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I have tried a bunch of ROMs and have liked many features of each of these but now I know what I really want and would be eager to try a ROM that might be the closest in terms of fulfilling my needs below:
1. A combined mail inbox & a combined mail widget. This is extremely critical and is the main reason I stick with the Incdoes sense despite other issues (camera, force closes) and I have not seen it in others except Cyanogen (but the limitation was it showed only 30days email, not all)...
A gmail widget too - strange that there is none currently from android. Very odd. In fact, why cant I just have 1 combined inbox and 1 combined widget for all my 5 email accounts (2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail)?
2. The bottom launcher row (think they call it ROSIE) should be 5 icons - 3 is just a waste of space, I want buttons for:
a. Phone
b. App drawer
c. SMS/MMS app
d. Email
e. Contacts
I have seen these floating around but not sure which 5 icon rows are compatible with which ROMs...
3. Functioning camera (ID has not been able to solve this yet, fingers crossed)
4. Stability (tired of phone rebooting once in a while)
5. Very good battery life (surprised that my jailbroken and heavily modded iphone 4 has much better battery life than the droid inc - its not even close)
6. A theme such as rEVOlution (love this theme)
7. Fast as a bat out of hell (but obviously)
8. Smooth, minimal lags, no jerkiness (Obviously)
9. Reboot options built into power button press (recovery, etc)
10. HTC or Google News kind of app & widget with google reader sync (hated newsrob and other market google reader apps and love the news widget in the desire hd port - another reason I cant move away from it).
11. Friendstream or similar widget for facebook and twitter - many people dont seem to like the htc widget but its perfect for me.
12. At least 7 home screens - cyanogen had just 5 - not enough for me... And why do all the ROMs stop at 7?
13. App organization within the App drawer. Sorry google, but alphabetic only sorting is not good enough. Can anybody help with this?
People, please feel free to add your list of desired features and hopefully the ROM devs will add the features many of us request.
I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. No seriously though. I am creating a ROM. I'm new at this so it might take a while though. It will be called conical. I have thread going about it.
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hahahaha. i know it was long. i know i know. just could not stop myself once i started. will def check out your ROM.
2 - Have you tried Launcher pro? You can customize the dock icons to whatever you want.
5 - Mostly life is related to your kernel. Try KK#5 w/ setCPU
I've been using uncommon sense for a few days and it seems to hit on quite a few of your point.
Good luck!
khanam said:
I have tried a bunch of ROMs and have liked many features of each of these but now I know what I really want and would be eager to try a ROM that might be the closest in terms of fulfilling my needs below:
1. A combined mail inbox & a combined mail widget. This is extremely critical and is the main reason I stick with the Incdoes sense despite other issues (camera, force closes) and I have not seen it in others except Cyanogen (but the limitation was it showed only 30days email, not all)...
A gmail widget too - strange that there is none currently from android. Very odd. In fact, why cant I just have 1 combined inbox and 1 combined widget for all my 5 email accounts (2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail)?
2. The bottom launcher row (think they call it ROSIE) should be 5 icons - 3 is just a waste of space, I want buttons for:
a. Phone
b. App drawer
c. SMS/MMS app
d. Email
e. Contacts
I have seen these floating around but not sure which 5 icon rows are compatible with which ROMs...
3. Functioning camera (ID has not been able to solve this yet, fingers crossed)
4. Stability (tired of phone rebooting once in a while)
5. Very good battery life (surprised that my jailbroken and heavily modded iphone 4 has much better battery life than the droid inc - its not even close)
6. A theme such as rEVOlution (love this theme)
7. Fast as a bat out of hell (but obviously)
8. Smooth, minimal lags, no jerkiness (Obviously)
9. Reboot options built into power button press (recovery, etc)
10. HTC or Google News kind of app & widget with google reader sync (hated newsrob and other market google reader apps and love the news widget in the desire hd port - another reason I cant move away from it).
11. Friendstream or similar widget for facebook and twitter - many people dont seem to like the htc widget but its perfect for me.
12. At least 7 home screens - cyanogen had just 5 - not enough for me... And why do all the ROMs stop at 7?
13. App organization within the App drawer. Sorry google, but alphabetic only sorting is not good enough. Can anybody help with this?
People, please feel free to add your list of desired features and hopefully the ROM devs will add the features many of us request.
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Sounds like you need Virtuous 3.0.1 Rom with the Custom Kernel and Launcher Pro (Paid version). This will address these items
#1 - Good luck with this. I like mine seperated but suspect this will be an App thing not a ROM thing...
