that shows percentage and,takes you to battery info when you click on it. Along with a dozen other widgets. Apparently its a list that gets updated at HTC's choosing.
Clicking menu gives refresh list and setting options
Damn I love HTC
Yeah, I discovered this a while ago.
Still a nice surprise--I was particularly delighted to find a Profile widget, which I felt was one of the things that was missing from the phone. Sure beats long pressing the power key to switch profiles.
Just as a note, this only works with the Sense UI. Or, at the very least, the option is not there with Launcher Pro.
Noticed it first day and had battery widget but it lacks the functionality of the battery widget by geekyouup free in the market.
Nice that HTC is thinking of its users though!
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Cool thanks didn't even notice it!
Thanks! I had not noticed it.
Awesome find I never noticed that now I know 4 people with the aria and all of us are missing the outer camera lens that keeps stuff out of the camera hole, has anyone noticed this? The att store demo phone is missing it as well
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The notepad/post-it widget is really good. I definitely suggest it. I use it everyday for quick notes and as a To Do list. Best of all it sets on your screen and gives you 10 pages you can flip through.
Thanks, I'd missed that, good call.
I like how the notes app will let you draw on the screen, nice touch.
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dam i missed this on my GF's aria haha
I found that juss from being bored and digging around in my fone Lol
Blackbery Curve 8330>Blackberry Pearl Flip>HTC FUZE>HTC Tilt 2>HTC Aria
tilt4life2 said:
The notepad/post-it widget is really good. I definitely suggest it. I use it everyday for quick notes and as a To Do list. Best of all it sets on your screen and gives you 10 pages you can flip through.
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Love this widget, but want to run LauncherPro ... is there another widget like it on the market? Thanks!
Hi
I've got a Desire 2.2 and an x10 which has just updated to 2.1
I like the lock screen on the new x10 2.1
Anyone know if there is one like that available for the desire ?
Basically a lock screen showing my wallpaper, date & time (large) and have a slider at the bottom.
Slide left to right to unlock
Slide right to left to adjust the ringing volume.
When a call comes in and the phone is locked, you see who is calling and sliding left-> right answers, right -> left drops the call.
Anything like this for the desire... ideally free
Thanks
search around this forum, you will find some roms using it, like OD, or maybe widgetlock clockscreen
Are there any ROMs which allow a screensaver with, eg, a faint clock, such as that on many Nokias? I really miss this since jumping from symbian!
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Are there any ROMs which allow a screensaver with, eg, a faint clock, such as that on many Nokias? I really miss this since jumping from symbian!
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hmmm this aint symbian dude....
and thats a good thing. why sacrifice battery life for just a clock??
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hmmm this aint symbian dude....
and thats a good thing. why sacrifice battery life for just a clock??
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Oh I know, there very good reasons I jumped ship! This is a about the only feature I miss!
And the advantage of the screensaver, which doesn't have to be a battery drainer at all, is a customizable notification bar. A plain old LED doesn't really cut it!
For the X10 style lock, try LockBot. Has an excelent clone and works very well
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Cheers
LockBot Free is what I need
Guys,
I've just received my Nexus 4 after deciding to give Android a try. I've always been a big fan of all the Nexus phones knowing that they're completely free of bloatware and offer a pure Android experience as it was meant to be experienced by Google.
Currently, I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 16GB but I wanted to try something different after my 24 month contract and decided it a no brainer to go for the Nexus 4 16GB especially at the price Google Play are offering it at. Also I was getting bored of iOS and fancied a change especially given that the screen size of iPhones are pretty small in comparison.
However, I just have a few questions on how to do a few simple things as below if anyone would be kind enough to answer.
1. How can I get a battery percentage like I had on the iPhone? Any recommendations that work well with the Nexus 4?
2. I just want a black ground for the wallpaper to maximise battery life. How can I do this?
3. Is there a way to add toggles to the notification bar to enable or disable Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Location, Airplane Mode, etc?
4.
Wutang200 said:
Guys,
I've just received my Nexus 4 after deciding to give Android a try. I've always been a big fan of all the Nexus phones knowing that they're completely free of bloatware and offer a pure Android experience as it was meant to be experienced by Google.
Currently, I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 16GB but I wanted to try something different after my 24 month contract and decided it a no brainer to go for the Nexus 4 16GB especially at the price Google Play are offering it at. Also I was getting bored of iOS and fancied a change especially given that the screen size of iPhones are pretty small in comparison.
