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My friend broke her G1 and got the Slide to replace it, she doesn't like the texting application. I'm sure theres a way to get rid of that or just preferably install stock android on the thing. I don't yet have any experience with Android (I will be getting the Droid X in a week) so I would love a bit of hand holding here.
As far as I understand it would would involve rooting the device and then installing a rom of normal android? Is this correct?
I would love if someone could actually walk me through the process or any tips, keep me in mind that once I do this for her she needs to be able to just use it forever after that. I don't wanna flash her phone and it ends up crashing a week late or something.
So can I be pointed in the right directions?
You would have to Root the Phone to Remove Built in Apps. BUT, Since this IS Android you are not bound to use the Default Messaging App. You can download some very good and Feature Rich Messaging apps from the Market. 2 Free ones that come to mind are Handcent (which I used to use before I got my Slide) and ChompSMS. You just have to uncheck the Recieved Notification box in the HTC one and you should be ok from there.
Before going through the trouble of rooting, has she tried any of the available messaging apps from the market yet?
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Yea, per your suggestions I told her to just try installing another to see if she likes it.
Did anyone see the official thread by tmobile about the update they are going to push starting the 4th?
It's not 2.2 but it contains the following fixes:
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Improvements included with this update are as follows:
1. Battery Life:
* Updates to the T-Mobile online contact backup connection, which will improve battery life.
2. Wi-Fi:
* Ability to send MMS messages when connected to Wi-Fi.
3. Genius Button improvements:
* Ability to turn GPS on and off using your voice, such as “Turn GPS on.”
* Will announce Caller ID for incoming voice calls and allow you to “Answer” or “Ignore” using your voice.
* Will announce incoming text messages and allow you to “reply” with dictation.
4. Faves Gallery improvements:
* The Faves icon will be displayed beside notifications that appear while the device is locked to indicate that the communication is coming from one of your Faves.
* Fave photo display speed will be enhanced.
* General stability will be improved, including more seamless scrolling and consistent display of photos.
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http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/myTouch-3G-Slide/myTouch-3G-Slide-MR-Update/td-p/434548
Hah, yeah saw it. Was really hoping that it would be Froyo but I guess not. Oh well, hopefully soon.
for those of us who are rooted, will we able to apply this update? & if so, will it preserve root?
I wonder if this is the same update that was talked about in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733709
Clom801 said:
I wonder if this is the same update that was talked about in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733709
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I dont know...it seems like two completely different updates.
Was hoping froyo but atleast we are seeing improvements.
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Two words; Epic. Fail.
That means froyo is really far away. They wouldn't be pushing an update if froyo was scheduled any time in the near future.
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That means froyo is really far away. They wouldn't be pushing an update if froyo was scheduled any time in the near future.
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I just want it before December, would be unfair for us to wait till 2011.
Cm my friends cm ta hell with stock
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If someone where too have the update and they did a nandroid before applying they couldcould restore if root was patched up right?
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I was wondering too if I rooted my phone but did nothing else, like the engineering, recovery, or even a rom, will I still be able to update or do I need to unroot it before trying to update.
T-mobile would screw us over with that sense ui skin I like it but they should have removed the bubbles. Every phone is getting like updated(in terms of info) look
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16310/android_22_upgrade_list
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I don't want this update. I'm rooted and really hope it won't force me, I'm happy as can be with thehone the way it is. Btw bubbles are easily removed
turboyo said:
I don't want this update. I'm rooted and really hope it won't force me, I'm happy as can be with thehone the way it is. Btw bubbles are easily removed
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how are bubbles easily removed? does it require root? i havent really felt the need to root this phone in particular but being able to do this will make me willing to do it
For those not wanting the update... you can just delete the FOTA apn and you're good to go.
hey im getting the update right now...i havent accepted it yet what should i do? am i gonna have to root again? should i try to get a copy of it for someone to play with? or is it even anything useful?
-BMFC
bmfc187 said:
hey im getting the update right now...i havent accepted it yet what should i do? am i gonna have to root again? should i try to get a copy of it for someone to play with? or is it even anything useful?
-BMFC
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Its a maintanence update and don't worry too much the dev ChiefzReloaded is gonna pull it for root users he got the update today too on his unrooted slide.
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Can someone provide a link to download the ota
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I have root and have still not received update, do i have to unroot???
