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Hey,
i dont get it why everybody is complaining about WP7 and switching boat to android.
So what i really wanne say is: why is there a black part on the start screen? where is multitasking?
i dont know if some of you ever saw a zune, but isnt there a way to switch from start screen to hitsory and recent played/watched stuff?
maybe you get the direction where this is going.
overall i like the look of the fresh ui. and i am not worried, because microsoft is always late in the game, but always have the best stuff.
only because something is different and more easy for casual people dosnt mean it sucks. i am a internship salesperson and nearly all the android people come back and ask for help. (same for old windows mobile ;-) ) no problems with webos and osx btw.
just my 2 cents
i dont know if some of you ever saw a zune, but isnt there a way to switch from start screen to hitsory and recent played/watched stuff?i dont know if some of you ever saw a zune, but isnt there a way to switch from start screen to hitsory and recent played/watched stuff?
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And what exactly does this have to do with multitasking?
I give you a hint: NOTHING.
Multitasking is running several applications at once. The iPhone has multitasking only for phone and music (i.e. you can be on a call or listen music while doing something else, but you can NOT run any two applications at the same time).
There are other things, besides phone and music, that absolutely need multitasking. Those will not be possible.
iPhone has multitasking after jailbreak and very good, in my opinion)
so i think it's the matter of time when the WP7 will be jailbroken like the iPhone and there will be many 3rd party apps
seed_al said:
Those will not be possible.
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We don't know if and to what extent multitasking will be supported.
Sultan1993 said:
iPhone has multitasking after jailbreak and very good, in my opinion)
so i think it's the matter of time when the WP7 will be jailbroken like the iPhone and there will be many 3rd party apps
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what ?? the multitasking on the iphone is real crap. its really slow, i tried to copy some files trougth scp and started an app, it was inpossible to use the app in realtime....
i tried it myself on my friend's iPhone 3Gs... this multitas app looks like new SENSE in HTC Desire.. all your running apps are in thumbnails
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And what exactly does this have to do with multitasking?
I give you a hint: NOTHING.
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I ll give you a hint.. you can switch to running applications. but i dont expect that you get it just from the start.
RustyGrom said:
We don't know if and to what extent multitasking will be supported.
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I meant "those will not be possible if there is no multitasing". OK now?
@Azthel, no, those things have absolutely nothing to do with multitasking. They're just lists containing recently played stuff.
And if you want to know it more precisely: The music player WILL be able to run in the background. Just like on the iPhone.
And no, again, this does NOT AT ALL mean that there will be multitasking for everything else. Just like on the iPhone.
But I don't expect that you will ever understand that, so... whatever
In the Zune they have nothing to do with Multitasking you re correct. But thats not the Point.
It would be an easy way to handle Multitasking. You can easily see whats running in the Background. WM. 6.5 has an awefull way to manage this. I am not talking about recent used stuff exactly like on the zune. i am just saying this metaphor on the zune can be so much more. and again: why is there so much black space (its on the zune for switching). maybe this time its clear.
i am expecting a lot more for wp7s. but i absolutly like the way everything is arranged at the moment.
It would be an easy way to handle Multitasking. You can easily see whats running in the Background.
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If that's your point... why don't you say that in the first place?
There are many ways to handle multitasking in a way that makes sense. But we've seen none of them on WP7. So what's the point of the whole thread?
Sure, you can expect lots of things. I would expect an Exposé-like task switcher... but that doesn't mean WP7 will have such a feature... at this point, everything we've seen and everything that has been said by Microsoft hints at no task switcher and no real multitasking being available.
They could come up with some magical multitasking concept at MIX. But there's no point in speculating, since really nothing hints at that (and frankly, a "recent" list on the Zune is really no hint).
Hello,
I saw this video of Launcher 7 and was wondering how he got the lockscreen, icons, and the game hub, does anyone know how?
