Can we get a list of the "TRUE AOSP" phones? I bought the Rezound after being an iPhone user for years with the idea of flashing ROM'S etc. I found that I HATE Sense and want a TRUE ICS experience.
Well, as y'all know Rezound developers are dropping like flies around her (Protekk, etc...) and the only person doing any consistent work on a Senseless Rom is Scott. So before I make the mistake again of getting a phone that's not gonna give me all the freedom I desire can we get a list of the recent "TRUE AOSP phones?
Nexus's are the only true aosp
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mrbigdrawsz said:
Can we get a list of the "TRUE AOSP" phones? I bought the Rezound after being an iPhone user for years with the idea of flashing ROM'S etc. I found that I HATE Sense and want a TRUE ICS experience.
Well, as y'all know Rezound developers are dropping like flies around her (Protekk, etc...) and the only person doing any consistent work on a Senseless Rom is Scott. So before I make the mistake again of getting a phone that's not gonna give me all the freedom I desire can we get a list of the recent "TRUE AOSP phones?
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True aosp? The nexus series. There you go. There are other phones with aosp support but not officially like the nexii
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LOL, yea it's a real short list.......
If you want pure AOSP, you can get... the droid Eris!
Developers aren't dropping like flies, just because Protek left. Development is thriving here, but you got to like Sense. The reason I bought an HTC was because of reliability and the fact that it has Sense. I do like AOSP too (I miss MIUI), but I also like Sense.
You could always just throw Nova or Apex Launcher on your devices, or run de-sensed rom. Side note: if you get a Samsung like the Nexus, make sure you get a GSM version. CMDA radios are one of Samsung's biggest weaknesses.
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If you want pure AOSP, you can get... the droid Eris!
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lolz. droid eris ftw
holy ****.
for the 1000000th time:
SCOTTS SENSELESS ROM ISNT SENSELESS!!!
that rom is themed to look it dude, it still has sense ALL OVER IT. it's NOT senseless!
its a sense rom with a launcher thrown on it that you can download yourself in the market.
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This whole thing is souring me entirely on Android.
Maybe that sounds hyperbolic, but I'm sick of having to jump through these absurd hoops to get the hardware I want with the software I want.
I love the dev community and the hard work they do, but until Android OEMs offer a way, out of the box, to run AOSP then I'm going to be rethinking my commitment to Android.
It's absurd that the double-bind we're in is to choose hardware or software.
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This whole thing is souring me entirely on Android.
Maybe that sounds hyperbolic, but I'm sick of having to jump through these absurd hoops to get the hardware I want with the software I want.
I love the dev community and the hard work they do, but until Android OEMs offer a way, out of the box, to run AOSP then I'm going to be rethinking my commitment to Android.
It's absurd that the double-bind we're in is to choose hardware or software.
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I don't understand why the manufacturers ALL spend the time and resources to make such elaborate custom skins. I mean a custom launcher is one thing but rewriting the entire email, calander, mms, and settings apps is kind of overboard. Stock Ice cream sandwich really does not need any enhancements for the most part. The one good thing about the first set of honeycomb tablets is that they all for the most part ran aosp.
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I don't understand why the manufacturers ALL spend the time and resources to make such elaborate custom skins. I mean a custom launcher is one thing but rewriting the entire email, calander, mms, and settings apps is kind of overboard. Stock Ice cream sandwich really does not need any enhancements for the most part. The one good thing about the first set of honeycomb tablets is that they all for the most part ran aosp.
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probably because stock Android is ugly as sin, it's widgets are ugly, and it's bland and boring. a lot of people feel this way, and we embrace sense because it actually looks GOOD.
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Droid 1 is also AOSP, it even has froyo!
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tekhna said:
This whole thing is souring me entirely on Android.
Maybe that sounds hyperbolic, but I'm sick of having to jump through these absurd hoops to get the hardware I want with the software I want.
I love the dev community and the hard work they do, but until Android OEMs offer a way, out of the box, to run AOSP then I'm going to be rethinking my commitment to Android.
