Was wondering if anyone tried this or found a smiliar fix for the stupid lockscreen blocking the wallpaper. I can tollerate or even appreciate much of everything else in this version of Sense, everything except my animated wallpaper getting blocked by this crap
try downloading from market two apps, one called no lock so u can disable the sense lockscreen then download an app called simply lockscreen, you can choose the transparency to what you want so your background will show thru, love it!
You can also use Root Explorer and delete the HTClockscreen.apk and ODEX file. You will have a transparent lockscreen with the stock ASOP sliders...
well i perma rooted phone thanx to visionary & deleted the HTCLockscreen apk & odex file.
yet I still get the lockscreen, even when i delete and immediately reboot.. THE HTCLOCKSCREEN APK & ODEX FILES COME BACK IN /system/apps !!
wtf am I doing wrong? lol - did this whole rooting thing before on older android phone yet the lockscreen that won't die is making me feel like a n00b
also read on here that Titanium Backup can also force out HTC Lockscreen to Froyo default but don't know what app name it falls under in the huge list of apps on my phone since i don't see anything obvious like "HTC Lockscreen" or anything of the sort.
G_won said:
well i perma rooted phone thanx to visionary & deleted the HTCLockscreen apk & odex file.
yet I still get the lockscreen, even when i delete and immediately reboot.. THE HTCLOCKSCREEN APK & ODEX FILES COME BACK IN /system/apps !!
wtf am I doing wrong? lol - did this whole rooting thing before on older android phone yet the lockscreen that won't die is making me feel like a n00b
also read on here that Titanium Backup can also force out HTC Lockscreen to Froyo default but don't know what app name it falls under in the huge list of apps on my phone since i don't see anything obvious like "HTC Lockscreen" or anything of the sort.
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make sure youre deleting the apk from /system/app and that youre mounted in R/W that worked for me now i have the transparent AOSP lockscreen. but understand that if you delete this apk your stock alarm wont function properly and you will have to download an aftermarket app from the market. for some reason HTC tethered the stock alarm into the HTClockscreen.apk lol so it goes off when its set to go off but you cant dismiss the alarm afterwards lol
Is there any way to make it NOT be transparent but rather with a black background, (or possibly other configurable setting, such as settings -> personalize -> lockscreen background)? The transparency looks not so good as the desktop widgets come through and the texts overlay one another.
I renamed the HtcLockScreen.apk (I have the deodexed ice glacier rom) in /system/app but ended up putting it back because it caused me to have convulsions for it to be transparent.
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make sure youre deleting the apk from /system/app and that youre mounted in R/W
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lol yes yes and yes i have R/W mounted in the root folder (otherwise it wouldn't let me delete anything lol). and i do go in that exact folder and for the moment those two files are deleted
yet the moment turn screen off and bring it back up... there's the dreadful lock screen of HTC's even tho the files are deleted. and upon rebooting the phone (hard or quick reboot) they magically appear
is everyone who deleted these two files with success using a secondary ROM? Because I'm still on the default ROM since.. well I still like much of the default ROM outside of course... this cursed lockscreen
You have s=off ? If you don't, even though you're remounting /system as rw, it might not be writing back out to flash memory if s=on. Just a thought.
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lol yes yes and yes i have R/W mounted in the root folder (otherwise it wouldn't let me delete anything lol). and i do go in that exact folder and for the moment those two files are deleted
yet the moment turn screen off and bring it back up... there's the dreadful lock screen of HTC's even tho the files are deleted. and upon rebooting the phone (hard or quick reboot) they magically appear
is everyone who deleted these two files with success using a secondary ROM? Because I'm still on the default ROM since.. well I still like much of the default ROM outside of course... this cursed lockscreen
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You have s=off ? If you don't, even though you're remounting /system as rw, it might not be writing back out to flash memory if s=on. Just a thought.
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more then a mere thought, it's the fix that finally works!
went through all these steps except the visionary stuff that I already did to get root and after deleting those two HTCLockscreen files & rebooting, whala!
of course I'm now seeing the issue folks was talking about with seeing the homescreen icons/widgets through the lockscreen but i feel like progress was made still. thanks all!
How can you hide the homescreen icons, dock, and activities from the clear sliding lock acreen after deleting the htclockscreen file?
not sure about Espresso/Stock but on the Desire HD and Desire Z ROMs the only thing that shows through is the wallpaper (static or LWP whatever you have set), no icons or widgets.
Well those phones arent the one with the issue, the g2 has the stock lockscreen I want.
I deleted the htclockscreen.apk but not the htclockscreen.odex and I do get the transparent lockscreen with the sliders people mention, (idk what's the point of deleting the odex file if it works fine by just deleting the apk) I also get the icons, widgets etc. being displayed in the lockscreen as well. This is my main issue. Is there a way to fix the settings of the ASOP lockscreen that has been aquired by deleting the htclockscreen.apk? How? If not can I just flash a zip of a ASOP lockscreen instead, that way its not been modified by htc?
