Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Samsung has at least improved their "Samsung Experience" ever since the disaster (for me) that was the "TouchWiz Nature UX 3.5" on my Galaxy Note3. If you don't already know, I like the stock Android UI (of Android 4.4 through to 7.1, but 8.0 looks too white to me)
By that, I mean I can download a "stock Android" theme to cover up a portion of the ultra-white Samsung UX, however, it (unfortunately) does not skin the Android SystemUI "DeviceDefault" theme, which affects some apps, like Ted (text editor) and Gboard settings. I then use "Navbar Apps" to force the nav bar to be black, instead of Samsung's white.
However, some annoyances remain, primarily with Samsung's own emoji font, which is hard for me to decipher, and is very different from other fonts. I wished Samsung gave their users the option to use stock Android emoji.
Also, Samsung seems to only allow Monotype's paid fonts to be used as UI fonts, and they don't allow free fonts from sites like Dafont and Google Fonts. It could be circumvented in TouchWiz 7.0 (Android 6.x) and earlier, but not in Samsung Experiece 8.0 and later, so I wish they gave their users the option to use free fonts (by checking file signatures first).
Either that, or hopefully UI font changing and font management becomes an AOSP feature, possibly by forking lines of code from something open-source like KDE Plasma on desktop Linux (that has very good custom UI font in my opinion).
Yes and no.
I don't not like the Note 8 UI, but it's not exactly anything new or exciting.
Coming from an S6, this is my first "edge" phone and it felt way too similar to my S6. So, I downloaded nova, made full use of the edge panel and it just feels so much nicer.
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Why did Samsung implement a theme engine, but make it almost impossible to access the tools to create your own themes?!?
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Don't you think touchwiz for SGSIII looks like ugly as hell? It looks like pre-honeycomb, anyway my questions is; can I change the entire look of touchwiz, but keep it's functionality...? if so, how easy is it?
I've used an iPhone the past 3 years but have seen the light and preordered an S3 but the whole nature thing is bugging the hell out of me, it should look more like the Google Nexus (which has the "holo" theme I believe")
Just install a new launcher. Apex will make it look just like a Nexus.
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Just install a new launcher. Apex will make it look just like a Nexus.
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On iOS Jailbreak you could install something called Winterboard which allowed for every aspect of the UI to be customised... is this possible on android while keeping functionality intact?
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On iOS Jailbreak you could install something called Winterboard which allowed for every aspect of the UI to be customised... is this possible on android while keeping functionality intact?
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As far as every aspect (notification bar, text color, etc.) you will need a custom rom with framework modified. I'm betting there will be tons and you will be happy. With the launchers, all you will get is an overlay of the home screen ui basically. Icons and such will be able to be modified though with a different launcher. There are tons of launchers to replace touchwiz. I don't think you will be disappointed
---Jay--- From the CM9 powered E4GT
Wait for developer to theme it for u
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Acrylicus said:
Don't you think touchwiz for SGSIII looks like ugly as hell? It looks like pre-honeycomb, anyway my questions is; can I change the entire look of touchwiz, but keep it's functionality...? if so, how easy is it?
I've used an iPhone the past 3 years but have seen the light and preordered an S3 but the whole nature thing is bugging the hell out of me, it should look more like the Google Nexus (which has the "holo" theme I believe")
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The theming on ios (to me) just looks bad.. On android developers and themers make great themes that are easily flashed through cwm and most of them are awesome.. You wont be dissapointed
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Also as mentioned home replacement is another easy option.
There are many that aren't just stock ICS layout, but those such as SPB shell 3D which will change a lot of the layout, whereas others such as go launcher will actually have many different theming options available.
As always its entirely down to preference. No one can tell you what the best one is. Who knows, you may even like the be touchwiz!! :thumbup:
Personally I prefer the Touchwiz icons over stock Android icons. Google isn't very good at all at creating anything that is pleasing visually -- including stock ICS.
