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do you want miui on your nook? well youll either have to beg the makers of miui to make a version for the nook or make their rom opensource (i dont see that happening) or install a modified version of adw to look and act exactly like miui. its called miui.adw launcher and is a home replacement app. you can find it in the market here, http://market.android.com/details?id=org.adw.launcher.miui it may cost a few bucks but if you love miui then i might be worth it. enjoy!
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Ditto..........
From what I hear people hate miui or they love it. I for one love it... or at least the apps. The music app is the best I've seen, the contacts app is the best I've seen, the dialer is the best, lockscreen, everything. I think it's best designed mod/theme/rom for Android that there is. Might not be the most powerful, but definitely the sexiest and I'd love to have it with dalingrin's 1.3GHz overclock under the hood!
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Tritto. If i wanted an iPad, i would have bought one..
i as well as most people like the way regular android looks, but as the one guy pointed out some people love it and i posted for them.
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Tritto. If i wanted an iPad, i would have bought one..
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iPad? I think it looks more like touch wiz... but that's really only the launcher. I don't think it looks very iPhoney except the launcher. But I always install launcher pro anyways
But this is just all in my own opinion, I'm not attacking anyone, so I hope no one attacks me
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iPad? I think it looks more like touch wiz... but that's really only the launcher. I don't think it looks very iPhoney except the launcher. But I always install launcher pro anyways
But this is just all in my own opinion, I'm not attacking anyone, so I hope no one attacks me
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Not to attack you, but it has the iPhone icons...
Personally, I hate this iphone look-alike bull****. If I wanted an iPhone, I'd buy one.
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Not to attack you, but it has the iPhone icons...
Personally, I hate this iphone look-alike bull****. If I wanted an iPhone, I'd buy one.
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Which can be changed using Launcher Pro. And like I said, what I really like about Miui is the apps. Stock Android is ugly... but it gets the job done
If MIUI was just an iPhone-like launcher, it wouldn't be of much value.
What is sweet is the myriad of little details, when using third-party applications, that improve their look and feel.
I'm not sure why people like MIUI so much, I tried it on my phone and it was horrible.
I also don't get the iPhone look, seems very pointless if you're on an Android phone.
iphone sux. Ask anyone who's owned one for a few months. If they still like it, they're wrong, they just don't know themselves as well as they thought!
MIUI is a fascinating way to make an android suck too! Lol jk miui peeps.
But no crap, the MIUI apps are sooo slick. But u don't need miui to get em. The miui music player is in most of the roms I use on epic and hero.
So u CAN enjoy the sexy goodness of that music app and a few of the others, without iCRAPing all over ur desktop.
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iphone sux. Ask anyone who's owned one for a few months. If they still like it, they're wrong, they just don't know themselves as well as they thought!
MIUI is a fascinating way to make an android suck too! Lol jk miui peeps.
But no crap, the MIUI apps are sooo slick. But u don't need miui to get em. The miui music player is in most of the roms I use on epic and hero.
So u CAN enjoy the sexy goodness of that music app and a few of the others, without iCRAPing all over ur desktop.
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I like some of the features MIUI has, such as the built in theme chooser, the text popup and how the settings panel works...it looks much cleaner and is far more customizable to an end user than regular andoid.
I would love MIUI on the nook.
MIUI may be Apple-ish but it adds a number of things that's missing in Android.
It adds some needed polish. Gingerbread is better. Honeycomb is much better.
With that said I gave MIUI up after using it for weeks. I like my phones to work.
MIUI could be interesting on the Nook, This ADW theme however is not.
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MIUI may be Apple-ish but it adds a number of things that's missing in Android.
It adds some needed polish. Gingerbread is better. Honeycomb is much better.
With that said I gave MIUI up after using it for weeks. I like my phones to work.
MIUI could be interesting on the Nook, This ADW theme however is not.
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OK, i have seen this a few times now...
So, what exactly does it add that is "missing"? Frankly, i think the polish is horrible looking; so what actual functionality does it bring?
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Not to attack you, but it has the iPhone icons...
Personally, I hate this iphone look-alike bull****. If I wanted an iPhone, I'd buy one.
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...but yet, you are running MIUI on your phone.
I know a lot of people use this, it may not be on sale after today.
I got it, but honestly it takes too much work to get it the same way i have already set up Sense.
Is there an easy tutorial for this?
I prefer GO Launcher...
Go Launcher FTW
they really need to just make a sticky about these sales so people don't keep starting unnecessary new threads just on individual app sales.
I singled this app out only because it is talked about so much on here. Most of the apps aren't that interesting.
