old style launcher - HTC EVO 3D

i was one of those cat's who had the original android phone. the g1. personally i think sense ui is ugly and looks too much like windows mobile. gingerbread home copies too much off adw and they both are ugly IMO. i really miss the original android launcher.... u know the one from android 1.6 or 2.0... when android was android without all these third parties adding b.s. and fudging it all up. i loved the simplicity of the drawer tab at the bottom of your home screen. anyone have any ideas how i might be able to port over the old style launcher to my evo 3d? or do i just have to bite the bullet and reminisce of the good old days?

lhommedangereux said:
i was one of those cat's who had the original android phone. the g1. personally i think sense ui is ugly and looks too much like windows mobile. gingerbread home copies too much off adw and they both are ugly IMO. i really miss the original android launcher.... u know the one from android 1.6 or 2.0... when android was android without all these third parties adding b.s. and fudging it all up. i loved the simplicity of the drawer tab at the bottom of your home screen. anyone have any ideas how i might be able to port over the old style launcher to my evo 3d? or do i just have to bite the bullet and reminisce of the good old days?
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pull the launcher.apk from CM7?

thanks for the suggestion. i think i found something that works for now... im sure future android updates will probably change that but im happy for now...
only took playing around with my search words to find it... i've been looking every now and then for months... guess i just got lucky tonight lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17319469#post17319469
i wish i knew how to make launchers lol, im just not a fan of how crazy the new phones' homes/launchers are becoming. it doesn't even look like android to me anymore.

I really appreciate you posting up the link instead of just saying you fixed it. Really helped me out there Thanks

The g1 nostalgia just ****ed my face I actually love this lol
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does anyone know what weather widget that is in those screen shots?

Looks like beautiful widgets skinned to me
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want miui on your nook?

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!
No.................
khaytsus said:
No.................
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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!
chefdave12118 said:
Ditto..........
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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.
Divine_Madcat said:
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
DiscoPh3v3r said:
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.
can teh man said:
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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Etrick said:
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.
fr4nk1yn said:
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?
can teh man said:
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.

ICS?

http://m.engadget.com/default/artic...lucky-e/&category=classic&icid=eng_latest_art
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looks semi legit...
damn fast even with LWP though. nice to see the honeycome lock screen. rather have the vibrate function though !
I just saw this, it looks pretty damn nice. I love the coloring. Seems pretty nice. I can't wait
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I could care less for the look (I prefer MIUI & HTC Sense design so color me bias) but I want the fillings (features it brings).
The owner should dump the system here at XDA...
Look semi really saw it a few minutes , funny how it could be truth and if it is just before iPhone 5 drops LOL, anyways doesn't really impress me tho , I want to see better api for apps and hopefully some.new killer features
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Lulz.......semi.........
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Looks like it was most likely legit....seeing as how it was remotely wiped.
From the Nexus S forum thread
I don't buy it... The story is a little too unbelievable, and it looks too much like the Icecream launcher that was available for download here last week. Possibly a skinned version.
blackroseMD1 said:
Looks like it was most likely legit....seeing as how it was remotely wiped.
From the Nexus S forum thread
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Convenient that.
I call fake. The About screen strangely lists "Icecream Sandwich", but on every Android I've played with it would list the numerical designator (such as "2.3.4"). Things also appear more skinned than stock (I would hope Google has a bit better sense of graphic design than what I'm seeing there).
saltorio said:
Convenient that.
I call fake. The About screen strangely lists "Icecream Sandwich", but on every Android I've played with it would list the numerical designator (such as "2.3.4"). Things also appear more skinned than stock (I would hope Google has a bit better sense of graphic design than what I'm seeing there).
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Yeah, I still have my doubts. Guess we'll find out in the next couple months though.
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If that was real ICS, you think HTC is going to switch desktops from the HTC Sense one to the ICS one?
I doubt it but it would be cool to see them giving an option.
SUCH BS..
They wouldn't wipe it, they'd send out corporate security to buy the phone back and investigate the theft...
Wow. SO MUCH IMPROVEMENT. Real or not, widgets in the app drawer is nice. Also the home button feature is swagged out. I cant imagine CM8.
#SWAG!!!

