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[REQUEST] Google Music Widget

I think the Google Music widget may be the ugliest, most blah, widget in all of Android.
I have been looking around and there really are not any alternatives. It kind of surprises me since Google Music has been out for a while. The only choices I could find are a couple of themed ones but didn't look right on the Nexus, and I read that Phantom works, but I tried it and it does not like ICS.
Does anyone know if making something like below is possible? And would anyone want to take it on?
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Yeah, I'm right there with ya. The Google Music widget is just plain butt-ugly AND it's also incredibly stupid with it having no back/reverse button on it. (I swear if I ever find out who started this trend of music widgets having no "back" button on them that I will b**** slap them into next week)!
But I digress...the iSyncr app that's available in the Android Market has transparent widgets and they work with the Google Music app. They're the only widgets I've been able to find that reliably work. (Only problem I've experienced is that they sometimes don't show the album art, depending on how the picture file is embedded into the MP3 file).
There are 3 widget sizes included: 1x4, 2x4 and 4x4. You can see a pic of the 4x4 widget at the below link:
http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr/iSyncr_Ratings_FAQ
And here's a pic of the 4x2 widget from my own phone:
I got to speak with one of the Google Music devs a couple months ago and he said the biggest request they've gotten is for more widgets and features available via the widgets for the Google Music app, and they've got it on their schedule to work on this during Q1 of this year. So maybe if we're lucky we'll have some better native widgets for the Google Music app within the next 3 1/2 months.

i like the widget in the op

ranphi said:
I got to speak with one of the Google Music devs a couple months ago and he said the biggest request they've gotten is for more widgets and features available via the widgets for the Google Music app, and they've got it on their schedule to work on this during Q1 of this year. So maybe if we're lucky we'll have some better native widgets for the Google Music app within the next 3 1/2 months.
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That is pretty cool. How did you get to talk with them?
Hopefully we see something sooner rather than later.

Dakota0206 said:
That is pretty cool. How did you get to talk with them?
Hopefully we see something sooner rather than later.
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It was via Google +. It was totally out of the blue because I had posted about finding what I thought was a bug in the Google Music app lockscreen controls on the Galaxy Nexus and one of the Google Music devs responded and thanked me for noticing the bug and said they'd fix it in an update (which they did the very next month ), so I took the opportunity to also ask him about possible widget updates for Google Music. He was a really nice guy, so I'm hopeful they really will give us some new widgets.

So what does everyone think of this?

I like that how did you manage to do it?

I think it's supposed to be a Photoshopped proof-of-concept, not an actual app.

zombieflanders said:
I think it's supposed to be a Photoshopped proof-of-concept, not an actual app.
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Yes, this is just a mock up I threw together. Is it possible to make?

@Dakota0206 - I like the look of your "mock up" widget too. Did you ever use the "Pure Music" widget? That's been my favorite 3rd party widget for music and I used it all the time in the past. But when Google switched over from the old stock Android Music app to Google Music they broke the functionality for the Pure Music widget, which really sucks. The dev for Pure Music says he can't update the widget to work with Google Music unless Google releases an API for it.
Pure Music is really nice though in terms of the number of widget sizes it offers and that it's skinnable! I would really love to see it work with the Google Music app! Sigh.

You could make a widget that would send forward, back, play, pause commands, but in order to display track information and album art I think you would need to modify the music app itself. As far as I know, Google hasn't released (and doesn't intend to release) the source for the version of the music app that integrates with their online services. So you are probably stuck with either a crappy widget but usable online services, or a better widget but no online stuff.
Interesting idea though. I downloaded the available music app source and am going to play around with it a bit. Will post if anything interesting comes of it.

bedoig said:
You could make a widget that would send forward, back, play, pause commands, but in order to display track information and album art I think you would need to modify the music app itself. As far as I know, Google hasn't released (and doesn't intend to release) the source for the version of the music app that integrates with their online services. So you are probably stuck with either a crappy widget but usable online services, or a better widget but no online stuff.
Interesting idea though. I downloaded the available music app source and am going to play around with it a bit. Will post if anything interesting comes of it.
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Not the news I was hoping for, but makes since. Let me know if you anything works out with the app source.

I agree with you all about the music widget. What I don't get is the music widget on honeycomb is really nice imho, yet they resort to the ugly widget with ics.
But the bigger question...Katy Perry and Modanna...really?
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Oh almost forgot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990014
Tons of transparent widgets. Stopped using them a while ago because you have to request and wait for them to update them after they get updated in the market but might have to use the music widget now.
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Big-A-Rob said:
But the bigger question...Katy Perry and Modanna...really?
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Just the first album art I came across. I thought about it at first, but ended up deciding no matter what I chose someone would give flack lol. I almost didn't use actual album art, but thought it might not convey what I was going for without it.

Whoa...big news! That Pure Music Widget that I had mentioned earlier in this thread received an update (almost 2 weeks ago but I just found out about it tonight -- d'oh!) so that it now works with ICS/Google Music app! Woo hoo!
The dev notes that it can't show album art for music streaming from the cloud, so bear that in mind. I don't really care about that feature since I keep all the music I regularly listen to on my phone locally.
I am so incredibly psyched by this! haha I am really fed up with waiting for Google to push out some updated widgets for Google Music...and now I no longer have to.
FYI: the widget comes with sizes of: 1x1, 2x1, 2x2, 4x1, 4x2, 4x4, is skinnable (looks like there are currently 22 skins available for it), and has a setting that lets you adjust the desired transparency level.
Here's a link to it in the Android Market if you wanna check it out:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_music&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5rb3h4LnB1cmVfbXVzaWMiXQ..
And here's a screenie of the 4x1 widget on my phone:

