I have created a mod using the VRTheme template to allow several of the stock HTC widgets to work on other launchers. I have only tested this on my rooted, but stock AT&T M9 running the 1.32.502.31 ROM.
To use this mod, you have to have Sense running on your ROM and the widgets already need to be installed. This mod is only designed to modify the widgets so that you can use them on launchers besides Sense Home.
To make this work, I decompiled the above apk files and dug around in the manifest to try and figure out what was preventing them from showing up in the other widget pickers. I figured out that for each of the widgets, there was an xml folder that controls aspects of the widget. In these xml files I found a line that was: htcControlFlag="1" By removing this from the xml or changing it to htcControlFlag="0", the widget is now free to be used. I recompiled the widget apk files and then just removed the modded xmls and put them all in this VRTheme template.
If you try this mod, please be sure to backup your system partition first. Also, ask any questions and I can elaborate on this thread later. Or add more of the widgets.
I would love some feedback from people running the international versions.
Updated 7/20/15: I found that the Android 5.1 version of the rom requires a new MOD. So I renamed the original one to reference the 5.0.2 ROM and the new one to reference the 5.1 ROM.
Updated 8/16/2015: I am told that the 5.1 version works on the older 5.0.2 ROMs. I have not verified this myself, but others have.
Change Log:
V 1.2
CalculatorWidget
V 1.1
HtcDataStripWidget
HtcMusicWidget
V 1.0
HtcCalendarWidgets
HtcContactWidgets
HtcWeatherClockWidget
res
res 2
I will give it a shot, I am on Venom rom 3.0 and run Nextlauncher.
joshzdad2013 said:
I will give it a shot, I am on Venom rom 3.0 and run Nextlauncher.
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Hey that's great, but I think Venom Roms already have this in them. I used to run Venom on my M8 and I could use these widgets in Nova Launcher. That was actually my inspiration for figuring out how to do it.
Updated the OP to add a new MOD for the 5.1 ATT ROM. I am still not sure if these work on the equivalent international versions, so if anyone tries it please let me know.
Hi thanks for this. Is it possible to do the same for the htc music widget?
Many thanks.
ficti0n851 said:
Hi thanks for this. Is it possible to do the same for the htc music widget?
Many thanks.
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You bet. I'll update tomorrow.
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You bet. I'll update tomorrow.
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Fantastic thank you.
V1.1 Update 2015-07-24
I updated the mod for 5.1 to add the following:
HtcDataStripWidget
HtcMusicWidget
Thanks for this.
Been wanting to do away with the dock on sense launcher since forever. Unfortunately cant find any mods to do this and to use all the homescreen on my m8
Using your mod I am now able to use another launcher.
Thanks again.
ficti0n851 said:
Thanks for this.
Been wanting to do away with the dock on sense launcher since forever. Unfortunately cant find any mods to do this and to use all the homescreen on my m8
Using your mod I am now able to use another launcher.
Thanks again.
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So did the mod I made with the 5.1 files actually work on the 5.0.2 ROM? If so, that is great news. Because I couldn't get it to work the other way around.
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So did the mod I made with the 5.1 files actually work on the 5.0.2 ROM? If so, that is great news. Because I couldn't get it to work the other way around.
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All works perfect
Is there any chance for calculator widget?
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icebbar said:
Is there any chance for calculator widget?
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You bet, but it will be a few days.
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Is there any chance for calculator widget?
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V1.2 is up with the calculator widget included. It takes a minute or so for the widget to fully appear, but it works once it shows up on the screen.
Thanks for you work! :good:
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Hi,I'm kinda new at this ROM Cooking thing,but can someone teach me how to add HTC Friendstream and HTC Legend browser to HTC Hero Rom?
Id assume you find the relevant apks and put into the correct folders, no? But only on sense roms as the HTC libraries are needed aswel, cant just add the apks to Vanilla ROMs.
But I know JACK about rom building!
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Id assume you find the relevant apks and put into the correct folders, no? But only on sense roms as the HTC libraries are needed aswel, cant just add the apks to Vanilla ROMs.
But I know JACK about rom building!
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Correct!
You'll only be able to do it with a 2.1 Sense Rom just now, not any of the 2.2 Vanilla ones availale just now.
It sounds like you're using a vanilla version, in which case you could use LaucherPro and use those widgets which basically do the same thing
Thanx pal,.. oh yeah, Launcher Pro,... Google 'launcher pro plus' and take a look at the alt widgets they provide.
And next time,... please post in GENERAL or QnA. Thanx
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Correct!
You'll only be able to do it with a 2.1 Sense Rom just now, not any of the 2.2 Vanilla ones availale just now.
It sounds like you're using a vanilla version, in which case you could use LaucherPro and use those widgets which basically do the same thing
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I'm not using vanilla,I was trying to cook a ROM and I want to integrate the two features mention above...
2.1? Why don't you use Villain12 as a base?
