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[Galaxy S I9000 General] aeo087:
So why all the hate with TouchWiz? I actually like the side scrolling of apps a lot, you can remember where things are and don't have to scroll to find each app every time... if you avoid the buddies now widget TW runs smooth and very well.

I was going to change to Launcher Pro, I even bought beautiful widgets, but TW just looks a bit nicer, and the iPhone-like drawer is great.

Samsung did some stuff pretty well:

1. Ability to erase apps easily and organize them.

2. Ability to add and rearrange homescreens

3. Tap to go to each homescreen (although Launcher pro does it nicer...)

The only problem is widgets like buddies now, daily briefing, and the horrible pink feeds and updates which can make TW a bit laggy...

This is a decent and very customizable launcher; HTC's sense does have nicer widgets and the leap feature, but aside from that, I like TW better than sense.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mickeko:
Leap is pointless on TW (Is there a pun hiding there?). You can just hit the dots on top of the screen to quickly switch between the screens.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
Though the Ease of use plays a vital role in day2day life, its not all about ease of use. The UI should have some eye candies too. Thats Y, some of us are longing for HTC sense UI (earlier WINmo's senseUI and now android's senseUI).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coolguy949:
I've never used it in person yet, but it really bothers me that they tried to clone iPhone OS. If I wanted an iPhone UI I would have bought an iPhone. I think Sense does a great job with their dialer and little UI tricks/widgets.

I'm waiting on the T-Mo Vibrant but the whole iPhone look-a-like thing bothers me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chaoscentral:
It's really only the application menu that looks like an iphone, just because it has a 4 icon dock doesnt mean its an iphone look alike.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] coolguy949:
Well, just the overall look of the phone combined with that UI. The chrome bezel and back cover are very iPhone 2G-ish. The UI doesn't bother me all that much, it seems like it will be OK to use.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chaoscentral:
I'll agree it does look a bit like an iPhone 3G but definitely not a 2G lol, besides it just looks like a basic smartphone with a chrome trim, didnt think Apple had that look under patent :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
And this is the exact same reason that bothers me to buy this phone. Too much iphony. Hardware Design, plastic quality, applications UI.

Even the best looking samsung phone can't match the design of the ugly looking HTC :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
The TouchWiz stuff isn't too bad, but it is trying too hard to be iPhone like to my eyes - not only that, but it looks more like iOS v3 rather than the prettier 4... but to be fair you can't customise the iphone OS like you can with this.

I am using LauncherPro and Beautiful Widget for the clock / weather, and I think in some ways, it actually looks BETTER than Sense.

I just wish the Samsung build of Android seemed as polished as the HTC one, but out of the box it really is very rough around the edges, and the standard widgets are ugly. I'm also not keen on the numbers at the top which appear to (even if they don't really in reality) waste screen real estate. Don't even get me started on that daily briefing thing!

I do miss the Calendar, Favourites, Bookmarks, News Feed and Friendstream widgets off sense though and am yet to find particularly good alternatives to these.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dizzle118:
TouchWiz is ok - but seems basic.... Sense would be great - would it not just be a case of suck it and see? Obtain an install for another handset and try it?

Sorry if I'm talking utter b*llocks - I'm an android n00b.

I'm trying to decide on buying either the desire or galaxy and I love HC sense, but the samsing hardware is superior
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dizzle118:
This launcher pro looks interesting http://journal.zenyee.com/2010/06/20/galaxy-is-surreally-desirable/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
after 2 pages, and no one fully answered the [OP] question, maybe because the solution is not from XDAdevelopers, if not that then i don't know why.

There is another forum/blog with steps by steps guide to root the SGS and load a new firmware/ROM with the HTC Sense taken from the HTC Hero/Desire.

However customization the options for the HTC sense (on SGS) seems a little bit weird, as you'll have to use the custom developed app to make the option changes.

I believe in the original HTC device all these would have been easy and natural, but since it's a ripped off / chopped down version of the HTC sense, some stuff are missing, and thus they had to create an app to fill the gap.