Download CM9 music!
Greets!

ranphi said:
Whoa...big news! That Pure Music Widget that I had mentioned earlier in this thread received an update (almost 2 weeks ago but I just found out about it tonight -- d'oh!) so that it now works with ICS/Google Music app! Woo hoo!
The dev notes that it can't show album art for music streaming from the cloud, so bear that in mind. I don't really care about that feature since I keep all the music I regularly listen to on my phone locally.
I am so incredibly psyched by this! haha I am really fed up with waiting for Google to push out some updated widgets for Google Music...and now I no longer have to.
FYI: the widget comes with sizes of: 1x1, 2x1, 2x2, 4x1, 4x2, 4x4, is skinnable (looks like there are currently 22 skins available for it), and has a setting that lets you adjust the desired transparency level.
Here's a link to it in the Android Market if you wanna check it out:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_music&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5rb3h4LnB1cmVfbXVzaWMiXQ..
And here's a screenie of the 4x1 widget on my phone:
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Thanks for the tip!
Btw, what is the weather widget you have on that screenie?

d-iivil said:
Thanks for the tip!
Btw, what is the weather widget you have on that screenie?
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It's a widget from the weather app called BeWeather Pro. The widget skin is called "colorful custom XL".
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mDroidd said:
Download CM9 music!
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Last I heard, it doesn't work with the Google Music service, which makes it useless for anyone who doesn't have music stored on the phone.

Geniewidget News and Weather widget - Not updating?

I've been having issues with the stock News & Weather widget for a month or two.
I love the weather widget. There's nothing else styled like it, and I prefer the look of it over virtually every other weather app on the market.
Problem is, it won't update. When I setup the widget, it just says 'No weather information to display.' I click through the widget, and it says weather is unavailable for my location. So, I refresh it, sometimes once, sometimes a dozen times, and it finally loads the weather.
Not a big deal, if it was only when I rebooted my phone, or something like that... but it's every single time my weather refreshes.
Now, it's not just one phone. I have 2 Gnex's on AT&T, a Nexus S, and an AT&T-branded Galaxy S II. The stock weather widget does the same thing on all of them.
And, it's not just me, nor is it my location. I have a few friends with Android phones - one with AT&T in San Francisco, one with Verizon in NW Tennessee, one with Verizon in Indiana, and a few with T-Mo, Verizon and AT&T in NJ. Every single one of them is having the exact same problem.
This widget worked perfectly until, say, mid-November, and then it just broke. I hoped it was just my GSII, but I had the same problem when I got my GNex. Then I started asking people, and, well, here we are.
I can't believe there's nothing really out there. I've searched XDA, I've searched Google, and I'm just not finding anything significant, which I would think it would be, considering how many people I know who are having the problem.
So, is anyone on here having the same problem? I can't imagine no one at Google is seeing this problem, with the exposure I've seen personally.
And, for the record, location services are set to use Wifi, etc, on all phones. Configuration shouldn't be the issue, but I'd be more than happy to try anything someone may suggest.
I've also grabbed the supposedly-revamped geniewidget.apk from 4.0.4, and not only is it not really revamped, but it has the same issue.
Thanks!

Same problem on both my mytouch 4g slide, and my tansformer prime. For the last few days I can get no update even refreshing. Tried in multiplte cities both with wifi and cell.

DarkSi08 said:
I've been having issues with the stock News & Weather widget for a month or two.
Problem is, it won't update. When I setup the widget, it just says 'No weather information to display.' I click through the widget, and it says weather is unavailable for my location. So, I refresh it, sometimes once, sometimes a dozen times, and it finally loads the weather.
Thanks!
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You are not alone - I have two yakju stock-stock android phone with T-mobile USA and they both have the same problem.
BTW, don't be surprised - google ain't exactly known for its attention to detail, otherwise they would have made direct control access to the three color leds easier and less stressful on the battery.

settings>location services>google`s location service, gps sat, location & google search.
check it all, and thank me !!!

dextroz said:
You are not alone - I have two yakju stock-stock android phone with T-mobile USA and they both have the same problem.
BTW, don't be surprised - google ain't exactly known for its attention to detail, otherwise they would have made direct control access to the three color leds easier and less stressful on the battery.
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Can you do better?

Roxxer_x46 said:
settings>location services>google`s location service, gps sat, location & google search.
check it all, and thank me !!!
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I've had them all checked on all of my devices and it makes no difference. Setting a static location makes no difference either (the problem still occurs). I don't believe it's a location retrieval issue, rather a data retrieval issue.
A while back the team that did was was soliciting feedback for widget improvements (post Nexus One launch) on the Google support forums, I don't suspect they are still doing that though seeing as how the forum is dead

Same here....on both GB CM7 and ICS 4.0.4 on different phones...lately it almost completely stopped working.
I remember this was an issues 1-2 years ago and google blamed weather.com for this.

kolyan said:
Same here....on both GB CM7 and ICS 4.0.4 on different phones...lately it almost completely stopped working.
I remember this was an issues 1-2 years ago and google blamed weather.com for this.
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I've had the same problem on my Nexus S running ICS and my galaxy nexus. I don't understand how google still hasn't fixed this problem on 4.0.4. Kind of embarrassing that they can't even get a stock widget to work.
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It hasn't worked correctly since it was released with 2.1.
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If you really need the wheather info, go for Go Wheather, works great for me, and get an app for the local news, I did it like that, cause the widget isnt working for me either.

