I would like to have a quick access shortcut from my homescreen to certain gmail group contacts. Clicking on the shortcut should bring up all my work contacts for example. It sounds simple enough but I can't for the life of me find an app our widget for this. Anyone have any suggestions.
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I am using Photo Contacts Widget from the Market (free). I actually have this set up twice on my Photon, one for personal contacts and one for business contacts.
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I'm looking for a transparent weather widget , can anyone help?
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A transparentish search box would be great too
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dickinstein said:
I'm looking for a transparent weather widget , can anyone help?
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Thanks for that . Looks great too .
Now looking for an app that will display info on the lock screen ,Like missed calls, sms, email . As I run launcher pro plus and hide the notification bar , so I dont see them on that..
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dickinstein said:
Thanks for that . Looks great too .
Now looking for an app that will display info on the lock screen ,Like missed calls, sms, email . As I run launcher pro plus and hide the notification bar , so I dont see them on that..
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Me too. Would also like to see battery percentage on it too.
widgetlocker and executive assistant are 2 options for lockscreen. With widgetlocker you have to use widgets to show sms, emails etc and executive assistant has options to display such.
I reallly like executive assistant as it allows me to display all of this info in the lock screen, plus facebook feeds, twiter updates, RSS feeds, ect. Its very useful. I am using the free version and thinking about getting the paid as this is a great app. You can also use thir standard widget to get simular info on say your main screen as well.
Widgetlocker is a paid app (I think only $2) and you can customize your lockscreen with different widgets and whatnot. It cannot change how many colums or rows are on it, like LPP can on your homescreen. But it works to get basic info on your lockscreen. If you use something like SMS Unread widget, you can display missed calls or missed texts on your lockscreen.
The only challenge with Widgetlocker is that it doesn't work so well if you have your email set up through a corporate exchange server that requires a lock-screen PIN.
I haven't tried "executive assistant" but I think I will.
executive assistant works. Thanks all.
Battery level, email, SMS and more. I've only put the free one on my phone so far.
Doesn't appear to have a portrait mode, however. That is, if you care about a portrait mode.
Can anyone recommend a Contacts Widget? I know there are several out there but I can't find one that does the two things I'm looking for: Firstly I want it to read all my contacts, not just selected favourites. And secondly I want the contacts listed surname first. I have a widget, "Photo Contacts", it's the only one I can find that lists all contacts, however it's arranged first name first.
Any thoughts, anyone?
The LauncherPro Plus widget is nice for contacts, but it is a payed app.
alex3305 said:
The LauncherPro Plus widget is nice for contacts, but it is a payed app.
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Yes, I use LauncherPro and their "People" widget would be perfect for me except that it indexes by first name, with no facility to change to surname. It's a great shame, because I do like that one.
Anybody else upset that it doesn't come with one ? Any suggestions for alternatives?
Really depends on what info you want to see but I use Simple Calendar myself.
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I used Simple Calendar in the past. But now I use the Today widget that comes with the phone.
I'm a big fan of the Pure Calendar, it's a pay for app.
i really like the LauncherPro calendar widget...
I like the business calendar widget, can take up a full page on the home screen if you want it to
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I went and installed the TouchWiz 4.5 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883 and it works flawlessly. It has the Calendar widget as well as some really cool features not found in TW4. I highly recommend this for someone wanting a near stock TW experience with some really functional tweaks.
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I like the business calendar widget, can take up a full page on the home screen if you want it to
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+1 for the business calendar widget, or there is also android agenda widget, which is pretty customizable, and will also scroll if the launcher you are using supports that....
If you just want a list of upcoming appointments, Agenda Widget is awesome. Very customizable, though it takes some work to get it just the way you want. In just a 4x1 space on my screen I can see my next 4 appointments, with little bullets next to them telling me which calendar they are from.
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Anybody else upset that it doesn't come with one ? Any suggestions for alternatives?
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Eh? Am I missing some detail about this question? My device has 2 calendar widgets pre-installed: Agenda and Today. Agenda takes up most of a home screen and scrolls to display lots of calendar appts; Today just shows the current/next appt for the current day.
is there really no month view calendar widget for tw launcher that links up with google calendar?
i have tried go launcher ex and the calendar widget on that is perfect, but i want to run tw launcher instead.
i dont want to add agenda or today widget because i want a month view. any suggestions?
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is there really no month view calendar widget for tw launcher that links up with google calendar?
i have tried go launcher ex and the calendar widget on that is perfect, but i want to run tw launcher instead.
i dont want to add agenda or today widget because i want a month view. any suggestions?