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2.1? Why don't you use Villain12 as a base?
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Too many apps and too slow on boot up,so thats y I want to create my own ROM with the two features mention above...
Ng LC said:
Too many apps and too slow on boot up,so thats y I want to create my own ROM with the two features mention above...
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dont think its possible, i've never seen it done anywhere before
hello
RCMix 2.2b has friendstream and Legend browser.
Boot time is excelent, I'm currently using it with flykernel 10a.
And it's faster than VR12, I was also using that for quite some time
Simply remove unnecessary things from RC2.2b and You are all set
hope this helps.
Cheers!
So the MT4G came without the standard Android News & Weather widget (strange) and although I know there's an HTC / Sense version, I love the original version. I know there are various .apk's of it floating around to side load, but I haven't been able to make any of them work- they all force close after install.
Any thoughts for a working version?
Here ya go
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Here ya go
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Thank you- this version installs and will work by opening the actual app, but the widget doesn't work- I get 'problem loading widget' in it's place... so weird, any ideas?
I don't think the Widget works on the Sense Launcher. It works fine on other 3rd Party Launchers (Launcher Pro and ADWLauncher)
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I don't think the Widget works on the Sense Launcher. It works fine on other 3rd Party Launchers (Launcher Pro and ADWLauncher)
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That's what I'm using- Launcher Pro. Still won't load the widget...
Here ya go! I installed this one on my MT4G last night. It works great on the stock mySense launcher.
File courtesy of Cyanogenmod's site.
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Here ya go! I installed this one on my MT4G last night. It works great on the stock mySense launcher.
File courtesy of Cyanogenmod's site.
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Worked perfect, thanks!!
CyberStorm98 said:
Here ya go! I installed this one on my MT4G last night. It works great on the stock mySense launcher.
File courtesy of Cyanogenmod's site.
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Thanks man! Worked Great mySense version sucks!
Thx, I love this app!
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CyberStorm98 said:
Here ya go! I installed this one on my MT4G last night. It works great on the stock mySense launcher.
File courtesy of Cyanogenmod's site.
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Nice! Works great!
myTouch4G (Glacier)
idk i love the htc sense weather widget with the clock and the cool weather animations, took me forever to realize its under the clock widgets lol.
Thank you so much this was the one app I was really missing from my Nexus One!!!
Bless you, bless you! =D haha
CyberStorm98 said:
Here ya go! I installed this one on my MT4G last night. It works great on the stock mySense launcher.
File courtesy of Cyanogenmod's site.
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When I download it how do I install it?
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I am new to this forum and droid...I would like to know how to install this as well.
Is it possible to get the smaller version of the clock widget that is on the Sensation XL version of sense 3.5
EDIT they have the clock in the new sense ics roms!
I have tried a few methods from the Sensation forum and none of them have worked for me. I can get it to install and show up under widgets but it will not show up on my home screen. I am running a custom rom. I think maybe our screen resolution has something to do with it??
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Is it possible to get the smaller version of the clock widget that is on the Sensation XL version of sense 3.5
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Although you would have to purchase it, just get Beautiful Widgets from the market. It has everything that you would need. That's a 4x1 widget that's included with BW. You can also get tons of skins to make it look how you want.
Beautiful Widgets Market Link
jm700wx said:
I have tried a few methods from the Sensation forum and none of them have worked for me. I can get it to install and show up under widgets but it will not show up on my home screen. I am running a custom rom. I think maybe our screen resolution has something to do with it??
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possibly...
I noticed the ICS leaks have this widget. Is there anyone that can port it to Gingerbread?
I would like this too. I've seen it on the ics roms and I had it on some gingerbread roms on the evo 4g when they were making sense 3.0 roms for it.
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I got it to work on Gingerbread actually, but the graphics were really glitchy.
How did you get it to work?
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Try fancy widgets, it has that exact same clock setup.
This is fancy widgets
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it should work fine on gingerbread take the assets folder from the htcclockwidget3d.apk in ics and put it in the one from gingerbread
Hay Joel, could you post a zip or all for this? It would be appreciated! Thanks.
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it should work fine on gingerbread take the assets folder from the htcclockwidget3d.apk in ics and put it in the one from gingerbread
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Tried this and it doesn't work. The small widget doesn't even show up as an option. Then I tried to use the exact apk from ics and it shows the small clock but when selected it doesn't display on screen. The other clocks work though. Any ideas?
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Tried this and it doesn't work. The small widget doesn't even show up as an option. Then I tried to use the exact apk from ics and it shows the small clock but when selected it doesn't display on screen. The other clocks work though. Any ideas?
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Aloha Jordant,
I'm also craving the same clock... tried as well and got the same results.
Bummer....
devilman30 said:
Aloha Jordant,
I'm also craving the same clock... tried as well and got the same results.
Bummer....