#2 - Launcher Pro has up to 15 customizable dock buttons (three 5 button docks)
#3 - Camera works great (720p video too)
#4 - The custom kernel is stable and the ROM is only lightly modded so less to crash
#5 - I use SetCPU and underclock my phone to 806Mhz and my phone is still smooth and has much better battery life (Also use screen off profile to set 384Mhz)
#6 - Revolution Theme is an option through Rom Manager for this ROM. Easily flashed.
#7 - Battery Life and Speed will be a trade off. I find the ROM smooth and nice to use.
#8 - See #7 (Sort of redundant)
#9 - Easily done with a mod that works with Virtuous. I have it on mine and was as simple as a flash through ROM manager. Also smooth sense Icons mod works so I have % on my battery icon.
#10 - Good luck with this. This isn't a ROM thing it is an App developer thing and is a serious hole in the Reader Market. I totally agree with you and currently just don't read my Google Reader content on my Phone.
#11 - Launcher Pro has the Twitter, Facebook and Friends widgets you want (Paid for version only but TOTALLY WORTH IT).
#12 - Launcher Pro has up to 7 screens (Not my thing I only use 4 but you can pick any number you want)
#13 - Check out App Folders in the Market. You can use it with Launcher Pro and map the App Drawer to App Folders and then customize away. Want a Games folder in your app drawer? Go for it...
I've used Uncommon Sense and Virtuous a lot and am back on Virtuous 3.0.1 with the custom kernel and Launcher Pro and I am getting batter battery life than I had but as mentioned I've underclocked my phone (except when plugged in) and have the screen off profile max speed at 384.
Just tinker a bit more and you'll get everything you want with what is out there except combined mailboxes and a google reader app worth a crap. Good luck!
Thanks guys. Appreciate still the help! Only thing I can't figure out is how to use app folders with the app drawer. Need some help please. Rest all made sense and have been making those work.
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khanam said:
Thanks guys. Appreciate still the help! Only thing I can't figure out is how to use app folders with the app drawer. Need some help please. Rest all made sense and have been making those work.
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1) Long hold the app drawer icon in the dock (For Launcher Pro)
2) Click Shortcuts
3) Click Applications Folder
4) Click All Applications Radio Dot
5) Click Menu
6) Click OK
Then you can click the app drawer icon to open app folders as all applications and then start making folders inside the new app drawer presentation.
Thanks! Will try right away.
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Google has posted up a big, bullet-filled page with all the stuff it has added in since 4.0.
Android 4.1, Jelly Bean
Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is the fastest and smoothest version of Android yet. Jelly Bean improves on the simplicity and beauty of Android 4.0, and introduces a new Google search experience on Android.
Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning pages in a book.
Jelly Bean features improved performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, faster responses when switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your device even more responsive by boosting your device's CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don't need it to improve battery life.
What's new in Jelly Bean
Accessibility
With Jelly Bean, blind users can use 'Gesture Mode' to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures in combination with speech output.
With the new accessibility focus feature, you can move a cursor between controls to maintain a target for the next action or a source for the next navigation event. You can double tap anywhere to launch the current item with accessibility focus.
Text traversal in accessibility now gives you more control – choose to move between pages, paragraphs, lines, words or characters.
TalkBack, a screenreader for Android, now supports gestures to trigger actions, to navigate applications, and traverse text.
Get full support for braille accessibility services (download BrailleBack on Google Play).
Android Beam
With Android Beam, you can now easily share your photos and videos.
Instantly pair your phone or tablet to Bluetooth devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard by just tapping them together.
Audio Accessories
Support for USB audio docks, shipping later this year.
Browser and WebView
Browser has improved performance, CPU and memory efficiency. With better performance for animations and HTML5 canvases and an updated JavaScript Engine (V8), pages load faster and feel smoother.
Browser now has better HTML5 video support, and has a new user experience. Just touch the video to play and pause, and smoothly transition into and out of fullscreen mode.
Browser now supports the updated HTML5 Media Capture specification on input elements.
WebView now supports vertical text, including Ruby Text and other vertical text glyphs.
Calendar
Calendar is more buttery. Content fades in, animations are sprinkled throughout, and swiping/paging between days is smoother.
Calendar will now display event colors if you've given your event a color on your PC.
The 'Today' button on the action bar now shows the current day. When viewing an event's details, you can now email all the guests with a single tap.
Notifications for upcoming events now display more of the event description to let you quickly see relevant details without having to open the app.
Notifications for upcoming events now let you email all the guests without opening the app, and you can choose a quick response such as "Be there in 10 minutes" or type your own.
A new option in Calendar settings lets you create your own default quick responses for emailing guests.