It's absurd that the double-bind we're in is to choose hardware or software.
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Yes, because you have so many hardware and software options for iOS and equally as many software options on Windows Phone.
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jayochs said:
probably because stock Android is ugly as sin, it's widgets are ugly, and it's bland and boring. a lot of people feel this way, and we embrace sense because it actually looks GOOD.
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That's your opinion, I find sense too bubbly and big for me, and love the look of stock aosp. It would be nice if manufacturers made their phones work on aosp source as a start, then added their skins on top, but that's a lot to ask, so I don't complain
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Fwiw I think AOSP is ugly too
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Yes, because you have so many hardware and software options for iOS and equally as many software options on Windows Phone.
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Yes, let's take what I said and willfully distort it.
heleos said:
That's your opinion, I find sense too bubbly and big for me, and love the look of stock aosp. It would be nice if manufacturers made their phones work on aosp source as a start, then added their skins on top, but that's a lot to ask, so I don't complain
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agreed man, it's all opinions, which is why HTC makes sense lol
if there was a box i could check to switch to stock android or sense, i'll admit i'd give it a whirl. yeah, i'd get sick of it after 2 days (i coudln't run CM7 for longer than 24 hours on my Inc because i couldn't stand AOSP), but i'd still try it out.
Any phone that Cyanogen will support can get "full AOSP"
everyone needs to remember not everyone likes the same things... I prefer sense over asop and that's why i have this phone... I think asop is plain as well and i commend HTC for making Sense as nice it is... no other manufacturer comes close with their own UI
I think AOSP functions better than Sense, that's purely why I like it.
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Are there any Thunderbolt ROMs with Sense stripped out? I'm considering a move to Verizon but I'm spoiled by CM7 in my Inspire. CM7 weighs in at 80mb where the stock Sense ROM is 275mb which insane bloat. If there's a ROM without Sense I'd love to go that route.
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yes d00d......
This should have been in general
But to answer your question Tesla Coil is as close as you are going to get to a non Sense ROM at this point.
They r all sense based now. There are roms without rosie and a bunch of sense apps, but they still need sense kernels etc..
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I know you can't completely remove Sense because these a-holes have buried it pretty deeply. But there are some Sense-based ROMs for the Inspire with most of Sense stripped out. I'd be happy with something like that. Sense is a public nuisance.
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If you want a truly aosp experience you will have to wait for cm7. This is an htc branded phone so obviously they will ship it with sense. That's how they differentiate themselves. Surprised that would cause you to label them a-holes. Also please bear in mind that aosp kernels need to appear as well.
Finally, I'm surprised at how some people hate sense. Personally, I love the widgets, look and feel of sense a lot more. I find aosp roms too bare bones and homely and bereft of nice widgets etc. Sense 2.0 with phone finder, remote phone lock are really worth trying.
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This is an htc branded phone so obviously they will ship it with sense. That's how they differentiate themselves. Surprised that would cause you to label them a-holes. Also please bear in mind that aosp kernels need to appear as well.
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Yea, totally agree. If you dont like sense...DONT get an HTC!
The reason we cant get aosp is because the ril is screwed up. When that gets fixed we'll be able to get aosp roms
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CM will come to the thunderbolt in due time. Trust me I can't wait. And to who said "if you don't like sense don't get a HTC!" Shut up lol, some people like HTC devices and not sense....which includes my self and numerous others.
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khanam said:
If you want a truly aosp experience you will have to wait for cm7. This is an htc branded phone so obviously they will ship it with sense. That's how they differentiate themselves. Surprised that would cause you to label them a-holes. Also please bear in mind that aosp kernels need to appear as well.
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I call them a-holes because they force us to use an ugly skin that we don't like. All of these manufacturers should have a bare-bones ROM available to people who DON'T WANT their custom skin. Ship the phone with your skin but make it an option. The fact that they have added 200mb of crap is ludicrous. I get this figure from an AOSP ROM weighing in at 80MB while the stock ROM is ~275.
