How well does Beautiful Widgets work on the MyTouch4G? I'm trying to get away from the whole mySense crap, but I really love the weather/clock widgets from mySense. So... I'm debating about purchasing Beautiful Widgets from the Market, but not 100% sure if I want to spend the $2 on it or not. I've heard some say that it makes people's phones laggy, others have said the time doesn't update well, etc etc.
Thoughts?
been having issues with it after the latest update. My weather would not update correctly and im stuck 1 day late (instead of Sunday as today. IT shows yesterday weather).
zero issues. works perfectly.
Works flawlessly for me.
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Works good for me, and they are alwAys updating it. Keeps getting better and better
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Works great for me- I have the forecast effect set on, theres a small delay with that (which i expected), but everything else is perfect
Can anyone here that owns the MT4G and BW post some screenshots please? I'd love to see it in action before making the purchase.
Thanks!
The BW works awsome on my phone. I decided to buy it after I installed Launcher Pro and lost the clock widget. Only thing is that I sometimes see the location not updating, I just press update and within a minute it updates the right location im at. Is there a app for a screenshot that I can install w/o being rooted? Ill take one for you but I'm fairly new to the android scene and scared to do a root on this phone at the moment LOL!
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Is there a app for a screenshot that I can install w/o being rooted? Ill take one for you but I'm fairly new to the android scene and scared to do a root on this phone at the moment LOL!
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ShootMe works best but your phone does have to be rooted. Thanks for offering though.
Killer app and works perfect... no issues!
works perfect for me on ADW... definitely worth 2 bucks IMO
I love it and if you use adw you can customize the size of the widget
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Is this 2 dollar version different then the free .apk that is floating around out there??
I really like the widget also, and also prefer launcher pro. My version i have saved on my laptop i wasnt sure if it would update locations like the stock version does. I really like how the myt4g s version updates location so seamlessly. Its accurate to weather bug which the .apk file i have never was a match to weatherbug. It was always a couple degrees off.
Does the paid version allow you to choose the app that opens when you tap the widget?? I like to get detailed data from weatherbug.
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Can someone please create an app/widget that handles all of these three services in one app. Users should be able to easily post to all networks with one click, easily see when they have notifications in facebook and be able to access them with one click, and search for and follow people easily on Twitter. I prefer all tweets, status updates, and buzzs to be in one stream like the Samsung widget, but with more functionality. I would be willing to pay a couple bucks for the widget/app if I could try out a free version first to verify its coolness, and I think many others would be too. If you would love to see this app made please reply to this and maybe a dev will see the potential behind this possible widget.
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I don't ask for much do I?
If Google grants me access to App Inventor's Beta I'll try to make it myself.
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Most people are good at pulling and pushing already developed stuff to new devices. What you're asking requires somebody to spend a lot of their time developing, most wont do it. Would be cool if somebody had though!
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I've seen several people asking for it around the web. Someone could make some money here I would think. Wish I had the skills needed.
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OK. I'm on it.
But seriously. Is someone supposed to just go, ya know, I have way too much time on my hands and would happily devote hundreds of hours of work for a few bucks from this guy, assuming my efforts are to his liking.
Really, didn't Sammy release the Vibrant src the other day? Spend some time playing with it and try to make the modifications yourself. That's how ADW.Launcher was started.
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Really, didn't Sammy release the Vibrant src the other day? Spend some time playing with it and try to make the modifications yourself. That's how ADW.Launcher was started.
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They didn't release the source to any of their apps any more than htc did for theirs (or google for theirs.. or motorolla..or..etc)
I think tmobile released an app that does all this...
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I don't expect anyone to do this for me. I hope to spark interest in an idea that can make the dev some money. If I would be willing to pay for this possibly so would others. I could be completely wrong, but I have hope that someone might be successful with this type of app.
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I like the tmobile app, but o it mixes up the user icons. It also won't cut and paste.
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Thanks uneek!
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The next best widget I have found to the Samsung one is the one called Socialite. It is free in the market. It has Facebook on one tab, twitter on the other. No buzz though (but really, who uses Buzz???)
Looks like Tweetdeck's Android client will do Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare, it looks amazing:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/11/tweetdeck-android/
Beta supposedly this week.
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Looks like Tweetdeck's Android client will do Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare, it looks amazing:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/11/tweetdeck-android/
Beta supposedly this week.
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They just officially released the beta like 20 minutes ago just a heads up.
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They just officially released the beta like 20 minutes ago just a heads up.
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I don't see any mention of a widget.... don't know why people release these twitter apps with no widget. This isn't an iphone, I don't want to have to run a program to see my latest tweets.
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I don't see any mention of a widget.... don't know why people release these twitter apps with no widget. This isn't an iphone, I don't want to have to run a program to see my latest tweets.
