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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] theme freak:
WAD2 is the best..with WAD2 you can create the other design of the programs which you have mention for sure :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
What is your number scale based on? Meaning, you have to have to extremes that you consider amazing (10) and really bad (1 or 0 depending whether it is 0-10 or 1-10). Please consider two things when making a post like this one:

a) While it might be usefull for noobs, you want to be as clear as possible as to what your selection criteria was. Otherwise, you will end up causing more questions than answers.

b)Even though "Development and hacking" might be the best place to put this kind of thread (due mainly to exposure), I think that you should have posted this in the "General" section.

I know that you had good intentions trying to share your personal experiences with the rest of the community, which is why I am advising you to first check if another thread of this kind already exists (I have seen quite a few comparing virtually everything in this site). Maybe the person who started the other thread asking this exact same question is still waiting for an answer on his own post (and will not bother to check for new threads).

Besides, keeping new threads to a minimum makes the devs happy :) (and keeps CG away :D )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Taninpv:
SPB Mobile Shell: (loved this, BUT battery draining issue). Also, the flexibility to mods the layout to suit my taste.

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Overall Rating - 9.5

- Visual Rating - 9.5

- Speed - 10

Point UI: (tested (early version) it, but removed because of so many bugs)

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Overall Rating - 9.0

- Visual Rating - 10

- Speed - 9.0

WAD: (great for non-touch WM based smartphone)

- Finger Friendly: No

- Overall Rating - 8.0

- Visual Rating - 8.0

- Speed - 6.0

Throttle: (have not test it, so couldn't give feedback)

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Overall Rating - 7.5

- Visual Rating - 8.5

- Speed - 7.0
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Moe5508:
I'd add Ultimate Launcher to this comparison....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] testdasi:
I hate SPB Mobile Shell for the simple fact that its program list only lists 9 at a time and I have to press next repeatedly to get the U and Z. Haven't found a way around that. I know it has some frequently used shortcuts but when I suddently want to use something, I don't want to press Next like 10 times to use it. I like everthing else about SPB Mobile Shell but that one problem makes me uninstall it.

PointUI is better because the prog list is scrollable and beautiful. So if I want the Z, I'll just have to swipe my thumb once or twice and it will vroom-vroom to the bottom part of the prog list. In fact, I'm currently using PointUI on my phone with Wisbar Advance (my own TuiFone theme :D with a "secret" close button :D). For those who used 1.02b and earlier, there is a new 1.5a which is much better and less buggy!!!

WAD is confusing to set up and customize. Wisbar Advance (WA) is better in term of user-friendliness.

Throttle is slow on my device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
First of all thanks for including my app on a list with such awesome apps :). Also I think you've forgoten (may be you haven't tried them jet) other really cool apps like UltimateLaunch or rltoday. For the apps you've included I'm almost with you in all your apreciations, but here's why I started developing ThrottleLauncher 6 months ago:

- PointUI: awesome but too fixed imo (at least the version I tested then). I don't know if it's possible now but it's not configurable at all.

- WAD: you have to pay for it so I haven't tested it.

- SPB MS: you have to pay for it. It looks really nice though.

- UltimateLauncher: I didn't knew this app six months ago... probably I will have had many doubts to start Throttle's development if I have seen it before ;). The drawback for me is that it's not completly free and that it's l&k configuration is limited to icons and animations.

- Rltoday: fully configurable (but complex) and it's functionality is too mixed with mortscripts (wich by the way is other really nice peace of soft)

As the first user of throttle is me I've designed it to match my needs so I will not do any comments other than there's still lot's of things to do.