However, I just have a few questions on how to do a few simple things as below if anyone would be kind enough to answer.
1. How can I get a battery percentage like I had on the iPhone? Any recommendations that work well with the Nexus 4?
2. I just want a black ground for the wallpaper to maximise battery life. How can I do this?
3. Is there a way to add toggles to the notification bar to enable or disable Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Location, Airplane Mode, etc?
4.
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Root + a custom ROM can solve pretty much all of this (except for the background)
1.) Many custom ROM's/mods have battery percentage available as an option, so the easiest way for you to get the battery percentage is to install a custom ROM. CM10 does this perfectly. For steps on how to root + install a custom ROM, try using one of the toolkits available in the Nexus 4 Original Development section, or try to find some guides in the Nexus 4 General section or the Original Development section. I'd link you to them, but I'm on my phone right now, and its too cumbersome a task to go back and forth between the browser and the XDA app. You could pm me however, and when I'm on my computer I'd be glad to help.
EDIT: Another way you could get battery percentage is using an app from the play store -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naeem.batterystatusnotification
It's not optimal, but it works.
2. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure a black background vs any other non-live background won't make a significant difference in terms of battery life. I think this is because the Nexus 4 has an IPS display. Super Amoled displays, however, are a huge culprit in terms of battery life and so a black screen is beneficial to only those with samoled screens.
3) Have you tried swiping down from the notification bar using two fingers? While those only act as shortcuts, they still do work. If you're not satisfied with this, get an app on the play store called "Elixir 2" and that should suit your needs
If you need anything else, feel free to shoot me a PM
-Mosh
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Guys,
I've just received my Nexus 4 after deciding to give Android a try. I've always been a big fan of all the Nexus phones knowing that they're completely free of bloatware and offer a pure Android experience as it was meant to be experienced by Google.
Currently, I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 16GB but I wanted to try something different after my 24 month contract and decided it a no brainer to go for the Nexus 4 16GB especially at the price Google Play are offering it at. Also I was getting bored of iOS and fancied a change especially given that the screen size of iPhones are pretty small in comparison.
However, I just have a few questions on how to do a few simple things as below if anyone would be kind enough to answer.
1. How can I get a battery percentage like I had on the iPhone? Any recommendations that work well with the Nexus 4?
2. I just want a black ground for the wallpaper to maximise battery life. How can I do this?
3. Is there a way to add toggles to the notification bar to enable or disable Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Location, Airplane Mode, etc?
4.
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1. I would also recommend you to root your phone and install a custom ROM, there you can change the statusbar with battery and clock and so on
3. As far as I remember you even have a widget on stock ROM for toggles. And if you want them in the notifcation bar you again should use a custom ROM. Some of some can change the quicksettings to real toggles.
I would recommend AOKP ROM but thats a matter of taste.
Power toggles https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc will allow you to add some pretty looking toggle widgets to the notification bar. It also has the ability to add a the battery percentage to the status bar as a separate icon.
This is a good solution if you want to remain stock.
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You need to try awesome ROMs like aokp,but READ A LOT BEFORE!!
as for the background, I'm pretty sure it doesn't make any difference, just set brightness to auto.
there's an app in the play store called 'notification toggles', which does a pretty good job at bringing toggles to the notification bar.
and i would also recommend installing a custom rom, especially CyanogenMod, because that's the closest to aosp (vanilla android) as you can get.
just search for 'mako' (the codename of the nexus 4) on get.cm, and you'll find detailed instructions on how to unlock/root your device, and install cm. i recommend using the monthly/milestone release, is quite stable and bug free.
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Paul O'Brian's Modaco rom changes the factory shortcuts in the notification bar into quick toggles. You short press to toggle, or long press for the shortcut. He makes two versions of his rom. One is based on the stock rom, and the other is built on Cyanogenmod. If you subscribe to his site you can "bake" your own rom with the features you want.
Wow tanks for the quick responses guys! Wasn't expecting this many suggestions seriously. Definitely a knowledgeable community!!
Right, I've installed a widget called battery percentage which has solved my problem. It seems very accurate so far too.
In regards to the toggles, I'm very happy with the 2 finger slide down option and I've learnt something new about my phone.
Got the brightness set to manual but at the lowest setting as this is how I used to use my iPhone most times to maintain decent battery life.
