Ok, here is a list of Apps which I really love so far and think its cool..
-Video wall paper (not an app, and it can only be access via livewall paper): I can put my baby video as a live wallpaper, how cool is that
-Koi Live wall paper
-Widgets!!! Love this, now I dont have to stare at sea of Icons... to name a few (Android Agenda Widget: much better than the stock one) (world weather clock widget)(Silent toggle widget)(Battery widget, tells me the percentage left and one click goes to battery usage)(stock clock + weather, just like how it looks: more than the HTC look and feel)
-Kies (good to be wireless, but I guess iphone will also have wireless now: and no iTunes hated the need to use it for everything and its bloatware slow)
-Financial Calculator (replaces my 9 in 1 calculator)
-Hangping Chinese pro (kinda replaces my qingwen)
-Juice Defender pro (it does help some)
-ringdroid (make my own ring tones for free)
-photo + video vault + quickOffice (kinda replaces my iFiles but not really)
-Root explorer
-smart app protector
-Bloomberg (only app that tells me international indexes)
-Unit Converter (Not free anymore on iPhone, I was grandfather so had a free one)
-Unblock me free (replaces my blue blocks)
-touchPal (I really like this keyboard, its a mix of swype + touch)
-less bloatware when rooting vs jailbreak (sorry, I think the cydia packages were heavy, but lots of FREE apps )
Oh, a trick I found was to subscribe your Holiday calenders on google calendars, then click on the few holidays to add to your OWN calendar. Then when you sync, you will now have all the holidays on your phone. Not sure if there was a better way, but this was so nice..
Please let me know what else i may really like.. love my SGS2 so far..
Thanks nice Info
Check out:
sound hound
Mirem browser
go launcher
Go SMS pro
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Swype has been the best for me switching from an iPhone.
if you want to save on battery, stay away from the live wallpapers. I know they look cool but they really murder your battery
"Ok, here is a list of Apps which I really love so far and think its cool.."
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-touchPal (I really like this keyboard, its a mix of swype + touch)
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Finally a Keyboard with Arrow Keys !
Unless I'm missing something totally obvious.
I can never seem to get that correction flag where it needs to be.
iqak said:
Finally a Keyboard with Arrow Keys !
Unless I'm missing something totally obvious.
I can never seem to get that correction flag where it needs to be.
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With Swype, just swype from the "Swype" key (bottom-left corner) over to the layout selector key (next one over: SYM or ABC). This will change to a Swype layout with arrow keys, page up/down, select all, home, end, cut-copy-page, etc. It's pretty handy when you need such things. Then just tap the "ABC" key to jump back to the regular Swype layout.
There may be another way to get to the arrow-key layout, but that is just the way I discovered, by mistake.
iqak said:
"Ok, here is a list of Apps which I really love so far and think its cool.."
--8<---8<---8<---(snip)
-touchPal (I really like this keyboard, its a mix of swype + touch)
--8<---8<---8<---(snip)
Finally a Keyboard with Arrow Keys !
Unless I'm missing something totally obvious.
I can never seem to get that correction flag where it needs to be.
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If you use swype just swype from the swype symbol to the number button right next to it.
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The two that I like the most are:
1. Go SMS Pro. Much better than the stock sms program.
2. Zedge. Thousands of ring/text tones and wallpapers.
3. Smart Keyboard Pro. Hands down the best keyboard for android...
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If you use swype just swype from the swype symbol to the number button right next to it.
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Wish there were a thanks on mobile! Try to remember when on PC!!
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Wish there were a thanks on mobile! Try to remember when on PC!!
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Hello,
Again, here's a list of apps I could not be without, or run, on a day to day basis.
Mostly originally gleaned fro Modaco, but again these are ones I personally use not just a ripped list.
Pauls (Modaco) Custom Rom with small taskbar (makes the Vega truly Useful and priceworthy)
VISIONary+ (to fully root the Vega ( I though it already was rooted, but to get some proggies working V+ helped me out) For me a "fire and forget" program.
