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Some thoughts and opinions about TF3D please :)

Ive been thinking about TF3D and its negatives and positives about and want to see what you think and have to say
The "people" list, aka the tf3d contact list just plain sucks IMO, too damn big font for my taste, totaly nullifies the use of a big screen and I cant find the function to sort after company or use as the regular contact list can which makes it totally usable for me :/
The SMS function that is combined with the user is good in someways but I hardly ever use it, also way too big, is it just me that have good eyesight or is everything with TF3D just damn big? IMO we have a big screen to see lots of stuff, not just make them bigger and prettier... >_<
The built in music player in tf3d is pretty.. but PocketPlayer just pwnz it totally IMO, so much better features and possibilites with PP, one of the first apps I bought when I got my Touch HD
That are the negatives I come to think of now, I know there are more... but TF3D becomes better and better so maybe some of it will not be negative for me
Positive stuff is ofcourse that its pretty, smooth easy to use interface, beats most other standard WM GUIs, atleast all I have tried
There are no GUIs for WM that is more like Android? I dont know much about Android phones but what from I have seen it really seems more customizable and you can move to different desktops with different wallpapers and different functions and apps?

Sony X10 Style Lock Screen

Hi
I've got a Desire 2.2 and an x10 which has just updated to 2.1
I like the lock screen on the new x10 2.1
Anyone know if there is one like that available for the desire ?
Basically a lock screen showing my wallpaper, date & time (large) and have a slider at the bottom.
Slide left to right to unlock
Slide right to left to adjust the ringing volume.
When a call comes in and the phone is locked, you see who is calling and sliding left-> right answers, right -> left drops the call.
Anything like this for the desire... ideally free
Thanks

search around this forum, you will find some roms using it, like OD, or maybe widgetlock clockscreen

Are there any ROMs which allow a screensaver with, eg, a faint clock, such as that on many Nokias? I really miss this since jumping from symbian!

dmcconachie said:
Are there any ROMs which allow a screensaver with, eg, a faint clock, such as that on many Nokias? I really miss this since jumping from symbian!
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hmmm this aint symbian dude....
and thats a good thing. why sacrifice battery life for just a clock??

deepakoffline said:
hmmm this aint symbian dude....
and thats a good thing. why sacrifice battery life for just a clock??
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Oh I know, there very good reasons I jumped ship! This is a about the only feature I miss!
And the advantage of the screensaver, which doesn't have to be a battery drainer at all, is a customizable notification bar. A plain old LED doesn't really cut it!

For the X10 style lock, try LockBot. Has an excelent clone and works very well
Sent from my GT-P1000

Cheers
LockBot Free is what I need

Better Battery Life in SNS than SGS...

so after a Month of daily usage with intensive care and torture.
I can safely say, the best thing about the SNS that is actually better than the SGS is the battery life
even with Froyo 2.2 installed on the SGS, the battery life was half as good as the SNS
i do the same amount of stuff on both phones
so the only thing that might actually be different which is the missing microSD support, might be what it's actually saving the battery life on the SNS
because i don't use NFC, so it's always Off
and the other reason might be the screen, even though it's the same SAMOLED screen, the Auto setting in SNS is WAY lower than the Auto setting on the SGS
the SGS the colour is still vibrant, in the SNS is dull, i actually have to bump it a notch to get the same effect i get on the SGS, even though when they are set on auto, they are both set to aprox just like 25%

Everything wrong about the Galaxy S can be blamed on their RapeWiz interface.

Well sadly I can't agree here... When I ran my Vibrant with a stock Froyo leak with bloat removed and themed to look like stock Nexus S... Then I added in one of Eugene_373's kernels... My battery was over 24 hours every day... Nexus S is great but that Vibrant battery I got was just astounding.

