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What would you change? (My Setup)

Just curious what you guys would suggest for changes. I realize everyone is different, but hearing some suggestions would be nice.
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The icons I found from this post from XDA. (thank you XDA user mikebeecham)
The background is from AndroidCentral. I typically roll black... always come back to this.
The ROM is Onyx 2.1 via Team Whiskey (leaked 2.2).
The 1x1 weather widget is Beautiful Widgets (I really do not like the 4x2 style).
I only have ONE screen... LP lets you have 15 icons at the bottom, that have swype gestures so there are really 30 apps I can open with nothing on my desktop and not opening the app drawer.

I find myself chocked full of lameness, in the sense that I rarely deviate from stock. About the only areas where I bother to customize is wallpapers and ringtones, though I have a massive collection of both courtesy of Ringdroid and Google image search.
And even there it seems that I tend to think a bit narrowly. Most all of my wallpapers are either artwork of Audrey Kawasaki or Sumi Keiichi.
Currently running TW's Obsidian v2...Heck, even my screen layout and icon positions have become a matter of course. I've kept my screen layout pretty much identical since July regardless of firmware.
I r the suk

If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!

s15274n said:
If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!
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I would...but it's actually REALLY A LOT LOL.
Furthermore it's stuff that is too easy to find if you understand how to use Google's Image search. Though wallpapers in our screen's native format are harder to come by (960x800), the aspect ratio of 1280x1024 traditional desktop wallpapers is nearly identical (1.2, compared to 1.25). An app like Wallpaper Set And Save will fit these with no discernible distortion.
In other words, I'm so lazy that I do not break out Irfanview and Gimp to custom resize, I just use backgrounds optimized for the 1280x1024 desktop resolution. Making that one change though opens up a world of millions of wallpapers to those like me who would rather look for new and interesting stuff than spend all day in image editing software resizing things....
Lazy I be.

Makes a lot of sense actually, thanks. Never really understood the point of those apps.

It reminded me of what your rockin
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haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
This background is hysterical to me.
And here are a few more that I found recently from either Google Images, XDA or Team Whiskeys site:

s15274n said:
haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
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Zedge wallpapers ,they've got some really good ones
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It reminded me of what your rockinhttp://tapa.tk/mu/4ccaf030-bba8-fa7b.jpg[/IMG
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Neat!
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Also go to devientart.com they have wallpapers that are cool as hell
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Check out the little icon im rockin as my launcher I love it I'm also pimpin the clear pull down bar and shiny plastic swype keYboard
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I like it... I am more stock Guy.. not sure why so many people hate the TouchWiz UI, I love the features and have not found it to cause me any issues.
I am waiting the segmented Battery to get posted over to FROYO and a nice shade bar to come along but here is my setup.
Pretty simple but I don't feel I am lacking anything.
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Need even MORE eye candy!

Since I've had my DZ I have been mildly impressed with the fade-out effect when closing applications, compared to what I had on my old Desire. I'm also now running ADW EX Launcher and the transition effects it provides when moving from homescreen to homescreen are nothing short of awesome!
As well as knowing my phone's OS is technically advanced compared to others (iOS, WP7), I'm really looking now to make everything about it as beautiful, slick, futuristic and flashy as possible.I want iPhone/WP7 owners to pick up my phone and go "WOW!" Any suggestions?
EDIT: I'm looking for widgets, apps and modifications that will take my phone to the next level.

I want this Surfcube Browser on Android...

You can try some live wallpapers, such as the fish tank and there area bunch of matrix wallpapers.

Yeah, live wallpapers are good - definitely something that iOS and WP7 can't do.
I've been browsing around the other forums and I think I just need some nice animations, along these lines
Perhaps I need to go and hassle some ROM chefs to add some of that stuff into their Sense ROMs.
Any other suggestions? I'm quite missing my Sense widgets (cos I'm using a replacement launcher).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814072
Check out that thread and it will really add some eye candy to your phone. The transitions can be applied through metamorph. Just make sure the transitions.xml file is there and apply it and the transitions should be working, may require a reboot though.

setspeed said:
I want this Surfcube Browser on Android...
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That is awesome I really hope that makes its way to android

Beautiful Widgets is also...beautiful.

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Here is my evo it gets alot of attention from my ios buddies

@ScooterG: Where do you get the battery and clock in text from?

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@ScooterG: Where do you get the battery and clock in text from?
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battstat
clockr

To be really really honest, I'd rather have no transition effects at all and have the thing open the next screen in 0.0000001 milliseconds then to have fancy shamcy transitions and have it delay like 2 seconds or 3 seconds for it to go to the next screen.
I mean, we are not exactly in elementary school anymore where we are all impressed with fancy transitions on the phone and on power points...

convolution said:
To be really really honest, I'd rather have no transition effects at all and have the thing open the next screen in 0.0000001 milliseconds then to have fancy shamcy transitions and have it delay like 2 seconds or 3 seconds for it to go to the next screen.
I mean, we are not exactly in elementary school anymore where we are all impressed with fancy transitions on the phone and on power points...
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Speak for yourself my friend, but I AM impressed with fancy shmancy transitions
Isn't it great that Android can accommodate us both!
And despite my phone being no slouch, until it really CAN open apps instantaneously, I'd rather kill that 0.25sec with something nice to look at, than a briefly blank screen.

