I've recently got a HTC U play and I was very disappointed to see a lot of my favourite HTC apps are not present in the phone's software. I found " HTC Sense™ Home and Themes | New Apps | Sense 9 | for all devices [12/08/2017] " xprit's thread and I downloaded the last version of HTC music, gallery and calendar. However they are not working as expected. The HTC gallery app simply crashes after opening. The HTC calendar app does not show any theme image texture (and it is automatically replaced by the theme color) after the second opening (after the installation process or new theme apply). The same for HTC music, but the image texture is replaced by white color and the controls (like the option button) are not visible. Any ideea how to fix all that problems?
HTC Music and Galery are no further developed and supported by HTC and thus will surely have problems running on Android 6 and above. The Kalender should still be available as an App download on the PlayStore. This version should run just fine - at least it does on my U11 thus far.
For galery if you don't want to use Google Fotos You might take a look at the App Camera Roll on PayStore. Regarding Music I never used it IMHO, have used Player Pro for years and just recently switched to Stellio as those provide as folder view which is more familiar and convenient for my personal use.
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I recently acquired the new HTC Touch Diamond 2 in France and I've been attempting to do OpenGL ES application development on it, but was getting Init failures and generally weird behavior. I noticed that the applications worked fine on older Windows Mobile 5.0 devices such as a Palm and older HTC. I suspected the TouchFlo 3D (built-in UI) might be causing the problem so I turned it off and now everything works great.
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Does anyone know how to disable TouchFlo 3D temporarily from an application and reactivate it when finished? I can't expect users to permanently disable TouchFlo since it works quite nice and is a big improvement over the existing UI.
Note: I am using the Vincent 3D library for OpenGL-ES.
Thank you
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You can kill the TouchFlo 3D app when your app launches and restart it when your app closes. The Filename of the app should be "manila.exe", using some VS Tools you can check the main windows class name which you can use to send a WM_QUIT message.
But be sure that your app covers the hole display before you quit the app because the app is automatically launched when the home screen is displayed...
After shutting down your OpenGL|es context and displays you can easily restart the manila.exe or it should be automatically started when the home screen is shown ...
Can you tell me how you got the Vincent 3D library running on your pda? I've tried all on my HTC Touch HD but nothing is displayed except the title bar of the window ...
Greetings
Now we have some what of a stable build running on our HTC HD2's. I would say it's great enough for everyday use.
What are the apps that we must need/have?
List them here! I'm new to Android so I don't know the apps like that. I would love to know what you guys have or can't go without.
Thanks!
HeavyComponent said:
Now we have some what of a stable build running on our HTC HD2's. I would say it's great enough for everyday use.
What are the apps that we must need/have?
List them here! I'm new to Android so I don't know the apps like that. I would love to know what you guys have or can't go without.
Thanks!
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Advanced Task Killer -> Task manager, must have.
Any Cut -> Add any shortcut/action to homescreen
Launcher Pro -> Advanced homescreen options and smoother interface (a few of the Andriod build the devs are putting together already have this cooked in)
Sense Analog Clock Widget -> HTC Sense style homescreen clock (if you're not running sense already, obviously)
XDA-Developers -> Complete forum app, must have!!!
Lots more great ones depending on your needs/interests, these are some apps that pretty much everyone should have, IMO.
Enjoy!
ColorNotes - A colour coded notepad app. Can place individual notes on the home screen.
3 (pronounced "cubed") - nice player, can scroll through music or jump by letter. So far I seem to like it better than the other ones out there.
HistoryEraser - Erases Android Marketplace search history among other things. Great if you don't have a rooted rom or don't feel like mucking about with a file mananger/adb.
Taskpanel - task killer with ignore lists and auto kills when low on memory also has a widget. Not sure how it compares to advanced task killer. I think ATK is more automated/simpler so probably the one to go with.
MailDroid - Email app for hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc. Couldn't get hotmail added to the default mail app.
Tricorder- Hand-held thing from Star Trek. Displays compass/GPS, microphone sound input, 3g/wifi connectivity data.
