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Hi guys,
From now all my work will be on h_t_c_p_e_d_i_a, announcement of new roms or any other work from me will be on h_t_c_p_e_d_i_a.
So to be informed follow that thread.
Regards,
I'm missing the mobile network setting .. Menu => Settings => Wireless controls => Mobile network settings and de-select “Enable always-on mobile data”
It keeps my connection always on ...
Cheers for a great rom
Nice to see a plain android rom from you Lox, but why 2.0 and not 2.0.1?
and is the camera the only thing that doesnt work well?
htnx for the rom
Downloading and flashing asap. Thx.
First feedback:
Crazy fast and only 45Mb!!!
A must! I love it. But havn't made deep tests
seems pretty good and stable to me.
thanks lox
It's possible to enable App2sd ?
looked very nice at first until it tried to sync to google (no more contacts) so i needed to reflash and then backup first :///
well, while i was looking if everything else is fine (which is, but a couple speed problems here and there) i got a FC com.android.media (?)
No idea what i did else than setting up alarm...
at the moment i am rebuilding my contact list with mybackup and further testing..
nice job
would like to see sense?
I hear a lot people havinf Fc. i'm using the rom for 4 hours now and didn't get one FC at all. its a great ROM really fast and its more stable than the AOSP 2.0.1-r6.
Its Fast, responisve and so far the best 2.0 Rom for the hero. Lox you did a great job. soon a donation will come your way .
The new album looks great it works fast and i like it, first Run is really slow and you have to wait a while to let it creat thumbs
@TobenderZephyr plz no Sense
i got a FC with google maps, but after uninstalling and re-installing it is fine
Lox is there any chance of seeing standard 2.0-2.0.1 analog clock which I've seen in droid? Cause it's the only thing I really miss in this fantastic rom. Great work!
Experienced a bug methinks. I was listening to music through a jackplug to a stereo system just now, and the screen went "black", but no lock afaik.
And then someone called me, while i was listening to music. I was in another room not bothering to pick up. When i got back to check who called, the screen was black, and i could not do anything. I pressed the home key, and nothing. I had to take out my battery and restart the phone to get it working.
Oh, and i was also charging the phone.
So, listening to music with a minijack plugged in while charging and getting a phonecall = crash.
ill try to reproduce when i get back home.
Lox_Dev said:
KaguDroid 1.0 (version beta)
This Rom is built from Android 2.0 sources, with my own customizations that make it the KaguDroid Rom. I find it really stable for a beta release, at least, for me, it is usable everyday. And many more really great things will come in next versions!
Nandroid backup and wipe before updating
Current release: 1.0beta [download]
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Maybe lame to ask but what are the know problems and what are "your own customizations" ? or what is different from this one
Anyway nice to see another ROM from you again
Very nice job Lox, this is definitly the first fully usuable 2.0 rom on Hero.
I'd recommand it for those who don't care about the sense UI.
Bluetooth file transfer
Is it possible to transfer files from one phone to another on this 'what sounds like an excellent' rom. Tried to on previous hero eclair roms with no success. Looking forward to flashing this rom but this would be one of the major reasons I would ditch my MoDaCo 3.0 rom.
Keep up the good work Lox.
Do you have any plans to make your source code available on GitHub (or even to share it at all) like Cyanogen does?
Ok, so i managed to reproduce the bug. If you listen to music and someone calls, your phone crashes and locks up when the call goes to voicemail or if the caller stops/hangs up.
*edit *
Just did a second test with spotify. The lockup did not occur with it. Just the internal app then i guess.
Also, a question about general functionality in android 2.0+ roms. How do i go about and disable Edge/3g traffic? I could do this in the stock rom by going into wireless settings and untick the "use mobile network when wireless is not available" or something.
It seems this option does not exist in this rom? Or any 2.0/1 roms?
Am i mistaken?
If i am, or if there is such a choice, where do i find it?
(it causes big phone bills on my part :\ )
Good work, Audio over bluetooth not working (I paired it with ES350 but I hear nothing!)
Regards
catolh said:
Also, a question about general functionality in android 2.0+ roms. How do i go about and disable Edge/3g traffic? I could do this in the stock rom by going into wireless settings and untick the "use mobile network when wireless is not available" or something.
It seems this option does not exist in this rom? Or any 2.0/1 roms?
Am i mistaken?
If i am, or if there is such a choice, where do i find it?
