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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rldev:
Most of these have better replacements in the Market.

Dialer - Dialer One from the Market. Much better than both(love it). Also the call screen on Froyo is superior in terms of functionality.

Email - K9 mail is better than both stock and Sense mail apps.

Music player - Meridian, Mixzing or Double Twist.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcopmanx2:
You can use Sprints visual voicemail in CM6 just fine. Search his thread for the apk.

Edit: oops. I meant to quote you setite.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drybonz:
I, personally, prefer the vanilla Android over Sense... so, for a person like me, the decision is easy.

If you prefer Sense, you will probably prefer stock.

Of course, there are other rom options as well.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
really? cm6 has been nothing short of smooth and painfree. i'm running the latest nightly build as well as the cm6-snap uv kernel, so it's practically unstoppable right now. once cyanogen clamps down on the power profile for the evo and getting an accurate battery output polished up, i'd say it more than trumps sense. just my 2 cents...

yea same here. i think the more important idea here is that, once you update, you lose root (for who knows how long), and i'm not in any way, shape, or form losing that. you can get sense from other roms without resorting to losing root, and i have complete confidence in our fantastic devs to port over the evo-native froyo code from htc.

root forever ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myndwire:
Don't forget if you go to this OTA, you completely lose the stock tethering. Sprint HAS to have that disabled... screw that. CM6 forever...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12MaNy:
I totally see myself flashing rooted 2.2 Sense RUU, then backing it up and having it in my nandroid folder. That way I can switch back n' forth between it and CM6 nightly. Why settle for one when you can have both?

I am loving Cyanogen builds lately though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawasaki00:
Now that I am used to the cm6 I really dont miss sense that much, I actually prefer the fancy widget that is linked to my weather bug elite better than the stock sense one. Just a few bugs that need ironed out and the welcome addition of 4g I will not go back to the stock rom. I also use tether all the time so from what I gather the stock rom will have that on lockdown.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skydeaner:
I am currently spamming the crap out of the htc software update button on my phone. come on noon oclock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grrmisfit:
will i agree that should disable if they dont ill prolly update as rooting was only done so i could tether the other stuff was just bonus
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaokollaa:
Look you know why cm6 wins!!!

A simple answer: My wii controller works on cm6!!!!!!!!

And a lot more things work better without sense

lol!!!

Sense sucks!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcasante:
Dude, I'm there with you...

Love the Evo; but without some sense UI it feels a little naked. True, sense is a resource hog, but if I wanted all virgin android I would have bought a Nexus One
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcasante:
So lets hope that CM can get their hands on the HTC build of Froyo and somehow make it so that you can pick and choose which parts of sense you want to use. Some of the Sense stuff is really cool!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beesneazy:
Am one of the few that hasn't even messed with a 2.2 build, will get up on a stock 2.2 before trying CM6. The 4G is part of the reason I haven't tried, even though I could have just checked it out briefly. Things are about to get real in the new future, can't wait!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fr4nk1yn:
Sense is a hog? please explain. At this point it would be hard to quantify that. We'd need a sense ROM and an ASOP ROM to bench. Turning off sense and using another launcher makes no difference in unpack or quadrant scores.

as already mentioned I go from my ROM to Cyanogen using Nandroid regularly and see no real world difference in app performance even though it benches 4x higher.

As areas those apps to ad polish to ASOP, I looked and found a few, like dialer one, that was better but just marginally.

Still its matter of pure preference. I think it'll truly be hard hard to justify besides that.

And I seriously doubt you'd be giving up root for more than an few days.

I have a plan, might not be a good plan, to get root after the update.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tx_jaycee:
Anyone know a good app that mimics the favorite people in Sense for the homescreen? I'm missing that big time.

I use Dialer One, You Mail (better than Sprint VVM IMO), default mail (I do use K9 and Pure Messaging Widget) and messaging (tried Chomp and Handcent) but like the pictures in the default messaging.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asqwrd:
Launcher pro plus has widgets that mimic the bookmark and peoples widget of sense
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregnice631:
its a cool idea, but Sense is not open source and is htc's property. I'm just looking for Cyanogen to pull out the fm radio and 4g from the official froyo rom so that we can have a 100% working rom. The official release works in our rooted favor :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pathtologos:
+1. I'm in this boat. How long do you think before we can flash a rooted 2.2 from Sprint (without losing my root, of course)?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballr4lyf:
When I first ditched sense, I had a hard time adjusting. I wanted my sense widgets back. I stuck with AOSP (not ASOP!!! Stop spelling it wrong!!! Android Open Source Project... Sorry, back on topic), and I don't really miss anything now.