El Daddy said:
It hasn't worked correctly since it was released with 2.1.
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It worked fine on froyo on my nexus one and gingerbread on my nexus s.
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DaLoona said:
If you really need the wheather info, go for Go Wheather, works great for me, and get an app for the local news, I did it like that, cause the widget isnt working for me either.
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I like the fact that its 2 in 1 weather and news.....
my favorite news widget also doesnt work .....the Scrollable News Widget : )

Been having this more and more. Now i can't even put in a zip code as it says can't find location.
i'm running CM9 on SGS2 but happened with all devices. Anyone ever look at a logcat to see where it's trying to get the data from?

Nexus S here, ICS 4.0.4.
Even before I updated to ICS, I've noticed this issue with the weather widget on a daily basis, but now that that I did update, sadly this problem is ongoing. But whereas before (Gingerbread), it updated if I pressed 'try again' a few times, now it's hopelessly not updating. Only thing that seems to work is if I clear the data though the apps and set it up again. Definitely broken. And just like some of you have noted on here (and other posters on other sites), All sync and location features are enabled. I don't have any custom codes running on this phone.
When it does work, I am faced with a secondary problem: I live in a border city (Windsor, Canada), with Detroit being right across from the river, and even though I have a custom location selected, it randomly displays "Detroit" - which annoys me to no end because clearly the custom location does work since it does display it correctly at times. I've tried postal code, I've tried "Windsor, ON, Canada" (which is what the server uses on The Weather Network website). If I switch to 'Use my location', it almost always shows Detroit, with the occasional Windsor showing up. Detroit weather and Windsor weather can be as different as night and day, so it does matter that I am shown the wrong location, for heaven's sake, it's not even the same country!
Anyways, first post on here, hope the feedback helps. Thanks.

I find the problem happens often as well, though it almost seems like for me it's directly related to if it can see a gps signal.
If I'm driving in my car - I tend to be able to get the weather.
If I'm inside at work, or overnight with the phone on the bedstand - no weather information.
Sometimes using GPSTest and clear/update AGPS, then going back to weather settings and refresh will do it... but not consistently enough for me to think they're related.

Question - do you guys have general Sync turned off? I notice that i'll try to sync 10 times and it'll fail but if I turn on Sync in settings it works on the first try.

shotta35 said:
Question - do you guys have general Sync turned off? I notice that i'll try to sync 10 times and it'll fail but if I turn on Sync in settings it works on the first try.
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My Genie widget is fine....I am not sure why you folks are having issues.

My Stock Nexus S weather Widget was fine (with occasional hiccup) until it was updated to ISC 4.0. Now since ISC4.0.3 and even after ISC 4.0.4 the weather widget will not update (yes I've tried all options to no avail!!!) unless I'll reset it and re-add the widget.
I bought other weather apps but none of them have something similar that I like (the next 24hr graph). If anyone has a solution it would be much appreciated. Google does not seem to care...

****ing Google, how hard is it to fix this stupid widget. Its been problematic since Nexus One !

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Yeah. How dare they?!
Oh wait, mine works.

[ROM] MIUIAndroid 2.6.8 TORO

Hey guys, I've taken the GSM Galaxy Nexus beta and have ported it over to the CDMA/LTE version on Verizon Wireless for here in the states.
I can actually release this to say that I'm comfortable with it enough to use it as a daily driver. So here we go.
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Code:
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I'm not responsible if you break your phone, or your self esteem.
Make sure you wipe EVERYTHING. Including, Data, Cache, and Dalvik-Cache.
Fresh Install, let boot and enjoy.
A few important notes, the Download app found in the tools folder prevents you from downloading large apps through the market over the carrier network, simply go into the app settings to disable this if you don't want to connect to a wifi network.
As far as I can tell most everything is working correctly, however if you notice something amiss. Leave a note here.
Known Issues:
Gallary FC's
Fixed:
Wi-Fi Tether
Airplane mode FC's
GPS
Cheers guys!

I think I will give this a shot a little later. Trying out AOKP b30 right now but can't flash over in the middle of class. haha Looking forward to SOMEONE getting a solid MIUI build for the Gnex Thanks for the work!

Wow looks polished. I'd love to see a fully working MIUI rom that doesn't have all the weird freakouts or horrible battery drainage.
I'm afraid to flash because I get addicted to MIUI very easily and force myself to work through the bugs.
Do you plan on keeping this updated and actually trying to work out the bugs?

player911 said:
Wow looks polished. I'd love to see a fully working MIUI rom that doesn't have all the weird freakouts or horrible battery drainage.
I'm afraid to flash because I get addicted to MIUI very easily and force myself to work through the bugs.
Do you plan on keeping this updated and actually trying to work out the bugs?
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I usually release every Friday, unless life throws me a fastball.
The battery drain was super noticeable in the 2.3.30 build, but I think that it was related to an issue with the CM9 upstream that week. I've since have had acceptable battery life this week.
While it's not perfect I hope to polish it in the coming weeks. Now that Xiaomi is releasing beta builds for the Galaxy Nexus I can build more reliable roms instead of having to splice stuff up for the Nexus S beta. I think most issues should resolve themselves in the coming weeks.