Vulpix said:
Everything wrong about the Galaxy S can be blamed on their RapeWiz interface.
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Have you even used TouchWiz before insulting it? I gotta say, TouchWiz was pretty damn good. ADW Launcher or LauncherPro + TouchWiz was a pretty good mix.
- The Power Widget on Notification Bar was a great move by Samsung. Where is it now? Incorporated in CyanogenMod
- Video Codecs.. self explanatory
- Slide to call, text in contacts
.. and other stuff
The biggest problem was SGS' RFS filesystem and Samsung's ability to maintain these devices to the latest OS.
P.S. can we stop abbreviating the Nexus S as "SNS" and just NS? Thanks. We dont call the Nexus One... GN1 or HN1, its just N1.
SNS just sounds too much like Social Network Settings (adding FB to accounts & sync)

zephiK said:
P.S. can we stop abbreviating the Nexus S as "SNS" and just NS? Thanks. We dont call the Nexus One... GN1 or HN1, its just N1.
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+1
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distortedloop said:
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+1000
also the best thing in touchwiz is..the slide to call and text and..just that lol the power control on notification bar i think is a waste w/ CM7 we have editable power control and honestly i think i speak for everyone that the first thing allllll samsung owners do when they get there phones is remove rapetwiz...

Every time I see "SNS" I think Super Nintendo System.....which is probably not what the OP is going for there....
So another vote to just have it as NS.

Nexus S battery life is awesome
After using Nexus S for about 2 weeks, I found the battery life is awesome
At least according to my usage pattern (!).
While I am writing this post, the battery usage stated:
1 day 15 hours 26 minutes (Roughly 39+ hours)
Display 29%
Cell standby 15%
Dialer 13%
Sygic Aura 9%
Dolphin Browser Mini 9%
Android System 7%
Phone idle 6%
Android OS 5%
XDA 3%
Facebook 2%
Wi-Fi 2%
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Plus camera (made couple of photos today), Jorte, and Market. Strange that those were not recorded on the usage stats.
And the battery level is still 15%. This could easily add couple more hours with few web browsing sessions (engadget, androidcentral, giz, etc.).
That was on battery only, never charged in between.
Of course it's vary a lot from day to day, but 30 hours is easily achievable with more web browsing / Facebook (as today I used Sygic Aura navigation quite some times! Few very short phone calls and several SMS).
And yes, I :
- I don't use always sync (only background sync)
- I don't sync email (I am not email freak, most communication will be done via Facebook anyway)
- I don't activate bluetooth
- I don't activate GPS (unless I use navigation)
- I sync weather every 8 hours
- I don't sync calendar automatically
- I don't sync contact automatically
- I use lowest brightness setting 1% via Widgetsoid (which you cannot achieve via normal Settings)
- I use pure black wallpaper (hey!)
- I use LauncerPro plus with 6 homescreens
- I have couple of home screen widgets (2 Folder organizer, Widgetsoid, Audio Manager Pro, simiClock, Beautiful Widget Weather 1x1, LP Pro Text, Pure Calendar Widget)
- I use WhatsApp
Love this!

zephiK said:
Have you even used TouchWiz before insulting it? I gotta say, TouchWiz was pretty damn good. ADW Launcher or LauncherPro + TouchWiz was a pretty good mix.
- The Power Widget on Notification Bar was a great move by Samsung. Where is it now? Incorporated in CyanogenMod
- Video Codecs.. self explanatory
- Slide to call, text in contacts
.. and other stuff
The biggest problem was SGS' RFS filesystem and Samsung's ability to maintain these devices to the latest OS.
P.S. can we stop abbreviating the Nexus S as "SNS" and just NS? Thanks. We dont call the Nexus One... GN1 or HN1, its just N1.
SNS just sounds too much like Social Network Settings (adding FB to accounts & sync)
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I used TouchWiz on my Epic for a few months before I decided to mod it and I can say that I absolutely, positively, without a doubt hate it. The lockscreen sucks, I could care less about having power control in the drop down as I've always had power controls on my left of middle homescreen and I always go to that first, including video codecs is nice but its a samsung inclusion not touchwiz and I would much, much rather be using VLC than anything else. There is not a single thing in TouchWiz that I liked. It looked horrible, it was clunky and it was just bloatware.
Now, I'm also not a fan of SenseUI but I like it a whole hell of a lot better than TouchWiz. If I had to use one (meaning I could not modify with a 3rd party launcher and no Vanilla) I would use SenseUI any day. The lockscreen looks good and it is responsive (I know a lot of people who experienced loss of touch sensitivity for periods of time) and its pretty intuitive. I would rather every manufacturer ship phones with the stock launcher and allow people to choose to download the specific UIs but that'll never happen, until then I'm hooked on vanilla.
Oh also, not to mention that TouchWiz would disable features after certain battery thresholds and that battery full popup. Both of which are just silly. If I want to take pictures on my phone after 15% I'm the one who paid for it and its bulls*** that my phone can turn it off.
On the topic of battery life, I can honestly say that my Nexus S gets battery life on par with my Epic. Now there are a few qualifying statements I have to make here: I was using an extremely light ROM specifically for battery life on the Epic and with it I could get up to 28 hours with moderate usage. I only tested that once because I charge my phone at night and there is no reason not to just charge it every night. On my Nexus S I am overclocked to 1.5GHz and I still get a full days usage with heavy usage (off charger at 7:30 and back on around 11 and I'm never below 30%)