A Look at What HTC Will do With Sense for the ICS Update

We've all been wondering what will happen to Sense once we get the ICS update.
The honeycomb upgrade that the HTC Flyer got very recently gives us a clue:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130153/htc-flyer-android-honeycomb-upgrade
Here's a video of the flyer with gingerbread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70y78sBtDbA
In gingerbread, the whole UI is tweaked and looks only slightly different from the one on phones.
The video of the Flyer with Honeycomb update:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2131567/htc-flyer-running-android-honeycomb-video-review
Notice how the UI is far less modified than the Sense in Gingerbread. The lockscreen is the same, but the rest of the UI nearly stock, except for the widgets, icons, and system apps.
From this I infer that once we get the ICS update, HTC Sense won't be as extensive as it is in Gingerbread, and we will actually have less of the Sense UI and more vanilla Android.
When it comes to their phones it will be sensed out..We can hope they don't mess it all up but they will..HTC isn't very established in the tablet market so they can experiment with what they think people want.Phones have been established so they will continue doing what they have always done...
This is just my opinion though..I wish they would just leave it alone and maybe add a few things
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A look at the development team behind HTC sense
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the video you linked is the gingerbread os running on the flyer, not honeycomb
NewZJ said:
the video you linked is the gingerbread os running on the flyer, not honeycomb
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My bad, I put the wrong link, just fixed the post.
It is not like HTC is lacking in sales due to to Sense. People continue to buy their phones so why would they think people do not want it.
I am sure for non-tech people who buy an HTC phone, Sense makes things a lot easier for them and they do not even know what Sense means.
Ask an HTC phone owner who is not into modding their phone what they think of Sense. I am willing to bet they have no clue what you are even talking about.
So they straight up disabled the buttons on the tablet with the honeycomb update. Damn i hope they dont do that for our ICS update. talk about losing screen real estate by adding a row on the screen for the buttons!
so besides the sense widget clock, and the sense lockscreen, what was "Sense" on that tablet?? to me looked like straight Honeycomb for most part.
sgt. slaughter said:
So they straight up disabled the buttons on the tablet with the honeycomb update. Damn i hope they dont do that for our ICS update. talk about losing screen real estate by adding a row on the screen for the buttons!
so besides the sense widget clock, and the sense lockscreen, what was "Sense" on that tablet?? to me looked like straight Honeycomb for most part.
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Disable my capacitive buttons? HTC better not do something so stupid.
freeza said:
Disable my capacitive buttons? HTC better not do something so stupid.
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Yeah the flyers were a lil more hidden than ours r so I hope they don't do that for us.
Plus I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere Google released a notice to help manufacturers for putting ICS on devices that have buttons now.
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It is not like HTC is lacking in sales due to to Sense. People continue to buy their phones so why would they think people do not want it.
I am sure for non-tech people who buy an HTC phone, Sense makes things a lot easier for them and they do not even know what Sense means.
Ask an HTC phone owner who is not into modding their phone what they think of Sense. I am willing to bet they have no clue what you are even talking about.
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That was my dad's reaction when I ask him about it. I started laughing.
I do hope the HTC sticks to the vanilla ICS interface for the EVO 3D, maybe adding a few widgets and all. I prefer that much more than Sense and I don't really mind them disabling the capacitive buttons.
dmablade said:
I don't really mind them disabling the capacitive buttons.
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I dont think that will be OK with majority of users...
I would sell this phone the minute a galaxy nexus variant for sprint would come out if they made the capacitive buttons obsolete so soon
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am i the only person that actually likes sense??
poktangju said:
am i the only person that actually likes sense??
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said it before ill say it again
Sense looks good on the outside, but ugly on the inside. .
Kinda like a stripper
I like the some of the things it can do vs AoSP or TW.. . But the Rosie is useless and ugly. Its a ram hog and leaves/has footprints in almost every part of the OS
I think its a bit of overkill IMO
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poktangju said:
am i the only person that actually likes sense??
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na im a fan bud but personally they included a lot of sense features in ICS. The only thing ICS doesn't have is the Sense widgets and such really.
I don't mind sense either but they load it down with way to Much memory eating garbage. No reason for a stock Evo3D with the hardware inside to run the way it does..Load up a senseless ROM and ADW and this thing screams
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sgt. slaughter said:
So they straight up disabled the buttons on the tablet with the honeycomb update. Damn i hope they dont do that for our ICS update. talk about losing screen real estate by adding a row on the screen for the buttons!
so besides the sense widget clock, and the sense lockscreen, what was "Sense" on that tablet?? to me looked like straight Honeycomb for most part.
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It makes sense for them to do this on a tablet. Honeycomb is designed to be used from any screen orientation, whereas the buttons are only good for one. Secondly, on honeycomb the status bar is also the button bar, no screen real estate is lost by having the buttons on something that is there anyway. Leaving the capacitive buttons enabled enables false presses without much benefit.
For a phone, the primary orientation is landscape and the buttons aren't on the status bar. Thus there is no reason to even use on screen buttons on a device that has capacitive buttons already. The galaxy nexus has to have a 16:9 screen which allows the buttons to be there without cutting down real estate compared to other phones.