I'll see if I can download a custom wallpaper app that will allow me to change it to completely black and I'm pretty much done.
As much as custom ROM's sound tempting, I think I'll leave them for now as I'm extremely happy with the way the system operates just now. Leaving it stock will allow Google updates to be installed easily too.
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Black backgrounds or any backgrounds for that matter won't make a lick of difference on an IPS screen. The light is shone from behind the screen and doesn't change in intensity based on pixel variation. The AMOLED screen is an entirely different ball of wax, where lighter pixels would indeed draw more power because the light is generated by the pixels themselves instead of a backlight.
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Power Toggles is a near enough essential app.. You wont regret it.. plus you can change the icon in power toggles to show your battery percentage in the notification bar.
As youre new to android youll probably find many apps that are useful and satisfy your needs, but then you might start to notice the limitations of stock, resulting in eventual rooting and finally installing custom roms etc.
I use AOKP in which you get the toggle page by one finger swiping. I also use CircleMod which is built in and gives you the opportunity to replace the stock battery icon with it.
I rooted a week after I got this phone, and after the weeks I installed my first custom ROM. This is my first Android phone btw.
Thus AOKP or CM 10.1 would be your choice.
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I uninstalled Battery Percentage for Power Toggles. It pretty much ticks all the boxes for me.
As others have stated don't use a black background to save battery. That is for amoled. If you like the look go for it but don't do it for battery.
Here is the fun part. You can download a app like wallbase for all types of wallpapers. Or you can just get a picture from anywhere you like. Drag one from your computer to the phones storage. Download any image with the phone browser or app. Open the gallery and set it as your wallpaper by pressing the menu icon. Set as....
You're not gonna believe this guys, after letting the battery completely die then performing a full charge, the phone will no longer connect to my wireless network.
My iPhone & some other Windows phones work fine.
Tried a factory reset but no luck. Just can't believe it lol especially as it's a brand new handset!
Called Google up but they fobbed me off to LG support who keep telling me they'll call me back when they can.
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You're not gonna believe this guys, after letting the battery completely die then performing a full charge, the phone will no longer connect to my wireless network.
My iPhone & some other Windows phones work fine.
Tried a factory reset but no luck. Just can't believe it lol especially as it's a brand new handset!
Called Google up but they fobbed me off to LG support who keep telling me they'll call me back when they can.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: :good:
thanks for the heads up, mine is coming monday, undecided if ill refuse delivery and send it back or use it. Iphone 5 currently do like IOS plus jailbreak sometime today ?
Rizy7 said:
Power Toggles is a near enough essential app.. You wont regret it.. plus you can change the icon in power toggles to show your battery percentage in the notification bar.
As youre new to android youll probably find many apps that are useful and satisfy your needs, but then you might start to notice the limitations of stock, resulting in eventual rooting and finally installing custom roms etc.
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+1 for Power Toggles. It's the best option if you remain on stock that gives you battery percentage and toggles in the notification bar - all in a matching blue color.
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LG tried some troubleshooting steps with no luck.
Google said they'll need to get me to send the device back and they'll replace it when they have more stock. So back to the drawing board for me.
If there is a very big wait time, I'll just get a refund and get another iPhone.
Wutang200 said:
LG tried some troubleshooting steps with no luck.
Google said they'll need to get me to send the device back and they'll replace it when they have more stock. So back to the drawing board for me.
If there is a very big wait time, I'll just get a refund and get another iPhone.
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thanks for the heads up, mine is coming monday, undecided if ill refuse delivery and send it back or use it. Iphone 5 currently do like IOS plus jailbreak sometime today ?
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There goes this thread. Let the trolling commence.
In all seriousness, mentioning iOS aside from 'I left it for Android' is pure trollbait. Just for future reference.
Imagination is for turbo-nerds who can't handle how kick-butt reality is!
The wifi finally came back on me all of a sudden.
I then restarted the phone to verify if there is an issue with it or not and got the same problem.
Seems like the wifi is not activating when the phone comes on even though it's activated in the o/s.
if the 4 dont get u the 5 will
Okay, maybe not as dramatic as the thread title suggests, but this is regarding the possibility of transforming the menu screens of our G2s to black.
