Hi all, I just wanna be sure I'm not going crazy on this one... Here's what happended, and if someone using mint can try to reproduce it that could be great..
I have a Asus tf201 it's an android tablet few weeks ago I had a certain wallpaper with a girl on it (I'll attach the screenshots, I hope this don't break forum rules). On this device I have mint installed, and I don't remember if I already try the widget, but the app is there and I'm using it.
Last week I got a samsung galaxy S3, I'm installing all my stuff and want to try the mint widget. So I did enable the widget access in the app, add the widget and then at my surprise I can choose from two different widget color, but in the background of this "Choice menu" it's the same exact background I had on my other device which I never, ever sync in any different way and I don't even have the picture in question on my S3.
So my question, how the hell the background of my second Android device got in the back of this "choice menu" ? Is it the mint app who keep "information" from my other device or this could come from my google account ? And if I'm not crazy, this could be a privacy issue or something ?
I tried with my milestone running cyanogen 7.1.4 and I don't have the background in question when I try to add the widget, normally it would have been enough for me to stop if I can't reproduce it, but it's cyanogen and it's a old version of android, so maybe this isn't coming from the Mint app, maybe google "cache" those kind of thig ?
On my tf201 I don't even get that "choice menu" where they ask for which color you want your widget..
What do you think ? Someone with few devices can try that. Here's the step to reproduce:
- Set the background on the device1, Mint app installed
- On device2, mint installed try to add a widget, the first thing it ask is the widget color, if the background there is not the one you have on this device but the same you have on the device1, then you get the same thing, and I'm not craxy, which is a good thing!
-The Screenshot_2012-07-23-23-06-07 is a screenshot of the current background on my S3
-The second Screenshot_2012-07-23-23-06-00 is the screen shot of the actual "problem", you can see the background I had on my tf201, but this screen shot has been taken from my S3 which, again, don't have this picture even in the picasa albums..
Specs of my devices:
Samsung Galaxy S3, Android 4.0.4 ( Last update )
Asus transformer prime ( tf201 ), Android 4.0.3 ( Last update )
Motorola Milestone, Cyanogen 7.1.4, Android 2.3.7
Mint app up to date on every devices
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So nobody found an explanation or nobody think it worth looking at ?
****nick said:
Hi all, I just wanna be sure I'm not going crazy on this one... Here's what happended, and if someone using mint can try to reproduce it that could be great..
I have a Asus tf201 it's an android tablet few weeks ago I had a certain wallpaper with a girl on it (I'll attach the screenshots, I hope this don't break forum rules). On this device I have mint installed, and I don't remember if I already try the widget, but the app is there and I'm using it.
Last week I got a samsung galaxy S3, I'm installing all my stuff and want to try the mint widget. So I did enable the widget access in the app, add the widget and then at my surprise I can choose from two different widget color, but in the background of this "Choice menu" it's the same exact background I had on my other device which I never, ever sync in any different way and I don't even have the picture in question on my S3.
So my question, how the hell the background of my second Android device got in the back of this "choice menu" ? Is it the mint app who keep "information" from my other device or this could come from my google account ? And if I'm not crazy, this could be a privacy issue or something ?
I tried with my milestone running cyanogen 7.1.4 and I don't have the background in question when I try to add the widget, normally it would have been enough for me to stop if I can't reproduce it, but it's cyanogen and it's a old version of android, so maybe this isn't coming from the Mint app, maybe google "cache" those kind of thig ?
On my tf201 I don't even get that "choice menu" where they ask for which color you want your widget..
What do you think ? Someone with few devices can try that. Here's the step to reproduce:
- Set the background on the device1, Mint app installed
- On device2, mint installed try to add a widget, the first thing it ask is the widget color, if the background there is not the one you have on this device but the same you have on the device1, then you get the same thing, and I'm not craxy, which is a good thing!
-The Screenshot_2012-07-23-23-06-07 is a screenshot of the current background on my S3
-The second Screenshot_2012-07-23-23-06-00 is the screen shot of the actual "problem", you can see the background I had on my tf201, but this screen shot has been taken from my S3 which, again, don't have this picture even in the picasa albums..
