Hi,
I've been using MIUI for the past few weeks and enjoy it, but find the default launcher isn't for me. However, when i switch to ADWex, i lose the photo frame widget and the 2x4 clock, both of which i use and like.
Any recommendations on getting these widgets to work? or are there any decent alternatives? i can do without the clock, but, as the father of newborn, i kind of like having the photo frame...
thanks!
Search "big photo frame" in market.
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thanks, i'll check it out!
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In search of a pure Weather only Widget...I like the Weather portion of Beautiful Home Weather, but do not need the clock option - does anyone know how to disable to clock or an application with only the weather portion....
Weatherbug Elite has a nice widget that displays weather which is what I use.
The Weather Channel... they have three to four types of widgets available
Try snow storm from the market
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i use "Weather Widget - Free" by Android Apps. it supports different skins / themes and it can display a single weather icon with temp. i bought beautiful widgets, but prefer this app.
I use Beautiful Widgets BUT DO NOT USE THE WIDGET.
You can go to the options and have the temp show in your notification bar. That way when you click on it you get the cool animations and forecast/current weather from BW, but you get all the space on your home page by not using the widget... kinda the best of both worlds.
I never understood needed a clock widget... utterly pointless in my not so humble opinion.
s15274n said:
I understood needed a clock widget... utterly pointless in my not so humble opinion.
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Me either.. I personally like it just for the "eye candy"
I use fancy widget just get it from here, is just like the sense widget.
http://androidcommunity.com/fancy-widget-for-android-20100612/
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I use fancy widget just get it from here, is just like the sense widget.
http://androidcommunity.com/fancy-widget-for-android-20100612/
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link doesnt work anymore since HTC sent a C&D letter to get it pulled from the market. there are ways in obtaining it, go google it
I'd like to start a thread to collect Defy's screenshots with a small description of the used apps; I'll start with mine:
From left to right: left home screen - main home screen - right home screen - lockscreen.
App used for home screens: launcher pro free edition.
App used for lockscreen: widgetlocker.
Widgets: DigitalClock, CircleBattery, CalWidget, SnowStorm, SMSUnreadCountClassic, Widgetsoid.
As you can see I love minimalism .
Feel free to post yours!
PS: in order to capture screen images you need to root the device (which is easy using z4root) and any of the free screenshot apps from the market.
Here's mine.
That was 2 days ago. It was a standart ROM - 2.21 with blur. Now i got Clean 2.34 blurless Rom jit/deodexd.
Removed zeam for a launcher pro and tweaking it next. Will post a new home screen in a week.
Lockscreen:
widgetlocker with simiclock and minimal theme.
left side:
launcher pro messages
and cal widget
middle(mainscreen)
smooth calendar on the top(shows nothing on screen)
big widget clock with text(don't remember it's name, i've flashed another rom now)
lastcall widget
on right screen:
I got extended controls right before recovering for a new flash.
Nice pics, but how did you customize widgetlocker bars?
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My Screens:
Can't beat a good old homescreen shots topic - Every phone section should have one.
Lockscreen: Widgetlocker (Paid) Beautiful Widgets Home (My Own Custom Theme) (Paid)
Main: Launcherpro (Paid), Beautiful Widgets Home, Widgetsoid 2 (
Left: Launcherpro Friends Widget (Twitter/Facebook Feeds)
Right: Launcherpro Bookmarks Widget
Minimal tastic!
Higgsy said:
Can't beat a good old homescreen shots topic - Every phone section should have one.
Lockscreen: Widgetlocker (Paid) Beautiful Widgets Home (My Own Custom Theme) (Paid)
Main: Launcherpro (Paid), Beautiful Widgets Home, Widgetsoid 2 (
Left: Launcherpro Friends Widget (Twitter/Facebook Feeds)
Right: Launcherpro Bookmarks Widget
Minimal tastic!