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I'm a widget guy myself but I think because the way this app updates and notifies you in the taskbar it sort of eliminates the need for a widget. I'd still like the option to use one tho.
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I'm a widget guy myself but I think because the way this app updates and notifies you in the taskbar it sort of eliminates the need for a widget. I'd still like the option to use one tho.
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See, I don't like twitter noifications. I follow so many I would get a notification every 30 seconds.
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See, I don't like twitter noifications. I follow so many I would get a notification every 30 seconds.
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I see what you mean. Its still in beta so maybe a widget is in the works if enough people ask for one.
Yeah no widget so far. I definitely would love to have one though. About getting a notification every thirty seconds... Why would you have notifications for tweets turned on? I always just turn on notifications for direct messages and @replies
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Yeah no widget so far. I definitely would love to have one though. About getting a notification every thirty seconds... Why would you have notifications for tweets turned on? I always just turn on notifications for direct messages and @replies
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That is what I said.... thats why I want a widget.
any devs out there have any idea how to change where the HTC weather app/clock widget poll for weather?
Accuweather is garbage; it constantly says cloudy for me, despite the fact that it's raining the past day and will for the next day. I already complained to accuweather, but they have nothing to say because they're idiots. I'm hoping we can change where it gets weather from, like weather.com or google or weatherbug.
Mine has been dead on. Is your location accurate? Obviously the weather isn't going to be correct to your house. And wherever your weather is being reported from is either wrong, or different from your actual location.
This would not be as easy as pointing to a different weather provider, by say changing a url. The data has to be sent to the provider as expected and returned as data the app can understand. If it wasn't written to work with a provider, it will be difficult to make it work.
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ah, yeah. i remember in the inc days, nils was checking out how to do it, but we were never successful.
basically, even on the accuweather website for my town, it shows cloudy, when it's always raining lol it's very annoying.
So whoever is reporting the weather data to them is wrong. Not accuweathers fault.
i assume it's one of the local weather stations, because there's only like one in my town.....and they report to weatherbug...and weather.com........and they're both right lol
it's accuweather;
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/brick-nj/08724/weather-forecast/1-2191985_1_al
click; see how it says current conditions, cloudy? go look at the map now, we're COVERED in rain and it hasn't stopped since like 3pm today. yet they think current conditions are cloudy. kind of annoying lol
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any devs out there have any idea how to change where the HTC weather app/clock widget poll for weather?
Accuweather is garbage; it constantly says cloudy for me, despite the fact that it's raining the past day and will for the next day. I already complained to accuweather, but they have nothing to say because they're idiots. I'm hoping we can change where it gets weather from, like weather.com or google or weatherbug.
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Well, you could always try out Fancy Widgets. I belive you have a choice of 3 different weather providers, and the weather accuracy has always been great!
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I agree accuweather is garbage. It is always wrong for my area too! I NEVER use it. I use weatherbug or google. I downloaded beautiful widgets(had it on my X) and switch it to google weather!
Accuweather has been terrible for the last 5 years at least, thats why I use google weather & weather channel.
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Well, you could always try out Fancy Widgets. I belive you have a choice of 3 different weather providers, and the weather accuracy has always been great!
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+1 Fancy Widgets is great!
I know this may be a bit obvious but I have seen no mention of this...
Have you tried going into weather settings and checking the box "Monitor my location"? I'm not sure how often it checks your location but mine seems to work well...granted it is Sense 3.5 on an Incredible.
haha yeah, i always have monitor my location on. the location is correct; it's just that accuweather sucks at reporting the current condition correctly from my towns weather station....despite the fact its the same weather station that reports to every other network (weatherbug, weather.com, google) and they all get the current conditions right..........lol
holy hell!
for the FIRST TIME ever, my rezound is showing "showers" for my current town! woot woot; maybe accuweather is finally getting their reports more ACCURATE. best part is, it was literally drizzling for a second, and i don't think it is anymore hahaha but hey i'll take it!
On TouchWiz, my weather doesn't seem to be updating my location to where I am. For example, it's set to the GPS location in the settings, so when I'm around home -- I get "San Francisco" on the widget, but say if I go to Oakland for the day, it will never update to "Oakland" despite being there all day and even manually updating it. I have the settings to update every hour and I use it quite a bit. It's one thing I am used to Sense cooperating with and I'm looking for a fix. Any ideas?
Anyone? Really bugging me...
last try...
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Has anyone tried this, and if so what is your opinion of it?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jaGFtZWxlb25sYXVuY2hlciJd
Yeah I made the mistake of spending that $10 and have to say I'm thoroughly disappointed at the moment with how slow they're adding features and widgets... if it had only been a couple of dollars then it'd be OK but come on.... its $10.... give me my money's worth now:banghead:
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Yeah I made the mistake of spending that $10 and have to say I'm thoroughly disappointed at the moment with how slow they're adding features and widgets... if it had only been a couple of dollars then it'd be OK but come on.... its $10.... give me my money's worth now:banghead:
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Are you using it still, or did you go back to a different launcher?
