So I think my biggest complaint on this phone, in my opinion, is touchwiz. I think its plain ugly and makes my phone look like a cartoon. And the apps like the calculator dialer clock calendar etc. all try desperately in subtle and blatant ways to copy apple, which really irritates me because the stock GB apps worked just fine, and in some ways I think better.
Touchwiz goes far beyond the launcher, and I've done everything I know how to do that I've searched to replace my launcher and excessively theme to make my phone look like ICS and keep touchwiz out of my face...but its still irritating to me to open up my contacts and be greeted with this silly interface that makes dialing and finding contacts a swiping-frenzy joke while the stock GB dialer was perfectly fine, and better IMO.
Coming from the Nexus phones with ICS...Gingerbread is no prize either but I think is much better as far as all those apps go. So my question is if its possible to replace the built in dialer, clock, calendar, calculator with .apks or other files? and If so how I would go about doing it? Thanks everyone.
Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.
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Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.
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Thats what I think I may do...but I'm probably going to take the stock GB stuff since I'm thinking ICS stuff wouldn't work right on juggs. I'll try to pull the apk's from eugene's CM7 and see what happens.
Oh sorry, I have ICS on the brain. Forgot to check your sig and see you were on Gingerbread
alot of times, you may be able to find the AOSP version of the apps in the market too.
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i have been using sense since i got my evo i do enjoy it a lot but after playing with CM6 and other AOSP roms i love the speed and the feel of the rom. the problem is, there are a few things in sense that are absent in aosp that always keep me coming back to sense. do you guys have some recommendations for some of the following problems?
-linking facebook contacts with current contact (it only works if the names are exactly the same)
-The stock dialer is horrible IMO. i like how in sense i can just tap the keypad and it will search my contacts
-Is there any better camera apps? the aosp one is fugly
-any good agenda widgets? i like the one in sense the best so far
-are there any good facebook stream widgets like friendstream?
-what aosp kernal gives me the best combo of speed and battery? in your opinion
-gmail is great, except for the fact that i cant zoom on anything. what do you think the best alternate email app is?
when i look at it written down like this it doesnt really seem like it should be so hard of a transition for me but for some reason it is, lol.
also rather than making a whole new thread, what is the difference between the free version of launcher pro and the donate?
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i have been using sense since i got my evo i do enjoy it a lot but after playing with CM6 and other AOSP roms i love the speed and the feel of the rom. the problem is, there are a few things in sense that are absent in aosp that always keep me coming back to sense. do you guys have some recommendations for some of the following problems?
-linking facebook contacts with current contact (it only works if the names are exactly the same)
-The stock dialer is horrible IMO. i like how in sense i can just tap the keypad and it will search my contacts
-Is there any better camera apps? the aosp one is fugly
-any good agenda widgets? i like the one in sense the best so far
-are there any good facebook stream widgets like friendstream?
-what aosp kernal gives me the best combo of speed and battery? in your opinion
-gmail is great, except for the fact that i cant zoom on anything. what do you think the best alternate email app is?
when i look at it written down like this it doesnt really seem like it should be so hard of a transition for me but for some reason it is, lol.
also rather than making a whole new thread, what is the difference between the free version of launcher pro and the donate?
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I had heard that you could sync Facebook contacts in the CM6 Nightly, but I am not familiar with that part.
For the dialer, Dialer One from the Market.
Camera, I like FXCamera, Market as well.
Agenda widgets, I dunno, but Launcher Pro Plus has calendar and Contact widgets that mimic the sense ones. Also in the Plus version, you can resize any widgets however you like, just a tap away.
I actually prefer ADW Launcher, mostly cause you can add rows and columns to the homescreen.
Hey... I think this thing makes phone calls too!
-linking facebook contacts with current contact (it only works if the names are exactly the same)
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Turn on FB contact sycing from the official app, sounds like you did that already. You could also try to manually link contacts, edit contact, press menu and choose join. You'll see a list of possible accounts (FB included) to join.
-The stock dialer is horrible IMO. i like how in sense i can just tap the keypad and it will search my contacts
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Dialer One. I don't use it, I just enter names from the home screen via the Google search widget or use Voice commands.
-any good agenda widgets? i like the one in sense the best so far
-are there any good facebook stream widgets like friendstream?
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Purchase Launcher Pro. Not free but it's the best purchase you can possibly make when using CM.
-what aosp kernal gives me the best combo of speed and battery? in your opinion
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I use Snap 7.5. It possibly gives the best battery life of any ROM/Kernel combo, Sense ROMs included.
Jorte calendar is nice, and its free!
thanks guys. currently i have my phone unrooted because i needed to take it to the sprint store, but when i finally get my replacement ill load cm6 on there. i think im gonna try launcherpro and dialer one. still dont know what kernal to use though. does snap 7.5 have better battery than 7.6 w/ turbo? ill give that agenda widget a shot too. hopefully this time i can make that full transition.