Did you guys see this one? I've been using it since Dec.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847714
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Well those phones arent the one with the issue, the g2 has the stock lockscreen I want.
I deleted the htclockscreen.apk but not the htclockscreen.odex and I do get the transparent lockscreen with the sliders people mention, (idk what's the point of deleting the odex file if it works fine by just deleting the apk) I also get the icons, widgets etc. being displayed in the lockscreen as well. This is my main issue. Is there a way to fix the settings of the ASOP lockscreen that has been aquired by deleting the htclockscreen.apk? How? If not can I just flash a zip of a ASOP lockscreen instead, that way its not been modified by htc?
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I wan't talking about the phones, i was talking about the ROMs that have been ported from their stock versions to run on our phones. Stock they are running HTC Sense without the TMO Espresso overlay on top of it. I was pointing out that on Stock Sense deleting the HTCLockscreen.apk it gets you have the "stock" G2/AOSP screen like what you are wanting where you can see your wallpaper image or your LWP running behind the locksliders without seeing all your icons and widgets. so if you (like myself) prefer Sense over AOSP/CM but prefer the AOSP lockscreen sliders, then switching to one of eVil D's or Gr8Gorilla's Desire HD ports or eVil D's Desire Z port will let you have exactly what you are trying to do. and it's not just this phone... my wife's phone and my backup phone the MT3G-Slide which also runs Espresso over Sense has the same issue on the stock ROM. it is an issue with Espresso.
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I wan't talking about the phones, i was talking about the ROMs that have been ported from their stock versions to run on our phones. Stock they are running HTC Sense without the TMO Espresso overlay on top of it. I was pointing out that on Stock Sense deleting the HTCLockscreen.apk it gets you have the "stock" G2/AOSP screen like what you are wanting where you can see your wallpaper image or your LWP running behind the locksliders without seeing all your icons and widgets. so if you (like myself) prefer Sense over AOSP/CM but prefer the AOSP lockscreen sliders, then switching to one of eVil D's or Gr8Gorilla's Desire HD ports or eVil D's Desire Z port will let you have exactly what you are trying to do. and it's not just this phone... my wife's phone and my backup phone the MT3G-Slide which also runs Espresso over Sense has the same issue on the stock ROM. it is an issue with Espresso.
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Did you guys see this one? I've been using it since Dec.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847714
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Thank you guys both responses are really helpful ( : I actually made a combination of both evil d's desire z port and the updated zip found on post #48 of the thread of the link provided lol,
"THANKS, worked like a charm!!! Here's the updated zip file. Attached Files Really_Trans.arrows.Lockscreen.zip (3.1 KB, 50 views)"
It works really nicely, except the lockscreen music widget is shifted to the right when music is being played when
the transparent lockscreen zip has been applied. Stock rom or port rom of desire z.
@Ravenwulf whats the difference between evil d's desire hd port and gr8gorilla's desire hd port? and whats the difference between the desire z port and desire hd port? Pros and cons?
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Thank you guys both responses are really helpful ( : I actually made a combination of both evil d's desire z port and the updated zip found on post #48 of the thread of the link provided lol,
"THANKS, worked like a charm!!! Here's the updated zip file. Attached Files Really_Trans.arrows.Lockscreen.zip (3.1 KB, 50 views)"
It works really nicely, except the lockscreen music widget is shifted to the right when music is being played when
the transparent lockscreen zip has been applied. Stock rom or port rom of desire z.
@Ravenwulf whats the difference between evil d's desire hd port and gr8gorilla's desire hd port? and whats the difference between the desire z port and desire hd port? Pros and cons?
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differences between eVil D's HD port is that it is using a newer baseband for the build and some of the themes ported for gorilla's ROM have issues with eVil's ROM. but there is a thread over on the D-HD board that has a bunch of themes/skins that work with both CAN BE FOUND HERE, just download the ones you like and install them (not flash but install using a file manager like Astro). the only major/noticeable difference between the D-HD and D-Z that I found is that the D-HD only has portrait mode for the home screen when using stock/Sense launcher (like our stock/Espresso ROM), where as the D-Z home screen will rotate between portrait and landscape depending on how you're holding the phone.
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differences between eVil D's HD port is that it is using a newer baseband for the build and some of the themes ported for gorilla's ROM have issues with eVil's ROM. but there is a thread over on the D-HD board that has a bunch of themes/skins that work with both CAN BE FOUND HERE, just download the ones you like and install them (not flash but install using a file manager like Astro). the only major/noticeable difference between the D-HD and D-Z that I found is that the D-HD only has portrait mode for the home screen when using stock/Sense launcher (like our stock/Espresso ROM), where as the D-Z home screen will rotate between portrait and landscape depending on how you're holding the phone.