(it causes big phone bills on my part :\ )
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Just install APNDroid
A) I've already rooted and got NAND access. I installed RA Recovery and running Fresh 3. My question is: Can I install the HTC Stock 2.2 that's rooted and odexed and customize it to my liking (meaning removing any stock apps I want) but still have the Sprint/HTC 2.2 base?
B) Google maps screen shuts off while navigating. Can you keep it from doing it? For example, I used navigation this morning on my way to work, but the display would shut off without any input after a while...
C) I'm in a non-4G area, my http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/test/big.php results were 500kbps. Is this decent? I'm inside a building and have around 3 bars.
D) Does anyone else find the power and volume buttons to be somewhat hard to press?
E) What keeps someone from buying an app with their Google account, then logging in to their significant other's (or friend's for that matter) phone and downloading the same app they bought? Effectively using the same app on two phones for the cost of one?
F) Can I get Swype?
fldash said:
A) I've already rooted and got NAND access. I installed RA Recovery and running Fresh 3. My question is: Can I install the HTC Stock 2.2 that's rooted and odexed and customize it to my liking (meaning removing any stock apps I want) but still have the Sprint/HTC 2.2 base?
Yes, just wipe and flash like you did fresh. Then just start customizing to you're liking.
B) Google maps screen shuts off while navigating. Can you keep it from doing it? For example, I used navigation this morning on my way to work, but the display would shut off without any input after a while...
I've only used while charging in my car and it does not shut off. Don't know if there's a way to so that.
C) I'm in a non-4G area, my http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/test/big.php results were 500kbps. Is this decent? I'm inside a building and have around 3 bars.
Mmm I think I get a little higher I'm not on a 4G area myself bit I can test and let you know my speeds.
D) Does anyone else find the power and volume buttons to be somewhat hard to press?
Not really
E) What keeps someone from buying an app with their Google account, then logging in to their significant other's (or friend's for that matter) phone and downloading the same app they bought? Effectively using the same app on two phones for the cost of one?
Don't know only have one android device so far.
F) Can I get Swype?
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Of course.
Swype'd away from my Super EVO using XDA App... Rocking CM6 RC1. Why anything else?...
fldash said:
A) I've already rooted and got NAND access. I installed RA Recovery and running Fresh 3. My question is: Can I install the HTC Stock 2.2 that's rooted and odexed and customize it to my liking (meaning removing any stock apps I want) but still have the Sprint/HTC 2.2 base?
B) Google maps screen shuts off while navigating. Can you keep it from doing it? For example, I used navigation this morning on my way to work, but the display would shut off without any input after a while...
C) I'm in a non-4G area, my http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/test/big.php results were 500kbps. Is this decent? I'm inside a building and have around 3 bars.
D) Does anyone else find the power and volume buttons to be somewhat hard to press?
E) What keeps someone from buying an app with their Google account, then logging in to their significant other's (or friend's for that matter) phone and downloading the same app they bought? Effectively using the same app on two phones for the cost of one?
F) Can I get Swype?
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A- Of course just wipe and flash like you did fresh.
B- Don't know I use it with my charger.
C- I'll check my speeds and ill let you know. I'm on a non 4g area but I think I get better than that.
D- Not really.
E- Have not tried it but then again is all about supporting our developers
F- of course I just swyped this, search the forums there is an apk that you just install using something like Es File Explorer. Forgot exactly where the threat is.
Hope this helps.
Swype'd away from my Super EVO using XDA App... Rocking CM6 RC1, why anything else?....
A) I've already rooted and got NAND access. I installed RA Recovery and running Fresh 3. My question is: Can I install the HTC Stock 2.2 that's rooted and odexed and customize it to my liking (meaning removing any stock apps I want) but still have the Sprint/HTC 2.2 base?
Yes
B) Google maps screen shuts off while navigating. Can you keep it from doing it? For example, I used navigation this morning on my way to work, but the display would shut off without any input after a while...
I know there's a way, but I also know that if you use Googel Navigation it wakes up when you approach a turn, and it wakes and gives you a heads up in plenty of time to make the turn
C) I'm in a non-4G area, my http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/test/big.php results were 500kbps. Is this decent? I'm inside a building and have around 3 bars.
Not great, but not defective or anything. I would say thats at the bottom of the acceptable scale. I get anywhere from 500kb/s to 2mb/s. Also 3G speeds are very unpredictable. Doing one test is pretty much a waste of time. Do like 10 at a time at different times of day in different locations.
D) Does anyone else find the power and volume buttons to be somewhat hard to press?
