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Will someone develop a Sense-like ROM, once development gets underway for the Photon? I really liked Sense, but did not like the 3vo's sound/speaker quality. I would love a sense ROM on the Photon.
Is it possible to strip the sense interface from 3vo and stick it on the Photon? Will this only be possible if bootloader is cracked or would it be possible with root only?
Sorry if the question is redundant or too simplistic for this forum.
Thanks.
kimmied2000 said:
noob question...
Will someone develop a Sense-like ROM, once development gets underway for the Photon? I really liked Sense, but did not like the 3vo's sound/speaker quality. I would love a sense ROM on the Photon.
Is it possible to strip the sense interface from 3vo and stick it on the Photon? Will this only be possible if bootloader is cracked or would it be possible with root only?
Sorry if the question is redundant or too simplistic for this forum.
Thanks.
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it can be done but why? it's like a beautiful woman with a snaggletooth she's perfect till she smiles and ruins everything...
I honestly don't understand why everyone raves about sense. Yeah, its pretty, but never really added any functionality for me. I had an evo, and had a Evo Shift and the first chance I had to dump sense, I did.
I loved touchwiz on my epic, because it was basically just stock, tweaked a little.
To me HTC Sense is bloated and unnecessary. When you can't do certain things in sense that you can in stock android, it seems pointless.
Also, I don't know why everyone hates on blur. I know the old blur sucked, but whatever Ninja or Ghost blur the photon is running I absolutely LOVE.
@randomrobbi - "When you can't do certain things in sense that you can in stock android, it seems pointless"...maybe I missed something...what can't you do with sense that you can with stock?
The thing I miss most about sense is the widgets, especially the email one. It would show unread push email from several accounts including an exchange account and gmail. I liked that it would show the unread count immediately like photon does for voicemail.
I also liked the unlock screen where you could drag the slider circle to one of 4 apps that you want to use immediately.
And, yes, it was pretty. Couldn't a sense ROM have the bloatware stripped from it so that wouldn't be an issue?
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@randomrobbi - "When you can't do certain things in sense that you can in stock android, it seems pointless"...maybe I missed something...what can't you do with sense that you can with stock?
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I guess I misspoke about that. It's just harder to carry out some actions in sense, as compared to stock android. Like hitting dialer, and being able to easily access your starred contacts. I just felt like Sense added alot of extra steps to simple actions. I guess i'm just biased, but the first android I owned was an HTC Hero, which I never rooted or put a rom on. I didnt keep it long and went back to my blackberry. I've just always been more a fan of AOSP Android.
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I also liked the unlock screen where you could drag the slider circle to one of 4 apps that you want to use immediately.
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kimmie...try out THIS lockscreen. Same as the Sense one Agile Lock Screen
Also...I miss the Sense 3.0 Notification bar. Effin amazing. Has tons of toggles, quick access to apps, etc. Was so convenient & slick.
I'm sure I'm also in the minority but I happen to really like Sense, both visually and from an ease of use standpoint when setting up new devices. That said, I often turn a lot of those things off, or flip back and forth between various launchers but I still miss it sometimes. DEFINITELY agree about the Notifications, those are just the way I'd like them to be.
I'd love to see an installable Sense but it seems pretty deeply entangled in the rest of the system, just like Blur, so I dont know how well it'd work as a standalone.
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I'm sure I'm also in the minority but I happen to really like Sense, both visually and from an ease of use standpoint when setting up new devices. That said, I often turn a lot of those things off, or flip back and forth between various launchers but I still miss it sometimes. DEFINITELY agree about the Notifications, those are just the way I'd like them to be.
I'd love to see an installable Sense but it seems pretty deeply entangled in the rest of the system, just like Blur, so I dont know how well it'd work as a standalone.
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Im coming out of the closet too. I love the build and accessories of the Photon but im so damn used to Sense. Its like driving home from work, sure there are many ways but after awhile you find and get used to the fastest and easiest way home. Vogue, TP, TP2, Evo 4G and Evo 3D...currently Photon. Some days I forget how to get home.
Oh how about a touchwiz 4.0 like rom I really do miss my quick panel in the notification bar it was really handy :/
With the HTC Sense api recently available, i am sure that someone will start creating widgets and icons etc for other non-sense devices.
hmmm that didn't sound right, oh well, hope you guys know what I mean. lol
TS out
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Im coming out of the closet too. I love the build and accessories of the Photon but im so damn used to Sense. Its like driving home from work, sure there are many ways but after awhile you find and get used to the fastest and easiest way home. Vogue, TP, TP2, Evo 4G and Evo 3D...currently Photon. Some days I forget how to get home.