They have a "ad" for the .10 apps when you open the market!! Click on it and it will bring you to them. Not sure if there is more then just those but it has a small list of them.
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I know a lot of people use this, it may not be on sale after today.
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Thanks for posting this. I have never tried this app although I have used Launcher Pro Plus For years.
I probably won't even use it right now, but I bought it anyway just to have it.
~John
The latest updates (with the updated folders, scrolling & hideable maindock, and the visual arrange interface) are fantastic.
I love ADW because I can grab the ICS theme and with this screen... It looks AMAZING.
For the past week or so I've asking myself if my Android is better or worse than my friend's iPhone with respect to hardware, aesthetics and user-freindly-ness. There are more than a few ways to tackle this question as different features appeal to different people, which is why I present this question to the whole of xda (or just the X2 forum lol) : Which one do you think is better and why?
A couple things: 1.) Im relatively new here and I dont know how often this question is askedso I'll understand if this question starts a riot and is taken down and 2.) I know there will be some bias, but I feel as this forum in particular will be honest in answering my question.
Many to thanks to anyone that happens to read this and many more to anyone that bothers responding!
Android, cause I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. The thought of clouds and cloud connect must really suck not being able to see our hear when your in a building, elevator, tunnel out remote location. Plus only $6.99 a month for insurance, iPhone is $10.99 and I prefer a one year warranty over Apple 90 day warranty.
Yes Apple is simple, simple is as simple does. Simple people like simple things!
I like to unleash, and have the option too change whatever.
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Android, cause I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. The thought of clouds and cloud connect must really suck not being able to see our hear when your in a building, elevator, tunnel out remote location. Plus only $6.99 a month for insurance, iPhone is $10.99 and I prefer a one year warranty over Apple 90 day warranty.
Yes Apple is simple, simple is as simple does. Simple people like simple things!
I like to unleash, and have the option too change whatever.
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So Im assuming iPhone's cannot run different ROMs in the way Androids can? Forgive me if I sound clueless; I have ~20 minutes of experience with Apple's phones.
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So Im assuming iPhone's cannot run different ROMs in the way Androids can? Forgive me if I sound clueless; I have ~20 minutes of experience with Apple's phones.
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Here's the thing. Iphone must jailbreak to do many of the things that android can do out if the box.
But! Iphone does one thing out of the box that android typically has to root to do: run buttery smooth, all the time. Everything Iphone does, it does better stock for stock.
But I cannot own an Iphone for one reason, if no other: the ui is SO boring it puts me to sleep. Android is much more entertaining just swiping home screens and widgets and notification panels, etc.
Just my two cents...
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I guess it boils down to what you want out of a smrtphone. If you don't care about physical keyboards, interesting ui's, screen size, you just want it to WORK, then I think you're better served by an Iphone. Not me.
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If they are better you wouldn't see us here.
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Okay, the iPhone vs. Android debate is just silly.
It all boils down to what you like.
If you don't care about customization, don't want to worry about having to set things up, want to ensure that your phone works the same as everyone else, then the iPhone is the phone to get. You know that your iPhone 4s will be the same as everyone else who has an iPhone 4s. You all will run the same OS version and get the same update at the same time. No issues with "Hey how come you have ICS and I still have Gingerbread?" No issues with waiting for your phone manufacturer to release a certain version of the OS (like we have with all the different phone manufacturers and carriers for Android).
But, if you want to customize, you want to change the UI, you want flexibility, don't mind researching which phones might best fit you, understand what the different Android OS versions are, etc, then the Android is your way.
It all depends on how much control you want over your phone. Even with Android, though, carriers make it difficult at times to allow you to have that full control. That is the current issue with the X2 and many other Motorola phones - no unlocked bootloader which makes it more difficult to upgrade the phone to the latest Android OS. But, if you have developer support, then chances are, you'll see some great things come. Fortunately, with the X2, we have some great devs out there - Nitro, Dragonzkiller, Aceoyame - that are creating some excellent custom ROMs for the X2.
But, with Android, you have to keep up with what is out there IF you want to keep customizing. You could still get an Android, not root it and not customize it and you might be fine, but you really need to investigate which phones work the best out of the box. The X2 doesn't. Too much BLUR crap in it, hence that's why we like to put on custom ROMs that remove that BLUR which in turn, helps the performance of the phone.
Okay, that was long, but it pretty much sums up that it all boils down to each persons personal preference. Just because I like Android over iOs doesn't mean it's right for the next person. You just have to investigate it and choose the one that best fits you. If you like what you chose, then it was the right choice for you. I just can't stand when people try to just say things like "Android is the best. iOs sucks" without backing it up with any facts other than personal opinion. That is NOT fair to the next person looking for a phone.
