Help Stock UI or did you change it?

[Edaze55]

Ive mentioned it numerous times that Ive been running a similar look of Sense UI using Open Home. Has anyone else changed the look of the Standard UI? If you did, lets see it. Heres mine.

 

[kayawire]

That's looks really nice...so how many home screens do you have? And do you like the Moment better than the Hero now ? Oh, and where' s that review of the moment you promised!

I running just stock...how's all that new ui affecting your battery life?

 

[trick202]

Looks nice - but I preferred your old lockscreen!

 

[petrafan007]

whaa? please tell me what program/skin you used to get that???

open home keeps crashing all the time for me. "betterandroid2" process or whatever.

 

[masbirdies]

I am looking into either at home or open home. Does it greatly slow things down? Any bugs?

 

[Johnny Cakes]

I've read reports in this forum of Open Home bricking some phones, depending on other apps. I'm scared to try it.

 

[latinmaxima]

Ive mentioned it numerous times that Ive been running a similar look of Sense UI using Open Home. Has anyone else changed the look of the Standard UI? If you did, lets see it. Heres mine.

Can you verify what version of Open Home your using? I want to switch my home screen as well when the phone comes in!

 

[Edaze55]

It was 3.3. I noticed Market has another update so Im going to grab that today and let you know how that works out. I havent noticed any performance issues with it.

@Kayawire - You have the option with Open Home to have 3, 5 or 7. I have 7. I do like the Moment better. Battery life isnt the issue I (we) thought it was. It drops like a rock and holds at 15% for what seems like forever. I'll work on that review now that Ive had it almost a week.

@Trick LOL I still have that pic on the phone. Its not currently being used, but I could easily switch out the battery skin on Lock 2.0 and add it in there.
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Edit: Thats the HTC Hero skin for Open Home, but the clock widget was from beautiful switches.

 

[Edaze55]

Updated to 3.4 and still no problems with it. Just wanted to pass that along.

 

[agent0014]

I think that you just sold me on getting the moment over the hero. I had tried them both out last night at the sprint store and was feeling like I'd really miss senseUI. That looks awesome though. I'm such a sucker for slick design, lol.

 

[5280droid]

Edaze55 is can you still see a performance difference over the Hero?
How smooth is the screen transition?

 

[5280droid]

We should see who can get their Moment as close a possible to looking and acting like the Hero. ( Sense UI )

 

[Edaze55]

Edaze55 is can you still see a performance difference over the Hero?
How smooth is the screen transition?

Screen transitions are very fluid, but I didnt have any issue with that on my Hero either.

Performance, in my opinion, is better than the Hero even with Open Home. I'll tell you what I have not done since I switched to the Moment. I have not once, lag dialed someone on accident. I did that numerous times trying to call someone else on the Hero.

 

[T120ted]

Screen transitions are very fluid, but I didnt have any issue with that on my Hero either.

Performance, in my opinion, is better than the Hero even with Open Home. I'll tell you what I have not done since I switched to the Moment. I have not once, lag dialed someone on accident. I did that numerous times trying to call someone else on the Hero.

That is the truth. My hero always dialed someone I didn't want or hit something and caused a page to load I didn't want. Just switching phones has saved me time. If you want to chalk that up to faster processor you can but I just think it's lack of sense running on top of android. I think the speed in the processor will be shown when android is updated to 1.6 or 2.0.

 

[Zumaki]

I think the speed in the processor will be shown when android is updated to 1.6 or 2.0.

I hope so. I was playing around on my ipod touch 1st gen and it operates more smoothly than my moment. And it's several years older.

 

[dream_phyre]

I hope so. I was playing around on my ipod touch 1st gen and it operates more smoothly than my moment. And it's several years older.

Thats not a very good comparison though. Look at the functionality between the two.

...and lets be honest, early adopters will almost always have to deal with bugs and other issues. Either A Sammy will get this corrected for us or B someone will get us rooted and we will work on it ourselves.

 

[roadzombie]

I've read reports in this forum of Open Home bricking some phones, depending on other apps. I'm scared to try it.

I returned my first moment after installing open home it wouldnt go past the android screen on boot up.

 

[Zumaki]

Thats not a very good comparison though. Look at the functionality between the two.

...and lets be honest, early adopters will almost always have to deal with bugs and other issues. Either A Sammy will get this corrected for us or B someone will get us rooted and we will work on it ourselves.

It's a fine comparison. The iPhone and iPod Touch are nearly exactly alike. I just lack the phone and the camera. As far as functionality, I do very similar things with the two of them, the only two things the ipod can't do being... camera and phone (and I guess GPS.) But these are all software things, and I'm talking about smoothness and speed. The ipod is a much older piece of hardware but it runs apps fast, doesn't lag things out switching to landscape, and pandora doesn't stutter. I'm even being nice here and avoiding the issue of no multi-touch.

Speaking of early adopters, I bought the touch the day they were released. So I was an early adopter of that too. Although it has had several firmware updates it didn't start out as bad as my moment. I'm not an apple fan, i'm just trying to point out how ridiculous the issues are that this new and shiny system is having problems non-existent in a much older and slower device.

 

[Weeton]

i'm using advanced homescreen, which basically gives you the ability to add additional homepages and choose which page to be the home. basic but useful without going to ahome or open home.

 

[masbirdies]

and love it. I had one skin loaded that caused some issues. Once I switched skins, no more problems.

I am running 5 screens

 

[paulohdz]

I'm new to the group and wondering how to get the advance homescreen so I can add the additional homepages? tried searching for it on the market with no luck.

 

[wodin]

It's a fine comparison. The iPhone and iPod Touch are nearly exactly alike. I just lack the phone and the camera. As far as functionality, I do very similar things with the two of them, the only two things the ipod can't do being... camera and phone (and I guess GPS.) But these are all software things, and I'm talking about smoothness and speed. The ipod is a much older piece of hardware but it runs apps fast, doesn't lag things out switching to landscape, and pandora doesn't stutter. I'm even being nice here and avoiding the issue of no multi-touch.

Speaking of early adopters, I bought the touch the day they were released. So I was an early adopter of that too. Although it has had several firmware updates it didn't start out as bad as my moment. I'm not an apple fan, i'm just trying to point out how ridiculous the issues are that this new and shiny system is having problems non-existent in a much older and slower device.

Think maybe it's because when you have sole control of the processor (as in NO multitasking) you can get more done? Why do you suppose Apple has consistently turned it's head on multitasking all of these years?

All show and no go!

 

[NOMster]

Ive mentioned it numerous times that Ive been running a similar look of Sense UI using Open Home. Has anyone else changed the look of the Standard UI? If you did, lets see it. Heres mine.

nice. i tried it but i found i didn't likie the icons that much. here's my set up.

 

[Edaze55]

nice. i tried it but i found i didn't likie the icons that much. here's my set up.

Im assuming you are using some type of homescreen. Which is it? What are the widgets you are using? Specific to the theme you have or did you get them seperately off market?

 

[NOMster]

Im assuming you are using some type of homescreen. Which is it? What are the widgets you are using? Specific to the theme you have or did you get them seperately off market?

i loaded ahome graveyard to get the wallpaper then loaded the "mishi" theme over it for the skulls but opted to keep my wallpaper on exit. the clock is "retro clock widget" and then the moon without text is the "moonphase widget". the other 2 are just shortcuts to "sunmoon" app and "natural time" app. running 5 screens.