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CM will come to the thunderbolt in due time. Trust me I can't wait. And to who said "if you don't like sense don't get a HTC!" Shut up lol, some people like HTC devices and not sense....which includes my self and numerous others.
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MANY others.
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Yea, totally agree. If you dont like sense...DONT get an HTC!
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I disagree. We should not be forced to use a vendor's skin in order to enjoy Android. With only the Nexus phones being free from all this crap we're limited. These vendors really need to listen to the customers.
The g1 and g2 are without sense as well
Most people enjoy sense. Atleast those who know nothing of android
I prefer sense to aosp but that's my opinion, to each his own
And to say don't buy a HTC phone because u don't like sense is stupid, I buy HTC phones for the build quality and great over all.phones
My last 5 phones were HTC phones and I plan to keep this trend going
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I've read a number of general complaints about sense being bloated and unremovable but would like to understand what device resources are unavoidably consumed by it.
If it's just storage space I'm not too concered about that. But taking up RAM with programs/features I don't want is another matter, as is any wasted CPU-cycles it might spend automatically running programs in the background, or intercepting UI events.
I ask this without knowing specifically what in sense is believed to be bloated. Is there a way to see a list of things it runs or could run, and to disable each feature I don't want? Again, I don't mind if the unwanted programs remain in storage, as long as they are never run and thus don't consume RAM/CPU.
When I watch videos of the G2X, it's mind-boggling how fast every aspect of the UI is. What is sense doing that keeps the evo 3d / sensation from achieving the same level of snappiness? I have a hard time believing excessive RAM-usage or CPU even is playing any role in simply scrolling through the tray of apps. So what is it that affects things like simple scrolling speed there?
I'm guessing android has some kind of event handling, where every event is delivered to a list of programs that each decide if they want to do anything with the event or not, and maybe sense has programs registered all over the place to receive all kinds of events. This is wild speculation on my part as I'm not that familiar with how things really work, but when scrolling through apps in the app tray is slow, something besides simple resource consumption must be going on.
Anyway my general questions are: what makes it slow, and can 'it' be removed, whatever 'it' is.
I don't know where u got the idea that the evo 3d us slow..must of been in a gs2 forum..I happen to enjoy sense..and once you root you can
remove any bs..I have an evo 4g and have no lag whatsoever..don't listen to the evo 3d haters..everyone takes shots at the best
Sense is a skin.
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Sense is a skin.
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It's more than a skin. If it was just a skin many things that only work on ASOP would work on Sense too.
donatom3 said:
It's more than a skin. If it was just a skin many things that only work on ASOP would work on Sense too.
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sense has skins...
donatom3 said:
It's more than a skin. If it was just a skin many things that only work on ASOP would work on Sense too.
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Oh right. Sense is a launcher that is stunning.
CM7 comes with ADW WHICH is a launcher that is not sexy.
So pick one.
1.Sexy Sense
2. Ugly betty.
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Oh right. Sense is a launcher that is stunning.
CM7 comes with ADW WHICH is a launcher that is not sexy.
So pick one.
1.Sexy Sense
2. Ugly betty.
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Adw is highly customizable. How can you say it's ugly? SMH
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Ugly betty lol..I've always use sense Roms but after hearing about cm7 being so great o gave it a shot..I didn't like it at all and I didn't notice a.speed increase comings from kings unleashed..I thought it was plain..maybe I just didn't put enough time.into figuring it out...but I do enjoy sense UI..even if it is a large file
novanosis85 said:
Oh right. Sense is a launcher that is stunning.
CM7 comes with ADW WHICH is a launcher that is not sexy.
So pick one.
1.Sexy Sense
2. Ugly betty.
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You do know the bluetooth stack in sense doesn't let you use things like wiimote, or bluetooth mouse? Those are some of the things I was referring to. Sense is more than a launcher and skin. It is a UI framework that does affect some core Android functions.