Dialer: I actually prefer the AOSP version. It's rare that I actually dial a number, but I prefer the larger buttons if I need to hit "1" for English. :(

Contacts Widget: I just hold down the search button and say "Call my wife's mobile #"... TA-DA! Don't even need a widget. (Just to clarify, this option is also in Sense, I'm just saying, there's no need for the widget).

Messaging: I don't like either version... I prefer Handcent.

Calendar: I know a lot of people are using the Pure Calendar Widget, but I'm using Jorte from the market... It's free. I'm cheap. End of story. :p

Clock Widget: The sense weather/clock widget is nice with the weather animations on it, but I prefer the way beautiful widgets looks. I'd rather have a nice looking clock/weather widget with no animations (which, on a side note, BW has weather animations now) than the ugly clock/weather with animations.

Friendstream: When I was using sense, I didn't use friendstream for very long. I tried adjusting sync times and what not, but a separate FB and twitter widget gave me better battery life every time. So I use the official FB and Twitter apps for widgets. :D

Music Player: I actually prefer the one that's in CM6 (not really sure if it's the stock FroYo player) over the Sense one.

I'm sure I'm missing more, so feel free to ask if you have any questions. :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brown14you:
Comparing Sense on Eclair to AOSP Froyo based CM6 is simply unfair. The better comparison will be Sense on Froyo vs CM6 (also based on AOSP Froyo).

That said, I like Sense and it make sense on EVO (pun intended). :). The AOSP Froyo is too bland!

For guys that want all the apps that will mimic what HTC Sense does to bring their AOSP experience close to HTC Sense, I have a question, WHY? If Sense is that horrible why look for a replacement for the things you abhor.

Personally, I will be careful with replacing certain core functions like dialer with an app from the the market (for security's sake). Sprint Visual Voicemail can be replaced by the Google Voice app. You don't need a separate app. Let the Google Voice do that job for you.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] adrianmak:
I used mp3tag to attached album cover jpg to each of mp3 but the cover didn't show in default music player.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Necrolust:
Download Album art grabber
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NZtechfreak:
You sure you embedded them properly with mp3tag? Thats what I use and the default player picks them all up fine...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] adrianmak:
yes. I'm sure. I think there is no special technique but just drag and drop a image to the album art box and save.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] NZtechfreak:
Hmmn, I usually right click and go into extended tags and select the album art that way...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] adrianmak:
which version of mp3tag u are using ?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alebreez:
Is it possible?

Edit: I meant Bootloader :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigacgomez:
huh????

10+ chars
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alebreez:
Is it possible to catch the bootloader screen like I catch any other screen? I tried the debugging way and obviously didn't work I am wondering if there is a way to capture it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david1171:
If ddms doesn't work, then I don't there is any way to without breaking out another camera.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Landmine:
I run a small tech shop, and I'd love to be able to invoice and bill and process credit cards directly from my Evo, however, I'm currently using http://www.workingpoint.com/ for my invoices and I love it, but that's not to say if there was a better solution that I wouldn't switch.

So what all have you used, recommend and dislike.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] mbeers:
I run credit cards through authorize.net using the stock browser. Works great!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bradynapier:
Check out Square ... squareup.com - they give you a free credit card swiper when you sign up.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] knives of ice:
Get square is far and away the best once mass shipments of dongles begins
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Landmine:
Any idea on how long it will take Square to mail me a dongle? Do you have one? I'd love to just swipe and process.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flyingwolf:
Good luck with square, signed up when they first came out (same day) no dongle yet, got an email about a month ago saying that they were sending them out to approved users, turns out they are checking credit scores, I have a score in the 700's, yet I have not gotten one, so I don't think they are going to stay around long.
[General Topics] chivas228:
I'm looking for a phone that works on AT&T but NOT an AT&T IMEI phone which also runs on the Android Platform.

I currently have a TC, TC09 and Diamond. I like them and they work ok but there's so many apps out there for Android that the WinMo platform is starting to look aged and fall behind (badly!).

Any suggestion for HTC phones (or any other even) that runs on Android and runs on AT&T bands (HSDPA is a must). Thanks!!
[General Topics] maxpower097:
It only falls behind in certain area's. If your a business user WM has no substitute. If your into games and cheeky fart apps, iOS and Droid are worth considering.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fbstud:
everytime i try and flash it it comes up with an error code saying there was a problem with the connection, any ideas? and also when i start the flash it disconnects me from actsync and windows mobile device center....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirgal:
To flash a ROM you need to stay connected via USB, otherwise it won't work ... just make sure that the connection is established and your problem should disappear (perhaps using a different USB port may solve your problem?)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fbstud:
i make sure that on my pc as well as my pda its connected but as soon as i take the last step of installing the ROM and the instal starts it automatically disconnects me and never moves from 0%
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirgal:
There could be so many causes! :confused: ... it will probably be easier (and faster) for you to follow "The Complete Leo Flashing Video Guide" available at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=621930..
[HD2 General] MirzaD07:
My music player keeps freezing up, it takes over 5-10 mins to load up the music off of my sd card. It is a stock 16gb, I had a cab file I downloaded from xda but I cannot find it anywhere on the internet. The phone locks up and I cannot answer calls or anything because the music is still loading. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!
[HD2 General] 10332007:
Could use some more information.

