I posted this within a ROM thread a couple days ago but it has had little traffic. I am reposting it here for visibility.
I am using NFSFANs 6.5.x 28004 ROM and am loving it! Everything works great but I have a cosmetic/functionality preference and am not sure how to change it.
My question: I prefer HTC 2.x over the Titanium/Windows default home screen. However, I prefer using the default WinMo menus and SMS apps over the HTC ones. Is there any way I can use the Manilla front end for the home screen but not its menus? When I click a txt in the manilla SMS window, I would prefer it to open the WinMo SMS window instead of using the HTC one. I just find it more stable and easier to use. I also like the look and setup of the WinMo menus over the ones that are now system wide since I have manilla enabled.
Am I missing a setting?
maybe try going to the messages tab and tapping on all messages
I have been doing that as an alternative but it adds a few clicks.
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Hey all
This is not meant to be offensive at all to any of the developers. I am just flat out wondering what people think of the TouchFLO option and the Cube option.
Myself, I dont like either "addon". I mean they are nice...but for me I have no need for them...but of course thats just me
Keep up the good work developers...my Prophet has gone from frustrating to fricken amazing...all thanks to you people
The Cube is a piece of garbage for all I care... It looks cool, but that's it. not functional at all...
TouchFLO is quirky but pretty functional allowing me to scroll without having to grab onto the scroll bars. handy for me since I don't have long nails and it improves one-handed operation.
yes to touchflo, no to cube
personally, I like touchflo, but just the scrolling part. it is handy for PIE or contact manager.
for the cube, I think it is too much for my prophet.
I do not use fast dialing in the cube, I access them from htc homeplug today plugin. I do not listen to music, watch videos or surf in the pictures folder on my phone neither. I prefer the plain old functionality for comm button.
gullum's new approach for activating the cube is somewhat better in my opinion (swiping nail at the bottom of the screen to activate it). but again, I never use it as I don't need it.
I feel like it is meant just for showing the effects to friends and say "look, my phone can do this and that" and that lasts for just couple of days.
CUBE is pretty useless if you can't edit the launch.
but I like the QuickDail in CUBE. I would wait for V6 to come out. The CUBE activation is nothing you tried before. It's every effective & hidden if you don't use it.
story said:
CUBE is pretty useless if you can't edit the launch.
but I like the QuickDail in CUBE. I would wait for V6 to come out. The CUBE activation is nothing you tried before. It's every effective & hidden if you don't use it.
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there is a app to edit launcher comin in V6
Cube and Touchflo are very useful when they're in HTC Touch.
But with Prophet soft screen , I think I need just only HTC Home and as "Original" as WM6 Rom.
The CUBE
The cube has the same app. launcher as the home plugin. The picture contacts, sms, email, internet, wireless manager, video, pictures, etc. The cool thing about it is that it is hidden away, but at the TOUCH.....of a finger it will appear to access whatever app. you want. This leaves room on the today screen for other applications, or better applications like marsware weatherpanel chameleon version for the weather. You cannot go wrong trying to get your local weather with this app., but everyone is having problems with the htc touch weather app.. I'm glad you brung this topic up because I would like to just use the cube and I think I gave a pretty good opinion, and if anybody can get just the cube to work p m me or make a new thread so everyone can see it. Can't wait.
cube
IMHO the cube looks nice but after 2 days you have seen the cool effects and don't use it anymore. the fingerscrolling is cool !
Cube
The Cube , the cube. Can anyone make a cab file for just the cube and finger scrolling. Leave the touch home plugin out ?
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The Cube , the cube. Can anyone make a cab file for just the cube and finger scrolling. Leave the touch home plugin out ?
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You can just disable it from TODAY
i flashed the pdaviet touch rom, looked at the cube and disabled any hardware button assigned to it
i my opinion it is useless. it is slow and accessing my favorite programs is even without it every easy. so there is no need for it.
but touchflo is a bit different: it is usable in almost every application. scrolling around through the windows folder makes fun now - with resco explorer
it is a usefull addition, which works with 3rd party apps: very good!
but i have a question about touchflo, the cube and this htc today plugin: do we need to cook extra roms for them? isn't it possible to create a .cab for every single of these features? storage memory on the devices is limited, and storing some apps which have been disabled since the beginning by the user is just a waste of memory.
Cube has become verry intresting
As most of my beta testers will agree on... the cube coan be usefull finaly and does not have to take the place of any button hard or soft and having the option to asign which programs are activated by the cube is now not a problem any more... and the TouchFlo I can see how anyone can not like it... with touchflo the use of stylus is minimized to writing text and if one uses a good phone pad you could almost trow away the stylus...
just my toughts
gullum said:
As most of my beta testers will agree on... the cube coan be usefull finaly and does not have to take the place of any button hard or soft and having the option to asign which programs are activated by the cube is now not a problem any more... and the TouchFlo I can see how anyone can not like it... with touchflo the use of stylus is minimized to writing text and if one uses a good phone pad you could almost trow away the stylus...
just my toughts
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sounds great Gullum!
