Hey all,
So seeing as level up have ruined beautiful widgets, does anyone know of any good alternatives?
Most if not all of the clocks and weather themes I used are gone, and the clocks are low rez, lose time,
and the Home weather widget is gone. The weather part of the app is ugly and poorly designed now too.
So i'm trying to find some clock widgets to replace it as I am furious they took an app I loved and replaced it with
an abomination lol.
Cheers.
I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.
zephiK said:
I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.
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Thanks I will take a look. More than anything I need one that keeps time, which this one it seems still doesn't
I am annoyed because almost all the themes left for the clocks are exactly the same, all the home weather one's I liked, unless i'm not looking properly like angry birds, are gone, and the app is now slow and laggy.
Guess it's all down to personal preference but I just wish they would offer the old version.
zephiK said:
I actually prefer the new version of BW. Using the HTC One X theme found on the theme market
But I see that HD Widgets is pretty up there in popularity. Not a fan of it though.
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HD Widgets looks excellent I might have to give it a go. Although I'm reluctant to give another Dev my cash, they
are editors choice on the play market, and I guess I could backup the .apk in case it is updated in future
Cheers.
biffsmash said:
HD Widgets looks excellent I might have to give it a go. Although I'm reluctant to give another Dev my cash, they
are editors choice on the play market, and I guess I could backup the .apk in case it is updated in future
Cheers.
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Hit the thanks button if I helped I bought BW when it was on sale so I'm not too crazed about it, idk I like the improvement of BW 5.0 doesnt feel laggy at all, especially not on the N4.
I have both HD Widgets and Beautiful Widgets. There are a lot more style choices in HD Widgets. HD Widgets also allows you to customize the look of the widget more than BW.
kgeissler said:
I have both HD Widgets and Beautiful Widgets. There are a lot more style choices in HD Widgets. HD Widgets also allows you to customize the look of the widget more than BW.
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I used The 4x1 Weather widget in Beautiful widgets with the SimpleSolid skin. But when the 5.0 update came, it made the icons in the widget bigger and due to that they don't fit into the 4x1 space properly anymore. Parts of the images get cut off because they extend outside the widget boundaries.
I had to switch to another skin that uses much smaller icons but I really liked the SimpleSolid skin and will probably explore alternative widget options.
I have both and I prefer HD widgets because I don't have to search for widget themes as you can edit the widgets through the app and HD widgets has switches that I use a lot.
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What's your favorite? I was using "Android Apps' Weather Widget Forecast", but I do like the detail of the stock app.
I have seen some nice ones in pictures of the N1 so what's all out there that seems to work for you? I'm not very entertained by FB widgets.
My stock weather doesn't work anymore. Sliding the time doesn't update the forecast. Thinking this is a data service issue cost I changed roms and no fix. New Zealand.
Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.
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Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.
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+1
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Weatherbug's free once isn't bad, you have the ads that run, but they have a large and small version. I use the large on on it's own screen. Plus, it has plethora of cities to choose from/locations compared to the stock one.
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Beautiful weather widgets home widget has got my vote.
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Pretty neat. They have the one very similar to the one I was using before but I REALLY like the one that is sort of a mix between the stock app and that.
Going to give it a try. Thanks!
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Weatherbug's free once isn't bad, you have the ads that run, but they have a large and small version. I use the large on on it's own screen. Plus, it has plethora of cities to choose from/locations compared to the stock one.
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+1 very cool detailed weather information!
I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...
kanej2006 said:
I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...
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Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget
I found quite a good one that's easy to use and is accurate.
It's called AccuWeather.
lufc said:
Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget
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Hi
I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it
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I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it
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I think thier are skins out in the market that will change it but i have not looked into it yet
I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?
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I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?
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Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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Chirurg said:
Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.
kanej2006 said:
I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.
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That doesn't work for me neither. It's just not displayed correctly...
I'm using beautiful widgets. Awesome weather program for our streaks! When you tap the widget, it fills the entire screen with a gorgeous weather animation that encompasses the entire screen. Well worth the $2 Thanks for the tip kanej!
The new ADW Launcher. Dare I say it?... Looks better than Launcher Pro?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/1...eleased-transitions-to-a-whole-new-dimension/
The app drawer performance does looks a little laggy tho
Its wicked goodbye launcher pro
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MasDroid said:
The app drawer performance does looks a little laggy tho
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Well it wasn't playing on an actual phone as you could see. Can't say anything about the smoothness untill you try it on your own phone Or did you already? I'm gonna try it out!
EDIT: I was right. Super smooth scrolling on homescreen and app drawer
EDIT2: The 3D app drawer wasn't as smooth but still smoother than in the video. Without the effect it's superb!
Interesting notes:
- You can set the app drawer background to transparent so it displays your wallpaper behind but reduces performance.
- Couldn't find an option to change the dock background easily, annoying.
- There are 8 different home screen scrolling transitions which all work perfectly smooth.
- There is no option to change app drawer / app opening transition, so you always get the zoom effect.
- 3D app drawer isn't perfectly smooth.
- It stutters for a fraction of second every time you open an app.
Other than that it's very nice launcher I'm still sticking to Launcher Pro because it's still much faster and because I have only one homescreen so I don't benefit from the cool transitions and stuff.
it's awesome !!!
thanks man, gonna try it now!
erm, how to change the number of homescreens?
i don't usually use 5 screens
With free versions he means normal ADW? I'd like to try it but I'm not gonna buy it without a trial longer than 15minutes.