Frozen Bubble - fun puzzle-ish game from linux.
I'll second Launcher Pro, although I don't think I've ever been able to install it onto a rom that didn't have it built in (using the eclair desire v5 rom). Theres also Linda file manager (installed by default), not sure how it compares to the ASTRO? one.
EDIT: For a file explorer try Open Mananger instead of Linda. Its open source and free, available from the marketplace. It's pretty good.
Dropbox - for storage off your phones memory and can be used on your pc.
XDA Forums App - A Must have.
Setcpu - CPU overclocking or downclocking(saves some battery)
i have a few of the above, i also like
mp3 downloader(download songs)
ringdroid(make ringtones out of any music on your device)
mobile banking
craigspro
ebay
Advanced task killer
XDA Forums App
Sense, could not find any other way to use contact groups. Can anyone give me alternative, Just sense does not make any sense to use
Mobile Banking? To bad that's only for BoA. Is there one for Chase?
BTW: XDA app is great! Not going to the web anymore unless I need to download something.
Sent from HTC HD2 using XDA app.
Game:
Armored Strike Online
Its a tight game, like Worms, and you can play online using Wi-Fi or your mobile network.
Sent from my HTC HD2 running DarkStone HD2Froyo v1
Do most of the games work well on android on hd2, or is it a bit hit and miss at the moment?
Great android market!
Droidbox for dropbox
Goggles
Layar 3d browser
Network monitor
Officesuite
Post it desk
Shazam
Whereismoney (finance)
System panel (great for task manager, backup, sys monitor)
Google translator
Battery status widget
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HeavyComponent said:
Mobile Banking? To bad that's only for BoA. Is there one for Chase?
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Haven't found a chase app.
Page Once personal Assistant is awesome! Consolidates bank accounts, credit cards, bills and more in one app and it has push notifications. Must have for financial!
Just Downloaded this free game called Replica Island. I have to say, i'm very impressed. It's like a pseudo-action/RPG type game. You control a little android around.
My must have apps are:
Handcent - SMS
StarContact
SetCPU
Euchre
Cribbage
Wish there was a WobbleHD app...
tgtoys said:
Haven't found a chase app.
Page Once personal Assistant is awesome! Consolidates bank accounts, credit cards, bills and more in one app and it has push notifications. Must have for financial!
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Yeah I downloaded that earlier today. Yes It's a great app.
Sent from HTC HD2 using XDA app.
All the apps I need.
Beautiful widgets (gets you sense clock and some other handy widgets)
SetCPU (saves tons of battery by underclocking the processor when screen is off (create profile))
juiceplotter (shows you a graph of everything your battery does)
Mabilo Wallpaper (amazing, it changes your wallpaper every X minutes and it lets you go through 10000s of wallpapers and download them straight from the app)
eBuddy (best messenger for msn facebook chat and everythign in one)
Action Potato (quality game. )
SMSPopUp (when you recieve a text it pops up ontop of what youre doing for you to delete or answer it quickly, a-la iphone)
Mario Block (a widget that does nothign but spit mushrooms coins and fireflowers.)
Lovin android lately, been using it as a daily build for a couple days.
Seeing all of you with a smile on your face, testing so many great apps running perfectly on our Hd2 ... It wasn't imaginable 3 mouths ago.
- Men, We opened the pandora box !!!
There is no way we go back to windows mobile now
Ps : All my apps are mentioned here so i bring a tip :
- Did you know that it is so easy to uninstall an app ? - Just drag and drop the icon into the dustbin but wait 2 seconds before release it.
AdvanceTaskKiller
SetCpu
FotMob
ToggleSwiches
FancyWidget
DolphinBrowserHD
LauncherPro
PeopleWidget
Games:Asphalt5(brilliant stuff),SpeedX
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Not really an app, but massive online flash games for our beloved [email protected]:
www.kongregate.com -> starts with a mobile optimized page when opened from within Android browser and shows games especcially designed or great working on small screens and touch input.
