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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'm gearing up to get my first Andoid phone hopefully next month, and was wondering if there's a port or an app already out there that's similiar in look and functionality as S2U2?
thx.
There's Lockbot out there ;-)
It has iPhone lock style, Hero lock style, Donut lock style and even flair lock style!
Good new: it's free except uf you want to download skins (which doesn't even work on my magic) or want the flair theme (which is the ugliest one)
and even free version let you customise your own themes
cheers
Maybe "Lock 2.0" many skins available for this app!
http://de.androlib.com/android.application.com-google-code-slideunlocker2d-BmA.aspx
http://groups.google.com/group/lock2
Thanks!
Lock 2.0 sure looks just like it.
Yes,you can get a free demo or buy full version!
Just bringing this back up since I just got a new Evo and am coming from a Touch Pro which had S2U2. I have tried some of the options on Android, but have not found anything even close to S2U2.
Does anyone have any other thoughts on how to get my calendar entries, notifications, texts, etc to show up on my lock screen (it also needs to look as good as S2U2 did 2 years ago).
Thanks.
Check out WidgetLocker.
I think it's by far the best lock screen replacement, and is fully supported by the developers at the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732986
You should just youtube search "widgetlocker" and you'll see many video reviews of it in action. Note: hardly any of the videos go over the fact that it can change from stock Android slide to HTC slide even to iPhone slide to unlock.
And to rs1990, yes it can add whatever widget you can think of including ones relevant to everything you mentioned.
Funny that you just mentioned WidgetLocker. I am actually looking at that right now. It seems ok at this point, but not as polished as S2U2 is.
I actually think that the problem that I have right now is that the calendar widget kind of stinks. I am looking for a widget that just shows any upcoming events and nothing if there are none upcoming. The default one shows that obnoxious white box that says "No upcoming calendar events," which is ridiculous.
OK, I just found Pure Calendar and it looks somewhat promising. It will allow me to put a nice looking widget in WidgetLocker to show my entries. So, I am going to look into that a bit and see if it suits my needs.
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OK, I just found Pure Calendar and it looks somewhat promising. It will allow me to put a nice looking widget in WidgetLocker to show my entries. So, I am going to look into that a bit and see if it suits my needs.
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WidgetLocker + Android Agenda Widget + Music Mod Widget + Beautiful Widgets = NO reason to ever unlock
You could try CalWidget
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Funny that you just mentioned WidgetLocker. I am actually looking at that right now. It seems ok at this point, but not as polished as S2U2 is.
I actually think that the problem that I have right now is that the calendar widget kind of stinks. I am looking for a widget that just shows any upcoming events and nothing if there are none upcoming. The default one shows that obnoxious white box that says "No upcoming calendar events," which is ridiculous.
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You might want to try CalWidget http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-eggenstein-android-calwidget-qxjt.aspx - sorry I don't have the Marketplace url.
It's not bad. Can be a bit slow to load up and refresh but it's surprisingly good for a free productivity app. And it works well with WidgetLocker
Is there a way to get something beautiful and usefull like S2u2 for android? i think Lock 2.0 is a real flop, widgetlocker is ok but s2u2 is way better... i would say it's the best lockscreen i've ever seen.
There is nothing even close to S2U2 on android. I only miss S2U2 app from WinMo world. There was so many options/customizations..
I agree with both of the last 2 posts...S2U2 is unmatched on Android. I have "settled" on using WidgetLocker and Pure Calendar. It's ok, but not as good as S2U2.
I agree 100 percent with both of you. WinMo was ok... android is great... but damn... i miss s2u2 like hell.
s2u2 is the swiss pocketknife or Macgyver of lockscreens...
Yeap,
I also miss S2U2 from WinMo. I just bought a new android phone (ZTE Link) and I do miss S2U2. May A_C could port S2U2 for android? Does somenone knows him?
The application I think is closest to S2U2 is GOTO (although its paid :-()
Best,
Jº
WidgetLocker, as already mentioned in this thread, is a very capable, attractive, and flexible lockscreen replacement. There are also others on the market.
I for one won't miss the random "won't unlock" weirdness with S2U2, although infrequent, sometimes I had to yank the battery to get out of it as the screen would be frozen after. SOMETIMES I could long-power press and get the reboot dialog and I could get to a task manager and kill it but usually it was stuck.
