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[Windows Phone 7 General] thegreenmachine:
Now before anyone says "OMG, FANBOY!" "Oh no, not another Wp7 hater" "Are you freaking kidding me? Another one of these threads?" I would like to say that I am in no way bashing Windows Phone 7. In a matter of fact, I am praising it for the time I have spent with it.

I, like many of you, were one of the very first adopters of Windows Phone 7 and prior of release date, I spent time researching the platform and the positives/negatives of the OS. From the get go, I WAS extremely amazed at how the whole "it just works" mentality well..worked! Microsoft has that really going for them. The seamless Facebook integration and Mail integration for me was perfect. Granted, I maybe one of the lesser people who only used Yahoo mail instead of 45 different mail accounts, it just worked for me. Everything on the OS itself was great for a v1 release and I even liked the marketplace for what it was. But as I used WP7 more and more, I realized that I missed the "tinkering" aspect of a phone. Android gave me that and for that, I am grateful.

Microsoft WP7 gave me amazing out of the box experience with functionality and use of ease but Android gave me that "open-source" experience.

So I decided to switch my HD7 to an G2/Desire Z for now.

Nonetheless, Wp7 has been an amazing experience for me and once they get the ship going in terms of customization; wallpapers, ringtones, etc, I'll be back! Everything else, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

:D
[Windows Phone 7 General] zukа:
Whatever works for you man. Good luck with it, G2 is cool
[Windows Phone 7 General] thegreenmachine:
Thanks! Much appreciated!
[Windows Phone 7 General] mmelo76:
I understand your comment, but it can really generate a lot of flames.

Closed Thread!
[Fascinate General] BigBonkers:
How come they got Android 2.3 on the iphone but noone can get ios on android hardware?
[Fascinate General] iofthestorm:
I would think at least partly it's due to lack of trying (doubt many Android developers would want to use iOS)... but the thing is, Android is designed to run on a lot of different hardware, whereas iOS runs on specific hardware, so they can do lots of specific checks if they really wanted to to make sure it's running on a real iPhone. This is just my educated guess of course.
[Fascinate General] soba49:
The iPhone currently has a handful of carriers and only 4 hardware configurations. I'd imagine that a fair amount of information about the internals gets leaked as well.

I am unaware of the specifics of android development on that platform, but the biggest advantage their developer community has is less overlap and redundancy in their efforts (lack of fragmentation). Also note that Android is open source-IOS is not, so we only tend to see iPhone OS installed on Apple hardware.

I also have my suspicions that their grass isn't really all that green. Personally, I tend to favor fragmentation, as it fosters innovation(but YMMV!).

You didn't ask my opinion though ;)

Cheers.
[Fascinate General] Ik Desire:
Android is open source so it can be adapted to almost all hardware. iOS is closed source so to adapt it you'd have to reverse engineer. And that is illegal. It's that simple. And been asked before. You should try searching, reading and thinking, it's wonderfull, doesn't hurt and you might learn something.
[Fascinate General] Falcyn:
The reason's pretty simple. In order to effectively port an OS to any particular device, you really need access to the source code.

On the one hand, with Android, Google literally gives the source code away. You know that AOSP term everyone throws around? It stands for Android Open Source Project, and is the website (source.android.com) where anyone can download the full Android source code and do basically whatever they want with it.

Then, there's Apple. They guard iOS' source code vigilantly and litigiously -- I mean, their over-protectiveness even extends to what apps they'll let run on (non-jailbroken) phones. So needless to say, they don't make it easy to take their OS apart and port it to other devices. Really, they make it as hard as possible.
[Fascinate General] BigBonkers:
Great answers guys thanx!
[Fascinate General] TheHobbyist:
Yeah! Thanks for the answer Ik Desire! You Rock!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
2/20/11 New cleared extreme addon to revamp transitions and a bunch of other things 2nd post. Also new red keyboard and red inverted messaging app

cleaRed Extreme third post down

cleaRed:

This theme is a reimagining of one of my older themes. I tried to make this feel light and airy. So there is alot of tranparency and i put some red to make it pop.

