[HTC One X] geenyous:
You are absolutely right, but this an international forum, so you could have suspected that he is not a native english speaker (neither am I), why should he be patronizing just like that?

Anyhow, let's settle this dispute guys and be nice again, aight? :)

And btw, you can do in my thread whatever you want as long as it is helping people...

To adress your first question:

Some aspects are controlled by some m10 or whatever files. For example I themed the lockscreen ring but it won't show. Now I have no idea why there is a png that looks exactly like the lockscreen ring but it doesn't get used. Insted, some kind of obscured m10 file is being used. Why the hell close aspects of an open SW? Sense! :mad:

Also, some of the pop ups (which are not the traditional pop ups as I have themed all of those) have a green text and a green spacer in the top section. This should be blue in ICS. This is controlled by xml files (it's called holo effects somehting afaik). Unfortunately I have issues with recompiling framework-res.apk (bootloop) com.htc.resources.apk and SystemUI.apk (changes are not applied :confused:), that's why I have stopped investigating in that direction. I am not the only one with this issues, but I don't feel like wasting hours and hours of my time because of, you guessed it, Sense! :mad:

I kinda also already posted the way forward here:

To your second question:

I had the best phone ever and it still keeps shining today (I always feel good when reading about it making another step further :)), the htc HD2!

I was so amazed by the HW, I bought it with wm6.5 on it even already knowing Android for several years (since the very beginning when the alliance was first propagated, I was fascinated with the idea of just taking my OS with me from phone to phone) just for it's amazing specs. When Android then finally was working, I was on AOSP/CM/AOKP ever since.

I never had any issues with sense, I kinda liked it on the HD2 and I loved it on the Diamond (but there it was kinda slowing down the phone so I went Windows Revolution 7.1 Titanium). But that was on wm6.5. Android is optimised for touch input and there is no need for this SW. I was actually kinda looking forward to using sense on my new killer phone as I never used it on my HD2, I actually honestly thought of maybe keeping it stock for a few weeks... It lasted 15minutes and then I unlocked.

The longer the more I grew to hate sense, it just feels so outdated compared to the awesome design of AOSP. And what gave me the rest is when I uninstalled rosie.apk and used apex launcher. I was so mad and at the same time completely puzzled, I couldn't believe it, how on earth can you give a user the impression your "quad core entertainer" is lagging when doing the most basic stuff like opening an app drawer or switching home screens?? In a time when you really need some good publicity as your company is not doing too well because you released 4758 mostly crappy phones in 2011 and told everyone you want to keep it simple and clean in 2012 with one flagship and 2-3 lesser phones?

And did they not check the market? Here in Switzerland, still more than 50% are using an iPhone, and I had actually 2 friends telling me they bought the phone because the scrolling of the apps was so much faster and smoother than on the android counterparts (!). They had no idea about specs and so on, typical iDiots... But imagine you see the new htc One X on the shelve, it's huge and has a gorgeous display and is the first real quad phone. Of course you are impressed and want to have a look and play around with it. You then play around with rosie and get a lag here, another one there and you immediately doubt that this phone is that fast and worth it's money. Why shouldn't you, you tested it right there!

htc spent money on SW engineers to make their HW look like crap... What a business model. :good:

Anyhow, I believe that most Android users buy their phones for the specs and only a few are really buying a phone because they like the SW. I look at specs and design/build quality and I made but good experiences with my htc phones, back to the Artemis. I wanted that t3 and I knew SIII would be with the Exynos chip. Also the SII feels very cheap and the SIII is even worse imho.

But I know I don't have to care for the SW as I can change it and I know that that makes me a special kind of consumer, maybe I am wrong and people are really buying their phones because of the SW overlay. But seeing how all the catalogues or even reviews focus way more on the specs, I don't think that's the case.

I also don't like that framework integration of sense. I bought the phone and I want to use my cam with the intended app (and the needed proprietary drivers) on whatever software I use. I can officially unlock by giving up my warranty (:eek:), so why should I not be able to get the app I need to fully enjoy my HW to run on other ROMs? And even with RomCleaner 2.0 NoSense I still had only about 120-180 mb of free RAM. Now on AOKP, with all the same widgets on the same Apex launcher I have 300+mb. No need for gaming boost app, I could game with no issues even on "stock" AOKP kernel (it's better with faux of course, but I could totally live with stock). It somehow just doesn't feel right. What on earth is still running even after cleaning your ROM taking up all that RAM? And why is the com.htc.resources.apk 36mbs of size? More than 5 times the size of the framework-res.apk on AOKP (7mb)? No wonder sense lags. But who really needs this?

And regarding the SW design, do you really like those sense icons in settings for example? I think they are outright ugly! And why override some ICS xml values to make it look like Gingerbread in some areas, what kind of idea was that? They could have kept it ICS style, sense nonetheless but lean on the ICS design, then it would have been easy on the eyes at least. But I know that that's personal preference. When I see some homescreens here from time to time, the icons that people are really using, compared to those the sense ones are brillinat. But compared to ICS/JB, they are crap. Simple as that. :D

I hope that gives you a little impression on why I don't like sense, but I still love my One X, clearly the best phone ever! :D