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[Q] ROM request to devs who might care

I have tried a bunch of ROMs and have liked many features of each of these but now I know what I really want and would be eager to try a ROM that might be the closest in terms of fulfilling my needs below:
1. A combined mail inbox & a combined mail widget. This is extremely critical and is the main reason I stick with the Incdoes sense despite other issues (camera, force closes) and I have not seen it in others except Cyanogen (but the limitation was it showed only 30days email, not all)...
A gmail widget too - strange that there is none currently from android. Very odd. In fact, why cant I just have 1 combined inbox and 1 combined widget for all my 5 email accounts (2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail)?
2. The bottom launcher row (think they call it ROSIE) should be 5 icons - 3 is just a waste of space, I want buttons for:
a. Phone
b. App drawer
c. SMS/MMS app
d. Email
e. Contacts
I have seen these floating around but not sure which 5 icon rows are compatible with which ROMs...
3. Functioning camera (ID has not been able to solve this yet, fingers crossed)
4. Stability (tired of phone rebooting once in a while)
5. Very good battery life (surprised that my jailbroken and heavily modded iphone 4 has much better battery life than the droid inc - its not even close)
6. A theme such as rEVOlution (love this theme)
7. Fast as a bat out of hell (but obviously)
8. Smooth, minimal lags, no jerkiness (Obviously)
9. Reboot options built into power button press (recovery, etc)
10. HTC or Google News kind of app & widget with google reader sync (hated newsrob and other market google reader apps and love the news widget in the desire hd port - another reason I cant move away from it).
11. Friendstream or similar widget for facebook and twitter - many people dont seem to like the htc widget but its perfect for me.
12. At least 7 home screens - cyanogen had just 5 - not enough for me... And why do all the ROMs stop at 7?
13. App organization within the App drawer. Sorry google, but alphabetic only sorting is not good enough. Can anybody help with this?
People, please feel free to add your list of desired features and hopefully the ROM devs will add the features many of us request.

I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. No seriously though. I am creating a ROM. I'm new at this so it might take a while though. It will be called conical. I have thread going about it.
Sent from my ADR6300 using Virtuous 3.01 through XDA App

hahahaha. i know it was long. i know i know. just could not stop myself once i started. will def check out your ROM.

2 - Have you tried Launcher pro? You can customize the dock icons to whatever you want.
5 - Mostly life is related to your kernel. Try KK#5 w/ setCPU
I've been using uncommon sense for a few days and it seems to hit on quite a few of your point.
Good luck!

khanam said:
I have tried a bunch of ROMs and have liked many features of each of these but now I know what I really want and would be eager to try a ROM that might be the closest in terms of fulfilling my needs below:
1. A combined mail inbox & a combined mail widget. This is extremely critical and is the main reason I stick with the Incdoes sense despite other issues (camera, force closes) and I have not seen it in others except Cyanogen (but the limitation was it showed only 30days email, not all)...
A gmail widget too - strange that there is none currently from android. Very odd. In fact, why cant I just have 1 combined inbox and 1 combined widget for all my 5 email accounts (2 gmail accounts, 1 exchange, 1 yahoo, 1 hotmail)?
2. The bottom launcher row (think they call it ROSIE) should be 5 icons - 3 is just a waste of space, I want buttons for:
a. Phone
b. App drawer
c. SMS/MMS app
d. Email
e. Contacts
I have seen these floating around but not sure which 5 icon rows are compatible with which ROMs...
3. Functioning camera (ID has not been able to solve this yet, fingers crossed)
4. Stability (tired of phone rebooting once in a while)
5. Very good battery life (surprised that my jailbroken and heavily modded iphone 4 has much better battery life than the droid inc - its not even close)
6. A theme such as rEVOlution (love this theme)
7. Fast as a bat out of hell (but obviously)
8. Smooth, minimal lags, no jerkiness (Obviously)
9. Reboot options built into power button press (recovery, etc)
10. HTC or Google News kind of app & widget with google reader sync (hated newsrob and other market google reader apps and love the news widget in the desire hd port - another reason I cant move away from it).
11. Friendstream or similar widget for facebook and twitter - many people dont seem to like the htc widget but its perfect for me.
12. At least 7 home screens - cyanogen had just 5 - not enough for me... And why do all the ROMs stop at 7?
13. App organization within the App drawer. Sorry google, but alphabetic only sorting is not good enough. Can anybody help with this?
People, please feel free to add your list of desired features and hopefully the ROM devs will add the features many of us request.
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Sounds like you need Virtuous 3.0.1 Rom with the Custom Kernel and Launcher Pro (Paid version). This will address these items
#1 - Good luck with this. I like mine seperated but suspect this will be an App thing not a ROM thing...
#2 - Launcher Pro has up to 15 customizable dock buttons (three 5 button docks)
#3 - Camera works great (720p video too)
#4 - The custom kernel is stable and the ROM is only lightly modded so less to crash
#5 - I use SetCPU and underclock my phone to 806Mhz and my phone is still smooth and has much better battery life (Also use screen off profile to set 384Mhz)
#6 - Revolution Theme is an option through Rom Manager for this ROM. Easily flashed.
#7 - Battery Life and Speed will be a trade off. I find the ROM smooth and nice to use.
#8 - See #7 (Sort of redundant)
#9 - Easily done with a mod that works with Virtuous. I have it on mine and was as simple as a flash through ROM manager. Also smooth sense Icons mod works so I have % on my battery icon.
#10 - Good luck with this. This isn't a ROM thing it is an App developer thing and is a serious hole in the Reader Market. I totally agree with you and currently just don't read my Google Reader content on my Phone.
#11 - Launcher Pro has the Twitter, Facebook and Friends widgets you want (Paid for version only but TOTALLY WORTH IT).
#12 - Launcher Pro has up to 7 screens (Not my thing I only use 4 but you can pick any number you want)
#13 - Check out App Folders in the Market. You can use it with Launcher Pro and map the App Drawer to App Folders and then customize away. Want a Games folder in your app drawer? Go for it...
I've used Uncommon Sense and Virtuous a lot and am back on Virtuous 3.0.1 with the custom kernel and Launcher Pro and I am getting batter battery life than I had but as mentioned I've underclocked my phone (except when plugged in) and have the screen off profile max speed at 384.
Just tinker a bit more and you'll get everything you want with what is out there except combined mailboxes and a google reader app worth a crap. Good luck!