I'm sure I'm not the only one out there, but I'm a big fan of black menus on my gadgets and computer systems. Howevevr, we have no such luck with the default LG UI on our G2s. As we all know, the default LG UI is predominantly white. Things like the settings menu, gallery, pop up notification windows, etc are all in white.
We have a bunch of talented modders here who have done some amazing work on navbars and status bars and icons, so I'd just like to know the possibilities of including a feature to turn all the system UI menus to black instead of white. I know that AOSP ROMs like CM already have that feature, but I'm not quite ready to switch over yet, without sacrificing some of the LG-exclusive features.
Just throwing out a request on behalf of the black menu lovers out there, and have an awesome weekend everyone!
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Okay, maybe not as dramatic as the thread title suggests, but this is regarding the possibility of transforming the menu screens of our G2s to black.
I'm sure I'm not the only one out there, but I'm a big fan of black menus on my gadgets and computer systems. Howevevr, we have no such luck with the default LG UI on our G2s. As we all know, the default LG UI is predominantly white. Things like the settings menu, gallery, pop up notification windows, etc are all in white.
We have a bunch of talented modders here who have done some amazing work on navbars and status bars and icons, so I'd just like to know the possibilities of including a feature to turn all the system UI menus to black instead of white. I know that AOSP ROMs like CM already have that feature, but I'm not quite ready to switch over yet, without sacrificing some of the LG-exclusive features.
Just throwing out a request on behalf of the black menu lovers out there, and have an awesome weekend everyone!
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Oh yes, please!
Nitroglycerine anyone??
I believe in a thing called love, just listen to the rhythm of my heart- The Darkness.
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C'mon dudes, Breaking Bad and musical tastes aside, it would be nice if we can have dark menus. I'm sure they would fit in nicely in a lot of custom themes we have going in our phones, more so than the boring white ones.
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I'm Ll for the dark side. The inverted vibe looks much better. Checkout team blackout apps also.
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i been lobbying to get malladus in a blacked out version...
Sepulture said:
C'mon dudes, Breaking Bad and musical tastes aside, it would be nice if we can have dark menus. I'm sure they would fit in nicely in a lot of custom themes we have going in our phones, more so than the boring white ones.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nItTOnnp_c&desktop_uri=/watch?v=3nItTOnnp_c&app=desktop
And on topic: coming from the asylum I too want everything in black. Hadn't I lost the remote by doing so I had flashed cm with the black betterbean theme.
I'll dig in to the settings, contacts and phones apks and see how hard it'll be, and either put out a mod (for VZW deodexed users), or strictly for malladus.
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I'll dig in to the settings, contacts and phones apks and see how hard it'll be, and either put out a mod (for VZW deodexed users), or strictly for malladus.
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This would be fantastic! Thanks!
once you go black...
Jakeday on rootz mentioned interest in building a blacked out malladus
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Jakeday on rootz mentioned interest in building a blacked out malladus
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Sweet. Malladus is pretty awesome so far, Blacked out would be even better, if for nothing else than the Settings and Phone/Contacts apps. I started digging around, it'll take me a bit. changed a bunch of styles in phone and contacts and all it got me was some nice looking black tabs. I didn't dig much further than that though tonight.
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Sweet. Malladus is pretty awesome so far, Blacked out would be even better, if for nothing else than the Settings and Phone/Contacts apps. I started digging around, it'll take me a bit. changed a bunch of styles in phone and contacts and all it got me was some nice looking black tabs. I didn't dig much further than that though tonight.
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pm him, see if there can be a collab or somethin
stetsonaw said:
Sweet. Malladus is pretty awesome so far, Blacked out would be even better, if for nothing else than the Settings and Phone/Contacts apps. I started digging around, it'll take me a bit. changed a bunch of styles in phone and contacts and all it got me was some nice looking black tabs. I didn't dig much further than that though tonight.
