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Once sense U.I. is removed....

g2k

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Apr 10, 2010
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Hi all, I have shutdown the sense U.I. and I have a shortcut to gmail on my desktop.

The problem is the little icon doesn't show me how many emails I have.

Can this only be accomplished through HTC sense?

Also, is there a way to have my other emails on the desktop as well since the HTC email widget is tied to HTC sense?

I have so many questions...lol, I am searching but its a slow process.
 
It seems like I'm not gonna win with this phone.

If I run sense ui then my battery life gets hosed. If I dont then I cant have my icon display a message count.

With all these issues theres no way this phone is ready for prime time.

I really hope 2.1 winds up being the holy grail of updates...lol.
 
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The unread email count icon you are referring to is the HTC Mail icon which showed the unread count. The gmail icon in the Sense UI didn't show any unread count. But, when your not in the Sense UI, the HTC Mail icon is just normal without any unread count.

BTW, I'm also experimenting with Sense turned off too and just using the native Android Home launcher.
 
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Plain old Android.

Are there ROMS built for the Hero with just stock android :D? I found Sense ROMS were pretty fast, but can imagine that without any of that stuff built into the firmware it would be even faster.. I don't even use sense on my current non rooted hero. I don't need all that extra stuff. Stock Android is OK with me :D
 
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GDE is NOT NOT NOT plain old android. GDE is a home replacement available on the market. Do not post incorrect information please. Also OP, you can download Pure messenger widget and it will display Gmail, Other email, facebook, twitter, texts all in one convenient widget. Of course you have the option to only show your email if you wish.
 
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GDE is NOT NOT NOT plain old android. GDE is a home replacement available on the market. Do not post incorrect information please. Also OP, you can download Pure messenger widget and it will display Gmail, Other email, facebook, twitter, texts all in one convenient widget. Of course you have the option to only show your email if you wish.

Ok... looks like it was explained incorrectly to me when I was asked.

Thanks for correcting that in such a friendly manner. :rolleyes:
 
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Thank you shizzy, I might just give that a try.

As for GDE is that Gnome Desktop Environment by chance??

Lol i'm not sure what it stands for, i sure hope thats what it means though haha

Kelmar said:
Ok... looks like it was explained incorrectly to me when I was asked.

Thanks for correcting that in such a friendly manner.

Sorry if i sounded like an ass lol didn't mean to! I've heard plain old android referred to as Vanilla Android before, but nothing else really :)
 
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It would be awesome if we had the hardware to run a full Gnome or KDE environment.

That would be like running XP instead of windows mobile...lol.

I have put Ubuntu on several computers with 1.0ghz processors and 512mb RAM...hmmm...doesn't the EVO have similar specs????...lol
 
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If I run sense ui then my battery life gets hosed. If I dont then I cant have my icon display a message count.

That's so bizarre to me. I had read some stuff where people said they got improved battery life from disabling the sense UI, and it really made sense to me so i tried it. My phone (stock 1.5 hero) actually got about 10x LESS battery life when I disabled Sense. i couldn't charge it enough. I reenabled Sense and my battery can go the whole day (10ish hours?) of "normal", not "heavy", use. When I had it disabled, i was maybe getting 4-6 hours with "normal" use.

*yes i know that's not 10x, but it was really annoying*
 
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That's so bizarre to me. I had read some stuff where people said they got improved battery life from disabling the sense UI, and it really made sense to me so i tried it. My phone (stock 1.5 hero) actually got about 10x LESS battery life when I disabled Sense. i couldn't charge it enough. I reenabled Sense and my battery can go the whole day (10ish hours?) of "normal", not "heavy", use. When I had it disabled, i was maybe getting 4-6 hours with "normal" use.

*yes i know that's not 10x, but it was really annoying*

I can't imagine disabling it would use MORE battery, thats weird. However, fully disabling sense is impossible. Sense is your address book, your browser, dialer, notification bar and everything else about your phone. Maaaaaybe running HOME and those sense components uses more battery? Just an idea. I'm pretty sure I noticed an increase in battery life, but its really hard to tell for sure.. I definitely noticed the phone ran a bit snappier tho. The sense home interface seems to slow down after a while from my experiences.
 
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Well I have reenabled sense UI and my battery life seems to be leveling out a bit.

I can do 10 hrs of light to moderate use before needing to charge.

I only have the sense clock and mail widget running. No weather or auto updating of any kind.

For me I think the biggest battery saver was disabling the google auto updating, however I am still testing.
 
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