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Yeah that solved in the title isn't going to help much either, since it's not really solved. Oh well.
jordant2 said:
Yeah that solved in the title isn't going to help much either, since it's not really solved. Oh well.
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+1
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Hi, does anybody know where to get extra theme's for LGhome3?
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samomamo said:
Hi, does anybody know where to get extra theme's for LGhome3?
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I think that this site is what you need
http://www.downloadonline.info/2013/02/23/lghome3-theme-download/
I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but what exactly is the LGhome3 and what will change if I use one of the one's that where linked above me? I see there is LGhome.JB4.apk and some others. I think i have an idea what LGhome3 is, but i guess im not exactly sure. Lol. Thanks in advance.
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I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but what exactly is the LGhome3 and what will change if I use one of the one's that where linked above me? I see there is LGhome.JB4.apk and some others. I think i have an idea what LGhome3 is, but i guess im not exactly sure. Lol. Thanks in advance.
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LGHome3 is the version of the LGHome Launcher that as far as I know, LG make it for ICS and partially upgraded with the 4.1.2 upgrade (It just add some wallpapers and some basic changes to the widgets). The LGHome.JB4.apk that you saw was a port from somebody in the community to make it available for 4.2 since the other versions FC and wouldn't work properly. Currently that port works partially and for 4.2 and FC when you try some things.
You can also see another version of the LGHome in the market called Simple Home by LGElectronics ( http://goo.gl/7eAVz ) and I think it was the version 2 since it doesn't have an app drawer, don't came with the widgets and it's compatible with Froyo 2.2.
About the themes you were looking for, LGHome has themes since version 2. Some carriers like AT&T block all the themes (I don't know why!) or only left 1 or 2 in their deploy, but they could be found at the Korean and Japanese ROMs.
Looking for a LGHome port to 4.2 I found some themes that work at http://goo.gl/bjjjr
Also found this other page where there's a link to download 10 themes for the LGHome at http://goo.gl/mKeIm
Please take note that to those themes to work properly they have to be installed in the /System/App folder (Need root access) and not in the /Data/App folder where the apps normally install when you use the installation wizard opening the apk directly. The links I provided previously have a very good tutorial of how to install them in a way that they work.
Anyway, LGHome is a very good launcher but if you are looking for another experience about themes and changing the appearance try another launchers like Nova and Apex that will give you a very Nexus 4 feeling and are very good saving battery life. Also you can use Go Launcher that have a lot of free themes. Or if you want to make huge changes or get very different experience check buzz launcher or MiHome that have some really good themes and some crazy stuff.
Go out there and try them all and every time you want to try something different, have more than 1 working launcher installed just in case and make backup of everything you overwrite in case you damage something.
Good luck.
^^ wow. That was one of the best replies I've gotten on here! Excellent! Thank you very much for the great information. That was above and beyond helpful. Thanks again. Cheers :beer:
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Hello again,
Here i have modded the Android 4.3 Prism.apk to work on our devices.
I know alot of you are thinking ok but why? - well in a previous post of mine i posted a Sense 5 Toolkit from the amazing langer hans.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2447380
Alot of the features (Blinkfeed clocks / Transparency etc) required an Android 4.3 Prism.apk to work - well here is is.
http://d-h.st/1Hs - Please remember to say thanks and please backup first​
Thanks to candlejack7 for testing
xvicedice said:
Hello again,
Here i have modded the 4.3 Prism to work on our devices.
I know alot of you are thinking ok but why? - well in a previous post of mine i posted a Sense 5 Toolkit from the amazing langer hans.
Alot of the features (Blinkfeed clocks / Transparency etc) required a 4.3 prism to work - well here is is.
http://d-h.st/1Hs - Please remember to say thanks and please backup first​
Thanks to candlejack7 for testing
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What is 4.3 prism?
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It's your launcher your app drawer blinkfeed etc. The toolkit was written tonwork with 4.3 so this is the apk to use
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xvicedice said:
It's your launcher your app drawer blinkfeed etc. The toolkit was written tonwork with 4.3 so this is the apk to use
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Thank you. Installing this, with xposed framework and sense toolbox I was able to disable blinkfeed on the new Viper ROM. Awesome!!
How do you install the Rom Tool Box? I tried flashing it in recovery but failed. I tried getting Xpose to install it but couldn't. Any tips? Thanks.
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Edit: Ok, I renamed the Sense 5 Toolbox zip file to APK and was able to install.
Does this have a 4x5 homescreen and 5x6 app drawer option?
Yep it does indeed
http://imageshack.us/photo/photo/14/ully.png/
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So should work on NOS 3.0.7 huh? This made my dayyyyyy.
Carloskeee said:
So should work on NOS 3.0.7 huh? This made my dayyyyyy.
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should do fella its what im using
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should do fella its what im using
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Yeah I just went ahead and installed. I forgot to remove the .odex file though lol. I have never used the Xposed framework until now. Man have I been missing out. This is great. Thanks x100!!!
Great Share :good: