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I recently shifted to the ADW launcher because of the unsightly HTC sense dock at the bottom of the screen. But then I am unable to access HTC sense widgets, like the music widget for example. I am aware that I have the option of getting a Pure Music kinda app to solve this problem. But I just wanted to know if there is any way of moving around the HTC Music Widget apk file (or any other file for that matter) so that it is activated in ADW?
I have seen the same (similar) question across a lot of different forums and the answer has always been "NO". But hope springs eternal
Thanks
ucannot have sense widget's if u move onto another launcher
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You can't add sense widgets in another launcher, but may i ask you why do you use adw launcher instead of nova launcher or spex launcher? Adw launcher is so old, is made for gingerbread and froyo. Nova and apex are made only for ICS.
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1ceb0x said:
You can't add sense widgets in another launcher, but may i ask you why do you use adw launcher instead of nova launcher or spex launcher? Adw launcher is so old, is made for gingerbread and froyo. Nova and apex are made only for ICS.
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I guess I just grew comfortable with ADW over the years. Thanks for the suggestion, I shall try out nova / spex.
The result with Nova and Spex will be the same. HTC widgets work with the supplied HTC launcher only.
yeah that's true. But I don't understand why they have to be so microsoftishly possessive that it limits the users customisation needs. The lockscreen for example, I personally find their renowned "ring" quite blingy and there seems to be no way to edit it. So if i install MIUI locker to customise the lockscreen I occassionally have to deal with two lockscreens - first the HTC ring and then whatever else I have set. C'est la vie!
You cannot add sense widgets to adw but do not worry, use apw widgets, these look very similar to sense widgets...
Well as close as you can get without being sued by HTC ofcourse...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdr.widgets.core&hl=en
Thanks sumairmh. I shall give it a shot.
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if apw does not please you then there is Wizz... haven't used it as much but its not bad...
here...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snowbee.colorize.hd&hl=en
Hey thanks again. I tried apw and it was quite nice. But I am specifically looking for a replacement for the Sense music widget. In any case i shall give the wizz a look over.
cant get sense music widget
haulring said:
Hey thanks again. I tried apw and it was quite nice. But I am specifically looking for a replacement for the Sense music widget. In any case i shall give the wizz a look over.
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you can only get a htc sense music widget with the htc sense frame work, i have tryed extracting the .apk from the os and adb installing it but it dosent work
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hey guys im a noob here but i have searched all over..
im looking for a nexus one froyo rom for the evo...
i want evenything to stay the way it is i just want the launcher like the nexus one and the main menu to look like the nexus one froyo.
i know launcher pro has it but i cant add htc widgets to it..
any advice would be appreciated.
CM6 (cyanogen)
o you can't have the htc widgets without sense so if thats what you're really looking for you're stuck using sense. thats the only launcher that allows those widgets
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hey guys im a noob here but i have searched all over..
im looking for a nexus one froyo rom for the evo...
i want evenything to stay the way it is i just want the launcher like the nexus one and the main menu to look like the nexus one froyo.
i know launcher pro has it but i cant add htc widgets to it..
any advice would be appreciated.
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Just out of curiosity, which sense widgets can't you live without?
The thing with cyanogen is that it uses ADW launcher.. some fav it. some dislike it.. i personally dislike it, ill rather have basic 2.2 launcher like the nexus one.
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The thing with cyanogen is that it uses ADW launcher.. some fav it. some dislike it.. i personally dislike it, ill rather have basic 2.2 launcher like the nexus one.
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Not a fan of LauncherPro?
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Not a fan of LauncherPro?
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Haven't had time to try it..
Well, install launcher pro with cm6 and get beautiful widgets.
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Haven't had time to try it..
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Ohhh, give it a shot.. you might like it.. I like, MUCH better than the sense crap. You can use it with Cyano.
I like Zeam launcher.
It's light weight and crazy fast.
And it's home cooked by an xda modder!
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t3project said:
Well, install launcher pro with cm6 and get beautiful widgets.
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Ohhh, give it a shot.. you might like it.. I like, MUCH better than the sense crap. You can use it with Cyano.
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Yeah Launcher Pro and beautiful widgets go together. ADW launcher just got to much of useless stuff for me
EDIT :And BTW. this should be moved in the Questions thread.
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The thing with cyanogen is that it uses ADW launcher.. some fav it. some dislike it.. i personally dislike it, ill rather have basic 2.2 launcher like the nexus one.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7527492&postcount=10
no luck on this i guess?
no roms that got what im looking for ??
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no luck on this i guess?
no roms that got what im looking for ??
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It's not about the rom, it's about wanting a home application that isn't Sense to be able to use Sense's widgets. The standard Nexus One launcher is included in even the stock rom, but you won't be able to load Sense's widgets onto it.
I have one recommendation, check out LauncherPro Plus. It comes with some of its own awesome widgets. They are honestly as good as Sense's calendar, people, bookmarks, and messages widgets. In fact, they look almost too much like a direct copy. You can scroll inside of them and even resize them. If those are the ones you want to keep, LauncherPro is what you want. In every other way, it is much like the stock launcher on Nexus One.
You will lose Friend Stream, but there are other widgets that can approximate that.
I reread your post. You asked for a Nexus One main screen and launcher. By main screen, do you mean the lockscreen? The one you have to drag your finger on to unlock your phone? If not, the home screen and list of programs are both handled by the launcher.
Here is what I would recommend:
Rom:
Cyanogen Mod 6 - It will make all of the menus and applications feel just like what you get on Nexus One.
Apps:
Fancy Widget - It looks and feels exactly like the HTC weather & clock widget that is the default on the main screen.
LauncherPro Plus - CM6 comes with ADW Launcher, which is pretty close to the vanilla Nexus One launcher, but LauncherPro Plus has its own widgets that look and function almost exactly like HTC's widgets.
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no luck on this i guess?
no roms that got what im looking for ??
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I think you may want to clarify exactly what you want. As far as I understood the opening question, it was pretty well answered.
Currently CM6 is the only ROM that is not based on the HTC Sense stock ROM. It is instead based on the open source Android code, just like the Nexus One. There are a few tweaks that Cyanogen has added, like some extra settings, different boot screen, and some cosmetic tweaks. It also uses ADW launcher by default.
However you could just install the stock launcher on cyanogen mod, and other than the settings widget having blue highlights, you are pretty much at stock.
There is no way to use the HTC Sense widgets with anything besides the Sense launcher.
If all you care about is the launcher and lock screen, you can install just about any 2.2 rom, remove htclockscreen from /app/system, install the stock launcher, and you are done. In that case you would still have the HTC messaging, browser, calendar, etc.
I had asked a similar question before but didn't get a clear answer, is there any way to add sense based widgets into adw launchers framework or any file at that to apply them wile running it? I figured it was possible because the .apks run but when I try to add a widget they aren't listed. Any help is much appreciated.
warmZcomb™
I've never been able to do this myself and I've tried a few times....I believe it probably can't be done because sense widgets are baked in as part of sense launcher. It'd be like trying to use launcher pro widgets in got sense UI. They're two separate entities each with their own goodies. I know you can get sense like widgets off the market. But anyways my belief is you can't do this but if you discover otherwise please let me know
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Same boat kinda... The only thing I miss is the calendar that is in month view like in the basic stock.
Yeah I'm sure someone can make it happen though. If I find anything ill be sure to let you know.
warmZcomb™
mar5hal said:
Yeah I'm sure someone can make it happen though. If I find anything ill be sure to let you know.
warmZcomb™
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Nope, they're tied to Rosie, I'm sure.
Use Launcherpro and Beautiful Widgets. Together, they create a very very close imitiation of Rosie. Beautiful Widgets has the people widget and Calendar widget that look exactly like Sense.
And if you like the clock, use Fancy Widget. A whole combination of these on a different ROM will make you think you're using Sense
Yeah I'm just gunna cut my losses and stick with a stock warm z rom. Any good dashboards recommended? I am a fan of the adw honey comb theme
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Nope, they're tied to Rosie, I'm sure.
Use Launcherpro and Beautiful Widgets. Together, they create a very very close imitiation of Rosie. Beautiful Widgets has the people widget and Calendar widget that look exactly like Sense.
And if you like the clock, use Fancy Widget. A whole combination of these on a different ROM will make you think you're using Sense
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Do you mean LP? Beautiful Widgets is pretty much clock and weather.
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Do you mean LP? Beautiful Widgets is pretty much clock and weather.
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LP? Yeah, I just usually do a search for Launcherpro in the Market and it comes up. But if LP makes you happy, let's flash a ROM to celebrate.
As it says I love sense but it.is quote laggy,tried apex launcher which is rapid but.I want the sense.look and if possible access to sense widgets.
So any tips suggestions for great launchers and add on please post here
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try go luncher
well i would of suggested apex but since you do not want to try i tthen try nova or zeam
You won't have access to htc widgets on an alternative launcher. For widgets i use apw for twitter, calender and messages. Very nice.
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Giving nova a try god it is so slick ,if sense was this slick I wouldn't need to change
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Nova with APW and beautiful widgets combined is pretty close to Sense.
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Nova with APW and beautiful widgets combined is pretty close to Sense.
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What's apw
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Looking for something different? Try Touchwiz. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1586907
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What's apw
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Android Pro Widgets
My favorite one is luncher 7 , and this a screenshots from my one x. gr
http://zapodaj.net/125d71e58e7b.png.html
http://zapodaj.net/1d61bfafe061.png.html
combat goofwing said:
Giving nova a try god it is so slick ,if sense was this slick I wouldn't need to change
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apex is far superior...you can't customize as much in nova...
if you have the paid version of apw, it even gives you a timeline widget better than friends widget...
beautiful widget is so much better than stock sense weather widget...i don't get ppl which are so fascinated by the sense widgets...personaly, I don't use any sense widget, there simply are better ones out there...
I just try Nova, my first feeling tell me that Nova is very very similiar to Apex? Any relationship between them?
Go launcher! ..or Espier Launcher(very fast)
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I just try Nova, my first feeling tell me that Nova is very very similiar to Apex? Any relationship between them?
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They are both based off the stock ICS launcher, that's why they are so similar. I personally started using NOVA when it was beta/free and bought Nova Prime, but at the moment i feel Apex is superior, it simply gives you more customization for free.
I love Go Launcher as it allows you to create folders in the app draw. Apex and Nova about the same, but Apex allow the apps to be arranged in vertical scroll which I found more friendly to us than swapping horizontally.
However, my major issue with 3rd party launchers on One X is they have to be re-draw when exit an app once in a while. I guess it must be One X software issue as I've never experience this bug on other android phones.
I like GO Launcher, but not until I root my machine to remove the 3 dot menu, I will not use it.
GO launcher provide more widgets and themes, which is far better than other competitors.
You can try SPB Shell 3D or Yandex Shell. Both of them are same. Yandex Shell is free version of SPB Shell 3D.
Launcher pro app drawer is very laggy on one x
Guys is there anything like CHT2.0 for one.App that change home screen.Wanna have options like adw launcher but to keep sense app drawer and everthing else just need costum home screen any sugestion TY in advance
marko987 said:
Guys is there anything like CHT2.0 for one.App that change home screen.Wanna have options like adw launcher but to keep sense app drawer and everthing else just need costum home screen any sugestion TY in advance
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nope except that you can replace the app drawer in sense using an app...
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Thanks for quick answer but I dont need to change app drawer Need something for homescreen
Not sure but if you could figure out what the intent is to call rosie (sense app drawer) then you could possibly create a LauncherPro shortcut to open it? Any smali gods out there know if this would be possible?
Dunc001 said:
Not sure but if you could figure out what the intent is to call rosie (sense app drawer) then you could possibly create a LauncherPro shortcut to open it? Any smali gods out there know if this would be possible?
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That's pretty much exactly what I am doing. I use Apex Launcher as my launcher, but I have a shortcut created by xShortcuts that launches Rosie for the photo widget. Unfortunately, I don't think you can call a specific screen - you can only call the launcher itself.
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That's pretty much exactly what I am doing. I use Apex Launcher as my launcher, but I have a shortcut created by xShortcuts that launches Rosie for the photo widget. Unfortunately, I don't think you can call a specific screen - you can only call the launcher itself.
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Yup that's the way it is possible but man that's pretty much time you loose by opening sense just for having these sense widgets.
