Dumb question about replacing Sense

[Habiib]

Is it possible to replace the Sense 4.0 implementation on the EVO with the one used in the HTC ONE V? I'm just curious, because I think I remember reading that sense on the One V didn't have the eye candy, but still ran on top of ICS. In theory would this version have a smaller memory footprint, faster performance, and different multitasking operation?

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[mazzmoney95]

What eye candy are you talking about? The 3D effects on the widgets and the scrolling animation can be taken off with some ROMs like the Pokemon ROM and i think the ROM by Flex360. Besides that, most of the other stuff like the animations and flip on the flip clock can be replaced by 3rd party widgets. I doubt the multitasking would be different though, but it's worth a try. Nobody has tried to port it, and i doubt anyone will. Most devs dont port stuff from older hardware to newer ones. Also, many ROMs come standard with a better minfree which is supposed to help multitasking (havent seen a difference even though the ROM says there's one).

 

[Habiib]

Yeah the 3D effects/animations is the eye candy I was referring to. Thanks for the explanation and information, it answered the basis for my question.

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[Saneless]

The OP brings up a good point. I don't care about how Rosie (launcher) operates, but there might definitely be some slimmer parts of Sense overall that HTC left out of the V because it has even less RAM than we do. It could be something HTC can give us to help fix it some.

 

[crxssi]

The OP brings up a good point. I don't care about how Rosie (launcher) operates, but there might definitely be some slimmer parts of Sense overall that HTC left out of the V because it has even less RAM than we do. It could be something HTC can give us to help fix it some.

I had been thinking along the same lines a while ago- Sense components are just too big, it would be nice if HTC added options to self-slim it so people can choose to run leaner, without throwing away the whole ROM (in addition to fixing the memory thresholds stuff).

For example- how much memory does that damn, 3D with shadows, recently-used apps thing use? I really could care less about how pretty it is. If I had an option to turn it off and use the standard ICS recently-used list and it saved a lot of RAM, I would do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Habiib]

Thanks you all, that's what I was getting at but I didn't want to get too long winded. I saw the task manager of the One V and it looks just like the ICS version. So light weight skin was the end vision I was thinking of IF someone didn't want pure ICS.

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[Saneless]

Thanks you all, that's what I was getting at but I didn't want to get too long winded. I saw the task manager of the One V and it looks just like the ICS version. So light weight skin was the end vision I was thinking of IF someone didn't want pure ICS.

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Well essentially It's like sense 3.6. Ics but uses less ram. I wish we had a port of that.

 

[calvin35]

Well essentially It's like sense 3.6. Ics but uses less ram. I wish we had a port of that.

Would this mean that the One V might actually multitask correctly?