Not me
E) What keeps someone from buying an app with their Google account, then logging in to their significant other's (or friend's for that matter) phone and downloading the same app they bought? Effectively using the same app on two phones for the cost of one?
The same thing that keeps people from using a file explorer to navigate to the .apk they just downloaded and making a copy then refunding and reinstalling it. It's immoral and if someone makes a great app that you want then they deserve a few dollars for it. Plus stealing apps makes it a pain to update them.
F) Can I get Swype?
If you aren't in the beta then I don't know. Swype works on the evo just fine, I use it daily.
Wouldn't deodexed be better for removing stock apps or doesn't it matter?
DanBergundy said:
Wouldn't deodexed be better for removing stock apps or doesn't it matter?
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If all he's gonna do is remove apps then the only difference will be that he'll have to remove 2 files instead of one. Not all the apps in the stock rom are odexed but the ones that do will obviously have a .odex file to accompany the .apk
The reason I wanted odexed instead of deodexed is some of the apps on the deodexed ROM do not work.
I'm also getting around 2mbps on Speedteset compared to the 500kbps I was getting... That's good. Upload speeds are really bad at 200kbps, guessing that's normal.
fldash said:
The reason I wanted odexed instead of deodexed is some of the apps on the deodexed ROM do not work.
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Ah, didn't know that.
I am a CM6'er
On the Power button issue.....I'm on my 2nd Evo....The first one, the power button stuck up nicely and was easy to press and activate. My new one, the spring-load backing the button seems to be a bit mushier, and the button sits a lot lower and closer to flush with the housing....So, yes, I find the power button to be a pain now. I wonder if your EVO is the same as my new one...
fldash said:
The reason I wanted odexed instead of deodexed is some of the apps on the deodexed ROM do not work.
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I wasn't aware of this.. which ones?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743781
That seems to be the rooted, deodexed 2.2 final and it says:
Known Issues:
Sprint TV Widget is not working
TI Backup installs but won't run, keeps asking for SU perms
Facebook will not update from 1.3 to 1.3.1
Possible bug: camcorder may stop working after period of time. This has been reported in 3 other deodexed Froyo custom ROMs.
Those issues are not because that rom is deodexed
nebenezer said:
Those issues are not because that rom is deodexed
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Oh, where is the stock 2.2 deodexed/rooted ROM without those issues? Or are those issues from stock and just carried over?
Does any one know of a way to get the Evo style keyboard on my htc incredible? I mainly want it for the cursor buttons. I hate having to try and tap the right spot to get the cursor where i need it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sent from my HTC Incredible
Rooted - S-OFF
Virtuous 3.2 Rom
Virtuous custom kernel v3
I've got it on Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS4. I'd highly recommend it. I think they have an apk posted on the thread to just get the keyboard if you don't want to switch ROMs. Not sure if it'll work with other ROMs, so nandroid first just incase.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS4.
Thanks for the info Blah12543 you were a great help.
I downloaded and installed the {gingerbread keyboard }and nothing seemed to happen so then I downloaded the {Official EVO HTC_IME (Unthemed) (With arrows)} and installed that and got the keyboard to appear. However the arrow buttons do not function (*when horizontal) untill you switch to the numbers and symbols screen (12#). Once you do that they work like a charm even when switched back to the letters (ABC). When using a app eg. internet or messaging, you have to switch to the numbers screen one time and then it works fine untill you close the app.Even if you minimize the keyboard it still works the next time you bring it up as long as you havent exited the app in question. All other keys work fine like they always did.
Does anybody know how to fix this? I guess it's not that big of a deal it's still better than what I had, but i'm just the type of person who likes things to work perfectly.
EDIT: *I just noticed if phone is vertical works fine just as it is ment to. The above only happens when the phone is horizontal.
SOLVED: Ok I figured out that it has to do with the sugestions. When phone is horizontal it pops up with the green sugestions eg. type (goo) and it sugests below (google.com). The navigation buttons instead of moving the currsor forward and back instead move back and forth between the sugestions. The reason the buttons work when you hit the number screen (12#) is that doing so makes the sugestions temporarley dissappear. When the phone is vertical the sugestions are in a different type of drop down menu that does not affect the navigation buttons. By the way I have sugestions, spell correct, etc. turned off but it still suggests words contacts and web addresses, but thats another problem all together.
So I called up a friend with a Sprint EVO 4g and asked him if his stock phones keyboard worked in this way. Much to my surpprise it does. I find this to be a fault of the original EVO rom. I think HTC coulld have came up with an easy solution such as being able to press the up arrow to switch to the line of text so you can scroll forward or backward, or have it situated on the text and if you want to scroll sugestions hit the down arrow then left or right.