Specs of my devices:
Samsung Galaxy S3, Android 4.0.4 ( Last update )
Asus transformer prime ( tf201 ), Android 4.0.3 ( Last update )
Motorola Milestone, Cyanogen 7.1.4, Android 2.3.7
Mint app up to date on every devices
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Just got an HTC One X+. First Droid phone. Impressed with the hardware and having fun finding my way around the OS. Coming from a jailbroken iPhone 4, the hardware is like night and day, but the lockscreen/widget functionality is another story.
Previously on iOS 5.1.1 with Intelliscreen X, my lockscreen would have bars going all the way across the screen that showed number of new sms, voicemails, calls, emails, and you could expand and see the messages and then collapse. Or as new notifications came in, it would already be expanded and you could collapse. You could also hit a 'clear' button (when expanded or collapsed) to clear all the messages/notifications (just on the lock screen - not in the actual app of course.)
If you haven't used Intelliscreen X before, If you want to see what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwx9PUX_tz8
I see there is some widget functionality on 4.1.1 but it seems limited to only the Home Screen. In addition, the formatting looks terrible as there is all this wasted space around the widgets and the app icon spacing is pretty huge too. It won't let me put more than 2 4x1 widgets and 8 icons on the home screen. This seems very limited, and looks very poorly to me.
I understand widgets on lockscreen are not implemented until Jelly Bean 4.2. Was hoping Android was going to be a little farther along than this as my research seemed to indicate for a user like me it was up to speed with iOS, which it seems it is in most other areas.
I realize with such a new device, that can't even be rooted yet (AT&T HTC One X+) that it may be a while before I'm going to get a custom ROM with 4.2 let alone a 4.2 update from HTC.
Haven't used the phone a ton, but there is a chance this could potentially be a deal breaker for me and may have to go exchange it for iPhone 5 in a couple weeks (and wait for iOS 6 untethered jailbreak).
Is there a course of action (any apps?) that people that know where I'm coming from could recommend to maybe hopefully tide me over until I can get a ROM with the capabilities I want? Seems there must be some Android user out there that has used iPhone with Intelliscreen X before?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
WidgetLocker is the answer but pales in comparison to Intelliscreen X on iPhone. Seems this is the issue with Android, the lockscreens aren't standard across phones so you have to use whatever HTC or whomever is using unless you use WidgetLocker.
Problem is, even with the Tesla Unread Count plugin installed, I can't seem to get unread counts on the phone and mail icons. I'll ask this in the One X forum as there's barely anyone here yet since the phone is so new!
Are you not worried about your privacy? with a lockscreen like that anyone can pick your phone up and see your missed calls/SMS's/Emails ect
Well I'm not cheating on my wife, and even if I was my mistress wouldn't be using my normal phone number. LOL.
I don't have any top secret info, like business data, that a competitor might want to see if they glanced at my phone in a meeting.
But I do see your point and have seen others make this point.
You can control what can be seen and I just tested the phone's lock and you still can assign a pin/pw to get into the phone as when you hit the back arrow on any apps you launch from the lockscreen it goes back to the lockscreen, at least on my HTC One X+.
I finally got it all setup and WidgetLock with Tesla Unread Counter has got me to where I need to be with Jelly Bean. Not as good as Intelliscreen X. Someone should copy those guys or they should do a port to Android. The ability to have the widget show you a summary (one line of text and a counter or something ) and be able to expand it to see more data and collapse it, is SO useful. I'll miss that. Can't have everything I guess. That's really the only thing I'll miss about my iPhone (I think so far). But I had to jailbreak it to get that functionality.