You know you can remove the widgets if you don't like them and use other launchers. I use Nova Launcher with Touchwiz icons. I am sure I will do the same on my GS III once it arrives.
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More Moving and Cleaning.
This thread is not about a particular theme nor app.
Moving to General,
Thanks for the understanding.
So Guys ans Girls,
Let start the Visual Thread about Ubuntu Touch OS
drop your thoughts, your fear and your wishes about the Touch OS visual Experience
To start, here is a pic for the Exploration, the pic come from the Touch OS designer
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Very good visual, cant wait to see it running on my device. :good:
And this Visual Design has a name : Suru ! welcome Suru
but let have a deep look, the phone picture is not the Galaxy Nexus as it used to be.
A hint to the new Hardware ?
Hardware
Maybe the Ubuntu phone to be released in autumn.
looks really great, calendar is a bit weird but whatever
i dont know why but that device looks like a Huawei to me
the os looks great, hopefully it performs well and gets the attention it deserves. though, in this market, that really depends on how many developers embrace the os and get the apps developed so it at least has a chance to succeed. allowing ios and android to get so big really causes problems for any newcomers due to the fact that there are already thousands of apps for both platforms which are now relatively stable, bug-free and full of features, and no one nowadays wants a phone which doesn't have stable, fast apps for everything they want to do.
i think the ubuntu devs definitely got the design right, tho -- the design reminds me of something you'd see in android, but with a lot of the...ideas and practicality that lay behind windows phone, which imo is a better platform than either ios or android for a phone but unfortunately doesn't have the community and therefore the developers/apps to compete.
would definitely be great to see this platform take off so we have another big competitor in the mix!
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And this Visual Design has a name : Suru ! welcome Suru
but let have a deep look, the phone picture is not the Galaxy Nexus as it used to be.
A hint to the new Hardware ?
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Don't get your hopes up. The pictures above are nothing more than digital concepts, it's just an artist's impression of what a "new" ubuntu-related generic smartphone would look like.
In case you don't venture into the main N4 forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/firmware-update-n910fxxu1dol3-hungary-t3265043
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They are giving us the new Touchwiz icons that look like they are the result of Touchwiz being raped and getting a back alley abortion. Nooooooooooo. I hope they at least include themes so that we can hide that mess. Then again, by the time this is actually released by Verizon, I assume a lot of us will have already moved on to non Samsung phones.
I think the biggest UI upgrade I can recall occuring on a Samsung device was maybe when the OG Note got Jellybean and looked fairly similar to the Note II and picked up some new features. Otherwise, Samsung has traditionally let as little as possible trickle down from their latest flagships to "last year's" model when doing updates---look at the Note 4 or the Note 3 Lollipop situation , for example. Neither phone was as smooth or as refined under Lollipop as it was under KitKat (I do not recall if the Note 3 was better under JB or KK). I certainly do not expect things like theme support or manual camera modes to ever trickle down to the Note 4. I'll just be glad to get its RF and battery performance back to where it was with KitKat.
I highly, highly doubt we ever see this.
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His demo phone seems to be very laggy as hell with MM 6.0. Hopefully by the time we getting this it should be better.
It looks like it has a few things I might like. But the icons, dear lord are they bad. Way to iPhoneish for my liking.
The settings menu looks decent to me though.
droidx2.3.3 said:
It looks like it has a few things I might like. But the icons, dear lord are they bad. Way to iPhoneish for my liking.
The settings menu looks decent to me though.
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Exactly why I hope they throw in themes. I hope somebody asks on the youtube page. He's been answering questions. (I tried to ask, but youtube won't let me sign in since I deleted G+ and my YT channel.)
Hey everyone
Touchwiz used to be heavy and to consume to much a few years ago.
In the developers options menu, I saw something called "Profil de rendu GPU" (in french, it should be something like GPU rendering profile in english). With this option, I can see on screen how much my GPU is used (I think it's how it works ^^)
So I enabled this option with my Nougat (beta 6) Galaxy S7 edge, here is the result :
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Then, I tried the same with my Galaxy S5 running an AOSP ROM, so no Touchwiz, and here is the result :
I tried the same experiment with a Nexus 5X and a Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, and witt both of these phones I got the same result as my S5.