Most MIUI roms I've used in the past (and on other devices) seem they come out with a semi-working rom with a few little bugs, but the dev only updates the MIUI code and never works on fixing the known problems. So after several MIUI version bumps, the bugs just keep piling on until it isn't even worthwhile anymore.
+1 for MIUI officially supporting the GN.
MIUI is super awesome. I'm in love with the dialer, messaging, and music app. The theme support is nice too.

player911 said:
Most MIUI roms I've used in the past (and on other devices) seem they come out with a semi-working rom with a few little bugs, but the dev only updates the MIUI code and never works on fixing the known problems. So after several MIUI version bumps, the bugs just keep piling on until it isn't even worthwhile anymore.
+1 for MIUI officially supporting the GN.
MIUI is super awesome. I'm in love with the dialer, messaging, and music app. The theme support is nice too.
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I totally understand that. If it's something that's LTE/CDMA galaxy nexus specific I'm going to do anything and everything with in my power to remedy those bugs.
Until Xiaomi fully releases their source code (I think they're planning on doing that sometime this year) I'm left debugging in dalvik byte code land, which can is not for the faint of heart.
I'm glad that this is coming from an official beta. Rather than having to take on the task single handed, there is a whole team in China perfecting the experience for this very hardware.

nice!! thanks!
hope this works since the server is as slow as a snail...46kbps?!?!?!?! my internet is like 40mbps...why?!??!
EDIT: is this the same as the one on the MIUI.us website?

ezcats said:
nice!! thanks!
hope this works since the server is as slow as a snail...46kbps?!?!?!?! my internet is like 40mbps...why?!??!
EDIT: is this the same as the one on the MIUI.us website?
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My mirror is throttled, sorry.
This is the same rom found on miuiandroid.com

Thank you!! I've been running 2.3.23 and I've fallen in love with it, despite the few bugs I've come across. Definitely my daily driver until I get AOKP fever again.
Flashing now. I look forward to the support and use the camcorder all the time so hopefully that's taken care of soon
Thanks again

Does this version of MIUI support themes. The last time I had installing themes made it not work.

I loved MIUI on my fascinate and was waiting for it on the GN. The problem with the other versions was it seemed like the images and UI resolution wasn't playing nice with the phones screen. It didn't seem sharp more like it was blurry. Also 5 x 5 home screens didn't look right.
I really like the themeing MIUI so I'll give this a try tonight after I make my back up and don't need my phone.
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Edit: Google Play FC's :-(
Edit 2: Works after clearing data. Went into xda app to edit this and that forced closed. Opened right after that though.
Tethering isn't working for me. It worked fine on a 2.3.xx version. It seems to turn on wifi but nothing can connect to it and the symbol doesn't show up in the status bar. Theming is sporadic. Neither my status bar, including the pull down menu and toggles nor phone, nor sms theme and it doesn't list local themes even though it has the "Downloaded" banner in the online section. It doesn't set fonts. I've tried several and rebooted several times.
The biggest thing for me however is the nav bar. I do not like the controls at all... I'd much prefer if they were ICS or customizable or even capable of being disabled. I also loved the old miui search opposed to the Google. A choice there would be awesome too.
While I'm here, any chance I could get help setting the language to Japanese instead of English or Chinese?
Thanks a mil for all of your time and hard work.
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Jerol7190 said:
Does this version of MIUI support themes. The last time I had installing themes made it not work.
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For the most part, yes. I've noticed so far that status bar, phone and font doesn't take. Confirmed SMS, home, lock, icons, and boot animations. Really hard to notice unless you're coming straight from another miui.
Edit: SMS theme is not working. Not sure if it was working when I wrote my reply or if I was mistaken but its not working now.
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How is everybody's battery life on this rom? I couldn't even get 6 hours on the other miui roms for some reason and that was with little to no use. Any ideas??
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Wow this is my first time using MIUI and damn it's beautiful. I have heard great things about it. It's really a unique, interesting experience and has some great features. Google could learn a few things. I especially love how the notifications and sms work and how much more control you have over the notification led without a third party application. The lockscreen music player integration and control is extremely awesome as well. Installing imoseyon's lean kernel seemed to help smooth things out a bit too. Thanks for all the hard work porting it and keep up the great work on it.
Also tethering worked fine for me.

What's the different between this and the other miui rom from miui.us?

Status bar not only ignores themes but doesn't keep notifications while ob the home screens. It just has Verizon Wireless on the left. I don't know I missed a call unless I see it on my lockscreen or dock icon.
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Would love to use this, but as with the last release, when I go to downloads it try's to download "Dictionary Update Information" over and over again, eventually resulting in thousands of failed downloads and causing my phone to get very hot. Tried wiping and installing a couple different times with no success.

miketoasty said:
Would love to use this, but as with the last release, when I go to downloads it try's to download "Dictionary Update Information" over and over again, eventually resulting in thousands of failed downloads and causing my phone to get very hot. Tried wiping and installing a couple different times with no success.
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OMG I just noticed this lol. Yep thousands of failed downloads... considering going back to V2.3 :-\
Just found this, apparently you clear data from d/l manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480321&page=37

japaneezy said:
OMG I just noticed this lol. Yep thousands of failed downloads... considering going back to V2.3 :-\
Just found this, apparently you clear data from d/l manager:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480321&page=37
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miketoasty said:
Would love to use this, but as with the last release, when I go to downloads it try's to download "Dictionary Update Information" over and over again, eventually resulting in thousands of failed downloads and causing my phone to get very hot. Tried wiping and installing a couple different times with no success.
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This is caused by the Downloads app that defaults under a tools folder in the home screen
You can prevent it from happening by doing the following
In the Home Launcher screen by default there should be a folder called tools. Within the tools folder (or wherever you may have put it now) there is an app called Downloads.
After entering the App, go ahead and hit the menu button and select "Settings"
Now when you are finally here you have the option to turn off monitoring by deselecting "Data download prompt", or you can set a different value if you want it to control large file downloads if you are on a limited data plan.