My apps list
BatteryLife - widget
FBReader/Kindle?Ereader - ebook readers
xda-developers -of course
Evernote
rock player - plays most video formats
BeyondPod - podcsts
google earth
Swype http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687056
MoreLocale 2 - coz New Zealand is not in the locale list
Nexus 1 torch - can add a torch widget onto the home page
Dolphin browser
Barcode scanner
IMDB
Logmein Ignition
twitter
xkcd
die_Leuchte said:
Not really an app, but massive online flash games for our beloved [email protected]:
www.kongregate.com -> starts with a mobile optimized page when opened from within Android browser and shows games especcially designed or great working on small screens and touch input.
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So does 10.1 run on the browser now? I hit the search and nothing popped up. I would think that would be the main app everyone wanted. Adobe flash 10.1.
Ok, before I installed Android GB 2.3.2 nand on my Windows Mobile HTC HD2 I could take a picture with the phones camera or use a picture via Text and set it as wallpaper and it would use the whole picture without distorting the image. With GB 2.3.2 this isn't so. The quality due to cropping instead of being able to use the image as it was has made the quality of the photo go down. Any fix for this? Settings, app, etc??? I'd like to be able to take a picture or use a existing photo and use it as my home screen wallpaper without losing the quality. The phones pages, icons, etc look very sharp.
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MultiPic Live Wallpaper will use the whole image, and additionally you can set a different pic for each homescreen, have cool screen transitions, and a bunch more cool settings.
There's another app out there that will allow you to use the entire image, but sorry I can't remember what that one's called. But MultiPic LWP should do the trick for you.
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Hi everyone,
I didn't know this was part of Blinkfeed, nor could i find it via search. Seems it makes a little collage of photos once they're a year old.
Way to think of the little things htc, nice surprise this am.
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This "Video Highlights". It was part of Sense 5.0 & with latest update (Sense 5.5) the Photo Gallery changed a bit, but it is still there.
Im raising this thread from dead.. but I have good reason.
Latest updates to HTC Zoe (renamed Video Highlights feature) broke some important functionality.
1. User can save produced clip on phone.. only to upload on HTC social network
2. All edits are limited to 16 pics, no matter how long is song.
Those issues makes Video Highlights useless. So, I tried to uninstall HTC Zoe updates and I got back both features, but I lost all themes. Only one (Clean) teme works. All other temes is listed but not working (fallback to Clean theme). After research I found two folder on user storage which is used by factory video highlights and updated HTC Zoe. But folders is updated, old content is overwritten and after I uninstall HTC Zoe updated, new themes is still there but old app cant use them.
I contacted HTC Zoe support and they realise those issues, but they dont have plans to fix it, because they are focused on their social network... So lame...
So I decided to fix this.
I need someone who *DID NOT UPDATE* HTC Zoe app to copy (backup) following folders and upload somewhere:
Code:
/sdcard/Android/data/com.htc.zeroediting
and
/sdcard/Android/data/com.htc.zero
I tried to find those files on ROM images, but seems there is no such files because ROM files does not include user partition files.
If I manage to fix this issue I'll write nice tutorial how to restore broken functionality.
Introduction
I have spent too many hours trying to find the perfect ROM to install on my Samsung Galaxy S6 phone. My goal was to find an ultra debloated ROM without any Samsung or Google stuff with the bare minimum. Turns out, it's impossible. I also wanted to use something new that went out of the normal boring stuff we are used to see. The ROM and Kernel selection is just enormous. I also needed to address a very specific issue which is to maintain the cell phone up to date with the latest ROM it can take to be stable and usable while being able to install the latest version of apps from Google Play. I have a SIM card but I never recieve any phone calls on it and it's an international card that I cannot use without high fees. It's basically used when my wife, from another country, needs to contact me via SMS. So phone calls using the default call app is just useless for me.
