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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] stevedebi:
This is very difficult to compare between people - the useage of a phone is one of the biggest denominators of battery charge. So it is easier to compare a certain person with multiple ROMs, rather than different people with different ROMS. But even with the same ROM, different people will have different results. In my daily use of NRG ROM, I can go 3-4 days. That is including hourly updating of my weather (SBSH Pocket Weather), phone calls, and a little bit of internet - Bing or Google maps, primarily.

I believe based on my experience that the following items will affect the length a device charges:

1. Screen. When the screen backlight is on, it really uses current. I use the "automatic" backlight level, and set mine to 30 seconds screen off.

2. 3G use. In general, using the Internet is power consuming, but even when idle, it appears that 3G uses more energy. Many people turn off 3G to conserve battery.

3. There are some advanced tweaks that will enable power saving on the various devices. I use the advanced configuration tool (also included in NRG ROM) to perform these functions. These are found in the Advanced Configuration under "Power Management". I set them all to "enable". Another tweak is to download the HD2Tweaks program - it has a setting to automatically disconnect the internet connection after a certain time.

4. UI of the phone. I have found that basic WM 6.x "Titanium" is basically about as power friendly as it gets. Here is my order IMHO, from most power conserving to most power hungry:

- Titanium / WM 6.5. Keep in mind it depends on what the various Today modules are doing.

- SPB Pocket Plus

- SPB Mobile Shell

- Sense 2.1

- Sense 2.5 (I find this one in particular to be always turning on my internet, I suppose to update the weather tab).

Anyway, those are my .02, err, $$.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] DeathmonkeyGTX:
I don't automatically update jack sh*t, cruise on EDGE unless I actually need to Internet something with the quickness or RDC into a server, and I use Lumos to manage my backlight. I like it better than HTC's method, and it uses like 300kB of RAM so f*** it. I'm on Energy 21905 Titanium with SPB Mobile Shell, and for me to get 4 days I basically have to baby my phone. 5 days requires me having way too much fun to be bothered by the phone much, and I'm using a verifiable 2,150 mAH battery as opposed to 1500. I'm going to try the Advanced Config power save options right now, but I read somewhere a while back on XDA that some dude checked the "Make Power Best Life Times[sic]" box on some ROM and it actually degraded battery life. Here's to hoping schaps' power miser tweaks make a positive impact.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] thesecondsfade:
iPhoneToday is missed here. It has the best battery life other than Titanium.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] nokiadashi:
+ iPhoneToday: this is discovered by me recently,after using it,oh god,it's amazing with almost no battery drain, now it replaced SPB Mobile Shell which was my favorite UI.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] DJChriZZ:
I use for the most time the old school windows 6.1 (6.5) homescreen with date, calendar, messaging, homescreen plu plus ui, wireless home plugin and some others. this "old" homescreen comes without any animations, you have all your informations and apps on one screen (I use traylaunch too for the apps). It is not spectacular but fast, neatly arranged, and less battery drain. Best for my on my touch pro 2 and on the HD2 also :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] maly3648:
I am using an ENERGY cooked rom (the opne with the minimal ram usage and better battery life), in Europe (Belgium), i use internet with 3G because i am connected to skypoe and MSN and my battery, which is a 1750 Mh Seido original last maximum 6 to 7 hours !!!

With the original HTC battery, it is a little bit less ...

Any idea which rom will help me have a better battery life ?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] DJGonzo:
Turn down your brightness. Or stop using a data connection constantly. Otherwise there is no way to get better battery life.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] seeM_ZA:
More cpu usage + more ram usage (I think) takes more power. So the interface you're using will affect battery life. Sense 2.5 with Co0kie's Home Tab is probably the worst for battery life. Windows today screen (not even Titanium, the one before that) is probably the best battery life, but I would NEVER be able to use that :p

There's a post about battery life in FAQ in energy rom threads I think...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] thesecondsfade:
Merely leaving your data connection on does not drain your battery. Switching it on and off uses more battery than just letting it stay on. It only consumes more battery when it is actively transferring data. Even with push email it doesn't use the battery except for when it actually downloads a message. This is why you lose a lot of battery in spotty coverage areas and it's constantly attempting to reconnect.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] DJGonzo:
I said, stop USING. I didnt say not to leave it on. It was meant as a reply to the post above mines. ;)

The best way to save battery is turn Updates and ActiveSync off or set it to something like 60 minutes and manual updates for Facebook (if using Sense).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Combo22:
I use the wvga version of "HTC Home" on my TP2, :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Knobibrot:
Hey guys,

I've seen a lot demo videos on sense UI and the vanilla android UI.

they've got nice features, like the twitter widget and the mac os like pinch-zoom on the homescreen @ sense UI.