Button Savior - Couldn't imagine using the Vega without this. Creates on screen buttons such as home/back/settings etc etc. really useful on a Vega. Not as customisable as Id like, but still amazing.
AndroZip - for those pesky rar files
Cache Cleaner - frees up some room
Beautiful Widgets - some pretty widegets to liven your experience
Launcher Pro Plus - A nice cheap UI (apparently ADW is groovy, but I cant comment on that)
Lookout Anti Virus - hmmm a difficult one this, I use it to no ill effect, but is it really needed at this time? Anyhoo, Works Ok for me.
Titanium Backup - Backup your apps and settings.
Dropbox - Share files over a "cloud"
Dolphin Browser HD - not perfect but a good browser to use instead of stock.
Thats if for now, feel free to tell me im wrong or if you prefer alternatives.
rgds
LoK
I love 'newsrob' for reading my Google Reader feed, also loving 'fish bowl photoviewer beta' for a nice way of viewing images. It has a great deal of promise and is beautiful!
Pulse for RSS, a lovely app.
Thumb Keyboard for the less stingy users, it really is a brilliant keyboard and only costs ~£0.83
HandMemoWriter for handwritten notes
Hello all
Pulse is indeed a great fullscreen app, but I often find the widget doesnt update/work and also is an odd size (3 rather than 4 "blocks" and wont resize well in launcher pro plus.
But, as a full screen app is quite nifty, if a little sensitive, but thats a vega issue rather than Pulses fault.
Ive not heard of 'fish bowl photoviewer beta' but when less drunk, will look it up!
Also, what does Thumb Keyboard do differently? Im a thumb typer on me vega with stock keyboard, as that seems best way to compose. Tell me more.
rgds
LoK
Swiftkey - great keyboard and not too expensive, works well on the vega
Miren Browser - Free browser,fantastic UI
Comic reader mobi - works great, but not free.
Folder organizer - i think is a must to organize apps into folders, again not free.
IMDB - Great for quick movie reference.
Power Amp - Better than the stock music player, but not free.
Skype - works great, just no video calling
WiFi Buddy - To enable the extra wifi channels as well as other tweaks.
Wiimote controller - use wii controller for games.
Can anyone post any screenshots of that "button saviour" app working on a vega?
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Can anyone post any screenshots of that "button saviour" app working on a vega?
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Can't post any screenies at the minute but what it does is super-impose a 'menu' button on the edge of the screen and this is visible in all applications - you choose which edge and where abouts to appear. When you press on this, you get your Savoiur menu that gives close, back, menu, etc buttons.
This is an invaluable app as if you have an app that hangs, you can simply use button saviour, go home & kill the running apps. I also use it to bring up menu options in apps / games that don't have a programmed button as they are expecting the user to have / use a physical keyboard button.
Maxi_pack said:
Can't post any screenies at the minute but what it does is super-impose a 'menu' button on the edge of the screen and this is visible in all applications - you choose which edge and where abouts to appear. When you press on this, you get your Savoiur menu that gives close, back, menu, etc buttons.
This is an invaluable app as if you have an app that hangs, you can simply use button saviour, go home & kill the running apps. I also use it to bring up menu options in apps / games that don't have a programmed button as they are expecting the user to have / use a physical keyboard button.
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thanks might check it out when I get home then
For me it's:
-ADW Launcher EX, as it's very customisable, with smooth 3d transitions (paid)
-Quick settings
-Dolphin browser mini - is fast at loading webpages, even with flash, and has many settings and options available
-Root explorer (Needs root) (paid)
-Spare parts
-Fish bowl photo viewer beta
-Adfree - blocks all ads in browsing and applications. (Needs root)
And many more!
I find adw launcher works really well, tried go but it doesn't seem suited to tablets.
smart keyboard pro works much better than the stock keyboard.
button Savior is great, really useful.
love the fish bowl photo viewer.