Apps that I excessively use
So here is the list of apps that I use, or shall I say, OVER-use:
Facebook Messenger (video calls)
Grandstream Wave - GS Wave (All my phone calls using SIP service)
Camera app (My wife is in another country for now so pictures and videos is our way of communicating)
Microsoft Launcher (the only free launcher having a good balance between customization and those notification dots)
Banking apps (2 major ones, 1 credit card app, PayPal and Xoom)
Games (2 to 4 mostly from AI Factory and 1 from Facebook app)
Facebook, Reddit and Discord
GMail
Total Commander + LAN plugin
Magisk (latest available version on GitHub)
AdAway (latest available version for ROM version installed, removes pretty much all the ads in my games and apps)
Google Play (Obviously)
Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge browser (depended on my mood as long as I was NOT using the infamous Google Chrome or Samsung Browser)
Open Camera (Only on AOSP roms or Stock roms higher than v7.0)
Problems / Issues / Bugs / Missing configs
After all of my tests, here is the list of all problems I have encountered under which ROM versions:
No floating video call window when call is unfocused. When unfocused, other person sees black screen until I get back the video call in full screen focus - Facebook Messenger (Stock rom v7.0) this issue does not happen on roms higher than v7.x, floating video call is possible with v8.x and higher roms.
Dark mode unavailable or requires heavy tweaks to fake or achieve a similar effect in OS, example, dark mode in the system settings menus - System configuration menus (Stock rom v7.x)
Camera's picture taking is not syncing with flash, therefor, picture is taken WITHOUT the flash leading to dark pictures - Default camera app (Stock roms higher than v7.0 and all AOSP roms)
Lower than usual voice recording audio - Facebook Messenger (sending a voice recording), Default camera app (all AOSP roms)
Unable to see the internal storage of my device in Windows Explorer - LineageOS roms (some custom roms do work that are not pure LineageOS)
Bluetooth connecting but no audio is directed to the device - Facebook Messenger and all other system sounds and music (AOSP roms higher than v7.x)
Bluetooth causes Facebook Messenger to drop connection when in use with BT device. Once disconnected, call ceases to drop - Facebook Messenger (AOSP roms)
Apps and system a tiny bit less responsive - Facebook game Words with Friends, Home screen and configs (Stock rom v7.0)
Contacts not syncing - GS Wave (AOSP roms with Open GApps Pico and Nano)
Username and passwords not automatically filled from stored passwords in Google account - Facebook, Reddit (All roms)
GMail dark mode and dark mode option unavailable - GMail (Stock rom v7.x)
Some games do not install or simply unavailable from Google Play - Super Mario Run (Highly debloated Stock rom v7.0)
Initial setup crashes after configuring the first time wifi connection, Google's update checking fails (AOSP roms with Open GApps)
When resizing the DP from 360 to 480 in the developper options, keyboard does not stretch to the entire screen width - System (Stock rom v7.x)
Lack of keyboard customization such as enabeling the numbers row instead of integrating them in the letter keys with long touch - System (all AOSP roms)
Random reboots or total system freeze. Very minimal and rare, not enough to remember too much about it, but still happened - System (Stock rom v7.0 other than SamStock)
Tests
My phone: Canadian Flat SM-G920W8
As of today, I have tested Ultimate Nougate, Oreo, Unofficial Lineage OS 14.1-17.1, FlynOS, NexusOS, S8 ports Note 8 ports, ViperOS, Marduck, SamStock, DotOS plus many other derivatives of LineageOS 16 and 17.1. If a rom was not mentioning compatibility with W8 version, I'd try using a compatible Kernel which seems to make the roms work and boot properly but most of these tests were performed with roms that stated supporting the T or W8 variants.
First test was to actually go through the Install process which Ultimate Oreo and 1 or 2 others failed. The amount of failed installs is very neglectible. Next was to actually boot into the OS. I got a few boot loops due to Kernel incompatibilities, again, just 1 or 2 failed REALLY and a few others were my fault for installing a wrong Kernel. So nothing to mention here too. Next was to actually be able to use the Camera app without doing anything else. All AOSP roms failed this. I simply opened the app, enabled flash and took a picture in a dark place. Picture has never been taken properly. Camera flashes correctly but picture is taken AFTER the flash turns out. Open Camera with the Camera API 2 enabled solved this issue.