Or the vanilla lockscreens with the ability to mute the phone without unlocking.

so how about a TouchWiz featurelist, here in this topic, where we summon all the features we discover.

Already known features:

unused homescreens can be deleted

apps can be shown in list-view and "iphone"-view
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Omegavsnemesis:
- Wifi,silent,vibration and bluetooth toggles in the notification area

- Uninstall applications just by tapping them on "edit mode"

- Docked icons on the homescreen

- A swipe to the right on a name in the phonebook will call the contact

- A swipe to the left on a name in the phonebook will start the new message interface
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bajica:
-Hold BACK and pres HOME key to make a screenshot :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kalpik:
This sounds awesome!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Desvbo:
Hey, I've just watched the Touch Wiz 3.0 demo

youtube.com/watch?v=qRM5bf35yqs&feature=related

and at 17 secs into the vid it states that you can toggle between widget and application menu by swiping the screen up and down.? can anybody confirm this?

And it also states that Touch Wiz has a smart task manager, can that also be confirmed? (1.06min into the vid)

Thx alot!

-Desvbo
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Desvbo:
- You can add your contacts to the home screen

(something i would actually do considering you have 7pages to fill and talk more to some ppl that others) :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] BasieP:
i hope the number of pages can be configured?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] v1rtu4l:
yes it can be configured ... you do not need to have empty ones if you don't wish to
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Ramsey:
Oh this is a nice feature:

asumayao wrote:

I just accidentally discovered that you can adjust the screen brightness by horizontally swiping the topmost part of the screen.

Someone said that on hardware zone SG forum.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Desvbo:
nice seeing you here (apart from the forums.samsungi8910etc galaxy S discussion topic) ...

- In the video I posted above it lets you rotate Home screen which automatically shows all your windows and you can reorganize them and delete/add them. . . pretty cool ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] v1rtu4l:
yeah, i just checked that on the samsung wave ... since it has touchwiz 3.0 too it has the same nice feature =)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tintol:
Owners:

The calendar included with TouchWiz syncs with Google calendar or with Yahoo?

The video from Las Vegas presentation shows some Yahoo services, but I suppose it's also available for Google.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
The screenshot feature stated in the beginning doesn't seem to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] DaRkMyk:
it does not work on my Galaxy S... maybe it's only for Bada OS?

can anyone confirm this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] raspdeep:
+1

Some of the features in the video doesnt seem to work on galaxy s so i presume they are only for bada os?

i wondered if samsung going to update galaxy s with all the features shown
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cyberazi:
din work for me
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bigbuffalo:
It doesn't work. I tried it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Dark Sector:
As i read in the internet screenshots will be automatically stored in gallery application .
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bajica:
This is from samsung website, dont have the phone so cant say more on that
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] succube:
Tried it too. It didn't wok either.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
It doesn't work. No matter how many times you post that it won't change.....

Stupid Samsung just copy/pasted that from the bada guide I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ash99:
Thanks for the image. Didn't work for me either. Firmware glitch ? Would be VERY nice to have built in screen capture.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] CWKJ:
Screenshot, you mean you can capture whatever that is on the screen?

BACK key, do you mean the arrow key that looks like a U Turn sign?

HOME key, do you mean the key on the on the screen with a "HOUSE" icon?

If so, how do you capture screen of TorchWiz?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ConceptVBS:
If you long hold an application icon in the application menu, you can create a shortcut icon on the main desktop.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ConceptVBS:
In the contacts list, drag your fingers through the alphabets list to the right. Then while still touching it, move your fingers slightly to the left. The phone will start searching for the 2nd letter in the same alphabet list.

pretty cool.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] arnonrgo:
touchwiz - upper dots

touching a dot on both the home screens and the iphone view screens takes you directly to the page

Arnon
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] accinfo:
As can be seen from Samsung I9000 Galaxy S preview: First Look from gsmarena, there was a feature called Gesture Lock/ Smart Unlock Functionality.

Later on, it was dropped, as mentioned in Samsung I9000 Galaxy S review: From outer space from gsmarena.

Now can somoene please confirm me if this is true.

Is there a feature named Gesture Lock/Smart unlock Functionality?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ConceptVBS:
This is the gesture unlock feature: Go to 4:08 (note this is NOT the Galaxy S)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA-gcs0V0zs
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] accinfo:
are we able to extract this function into Galaxy S?

Maybe it's embedded into one of the apks?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Deflexion:
- power button during camera use 'locks' screen.

I noticed that pressing the power/standby button while in camera mode, the screen is locked (not black, but remains visible). This can come in handy when you are filming long sequences and don't want to accidentally push the screen stop or pause buttons.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Sir Anselm:
Anybody know if there's a way to replace the bluetooth quick setting button in the notification field with a button to switch GPS on/off?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Venstar:
Hidden Utility Menu

Sorry if this was mention before. I saw this on a YouTube video from Pocketnow at about 6:12 into the video.

