Safe to remove htc sense - HTC EVO 3D

I am running Leedroid v2. I want to use launcher pro but would like to remove the sense, is it safe to uninstall it from titanium backup?
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Absolutely not. Its a vital part of the framework. Just install Launcher Pro over it, and when you hit the Home button, select it as the default launcher.
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markdexter said:
I am running Leedroid v2. I want to use launcher pro but would like to remove the sense, is it safe to uninstall it from titanium backup?
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HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.

tjb3401 said:
HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.
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Thanks mate, perfect, will give it a go

Would doing this mod essentially make the phone faster?
Edit: just tried it and didn't really make much of a difference in speed for me. It wasn't noticeable atleast. It seems to just remove sense as a launcher but everything sense is still intact. If you want comeplete senseless your best bet is any asop rom like miui or cm7 alpha.

Removing Sense is highly inadvisable. And a launcher is pretty much just a skin, so sense will still run. Not 100% about this, but uninstalling sense MAY mess with your ability to recover back to it should you choose to unroot. Definitely take the advice above, and try flashing an aosp ROM. They are much quicker anyway

Thanks for your advise guys, unfortunately I am gsm, so as far as I know, there is no aosp ROM available yet, ill just stick with it for now until. IM just used to cyanogenmod with other devices, IM sure our day will come for the gsm guys! Just find sense, abit bulky, and sluggish at times. Also everything that sense provides can be found in apps, on the market (beautiful widgets, widget locker......) cheers
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kyleg517 said:
Removing Sense is highly inadvisable. And a launcher is pretty much just a skin, so sense will still run. Not 100% about this, but uninstalling sense MAY mess with your ability to recover back to it should you choose to unroot. Definitely take the advice above, and try flashing an aosp ROM. They are much quicker anyway
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this is untrue. you cannot remove sense totally, however, you can remove many many many of the components associated with it without much problem at all. this also does not affect returning to stock in any way whatsoever.

tjb3401 said:
HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.
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This also has the issue where you have to unlock to answer a call. I guess if it were a tablet but being it's a phone that would annoy me having to do that every time get a call.

I Remember seeing a Thread with a zip Called DeSensify or something like that, Look for that it May Help?

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Launchers for the Flyer

I just picked up the Wifi Flyer from Best Buy. I have never been too crazy about Sense. I use Go Launcher on my Inspire but wasn't sure if it was truly compatible for the Flyer (even though it's not running HC).
Is GO good to run on the Flyer or does anyone have any other suggestions?
All launchers work, unless specifically stated by the author.
Try launcher pro. It's really light and snappy.
Stupid question perhaps, but is it possible to have a launcher with HTC widgets? Or, perhaps a hacked sense? I'm new to the whole sense thing...
Zlatty said:
Stupid question perhaps, but is it possible to have a launcher with HTC widgets? Or, perhaps a hacked sense? I'm new to the whole sense thing...
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Nope...sense has custom stuff in it that the launchers outside cannot access.
life64x said:
Nope...sense has custom stuff in it that the launchers outside cannot access.
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Gocha. Thanks.
However, is there a Sense-like rom with better performance?
Zlatty said:
Gocha. Thanks.
However, is there a Sense-like rom with better performance?
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LauncherPro Plus has Twitter/Facebook/Friendstream/Calendar widgets and you can apply Sense skins on these widgets.
IMO the LauncherPro widgets works better than the Sense widgets, but I'm actually contempt with Sense on Flyer so fat.
Check VTL.Launcher.
This Launcher is designed with landscape tablets in mind! (that's not to say it doesn't also function well in portrait mode..... as it does)
First off this launcher is based on ADW.Launcher's Source code so I would like to thank anderweb for all the ground work.
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Did you by any chance manage to grab the flyer at usd99?
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Opperhoofd said:
Check VTL.Launcher.
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This is really neat. Thanks for sharing.
kenypowa said:
LauncherPro Plus has Twitter/Facebook/Friendstream/Calendar widgets and you can apply Sense skins on these widgets.
IMO the LauncherPro widgets works better than the Sense widgets, but I'm actually contempt with Sense on Flyer so fat.
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Hmm, it's been a while since I've used LP. The paid version was good but it made my droid lag so I had to go to ADWpro. However, I'll give it a try on the Flyer. thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205050
Sorry, thought this would line up under the comment I was addressing. This is a link to the FlyHigh ROM for the Flyer that is Sense based and from what I can tell so far is pretty fast and stable.
ccrifasi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205050
Sorry, thought this would line up under the comment I was addressing. This is a link to the FlyHigh ROM for the Flyer that is Sense based and from what I can tell so far is pretty fast and stable.
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It's faster than stock (thanks to the 200mhz bump ). However, the LWP still stop when switching screens.

