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Forum pool on when we get an official ICS update

I read the forum rules and online gambling isn't mentioned. Any good guesses on when we will be getting 4.0? I am betting $5.00 on 3/30/12.

I'll take the end of February for $0.00... They have to add all the unneeded bloatware.

Way too optimistic dates above me ^

Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released

as soon as bubby finishes cm7 they can do ics, lmao

$5 we won't see it until August

xSaint21 said:
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
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You beat me to it ISaint! That's what happened with official Gingerbread on the Epic. After I got this phone it got released after like 10 leaks
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What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.

What about never. Lol. Who knows maybe Sammy will surprise us and drop it on us soon.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Besides Bubby, it Looks like Darchstar is working on an ICS build
https://github.com/darchstar
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I will take May 16.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Okay, then you just throw on the Trebuchet launcher from CM9, or even the vanilla ICS launcher, and your problems are solved.
Dang, you wouldn't even have to have Root for that. Just like when I bought this phone: Touchwiz 4.0 didn't even make it out of the Best Buy parking lot before I had ADWEX running. (and Touchwiz 4 actually had a slim chance of survival, because it's the best version they've made so far, to be sure.....)
However, ADW won out merely because of the sheer speed factor.
(And yes, I know that Touchwiz is still there, lurking underneath, but it's really almost transparent compared to HTC's Sense or Motorola's Blur thing....)
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EDIT: Oh, yeah, the pool for "official" release: February 21st.

I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Official ICS? I'm guessing April or May probably.
Unofficial? January is looking pretty likely so far.

raghucares said:
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....

I was told we will not have it until ....wait for it....sometime in April the latter part of the month. QUOTE me on this
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eao1991 said:
$5 we won't see it until August
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that's more like it! 6-9 months for me as well. gentleman's bet of course though.

My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
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bluefire808 said:
Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
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My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
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Launch date is no fun to talk about. If you are waiting for the update you are in the wrong website.
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Icon Size and Text removal AKA Bigify for Android?

Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:

This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Ls1ssz28 said:
This actually would be very nice as it bothers me when the apps name is cut off because it's too long.. So being able to remove the text would be great!
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Apex Launcher allows you to remove the app text or modify the title/icon. You cannot rotate it though.

Op running a different launcher has no actual problems
Say your using nova as default the phone won't have stock tw launched running in the background unless you open again
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I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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It's what you asked for. They honestly helped you as much to their abilities.
That being said if you want angled apps look into making it yourself. I know that is not much of a answer you're looking but as of right now as far as I have seen there are no apps or mods to rotate apps.

eMi111 said:
I am sorry but how are these answers to my question? As far as I am reading it correct I need to have a launcher and I cannot get a any angle and no name icons at the same time
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There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU

Ascertion said:
There's one launcher that'll let you have the customization you want. It's rather expensive though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU
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Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip

Very nice
It does look pretty amazing! I might give it a whirl this weekend when I get paid.....still worth getting.

evoer said:
Thats truly an amazing launcher, no other one allows such customization, I gotta have it. Thanks for the tip
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Price is a bit high but I took the plunge and I believe it can only get better love it so far.
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Well, thank you all. I guess there is no way for me to achieve what I want without running a launcher on top of my ROM. :thumbup:
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eMi111 said:
Anyone came up with an app for this?
I am not a fan of launchers running on top of any ROM and I read a lot about issues with apps and playstore after using LCD Density.
I currently switched from iPhone to Galaxy S3 and while the phone is great, icons are just not adequate to the screen.
There is an app called Bigify for iOS, is there anything at least similar for Android devices?
The main 3 options I am looking for:
1. change icon size
2. change angle of the icons by xy degrees (it looks fantastic!)
3. remove icon text
Here is a SS:
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Root your phone install a recovery and install paranoid android, google it, i think youll like it.