When I scan the barcode it just says it can't be found...? sigh...
EDIT: Nevermind, played around with Market Enabler and got it
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With free versions he means normal ADW? I'd like to try it but I'm not gonna buy it without a trial longer than 15minutes.
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Trust me, within 2 minutes you'll be convinced
garduna said:
Trust me, within 2 minutes you'll be convinced
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I doubt it. I care for speed more than for fancy transitions and I already bought Launcher Pro Plus. Also using the calender widget from that.
// Tried it, back to LP.
I bought it:
2 problems, ADW freeze two times so I should reboot. and when I put a widget I can't delete ???
I doubt I'll ever use any other launched after buying this. Always liked ADW more then LP, but now, words cannot explain the love for Ander after this beauty
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GANJDROID said:
I doubt I'll ever use any other launched after buying this. Always liked ADW more then LP, but now, words cannot explain the love for Ander after this beauty
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You had better keep the emotions to yourself
Looks Nice!
I tried it it´s just so amazingly fast and nice to watch.
Is there a way of loading the sense apps though?
It must have setting to change the icon of folder, sort icons, quick manager icons & folder.
I dont see myself buying it for now, I might not like it. Right now Im still enjoying the original SENSE and I have LP Pro so meh
MasDroid said:
You had better keep the emotions to yourself
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Haha, sorry, I just can't contain these feelings anymore he's done amazing work with this.
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Is it possible to disable fade in effect when an app its opened?
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Awesome launcher. I love the icon backgrounds/settings (gives icons a much more consistent look and size). Been using it a couple of days with Oxygen 2.0 RC with no problems at all. Its smooth and fast.
Worth every penny.
any way to set the number of screens to 2 instead of the default 5??
Hi
Does anyone know what app is this and is it free?
Thxs
I think it's the htc sense UI flip clock. You can download the older version of fancy widget or beautiful widget, as sense hasn't been ported to the epic yet
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http://www.appbrain.com/app/sense-analog-clock-widget-24/factory.widgets.SenseClock24
It is pretty close to the sense ui clock the bottom widget
that is actually the sense flipclock from the HTC shift 4g.
i used weather and flipclock ($.99 when i bought it eons ago) and the h7 flipclock theme(free).
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i used weather and flipclock ($.99 when i bought it eons ago) and the h7 flipclock theme(free).
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I use "Weather & Toggle Widget" (which I think is the same as above, it definitely changed its name at some point). It's currently $1.99, which I believe is what I paid. I use the "H7C" skin. The skins are free downloads that work as long as you have the main app. Unfortunately, it looks like the H7C skin is no longer on the market, and I'm guessing it was pulled because of a copyright claim by HTC (there was a youtube video of the skin, and that video has been pulled with a statement about an HTC copyright claim, so that's why I'm guessing the same thing happened to the skin itself).
It is by far my favorite widget. It's too bad that skin gone.
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Looks like it might be Beautiful Widgets to me. It's about 2 dollars in the market. You can customize it with different clock and weather skins.
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Hi all, having recently come to the Galaxy S3 from many years of using HTC devices (HTC HD2, HTC Desire S, HTC Sensation), I realised I really missed 1 or 2 widgets which were useful to me. These included Friendstream and Calender/agenda.
Reading around a bit, I discovered 'Android Pro Widgets' in the google play store... these are awesome alternative scrollable widgets which are an excellent alternative to the above.
Finally, for those who havnt tried it, Apex launcer works briliantly in the S3 - feels much slicker to me than Touchwiz and has the added bonus of having scrollable wallpaper! (Intall Quick pic from play store if you want to use scrollable wallpaper to install the wallpaper otherwise gallery forces you to crop your selected image messing up the desired scroll effect.)
Hope someone finds this of use, a 'Thanks' would be appreciated if so.
Cheers
Thanks for the Heads up Missed the scrollable people widget badly, glad I got a version of it back on my Galaxy S III.
I will give them a go , thanks
I've been using these on my Desire as I'd switched to an AOSP rom. They work great with one exception. The bookmarks widget always misses the last bookmarked site off. I have to create a dummy site to get it to show. Could you confirm if this happens on the S3?
NorthernNoel said:
I've been using these on my Desire as I'd switched to an AOSP rom. They work great with one exception. The bookmarks widget always misses the last bookmarked site off. I have to create a dummy site to get it to show. Could you confirm if this happens on the S3?
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Im just playing with that feature now , it seems to include ALL of the bookmarks ive saved so far , ive saved 15 and its displaying 15
Great stuff
I now just need play to hurry up and send me my s3
The people widget dosent show my facebook profile picture. Did someone get it to work?
You can get a modded touchwiz launcher that allows for wallpaper scrolling and also has alternative home sizes if you want it.
Search for it, quite easily
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You can get a modded touchwiz launcher that allows for wallpaper scrolling and also has alternative home sizes if you want it.
Search for it, quite easily
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Was that for me?
Alex Charles said:
You can get a modded touchwiz launcher that allows for wallpaper scrolling and also has alternative home sizes if you want it.
Search for it, quite easily
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It's also easy to copy and paste a link you know.