Anyways thanks to Blah12543 for the info on where to get the files, it is much appreciated.
So if you want the EVO style keboard with the navigation arrows on your incredible running Virtuous Rom v3.2 (May work on other roms or phones but not tested.) here are the steps.
1. Download the (GingerBread 2.3 Default Keyboard) and the (Official EVO HTC_IME (Unthemed) (With arrows)), found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793471. You can download these files on your pc and push them to your sdcard with adb (search for instructions on how to push files with adb), copy them to your sdcard with a usb dongle, or do it the easy way and download them strait from your phone.
2. Once you have both files on your sdcard reboot in to recovery and flash (Ginger bread 2.3 default keyboard). Once it is finished reboot.
3. Now once agin reboot into recovery and flash Official HTC-IME (unthemed)(with arrows). Once it has finished reboot and that is it. You should now have the EVO style keyboard with the navigation buttons.
Sorry I haven't checked back in a while, but you're very much welcome!
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS5.
Now, I hope I'm not being Captian Obvious here, but you guys do know you can use the trackpad to move the cursor when typing right??
You know what just call me ignorant becaise i had no idea you could do that. Guess ya learn something new every day.
Sent from my HTC Incredible
Rooted - S-OFF
Virtuous 3.2 Rom
Virtuous custom kernel v3
OK, bit of background first
Currently I have rooted phone, with ARHD 5.2.3 installed,
I also have a full license for HTC step-by-step navigation (I'm on PAYG, so don't want to use Google's Sat-Nav otherwise I'll need a constant data connection when I use it)
I recently updated to ARHD 6.1.5 (after making a NAND backup) to give it a try & see what Sense 3 is all about.
First thing I tried though is HTC Sat-nav, & I find that 'Car Panel' doesn't exist anymore....
I managed to find a sat-nav through 'locations' (which also allowed me to 'update my license'), but not sure if this is HTC version or Google
Since I couldn't find Carpanel I restored my NAND backup - so I'm now back @ ARHD 5.2.3
Can anyone confirm that 'Car panel' has been removed in Sense 3 ??
Has it been renamed to something else ??
Or have HTC 'merge' it into one of their other Apps ??
I found it useful to tap 'Car Panel' to get straight to the HTC Step-by-Step Navigation, instead of going through Footprints/Locations/Maps etc
(To be honest - is there an official 'Sense 3' FOR the Desire HD, or only modified ROMs with sense 3 added to them ??)
Any help appreciated
hmm, a lot of people viewing this - but no one knows anything ??
Anyway, doing more 'research' (i.e. googling) I THINK I now figured out something about this - but would like some confirmation....
Seems like 'Car panel' (it was also known as 'Car Home' on other phones) is suppose to pop up automatically (I think) when connecting to the offical HTC 'Car Port' (or Car holder)...
I'm now guessing that SINCE it suppose to pop up automatically, HTC has removed the link (i.e. Car panel) from the Apps drawer/ 'Menu > All Apps' in Sense 3.
Is there a way to replace it ??
I've read (for other HTC phones) there is a way, but I've tried them & they don't seem to work (the Apps are called differently anyway so I guess that's why), & I find it a pain having to go 'locations' > 'footprints' > {select a footprint} > 'Premium navigation' just to get to the Car panel
Once again many thanks to anyone who can help
I have a license for HTC's Premium navigation and using it in [email protected] It is true that Car Panel does not exist in Sense 3.0. I think it is not because the leaked rom, that arhd is based on, is not an official version as the Car panel does not exist in Sensation either. And Sensation does have an official Sense 3.0.
I'm using it at the moment by sacrificing one screen for Locations widget which has a launcher for navigator.
Ah - thanks for the reply.. glad to get some confirmation on my suspicions
Your 'tip' for using one of the screens up for location sounds like a workaround (for now).
Was thinking though after reading other 'car panel/car home missing' threads the following..
Do you think that IF I could extract 'Car panel' from a Sense 2 ROM (i.e ARHD 5.2.3) - it might work with Sense 3 (ARHD 6.1.5) ??
I was thinking of posting in the official ARHD ROM thread, but I'm worried it'll get 'lost' with all the other posts, since it's a quite popular thread
Hi everyone.
I´m comming from a HTC HD2 with "Energy Rom" (Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.5), now i got my HTC One X for six days (and yesterday rooting and changing to Rom "Android Revolution HD 5.2.0").
