So I just got my second EVO yesterday (first one was stolen in August ), anyway I was most excited to install MIUI on it after I got this bad boy rooted. I love this rom, it's beautiful, it's the smoothest one I've ever used, but I just hate how the only way to delete something off of your home screens requires an uninstallation... like the iPhone.
Is there any sort of app drawer where I can find all my apps on this rom? If not, are there any apps I can use to just hide these from my home screen?
Lastly, how do I theme this rom? I know I have to download themes for my specific version, but do I just flash it via recovery or what?
Thanks!
Since there is no app drawer, there is no default location for all your apps besides your homescreen. You can arrange everything into folders to keep it all organized. If you really miss the app drawer you can still use a home replacement app like LauncherPro and then you will have an app drawer.
For themes, like you said you need to find one that is made specifically for your MIUI build, and then flash it from recovery.
Awesome, thanks!
I'm a beginner, but I've been trying to read up the various posts/wikis around, so I think I have the basics down. I have root and started playing around with various Sense ROMs (because I was familiar with the default Inc ROM, whatever it's called, stock ROM or something?) but a friend has been raving about how he loves Cyanogen (albeit he has a DRIOD) so I tried it out, and liked it.
I really liked the combo weather/clock widget that is included with the HTC Sense UI though, and I was hoping I could somehow copy the .apk files over to the SD card, and then install them after flashing a non-Sense ROM. I've found a few that look promising, like weather.apk and com.htc.WeatherWidget.apk, but after copying them over, nothing would show up in the app or widget menus, so I think I'm either missing files, or it just won't work.
From the little I know, I'm guessing it's perhaps because there are some system files or calls or something specific to the Sense UI that the widget requires to run?
I saw in Titanium backup that certain apps appear to be tied to certain ROMs, for example TB won't let me install "cyanogen settings" on a non-cyanogen ROM.
Is there just a fundamental difference in the code or somewhere that will stop the weather widget from working? Or can I edit or copy enough files to get this to work? Are there replacements for the weather widget? I saw several posts about something called beautiful widgets, but I also heard that it's either no longer available, doesn't work well, or has other problems.
Less importantly, I also prefer the sense keyboard, calculator, and dialer to the cyanogen ones, can any of those be ported over? Or do they have the same problems?
You cannot use Sense widgets with launchers other than Sense. They are tightly integrated.
There's nothing wrong with BW. It's highly customizable and functional. It's definitely still in the market and definitely still being supported.
Cool, I'll go get that.
Any ideas about the calc/dialer/launcher? I don't think those count as widgets, but maybe they're integrated into Sense also.
They are integrated, with the exception of the HTC keyboard. Search for HTC_IME.
If you want your sense items, you will need to run a sense Rom =/
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DialerOne
DialerOne will allow for speed dialing in an AOSP ROM.
If you used that feature w/ the Sense-based ROMs, that app is a nice way to get speed dial back. Note that it will replace whatever stock dialer is on the ROM.
Also, the only other place I know of that gives the cool clock/weather for AOSP ROMs is BeautifulWidgets - a paid app from the market.
FWIW - the HTC Flashlight does work in AOSP ROMs.
hth
Fancy Widget Pro
You can skin Fancy Widget Pro to look like the Sense Flip Clock. This is the closest thing to it.
Thanks, I guess the short answer was basically that I just need to get replacements for everything, or learn to like the AOSP versions. Did get Beautiful Widgets though, looks good.
Hi all. I am by far a newbie here and searched as much as I thought I could but still could not find an answer that I hope is not already out there.
I just flashed Synergy RC2 & love the lockscreen & it's 4 widgets, however, is there a way to change those widgets as you can in Widget Locker?
You can change the 4 apps that are on there to different apps. Go to menu-personalization-lockscreen. If there are any other mods, they will be listed in the rom's thread.
I'm running the latest Revolution ROM 2.1.2 and I wanted to try Beautiful Widgets for the first time. I bought the app and installed it... but I don't see any extra widgets when I go to the widgets screen in ICS. Am I just missing it somewhere? I feel kind of stupid
Reboot the phone, sometimes widgets do that.
Hey,
I've just installed the Android Revolution HD Rom and purged it from Sense apps and launcher using ROM Cleaner.
However I also would like to get rid of the Sense status bar (which is pretty awful in my opinion, it's the main reason I want to get rid of Sense).
I read on several topics that deleting Rosie.apk from the phone removes the launcher, but nothing for the status bar.
Is there any way to achieve this? (other than getting a "desensed" ROM, I'd like to keep Sense's lock screen and some widgets)
Thank you.