Hope this other point of view is helpfull for people to choose it's XDA engine :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oyegaurav83:
I will like to add few things:

MS: to much finger friendly.. i dont want to swipe or click next for like 10 times.. also its not that much customizable.. because of xda we have so many themes and skins.. but it is still PITA to customize it.. and its very costly .. atleast for me.. i think in general also.. ($30 is a lot of amount.. especially when you have already purchased pocket plus.. )

pointui and wad: never used them.. cant comment

RLtoday: first program which i used.. loved it and still love it.. have it incorporated in UL.. you have to make your own skins via xml... that can be learned in like 4 days.. only problem is you have to place icons by co-ordinates.. it does not automatically place them.. so you have to be sure where you want to put your icon and that means lot of trial and error.. but once you get hang of it.. you can do some amazing work..

UL: my current launcher.. provides you with everthing.. cube, sliding animation on today.. complete customization.. ...negative points will be only icons type used is .ico and you have to take care of size.. also you cant use UL all by itself.. UL is more dependent on other plugins to make it work better.. best used with RLtoday, Pocket plus and Vijay555 tools IMO (my setup uses these three)

Throttle: used its 0.5 and 0.6 version. Lot of potential in the app.. 0.9 version is very good.. installed it but still using default theme as dont have time to work on a new one.. picture thumbnail view is awesome and something new.. it is also a complete package.. inbuilt photo contact, system shortcuts, running programs, task manager... much more than any other single app but i think because of that memory and speed issues are there.. waiting for apbilbo to reach his target of ver 1.0 and then hope to see some major code changes which can make it run faster my gene .. :).. or may be it will be much more faster when 1.0 is released... (no pressure alfonso.. :D :p)

personally i dont mind memory cause after this you dont need anything.. but speed is a issue..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Xue v.2:
I'm a WAD user. And I personally think that WAD has potential. It is a great software. Its flexibility is the best. The skinning thing is fabulous! But sometimes it cost a lot of time.

I can give WAD a full mark, but I won't. Its HUGE memory consume is its largest drawback, d'oh! I'm still using this software though :D

Waiting for WAD2! I think it's animated, and gesture enable...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ssj5trunks:
Where is iFonz in your test??????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caballero600:
WAD2 has animation gestures, in fact I have tryed every beta (WAD2 beta 1 to 6) and they are really cool, try them!!

UL is another very good choice, but not as customizable as WAD2.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Xue v.2:
Agreed,

as I have mentioned before, WAD flexibility is the best! And if I may say, WAD is finger-friendly if you want it to be finger friendly, hahaha

here's for example, I made this as my programs launcher on WAD

And yess, I believe WAD2 is going to be kickass :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wearefree:
I have used mobile shell, ultimate launch and pointUI. Now I settle with pointUI after the new version is out.

I never liked the way mobile shell works, always uninstalled before the trial is over, even when I used the pointUI theme.

The old pointUI is too buggy that I have to soft reset way too often that's when I started using ultimate launch. However like someone else pointedout ultimate launch depends heavily on other plug in to look nice.

Then recently after new pointui was launched I started using again. There is only few complaint, which is because I don't use my phone for email or message at all and I can't replace those for anything, and occasionally the scroll won't work which I can always use the D-pad. Other than that this is perfect, works beautifully with open touch 4.0 lite black rom. To me poiintui is the way to go.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mchapman007:
To each his own on which UI is better. I've tried them all and they all have there good / bad points so this debate could go on forever. I'm sure this question will be asked a million times more and then when WM7, Android come out, we will start over.

* MS2.0 is what I currently use *
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Menneisyys:
Cool article, will definitely link to it in my next, related article!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JukEboXAuDiO:
Thanks. I try. I am a stickler for making my stuff banging. At the moment aI am using hte prerelease version of the MS Carbon skin and I love it with the 3 tabs. ALong with S2U2, S2p, S2V, and some other great stuff.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ajones7279:
WAD is my favorite out of everything I've tried. I'm loving the flexibility of the skins
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brunoisa10:
for me the best applications are:

about today plugin :

1 Ultimate Launch

2) Battery Status and rlToday

iphone like:

1) iFonz ( very easy to customize)

2) Itask (very beautiful but it seems developpment is stopped now), not easy to customize but reall we can do many things

3) PointUi (not easy/nearly nothing to customize)