Looks quiet interesting. To access this menu just type *#0*#

Can anyone confirm?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
Yes you can test all sorts of stuff with this... touch screen, led,cameras, sensors... good find
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] bboyneko:
maybe this isnt the best thread to ask this, but can touchwiz load tons of 3rd party widgits or does it only work with samsung widgits? Bear in mind Ive never owned an android phone so I dont know if this is a stupid question :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] accinfo:
As far as I know the Touchwiz is an UI (User Interface), it shouldn't limit your usage with widgets.

Since this is an android OS (Operating System), it'll grant the ability to use all android widgets from the android market.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] arnonrgo:
you can use both Samsung widgets and any market widgets you like
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] sck_2000in:
I don't know if its a bug but the music player shows the cd album art the right way only when its on its right side , if its turned to left the cd album art is upside down .

Can anybody confirm this ? Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] crabby09:
Same when playing videos.

crabby
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Adriaaaaan:
No but the power widget should suffice?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Sir Anselm:
That's what I'm using now, but it would be a lot quicker if you coulld just pull down the notification field and toggle it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] robnil:
about quick access to for example gps-switch, check out "quickdesk" (free market). It lets you bring up a new kind of overlayed desktop-plane when double-clicking the homebutton. Here you can mount the switch-widget.

I think it very handy
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] coooolboyz:
Auto Pause on Head Phone Removal

Not sure if this is a feature available outside SGS/TouchWiz (this being my first android phone), but if during music playback, you take out the head phone out of the jack, it pauses the current playback. :)

Pretty neat! Saves the trouble of apologising when you accidentally yank out the cord in a company!! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Et3rnal:
switch on the musich player then louck the screen "press the on\off button" then press it again or the home one u'll see a half CD on the top of the screen, drag it down and control ur music :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Mitty1990:
When listening to music if you hold the volume up key down it will tell you what you are listening to, if you hold volume down it will mute what you are listening to.
[Desire General] albert_htc:
Hi

My desire has firmware : 1.20.207.3 CL171460 release-keys

I'm debating debranding it and putting the latest generic rom on it.

The reason for this is I'm moving from the UK to NZ, but would like to get the 2.2 firmware upgrade.

From what I've read, debranding will allow me to upgrade when I'm out of the UK.

Is this safe to do ? I don't want to brick my new phone !!:p

Can you advise how I would do this or if there is any other option for me !!

Many Thanks :)
[Desire General] lonsdale:
Hi sorry to pick this one up as not answered but I am in exactly this position.

Bought a Desire from o2 in UK and moved to New Zealand.

VF NZ sim works straight out the box,

but will I be able to 2.2 this phone? My sw is 1.20.207.3.

Obviously dont need any o2 features on this phone as I wont be using their network?

Cheers from both.
[Desire General] aindow:
Debrand using a ROM and guide, both can be found on this forum. I used a WWE ROM and it worked for me without any issues. You should then get any OTA updates as soon as they're released in your region.

Hope this helps.

Rik.
[Desire General] Kickasskev:
download a stock rom from here than up with that

ww.android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/308058/stock-htc-desire-roms/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] iamdata:
The one i am using at the moment, is very very fast with alot of options check it out.

Launcher Pro Beta.. its on the market

http://www.launcherpro.com/

Very snappy screen switching!

here are some screen shots
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Pachanka:
0.4.1 ?

i only have 0.30 via the market :/
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] ady:
0.4.4 is out. market has a problem so grab the apk from www.launcherpro.com
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Huber90:
I think that this is the best launcher replacement by far. Very smooth and light.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] calash:
I love this launcher as well.

I have a stupid question however. They talk about "drawers" a lot...what is this feature?

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Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] geekygrl:
I prefer Launcher Pro to the other apps I have tried like Helix, ADW - loving the amount of customisation you can do with it and how snappy it is as well.

As for a 'drawer' well thats the part you pull up where all your apps are found :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] calash:
Is that all? Why do they make it sound like such a huge feature? I have been looking for a widget or setting and found nothing.

Thanks for clearing that up for me :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HTCDevil:
I have 0.4.4 version. Best launcher for me, better than adw launcher ;)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Dinghuz:
So, What the name of the clock-htc-like-widget?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] jeffjano:
Dock on LauncherPro

Can someone tell me how to change the icons on the dock. I know if you hold on them you get a very specific list of things you can put on their but gmail and the calendar arent even ones you can pick. I like those on my dock. is that possible??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Penguissimo:
Just pick "Applications" from the menu that comes up when you long press an icon and it'll bring up a second menu with a list of your installed apps :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] gemini002:
it is beautiful widgets and the widget is beautiful home:D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] beju69:
I've tryed many launchers, but Launcher Pro is the fastest one. Helix1 is a little slower.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] iamdata:
WEATHER WIDGET DONATE. i think that skin was black swirls or swirly, something like that.

