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Given the features of TouchWiz... and the inherit delays for updates... what do you prefer? The features/UI... or the timely updates?
I prefer TW. It definitely adds a bit more functionality and some eye candy. The handy toggles in status bar, better clock, calculator, calendar etc are all nice. Also I like widgets like feeds and updates and daily breifing. They are light and nothing similar that aggregates multiple functions in one widget is available in market. And oh I cannot live without program monitor widget/task manager!
TW4 really brings some nice visual improvement and polish to the launcher. Dont know we will ever get it in Vibrant.
I would question the logic that TW is the reason for delayed updates when international galaxy S models are getting almost timely updates. In my opinion Samsung and TouchWiz should not be blamed for delayed updates in US. There is definitely carrier politics involved.
Stock for me. I don't use the widgets much and usually end up deleting them from ROMs even before in install a new one. And one big one for me is that I can't stand a side scrolling app drawer and vertical option in TouchWiz doesn't satisfy my vertical preference.
I think the best of both worlds (sorta) is TouchWiz coupled with ADW EX. For the reasons above
Tw is fine for me just don't like the launcher so I switched it w/ eugene's stock one and now its fine
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I am one of the few people who prefers TouchWiz over Stock Android. For me, Touchwiz is a perfect mix of the Iphone and Android. There are some features of the iphone that I really like such as the horizontal scrolling and the four icons at the bottom. That really makes a big difference. I like how with Touchwiz there are just the four icons at the bottom which make everything very easy when going to the main things you use. Also, TouchWiz was not really made to appeal to die-hard fandroids. In fact, it was probably made more than not to make it easier for people to switch from Iphone to Android. This way, more people buy Samsungs in the transition between Iphone and Android instead of HTC or Motorola or LG for that matter. I hope that was enough.
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I like aosp better but id gotten used to tw for a while and it was quite mice... however ive never had a rom w/tw that feels entirely fluid so i ended up on cm7 with launcher pro to satisfy my ocd.
Tw is nice tho, if it were a bit more stable... just take into account that i liked it the way in came and i ended up using launcher pro when i had aosp.
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IMHO the gingerbread launcher in the android market seems to be the best UI for me. Its sleek, snappy, and overall a great daily.
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I know there is alot of debate on the entire skins vs AOSP, ive decided to write my reasons for sticking with Sense instead of AOSP. we all know sense was introduced to make android faster and eaiser to use it was great but as android started to grow the need for sense started shritting away, that was until sense 4.0, but ive always been a fan of sense from my first android phone, Evo 4G then Evo 3D and now with the Evo LTE. i can say ive experanced every major release of sense dare i say from TouchFlo (and TF3D), 1.0, 1.1, 2.1, 3.0, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1 and even played with Sense 4.5. ive seen sense evolve througout the year and while i do admit it may be a memory hog (Shivers at WinMo 6.1 TouchFlo 3D) i cant just help but also admit it's beauty. i honestly feel not only sense adds slight improvemnts to the software (I.E. First with the "Sync Widget" and the photo Grid Widget and even the ionic sense weather/clock, native facebook intergration). Now to the things i appricate about sense, the camera interface. I find AOSP camera to be boring and plain, sense camera's have always been something beautiful to look at with added features like distoration, hot,cold, thermal, greyscale, Dots even 3D, and now with the ImageSense chip to handle camera processing it just got even better. another thing i used to love about sense was the email client, while i have to admit it had sync issues(I.E. MSN email were still marked unread on PC) it has a beautiful yet user friendly interface,SMS/MMS also shared this. The Status Bar has always had solid icons, i refuse to theme the status bar because alot of themes feel out of place Huge numbers on battery out of place icons ETC. the sense browser has always been in my top 3 brower list, it soild smooth and wordwrap is a benifit i wish chrome & Stock had. one thing i find underrated is 4.x multitasking. HTC designed recent apps based on what many users loved. WebOS card's. HTC took the card idea and tossed there taste into it. Sense Gives android a clean cut feel to it, it is beautiful (had if HTC would've Given us the extra gig of ram it would have been even snappier). Now some improvements i would like to see in sense are pretty simple, First id like to see the Holo effect i admire HTC for giving us a pretty much Stock Dock but sense is missing the Holo Effect which in my opinion is an amazing feature in AOSP, also as mentioned above, an extra Gig of ram would'nt hurt us but i think HTC will leanr from the X line and add addtional Ram in the future.
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i would also like to include im not bashing AOSP, but for my phone i prefer Sense where on my TF i prefer AOSP
Whats with the novels people are writing lately, who was time to read all that! Kidding...
