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[?] Home screen grid size change?

Devs, just throwing a question out there, is it possible to change the grid size on the home screens for the Evo? The reason I ask is that my old HTC hero had a 4x4- based grid for icons, same as ours does now, but I don't really need the icons to be larger than they were on the hero, I'd much rather be able to have a 5x5 or 6x6 grid for the homescreens. It would be great to be able to stick 36 icons on a single page instead of the normal 16.
I figure, we have all that glorious screen real-estate, but if everything is just a scaled-up version of a smaller screen, then its not really being used to its full potential, is it?
Just my thoughts, I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement, but I'd like to know if its possible.

Totally possible and relatively easy. I'm running 5x5 workspace and a 5 column launcher right now on my Hero. I posted a tutorial in the Cdma Hero section. I'll post a link in a second. BTW, I thought it would be a perfect mod for the Evo because of the huge screen.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697994
I'd be willing to look into it too since I'm looking in to getting an Evo. Let me know.
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Im sure it is very possible. ADW.Launcher allows me to 6x6 8x8 etc. still a little buggy tho.

well, I'm a relative noob, not a developer or coder, and starting to get traction on making themes, so this one is probably outside my knowledge range to do.
Do you guys think that it would be ROM- specific like alot of the themes I see around here?

nuformzdesign said:
well, I'm a relative noob, not a developer or coder, and starting to get traction on making themes, so this one is probably outside my knowledge range to do.
Do you guys think that it would be ROM- specific like alot of the themes I see around here?
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It is definitely ROM specific. What ROM are you using?
EDIT: Scratch that, see you're running Senseless. The MOD I posted is really for Sense ROM's. If you're not going to run Sense, you should just DL and install ADW, like KShawn said. It does it on the fly and allows you to select widget cell sizes.

Please post questions in the q&a forum. That's what its for

If possible, do it for Fresh 0.3 please Thanks a lot in advnace!

Sorry Toast, my bad. It seemed more of a theme issue to me than a general question.

What is Rosie? A la "Espresso Rosie," "White Rosie," etc...

I'm new to Evo and Android. Since launch I've figured out a lot about this phone, ROMS, and ADB. But I still feel like a fool every time I read the word Rosie.
Can someone help me out?? TIA

Sprockethead said:
I'm new to Evo and Android. Since launch I've figured out a lot about this phone, ROMS, and ADB. But I still feel like a fool every time I read the word Rosie.
Can someone help me out?? TIA
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I may be wrong, but as far as I know, the HTC sense ui is known as 'Rosie"

The launcher used with HTC's Sense UI is called "Rosie.apk ."

TheBiles said:
The launcher used with HTC's Sense UI is called "Rosie.apk ."
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Cool, thanks. That makes sense now. I think the launcher used with Fresh is Espresso Rosie.

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but, WHY is it called Rosie in the first place? Some developer's homage to his girlfriend?

Rosie is the version of SenseUI found on the Hero, Evo, Droid Inc, etc.
Espresso, is the version found on the t-mobile MyTouch 3G Slide.

So what the hell is "Espresso Rosie?"

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So what the hell is "Espresso Rosie?"
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Haykuro's b*tch! If you don't know who Haykuro is...well we have a problem
Better yet...it is the genie that comes out of the Evo and grants you three wishes. You know...the one talked about in the youtube videos

Sprockethead said:
So what the hell is "Espresso Rosie?"
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No such thing. "Espresso Rosie" is a misleading term sometimes used to describe the Espresso Theme over Rosie. Making it look like the MyTouch 3G Slide's encarnation of Sense UI.

los1223 said:
No such thing. "Espresso Rosie" is a misleading term sometimes used to describe the Espresso Theme over Rosie. Making it look like the MyTouch 3G Slide's encarnation of Sense UI.
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http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2009/05/rosie-ui-shows-how-good-android-can-be.html
Rosie - The original SenseUI
Espresso Rosie - The MyTouch Slide's Beefed-up version of SenseUI

[Q] Hack for enabling landscape in Sense?

Sorry if this has been raised elsewhere, but I couldn't find it anywhere...
I know many don't like HTC's Sense. Personally I like it fine, with the huge exception that I can't use my phone in landscape half the time. I don't suppose it would be possible to enable landscape would there?
I'm running rooted stock 2.2.

Do you mean on the home screen???
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jm5503 said:
Do you mean on the home screen???
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yeah the home screen for sure, but since contacts, calendar, music, etc... are all modified by sense then none of them can go landscape either.

This is the number 1 reason why I don't use sense/Rosie. Its utterly ridiculous that sense doesnt do landscape.

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This is the number 1 reason why I don't use sense/Rosie. Its utterly ridiculous that sense doesnt do landscape.
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The sad part is all the images are there (in the framework) for Rosie to go into landscape, they just don't let it. I've seen a mod done that accomplishes this but it looked terrible and would have taken a lot of work to get all the elements to look right. Maybe they gave up and decided to focus on a more important project.. like Sprint Nascar.. or the Sprint Promotion app..
Rosie has such potential but is such a let-down. If they weren't going to go the extra mile and make Sense own everything else then they shouldn't have wasted their time on such a crippled UI.