I'm looking forward to using your V6 ROM.
Just touchFlo for me(very handy for scrolling in one had operation mode).
Since I use SPB Mobile Shell,and PhonePad the using of the stylus is reduced to writing some text and SR.
Cube is just the beginning
TouchFlo is great, makes it much easier to control the device with one hand.
The Cube right now looks great, but is not that functional yet.
The cube could somehow become the new today screen, making it even easier to control the device. So the idea behind the cube should be used in other aspects of WM.
I do not like Touch Flo very much because of several reasons...
I have a question for an alternative:
Would it be possible to change the touch flo function so it is possible to scroll like in Opera mini4? Somehow like "hold and move"
Today I tried the Ipod touch which has nearly the same software as the iPhone will have. Apple also included scrolling in that way....I find it much more comfortable than TouchFlo....
SO anyone an idea?
Greetz
i like both since both could be provided ,so why not use both,it would be more better if cube could have launcher window too inside it.
Touchflo
I like the scrolling and I like the look of the cube but just having 6 apps to launch makes it a poor launcher.
Ideally I'd like to see more sides to the cube or 9 icons per page or something. Everyone launches more than 6 apps!
It's good to show off with though!
I like the cube, and with customisation it's pretty near perfect. One thing that would be really useful (it it's possible) would be the addition of a comm manager screen on top of the current three to increase it's functionality and allow me to change what my Comm manager button does hardware wise...
The touch scrolling is very very useful because I use an on screen finger friendly phone pad. I now never have to use my stylus (except for resetting).
I don't use the cube for the fact that customizing the damn launcher stuff is too damn complicated. I think ultimately if someone could develop a cube to be a today screen that would be beyond awesome. So you can create different pages and select different plugins to show on the pages. That way you can use stuff like SPB pocket plus and just do unlimited things with it. It doesn't even have to scroll or anything special like that.
I just switched to FroydVillain 1.4 ROM which comes without Sense UI. LaucnherPro is not bad at all but I really miss HTC dialer: its ability to search through contacts as I tap dial buttons is amazing - I was able to reach any contact with two or three (rarely, four) taps . Now I need to scroll through the long contact list or search using QWERTY keyboard which is not so fast and user-friendly.
Is there a way to get HTC dialer on this ROM or install something similar?
Thanks.
Dialer One
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
This is THE most common question asked. Use the search button!!!
Moved to Q&A as not development
Another option is "nubdialer", also free on the Market. It looks very nice and fast, but unfortunately, on my Hero it crashes immediately after typing in first digit.
I feel your pain... HTC dialler is the only reason I switched back to CronosDroid 2.13 from FroydVillain 1.40.
DailerOne was great but just waaaay too laggy for me (OC to 672MHz)
I'll have to check out Nubdailer....
Hi guys,
As stated, I dislike HTC ever since I bought the Touch Cruise 2009, not because they make inferior device, but because they butchered up an excellent operating system, and put ugly crap on it like the Sense UI.
I absolutely abhor Sense UI because it is LARGELY inconsistent with the entire WM6.5 feel, and its ugly black colored theme, and it confuses and annoys me, especially the HTC Messaging and Comm Manager and the entire Settings page.
I'd rather have something else like SPB Mobile shell or Wisbar on it. I can flash to ROMs without the SenseUI, but I can't get rid of the other HTC crap like the "Notification" and "Settings" and especially the QWERTY input. I have an Acer S200 which doesn't have the same eyesore as the HD2.
What I would like is to find a rom which has *none* of the HTC stuffs but has the same functionaly. Certain exceptions are completely acceptable like the FM Radio and the Digital Compass. I've tried the Lite ROMs and CleanEX ROMs but there are still remnants of how HTC had butchered WM6.5
Thanks, and excuse me if I sound like I'm griping.
Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=631449
Thanks, bbobeckyj. That is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I really dislike the HTC Touch Input, it drives me nuts. I take the default MS Keyboard over it any day.
try Swype. the ms keyboard is a little hard to use without a s ylus
google: lordyuz & swype
Yup, that's what I've been using on my S200, just figured I'd want to turn off the annoying TouchInput menu. That link works great! thanks.
UranusHertz said:
Hi guys,
As stated, I dislike HTC ever since I bought the Touch Cruise 2009, not because they make inferior device, but because they butchered up an excellent operating system, and put ugly crap on it like the Sense UI.