I use Miren browser, it's not perfect on the tablet yet but I've set the user agent to chrome and it works well.
swarm torrent
the 3rd one i tried, got 500kbps on the same torrent file...works well and will keep it (unless anybody else can suggest another...hate just installing stuff without some kind of review)
astro
its a must i think. put shortcuts to downloads, torrent downloads and my data all on a desktop panel...works really well
snesoid, nesoid
works great, still to try with the wiimote
launcher pro
i use this on my hd2 so quite familiar with it. sluggish when first starting, but after 15 seconds or so its fine.
ive not tried mini gore on the vega yet, but im addicted to it on my hd2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvGR0JQtfXg
if its works let me know so I can send it to my friend
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I use Miren browser, it's not perfect on the tablet yet but I've set the user agent to chrome and it works well.
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Try this edited version of Miren Browser and set useragent to iPad for better viewing on tablet
After reading it on here I have to say I was sceptical about the use of "button saviour" but I tried it on the recommendations anyway.
Its a great app, very well thought through and designed, I may have to purchase the pro to remove the bits I don't need to use but its a clever idea.
Everyone should check it out
Been using Button Savior for awhile now yes and paid the 80 odd pence to remove the buttons I don't need. The author of the application is looking to add a button to bring up the software keyboard for sites like Google Docs.
Cheers
remlap said:
Been using Button Savior for awhile now yes and paid the 80 odd pence to remove the buttons I don't need. The author of the application is looking to add a button to bring up the software keyboard for sites like Google Docs.
Cheers
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works really well, but when i turn landscape it get in the way of launcher pros dock.
fracmo2000 said:
works really well, but when i turn landscape it get in the way of launcher pros dock.
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No such problems here, mine is set to be on the centre left of the screen.
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No such problems here, mine is set to be on the centre left of the screen.
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Me too, that's definitely the best place for it, unless you prefer to put it somewhere else.
Just installed the Button Savior as well, and I love it. Especially the Recent Apps menu, that's one I've really missed on the Advent Vega.
Other apps I use:
- iSyncr to synchronise iTunes playlists with my tablet
- Swiftkey keyboard, prefer it above the regular keyboard.
- QuickOffice (paid), to create Word/Excel/etc documents and sync them with my google docs account
I've been playing with my friends android's and i've noticed that the atrix lags:
1) Pinch zoom on the home screen to select to which HS page i wanna go. Instead, we have to press the home button while on the center of the home screen to be able to select the HS page. (not sure if i made myself clear enough)
2) We are stuck in 7 pages! personally, I don't use all 7 pages and I don't like those extra empty pages taking up my ram (even if it's not taking up a considerable amount of ram, it still bugs me when others can just have 3 HS if they wanted to)
3) On the notification drop down list, others have the Power Control buttons to turn on/off wifi and that kinda functions. I know there are apps that add a shortcut bar on the notification screen, but it's not Power Control.
so my question is, Anyone know a way to overcome these issues listed? i can try flashing if necesary.
Kenchinito said:
1) Pinch zoom on the home screen to select to which HS page i wanna go. Instead, we have to press the home button while on the center of the home screen to be able to select the HS page. (not sure if i made myself clear enough)
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I know that Launcher Pro has this functionality, not sure about other launcher apps.
Kenchinito said:
2) We are stuck in 7 pages! personally, I don't use all 7 pages and I don't like those extra empty pages taking up my ram (even if it's not taking up a considerable amount of ram, it still bugs me when others can just have 3 HS if they wanted to)
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There are a few launcher apps that you may want to look at. The 2 popular ones are "Launcher Pro" and "Go". I think both of them can be configured for the number of pages you want.
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3) On the notification drop down list, others have the Power Control buttons to turn on/off wifi and that kinda functions. I know there are apps that add a shortcut bar on the notification screen, but it's not Power Control.
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Motorola included a few widgets that can toggle some of this functionality, but in the stock Atrix builds this is not available from the notification bar.
All that said and if you are a brave soul, you may want to check out some of the custom ROMs available for the Atrix over in the developer forum. The ROMs are generally much alike and free the Atrix from both Motorola and your carrier. The ROMs differ in there themes and minor features.