[Q] HTC Sense Remover

Besides BeastMOD, is there a way I can download a Sense ROM and use a script that will get rid of Sense completely and give an AOSP feel?
HuskyHamburger said:
Besides BeastMOD, is there a way I can download a Sense ROM and use a script that will get rid of Sense completely and give an AOSP feel?
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I just found it easier to download launcherpro or adw and do it that way. Not entirely sure though for a complete answer.
djdanska said:
I just found it easier to download launcherpro or adw and do it that way. Not entirely sure though for a complete answer.
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I don't really want to add more apps and slow the phone down, I would rather delete Sense altogether.
HuskyHamburger said:
I don't really want to add more apps and slow the phone down, I would rather delete Sense altogether.
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It's very much built into the rom. And with the amaze 4g's dual core 1.5 processor, adw or launcherpro isn't going to slow down the phone at all.
HuskyHamburger said:
Besides BeastMOD, is there a way I can download a Sense ROM and use a script that will get rid of Sense completely and give an AOSP feel?
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Once I used rom toolbox to get rid of all the sense feel. Use their app manager feature to uninstall all the sense you dont want
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Use Senceless from ROM Development section. It doesn't have Rosie, htc facebook, htc twitter, widgets and a lot of other stuff is removed. It comes with Zeam launcher, but you can download another one and then uninstall Zeam.
I'm running it now, after restoring a few sense apps from Quiksense by using AppExtractor, and it's running great. It's no AOSP, but it's a super slimmed down version of sense.
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MiLocker problems

Every time I enable MiLocker, it ends up becoming secondary to the stock lockscreen, be it Sense or AOSP. Is there any way to fix this?
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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It's not an instant thing. Like, it'll be the only lockscreen for a while, but after about an hour or so, the stock lockscreens come back up again.
mentallo said:
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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Thanks for saying something about GoLocker. I didn't even know it existed and I love it!
mentallo said:
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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What is the stock lockscreen listed as in titanium backup? Im having the same issue and cant find it in titanium