AndroHero said:
Are you not worried about your privacy? with a lockscreen like that anyone can pick your phone up and see your missed calls/SMS's/Emails ect
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This may be a dumb question, so apologies up front. I really like the calendar widget that comes with JB (and ICS) ROMs. In particular, I like the scrolling capability it has within the widget window for agenda view; you can scroll through about a week's worth of appointments without having to go to full screen agenda view. With GB ROMs, the calendar widget doesn't have that functionality; it just shows the next appointment in the window, and to see further out in the week (or even current day), you have to go full screen view.
Is there a way to get the JB calendar widget to work in a GB ROM? Maybe an apk that can be installed?
Thanks for any advice.
Unless you have the source, no
If you had the source, you could replace all the JB specific classes with classes that work with GB
But other than doing that backwards compatibility changing, you cant take an app made for something higher than GB and install it, you'll just get a parsing error because the API for JB supports functions that didnt exist when GB came out
You can use Android Pro Widgets (APW) it's free, it does what you want (on all versions of Android) and it's in the Play Store
bilgerryan said:
You can use Android Pro Widgets (APW) it's free, it does what you want (on all versions of Android) and it's in the Play Store
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Not bad! That's about as close as I'm gonna get. I also like the bookmark widget better in APW. Thanks!
Hello XDA I’ve been away from android for some time; switched to iPhone for a bit, from the htc evo 4g. I have switched to Verizon and the galaxy s4 sense then and I want to make some changes to my phone (hence the post). I have rooted my device but haven’t put any custom roms or kernels on my s4 just different launchers. Here is a list of thing I want to change:
Quick disclaimer: some of my wording may be off, I don’t have my phone in front of me to check everything and do proper background research
Phone UI-I want to change the phone app entirely. Its ugly it’s white and it’s [for lack of a better word] fat and cartoonish. I hate the stock dialer and the in-call ui. It has to go; please if nothing else give me some ideas on how to change this! Im using ex dialer and contacts but that doesn’t change the in call experience.
Unread Notifications- I’m currently using nova launcher prime and action launcher pro the kicker is that neither have a proper unread counter for calls texts and emails. Nova works the best because it does in fact have an unread counter but it only works for phone and texts but not for Samsung emails which I use for both my Gmail and my exchange emails. It irks me; I’ve emailed the developer but haven’t heard anything back from him.
Wi-Fi- is there a way to move/add wifi to the notification panel? The panel being the quick access buttons on the top of the notification scroll down. I hate that is “floating” in the other part of the notification list.
Volume- how can I get rid of the volume alert I get when I have something plugged in to the headphone port? I feel that it’s the dumbest warning in the world and it’s even more annoying because it keeps coming back after each reboot (I think). We aren’t 5 years old we already know that loadnoises arnt good for our ears…
App drawer icon- I love the touchwiz app drawer icon and that’s probably the only thing I can’t live without. I’ve got a similar icon from a touchwiz icon pack but it’s not the same one. How can I extract it from touch wiz so that I can use it with various roms or launchers?
Google play- I buy things from Google play every now and again and would like to continue to do so. The only problem is, is that I can’t move the content over to the SD card I would like to store it there because 16gb can only hold so much. I saw that someone figured out how to move Google play music over to SD which is great but I want my magazines and movies on the SD too.
I would like to keep as many Samsung features as I can when I rom my device I enjoy a lot of the Samsung gimmicks that came with it; such as multi-window and the smart stay, view, scroll and pause it’s fun to play with.
Are there specific roms and kernels I need to use for my specific device? If so please refer me to the thread.
Is there a rom that adds a professional and sleek look to the device and adds the discussed features from above? If so what is it and where can I get it!?
J.L.Greene
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Hey all,
I recently downloaded an app called 3D PARALLAX BACKGROUND.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinwap.parallaxwallpaper
Seemed like a cool and interesting thing, much like the new iOS feature. Background looked pretty awesome too once I was done installing...
Only problem is, it changed my lock screen to something else (I guess a default within the program) and no matter what I do, I can't change it back to stock.
I have tried uninstalling the app, restarting the device, changing lockscreen to every stock lockscreen available, etc but it still won't change back.