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How do you change the lowest sliders actions. i have the paid Widgetlocker with 2 sliders but can't figure out how to change the unlock and sound action on the bottom slider.
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How do you change the lowest sliders actions. i have the paid Widgetlocker with 2 sliders but can't figure out how to change the unlock and sound action on the bottom slider.
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set the slider action to no slider, then, with a blank screen select custom slider and then just set up the slider options in a different place.
little update to my lock screen with launcherpro style icons:
Leftscreenoweramp widget (paid)
Mainscreen(middle): battstat, simmiclockwidget, calwidget, desktop visualizer for icons
Rightscreen: banner, traffic counter, widgetsoid2.x,
and using launcherpro plus
what programs are you guys using to take pictures...
@ higgsy and kovyrshin: how do you customize widgetlocker icons and bars?
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@ higgsy and kovyrshin: how do you customize widgetlocker icons and bars?
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Install a customized widget locker =))
or you can customize, and use your own graphics.
You can get one here: tap me.
I use one named minimal.
If you just want to change the icon use a program called desktop visualizer its free
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Thanks!
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Latest theme
Screenshots of my latest look. Still in the process of setting it up.
Using widgetlocker
LauncherPro
Motorola Defy
Deblurred 2.34
CleanJitDeodexd2.34CE
Jboogie3 BlurlessGinger ROM Beta4Official
signed_Defy Sense_fixed
samorgs said:
Screenshots of my latest look. Still in the process of setting it up.
Using widgetlocker
LauncherPro
Motorola Defy
Deblurred 2.34
CleanJitDeodexd2.34CE
Jboogie3 BlurlessGinger ROM Beta4Official
signed_Defy Sense_fixed
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Sorry, but can you tell me, which Widget it is for charging/temperature?
Thanks a lot.
Alex
Here are my screenshots.
Launcher: GO Launcher
Widgets: Jorte Month + Tasks, Jorte Week, Jorte Tasks, TypoClock, Widgetsoid (multiple), Winamp
That one is called Clarus Battery
Widgetlocker with wallpaper from ultralinx and slider from the widgetlocker thread here on xda,
Launcher pro with dock from ultralinx,
Ubuntu fonts and minimalistic text widget
linel90 said:
Widgetlocker with wallpaper from ultralinx and slider from the widgetlocker thread here on xda,
Launcher pro with dock from ultralinx,
Ubuntu fonts and minimalistic text widget
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I think that deffo gets top prize for minimalism lol
Didnt quote for image length.
Its clean and tidy If there was a way to make the top bar black with the clocked removed i would keep it but untill i find a way to do it i will stick with no bar >)
if you don't want it all black like jboogie's you need to make your own theme, but you will also need his services.jar to change the font
I can't decide which one to buy. I have fancy widget now and I would like weather animations like sense. What ones better? How does fancy widget pro compare too?
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I think Beautiful Widgets has a free version so you could check it out. I have the paid version and when checking the weather it is autoated but not in the clock mode that shows weather. They also have some weather live wallpapers that are weather related.
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I can't decide which one to buy. I have fancy widget now and I would like weather animations like sense. What ones better? How does fancy widget pro compare too?
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Gotta say Beautiful Widgets takes the cake, much more advanced imo. It is also very moddable, plenty themes you can use on it to fit the style of your overall phone. Definitely worth the money
Thanks guys. Will try out beautiful widgets
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There is nothing to be compared to Sense Weather. But I think, Beautiful Widgets tries that the best way I have seen.
Fancy widget uses your chosen weather skin in the animated forecast whereas Beautiful wgt uses the stock skin no matter what skin you are using (last time i looked).
I buy beautiful widget and working well.But i found it drain my battery,Ist i use live wallpaper to check i moved to normal wallpaer and only set current weather widget but this time again battery drain.After that i removed all beautiful widgets from home screen and now workng well.You chkd ur self in battery use when u set beautiful widget it shows more batry consumed by android system and when there is no widget it shows less.