Here is the video:
https://picasaweb.google.com/duhh47/Apr232011?authkey=Gv1sRgCL7t_a-j5838Tg#5598793716572145826
Thanks
Here it is on the Nexus One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E
That's an actual Windows Phone. Not android. To mimic it, you can download Metro UI or Launcher 7 off the market. The game hub is Microsoft's, so you can't get that. You can't really copy the lockscreen.
If you like the Windows Phone's style so much, Sprint has the HTC Arrive.
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That's an actual Windows Phone. Not android.
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Partially correct, it's actually a rather old and outdated WinMo phone, with a hackey port of WP7 on it.
No, that's a hd2 running android and launcher 7. Can someone tell me how he got this?
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No, that's a hd2 running android and launcher 7. Can someone tell me how he got this?
Thanks
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...its not running Android. The HD2 is and always has been a windows mobile phone.
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I userstand that the HD2 is capable of running wp7, but I can assure you that that is android.
It has skyfire, gmail, pulse and other android apps that cannot be run on wp7, that's why I want to know how the user achieved this, It is very convincing, a same layout is avaliable for the nexus one, I have seen it. Does anyone know how to achieve this look?
Thanks
And I will post launcher 7 on the nexus 1 soon to show you guys
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I userstand that the HD2 is capable of running wp7, but I can assure you that that is android.
It has skyfire, gmail, pulse and other android apps that cannot be run on wp7, that's why I want to know how the user achieved this, It is very convincing, a same layout is avaliable for the nexus one, I have seen it. Does anyone know how to achieve this look?
Thanks
And I will post launcher 7 on the nexus 1 soon to show you guys
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-________- Windows phone has all those apps too; it has a market, you know.
And it even has a freaking Windows logo at the bottom of the phone.
There's a port for the HD2 to make it Android, but it is NOT originally android.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkIJdG2brU <--- THAT IS THE HD2. The video you posted is the HD2 with WindowsMobile 7.
This is what you saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiWDafvuaRw
Edit: Woah wait a minute...is that an Android port running? After watching it a bit more, it's like a mixture of two ports :S
Edit2: It must be a ROM or something, because some of those apps aren't accessible on the Android Market. I'm confused now xD
And if you're right about Android, that was really convincing. Launcher 7 has live tiles?
Look at the first video that i showed you, that is launcher 7, not windows phone 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E
Here is the same thing for nexus one
And I assure you, that is the HD2 running Android, with Launcher 7
gokuman56 said:
Look at the first video that i showed you, that is launcher 7, not windows phone 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E
Here is the same thing for nexus one
And I assure you, that is the HD2 running Android, with Launcher 7
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Yeah I see it now..sorry.
What confuses me is how he got the apps to look so much like the ones from Windows 7.
I was also confused before because even though the HD2 originally has Windows Mobile, he clearly had a port for Android and then decided to make the HD2 with Android look like Windows 7 xD
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...its not running Android. The HD2 is and always has been a windows mobile phone.
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I put cyanogen mod on my girlfriends HD2, check their dev forum its full of android.
blu9987 said:
I put cyanogen mod on my girlfriends HD2, check their dev forum its full of android.
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No I'm aware it can be ported to Android. What I was saying was it comes with stock Windows Mobile
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how do you get xbox live application? or style?
Check out Serenicity
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I used that as my daily driver for quite a while...
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Its a very good w7 rom...
It seems like he's using different launchers to mimic the People, Games etc hubs. Launcher Pro, ADW EX, etc. the launchers are heavily themed to get the same effect as the WP7 hubs, and then the launcher is linked to tiles on the home screen to get the full effect. Seems pretty straightforward to link the launchers to tiles on the homescreen, but all the theming and wallpapers, to mimic the hubs is way beyond my skill set. Anybody have any ideas?
Like the guy above me said, that is setup like this:
The main launcher is launcher7.
The hubs are just links to other launchers, probably adw, launcherpro, and go launcher.
You link the hub tiles to the respective launcher you have set up for it, and boom.