You can now snooze an upcoming event reminder right from the notification.
Calendar has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
When viewing Calendar in portrait orientation on tablets, you can hide or expand controls to give you complete control over how you view your Calendar space.
Calendar will now remember whether you've chosen to hide or expand controls so you have a consistent experience viewing Calendar whenever you open it.
Camera and Gallery
You can now swipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly review photos you've taken without having to leave the camera app. You can swipe back to the camera viewfinder to start snapping photos again.
When viewing photos in Gallery, you can pinch to zoom out to enter "filmstrip mode" and rapidly review photos. When viewing photos in filmstrip mode, you can swipe up or down to delete an individual photo. You can also undo the delete with a single tap.
When taking a photo, a new animation sweeps your photo off the screen. There is now a new paging animation when swiping between photos
Camera features a new animation for switching between the front-facing and back cameras.
When focusing on an object in Camera, a new animation gives you visual feedback on your focus state.
Gallery features a new animation when selecting a photo from within the album view and back.
Data Usage
You can now dismiss a data usage warning without changing the data threshold set for warning notifications.
Disable background data usage on certain Wi-Fi SSIDs by designating them as mobile hotspots.
Android now automatically detects when one Jelly Bean device is tethered to another's WiFi hotspot, and intelligently enables or disables background data usage on the SSID.
Face Unlock
Face Unlock is now faster and more accurate, and startup is smoother with a new animation.
You can improve face matching accuracy by calibrating your face in different conditions and with different accessories (e.g. hat, glasses).
Face Unlock can now optionally require a 'blink' to verify that a live person is unlocking the device rather than a photo.
Internationalization
Jelly Bean adds support for bidirectional text and more input languages to make the platform accessible to more people around the world.
There is improved support for Arabic and Hebrew, including a new Arabic font, in the platform.
You can now enter text in one of 18 new input languages, including Persian, Hindi and Thai. Additional Indic languages Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam are now supported by the platform.
Emoji from Unicode 6.0 will now render when received or viewed.
If the system language is set to Japanese, Japanese specific versions of glyphs will now be properly rendered.
Keyboard
The platform's dictionaries are now more accurate and more relevant.
The language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time, and the keyboard features bigram prediction and correction.
You can now switch languages quickly with the dedicated language selector key on keyboard.
You can use custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages, with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC styles.
You can choose the input styles that you want to use for each keyboard, and use a hotkey to switch between them while typing
Messaging and Talk
New notifications display the full text of incoming SMS messages. When receiving an MMS, you can view the full photo in a notification.
When entering recipients for an SMS or MMS, a new UI collects recipients as chips, making it easier to compose messages.
Talk features a new notification style.
Notifications
You can now take action on notifications directly from the redesigned notifications shade.
Notifications from the same application are grouped together, and the first item is automatically expanded. You can also pinch notifications to expand or collapse them.
You now get an image preview in notifications after taking a screenshot. You can quickly share the screenshot directly from the notification.
You can lock automatic display rotation from the notifications shade on 7" tablets.
For Wi-Fi only devices, quickly see the SSID of the access point you're connected to from the notifications shade.
You can now touch-hold a notification to identify the application that created it and turn off notifications from that application if needed, as well as uninstall the application.
Networking
Wi-Fi protected setup is now supported with WPS push button and PIN support.
A new setting lets you stay on mobile data and avoid nearby Wi-Fi networks with poor connections.
News and Weather
News and Weather is updated to improve freshness and power consumption.
People
The People app is more buttery with smoother animations and improved search performance.
The People app now retrieves high res photos automatically for Google contacts with public Google+ profiles and displays higher res photos (720x720) on certain devices.
High res photos set on Google accounts will be backed up and synced across devices.
The People app has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
You can now quickly add your favorite contacts to a home screen, directly from the contact's details page.
The People app helps you organize your contacts and reduces duplicates with an Improved auto-joining algorithm.
You can now clear the frequently contacted list from the favorites tab in the People app.
Phone
When you miss a call, a new notification lets you return the call or reply by SMS with a single touch.
Incoming visual voicemails are displayed in a new notification that lets you play the message with a single touch.
When a call is ongoing, a new notification lets you hang up the call with one touch.
As part of Project Butter, the dial pad is more responsive. Call log scrolling is buttery smooth, and swiping between tabs in Phone is quick and fluid.
You can now clear your frequently contacted list in the favorite tab of Phone.
You can now add phone numbers from the call log to existing, read-only contacts.
Settings
Accounts are now displayed in the primary Settings view so you can easily see all the accounts you're signed into on your device.
