customising your android phone to look like a Window Phone 7

The WP7 interface apps all are free to download from the android market. But it still cant beat owning a real WP7 phone.

you can pick one of these launcher Launcher 7 or Metro UI Lite.

launcher 7
http://market.android.com/details?id=info.tikuwarez.launcher3&feature=sea...

Metro UI lite
http://market.android.com/details?id=chrisman.android.home.metroui&featur...

WP7 notification
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.nlucas.wp7notificationslite&feat...

messagin metro beta
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.zapnus.messaging&feature=search_...

WP7 dialer Lite
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.futuredreams.wp7.phone&feature=s...

WP7 contact
http://market.android.com/details?id=milkmidi.minicontact.pro&feature=sea...

WP7 email
https://market.android.com/details?id=futuredreams.wp7.mail&feature=searc...

X8 TWEAK ONE FINGER PINCH2ZOOM

Doixanh from the xda have release a kernel module that enable a dualtouch touchscreen driver for SE X8. Its something like a simulator. This mod is not 2 finger pinch2zoom nor a Dual-Touch, its still a work in progress and he mention that it might behave incorrectly.  But he’s working to make dual touch possible in the future. hopefully, but his effort got my full support and respect.

His idea is to make the android system to detect a second finger event  when touching the screen is brilliant. The second finger is only to trick the screen to detect a second touch even though really u are pressing one at a time.

This is how its work:- quoted from xda thread.

Very Important : How to zoom
Right now it supports only zoom-in, zoom-out, and rotate. I will improve it over time. For who says it's not working, please read this how-to very carefully:
- To activate gesture : Put two fingers near each other, lift one finger up.
- To zoom-in (make things bigger): Activate gesture near the center of the screen. Move your remaining finger away from the gesture position to zoom-in.
- [new in v003] To zoom-in with specified zoom-in position: Do a normal touch to the zoom-in position (your face in an image, for example), then activate the gesture a little bit away from the zoom-in positionshortly after the previous normal touch, then drag to zoom. I know, it's a little bit hard to understand ~.~ I will make a short clip for the tutorial
- To zoom-out (make things smaller): Activate gesture at the corner or the side of the screen. Move your remaining finger toward the screen center to zoom-out.
- To rotate : Activate gesture at the corner or the side of the screen.Move your remaining finger around the screen center to rotate.

Its kinda weird and awkward at first but with a few practising, u’ll get the hang on it. And its fun.

Requirement:

-Rooted

-xrecovery

-the driver

Currently from my testing, gmap doesn’t work. It work but with undesirable way in the browser. But this module thing is a good start.

There’s two way to installed the driver, manually or by xrecovery but  i recommend using xrecovery if you are not a android expert. It is easier and safer.

Instruction for installation with update.zip:
- Download update.zip according to your current ROM
- Reboot and flash with xRecovery
- Report bugs to him.
 

For the list of supported rom and the updated file is here.

BIG THANKS TO HIM AND THE XDA DEV THAT INVOLVE IN THIS PROJECT.

update: I’ll attach some video also.

Enabling Multitouch/Driver Installation on the Xperia X10 (Dual Touch)

this is a deep tutorial by bluechipj on how to make the dual-touch to work on all software in the xperia. as you know, the official dual-touch update by SE only workson google maps and the browser. this tweak will enable the dual-touch update to be use on all app on the xperia. if you go to the description of this video, there's a link to the xda forum. enjoy...

Xperia arc launcher on xperiq x10

Xperia arc Home Launcher now available for X10

Tested, run perfectly. But you have to manually freeze the original launcher via titanium backup or just installed the homescreen manager from the market. I'll post some video later.

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