This theme has a modded services.jar and framework.jar. So if your runing a rom that has a modded services.jar or framework.jar u will lose those changes. As always nand backup b4 u flash

http://www.mediafire.com/?9idunoxvjayygqp

Changes:

Clear rosie

power controls in notification bar

Clear settings widgets

Clear lockscreen

Themed Htc twitter, friendstream and music widgets

This theme has only been tested running the newest azreal rom based on the 3.70 ota. But should work with any 3.70 rom.

Special thanks to: Riptide9, JsChiSurf, Skullmonkey, stoney666, Slayer69, Konikub, Natemz, aamikam and everyone else i may have forgot. With out your work i would not have been able to make this.

I'm not responsible if u turn your lovely evo into a paper weight
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
ADDONS:

Clear lockscreen: http://www.mediafire.com/?clp66wrv70jkzbg DO NOT use with cleaRed Extreme

Mix transition animations:http://www.mediafire.com/?bm45m64h4a30673 Taken from MikFroYo v4.3 mods and made to run on my theme. I believe stalebread is the original author DO NOT use with cleaRed Extreme

Extreme cleared Super clear addon: http://www.mediafire.com/?6eb3mu9ad23lmxz This can only be applied ontop of base Extreme cleaRed theme 3rd post. This brings new transitions and more clear menus and transparencies. Only use with cleared extreme

Red ime keyboard: http://www.mediafire.com/?ddq7kp3mnpdz55l If u have a ime keyboard already installed first delete it thru titanium back up or other means then apply this. Can be used with any themeSIZE]

Inverted red messaging: http://www.mediafire.com/?139jfz1lq340k5m Can be used with any theme

More screens
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
cleaRed Extreme

cleaRed Extreme

One thing to note is that this includes a full hack spanning many different frameworks and files. I have noticed weirdness flashing another theme over this. So i would nand backup b4 flashing then nand restore if u dont like or wanna flash another theme or rom

http://www.mediafire.com/?f42td7doztwbm9m

This version of cleaRed has:

-Mix transitions included

-animated sync and download/upload

-JsChiSurf lockscreen settings app with Slider/Multi-Silder/Rotary themed by me. original thread found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919121

-JsChiSurf power controls in notification bar themed by me

-clear rosie and htc widgets themed

With the new lock screen mod the stock clock/alarm will not work right. There is a new clock/alarm included, use that one instead. For more info about this go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919121

I'm not responsible if u turn your evo into a brick Enjoy
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dadoc04:
nice job....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
request

nice job... i love the clear bar and sense, as it always go with any wallpaper..

is there a way that u can post an add on mod for just the clear bar and sense without the red?

thanks man.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
Mikfroyo

works great on Mikfroyo 4.3

cool... man.. just the red kind off not liking it to much other than that look pretty clean and nice
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
What about it u dont like? Is it the red? To loud for u? If so check out Riptide9's color n clear its pretty similar but with less color and a mellow blue.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] VenpaCasa:
i was wondering if this worked with the stock evo rom with htc sense.... i really dont feel like loosing my data and flashing a rom just yet. i like the stock rom and htc sense actually
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Mich2Ga:
Looks great Mate....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
Naa I stick with this, Riptide9 is not much of my taste ... specially the blue color and the fruitloop colors in it... by the way works great on Myns rls5...