Hope this helps you and your friend get the most out of the Atrix.
I would check out ADWLauncher, most of these things can be customized.
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i find launcher pro works the best for me. should definitely try that out.
Yeah, I've been thinking about Launchers, but I've tried launcher pro and I feel like it's taking even more ram. Because it's a launcher that is running on top of our stock HS, am I wrong?
I currently have Alien ROM on my device with the stock theme, because I cannot live without the one touch call/sms contact widget and also the ability to group apps on the app drawer. Tried the Alien theme and liked it, except for the mentioned "flaws"
Kill the blur launcher and use home switcher to set one by default. No more launcher running on top of another.
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Oh! that's a nice one. thanks!
BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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On mine with Launcher Pro I use two fingers to pinch, then keep one finger on the screen sliding it to which HS page I want to pick. I just figured this out based on what you were asking about. It is always fun to find some new feature like this that I didn't know existed before. With the stock home launcher from MotoBlur there is a capability to do it, but I long since forgot what that procedure was when I changed to Launcher Pro. LP has all the customizations you are asking for.
Kenchinito said:
BTW, i just found by accident that if you swype upwards from below the screen, you get the HS selection. (just like the pinch zoom)
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Been looking for that exact feature...
Thanks so much!
/BD
I love the idea of mini-apps, IMO its a big step forward into true multi tasking
...Is there a place to download more mini-apps?
...Are there any roms out that have modified/added to the mini-apps?
It would be really nice to have a choice, I would personally like to see a mini-browser added.
mkhalil06 said:
I love the idea of mini-apps, IMO its a big step forward into true multi tasking
...Is there a place to download more mini-apps?
...Are there any roms out that have modified/added to the mini-apps?
It would be really nice to have a choice, I would personally like to see a mini-browser added.
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what exactly do you mean by "mini-apps"? widgets?
I think he talks about the addition in touchwiz for the galaxy tab 10.1. But AFAIK it is not possible to change them currently.
michaelkebe said:
I think he talks about the addition in touchwiz for the galaxy tab 10.1. But AFAIK it is not possible to change them currently.
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Ya I'm talking about the little apps you can pull up that were added in the touchwiz update
If only it was possible to change those - so far only calculator and calendar are any use (and task manager but quicker to hold the home icon). When I showed an ipad fan he was very impressed by them but right away wanted to know if you can change them. Mini browser would probably be asking too much but the notes could be useful if the implementation was more intuitive. Quick email program would be good too.
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sorry, but i cannot get the point (really)
what's the difference between a "mini-app" and an app?
Mini apps are supplied with the Touchwiz software and are accessible from the Taskbar.
i dont see why it would be hard for a developer to change these
...there has to be a way
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Mini apps are supplied with the Touchwiz software and are accessible from the Taskbar.
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thanks for the video
so the only difference between a "mini-app" and a "normal app" is, that the mini-app is in the taskbar.
(so every app could be transformed into a mini-app if you just could pin it to the taskbar???)
'If' .... that's the thing, I don't think it's possible yet.
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I planned on working on trying to develop new mini-apps, but then my Tab epic failed and I'm waiting for a new one from Samsung Not sure if it can be done, but we shall see.
Good luck with that, keep us informed!
hebbe said:
thanks for the video
so the only difference between a "mini-app" and a "normal app" is, that the mini-app is in the taskbar.
(so every app could be transformed into a mini-app if you just could pin it to the taskbar???)
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No, the "mini-apps" are just that... Mini apps that pop up on top of what ever app your running at the time. Their not really the full app and you can move them around the screen to place them where you want them. Their more like widgets, just widgets that can be moved around easily.
Say your checking your email and you need to check some figures. You can pull up the mini bar, tap the calculator icon to bring up a small version of it. Then you can move it to one side or the other so you can see the numbers you need to check. "See the screen shot"
And all of the mini apps but the calculator and task manager, if you tap the arrow in the top left had corner will take you to the full app.