Super weird and it seems that I am the only person that has had this problem. I looked through the app reviews and nobody mentions it. Wondering if it's an HTC One problem... Running 4.2.2 Android Revolution 12.0
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have attached a screenshot of the lockscreen in question. It's a nice looking one at least, but I am not a huge fan of the functionality and I would rather have a 12-hour clock than a 24-hour one...
TL;DR App changed lockscreen, can't get the stock one back.
Grumpy Bob said:
Hey all,
I recently downloaded an app called 3D PARALLAX BACKGROUND.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinwap.parallaxwallpaper
Seemed like a cool and interesting thing, much like the new iOS feature. Background looked pretty awesome too once I was done installing...
Only problem is, it changed my lock screen to something else (I guess a default within the program) and no matter what I do, I can't change it back to stock.
I have tried uninstalling the app, restarting the device, changing lockscreen to every stock lockscreen available, etc but it still won't change back.
Super weird and it seems that I am the only person that has had this problem. I looked through the app reviews and nobody mentions it. Wondering if it's an HTC One problem... Running 4.2.2 Android Revolution 12.0
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have attached a screenshot of the lockscreen in question. It's a nice looking one at least, but I am not a huge fan of the functionality and I would rather have a 12-hour clock than a 24-hour one...
TL;DR App changed lockscreen, can't get the stock one back.
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Well that was quick, I figured out it was a completely other app that was activated for some reason. Go Locker was the culprit. Problem solved
Good work bro
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Hello all!
Been using Themer for some days now, and it's just great compared to other launchers out there. I tried GO launcher but hated the ads and 'chinese style'. Tried Nova too, but it was too similar to TW in my use. Themer is both original and not-pushy.
I use the HUD theme, which looks great and keeps the kids away from my phone (because it looks so weird ). One thing I don't really care about is the weather. I have a weather app I use daily to check the weekly forecast, I go out a few times a day, I have windows in my house so I can check the weather by turning my head... I really don't need Themer telling me the wrong weather anymore.
So, my request: could someone swap the weather widget to show something else, like core temp? I know I could do it myself, but it would take weeks and most of you can probably do it in a few minutes.
acmer77 said:
Hello all!
Been using Themer for some days now, and it's just great compared to other launchers out there. I tried GO launcher but hated the ads and 'chinese style'. Tried Nova too, but it was too similar to TW in my use. Themer is both original and not-pushy.
I use the HUD theme, which looks great and keeps the kids away from my phone (because it looks so weird ). One thing I don't really care about is the weather. I have a weather app I use daily to check the weekly forecast, I go out a few times a day, I have windows in my house so I can check the weather by turning my head... I really don't need Themer telling me the wrong weather anymore.
So, my request: could someone swap the weather widget to show something else, like core temp? I know I could do it myself, but it would take weeks and most of you can probably do it in a few minutes.
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Hi there!
Having something like core temp is a bit tricky, as the widgets we provide don't really include that option.
Have you tried going into Themer Settings - Weather - then changing your weather provider - this might fix your temp problem.
You could always post the theme's wallpaper (found in Themer Wallpapers in your Gallery) and we could try Photoshop the "temperature" text and replace it with something else instead?
Changing the provider doesn't help. It still shows 0 all the time.
I can't think of much else to fill the empty space with. While I was quickly checking how the themes are built, I noticed that there's a line in launchersettings.xml that looked weird:
Code:
<string name="com.mycolorscreen.themer.wallpaper_transistion">slide</string>
Is it really supposed to be 'transistion' and not 'transition'?
Anyway, onto the request again. I'm starting to feel OK with the weather filling the space. I think I have figured out something though: I have all my location things off, so it mught cause a problem for the weather widget. Ideally I'd like it to work so that you have an option to lock your location (just use the one it has now and lock it or type it in) and then it just regularly sends weather data on the same location to the widget. Now it seems to try to fetch your location, then send it to the weather service and that sends the data back to widget. I don't travel much so having a locked location would be a nice thing to have in the widget. Only time the widget has chances of updating the temp is when I go geocaching
Does it even work like that?