I finally got my AOSP/CM look and on touchwiz.....fair warnings, pics in post

Well I finally did it, I got my phone with Touchwiz, but AOSP style/themed, mostly a themed look I guess you'd say
I had to buy a couple or 3 apps but it's well worth it to me, so this is not a free solution, but for me, I'm ok with it, because now it's paid for and I can customize it a lot!
(Note: I am not advertising for these apps just explaining what it does in case someone wants to know before buying.)
Apps I use are:
-(PAY APP) Widgets locker (for the aosp style lock screen),
It also has android style sliders, and Iphone slider style, and of coarse the AOSP circle. You can customize this locker a ton, and add widgets and shortcuts to the lockscreen as well, it's the most intensive customization locker app I've seen yet.
-(PAY APP) Nova Launcher Prime.
I bought the prime because 1: I love it a lot, and 2: the paid version lets me hide apps in the app drawer and I personally use that feature so, as well you can customize the icons to look how you want to in the drawer and on the homescreen as well....other than that free version works fine. but it's good
to support some companies, and this one I highly respect, because they are tried and true.
-A flashable zip that changes the Touchwiz messaging to the AOSP/CM style messaging
I am not sure how to revert back though, so if you flash it your stuck with it as far as I can tell, unless someone figures out how to flash back to stock. I also do not do MMS, but basic sms texting, so I am not sure if that works with this, but I read it did. I also do not remember where I got this file at, but I can host it if someone would like it, just let me know.
-(PAY APP) exDialer (for the dialer of coarse)
Well worth the money to pay for it, because you can theme it as I did to look like the ICS/AOSP/CM style dialer and contacts, paid lets you have more functionality, such as single click dialing,as apposed to 2 step dialing with stock CM/AOSP dialer, you can theme the dialer to a style you like, IE: ICS style, Iphone style, Touchwiz style, etc..., just overall good and has good customization for a dialer.
-Gallery apk file, has the CM/AOSP camera and Gallery in it. It's a simple apk you jsut install it. I can also host this if anyone is interested.
As for the underneath part like settings and such, they are still Touchwiz style but I am using an AIO add-on with 3minit and quicktoggles in it, and gives me the 3 windowed settings and I can also customize the toggles, which are also Touchwiz style.
Some of the internal stuff is Touchwiz and can't be altered. I freeze a few touchwiz things such as gallery, camera, and contacts, but for the most part you can't modify the touchwiz stuff without messing up the system. Overall though it looks and feels more like the AOSP/CM/Stock android look and feel to me.
You can get rid of the contacts, gallery and camera if you wish, but I'd recommend against it, I would just leave them frozen since you may need them later down the road for whatever reason....a good example of this is, contacts......I froze it, then had to un-freeze it because I found out the exDialer would not export/import contacts, so I just un-froze the touchwiz contacts, imported my contacts then re-froze it and it's working fine. if you ever have to export/import though you will have to un-freeze it again, so I'd highly recommend leaving it frozen as well as the other stuff, because it doesn't hurt the system performance or eat up THAT much space when it's frozen and you won't have them in the way of your modified stuff either such as the cm style gallery and camera.
All I really wanted was the base stuff, so there are also other added modifications you can get or do and are a lot simpler than what I haev done such as AOSP mail, AOSP keyboard, AOSP calculator, etc..etc....I just shot for the base of it.
I'm posting pics to see what you all think....let me know, I personally am happy with the results.
I tried to grab a snapshot of every aspect of the system, so hope I covered everything.
This is my lockscreen app I bought called Widgets locker.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I added shortcuts and widgets so you could see it all.
The winamp player is a shortcut, The circle is built into the app, and you can customize each of the 5 around the circle, the other things are app shortcuts.
Each one works within the lock screen so it never leaves to the home screen, only the app, and once you finish it goes directly back to the lockscreen. Maps even works with it, I thought that was kinda cool.
This is the modified Touchwiz recent apps clear section, by holding home button down, it comes in the AIO mod I have, and adjusted to use the stock touchwiz icons look.
You can of corse, swipe each one away, or clear all.
This is the stock touchwiz settings with the 3 sections, also in the AIO mod I am using, but it's still the touchwiz look somewhat.
The sliders on the wifi and 4g are kinda messed up, they don't work once you slide them once so the work around is to tap it and go into the settings that way.
Here we have the CM/AOSP style messaging I use, it's a recovery flashable zip.
As stated above once you flash it, I personally do not know 1: if MMS works, as I use only sms, and 2: I don't know how to revert back to stock messaging, so do this at your own risk......I have used this and for sms it works fine, no problems found on my end.
This is of coarse the desktop with a basic wallpaper of choice, and themed icons, using nvoa launcher.
Here is what I meant about some stuff being touchwiz, and can't be changed, not as far as I know of anyways.
Notice the toggles are touchwiz. I'm ok with that though.
This is nova launchers widget drawer
And this is of coarse nova launchers app drawer.
Nothing special here, just typical nova launcher stuff. I just posted them to see the look is all.
This is the CM/AOSP camera.
I froze the Touchwiz camera and gallery and I use this apk instead.
Everything works good on it, and it has panorama, camera, camcorder, and also the photosphere, all of it works fine without lockups or force closes.
This is the CM/AOSP style gallery, also in the apk file above.
The camera and gallery are both in the one apk file.
This is the exDialer app I was referring to. This is the Contacts part of it.
and of coarse here is the dialer part of it
exDialer is ICS themed.
All in all I am very happy with the results.

That's something I'm always trying to achieve. The perfect set-up. I think I get there, but I never do. I don't think I ever will. It's great that you have it like you want it. Good job. It looks great.