You can now easily access all Google Privacy Settings in one place by selecting your Google account from Settings.
System
Device encryption is now more reliable, and periodically reminds you to decrypt your device. Now, SMS messages and calls are declined when waiting for decryption.
You can long press the 'Power Off' option in the power menu to boot your device to safe mode.
A new 'Reset app preferences' button lets you quickly reset default applications for specific activities, background data restrictions, notifications suppressions, and more.
A redesigned dialog with larger icons lets you intuitively choose your preferred application for specific activities.
Google Apps Device Policy on your device may now override the 'keep screen awake' option from developer settings.
Text-to-speech
Jelly Bean introduces a new conversational text-to-speech voice in US English, available as both a network engine and an embedded engine via the TTS API.
Voice Typing
A new embedded speech recognizer lets you use Voice Typing even when you don't have an Internet connection.
Widgets
Jelly Bean makes it easier to personalize your home screen. As you place widgets on the screen, everything else automatically moves to make room.
When they're too big, widgets resize on their own. If you choose to resize a widget, apps and widgets will now also move out of the way.
You can now quickly remove apps or widgets from any home screen by picking them up and flinging them to the edge of the screen.
Launching apps and returning back home are now faster and smoother.
The new Google experience on Android
Google Search
With Jelly Bean, a redesigned experience uses the power of the Knowledge Graph to show you search results in a richer way. It's easier to quickly get precise answers to search queries and explore and browse search results.
Get to Google Search faster: Google Search can be opened directly from the lock screen by swiping up. For devices with software navigation keys, you can now swipe up from the system bar to quickly access Google Search with Google Now. For devices with a hardware search key, you can tap it to launch Google Search.
If you're using a wired headset, long press the headset's button to activate Voice Search. You can quickly perform a search query by voice and have the result read back to you.
You can say "Google" to activate Voice Search from within Google Search.
For many search queries performed through Voice Search, you can now hear a spoken answer.
Voice Search recognition is now significantly faster so you can search quickly on the fly.
Voice Search can now recognize queries even when you have a poor network connection.
Google Now
Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them, and appear as a notification when they're important.
Weather card: When you start your day, Google Now shows weather for your current location and work.
Traffic card: Get traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave home or work.
Transit card: When you're near a bus stop or a subway station, this card shows you what buses or trains are next.
Places card: When you're on the go, Google Now will suggest nearby bars, restaurants, and places of interest.
Flight card: See flight delays and traffic conditions to the airport for flights you've recently searched for.
Sports card: You can see live scores and upcoming games and also buy game tickets on the fly.
Currency card: When you're traveling, quickly check the local conversion rate.
Translation card: When you're in a foreign country, you can quickly translate words into the local language.
Google Apps
Google+
As you swipe through the stream, large bold photos now fall into place with animations giving you a more interactive browsing experience.
Google+ on tablets has a new magazines layout in the stream.
You can now create and manage Google+ Events right from your device. Posts and photos are saved to the event so you can relive the party any time.
Party Mode lets you instantly upload and share photos during an Event so you capture all the right moments in one place.
New notifications let you +1, comment, or reshare without having to open the Google+ app.
You can now see live video streams of all participants in a Hangout.
A new navigation menu lets you easily navigate through the app and quickly see Google+ notifications.
When viewing a post, you can now swipe to expand and view comments.
Gmail
Gmail has an optimized view for 7" tablets in portrait orientation to give you a better experience reading email.
Gmail and Email feature updated notifications will give you a preview and digest of your inbox. Notifications will also now display the full text of new mail.
YouTube
YouTube has a new, more intuitive user interface, including a guide that provides quick access to your channel subscriptions.
YouTube can now preload videos from subscribed channels for seamless playback even on slower networks.
With a new integrated menu, you can easily watch YouTube on the big screen with Nexus Q or YouTube TV.
Maps
With support for offline maps, you can select an area to cache and access it even when you don't have a data connection.
Compass Mode for indoor views and street view is more accurate and responsive with gyroscope support.
With Zagat ratings and reviews built in to Maps, you can quickly get the information you need about places you search for.
You can now browse Google Offers within Maps to find local deals.
Get indoor walking directions in Maps.
Currents
With performance enhancements throughout the application and updates to the user interface, you can browse articles quickly and intuitively. With an enhanced layout engine for articles, you can enjoy dramatic, large images on a variety of articles.
Currents now uses hardware acceleration to make moving between articles smoother.
Currents has a new 7" tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
For editions written in other languages, you can now translate text into your preferred language.
Google Play
A new set of recommendations widgets use a variety of signals — content that people with similar tastes have purchased, stuff that's popular around where you live, content people in your Google+ circles have +1'ed, and more — to recommend new content like apps, games, music, and movies.