And you have 2 launchers running then since sense will be only killed when you reboot again.
Dunno for what you want that sense widgets but I would look at play store and see if there is a alternative widget which maybe has even a themeable skin?!
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Yup that's the way it is possible but man that's pretty much time you loose by opening sense just for having these sense widgets.
And you have 2 launchers running then since sense will be only killed when you reboot again.
Dunno for what you want that sense widgets but I would look at play store and see if there is a alternative widget which maybe has even a themeable skin?!
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I've been looking for a replacement widget for the HTC album widget for a couple years now and have never found anything. If anyone around here knows of one, I'd love to use it!
SolusCado said:
I've been looking for a replacement widget for the HTC album widget for a couple years now and have never found anything. If anyone around here knows of one, I'd love to use it!
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I am not sure and probably mistaken but you should check out go launcher and it's widgets..
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I am not sure and probably mistaken but you should check out go launcher and it's widgets..
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I used Go Launcher for a while, and it has great Messaging and Email widgets... really everything Sense has, EXCEPT the photo widget.
SolusCado said:
I used Go Launcher for a while, and it has great Messaging and Email widgets... really everything Sense has, EXCEPT the photo widget.
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Well my last tip for you is launcher pro.
There has been a launcher pro which was skinned like sense. But dunno if it had that widget...
There was a Rom for the hd2 that's why I know that one.
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Well my last tip for you is launcher pro.
There has been a launcher pro which was skinned like sense. But dunno if it had that widget...
There was a Rom for the hd2 that's why I know that one.
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Yeah; I tried Launcher Pro too. Same issues as Go Launcher.
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Yeah; I tried Launcher Pro too. Same issues as Go Launcher.
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Okay I am sry I don't know anything else about that
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always used sense but feel like trying some thing different
will have been asked loads but now we have JB, what are people finding the best launcher, icon sets, fonts
dont want to root my phone as i use apps that will not work on rooted devices
looking for a cool launcher with minimalistic icons and font
thanks for any help
I used apex launcher since it comes with some nice features and widgets. I bought it too so more stuff in it. My fav by far
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XxJibblesxX said:
I used apex launcher since it comes with some nice features and widgets. I bought it too so more stuff in it. My fav by far
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I use nova seen as apex wont work for me on jellybean
cobby911 said:
I use nova seen as apex wont work for me on jellybean
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I use nova!:good:
is there a way to change font on these without rooting,would love google catull font but cant root due to needing apps that wont work on rooted devices
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I use nova!:good:
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My vote goes for Nova too.
combat goofwing said:
is there a way to change font on these without rooting,would love google catull font but cant root due to needing apps that wont work on rooted devices
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anyone i want to use cathull font
Nova. Have been testning almost all of the launchers out there. Allways comming back too Nova.
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Nova Launcher and Apex Launcher are head to head usually. Both are excellent. You can also try Holo Launcher HD or the new Action Launcher Pro. Nova, Apex and Holo are all pretty much the same in terms of features, but Action Launcher is something new.
I use Nova Launcher as I got the paid version for 25 cents during the Google Play 25 billion apps sale. It's fast, works well and has all the features I need.
yeah but Nova launcher has some downsizes...isnt so customable has the others ..but the real benefit(Also) is the Battery..nova consume lowest batter of all launcher..so give it a shot because is a nice launcheer...and also u can try NEXT launcher..because is something different.
Im currently using Atom, on ICS i got better battery life than nova.
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I use APEX
why dont u guys use SENSE LAUNCHER ? I like sense beecause it has alot of widgets..and if i change it with NOVA..or apex some widgets will dissaper
nemer12 said:
why dont u guys use SENSE LAUNCHER ? I like sense beecause it has alot of widgets..and if i change it with NOVA..or apex some widgets will dissaper
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The only widget which i miss is the Gallery widget.
Everything else I can find elsewhere.
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i use Nova with different icon packs. i also recommend SS launcher if you are looking for something different.
Personally I just found next launcher quite expensive but a pretty cool launcher and very polished
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Nova Launcher has never let me down...
TSF SHELL:good::good::good::good:
Love next launcher betty slick,can you use nova or apex themes with them
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if you wanna be DIFFERENT, try ssLauncher :good: