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OK, I know I said I'd never root. Well, I found a ridiculously easy way to temp root my phone, & now I can take screen shots
. It appears that some people don't understand exactly what widgets are & what they can do. Let me demonstrate.
Here's my main homescreen. The only widget I have is the clock/weather widget. The widget updates w/ the current conditions, much like BeWeather. The widget also supports weather animations. For example, when I open my phone from sleep mode, the sun shines bright, clouds cover the screen, rain droplets fall, etc depending on the weather. Also, if you click the widget, it takes you to a desktop mode & you can easily access your alarms, world clock, stopwatch, & timer.
One swipe to the left, & here's what I have. There you see my weather channel widget, weatherbug maps widget, & to-do list. With the weather channel & to-do list, I actually have to click into the apps to use them. However, see that blue circle on the map widget? I just tap on that & the map refreshes. No need to enter the app.
Two swipes to the left, & I have my calendar. With this widget, I can scroll down & see everything in my calendar until mid-June.
(on second thought, I'm not going to post this because I have names & birthday info that people might not want put out there...but you get the idea)
One swipe to the right, & I have my power widget, media player widget, & shazam widget. With the power widget, I can toggle wifi, bluetooth, gps, sync, & screen brightness. With the media player widget, I can control my music. With the shazam widget, one tap & it's listening to the music. With the actual app, it takes a few more seconds to start the listener thingie. I use shazam quite a bit in my spin classes.
Two swipes to the left, & I have twitdroyd, my preferred twitter client. See the arrows at the bottom? I can scroll through tweets w/o entering the app.
I don't have these active on my home screens, but I wanted to demonstrate them. Here's an email widget. You have a choice of views. Here, you can see the sender & part of the message. Again, you can scroll through your messages w/o having to enter the email app.
Here's a text widget. Again, you have a choice of views & you can scroll through your texts.
Now that you see what widgets can do, you gotta admit they're pretty darn rad.Last edited by pantlesspenguin; 04-09-11 at 12:00 PM.
04-09-11 11:48 AM - ^^ Exactly. Espeically when you have things that can be updating every couple of seconds/minutes like sports, that would be extremely annoying. I do keep updates on and my device vibrates every time there is a score update, and that can be very annoying at times as well. But I love sports so it usually isn't.04-09-11 05:01 PM
- By the way, the volume thing is not a blackberry thing, I thought all phones had that. I pretty much remember Sony Erickson and Nokia's I had many years ago that could do just that, it makes sense.
Blackberry can't take credit for this one
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-09-11 05:44 PM - Don't worry. RIM wasn't given any credit for it anyways.By the way, the volume thing is not a blackberry thing, I thought all phones had that. I pretty much remember Sony Erickson and Nokia's I had many years ago that could do just that, it makes sense.
Blackberry can't take credit for this one
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-09-11 05:46 PM - I can still skip to the next song or the previous one by holding down the volume button even if the phone is password locked, also I have the mute button at the top right of the phone that pauses the song. Don't need to look at the screen, I can do it in my pocket.By the way, here is the lock screen media player widget.
And that is complicating things, you have to take the phone out of your poscket, look at the screen then touch it and put it back in your pocket, and same again and again.
I put my hand in my pocket and press a button.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by belfastdispatcher; 04-09-11 at 06:25 PM.
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