Hi,
I started recently making my own themes as i found there isn't enough themes in my taste on themer/mycolorscreen application/launcher.
I have on question though. how do i change the text for unread email? It is connected to my gmail, ut even checking another box in the mail options i have no luck so far. So help me get an answer please. I watched all videos but i might have missed it somehow. (see screenshot for explaination (and yes i made it all red because I am not ready to share my work with the world just yet))
Love this launcher!
greetings mcwurth
Changing unread email count from gmail to other email
As far as I'm aware, this CAN'T BE DONE! It's a limitation of Android, not Themer. Android links itself to your gmail account, and it will only report unread emails in that account, not any other. The two ways around this are:
(a) forward all your non-gmail messages to your gmail account by adding your hotmail/yahoo/whatever account to gmail (you can do this within gmail on your phone, or from your PC). This is the 'elegant' solution but it does mean that ALL your emails will be a the mercy of Google
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(b) as you're building your own theme, just find the simplest widget you can for yahoo/hotmail/whoever, put the widget on your homescreen and use some clever masking (such as allow overlapping widgets??) to display only the numeric character. Not sure how you'd go about changing the font size.
You might want to look at Tesla Unread which displays unread emails on little badge icons, or browse xda's main Android forums for info on email count widgets.
BTW, I'm no expert so please don't ask me anything technical - I've just researched this problem before and I remember some of the replies I got from clever people.
miles_muso said:
As far as I'm aware, this CAN'T BE DONE! It's a limitation of Android, not Themer. Android links itself to your gmail account, and it will only report unread emails in that account, not any other. The two ways around this are:
(a) forward all your non-gmail messages to your gmail account by adding your hotmail/yahoo/whatever account to gmail (you can do this within gmail on your phone, or from your PC). This is the 'elegant' solution but it does mean that ALL your emails will be a the mercy of Google
or
(b) as you're building your own theme, just find the simplest widget you can for yahoo/hotmail/whoever, put the widget on your homescreen and use some clever masking (such as allow overlapping widgets??) to display only the numeric character. Not sure how you'd go about changing the font size.
You might want to look at Tesla Unread which displays unread emails on little badge icons, or browse xda's main Android forums for info on email count widgets.
BTW, I'm no expert so please don't ask me anything technical - I've just researched this problem before and I remember some of the replies I got from clever people.
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Not exactly what i mean. this must be a limitation by themer as the word personal comes directly when i add "missed email". it simply says personal. even when changing the inbox/outbox/whateverbox of my gmail to anything else then the personal one it will not change the text and i can not change it elsewhere. i feel this is a themer issue and not from gmail as i can recall that with other themes it says email/ missed email
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Not exactly what i mean. this must be a limitation by themer as the word personal comes directly when i add "missed email". it simply says personal. even when changing the inbox/outbox/whateverbox of my gmail to anything else then the personal one it will not change the text and i can not change it elsewhere. i feel this is a themer issue and not from gmail as i can recall that with other themes it says email/ missed email
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Hi mcwurth,
That's Themer Everything Widget right? When you add the Email item, it shows Personal by default. To remove it:
1. Select the Unread Email item (that one you added).
2. Tap the "Unread E-mails Style" option at the bottom - Select Unread E-mail Settings.
3. Scroll to the bottom - Deselect Show Label.
Alternatively you can use Themer Zooper Widget, which allows for much more flexibility. Hope this helps!
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Hi mcwurth,
That's Themer Everything Widget right? When you add the Email item, it shows Personal by default. To remove it:
1. Select the Unread Email item (that one you added).
2. Tap the "Unread E-mails Style" option at the bottom - Select Unread E-mail Settings.
3. Scroll to the bottom - Deselect Show Label.
Alternatively you can use Themer Zooper Widget, which allows for much more flexibility. Hope this helps!
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AAAAAAAHHHHHH thank you so much! this helped LOADS! appreciate the fast response!
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I am running Kaos Froyo 35-1. I have tried different options, but I can't find a nice widget that lets me add contacts to one of my screens where I can click the picture and it calls the number. It always brings up the options for text, phone call, and mostly their details.
The original HTC widget did this, and I checked out the Launcher Pro People widget..and nothing quite works.
I am doing this for my kids in case they need to call my family members and don't need a course in Eris development 101
Any suggestions or apps to try?
check out Scrollable Contact Widget.
its a two click option, shows pictures of your choice of contacts (starred or category), once you click the persons name it asks you call, text, email... you click one of those and it goes.
nice app, could be tweaked to work faster though. but the best one i've seen. It requires you use ADW or LP
I've never tried this particular widget, nor do I know the developer, but ran across this over at AndroidForums awhile ago, and your post reminded me of it. They do have a free version so you can try it out and see if you like it.
http://androidforums.com/application-announcements/116453-new-speed-dial-widget-sign.html
I use "Contact Widget". It's free on the market and works great.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/br.livroandroid.widget.contatos
I don't believe it works with facebook sync, but I don't use facebook sync at all anymore anyway. "SyncMyPix" (also free on the market) will grab all your facebook photos for existing contacts and add them to your google contacts. You can do this once and remove the app since all info is updated to the actual google contact. Or you can use it to update periodically.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.nloko.android.syncmypix
You're looking for a shortcut, not a widget
Look under shortcuts, not widgets.
bryank29 said:
I am running Kaos Froyo 35-1.Any suggestions or apps to try?
