Is there anyway to get the Sense camera apk to work on cm7? Just replacing it in the system/app/ folder does not work, so what would be the next step to try?
There isn't. Sense widgets and Apps rely upon the sense framework which isn't compatible or installable.
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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.
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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.
Can we make that happen? If we install the one apk and push it into the system. I mean its just the widget ..the apk...
Can some one grab the apk from an already ported Z ROM for incredible?
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Nope
no we can't because it's not just the widget it's sort of similar to the desire hd flip clock how it's been ported but not fully since you cant touch it at all or remove it or it will disappear and you won't have any clock. The sense widgets are tied to a lot of things in the framework and other files so the no you can't just install a sense 2.0 widget on original sense.
Oooo .... yea I remember the Desire Z flip clock ...
Thanks for replying bro
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no problem
I've heard there are other ways to change the lockscreen other than Lockbot and Widgetlocker (both get forced closes & devel's don't have any solutions). I'm running the EC05+ ROM and just want to change from the stock TW lockscreen to the HTC sense lockscreen which I have got the APK from another thread. Any suggestions or is this an impossible task?
I heard there was HTC sense ports being worked on, but none were ever published. The lockscreen information is stored in the androidpolicy.jar, I don't think we have an app (other than maddoggin's) that can change the lockscreen.
Check the Themes and Apps section of the epic forums.
we have all the normal google lockscreens built into the framework, which is how they were enabled by maddogins port.... htc lockscreen would be a major overtaking
even if i have the htc sense lockscreen apk?
radugb said:
even if i have the htc sense lockscreen apk?
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Yes, the htclockscreen.apk relies on rosie.apk(sense itself) and other various framework files to work. Not just an installable app.
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OK, well a little disappointing, but otherwise sufficient. Thank you all for answering my question.
No problem. That's what we're here for
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Is it possible to somehow remove the protection that means sense widgets only work with rosie? I love some of them but also really like go launcher pro, so is there a way of porting them? You can get all the apk's out of /system/app but then no idea what would happen from there.
Thanks
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I read somewhere here that Sense widgets arent real Android widgets ie they dont have the same structure and things.
Therefore they only work on Sense because that is designed to be able to read that different sort of coding. Its not protection in any way, just coding mismatch which doesnt allow it to work without Sense.
Tamen said:
Is it possible to somehow remove the protection that means sense widgets only work with rosie? I love some of them but also really like go launcher pro, so is there a way of porting them? You can get all the apk's out of /system/app but then no idea what would happen from there.
Thanks
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It's the sense framework they rely on, so if you aren't running that the widgets wont run.
So could the framework be made to run on top/in the background but invisibly? That way the widgets could sit on top or have access to the necessary code?
It may be possible to have a "virtual" framework as you're saying but that would really eat up system resources so maybe its not worth it.
Three words.... Launcher Pro Plus....
Regards.
I'm trying to get my phone to have the Sense notes widget work on it. I have two versions of the .apk 1.5 and 2.5 i think and obviously I can't get the widget to show in the widgets list.
Is there a work around or am i just porked?
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I'm trying to get my phone to have the Sense notes widget work on it. I have two versions of the .apk 1.5 and 2.5 i think and obviously I can't get the widget to show in the widgets list.
Is there a work around or am i just porked?
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What ROM are you trying to put it onto?
OMFGB 1.3 it's an aosp type. Sense widgets just don't work on them do they?
No they do not. I believe launcherpro has some sense like widgets, not sure about the notes one though.
Sense widget are not compatible with ASOP Roms because they do not have the sense framework.
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