I have activated the live wallpaper with the weather background running.
As it's the first time I've used it on my S3 and my old S2 I'm not sure how it affects the performance of the battery or the phone!
Anyone have any feedback on live wallpapers, is it better to leave them off or do they have no effect.
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I guess the weather is updating every hour or so, just as the widget, so no big deal. About the wallpaper...I think that each of us is seeing the wallpaper just 5% of the time we use the phone. Most of time the screen is off (no wallpaper running) and when is on we are using it (calls, games, messaging, etc), so that wallpaper shouldn't use more than 1% of the battery. Just my 5 cents.
I use a sony one and the battery is fine, but is not updating all the time o.0 just my 3 weather widgets (diff apps) slices and dunno what else haha
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I've found this one, it's a clock & weather with beaty animation, and you can get it profi version for free, just like me
But please - tell me which other widgets do you use and witch are beaty and readable on our display. Thanks
Animated Weather for Android - Weather forecast application. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.
http://www.weather-android.com/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9qkmzbBy4
Mm, I use simi clock as a clock.
BattStatt as a batery indicator.
Extended Controls.
Miui Music Player Widget as a music widget.
Thats all
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I have installed 'APN on/off widget'..lightweight & really works!
Thanks nastyba-
Animated Weather for Android - Weather forecast application. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.
http://www.weather-android.com/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9qkmzbBy4
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I use sence analog widget!!its prety nice!
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apps
*oops i know you asked for widgets but.. anyways. maybe youd like my app list D: sorry*
screen suite replaced my stock lockscreen
root explorer replaced my files
quick pic replaced the 3d gallery
real calc for the calculator
cubed for the music player
smart keyboard pro for the keyboard
jorte for the calendar
typoclock for the clock
camera 360 for the camera
add more cool apps like gtunes music for downloading mp3s, gameboid and zenonia rocks, fora dictionary, inkpad
thats most of it
im so glad i upgraded eclair to froyo
data counter
analog battery
elixir
Fancy widget pro is definitely the best !
brom25 said:
Fancy widget pro is definitely the best !
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I agree!!!!
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Simple but damn important and useful, True silence. Basically with one click it makes your android completely silent, instead of android's crappy 'silent' mode which leaves the media volume on, and if you go to adjust that manually it will play to you the current level of media, which will be loud and might turn heads towards you..
Also I use rimshot widget for fun, and pure grid calendar, but it costs so.
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Simple but damn important and useful, True silence. Basically with one click it makes your android completely silent, instead of android's crappy 'silent' mode which leaves the media volume on, and if you go to adjust that manually it will play to you the current level of media, which will be loud and might turn heads towards you..
Also I use rimshot widget for fun, and pure grid calendar, but it costs so.
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For quite mode I use "phone silencer" <- you can set when the silence mode will be switched off
A client with this phone came to me for a problem she had. The thing is that she had the same home screen effect as sense for htc phones and i am shure that she does not have a rooted or modified phone. I tought at first that it was the weather network widget since she had this on her screen but after downloading i see that this is not what made the effect. When you want to select a shortcut or widget on the home screen with this effect you have to tap twice to disengage the effect. Does anyone know of what widget or app im talking about because i really want this one!!!
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Its exactly the same as the animated weather widget but on your home screem like sense.
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True silence is very nice.
Easy to use you, I'll try it
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A client with this phone came to me for a problem she had. The thing is that she had the same home screen effect as sense for htc phones and i am shure that she does not have a rooted or modified phone. I tought at first that it was the weather network widget since she had this on her screen but after downloading i see that this is not what made the effect. When you want to select a shortcut or widget on the home screen with this effect you have to tap twice to disengage the effect. Does anyone know of what widget or app im talking about because i really want this one!!!
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Ok so i got weather and toggle widget that does the same as htc sence but...no, not it... Any help?
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Looks realy nice, thx for info
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Fancy widget pro is one of the best !
thank you ,
brom25 said:
Fancy widget pro is one of the best !
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I think Beautiful Widget is better than Fancy Pro
It is called Elecont Weather I believe. I for some reason or another liked the clock/weather widget. Did not really care for any of the other widgets. The app itself has soo much info, even earthquakes, radar and moon phase. But I don't like the constant t notifications. Anybody else download this? Did you notice if it sucks your battery or not?
Here is a screen pic of some of the widgets
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I loaded this on both my tabs (7 & 10.1) and am still playing with it. Have the the "clock" widget on the 10.1. It's an interesting app. I am hoping they will offer more than the 2 weather sources (it seems that intellicast has been offline updating the past day or so forcing me to switch to the other (euro-based) site. Also hoping they offer some more status icons as they seem okay on the 7" but are a bit too big on the 10.1 status bar. Haven't had the tabs out and about off the charger yet to see if they suck battery, but then I usually put them on airplane mode when I carry them around and turn on the net if I need to do something on them requiring net access.