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Ifeel the same, I love the Motorola Photon... better speaker, better signal strength, call quality is better also... It just seems to be a little stronger over all.... But I miss the Sense 3.0. Sense is fluid with no lag.
The Motorola Blur has a slight delay when switching back and forth between home screens. I used to miss the graphical HTC widgets, but i have beautiful widgets for that so i am not realy missing anything. I just miss the speed and fluidness of Sense technology.
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Ifeel the same, I love the Motorola Photon... better speaker, better signal strength, call quality is better also... It just seems to be a little stronger over all.... But I miss the Sense 3.0. Sense is fluid with no lag.
The Motorola Blur has a slight delay when switching back and forth between home screens. I used to miss the graphical HTC widgets, but i have beautiful widgets for that so i am not realy missing anything. I just miss the speed and fluidness of Sense technology.
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The Delay can be removed with the super charger script, my buddy's Photon is now just about as smooth/quick as my Syngery Evo
The delay can be removed by adding launcher pro, turning off screen animations and putting all speed at 10... fastest phone out there then, faster and smoother than evo 3d.. i know because ive owned both lol
Edit: i know a lot of people prefer adw or GO but i dig LauncherPro.. also dont care about the updates as much because cool thing about blur is that you can use the widgets still once the overlay is installed, unlike sense.
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The delay can be removed by adding launcher pro, turning off screen animations and putting all speed at 10... fastest phone out there then, faster and smoother than evo 3d.. i know because ive owned both lol
Edit: i know a lot of people prefer adw or GO but i dig LauncherPro.. also dont care about the updates as much because cool thing about blur is that you can use the widgets still once the overlay is installed, unlike sense.
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What the hell are you doing back here? According to your thread in the 3d forums, this phone is a piece of ****. However your info about launcher pro and the settings is correct.
I don't understand the hate for the M.A.P. launcher I actually dig it
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Try Launcher Pro as the launcher, register it for the senselike social widget, and get Weather & Toggle Widgets and tbe weather widget forecast addon for your flip clock. This makes for a NICE senselike alternative.
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Oh how about a touchwiz 4.0 like rom I really do miss my quick panel in the notification bar it was really handy :/
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I think any phone with ClockworkMod Recovery can flash TW 4.0. It said that on the homepage awhile ago. Go to the Galaxy S i9000 forums in the Themes and Apps section and one of them is flashable I think and works on any device.
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I think any phone with ClockworkMod Recovery can flash TW 4.0. It said that on the homepage awhile ago. Go to the Galaxy S i9000 forums in the Themes and Apps section and one of them is flashable I think and works on any device.
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Dude remember how unstable it was on our EPICS? I wonder if it has gotten any better though
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I honestly don't understand why everyone raves about sense. Yeah, its pretty, but never really added any functionality for me. I had an evo, and had a Evo Shift and the first chance I had to dump sense, I did.
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I used to be a sense guy too.. I mean.. compared to stock android... it blows it out of the water... After getting the Evo I got my wife a Samsung Moment... I upgraded it to 2.2 but I never saw stock android before... I thought it was still 1.5 or something because I couldn't believe stock android looked that bad...
Stock android is ugly as sin.. and the widgets are less than ****.
But then I found Launcher Pro and its "almost-like-sense" widgets for calendar and facebook and I've never looked back. I loved Evo Deck on my Evo and Evo Shift Deck on my wifes phone because it is CM7 with ADW Craplauncher removed and LP added... a much better choice I must say.
LP's widgets are the only thing close to Sense's widgets so until another launcher starts pushing good widgets... I'll never leave.
So to answer the OP... Launcher Pro is the only Sense-like option you have... combined with Fancy Widgets for the flip clock (its the only one that does auto-update of weather based on GPS.)
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as it relates to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1014003, i'm now asking the opposite. which features/apps/overall experiences do you like about sense?
i didn't wanna take the other thread too off topic and debate why one specific app sucks and start to argue over it. i'd like purely positive feedback about which aspects of sense you like directly vs any other UI you've used (blur, touchwiz, vanilla, etc)
i'm not doing any research for any particular company or anything like that, just my personal curiosity.
Well lets start off with where I came from. My first Android phone was the Droid 2. I don't know if anyone has seen but the Droid 2 has a rediculous Motoblur UI. The one thing I noticed right off the bat was how "Laggy" it was. The first chance I had I rooted it and installed the first ROM I could that stripped all the Motoblur and the phone ran much, much better. Not to mention that most of the blur crap was completely useless (Yes cause I need a widget that lets me post to facebook, wait theres an app for that? <.<).