Ok, so normally I hate placeholders, but I'd like to give you guys an update of where I am at. Once I am finished tweaking, I will release. The base rom is done, now the modding and tweaking needs to happen.
So far:
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Deodexed, Debloated, Debinged, and mostly, detouchwizzed. Debinged...even in the framework. I think* all Bing traces are gone now.
Visual voice mail gone, voice mail button in dialer opens Google Voice.
Verizon Wireless carrier banner replaced with something....better.
MMS app will not longer do multi-part messages, but instead convert to MMS automatically once the 160 character mark is hit.
GPS tweaked.
Wow in one day of having the phone you have a rom halfway competed
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:3
Wow, I can't wait for this even though we have had bad experiences with place holders, I know this isn't the case lol..
I don't know how many times I'm going to say thank you, but here is another thanks!
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along the lines of changes to the voicemail button.....it would be awesome if the ticker's voicemail icon could correspond to Google Voice...but I am sure that is a lot more involved than changing the button's link in the Dialer.
a similar desire exists for the sms icon to correspond to Handcent
I used titanium backup to remove the stock messaging app and that killed the ticker's SMS icon functionality....I saved the stock app to reinstall but that introduces a different problem....the ticker icon doesn't go away reliably after having read the text in Handcent.
maybe this thread wasn't intended for our wish list items.....if that is the case, I apologize.
thanks for your help to our little Continuum family!
thanks for the help here adryn! my wife has the continuum, and i got hers to load red recovery, and the other modded rom.
question on this rom you are building..will it have the bstats and fxpms scripts? are the ones for fascinate compatable with contunuum?
thanks...
Samsung Fascinate
SuperClean 2.91 & EC10 Voodoo
Nitro Ultimate HoneyComb 3.0 Theme
Member of Android Anonymous, as a recovering Android bricking addict. I have been brick free for over 30 days.
U rock thanks for ur work
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Gr8 to hear this tha sum1 is eveloping on this lovely handset
Awesome man, you do some quick work man. Thanks for everything.
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Glad to see this hasn't been abandoned completely yet. I just got this phone in February! Can't wait to see the results. Thanks!
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well i have a tbolt (great work over there btw), but my fiance has a continuum and i want to get her some real android action so thanks for the hard work.
eric2112 said:
Glad to see this hasn't been abandoned completely yet. I just got this phone in February! Can't wait to see the results. Thanks!
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It was all but abandoned. Glad to see some progression!
Also, I saw some news on 2.3 leaks for SGS phones, do you have any info on this adrynalyne? Like a I400 leak perhaps... /lookleft /lookright
Sweet! Looking forward to seeing where this may go!
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It was all but abandoned. Glad to see some progression!
Also, I saw some news on 2.3 leaks for SGS phones, do you have any info on this adrynalyne? Like a I400 leak perhaps... /lookleft /lookright
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the gingerbread leaks are only for gsm galaxy s phones...no help for the epic or fascinate/continuum
even our (fascinate) 2.2 cant be directly flashed without issues...but whether or not adryn can put together some kinda hybrid rom...idk we ll see
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Visual voice mail gone, voice mail button in dialer opens Google Voice.
GPS tweaked.
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curious (warning - n00b question) - would it be possible to make the GV VM connection optional for those of us who don't use GV?
Also, what do you mean by GPS tweaked? The only thing i've noticed about mine is when i'm out geocaching with c:geo or using google maps to navigate while walking, sometimes the compass seems to be off by 180 degrees. when driving, google nav seems fine - likely since it can figure out direction based on previous locations in the same way it figures speed, but i don't walk fast enough for it to figure out direction - especially when geocaching since i'm always stopping to look for the cache.
all told - that's pretty impressive that you knocked out so much stuff in the short time you have had the phone! Thanks for your help with this device!
Any chance you have cracked open the ticker, or at least made it more useful to people who don't use the stock apps (that is... EVERYONE)?
One suggestion i saw somewhere (probably here) really interested me - put the notification area in the ticker screen and make it big enough to fill it, so you dont' have to try and hook into their custom ticker app - just use the existing system one, only relocated/resized. that way all system notifications (no matter what app they're from) will be visible in the ticker, all the time, as well as the time of day, and apps won't have to be custom-written to take advantage of the ticker; they'd just WORK.