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Very simple in Froyo. Find a blank space on your phone and long press. Choose custom shortcut - press "select activity" - scroll down and pick "DIRECT DIAL". Next choose the contact from the list that pops up with number you want and press it. It will then add a 1 click dial icon to the home screen with picture.
Be sure to pic the correct contact and number from the list. For example if your kid's phone has "Mom" as a contact with a home/work/ & cell number when the list pops up to choose from you will actually see 3 "moms" listed with the three different numbers.
Apologies first of all - simple questions, none of which are probably strictly ROM related, but I'm a massive noob and haven't found where else to ask. I'm guessing they're more to do with 4.2.1 than this ROM.
1) when applying a desktop wallpaper there's a dark shadow overlay applied top and bottom, near the dock and status bar. Is it possible to get rid of this? d'oh, told you i'm a massive noob - this is a nova launcher setting
2) is there a way for the notification shade to display the setting toggles by default if there are no new notifications?
3) i noticed in my Messages app that there was no contact picture on my side of conversations. Checking in the People app showed my own google contact entry with a picture, but this picture doesn't show up in messaging. Also, the contact in my notification shade was empty. I filled in the 'local contact' with my own details, hoping that'd sync with the gmail contact, but no. I've tried running the Facebook Contact Sync app, but no joy. In addition, despite running Facebook's proprietary contact sync a number of times i've now noticed that when choosing to display Facebook contacts in my People app it returns no results, despite the 'Facebook Contact Sync' results showing up just fine. Any advice gratefully received on this one - the only time getting contacts sorted HASN'T been a massive nightmare was on my aged HTC Desire
My wife installed the new Contrast theme on her Note 3 (4.3.1) and it won't show the correct email count (other themes do). The correct amount of unread emails in her inbox is 120, it is showing 650.
I installed it and did not have the same issue on my Nexus 5.
RED ZMAN said:
My wife installed the new Contrast theme on her Note 3 (4.3.1) and it won't show the correct email count (other themes do). The correct amount of unread emails in her inbox is 120, it is showing 650.
I installed it and did not have the same issue on my Nexus 5.
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Hi Red,
This is a new feature we are using to make sure the correct amount of unread email is showing. This is actually all of her mail (drafts, spam, etc.), and is used as once it's all cleared up, it gives less errors than just the simple inbox counter (due to gmail's new Social and Promotion tabs).
To fix this, try this:
1. Hold down on the homescreen - Unlock Widgets - hold down on the bottom area - configure.
2. This will open the Zooper editor - tap Layout - look for the "You have 650 unread email" - select it.
3. Select Edit text manually - change #SUG^all# to just #SUG# - then exit.
4. Remember to go into Themer Settings - Advanced - Desktop - lock desktop widgets.
Hope this helps!
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I'm new in Mycolorscreen. In my Dream-Theme-Widget there should be a button for each message App.
Right now, i only find the Option to add the item "unread sms". And the Click on it, to select the App (like WhatsApp).
Now i want to add an other "unread sms" but hotspot to telegram.
Is there a way to change the Text of the object? Right now both obj.'s are shown the the Label "unread sms".
How can i change it?
Is there a way to calculate the count of unread WhatsApp or Telelegram messages?
Stony007_de
stony007_de said:
Hey
I'm new in Mycolorscreen. In my Dream-Theme-Widget there should be a button for each message App.
Right now, i only find the Option to add the item "unread sms". And the Click on it, to select the App (like WhatsApp).
Now i want to add an other "unread sms" but hotspot to telegram.
Is there a way to change the Text of the object? Right now both obj.'s are shown the the Label "unread sms".
How can i change it?
Is there a way to calculate the count of unread WhatsApp or Telelegram messages?
Stony007_de
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Hi,
Unfortunately for now, Themer only supports the default SMS app in terms of notifications. You can also only add a single SMS app preference, however there is a way around this. Therefore we recommend using MissedIt! (or Tasker).
Themer is still in its beta stage so we recommend these apps for now, with Missed It! being a lot easier to use. Here's a simple video tutorial I created that should help: http://youtu.be/92vhOce1uNU. Good luck!
Hello,
I was wondering if it possible to display unread counts from two or more gmail accounts at the same time, either in the same widget or in multiple widgets. I know I can go into settings and manually switch between accounts, but I would prefer to not have to do it that way.
Thank you,
Jeremy
thinker5555 said:
Hello,
I was wondering if it possible to display unread counts from two or more gmail accounts at the same time, either in the same widget or in multiple widgets. I know I can go into settings and manually switch between accounts, but I would prefer to not have to do it that way.
Thank you,
Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy,
We picked up a bug on this end, hopefully it can get sorted soon.
Using Zooper Widget (not Themer Zooper Widget) if you create/edit a module, and replace the text with #SUG1#, it will display your inbox for your second account. As it doesn't work with Themer ZW, we'll contact the dev team to sort this out as soon as possible. If you need any help let us know.
-Marco
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Hi Jeremy,
We picked up a bug on this end, hopefully it can get sorted soon.
Using Zooper Widget (not Themer Zooper Widget) if you create/edit a module, and replace the text with #SUG1#, it will display your inbox for your second account. As it doesn't work with Themer ZW, we'll contact the dev team to sort this out as soon as possible. If you need any help let us know.
-Marco
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Thanks, Marco. I can use that for now.