Ok so you know my feelings on Motoblur so first chance I had I jumped ship to an HTC phone which was luckily the Thunderbolt. The second I booted the phone I saw all the sense stuff and I was like oh here we go again, but I decided I would try it out for a bit. And well, suprisingly, I loved it! The sense widgets are actually useful (Calender, Music, FM radio) and the phone runs extremely smooth with the sense. I actually took my time and waited for a good rooting method since other than the bloatware the phone was basically perfect.
Okay well I know that wasn't what you were asking but I have been dieing to get that off my chest ever since I bought this phone. So now to the things I like.
Notification bar looks pretty good.
Messaging and phone apps are pretty decent.
You can change themes (Somewhat) by just switching skins which is built into the phone.
Lock screen has plenty of use.
It runs smooth as butter, no real modifications needed.
Thats all I can think of for now but on the contrary there is no real reason I have for leaving Sense, I use Das BAMF which adds the features I want with sense integrated. I think its perfect.... For me.
I've always liked sense, even when I was on Windows Mobile.
It runs smooth, its well polished, has pretty decent support from HTC. I think the interface is one of the best, and can be customized to my taste pretty nicely.
I've used other launchers, SPB Shell, etc. But I always come back to Sense
1. Sense calendar app is much better than touchwiz. You can actually click a phone number in a conference call meeting request and have the phone dial.
2. The exchange integration is also quite a bit better. Meeting requests show full details and give you a heads up if you are already booked for a given time slot.
3. Flip for speaker phone and ringer silence is pretty awesome.
4. Scenes/skins are okay, i don't use them too much, but it's nice to be able to ditch all the work related widgets/apps on the weekends.
5. I personally like recent apps in the notification shade, but i know some people hate it.
6. Calendar/messaging/clock widgets are really nice, love the live weather.
7. auto increase of ringtone volume when the phone is in a pocket is pretty awesome.
8. lock screen message preview is cool as are the stock lock screen music controls
9. dark notification bar (hate the old school ASOP)
This is definitely the best android phone i have ever used and i have used plenty.
I have always felt the need for cyanogenmod on every phone i have owned.
The sense 3.0 gives me everything I could ask for.
The quick settings on the notification bar are awesome and I love the way they incorporated it.
Honestly the only reason I feel I would need root is for tethering.
Other than that there really isn't a thing I would want to change except maybe a little theming.
Overall I give this phone a perfect 10
I'd love to see the iphone 5 or any other android phone dare to step up.
Htc owns
Good job htc for listening to people. I have never liked sense until now and always chose pure android.
As far as the bootloader I am a little upset but I have faith in everyone at xda
And even htc possibly coming through with their promise.
All they need is a nexus one style unlockable bootloader.
That will cover their asses and please the dev community at the same time.
Nobody has anything to lose by doing this especially with such a solid device.
Anybody else agree or disagree?
I agree. I just want root for the ability to run apps that require root. This sense 3.0 is awesome. I ran the kingdom port on my OG EVO and it wasn't even close to being as smoothe.
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Custom kernals would be nice also lol
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Agreed. I'm greatly looking forward to rooting and custom roms, but this is the first phone in ~8 years that I'd still be happy with it I had to leave it 100% stock.
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Agreed. I'm greatly looking forward to rooting and custom roms, but this is the first phone in ~8 years that I'd still be happy with it I had to leave it 100% stock.
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Totally agree, not missing CM all that bad like I thought I would have. I wish htc would make the choice to have a % for the batt. Need some UOT kitchen love once we get root.
Yea i don't mind being stock right now either since root was to install sense 3.0 anyway. I know cm7 will be unbelievably fast though when it is on this thing lol.
I have to agree i really like 3.0 but i feel that we still need root because i like to remove system apps like friend stream and amazon ect . Also like over clocking the cpu and the wireless tether. I think xda really makes the phone with the great community.But over all the 3d is a really great phone 3.0 is great and super fast ! And battery life seems alot better on the 3d then it was on the evo 4g. Im loving this phone ! but without root and xda it might just have to go back to sprint !
Even though the phone runs great now, and sense 3.0 is good, imagine how a cleaned up version of sense 3.0 with no bloatware will run especially overclocked.
It's great how it is but I like custom roms and to try cool dev work. Let's not forget ice cream! We would be the first to have it!
they did a great job with this phone...Just wish we got a beefier speaker and it would be 100% perfection for me..As it stands now Im going to need a bluetooth in my truck...