As soon as my new SGS arrives I'll see If i can live without the HTC sense.

Launcher PRO beta seems very promising.

However I'll still try cropped version of HTC sense to see how smooth it runs on the SGS

Coming from several HTC devices previous to this one, I prefer the HTC interface.

Not a fan of the SGS build-in launcher, it's boring
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lajson:
Which blog/forum is it ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigsro:
Can you turn off the Touch Wiz UI completely and go back to stock Android?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Indo:
You can turn the TW3.0 of by just installing the N1 launcher so that fake iPhoney look is gone. Only drawback for some people is that you only have 5 homescreens.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
Checked out the LauncherPro beta, its simply superb. More than enough for me. Most probably I'll be buying the SGS tomorrow. Knowing that it doesn't have a flash for camera :( and the design looks iphony ugly and its plastic. But that's it. My worries ends with that, unlike with that of other phones, which goes on for a long list.

Please tell me the dedicated forum for SGS, like XDA for HTC. Is modaco's SGS section okay? It has few number of threads when compared to the threads in here :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
This phone is just out so there isn't that much to do for it yet + we are waiting on the big froyo release. After that CustomROMs should become far more abundant. (And even more unnecessary i guess)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
What? Froyo is possible in SGS? If only, there was an official update :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tommy34:
until android 2.3 or 3.0 appears...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Darkstriker:
Seeing how our shiny new phone fall within the probable hardware reqs of Android 3.0, me might just get that =D

Regardless, performance will be absolutely awesome with 2.2 on the SGS!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dagrim1:
There will be, it's officially announced by samsung.,.. the only question is when ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riz157:
I have owned black desire which was brilliant especially after rooting and flashing 2.2 with htc sense. Very fast and reliable no lagging what so ever but unforunately im a gadget junkie and prefer bigger screen and better camera, video recorder. So now i own galaxy s.

Comparison

looks - prefer samsung.

Screen size - samsung and much less relection in sunlight

hardware buttons - desire no doubt

speed - desire

reliability - desire

development support - desire

camera video - samsung but no flash

video playback - samsung no doubt

Htc widgets are definetly superior and more useful. Internet experience is better then the samsung, copy pasting searching etc superior on htc dsire.

one of the worst things about samsung is responsive or lack of it.

So far this ia not the best experience but nit the worst either.

I can see why others who have not used the desire may presume samsung is better overall but as a complete package the edge goes to desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zenkinz:
i had both (still have both, although the desire is now with my wife)

It's basically a hardware (Galaxy) vs software (Desire), and I personally prefer Galaxy S over Desire. It's easier to tweak the software to match that in Desire (although not exactly better/match in some cases, but good compromise), but it'll not be possible to tweak the hardware.

A case in point, there's no way you can optimize Desire to achieve a video capture quality near what you get in Galaxy.

But to each his/her own. A poison to one man is a meat to another.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NovemberEcho91:
Really liking my new galaxy s, however I've come from a desire which had its main home screen in the centre (three to the left, three to the right), and continuous app draw (as opposed to the iphone style app pages) which were brilliant features, but the galaxy s, with its home screen on the far left, seems a but less efficient, is there any way to enable these features on my phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chaoscentral:
Launcher Pro or ADW Launcher
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tids2k:
did u buy it from a shop or internet contract ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NovemberEcho91:
I bought it with a contact from optus aus for $49/month, which is pretty good considering the desire was $79 at launch,

And by the way, launcher pro was exactly what I was looking for thanks for the tip.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jason544:
Is there an easy was to arrange the icons in the application menua rather than having to click menu then edit then dragging them from one page to another

I have search on here and google but can't find an easy way to do it

Its time consuming trying to arrange them I already have 10 messed up pages and would like them in some sensible order

I hope someone can help me!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trancelated:
hi jason,

what UI are you using? Launcher Pro and ADW arranges all the icons automatically and alphabetically.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zenkinz:
use app organizer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dannyng:
Dear XDA developer,

Previously I'm using HTC HD and I love HTC Sense UI. I just lost my HTC 2 months ago and currently looking at Android phone.