I had iphone for 5 years, starting with the first one and then the 3g and then the 4! I always jailbreaked it and it was a pain to use itunes! I loved it b4 but now with my gNote i can never consider byuin an iphone again! Too simple for me! This comes down to what u want to do with the phone, my parents use iphone cause its simple, but for somebody who wants to modify his phone, iphone is not the phone for those people! Android is developing much faster than iphone, and for me, that somethin i appreciate alot!
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iPhones are for the people who don't understand nor want to understand the technology they are holding in their hands, they just want to go as far as jail breaking their phone. Android users are the ones that tend to be more into the technology in their phones. But then there are those iPhone users who think they know technology, yet they have a hard time understanding the difference between hard drive and SD card. So I think it boils down to the person, to their interest and how much time they want to spend on their phone besides texting and playing angry birds haha
Don't hate me, I just see a lot of people with iPhones thinking they know more about this stuff while spitting out words at random like "my CPU is better than yours!" Yet they have no idea what a CPU is.
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Many thanks to everyone for the great insight. So the conclusion I draw from this thread and other deabates on the topic is that: iPhone: user freindly (not to say the Droid isn't) and simple thus making it very very appealing to the masses. It also is very limited when it comes to making modifications (which to me is quite a downfall to us but enables a Droid user to ultimately push past the iPhone user).
The Droid: Huge selection of phones. Can be modified to all hell assuming your model is fairly unlocked and if I might add, the only option for a man with big hands. Our major downfall is that some phones fall behind in development whereas the iPhone os is functionally consistent across most models.
So sorry if that was long but I really enjoy getting as much info as possible on a certain subject and presenting it to those better than me to make sure its accurate is important soooo please correct me if anything I said was wrong!!!
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I believe you now understand better than most.
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Hell
I chose the x2 OVER the I phone based on performance and customization differences IN STORE, which means I felt the x2(or any Droid in store) offered more for me to do/play with right out the box.
That's the basic difference, whether you root or jailbreak or not the DROID DOES...plain and simple
Widgets widgets widgets
many different launchers you can custom fit to your liking
Many more options
AND THEN YOU ROOT
And wow its a whole new world, get ready
Just my thoughts
Not to mention this awesome community, for the most part....
Just for the sake of rebellion I refuse to join the technologically and possibly mentally inferior software users...(iPhone) I do more than use software, I mod. And experiment
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I've never actually played around with a jailbroken iPhone but from what I've read, the only perk is a nice app store. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I've never actually played around with a jailbroken iPhone but from what I've read, the only perk is a nice app store. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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That's basically it. For the iPods, you can change wallpaper and stuff and font and transitions and stuff. Basically what they have when they jailbreak, is what we have out of the box with android. But when we root, we have even more haha
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That's basically it. For the iPods, you can change wallpaper and stuff and font and transitions and stuff. Basically what they have when they jailbreak, is what we have out of the box with android. But when we root, we have even more haha
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They still don't get cool widgets and launchers tho
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They still don't get cool widgets and launchers tho
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I could'nt survive without a good weather + clock widget. And I NEED my app killer widget.
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I've never actually played around with a jailbroken iPhone but from what I've read, the only perk is a nice app store. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Until they started monitoring it, jailbreaking an iPhone also meant you could enable tethering for free.
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I could'nt survive without a good weather + clock widget. And I NEED my app killer widget.
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I like weatherbug. Its has the temp for your area at the left of the status bar. If you pull down the status bar, it has weather info right at the top. Not sure if it has any widgets though.
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They still don't get cool widgets and launchers tho
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I've only used the Google music widget, I put all the icons on the left and right side of the center home screen and keep the wall paper visible haha
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I was on the Market and I came across this new launcher. The video is unreal. The price is crazy @$17, especially with a number of the functions in the video not working at the moment. I just wanted to see if anyone was willing to give this a try, and if they were able to get it to work on the Atrix. I sent the dev an e-mail to ask if it is compatible. I have read that there are numerous amounts of FCs associated with this launcher.
At any rate, take a look at this video.
Here is a link to the Android Market --> TSF Shell in the Android Market
I honestly think it looks hideous. Nothing special just a different way of switching screens and a couple of widgets.
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Who the hell is going to pay $17 for a launcher?
