yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Yes, it seems to only sync with the stock calendar for now. Don't know if later updates will change this. In reviewing the windows mobile forum on this shell they seem to be able to select which calendar app to use. One work around is to us use smooth calendar or pure calendar Widgets. They look nice.
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
I'm afraid I just noticed - I never subscribed to this thread. Wish threads you created were auto-added. So I've been missing a lot of replies!

I've also seen little to no mods by people of their work. I don't know if it's because they don't want to pay the $, or because it's not doable like before.

One sort-of-tip to add. For the shortcuts at the drawer bar at the bottom, you can customize the icon appearance - but the only way I know to do it is to change the icon in the apk itself. The plus side, is now your icon will show everywhere with the new image (recent tasks, etc) - bit of a pain when an updates comes, though!
[Android Apps and Games] wanablikhm:
Contact pics and sms pics

I have Droid X 2.2.1 using SPB shell 3d 1.0.3. I used Win Mobile shell for years love it. I am having trouble with pictures for contacts. I use google and facebook is the picture source. The only pics on the spb favorite folder or the spb sms widget is from a contact that uses a picture from my gallery. None of the facebooks pics work. I have sms go and the facebook pics show up there and they show up in the stock list of contacts. Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanx in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] TShill7:
I'm seeing the exact same thing - only in my case I believe this widget only shows "Recent Pics" and I get a selection from the camera and png files downloaded with my F1 app.

Anyone know how to get this less than useful widget to display pics that you want? I've hunted for a "settings" button but can't find one. :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] liorry:
Don't know if it's mentioned already but it needs UTF-8 and RTL languages support...
[Android Apps and Games] eyc:
I hope it will eventually support scrolling widgets, such as Pure Calendar. Along those same lines, it would be fantastic if you could hit a particular day on the SPB Calendar Panel and be taken directly into that day.

I also agree that customizable icons on the dock would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] flaystus:
Just a question to everyone who has this.

Has it been worth the money?
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
Same bug here. I reported it to them and they added it to their 'working on' list. To get around it, on those contacts I manually selected a picture other then Facebook.

For me - the way it is right *now* - probably not. I'm kind of banking that I like the look and going with their reputation from the WinMo days that eventually it will have the features & missing widgets that we are waiting for.

Now, if they start to support scrolling widgets, add some social widgets, allow users to pick their own apps to launch when you click things - I'd give it a firm Yes.
[Android Apps and Games] tobias14:
is trial version available for dl? could not find it on spb page
[Android Apps and Games] syrenz:
They did confirm that they will add more widgets, but who knows when. I decided to hold off purchasing it until I see more widgets, scrollable+resizable and more features. As is, it looks pretty but it lacks the options I want so isn't worth the money for me.
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
Yup. I'm pretty good the way it is now. Scrolling widgets is still my biggest one that I'd like to see done. Oddly, possibly because of the amount of memory used, it's still the only home launcher that didn't have to constantly reload all the widgets whenever I went to it. If one of the others could do that, I might not have tried it at all.

(Anyone know tricks to make other home launchers stay more resident so they don't have to constantly re-load themselves & all widgets??)

No trial at this time.
[Android Apps and Games] ker2gsr:
Freeze the other launchers and if you have spare parts installed make sure the process manager is set to normal I also looked at my running services in app manager if there is a SPB shell service that running hi on ram I kill it I see sometimes that I have 2 SPB shell running one usually hi on ram like 60 mb I kill that one
[Android Apps and Games] SeriouslyCrazy:
no, but give them time I will use it after there are more updates but at this point I feel like it was a waste of money and time.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
There isn't a settings for this at this tome. Can't say if there will be one in the future. If you take a picture, the most recent picture show up in the widget.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
If they update with new Widgets and functioanility, yes. If not, I am guessing I will get tired of it.
[Android Apps and Games] Fihlvein:
Well, currently not, until some important bugs are fixed such as widgets disappearing after reboots (horrible for CM7 nightly users) and auto-brightness not working and showing lowest brightness all the time.