After last six days of testing, it is still an amazing device, but there are lots of bad things that have to be said about the HOX:
1) --> The HOX is not smooth!
The HOX has the most powerful CPU on earth, but still it is not able to run realy smoot. Compared to the iPhone, the home screen doesn't rotate realy smoot, the app-drawer matrix doesn't scroll smooth, and worst of all the scrolling through Pictures lags.
2) --> The HOX is not that intuitive as it should be.
First example - the music player:
When you click on music-player, then first button "my phone" (in german "Eigenes Telefon"), you can click on top the pull-down-menu to change to "genres". Now you click on "Rap" and want to choose the Artist --> but there is no artist! Not even the artists name is mentioned. You only can choose the album-name.
When you pump up 20 Gbyte music, it is not realy possible to easily choose the song you whant to hear.
Second example - the ringtone:
Nomaly you choose the ringtone in "settings --> sound". But e.g. the sms tone must be changed in "sms --> menu --> settings --> notification --> notification ringtone".
Why so complicated?
3) --> The USB Connection to the internal storage is slow.
On my HTC HD2 i used a Class 10 SD-Card. Writing movies or navigation-maps on it, after taking the card out of the device, had a writing speed at about 10 MB/s.
When i read about the internal storage, i thought it is at least as fast as a good SD-Card. But when i connect my HOX via USB i get max. 5 - 6 MB/s.
4) --> The HTC car app does not launch with connecting a bluetooth-device.
With Sense 3.5 you can set the "old" HTC car app to launch when a bluetooth-device connects - this means: every bluetooth-device! So when starting the engine, my car-radio connects to the HTC, the old app starts immediatly.
The new HTC car app looks realy great, but it doesn't start when the radio connects.
And as if this were not enough: the new car app can not rotate to portrait-mode.
Why?
5) --> Lockscreen-Links can not be defined independently.
With Sense 3.5 the lockscreen-app-links can be set as you whant.
With Sense 4 the links can not been changed. They are the same as the links in the dock bar.
Why?
6) --> Homescreen can not rotate around.
I find it realy disturbing that the homescreen can not scroll over from far right to far left.
So guys, I hope you comment these things or give hints or tips.
Best regards,
Nem.
I agree with 1,3,5 and 6
Hopefully they all can be fixed with a software update
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA
nemesis01 said:
1) --> The HOX is not smooth!
The HOX has the most powerful CPU on earth, but still it is not able to run realy smoot. Compared to the iPhone, the home screen doesn't rotate realy smoot, the app-drawer matrix doesn't scroll smooth, and worst of all the scrolling through Pictures lags.
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Depends on which ROM you're running I guess. The home screen doesn't rotate by default in sense so...
In the end I've never had a lagless computer, but the One X is snappy enough for me...
nemesis01 said:
2) --> The HOX is not that intuitive as it should be.
First example - the music player:
When you click on music-player, then first button "my phone" (in german "Eigenes Telefon"), you can click on top the pull-down-menu to change to "genres". Now you click on "Rap" and want to choose the Artist --> but there is no artist! Not even the artists name is mentioned. You only can choose the album-name.
When you pump up 20 Gbyte music, it is not realy possible to easily choose the song you whant to hear.
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This seems like a software issue rather than an issue with the One X. Are you sure your music is tagged right?
nemesis01 said:
Second example - the ringtone:
Nomaly you choose the ringtone in "settings --> sound". But e.g. the sms tone must be changed in "sms --> menu --> settings --> notification --> notification ringtone".
Why so complicated?
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lol. How long did it take you to figure that out anyhow?
nemesis01 said:
3) --> The USB Connection to the internal storage is slow.
On my HTC HD2 i used a Class 10 SD-Card. Writing movies or navigation-maps on it, after taking the card out of the device, had a writing speed at about 10 MB/s.
When i read about the internal storage, i thought it is at least as fast as a good SD-Card. But when i connect my HOX via USB i get max. 5 - 6 MB/s.
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This is something I don't like either. Honestly, when I bought the phone a pulled a bone head move and hadn't realized there was no SD card... just before paying I realized, and figured I'd give it a go... consider the battery life and lack of micro SD AND USB OTG, I'm a bit miffed about my decision, but still happy enough to stick with it for a while. After all, the Galaxy S3 isn't out yet and ugly as hell.
nemesis01 said:
4) --> The HTC car app does not launch with connecting a bluetooth-device.
