hey guys.. i'd like to contact motorola and tell them ...
-> what a great phone they built (DEVY) but I also want to ask them
-> what they hell did they tried to do when building MotoBlur? and why they don't create anything more appropriate for such a great phone?
so it came into my mind.. just to get a number of people.. (just the number - no nick- no realnames) which agree to my opinion.. to tell them, that I'm not alone... :=)
a plan?
best regards,
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I Like the idea behind motoblur, but i think it could have been implemented better. Also, i have a suspicion that Motoblur is the reason that we wont be getting android 2.2 unti Q2 next year, and thats a terrible thing :O. If they could speed up the android updates then i would love it :L
Well, after spending 3 years with iOS and 5+ months using SenseUI Motoblur came as a real shock. How a company can spend so little on software development/support in this day & age is beyond me?
It's like they got halfway through, realised it was rubbish/pointless and stopped. Mixing stock menus/calander app etc with the ropey launcher/lock screen/'my first widget' design is very confusing.
Still, at least the multi touch keyboard is good and errr.. DLNA and wifi hotspotting I guess.
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Well, after spending 3 years with iOS and 5+ months using SenseUI Motoblur came as a real shock. How a company can spend so little on software development/support in this day & age is beyond me?
It's like they got halfway through, realised it was rubbish/pointless and stopped. Mixing stock menus/calander app etc with the ropey launcher/lock screen/'my first widget' design is very confusing.
Still, at least the multi touch keyboard is good and errr.. DLNA and wifi hotspotting I guess.
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I know what you mean lol. The thing with the wifi hotspot app though is that it makes you doubt if you can use it. I turned it on and it said to make sure my network allows it??? , This part of motoblur caused a bit of a panic haha. The swype keyboard is brilliant but it took me a while to understand how it works haha
Blur is generally crap especially the launcher, however some of the apps - the email app for instance for me is very good, its the best email app I've used.
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It's like they got halfway through, realised it was rubbish/pointless and stopped. Mixing stock menus/calander app etc with the ropey launcher/lock screen/'my first widget' design is very confusing.
Still, at least the multi touch keyboard is good and errr.. DLNA and wifi hotspotting I guess.
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hahaha DD this really made me laugh.. you hit the point i just "observed" the ios from my girldfriends phone (and some more friends) .. owned an sense ui phone myself (hero) and had just the same thoughts hahahaha really great explanation
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Blur is generally crap especially the launcher, however some of the apps - the email app for instance for me is very good, its the best email app I've used.
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but i have to confirm.. and also explain i also do like some apps the music app, the gallery, the keyboard (like sarge78 told us above) works perfectly -- the text when a new word is added to the user dictionary stays a little bit toooooooooo long , but typing is perfect...) so some applications are really great.
but the whole theme^^ really strange..
(i also like the general design, black and the red background when something is pressed.. but one thing the sms button on a contact, is big enough but I think it's optimized for chinese people, or at least the smallest fingers in the world out there )
Gosh, Captain America! Is this poll loaded or what!?
I feel divided for Blur.
The launcher is not bad, but there's better elsewhere... lot better.
I don't use all the social stuff (don't have facebook or twitter account, etc) so I can't really say if it's good or worst than a stock android.
But I like some apps loaded with Blur: DLNA, Voicecall, music player, etc
What I really dislike: all the blur services automaticly loaded even I don't want to use all this stuff...
I want the choice to load what I need
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I feel divided for Blur.
The launcher is not bad, but there's better elsewhere... lot better.
I don't use all the social stuff (don't have facebook or twitter account, etc) so I can't really say if it's good or worst than a stock android.
But I like some apps loaded with Blur: DLNA, Voicecall, music player, etc
What I really dislike: all the blur services automaticly loaded even I don't want to use all this stuff...
I want the choice to load what I need
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This! I like my new Defy. but I hate that i starts lots of stuff that I don't want/use. I don't care about the stuff that come preloaded but don't start because the phone got loads of space for my apps
I definitely have mixed feelings about Blur. Some of it I really love, but it bogs so much and in the end I would rather not have it if everything is going to run so slow and our updates are going to take so long. All in all the defy is a great device, but if Moto doesn't step it up this time with updates I am done after this.