What type of audio files are you loading? Basic MP3's or something else?

Is there album art as well?

Cab file for what?

Stock ROM or something else?

Have you taken the memory card out before trying to access the music?

If I take the card out or the first time I tried to access music it took a bit longer as the phone cached it all. Even now there is a 2 -4 second delay as the music player recalls the list of songs etc. If I take the memory card out and put it back in it takes a minute or two to load everything up.

I have almost no album art, and some FLAC and OGG music files, but primarily mp3's.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] han.azuki:
I am trying to edit dictionary.com widget so the font is shown as white instead of black. what do i need to edit? thanks.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] iball8888:
I downloaded the SDK and hooked it up to Eclipse. I am also somewhat waiting for Googles App maker. I am learning to program slowly but I don't get where to start with Android because I cannot find any...good tutorials. I am "majoring" at programming (I put that in quotes because I am really an IT, but I am stuck at this college for now), but I am not that great.

I ask this because I want to make an app that will help me TREMENDOUSLY and I would also release it publicly. I don't really want to reveal the idea for the app unless I have to. It is a really basic app that will allow the user to store data and the app will make a graph out of it.

Where can I get some helpful tutorials with android developing? Is there a book or...should I just wait for Googles App Maker.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KOYHOY:
Um, do you know java? I'd say you need basic understanding of that. Then just go to a library and get an android dev book or find one online. You could always try google's own tutorials on their site by searching google for "developer's guide." (Can't post links so it should be top result)

Hope that helps...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] iball8888:
Thanks, I guess I'll have to kiss up to my old Java teacher for help. And...also I'll have to find that book I borrowed from the library three years ago :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] das_coach:
they have 3-4 very basic guides: http://hackaday.com/category/android-hacks/
[Legend Android Development] danishnicooo:
any know how to get the zooming transition betweeen apps like theres in rodieguez LWP but just without the LWP ?:rolleyes:
[Legend Android Development] efex:
try enabling animations in the app Spare Parts (found on market). - I *think* you can do it there. I'm not entirely sure thou.
[Legend Android Development] cryshop:
Spare Parts does nothing about Zooming transition. It's an addition thing, not from Sense.
[Legend Android Development] efex:
ah okay.. havent been using sense for a while now.. så Im out of ideas..:rolleyes:
[Legend Android Development] danishnicooo:
thx for inputs anyway ;D
[Legend Android Development] jcarrz1:
An app can specify to the framework to use that animation, such as eliot stocker's music player or Rodriguez sense. You can modify the framework to use a certain animation for all applications. A metamorph would be the best way, though it might not work with sense frameworks. See if you can find an animation FOR SENSE FRAMEWORKS in the android themes section. otherwise you'll have to unpack frameworks.
[EVO 4G General] dmoses1969:
What the heck is that for? Looked at my bill today, Have family unlimited with 2 evo's and noticed a $75 casual data usage on my account. BS!

After a google search of Sprint Casual Data charge it looks like lots of people have incurred these charges and they are bogus!

I've only been with Sprint for 2 months and both bills have been totally screwed up.:mad:

Just got of the line with Sprint and they did take it off. They said it was due to the plan being changed and I used date before the new plan took affect. How can you use data when adding a line? I purchased a second phone and changed the plan at the same time.

Here is part of the chat conversation

Agent (Leonoid S): "I can see that you have been billed $75.00 for Internet usage . Also see that the plan is everything data ."

Agent (Leonoid S): "Let me explain this to you ."

Agent (Leonoid S): "You have change the plan on the account on 06/19/2010"

Agent (Leonoid S): "The charge is for using Internet services before the plan change ."
[EVO 4G General] PikkonX:
I have this charge too and I know they're gonna remove it as soon as I call them. I had this problem before too with the same $75 amount.
[EVO 4G General] shafter09:
What is it for anyway?
[EVO 4G General] jpitt916:
For casual data usage...duh!!!! You're only supposed to use data "formally". :p
[EVO 4G General] majorbro:
are you here today using this data for business or pleasure sir? ;) haha
[EVO 4G General] itmustbejj:
I once used my data plan without a suit jacket and loafers and this showed up on my bill as well. Never will I surf the web in flip-flops again......
[EVO 4G General] namopereht:
That is Sprint's term for tethering without a plan for it, or using data without a plan (not possible on evo as it requires a data plan).

namopereht
[EVO 4G General] Scorbin:
Yeah, but I want to know how in the hell Sprint knows what we're wearing while using our data plans!