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That's something I'm always trying to achieve. The perfect set-up. I think I get there, but I never do. I don't think I ever will. It's great that you have it like you want it. Good job. It looks great.
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Yeah, just keep plugging at it. I spent almost a month of endless trying roms, reflashing to stock, back and forth, because touchwiz just works, and I always seem to have 1: 3g LOS or 2: GPS lock on issues, with most every rom out there. I've tried a ton of them, and always end up reverying back to stock touchwiz. In the meanwhile I was always lookign how to make touchwiz more asop/cm/stock android like, and this is about the closest I could ever come.
I did however find a glitch with this. Not so much a glitch but a I guess you'd call it a hangup.......the touchwiz dialer can't be frozen, becasue somehow it corelates and connects with the dialing process, therefor you can't freeze it or else the dial part of the phone doesn't work, not even with a dialer.....it has to have the stock touchwiz dialer in tact before any dialer apps will work....my gues is the app calls on something from the rom in the dialer part instead of actually being a stand alone dialer.
That being said, useing shortcuts from apps or even stock android, it brings up the dialer of touchwiz, not the dialer app.
Even though the dialer part and contats part looks what the app shows, it's still calling on the dialing and connecting part of the rom.
My guess is it's part of the framework, and a lot of work would have to be done to get it to work like aosp or even use the aosp dialer instead of the stock touchwiz on touchwiz roms, that's why no one has delved into trying to make aosp stuff work on touchwiz, to much working with the framework to be worth the effort.......of coarse if I knew ANYTHING about programming I'd give it a tackle myself, but as much as I try, and I have tried for years to understand the programming end of it, it all just goes directly over my head.
So this is about the closest one can come without actually having aosp/stock android on their phones via touchwiz. The ONLY thing really left to tackle is the dialer/contact part of touchwiz, everything else is taken care of, so I'm hoping someone somewhere can find a resolve to using aosp dialer on touchwiz rom, but I don't hold much in that thought sadly........come all this way and have messaging, camera, and gallery all usable in touchwiz, and not the dialer part.
I've seen a TON of posts about using the aosp dialer in touchwiz, so I'm sure if anyone gets a fix on it or a working version of it for touchwiz roms, it would be a major downloaded file. I'd be on that wagon in a heart beat

Unfortunately I always end up back on TouchWiz as of late. It does just work. I don't have to flash certain kernels or mod to get it working the way it should.
Props to all the devs that do what they do.
I use hangouts for all my messaging, nova prime, and just the stock lock screen. And Google keyboard because Samsung and Swype suck! Also have action launcher pro.
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asd87 said:
Unfortunately I always end up back on TouchWiz as of late. It does just work. I don't have to flash certain kernels or mod to get it working the way it should.
Props to all the devs that do what they do.
I use hangouts for all my messaging, nova prime, and just the stock lock screen. And Google keyboard because Samsung and Swype suck! Also have action launcher pro.
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Yeah I do the same, always end up on Touchwiz, simply because it just works correctly.
This way I have now is still GC01 touchwiz, just using apps and such to get the aosp look and feel, so it's not really aosp, although it still gives the impression of it.

easyrider77 said:
Yeah I do the same, always end up on Touchwiz, simply because it just works correctly.
This way I have now is still GC01 touchwiz, just using apps and such to get the aosp look and feel, so it's not really aosp, although it still gives the impression of it.
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Hey, that's not fair you are cheating! The fun part of the AOSP game on our device is to find out what doesn't work or stops working when you need it most!!
J/K glad you finally found something you like

easyrider77 said:
Yeah, just keep plugging at it. I spent almost a month of endless trying roms, reflashing to stock, back and forth, because touchwiz just works, and I always seem to have 1: 3g LOS or 2: GPS lock on issues, with most every rom out there. I've tried a ton of them, and always end up reverying back to stock touchwiz. In the meanwhile I was always lookign how to make touchwiz more asop/cm/stock android like, and this is about the closest I could ever come.
I did however find a glitch with this. Not so much a glitch but a I guess you'd call it a hangup.......the touchwiz dialer can't be frozen, becasue somehow it corelates and connects with the dialing process, therefor you can't freeze it or else the dial part of the phone doesn't work, not even with a dialer.....it has to have the stock touchwiz dialer in tact before any dialer apps will work....my gues is the app calls on something from the rom in the dialer part instead of actually being a stand alone dialer.
That being said, useing shortcuts from apps or even stock android, it brings up the dialer of touchwiz, not the dialer app.
Even though the dialer part and contats part looks what the app shows, it's still calling on the dialing and connecting part of the rom.
My guess is it's part of the framework, and a lot of work would have to be done to get it to work like aosp or even use the aosp dialer instead of the stock touchwiz on touchwiz roms, that's why no one has delved into trying to make aosp stuff work on touchwiz, to much working with the framework to be worth the effort.......of coarse if I knew ANYTHING about programming I'd give it a tackle myself, but as much as I try, and I have tried for years to understand the programming end of it, it all just goes directly over my head.
So this is about the closest one can come without actually having aosp/stock android on their phones via touchwiz. The ONLY thing really left to tackle is the dialer/contact part of touchwiz, everything else is taken care of, so I'm hoping someone somewhere can find a resolve to using aosp dialer on touchwiz rom, but I don't hold much in that thought sadly........come all this way and have messaging, camera, and gallery all usable in touchwiz, and not the dialer part.
I've seen a TON of posts about using the aosp dialer in touchwiz, so I'm sure if anyone gets a fix on it or a working version of it for touchwiz roms, it would be a major downloaded file. I'd be on that wagon in a heart beat
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Wow dude you put a lot of wok into this. I have a suggestion about the phone but it might brick your phone. Let me try it myself...
I'm glad you got it working ^•^
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Never mind!
Didn't work at all. The only way to do it is to install a kit Kat phone dialer and hide the other dialer ^-^
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Wow dude you put a lot of wok into this. I have a suggestion about the phone but it might brick your phone. Let me try it myself...
I'm glad you got it working ^•^
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Never mind!
Didn't work at all. The only way to do it is to install a kit Kat phone dialer and hide the other dialer ^-^
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Heh, thanks, yeah I searched hi and low to try and get things the aosp way. I'm still itching ta put on an aosp rom, but every time i do I always get gps lock-on issues and/or 3g los issues. I think I've tried every rom out there, and every one (for me) has either the gps lock-on or 3g los signal, most of them have the gps lock-on issue, as apposed to the 3g los though, while some have both and some jsut the 3g los.
The 3g los is weird for me though, it's not a full blown los, it's more a flicker affect...it flickers in and out, other times it just gets lost in limbo, while the 3g signal still shows it's connected.
I worked on this setup about an hour in all I think it was, looking and searching and trying things out. I already had the AIO tweak, so that part was done, the hard part was finding a messenger, dialer and camera. Wish I could get the aosp dialer to work in touchwiz, that's all that's left really, other than the settings. If someone could jsut get the aosp/cm dialer to work in touchwiz, so many people would be on cloud nine.
I keep hoping that dastin will fix the 3g los issue, but it hasn't happened yet, otherwise I'd be on the kitkat version of his.
I also get the 3g los issue in cm10.2 now as well as hood pope, so not sure what's going on. I tried beanstalk and couldn't get the gps to work right, again the lock-on issue, revolt had the gps issue as well, Slimbean had the 3g and gps issue I think it was....One other one that everything worked on, started with an S< and was VERY basic aosp, but got pulled because the sorce I think it was.
I am (paycheck providing) next week on Friday upgrading to an s3, so I'm hoping that the gps lock-on issue works better on it than it does this s2.
Weird how some s2's have the issue, and others don't.....same company, same model/make, one has it other does not.
I guess that's why it's kinda hard to track down, is because while some with the EXACT same phone say "I have no issues with this or that" others say "I have this issue, or that issue"
Everything is touchwiz, except for the parts that are CM/AOSP.
Gallery, Camera, Messaging are all aosp/cm, dialer+contacts is an app, lockscreen is an app, the rest is the launcher and touchwiz.

