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SOS !Inverted People & MMS Dont Play Nice

I have tried just about every inverted MMS & Contacts apk out there and they are all wonderful however the contacts handshake portion is being ignored and it allows for the rude white screens with even more rude white fonts to lash out when using contacts.
And then there is the black cursor on a black screen when trying to edit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no developer and I am running both on my phone and just putting up with it because when just reading and sending messages its fine until you go messing with contact's interfaces.
I am calling out for a Developer to please run both an observe the above and toss us a life line.....get inverted contacts to play nice with inverted MMS.

[Q] Possibilty of de-wizzing built-in apps?

So I think my biggest complaint on this phone, in my opinion, is touchwiz. I think its plain ugly and makes my phone look like a cartoon. And the apps like the calculator dialer clock calendar etc. all try desperately in subtle and blatant ways to copy apple, which really irritates me because the stock GB apps worked just fine, and in some ways I think better.
Touchwiz goes far beyond the launcher, and I've done everything I know how to do that I've searched to replace my launcher and excessively theme to make my phone look like ICS and keep touchwiz out of my face...but its still irritating to me to open up my contacts and be greeted with this silly interface that makes dialing and finding contacts a swiping-frenzy joke while the stock GB dialer was perfectly fine, and better IMO.
Coming from the Nexus phones with ICS...Gingerbread is no prize either but I think is much better as far as all those apps go. So my question is if its possible to replace the built in dialer, clock, calendar, calculator with .apks or other files? and If so how I would go about doing it? Thanks everyone.

Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.

minotauri said:
Here's what I do.
Freeze all the touchwiz apps I dont like (i.e. dialer, contacts, launcher, etc.) and I use Apex Launcher and Go Contacts/Go Dialer EX. Works fine, and you can theme that easily.
If you are sporty, you can download a Nexus ICS rom and pull the phone/dialer, contacts, calc, etc. that you like, and try to put it in your system/app folder or data/app folder. havent tried this so it may not work.
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Thats what I think I may do...but I'm probably going to take the stock GB stuff since I'm thinking ICS stuff wouldn't work right on juggs. I'll try to pull the apk's from eugene's CM7 and see what happens.

Oh sorry, I have ICS on the brain. Forgot to check your sig and see you were on Gingerbread
alot of times, you may be able to find the AOSP version of the apps in the market too.

Is it possible to do these things on the Galaxy Nexus?

I'm a new GNex owner, and having used other Android overlays such as HTC's Sense, I was wondering if it's possible (if there are any mods possibly?) to do:
- Link Facebook status updates with contacts
- Link Facebook pictures with contacts
If the two above are not possible:
- When setting a 256x256 picture that is good quality as a contact picture, is there a way to have it remain good quality? Every picture I assign contacts looks like crap and pixelated
Adding on:
- Is it possible to create folders in the app drawer?
- Is it possible to change the color of a new message in the text messaging application? When you get a new text it's white instead of light grey, and it's hardly noticeable which conversation is the new one.. is there a way to set the new conversation (in the message inbox overview) to say a light blue that matches the rest of the UI? Or even have a notification beside the message (where it displays all the messages) to let you know which one if the new message?
Thanks.

I'm a new GNex owner, and having used other Android overlays such as HTC's Sense, I was wondering if it's possible (if there are any mods possibly?) to do:
- Link Facebook status updates with contacts
- Link Facebook pictures with contacts
**I believe there is an app called hacksync or haxsync (not sure on the spelling) that lets you link up contact pics through facebook. having never used it I can't tell you if it is in the store or here on XDA. I would do a search and I'm sure you'll find it.
- When setting a 256x256 picture that is good quality as a contact picture, is there a way to have it remain good quality? Every picture I assign contacts looks like crap and pixelated
**Unfortunately this is a problem on Google's end. The servers they use to store contact information on have very low picture resolution. like 96x96 low. Solution: in the account settings, turn off sync google pics or use hacksync
- Is it possible to create folders in the app drawer?
- Is it possible to change the color of a new message in the text messaging application? When you get a new text it's white instead of light grey, and it's hardly noticeable which conversation is the new one.. is there a way to set the new conversation (in the message inbox overview) to say a light blue that matches the rest of the UI? Or even have a notification beside the message (where it displays all the messages) to let you know which one if the new message?
**Neither one of these options are possible unless your rooted. even then I haven't seen a mod for adding folders to the app drawer. It could be out there but I doubt it. There are mods for changing the apperance of the stock msg app but you are limited to whatever the themer wants it to look. (I actually feel the same way about the calender ut so far I haven't seen a good replacement theme for it yet). however, if you want full control to customize your SMS the way you want, you can either download GO SMS or Handcent SMS from the store. Both offer full customization for all aspects of the application.
I hope this helps

unity04 said:
I'm a new GNex owner, and having used other Android overlays such as HTC's Sense, I was wondering if it's possible (if there are any mods possibly?) to do:
- Link Facebook status updates with contacts
- Link Facebook pictures with contacts
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HaxSync (and others) will link photos to contacts from FB.
- Is it possible to create folders in the app drawer?
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Not to my knowledge. Definitely not in stock.
- Is it possible to change the color of a new message in the text messaging application? When you get a new text it's white instead of light grey, and it's hardly noticeable which conversation is the new one.. is there a way to set the new conversation (in the message inbox overview) to say a light blue that matches the rest of the UI? Or even have a notification beside the message (where it displays all the messages) to let you know which one if the new message?
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Alternate SMS apps can surely configure colors.