4)Throttle Launcher (not used , seems to be complex and not working for all on my P3600, even if I like the concept)

Video appli :

1)TCPMP (work perfectly on my P3600)

Others:

A_c's suite (S2U2,S2P, S2V)

Background applis:

- elias killer appli

- shantz today theme changer

I had another application tobe able to have 9 different desk but it doesn't work anymore (probably after instally BatteryStatus) it is V2R Multidesk : if I had not this problem it will be the best plugin but not now anymore (it is the only commercial program I have)

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] killerkhatiby009:
iFonz is what I currently use right now, I have tried Mobile Shell, and some other ones, but I like iFonz because it has animations for when you are opening a program, and is very iphone like (almost exact copy). I only wish that it would use less RAM, as with the Mogul, if i try to open Opera 9.5 while iFonz is running (to use my iphone web browser) it will close iFonz, since it runs out of RAM, this will probably not be a problem on a future device with more RAM (like Touch/Tilt)but for my use with my sprint mogul, it is the only downside i see to ifonz.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eatmeimadanish:
PointUI 1.51a is honestly one of the coolest UI's out there. I love it because of its simplicity and the fact that it just works. It could use customizations (like wallpaper) but it still looks sharp and runs awesome with my HTC Touch. I use s2p and s2u2 with it and they work very well hand in hand. One minor issue with pointui is the Red Button on the htc touch takes you to the windows home screen, but a simple mort script eliminated this issue. The best part of pointui is the speed. The new contact list is far superior. Now if only they would give you the option to reverse the scroll direction...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
FYI. Using custom themes you can have more. I am using a Diamond theme and have 16 progs listed on a page. Very LARGE thread here with themes:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=389106

My experiences:

PointUI - tried an early version and had lots of issues. Left a bad taste in my mouth (figuratively :D). May try the newer version soon.

Ultimate Launch - very nice tabbed Today plugin, this was my preferred UI for a while....but as someone else pointed out, I needed rlToday, Weather plugin, etc. to make it the way I wanted.

WAD - the ultimate in flexibility! Tends to be a memory hog, and takes too much time to play with.

Mobile Shell - my current UI. Very complicated to set up custom themes, but thank goodness there are lots of authors doing so :) I find MS to be the most intuitive and visually appealing UI.....for now :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
i really like throttlelauncher. very customizable. touchflo 3d theme :D

the only thing that didnt work for me was when device was locked the time wouldnt update, i had to unlock and wait til it updated.

other than that it was the greatest today plugin/app ive used
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] black_shadow69:
I really love the spb mobile shell 4 my device...not the others....:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Skenderbeggar:
IMO, MS2 is the program of choice for now due to it's light, easy functioning. Especially with the other SPB software support. The only thing is that it is more difficult to customize than I would have liked.

WAD2 betas and the recently released RC1 is the one to watch, though. It can mimic almost all the other program's functionality and more. It's still a little buggy but, in time, it should prove to be a beast, especially for vga pdas.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chalid:
I'm using SPB Mobile Shell for the moment. Tried almost all other apps mentioned here.

PointUI is nice to look at and quite fast and easy to use, but definitely too static. Two other things said before: 1st is the "too-finger-friendly"-part. I really dont want to scroll 3 times to get to the designated 'window'. 2nd is the visual incompatibility with the windows mobile interface.

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Visual Rating - 10.0

- Speed - 8.5

- Overall Rating - 8.0 (because of the points above)

WAD is a very nice application. The biggest Problem here is the memory consumption which makes frequent restarts necessary because the whole thing is getting slower and slower. The best thing about this program is the easy and extensive customization. At least in the current version there is no finger-siding, which I personally don't miss at all. If it werent for the memory leak it would be my favorit app.