I finally took the jump to cm7 final as the first installed rom on my phone, had been rooted for a while now. It loaded LauncherPro with no issues but most of my system app shortcuts don't work. How can I get access to the Dialer? I wanted to create a custom shortcut with LauncherPro and change my icon. Where may I find it? Same with contacts?
Ok I feel like a idiot because I found them under apps named as contacts and phone under applications. I was looking at the Activities, sorry.
No need to feel like an idiot each ROM is different and takes some getting used to. The fact you were able to figure it out on your own will make you feel that much more comfortable with your new ROM.
Since installing ICS, the phone dialer doesn't have the tabs for contacts, keypad and call logs all under one app. But it did in gingerbread. So I'm looking for something pretty much like the default phone app but with 3 tabs at the top saying Logs, Contacts and Keypad (or Dialer), instead of the two separate apps called Contacts and Phone. The default contacts app has groups, contacts and favourites, and the default phone app has keypad, logs and again, favourites. Well I don't need favourites or groups. I can't really find anything suitable on the market, can you recommend me something preferably with a dark background? Something like this,
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8216/icsdialere4touch.png
but without all the rooting and mods needed. Also, if I install a dialer app from the market, will it delete my contacts and call logs or will they remain intact? Thanks.
Roman5 said:
but without all the rooting and mods needed. .
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Contact.apk is a system application, you will need root.
Try GoDialer or something like this.
Roman5 said:
Since installing ICS, the phone dialer doesn't have the tabs for contacts, keypad and call logs all under one app. But it did in gingerbread. So I'm looking for something pretty much like the default phone app but with 3 tabs at the top saying Logs, Contacts and Keypad (or Dialer), instead of the two separate apps called Contacts and Phone. The default contacts app has groups, contacts and favourites, and the default phone app has keypad, logs and again, favourites. Well I don't need favourites or groups. I can't really find anything suitable on the market, can you recommend me something preferably with a dark background? Something like this,
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8216/icsdialere4touch.png
but without all the rooting and mods needed. Also, if I install a dialer app from the market, will it delete my contacts and call logs or will they remain intact? Thanks.
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You could try this one exdialer and on top of it this theme
but without all the rooting and mods needed. Also, if I install a dialer app from the market, will it delete my contacts and call logs or will they remain intact? Thanks.
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Your contacts will be safe if you install a new contacts or dealer application.
As stated previously you can try GoContacts.
Only dialer that suits my needs (I have tried tens of them) is DialerOne: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kz.mek.DialerOne
try exDialer.. i tried them all and it's the best IMHO.
it also has themes and can slide right for call and slide left for SMS.
Thanks guys. Yeah, I'm liking exDialer a lot so I'll go ahead and install the darker themes. :good: I was expecting a separate call log screen but it's cool how the logs and keypad are together. I also like that it actually tells me 'outgoing' 'incoming' 'not answered' and not just indicator arrows. When I make a call from it then uses the default samsung dialer screen (speaker, mute, headset, add call, end call, keypad). It doesn't matter but I thought it was going to have it's own interface. I also installed aContacts which is quite good but I think exDialer is better.
You can download Go launcher and then buy the ICS PRO CONTACTS is the closest dialer to the one u r looking for mate.
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Thanks Lonzo. Well tbh I'd been using Go Launcher for a while but it was so slow opening things, even not responding, that I'm using Apex Launcher now which is way better. I've installed the exDialer ICS theme and it looks nice and works well. :good:
What's the disadvantages of not rooting your phone? my phone lasted unroot from postman hands to my door only lol. Before the phone arrived I already downloaded the required stuff. Enjoy the freedom of rooting.
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rooting <3
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What's the disadvantages of not rooting your phone? my phone lasted unroot from postman hands to my door only lol. Before the phone arrived I already downloaded the required stuff. Enjoy the freedom of rooting.
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rooting is heaven seriously !
Go Launcher
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Thanks Lonzo. Well tbh I'd been using Go Launcher for a while but it was so slow opening things, even not responding, that I'm using Apex Launcher now which is way better. I've installed the exDialer ICS theme and it looks nice and works well. :good:
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yes... I had Go Launcher since GB days but for ICS is kinda slow.. APEX is better.
and ICS Pro runs with no lag on APEX... Ex Dialer looks good indeed...
I tried to get the kitchen to work yet for some reason it just won't run. not sure if it is because I have a 64bit system while it refers to 32bit or not.
My question is that I found a rom I really want to use but don't want the lockscreen,messages app or launcher. Is it just easy enough to edit the roms zip and remove those apk and add the apk for what I want and then flash it?
Yup. Kitchens r crap half the time. I use them to break open the boot.img or add a few things here and there. The rest is done on my own
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Ok.....
What I have is I want to use AlterRom since it more closely gives what I am after. It has GoLauncher already which I have used since I purchased my phone but I also use GoSMS to work around the 160 Char limit by Sprint. I can install it easily enough but I also want to remove the messaging that is there already because of rom size. I will also be using Swyper keyboard so I want to remove the one installed also for rom size. I use GoLocker so how do I delete the one installed? It doesn't remember what I set as default so it always loads the rom version instead of Golocker?