I could not be any more certain that the capacitive buttons will not be disabled in ICS. Also, the thing that bugs me the most about Sense besides the fact that it hogs ram and decreases the performance of the device is how deep its roots are in the OS, such as the fact that the drivers for autostereoscopy rely on the Sense framework, so AOSP roms don't have 3D and may not until 3D support becomes stock for Android, at which point the Evo 3D will probably be a legacy device or obsolete.
dmablade said:
That was my dad's reaction when I ask him about it. I started laughing.
I do hope the HTC sticks to the vanilla ICS interface for the EVO 3D, maybe adding a few widgets and all. I prefer that much more than Sense and I don't really mind them disabling the capacitive buttons.
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nate420 said:
I dont think that will be OK with majority of users...
I would sell this phone the minute a galaxy nexus variant for sprint would come out if they made the capacitive buttons obsolete so soon
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Woah, slow the hell down people. HTC isn't that stupid! (surprising right?). There NOT going to disable out capacitive buttons!!! ICS, unlike Honeycomb, can be used with our without capacitive buttons. They wont disable the buttons and put them onscreen if they don't have to, that's retarted.
But anyway, I like the idea of a less intrusive sense. I bet it won't happen however. They never really put much effort into sense for tablets, but on phones its their trademark. Sense widgets on a stockish system sounds really good, but w/e we'll have cm9 by them
I just hope they make it so sense widgets work in other launchers, like make them part of the system instead of the launcher. I really hate the rosie launcher, it just seems so stupid if I get a replacement launcher I can't even use the stock music widget.
The thing I disliked the most about sense is there wasn't really any customization. You HAD to have 5 screens. No more no less. And it's so baked in that if you use a different lockscreen you have to unlock and put in your password if you want to answer a call
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Sense 4.0, you disgust me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rod0rzGGXM&feature=player_embedded
Just Wow
It has a WP7 style kind of. It is laggy on a dual core w/ 1gb RAM. It must be in beta because it does not even flow well. It should be improved drastically... I hope..
It doesn't look smooth at all, and to be honest, it really isn't that big of a step up from Sense 3.0... I hope this isn't the final version
Well,
One good thing is coming out of HTC sense 4.0 not being the finished product yet:
IF the Amaze 4G is supposed to get ICS 4.0 with HTC sense 4.0, then "It ain't ready to be released yet!"
Again, that's a big IF.......
YAAYYY!
It looks like a knockoff version of touch wiz if you ask me. I mean I think that they should stick with the 3.5/3.6 look its a lot better. but this is just terrible.
guys stop nagging about it, i bet this is still in beta test of their developers, of couse is gonna be laggy, the fat lady aint singing yet, the phone its not even out to the market yet
i wouldn't fret so much over the current lag. there is still the HTC Confidential watermark... this means the phone's software is most likely still in test cycle 1. there are usually at least three (four in my experience) TC's before the start of the pre-pre-release build. about two-three weeks later a pre-release build is sent.. then a release intended for 'public' testing. (i still have screenshots with HTC Confidential and then the Serial Number of the phone from the myTouch 4G which i began testing in the first weeks of August.. phone was released in Nov)
splash screens will change, user features will change, UI will most likely see revamp as well.
as for the hardware, that will not change.
I actually think it looks pretty good. I still like just raw ICS better though.
ya why do people think this is so bad? i mean the dock is kinda ugly, but then again i've always hated htc's more than useless 3 shortcut dock with an over redundant personalize shortcut, so what the problem is?
Euugh. This thing is hideous. I was expecting something similar to the base ICS. Glad I rooted. Hopefully we could get an aosp rom working.
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I think it looks fairly nice... Lol. Better than 3.0 imo
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Why not stick to ICS IMHO I guess that is why three is so much delays between releases.
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I concur with OP. Oooglaay
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Its not super ugly, i would rather have this than touchwiz.
I know for sure that this isn't what it is going to look like. I heard sense 4.0
isn't coming out for a few more months.
To be honest... I don't use sense for its dock look... Because if that was the case I would not use it. I use it for features. I must admit I like the weather widget and graphics I am okay with the lock screen. I look forward to the stuff they claimed to be adding to 4.0 I'm sure there will be better widgets and such as well. If I wanted ease of use and clean look I'd use my adw ex launcher. I love the gestures especially on a phone with a larger screen. Also like the app drawer much better than the sense one... To each his own. I much rather have those options on my dock than having to make shortcuts to all those things since my dock is next to useless
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lol its funny when i see almost everyone *****ing about it. i think its an approvement.. are you guys saying you would rather have Sense ALWAYS be the same exact thing every single update? how boring is that.... seriously.
also, a lot of you know how we can change out docks and what not in older versions of Sense. do you think HTC would make it to where that is the only dock available? im sure they are smarter than that..
Edit: by "you guys" i didnt really mean a lot of people in the amaze thread, pretty much pointing at all the hate on Youtube and the mytouch forum got a lot of hate too for some reason. when the mytouch ROM is way more ugly than that xD
I might be able to my local T-Mobile store since they have the HTV Ville Live Employee my Demo. Ill see if they have it if they do ill report back.
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I personally like sense, to me it just makes my phone look high end.
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Bash me all you want lol

