Hi,
I need to detect if a phone is running HTC sense UI.
is there a way to do it?
I can't just blindly assume every HTC device runs sense UI(eg: nexus
one doesn't run it).
Kai
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On 1 August 2010 07:32, Kai wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to detect if a phone is running HTC sense UI.
> is there a way to do it?
Maybe just get list of installed packages and check if you sense is there?
Still, one can have it installed but not use it so this is not the best
solution. What about just l
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:09 AM, { Devdroid } wrote:
> No you can't. Sense can be uninstalled.
I am not aware that Sense can be uninstalled, since it is in firmware.
You can switch the home screen back to "classic" Android on some Sense
models, though.
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Mark Murphy wrote on 2010-08-01 12:10:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:09 AM, { Devdroid } wrote:
>> No you can't. Sense can be uninstalled.
>
> I am not aware that Sense can be uninstalled, since it is in firmware.
You can't remove it if phone is not rooted as you got no write access
to /system, true
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:20 AM, { Devdroid } wrote:
> You can't remove it if phone is not rooted as you got no write access
> to /system, true, but once you root your device you can wipe sense packages.
Ah, true, wasn't thinking of rooting. Sorry!
> I believe you could do this on any device, by
> I saw reference recently that suggested this did not work everywhere.
> I'm was thinking maybe Sense 2 (the current generation) vs. the
> original Sense. But it works on a HTC Hero (just tried it), so that's
> clearly not it.
That's why I do not bother myself to "detect" sense but rahter
allow u
On the HTC Desire the standard android home is not available, even by
clearing defaults of the Sense home.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:20 AM, { Devdroid }
> wrote:
> > You can't remove it if phone is not rooted as you got no write access
> > to
I would really like to know why people want to know they are running with
Sense UI. Is it just for notifications? Are there other things?
We really don't want apps to be dealing with this stuff.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:04 AM, { Devdroid } wrote:
> > I saw reference recently that suggested thi
On 08/03/2010 06:31 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
I would really like to know why people want to know they are running
with Sense UI. Is it just for notifications? Are there other things?
We really don't want apps to be dealing with this stuff.
Personally, I would very much like to agree.
Howe
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