This phone is definitely the cats tits....Love it
I payed $7 for titanium backup l, I'd like to still use it.
Also being able to removed Amazon mp3 and a few other bloat would be nice, also kernels. Im sure ill be itching to flash something soon.
sense 3.0 is win pure and simple i have not even looked at adw or launcher pro on my e3d
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sense 3.0 is win pure and simple i have not even looked at adw or launcher pro on my e3d
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Yeah, the wow-factor finally wore off this morning. It's still sense, it just spins a little more. The app drawer still chronically blows, it's still a resource hog, and the sexyness of the widgets wears off after a day or so...
I tried old reliable Launcher Pro.... it was as to be expected....screamin', but the app drawer stuttered every few rows while scrolling....which was enough to irritate me.
ADWex on the other hand....which while always excellent was never quite up to par with LP's silky smoothness now is a model of perfection that LP is going to have to chase down to get back on top....
I'll put it this way, cm7 w/ LP on my 4G runs as fast and smooth in some ways and faster and smoother in other ways as my 3D running Sense, and it takes a whole extra overclocked evo4g worth of hardware to do that.
I gotta admit, I was a 3D hater...but I do enjoy the 3D feature....I've been draining my battery over and over again taking and viewing 3D pix and vids....I gotta admit, it's a very very fun feature....though I totally do not see 3D in that spiderman game
The phone is great, but those HTC geeks forgot to put speaker holes on the back cover so sound can come through better.
So your not liking launcher pro,adw etc vs sense?
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I gotta admit, I was a 3D hater...but I do enjoy the 3D feature....I've been draining my battery over and over again taking and viewing 3D pix and vids....I gotta admit, it's a very very fun feature....though I totally do not see 3D in that spiderman game
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3D is definitely cooler than I expected. I see the depth in Spiderman just fine.. did you notice the in-game 3D adjustment? You can actually adjust the amount of depth.
Also, once I got all the settings right LPP runs excellent but sense is such a ram glutton regardless. I'm really just playing so far, not going to settle in too deep until we have root.
I don't know...I gave up sense long ago on my evo but sense 3 is damn sexy. I'm not tired of it yet. The widgets look great with that 3d effect and scrolling is smooth for me.
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I don't know...I gave up sense long ago on my evo but sense 3 is damn sexy. I'm not tired of it yet. The widgets look great with that 3d effect and scrolling is smooth for me.
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3D Widgets?? Watchoo talking bout, Willis?
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3D Widgets?? Watchoo talking bout, Willis?
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Turn the page slowly, and you'll see the Widgets pop out at ya. Its subtle, and probably wouldn't see it if you're scrolling pages quickly.
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Turn the page slowly, and you'll see the Widgets pop out at ya. Its subtle, and probably wouldn't see it if you're scrolling pages quickly.
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Ah, yeah it's about time they polished sense up a bit. It would be cool to see actual 3d transitions and other ui elements, the htc messaging and mail widgets would be cool.
So I've come to a delimma.
Sooner or later, there will be an official port for CM9 or AOKP for the Evo LTE.
I had an OG evo for 2 years, and never really liked sense. Even when Sense 3.0 came out, I liked the ring lockscreen and the fact that you could drag a new message to the ring to open it etc... But I always found the sense 3.0 ports to the OG Evo to be half baked, or slow/laggy.
I stuck true to Evo Deck, and when he started developing the ICS deck, I kept up with it, as well as AOKP.
After using my Evo LTE for a week, I've grown to like sense 4. I really like the lockscreen features, specifically the dragging message feature. I find that sense 4.0, true to it's theory of development, is much less obtrusive than sense 3.0, but deep down I still have a yearning for pure google, the true ICS flavor (or at least AOKP, same flavor, but with sprinkles.)
I know that the lockscreen shortcuts can be emulated with a quad or octo lockscreen, but what about the sliding message feature?
What are your guys' thoughts on the matter?
Who's going to stick with HTC's sense when CM9 or AOKP (or even Kush's ROM if he's making it own, haven't kept up with it recently) come or, and who's going to jump ship to a non-sense rom and why?
I'm excited to hear what everyone else thinks!
Have you looked at go locker? Or widget locker? Those two have some nice features that emulate the sense lockscreen and are nice when you run aosp and aokp.
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Hmm, I don't generally like using third party lockscreens, in my experience they're pretty buggy and don't mesh well with the os, a lot of blinking out when you unlock lag, re-locks etc
get a nexus LOL .