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PhyscoAssassinx said:
I know there is alot of debate on the entire skins vs AOSP, ive decided to write my reasons for sticking with Sense instead of AOSP.
we all know sense was introduced to make android faster and eaiser to use it was great but as android started to grow the need for sense started shritting away, that was until sense 4.0, but ive always been a fan of sense from my first android phone,
Evo 4G then Evo 3D and now with the Evo LTE. i can say ive experanced every major release of sense dare i say from TouchFlo (and TF3D), 1.0, 1.1, 2.1, 3.0, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1 and even played with Sense 4.5. ive seen sense evolve througout the year and while i do admit it may be a memory hog (Shivers at WinMo 6.1 TouchFlo 3D) i cant just help but also admit it's beauty.
i honestly feel not only sense adds slight improvemnts to the software (I.E. First with the "Sync Widget" and the photo Grid Widget and even the ionic sense weather/clock, native facebook intergration).
Now to the things i appricate about sense, the camera interface. I find AOSP camera to be boring and plain, sense camera's have always been something beautiful to look at with added features like distoration, hot,cold, thermal, greyscale, Dots even 3D, and now with the ImageSense chip to handle camera processing it just got even better. another thing i used to love about sense was the email client, while i have to admit it had sync issues(I.E. MSN email were still marked unread on PC) it has a beautiful yet user friendly interface,SMS/MMS also shared this.
The Status Bar has always had solid icons, i refuse to theme the status bar because alot of themes feel out of place Huge numbers on battery out of place icons ETC. the sense browser has always been in my top 3 brower list, it soild smooth and wordwrap is a benifit i wish chrome & Stock had. one thing i find underrated is 4.x multitasking. HTC designed recent apps based on what many users loved. WebOS card's. HTC took the card idea and tossed there taste into it.
Sense Gives android a clean cut feel to it, it is beautiful (had if HTC would've Given us the extra gig of ram it would have been even snappier). Now some improvements i would like to see in sense are pretty simple, First id like to see the Holo effect i admire HTC for giving us a pretty much Stock Dock but sense is missing the Holo Effect which in my opinion is an amazing feature in AOSP, also as mentioned above, an extra Gig of ram would'nt hurt us but i think HTC will leanr from the X line and add addtional Ram in the future.
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i would also like to include im not bashing AOSP, but for my phone i prefer Sense where on my TF i prefer AOSP
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There we go, a bit easier on the eye. :cyclops:
I'm really mad they tied that ImageSense chip into the SenseUI. By the time anyone in AOSP manages to merge it, the phone will be outdated.
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I'm really mad they tied that ImageSense chip into the SenseUI. By the time anyone in AOSP manages to merge it, the phone will be outdated.
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As far as I know they already have ._.
I tried AOSP out a few days ago (CM10) and I was able to take pictures while recording video, and picture taking was about as fast as normal.
I also heard that they merged it into AOSP awhile back.
But I could be wrong on what the ImageSense chip is in charge of, but I thought it handled that.
All that was required was porting the libs over and they have successfully merged the libraries already. There are still some things that can't be done yet. At this point the underpinnings are there but the software has to catch up
2 things:.
1. AOSP browser has word wrap. If you mean text reflow (like, a column maintaining screen width at any zoom level).
2. You LIKE sense 4 multitasking?!
How? It DOESNT multitask. It closes everything as soon as you leave it. Hell, zeppelinrocks and others have been working long trying to fix it.
I feel like I just stepped into bizarro world.
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2 things:.
1. AOSP browser has word wrap. If you mean text reflow (like, a column maintaining screen width at any zoom level).
2. You LIKE sense 4 multitasking?!
How? It DOESNT multitask. It closes everything as soon as you leave it. Hell, zeppelinrocks and others have been working long trying to fix it.
I feel like I just stepped into bizarro world.
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It doesn't reflow on my tablet and yes I like sense 4 multitasking, it works fine with me, again this differs from user to user many people on here hate it many people on here loves it I'm not expecting any one to agree with me out trying to change anyone's mind just my personal opinion on sense
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notsointeresting said:
As far as I know they already have ._.
I tried AOSP out a few days ago (CM10) and I was able to take pictures while recording video, and picture taking was about as fast as normal.
I also heard that they merged it into AOSP awhile back.
But I could be wrong on what the ImageSense chip is in charge of, but I thought it handled that.
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Nah, CM10 uses the stock Android camera; they'd have to engineer the drivers for that chip from scratch. The ImageSense chip speeds things up dramatically and does a great deal of image processing... Supposedly they're legally required to eventually release the source for it, but the way things go it doesn't end up getting released until the device is nearing EOL, if at all. Please note that I have no inside information on this, this is just what I've picked up on these boards, as it's an important topic to me. As much as I like CM10, I don't like the idea of software that gimps my hardware.
^^^^^^^ what do you mean, "nah" ?
Yes, you absolutely can take stills while video recording in AOSP. I'm on AOKP and just did it.
