you really like the vanilla dialer? even though it's a pain in the ass to look up contacts? I'm not a sense fan but they got the dialer right. you just start typing their name and it finds it for you, instead of clicking the People tab, opening your keyboard, typing their name blah blah.

When I'm running a vanilla rom I like to install Dialer One. I'm sure there are other dialers out there but this is the only one I'm familiar with. looks better than HTC's dialer, but still has the convenient features of the HTC dialer

 

Why would you need the area when you can start typing the persons NAME and it will pull up their number?

Oh yeah, to answer your question, just pull the Vanilla dialer from a Vanilla ROM and adb push it over to your system/app folder and remove your HtcDialer.apk from your /system/app folder. Easy as pie!

 

I just checked and if you typed in Bob, it brings up all Bob's in my contact list. Then you can just hide the dialer and choose the one you want. *shrugs* Definitely to each his own. If you get ahold of the vanilla dialer can you send it over my way? I'm curious as to what the Vanilla dialer looks like.

 

Well, I downloaded a VAnilla ROM and it's known as "Contacts.apk" from what I read. I pulled that apk from the ROM, adb pushed it but it wouldn't open. *shrugs*

From what I was reading you need more than just the dialer and a few others things are different leaving in imcompatible with sense but I am not 100% sure.