[Request] Stock ICS Multitasking

Is it possible to do? I've gotten sense 4 multitasking on my nexus s so i was hoping it might be possible to get stock ics multitasking on my evo. I use multitasking a lot (even though its got its issues) but i prefer to see them in a list rather than swipe through each one.
people love to ***** about simple stuff lol
if you hate it so much return it
or wait for a AOSP rom like CM 9 or AOKP
dude, chill out. if youre gonna post such a negative response, why take out the time to post at all. smh. i love the phone.
I was wondering the same too. Sense 4 implementation looks more impressive and flashy for showing off to your friends but the stock ics implementation is much more usable.
The way you got the sense task switcher on another device, did it involve changing the framework?
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hmm im not sure. an awesome developer over at the nexus s 4g thread made the mod. just flashed the zip and i was using sense 4 multitask. like you said, its cool to show off, but everyday use, i prefer stock (even though i enjoy most of sense)
It involves modification of the ROM's SystemUI. On the Nexus S, it was a matter of modifying the source code. On Sense 4, you're going to have to decompile and play with smali.
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pspunderground said:
It involves modification of the ROM's SystemUI. On the Nexus S, it was a matter of modifying the source code. On Sense 4, you're going to have to decompile and play with smali.
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Sounds like your going to play with a little indian child.
The charmeleon rom from the dev forum apparently has the option to change the multitasking, as well as the lockscreen, back to AOSP style. I'm testing it out right now and both tweaks are good to go. The only thing that is different from my modded ViperROM is that recent apps isn't mapped to menu anymore as joelz made some changes and that became non-functional for now.
lacrossev said:
The charmeleon rom from the dev forum apparently has the option to change the multitasking, as well as the lockscreen, back to AOSP style. I'm testing it out right now and both tweaks are good to go. The only thing that is different from my modded ViperROM is that recent apps isn't mapped to menu anymore as joelz made some changes and that became non-functional for now.
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Which option is the multitasking option?
I'm shocked that HTC hasn't made an attempt to fix this screw up. Regardless if they did it on purpose. Ok great, got it. But that was a bad idea and should be fixed. The multitasking is so annoying. I'll find myself filling out a form, then switch apps, then try to go back to the form and it reloads the page and kills everything I've filled out. AAAAHHHHH!!! Same with like copying and pasting a password from one app to another... I tried to ignore the hype about this issue while we waiting to receive our phones, but in the end, it really does get in the way. Can't wait for a vanilla android ROM.
Also, from what I've heard, there's not a single person on the planet that's actually happy about this. So why the heck isn't HTC changing it to appease everyone? Noone wants your stupid multitasking feature HTC! Shame on you.
EDIT: It is a sick phone though!
Flash this rom and in the tweaks app you can change it to stock ics multitasking
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Flash this rom and in the tweaks app you can change it to stock ics multitasking
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That's just a ui change, it doesn't change the way multitasking actually works.
In order to fix multi-tasking, you have to adjust the memory values which Viper's ROM does. Then it works fine no matter which multi-task UI you use...
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That's just a ui change, it doesn't change the way multitasking actually works.
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Which is exactly what the OP was asking about, a UI change.
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Flash this rom and in the tweaks app you can change it to stock ics multitasking
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I like the mod but I prefer fresh right now I like all the options but there is some bugs in pokemon rom that needs to get fixed but not update I do miss the ICS multitasking tho
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Why are 3rd party launchers slow and laggy on the rezound running ICS?