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This is a list of bloatware removed from the Cognition ROM:
http://ponack.net/designgears/Cognition777/removed/
The TwCalendarAppWidget.apk listed there has a month view. I believe it's from the Euro SGS2 version of Touchwi but not sure. Anyway, replace the corresponding app on your phone with the one from the link. Worked for me on UnNamed 1.3.1.
Attachment so you can see what it looks like. Not bad.
thanks!
do you know which folder it goes in?
is is possible to theme?
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same one as your current TwCalendarAppWidget.apk should be in. It should be possible to theme using all the normal tools, apk manager etc.
EDIT: OK, now you got me curious. I was able to decompile, edit some XML and recompile without problems, so yes, I'd say it definitely is possible to theme it. FWIW, I changed the first day of the week to Sun (normally Mon.). I might do a full flashable mod with different themes and what not. But it will take me at least a week b/c I am busy with stuff. No promises!
EDIT 2: Oh, never mind, my changes were superficial. All I did was change the day of the week label, not the display of the widget. Still a good project. Not sure at this point if it is above my head...
EDIT 3: Ok, now this is just getting embarrassing. Using the apk I linked to, all you have to do it go into the Touchwiz Calendar app, go to preferences, and set your First day of the week preference. Widget should reflect this change, otherwise, delete and re-add widget and it should be there!
I SWORE I tried this before and it didn't work.
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same one as your current TwCalendarAppWidget.apk should be in. It should be possible to theme using all the normal tools, apk manager etc.
EDIT 3: Ok, now this is just getting embarrassing. Using the apk I linked to, all you have to do it go into the Touchwiz Calendar app, go to preferences, and set your First day of the week preference. Widget should reflect this change, otherwise, delete and re-add widget and it should be there!
I SWORE I tried this before and it didn't work.
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haha all good.
i wish there were more month view widgets from the market.
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I'm a big fan of the Pure Calendar, it's a pay for app.
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Pure Grid Calendar is absolutely gorgeous. I have a month view on my lock screen and a week view 4x4 on one of my homescreens.
It pulls from multiple google calendars and displays duration bars corresponding to your events.
Simply stunning. Hands-down one of my best app purchases.
So far I am using ADWLauncher EX, Aldiko, Astro, Elixir, and Extended Controls. I mainly want my Nook for reading books so does anyone have a suggestion for anything better or that will combine some of those?
Also, is there a disc cleaner or defrag app or is it even needed?
Also looking for a simple calendar app which I have not been able to find the right one. All I want is a simple text showing the date and month like "16 January or January 16th". Nothing else, one line of text and no other graphics. If this was tied to a full blown calender that I could add stuff to is a plus but not really needed. I have tried simi clock, simple calendar widget, and elixir so far.
Well got rid of Elixir and Aldiko (found that Mantano is better for me). Anyone got any ideas for my calendar problem?
what kind of book formats are you using?
i usually end up using the kindle app for pdf...just put the pdf into your kindle folder and restart app
kingsoft office (which was free) for editing documents and reading
There are probably other options, but I've been using Fancy Widgets and it has an option to add the date to the clock widget. I personally have an all-in-one widget at the top of the screen with time, date, and weather.
I also use Android Agenda Widget on my phone, and it shows the current date with a summary of upcoming calendar events.
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Also looking for a simple calendar app which I have not been able to find the right one. All I want is a simple text showing the date and month like "16 January or January 16th". Nothing else, one line of text and no other graphics. If this was tied to a full blown calender that I could add stuff to is a plus but not really needed. I have tried simi clock, simple calendar widget, and elixir so far.
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I use smooth calendar widget is very simplistic. For the date in text you could make it yourself using minimalistic text.
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I use smooth calendar widget is very simplistic. For the date in text you could make it yourself using minimalistic text.
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Thank you so much, minimalistic text was what I was looking for, now my nook is complete!!!!
Anyone know how to get only 1 "page" instead of the 5 I can scroll through now?
Just put in CM7 and using ADW launcher pro of that helps, was able to do this before I put in CM7 but forget how to do it.
I keep accidentally setting off the contacts widgets when I flick them in an upward motion to get to the list view that is below them.Then I'm calling someone I don't want to and screens are closing as I try to frantically fidget back to kill the call. This is really driving me to drink. All I want is the list view for the contacts not the widgets. Is there a way to disable the widgets out of the contacts app? Or is there a modded contacts apk?
Running Joker's latest...awesome
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