Thanks guys. Appreciate still the help! Only thing I can't figure out is how to use app folders with the app drawer. Need some help please. Rest all made sense and have been making those work.
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

khanam said:
Thanks guys. Appreciate still the help! Only thing I can't figure out is how to use app folders with the app drawer. Need some help please. Rest all made sense and have been making those work.
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App
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1) Long hold the app drawer icon in the dock (For Launcher Pro)
2) Click Shortcuts
3) Click Applications Folder
4) Click All Applications Radio Dot
5) Click Menu
6) Click OK
Then you can click the app drawer icon to open app folders as all applications and then start making folders inside the new app drawer presentation.

Thanks! Will try right away.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

[Q] How to remove the "videos" icon from app drawer?

I have tried deleting com.htcstreamplayer.apk from /system/app but the icon in question is still there. I searched on the internet and found a thread talking about the icon is part of htcmusic.apk, so I deleted that too and it is still there.
The persistence of such icons makes me want to free my app drawer of it more badly! So if you can show me how to do it, I am much obliged!

Hello !
I have "upped" the topic because I have the exact same question.
I have rooted my device and was able to delete HTCMusic.apk and a lot more, but I am unable to find which .apk file or which application is launched when the "Videos" icon is pressed.
I would like to froze the application related to that icon. I know it's possible because I've done that for the "Miror" icon (which is in fact a component of the Camera application) in order to make it disappear from the drawer.
Can you help us please ?
Thanks in advance. (Sorry for my English, I'm French).

The solution
Hi all,
I'm sorry to double-post but I've found a solution for those who are still interested (I have an HTC ChaCha, but I believe it also works for Desire HD).
You must download an app remover from the Google Play Store, which includes a feature called "Freeze", and which is able to disable application components.
For example I have paid for ROM ToolBox Pro (it includes the Advanced Freeze feature).
The component used by Video icon is in fact packed into the "Gallery" application : .TabPluginDevice.ActivityAllVideos, you can disable it safely.
After .TabPluginDevice.ActivityAllVideos is disabled, the Videos icon disappears from the drawer.

[Q] What would you like?

Hey guys ,
I am making my first ever ROM and would like to cater to what everybody would like most. I've extracted the rom.zip from the latest WWE RUU, rooted it (by putting the SU.apk and the binary into the ROM) and would like to release it as a completely stock option but still rooted for those people who would like to enjoy Sense with nothing added or removed. (Of course people can change stuff themselves by adding and removing apps, etc.) But yesterday I also thought of another option - making the ROM extremely fast and leaving it with the bare minimum - Calendar, Play Store, Camera, Dialer, Settings, HTC People etc. So I would like to get on to my original question - which would you like to see? Vote in the poll, or if your answer is "other" post your request there.
And if you would like me not to release it as there are too many Sense-based ROMs cluttering up the Android Development section, vote that option and I 'll keep it to myself