Samsung Galaxy S looks so good, but my personal feel is I still prefer HTC sense.

Can XDA developer cook rom with HTC sense for Samsung Galaxy S?

Really waiting for this to happen.

Thankss in advance,

Cheers,

Danny
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
if you scroll one page back, then you will know that there is already a ROM with HTC sense UI

just google it, it's not hard to find.

I'd post a link here if there are no complains, but for some reason seems like we are not allowed to mention that other forum/blog that has step by step guide to install the Galaxy S with the HTC sense US already in the ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kenkiller:
Please post the link. I've not seen it anywhere.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
it's not your usual install and run sort of rom

http://forum.hdblog.it/showthread.php?t=5348

for updates for the HTC sense rom, and othe related topics

http://forum.hdblog.it/forumdisplay.php?f=80

you'll have to rip off the stuff from this rom, then add it to your own image, cook it, then upload it to your phone.

there are much more details on that other forum, and it's in Italian

if you don't want to go through all that trouble then just install Launcher Pro beta which does a pretty good job
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kenkiller:
Wow....that's not even for the Galaxy S.

It's gonna be hell trying to make it work. I give up.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] emmarbee:
Finally I bought a phone after Four years! Samsung Galaxy S is simply superb!

And Launcher Pro is godsend! Else I would've died with default samsung launcher. Of course, the sense would've been a little bit better. But I can defintiely live with this I guess. I thought this thread can be closed after seeing Laucher PRO app, but now I realise, still there's alot of catching up to do for the launcher pro to meet sense UI. Anyway, I ll keep a check on this thread. Hope a developer sees this thread and answers our request. PLease make the King of Hardware, as a software king too!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marcoryn:
HTC sense widgets..

Is there a way to install the HTC sense widgets on the i9000? Where do I find those widgets?

Thnks..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] leoni1980:
No chance: Sense Widgets are tightly integrated within the Sense framework. The only way to get Sense Widgets would be to port the entire Sense architecture over to the Galaxy and as far as I know that isn't exactly going to be happening anytime soon.

The only HTC thing we can use right now is the HTC IME
[Galaxy S I9000 General] florifliegt1:
give never up!

how long had you try it?

how can i try to help you?

we can create a todo-list... if you want to port sense for galaxy.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zenkinz:
Get launcher pro, fede the developer is starting to build widgets to replace the missing htc sense widgets, I must say I am impressed with that even though right now there's only one widget releases (peoplewidget)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kristianmaar:
If someone in here can translate all that adb stuff and expert talk into a guide like this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=723596, then please do it :-) I would like to try out HTC Sense on SGS, but it needs to be a clear step-by-step guide.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kenkiller:
and now the bookmarks widget is out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Rawat:
link please?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
:) i was just about to ask for the same thing
[Galaxy S I9000 General] thE_29:
They are talking about the launcherpro + widgets (so launcherpro plus).

So guess where you have to search for it..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] delpiero1114:
Will launcher pro replace the original samsung wiz?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xfile087:
TouchWhiz will remain installed but essentially yeah LauncherPro replaces it. It will launch on boot etc
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MacaronyMax:
Download fancy widget for the clock :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GXFX:
Port htc sense for galaxy s.

is there any way of doing this ?

port desire rom maybe ?

thank you .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BenF1:
I'd love to try Sense on the Galaxy S.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DocRambone:
Lets hope not :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] balenax:
Agree. Lets hope not ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] do0fusz:
soled my desire for a galaxy S

buth honestley?

yes i mis the 'look' of the sence keyboard...

buth for the rest..

why ?

this is my galaxy

can't say it lags, or that i miss sence annymore :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MAMBO04:
Please evaluate...?

i know it's VERY tough to even do that because that has HTC's framwork etc etc but still, a man can dream :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] balenax:
well, i dont like sense. just my oppinion. i dont like touchwiz either, so i use launcher pro :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GXFX:
it is possible i think .

desire has the same screen resolution .

maybe we can try to change the desire rom kernel to the samsung kernel .

it´s going to be veeeeeeeeerry bug , but we can fix it later .

what do you think ?

that´s how some hero dev´s ported legend rom ...

it may work ;s ..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dupel:
wow, we went close to to weeks without anyone asking this idiotic question.