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CM9 all the way as soon as it's released. I actually had a hard time deciding between this and the Galaxy Nexus but I couldn't pass up on the specs of this thing.
Cm9 allllll the way... As long as all the camera functions get ported over.
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so is ANYONE sticking with sense?
I also noticed that google wallet doesn't work with rooted phones....
I'll go back and forth between the two. I love sense4 but it's glitchy.
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so is ANYONE sticking with sense?
I also noticed that google wallet doesn't work with rooted phones....
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I tried setting up Google Wallet today just for the hell of it and it just wouldn't work. I think it's because I have 2-step verification enabled on my account. Doesn't matter, I never really planned on using it anyway except maybe to spend the $10 they give you for signing up. There are about 4 different mobile payment methods that are all supported by different companies (almost none of which support Google Wallet) I have a feeling it's not going to survive very long anyway. Even the GNex on Verizon doesn't have it installed because Verizon supports a different payment method.
As for Sense, it was useful on earlier versions of Android to make things a little prettier and more user friendly. Matias Duarte and his team have done a great job to address that and now I just feel it gets in the way. Think of what you have to go through just to change the wallpaper. On stock ICS you long press on the screen and choose change wallpaper. On this you pull down the notification tray>settings>personalize>wallpaper. It's just not intuitive and simple like it should be.
Another thing that bothers me is the recent apps. It seems like they changed some stuff just for the sake of changing it and have a worse implementation of it.
I personally have always preferred Sense or Sense based ROMs. Could never get into the vanilla experience on a phone it just looks so "8 bit" to me. I'll definitely be keeping Sense 4, love the look and functionality.
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I personally have always preferred Sense or Sense based ROMs. Could never get into the vanilla experience on a phone it just looks so "8 bit" to me. I'll definitely be keeping Sense 4, love the look and functionality.
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There in lies the beauty of Android, everyone can have exactly what they like. Take for instance the roms for the OG EVO by MagnusRagnarok, I always felt they were way over the top but there are a lot of people who liked them. I personally always defaulted to either CM7 or Fresh roms. I do feel that ICS is quite beautiful in it's elegance though, much more so than earlier versions of Android. It's not handicapped like iOS but still very intuitive.
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There in lies the beauty of Android, everyone can have exactly what they like. Take for instance the roms for the OG EVO by MagnusRagnarok, I always felt they were way over the top but there are a lot of people who liked them. I personally always defaulted to either CM7 or Fresh roms. I do feel that ICS is quite beautiful in it's elegance though, much more so than earlier versions of Android. It's not handicapped like iOS but still very intuitive.
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This is what matters is to keep what you said in mind. For example I like to try the newest thing but I got the EVO over the nexus for sense. That way I could play with the newest thing but always go back to sense.
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I've never flashed ROMs before and initially I loved Sense, however the issues with multitasking and Sense reboots is driving me insane!
Nova Launchers is helping, but I think I'll be trying a ROM, but only if it's fully functional.
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so is ANYONE sticking with sense?
I also noticed that google wallet doesn't work with rooted phones....
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I will stick with sense as I have not had the issues others have had. (Multitask, lag, etc..) Sense seems to run fine for me, hell it's a phone..
Also I have rooted my phone and google wallet works just fine. It did take me many attempts to get my 10$ credit but it seems to wkr fine. the issue I have is I never take my phone with me into stores, etc... so I haven't tested it yet...
I am going to get some (already ordered) some NFC tags so I can play with that seems kewl..
http://tagsfordroid.com/tags/Home.html
Also I really love the camera on this phone and all the functions. It's pretty awesome!
I will hang on to sense for a while until CM9 is fully vetted...and seems stable then I will probably try it...
So far so good... my friends are jealous!
For anyone who hasn't tried it yet the sense 4 car dock is arguably the best car dock I've used.
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I've always used Sense. I want to like stock and it is getting better but I still feel it is just a little behind UI wise.
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Thanks for the good discussion! I'm still on the OG EVO, running SOS ROM. Swagstr has done wonders to make Sense 1.0 run as it should but what I'm hearing regarding sense 4.0 just bugs me. Multitasking is something I use a lot of and sense restarts have always plagued me. I love the scenes in sense, use one for home and one for work and generally like the polish it brings. Hate the laggy aspects as well.
I love the new EVO hardware and while I was tempted to go with the GNex, it's just too dated now. If it wasn't for the multitasking screw up, I'd be picking one up today. In the meantime, I'm reading reviews and seeing what the Devs have in store.