Edit: its too bad L7 doesn't work right on ICS yet. I miss using it.
Edit 2: and the wallpaper is probably multi live wallpaper. Not sure though how each launcher has a different wallpaper though.
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Yes my friend...The launcher & has live tiles. I am using it on my SG2 and am loving the feel and simplicity of it...
There other icon packs and templates available on xda also. Search for them and customize more.
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i just threw this on my CM9 beta2 Epic4g and love it. Only issue so far is that widgets behave erratically... sometimes the BW widget from the "top" will appear on top of a standard tile towards the "bottom" and then disappear if i tap it...it still remains in the correct place, but it's like the launcher is confused where it should be on the homescreen briefly. oh, sometimes the widget will just disappear but then reappear when tapped on again. using the power widget, if i turn on wifi it will disappear, but then reappear when i tap the blank spot and wifi will be turned on.
I think if it deffenetely comes out this way would make alot of people happy having a dual boot letting you choose touchwiz/ or stock ics i know this is gs2 section but im sure most of us will be picking up the gs3 upon release
The information supplied over at Reddit reveals that the Galaxy S III may come with a unique dual-launch facility
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which will enable owners to choose between a TouchWiz interface, or wait for it a completely stock version of Ice Cream Sandwich. Again, this is just a rumor at this point, but if it turns out to be true then Samsung will surely win over everyone who previously had a few gripes about TouchWiz
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http://www.product-reviews.net/2012...ii-stock-ics-feature-could-fend-off-iphone-5/
I'm telling ya, android phones would be a lot more damn popular if these idiots would stop shoving their stupid ios copycat attempy customizations on their phones and stick with stock android...
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zander21510 said:
I'm telling ya, android phones would be a lot more damn popular if these idiots would stop shoving their stupid ios copycat attempy customizations on their phones and stick with stock android...
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I agree 100% first is the manufacture then we gotta deal with the carrier adding a bunch of bloat.....
zander21510 said:
I'm telling ya, android phones would be a lot more damn popular if these idiots would stop shoving their stupid ios copycat attempy customizations on their phones and stick with stock android...
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Yup. Touchwiz is arse. I despise it.
I personally don't care if the carrier or manufacturer wants to make a custom launcher or apps or whatever, but it SHOULD be up to the end user to decide if they want it. Say for example an added step in the initial setup of the phone.
This might give them some good stats as to who is actually using the apps vs who isn't which would in turn tell them if its worth the $$ to pay their developers for the extra crap. If not, save the money and use it for better things....like say expanding/improving coverage.... ya know
gwingzero said:
I personally don't care if the carrier or manufacturer wants to make a custom launcher or apps or whatever, but it SHOULD be up to the end user to decide if they want it. Say for example an added step in the initial setup of the phone.
This might give them some good stats as to who is actually using the apps vs who isn't which would in turn tell them if its worth the $$ to pay their developers for the extra crap. If not, save the money and use it for better things....like say expanding/improving coverage.... ya know
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I totally agree with this like the article says a dual boot.... which would let you choose to have touchwiz or just stock droid aka ics..... Who knows we might get shocked and them actually come out with this and make alot of people happy
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I'm telling ya, android phones would be a lot more damn popular if these idiots would stop shoving their stupid ios copycat attempy customizations on their phones and stick with stock android...
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Agreed. If the manufacturers want a custom UI, I'm all for it. But let them release it in the market as an app and let the users decide! If it were just the launcher, I wouldn't care. I always end up installing a 3rd party launcher anyway, even over AOSP launcher. But the manufacturers screw things up by mucking with the entire OS, like a virus. Trying to make their phone "different". Here's an idea. You want the phone to stand out, release it as AOSP. Have good hardware, stop making varients that you don't support, and deliver timely updates. Or at a minimum, release all driver sources with the release of a phone, so drones can leave their phone stock, and the dev community can customize from day 1.
These things will make your phones stand out, make them "different". And manufacturers, I promise you will be rewarded in sales and customer loyalty.