I prefer to to beautiful widgets. :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sharky2010:
fancy widget is really nice too.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] hahn1:
Froyo Bugs

Has anyone else encountered the problem of not being able to install custom icons? It fc's

Also, LauncherPro on Froyo has an app2sd problem that sd apps do not load until LauncherPro is restarted.

I was thinking about using the Script Scheduler I found on this site to kill then restart LauncherPro at every boot, but my bash skills are woefully inadequate. Anyone think they can give me a hand?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] killfist:
Go to appilcations. It takes a while to load, but you can place any app there.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] stonedroid:
best Launcher! fast and lots of customization. even though i've been experiencing a few FC's now and then. :|
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] MPodlesnik:
I Use them from the begining, and no force close detected on my Milestone.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Hidr0*:
works flawlessly on my milestone with GOT Thai ver...
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HuckFinn:
I have had a few FC's on my Milestone (Brazil version on 2.1), but those are not a big deal to me.

I do have one small issue that irritates me to no end. When you place the phone in the Motorola Car Dock, you get the car dock screen with an icon to go to the home screen. This takes you to the original home screen and not Launcher Pro. Hitting the home button on the phone takes you back to the car dock screen, so there is no way to get to the Laucher Pro home screen when using the car dock, even if you have Launcher Pro set up as the default screen. This means I have to keep both the original home screen and Launcher Pro set up how I would like them.

I guess I could look at it this way, I can set up the original home screen how I would want it in the car dock and have Launcher Pro set up how I would normally want it. If you can't fix it - feature it....
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] vagelisda:
Have you tried home switcher?i think it is what you need.

Sent from my Milestone ushing Tapatalk
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] raziel26:
Unfortunately home switcher don't do it either
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] HuckFinn:
Home switcher will let me get to Launcher Pro home screen, but it does not solve the problem of the car dock application calling the original home screen when you press the home button. So I think I will stick with customizing the original home screen with all the apps I would use while driving and use the Launcher Pro home screen for normal usage.

Thanks for the tip anyways!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] sjcornell:
HTC Clock Widget

I've also been looking for the clock that resembles the HTC clock. I've narrowed down the possibilities to Weather & Toggle widget ($1.99) possibly with the Shiny Clock free add-on, and the Better Alarm Clock Pro ($1.99). I ended up buying the Weather & Toggle widget because it also has a bunch of free add-ons so you can make the clock look however you want. If you also download OpenHome and Smoked Glass theme, you'll have it looking almost exactly like the pictures above.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Zandog:
I love this launcher. Already developing dock themes for it.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Chackan:
Ok, I've noticed that Launcher Pro runs much smoother than the default launcher in my Galaxy Spica, but is it possible to change the Drawer scrolling to the default horizontal instead of vertical?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] :
Adw till i die!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Purple Drama Llama:
Lancher pro is betterrrrrrr.... :D :D :D :D :D :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Master_Of_Disaster:
I think the app you are looking for is called Beautifull Widgets.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] blix247:
Configure Widgets

What are the two widgets that allow additional disabling/enabling over the default power control widget?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Phantomfoot:
I've tried a LOT of widgets and the closest I've found to the HTC clock (and weather) is to use Weather & Toggle Widgets and in the settings go to 'Clock skin downloader' and 'Weather skin downloader'. You should find two skins in there called h7c and h7c-clock. Download those to your SD card (zip files), and then go to 'Install clock/weather skin from SD card' and select the zip files. Voila! If you ask me it's an exact replica.

They make you install some crappy file manager in order to do it though - but you can just uninstall it afterwards when you're done.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] samir_d:
Can it be used on a Phone that has Sense UI

Hi,

This launcher looks good and would like to try it, however:

1) Is this like an alternative to the HTC Sense UI?

2) if was to install, will it overwrite\replace the Sense UI I have at the mo? Would it potentially mess it up?

3) if i was to install and didnt like, can i get back to Sense UI?

Thanks in advance!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Phantomfoot:
1) Yes it is

2) No it won't remove the existing Sense UI or any Sense UI homescreen layouts. They remain. You can use a home switcher app to switch between the two UIs freely.

3) Yes, just uninstall Launcher Pro and you are back to Sense UI exactly as you were before.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Chad_Petree:
can somebody post the froyo icon for the browser? i dont like the one used in launcherpro :(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Themes and Apps] Mikeyy:
Noticed this also, anyone know which widgets are those?

It's not power widget, it has more options then original.