Yeah the concept of TouchWiz is really good. But with Samsung not maintaining their current phones with updates, it is just not worth it.
The Power Widgets concept was good, it all started from TouchWiz. It was a great move by CM to make it modifiable to add/remove widgets.
The lock screen was terrible. The best lock screen out of the 4 Galaxy S was the Fascinate with the puzzle lock. Definitely prefer the stock experience lock screen.
And as far as removing "rapewiz," honestly... even though developers have said TouchWiz is removed. It really isn't. The ROMs that we're being made were based on ROMs off TouchWiz. A experience on the Galaxy S without TouchWiz wouldn't have the video codecs and all those other things. Sure you removed the launcher and those other stuff, but it is still running TouchWiz. The closest to non-TouchWiz on the Galaxy S phones are the CM6.1 beta, which is now closed because they're working on CM7 and nightlies aren't even available for the SGS. This is what justified it for me to move to the Nexus S from a Vibrant.
As far as battery, I'd say Nexus S is definitely better in battery life. The Vibrant was limited on kernels, it was forced to use stock and only stock because there wasn't a open source. There was a open sourced kernel for the I9000 but I9000 kernel ported to the Vibrant caused really awful battery life (at least for me).
The biggest thing that I miss from TouchWiz are without a doubt the video codecs. Hopefully Google will incorporate these video codecs into AOSP someday (not sure how that would go about with all the licensing and fees).

zephiK said:
Yeah the concept of TouchWiz is really good. But with Samsung not maintaining their current phones with updates, it is just not worth it.
The Power Widgets concept was good, it all started from TouchWiz. It was a great move by CM to make it modifiable to add/remove widgets.
The lock screen was terrible. The best lock screen out of the 4 Galaxy S was the Fascinate with the puzzle lock. Definitely prefer the stock experience lock screen.
And as far as removing "rapewiz," honestly... even though developers have said TouchWiz is removed. It really isn't. The ROMs that we're being made were based on ROMs off TouchWiz. A experience on the Galaxy S without TouchWiz wouldn't have the video codecs and all those other things. Sure you removed the launcher and those other stuff, but it is still running TouchWiz. The closest to non-TouchWiz on the Galaxy S phones are the CM6.1 beta, which is now closed because they're working on CM7 and nightlies aren't even available for the SGS. This is what justified it for me to move to the Nexus S from a Vibrant.
As far as battery, I'd say Nexus S is definitely better in battery life. The Vibrant was limited on kernels, it was forced to use stock and only stock because there wasn't a open source. There was a open sourced kernel for the I9000 but I9000 kernel ported to the Vibrant caused really awful battery life (at least for me).
The biggest thing that I miss from TouchWiz are without a doubt the video codecs. Hopefully Google will incorporate these video codecs into AOSP someday (not sure how that would go about with all the licensing and fees).
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Oh ya, I'd kill for that lockscreen...anyone try porting it?

kenvan19 said:
Oh ya, I'd kill for that lockscreen...anyone try porting it?
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The fascinate one? Nope. It probably would be difficult, im not sure... the lockscreen could be embedded within the touchwiz framework. I prefer the AOSP one, but choices are always good

zephiK said:
The fascinate one? Nope. It probably would be difficult, im not sure... the lockscreen could be embedded within the touchwiz framework. I prefer the AOSP one, but choices are always good
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Its just a pretty gimmick and I'm a fan of gimmicks lol. I do like the vanilla pattern lock screen.

Anyone using GO Locker?

Is anyone using GO Locker? I used to use it before but I had noticed it likes to eat battery. I'm not sure if they have improved it now so I am wondering what other user's thought are on it. Its tempting to install it again because I'm seeing some really great themes for it, but I dont want it eating away at the battery life again.