I will say that in sense, taking a still while recording resulted in a pic that was crisper and sharper than any standalone pic I could take , while in AOSP, the still from video tends to be a bit blurry for me.
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I guess I'll add my opinion into this. I'm honestly a big sense fan. I've used the galaxy nexus for a few weeks, and tried out the galaxy S III. Now, what I love about AOSP is that everything is fast, and it works extremely well. (At least for the galaxy nexus.) I'm not a big fan of how much of a memory hog sense is, nor its bizarre multitasking, but I love the way sense integrates social networks. I'm a huge, facebook/tweeter users, and I hated how stock Android doesn't have as many options as Sense to integrate the two. Everything was centered around Google Plus, and none of the people I talk to are on Google plus, so it's pretty much useless to me. SO, Social network integration is a plus for me, as far as sense is concerned. Also, I love the little nuances in the design, like the weather animation, and widgets. I just only wish, sense wasn't so laggy, and HTC added some of the extras that you find in Touchwiz on the Galaxy S III.
I agree, I like sense more than touchwiz. I had the first galaxy s, and I liked a few of the added customizations, and I've played around with the s3. It's a very nice phone with a lot of little options. The one thing I like the most about touchwiz is the contacts, swipe left on a name to call and swipe right to message (or vice versa, can't remember). That's a nice little touch. Other than that and the lack of good multitasking, I think sense is very nice and user friendly.
I like sense but sometimes I get this crazy long lag when loading my text messages. Doesn't happen all the time and seems pretty random but its not just text messages. Sometimes it happens opening people or when trying to create a new message, it doesn't auto fill who I'm looking up for a good 15 seconds. Annoying and I'm pretty sure it's sense's fault. I had CM7 on my og Evo for about a year and I like stock android, got the Nexus 7 and it's great. I'm running stock on my Evo LTE and I'm not rooted but I'm seriously thinking about it just to get rid of that lag, it's rare enough that I might just update to jellybean when it comes out and hope it's fixed because it didn't do it until my first update. Also it takes way to long to launch sense when you've been in the browser for a while and hit home. Loading... Loading...
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I got my phone after jumping from an HTC Rezound that I had running Sense 4 for the longest time. After jumping over to the HTC One (despite what most reviewers said about Sense 5), I grew to like it. I don't like how Blinkfeed lacks customization, but I just stick it over in a corner and ignore it anyway.
But Sense 5 does feel like a step forward in a lot of areas, but in terms of the widgets, it sort of feels like a step back as well. What I miss the most are the Sense 4 widgets, especially the Agenda view. It seems like when HTC does a manufacturer UI, nobody does it better than HTC. Anybody who remembers Sense 4 knows how great the widgets were.
I was originally going to ask if we'd ever get a Sense 4 port, but considering that Sense 5 probably has a lot of bugs that Sense 4 has patched up and nonexistent, I doubt somebody would want to port it, so thus that answers my own question on it. But that still leaves the widgets. Is there any way to have them ported and working in Sense 5? Forgive me for asking if this seems like an obvious or stupid question, as I'm not really a dev at all and I wouldn't know about the finer details of what goes into a ROM.
Oh, and don't bother suggesting alternative widgets or launchers. I've looked, and believe me: they're not the same.
Sense 5 is Great UI
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SirSigma said:
I got my phone after jumping from an HTC Rezound that I had running Sense 4 for the longest time. After jumping over to the HTC One (despite what most reviewers said about Sense 5), I grew to like it. I don't like how Blinkfeed lacks customization, but I just stick it over in a corner and ignore it anyway.
But Sense 5 does feel like a step forward in a lot of areas, but in terms of the widgets, it sort of feels like a step back as well. What I miss the most are the Sense 4 widgets, especially the Agenda view. It seems like when HTC does a manufacturer UI, nobody does it better than HTC. Anybody who remembers Sense 4 knows how great the widgets were.
I was originally going to ask if we'd ever get a Sense 4 port, but considering that Sense 5 probably has a lot of bugs that Sense 4 has patched up and nonexistent, I doubt somebody would want to port it, so thus that answers my own question on it. But that still leaves the widgets. Is there any way to have them ported and working in Sense 5? Forgive me for asking if this seems like an obvious or stupid question, as I'm not really a dev at all and I wouldn't know about the finer details of what goes into a ROM.
Oh, and don't bother suggesting alternative widgets or launchers. I've looked, and believe me: they're not the same.
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how about this one? I love/missed the Agenda as well. I went with this one and its not only similar but better IMHO.I compared this one side by side with my Sense 4 Phone and it's "almost" identical.
The Notes widget and Tasks widget were nice in Sense 4 also.
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gustav30 said:
The Notes widget and Tasks widget were nice in Sense 4 also.
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I am still looking for a good tasks widget.