setspeed said:
Speak for yourself my friend, but I AM impressed with fancy shmancy transitions
Isn't it great that Android can accommodate us both!
And despite my phone being no slouch, until it really CAN open apps instantaneously, I'd rather kill that 0.25sec with something nice to look at, than a briefly blank screen.
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MIUI
It's already happened.
I'm just waiting for someone to port it to HTC Vision...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-9T44Bt7M
EDIT: I know that there is already a MIUI rom, but it's kinda glitchy right now.
I'm waiting for the "official" one.

oops... never mind.

[APP] [WIP] [CONCEPT] Google Talk Widget

ok so i got a bit bored doing my Law Case Study so i quickly chucked together this Google talk widget concept.
its very much in the zune/windows phone 7 look but at the same time i tried to make it match the new gingerbread colours and be comprised of very minimal elements to make it easier for people who like to skin things
in my mind it works very simply, the bottom displays a series of dots each dot represents a contact to switch between contacts you simply swipe left / right along the contacts gmail at the bottom (localised swipe to prevent issues with home screens).
you type in the top box black represents incomming the grey / white represents outgoing. green dot is obviously status (contemplating making contact dots at bottom represent status colours to)
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just like before its a concept if anyone wants to help out and code it so it can be placed in the market they will be entitled to a percentage of money made no I in team
contact me via pm if you would like to be a part of this project

You're great, just gave me an idea of how to put live tiles without getting smacked by M$. Why don't you join my project for good?

TheRedDrake said:
You're great, just gave me an idea of how to put live tiles without getting smacked by M$. Why don't you join my project for good?
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well if you would like to put me down as a designer you can , but that's about as far as my usefulness will probably go on your project as there is no way id be able to code anything for a very very long time.
ideally i would like a code partner lol so i could design blah blah they can make it work then we can split market profit LOL!, ahh dreams

You can start designing for the dialer application. MDPI and HDPI must be done. Just tell me when you're done.

Omg that looks awesome. I was hoping someone could FINALLY make a gTalk widget of some sort considering it's my primary mode of communication.
Hopefully something arises from your concept. Will be monitoring and donating if something like this would come to fruition.

Wow, this would be awesome, one of the few apps that I'd actually pay a couple of quid for (as long as it was relatively bug free).
Times like this I wish I could code, would love to see this.

I'd love it too. Really raises questions as to why one isn't included in stock..

wow this widget would be badass.....
ill keep an eye out for it in the future
if only I knew coding id be happy to help..
let me know if you need any testers

Looks like a great concept, id love to test for it.
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Is this going anywhere ?

cool... is that an inspire?

it looks damn nice!!
TABatalk'd directly from hell

any progress???
- you've been gingerbreaded by a kraut defy -

Sounds great, I'll test as I have no experience coding.
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It will require the gtalk app to be hacked and a new api must be used to bring up the keyboard on homescreen and send typed letters/words to the widget.
btw: swiping left/right for changing contact won't work, it probably have to be implemented with two buttons.
And: The conversation list will probably have to grow from bottom to top so you can see what you are typing..
this widget is really needed ^_^

As a real Android AppWidget, this seems quite impossible.
Read the docs and you'll see how limited android app widgets are.
It is possible to integrate it in a launcher's code directly, and I would love to see it somewhere eventually. Nice design

And?
Scrollable widgets have also been impossible until developers agreed on a proprietary scrollable widgets api.

I'd love to see some sort of popup rather than a widget. If you're already going to press home and scroll over to a widget to check/send messages, it isn't much more work to just open the app. But if you could make some sort of popup that could come up over any part of the screen, that would be much less work and actually be useful.
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that's so hot i'd even pay for it...lol...
i hope it's gonna happen sometime...
- you've been gingerbreaded with a kraut dhd -

I can't wait!!
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New Android Market

Upgrade hasn't rolled out, but look forward to this soon!
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What the hell is up with all those windows 7 type tiles everywhere lol.

Gross.
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Looks nice. Would like to see how those panels function. Hopefully they make a better effort to maximize useable screen space.

nadcicle said:
What the hell is up with all those windows 7 type tiles everywhere lol.
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Dear god, please let this not become a trend.

ydoucare said:
Dear god, please let this not become a trend.
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The layout looks like it's only good for Google and their advertising revenue.

I think it looks cute.

Windows 7 Google Phone Market - Coming Soon!
/puke

I'd like a market that doesn't forget my downloads and break my links. Other than that, they can make it look like 1998 Geocities page for all I care.

What's up with all the hating on the new design? That's just the page that opens up the first time! Who knows what the rest of the market is like and how they sort and list their apps. I'm just saying don't be so quick to judge it.