A new My Library widget, which displays all of your recent movies, books, music, and magazines and dynamically changes based on what you've been engaging with recently.
Smart App Updates ensure that only the parts of an application that have changed will be downloaded when you next update it, saving on time, bandwidth, and battery when updating apps.
Jelly Bean introduces app encryption for paid apps
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Google Play Books
Embedded audio tracks and videos can now be easily streamed directly within the book you're reading.
You can now add bookmarks to remember important information for later or pick up where you left off reading.
Play Books now offers fixed layout books, optimized for tablet-reading of books with beautifully designed graphics and layouts, like children's books and comic books.
For visually impaired users, automatic text-to-speech settings have been enabled
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Google Play Movies and TV Shows
Movies and TV shows can be quickly downloaded for viewing offline, now with just one tap.
When you make a new purchase from Google Play, that item will be synced directly to the Play Movies and TV Shows app, ready for you to watch when you open the app.
You can watch Movies and TV Shows with Nexus Q by using the integrated media routing menu.
You can zoom in during video playback.
Google Play Music
A new Sound Search widget lets you identify songs you hear and purchase them directly from Google Play.
The Google Play Music widget now lets you thumbs up songs as their playing and features a new design for better readability.
Playlist art is automatically created based on the album art of songs in that playlist.
In the now playing bar, you can swipe between screens.
The Recent screen features larger album art.
You can delete tracks within the app.
There is a Now Playing queue of tracks.
There is an integrated media routing menu for listening to tracks on Nexus Q, bluetooth audio devices and headsets.
You can set a song as your ringtone from Play Music, and the new ringtone editor lets you crop that track to the exact section you'd like to use for the ringtone.
you had me at fastest and smoothest lol
Agreed, thanks for this massive post. Apple should see this, google is not saying they have made over 200 changes, they just show every big one, which is still a lot. Unlike the apple, which say 200+ changes, and can only show 7 relevant ones(probably the most notable ones).
And yes, that is actually a very big changelog.
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timlambo said:
Agreed, thanks for this massive post. Apple should see this, google is not saying they have made over 200 changes, they just show every big one, which is still a lot. Unlike the apple, which say 200+ changes, and can only show 7 relevant ones(probably the most notable ones).
And yes, that is actually a very big changelog.
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I counted 150.
Bear in mind Google's release cycle is about twice as often as Apple's. Also in this instance I'd say the major changes in iOS pale in comparison to Jelly Bean this year.
Really looking forward to my nexus!
I gave you thanks because someone should appreciate your work with that. Thanks
iamadoctor said:
I counted 150.
Bear in mind Google's release cycle is about twice as often as Apple's. Also in this instance I'd say the major changes in iOS pale in comparison to Jelly Bean this year.
Really looking forward to my nexus!
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Yip, I know they(Google) have much quicker releases. Apple's ios is at version 1.6 actually, because they didn't really have any 'major ui' overalls. Also looking forward to jb.
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Wow I feel glad to have jumped on the android platform. That change log is huge. Most of it seems to add subtle changes in animations and smoothness of the ui.
And yes Apple updates are crap compared to this.
Looking forward to getting Jellybean
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Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
Eroticus said:
Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
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SURE! but also in the ARHD ....
federer87 said:
SURE! but also in the ARHD ....
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Yeah. Let's just hope that HTC is already working on it ASAP if they want to gain lead vs the S3.
Just updated to ARHD 7.2.0 and its so far feeling fast! This plus Project Butter = awesomeness.
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Can't wait for Official version for HTC ONE X ;D
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Same.. It's gonna be nice..
Everyone including myself has the issue where once a day my phone stops getting notifications on my phone. It seems to be pretty wide spread but at the same time, some people don't have the issue at all. Which makes me think maybe it's a 3rd party app killing notification. So anyone who has the notification issue list all of your apps and maybe we will find one we all have in common.
To make this easy grab the app "List my apps" from the app store and edit the plain text template to remove the package name and just give you nice list of apps you can copy and paste .
I'll Start
A Better Camera
AcDisplay
Amazon
Android Wear
Apex Notifier
Authenticator
Barcode Scanner
Calendar
Camera
ColorNote
Facebook
Facer
File Manager
Find My Phone
Fraction Calculator Plus
Hangouts Dialer
IMDb
Inbox
Invoice2go
Launcher 8 Pro
List My Apps
Lollipop theme
Messenger
Neat Calendar
Not Call Log
Not Call Log
Notify!
Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher Prime
Ringtone Picker
RoboForm
Silence Premium
Smart Voice Recorder
SwiftKey Keyboard
TeslaUnread Plugin
Textra
Unread Badge
Volume Control
Wear Aware
Wear Mini Launcher
WiFi File Transfer
World Clock
XBMC Remote
Ok seeing how nobody is responding to my thread let me ask everyone this
How many people with the notification issue are running facer?
When I started having notification issues this was my app list:
- iHeartRadio
- Calculator
- UP by Jawbone
- Whoopee Wear
- Weather WatchFace
- Specialized WatchFace
- Planets WatchFace
- Swing by Swing Golf Scorecard
I then uninstalled all watchface apps and apps I don't use and reset Android Wear and the watch:
- iHeartRadio
- Calculator
- UP by Jawbone
- Whoopee Wear
640k said:
When I started having notification issues this was my app list:
- iHeartRadio
- Calculator
- UP by Jawbone
- Whoopee Wear
- Weather WatchFace
- Specialized WatchFace
- Planets WatchFace
- Swing by Swing Golf Scorecard
I then uninstalled all watchface apps and apps I don't use and reset Android Wear and the watch:
- iHeartRadio
- Calculator
- UP by Jawbone
- Whoopee Wear
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Thanks for responding. But I Recommend you give a full android application list. Because other applications do push notifications such as Textra.
does acDisplay install on Android Wear? because i only listed my watch apps - which is where the problem is. The watch. Not the phone. At least not in my case.
In my case, the watch was receiving notifications, but wasn't alerting me of them.
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Thanks for responding. But I Recommend you give a full android application list. Because other applications do push notifications such as Textra.
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I think this is why people wont respond because there are simply too many apps. Each person on here probably has 20-50 that are completely different from the next person. It would take a monumental effort to find a commonality between devices, something that should be Google's responsibility. It will simply be too difficult to filter through all the different apps people are using amongst each other.
The best attempt at self-diagnosis would be to just run your phone in a vanilla state and progressively installs apps one after the other over a period of several days to see if you can break the watch, then you would know which app is causing it. For instance the only apps I have really pushing notifications are Gmail, Google Messenger, and Exchange email. However even then, by just having Gmail connected I am going to get other things like Calendar updates, ToDo reminders, etc. Some things we may not even be able to disable so we'll never know where the culprit is.
Ultimately it shouldnt really be any of the apps since everything worked fine before the damn update to 5.x. Anyone know if it's possible to downgrade to 4.x?
RunNgun42 said:
I think this is why people wont respond because there are simply too many apps. Each person on here probably has 20-50 that are completely different from the next person. It would take a monumental effort to find a commonality between devices, something that should be Google's responsibility. It will simply be too difficult to filter through all the different apps people are using amongst each other.
The best attempt at self-diagnosis would be to just run your phone in a vanilla state and progressively installs apps one after the other over a period of several days to see if you can break the watch, then you would know which app is causing it. For instance the only apps I have really pushing notifications are Gmail, Google Messenger, and Exchange email. However even then, by just having Gmail connected I am going to get other things like Calendar updates, ToDo reminders, etc. Some things we may not even be able to disable so we'll never know where the culprit is.
Ultimately it shouldnt really be any of the apps since everything worked fine before the damn update to 5.x. Anyone know if it's possible to downgrade to 4.x?
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If people would post using the app I mentioned above. I'll sort through and find a common denominator.
Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!
quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.
virtyx said:
quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.
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Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova
masri1987 said:
Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova
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i was about to upload
how do you find it? its slim, lightweight, fast - and gets the job done without any extra add-ins which is what i like, almost like the huawei launcher plus you can change the display and it recognizes ALL your images on your phone (im looking at you google photo)
masri1987 said:
Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!
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I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link
Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.
I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.
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I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link
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thanks, tried it out, looking for something a bit more lightweight, just for the purpose of widget use.
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Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.
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So i installed action launcher and I cannot find the option to build out tabs or folders within the drawer itself? Also can't remove the multidot drawer icon and just use the swipe up feature by itself
Cool thing is it did import everything almost from nova
Fuzzy13 said:
I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.
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Yeah i just discovered that app ,
I also discovered that any motion photo or any other like top shot (to show you the whole selection of photos taken) etc doesn't show up in 3rd party gallery apps
You just long press and drag the icon up and out, you'll see the remove label at the top of the screen, drop it there and it's gone. The rest will take a bit of reading as Action doesn't work the way normal launchers do so it takes some explaining. Before I do you can create folders in the drawer section of the home settings, it's under folders. I'm saying this because Action doesn't really work the way Dad's old launcher used to do and there are some new paradigms in play. Don't want to deal with that then just imagine the post ends here.