What I mean about red is just I like the clear bar and sense but haven't found any mod compatibles with the new updates and most themes have to many colors that I am not really in to it... but this one is pretty clean .. thanks for the work
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
I have started working on a theme that is pretty much stock But with all the same stuff that is transparent in this theme. I just have not had enough time to finish it. Let me know if u are interested.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] doeboy711:
Will this work with Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RSL 5?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
++

yes it does.... using the them on it... pretty cool thoe... at least for me it does work with no problems
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
sure man... will keep an eye on it... everything that is transparent or clear is good for me.. LOL..

let me know when ever u have it ready and if you need tester count on me..

pm or email me..

saenz4931@gmail.com

thanks for the time you are putting to this man.. its been well appreciated.

question... can you make it with a complete clear lockscreen?

that would be cool
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
screen shots Myn's RLS
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Now by clear do u mean no bar at all but leave the sprint, time and date in place? If so i could do that by making it a addon. It would be pretty easy.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
yes just leave the sprint, time and date in place... (if possible take off the sprint).. i have try some of the clear lockscreen but they change the sense rosie, .. i tried Mik4.3 clear lockscreen and it did change the rosie to its regular themed rom, i also tried the Mik4.3 mix animations and look really cool thoe, but unfortunually it changed the clear bar notification to to black .. but the rest of was red as it comes on ur theme.. so i flash back the your Cleared then back,... by the way his themed marked app looks very cool and it goes a lot with your theme as it has it's background clear,,,..

I dont have any idea or knowledge of how to theme or make a theme.. but just a sugestion... if you can integrate Mik's mix animations + the themed market on to your CleaRED theme, that would be awesome, as your theme is pretty clean.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Clear lockscreen addon now available.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
New custom transition addon zip, and a red transparent market. See op for details
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
hey Flight01,,, just tested the them on Calkulin's 1.7.7, and it works fine... except for the Bluetooth widget is not themed in red as the rest... it also not themed on the others rom i have tried.. Myn's, and Mik's... i also noticed that when ever i am in a roaming area the bar signals pop up and there is a black square behind the bars just mentioning ...

thanks for the mods updates... does really work awesome
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Yeah i made and tried out a few different images for bluetooth and did not like any so left it stock. I never roam so thats prolly why i forgot or did not notice the roaming pngs. Are they red? I dont think so i think i left them stock. I'm gonna be tweaking the main theme a little in the next few days, mostly menu's and i will see about getting rid of the background.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
the roaming bar and triagle are white (stock) with a black square background.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
New over haul coming soon. JsChiSurf has done it again and i will be theming his mod and including it in my theme shortly :D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
when is the new hot stuff coming?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
RELEASED!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
work perfect with Calkulin's 1.7.7
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] roscoenr:
Hope you don't mind me asking, but what did you have to change to get the back of the power control widgets clear. I need to change one to black but have not found the place to do it. Thanks for the help and a very nice theme
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
market is having issues... it keeps forceclosing after flashing even with a new clean stall.. also it does not have the animations on market unless is back to stock.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
If u are talking about the power controls in the notification bar there are 2 things that need to be edited, the stat_power_background.9.png in the drawable-hdpi and the status_bar_expanded.xml. If u are talking about the regular widgets for home screen then its a png in system/app in the htcsettingwidgets.apk.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Yeah im not sure whats going on with what u are experiencing. I have not gotten a single fc once i went straight nand restore of my system only having a rom flashed then applying theme. cleaRed Extreme is a highly hacked/modded theme and i noticed that if u apply the theme more then once it gets a lil wacky. So start off fresh and try and apply the theme then apply market. Something about applying the theme after other modds messes things up. I think it has to do with it essentially trying to erase the htclockscreen.apk and it already being erased. Well try what i said about a clean flash and if u get any fc's let me know.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
is there a way to add the widgets from kuni's elite rom to this theme?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
You Dont like my widgets :(

What widgets specifically? I'm planning on redoing the htc widgets. If the widgets u want are the htc ones or what not in system/app. have a copy of both themes. Use 7zip open each theme in archive and drag and drop what u want into the appropriate folder whatever u drop in will overwrite if the same apk is in that folder. Hope that helps and makes sense
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Amishman:
Looks great! Thanks for the hard work!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
are there any update coming soon?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Huge things coming soon

Here is a preview
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
damn... that look sweet!!!!

