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1st off I wanna say no disrespect to the devs...I appreciate all the hard work that goes into all the awesome roms...seems that with all the talk of jellybean and without an official ics release that THEMING has taking a back seat..although i am enjoying team rejects change of pace (annihilation is awesome!) And I love the look of miui but I can't get it to work good enough for me to use as my daily,with that being said I kinda long for the days of a DUSK theme or an all white with black letter theme like the GTX rom I had on my TP2 I think these would look sweet on my et4g...anyone willing to work on anything similar to these?
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White with black lettering would be a battery killer!
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Yeah..I thought about that after I posted this......just looking for a change of pace...liking the capabilities of what jellybean brings to the table but not the look..and I can see xda getting as flooded with variations of jb as it is with Ics...thanks for the reply though!
I remember those themes. That really takes me back. But it would be awesome to see the dusk theme on this badboy
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I remember those themes. That really takes me back. But it would be awesome to see the dusk theme on this badboy
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AGREED!:good:
Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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I'm too lazy. but I will try it.
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Lol...the good old HD2 days.... I remember my favorite theme was "Energy" .
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Lol...the good old HD2 days.... I remember my favorite theme was "Energy" .
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Nrgz themes were always the best. It made any screen pop. I also remember sencity that theme was awesome too.
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Dude. you can do most of this yourself..with wallpapers, beautiful Widgets. custom icon sets, themable launchers and icons, rocket dial allows you to theme your dialer...don't wait for somebody to do it for you bro...create your own masterpiece...
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Thanks for the words of encouragement but I am far from skilled enough to do all that(hell I even gave up on uccw and mclock because I couldn't get em to work right for me..lol) might not have been anything special to anyone else in Xdaland but I've been proud of my previous screenies on this phone though...good idea!..thanks again!
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I'm too lazy. but I will try it.
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Lol..good luck man..keep me posted!..
Nrg themes were pretty awesome...did you ever try sharkies ROM?
I wonder what phone those 2 devs are on now...
Also...I highly recommend giving this launcher a try...the customization options are so amazing, it took me like a week til I got my pages like I wanted them. Check out some of these guys setups, you can find mine in this thread if you go deep enough...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22746249
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Also...I highly recommend giving this launcher a try...the customization options are so amazing, it took me like a week til I got my pages like I wanted them. Check out some of these guys setups, you can find mine in this thread if you go deep enough...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22746249
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Thanks again...pretty awesome when senior members like yourself sit and chat with us lil guys...haha...much appreciated bro!
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Thanks again...pretty awesome when senior members like yourself sit and chat with us lil guys...haha...much appreciated bro!
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Shee-it! I'm nobody special, I just like the subject....I like to be able to show my phone to those iPhone assholes and them be like Holy ****! that's so cool, yeah that's right....you can't do that with your iPhone! I got tired of waiting for a rom or theme to come out, only to be disappointed because its somebody else's idea of the way they want their phone to look...f that...just play around you'll be amazed what you can do with your phone...this is my 2 year old Evo running ReMics-UX which is a SGS3 port...
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Thanks for the words of encouragement but I am far from skilled enough to do all that(hell I even gave up on uccw and mclock because I couldn't get em to work right for me..lol) might not have been anything special to anyone else in Xdaland but I've been proud of my previous screenies on this phone though...good idea!..thanks again!
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If you could post a link to a theme or the icons, might be a good idea for a new rom
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Shee-it! I'm nobody special, I just like the subject....I like to be able to show my phone to those iPhone assholes and them be like Holy ****! that's so cool, yeah that's right....you can't do that with your iPhone! I got tired of waiting for a rom or theme to come out, only to be disappointed because its somebody else's idea of the way they want their phone to look...f that...just play around you'll be amazed what you can do with your phone...this is my 2 year old Evo running ReMics-UX which is a SGS3 port...
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You sir should start theming or making roms... Just saying.
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If you could post a link to a theme or the icons, might be a good idea for a new rom
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You sir should start theming or making roms... Just saying.