With Sense 3.5 you can set the "old" HTC car app to launch when a bluetooth-device connects - this means: every bluetooth-device! So when starting the engine, my car-radio connects to the HTC, the old app starts immediatly.
The new HTC car app looks realy great, but it doesn't start when the radio connects.
And as if this were not enough: the new car app can not rotate to portrait-mode.
Why?
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This seems like an issue with HTC Sense, more than the One X. You might try some non stock apps... if you want a ready made package, you should probably just get an apple product... This is probable something which could be solved by reporting to the proper developers, or by getting the right apps installed on your device.
nemesis01 said:
5) --> Lockscreen-Links can not be defined independently.
With Sense 3.5 the lockscreen-app-links can be set as you whant.
With Sense 4 the links can not been changed. They are the same as the links in the dock bar.
Why?
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You keep asking why. No one here is a developer for Sense. Send it to their Support Reps.
nemesis01 said:
6) --> Homescreen can not rotate around.
I find it realy disturbing that the homescreen can not scroll over from far right to far left.
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Check out the LeeDroid ROM (if you like sense), or Go Launcher (another Homescreen App).
nemesis01 said:
So guys, I hope you comment these things or give hints or tips.
Best regards,
Nem.
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Realize, this isn't a support forum, but a hobbyist developer forum. If you want Support, go to the developer of the product you want. If you want help, this is the place.
As for the quick links, i believe they did what most people would do assume the "quick links" you have on your home screen and the ones your most likely to use.
also my phone has always been smooth as butter even on stock ROM.
You can change the quick link by changing the dock icon
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
nemesis01 said:
Hi everyone.
I´m comming from a HTC HD2 with "Energy Rom" (Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.5), now i got my HTC One X for six days (and yesterday rooting and changing to Rom "Android Revolution HD 5.2.0").
After last six days of testing, it is still an amazing device, but there are lots of bad things that have to be said about the HOX:
1) --> The HOX is not smooth!
The HOX has the most powerful CPU on earth, but still it is not able to run realy smoot. Compared to the iPhone, the home screen doesn't rotate realy smoot, the app-drawer matrix doesn't scroll smooth, and worst of all the scrolling through Pictures lags.
2) --> The HOX is not that intuitive as it should be.
First example - the music player:
When you click on music-player, then first button "my phone" (in german "Eigenes Telefon"), you can click on top the pull-down-menu to change to "genres". Now you click on "Rap" and want to choose the Artist --> but there is no artist! Not even the artists name is mentioned. You only can choose the album-name.
When you pump up 20 Gbyte music, it is not realy possible to easily choose the song you whant to hear.
Second example - the ringtone:
Nomaly you choose the ringtone in "settings --> sound". But e.g. the sms tone must be changed in "sms --> menu --> settings --> notification --> notification ringtone".
Why so complicated?
3) --> The USB Connection to the internal storage is slow.
On my HTC HD2 i used a Class 10 SD-Card. Writing movies or navigation-maps on it, after taking the card out of the device, had a writing speed at about 10 MB/s.
When i read about the internal storage, i thought it is at least as fast as a good SD-Card. But when i connect my HOX via USB i get max. 5 - 6 MB/s.
4) --> The HTC car app does not launch with connecting a bluetooth-device.
With Sense 3.5 you can set the "old" HTC car app to launch when a bluetooth-device connects - this means: every bluetooth-device! So when starting the engine, my car-radio connects to the HTC, the old app starts immediatly.
The new HTC car app looks realy great, but it doesn't start when the radio connects.
And as if this were not enough: the new car app can not rotate to portrait-mode.
Why?
5) --> Lockscreen-Links can not be defined independently.
With Sense 3.5 the lockscreen-app-links can be set as you whant.
With Sense 4 the links can not been changed. They are the same as the links in the dock bar.
Why?
6) --> Homescreen can not rotate around.
I find it realy disturbing that the homescreen can not scroll over from far right to far left.
So guys, I hope you comment these things or give hints or tips.
Best regards,
Nem.
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1. Pretty smooth with me, and this will improve. It's a brand new phone, and htc's always seem to be like this early on.
2. For me it's logical. If I want to change my sms alert, I would go into sms settings. I don't really changed my alerts, but that's the way I'd do it.
With the music app, I use Google music which is easy for finding what you want to listen to. I usually use playlists, and I never use genres, as I listen to what I would class as hard rock. Depending on the band its genre could be classed as anything from rock to metal to punk to progressive rock to grunge to alt rock and another 10 or so permutations
3. Transfer could definitely be faster, but I don't do that much transfering so it's not a huge deal for me. I would transfer across the odd movie or rom, and it doesn't take long.