But I'm not sad as I'm sure that some day when it's improved it can be my daily launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] seatibiza:
the launcher is great, but the brightness bug sucks...so i will wait before i buy
[Android Apps and Games] sikorei:
Thanks! :)
[Android Apps and Games] stepchild:
Did anyone get an email from SPB offering two free apps if you purchased SPB shell 3D?

If you did have you got the free apps?
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Purchased from the market or their site?
[Android Apps and Games] stepchild:
I purchased from the market.
[Android Apps and Games] shakeym:
I purchased from the market and no email here.
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
Quick blurb I got from SPB, sorry if this one was posted (bad work week):

"SPB Shell 3D takes events from Google calendar. Unfortunately current version doesn't support all day events. It will be added in the future versions."

I'm already using CalWidget to supplement SPB Shell, but this new think makes their full-page and smaller widgets useless to me :(

Oddly, so far the widget I am liking most is Flicker. Is there a stand alone version of the Flicker widget I could use on any launcher that I'm missing?
[Android Apps and Games] Green_Arrow:
hi i was just wondering how you made the gmail look like that?
[Android Apps and Games] D_one:
Anyone know where the settings are stored? Perhaps we can tweak a few things. Would editing android-manifest.XML give us anything?

Sent from my rooted and frozen Bell MB860!
[Android Apps and Games] carbon coupe:
+10000000 on the auto place icon feature, turn that off!

Not sure if it was mentioned, but having a gesture to hide the bottom dock would be a nice feature.

Lets try to get the screen indicator, tiny home and dots at bottom, to fade away when not in use.

I like the widgets, very nice. An option to touch an area and launch an application would be nice. Like on the weather and flicker ones. Just so we can select from our loaded apps or even enter a url.

Also, on the 3D carousel, when its pulled down to view from above, or just another angle, it should stay there and not default back to a standard angle.

The app drawer icon on the bottom right needs to be modifiable. I dont like being stuck with it there. Maybe a gesture for this too.

After all, the Android platform is all about open customization.

That said, I did purchase this and have been running it ever since. Very nice job. Keep the updates coming.

Thanks.

JC
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
I used desktop visualizer with a custom icon set i found here on xda. If you haven't used this program, i would download it form market and play around with it. Here a couple of other screenshots:

Icons with SPB Shell and WP7 by rehuxley, on Flickr

I used DV with a combo of icon sets that includes widgets from SPB.

Anyone else have some screenshots to share?
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
I don't know anything about editing but I would love to have someone hack this UI. I would volunteer to be a tester for it. There are some Windows Mobile devs that made some mods to Shell Mobile 3D for the WM. They don't seem interested in the droid however.
[Android Apps and Games] Green_Arrow:
i found them thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] sacredsoul:
1.0.4 is out!

-Fixed automatic backlight issue

-Fixed weather settings issue

-Fixed tap-and-hold action issue

-Fixed HTC Thunderbolt compatibility issues

Other bug fixes and improvments
[Android Apps and Games] Rican Bx Bomba:
Stills resets non spb Widgets after reboot on cm... =[
[Android Apps and Games] SeriouslyCrazy:
Here is the link to the icons

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=942984

just in case you wanted them or the solid version of them

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934455

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[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Excellent! Now for some more 3d widgets :)
[Android Apps and Games] Green_Arrow:
thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Devin5277:
I think the problem with users on CM7 is that google apps are not apart of the original rom.

I read that the app reads the market everytime you boot. and maybe because the market isnt apart of the original rom, it may be what is causing the problems.

I could be wrong. Just a thought.

I am on a custom rom, but I have no problems with the app loading on reboot.

Hope it helps in any way
[Android Apps and Games] reprod:
Anyone notice there is an SPB update available. I don't see a changelog though.