It would be nice to have the option to change the apps in the quick launch bar... but they wouldn't really work like the mini apps. The program developers would have to include the mini app like they do with apps that have widgets to use along with the apps.
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SouthPhilly said:
No, the "mini-apps" are just that... Mini apps that pop up on top of what ever app your running at the time. Their not really the full app and you can move them around the screen to place them where you want them. Their more like widgets, just widgets that can be moved around easily.
Say your checking your email and you need to check some figures. You can pull up the mini bar, tap the calculator icon to bring up a small version of it. Then you can move it to one side or the other so you can see the numbers you need to check. "See the screen shot"
And all of the mini apps but the calculator and task manager, if you tap the arrow in the top left had corner will take you to the full app.
It would be nice to have the option to change the apps in the quick launch bar... but they wouldn't really work like the mini apps. The program developers would have to include the mini app like they do with apps that have widgets to use along with the apps.
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now i've got it! thanks.
sounds really cool. it's clear that not every app can be a mini-app, but it'll be great if you can develop own mini-apps.
Yes you can change the apps and please stop calling them "mini" as they are each full blown apps.
Samsung is releasing the API to add apps into the launch tray.
5thElement said:
Yes you can change the apps and please stop calling them "mini" as they are each full blown apps.
Samsung is releasing the API to add apps into the launch tray.
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Can change the apps? Please tell us how we can change then now, or do you actually mean that we'll be able to change them eventually, not now?
Edit: 'mini apps is fine by me.
Not sure when Samsung will update touchwiz to change the mini apps on the taskbar.
In the meantime you can try this new app if you like, but they are not mini apps to run in a multitasking way though.
Wizz Bar- free on the market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.snowbee.wizzbar&feature=search_result
I have not tried it as I use adw ex and use the hidden dock. If someone does try it would love to see what you think of it.
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Feel free to release your hate for touchwiz, i know we can use other apps to "fix" our phones but there's not an easy solution for everythin, gwhat are the things that you hate the most about it? In my opinion:
1.The lockscreen: Even tough i like the slider for received sms or missed calls i find it ridiculous, its slow and unpractical, you have to drag the wallpaper through 70% to unlock the phone
2.The launcher: its not that bad, but it is NOT smooth while flicking through the homescreens
3.The cheesy blue font, really samsung? a blue font in menus?
4.The messaging app: again the blue font, and the app it's just an iphone ripoff
5.The dialer/contacts: looks ugly and the image for the contacts its streched :/
6. Autobrightness also in the browser? huh? why?
7. Gallery on drugs? Its all sped up and is not overly responsive
8. No "," on the keyboard ( you have to switch to the special characters)
9. No option to deactivate just the keyboard vibration, in order to do it you must deactivate the vibration on the capacitive buttons too
10. Icons are really ugly
11. Hubs are pointless, the only non disposable one is the game hub
12. Samsung apps are horrendous, has someone download something useful from there?
13. No music widget? um why? i know there's a "shortcut" on the notification but a widget would have been nice
14. No text reflow on the browser
I should also mention that the camera app is better than stock android and i also like the way you change the wallpaper and add widgets, the browser is really smooth , is it true it has hardware
acceleration?
I know gingerbread is fugly but starting from ice cream sandwich just stick to making amazing hardware samsung
1. Normal Android and iOS, you have to drag an a thumb size **** for entire screen rather than anywhere of the screen, seems more hard to me.
2. Same on all androids... Try HTC next time.
3. Where did you get blue fonts? I don't see them
8. *cough* I have "." on keyboard. Do you by any chance use another launcher?
14. Actually text reflows on mine, and it is not TW launcher, it is android
Seriously dude, rest are just "objective" rather than facts.
I like TW and it is lighter than any other "default" launchers on rest of Android devices. Even sense on my friend's HTC's feels slow.
I hope Samsung does not give us butt-naked Android UI for ICS... TW4 is next best thing in Android other than core underground.
