[Q] Flip Clock Animation Missing - HTC Aria Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I am new to the Android game and I got the HTC Aria few days back.
I am a big fan of the Sense UI. The main reason I got this phone.
My question is that why doesnt the flip clock on my Aria actually FLIP, like it does on other HTC phones with the Sense UI as shown in the videos.
Am I missing something or is something wrong with my phone.

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you know what... i never noticed that...

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I noticed it after using it for about 10-12 days, I looked around on Youtube and other places to see if the FLIP actually happens as shown on the video commercial. But it never does.

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i've seen it said that only their winmo phones had flip animations

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I am pretty sure that I have seen the clock FLIP on the HTC hero which is an Android phone.
Edit : I looked around a bit and found that the Old Hero Roms have FLIP on it but not the new ones.
HTC/AT&T could have removed or disabled the animation.
Is there any way I can get my Flip Clock to actually FLIP.
Please HELP ! I really want that thing on my phone.

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The flip animation was replaced by the weather effects animation i believe.
To my knowledge you cannot have one without the other. Ive also noticed that the weather animation pauses all animations on the homescreen when active such as the HTC sync app or the HTC battery meter app.
I do know that all windows mobile phones with sense UI does flip but do not have such extensive weather animation.
thunderstorm animation is my favourite

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@Thundervore
The Thunderstorm animation is Awesome !
But when you say that the weather animation has replaced the Flip animation.
Is there no way I can get the Flip animation on my Aria?
Probably get the widget pack from an Old Hero ROM or something like that ?
Is something like that possible ?

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Thundervore said:
The flip animation was replaced by the weather effects animation i believe.
To my knowledge you cannot have one without the other. Ive also noticed that the weather animation pauses all animations on the homescreen when active such as the HTC sync app or the HTC battery meter app.
I do know that all windows mobile phones with sense UI does flip but do not have such extensive weather animation.
thunderstorm animation is my favourite
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I would much rather have the flip animation than the weather animation.

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785645

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Maroon Mushroom said:
I would much rather have the flip animation than the weather animation.
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Before the Aria I had a GSM HTC Hero. Soon after I got it HTC released an incremental update that removed the flip animation, claiming that the flip used too much CPU resources and slowed down the phone.
I liked the flip animation as well, and I personally never noticed any sort of performance difference between the two versions. I do know that if you kept your HTC Hero on cupcake, someone released a .apk that gives you back the flip animation, but the last time I checked there was no solution for eclair SenseUI.

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Aww man...
I have tried everything.
Fancy Widget, Beautiful Widget and even the .zip from the link posted above.
Nothing works ... there isnt a clock that will flip.
I saw a video on youtube where Flip Clock is available on HTC Windows phones.
Thats kinda stupid.
I hope there is a port or something.
I wouldnt mind working on it if pointed in the right direction.

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sunaysv said:
Aww man...
I have tried everything.
Fancy Widget, Beautiful Widget and even the .zip from the link posted above.
Nothing works ... there isnt a clock that will flip.
I saw a video on youtube where Flip Clock is available on HTC Windows phones.
Thats kinda stupid.
I hope there is a port or something.
I wouldnt mind working on it if pointed in the right direction.
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Just to be clear, the HTC Hero (GSM) was the last HTC android phone to have an actually 'flipping' flip clock, and they patched it so that it wouldn't, and there was never a 2.1 flipclock that actually flipped.

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There's got to be a way to port an older Sense widget with the flip animation...

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well i tried.. and failed... I flashed the flip from desire hd port but it sort of worked... not really. It looked like a big blob of overly sized numbers.
So I tried resizing all the pictures, and failed. This might be because I am deodexeded right now. Can someone else with a odexed sense rom flash this in recovery and see if it works? Please? Also do a nandroid and report back to me. If it works, I'll post it on my sense clock mod thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824856
If it doesn't i'll remove the attachment.

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tried the flip on regular fr06. there was just a grey box where the clock/weather widget would be.

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only phones have CPU upper 600 Mhz could use flip animation . Ex: desire, evo 4G, Desire HD.....

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its an android bug i belive... i moved from hd mini to aria and withe the mini the flip worked great!
a freind of mine have desire stockd not rooted and agian, the flip doesn't work..
only in desire hd the bug was fix..
a bit shame..

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Animating Flip Clock Widget
I have a clock widget with a real animating flip, which does not require sense. Check my thread.
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