EDIT: BTW I never meant to start a war of Sense vs ASOP, I was just pointing out the misinformation that Sense is a skin, when it's more than skin deep.
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Ugly betty lol..I've always use sense Roms but after hearing about cm7 being so great o gave it a shot..I didn't like it at all and I didn't notice a.speed increase comings from kings unleashed..I thought it was plain..maybe I just didn't put enough time.into figuring it out...but I do enjoy sense UI..even if it is a large file
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Me too, always thought CM was over rated, I mean no disrespect, but Sense UI is hands down the best for Android.
Vanilla / stock Android feels like its still on 1.5 release. The dialer and contacts and e-mail all feel lacking something.
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Maybe I've been Sense-less for too long, but I definitely prefer CM. At first I felt it wasn't as good either, but once you play with it more its sooo much better imo
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nosfanatic2006 said:
Maybe I've been Sense-less for too long, but I definitely prefer CM. At first I felt it wasn't as good either, but once you play with it more its sooo much better imo
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+1 totally agree, once I got into really core customization of my EVO, I saw what Sense was lacking. Don't get me wrong Sense is nice for eye candy, but CM is easier to work with for deeper customization. Once again it all comes down to personal preference. Although I'm looking forward to playing with the new Sense 3.0 lockscreen.
Stability>customization
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Would it be possible to port TouchWiz from something like the Droid Charge over to the Thunderbolt? I know its a longshot but our devs have pulled off miracles before.
Wrong section for this. Also I don't think anyone would be interested in porting it over, but good luck on that one.
With the general dislike of touchwiz 3.0 I would imagine it being unlikely.
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On another note, if you're interested in the sideways scrolling app drawer try getting ADW Launcher and you can probably skin it to look like touchwiz also?
Gross... I feel like most people with samsung devices try to get rid of touchwiz.
That said, once miui is stable enough for everyday use that is fairly similar to touchwiz, at least in terms of the general layout and "cartoon-y" icons.
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Go launcher has a touchwiz theme.
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Gross... I feel like most people with samsung devices try to get rid of touchwiz.
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True story. I think most people want to get rid of all the Manufacturer UI's... Vanilla life is the only life for me.
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Would it be possible to port TouchWiz from something like the Droid Charge over to the Thunderbolt? I know its a longshot but our devs have pulled off miracles before.
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Go Launcher Ex is more or less Touchwiz with some added features. It has the horizontal scroll app drawer by default, or you can use a vertical one as well. They recently made the horizontal app drawer circular so it restarts when it reaches the end.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/go-launcher-ex/com.gau.go.launcherex
Wtf!
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I'm not understanding all the wants for crappy ports of other UIs. If you want WP7, go buy a damn Trophy. If you want TW, go buy the freakin Charge. You want iOS, go buy an iPhone. Don't waste our devs time on this garbage.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...really?
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i have a fascinate till tomorrow and i love touchwiz ui we have a puzzle piece slide icon separate to take you to the certain message along with music controls in the notification bar and lockscreen with the native music app i understand everyone not wanting it on the t bolt but it is probably the best ui except for sense
Op, please get this thread moved to general. Only actual dev work related threads are posted in this section.
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Here is a port of Touchwiz I found somewhere. I take no credit for it.
http://www.4shared.com/file/_etpzrIm/TW4Launcher.html
Certain touchwiz ui changes are useful but for the most part, its a pretty crappy ui touchwiz 4 is a lot better
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mb02 said:
I'm not understanding all the wants for crappy ports of other UIs. If you want WP7, go buy a damn Trophy. If you want TW, go buy the freakin Charge. You want iOS, go buy an iPhone. Don't waste our devs time on this garbage.
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Maybe because people like the Android OS but want it to look a little different? There's nothing wrong with that. Get off your high horse.
generally custom aftermarket launchers serve the purpose of things without mucking up the framework and source imho.
IMO its equal to wanting to port Blur..........
