- Feb 12, 2011
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I just switched from that fruity smart phone last week and I have really been enjoying the Android experience! I have read countless forums posts and blogs and guides and I have my phone pretty well set up the way I want it... or as close to that as I have been able to come.
Now as of yet I have kept it mostly HTC stock, because I am loathe to give up SenseUI. I do have LauncherPro Plus, which I like better in some ways, but I was unable to find certain replacement widgets. Anyway long story short I have searched high and low and been able to find answers to nearly all of my questions, except for these few and I was hoping to get a little help with them
I don't want to be that guy but I've really looked for the answers to all of these and I haven't found them yet or they have been out of date(a lot of them were likely written for 2.1).
1. Is there a way to control the music player without exiting whatever I'm doing and going to the music player and manually clicking FF, Rewind or whatever? I tried everything and asked google several ways about it and can't find one. I haven't rooted but if this were possible under root, I might consider it.
2. Is there a new reader that is as good looking as senses news widget?
3. Speaking of Senses news widget, even tho I have it selected as the largest one it keep dropping to like 1/4 normal size. I have searched and all i read is close the widget, force stop the widget, and add it again and it will be fixed. Only it's not. I've had to abandon it altogether.
4. I have switched to Handcent for my SMS app. But the HTC one still alerts me and pushes a notification to the status bar saying i have a new SMS. I don't need this and its fairly annoying because it will stay there (even if I've read the message in Handcent) until I click on the alert, then it will launch Handcent anyway.
5. I read the option in my handsets settings to Auto-Rotate screen which i presume means switch to landscape or portrait if I rotate the phone. But my phone never rotates unless I'm running LauncherPro Plus, never with Sense.
6. 2G/3G toggle. I have one, it came with extended controls. I want to be able to turn off my 3g radio when i don't need 3G or I need to save my juice. The toggle says it does that, but it really just brings up my wireless network settings, which don't seem to have that option. Is this no longer possible with a brand new(week old) Evo and Froyo? I know the new iPhones don't allow you to go 2G.
7. ROOTING. There are a lot of guides and "PICK ME" posts for the various methods, can comeone who has a clue please advise me which method to chose, if I do decide to Root? It's not that I cant find the posts myself it's just impossible for me to know which of those guys are full of **** and which know their ****. I have some experience with this type of thing, I jailbroke my iphone and I've ran Ubuntu before. So I wouldn't be a total babe in the woods.
Thanks in advance for any questions you guys can answer and if you can only answer one or 2 that's fine. I didn't expect one person to have every answer.
Now as of yet I have kept it mostly HTC stock, because I am loathe to give up SenseUI. I do have LauncherPro Plus, which I like better in some ways, but I was unable to find certain replacement widgets. Anyway long story short I have searched high and low and been able to find answers to nearly all of my questions, except for these few and I was hoping to get a little help with them

1. Is there a way to control the music player without exiting whatever I'm doing and going to the music player and manually clicking FF, Rewind or whatever? I tried everything and asked google several ways about it and can't find one. I haven't rooted but if this were possible under root, I might consider it.
2. Is there a new reader that is as good looking as senses news widget?
3. Speaking of Senses news widget, even tho I have it selected as the largest one it keep dropping to like 1/4 normal size. I have searched and all i read is close the widget, force stop the widget, and add it again and it will be fixed. Only it's not. I've had to abandon it altogether.
4. I have switched to Handcent for my SMS app. But the HTC one still alerts me and pushes a notification to the status bar saying i have a new SMS. I don't need this and its fairly annoying because it will stay there (even if I've read the message in Handcent) until I click on the alert, then it will launch Handcent anyway.
5. I read the option in my handsets settings to Auto-Rotate screen which i presume means switch to landscape or portrait if I rotate the phone. But my phone never rotates unless I'm running LauncherPro Plus, never with Sense.
6. 2G/3G toggle. I have one, it came with extended controls. I want to be able to turn off my 3g radio when i don't need 3G or I need to save my juice. The toggle says it does that, but it really just brings up my wireless network settings, which don't seem to have that option. Is this no longer possible with a brand new(week old) Evo and Froyo? I know the new iPhones don't allow you to go 2G.
7. ROOTING. There are a lot of guides and "PICK ME" posts for the various methods, can comeone who has a clue please advise me which method to chose, if I do decide to Root? It's not that I cant find the posts myself it's just impossible for me to know which of those guys are full of **** and which know their ****. I have some experience with this type of thing, I jailbroke my iphone and I've ran Ubuntu before. So I wouldn't be a total babe in the woods.
Thanks in advance for any questions you guys can answer and if you can only answer one or 2 that's fine. I didn't expect one person to have every answer.