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Are Google Experience phones done?
- Thread starter yahtzee
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What surprises me is that there isn't a standard Android Home replacement on the Market so that people with stuff with crappy stuff like TouchWiz and Blur can use standard Android. I mean there are a ton of home replacement apps around, so why can't someone make a normal Android one?
Zachary Wilson
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Im pretty sure someone had one over at XDA, I will see if i can find the link.
Gryffindor Girl
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According to the last 50 odd comments though, it doesn't work on the HTC Desire, which would be the very type of phone (i.e. one with Sense) that you'd want to run it on
luvs2dance77777
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LauncherPro is in the market, it might work.
http://www.launcherpro.com/
http://www.launcherpro.com/
aj.moonstar
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yup.. does anyone know for sure if there's a way to disable Sense UI in something like the EVO. I've heard yes. but is it hard, or just a setting change? that would be sweet if you could just disable Sense on it.
On pre-release Sense phones (like the demo version of the HTC Desire), and SOME older Sense phones (like the Hero) you could simply kill the Sense process, press Home, and Android would ask which Home app to use. If you chose Android you'd be back on the normal Android Home.
On all other Sense phones (all new ones, including the HTC Desire, Incredible, Evo, etc) you will have to root it and install a custom ROM to get rid of Sense.
On all other Sense phones (all new ones, including the HTC Desire, Incredible, Evo, etc) you will have to root it and install a custom ROM to get rid of Sense.
Thought of a couple of others. This one is a system app and arctu has another in the market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641216
There's the ADW.Launcher that Cyan is using on his roms, it might work on the Desire too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645550
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641216
There's the ADW.Launcher that Cyan is using on his roms, it might work on the Desire too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645550
ninjacricket911
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Yeah, I am sick of all the custom UIs and it really impacts my decision on purchasing a device. At one point the custom UIs were actually useful and added critical functionality that was missing from the vanilla Android experience... but now the custom skins that phone manufacturers are throwing on top of Android simply make the consumer lag behind the quick development of Android.
Check out this interesting article I read up on the whole "custom UI" thing.
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ooORJrAwEDE/androids-acne-problem-or-why-you-should-stick-to-the-google-phone
To answer the original question, Google Experience devices are not done as far as I am concerned. I am hoping that with the changes in Android UI that are under way for the next major release and the rumor of annual/bi-annual releases for Android OS will decrease the custom UIs being used and standardize the platform more. The Droid 2 could possibly run vanilla Android (unless it is running Ninja Blur).
Check out this interesting article I read up on the whole "custom UI" thing.
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ooORJrAwEDE/androids-acne-problem-or-why-you-should-stick-to-the-google-phone
To answer the original question, Google Experience devices are not done as far as I am concerned. I am hoping that with the changes in Android UI that are under way for the next major release and the rumor of annual/bi-annual releases for Android OS will decrease the custom UIs being used and standardize the platform more. The Droid 2 could possibly run vanilla Android (unless it is running Ninja Blur).