In action you don't really need to make folders in the drawer as it's laid out to use it's killer features, the covers and shutters. For covers you can drop a shortcut you tap as normal to open that app and then you can also swipe or tap the shortcut and it will open a folder with whatever apps you want inside of it. Those are created by dropping one app onto another to create a folder as with most launchers, open the folder you just created and tap the menu (3 dot), choose create cover and now you have it. Tap the first icon you placed and it will simply open that app, swipe it (or double tap if you select that as the opener) and it will open up the folder underneath. I'm not sure if there is an app limit for the folders, I've had 14 in one now. Using my setup for example I use Hangouts as my personal primary text and instant message app but I also use several others; I have a hangouts cover set in the dock, as its a cover I tap it and open hangouts in most cases. Because it's a cover I have the apps for texting that I use infrequently underneath that which I access by swiping the icon instead. This goes on for all the shortcuts I set in the dock. I use a 2 page dock which is all covers save for one which is a shutter and through those have quick access to 47 applications. Much quicker than finding them in a drawer, even when folder the drawer because you will need more touches to get to the app than with a cover.
The shutter is an app shortcut which you use to either open the app or by swiping it open one of that apps widget. An example would be Whatsapp is my work messaging app. I have the icon set and use it as a shutter. I touch it and go into the app as normal. I get a lot of junk messages though that really aren't for me so sometimes I'll swipe it and open up the unread messages widget. This allows me to skip straight to the more important messages first rather than sort through them all in the app itself. The menu(3 dot) when you first open up the shutter will allow you to select the widget you want to use.
Despite all that you can still access the built in long presses if the app/icon has them. What happens in all this is the app drawer itself becomes more of an initial setup bin where the apps are laying until you set your covers and on the odd occasion you go in there to open a seldom used app. In the rare cases you do need to get into the drawer the sea of icons pulled out of the bottom ala Pixel may look cool but it's slower than using the side drawer which I would highly recommend folks try. While not looking cool it's more efficient; particularly for those with many apps. Still want the bottom drawer pullout it's the default action, just get rid of the shortcut and it's there.
You're going to want to menu dive with Action because there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. You can have it match your wallpaper for the launcher theme in the quick theme section. In quickbar you have what amounts to the Goog searchbar with extra functionality that you can adjust. I don't use it as I find little need for it with all the different ways you can get to the search function and it takes up space which can be better spent showing off my carefully selected wallpaper. The icon pack section is self explanatory. Icon appearance will let you change functions and visual cues like notifications counts. App drawers is where you will decide on trying that side drawer and other related settings. Recommend if you do go to a side drawer to tell it to remember where you left it. Otherwise it will always default to the top of the alphabet. Desktop is where you will do the meat and potatos of setting your desktop, the grid, icon scale, scroll effects, infinite scrolling, etc. One thing of interest in the desktop section is it will allow you to create a quickpage. This is a page you can "pullout" from the side that is separate from simply the page to the right of home. I use it for my travel apps of which I have a fair few but only use during that time. Desktop shortcuts will take you to the settings for which functions will show up when long pressing the home screen out in the open. You'll be able to add typical actions like wallpaper, widgets and so on but also custom actions. Docks is where you'll set up the number of dock pages if any, style of dock, dock seperators (or not), etc. Folders and shutters will allow you to change functions there for those tasks. Shortcuts is where you'll define whatever gestures you want.
While all that seems like a lot when you start fiddling with it it'll start making sense. Sorry for the length of that and I hope it wasn't too boring for those that made it this far.
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Oh, yeah... If you use a launcher that allows you to set custom action widgets (Nova, Action Launcher, etc.) you could simply install Action launcher, never use it but get use of the weather widget via custom action in Nova or any other launcher which supports that function.
Huge fan of Today Weather! Can choose which service to receive forecasts from and has a number of widgets.
This is a topic about OnePlus 11/OxygenOS 13.1 and how it compares to the last real OxygenOS 11:
FR: There's no option to access app info/properties (Open, Force Stop, Uninstall, etc.) from the overview screen
FR: App properties is missing the installation source information and an option to open Google Play (if it's a Google Play app)
Bug: no option to change the accent color (need to install the LWP+ app - I had to Google for it)
Bug: Date/time widget is completely broken (it's extremely small, it doesn't expand to its space, it hides the day of the week) when Display Size is set to "small"
Bug: Transparent icons must not have a white round background
Bug: Icons don't expand in the groups (folders) of apps, i.e. they are extremely small
Bug/FR: No separate time outs for screen lock and display turn off
Bug/FR: Eye comfort should be able to use the current location to work from the sunset to the sunrise
Bug/FR: Digital pin code lock accepts exactly six digits. It must be possible to use as many as desired. In OnePlus 6 I had a 11 digit password. It's there under a new option.