On a serious note, try MIUI, i dont know how the port is going, but it is a twist between Touch-Wiz and iOS
Im not a big fan of touchwiz, but i do like the puzzle piece lockscreen, other than that, i'll reserve my judgement of touchwiz until i can get some more time playing with it. I have a girl at work that just got the Charge, an she let me play with if for a minute or two. Im trying to talk her into rooting it just so i can do it for her for the hell of it
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IMO its equal to wanting to port Blur..........
On a serious note, try MIUI, i dont know how the port is going, but it is a twist between Touch-Wiz and iOS
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MIUI is dependant on the RIL from an AOSP ROM. So I believe it won't be available for a daily use ROM until slayher or someone posts the RIL they have been working on.
http://androidandme.com/2012/01/news/htc-sense-4-0-hands-on-report-reveals-new-features-for-htcs-custom-ui/\
New info regarding the replacement for the interim "Sense 3.6" we have in the latest leaks. Sounds like a serious improvement over the past UIs.
That sounds awesome...though I really hope they keep the menu button with the capacitive buttons, I would really miss that...
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http://androidandme.com/2012/01/news/htc-sense-4-0-hands-on-report-reveals-new-features-for-htcs-custom-ui/\
New info regarding the replacement for the interim "Sense 3.6" we have in the latest leaks. Sounds like a serious improvement over the past UIs.
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thanks for the site..
this is the best feature for me on sense 4.0
*Beats Audio profile updated to work with third party applications*
I really kinda just wish sense would die. =\
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I really kinda just wish sense would die. =\
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Or at least slim down... the added functionality is nice. It is the bloat and battery killing parts I want gone.
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Or at least slim down... the added functionality is nice. It is the bloat and battery killing parts I want gone.
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Exactly.
Sense is far too intensive on the CPU.
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I really kinda just wish sense would die. =\
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Why would you be on this phone then...? There's nothing but cavalcades of Sense here for us, because it's an HTC phone...
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Why would you be on this phone then...? There's nothing but cavalcades of Sense here for us, because it's an HTC phone...
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I pick my phones based on hardware. I'm not a fan of Sense, Widgets, and the like. That's why I'm here. I have an Android phone I can customize the way I like. That's why most people are here. Try to embrace that rather than judging people based on your feelings/convictions. That's what people that enjoy products from a certain "fruit themed company" do.
i think people need to stop complaining and/or stfu about sense already, it's getting old. we get it, you don't like sense. hooray for you. it seems the new "hip" thing to do is hate on sense, seriously. it's so god damn annoying to read. sense isn't going anywhere, so get over it. motoblur isn't going anywhere, and neither is any other manufactorers OS. stock android is ugly as sin, and ICS looks like a toy. atleast sense is going to bring visual appeal to ICS, whereas comparing ICS to iOS makes the nexus look like a toy.
tl;dr: shut up about sense, it's not going anywhere, and it's annoying to constantly read peoples hatred towards it. get over it.
MrSmith317 said:
I pick my phones based on hardware. I'm not a fan of Sense, Widgets, and the like. That's why I'm here. I have an Android phone I can customize the way I like. That's why most people are here. Try to embrace that rather than judging people based on your feelings/convictions. That's what people that enjoy products from a certain "fruit themed company" do.
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Lol damn dude. I was just wondering because all we have are sense roms. Don't get so hurt, I love AOSP too, I'm excited for it to finally come, but for now is it hard for you to even use this? Or do you use Senseless stuff or what? Just being friendly, don't get all hostile on me again.
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Lol damn dude. I was just wondering because all we have are sense roms. Don't get so hurt, I love AOSP too, I'm excited for it to finally come, but for now is it hard for you to even use this? Or do you use Senseless stuff or what? Just being friendly, don't get all hostile on me again.
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I don't do hostile posts. I test everything because I like to play with it all. Can't say I don't like something if I never laid eyes/hands on it. Since I do theme and support work, I switch between sense'd and non-sense'd quite often.