Is was now left with rooting my phone. Note that most Stock roms and some AOSP roms have their own pre-built root which I utterly hate. Magisk is available and easily installable and works super fine so I do not need an old outdated version of Super SU or Magisk pre-installed. If the rom had Magisk pre-installed, I'd simply flash the Magisk app over it before booting to be at the latest version. I also needed to install Open GApps on AOSP roms and configure it. This was much easier to do when having a first time NO OPEN GAPPS intial boot. Basically, boot the first time without Open GApps, then reboot and install Open GApps and reboot to system, this resolves the wifi issue.
After all of this, it's time to let Google Play update everything it has to before starting to use Google Play and installing our apps. Turns out that I hate pretty much all of the launchers out there. They all have weird lacks. Lack of options, lack of configuration or no support for notification dots or a payment is needed to unlock this feature, lack of icon and folder lables. I tried the major ones and I even installed the hacked version available as torrents and I was not impressed by any one of them. Microsoft Launcher is the best one I know that offers enough options to configure what I want AND enables notification dots freely. The only last thing they could make available is the possibility to configure folder background colors and transparency and icon styles. To my opinion, that's all that's missing. I DO NOT use gestures so no comment on this.
Verdict
I absolutely NEED my bluetooth to work and I need this camera app to work flawlessly. This means that I am left with one single option. That is:
Stable Stock (Touchwiz based) rom version 7.0 (Nougat)
I tested some nice ones but again, I run into some issues, therefor:
MY RECOMMENDATION: SamStock ROM
ALTERNATIVELY, My Re-Pack of the above ROM: SamStock ROM (Lightly Debloated)
The only Problem I fell upon is the download which required me to use a separate download manager to download this rom from Android File Host. I also am displeased that SamStock DOES include his own version of Magisk integrated inside the rom so after rom installation, I have to flash MY version of Magisk immediately before booting. This rom is also completely Stock which means NO debloating, Everything is there, from Samsung apps to Google apps. Knox is the only thing that got removed. So this is also a very big file to download, almost 2gb when some roms go far below the 1gb size. So it's probably the most space greedy rom out there, but it's also the one I have the least problems with.
Why not the other roms such as Marduk? Because they are not 100% stock, they are moded stock roms with the author's personal touches and possible kernels. The customized roms brought some awkward issues at moments and made the phone unstable with some rare but random reboots and total freeze requiring me to hard reboot the phone using "Volume Down + Home + Power". Some others just had a weird issue where some apps and games were not available to download on Google Play while as with a same v7.0 rom like SamStock, these were available for download.
As for AOSP roms, the camera and bluetooth issues are just too major to make the roms usable on a daily basis. Open Camera DOES resolve the camera image issue but does not resolve the low volume issue.
I hope this will help any of you out there to clarify your decision on what to install. I did my job in trying pretty much all I could download from XDA for my version of the phone. I recon that some exceptions may happen and that you may have not run into any of the issues I listed. Please feel free to comment.
Reference and downloads
If you want a good list and explanations and valuable links for downloads, please checkout the website I dedicated for the Canadian model but also valid for other variants: http://dr.mywebcommunity.org/g920w8/
Website last update: 2021-09-01
Website update notes
2021-09-01
• Added my own "SamStock ROM (Lightly Debloated)" in the list
• Added "Recommended" tags in the "Downloads and links" section
• Added my recommended android launcher "Microsoft Launcher" in the apps list
Mod-coversation removed following up a personal conversation. Thank you XDA mods for your concerns about your online community!
I updated the website to include more information and added a few more links in the Downloads section. I also added a small menu to to make the navigation in the Downloads and links section a bit easier.
I also added a small text file listing the apps that can safely be removed in zipped Stock ROMS. Here's the direct link, it's also available in the "Downloads and links" section: http://dr.mywebcommunity.org/g920w8/debloat/debloat_safe.txt