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Sidekick Android

would anyone be able to port the version of android the sidekick is running? itd b awesome! or as a theme

Or maybe even a home replacement

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/15/6270694-t-mobile-revamps-sidekick-with-android
=D
Says that its side kick on top of samsung on top of android lol thats one hard port

ah yeah u never know tho!

i guess not then
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Well you never know, it isn't even released yet right? If the ui gets some love from the reviewers and public it might. But there isn't really a huge demand for third party android skins, miui and sense being pretty unique exceptions in that they don't suck.
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The new sidekick... am not really likeing it, it looks like its built for younger people you know. I want a phone built by HTC. Well that's only me.
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i think it looks very nice

Touchwiz based rom

Does anyone know of a Touchwiz based rom for the Desire?
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Nope.
10char

You cannot be serious.
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I have forgotten a lot but if I recall it correctly, there is a mod for AOSP ROM to get the touchwiz.
Better ask the other more about this.

out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either

Lothaen said:
out of interest why would you want touchwiz?
almost everyone with a Galaxy S I know doesn't want it either
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It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.

I own a Desire and a SGS2 and I have to admitt that TouchWiz4 impresses me a lot more than Sense.

aaa said:
It is true. I have played for a couple of minutes with the Galaxy S2 and beside the speed due to better hardware, I didn't impressed at all.
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from what ive seen, touchwizz is more functional and more customizable than sense which only 'looks nice' but i dont think it does look that nice

guess it is simply an individual matter
i never tried touchwiz, from what ive seen on videos it doesnt really make me want a SGS2.
one desire developer, baadnewz, recently bought SGS2 but he sold it very soon after and bought HTC Sensation reason: "cant live without sense"
so like i said, everyone likes what he/she likes

It's not that I don't like sense I just wanna try something different. I sometimes get tired of the look of sense and wanna try Touchwiz out. Is it just me or is sense just getting boring their are just so many devices with it on them its no longer fresh.
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If you are bored of Sense and wanna try something new, why don't you try MIUI or AOSP?
Note:
It is also true that I tend to prefer Sense over MIUI, Moto-Blur or Touchwiz.

Isn't Blur dead now?
didn't Moto even rename it?

I will also be trying MIUI after my device is able to be rooted.
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New phone

Although I have had fun with my desire, I can help but think it is now outdated. I've read about the sensation xe, what's everyones thoughts? My desire is the amoled version, do you think I will be disappointed with the sensation xe screen? Should I wait a little loner? Should I even move to the dark side and get an iPhone 5 when available?
I would be greatful for your thoughts and help.
Thank you
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It's not outdated, just flash a good rom on it. But if you don't like it, get something else. You can still sell your desire for quite some money...

Been through a few roms, currently running insertcoin, miui before that for quite a while. Phone just seems a bit slow now, plus I'm one of those people who always want the latest
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better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..

andQlimax said:
better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..
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Thinking along the lines of the nexus prime? The samsung screens do look good (if its going to be made by them)
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andQlimax said:
better wait the ice cream sandwhices new generation phones
if u buy a phone now, it may get outdated too soon..
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Absoluta truth...
And the desire is not outdated, try any ROM with sense 2.1 or inclusive sense 3.0 And gingerbread 2.3.5
Im now with Leedroid 3.3.3. with sense 2.1. and works like a new one.
Wait till Christmast 4 a new smartphone
;D
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dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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xproc said:
dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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I used miui until a few months ago, got a bit bored and went back to a sense rom, might give miui another go. Thanks for everyones thoughts.
Just back to one of my original questions though, my desire has the amoled screen. Will the newer slcd screen on the sensation be much different quality wise, for better or worse?
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The amoled screen has a bit better colors, but the slcd screen of the sensation is better in every other aspect in my personal opinion.
But I think best would be to look for yourself, try the sensation in phone store.