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[Android Apps and Games] airf0rce:
Changelog for latest update:

Version 1.0.4 (Apr 21, 2011):

Fixed automatic backlight

Fixed problem with weather settings saving

Fixed problem with tap'n'hold

Fixed problem with HTC Thunderbolt

Other bug fixes
[Android Apps and Games] StellaDel:
I have been using this since it first came to the market, until now I have put up with the disappearing Android wigets and lag. Today I just updated and now I am getting Force Close issues repeatedly, using a Desire HD with stock ROM and rooted.

I've decided to go back to Launcher Pro Plus for now, much more reliable and I'm not missing the "Eye Candy" in fact I seem to have a more functional phone again.

SPB need to look at what they have released, especially at $15, I'll retry after a couple of more updates.
[Android Apps and Games] simp dogg:
Still using spb beta, I love the fact that my live wallpaper still works perfectly on it, have yet to see anything on the paid version that stands out more than the beta version. Just sayin'
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
I am curious if the company is waiting for the Google IO event to release more features? It would give them more buzz.
[Android Apps and Games] martin255:
It'd good to see some "Anti-aliasing" while switching screens. Everything is so pixelated:( And a few more features would be also nice.
[Android Apps and Games] RMonst3r:
Same here, i had to go back to LP due to the app draw lag etc.

I'll wait until they sort out these problems to go back to it.
[Android Apps and Games] slidingpimp:
i'm using that on my gt540 and it's working amazingly...great launcher
[Android Apps and Games] ccaudio1:
they should address the disappearing icons when rebooting..
[Android Apps and Games] junixquiaoit:
make this launcher support on live wallpapers!
[Android Apps and Games] xahmoo:
want a try
[Android Apps and Games] claus1953:
I installed the application and it showed up correctly in my theme launcher (middle button on my galaxy i9000s) from where i could choose it as home replacement. It works well, but after a soft reset or reboot the shortcut is not anymore there and i con only choose between my other launchers. In the program shortcuts i cannot find it either and don`t know how to launch it.
[Android Apps and Games] smalis:
I like it and bought it, but for now have uninstalled it, because:

1. Conflicts with Cobra IRadar - after using and exiting IRadar, phone slows to a slide-show crawl, fixed only by removing battery and rebooting;

2. Eats up battery;

3. Audio Manager Pro profile shortcuts would consistently disappear;

4. Can't resize widgets;

5. Can't use live wallpaper (specifically, Multi-Live Wallpaper).

I will monitor updates to see what improvements they bring.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Today's update fixes the live wallpaper and auto adjust for Widgets on the screen. You still cannot resize them.
[Android Apps and Games] mikef1182:
Do you guys notice any dis-coloration or fading when switching screens? Only seems to happen with 3rd party widgets, SPB widgets don't discolor at all. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] ajftl:
got it when it came out worked ok but the lack of fb and twitter widget made me uninstall it still no fb or twitter widget?
[Android Apps and Games] StellaDel:
Not impressed, just keeps getting FC, then takes an age to reload.
[Android Apps and Games] SundayDuffer:
is there a 4g-toggle widget? or i just missed it somewhere?
[Android Apps and Games] fussnfeathers:
No, there's no 4G toggle, since there's only a handful of 4G phones available. Use another widget.

My take on the shel.

1. Load time is about the same as Sense UI, and I have fewer widgets on Sense.

2. Battery life is nearly the same, varies a little from time to time, but not enough to worry about.

3. Folders. Killer idea. I don't even use my EVO's app drawer any more, I have everything I use neatly arranged in folders, now even easier with the latest update.

4..Uses regular Android widgets. The only one I've had trouble with is BattStatt, sometimes it'll redraw over the last reading. Tapping to bring up the config screen then closing it solves the problem.

5. WAY less ROM usage. Sense UI was leaving me with no more than 80mb free memory. SPB jacked that right up to 120mb, on a stock ROM. Not bad at all.

Cons: Only one I can think of is no themes yet, other than the stock one, which is pretty nice in itself. I'd like to see the availability of different skins over time.

