Now all Tama-Chan needs to do is make it skinnable and release a set of templates you can stick in Eclipse IDE and it will be perfect...
Beautiful Widgets
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any plans to make a 1x4 music widget like the smaller home? i would love to be able to put the small clock plus the music widget and 2 rows of icons on my homescreen.
REC0N1ZE, where you able to get anyone to send you the backup? I had it on my sd card as well and I damaged my card!
If you have the backup, would you mind sending it to me? 
I, too, was waiting for it to come back and finally downloaded it today. However, there is one thing that gave me a sad face. For the first time ever when I picked up my Droid after it had sat idle for a couple of hours, the back was warm. I've never noticed that before...EVER. Then when I unlocked it I saw that my battery had drained like 50%!!!
I've NEVER had a bad battery drain before. In fact, last night (before the installation) I had noticed that with a charge before bed time, my Droid was a full battery in the morning 9 hours later.
So, is there some sort of power management you can do with this app? Something? Anything? I just won't keep it otherwise. Oh, and all I have enabled is the Beautiful Home that shows the weather and time and the Silent widget. That's it.
I've NEVER had a bad battery drain before. In fact, last night (before the installation) I had noticed that with a charge before bed time, my Droid was a full battery in the morning 9 hours later.
So, is there some sort of power management you can do with this app? Something? Anything? I just won't keep it otherwise. Oh, and all I have enabled is the Beautiful Home that shows the weather and time and the Silent widget. That's it.
I have had this widget for a long time and mostly see very good
battery life (lasting all day). I also have the update set to the most frequent setting.
battery life (lasting all day). I also have the update set to the most frequent setting.
Well, I can't explain this any other way. I have very few apps loaded and all were loaded before Beautiful Widgets and tend to be the type that you use for a specific purpose rather than constantly updating. I've been very particular that way so as to monitor my battery usage and not go batsh*t crazy loading all sorts of apps so that I didn't know what was consuming what.
I'll give it another day or two to see if there might be another explanation. I really hope there is.
BW has not effected my battery life what so ever. I have and still continue to get great battery life.
My weather read as 26 degrees all day until I went to bed. Could this broken weather thing be causing the battery drain? It continued through the night. I woke up to find the alarm hadn't gone off and the battery was flashing a red notifier.
Does anyone have any suggestions outside of my uninstalling it? And how do I uninstall an app?
Does anyone have any suggestions outside of my uninstalling it? And how do I uninstall an app?
herki
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Download Spare Parts. It gives an excellent analysis of battery usage, and you can pinpoint exactly what is draining your battery. I've had this app since before the redesign and I've never had issues with battery usage, even with the most recent Google API issues.
If you find that BW is what is killing your battery for some reason, Go into Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Beautiful Widgets to uninstall it.
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Is Spare Parts the best type of app for this kind of measurement for a Droid? According to Androlib it's the version for Donut, not Eclair.
Okay better news from this afternoon's usage. I put two and two together with my crappy phone service from the two days before the download along with my son also getting a battery drain on a LG Rumor at the same time I did yesterday (only found out today about that).
Apparently, something must have been obstructing the tower(s) for my neighborhood or the towers weren't working correctly. We're in a particularly tricky area with hills and lots of woods. I didn't make the connection because the days when the service sucked, I didn't experience battery drain. I probably just didn't make any calls yesterday afternoon so I wouldn't have noticed the bad connection problems.
I truly think now that the problem was the phone looking for a signal (we've experienced this before with other phones and service providers and AT&T doesn't even come in at all here). This afternoon the battery seems to be performing normally and I was actually able to hold a call in one particularly tricky area of my house that always gets the person on the other end complaining that I'm cutting in and out.
So, while I'll continue to monitor for the rest of the evening, I truly think that was my problem. (WHEW!)
And maybe the end result will be better reception at my house that sticks.
Apparently, something must have been obstructing the tower(s) for my neighborhood or the towers weren't working correctly. We're in a particularly tricky area with hills and lots of woods. I didn't make the connection because the days when the service sucked, I didn't experience battery drain. I probably just didn't make any calls yesterday afternoon so I wouldn't have noticed the bad connection problems.
I truly think now that the problem was the phone looking for a signal (we've experienced this before with other phones and service providers and AT&T doesn't even come in at all here). This afternoon the battery seems to be performing normally and I was actually able to hold a call in one particularly tricky area of my house that always gets the person on the other end complaining that I'm cutting in and out.
So, while I'll continue to monitor for the rest of the evening, I truly think that was my problem. (WHEW!)
And maybe the end result will be better reception at my house that sticks.IIRC Android Market will point you at the version optimised for your flavour of Android. If you're running cupcake, it will let you have the cupcake version if there is one. For Donut, Donut, and so forth. If there isn't a version of a program for your Android version, it won't reveal the app to you even if you know the app exists...
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