cant wait to give it a spin
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
just checking.. lol waiting on the new update
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
I'm just finishing up some xml stuff :(. So it should be about another day or so and i will have it up :D .
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
allright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
request

is there a way u can make a zip file of these animations to be use on ur theme?,,,

i try it as it show with metamorph app, but unfortunually after rebooting the Phone it just hangs on rebooting and doesnt comes to normal.. i have to restore from my nandroid back ups.. but it does work if the rom is not using any theme..

try it on Myn's rls5 and Calkulin's 1.8

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=831513

thanks man for the hard work
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Yup got that already implemented :D . Should see a release soon just trying to hunt down a few things in some xml files
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
You are the man.. thanks bro!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
is done yet?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] flight01:
Yup. Check post 2 extreme super clear addon. I made it a addon instead. Its easier this way. The addon will have the transitions u linked and a bunch of new menu's. I changed some text colors so let me know if anything clashes, have not run into anything yet.

Also new addons for keyboard and inverted messaging app by JsChisurf themed by me
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] saenz4931:
working fine on Calk's 1.8, but there is something going on with most of apps popout settings... the pop out is dark and it doesnt show the lettering as the letter are in black.. example.. when updating Gmail.. when opening you cant see the update details as words are in black and the popout is just plain black.. same as in Anymemo app.. when changeing the Q and A color in settings you can see the options as the lettering is black .. just noticed that happends on apps settings not on phone settings
[Epic 4G General] antila:
Hi!

Where I can download some Wallpapers for Epic 4g (not live) and how can I install it?

Thank you!
[Epic 4G General] BopChie:
just take any pic u like and dump it on the sd card.. then set it as your wallpaper??
[Epic 4G General] decalex:
And if you're not comfortable doing that, just search "wallpaper" on the android market. You will find plenty of ..apps

_________________________

Sent from the future.
[Epic 4G General] MaxPatlick:
4walled.org is a pretty good site for wall papers. Mind the NSFW filter though.. There are some straight up hardcore pornography pics available.
[Epic 4G General] jojo08:
I like using Zedge, search for it in the market.
[Epic 4G General] stir fry a lot:
Try Mabilo Wallpapers. They claim to have over 50,000 images but the app also has an auto rotate feature which I really like. I have it set to every 15 minutes and noticed absolutely no effect on battery life. The only drawback is that they're not high res but to me they look more than passable. Another one that I like is called Backgrounds. They have high res images and a rotation option as well.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] eboom79:
Hi,

I tried to install clockwork recovery using "rom manager" (from market) but it dosn't contain the p500 in its phone list.

How can I get it installed on my p500?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kite86:
It's hard to read sticky topics

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=901247
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Zecanilis:
thread closed!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
Hello,

i am using lately MIUI, and i am impressed basically with 2 features that i wished it would 've been in Android. Is it so difficult to implement these on Android?

1. Seeing the drawer with all apps, being able to create and put apps in folders and knowing which apps are not in folders.

Is it so difficult for this to be implemented in the drawer? And if you have a folder in the drawer just to drag it onto the desktop? So many times i am frustrated because i've created over 50 times folders, and they have been deleted (by mistake or intentionally). But if they are always in the drawer, i would just drag them on the desktop.

2. Dragging icons on the dock.

Again is this something so difficult to implement?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Borszczuk:
What for? There's lot of apps that do. Free Apps Organizer or its paid version Folder Organizer for 1.

it's a question to your launcher developers. stock does not have that. Other might. No big deal though unless you spend your whole day dragging icons to the dock.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] PsHegger:
If you think these are essential components of the os then write it and send the changes to google. If they think it's important they will add your patch to the next update. But don't hope lot cause as I know they accepted only a few patches in the last years
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] chinbhat:
Screenshot ?

I am, currently running the leaked vivo ROM. Does anyone have screnshots of the MUi ROm ? I would love to load it on my milestone..
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
I am definitely sure that it might be applied to Android 2.5 or 5.1 or 9.3, that at some point people would have the ability to create folders in the app drawer in order to have their programs a bit more tide up, thus why delaying things?

