I am not sure if I got the exact name of the part I am reffering to correct or not. But I have an HTC EVO using a sense 3.5 rom, Rainyday to be exact. However at the bottom where there is normally a launcher for the phone, apps, and internet, it is invisible. The functions still work, But... No Icons or images whatso ever.
I was wondering if there was a way that I could make it visible once more.
Thank you
MiracleMose
Well, my first thought is try a reboot, if that fails then just reflash the rom
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Terribly sorry, but I should have mentioned that the rom was intentionally made with an invisible bottom task bar. Not sure if I am saying it right, again I am referring to the bottom bar that holds the apps, phone, and internet icons.
I believe it used misfit rosie to achieve this, but I could be wrong.
Any thoughts? Again, its also the rainyday rom.
Repost in the Evo Q&A section (or have a mod move the thread), or you can try PMing the dev of the rom you're running. While I also have an Evo, I haven't ran Sense in almost a year & theming is more difficult on Sense than AOSP (especially MIUI).
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Im a big of how sense functions. However, I like the feature that helix has where one can place icons at the bottom and keep them stationery. is there any way one can edit rosie scroll to function like that? Ive seen an ad for the incredible, where the ui appeared to have a bottom dock with icons, but didn't see that when I went to verizon & checked it out for myself. Ive played around w/ other home replacements like helix and none of them were as stable as sense or helix. I guess what im asking for is a sense/helix hybrid w/ 3d launcher capabilities. If it were easy, im sure it would be done rt now.
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I am currently running unrooted stock sense, with the amazingsense skin, which is really awesome. I just don't call that much, and wondered, is it possible to change to position of the buttons to have the app drawer as a big button in the middle? That would be so awesome. If it is, I will just wait till someone does it someday
Not possible?
On stock i'm not sure. It certainly doesnt seem like it'd be that tough of an endeavor though but i'm in no way shape or form a dev. I do know there is "rosie settings" in app manager, and on my rooted OG evo i had a rosie settings app with my rom that allowed for customization...maybe that app will work on the 3vo but you'd probably at least ahve to get a temp-root to try. I'm sure it needs SU permissions.
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On stock i'm not sure. It certainly doesnt seem like it'd be that tough of an endeavor though but i'm in no way shape or form a dev. I do know there is "rosie settings" in app manager, and on my rooted OG evo i had a rosie settings app with my rom that allowed for customization...maybe that app will work on the 3vo but you'd probably at least ahve to get a temp-root to try. I'm sure it needs SU permissions.
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Can't root the GSM 3vo yet.
Hey guys,
I was playing around with the phone last week, downloading some icons for launcher pro and such, trying to get rid of the HTC lockscreen which I hate.. for some reason launcher Pro would not launch anymore and doesn't show in the app drawer. When I use home switcher, it activates it, but setting it to defaults results in crashes.
I got annoyed looking to see if cyanogen is already working with the 3d evo, and while I see their site says they do, I can't see the files...? I rooted my HTC Hero in the past, and even though I don't remember the full process, I was very happy at the end. I want to do that the same for this phone.
Ok, so here comes my general questions:
* cyanogen - is there a stable one for the 3D evo, or not yet?
* Launcher Pro - is anyone familiar with this issue, and will rooting the phone help?
* Minimalism - I want to change the looks of icons on my phone (not just the launcher shortcuts, but the actual icon in the drawer). I saw some app for that somewhere but I can't remember what it is.. anyone? Also, if possible, I would like to change the looks of the widgets.. again, read somewhere it's possible, but how complicated / time consuming is it?
* lockscreen - don't want it, I hate that freakin' ring, I just want a lock pattern or code. What can I do about it, and if I root my phone, does it go away?
Roms - besides cyanogen, which I liked a lot on my old phone, are there new Roms (especially ones with a minimal feel to them) that are stable and good? I really don't need anything car related (I live in the city) or sports related. I know this is getting very specific, but assuming there are others like me out there, what do you use? I'm just looking for a direction with these last remarks.
Ok, as always, thanks a lot!
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CM7 is still in alpha for the Evo 3D, 4G and 3D don't work, but development is still ongoing...
personally, even though I was a CM7 user when I had the Evo 4G, I gave MIUI a chance on the 3D, and I'm extremely happy, and the ROM is incredibly customizable (themes, lockscreens, fonts and icons are all easily switchable, and you can mix and match elements from different themes from within the ROM).
granted, there's no 4G or 3D on MIUI either, so if you want to use these features, your only option right now is a Sense ROM.
Is there any way to disable Sense if I'm using Nova or another 3rd-party launcher? I still have Sense running in the background eating up resources even though I'm not using it... ugh.