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The only thing I like about TW is the pulldown notification settings. Otherwise, this is a really good idea.
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I just had a thought...what if PC manufacturers put their own skins over windows...mother of God...
And they wonder what they have to do to make people like their phones...take a lesson from the PC world and for gods ssakes look at apple...uniform OS across it's mobile Devices...using an iPhone is the same as using an ipad...your friends phone works exactly like yours...that's why apple is so successful. They know that they don't have to make a versitile OS if they just make it work uniformly...
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I always preferred AOSP over TW, but if you think about it, TW isn't too bad because you can just freeze it and run a third party launcher over it. HTC Sense, on the other hand, takes up a lot more resources even when frozen since the ROM is based on Sense
Its not "Dual Boot" it's a simple Dual Launcher, not sure why you consider this big news. You don't need to buy the SGS3 to have "Dual Boot" as you put it, simply go to the market and get another Launcher like ADW or Go Launcher or Launcher Pro, then you will have your "Dual Boot"...
FYI "Dual Boot" means having the option to boot two OS, like Windows & Linux, Android & Windows mobile
GBGamer... Pull down notifications have NOTHING to do with TW or the Launcher
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Its not "Dual Boot" it's a simple Dual Launcher, not sure why you consider this big news. You don't need to buy the SGS3 to have "Dual Boot" as you put it, simply go to the market and get another Launcher like ADW or Go Launcher or Launcher Pro, then you will have your "Dual Boot"...
FYI "Dual Boot" means having the option to boot two OS, like Windows & Linux, Android & Windows mobile
GBGamer... Pull down notifications have NOTHING to do with TW or the Launcher
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But touchwiz isn't just the launcher...change to say ADW and the lockscreen, menus, basic apps, pulldown, icons, keyboard stay the stupid cartoony ios copycat ****
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But touchwiz isn't just the launcher...change to say ADW and the lockscreen, menus, basic apps, pulldown, icons, keyboard stay the stupid cartoony ios copycat ****
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Haven't you heard of themes, that's what makes Android better then iOS, you can change it to whatever you want, all 3rd party launchers support themes, even the icons, imagine that. ... You must be new to Android... I'm running stock ROM and my phone does not have the stock lock screen or icons.... Search, it's your best friend.... I'll give you a hint, Lockbot Pro
the epic 4g touch from sprint does this already.
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Lakers3408 said:
Haven't you heard of themes, that's what makes Android better then iOS, you can change it to whatever you want, all 3rd party launchers support themes, even the icons, imagine that. ... You must be new to Android... I'm running stock ROM and my phone does not have the stock lock screen or icons.... Search, it's your best friend.... I'll give you a hint, Lockbot Pro
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Yeah I'm running ics theme it says in my sig...my point was that removing touchwiz isn't as easy as installing a launcher...and hell theming doesnt completely eliminate its annoyances...its launcher + theme + apps + etc.
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Lakers3408 said:
Its not "Dual Boot" it's a simple Dual Launcher, not sure why you consider this big news. You don't need to buy the SGS3 to have "Dual Boot" as you put it, simply go to the market and get another Launcher like ADW or Go Launcher or Launcher Pro, then you will have your "Dual Boot"...
FYI "Dual Boot" means having the option to boot two OS, like Windows & Linux, Android & Windows mobile
GBGamer... Pull down notifications have NOTHING to do with TW or the Launcher
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No, the Quick Settings is what I am talking about, like in CM.
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Lakers3408 said:
Haven't you heard of themes, that's what makes Android better then iOS, you can change it to whatever you want, all 3rd party launchers support themes, even the icons, imagine that. ... You must be new to Android... I'm running stock ROM and my phone does not have the stock lock screen or icons.... Search, it's your best friend.... I'll give you a hint, Lockbot Pro
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Maybe you are confused homie. TW is the entire framework for the OS, as Sense is with HTC devices. Certain AOSP items cannot be applied no matter how much you tweak and theme. Please read before attempting to look smart.