And about the dragging, why not simplifying the things and use dragging, rather than clicking on it, then waiting for another menu to come up then clicking to go in another menu, until you find hte app you want...

MIUI for the moment rocks, i even tried with Launcher Pro as home app and is super fast!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Borszczuk:
Hopefuly it won't happen as Google announced all non core system components will be pushed out of system to allow users easily replace them

Dont hold your breath. Default behaviour for drag&drop is element removal from home screen. Of course any home replaacement can do on its own, but never seen any (nor I miss that feature myself)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Fekish:
and having an option to tide up your drawer would mess the system?

Well, obviously you didnt use MIUI...
[Desire HD General] andreasy:
I'm wondering if anyone managed to access the network via NetBios names. Since Android network communication is based entirely on TCP/IP, any attempt to access a NetBIOS share will fail (Unless you have a local DNS server which is not always the case if you are not in a corporate network).

I see that the solution to that, could be an add-on protocol that will intercept the name resolution and use something similar to the NetBEUI protocol or Netbios over TCP/IP (which would be the easier also).

I only found a plug-in to ASTRO file explorer but it doesn't work.

Has anyone found anything? maybe something restricted again in the market which we who don't have root, can't access?
[Desire HD General] skobus:
ES file explorer from the market connects to a named server on my LAN using the server name, no need to specify the IP address.
[Desire HD General] andreasy:
Thanks, does it work only within ES file explorer or also for external apps?

I actually need to use the NetBIOS names in all network applications not only to access files via explorer program.
[Desire HD General] SatAmnesiac:
yah but it still thinks - even on a rooted device with cifs enabled - that files from the LAN need to be copied before use so its a PIA to use to watch videos for example.

I'm looking for something like CIFS mounter that does name resolution (like ES file explorer) as well. Which is what I suspect the OP wants too :-)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chingy51o:
For all my Re-Engineered Users out there i put together a few Rosie Mods together so your not stuck with the stock look. If you have any request feel free to put them in..

If you want to use the 4x5 Workspace you NEED TO FLASH the 4x5 Widgets also.

4x5 Widgets

And if you tried the 4x5 but dont like it.. You can revert back to the 4x4 Widgets by flashing this..

4x4 Widgets

Stock

Layout: (Phone)(Grid)(Browser)

4x4 Workspace

4x5 Workspace

Layout: (Phone)(Grid)(SMS)

4x4 Workspace

4x5 Workspace

Layout: (Phone)(Grid)(Gmail)

4x4 Workspace

4x5 Workspace

Layout: (Phone)(Grid)(Mail)

4x4 Workspace

4x5 Workspace

Layout: (Phone)(Grid)(Contacts)

4x4 Workspace

4x5 Workspace
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] mpetruzz:
Would you be able to do something like phone, text, dock, gmail, music??

That's the setup I have on Launcherpro.

Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] MustacheFart10:
I agree, possibly 5 laucher (phone, contacts, app drawer, text, web)...great work tho!!!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chingy51o:
Rosie doesnt allow you to have more than 3 icons/buttons..
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Syndicate7:
Are these flashed like normal via Rom Manager? I do that but nothing seems to chance after the update. Even when flashed thru recovery?

Any suggestions?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] chingy51o:
Your running my rom right?

Sent from my Incredible ass phone
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Syndicate7:
Got it! Re-flash inside Recovery, after a cold turn off.

Thanks looks great!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] sShadowSs:
Is it possible to make a Phone-Normal-Google Voice layout ?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] d_mon1:
How about (Phone)(Grid)(Settings)? Can you please make one like that???
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] ianreecej:
I flashed Re-engineered 2.20 and then rosie's 4x4 with phone normal sms but the change takes affect but when you hit sms it still opens the web browser. any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] jbdan:
Go into your apps and find the app "rosie settings" you can change it in there