I like Sense but blinkfeed is just insanely hogging my battery. How to get rid of this?
I have rooted M8 (Insertcoin ROM)
knights.JayTana said:
I like Sense but blinkfeed is just insanely hogging my battery. How to get rid of this?
I have rooted M8 (Insertcoin ROM)
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Just pinch sense launcher to zoom out, then long press blinkfeed and drag it to the trash.
I did that but still running in background.
Is there way to delete it in system/app folder?
knights.JayTana said:
I did that but still running in background.
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BlinkFeed will still run as long as you're running the stock launcher as its called BlinkFeed. If you're rooted you can install nova/apex/etc and remove BlinkFeed launcher from the system partition if you don't want it running at all.
BlinkFeed is part of the HTC sense launcher and is fully embedded in the prism.apk file ! You can't remove that.
So sense launcher without BlinkFeed is not possible.
Blinkfeed the widget is part of Blinkfeed the launcher. However, disabling the widget will solve the problem you are describing.
Just use Nova, freeze BlinkFeed....done. not sure why you want to hold on to the launcher since you aren't using its key feature. ?
i want to get rid of it, any way to install trebuchet and get rid totally of blinkfeed
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Using weather and toggle widgets and have to wonder if it is causing part of my battery life degradation. I use LauncherPro and love the way my device is setup but really want to use the stock HTC clock and weather. Is that possible? How?
It's not possible to use Sense widgets outside of Rosie, the Sense launcher. There are some copycat widgets out there, but you can't use the real HTC ones.
letsgoflyers81 said:
It's not possible to use Sense widgets outside of Rosie, the Sense launcher. There are some copycat widgets out there, but you can't use the real HTC ones.
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Thanks...is there a way to modify the Sense launcher to look like LauncherPro? Cant stand the stock dock and like the ability to launch my five favorites from any screen.
No problem. You can install themes depending on the ROM you're using. But you're probably better off using LauncherPro and widgets that take the place of Sense widgets.
letsgoflyers81 said:
No problem. You can install themes depending on the ROM you're using. But you're probably better off using LauncherPro and widgets that take the place of Sense widgets.
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Using Baked Snack 1.8. Is it odd to think that the widgets I mentioned good causing battery drain, especially opposed to the stock Clock/Weather or am I dreaming?
Is there a way to edit the stock HTC dock?
not easily. If you are familiar with creating actual themes and modifying the framework apks then yes. if not then i would look for an existing theme that makes the dock look closer to how you want.
As stated above you are better off looking for replacement widgets and using LP.
the widgets would be causing battery drain but it shoudl be very easy to test ... remove them for a day or 2 and compare.
Hi,
is this possible, can i use the widgets from sense in the launcher of zeam? Becuase i like the sense widgets, but i more like the launcher and the speed of the zeam ...
thx
Notb really, any launcher dependant widgets can't be used without that launcher whether its sense, LP or whatever....
and then there was root....
Well I do have root, how can i get sense widgets into the zeam launcher, or into any other launcher?
thx
mr.boonet said:
Well I do have root, how can i get sense widgets into the zeam launcher, or into any other launcher?
thx
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It is not possible to use sense widgets with anyother launcer, you can get sense style widgets using launcher pro plus.
I'm using LPP on my desire z and its really quick and stable,
Sent from my HTC Desire Z with gingerbread.
That's very disappointing, i mean, there has to be a way to kinda 'unlock' the widgets from sense in other launchers, because the stock google ones CAN be used... or maybe intigrate the widgets from htc into the google widgets data base in the rom or something.... maybe i should check that out, maybe its just as easy as copy paste tho i dont really think so...
mr.boonet said:
That's very disappointing, i mean, there has to be a way to kinda 'unlock' the widgets from sense in other launchers, because the stock google ones CAN be used... or maybe intigrate the widgets from htc into the google widgets data base in the rom or something.... maybe i should check that out, maybe its just as easy as copy paste tho i dont really think so...
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It can not be done. Please search forums
mr.boonet said:
That's very disappointing, i mean, there has to be a way to kinda 'unlock' the widgets from sense in other launchers, because the stock google ones CAN be used... or maybe intigrate the widgets from htc into the google widgets data base in the rom or something.... maybe i should check that out, maybe its just as easy as copy paste tho i dont really think so...
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It's not that simple. Sense is an more interlinked build of android than a stock android build. You want to take the widgets out from the rosie launcher and put them onto a third party launcher, am I right? So you will need to decompile the launcher and remove the widgets, then integrate them into the kernel. But WAIT! You will also need to port over the necessary framework parts. Okay, you've done all that and the widgets are there. But WAIT! They don't work! So know you need to backport the HTC apps that relate to that widget. By the time you are done with that, you pretty much have an entire sense build, thereby defeating the purpose. Basically, unless you know a LOT of backsmali, you won't be able to do this.
The are alternative widgets on the market, for example Beautiful widgets, fancy widget, pure calendar widget, etc. Launcher pro plus also has nearly all of the imitation sense widgets built in too.
haha i already thought it wouldnt be that simple... looks like i really don't have the programming skills to climb this mountain, to bad . Thx tho for the explanation. I got smarter again
I'm trying out a new launcher (ZEAM) and it looks like HTC Sense still stays open in the background.. how do I get rid of it completely? I don't want 2 launchers running..
Also - anyway to use the HTC Widgets on Zeam? I love the Calendar widget and the weather/clock one
yoerz said:
I'm trying out a new launcher (ZEAM) and it looks like HTC Sense still stays open in the background.. how do I get rid of it completely? I don't want 2 launchers running..
Also - anyway to use the HTC Widgets on Zeam? I love the Calendar widget and the weather/clock one
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Here is calkulins flashable zip that will completely remove HTC sense from your phone. This will also remove all sense widgets I believe. Also, I have never used Zeam launcher, but I would speculate that you can't use HTC sense widgets on it (at least you cant with launcher pro or adw launcher). They only work with sense. There are quite a few other widgets out there though that look very similar to HTC's widgets.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/cgddget1gztbc5h/Calkulin's_Remove_Sense.zip
Also here is a link to calk's page that all sorts of mods/tweaks/goodies and such. Useful bookmark. They work on pretty much any sense rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785271
Hi all,
For those OneX owner, you are using HTC Sense or other launcher?
I tried to install Go Launcher, but there is a ... menu at the bottom, so it is out.
Then I try Apex launcher, it is nice but not very user friendly yet, I try to configure it today and see if it can replace Sense.
Both alternative launchers consume lesser memory at startup (6xx vs 7xx in Sense), HTH.
Have you tried nova?
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
One of the things that concern me with third party launchers is that it may bring additional ram resources into play since sense cannot be disabled?
It would be worse if we have sense eating all that memory in the background AND another launcher eating its needed ram as well?
Or am i wrong in thinking this?
tanseerj said:
One of the things that concern me with third party launchers is that it may bring additional ram resources into play since sense cannot be disabled?
It would be worse if we have sense eating all that memory in the background AND another launcher eating its needed ram as well?
Or am i wrong in thinking this?
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I think so. When I installed Nova Launcher and used that as my launcher, it would still show that the phone was using 800mb or so of ram, which is exactly what Sense uses.
I use ssLauncher (paid version) and really love it.
Don't know much about memory consumption, sadly!
I'm using Apex launcher. Gives me much more options do modify than the Sense launcher. And it doesn't have the 3-dot black bar.
Using it for a few days now, and it looks good.
stm2008 said:
Hi all,
For those OneX owner, you are using HTC Sense or other launcher?
I tried to install Go Launcher, but there is a ... menu at the bottom, so it is out.
Then I try Apex launcher, it is nice but not very user friendly yet, I try to configure it today and see if it can replace Sense.
Both alternative launchers consume lesser memory at startup (6xx vs 7xx in Sense), HTH.
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The problem is that you can't use the HTC widgets and I really want that combined email inbox!
I'm using Apex. After being on stock ICS on my old Nexus S I didn't like Sense at all and can't understand why, given our screens are getting bigger and bigger, why manufacturers keep on making skins that stick to the 4x4 homescreen grid and waste so much space! Apex, plus APW for widgets is doing me proud
I was using ADW EX on my old desire, when I got the One X i put on Go Launcher and like it a lot (especially the excellent widgets and apps it comes with as optional elements)
I'm contacting the dev to ask to remove the ..., aside from that, it's an excellent launcher with loads of settings, themes and extras
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
smoothunit said:
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
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Custom rom will remove the three dots...
smoothunit said:
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
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Try Apex, no ...
I tried Apex, but without root (for now) to let me add widgets to the home screen it's not much use to me at the moment.
Hey, I was wondering if it is possible to get rid of sense without being rooted and with the stock 1.28 rom? I was also wondering how much battery life it would save me etc, thanks!
You can't het rid of sense but can get rid of Rosie (sense launcher) this won't save much on battery unless you have widgets continuously updating, search the market for ADW or go launcher and give them a try
can't without being rooted
If you root you can download Android Revolution HD 4.0 which is Sense free, haven't used it myself.
Or Nova Launcher from the market is a good replacement for Rosie (HTC Launcher)
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