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Wow that was a fast reply. I'm gonna sound like a total noob, what's baseband? Does it mean
Like signal strength? So should I use evil d's Rom instead because it'll have faster speeds?
Also I noticed gr8gorilla has the genius button app installed in his d-hd rom while the other two roms from evil d don't.
So i remember i was playing around with som roms a while back and there used to be this awesome clock app that i believe was the stock from SonofSkywalker's blackhole. What i loved about it so much was it had some interesting advanced alarms that would fade in and it had sounds like the rain and forest. I do remember it came with the phone and was not an app that i could just grab from the market. Would anyone by chance have this apk or something very similar. I dont want to grab something from the market. I kinda want to stick with more stock apps than not as I work out a couple up comming themes.
You are looking for clockpackage.apk. If you are on Froyo, then you can use the version from Adrynalyne's SuperClean thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983395 just scroll down til you see "clock package (includes infoalarm" and that will give you back the clock. Regardless, if you can get your hands on an Eclair clockpackage.apk instead, I would strongly suggest it. Eclair clockpackage works better (and works for froyo), it knows to set the day correctly when using "Repeat Only Once", Froyo one stupidly doesn't. If you still have the blackhole ROM zip file, you'll find it in the /system/app folder, just grab the clockpackage.apk there.
I installed the virus rom (which rules by the way) but there are a couple widgets that are no longer available after installing this rom.
How can I install the stock widgets that came with the phone without reverting back to a different rom?
For example; I would like to use the favorites widget and it is no longer available....the facebook friend stream is also not available....
Any suggestions? Can I just re-download the apk files somewhere and re-install them?
thanks
foos
i believe VirusRom is a senseless rom. meaning that the sense launcher(rosie) and almost everythign to do with sense has been taken out. in order to use any of the sense widgets, you would need to have rosie installed. i believe virusrom has a sense version. if you look in the VirusRom thread, i think its in the second post.
favorites
If I could just get favorites back I would be happy. I went through the rosie settings and don't see it in there.
thanks
I've seen several pictures and videos where the default dock icons for phone, contacts, messaging and apps have gotten a facelift in TW4 on the SGS2 (as shown on the Samsung promo pics). However, on mine the contacts and messaging icons are the same old as from TW3/SGS... How do I get these new icons? They look sp much better than the old ones.
I was going to ask that same question.. i don't own the phone yet, but was wondering why i keep seeing the old icons in videos. Guess they decided to stick with the old.
There was a previous thread which had a .zip file with all new TW4 icons in it, I cant find it though sorry.
If you can get a hold of those icons, you simply have to push them into the corresponding .apk.
For example putting the new icon_message into the Mms.apk and then pushing back onto phone.
The only bookmark widget I have is the Samsung one (S Bookmarks) that is a pretty crappy bookmark widget, I am trying to get the stock ICS aosp one working as its much nicer looking and allows you to scroll...
I have taken the browser.apk from FJ's "inverted_app_kit_aosp_widgets.zip" and put it in \system\app and rebooted but I still don't have it showing up in my widgets list?
Is there another part to this that i'm missing?
I am running the Stock UCLE2 leak rom from FJ, I think that somehow the update to Chrome (that now includes a bookmark widget) somehow messed this up, I have uninstalled Chrome and I still can't seem to get that widget back and working...
Just to add to this, its definitively Chrome messing this up, it overwrites the AOSP bookmarks.apk with its own, but even after uninstalling Chrome and flushing Cache and Dalvik and rebooting, I cannot get the AOSP bookmark widget to show back up. The .apk is there it just doesn't show in the widget list anymore.
Anyone know how to refresh or rebuild the items that show in the widgets?
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The only bookmark widget I have is the Samsung one (S Bookmarks) that is a pretty crappy bookmark widget, I am trying to get the stock ICS aosp one working as its much nicer looking and allows you to scroll...
I have taken the browser.apk from FJ's "inverted_app_kit_aosp_widgets.zip" and put it in \system\app and rebooted but I still don't have it showing up in my widgets list?
Is there another part to this that i'm missing?
I am running the Stock UCLE2 leak rom from FJ, I think that somehow the update to Chrome (that now includes a bookmark widget) somehow messed this up, I have uninstalled Chrome and I still can't seem to get that widget back and working...
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Any luck figuring something out for the ICS bookmark widget? I've had 0 luck as well
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Any luck figuring something out for the ICS bookmark widget? I've had 0 luck as well
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Its bookmark.apk, from AOSP, however once you install Chrome it never worked again unless I flashed a new rom. Chrome just messes it up basically...