- Finger Friendly: Yes - w/o sliding

- Visual Rating - 8.5

- Speed - 6.0

- Overall Rating - 8.0

SPB Mobile Shell is my current ui. With greatbal's skin its very nice to use. The worst part about the program is the difficult customization. But, again, thanks to greatbal's skin it doesnt really matter. The memory consumption can be called a little high, but there is no leak. I have no issues with battery drain neither. So for now its the best app for me so far.

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Visual Rating - 9.5

- Speed - 9.0

- Overall Rating - 9.0

I tried Throttlelauncher as well and was satisfied with it, but liked the looks of the SPB Mobile Shell skins out there better. Maybe I'll try it again another time, when I decide to create my own skin.

- Finger Friendly: Yes

- Visual Rating - 8.0

- Speed - 8.5

- Overall Rating - 8.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 2manyphones:
WAD2 is my choice

I have tried all 4 and for specific customization via the screen and not needing to use the PC and edit .dat and xml files WAD2 is the best. If you used WAD1, they are similar, but WAD2 adds finger control and a TON of other things. Including much less memory usage. The first release candidate version was released today (meaning the first non-beta version, but not final version): http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13123

The screen shots are my WIP on a diamond theme. Note that I do not have any plugins on any page. This is all done through options in WAD2. I do have Weather Panel installed for weather data, but you can also use HTC Home as the weather source.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] speoples20:
Actually You can customize shortcuts in point ui. Just go under WM setting -> Personal Settings -> Menus. Uncheck the programs you don't want and check the programs you want. Now you can access those from your favorites menu in point ui.:)
[Nokia 8.1 Questions & Answers] zittorb:
hi all... just got the nokia 8.1 with the european wall charger.... i have a female usb to male mini usb cable/adaptor for OTG.. i have been using that in my moto x pure .. and it still works... when i try the same cable/adaptor with the nokia 8.1 with a micro usb to usb c anker adaptor... it does not work! ... when i use the anker adaptor to charge the nokia it works... but with the OTG cable it does not.... as is the only otg cable i can teste now... can anyone confirm that OTG works in nokia 8.1? any cables? could it the that the anker adaptor can only charge? TNKS
[Nokia 8.1 Questions & Answers] singhnsk:
Yes. OTG does work fine on my Nokia 8.1. I am using an original OTG cable from OnePlus.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] asdf002:
FIXED - found an old usb jig and was able to get into download mode and flash twrp.

I tried to install new LL bootloader and figured I'd install whole new firmware (the most recent one from MEX). Odin flashed okay with all passes but then the tablet didn't boot. It shows the "Samsung note" screen and then goes black for indefinitely. I can access the stock Android recovery but can't get into download mode (power + vol down +home) to try to re flash with Odin.

Been flashing since s3 days so not new to this.

Any suggestions.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl] 22sl22:
Hi,

I can see you've already fixed this but I have posted latest bootloader+instructions here if you still need it (For SMP600):

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-10-2014/development/rom-resurrection-remix-n-sm-p600-wifi-t3606313/page35
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] JattShahmi:
Hi all,

I'm having trouble flashing custom rom in my Zenfone Max Pro M1. All custom roms that i've tried, i received the same error. It says something like this:

"E3004: This package is for device: X00TD, X00T; This device is ASUS_X00TD"

And then some red colored sentence: "Updater process ended with ERROR: 7"

Is there any way i can change my device name or anything so that i can flash custom rom. Currently i'm using stock rom 339 that i downloaded from here.

p/s: Before i use current stock rom, i can flash any custom rom

Thanks in advance
[Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1  Questions & Answers] BIJAN BHANDARI:
what is your varient i mean 3/4/6 GB ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] cgakdj21:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7. It went into a boot loop and then when tried to do factory reset it went into a "recovery booting" loop. Seems only possible to enter download mode. From reading the forums, it seems the only possible option is a flash. I have downloaded Odin 3.13, and the Samsung drivers.