[Q] Porting HTC Sense to Photon

So I just joined the Photon crowd coming from the EVO 4G(it finally died and a friend let me have this one, as he had switched to the iPhone) and I noticed no one has tried porting a Sense rom to this device. I'm enjoying CM7 right now but really miss the flair of Sense. I know it's purely an aesthetic thing but I've always liked it, growing very fond of it from using my old EVO over the last two years. I did some Google searching about it but couldn't really find anything to help me. I'd like to see if anyone here knows what's required to port Sense to the Photon, and if it's possible, a good base to start with. Any help or sharing of knowledge is kindly appreciated.
~Siv
most users of the photon are much more technical then the evo users when you look at percentages. majority of the development have been on unlocking the power of this phone compared to decorating it. the photon has alot of hardware packed inside and they have been working to release the goodies and push it to the max.
Sense UI... someone may pick it up, but since the photon hit the market its been all about performance. I for one am a streamline guy. on my evo, all i ever ran was cm7. if you are looking for flair right now, id suggest using a fancy launcher like 3d shells products.
lroy said:
most users of the photon are much more technical then the evo users when you look at percentages. majority of the development have been on unlocking the power of this phone compared to decorating it. the photon has alot of hardware packed inside and they have been working to release the goodies and push it to the max.
Sense UI... someone may pick it up, but since the photon hit the market its been all about performance. I for one am a streamline guy. on my evo, all i ever ran was cm7. if you are looking for flair right now, id suggest using a fancy launcher like 3d shells products.
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You're definitely right about that. This thing is a beast. I have no qualms whatsoever about the work the devs have been pushing here. It's very impressive. I was just curious if it could be done. I'm loving the fact that CM9 is here and it runs awesome with a few hiccups here and there. Anyway, thanks for responding. I'm sure one day it'll happen.
What part of Sense do you want? There are a bunch of widgets which replicate the clock. None that replicate the flip animation just so, though. Either they won't animate or they animate poorly. Somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. But Beautiful Widgets has probably the most complete Sense clock/weather thing, although the weather won't briefly take over the whole screen when you unlock like it does in Sense 3.0.
For the lock screen you can do WidgetLocker with the Sense 3 with the ring or the old Sense with the bar that slides down.
fancy widgets is a good sense clock replacement
And Android Pro Widgets are decent replacements for the calendar, friendstream, contacts widgets (the free ones don't look great, but the paid version lets you use launcher pro themes)
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