A couple of questions:
What are the opinions on multitasking? I switch from Touchdown to Enhanced Email, to Voice, Pulse, Handcent almost constantly during the day. This sounds like a hair pulling situation in Sense 4.
Sense restarts? I know it's a sure thing to restart if too many browser tabs are open, but I also get it if I switch from Pulse to browser or another app a few too many times. Are people seeing frequent restarts?
Thanks again!
I haven't used sense in over a year. I use widget locker for the lockscreen, nova launcher for the launcher, beautiful widgets for the time/weather on the home screen. Even use a different dialer - dialer one, which allows way more customization than the stock.
IMO, sense does nothing more than dumb down the phone. If you want a dumb phone, go iphone
The pic below with the clock at the top is my home screen. Clock at the bottom is the lock screen. Everything right where I need it.
I've always liked sense best because I didn't really like the look of stock android, but now ICS went better on the UI side. I still think I like sense 4 better though.
I actually liked Sense as well. Even though I rooted my OG EVO to get superuser stuff and wi-fi tether, I stuck with sense.
Sense 4 looked very nice BUT it was reloading constantly. Every time i exited an app.
There are several root-required tweeks I have seen that are supposed to help this, but I'm not sure how much you can do as much memory as Sense is taking up.
For now problem solved with Nova Launcher, which I think I will keep even after I decide to Root & ROM - Very interested in what is going on with Viper's custom ROM myself.
Also, if you want to try a different phone dialer, check out aTakephone, just like my old Treo!
If u could make a Rom for EVO LTE exactly how u wanted what would u include? I'm talking straight features, not theming and all that
although it is cool.
My Rom would obviously have the apple patent restored off top just to say fu to apple. I'd also have a fix for multitasking and keep sense (happen to like sense) if I could. It may be too hard to fix the multitasking without doing away with sense 4.
And what else, let's see.... Minimal OS to limit the amount of RAM used up like sense 4/ics does. U also have to do away with bloatware like Facebook, Twitter, google plus etc. and the like. If u want it u can dwnld it later right?
I'd also have a modified auto brightness setting that uses less backlight to save more juice. Also make it so that when u disable a process it actually disables. Same goes for the WiFi options not doing what they say they do and are flat broke.
Viperboy is known to come out with some awesome mods/roms. I'd like to improve 3g speeds if possible similar to what he's made before on earlier androids. Also a SBC kernel. I know that won't work on sense, but maybe one day.
Would make both the sd and ext sd accessible by computer and selecting disk drive.
I guess overall I really want a stable Rom that pushes the EVO to its limits but keeps good battery life. I've flashed countless roms that are very cool on paper, but they crash a lot. And I hate reloads/reboots more than anything.
So, what's your ideal Rom? Be interesting to see what devs would say to this. Who knows, maybe your ideas will be used to make a new Rom!
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sounds like your dream rom is CM9!
on my epic I liked the tweaks of the aokp rom except cm9 seemed more stable.
I would like to get rid of sense myself and go pure ics.
CM9 or AOKP with Sense widgets and Sense camera functionality preserved.
"CM9 or AOKP with Sense widgets and Sense camera functionality preserved." 
That would be the perfect Rom
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CM9 or AOKP with Sense widgets and Sense camera functionality preserved.
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Yes this. Everything working.
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CM9 or AOKP with Sense widgets and Sense camera functionality preserved.
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Definitely the sense widgets are the main thing that keeps me on sense otherwise I absolutely love aokp and cm9
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skw5115 said:
Definitely the sense widgets are the main thing that keeps me on sense otherwise I absolutely love aokp and cm9
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Yes sense widgets.
ICS Contact manager, I hate the sense one built in.
AOKP pull down menu with LTE toggle. The WiMax toggle doesn't work on the Epic 4G.
MIUI dialer answer screen.
Im such a n00b I just learned to spell n00b (previously spelled noob)... would it be possible for a ROM or CM9 to make wimax available?? OG EVO was so much better on data. Or is it just a hardware issue? Yes Im a n00b
I'm pretty n00bish, but I've been using vipers ROM (1st and only so far) and it's pretty awesome! I added a few other mods/tweaks and my 1st two battery cycles went 28 and 41 hours. I was amazed. It sounds like I need to do some reading up on CM9.
jeffa187 said:
Im such a n00b I just learned to spell n00b (previously spelled noob)... would it be possible for a ROM or CM9 to make wimax available?? OG EVO was so much better on data. Or is it just a hardware issue? Yes Im a n00b
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Nope ..there's no way that the LTE will ever pick up at wimax signal..its hardware related ..WiMAX and LTE are different 4g tech's requiring different radios..and like said b4 a aosp Rom with sense widgets and camera make me drool..wonder if its possible..that would be sick
Tested out viper Rom some before I took my 1st LTE EVO back for bricking NFC. Liked it quite a bit. Haven't rooted my exchange yet. Kinda scared to mess around with google wallet anymore, well, when rooted anyways.