Voted dislike. The very first app I downloaded was LauncherProPlus. Bye Bye blur!
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What I really dislike: all the blur services automaticly loaded even I don't want to use all this stuff...
I want the choice to load what I need
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Quoted for great justice.
I just don't use Blur, which would be fine and wouldn't bother me either way, if only it didn't insist on loading all it's processes anyway.
Uhh just checked the number of processes motobloat is running...
52!
My stock desire is running 28... No wonder it lags so badly at times.
+1 for installing a different launcher (LauncherPro for me, thanks!) as the first thing after getting the phone
Dear MotoBloat: Please go to hell.
If I ever meet the guy who approved Motoblur I'll tear out his kneecaps with a rusty... no wait... I'll force him to use a stock Motorola phone for 24 hours! MUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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Blur is generally crap especially the launcher, however some of the apps - the email app for instance for me is very good, its the best email app I've used.
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i think the stock-app is better...
at least the push mail worked fine, which i can't say with the blur version :-/
btw. count me in...
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i think the stock-app is better...
at least the push mail worked fine, which i can't say with the blur version :-/
btw. count me in...
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personal preference i suppose, the stock android email app doesn't let you move mails between imap folders the blur one does, thats something i need.
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personal preference i suppose, the stock android email app doesn't let you move mails between imap folders the blur one does, thats something i need.
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Have you tried adding your email(s) to Gmail? I have done that for all my other email address', and it works great. I only have to check one inbox to get all my emails from four different screen names. I use @Gmail, @AOL, @Hotmail, and @MSN.com. If you have to reply, or forward from one of your other address's you can choose to send from Gmail, or the one that it was sent to. You can also tag them, so you know what email is what in your inbox. Very handy.
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I'll force him to use a stock Motorola phone for 24 hours! MUAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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;---DDD
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Have you tried adding your email(s) to Gmail? I have done that for all my other email address', and it works great. I only have to check one inbox to get all my emails from four different screen names. I use @Gmail, @AOL, @Hotmail, and @MSN.com. If you have to reply, or forward from one of your other address's you can choose to send from Gmail, or the one that it was sent to. You can also tag them, so you know what email is what in your inbox. Very handy.
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yeah done that in the past. i only really use 1 email account with various aliases (blueyonder.co.uk). Via gmail i could view my mails but wouldn't be able to file them/transfer between my imap folders. i suppose i could just create imap folders in gmail but cant be arsed lol. Cheers for posting the tip.
oh and i dont need push email really, a check once every 30 mins is good for me
Great hardware but after several months with 2.2 on my magic, 2.1 with motoblurp on the defy is a big disappointment give me stock android 2.2 any day.
I'm trying to find a way to acquire the stock evo RSS reader. I made the switch to CM7 but I haven't found a RSS reader I enjoy. I was happy enough with the stock app save for a few details. Anyone know where I can dl the apk to reinstall it?
The one for sense ? I'm pretty sure like any other sense app is not going to work on cm7
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Have you tried Pulse? It's got a rather sleek UI and has decent feed management capabilities.
I'm not sure that its a sense app. It is a stock HTC app though so it's entirely possible that it has something to do with sense. Either way if it isn't part of the sense UI I want it back. I did try pulse a few months back and if I'm remembering it correctly, it has a windows phone theme to it. Either way I wasn't overly impressed.
Not sure if there are a lot of ex blackberry users here, but if anyone's used viigo on blackberry, that's more or less what I'm looking for. A good, simple, RSS reader. The preloaded app on the evo was close enough for me.
Here is a list of all the preloaded applications on the Stock EVO: http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/sprint-apps-and-other-software-preinstalled-on-the-htc-evo-4g.html
Do any of those apps ring a bell? If we can establish which app it is you're looking for it'll be easier to get an apk.
Edit: If it's the news app I'll search around and see if I can find it.
I tried a number, including Pulse and ended up settling on RSS Demon. I've liked it a lot so far.
SWYPED from my Evo with Eternal Prophecy 5.9 ROM. Yeah I said Swyped.