Thanks for the responses.
I downloaded HaxSync and it's awesome! The pictures are good quality and it shows recent activity from my contacts.
I'm going to try an alternative messaging application. If I have two messaging applications open though at the same time (does the stock messaging app run as a background process all the time?), will it slow my phone down?

unity04 said:
Thanks for the responses.
I downloaded HaxSync and it's awesome! The pictures are good quality and it shows recent activity from my contacts.
I'm going to try an alternative messaging application. If I have two messaging applications open though at the same time (does the stock messaging app run as a background process all the time?), will it slow my phone down?
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It will run, and is required to fetch the messages. It won't slow anything down.

Go launcher EX allows you to make folders in the app drawer i believe.
I havent used it for a while but its a really good replacement launcher and has tons of features.
You might like that.

unity04 said:
Thanks for the responses.
I downloaded HaxSync and it's awesome! The pictures are good quality and it shows recent activity from my contacts.
I'm going to try an alternative messaging application. If I have two messaging applications open though at the same time (does the stock messaging app run as a background process all the time?), will it slow my phone down?
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It'll be fine mate, just remember to turn off the notifications in the stock messaging app.

unity04 said:
Thanks for the responses.
I downloaded HaxSync and it's awesome! The pictures are good quality and it shows recent activity from my contacts.
I'm going to try an alternative messaging application. If I have two messaging applications open though at the same time (does the stock messaging app run as a background process all the time?), will it slow my phone down?
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Not at all. Just disable notifications in the stock app and you're good to go with the replacement.

I'm on stock yakju 4.04 and yes, I'm able to create a folder and drag it to my app tray.

UnusualSuspect said:
I'm on stock yakju 4.04 and yes, I'm able to create a folder and drag it to my app tray.
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And how exactly do you do that?

[Android 4.0+] [Material Design] Drex Music Player - Pre Alpha Testing

So, Here I Present you an Alpha version of my music player - Drex Music
This is a basic music player as of now, I won't include any Equalizer with it because I prefer Stock/Cyanogen/Viper4Android,
Instead of wasting my time creating stuff that wouldn't even compete with those.
Getting back to the app, It has several skins -
Blue (Default)
Green
Grey
Orange
Purple
Red
Yellow (Amber-Yellow)
And 2 themes -
Dark
Light (Default)
Based on google's material design, this app is pretty smooth and completely compatible with ART.
Works on Android 4.0 and Above
For now, the features include -
Smooth Music Playback.
Create Playlists.
Make Playlists from Queue.
Last.Fm Integration to include Artist Information and Images.
Automatic Album Art Finder
Material Design.
Awesome themes and Super-crisp icons made from scratch.
Repeat mode for songs, shuffle mode.
Option to Download Album art/Artist Info over Wifi/ Mobile Data.
Option to Change Launcher Icon with accordance to the theme.
This Application ONLY uses Open Source Libraries, for a list of used libraries, check the about page in the application.
Comment if you find any bug and I will Update the Bug List.
Downloads (Check out the latest version)-
Drex Music(Version 1.1α) APK
Drex Music(Version 1.2α) APK
[NOTE - DEBUG APK'S MAY BE BUGGY]
Changelog -
v1.1α
Initial Release out of Pre-Alpha.
More Polished, Google Material Design Standard UI.
Play music even when the player is cleared from recent apps. To close the service, please close the application from notifications.
Fixed Yellow Color.
Fixed Crashes.
Fixed Many Major and Minor Bugs.
Added "Send a bug report" in application settings.
v1.2α
Added playlist sorting options
Meticulous design changes
Extended toolbar no longer fades in separately
The miniplayer now displays properly on API < 21 devices
The miniplayer now animates in by sliding
Artist sort now ignores leading "the" and "a"
Pages outside of the main activity and search activity no longer have wide margins or an extended toolbar on phones
Very minor dimension changes to conform to the Material Design guidelines
For Bug/Crash report-
Send a bug report through application settings, I'll take care of the rest.

RESERVED

Wow, really nice concept. I like this music player better than any other I have used. Very beautiful and easy to use UI. My compliments.
I just found the notification extremely persistent as it shows up after a reboot, without starting the app after performing the reboot. Any chance for a fix, or is this intended behaviour? If you'd like a log, let me know.

Very nice Player! But this app crashed and won't open until I cleared data, when I pressed "add themed icons to launcher" my device is Note 4. Running lollipop.

looks great
this works very well and i havent found any bug

Works very nice! haven't found any bugs

This app crashed in my gionee p3s whenever I select dark theme in setting it shows unfortunately drex has stopped working

3rd party dialers: black screen

Moto g4, lineageos 20180509, opengapps pico installed
Using any 3rd party dialer from the play store, like drupe, just gives me a black screen on incoming and outgoing calls. The apps work fine, they have their permissions, I've set them as Phone App in the settings, they record me missing calls, they can draw over other apps and on my lock screen... Just whenever I receive or start a call, I get a non-responsive black (off) screen.
Is there a typical cause for this? Does lineage or a moto g4 not play nice with custom dialers? Do they have implicit dependencies?
Thanks for any help
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The stock lineageos phone and contacts apps are still installed, but I've removed bloat like audiofx, clock, wallpapers, etc that I have my own apps of choice for (the stuff listed here). I've not touched important things/system components though, like an app that had a name something like inCallUi, and ones like simtoolkit.
I've always had the impression dialers need much deeper system integration so the odds of them working are lower. Much more complicated than sms apps and such anyway. Most apps like galleries work well through the service provider/interface implementor broadcasting system android uses to link app functionality regardless of exactly which apps they are, but dialers and such seem to pretty integrated into the core system... Lineageos' phone app can't even be removed, for starters.