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I'm sure it's going to be a pain in the a$$ just like it was for stock Droid X (GingerBlur). Even though in the end I did end up getting it all blacked out, I hated working on that thing for that exact reason. There's so many things to change, and in so many different places. Plus, back then I had a lot more motivation, and it helped that I had some collaboration with travp624, unkleduke, and kirbnite, but that was almost 3 years ago...lol
I hope you guys get it figured out; I wouldn't mind trying it out. I'd most likely just end up going back to CM10.2 since I like stock-like Android better than I do skinned Android, but that's just me. Once I got the Gnex, I just couldn't go back to skinned android
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I'm sure it's going to be a pain in the a$$ just like it was for stock Droid X (GingerBlur). Even though in the end I did end up getting it all blacked out, I hated working on that thing for that exact reason. There's so many things to change, and in so many different places. Plus, back then I had a lot more motivation, and it helped that I had some collaboration with travp624, unkleduke, and kirbnite, but that was almost 3 years ago...lol
I hope you guys get it figured out; I wouldn't mind trying it out. I'd most likely just end up going back to CM10.2 since I like stock-like Android better than I do skinned Android, but that's just me. Once I got the Gnex, I just couldn't go back to skinned android
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I would jump to Carbon right now, but i would have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from knock-off and the OIS camera. And the "put the phone to ear whilst ringing to answer" gesture.
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I would jump to Carbon right now, but i would have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from knock-off and the OIS camera. And the "put the phone to ear whilst ringing to answer" gesture.
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I could help you out with the "knock off" portion, but the other two points, you're on your own with those...lol
bouchigo said:
I could help you out with the "knock off" portion, but the other two points, you're on your own with those...lol
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Please tell me you have something other than a toggle in the quick settings for "screen off/lock". i like not having to look at the screen, and just knowing where the status bar is to double tap. Although, i could survive with a long press option for the Recents button though.
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Please tell me you have something other than a toggle in the quick settings for "screen off/lock". i like not having to look at the screen, and just knowing where the status bar is to double tap. Although, i could survive with a long press option for the Recents button though.
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It's not a toggle, I would be annoyed by that too...lol
It requires running a third party launcher though. I myself run Nova launcher. You can create a task with Tasker, or if you don't want to pay for Tasker, or don't already own it, you can use "Screen Off and Lock" from the Play Store.
Once you set either Tasker or Screen Off and Lock, you can set the action as a gesture in the Launcher. I have mine setup with a double tap anywhere on the screen to "knock off"; It works really well.
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It's not a toggle, I would be annoyed by that too...lol
It requires running a third party launcher though. I myself run Nova launcher. You can create a task with Tasker, or if you don't want to pay for Tasker, or don't already own it, you can use "Screen Off and Lock" from the Play Store.
Once you set either Tasker or Screen Off and Lock, you can set the action as a gesture in the Launcher. I have mine setup with a double tap anywhere on the screen to "knock off"; It works really well.
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Bad part is, that only works when you are on the launcher. I own Nova prime (or whatever the premium version is), and Tasker as well, but right now I'm completely hooked on Aviate. Eventually CM will port/create "double tap statusbar to turn screen off/lock". They already have knock on, which you would think would be the hardest one, ensuring that there is a listener when the screen is off and such.
I heard that Apple purchased Dark Sky and will be removing it from Android. The one thing I like the most about this app is that there is a widget that tells when it's going to rain and stop raining and it seems pretty accurate. Does anyone know any other weather apps that offer this?
Look here
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I heard that Apple purchased Dark Sky and will be removing it from Android. The one thing I like the most about this app is that there is a widget that tells when it's going to rain and stop raining and it seems pretty accurate. Does anyone know any other weather apps that offer this?
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I don't miss that app, for me there's so much better weather app like beautiful widgets or today weather
One thing missing from all these other apps that Dark Sky had was a widget that told you when it was going to rain next, the intensity and when it was going to stop. I have yet to find another program that offers this.
OverDrop has been cool.
I used Today Weather a while back, might have to circle back to that.
AccuWeather was always fine, as well.
Today weather is the best looking app, uses dark sky's server, for now.
AccuWeather has minute forecast, similar to dark sky,vtells when is going to rain and is very accurate.
Overdrop has the best widgets.
le0.br4zuc4 said:
Today weather is the best looking app, uses dark sky's server, for now.
AccuWeather has minute forecast, similar to dark sky,vtells when is going to rain and is very accurate.
Overdrop has the best widgets.
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I appreciate everyone's feedback but I already know all this. It still doesn't answer my question which is none of these other programs offer a simple widget that you can look at to tell when it's going to rain and for how long like Dark Sky has. That is what I was looking for.
Looks like you have 2 options.
1) use the alternatives offered as that is what is available.
2) buy an Apple phone and continue using Dark Sky
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steelersmb said:
I appreciate everyone's feedback but I already know all this. It still doesn't answer my question which is none of these other programs offer a simple widget that you can look at to tell when it's going to rain and for how long like Dark Sky has. That is what I was looking for.
