[HTC Desire X] sicae:
Hello all,

Longtime lurker, first time poster. I've passively used the forums for a long time, browsing tutorials, exploring apps, and increasing my general android and ROM knowledge. And now I have a problem I've so far been unable to solve. I wasn't sure if this should be posted in General, or in Q&A, but I chose the latter.

I'm a fan of HTC's aesthetics, despite their Sense UI (I'm a control-freak, and Sense allows no control). Up until last week I had a Wildfire S, running CyanogenMod 10.1. I now have a Desire X (yay!), only to find the versions of CyanogenMod available for the Desire X are all missing features that I consider deal breakers (no audio, no video, no audio recording, no video recording, no Bluetooth, and mainly no WiFi).

So now I'm trying to recreate that sweet, sweet Cyanogen feeling using readily available applications, which is where I hope y'all can help me.

This is what I've done/got so far:

Prep (from Recovery):

- Rooted the phone (obviously).

- Flashed CWM Recovery (Philz touch 5)

- Flashed SuperSU

- Flashed ROM Cleaner w/ customized NO-Sense_user.txt to remove as much of the Sense UI and HTC bloatware as possible

Flashed from ROM Cleaner, after cleanup:

- Nova Launcher Prime, replaces Rosie

- Stock Google Calendar, replaces HTC Calendar

- Stock Google Keyboard, replaces HTC Sense Input

- Stock KitKat Email, replaces HTC Mail

- Stock KitKat Gallery, replaces HTC Gallery

- 8sms, replaces HTC Messages

Installed from Nova Launcher:

- Chronus Pro, replaces lockscreen clock

- Clock JB+, replaces HTC World Clock

- exDialer PRO, replaces HTC Dialer + People

- WidgetLocker Lockscreen, replaces HTC Lockscreen

- Lotsa other stuff, unrelated to this post

So basically, I have everything that's visible replaced with either the stock, or close to stock application.

BUT, I'm unhappy with, and looking for a substitute for, two things:

- exDialer. It's an imperfect substitute for the stock phone dialer. I loved the Jelly Bean phone dialer, and I miss it dearly. KitKat phone dialer would also do nicely. Preferably something that has a nice integration with the stock Contacts app, or a similarly good contacts app. I don't actually mind the HTC People app so much, but if I have to give that up for a better phone dialer, I'll do that gladly.

- HTC Sense notification shade. The most major part I'm unhappy with. I really miss the Cyanogen notification shade and status bar. I miss the stock Jelly Bean (4.2+) status bar look (blue color, compact icons, and especially the circular battery meter), and I miss the full black notification shade w/ the power widgets bar. I've installed Power Toggles, which provides a pretty nice widgets bar, except that in order for it to stay at the top of the notification shade I need to keep an icon present in the status bar. I'm kind of a neat-freak w/ my status bar, so I want it as uncluttered as possible, meaning if a notification does appear there I notice it immediately. If need be I can live with the existing Sense notification shade, but I would love for the status bar to be Jelly Bean beautiful again.

Anybody have a solution to those two things (dialer and notification shade)?