I'd like a market where you can get rid of the god damn pay apps that are utterly useless or don't use or ever plan to use again.
For instance.. OpenHome.. It's old crap and no one uses it anymore yet it contributes to "My Apps" clutter. I have a decent collection of pay crap I simply don't use, and don't ever intend to use again.. In 2 years our "My Apps" list is going to be stupidly long and a burden. Google needs a "Delete from account" option.

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What's up with all the hating on the new design? That's just the page that opens up the first time! Who knows what the rest of the market is like and how they sort and list their apps. I'm just saying don't be so quick to judge it.
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Honestly I think its because it looks like a winpho7 home screen and I'm sure I speak for many around here when I say.....winpho7 looks like sh!t
If its still the same underneath and I can have my black market.....idc what they do.

DroidApprentice said:
I'd like a market that doesn't forget my downloads and break my links. Other than that, they can make it look like 1998 Geocities page for all I care.
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This...and maybe let us hide apps from the front page that we aren't interested in (I'm looking at you taking tom cat every time I open the market) and filter out ones we already have installed.

Go to hell google. Wait.. I love android. Carry on.

acer1096xxx said:
What's up with all the hating on the new design? That's just the page that opens up the first time! Who knows what the rest of the market is like and how they sort and list their apps. I'm just saying don't be so quick to judge it.
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Well, you know first impressions mean everything. Oh, and I have to base it on that cause that's all I've seen this far. I am not judging it cause there's not enough to judge. Just giving my first impression.
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That 4GB dl limit is very welcome tho......that 50MB limit is sucktastic, kind of apple esque you know 20MB limit.....blah, good job google

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That 4GB dl limit is very welcome tho......that 50MB limit is sucktastic, kind of apple esque you know 20MB limit.....blah, good job google
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Agreed. Welcome Mr. 4GB

epic4GEE said:
Honestly I think its because it looks like a winpho7 home screen and I'm sure I speak for many around here when I say.....winpho7 looks like sh!t
If its still the same underneath and I can have my black market.....idc what they do.
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It's funny, because there are a lot of people that think WinPhone7 looks great (I being among them) but it is certainly a polarizing design. There are many people that you do, indeed, speak for. Nobody seems to be in the middle, that's for sure. You love it or you hate it.

Android Concept: Dual screen

Hey!
I thought of a concept that will be hard to achieve, but awesome if it works.
This is it: The OS acts as if there are two screens that you can control independently. This way you can do things like editing a file while looking thing up on the internet. I realize this probably would not work, and in terms of technology I'm kind of a noob, but this is just an idea that would be cool and not actually anything I am working on.
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ridder215215 said:
Hey!
I thought of a concept that will be hard to achieve, but awesome if it works.
This is it: The OS acts as if there are two screens that you can control independently. This way you can do things like editing a file while looking thing up on the internet. I realize this probably would not work, and in terms of technology I'm kind of a noob, but this is just an idea that would be cool and not actually anything I am working on.
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it's called Sony tablet P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqOyPh5w5o

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it's called Sony tablet P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKqOyPh5w5o
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I know of the Sony Tablet P, but I meant that it would be something that any Android phone with enough power could use. But thanks anyway!

If you split the screen in two, don't you think the screens would be way too small anyway? I mean it is a good idea, but who really does anything majorly needing that on their phone?

Maybe if you got the Kyocera Echo's source you could trick the display into doing it
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/kyocera-echo-review/
But it wouldn't be practical on a phone, maybe on a tablet

OP, I think its a great idea!
You would have two 6.25 cm (2.5") 427x480 (or 480 minus a few pixel rows for the status bar) app windows.
It probably could be implemented, but I doubt it will

How would the menu button work if two apps are open at the same time?

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How would the menu button work if two apps are open at the same time?
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You hold the middle of one side of the screen and press the menu button?

bubblegumballoon said:
How would the menu button work if two apps are open at the same time?
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Switch between menus somehow?
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bubblegumballoon said:
How would the menu button work if two apps are open at the same time?
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It would work for the window you were accessing, I presume.

You could press the menu then swipe left or right.
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Or press menu and drop-down bars appear then swipe down which one you want.
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Or perhaps you can make it so it opens for the "screen" you used last.

stick it https://market.android.com/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.stickit may develop to have this option.
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I've never liked the two.screen concept it's the major reason I though the ds was stupid power to the people that do tho if it's wanted it'll happen
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psxpetey said:
I've never liked the two.screen concept it's the major reason I though the ds was stupid power to the people that do tho if it's wanted it'll happen
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This is just for multitasking though. The DS was a good idea, but the real innovation was the touch screen - not the two screens.

This might or might not be useful. I thought of it because to me it seems useful when looking things up or something. And yes, the screens might be small. But I do not think they will be too small.

There's.a Nokia dual screen check it on youtube I def was not impressed
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I would find this useful because you can have your music player on the left/bottom of the screen, and have any other app on the other half of the screen. That way you wont have to change constantly between apps so in other words it is great for multitasking.

Imigine that you can swipe the bar between the two apps to make one bigger or smaller... that would be nice...
EDIT: Heard about Cornerstone? It does something very similar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX8w3UZIjkc&context=C3a175eeADOEgsToPDskIFCo2l1YoHf_UzwTUJFwWw