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Why would you be on this phone then...? There's nothing but cavalcades of Sense here for us, because it's an HTC phone...
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Agreed! As it may be intrusive, it's still the best! This phone has been running great for me!
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I am new to Xda and HTC phones myself and I do like sense. The short time I have been on this site, I have noticed and strangely I might add. People seem to get way to hostile over the Sense vs Asop debate. People have different tastes and what they like and its just as much their choice as anything so why be condescending or hostile over their choice.
The reason I bought the rezound myself was hardware or I would have gotten the Gnex , because I like to mod and play around with different roms. Sense was a bonus for me , because to me its just a theme I can flash or not
Mr Smith is nothing , but courteous and helpful in the 2 forums I have been on so no reason to drag his choice into the debate.
android is about choice. thats why it is different from all other brands/os.
the software can always be changed/rewritten, but you are stuck with the hardware.
like mrsmith i choose my phones based on hardware. i also happen to like sense so that i why i went with the rezound.
thats not so sat that i don like asop. i ran CM7 on my TB for that past 3 months, sense simply has more "polish" and "eye camdy" that i enjoy
personally i hope sense slims down a bit and some of the bloat and useless apps disappear, but finally they realize that beats audio should work for third party apps.
once my rezound is outdated, i will most likely end up with another HTC phone and it will be a 1.5 ghz quad core, 1 GB ram, 8/3 mp camera 10 mm thick sense 4.0 android 4.0 powered monster
What I found that I like in that article is the guest mode.
"You want to see my phone, sure hold on a second."
No more Facebook posts telling my family I am coming out or anything to that nature.
EmerikL said:
What I found that I like in that article is the guest mode.
"You want to see my phone, sure hold on a second."
No more Facebook posts telling my family I am coming out or anything to that nature.
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so your friends do that too huh...
I think all of us have friends like that.
Did you guys see 50gb of free fully integrated dropbox space!! I thought the 3gb we got was awesome. Did HTC. by dropbox or something?
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Why would you be on this phone then...? There's nothing but cavalcades of Sense here for us, because it's an HTC phone...
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I'm on this phone because it is the best phone on the market right now. It doesn't matter to me one bit what comes on the phone (Sense, blur, touchwiz, etc) except that sometimes (as it was with the Rezound initially) its impossibly hard to get rid of.
Now that I have removed like 95% of Sense/HTC related software from the system, installed my launcher of preference, I am extremely happy with my phone and battery life. I'm so glad I didn't get anything else on the market right now.
So there you have it... I picked out this phone because of the phone, not because of the manufacturer or whatever crap bloatware that particular manufacturer decided to burden us with. And just cause other people are sick of reading about how crappy Sense is does not mean I'm going to like it anymore or withhold my thoughts on the subject for their benefit. Negative reviews of a product are just as important as positive reviews.
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Did you guys see 50gb of free fully integrated dropbox space!! I thought the 3gb we got was awesome. Did HTC. by dropbox or something?
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While if I'm wrong it'd be awesome, but I think that's a typo, it'll probably be 5GB, to compete with apple's 5GB of free iCloud.
Just my opinion so don't burn me for it but I don't think we should just be okay with getting ripped and only getting sense 3.6 and them releasing sense 4 just a few months after our phone even though ics was already out when our phones were released and sense 4 in the works and I'm pretty sure if we were to all put our thoughts about it on the HTC facebook page we might be able to stirr this up and maybe actually get somewhere. Who's with me?
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Who knows if it'd work but doesn't hurt to try.
Couldn't hurt to try that's for sure. But I'm pretty sure we'll still be seeing 3.6 for the upcoming OTA. I also wonder if they have future plans to officially update the Rezound to 4.0.
hey don't assault their facebook...
calm down
Newtoroot has just about finished sense 4.0 - actually i think he has
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501512
read the whole post it's there ....
the Vigor is awesome
(rezound)
I agree it wouldn't hurt to try but if VZW/HTC really hold their promise of providing Rezound users with ICS, there is nothing we should have an issue with. I am happy we're getting ICS period to be honest.