Is there any possibility that the creator of WinMo S2U2 try to code that app for Android? Or make some coop with somebody who can do that for/with him?
Asked somebody something like this to creator of S2U2??
Thanks so much.
tomas
I can just agree to the above, the only thing i miss on Android is S2U2 and G-Alarm. I tried widget locker and i had to reinstall my whole system. When it was active i pulled the right thingy on the locked screen and then it was all black and locket. But i liked it the little i did see when i was exploring it. Now i don't dare to install it again..
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Yesterday i tried LockBot but it could not get it to work at all, when i read what it could do it was ONE of the most imprtant thing i miss from S2U2, it was locking the hardware buttons. But nah... no go here either.
I never used S2U2, but what are the features all of you miss so much from it? In the videos I see on youtube, I don't really see anything that makes it standout from any other lockscreen, like WidgetLocker...
The key with widgetlocker is getting the right widgets installed to work with it, but because of that it is pretty much infinitely flexible.
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
Hey guys just a request of what ive been missing for lately i used S2P (there's a 1.4 version on devs website) all the time and kind of missing the widget for changing music.
So maybe anyone interested in making a simple widget to control S2P from homescreen?
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Not sure could this help but anyway. Theres a S2P widget for Throttle Launcher
You can find it here
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If i can be any help i can do the looks as long as some one does the programing
Thanks
why dont you use music widget?
DN41
Cause i dont use the HTC Music Player. Im going through the add on kitchen now ill see maybe i can cook something up. But i doubt it
Maybe I'll give it a try sometimes.. but no promises and I'm sure it won't be soon.
There is work on the nitrogen player, but it is in alpha state.
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There is work on the nitrogen player, but it is in alpha state.
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Yes Mike, there is.
If I or anyone else has the time, I think there will soon come S2P and others that can work with CHT.
It is very possible to do.
In fact the Nitrogen cab, kind of lays a framework for such things.
Though it needs a little reworking based on some changes made to Co0kie's Add-on Framework changes, since that add-on was first made.
Hi santod040,
i can't write anything on XDA without that we come togehter every time, that's really funny .
You are so far away from me, but sometimes i think you look over my shoulders and then you
write the answer or whatever.
And thank you for the information update.
Meh no idea regarding kitchen
Though my offer to skin it still stands
Hello,
I have been trying carefully S2P (v1.4) and Nitrogen (latest stable version). Both designs are very good, but I think that S2P is higher in response to sound (not much difference with Nitrogen, but I appreciate it, especially with good headphones). In addition, S2P better controls battery power to Nitrogen. Nitrogen is more convenient to use by selecting the music, but if you get used to S2P ... is perfect.
Another advantage of S2P with respect to Nitrogen, is that the project seems to be alive (although new versions have to buy into Microsoft's Marketplace), while Nitrogen seems to have been dead by now...
S2P would be nice to have a plugin for the Today screen.
What do you think about this?.
Regards,
Think its great main feature of S2P i love is that it starts music once i plug headphones in. Handy
So let me make it clear u have a widget made?
Would also love to see a CHT music player widget for S2P. I like S2U2, but CHT new lock screen is extremely versatile, so I'd like the option, and really want to be able to control S2P from the CHT lock screen.
I was able to do a work around with S2P and CHT. I used the mortscript files from CS2P for songnext, songpre, and songplay and make shortcuts to them and then put them on a page as free links. Can't do album art, but if someone wants to look at the mortscript files, I can upload them. The album art works with titanium so I think a dev could certainly learn from the mort files to make a widget. I'm just agronomist not dev so this is where I stop. Let me know if you need the files and I'll upload them.
Late,
Just downloaded the up to date MKSIP WP7 skin which I am using with MIROM 1 v5...
Awesome.
<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649362>
Just downloaded and installed the WVGA version and it seems to work pretty well, and looks reasonably nice (10.4mb cab file). I'm running it on top of feroponts WM 6.5.5 with SPB Shell 3.5.5 rom.
EDIT: Really liking this theme. Requires some of the tab's setting up (like the camera tab etc), but once done that it's great Can't see a WP7 screen lock option yet however, but will look for it.
Note: This should really be in the 'themes and apps' section though, as it's not a ROM.