Can anyone explain me where is the difference between these 2 images coming from ?
Thanks
up ?
its not really good news, shows system is struggling to keep up with constant 60 fps unfortunately
And yet I've never seen under 50-60fps on my S7 edge, even in intensive use
So, why is this system struggling to keep constant 60fps ? Is it because of touchwiz ? Isn't Touchwiz better than before ?
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And yet I've never seen under 50-60fps on my S7 edge, even in intensive use
So, why is this system struggling to keep constant 60fps ? Is it because of touchwiz ? Isn't Touchwiz better than before ?
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It should be under the green line for stutter free smooth 60fps experience. This is like frame timing... higher than the green line = more ms to render the frames = less than 60fps... if it's a lot higher you will start to notice it as you move/scroll/etc.
YEAH. AND I'VE REPORTED IT SEVERAL TIMES DURING BETA.
But noone seems to care though. Even though I asked for help from xda...
Micro-stuttering is an issue with TouchWiz, believe it or not. And no matter how much optimization and improvement they promise each year, it's still the same.
I'm using the official nougat beta right now and I can affirm the following:
1. Massive keyboard lag
2. Home screen stuttering even when feeds page is off.
3. Overall the UI feels quicker and smoother than Marshmallow. But no way you can call it butter smooth.
Frankly, I guess I've had enough of Samsung. Been using S and Note Series flagships since the S2 days and now tired of this bull****. I mean how come a 10 thousand bucks phone feel smoother in operation than this 60K phone? Only samsung knows. The only reason I'm holding on to S7 edge is the design.
#FedUp
Okay thanks everyone for the explaination
I agree, Touchwiz isn't the smoothest ROM I've used and I'd love to see many stable AOSP-based ROMs for the Exynos S7 edge... I'm frustrated because of it, because I love flashing and changing ROMs ^^
I got it too thanks to its design and I hope that many others manufacturers will release innovative design this year so I can switch and leave Samsung
@BigBen60
I Think that the second screenshot shows a cached result, notice that it has lighter colors. So that's not a fair comparison.
Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the Honor Play. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Well I usually do 2 things with my new phone :install Lawnchair launcher and BB keyboard. But this time in case of my Play I decided to give it a go to the EMUI and see how it goes in the latest version. To my surprise I find it very handy with a lot of useful "ad ons" so this time sticking with it. But the keyboard is a bit different. Just can't get used the SwiftKey... So sticking with BB keyboard. It's my favourite app in the past couple years and very reliable.
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Can I use an Honor Play with Verizon?
The Honor Play is super fast and has a good battery backup but EMUI v8.2 for me was turn-off.
Things i did not like
Cannot expand the notification menu(notification drawer) without unlocking the phone to perform simple tasks like disable/enable WIFI, DND mode, Data...
No notification to dismiss alarm 1hr before it rings. Loved that little dismiss Alarm notification
The default analogue Clock Widget and analogue clock in the Clock App both have Huawei logo. Why ? The Brand name Huawei is etched on the front panel of the mobile , I would like a clean home screen with just Analogue Clock widget on it.
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When setting a Timer from the Clock App you cannot just type in the time with a number pad ,instead you have to scroll through the numbers wheel to select the time for hrs, minutes and seconds.
Edit: Just install the Clock App by Google from play store. To get the material design feel and the 1 hr Alarm dismiss notification prior to Alarm.
EMUI is the user interface that comes on installed Honor and Huawei phones. EMUI features Huawei Home, phone manager, themes, media apps, and is heavily baked in to the entire system UI. While EMUI has a lot of great features to offer (Screen recording, gesture controls, camera app ect.) many people have serious complaints about it.
For a long time, EMUI has been considered one of the more negative aspects of getting an Honor or Huawei device. Over the years EMUI has evolved to be much better and now hosts a great selection of valuable features.