There's no big hurry for me to root at the moment, although a cm9 Rom with sense widgets would probably push me over the edge, again, lol.
Treat this phone like such a baby when I treated the og EVO like a faithful dog. Always knew it would snap back. More worried with this silly secure element crap. Wouldn't be so much if it hadn't happened to me.
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I've noticed a few petty complaints about the phone, and they are all pointing fingers in the wrong direction. The phone itself is great. It's the software.
The software is crashing my phone more than my og Evo. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. This phone has double the ram of the OG EVO so, it's definitely not the hardware.
Also, Sense has to be the culprit for killing multitasking. There's some ROMS out there that can be flashed on the Evo LTE, that eliminate this problem. Another Sense disappointment.
And last but not least. The look and feel of sense is beginning to look and feel very dated. This is why people are going crazy over dev support, right now.
I'm not a HTC Sense hater, but they definitely need to change it up asap. If I were them I would just put out a, high end pure Google Android device and start from scratch.
Maybe, put a scrolling setting tool bar, that scroll left to right on top of the screen, instead of a drag down bar. Change the flip clock its old and boring now. I had that on my HTC Mogul! It's time to change the game up. And I think it's about that time
Certainly wish it was a bit more polished. Wasn't there something floating around awhile back that they only had 4 months to make sense 4 with ICS?
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i have to agree. sense is not bad, just not as smooth and fast as vanilla android. infact its quite slow so such amazing hardware. i check the forum a few times a day for a working version of cm9 or 10 only to be disapointed everytime.
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Certainly wish it was a bit more polished. Wasn't there something floating around awhile back that they only had 4 months to make sense 4 with ICS?
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That may be true. I think I can recall seeing a article about that.
I'm running sense 4 on my 3d, and I have to say that sense 4 is amazing. If you want a change then go with a different phone. I'm not saying that sense doesn't have minor bugs, because it does. But if you're looking for a different look and feel then change it up a bit.
But I like my Sense 4.
I love Sense, although I'm hoping Jelly Bean will make performance and stability improvements, of course. It does crash and restart for me, but rarely. It might be the ROM and apps you've loaded that are causing these issues, along with flashed mods, and so forth. Every time these things are done, increases the chances of destabilizing the platform. This is a part of the game that should be embraced.
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kiewee3 said:
I'm running sense 4 on my 3d, and I have to say that sense 4 is amazing. If you want a change then go with a different phone. I'm not saying that sense doesn't have minor bugs, because it does. But if you're looking for a different look and feel then change it up a bit.
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That's definitely not out the question. Once you've been loyal to a company since the HTC Mogul, then you may find it just a little bit harder to leave from a hardware standpoint. Like I said Sense isn't bad. It's just buggy and dated.
If Sense is the same during my next upgrade, I'm definitely jumping to another phone. Sad to say.
And yes thanks to this XDA I can change it up a bit. This site has a hand in what a lot of the consumers buy, believe it or not, just because of the hard work of these Devs do to bring longevity to our phones. They spoiled us.
My reasoning now is for the users who don't root. It's a struggle right now.
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I love Sense, although I'm hoping Jelly Bean will make performance and stability improvements, of course. It does crash and restart for me, but rarely. It might be the ROM and apps you've loaded that are causing these issues, along with flashed mods, and so forth. Every time these things are done, increases the chances of destabilizing the platform. This is a part of the game that should be embraced.
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Yeah, hopefully jelly bean iron some things out.
As far as the crashes, im pretty positive its sense. I have no widgets beside the sense clock and power setting widget. Everything else is minor apps that control some of nothing. My only questionable app is Facebook. That app is so horrible. It does too much and hogs data like crazy. I'm always, clearing my cache on that app. And I won't decide to root, until maybe October.
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That's definitely not out the question. Once you've been loyal to a company since the HTC Mogul, then you may find it just a little bit harder to leave from a hardware standpoint. Like I said Sense isn't bad. It's just buggy and dated.
If Sense is the same during my next upgrade, I'm definitely jumping to another phone. Sad to say.
And yes thanks to this XDA I can change it up a bit. This site has a hand in what a lot of the consumers buy, believe it or not, just because of the hard work of these Devs do to bring longevity to our phones. They spoiled us.