Please read why rest of Tech-editor hates Android's UI's, since I did not see much using SGS2... Beside it is not like Samsung locked you to use it. There are too many launchers out there...
I think TW is a good solid launcher. I dont use TW daily, but i dont agree with 90% of your points.
Same as the above poster really. i dont have blue fonts and also have a "." on the keyboard.
I'd strongly have to disagree with the not smooth on the home screens. Mine is seriously nippy.
Probably the only reason i dont use it is that i like to change my icons, so i will give you that one.
The stretching in the dial can be fixed by using a picture with the correct resoultion.
Do not feed the troll lads.
Why hate Touch Wiz? I don't get it !
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Do not feed the troll lads.
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I will leave some food by the bridge....
(Can you get a good phone signal underneath bridges?)
Touch wiz is too good to be criticised. Okay, some glitches but then nothing is perfect. It's so light and IMO it is awesome.
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The ONE thing made me switch is not being able to sort apps alphabetically..
I have to look for my apps Everytime !
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The ONE thing made me switch is not being able to sort apps alphabetically..
I have to look for my apps Everytime !
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Use appzorter from the market
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Use appzorter from the market
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Doesn't work at all for me, at least not the free version.
The deleted apps leaving holes in the app tray bugs me too.
Chad_Petree said:
Feel free to release your hate for touchwiz, i know we can use other apps to "fix" our phones but there's not an easy solution for everythin, gwhat are the things that you hate the most about it? In my opinion:
1.The lockscreen: Even tough i like the slider for received sms or missed calls i find it ridiculous, its slow and unpractical, you have to drag the wallpaper through 70% to unlock the phone
2.The launcher: its not that bad, but it is NOT smooth while flicking through the homescreens
3.The cheesy blue font, really samsung? a blue font in menus?
4.The messaging app: again the blue font, and the app it's just an iphone ripoff
5.The dialer/contacts: looks ugly and the image for the contacts its streched :/
6. Autobrightness also in the browser? huh? why?
7. Gallery on drugs? Its all sped up and is not overly responsive
8. No "." on the keyboard ( you have to switch to the special characters)
9. No option to deactivate just the keyboard vibration, in order to do it you must deactivate the vibration on the capacitive buttons too
10. Icons are really ugly
11. Hubs are pointless, the only non disposable one is the game hub
12. Samsung apps are horrendous, has someone download something useful from there?
13. No music widget? um why? i know there's a "shortcut" on the notification but a widget would have been nice
14. No text reflow on the browser
I should also mention that the camera app is better than stock android and i also like the way you change the wallpaper and add widgets, the browser is really smooth , is it true it has hardware
acceleration?
I know gingerbread is fugly but starting from ice cream sandwich just stick to making amazing hardware samsung
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I agree 100% with everything! But you forgot the most annoying thing of all. The king of all annoyances! The child of Annoying Orange and Fred! The 100% battery charge notification!!! Who in their right mind would not think of including an option to turn it off?!
In all fairness, most of these issues (including the ball on leg on a hot summer's day battery notification) can be solved through different apps. But why should I?
edit: forgot to add that there is no stock android music widget (or any at all) in the widget list
i just love touchwiz no complains
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Use appzorter from the market
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Thanks.. I am on custom rom anyway.
Was refering to stock TW limitation.
Cheers
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i heard that touchwiz will be updated to have 3*3 icons due to apple patent infringement.
and i heard that galaxy s will have ics without touchwiz like galaxy nexus.
i hope galaxy s2 get a non touchwiz ics update
1. Is it SO hard to move your finger two centimeters on any direction? Try other phones (HTC, Nexus).
2. Yes, it's quite good for most people. I don't really like it and i use Adw Launcher Ex. There's a lot free alternatives too.
3. What's wrong with these fonts? Are you aware of "Themes" section on this forum?
4. Yes, i totally agree on that one. It's an ifone rip off. On older ROMs at least we had an option to change theme, now it's gone. The only thing that really bugs me so much.