I got TFS Launcher and it runs great. I do have one question though.... Isn't there always a Launcher running over a rom? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to run any apps.
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Extinction of TouchWiz ROMs

So has development of TW ROMs stopped? Is there not any mods or tweaks left to make a unique TW ROM? I'm kind of getting bored of having the same styled ROMs because honestly all CM based ROMs are pretty much the same because of the fact that they are all CM based obviously. It was nice having TW and CM7. Then getting CM9 and CM10 and now CM10.1 but it seems that all the ROMs have the same basic settings and themes.
Avatar ROM was a little different and I liked it but not too much different since its also CM10.1 based. What I'm really looking for is a TW ROM with all the mods that they're used to be like the lockscreens and clock position in status bar and all the little things that made TW ROMs better. Do any of those even exist anymore for any phone?
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You not so satisfied with The People's and Legacy? I don't use them but they still seem popular after all this time.
And why not take time to theme and mod CM ROMs yourself? Themes, lockscreen mods, launchers and widgets are scattered around for you to revamp the experience. Personally I don't like non-AOSP style, but to imitate a GS3 I downloaded a "GS3-Addon", did a bit modification to it and flashed upon a CM10 nightly, which in the end turned out to be REALLY, REALLY similar experience to the real TouchWiz 5!
Just saying, you can try similar tricks yourself, though it takes some time
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AndyYan said:
You not so satisfied with The People's and Legacy? I don't use them but they still seem popular after all this time.
And why not take time to theme and mod CM ROMs yourself? Themes, lockscreen mods, launchers and widgets are scattered around for you to revamp the experience. Personally I don't like non-AOSP style, but to imitate a GS3 I downloaded a "GS3-Addon", did a bit modification to it and flashed upon a CM10 nightly, which in the end turned out to be REALLY, REALLY similar experience to the real TouchWiz 5!
Just saying, you can try similar tricks yourself, though it takes some time
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Could you post a screenshot of your TW 5? I'd like to see how close you've gotten. And your right about all that but I'm honestly just missing the good old TW ROMs that had amazing battery life and many tweaks and themes and stuff. I used to theme TW ROMs and worked on a few mods and I was doing pretty good but that was last summer. Since I started college I haven't really had much free time to work on that kind of stuff.
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lilajrestnom said:
Could you post a screenshot of your TW 5? I'd like to see how close you've gotten.
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Not SO close actually TW-specific apps are mostly missing. But apps like S Note, Super Video (floating video player on S3), TW5 launcher and widgets are all there. More I can't remember.
I'll post screenshots 2 days later as we're having tests these days and my E4G is currently on CM10.1 so I have to restore the nandroid backup.
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AndyYan said:
Not SO close actually TW-specific apps are mostly missing. But apps like S Note, Super Video (floating video player on S3), TW5 launcher and widgets are all there. More I can't remember.
I'll post screenshots 2 days later as we're having tests these days and my E4G is currently on CM10.1 so I have to restore the nandroid backup.
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Its cool don't worry about the screenshots.
Do you know a way to get the lockscreen on cm10.1 to be like it was on 10 and 9? I mean to have the rings with the shortcuts before the actual unlock pattern? Is there a way to change that? I wanna start working on my ROM to make it the way I actually want.
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lilajrestnom said:
Its cool don't worry about the screenshots.
Do you know a way to get the lockscreen on cm10.1 to be like it was on 10 and 9? I mean to have the rings with the shortcuts before the actual unlock pattern? Is there a way to change that? I wanna start working on my ROM to make it the way I actually want.
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nope, I don't know how to make it like that, sorry.
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I believe there is an option for that in settings-->lock screen somewhere in that menu
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phonehunter59 said:
I believe there is an option for that in settings-->lock screen somewhere in that menu
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It's not there in CM10.1, I checked.
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@lilajrestnom Hey I have an idea. Settings - Lockscreen - check "Maximize widgets". In this way you'll have to long press the lock icon on the bottom of the screen to bring up the lock security, which I think is just what you want. This is tested to work with "pattern" lock security.
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AndyYan said:
@lilajrestnom Hey I have an idea. Settings - Lockscreen - check "Maximize widgets". In this way you'll have to long press the lock icon on the bottom of the screen to bring up the lock security, which I think is just what you want. This is tested to work with "pattern" lock security.
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Ya I've done that and that's the closest I can get to what I actually want. I really just wanted the real rings before the pattern lock but it seems like that's the best I can do for now thanks tho.
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Touchwiz "friendly" launchers