easyrider77 said:
Heh, thanks, yeah I searched hi and low to try and get things the aosp way. I'm still itching ta put on an aosp rom, but every time i do I always get gps lock-on issues and/or 3g los issues. I think I've tried every rom out there, and every one (for me) has either the gps lock-on or 3g los signal, most of them have the gps lock-on issue, as apposed to the 3g los though, while some have both and some jsut the 3g los.
The 3g los is weird for me though, it's not a full blown los, it's more a flicker affect...it flickers in and out, other times it just gets lost in limbo, while the 3g signal still shows it's connected.
I worked on this setup about an hour in all I think it was, looking and searching and trying things out. I already had the AIO tweak, so that part was done, the hard part was finding a messenger, dialer and camera. Wish I could get the aosp dialer to work in touchwiz, that's all that's left really, other than the settings. If someone could jsut get the aosp/cm dialer to work in touchwiz, so many people would be on cloud nine.
I keep hoping that dastin will fix the 3g los issue, but it hasn't happened yet, otherwise I'd be on the kitkat version of his.
I also get the 3g los issue in cm10.2 now as well as hood pope, so not sure what's going on. I tried beanstalk and couldn't get the gps to work right, again the lock-on issue, revolt had the gps issue as well, Slimbean had the 3g and gps issue I think it was....One other one that everything worked on, started with an S< and was VERY basic aosp, but got pulled because the sorce I think it was.
I am (paycheck providing) next week on Friday upgrading to an s3, so I'm hoping that the gps lock-on issue works better on it than it does this s2.
Weird how some s2's have the issue, and others don't.....same company, same model/make, one has it other does not.
I guess that's why it's kinda hard to track down, is because while some with the EXACT same phone say "I have no issues with this or that" others say "I have this issue, or that issue"
Everything is touchwiz, except for the parts that are CM/AOSP.
Gallery, Camera, Messaging are all aosp/cm, dialer+contacts is an app, lockscreen is an app, the rest is the launcher and touchwiz.
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Seems odd but even on the same chips therein lie minute differences that make them unique. So your device will be different and it will work in some Roms better than other. It also does not help that this phone's users seem to crave cutting edge over stability (my self included). So although we have kit Kat and nightlies and unofficial builds for everything we actually have nothing as stable as touch whiz. Mostly because it's funner to add features than to fix and debug. I'm currently working on an honest to god vanilla build for this device and I want to make it stable over feature rich since I believe xposed does that. But my I internet has be so poor lately ? it'd take me weeks to sync the aosp source... It'd be easier if I had a laptop ? but oh well. That's life. Good luck with your gs3 I want to upgrade as well. Probably something nexus
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Can you replace Blinkfeed with Google Now?

Hi HTC 10 users. Can Blinkfeed be replaced with Google Now. Currently have a Nexus 6p and do love swiping right to quickly find my weather, travel etc information. Cheers for the help

You could simply press and hold home button for Google Now. Just a thing to get used to. Since blinkfeed is a part of prism HTC launcher, I don't think this can be easily done
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Sure you can. Just install GNL. takes about 30 seconds.
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Google Now Launcher.. Will be just like the nexus.

I am also interested in using Sense and replacing the Blinkfeed window with Google Now Tabs. You can easily turn off Blinkfeed tab and add a blank screen next to it and apply the Google Now widget. The problem with this appears to be that while the GN widget shows weather or one tab, you need to click the screen to get the 'More cards'. Even tho the widget reports using whole screen when you press and hold on it, during actual use it only shows a 4x1 or 4x2 size. Is anyone else experiencing this?
The GN Launcher is nice, but if you use that you can't use the HTC clock which I do like too. It seems like the widget should work.