The launcher loads ok but gives fcs along the way, motion is VERY smooth! Music and memo widgets market says are not compatible. It has great potential but indeed the price will hold most ppl back from buying it.
this looks like it might be from the guys who made bumptop for the windows desktop
here is the youtube link to the desktop software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcmPJ-oVL0
I had a hard time giving $15 for shell, but i did, I'm not giving that much for a launcher ever again! Just not worth it compared to the excellent cheaper launchers and the free launchers that are out there.
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Haha 17$? For a launcher? What are you smoking?
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To expensive to buy, IMO..I don't know why the sell that too expensive, an people may think: "well is their app, they may ask whatever they want" but for example SPB Shell, $15 and a 100,000 downloads, if they drop their price to $5 they may need to sell 3 times to reach their goal, but for a luncher like that they may do it quickly because lots of users wants to give a try.
$17 dollars? No way.
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I can not see the tsf shell in the market... anyone with Atrix can see it?
PaoloLast said:
I can not see the tsf shell in the market... anyone with Atrix can see it?
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I was just able to do a search on my Atrix in the Market for TSF Shell, and it brought it up.
I'm on AT&T in the U.S.
17$ for a launcher? No thanks. You can keep it.
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I was just able to do a search on my Atrix in the Market for TSF Shell, and it brought it up.
I'm on AT&T in the U.S.
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Maybe the problem is that i'm on "the darkside"...
This launcher is absolutely freaking amazing!
It is the first launcher ever for Android, and I am not exaggerating, that has iPhone kind of smoothness.
The irony is that this launcher has all those fancy 3D transitions and animations and it's still absolutely perfectly silky smooth throughout.
While simple basic launchers like ADW or LP still get laggy around the edges at times.
This just goes to show that we don't need epic new quad core hardware for our phones, we need devs that know how to optimize for the hardware we already have.
Tegra 2 is more than enough to run anything currently on Android without issues.
Kudos to the devs for the professionalism and their hard work. This really is an amazing smoothest-ever launcher.
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this looks like it might be from the guys who made bumptop for the windows desktop
here is the youtube link to the desktop software
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I was thinking literally the exact same thing. I guess this isnt Google, but didnt Google buy or absorb bumptop?
Second paragraph http://bumptop.com/
So far, I have had 0 problems with this launcher. I'd recommend this, but the price is a little expensive. This is just my opinion, and to each their own.
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So far, I have had 0 problems with this launcher. I'd recommend this, but the price is a little expensive. This is just my opinion, and to each their own.
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agree on both points. im happy w/it tho.
i'm sticking with adw pro. no probs at all.
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actually... i looked into it more and i'm quite intrigued. price is too steep though.
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So far, I have had 0 problems with this launcher. I'd recommend this, but the price is a little expensive. This is just my opinion, and to each their own.
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I've tryed it for the past 2 days, no problems at all with the launcher, is beautiful and really fast, but it slows a little all the rest of the apps...
p.s. And i hate the floating icons, i prefer to have a grid...
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I've tryed it for the past 2 days, no problems at all with the launcher, is beautiful and really fast, but it slows a little all the rest of the apps...
p.s. And i hate the floating icons, i prefer to have a grid...
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Indeed. That was one of the things that bugged me. OCD got the best of me on that. I spent a good 10 minutes straightening my screen up last night.
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Indeed. That was one of the things that bugged me. OCD got the best of me on that. I spent a good 10 minutes straightening my screen up last night.
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Can't you select the icons you want arranged and create a grid...in the video it looks like you can resize a box with your icons in it.
As per topic title.
Do not get me wrong but it feels this launcher is at a stop. No big updates or new functions have been added for a pretty long while now.
I really like this launcher, and I would love to see it evolve more besides looks.
I wish I had some ideas for it but I am really bad even at making themes...
Just wondering nothing else.
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Wow...the silence is deafening. I used Themer for about one year and loved it (still do), but recently tried Nova (due in part to the greater support and use) and will use that for now. Wish Themer would add support for live wallpapers (not to mention a few other things).
Buzz devs are way better, themer is clearly a dead project
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Buzz devs are way better, themer is clearly a dead project
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Maybe (though their page says it's still in Beta). I'm thinking of giving Buzz a try, but it sounds like both battery and RAM usage is an issue...what's your experience?
New version just released (ver. 1.91 on 3-27 p.m.)...let's see how it runs...
So new theme store... Yes it looks much better, absolutely! Yet the silence from developers is somewhat sad. Been a week now, no reaction. It be nice to know if they have moved on to another discussion area, away from XDA (which I could totally understand).
Anyway, slowly getting a little annoyed by the fact that I bought several apps (zooper for example) to support the development. But hey maybe one idea: some sort of road map for themer users be cool.
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