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I'm telling you guys, you can do it yourself, all you need is a good CM9 or CM7 base rom, find a theme you like for the theme Chooser in that rom, use a themeable launcher, Apex, ADW EX, or SSLauncher, this thread a **** ton of icon sets http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19600116
I use the free app ChargeBar (in play store) for a centered bottom status bar battery bar, I use Rom Toolbox to change system font, I use Android Pro Widgets for Twitter, Messaging, Bookmark, and Calendar Widgets...these have different themes and colors available for the Widgets....Here is a link to some of what I did with SsLauncher...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25394812
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Also for dialer, I recommend Rocket Dial it has different themes, and you can find a theme for just about any 3rd party keyboard out there...I like ICS keyboard in the market
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I'm telling you guys, you can do it yourself, all you need is a good CM9 or CM7 base rom, find a theme you like for the theme Chooser in that rom, use a themeable launcher, Apex, ADW EX, or SSLauncher, this thread a **** ton of icon sets http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19600116
I use the free app ChargeBar (in play store) for a centered bottom status bar battery bar, I use Rom Toolbox to change system font, I use Android Pro Widgets for Twitter, Messaging, Bookmark, and Calendar Widgets...these have different themes and colors available for the Widgets....Here is a link to some of what I did with SsLauncher...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25394812
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With all those mods or Widgets running, doesn't it eat your battery?
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With all those mods or Widgets running, doesn't it eat your battery?
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Not really any more than having Sense or something like that on your phone, its more of a kernel thing and we have some great evo specific kernel devs over here, you just have to find a pure AOSP rom without all the Sense, TouchWiz, Motoblur overlays, then just add your own Widgets icons launcher dialer keyboard font over that and create your personalized interface the way you want it....
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was gonna post this elsewhere, but here's as good as a place as any i suppose. for those that want to mess around with theming here's a great place to start. it's a vrtheme template for our phone. It should work with most roms. here's a link with some quick info and the download link with our updated binary. all thanks to the villianrom team for a great template/idea
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/threads/about-villaintheme-system.4971/
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddi2vc7qeg2y44x
basically instead of having to decompile and recompile apk's and have a complete and working apk to flash, this only requires that you place the images, xml's etc in the correct folder structure. everything is in the vrtheme folder in the zip. so to theme a system app, say systemui, you would create a folder called SystemUI.apk in the correct folder structure, namely vrtheme/system/app/SystemUI.apk. then all you have to do is drag and drop the images you want swapped into the proper folder locations. I included an example folder structure for images in drawable-hdpi for systemui and framework-res to get ya started. beauty of this is you can literally drag and drop whole sections of other themes into the template and it will just replace those images on our phone. So if those themes in the OP have same sized images and same names, you could just drag and drop those into the respective vrtheme zip folder and flash away. Make sense? just starting to get this going again on our phones, so mess around, but be careful, I'm obviously not responsible to anything you do
it can also be used to theme paid apps, which is sweet. since your not actually including the apk itself, and the app has to be in the location specified before you apply the theme.
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Apex Launcher allows you to remove the app text or modify the title/icon. You cannot rotate it though.
Op running a different launcher has no actual problems
Say your using nova as default the phone won't have stock tw launched running in the background unless you open again
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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It's what you asked for. They honestly helped you as much to their abilities.
That being said if you want angled apps look into making it yourself. I know that is not much of a answer you're looking but as of right now as far as I have seen there are no apps or mods to rotate apps.
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
Very nice
It does look pretty amazing! I might give it a whirl this weekend when I get paid.....still worth getting.
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
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Price is a bit high but I took the plunge and I believe it can only get better love it so far.
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Well, thank you all. I guess there is no way for me to achieve what I want without running a launcher on top of my ROM. :thumbup:
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Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
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Root your phone install a recovery and install paranoid android, google it, i think youll like it.
I got TFS Launcher and it runs great. I do have one question though.... Isn't there always a Launcher running over a rom? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run any apps.
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If you guys don't mind, have a look at the themes in my sig. I've been considering porting (or re-create, rather) them, since I got my MT4G but I didn't like the device enough to bother. My favorite has been the LBP theme since I had so much fun making the icons. I'll likely create an icon pack for Nova/Apex for the icons but I was considering something cool for the toogles and such too.
If there's any interest, I'll recreate these for the GS3.
Sure sounds good
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damn those are G1 themes
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damn those are G1 themes
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Yep. I been using Android since way back then lol. I'd be creating all the images from scratch, of course. No sense trying to port such low-res junk to the GS3.
I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:
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I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:
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Yep same here, can't see the themes but found the LBP which looks pretty slick.
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I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:
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Sorry about that. I took them out of my signature about a week ago. I'm getting myself up to speed with the Theme Engine (as my old ones were flashable .ZIPs). In the mean time I'm working on icons. I'd like to release something for the various launchers (Go Launcher, Apex, Nova, etc) along with Theme Engine.
Thank you for the update. Will keep checking back!:thumbup:
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Sorry about that. I took them out of my signature about a week ago. I'm getting myself up to speed with the Theme Engine (as my old ones were flashable .ZIPs). In the mean time I'm working on icons. I'd like to release something for the various launchers (Go Launcher, Apex, Nova, etc) along with Theme Engine.
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Sweet but im wondering will there be any themes for those who like stock touchwiz ? Like a flashable zip..
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I am actually a Motorola Atrix 2 owner but have been using this launcher and widget for months now...really enjoy it and read that someone on an HTC 4G device was able to install it as well via CWM. Well my girl has an Incredible 2 and I decided to give it a whirl and whaddya know? It worked. Here's a DB link of mine of the zip: http://db.tt/PxWxjC79 Here's the thread where I got the download link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906402 Enjoy and I would advise a wipe of cache and davik cache as well before flashing the zip. Heres some attached screenshots. If anyone wants to or can make it anymore better or mod it up for the INC 2 device itself, feel free. Hope anyone enjoys it as much as I do!
P.S. If you flick the circles they flip to the other side. Clock being analog one side and digital the other. Weather you can add cities on and on and on...(as many cities as you want.) And the battery's opposite side is a settings icon for a quick setting short-cut. Also fogot to mention that the left side is first page on launcher. Far left is quick setting page and far right is where you can keep adding pages and what not. Preview allows you to swap up pages too. Couple side notes as well are scrolling wallpaper does not work with this launcher. The dock is like stock moto with app names showing without edit option. AND the weather may start out on C° reading so in settings youll have to change to F° if thats your preferrence. IMHO I love the widgets and its so worth it. They're really cool.
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Awesome, man. Here you go, :beer:
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Tried installing on MIUI2.3 but nothing shows any different. Is it only 4.0+?
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Tried installing on MIUI2.3 but nothing shows any different. Is it only 4.0+?
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It could possibly be for only 4.0. Try extracting and putting all in system/app and re-permission, reboot. If the weather apk is missing I'll post back with a link.
Edit: Here's the weather APK: http://db.tt/ZPtXm1jc
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It wouldn't work on 2.3 but I tried it on JB and it worked. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to modify the dock beyong adding and removing icons, and that makes it a no-go for me. Otherwise, those widgets are baddass!
Thank you!
It's very cool.... I installed it, but found there to be quite a great deal of tearing and the dock is misaligned.. It's a nice launcher though with great home widgets. Makes me not mind trying a RAZR Maxx HD when I get an upgrade. Thanks for this peak. :thumbup:
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It wouldn't work on 2.3 but I tried it on JB and it worked. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to modify the dock beyong adding and removing icons, and that makes it a no-go for me. Otherwise, those widgets are baddass!
Thank you!
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Work since it was based off ICS. Glad to see JB worked! You know I noticed that dock error too on my girls phone. Good to see you enjoyed for a minute lol. They are BADASS though!
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It's very cool.... I installed it, but found there to be quite a great deal of tearing and the dock is misaligned.. It's a nice launcher though with great home widgets. Makes me not mind trying a RAZR Maxx HD when I get an upgrade. Thanks for this peak. :thumbup:
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Glad you enjoyed it as well man. Sorry about the dock issues. Should edit OP. Anytime I can share, I will. Even though I'm not on this device my girl is so I'll keep up to date! :thumbup:
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I feel like i have tried every weather widget and cant seem to find a nice one. they either drain the battery (i like the refresh on wake setting) or the graphics are blah. i'm looking for one with a crisp HD look, transparency settings, and the ability to customize a little so i am asking if a few of you wouldnt mind posting a screenshot of your widget and give a little info on it to see if maybe there is something out there i havent tried or tried but didnt realize the potential haha. Thanks!!
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I feel like i have tried every weather widget and cant seem to find a nice one. they either drain the battery (i like the refresh on wake setting) or the graphics are blah. i'm looking for one with a crisp HD look, transparency settings, and the ability to customize a little so i am asking if a few of you wouldnt mind posting a screenshot of your widget and give a little info on it to see if maybe there is something out there i havent tried or tried but didnt realize the potential haha. Thanks!!
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My favorite that I have used for ages is beweather pro. It uses backround animations and is a absolutely beautiful.
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the weather background changes according to the weather, uses uccw.
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/15766565/file.html
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I feel like i have tried every weather widget and cant seem to find a nice one. they either drain the battery (i like the refresh on wake setting) or the graphics are blah. i'm looking for one with a crisp HD look, transparency settings, and the ability to customize a little so i am asking if a few of you wouldnt mind posting a screenshot of your widget and give a little info on it to see if maybe there is something out there i havent tried or tried but didnt realize the potential haha. Thanks!!
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HD Widget's are amazing, find it on the market
lots of battery saving options in setting's too
Thanks for the suggestions! I i will be checking these out :good:
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Thanks for the suggestions! I i will be checking these out :good:
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I like hd widgets but use beautiful widgets. Their possibilities are endless.
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The best weather widget personally is pre built into htc sense :'( i loved the weather widget from sense 4.1 but a good alternative is bz weather clear animations and doesn't chew battery up...
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I use the transparent stock widget from the S4. Its nice especially if you use custom wallpapers or you just don't like tacky, bulky looking widgets on your home screen.
Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets are both crisp. HD Widgets is higher end thus uses more cpu and system resources. Personally BW suits my liking, light on system usage, lots of cusomized themes, it has a nice lockscreen widget as well.
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I love beautiful widgets. I can customize it to match a sense theme, tw theme, stock.... Basically anyway i want. It's the best one after trying many others out there.
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Android weather is rock solid for me. Simple and free. Lol
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I use the transparent stock widget from the S4. Its nice especially if you use custom wallpapers or you just don't like tacky, bulky looking widgets on your home screen.
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looks nice :good: i will be tracking this down to check it out!
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The best weather widget personally is pre built into htc sense :'( i loved the weather widget from sense 4.1 but a good alternative is bz weather clear animations and doesn't chew battery up...
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hmm, never heard of bz weather, this is why i made this thread...there are so many things out there for weather some good things can get lost in the mass of apps. thanks
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Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets are both crisp. HD Widgets is higher end thus uses more cpu and system resources. Personally BW suits my liking, light on system usage, lots of cusomized themes, it has a nice lockscreen widget as well.
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i have used BW in the past, i did like the customized themes but for some reason stopped (i think because i was in search of a flip clock that was as smooth as some of the sense ones that actually flip nicely, i gave up lol) its been awhile so i will have to give it another run.
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Android weather is rock solid for me. Simple and free. Lol
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that does look nice....so many choices to check out! thanks
Some great tw weather widgets here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249518.
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Some great tw weather widgets here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249518.
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thanks! the gs4 widget mentioned earlier is there...now i will not have to hunt!
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thanks! the gs4 widget mentioned earlier is there...now i will not have to hunt!
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Thank rompnit over in that thread. He's a great dev.
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I'm using fancy widgets, and weather screen - weather screen had lots of options but worth it. Its like sense background weather without the wipers when raining, you can even set the amount of battery usage. Just check it out.
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