It is possible, just unbelivebly hard port. So, I'd say no.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Intratech:
Werd.

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] ZAnwar:
My bro has a Desire, but there is nothing that I miss on it on my Galaxy S. Fancy Widget provided me the clock/weather until recently when I started using Tajm.

For everything else, LauncherPro and Plus has it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] resettarget:
There are so many handy desktop widgets from HTC Sense while Samsung doesn't provide much of that. From this point, I prefer Sense. But I do love the iPhone-sylte app list from Samsung, I guess it's not part of TouchWiz (just guess, not sure)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msmith1991:
i like sense because of the integration with facebook and twitter...other wise i could care less plus they have some nice widgets!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mr-Dutch:
And where do you fix that? Via market? The only thing that i miss is the HTC Clock.

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] swissmike:
fancy widget 1.3 (latest version) does not work with froyo :-(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dakine:
That sucks, well I've been thinking of making a better skin for beautiful widget anyway. I like the weather animations on that widget but the skins are just kind of ugly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MiG123:
erm sense widgets wise, you might wanna monitor laucherpro's development over the next few months... their dev is already going all out to replicate most of the sense widgets for the launcherpro platform and he's already came up with one or two good ones so far... only thing is it ain't gonna be available free unless you explore certain channels that shall not be named here....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tommy34:
for me it does work on jp2 :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ivas75:
I agree. It works for me too...

Only once it asked for a force close or wait, I chose wait and it works like a charm...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionBG:
I'm on JP3 and Fancy Widget 1.3 works perfectly!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FrezoreR:
Sense on the Galaxy S

Hi!

I'm am curious what makes sense so hard to port, to for instance our device?

What does it take to port it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Misantropo:
Yes! I like it!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jodue:
i haven't tried it but i guess you could just try and install all necessary apk's including the content-providers etc. i don't know if it's that easy but worth a try ;)

but honestly. why change one crappy resources eating custom ui for another? i for one would prefer the stock ui!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gnowak84:
I'd like to have Sense screen unlocking and call answering as it's hard to slide sideways one hand (wile driving, etc).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FrezoreR:
They ported it to the N1 right? would it be harder to do it to the Galaxy S? I mean there are no special drivers involved or are there?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gTen:
At the moment we can only use Samsung Roms...we can't just install an HTC rom with sense in it...

Installing Sense is not as simple as running an APK as it requires a lot of HTC proprietary libraries and etc....not saying it is impossible but it will most likely take time...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FrezoreR:
yeah each ROM is customized for the firmware.. so HTC roms are out of the question. I wonder how many libs sense depends on.. and must they be recombiled for the SGS..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionBG:
You will need the full HTC Sense framework to be ported for Sense to work as it should!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrassol:
a sense rom has been ported to milestone ... so why not on our SGS ?

I also would like a sense rom, only for the included apps (galery with flickr integration, contacts with facebook integration, friendstream, ...)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madduckuk:
that is the main argument, maybe the Galaxy is just not popular enough to get the necessary developers on the job. :(

the e-mail and sms widgets are what i am missing the most... well that and the animated flipclock, but i can probably live without that and just continue with fancywidget
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Mynx:
Yeah , i would like the sms & mailwidget to , and also Friendstream , the Galaxy version is not that good...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Case_:
I'm definitely planning on trying to port Sense to Galaxy S once I have more time to play with that and get my bearings in Galaxy world, which is in many aspects quite different from the HTC Magic I'm used to working with. So it'll take some time (and of course, no promises).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FrezoreR:
That is a great argument!