Have you tried WidgetLocker? Is a hundred times better IMO.
Sent From Rob's RP-Hybrid Atrix.

using it along with DS prefinal lite battery seems good... but, please give some note of what u need in terms of time and usage so more people could help,
also you can install see for yourself and in case it doesn't pen out install something else, also very nice themes espically the 3D worm... "fruit ninja" locker

RobKort said:
Have you tried WidgetLocker? Is a hundred times better IMO.
Sent From Rob's RP-Hybrid Atrix.
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Is that the paid for one or the free one?
I tried one other very popular one (forget the name) but I also found that it consumed a bunch of battery
Again, that might be from me trying it out a while ago and now they have improved the battery consumption

It is a paid app but worth every cent. The level of customization is far more that any lockscreen apps out there and hundreds of lockscreen to chose from.
Sent from Rob's TapadaIconia

galrock said:
using it along with DS prefinal lite battery seems good... but, please give some note of what u need in terms of time and usage so more people could help,
also you can install see for yourself and in case it doesn't pen out install something else, also very nice themes espically the 3D worm... "fruit ninja" locker
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Well if you go into the battery usage screen, what percentage is it using?

any more thoughts?

Huawei's ridiculous "merge call log" (a good UNDO solution?) and a THEMES question

Huawei's ridiculous "merge call log" (a good UNDO solution?) and a THEMES question
There's a couple of problems I have with Huawei's stock "look"
It seems even when you download and change THEMES, certain stock apps (like contacts/messages) DO NOT change. I am stuck with the "light" theme (inside the app, not the ICON itself) and looking at the white and green text messaging screen. I want to change this, but there's no option to do so. If downloadable themes don't change this screen colours, what does?
On top of that, I HATE the fact they MERGE call logs by contact or by time. Why can they not leave as is...and UNMERGE in the order the calls were received/made?? is there any way of separating this outside of downloading a 3rd party app? Any good apps that do this?
RoOSTA

Please don't all get up at once...

You can build your own theme and change everything what do you want. If you spent some time with it you will learn it quick.

Can you elaborate on the steps to do this..?

roosta said:
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- Call
Just use a secondary call program. HTC's Contacts/Call is utter trash, so we have been using Contacts+ since 5-6 years. You do have to turn off the annoying crap in it, but then it becomes the best caller program ever.
- White themes
I agree, but to be honest, only Samsung has these full themes.
Now you could either buy an S8 for 1.5-2x the price of a P10 Plus and enjoy themes (and have subpar specs)... or just wait for a new EMUI.
Or... I don't know.
See: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/themes/theme-dark-bloom-emui-5-0-dark-dialer-t3544249
Maybe it's possible to change things, I will try to look into this. The white theme annoys me too.

Most apps out there have their own themes, like 'light and dark' as the one-size-fits-all EMUI approach is backwards and retarded. Surely Huawei want their device owners to have some flexibility and creativity on their layout?
I will download Contacts+ and have a play with it...
RoOSTA

roosta said:
There's a couple of problems I have with Huawei's stock "look"
It seems even when you download and change THEMES, certain stock apps (like contacts/messages) DO NOT change. I am stuck with the "light" theme (inside the app, not the ICON itself) and looking at the white and green text messaging screen. I want to change this, but there's no option to do so. If downloadable themes don't change this screen colours, what does?
On top of that, I HATE the fact they MERGE call logs by contact or by time. Why can they not leave as is...and UNMERGE in the order the calls were received/made?? is there any way of separating this outside of downloading a 3rd party app? Any good apps that do this?
RoOSTA
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wooow lucky I didn't buy the P10 plus. Also battery life is shocking

dieselhazza said:
wooow lucky I didn't buy the P10 plus. Also battery life is shocking
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Have you used the phone...and for how long?
1 and 2 week "reviews" people post that review battery life are never worth reading. Unless it drains significantly, and feels like 50% less use...then battery life is worth actually reviewing and comparing after the phone has been USED consistently for a goodf 3-6 months. Drain it completely, recharge it fully, then start drawing conclusions.
That's not a statement to support Huawei, but I'm not jumping the gun and concluding it has a horrible battery life...or NOT YET. Quality and use of parts is questionable with Hauwei and one reason why Samsung and Apple stand out.
After i rooted the phone I've installed greenify and get home from a 7am-6pm workday usually with 70-75% on LIGHT usage.
Anyway, at least my problems are fixable...most things are with root!