Does anyone know of a launcher out there that would enable the ability to employ some aspects of or even widgets within the touchwiz launcher?
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Never heard of any other launcher that can use the Touchwiz exclusive widgets

bummer okay thanks man... btw this is the correct forum isnt it? or is that your sig?
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Never heard of any other launcher that can use the Touchwiz exclusive widgets
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nycdave said:
bummer okay thanks man... btw this is the correct forum isnt it? or is that your sig?
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He has moved your post to the correct section.
Most launcher that I've used support widgets that the twz launcher use.

baseballfanz said:
He has moved your post to the correct section.
Most launcher that I've used support widgets that the twz launcher use.
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I assume he means widgets specific to Touchwiz like Accuweather and a few others. Although Accuweather does now have one on the Play Store, just not as nice as the Touchwiz version. There are a couple of others that disappear from your widget list switching from Touchwiz to say Nova or Apex.

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I assume he means widgets specific to Touchwiz like Accuweather and a few others. Although Accuweather does now have one on the Play Store, just not as nice as the Touchwiz version. There are a couple of others that disappear from your widget list switching from Touchwiz to say Nova or Apex.
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Ah OK I see. Though he was asking about widgets in general. My bad.

kenny yes! id love to be able to keep the sammy keyboard and camera modes (drama, bestface, etc) in a perfect world id have it all working on CM10. tell me i can have at least a little perfection
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I assume he means widgets specific to Touchwiz like Accuweather and a few others. Although Accuweather does now have one on the Play Store, just not as nice as the Touchwiz version. There are a couple of others that disappear from your widget list switching from Touchwiz to say Nova or Apex.
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nycdave said:
kenny yes! id love to be able to keep the sammy keyboard and camera modes (drama, bestface, etc) in a perfect world id have it all working on CM10. tell me i can have at least a little perfection
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It is not the launcher that causes you to lose those, it is the ROM. You need to stick with a Touchwiz ROM, or find a developer to port the camera to AOSP removing all touchwiz dependencies or find a camera add on from Play that is close. But what launcher you use has no bearing on those things.

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It is not the launcher that causes you to lose those, it is the ROM. You need to stick with a Touchwiz ROM, or find a developer to port the camera to AOSP removing all touchwiz dependencies or find a camera add on from Play that is close. But what launcher you use has no bearing on those things.
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do you know of any?

[Q] enhancing the Google Edition experience

For those of you who've tried the Google edition Roms for the M919, you know that these are some of the best ways to enjoy a stable 4.3 Nexus-like experience on our phone. I personally enjoy the VirginRom, thanks to it's stability and also the patience and kindness of its developer, Mr. Virginia (check out his thread in Dev section).
My question is, what apps or mods do people use to enhance the Nexus experience on these Roms. For example, what app is good for adding notification toggles? Is there a mod for changing quick settings? Etc. Thanks.

Dr. Fed said:
For those of you who've tried the Google edition Roms for the M919, you know that these are some of the best ways to enjoy a stable 4.3 Nexus-like experience on our phone. I personally enjoy the VirginRom, thanks to it's stability and also the patience and kindness of its developer, Mr. Virginia (check out his thread in Dev section).
My question is, what apps or mods do people use to enhance the Nexus experience on these Roms. For example, what app is good for adding notification toggles? Is there a mod for changing quick settings? Etc. Thanks.
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For quick toggles, get widgetsoid, change it to black and put notification icon to none and you have a touchwiz/jb like status bar
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MrPapito429 said:
For quick toggles, get widgetsoid, change it to black and put notification icon to none and you have a touchwiz/jb like status bar
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Cool, I'll check widgetsoid out. Haven't used it since Froyo. I was using Settings Extended, simple and nice looking. But maybe Widgetsoid allows for larger toggles.
Too bad stock Android doesn't allow for Quick Settings customization, like CM 10.1 and CM 10.2. It just makes sense.

Dr. Fed said:
Cool, I'll check widgetsoid out. Haven't used it since Froyo. I was using Settings Extended, simple and nice looking. But maybe Widgetsoid allows for larger toggles.
Too bad stock Android doesn't allow for Quick Settings customization, like CM 10.1 and CM 10.2. It just makes sense.
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