I just can't wait till it is out I am looking forward to it
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http://forum.androidcentral.com/samsung-continuum/73450-rom-3-30-11-clean-continuum-dl17.html
;DDD
I have downloaded the ron and installed it. It is very nice. I do have one problem though when the phone boots it is a black screen no Verizon logo or a new one it is all black till the phone loads is that supposed to happen
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I have downloaded the ron and installed it. It is very nice. I do have one problem though when the phone boots it is a black screen no Verizon logo or a new one it is all black till the phone loads is that supposed to happen
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yes this is normal for now
tazzstrike said:
I have downloaded the ron and installed it. It is very nice. I do have one problem though when the phone boots it is a black screen no Verizon logo or a new one it is all black till the phone loads is that supposed to happen
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shoot - as long as it doesn't affect anything else, i'd take that over the annoying, noisy crap vzw put on there. is the shutdown screen also black/silent?
I don't have the phone right here handy atm but, I've already downloaded the Rom and alt browser. looking forward to flashing it to my boy's phone! I know he'll be happy too. One thing I love about these Android phones is how they give us the ability to have that "new phone" feeling any time we like, thanks to their rich development community. This is one thing the Continuum crowd has missed out on until now.
So I downloaded this and I've never used Beautiful Widgets before, so this was my first. I found a very nice skin "Ice Cream Sandwich" by Tama-Chan.
I go to Settings as I'm not sure if you can change something, and when I go into General, it just Force Closes everytime. I un-installed and installed again and it's still FC'ing.
Also, is it possible to edit an existing skin? I just want to get rid of two black boxes surrounding the clock and the blue border, but I'm not sure you can. I have googled as much as I can and I can't find anything.
Any guidance would be very helpful, thanks in advance
What version you on for ICS and BW? BW had a update just a little bit ago and not sure if that fixed what you are having issues with or not as I already updated. I did install the skin you have and I was able to get to the settings no problem and no FC at all. I am running 41D for ICS.
Well it was pretty recent as I snapped it up during the 10p sale. I'm using the standard ICS no custom ROMS flashed or anything. Do you think I should uninstall and install again? Or does that mean I have to pay again? I'm such an Android noob lol...this is my first true Android phone
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Well it was pretty recent as I snapped it up during the 10p sale. I'm using the standard ICS no custom ROMS flashed or anything. Do you think I should uninstall and install again? Or does that mean I have to pay again? I'm such an Android noob lol...this is my first true Android phone
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You don't have to pay again once you've purchased it!
The app however was updated either today or last night, so go to the market and update it! It fixed all of the crashing problems for me
Thanks a lot! The update fixed my problems
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So I downloaded this and I've never used Beautiful Widgets before, so this was my first. I found a very nice skin "Ice Cream Sandwich" by Tama-Chan.
I go to Settings as I'm not sure if you can change something, and when I go into General, it just Force Closes everytime. I un-installed and installed again and it's still FC'ing.
Also, is it possible to edit an existing skin? I just want to get rid of two black boxes surrounding the clock and the blue border, but I'm not sure you can. I have googled as much as I can and I can't find anything.
Any guidance would be very helpful, thanks in advance
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It is possible to modify the skins. Go to /sdcard/data/beautifulwidgets. The sub folders will be like: tskins (toggle skins), wskins (weather skins) etc. Those folders contain the image(s) for the skins
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If I can reuse this thread. Does anyone know how to stop the temperature displaying in the notification area?
I already have the Accuweather app doing this (with a bigger better version)
I've turned off notifications in the widget but its still there?
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rob6raham said:
If I can reuse this thread. Does anyone know how to stop the temperature displaying in the notification area?
I already have the Accuweather app doing this (with a bigger better version)
I've turned off notifications in the widget but its still there?
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Never mind, option now works in the update
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My first smartphone was an HTC Inspire (aka Desire). It has this great home screen flip clock widget I really miss. I want to put it on my Galaxy Note 10.
I know I can get flip clocks from the Play Store, but they are not as pleasing to look at and I don't want it enough to risk dealing with ads and phonehomeware. The old HTC widget is from HTC and is part of the manufacturer's native system app (no ads, YAY). I extracted the apk ok, but I'm reluctant to install it in my new phone because I almost bricked my Galaxy Note 4 trying to install downloaded Google phone apk. It locked up the phone and I had to do a system reset. It took me two days to get it all working like I want. I don't want to go through that again.
I believe the HTC Android version is 2.3 or 3.3. Is there a way to verify that this widget apk will work on the Note 10 besides installing it? Thanks in advance for any help.