I too eventualy got bored with the desire. After playing with almost every Android phone on the market I fell in love with the galaxy s2. The screen did it for me. It is truly breathtaking. Just before I tried it I played with the LG optimus 3d and was impressed with the effect but when you compare the s2 screen to it the difference is amazing. It made my desire display look so drab and dull. The phone is super fast. Full 1080p video recording. 16meg phone memory. 2mb system memory so no more ext partitions or data to SD.
Go and play with one. Apparently there will be an s3 around the start of nov. I wanted the evo 3doriginally but delays inthe launch. Bad reviews and the locked bootloader put me off. If you like to flash roms the s2 is super easy to root. Just flash an unsecure kernel and that's it. No s off no Linux disks nothing. So that's my sales pitch done with
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xproc said:
dear Dave,
thats what I have in my weeks ago, I fed up with all there sense ROM and their lagness. considering change phone, which definitely not a htc phone,
however until I found MIUI ROM, I found out my desire phone which is lag and slow completely changed, its like a new phone, I think you should try that too,
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The new sense roms are made for much more powerful device.
If you're going for non HTC, you may as well try aosp roms. They fly on the desire
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woody_2k said:
I too eventualy got bored with the desire. After playing with almost every Android phone on the market I fell in love with the galaxy s2. The screen did it for me. It is truly breathtaking. Just before I tried it I played with the LG optimus 3d and was impressed with the effect but when you compare the s2 screen to it the difference is amazing. It made my desire display look so drab and dull. The phone is super fast. Full 1080p video recording. 16meg phone memory. 2mb system memory so no more ext partitions or data to SD.
Go and play with one. Apparently there will be an s3 around the start of nov. I wanted the evo 3doriginally but delays inthe launch. Bad reviews and the locked bootloader put me off. If you like to flash roms the s2 is super easy to root. Just flash an unsecure kernel and that's it. No s off no Linux disks nothing. So that's my sales pitch done with
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I like the spec of the SII just not the feel of the plastic , that was why i was interested in the sensation.
thanks for everyones input. think it is time to try out the phones in the shops.
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MIUI why isn't it popular?

hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though

because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.

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hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though
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Some people like the aosp versions. Generally people have different preferences. I used to love MIUI and use it frequently until I came to the gnexus where the whites were not up to my expectations. However today jb version of MIUI is out and I'll be giving that a go. Hopefully will stick with it.
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I'm not sure about the others, but i've been in the android sphere for over 2 yrs and i never flashed a miui rom. iOS like UI's just don't interest me.
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Zepius said:
because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.
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This for me also.

Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.

oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?

I don't like closed source ROMs plain and simple. Release your source so others can build on your success.
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It doesn't have to look like iOS at all. I have run Miui with Apex Launcher and it looks nothing like an iPhone.
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tohno said:
oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?
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LOL isnt optimized for the gnex? right... AOKP and AOSP and CM10 are almost all the same some have other features the other might not. Just try them all.

akira02rex said:
Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.
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Exactly what I was gonna say

It will grow huge with the latest update. Just wait.
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I just tried it out and it can't currently hold a candle to Jelly Bean in terms of UI smoothness. Deal breaker for me. Also doesn't seem as stable, and chews through battery.
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It is not as smooth as other roms. I like miui a lot, just not on nexus yet. Hope the smoothness comes back.

you guys that have never tried and think its too much like the iphone check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICCWO8vaXU

It doesn't take advantage of GPU rendering and therefore is God awful slow and painful to view. Basically its not at all optimized for the nexus. You can change the scrolling style on the launcher, or use apex/nova, but as a workaround its a poor trade-off.
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Why you ask? Because they refuse to release source.
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1. i'm not particularly fond of its smoothness or appearance. i ran it on my evo for about a day, just to see what all the fuss was about, but was not terribly impressed.
2. closed source. not because i really care either way about re-contributing to the community (sorry guys), but because i've spent enough time working with slightly-less-than-reputable foreign programmers to be cautious of it. before you start ranting about how i'm some kind of racist/anti-chinese douchebag, just stop. i'm not even suggesting that there are sneaky things going on, because it's awfully hard to hide those kinds of things from the rest of the community. their fierce determination to keep all their code/modifications to themselves, for some reason, just makes my spidey sense tingle.

guys today they just updated it to jellbean making it smoother

It's just not butter!!
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What would be harder to do?

I was wondering what would be harder to port...............Touchwiz, Sense, or Aplications Platform(Motorola)?

I'm no expert on this topic but sense would most likely be the hardest to port. As for easiest I have no idea
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Yeah I'm liking how Motorola is going and I like the way touchwiz looks but people get mad when I ask about a non-stock ROM on a Google device.
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I'd say the Motorola I went to a Verizon store and played with the RAZR m. Widgets are nice and overall u.I. was smooth. Was ICS BTW... sense would be amazing and maybe stutter proof ( we do have a beast of a phone)
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jaestreetss said:
I'd say the Motorola I went to a Verizon store and played with the RAZR m. Widgets are nice and overall u.I. was smooth. Was ICS BTW... sense would be amazing and maybe stutter proof ( we do have a beast of a phone)
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I don't think it would run that great...
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There's a guy in the dev section who has been working on the ports , still not mega stable so they all look like a pain. Give him a message am sure he has more info
J
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NO offense but IMO, Holo is the prettiest launcher so far. Nothing can replace Holo on a GNex.
But looking at the progresses, sense seems to be the most easiest (or most worked on) so far cuz months ago i saw TW ports and Sense ports but nowadays i only see Sense ports.

dakota.breeden said:
but people get mad when I ask about a non-stock ROM on a Google device.
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not mad, annoyed. we roll with the nexus exactly because it runs vanilla android.

bk201doesntexist said:
not mad, annoyed. we roll with the nexus exactly because it runs vanilla android.
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I like it for a little while and then it gets boring and I like change..