No sir.... Best bet is to flash the somesense Rom and use a custom launcher. The only other way to do it is through an aosp Rom. Currently we have a pretty smooth cm9 in the dev section, but it doesn't have a few vital things working yet
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That sucks, but thanks very much for the info
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Is there any way to disable Sense if I'm using Nova or another 3rd-party launcher? I still have Sense running in the background eating up resources even though I'm not using it... ugh.
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You can freeze our uninstall the sense launcher along with any apps/widgets you don't use if you have a third party launcher installed. I've done this. I wouldn't go uninstalling things without knowing what it is first.
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That requires root I assume?
Yes and a lot of research as you might disable a vital component on accident and then you have to really flash a new Rom.
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That requires root I assume?
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Yes, to freeze sense and other widgets u need to root. Wish u didn't. Hate having to give up twc tv on phone and renting movies thru google play. But I guess torrents and better multitasking will make up for it...
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As stated above, you must be rooted to do this stuff, but in case you wanted to know...
I uninstalled just about every sense element I could find in TitaniumBackup and use Apex launcher in place of the stock one. Interestingly, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the stock ICS lockscreen popped up after uninstalling the sense lockscreen, so I don't have to run any 3rd party LS app. Also I have uninstalled the stock browser and clock, replacing them with the apks I pulled from CM9, mostly because I like the look and feel a little better, but also sense alarm wouldn't display on the ICS LS--CM9 alarm does. I had the CM9 message app on my LTE also, but found I was unable to send or receive MMS. I didn't really investigate too much further to try to get it working and I don't know if it is even possible. EX Dialer offers a more appealing phone app than does the sense version as far as I'm concerned.
There are ways to make your phone look differently, but as you said sense eats up the background, and I feel the CM9 apps run a little lighter. I enjoy a much better experience without the Sense stuff as it feels a little closer to AOSP now.
Good luck should you decide to try some of the suggestions, and remember, always always have a backup.
How did you remove the location icon?
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No sir.... Best bet is to flash the somesense Rom and use a custom launcher. The only other way to do it is through an aosp Rom. Currently we have a pretty smooth cm9 in the dev section, but it doesn't have a few vital things working yet
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What kind of vital things? Is it stable enought to use as a daily?
The part of sense that is still running is the 35MB shell or so of basic sense functionality throughout the whole phone.
You're not able to get rid of that, but if you use another launcher you already not loading up the launcher portion of sense. If you used the sense launcher, you'd see Sense go up to over 100MB, since the basic sense of 35 + the launcher of about 70 something will kick you over 100MB. So the fact that it still sits in the 30s shows you're not using the launcher, but Apex or Nova or whatever is probably taking up 50-70MB itself.
Right, so really no win unless you root and disable... thanks for the input all.
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Thanks for your post. I like AOSP so much better, and hadn't even thought of removing htclockscreen and also using click and browser. Gonna give it a shot. Can't wait til we get AOKP functional.
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I've done a few searches but don't really see anything so forgive me if I missed anything, but I was wondering if there were any aosp style lockscreen mods for the evo lte? Would it have to be an entire skin or theme or could there just be a mod to the lockscreen itself to remove the sense lock and replace with the aosp lock? Thanks in adavance
not sure... but some sense roms include like viper rom.
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Flash OMJs modpack and only select aosp recent apps. Its aroma, so you can pick and choose which mods you want.
Granted you're rooted and everything...
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There used to be an htclockscreen.apk in system/spp in older versions of sense, and you could just remove/rename it and get straight android lockreen (because it IS there, under the sense stuff). But I think its more complex now, involving fusion.apk and idlescreen.apk. At least, sense 3.0 used those apks. I only had sense on this device for a brief minute, so not sure on sense 4.0. In any case, just a little additional info for anyone wanting to dig/explore lol
From my Evo LTE, yup.
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There used to be an htclockscreen.apk in system/spp in older versions of sense, and you could just remove/rename it and get straight android lockreen (because it IS there, under the sense stuff). But I think its more complex now, involving fusion.apk and idlescreen.apk. At least, sense 3.0 used those apks. I only had sense on this device for a brief minute, so not sure on sense 4.0. In any case, just a little additional info for anyone wanting to dig/explore lol
From my Evo LTE, yup.
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For anyone else interested this worked. I went into root explorer opened system then app then deleted the HtcLockScreen.apk (after long press and copying then pasting to sdcard2 just incase). This should be obvious but you will lose your app shortcuts. You get the basic AOSP style lockscreen with the clock display and the unlock or open camera in the ring, and camera does open when selected. Nothing else seems to be affected yet but I'm not knowledgeable enough to even know if anything else would be. Its still early and haven't received any calls or texts yet to see if the notification box shows on the lockscreen or not but I would assume it won't since I'd think the sense lockscreen would be needed to complete path for those. Thanks for the info.
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Confirmed that the notification boxes do not pop up on lockscreen for texts which I expected.
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