I downloaded file : G930VVRU4CRE5 (which I think is the oreo firmware)

When I "start" the process, it fails:

phone has error : SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot] Fused > Binary 4

odin shows:

<ID:0/003> Odin engine v(ID:3.1301)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> Total Binary size: 5219 M

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/003> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/003> emmc_appsboot.mbn

<ID:0/003> lksecapp.mbn

<ID:0/003> FAIL! (Auth)

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Not sure where to go from here ? (do I need different firmware?)

Thank you for the assistance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] cooltt:
You need to use the patched version of Odin and the firmware your using needs to be U4 or above Verizon which I think you already have.

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/patched-odin-3-13-1-t3762572
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] crownvn:
I am looking music player MOD of samsung ' s note, galaxy for M20 . anyboy know and share me ?
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] dtaluthge:
Do you want to have the stock Samsung music player?
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] crownvn:
yes. I like stock Samsung music player ( not google music)
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] deep54671:
ive Samsung music player working on m20
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] C:\BlackMamba:
Just download it in Samsung Store
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] crownvn:
Just use Sony music. it is wonderfull
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] dtaluthge:
you can download it from Samsung store
[Samsung Galaxy M20 Questions & Answers] Punitverma2010:
Here's the link for Samsung Music

http://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.sec.android.app.music
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] felloffthetruck:
I have the 1TB Verizon S10 plus and it's showing 96.5GB of storage used with nothing on the phone. This seems mighty high to me. :confused:

How much storage is your Verizon branded phone using?
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] -Alan:
It's normal.
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] felloffthetruck:
So if you have a 128GB phone you only have 38GB available out of the box?
[Samsung Galaxy S10+ Questions & Answers] dynospectrum:
No, I'm at 34GB used and I have tons of apps/games installed and lots of random garbage I've dled. You bought the most bloated variant of the phone from Verizon.
[Honor View 10 Questions & Answers] changnesia:
So I tried to put Lineage on my phone, I did on my previous one as well. Something went wrong though (during wiping in TWRP) and I restarted the phone, and now I can't get it to at least factory condition. I guess something got messed up with encryption.

My problem is that the phone gets stuck on TWRP splashscreen and I don't know how to fix this.

My build number is: (bootloader) :BKL-L09 9.0.0.203(C432E4R1P12)

I have downloaded a full OTA but the dload method failed me. Is there a way to flash stock eRecovery? I have tried this below which didn't work

fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY_RAMDIS.img

I pulled from the UPDATE.APP to no avail.

Is there something I can do to make my phone work again? Or is my phone just bricked?

EDIT: The bootloader is unlocked and FRP is unlocked too. I get boot into rescue mode and my phone get recognized by the adb.
[Honor View 10 Questions & Answers] lovekobeme:
boot to Bootloader and execute adb cmd 'fastboot -w',next step brush official rom on Bootloader mode,it's should be normal reboot.
[Honor View 10 Questions & Answers] breversa:
I've had trouble with the dload method myself at first, too, but I eventually managed by doing this : https://xdaforums.com/t/does-anyone...ed-from-firmwarefinder.3847443/#post-84862197
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] aussiesausage:
What's everyone's favourite games to play on S10, S10 plus? After recommendations.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers] LuminatX:
Asphalt 9 (mainly trying it out cause the free stuff you get for having a s10)

Cyber Hunter if you're into BR's

oh and can't forget Pokemon Go...
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Questions & Answers] Max2019:
Hey guys,

I've red a few threads regarding the Widevine support from late 2018,

and wondered if anything changed so far. I'm looking into buying

the MAX 3, but only if:

1.Widevine L1 Support is available.

2.There is some sort of work-around for the Netflix, Amazon Prime App.

Since this phone is supposed to replace my old S5 and my Ipad Mini 2,

which are starting to really slow down, and I mainly want the huge screen

to watch Netflix and other Stuff in the train, plane etc, when I'm at work

or fly out to customers, this is a huge deal for me.

If any of you guys could help me that would be great!

Greetings,

Max
[Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Questions & Answers] mierlo420:
1. Nope, it has Widevine L3.

2. Netflix app works but max. 540p.