Also I recon the SGS superior hardware could do some magic =)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
i wish samsung would just hire someone who actually knows how to write decent code
[Galaxy S I9000 General] FrezoreR:
These things are hard to develop, also I know Samsung has a lot of developers working on it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Laserek_Poland:
[Q] How to install HTC Sense on GalaxyS?

Hi

Like in Subject. Is there any possibility to install HTC Sense on I9000?

Greg
[Galaxy S I9000 General] igniztion:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741436

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=738281

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715320

Search?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xarr:
Jeżeli chcesz HTC Sence to trzeba było kupić Desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madduckuk:
Jeżeli chcesz Samsung TouchWiz to trzeba było kupić Galaxy S?

Non! or something
[Galaxy S I9000 General] penfold:
i'm sure they are but we are on touchwiz 3 by now and they still have not got it working properly
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gnowak84:
Desire's got crappy gfx.

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Pozdro
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Laserek_Poland:
Jakbym chciał kupić jakieś HGW to bym kupił.

Nie pytałem co powinienem kupić tylko jak to zrobić. Czytaj ze zrozumieniem
[Galaxy S I9000 General] humbledoor:
not productive enough for professionnal applications

Even if the hardware of the Samsung i9000 is amazing, the software is really really poor.

In the detailed view of a meeting,

1) hyperlink are not active !!!

2) phone numbers are not active (you can't click to call)

3) you can't directly click on the address location and open google map or copilot ....

It's a large regression compared to all actual smartphones (IPhone, Windows Mobile, HTC, ...). A big disappointment that makes this phone unable to use for professionnal applications !

I don't see another solution for those problems than to put HTC Sense on the samsung.

Do you see a solution ?

Thanks,

Alain
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xarr:
Nie da się na razie. A jeżeli chcesz teraz mieć HTC Sence to trzeba było kupić Desire.

Now we cant install HTC Sence in Galaxy S. If u want Sence u must buy Desire.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrassol:
isn't it supposed to be an ENGLISH forum ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gnowak84:
They hardly can read and it gets even worse when it comes to writing ;) Rgds
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MAMBO04:
Ok well here is my opinion, i think it'll be difficult to port the Sense UI to our phones, but not impossible. I'm no dev but i've seen HTC's UI's ported to different phones, E.g their old Sense 2D (Manilla) which has been ported to god knows how many phones on XDA, and to the Samsung Omnia i900, so i'm not sure what the huge issue is in getting it to work on our phones, i guess we all need some more info on why.

If there is someone out there who wouldn't mind explaining or cracking at it, then please do :) would be cool to try it out, i'll even donate for the cause just to see it ported to annoy HTC and Samsung of course :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Case_:
I don't think it would be THAT difficult, and as I've said in one of the other "Sense" threads, I plan on trying just that once I have some time to familiarize myself more with the way creating custom ROMs works on Galaxy as opposed to HTC Magic I'm used to working with.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] webstar1:
HTC Sense on galaxy s i9000

i was looking at this vid and was like omg, they have ported it to droid but not galaxy s damn.

please someone look into porting sense into galaxy s

search:

Sense UI on the DROID! HTC EVO 4G ROM Greek, Geek and Zeus Desire X11 ROM: Part 1

cant give direct link as new memba
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ConceptVBS:
like omg you can like omg give a clue where like this video omg like can be found. omg :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drasifriaz:
LOL :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] decepticon:
I was like WTF for a min but then OMG I so totally got it IDK if Sense can be ported to the SGS if they cant get this ported over I will just die...FML

TTYL k
[Galaxy S I9000 General] webstar1:
I have written I can't give link to vid so search it

If you search bY any search engine the first link is the vid

Btw its on utube

Nd really dudes, thnx for the really positive replies -__-
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Brantyr:
t frst i was liek :) thn i waz liek :/ now m all liek >:( bcuz ths thrd z gn nwhar
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xplanowestx:
LOL @ This Thread...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spandsbab:
Some of the funniest replies I read here LOL!!!

Anyway back on the topic, I kinda wondering the same thing too but it seems it will take time to port Sense UI to SGS but I will also look out for it...