ICS On HTC Rezound

[corty34m]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I like to think outside the box a little about ICS. Isn't it better to wait a month for ICS to come to the Rezound? Then you have a core phone with better specs as far as both cameras go and Beats audio. I know everyone wants Vanilla Android but it seems to me that the Rezound will be way better once it get ICS. My only concern is that with you lose some of the 4.3 inch screen to the on screen buttons? That would be terrible or will ICS for phones with Capacitive keys not use on screen buttons? I would hate to only have a 4" useable screen just like the GNEX goes from 4.65" to 4.3" with buttons. Any Feedback would be much appreciated.

 

[kennyidaho]

If HTC puts ICS on the Rezound within a month it would be a record breaking time - for any phone manufacture.

 

[SpaceHippie]

The thing is, Sense is pretty, but ICS is a very pleasing OS, so when they cover it with sense, i think it will cripple the phone in terms of performance since sense will slow it down.

And current phones wont have on screen buttons

 

[idiotekniques]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I like to think outside the box a little about ICS. Isn't it better to wait a month for ICS to come to the Rezound? Then you have a core phone with better specs as far as both cameras go and Beats audio. I know everyone wants Vanilla Android but it seems to me that the Rezound will be way better once it get ICS. My only concern is that with you lose some of the 4.3 inch screen to the on screen buttons? That would be terrible or will ICS for phones with Capacitive keys not use on screen buttons? I would hate to only have a 4" useable screen just like the GNEX goes from 4.65" to 4.3" with buttons. Any Feedback would be much appreciated.

i am pretty certain that any android phone that has buttons that gets ICS it will just utilize those buttons, not take up real estate with redundant screen buttons.

which actually makes me kind of happy.

fyi i read an article that quoted an HTC employee saying they were strongly considering not 'hard skinning' ICS with anything like sense.

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I don't think.that it is going to be a problem when ICS comes. I actually think.that the Rezound with ICS may be better than the Galaxy Nexus. I'm loving the hardware in this phone. The cameras are great and beats is awesome. And it looks like not having a dedicated search button on the Galaxy Nexus is going to cause some issues with some applications. I'm not saying that the Galaxy Nexus isn't going to be awesome because it definitely will be. I'm just saying that the Rezound is already awesome and will be even better with ICS.

Sent from my HTC Rezound

 

[Dovahkiin]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I like to think outside the box a little about ICS. Isn't it better to wait a month for ICS to come to the Rezound? Then you have a core phone with better specs as far as both cameras go and Beats audio. I know everyone wants Vanilla Android but it seems to me that the Rezound will be way better once it get ICS. My only concern is that with you lose some of the 4.3 inch screen to the on screen buttons? That would be terrible or will ICS for phones with Capacitive keys not use on screen buttons? I would hate to only have a 4" useable screen just like the GNEX goes from 4.65" to 4.3" with buttons. Any Feedback would be much appreciated.

It's been said that ICS supports soft buttons, so there won't be any redundant additional buttons cluttering up the screen on any other phone that gets the update. The reason the Nexus has on screen buttons is because Google is trying to show that ICS has the capability of on screen buttons, and also to pave the way for future use, as they usually do with Nexus phones in the first place.

 

[Saneless]

I'm running ICS on my Nexus S and it doesn't have on-screen buttons. It uses the capacitative ones just fine.

 

[bjames23]

I agree with you on pretty much everything. I love the phone so far and can't wait to get it rooted and put my own ICS on it. I always hated sense before but for some reason its growing on me. The only thing I don't like about it is that its really heavy and definitely hurts the phones performance, which is why ill wait for root then flash custom ICS. My phone my way.

Sent from my Rezound

 

[amgalloway]

What about the recent apps button, would it just be the menu key because ICS doesn't utilize that feature anymore?

 

[MarkSeven]

What they'll probably do is have an optional Sense "skin" to put over ICS but that's just me having a wild guess lol

 

[MrSmith317]

I for one am learning to deal with Sense as much as possible. However I know if I get an AOSP ICS Rom, I'm kissing sense goodbye. There aren't enough features to justify the bloat. So I'll take my ICS "Senseless" please

 

[mrmoe110]

I for one am learning to deal with Sense as much as possible. However I know if I get an AOSP ICS Rom, I'm kissing sense goodbye. There aren't enough features to justify the bloat. So I'll take my ICS "Senseless" please

And this is why the Sense update to ICS won't make the Rezound "better" than the Nexus. It'll still look like the same Sense UI phone. If you love the look and feel of ICS the only way you can get that is with the Nexus or another phone running AOSP ROM. Even when skinned phones get updated.

 

[youngzayiles]

And this is why the Sense update to ICS won't make the Rezound "better" than the Nexus. It'll still look like the same Sense UI phone. If you love the look and feel of ICS the only way you can get that is with the Nexus or another phone running AOSP ROM. Even when skinned phones get updated.

Yeah this is exactly what will happen. That is htc's bread and butter. Sense is going to be sense and just like you seen with early builds of touch wiz which leaves ics unrecognisable I'm sure HTC will do the same.

From the best android phone PERIOD. Galaxy Nexus.

 

[MrSmith317]

Have you seen the ICS leak? Sense is subdued, and looks very touchwiz'ish.

Sent with Rezounding success with Tapatalk
Completely Senseless

 

[condor637]

I don't get the Sense indifference, what's not to like about Sense and it's well designed and intuitive and how exactly is it bloated. My Rezound is lightening fast with no lag, I must be missing something.

I believe the majority of owners like Sense, look at this thread, over 1800 views and only a handful of anti Sense posts.

 

[SpaceHippie]

From what ive seen. It seems like were going to get the look of Sense layed on top of the features of ICS.

 

[jcastag]

here is the problem with sense. It just adds too much size to the OS. As a result it increases lag. There is no reason that the vanilla rom should be 110mb but that same rom with sense be
350+ mb. As sense has evolved, it has just become more and more bloated. To be honest I see no advantage from sense 2.1
to sense 3.0. It did however add alot of bloat to the os, and also takes more phone resources such as memory, processing power and battery.

HTC needs to really scale back sense alot and stop trying to create their own custom os using android as a base.

 

[jcastag]

also if you don't think sense causes lag, ask any Sensation owners how they feel. There is little lag on the Rezound due to the dual core processor.

But that's where the problem lies.........

We should not need the resources of a dual core just for the os
To run smoothly. Sense just takes up to much space and uses too much processing power that should be reserved for other aspects of phone usage.

 

[condor637]

Got it, those explanations make sense but in all honesty and thanks to the dual core I don't see any lag (maybe once in a while), the only lag I see is when I blink and miss what just occurred lol .

 

[boomerbsg]

I imagine most all phones are heading to dual core.. so that might make Sense more viable. But I can't understand why anyone would buy an HTC phone and complain about Sense.. its like buying a tennis racket and complaing it has holes..