Bug/FR: screenshots are saved as JPEG files. People have been asking for PNGs for over 7 years now.
Bug/FR: The notification area is extremely sparse, icons are too big, the first two ones are large rounded rectangles for no reasons.
FR: configurable action the long press/touch for the apps overview button.
Bug: very few FPS options for slow motion videos in the camera app. It's either [email protected] or [email protected] There's nothing else. There's nothing in between. Where's 1080p at 120fps? Where's 720p at 120, 240, 360fps? Also, the phone can shoot 8K at 30fps, that means it's absolutely capable of 4K at 120fps, 1080p at 480fps and 720p at 960fps and that's what other Snapdragon 2 Gen 2 based phones offer.
Bug: if you swipe up over widgets on the home screen, the app drawer won't show. Swiping down to show notifications strangely works.
Dark mode for third-party apps (Beta) doesn't list a single app, so dark mode settings cannot be enforced.
Added on May 5, 2023:
Long pressing the app widget doesn't show the normal app menu popup containing items such as "App Info" and "Share". You only get "Remove".
Quick Device Connect asks for permissions on every boot despite saying "Exit" which implies it never does that again. It still does. The app cannot be disabled except using adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.heytap.accessory
App management lists two Google Assistant apps
There's a Chinese localization string in the DND dialog called from the notification icon. Fixed in A.10.
Added on May 6, 2023:
The App Drawer has an incorrect sorting mode. Applications starting with digits or special symbols such as # are listed at the bottom while they must be at the top, e.g. "17 Track". Another case: consider TED and "Terminal Emulator". OOS13 will first list "Terminal emulator" then TED.
The App Drawer should be able to find apps when you don't type their exact symbols. E.g. in OxygenOS 11 you could type "FD" and it will show "F-Droid". OxygenOS 13/ColorOS 13 will not find this app.
DND in OxygenOS 11 could be set for 15, 30, 45 minutes 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 10, 11, 12 hours and until the alarm clock. In OOS13 you only have three options 1, 4 and 8 hours.
Saved Wi-Fi networks dialog doesn't show whether a particular network is Open or Password protected. OOS11 simply showed for password protected networks.
Added on May 8, 2023:
What's up with Apps "Auto Launch" 20 items? Why just 20? I have four banking apps, two apps for my cellular operators, a number of IMs (Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, Google Meet), e-shopping apps, two battery monitoring apps, two fitness apps, two backup apps, three email apps (Gmail, K-9 Mail, Proton) - I've already used up my 20 apps limit :-( This one is a deal breaker. If you want this feature it must be via a blacklist, not whitelist.
Fly Mode does not disable BlueTooth.
After reboot the phone does not [try to] reconnect to remembered BlueTooth devices.
When the phone is being charged, notifications don't show/light up the screen.
Aside from the JPEG screenshots issue, everything on the list worked and existed in OxygenOS 11.
And I don't even want to talk about a myriad of other minor bugs, and Chinese (!) language strings in the international version of the phone. This list is a result of using the phone for just 24 hours. I expect to uncover a lot more. At least I've not had crashes it which indicates we're dealing with a late beta software release which is still inexcusable for such a company.
Does anyone know how I can contact the OnePlus/Oxygen development team directly? No, I don't want to use their bug tracker - absolute most bugs over there never get any attention.
Over there on OnePlus forums people questioned the dark mode enforcement feature saying "it should work only for selected apps".
No, it's not like that. OOS11 listed all the installed UI apps and allowed to enforce dark mode for any of them regardless.
birdie said:
Does anyone know how I can contact the OnePlus/Oxygen development team directly? No, I don't want to use their bug tracker - absolute most bugs over there never get any attention.
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Oneplus forums and best you can do is to cry there about OOS with a hope somebody from dev team actually reads it.
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Oneplus forums and best you can do is to cry there about OOS with a hope somebody from dev team actually reads it.
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I had this experience several years ago - no, thanks.
The only way for a bug report to be noticed is when at least two dozen people start complaining about it (and even that is not a guarantee it will be dealt with).
BTW bug reports/feature requests can now be made only via the OnePlus Community app and for some reasons when I click "Add Feedback" I only get an option of exactly that, leaving feedback. No bug reports/feature requests for my account. Probably the app is broken, I don't know. In the past you could do that via your PC web browser. Looks like the company doesn't want any of that any more.