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Then in that case you can do what everyone else is doing. Wait for apps to fill the gap left by Dark Sky, I hope someone steps up. As you do that, download and try apps for yourself
I'm in the same boat as you OP - everyone giving suggestions for alternatives with pretty UI and radar maps, etc.
I don't care about any of that - the built-in weather works fine for all of that.
The killer feature that many people who've never used Dark Sky is ignorant to, is the fact that a notification alert would pop up and let you know "Severe rain in 20 minutes" or "Rain stopping in 45 minutes".
It was super useful to let me know when to plan to leave the house to avoid the wet, etc.
Dark Sky even had an Android Wear app - which was cool until I went Tizen with my Galaxy Watch .
So to help you out, OP, I've tested a bunch of weather apps, and the only one so far that threw a similar alert today like Dark Sky was Geometric Weather.
It was about a half hour after Dark Sky's popped up, and it wasn't as exact (May ran in the next few hours), but it was better than nothing.
Hopefully by the time the rains get heavy again, we'll have a good alternative.
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I'm in the same boat as you OP - everyone giving suggestions for alternatives with pretty UI and radar maps, etc.
I don't care about any of that - the built-in weather works fine for all of that.
The killer feature that many people who've never used Dark Sky is ignorant to, is the fact that a notification alert would pop up and let you know "Severe rain in 20 minutes" or "Rain stopping in 45 minutes".
It was super useful to let me know when to plan to leave the house to avoid the wet, etc.
Dark Sky even had an Android Wear app - which was cool until I went Tizen with my Galaxy Watch .
So to help you out, OP, I've tested a bunch of weather apps, and the only one so far that threw a similar alert today like Dark Sky was Geometric Weather.
It was about a half hour after Dark Sky's popped up, and it wasn't as exact (May ran in the next few hours), but it was better than nothing.
Hopefully by the time the rains get heavy again, we'll have a good alternative.
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I get the "rain starting in so many minutes" alert on AccuWeather. I'll try to remember and get a screenshot next time I get it.
BTW, AccuWeather does not have a "pretty" UI, at best is acceptable.
I got an alert yesterday on AccuWeather that I didn't get on Dark Sky. It was regarding the power of winds or something like that, I didn't really pay attention. Before the "Severe Weather Advisement" I got on every app I'm currently testing
How about RainToday ?
Edit : not sure it still exists
https://raintoday.fr.uptodown.com/android/telecharger
looks like they already removed it from play store even though they said it would be july 1st
Yes, it was a great weather apk .... if anyone else wanted to use it ... until they completely shut it down on Android ...
Here... https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZTmJPkZrVqmmOc8al82NXfVnK8mKmjqxG6X
I totally agree with you OP. I think a lot of people have no idea how accurate Dark Sky & Arcus were for short term rain prediction.
The Dev of Shadow weather has said that it will offer these hyperlocal alerts but so far it isn't. Arcus say that, even though the Dark Sky API is available until 2021 they won't pay Apple to use it. Arcus works perfectly & it's a pity that someone doesn't adapt their app to the other available APIs.
Most radar data is free so it just need the app to read the rain radar & convert it into written messages.
I would pay a lot for an app that offers the same as Dark Sky & Arcus
I actually find the Accuweather Beta app pretty good but the widget sucks and it doesn't update often. There needs to be a way to set how often you want it to update and I wish it showed the 5-day forecast. As far as accuracy though, I find it spot on in my area.
steelersmb said:
I actually find the Accuweather Beta app pretty good but the widget sucks and it doesn't update often. There needs to be a way to set how often you want it to update and I wish it showed the 5-day forecast. As far as accuracy though, I find it spot on in my area.
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But it doesn't offer anything comparable with Dark Sky or Arcus unless it gives notifications like " Rain starting in 20 mins stopping 8 minutes later" . AFAIK only Dark Sky & Arcus have ever offered this.
Yes it does, it has Minutecast and it will tell you. It works pretty well but like I said, the widget sucks.
steelersmb said:
Yes it does, it has Minutecast and it will tell you. It works pretty well but like I said, the widget sucks.
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Trying it now
Does it give minutecast notifications ?
galwayguy said:
Trying it now
Does it give minutecast notifications ?
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Works quite well but no sound notification so you have to keep checking the phone.