So far,, I need my news reader to have scrollable widget in adw/launcher pro. Scrollable widget and atom rss are alright but pulse news widget is the best, I had to pay 1.47 for it but it has allot of options.
There are 2 news apps preloaded, news/weather and news. I'm looking for "news" - the preloaded RSS reader.
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Do any of those apps ring a bell? If we can establish which app it is you're looking for it'll be easier to get an apk.
Edit: If it's the news app I'll search around and see if I can find it.
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Looking for some good finance/stock widgets and/or apps for Nexus 7? (other than what I'm currently using)
Bloomberg is not currently available for the Nexus 7, which is a little depressing.
I currently use Mint app (Mint.com) for personal finance. Google Finance and stock watcher for tracking stocks (they don't have widgets).
Looking for additional apps to use that might have widgets. Googling "best stock apps", provides me with results for 2011.
*I have been using this forum for a couple of years now, but only recently subscribed*
Yahoo finance widget isn't bad. Bloomberg app is prob one of the best. They have a Android tablet version as well.
If you have an Etrade or fidelity account the apps are decent but way better for the ipad. Just got a nexus 7 so hoping they make tablet specific financial apps with larger charts and more indicators like they Have for ipad.
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I'm looking for the same thing. I really liked the HTC Sense widget but in can't find anything that's like it.
Bloomberg has the only android tablet financial app that I know of.
Looking for one to replace the stock calendar app
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Looking for one to replace the stock calendar app
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What features are you looking for?
I'm using Business Calendar, it shows my appointments with text in monthly view, and has a widget with multiple sizes, so I can see everything quickly instead of looking at bars/dots and clicking each one to see what it means.
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What features are you looking for?
I'm using Business Calendar, it shows my appointments with text in monthly view, and has a widget with multiple sizes, so I can see everything quickly instead of looking at bars/dots and clicking each one to see what it means.
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Looking for an app that looks somewhat like the S Planner for the S3 and note. I like the monthly calendar view where it gives me an overview of the events for each day and all the events of the day when i select the day I want (all in the same screen)
AndroidProWidgets Suited me nicely.
Lucid theme was an addition I made that I thought made it look a little less clunky.
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AndroidProWidgets Suited me nicely.
Lucid theme was an addition I made that I thought made it look a little less clunky.
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Thanks for the suggestions
Off topic abit. Have been following your post over at rootzwiki regarding the AOKP JB builds. Thanks for the useful links
I've been using Calengoo as of late.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en
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I've been using Calengoo as of late.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en
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Ah, seen that app around for a long time now. Thanks for the suggestion.
Can the month view be customised? Or its fixed like the screenshots in google play?
Hey all,
I recently flashed the cyanogen 11 on my HOX. Just well it lacks a proper gallery (just like the sense one!) widget and a proper calendar widget.
So anyone have suggestions for good replacements?
I found several gallery widgets but they all seem to be badly written on the IO end. Or have some bad UI control which makes you want to throw it out the window so yeh.. ideally would be the HTC Sense one as it's perfect for my needs.
Calendar wise, again the HTC sense one is perfect.. so any that works exaclty like that would be awesome
Do note I also have my tablet flashed with CM11.. and kinda have the same issues.
djmulder said:
Hey all,
I recently flashed the cyanogen 11 on my HOX. Just well it lacks a proper gallery (just like the sense one!) widget and a proper calendar widget.
So anyone have suggestions for good replacements?
I found several gallery widgets but they all seem to be badly written on the IO end. Or have some bad UI control which makes you want to throw it out the window so yeh.. ideally would be the HTC Sense one as it's perfect for my needs.
Calendar wise, again the HTC sense one is perfect.. so any that works exaclty like that would be awesome
Do note I also have my tablet flashed with CM11.. and kinda have the same issues.
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This tread is more something for the Q&A forum, but never the less
what do you mean by gallery widget? like a photo frame?
for a "normal" gallery i use quickpic
as for the callender I use business callender. I found this by far the best cal so far! defenetly worth the money.
I do like cal also from the same defs as any.do
Yeh figured it should go to the Q&A forum right after I posted it... sorry.
Well quickpic has no widget.. I want what quickpic has as gallery in widget form
I'll check business calendar out thx