I absolutely abhor Sense UI because it is LARGELY inconsistent with the entire WM6.5 feel, and its ugly black colored theme, and it confuses and annoys me, especially the HTC Messaging and Comm Manager and the entire Settings page.
I'd rather have something else like SPB Mobile shell or Wisbar on it. I can flash to ROMs without the SenseUI, but I can't get rid of the other HTC crap like the "Notification" and "Settings" and especially the QWERTY input. I have an Acer S200 which doesn't have the same eyesore as the HD2.
What I would like is to find a rom which has *none* of the HTC stuffs but has the same functionaly. Certain exceptions are completely acceptable like the FM Radio and the Digital Compass. I've tried the Lite ROMs and CleanEX ROMs but there are still remnants of how HTC had butchered WM6.5
Thanks, and excuse me if I sound like I'm griping.
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I totally disagree with that. WTF!
I feel that SenseUI is overcrowded and the one thing that I don't look at often is the thing that takes up half the screen (i.e the weather and the clock). And unless you're familiar with the Manila tabs, you'll have to keep scrolling through the tabs to find what you want. What I DO use often is the text messages, which only requires 1 tap with the default Today screen.
Actually, you can pretty much configure anything to run with 1-2 taps on the default Today screen, all that scrolling makes me dizzy
Alright, so I am getting really sick of the stock ROM on my HD2. I disabled the SenseUI and turned on the Windows Default scrolly text interface. I hate SenseUI, it is way too busy, and I don't use my phone to check stocks or weather, so I don't care about having those things on my start screen.
I went searching through the pages and it seems that every ROM here is using Sense as it's base. I will open up two dozen tabs and go through them quickly as I will X them out the moment I see that flippy clock thing. Are there any ROMs that don't have any resemblance to Sense at all? I just want something simple and clean.
(Edit: And I didn't mean to post this here. This was supposed to go in the ROM Development subforum.)
Wupideedoo said:
Alright, so I am getting really sick of the stock ROM on my HD2. I disabled the SenseUI and turned on the Windows Default scrolly text interface. I hate SenseUI, it is way too busy, and I don't use my phone to check stocks or weather, so I don't care about having those things on my start screen.
I went searching through the pages and it seems that every ROM here is using Sense as it's base. I will open up two dozen tabs and go through them quickly as I will X them out the moment I see that flippy clock thing. Are there any ROMs that don't have any resemblance to Sense at all? I just want something simple and clean.
(Edit: And I didn't mean to post this here. This was supposed to go in the ROM Development subforum.)
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1- cht2 is as far from sense as you can get. your imagination is your limitation.
2- titanium is none-sense based
3- there is a maxsense series of roms
Why don't you just disable sense in the settings/personal menu?
This should give you clean windows. Also, there are a number of other options than Sense but these are a cab install not on a rom.
darrengladysz said:
Why don't you just disable sense in the settings/personal menu?
This should give you clean windows. Also, there are a number of other options than Sense but these are a cab install not on a rom.
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I already said that I did that. But even with Sense disabled the stock ROM still sucks. My phone will freeze for, like, 4 minutes every time I get a text message for instance.
jsmccabe78, thank you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591784
you can select titanium rom without sanse
Background
Ok this may be silly, but just wondered if there would be any interest in this idea I had earlier. What I love about Sense is that it's like each tab has almost moved past being a widget and has almost program like functionality, it seems to me this is really unique on a mobile device.
Concept
So I was thinking, what if it was possible to have extra tabs, in which ongoing programs could run, in something like a window. So for example, slide right one from a Facebook tab immediately into TCPMP, or continue one further into the File Explorer app? Why not extend the Sense UI?
Other thoughts:
1. I noticed that altering the tabs in sense causes a restart. I don't know if there is any way that this could be worked around, but otherwise I guess it's not possible to open up a whole new tab for each program. Perhaps there could be several open in which programs appear as they are run, with a customisable preference for the apps which appear on each tab/ a priority list?
2. maybe it would be possible to have something like a task switcher instead, I was thinking about something like the fantastic iManager, but where the app was fully functional in the tab, then could be switched with a nice simple gesture? This could skirt around the problem of new/blank tabs, and would be pretty cool!
3. Maybe this is nuts, as after all a quick tap on the home button will bring us straight back to Sense, but one less press is never bad right? And also the idea of a unified seamless UI is perfect for mobile in my opinion- I get frustrated by the jumping in and out of apps which Andoid and iOS require. CHT and Sense is exactly what is keeping me on WM
I can't code, but just thought I'd open the idea up to your opinions. Maybe someone who can wants this enough to do it?