Hi,
I've been trying various ROMS and notice that some of them don't have the lockscreen news widget. When trying to use it it either does not work (when trying to make selections in the settings it doesn't allow anything to be selected) or if it is included you can't select Canada as a region (I understand that it may have been originally built from an AT&T firmware which is American). The Facebook lockscreen widget always works, sometimes the Stock one does as well.
My question is more general though, how would I add this separately? I believe it may have been removed and deemed as Bloat, can it be flashed from a ZIP to be re-added?
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Can't yet post in the dev forums so I'm asking here.
Since flashing Juggernaught 4.1 I've lost my news and weather app. Does anyone know how this might have happened? Or have an apk or zip so I can add it back? Thanks
I still have it on my Juggernaut 4.1 phone, if you're talking about the News and Weather Widget. I just touch the screen, select widgets and it's there.
If you're sure it's not on your phone, then the ROM team include an app called Bloater which allows you to reinstall any of the bloatware apps that have been removed. Run it, select T-Mobile SGS2, then select Samsung Apps, and scroll down to the [Widget]News item. If it shows a button that says Install, then click it and install it. If not, then it's already installed.
Good Luck..
Thanks, but that's not the one that's missing for me.
I'm talking about the one that the icon looks like a newspaper. When you launch it gives you the weather with an hourly slider, and when you scroll to the right you get news. Any thoughts?
both of you are talking about the same App
if you lost it or deleted it by accident, you can always pull it from a stock ROM
just download any of the STOCK rom from Dev section, and copy and paste it from there
They are in fact different. The news widget in bloater is the AP news widget. The app is like I described previously. Using bloater to add back the widget does not reinstall the app. I haven't deleted anything, so I'm not sure why it disappeared when I flashed jugg 4.1, but I will try to add it from stock when I get home later.
Hello everyone,
I'm using Android Revolution 6.3.2, S-Eng off a.s.o.
I am trying to add a custom weather location, but I don't know which database to edit in WPDB.zip. I tried to add the location to WP_040EHUN, WP_0407GER and WP_0409WWE so far without success, my phone won't find the new location, which is in Hungary btw. Accuweather.com shows it and all fields I added in the database seem correct, and yet nothing.
Also, does the clock/weather widget only work with current location setting? Because as soon as I disable current location, it doesn't show the weather anymore.
The Weather application still shows and updates the location even after I turn off current location, yet it doesn't show it in the list.
The News & Weather application does the same as the Clock/Weather widget (if current location is off, it doesn't show the weather, it says "no available location").
I suspect this has something to do with Sense rather then the ROM, but anyhow any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
You are right it is a sense issue. I got fed up of the sense weather widget and now use HD widgets or Beautiful widgets. You can make both of them look almost identical to sense and the location works perfectly.
It's quite an easy edit, its the wee one. Once in the db set your lat/long, and name it whatever you want. Then in the weather app and clock, select what you named it in the db.
I'll have a search for the info, and post the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088844
Sent from The App that Time Forgot.
But the whole point of it is to tell you the weather where you are at that moment. That edit is OK if your never leave your own backyard.
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But the whole point of it is to tell you the weather where you are at that moment. That edit is OK if your never leave your own backyard.
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Yeah, but what if I don't want Google to know where I am at any given time? I mean, I'm not paranoid, don't have anything to hide either and I like Android, but I'm trying to let it invade my privacy as less as possible.
Hey, so I'm thinking about trying to develop an application that grabs information from a specific website (all text) and displays it on your lockscreen. (updates daily) Just wondering if it is possible or how hard it is to do that? I know this really doesn't pertain to the gnex, but this is my current phone so my first thought was posting here.
What kind of information do you want to display anyways?
You can use WidgetLocker to modify your lock screen and then add any sort of news widget (or any widget in general). Would save you the trouble of developing something yourself if that's what you're after.
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...
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!!