I've been using gtasks.
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There is a sense 5 Agenda/Calendar widget, that you can resize even.
It shows everything that's set to show up on your calendar, including tasks. Also tasks is set to sync with gTasks.
It may not be on the AT&T stock rom, but its definitely on ARHD.
dexmix said:
There is a sense 5 Agenda/Calendar widget, that you can resize even.
It shows everything that's set to show up on your calendar, including tasks. Also tasks is set to sync with gTasks.
It may not be on the AT&T stock rom, but its definitely on ARHD.
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I saw that one. I like the one I'm using more. It seems more "sense" like. lol What do you use to adjust brightness? The sense widget doesn't have an auto option, just three levels.
You guys might like StatusAgenda from the market.
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Just in case anybody needs the widget/theme name.
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I play in a band and this time of year we have A LOT of outdoor shows.....So I really rely on my weather app to show me what is coming my way. A weather app with "future" radar is VERY helpful, even if they aren't 100% accurate they give me a good approximation.
I currently use The Weather Channel app, but I have never really liked the layout or ad's they put in it. But other than that, the only other weather app I've found with future radar is the "Intelicast Weather", which looks a little dated and hasn't been updated in over 7 months.
I've tried about 25-30 different weather apps this past month, basically all of the most popular, none have the future radar. "Weather Timeline" has something that resembles a future radar, but not quite what I'm looking for.... WeatherUnderground had replied to an email over a month ago saying they "had it planned for a future update", but not sure when that will be?
Are there any good weather apps out there that have future radar (that are more than just a radar app)? I'm sure I've just over-looked some really good ones, since there are so many... Free or ones that cost are all good.
If it helps, my phone is an HTC One M9 running ViperOne 3.5.0 (Android 5.1) on At&t in the USA.
This is the first time I've ever used a Samsung phone, and I've had it since release day, but... I really hate the UI. It takes me way more clicks to get to things I used to use all the time on my HTC 10 with significantly less effort. It also looks pretty ugly in comparison, has anyone successfully ported any elements of Sense (particularly the Clock/Weather widget and launcher) to work on Samsung devices?
I came from a HTC 10 and, honestly? Not seeing what your problem is. I've set mine up the exact same way I had it on the 10 and it takes the same amount of time to get to things. I swipe up, all my apps are in folders, and I go to the one I need. Or I have a set amount in the edge display, but I keep forgetting about that.
Having said that, you wont be able to port Sense in the sense that it is a launcher that will just run without problems. I mean, you could try installing the HTC Sense APK, but as I said ... problems. It probably won't work.
There are a plethora of apps that are close reproductions of the clocks and other things. I've not found myself missing anything about HTC Sense though. I did, a while ago, wonder if someone had created an older HTC Sense theme for any launcher (I'm taking the Rosie HTC Sense) but nothing was there. More sort of pleased to be having a better working phone. I had issues with the 10 Camera and Wifi/Mobile signal that I am so glad are gone.
These screenshots are pretty much exactly how I had my 10 set up. And if anything, I think looks better. If you hate the way the default looks, find a theme. It might take a while, you have to pay for a lot of the decent ones (one of my few contentions with the S9+ / Samsung themes) but they're there.
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Haohmaru said:
This is the first time I've ever used a Samsung phone, and I've had it since release day, but... I really hate the UI. It takes me way more clicks to get to things I used to use all the time on my HTC 10 with significantly less effort. It also looks pretty ugly in comparison, has anyone successfully ported any elements of Sense (particularly the Clock/Weather widget and launcher) to work on Samsung devices?
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It was ported to other Samsung devices but I have not seen aport for this device yet.
I would google around. If the port worked on other device it would prolly work on this one. They person that posted it put up all the files needed to simulate Sense.
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It was ported to other Samsung devices but I have not seen aport for this device yet.
I would google around. If the port worked on other device it would prolly work on this one. They person that posted it put up all the files needed to simulate Sense.
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what was the last known model it was ported to?
Thus far, the current samsung experience has been pretty close to the last version of HTC Sense that I used (Oreo on HTC 10). Its much cleaner, simpler, and so on. Whereas TouchWiz in the past has been ... not brilliant, in comparison.
Haohmaru said:
This is the first time I've ever used a Samsung phone, and I've had it since release day, but... I really hate the UI. It takes me way more clicks to get to things I used to use all the time on my HTC 10 with significantly less effort. It also looks pretty ugly in comparison, has anyone successfully ported any elements of Sense (particularly the Clock/Weather widget and launcher) to work on Samsung devices?
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Without root:
Sense 7.0-9.0 (fully supports nougat and some oreo devices)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438
Sense 10.0 (supports most oreo devices)
(see post #5 for non-root devices)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/themes-apps/htc-sense-home-m8-7-1-1-roms-t3536654