5. Pictures are fine for me and dialer app too. Would love to have an option to jump straight into favorites, instead of all contacts, though.
6. Yes and i love it! BTW, you can click "Menu" and disable it in no time.
7. That's slightly modded stock Android gallery and it's performance depends on amount of media files you have. Also, i guess you have some cheap class 2 SD card. And again, you can use QuickPic from Market, it's free and very fast.
8. I guess you meant "," not "." Yes, that's why i use Gingerbread Keyboard. Again, free on Market.
9. There's is an option to deactivate vibration for keyboard only. Settings - Language and keyboard - Samsung keyboard.
10. Personaly i love every single of them. Again, you can change any icon on this phone the way YOU like. It's Android
11-13 BS. Don't like them - don't use. Simple as that. And try some HTC phone and you will be surprised to find about 20 times more of bloatware.
14. Open browser - settings - auto-fit pages.
As i can see, you don't like every single bit on this phone. Why did you buy it? There's a good bunch of other phones.
And one tip: learn to use your phone, before blaming Samsung
I agree with some of your points, OP.
But the BIGGEST thing (at least in my experience) was how crappy Touchwiz performed compared to AOSP. Again, this is at least in my experience.
I hear good things about TW4 though.... I hope it's true!
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kingsrook14 said:
The ONE thing made me switch is not being able to sort apps alphabetically..
I have to look for my apps Everytime !
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I find it good that it sorts acc. to date. Makes it easier to find apps.
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iekansh said:
I find it good that it sorts acc. to date. Makes it easier to find apps.
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Totally agree. App drawer is one of those things that makes me wonder if i shall use TW instead of my current Adw Launcher Ex.
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1. Normal Android and iOS, you have to drag an a thumb size **** for entire screen rather than anywhere of the screen, seems more hard to me.
2. Same on all androids... Try HTC next time.
3. Where did you get blue fonts? I don't see them
8. *cough* I have "." on keyboard. Do you by any chance use another launcher?
14. Actually text reflows on mine, and it is not TW launcher, it is android
Seriously dude, rest are just "objective" rather than facts.
I like TW and it is lighter than any other "default" launchers on rest of Android devices. Even sense on my friend's HTC's feels slow.
I hope Samsung does not give us butt-naked Android UI for ICS... TW4 is next best thing in Android other than core underground.
Please read why rest of Tech-editor hates Android's UI's, since I did not see much using SGS2... Beside it is not like Samsung locked you to use it. There are too many launchers out there...
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No "," sorry, yes touchwiz is lighter than sense, but sense is so much better, swiping through the homescreen feels smoother, that ended with sense 3.0/3.5 it's even heavier and it feels kinda sluggish
Intratech said:
Do not feed the troll lads.
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I'm a troll because there are things i dont like about touchwiz? oh come on man
Chad_Petree said:
...but sense is so much better, swiping through the homescreen feels smoother, that ended with sense 3.0/3.5 it's even heavier and it feels kinda sluggish
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Sorry, but I'm not seeing anything other than opinion. The vast majority of people actually really like TW on the S2, rating it higher than the other launchers. As for Sense, that's just another Launcher. You may as well start a thread for your favourite word processor, stating how it's better than the others, and then one explaining why you really like a certain art package or database app.
So you prefer Sense to TW. You should have a HTC phone then, not a Samsung one.
Hey guys,
Are there any good modded keyboards out there for the Rezounds high resolution screen that can be made a little taller?
I've tried a ton of keyboards and most are too small on the Rezound's screen - Swype is too small, TouchPal doesn't even fill up the width of the screen, FlexT9 is too small, the HTC IME mod I loved on my DINC is super tiny.
I like the HTC Trace keyboard but it seems a tad laggy compared to the HTC IME i used on my DINC.
SwiftKeyX can be enlarged to a perfect height, but also seems a bit laggy to me (and I hate the 4 available themes).
UltraKeyboard has lots of great custom tweaks and can be made the tallest of any of the others, but the typing and swiping accuracy isn't the best.