I would like a bare bones stock rom, Basically remove as much as you can without causing my app choices to break. and overclock 15%
also if possible make it so when I touch the all apps button, I would like a pop up menu with settings and a button for app screen, also can you code it so I can have pages of apps scroll sideways
adobe reader - remove
app sharing - remove
calculator - remove
calender - remove
call history
camcorder - remove
clock
desk clock
flashlight - remove
fm radio - remove
footprints - remove
friend stream - remove
gallery
gmail - remove
latitude - remove
learn more - remove
mail - remove
maps - remove
messages
navigation - remove
music
news - remove
peep - remove
people
phone
places - remove
play store
quick office - remove
google search - remove
search people - remove
settings
stocks - remove
superuser
talk - remove
teeter - remove
transfer data - remove
videos - remove
voice recorder - remove
weather - remove
wifi hotspot - remove
youtube - remove

Well you can make both and put them on the same thread. Make a lite and a full versions of the same ROM and let people choose.
You can also change the kernel to an overclockable (is that a word ?) Kernel.
Sent from my still alive, ICS capable HTC Wildfire.

OK, I'll make two versions, although I can't make a horizontal app drawer as I'm quite new at making ROMs , but that doesn't mean it can't come in a later update!
Sent from my Wildfire using Tapatalk 2

Actually i would prefer as light as possible rooted ROM..even in cm7 i found couple apps i have never used and could be deleted..
i was stuck on froyo after ota (i didnt know anything about android, even xda ) and since revolutionary/alpharev is available i am on cm7 (now on unofficial cm9) and i was thinking about seeing froyo again, so this is probably my no1 for the moment
little ot, sorry for that, i cant post in dev section, so at first thanks for your and others work on cm9
after flashing cm9 build from 04-15 i found that in settings->about phone the android version says 4.0.3 so i am a bit confused
and i dont know if it was mentioned, but Apex launcher is working also good for me and i found it more customizable than Nova which is in recommended in op...

Cool feature for your stock N4 rom without root or unlocked BL - it really is useful.

So I'm using stock rom, unrooted and BL locked and wanted some way to have more control on my lockscreen without BL unlock, root or custom rom.
Wanted to put weather, SMS unread, calls missed etc....
Well enter UCCW (all credits here go to 'vineetksirohi', his app thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386987)
Here's what you need to do:
1. Activate lockscreen (have it set to slide or PIN etc.. otherwise you obviously do not get the lockscreen and go straight into your homescreen).
2. swipe right so you can see a '+' sign where you can add new pages.
3. press '+' and a list of possible additions will show up, one of them being your UCCW.
4. Select size of UCCW and then the skin you want to apply, and voila you now have a new page (which you can make the default lockscreen page) with anything that is possible with UCCW including working hotspots.-obviously you need to have some UCCW skins to choose from which you would have prepared earlier.
This means you can create a UCCW skins with anything you want and that includes hotspots and it will now be your default lockscreen.
No more need for apps/utilities or custom roms to enable different widgets on the lockscreen since UCCW can do it all for you and with total control on icon to display, hotspot to assign etc... , it will even refresh your weather just as if it was a UCCW skin on your homescreen.....cool !
Have a play and lets see what imaginative use we can make of it.
Attached is a screenshot of my current lockscreen (on stock rom) using the above feature. The 3 icons (calls, sms and gmail) all have hotspots to take me directly into the relevant apps, pressing on the clock launches the alarm directly.. no more need for any shortcut widgets !!
You can press the 'thanks' button if you like the suggestion. Also, apologies if this has been discussed previously but i'm a frequest user on xda and haven't seen it mentioned for the N4 before.
As far as I can see this pretty much kills every app i've come across that is intended to cusomtize the lockscreen, with the added bonus that all android security (like locksreen PINS) are intact and work perfectly.

Cool, its also great for home screens.
Here's my uccw lock screen.
Sent from my stock Nexus 4

Cool! Thanks for heads up

xzyk
can you upload the skin you made?
tnx

hanukas said:
xzyk
can you upload the skin you made?
tnx
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Hi, that's the thing with being able to put UCCW on the lockscreen, the possibilities are many. I've actually changed lockscreen 3 times since that post and never save the uzips since they're so easy to make..

i liked yours
anyway i will try to make it myself
thanks!!

[Q] (ask) multiwindow enabler app

hello, could someone suggest me how to put additional app into multiwindow bar "correctly"? i tried several apps, they go haywire ( instead of the apps that i put, the bar put another wrong apps)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079807

if you are not rooted, you can do that by tuning your favorites app, more info here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732203

The application in question does not work with bunches of applications. I went with the paid release to support the developer, having uninstalled most of the ones I was able to modify.
Sent via my Note 8