Can't remove stock messaging or it breaks SMS. Look for keyboard.apk or latinime.apk. for keyboard but remember u need the right lib files to get swype to work. And u can't remove stock lock screen. Its integrated into the os. Look at running pngopt or something to reduce rom size. Or open up each apk and remove language files. Delete live wallpapers or wallpapers u won't use. I've never used alterrom but there is always ways to make a rom smaller.
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Sorry about that. I said swiper but I meant Swiftkey as a keyboard.
So can I just use Titanium Backup to freeze the stock lockscreen? If so what file would I be looking for?
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Sorry about that. I said swiper but I meant Swiftkey as a keyboard.
So can I just use Titanium Backup to freeze the stock lockscreen? If so what file would I be looking for?
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Nope. Stock needs to be left alone. Golocker should take over. The stock is not an apk. Its built into the frameworks. Unless its sense then there's an apk u can delete
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Not sure if Sense or not. Says Senseless but OP says 'most' Sense removed. I will share the thread link and hopefully you will be able to tell better.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1550526
To get go locker working right with the stock lockscreen, goto settings>security>screen lock and select none then set go locker as default. This will disable stock lockscreen so it won't interfere with golocker :thumbup:
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I have done that. I remember once GoLocker had a setting that would force it over stock but I can't find it now. Problem is that when installed I get both lockscreens.
But let me see if I can understand. If I am editing a Sense Rom all I need to do is delete the lockscreen apk,Rosie or whatever is launcher apk and only the apk that handles viewing of messages(not the provider) apk and add the apk of the apps I want to use and then flash the rom correct? I can do this with any app I wish to change out and delete the apk for the files I do not want like Navigation(Google Maps does it) and that's it or do I also need to modify the build.prop to reflect the changes?
No need to make any build.prop edits from what you wanna do.
If its Sense lockscreen look for HtcLockscreen.apk, and delete that.
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Don't remove mms.apk(the messaging app) it will break mms and only SMS will work, just hide the messaging app in the drawer. Removing htclockscreen.apk and [Desktop]Rosie.apk and any HTC Widgets is OK the mms.apk is small enough if you delete all of the Rosie and sense Widgets it won't make much difference. After deleting HTCLockscreen.apk you will be left with the stock android sliders, if you set screen lock to none in security settings you should just go straight to your homescreen or app when u turn the screen on, if that's the case then setting go locker as default should make it so golocker is the only lockscreen you see. Another option since youre going senseless anyways is cm7.2 its much smaller than a sense rom even if the sense rom is senseless :thumbup:
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Thanks. That is what I was hoping. I really wasn't looking forward to making changes to the build.prop. Not a problem to do on my PC and it'll flash correct?
As for cm7 that was the one I was looking at but I can't get Sprint Zone to work on it. Is an application I use a lot so is kinda important to have.
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Don't remove mms.apk(the messaging app) it will break mms and only SMS will work, just hide the messaging app in the drawer. Removing htclockscreen.apk and [Desktop]Rosie.apk and any HTC Widgets is OK the mms.apk is small enough if you delete all of the Rosie and sense Widgets it won't make much difference. After deleting HTCLockscreen.apk you will be left with the stock android sliders, if you set screen lock to none in security settings you should just go straight to your homescreen or app when u turn the screen on, if that's the case then setting go locker as default should make it so golocker is the only lockscreen you see.
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If he's talking about Alter ROM, that's all been done already.
Really, that ROM is pretty small to begin with (335MB free internal after default install, plus you can always set up a2sd to move dalvik)
Removing these three small apps doesn't seem like it will result in any meaningful increase in available RAM.
I guess my two questions would be, how much free RAM are you aiming for (and why - do you have that many apps?) and what is so useful about Sprint Zone?
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For the Touchwiz framework, the contact, Dailer, and messaging system I find are a lot more straight forward. Especially for contacts, left swipe to message, right to call on contact row.
I know that the Samsung Stock Apps require Touchwiz, and I tried any possiblilty to try and get them working on the JB 4.3 with CM 10.2 (CM being my favorite for being easy to use and giving me the stuff I want).
So I thought: Why not modify the Samsung Stock Contacts Contact.apk and Dailer and remove the Touchwix framework dependency so it can work on Trebuchet thus, finally work on AOSP custom firmware like AOKP or CM. I would try to research such a thing but It would take me a while to learn anything about coding....The APK coding has already been done with samsungs Contact.apk, I would assume it would be easy to change but then again I don't know.
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Can such a thing be done to bring back the apps, or has a thing already been done? With two days of research and just snooping around I decide to resort to this. I simply want the simple, darker desingn of the Contact and left and right swipe of contacts to message or call back.
Can't be done from everything ive been told...to many important dependencies
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