My reasoning now is for the users who don't root. It's a struggle right now.
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I happen to love Sense and I am not rooted and never plan to. I like the iconic flip clock and believe it sets HTC apart from all the other androids out there. I do get bored with the "look" of my screens from time to time and change things up with Beautiful Widgets, themes, keyboards and the like. I wish the continuous scroll of the home screens remained (not the carousel) however. At least with Android these phones can be totally customized, which is why I could never be an iPhone user.
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I'd have to agree. I got the OG EVO on release day and absolutely loved it. Then came Gingerbread and all the sense reboots. I was hoping with this phone the sense reboots would go away, unfortunately I was wrong. It amazes me with the amount of RAM this phone has, that with very little apps installed, I only have about 200 MBs free. I ended up rooting and flashing CleanROM DE and love this EVO all over again. I just wish I wouldn't have had to root to avoid the HTC Sense reboots. I did try APEX Launcher for a bit, but noticed it would restart as well, though not quite as bad.
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I'd have to agree. I got the OG EVO on release day and absolutely loved it. Then came Gingerbread and all the sense reboots. I was hoping with this phone the sense reboots would go away, unfortunately I was wrong. It amazes me with the amount of RAM this phone has, that with very little apps installed, I only have about 200 MBs free. I ended up rooting and flashing CleanROM DE and love this EVO all over again. I just wish I wouldn't have had to root to avoid the HTC Sense reboots. I did try APEX Launcher for a bit, but noticed it would restart as well, though not quite as bad.
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I wish I wasn't scared to root as of now. I know there would probably be at least two more updates from HTC are gonna come and I'll wait until then. I was gonna try Apex but thanks for the heads up. I don't use widgets and my apps are all basic, that's why the reboots are kinda bothering me.
The best phone I've ever had or used nonetheless.
I have yet to run into any problems with Sense at all. It's elegant, slimmer than before, and adds features that people from the Windows Mobile days would consider to be basic. (Hello? It's 2012, Google. Where the hell is my T9 dialing?)
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I have yet to run into any problems with Sense at all. It's elegant, slimmer than before, and adds features that people from the Windows Mobile days would consider to be basic. (Hello? It's 2012, Google. Where the hell is my T9 dialing?)
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This. I haven't had any lockups or freezes yet, and Sense runs better than I've ever seen it run on a phone before. Everything is smooth and aesthetically pleasing.
Are you guys with no problems, rooted?
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Are you guys with no problems, rooted?
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I was stock the entire time I had my first Evo LTE. That was for about a month and a half and I didn't have any problems. Got my new Evo yesterday (I had a radio issue that required a replacement) and rooted it because I had to start from scratch anyway. No issues rooted either.
Actually HTC Sense this year looks nice IMO. I really like the way the dock looks. One thing i dont like is the locksceen, as i fee the stock one looks best. There are some thing i wish google would incorporate into the next OS. The way HTC handles adding things to your home screens is MUCH faster than stock aosp. In stock, you have to do it one by one, or at least slowly. On sense, you do it much faster and can even add multiple widgets. Also, if u run out of space sense automatically makes a new homescreen for you. I also like the quicksettings menu (even though HTC took it off i think).
I haven't had one problem since I got the phone on launch day. With sense or anything else.
Love this device!
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I like Sense 4.0 a lot; I believe it's the best UI skin out there as far as what comes from the manufacturers. I like the widgets and the unified look and functionality of everything. It's all very polished and professional.
The only problem I have with Sense is in the way it handles multitasking. I would love to be able to pause a game to answer a text or email, and come back to where I was without the game fully reloading. Or keep 2 or 3 browser tabs open without everything reloading when I come back to it from something else. Running Nova and using less widgets helps somewhat, but you lose all the "good stuff" about Sense when you go that route. So I'm patiently waiting for a good ROM that fully addresses the memory management issues while letting Sense run to it's full potential.
I have absolutely no problems with my EVO 4G LTE. If you think Sense is the same thing it's always been, try going back and using a Sense 3 phone, like the EVO 3D. Then you'll see a difference. It's just the luster of a new product has worn off for most people. Really, most of the complaints are over petty stuff. In the end, it's a phone. It plays games well, but if you want something to do more, buy a PS3/XBOX. It plays great quality movies, but if you want something to do more, buy an HDTV. Web browsing is great on this device, but if it's still not your style, buy a laptop. Sure there's a convenience of having it all there, but really, it's time to stop being petty about the small things.