I think it's alien technology.
[EVO 4G General] Soupskin:
It's the real reason for the front facing camera.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnybueno:
Sorry for new thread, but I need somewhere for people to report things for me to fix for this theme to be used with Skyraider 2.x

Do not post things like:

Nice theme/work

Where do I get that wallpaper/icons?

______ app isn't themed

Doesn't work on ______ rom

The copy/paste field/grid outlines in rosie is still green ---I can't change that unless you can tell me how

You should make the notification icons red ---- i'm not gonna do that unless someone edits services.jar to give us red text on the bar
etc.

or I promise I'll stop working on it. I need to have serious feedback only so i can maintain a steady workpace.

I've been working on this for about 8 hours now and I don't get paid to do this, so please show some respect.

Now that you've read at least most of this post, feel free to download a test release

I'm looking for suggestions that I can work with... include screenshots if possible and feel free to submit images if you can

Examples of good suggestions:

titlebar_portrait.9.png is a little too dark the gradient makes the light effect look unbalanced

hue on xxxx.png is a bit lighter than on xxx.png

_______ doesn't stretch correctly

Progress so far:

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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
It looks good. Nice theme... sorry i couldnt resist.

But seriously:

The shading on numbers on the clock look a little discolored on the bottom (i guess the hue is too bright)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnybueno:
How so? I need articulate feedback. uneven in what way? spacing? I didn't alter the size of the images from stock. Maybe you should at least wait till you can flash the test and then tell me how it looks.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Sorry...uneven wasnt the right word to use...look at my updated post.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnybueno:
maybe try flashing it first since you're not really testing anything but the quality of the screenshots ddms takes. Link is up on the op.

Done for the day will resume tomorrow maybe.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hanneman101101:
Installing...

EDIT: Looks really good, I personally like the darker red on the battery. Would like to see it spread out more through the theme. And I didn't have trouble with the theme But would like to See Two things changed. (I think you are going to add your fonts to this, I would REALLY love that.) And seen from the picture below. The rating stars seem to be a little lighter than everything else. (Meaning that the red used is lighter than all others, would like to see darker.) Other than that. GREAT JOB!!! I hope this helps. Sorry if it does not.

EDIT EDIT: Ine the picture below, Is that little red line supposed to be right below the Verizon Wireless? It is just enough to see but not enough to really matter. Just wanted to point that out. trying to help.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnybueno:
Perfect example of constructive criticism, thank you. I'm thinking that as soon I hop back on this I should theme the market next. Ironically, those stars are in framework. They should be darker though.

Yup that line is supposed to be there... originally I was going to make the title bar (where the ongoing/notifications text is) red, but in practice it looked a bit tacky. I want to emphasize as much red as possible without overdoing it.

As far as the dark red goes, its one of those things that I've played with but didn't like too much. It could look good, but sometimes ends up looking kind of washed out or brownish.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoCalMiles:
Looks Great bro...If you ever figure out or get in touch with anyone who can edit services.jar, PM me if you could. I've got a couple things i need done. ;) Great work so far...threw in a little something for ya!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnybueno:
Thank you sir, every little bit helps.

I haven't looked around too hard yet, but I'm sure we can get that text color edited eventually. I just don't wanna get hung up on that when I could be making progress toward completion of this theme. I got some stuff to do today, but when I get home I'm gonna iron out some issues and try to get more apps themed.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] santana11981:
It may be a stretch...but what about making the drop down notifications transparent. Not sure what kind of work goes into this but maybe android pic can stay but be blended into transparent notifications or be removed (your choice). Just wondering what that might look like....over all I love all the red dude....thanks again.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SerialKilla:
Hey man,love it! My request would be to have the dock bar outlined with red-like you did with the click widget,maybe even have the the 3 labels red also.(arrow,phone,and + buttons) Otherwise I love it. Been using all your red themes for the different ROMs I've been using.

Thanks for all your hard work bro.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slygeist:
no dont remove it. its badass! i love this theme so far! best one ive seen yet.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djkms:
First of all I want to say that I love this theme. With a bit of tweaking it will be perfect IMO. Below are some suggestions and just my opinion:)

My default home with this theme:

I think the notification bar is too busy looking.

Here is how it looks now:

And here is my suggestion:

Change the bars to black with white text and remove the droid on the edges. Also add about a 25% transparency to the black on the default shade around the droid to the right.

Next suggestion:

Here is the screen now:

And here is my suggestion:

Obviously the background is black with a bit of transparency with white/gray text.

These are the only areas I really noticed. I don't use the default sense home so there might be more.

Basically my suggestion is to have a overall black theme with red and white highlights only. I think this will give it a more crisp and professional look.

Thanks for your hard work and time making themes for us!