The article makes no mention of how the dual-launch capabilities will be implemented so how the hell are you people assuming or not assuming that it will be a launcher or dual boot?
Jeez, find something to do rather than talking it like you have the device and know what's going on.
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Anyone know the best way of getting that Windows look for our device? I would like to get it as close as possible to an actual windows 7 phone.
Currently I've been searching around the market and downloading apps, such as Launcher7(windows 8 ran slower), Messaging 7, and WP7 lock for the lock screen. Basically i've smashed 5 or 6 different apps to get a windows 7 look, does anyone know of an easier way of getting the windows ui? Thanks.
Buy a Windows phone
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Buy a Windows phone
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Yea, i figured someone would say it.. Windows isn't as good as android, obviously, but I do like the UI.
Thanks anyway.
You can install miui use one of the many wp7/themes and use launcher7. They do have launcher 8 but I find it not very efficient at least not last I used it. Also they probably have wp7 theme for cm10/aokp etc roms if you do Google search
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md1008 said:
You can install miui use one of the many wp7/themes and use launcher7. They do have launcher 8 but I find it not very efficient at least not last I used it. Also they probably have wp7 theme for cm10/aokp etc roms if you do Google search
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Thanks for the response.
Also, i agree with the Launcher 8, seems that it not only runs slower, but also slows the entire phone down, unfortunately.
Did google miui wp7, as well as themes for cm10/aokp, but just having a bunch of different themed apps seems to be the closest I can get to what i want at the moment. Oh well.
Thanks
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction towards an iOs like rom for my Kindle Fire? I plan on letting my 3 yr old use it and he already knows how to use his moms ipad pretty well.
If any one could offer some help, it would be awesome as Google has been of no use for me on this.
iOS is not open source, so nobody knows the code to it other than the iOS team itself. Anyways, if you just want a theme, download espier launcher from the play store.
Nobody can create an iOS rom. It can only be iOS themed, which I don't think anybody would want on their Android, and they wouldn't even want it to be hosted on an Android/Windows Phone Developer site.
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iOS is not open source, so nobody knows the code to it other than the iOS team itself. Anyways, if you just want a theme, download espier launcher from the play store.
Nobody can create an iOS rom. It can only be iOS themed, which I don't think anybody would want on their Android, and they wouldn't even want it to be hosted on an Android/Windows Phone Developer site.
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Thanks for the reply. So then would espier launcher have the identical look of the iOs interface? Again, this is for a 3yr old that knows how to use an iPad, not an Android.
Yeah, it's really the launcher and theme that determines the look, and not so much the ROM. You can install any ROM on here and then install a new launcher and an iOS theme. Just search the play store for "iOS 7 theme", pick the theme you like best and install it and the launcher it is made for.
Nexus7/AOKP4.3.1
steveninspokane said:
Thanks for the reply. So then would espier launcher have the identical look of the iOs interface? Again, this is for a 3yr old that knows how to use an iPad, not an Android.
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Yes, basically it would give an iPhone look, from where you can open applications. The setting panel and all will be android like, even the apps(unless the apps/games are like cut the rope, which are identical on both platforms).
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Yes, basically it would give an iPhone look, from where you can open applications. The setting panel and all will be android like, even the apps(unless the apps/games are like cut the rope, which are identical on both platforms).
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And is this something that requires root or me to install a rom first?
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And is this something that requires root or me to install a rom first?
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No, Not neccacary. If you are rooted and have play store, you can search there, or if you are not rooted, and are on amazons ecosystem, just download the apk and install it
It seems like Espier Launcher will be of no help as when I go to Amazons website it says that the app is not compatible with my Kindle.
And it seems that the Kindle Fire Utility is useless and will not root my device anyways, so I can't get the play store sideloaded without being root I think.
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I went to Espier.org and downloaded it directly from them. Great app, thanks for the help!