I still have it installed and keep it updated .... waiting for it to be worth what I paid for it... but my default launcher is Nova (i like the folders) and sometimes Apex (I like Apex because of all the available themes)
Like TSF Shell also... just starting to use it
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I still have it installed and keep it updated .... waiting for it to be worth what I paid for it... but my default launcher is Nova (i like the folders) and sometimes Apex (I like Apex because of all the available themes)
Like TSF Shell also... just starting to use it
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Thanks for reply, I might wait and see what happens. I paid $15.00 for spb shell and haven't used it lately. I have two touchpads (one for my son to use) plus one that I got for my sister,which has my Google set as a second account. So if I installed it on all three it might be worth it. Went to Chameleon's website and looked around, there are some Widgets that users have made and instructions to make your own. It looks like simple ones are just copy and paste, but I am not a coder by any means.
By the way we have the same devices. Started with the streak, got as far as unbranding it to get the gb update from dell.
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Thanks for reply, I might wait and see what happens. I paid $15.00 for spb shell and haven't used it lately. I have two touchpads (one for my son to use) plus one that I got for my sister,which has my Google set as a second account. So if I installed it on all three it might be worth it. Went to Chameleon's website and looked around, there are some Widgets that users have made and instructions to make your own. It looks like simple ones are just copy and paste, but I am not a coder by any means.
By the way we have the same devices. Started with the streak, got as far as unbranding it to get the gb update from dell.
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Yeah I also made the mistake of paying for SPB Shell and don't like the inability to add what I want on some screens.... also trying TSF Shell
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My plan is to just wake it out hopefully this becomes big enough so that devs out there make these Widgets
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My plan is to just wake it out hopefully this becomes big enough so that devs out there make these Widgets
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There is a thread started for this.Hopefully some development starts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893850
From what I can tell from the forums on Chameleons site is, the widget is a web page in a window. If I am correct then it would be about useless unless you are connected to internet.
Yeah Chamelon is rather craptastic. I had such high hopes for it, all the widgets are essentially web pages and the ones that come with it are less than stellar nor configuratble.(all widgets have a grotesque bored of some sort) And the g+ and gmail widgets are basically them getting and delivering instead of just allowing native.(meaning you have to auth them to access your stuff to display) all the widgets that you can make dont run local unless you setup your own webserver. The location changes can easy be accomplished via Tasker. AND to top that off you cant even use normal system widgets or generic app widgets that ALL android launchers support.
BasicallyI'm having buyers/donaters remorse of 10$ for such a **** launcher and i'll just stick with zeam.
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Yeah Chamelon is rather craptastic. I had such high hopes for it, all the widgets are essentially web pages and the ones that come with it are less than stellar nor configuratble.(all widgets have a grotesque bored of some sort) And the g+ and gmail widgets are basically them getting and delivering instead of just allowing native.(meaning you have to auth them to access your stuff to display) all the widgets that you can make dont run local unless you setup your own webserver. The location changes can easy be accomplished via Tasker. AND to top that off you cant even use normal system widgets or generic app widgets that ALL android launchers support.
BasicallyI'm having buyers/donaters remorse of 10$ for such a **** launcher and i'll just stick with zeam.
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The next update ver. 1.1 supports regular widgets
Not entriely sure how I ended up to this part of HTC's page (I think I was looking for news on HTCSense.com) but I found this info guide about HTC Sense & it's features.
I knew about a lot of these features already but I didn't know about the gesture controls, pure reading mode, some HTC Mail app functionality & HTC Task's syncing fuction.
Just when I thought I had it all figured out. You learn something new everyday.
http://www.htc.com/www/htc-sense/
link task to contact
I did not realize that we could attach a task to a contact or a location.
The way it works is the next time the person calls you get a message to complete the task. Same with attaching a task to a location. The next time you are near the chosen location you get a task reminder to ex. "pick up water filter" Kinda cool.
I like it when I find out more and more about my phone. Learning everything right away makes it boring.
I forgot about all the flip features, haven't used them since my tp2. And the 2 finger mail feature life saver! Thank you
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And yet they don't have font customization.
Ever since the last update my stock Evo takes about 10 seconds to open messages or contacts, smart dial doesn't hardly work because of the lag, thinking about factory resetting to see if that fixes it, doesn't do it all the time though.
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I like it when I find out more and more about my phone. Learning everything right away makes it boring.
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True, it's like your phone gets a second wind. I've been using the features well since the find.
I've been good at making a habit of using the new features.