I love the stock news and weather widget from AOSP(genie widget), but it sometimes doesn't work right. I have it set to refresh every hour, but it rarely does. When I manually refresh it the location is almost always off, on the second refresh the location does update. Anyone else see these problems? I'm using CM7 nightlies on an Incredible. It may be an incredible thing, I'm not sure because it seemed to work better on my Eris.
I know everyone will recommend their favorite weather widget, but honestly I've tried a lot(including wasting money on beautiful widgets) and never found one I liked. If there is one that can give me news, automatic location updates, a temp graph(the hardest part), transparent widget and doesn't kill the battery I would love it.
thanks,
I have an Inspire 4G and I'm having the same issue. I also like this widget a lot, but unless I have it set to 1 hour refresh, the weather doesn't update. I have tried Minimalistic Text and it's great, but it does not have the temperature graphs like you're looking for.
Thanks for the response, at least I'm not alone.
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Is it possible to get the SGS3 Dandelion lockscreen on the SGS2?
I have installed the live wallpaper samsung dandelion for galaxy s3;it works for galaxy note but I have just discovered that works also for sg 2.If you want to install this live wallpaper click here ;http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1069205&stc=1&d=1337367259
I have got the live wallpaper installed but i was wondering if you could use it for the lock scrren aswell.
Thanks for the reply
Get Widget Locker from the Play Store:
http://bit.ly/MeUCC7
It's a lockscreen replacement that keeps your live wallpaper running. You can also adjust lockscreen brightness, so the LWP is always shining bright. And remember to set it to your task killer's ignore list (if you use one), else it'll keep getting killed.
if anyone knows of a better and/or free alternative, feel free to tell me.
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I have installed the live wallpaper samsung dandelion for galaxy s3;it works for galaxy note but I have just discovered that works also for sg 2.If you want to install this live wallpaper click here ;http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1069205&stc=1&d=1337367259
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big thanks!
Also search for it on market
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Xelasarg said:
Get Widget Locker from the Play Store:
http://bit.ly/MeUCC7
It's a lockscreen replacement that keeps your live wallpaper running. You can also adjust lockscreen brightness, so the LWP is always shining bright. And remember to set it to your task killer's ignore list (if you use one), else it'll keep getting killed.
if anyone knows of a better and/or free alternative, feel free to tell me.
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Thats Great Thanks
If anyone is interested...
I found a better way:
Get Go Locker from the Play Store (http://bit.ly/M7ryOv). Unlike Widet Locker, it's completely free. Not so customizable, but faster. The lag when unlocking the phone is completely gone.
Start Go Locker, activate it and set Background -> Launcher Background, so it displays the LWP on the lock screen.
If you like, install Fluid Live Wallpaper (http://bit.ly/LhvacK). It's a paid app, but well worth the money - the water effects are stunning.
Download the attached wallpapers (they're identical, I only reduced color saturation in No. 1) and set one of them as LWP background (via Live Wallpapers -> Fluid -> Downloaded Images).
That's it...
Xelasarg said:
I found a better way:
Get Go Locker from the Play Store (http://bit.ly/M7ryOv). Unlike Widet Locker, it's completely free. Not so customizable, but faster. The lag when unlocking the phone is completely gone.
Start Go Locker, activate it and set Background -> Launcher Background, so it displays the LWP on the lock screen.
If you like, install Fluid Live Wallpaper (http://bit.ly/LhvacK). It's a paid app, but well worth the money - the water effects are stunning.
Download the attached wallpapers (they're identical, I only reduced color saturation in No. 1) and set one of them as LWP background (via Live Wallpapers -> Fluid -> Downloaded Images).
That's it...
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Hmm... About that GO Locker no lag behaviour... As far as I'm aware - lag when powering up screen comes from device waking modem up from deep sleep state.
Could you download CPU Spy (free) and check if phone gets to sleep while GO locker is used?
Guys I've purchased a New S3, and what I've noticed is that the stock default clock widget doesnt refresh automatically on unlock. So there is always a difference in the notification bar time and the widget time. Only when I click on the widget it updates after opening alarm. What the hell is wrong with my phone?:crying::crying::crying::crying:
Are you using a task killer? If so, ignore it in the task killer.
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i have the same problem , no task killer
stock rom , siyah kernel
It used to work i don't know what happened i didn't change anything
Same. Didnt change anything. also no taskkiller installed...persistant issue.
Same issue here and I've tried Go Launcher/Apex with Beautiful Widget/Fancy Widget/Beweather Pro.
An unbelievable phone (knocks spots off of anything I've ever had) yet it can't tell the bloody time properly - really annoying!!!!
A quick fix is put it in landscape to redraw/refresh the screen to update the clock when I've brought the phone out of sleep. Not ideal, but at least the clock is updated. Maybe the JB update will fix this issue? Who knows!
The only widget I can get to work properly is the native weather clock. I don't want such a big widget so I've tried several different other clock widgets and they won't keep the correct time. I wish someone would find out what the problem is. I like the clocks in Beautiful Widgets, but they won't update.