4. Don't use the car app.
5. I guess they just used the logic that the programs on your dock bar would be the ones you access most often. It makes sense to me, but it wouldn't be too much effort for them to give people the choice.
6. Homescreen rotates on custom ROM, guess it was only designed to be used when the phone is docked? If you mean the carousel effect, this was ditched for sense 4.0. Guess it's part of slimming sense down. As always, some people love it, others want it how it was.
You've got valid points, but some of them are just getting used the slightly different way of doing things.
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terrycsw0117 said:
You can change the quick link by changing the dock icon
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And this, my friend, is called rocket sci... I mean... customizing your phone. It's sweet!
nemesis01 said:
Second example - the ringtone:
Nomaly you choose the ringtone in "settings --> sound". But e.g. the sms tone must be changed in "sms --> menu --> settings --> notification --> notification ringtone".
Why so complicated?
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Personalize--->sound tab
Can change all notification/ringtones etc from there.......
Sense 4.0 heh. Just slap on stock ICS on this and it will fly.
Waiting for S-OFF.
nemesis01 said:
Second example - the ringtone:
Nomaly you choose the ringtone in "settings --> sound". But e.g. the sms tone must be changed in "sms --> menu --> settings --> notification --> notification ringtone".
Why so complicated?
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Go to settings > Personalize > right tab will give you all the sounds you want to change. Click on Notifications & you get to change the Default, SMS Calendar, E-mail & Task notifications.
The Sense launcher is laggy, just slap an Apex launcher over it and you re golden.
After tweaking I transfer big files with 15mb/sec. But with stock it was 4-6.
The music problem is easy fixed by using Mixzing or PowerAMP.
nemesis01 said:
4) --> The HTC car app does not launch with connecting a bluetooth-device.
With Sense 3.5 you can set the "old" HTC car app to launch when a bluetooth-device connects - this means: every bluetooth-device! So when starting the engine, my car-radio connects to the HTC, the old app starts immediatly.
The new HTC car app looks realy great, but it doesn't start when the radio connects.
And as if this were not enough: the new car app can not rotate to portrait-mode.
Why?
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This also applies to the Locations built in mapping software sadly (no portrait mode).
I'm guessing they are trying to push it along with their car dock as a 'package', which holds the phone in landscape mode, but I don't want to pay out on a dock that will likely not fit my next phone, even if it is an HTC. I have a perfectly good universal holder securely fitted in my van which will fit any phone I own thanks.
Not sure how many if any ever used the paid Locations App, but it is handy to have the maps on phone if you have no data connection.
Fortunately, CoPilot now offers a freemium option that lets you download the maps and only pay if you want turn by turn.
I think HTC has tried to simplify Sense because of previous criticisms from 'reviewers' and have probably gone too far the opposite way.
Several of the things like carousel, dock icons, etc. they could have made simple to start with, then added the option to tweak it in the settings. Maybe they will go back the other way in a later version, or modders on here will work out how to do it for them, as usual.
Although I've always used other launchers in the past, I quite like the Sense 4 launcher, mainly because of some of the widgets. However, I will NEVER understand why they went with a 4 x 4 grid on such a massive screen - its such a waste of space.
The only reasoning I can think is that they wanted it to be the same across the whole One series, including the One V, but that's really not a good enough reason to limit your flagship device HTC!
nemesis01 said:
1) --> The HOX is not smooth! Compared to the iPhone...
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Mine is and I have 80 some apps loaded on it. The only stutter I've noticed is in the secondary weather animations. Read this. It's a Google engineer explaining how Android renders graphics. Power can't overcome some of the limitations she describes. The answer to an iPhone comparison can only be "perhaps you should have gotten an iPhone?" The One X is smoother than any of the six modern (as opposed to a hacked three year old Windows phone running Android) phones I’ve owned in the past two years.
https://plus.google.com/10505198573...8x93s#105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
2) --> The HOX is not that intuitive as it should be.
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This is my first time using Sense since it was called Manila. I've used Samsung devices prior to the One X. I find the work HTC's done in Sense 4.0 to be pretty amazing. Like rejecting a call with a message automatically adds a task to return the call to your calendar so it’s available at your desk. To me, it's probably the most intuitive and well thought out interface available on an Android phone. Again, if you want intuitive, get an iPhone. Samsung and Motorola's devices are less, not more intuitive.
4) --> The HTC car app does not launch with connecting a bluetooth-device.
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Can't comment. My dock hasn't arrived yet.