If you root and flash xposed, you can install "Sense Toolbox." There is an option under "Various mods" to unblock HTC widgets for use in other launchers.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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bsims85 said:
If you root and flash xposed, you can install "Sense Toolbox." There is an option under "Various mods" to unblock HTC widgets for use in other launchers.
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I see, thanks for the tip. Having ran deep down the rooting and romming trail years back on my Evo, I'm not ready to do that yet.
Suppose I stick with Sense, is there a way to get the Google Now screen to work properly, or is it just not working properly on my phone?

Google launcher
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Yes, GNL works as directed, but then HTC widgets don't without rooting. The question here is about the functionality of the Google now screen under the Sense Launcher...it only seems to half work and doesn't take up whole screen. Trying to get a confirmation on that from another 10 user, maybe it's just me.

Post a screenshot I have no issue with mine
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I personally don't use GNL, but I just installed to see if it I had any issues and it seems to be working fine.
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Having come from a GPE Rom on my M8, I missed having Google Now on the pane to the left as well. I installed Nova Launcher and placed the Google Now widget on the left swipe pane and I was also able to place the HTC weather clock widget on my home screen. While it is true that the GN widget only shows a few cards, at least it's right there and no need to retrain my muscle memory...
One more note, I actually really liked the Sense Blinkfeed on my M8, but I had a hard time falling in love with the new News Republic service. I actually hated it, hence the switch to a different launcher. Unfortunate...

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Post a screenshot I have no issue with mine
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bsims85 said:
I personally don't use GNL, but I just installed to see if it I had any issues and it seems to be working fine.
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Agreed, GNL works fine as designed. That's not quite the issue. I am trying to determine if the widget works the same in Sense and GNL.
Ok here's two screenshots.
First, using the GNL, this is what Google Now screen (swipe left screen): All cards are there if I scroll down etc.
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Using default Sense launcher with GN widget, this is what my GN screen looks like (swipe left screen): Only shows a 4x1 card, yet whole screen is active if, I click anywhere on screen, it launches GN. then looks like first pic. If you click and hold the widget, it outlines as if it is taking whole screen. Yes, it works, but there's an extra step, and wasted screen, may as well just use an icon.
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Agreed, GNL works fine as designed. That's not quite the issue. I am trying to determine if the widget works the same in Sense and GNL.
Ok here's two screenshots.
First, using the GNL, this is what Google Now screen (swipe left screen): All cards are there if I scroll down etc.
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Using default Sense launcher with GN widget, this is what my GN screen looks like (swipe left screen): Only shows a 4x1 card, yet whole screen is active if, I click anywhere on screen, it launches GN. then looks like first pic. If you click and hold the widget, it outlines as if it is taking whole screen. Yes, it works, but there's an extra step, and wasted screen, may as well just use an icon.
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I was actually referring to downloading GNL and using the sense widgets within that. But I guess that wouldn't really interest you since you're not rooted. As far as the GN widget on sense, you can resize that widget to get rid of the wasted space.
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Android The Greek said:
Post a screenshot I have no issue with mine
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I was actually referring to downloading GNL and using the sense widgets within that. But I guess that wouldn't really interest you since you're not rooted. As far as the GN widget on sense, you can resize that widget to get rid of the wasted space.
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It appears to be sized to take whole screen already, when I press and hold the grips are full screen sized. Hence the confusion.

replacing blinkfeed with google now
1st, i was/am a long time xda member with hundreds of post. somehow my account got messed up. xda would not reply to any of my emails to fix it so i had to start over as new user. useless info to most of you. i get it. just want get the "newbie" issue out of the way. looooong time nexus 5 owner. just got the HTC 10. love it. rooted and leedroid custom rom. i'm also a lover of google now. i hate blinkfeed. i didn't see the answer i was looking for. if i missed it, my apologies. i want to keep the sense launcer, but replace the blinkfeed panel with google now like i had on my nexus 5. the sense toolbox says that it's not compatible with android 6. so long question short, is there a way of keeping the sense launcher and replace the blinkfeed panel with google now? thanks and sorry for the long post.

bsims85 said:
If you root and flash xposed, you can install "Sense Toolbox." There is an option under "Various mods" to unblock HTC widgets for use in other launchers.
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I thought that wasn't for HTC 10?

i tried as well
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I thought that wasn't for HTC 10?
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i just downloaded it and it says not compatible with android 6.

Jim.yes said:
1st, i was/am a long time xda member with hundreds of post. somehow my account got messed up. xda would not reply to any of my emails to fix it so i had to start over as new user. useless info to most of you. i get it. just want get the "newbie" issue out of the way. looooong time nexus 5 owner. just got the HTC 10. love it. rooted and leedroid custom rom. i'm also a lover of google now. i hate blinkfeed. i didn't see the answer i was looking for. if i missed it, my apologies. i want to keep the sense launcer, but replace the blinkfeed panel with google now like i had on my nexus 5. the sense toolbox says that it's not compatible with android 6. so long question short, is there a way of keeping the sense launcher and replace the blinkfeed panel with google now? thanks and sorry for the long post.
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Your ability to ask the exact same question as the original post may have something to do with the life story you gave prior to repeating it.

If you're going down the gnl route then check out the pixel launcher. It's quite slick and intuitive, especially if you're left handed (Google on the left for some reason) also if you do use a second launcher, iirc you lose your HTC widgets, as in theyre not selectable.