Ideally, I'd love to see modded version of the HTC Trace keyboard that can be modded like the HTC IME - it was super fast/responsive and had lots of custom tweaks (long press duration, swipe left to delete last word, etc).
I like the combo of type and swipe, but none seem very good in the market.
Anything out there that's really good for the Rezound you can recommend?
go keyboard,sounds like it has everything you like
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dyetheskin said:
go keyboard,sounds like it has everything you like
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Tried Go Keyboard too. A little on the small side and didn't keep up with fast typing.
The one i just installed that I like best right now is Smart Keyboard Pro. It keeps up better than the stock one for fast typing and has LOTS of custom themes and settings.
This one below with the red accents matches the Rezound pretty well...
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Tried Go Keyboard too. A little on the small side and didn't keep up with fast typing.
The one i just installed that I like best right now is Smart Keyboard Pro. It keeps up better than the stock one for fast typing and has LOTS of custom themes and settings.
This one below with the red accents matches the Rezound pretty well...
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typing seems fine with go keyboard. tried adjusting the sizes?
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dyetheskin said:
typing seems fine with go keyboard. tried adjusting the sizes?
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Go Keyboard was ok, not great for me. I had the Go Keyboard on the top setting for height (5 i believe) and it's at least 1/2 inches shorter than the Smart Keyboard Pro setting I have which i like a lot better. The keys themselves seemed smaller too compared to the stock keyboard.
I like to type fast and the haptic feedback on some of these keyboards doesn't keep up well and throws me off. Smart Keyboard definitely is a tad faster than these others with the haptic (which i have to have on) and has been very accurate too, which is the other issue i had with some of these other keyboards.
Is the word prediction on Smart Pro as good as SwiftKey X? It will even predict well known names--amazing. I probably only have to type 60-70% of the time and I guess coming from my Dinc, this keyboard seems much larger.
Guess I'll take a peek at Smart Pro
Smart KB Pro is by far my favorite KB at this point and I've tried them all.
SwiftkeyX has a little better prediction for sure but I still don't really like it at all.
You guys using smart keyboard, how do you get your skins to show up again? For me, it doesn't show up on sdcard2, nor the internal sdcard. I gave up on using it because I don't really like those stock skins it comes with
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thumb keyboard rules all! i love all of the different options and it can be manually scaled
Smart keyboard pro is great !
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username235 said:
You guys using smart keyboard, how do you get your skins to show up again? For me, it doesn't show up on sdcard2, nor the internal sdcard. I gave up on using it because I don't really like those stock skins it comes with
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You need to manually add a folder to the internal sdcard (wouldn't recognize on the external sd card (so dont put it in sdcard 2) and name it 'skins' . Then put the zip files for the themes you've downloaded into it.
Now, when you go to general settings the preview of your downloaded themes will show up too...
There's a ton of themes to choose from in their forum's
jmk32 said:
Tried Go Keyboard too. A little on the small side and didn't keep up with fast typing.
The one i just installed that I like best right now is Smart Keyboard Pro. It keeps up better than the stock one for fast typing and has LOTS of custom themes and settings.
This one below with the red accents matches the Rezound pretty well...
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What skin is that?
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its called gloss black red lined from the smart keyboard forums...
http://www.dexilog.com/smartkeyboard/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=622
Thanks
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its called gloss black red lined from the smart keyboard forums...
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WOW, that skin is awesome -I just installed it.
Thanks for posting that.
Anyone having trouble getting the skins to show for Smart Keyboard Pro? I just tried installing this skin using the folder steps, but even though it shows a preview in the settings menu, it never shows it outside of the settings. None of the other skins will work either, even the ones that come with the app.
Anyone have any ideas? I have already tried rebooting and reinstalling the app
Make sure the skins folder is on the INTERNAL memory, not your card.
Ur problem is that u use haptic feedback. Such a terrible idea. Shut that off and ur typing will be smooth
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i still like better keyboard haha