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything. Why do Apex and Nova run so slow and laggy on the Rezound? Is there any way to fix this at all?? I really don't like sense, and I was hoping to just be able to replace the homescreen, but apex and nova are pretty much unusable. Thanks for any and all help!
I'm not really sure what the problem is but one thing that helped me a fair amount is flashing the Adreno ICS drivers through recovery, smoothed things up somewhat. But even after doing that there is still some choppines to the launchers and I'm not sure why.
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything. Why do Apex and Nova run so slow and laggy on the Rezound? Is there any way to fix this at all?? I really don't like sense, and I was hoping to just be able to replace the homescreen, but apex and nova are pretty much unusable. Thanks for any and all help!
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The newest cm9 builds in the development section are all pretty darn smooth. Have you tried any of those?
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try neomax 2
Mrdroid921 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything. Why do Apex and Nova run so slow and laggy on the Rezound? Is there any way to fix this at all?? I really don't like sense, and I was hoping to just be able to replace the homescreen, but apex and nova are pretty much unusable. Thanks for any and all help!
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If you flash a rom with linaro optimizations the smoothness is incredible!
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It's but awhile since I rooted and put a rom on a HTC device. Is there a one lick root method, also do I need S-Off? I would like to get this all smoothed out, so I don't have to sell or trade this thing.
launchers not properly configured will cause lag too. no problems on apex or nova. all roms are great. sounds like user error
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launchers not properly configured will cause lag too. no problems on apex or nova. all roms are great. sounds like user error
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I am not running a rom, I am stock. Also I know how to set up all of the different types of launchers, so its not user error............................................
Apex user here..smooth as butter, especially with the animations sped up. Like any launcher, it does need to work itself into your memory to smooth out its performance, so initial performance after boot tends to be slightly choppy and then my lag goes away after some usage.
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Apex user here..smooth as butter, especially with the animations sped up. Like any launcher, it does need to work itself into your memory to smooth out its performance, so initial performance after boot tends to be slightly choppy and then my lag goes away after some usage.
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And your stock?
Mrdroid921 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything. Why do Apex and Nova run so slow and laggy on the Rezound? Is there any way to fix this at all?? I really don't like sense, and I was hoping to just be able to replace the homescreen, but apex and nova are pretty much unusable. Thanks for any and all help!
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a lot of the times, the sense UI is still running behind the third party launcher. Best thing to do is when you find a ui you like. delete rosie.apk. downside you will loose the sense widgets and lockscreen. if you go this route, it be best to try an AOSP rom.
synisterwolf said:
a lot of the times, the sense UI is still running behind the third party launcher. Best thing to do is when you find a ui you like. delete rosie.apk. downside you will loose the sense widgets and lockscreen. if you go this route, it be best to try an AOSP rom.
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Can you delete the Rosie.apk while stock and unrooted, or do you need to be rooted and on a rom? If not can you explain how to do this?
thanks.
Mrdroid921 said:
Can you delete the Rosie.apk while stock and unrooted, or do you need to be rooted and on a rom? If not can you explain how to do this?
thanks.
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OH, im sorry. i assumed you had root. unfortunately you cant because it's a system file.
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OH, im sorry. i assumed you had root. unfortunately you cant because it's a system file.
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I would have to unlock before I could root right? I am sorry for the noobness, I haven't had a HTC device in awhile. Also if I do need to unlock where do I do that, and also what do I use to root?
Mrdroid921 said:
I would have to unlock before I could root right? I am sorry for the noobness, I haven't had a HTC device in awhile. Also if I do need to unlock where do I do that, and also what do I use to root?
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ok so to unlock you go to http://htcdev.com/ and look for the rezound unlock.
they have a complete guide on how to do it with pictures.
after that is done you will need to load a custom recovery, amon ra 3.15 is great.
after that you just flash a rom of your choice.
synisterwolf said:
ok so to unlock you go to http://htcdev.com/ and look for the rezound unlock.
they have a complete guide on how to do it with pictures.
after that is done you will need to load a custom recovery, amon ra 3.15 is great.
after that you just flash a rom of your choice.
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Do you have to root after you install amon ra?
I use ADW EX on ICS. Its neither slow, nor buggy.
Unfortunately, ADW doesn't work on JB, which means I'm going to have to find a new launcher soon once we get AOSP JB ports working.
synisterwolf said:
a lot of the times, the sense UI is still running behind the third party launcher. Best thing to do is when you find a ui you like. delete rosie.apk. downside you will loose the sense widgets and lockscreen. if you go this route, it be best to try an AOSP rom.
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You can also run a de-Sensed ROM like NeoMax or Ineff Deus. Ineff Deus isn't advertised as de-Sensed but you can during the install process. Both are extremely solid ROMs.
De-Sensed Ineff Deus with Nova Prime is my daily driver and its very smooth.
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Mrdroid921 said:
Do you have to root after you install amon ra?
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Once you unlock and load up a custom recovery (amon ra), you can go one of two ways: root the stock rom manually. Or the recommended method: install a ROM with root already installed.
There are some stock ROMs with root, or if you're going for performance, you'll want to find a good custom rom. Check out the development forum for one you might like to try. You'll want to S-Off, it's not required but it will make rom flashing significantly less complicated. (it seems intimidating, but it's actually pretty easy.)
If you need some help, there's a thread here with some guys who are exceedingly helpful. It's uhhhm... Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872651
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Correct me if I am wrong but isn't rosie set to 60 fps whereas others are capped at 30

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