I can not really help you, but, be advised of this: some really old apps cause troubles, as they were coded in a different way, some elements needed for their correct functioning might not even be present now, some older apps dont even install, or run,
Some other do install, and run, but eventually start doing odd things or freezing the device, this I have experimented with several good apps I liked from gingerbread and ice cream, even kitkat, so, better look for newer alternatives, imho
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.senseflipclockweather
This has ads, but you can pay to get rid of them. There are others that have a similar flip-cloxk format.
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I use the free version of this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ock&pcampaignid=APPU_1_zcc-X4KlMsP6sAWnvYTYBQ
Low power consumption, very custom configurable plus has quad touch switches that you can assign apps too.
Adjustable size, colors, fonts, transparency and more.
Runs well with no data usage (adware) after being configured. I'm running Pie.
You can't get the clock widget off the old Desire as it is part of the HTC Sense home screen. You can only find something similar on the app store...
Sorry...
However, I use Beautiful widgets (paid app) and you can get quite a few flip clocks that look and feel like the old HTC's...
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You can't get the clock widget off the old Desire as it is part of the HTC Sense home screen. You can only find something similar on the app store...
Sorry...
However, I use Beautiful widgets (paid app) and you can get quite a few flip clocks that look and feel like the old HTC's...
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My understanding is that the flip clock widget is part of the HTC Clock app. I extracted the apk for that. I've not yet transferred the apk to my Note 10. I'd like to know if there's some way other than just installing to verify that it will not damage my Note 10.
Thanks, I checked out Beautiful Widgets. Even the paid version has full internet access, bluetooth, and near field communications. Why a clock widget would need that is beyond me. I'm concerned about security and unnecessary internet access, which is one reason why I'd prefer the old HTC widget. It also has the most captivating rendering of a classic flip clock that I've seen.
If anyone has a spare and sacrificial phone they don't mind resetting to factory specs if necessary, I'm willing to share the apk I extracted if you want to see if it works.
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My understanding is that the flip clock widget is part of the HTC Clock app. I extracted the apk for that. I've not yet transferred the apk to my Note 10. I'd like to know if there's some way other than just installing to verify that it will not damage my Note 10.
Thanks, I checked out Beautiful Widgets. Even the paid version has full internet access, bluetooth, and near field communications. Why a clock widget would need that is beyond me. I'm concerned about security and unnecessary internet access, which is one reason why I'd prefer the old HTC widget. It also has the most captivating rendering of a classic flip clock that I've seen.
If anyone has a spare and sacrificial phone they don't mind resetting to factory specs if necessary, I'm willing to share the apk I extracted if you want to see if it works.
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Lol, wanted lab rats. If your OS load is over 6 months old a refresh isn't a bad idea especially if you had a lot apps you uninstalled.
Be ready to do a factory reset at any time even though it's rarely neeeded it can happen.
After being force to do 2 back to back on my Note it's getting to be 2nd nature. Best load ever now.
That said it probably won't crash the OS and the worst that will happen is you'll be forced to uninstall it.
That happen with one or two of my Kitkat era apks.
Sometimes they will run ok.
Sense V2 is the best replica for HTC Clock
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Tom Austin said:
My understanding is that the flip clock widget is part of the HTC Clock app. I extracted the apk for that. I've not yet transferred the apk to my Note 10. I'd like to know if there's some way other than just installing to verify that it will not damage my Note 10.
Thanks, I checked out Beautiful Widgets. Even the paid version has full internet access, bluetooth, and near field communications. Why a clock widget would need that is beyond me. I'm concerned about security and unnecessary internet access, which is one reason why I'd prefer the old HTC widget. It also has the most captivating rendering of a classic flip clock that I've seen.
If anyone has a spare and sacrificial phone they don't mind resetting to factory specs if necessary, I'm willing to share the apk I extracted if you want to see if it works.
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Weather updates which it draws from the internet... You can refuse this or turn off after and just have the clock...
ianmb said:
Sense V2 is the best replica for HTC Clock
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What I use
Look at this!
It's beautiful
winol said:
I can not really help you, but, be advised of this: some really old apps cause troubles, as they were coded in a different way, some elements needed for their correct functioning might not even be present now, some older apps dont even install, or run,
Some other do install, and run, but eventually start doing odd things or freezing the device, this I have experimented with several good apps I liked from gingerbread and ice cream, even kitkat, so, better look for newer alternatives, imho
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Maybe try here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438