Safe to say I love it, and will keep using it. A tip for those with poor battery life is to make SPB your main launcher. You can always undo that in Settings-Manage applicatons, and click to bring the other launchers back to life.
[Android Apps and Games] reprod:
This last update was much needed and certainly appreciated. Awesome improvements.

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[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Sign of more good things to come...I hope
[Android Apps and Games] mikef1182:
They just emailed me back about the lag, it should be fixed soon. Do you guys have an issue with how all day events are showing on the widget? My all day events are showing on the wrong day.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
They al show up. I have had a couple with wrong dates.
[Android Apps and Games] reprod:
I'm definitely not feeling the performance of the new app drawer. Screw all the 3D eye candy.

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[Android Apps and Games] olinz:
Any one having issues with the Flickr app, for some reason mines wont even download, just says requesting images, ive tried with both wifi only and network, deinstalled reinstalled, nada.
[Android Apps and Games] zane1374:
When SPB Mobile Shell was king on Windows Mobile there were endless themes out they're for it. No devs able to do this for android?
[Android Apps and Games] mikef1182:
Even with the new update my all day calendar events show a day wrong. For example, my all day events for tomorrow show on the widget as if they occur today. I've been emailing with them and they can't seem to replicate my issue. Is there anyone else with this problem?
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
That's what I was originally hoping we'd see. But either it's not possible on the Android version, or all the people that were doing it before no longer care (or aren't interested in spending the $ noways)

BTW - for now I've switched away from Shell. Keeping a eye out as they offer new widgets and fix some of these problems.
[Android Apps and Games] lim_ryan:
can use the Flicker widget that use my gallery collection instead of flickr?
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Yes no developers have jumped up to make themes. The launched makers will offer more widgets...soon I hope. I keep moving back and forth between this and launcher pro.

I haven't had any problems with the flickr or calender widgets.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Nope. Not yet anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] olinz:
Bummer, I cant figure out why it wont connect to flickr.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
Uninstall and then reinstall it.
[Android Apps and Games] ElAguila:
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet. I am an avid fan of AppOrganizer. I use it to organize all of my apps. You can place AppOrganizer shortcuts into spb folders and makes nice nesting approach that saves space and time while still being very functional. I also cannot connect to flickr. I am running an AOSP build of gingerbread. I have removed spb, rebooted, cleared the cache and reinstalled and flickr still hangs saying requesting image. Tried a factory reset and still can't get it to connect to flickr.
[Android Apps and Games] ElAguila:
To throw a little info into the mix. I removed the 3D shell and installed version 1.04 and flickr connected and downloaded the images right away.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
That is good. Flickr is one of the most interesting features of this.
[Android Apps and Games] ElAguila:
Does anybody know where the birthday widget pulls the data from? I have several contacts with their birthday info I entered and several have the information from facebook. But the widget is only showing 1 out of all of those.
[Android Apps and Games] rehuxley:
If anyone uses Beautiful Widgets there are some great skins here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075497

The person who designed them worked on some SPB Shell themes for the Windows Mobile phone. The BW skins were designed with SPB Shell in mind. They look great on the android shell launcher.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andybolt:
Tried 1 click root, and after a few attempts, never got root, and checking my phone, now states 1.03.605.10 software number. So, I guess I'm just interested in knowing if I can still root, or if any other options exist...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcase:
Use manual method.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Str0ntium:
+1

10char's
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slammed:
i noticed this on mine when i rooted. its not an update, its just the name for one of the files.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexterousgurl:
I attempted root so many times using the script, let me tell ya... Jcase's method works!! Plus, I have a ton of confidence now in using adb.

Good luck!!
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andybolt:
Soooo.... further reading discovered that software wasn't updated, just the first step in rooting... downgrade. I don't know why the second half didn't take, but I checked my files and ran the process again, still no root... will try jcase's method
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1234567188:
When hasn't Jcase's method worked?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andybolt:
Well, it somehow sorted itself out. I the process of getting files ready, i also downloaded a "help" program that came with all the files and an .exe I tried it, and ended up with full root, although it didn't seem to be doing anything per the instruction given...?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Don_Mayor:
Hello:

I justed unlocked my nexus one for the first time. i was successful in unlocking it, but after flashing my phone with the recovery image: recovery-RA-passion-v2.2.1.img, i'm getting a triangle with an exclamation sign.

did i use the wrong recovery image? what i'm i doing wrong?

anyhelp?

