Neat little weather widget function

[J-Dam]

So i wake up friday morning and the first thing i do is turn on my phone. The weather widget tells me it is 40 degrees with light rain. Next thing i know simulated rain drops start sliding down my screen. I think to myself, that's pretty neat. All of the sudden i see a winshield wiper go back and forth across my screen. I was like, what? So i let the backlight go off so i can light it back up and confirm what i had just seen. Sure enough, it was a wiper!

Probably nothing new to Dinc users, or other android phones, but coming from a former BB user that was awesome!!

 

[SHO95#AC]

That's HTC Sence for ya.

 

[AlpineM3#AC]

Yup Yup.....welcome and glad you like

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[Goat-Tee]

Haha, I did the same thing last night! I was showing the wife and kids. She thought I was insane cause I was so excited about it!

 

[Edwill86]

HTC Sense is very cool!

 

[bp3dots]

If you open the full weather app (tap the weather part of the widget) hit menu, and "demo" you can see all the animations.

 

[NikoB]

These types of animation with the weather are specifically why I waited for the phone instead of going with the Droid X or waiting for the other 4G phones. I had a HTC Pro on Sprint back in 2008 and it did this type of thing and I hated the windows OS on the phone but loved the HTC part of it. I am loving my TB.

 

[fludkilla]

Beautiful widgets also did this for my rooted OG Droid (rip) lol

 

[upz3]

They are very nice but I miss the option of turning those animations off, use to be able way back when. Small battery saving method, still enjoyable though.

 

[htowngator]

Any way to turn off that weather thing animation? Has to be a battery hog each time you turn on the screen.

 

[scottstatn]

Animations

They are very nice but I miss the option of turning those animations off, use to be able way back when. Small battery saving method, still enjoyable though.

In the settings menu I saw an option to disable/limit animations. I believe that I have mine on limited but the weather widget still does use them. I guess it is possible that this option has nothing to do with the widget itself. Hope it helps.

 

[J-Dam]

Any way to turn off that weather thing animation? Has to be a battery hog each time you turn on the screen.

Haven't really looked because i wouldn't turn it off if i could. It's one of the things about this phone that i really enjoy. The display makes up 83% of my battery drain but i don't care, i'll just find other ways of conserving so i can really enjoy all this bad animal has to offer. My battery lasted 17 hours yesterday and i'm not done tweaking and conditioning.

 

[biff6789]

Any way to turn off that weather thing animation? Has to be a battery hog each time you turn on the screen.

I've been using these animations since "Sense" was called "TouchFlo" way back in the Windows Mobile days. Fear not: It does not affect battery life.