Stock ICS over Sense 4.0 would be really nice but since it likely won't happen I'll keep supporting our Devs to bring us the latest and greatest.
Us not getting Sense 4 officially is just one reason why to be thankful for devs.
What does sense 4 have that 3.6 doesn't that we can take advantage of? We don't have the new camera with image sense and beats integration apparently is more than a software setting. We have the customizable dock so what else is there?
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The reason the Rezound won't get Sense 4.0 is that there are features in 4.0 that are specific to the hardware in the HTC One Series devices. Because of the differences between those devices and all other handsets preceding them a redesign of Sense was necessary. HTC isn't trying to screw anyone here and VZW had no decision in this matter. A petition won't do any good. We haven't even seen a changelog for Sense 3.6 yet or a side by side comparison of 4.0 so it's a bit premature to be upset that the Rezound won't get 4.0.
I don't care whether we get it or not but apparently a lot of others do.
I really don't care if we get it or not because our devs will eventually prefect it anyways.
nrfitchett4 said:
What does sense 4 have that 3.6 doesn't that we can take advantage of? We don't have the new camera with image sense and beats integration apparently is more than a software setting. We have the customizable dock so what else is there?
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boy a few of you on here sure don't seem to want "options" do you? you guys say the same about s-off and aosp.
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boy a few of you on here sure don't seem to want "options" do you? you guys say the same about s-off and aosp.
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I already have s-off
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mighty_markus12 said:
boy a few of you on here sure don't seem to want "options" do you? you guys say the same about s-off and aosp.
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Once again, what advantages does sense 4 give you over 3.6? Besides I know that when you start frankensteining roms you tend to get broken features. See aosp on the thunderbolt.
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I just want cm9 I don't care about sense 3.0-4.0 I'm patiently waiting and using nova launcher
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the reason people want sense 4 is because apparnelty HTC streamlined sense and got rid of a lot of the bloat that made the phones bogged down because of the UI.
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the reason people want sense 4 is because apparnelty HTC streamlined sense and got rid of a lot of the bloat that made the phones bogged down because of the UI.
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That is a pretty good reason if you ask me. Probably would really help out the battery life too. I've easily doubled my battery life since tossing most of Sense 3.5 out.
Anyways, to answer the OP's question: YES. If you want Sense 4.0 officially because you're not willing to root and flash a ROM, then of course you should try to do something about it. The ONLY reason we arent getting Sense 4 is because they are leaving it exclusive to their upcoming devices, so they can use it as a selling point. If you don't think thats fair, you SHOULD say something. Don't expect anybody to listen... but you never know.
Was it just coincidence that HTC silently allowed Rezound on HTC Dev Unlock just a week or so after the petition was started? Maybe, but it could just as easily have been BECAUSE of the petition. I say there is no reason not to give it a shot.
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The reason the Rezound won't get Sense 4.0 is that there are features in 4.0 that are specific to the hardware in the HTC One Series devices. Because of the differences between those devices and all other handsets preceding them a redesign of Sense was necessary. HTC isn't trying to screw anyone here and VZW had no decision in this matter. A petition won't do any good. We haven't even seen a changelog for Sense 3.6 yet or a side by side comparison of 4.0 so it's a bit premature to be upset that the Rezound won't get 4.0.
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Agreed. Thanks for the input.
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it's not because of hardware. The rezound is capable of running sense 4. The one V will be running sense 4 and has significantly lower specs than the rezound.
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As someone said already, it's just being used as a selling point for the One series.
The Rezound has already been shunned by Verizon and probably HTC after the ICS update.
I'm fairly confident we'll never see Sense 4 officially.
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it's not because of hardware. The rezound is capable of running sense 4. The one V will be running sense 4 and has significantly lower specs than the rezound.
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I think there is some different hardware in those phones for the camera options they put in it. But they could definitely make a variation of sense 4 for us but they probably won't.
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