Sense for Windows mobile does landscape. Why not the Android version HTC? Thats one of the reasons I use adw
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nebenezer said:
The sad part is all the images are there (in the framework) for Rosie to go into landscape, they just don't let it. I've seen a mod done that accomplishes this but it looked terrible and would have taken a lot of work to get all the elements to look right. Maybe they gave up and decided to focus on a more important project.. like Sprint Nascar.. or the Sprint Promotion app..
Rosie has such potential but is such a let-down. If they weren't going to go the extra mile and make Sense own everything else then they shouldn't have wasted their time on such a crippled UI.
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I completely agree. Its like they got to a point that they were happy and just gave up. The fact that landscape wasn't a high prirority is either lazy or dumb or both. This is basic functionality. As soon as I found adw way back when, Rosie has never touched my phone.

Yeah it does seem pretty dumb. Well I wonder if when the G2 comes out with an actual keyboard it'll mean that we finally have a landscape Rosie...

http://i.engadget.com/2010/09/15/htc-desire-z-is-the-qwerty-slider-your-androids-been-waiting-fo/
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bonikowsky said:
Yeah it does seem pretty dumb. Well I wonder if when the G2 comes out with an actual keyboard it'll mean that we finally have a landscape Rosie...
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Id hope. You'd think that the Evo would have had it since they promoted the hell out of the kickstand. What good is a kickstand if you have to turn the phone vertically to use its most basic functions? Thank God for ADW.

[ROM][04/28/11] Droid_X_Vision_Gingerbread 2.3.3_Port (v1.1)

Hey guys i finally got this port to a level of usefulness i wanted, i had some insane problems while porting it mainly the capacitive keys not working, but i got around that today, so yea today i kindly bring you the Droid X Gingerbread MotoBlur G2 port.
To lock Gps Use this radio 26.04.02.17
To other Devs if you plan on porting this rom to a different device, please pm me before doing so, i really out did my self with this port and it would suck if people start porting it without giving me proper credit.
Working:
GSm
Hw3d
Sound
Bluetooth
Sensors
Data
GPS
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Not Working:
Wifi
Camera
Camcorder
video playback
Sim Card contact syncing
Sdcard mount promt from the pull down menu
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Changelog:
v1.1
Fixed the gsm crash while making or receving calls
Rebased the whole rom on the new tmous stock leak.
Fixed gps not sure if its working, as i dont have any internet to test it with.
ScreenShots:
Video: This video is old, when capacitive keys did not work, so ignore the key app on the right.
Download Link:
v1.1
http://www.mediafire.com/?h4bu4hecuk5aozt
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v1.0
http://www.mediafire.com/?bbcw1dy9gtba6qj
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Known Issue:
Do not try to play any video it will break sound, but dont worry if you do just Restart your phone, sound should be back again.
Thanks:
911sniper for the leak
And google for there libs ofc
kosmikick for his great ideas.

Awesome Magic. I will try this out tomorrow.
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wow, awesome btw, you must be have a lot of time, doing porting a lot of project...

always give us surprise, thanks

Rom is done uploading enjoy guys.

siulmagic said:
Rom is done uploading enjoy guys.
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Awesome, like always a hard working dev.
Quick question, is landscape mode supported?
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GunToYoMouth123 said:
Awesome, like always a hard working dev.
Quick question, is landscape mode supported?
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I think its not since the Droid X is all touch screen
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Giving it a shot!
Amazing work though!

Woo finally a Droid x port!
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GunToYoMouth123 said:
Awesome, like always a hard working dev.
Quick question, is landscape mode supported?
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Yes landscape mode is supported when you slide out the keyboard.
2 issues i have been having is gps doesn't work and command rm not found when using root explorer to clean up verizon apps.
Getting a new error when opening browser after like 5 seconds it closes w/o force close. I looked in alogcat and it showed process 3048 browser started then after a couple line it showed process 3048 terminated by signal(11)

Can't wait for this good job
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Badass!!! Can't wait to try this! Definitely one of the best LOOKING roms i ever seen!

Working pretty well....
Launcher is a little choppy...but seriously! Cant complain! Love the UI animations though!

Definitely looks spectacular, I'll probably try it out and get back. Hope you get the WiFi and such worked out, will post back after test running

ok - not to be a **** or anything but this begs the question:
Why do you WANT blur on your phone? Everyone i know with a blurred motorola phone struggles to make it blurless and wants to remove that crap as much as possible - it is a serious detriment to performance and battery life.

sundar2012 said:
ok - not to be a **** or anything but this begs the question:
Why do you WANT blur on your phone? Everyone i know with a blurred motorola phone struggles to make it blurless and wants to remove that crap as much as possible - it is a serious detriment to performance and battery life.
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A bit of variety, perhaps?

yea im aware of the many issues, i still have alot of work left with this rom, about landscape mode it should be working just fine even with the keyboard out, also the browser im not sure as i havent fixed wifi so i cant use the internet on the rom. And yes i figured gps was not working again iv got no internet so i have no way of fixing that, i need wifi for that XD. anyways im glad you guys like it.

sundar2012 said:
ok - not to be a **** or anything but this begs the question:
Why do you WANT blur on your phone? Everyone i know with a blurred motorola phone struggles to make it blurless and wants to remove that crap as much as possible - it is a serious detriment to performance and battery life.
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Because this version of blur is different from the others and better, and well because we on the g2 forums deserve variety, other than the 3 classic roms, sense,cm7 or miui. And no i dont think this rom will drain that much battery or affect performance, our gpu's beats the crap out of the omap that the droids have.