5) --> Lockscreen-Links can not be defined independently.
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Nice to have but something "that needs to be said?"
6) --> Homescreen can not rotate around.
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No, it doesn't. But when docked a cleaner easier to use replacement's provided.
So far these are the things that I've found that I'd like changed and I think they'd impact more people and are more material than the home screen not rotating.
1) No ICS Native Voice Dialer - HTC left it out and all the ICS compatible APK's I’ve found crash. Vlingo is the only way to initiate voice calls over BT and it's far from a clean solution.
2) No LinkedIn Connector for Sense - It worked on earlier versions of Sense but not 4.0. It's a pretty big omission for people that use their phone for business.
3) No Resizing of HTML E-Mail - The stock mail app should be able to allow pinch-to-zoom to adjust the size of HTML e-mail. As it is, you have to scroll.
There’s a lot of niggly things that I’d prefer be implement differently but I’d never post them on a forum because what’s important to me may not be important to others. We each use our phones differently. One device, no matter who makes it, is going to please everyone equally.
gonzo99 said:
This also applies to the Locations built in mapping software sadly (no portrait mode).
I'm guessing they are trying to push it along with their car dock as a 'package', which holds the phone in landscape mode, but I don't want to pay out on a dock that will likely not fit my next phone, even if it is an HTC. I have a perfectly good universal holder securely fitted in my van which will fit any phone I own thanks.
Not sure how many if any ever used the paid Locations App, but it is handy to have the maps on phone if you have no data connection.
Fortunately, CoPilot now offers a freemium option that lets you download the maps and only pay if you want turn by turn.
I think HTC has tried to simplify Sense because of previous criticisms from 'reviewers' and have probably gone too far the opposite way.
Several of the things like carousel, dock icons, etc. they could have made simple to start with, then added the option to tweak it in the settings. Maybe they will go back the other way in a later version, or modders on here will work out how to do it for them, as usual.
Although I've always used other launchers in the past, I quite like the Sense 4 launcher, mainly because of some of the widgets. However, I will NEVER understand why they went with a 4 x 4 grid on such a massive screen - its such a waste of space.
The only reasoning I can think is that they wanted it to be the same across the whole One series, including the One V, but that's really not a good enough reason to limit your flagship device HTC!
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Google maps also offers map cacheing, and the http://www.openstreetmap.org/ project has a number of compatible apps which allow offline maps - but the cache is the quality of the map depends on the mapping community in your area... they're usually not so bad
Thx 2 all!
Hi everybody,
thanks a lot to all of you for your postings.
I just wanted to start the discussion, because when you read tests or comments about the HOX, then you most read something about the "first impressions". Magazines, blogs etc. often compare the HOX with the most popular smartphone: the iPhone. Then you may also read something about "THE IPHONE KILLER". I hate phrases like this! Why do I have to kill something that is behind me ?
I just wanted to say, that even the HOX has potential to get better - and thats why I installed the ARHD-ROM
I just wanted to post my opinion to the HOX as objectively as i can be. Don´t missundersand me: for me, today the HOX is the best phone on earth. Never wanted to have an iPhone. I just waited for the presentation of the Samsung Galaxy S3 and on the same Day I decided to buy the HOX.
1- The famous problem with Rosie.apk and the layered widgets, the OnDemand governor of the one X doesn't Ramp CPUs speed to full unless pushed hard and so in the launcher the CPUs are not to blame, neither the GPU since its linked to CPU clocks, the launcher is simply running at low clocks plus heavy layering in the widgets and hence the stutter, solution to this is actually optimizing the sense launcher and this is where ultra rosie mod fixes it
Topic on the issue, please vote since im already in contact with HTC:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649819
6- well its a Sense 4 simplification decision and i quit like it, you either get scrolling wallpaper or frozen wallpaper plus loop, both are actually easy control if you hack rosie.apk
Supaiku said:
lol. How long did it take you to figure that out anyhow?
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What I was thinking. Why not change the sound on the Personalize tab?
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Personalize--->sound tab
Can change all notification/ringtones etc from there.......
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omar302 said:
Go to settings > Personalize > right tab will give you all the sounds you want to change. Click on Notifications & you get to change the Default, SMS Calendar, E-mail & Task notifications.
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What I was thinking.
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kokusho said:
The Sense launcher is laggy, just slap an Apex launcher over it and you re golden.
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Doing that though, you loose the usage of Sense widgets?
The whole point of having a htc phone is to enjoy using htc widgets, isn't?