I don't have this issue with Beautiful Widgets.
I don't notice any more battery consumption using Beautiful Widgets
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I buy beautiful widget and working well.But i found it drain my battery,Ist i use live wallpaper to check i moved to normal wallpaer and only set current weather widget but this time again battery drain.After that i removed all beautiful widgets from home screen and now workng well.You chkd ur self in battery use when u set beautiful widget it shows more batry consumed by android system and when there is no widget it shows less.
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I like beautiful widgets. It has nice homescreen clocks but I font use the togles. I use widgetsoid instead.
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prefer fancy widgets
I like fancy witgets
Any recommendations for a Weather Widget that has the option of having a manual refresh button on the widget? I'd also like multi-day forecast on the widget, transparent background, and other cool options...but can't seem to find good ones with a way to manually refresh by just clicking a button on the widget.
Beautiful Widgets though it doesn't have the refresh directly on the widget, you can easily reach it be touching the widget
Hd widgets. The best you can get. It's a paid app but its very customizable and will refresh weather on tap
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Hd widgets. The best you can get. It's a paid app but its very customizable and will refresh weather on tap
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When I tap the widget, it opens the app where you have to hit a refresh button in there. Is there a way to just refresh simply with 1 tap of the widget?
I also couldn't find where you can turn off auto updating, allowing for manual updating only...
I'm not sure why there aren't more weather widgets out there that have a manual refresh on the widget itself, rather than forcing you to open the widget, etc, in order to refresh. I personally don't like auto-updates to be running, but I want a 1-tap method of refreshing the weather info.
Anyway, in case anyone else is looking for the same thing, I did find Palmary Weather Pro that has this functionality. Overall, it's a pretty solid app imo, although it'd be nice to have a few more options within the app to customize things. It'll also be nice to have other app options, because Palmary looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. BeWeather was another one with the manual refresh option, but it is a pretty limited app. So if anyone else finds another one, please post here.
I also found Elecont Weather (or eWeather HD), which can be set to never auto-update, but to manual refresh when just tapping the widget. This app has a lot of widget options and can be customized quite a bit. Getting the widgets looking just right took a while due to all of the various options, but this app seems solid.
Hi there
When trying to apply a wallpaper (e.g. a picture taken with my SGS3 camera) to my homescreen I usually have to resize it via the gallery-app. But resizing lets the picture shrink to a default-form that does not cover my 5-homescreens. Therefore I always get some black bars on the right and the left side...
Any idea how I can fix this or how I can keep the gallery app from not resizing my pictures to the default-size that only seems to cover 1 homescreen?
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Hi there
When trying to apply a wallpaper (e.g. a picture taken with my SGS3 camera) to my homescreen I usually have to resize it via the gallery-app. But resizing lets the picture shrink to a default-form that does not cover my 5-homescreens. Therefore I always get some black bars on the right and the left side...
Any idea how I can fix this or how I can keep the gallery app from not resizing my pictures to the default-size that only seems to cover 1 homescreen?
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Are u using any other launcher than TW? Or scrollable TW mod? one work around is using "gallery ICS" from market to set your wallpaper
Currently I'm using the Nova Launcher. Is this an issue? Will try to download the ICS Gallery and hope it works well with the Nova Launcher
***Update: Wow, it works. Gallery ICS can resize my pictures and they fit to my 5-Homescreen Nova Launcher.... GREAT!! Many thanks
NeoCream said:
Currently I'm using the Nova Launcher. Is this an issue? Will try to download the ICS Gallery and hope it works well with the Nova Launcher
***Update: Wow, it works. Gallery ICS can resize my pictures and they fit to my 5-Homescreen Nova Launcher.... GREAT!! Many thanks
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:victory: The default gallery asks you to crop the picture since TW launcher does not support scrollable wallpapers. However its a problem with other launchers. You can either disable wallpaper scrolling in launcher settings or use this gallery to set full length scrollable wallpapers