Also found that when calling someone it will restart the phone and it will keep you on the call till the os finishes reloading.
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siulmagic said:
Because this version of blur is different from the others and better, and well because we on the g2 forums deserve variety, other than the 3 classic roms, sense,cm7 or miui. And no i dont think this rom will drain that much battery or affect performance, our gpu's beats the crap out of the omap that the droids have.
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siulmagic said:
Because this version of blur is different from the others and better, and well because we on the g2 forums deserve variety, other than the 3 classic roms, sense,cm7 or miui. And no i dont think this rom will drain that much battery or affect performance, our gpu's beats the crap out of the omap that the droids have.
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i'm guessing this is based on the Droid X GB leak - the blur is different than the blur on 2.2? My girlfriend was running stock 2.2 on the DX and getitng like 12 hrs of battery life. Then running Liberty 2.1 (blurless 2.2 based) she was getting 24 hours +. I flashed her over to the Liberty GB alphas (has a lot of blur in it) and have yet to see how the batt life is.
What i do know is that if you look @ running services (on the DX Liberty GB) and use an app like autostarts to see the on startup apps - blur has a whole ton of blur stuff that runs in the background from startup on - unrelated to ui changes and widgets.
What i fail to understand is not manufacturer ui (which differentiates) but why it has to be baked in so deep into the OS and kernel that it makes it impossible to remove if - god forbid - you want a more stock experience.
I have a lot of respect for any dev who brings more variety and software choice for our phones and i dont mean to undermine his work. I guess i just get pissed that companies like motorola make it so hard to go stock (particularly mess with that damned bootloader) that they would rather u ruin your device (i soft bricked my gf's droid x once and the only way to get back to stock is a complete SBF flash - a rare turn of events that i've never had the displeasure of running into on an HTC phone).
On a related note to this ROM, i noticed on Liberty GB (but not on Liberty 2.x) you can remove stuff from the notification area because there is a minus button (ie you dont have to clear all notifications or click on the notification itself to clear it - there is a button that enables its removal). Is this part of blur? I'd love to see this ported to AOSP.

more sensitive carousel

Does anyone Find that the carousel feature on sense 3.0 isn't sensitive enough? HTC came into work to demo the latest phones and I realized how easy its intended to be to get into this mode. I want to try work on a fix but I'm not sure where to start. The first thing to work out is if just controlled in the Rosie APK or could it be to do with screen sensitivity controled in another file.
If anyone has any knowlage about this it would be greatly appreciated

Try Hamdirs Rosie
Easy, looks good in slow motion
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FCW said:
Does anyone Find that the carousel feature on sense 3.0 isn't sensitive enough? HTC came into work to demo the latest phones and I realized how easy its intended to be to get into this mode. I want to try work on a fix but I'm not sure where to start. The first thing to work out is if just controlled in the Rosie APK or could it be to do with screen sensitivity controled in another file.
If anyone has any knowlage about this it would be greatly appreciated
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i believe it is in the smali code of rosie.apk
but i am no apktool pro.
also this is the wrong section for Q&A's

killersloth said:
i believe it is in the smali code of rosie.apk
but i am no apktool pro.
also this is the wrong section for Q&A's
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danton11 said:
Try Hamdirs Rosie
Easy, looks good in slow motion
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I'll have a look at this in the morning. I intended this to be more of a development thread as I intend to be able to work this into something to include in a rom. would be a good addition to the dev forums. Its so much easer to use on devices like the evo 3d and sensation xl, We should be able to change this with a bit of knowledge about the coding

Why?
Its only 5 screens, and all it does is spin you back to the same screen you were on. I don't want mine more senstive than it is really, otherwise it will be kicking off at random when I don't need it.

Sense 3.5 and Sensation based roms such as Virtuous Unity 2.39 seem to have much more sensitive carousels (1 full screen slide = spin). Its just the official HTC RUU 3.06.405.1 roms such as Revolution that have really difficult to spin carousels.
I'm pretty used to using the carousel to spin 3-4 screens, even though its probably slower... (But at least its just a full swipe and a tap, instead of 4 half slides)
Its only 5 screens, and all it does is spin you back to the same screen you were on. I don't want mine more senstive than it is really, otherwise it will be kicking off at random when I don't need it.
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Its 7, and even on sensitive roms such as VU and sense 3.5 roms, its pretty difficult to activate without trying as you have to slide around 75% of the screen somewhat quickly.