Thanks

DoN

ps: i got my recovery image here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611829
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munchy_cool:
well this is because your stock Android is still pointing to the stock recovery,

There are two ways of overcoming the problem you have,

Step 1 would be to flash recovery again

Step 2 would be to boot the phone into recovery (without booting into the stock OS) after completing step 1 and flash a custom ROM or you need to delete a few files.

Instructions for deleting the files can be found here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1000357

Hope this helps.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
To get into your custom recovery without booting, just follow the on phone menu options, BOOTLOADER then RECOVERY. Once in recovery, flag this, and it will delete the two files that restore stock recovery:

http://db.tt/cp7De8G
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bohemus:
Is it possible to flash a recovery without using ADB? Possibly directly from the phone using the terminal? I have my phone at work on a computer without ADB, and my phone has its bootloader unlocked but has not been rooted.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
Short answer is no...

Unlocking the bootloader allows you to use fastboot, which requires connection to a computer. On phone methods require root access...

If you have a usb cable you could do it from your works computer (all you need install is the driver).
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Just use Rom manager and first flash an old version of clockworkmod, which is located on the bottom of the app. After that flash amon ra recovery which is the option above the clockworkmod option.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
He can't use rom manager due to fact that he does not have root.
[Samsung Mesmerize] Mesmerizeuser:
Title says it all. I am wondering if us Mesmerize users can safely use the new CWM that GizmoDroid posted in the following link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1017817

ETA: If no one has tried yet, is it possible that this could break anything that couldn't be fixed via ODIN? If not, I will volunteer to be the guinea pig.
[Samsung Mesmerize] rrockstar.kidd:
I havent personally tried anything but I dont see why not
[Samsung Mesmerize] zarnax:
Question was asked a couple times in that thread....no answer given tho...
[Samsung Mesmerize] bsbokc:
I used the zip package and it worked fine for me. Can't say for sure about odin but I would guess it's the same.
[Samsung Mesmerize] zarnax:
Will I have to rflash MIUI? Or will everything be ok?
[Nook Color General] DizzyNT:
Hey, so anytime I boot into clockwork mod at the beginning it will let me use buttons properly, but after I do any sort of data/cache wipe and it restarts clockwork it is basically frozen as none of the buttons work. So there is no way for me to wipe everything and then flash a new rom. This is happening with both the clockwork 3.0.0.5 and 3.0.1.0 downloaded via rom manager. Anyone have any idea on how to fix this? Thanks
[Nook Color General] RoboRay:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=958748
[Nook Color General] Bugaboo75:
I have the same problem where CWM 3.0.1.0 locked up on me, with no buttons responding. How can I reboot?
[Nook Color General] Bugaboo75:
Never mind - I was not holding down the buttons long enough to shut down the Nook.
[Droid X General] reannimated:
I have recently flashed the deodexed gingerbread leak and ever since i flashed it my wifi has been giving me some problems. Even though i can connect to a network i can go to a web page or use the android market so thus i have to always be on 3G
[Droid X General] dspanos:
I'm running the deodexed Gingerbread and I'm not experiencing any issues at all with wi-fi. :confused:
[Droid X General] Funnyface19:
ive experienced both as well as moto social widgets sometimes working, as to the wifi issues did you restore stuff using titanium backup? because i believe that caused some issues before on froyo and i noticed when i used it to restore app AND DATA it broke wifi however when i didnt wifi is working fine, i still havent figure out the moto social widgets deal
[Droid X General] blueis300:
After loading the latest gingerbread I am suddenly getting force market errors. Ideas?
[Droid X General] jeftep:
Same here. You can always visit the market on a computer and install apps that way... but it's just a bandaid.