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Help Beautiful Widgets and weather animations?

veccster

veccster

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Why doesn't Beautiful Widgets allow the weather animation on the home screen? The animations show in the 3 day forecast but not on the home screen.

Are there any apps that enable you to change the clock and still enable weather animations? I hate the stock clock.
 
veccster said:
Why doesn't Beautiful Widgets allow the weather animation on the home screen? The animations show in the 3 day forecast but not on the home screen.

Are there any apps that enable you to change the clock and still enable weather animations? I hate the stock clock.
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Ditto.

I really love the Beautiful Widgets home. I miss the weather animation on the home screen though.

When my alarm goes off in the morning, it's cool that when I see the wiper blades as I dismiss it I immediately know not to bother putting my slippers on to the let the dogs out...gotta go straight for the real shoes.
 
I also miss this functionality .... maybe they will add it in an update. Or maybe not as they just released a live wallpaper (beautiful weather but it looks kind of cartoonish) that does the same thing. Is it possible to have the live wallpaper on the home screen only and use different wall papers on other screens?
 
LOL, thats one of my favorite parts of sense. I hate the clock taking up two rows on my home screen, but I love the weather animations.
 
veccster said:
Why doesn't Beautiful Widgets allow the weather animation on the home screen? The animations show in the 3 day forecast but not on the home screen.

Are there any apps that enable you to change the clock and still enable weather animations? I hate the stock clock.
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The new Beautiful Widgets live wallpaper turns your entire homescreen into a weather animation
 
Where is the Beautiful Widgets Live wallpaper?


EDIT...nevermind. I found it.



OK, so that changes your whole wallpaper. That's kind of lame - I had a sweet design going on. Not sure I like this but we'll see.
 
its a limitation of stock android. widgets cant be animated. sense alters some of the framework to allow for animations.

The window that pops up in beautiful widgets is really just it opening an app to show you with a transparent background.
 
i've found the beautiful widgets live wallpaper to be pretty darn inaccurate. 5pm and there's a moon on it? i dont think so. tried refreshing and nothin. got rid of it but i'm sure it'll be fixed soon.
 
Beautiful widgets weather animation works great on my inc. not sure why it dont for you guys
 
ctxx24 said:
Beautiful widgets weather animation works great on my inc. not sure why it dont for you guys
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It's not that the weather screen you open won't animate, it's that it doesn't have animation on the home screen widget like the HTC Sense widget does.

On the stock Sense home, as soon as you unlock your phone, you see the weather animation right there on the widget, you don't have to open anything.
 
jfunk said:
It's not that the weather screen you open won't animate, it's that it doesn't have animation on the home screen widget like the HTC Sense widget does.

On the stock Sense home, as soon as you unlock your phone, you see the weather animation right there on the widget, you don't have to open anything.
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Correct.

The screen that opens when I tap the BW weather has a fully functioning animation and looks very cool! I want that on my home screen like the HTC Sense widget gives you - without the ugly clock format and lack of customization.
 
I got beautiful wallpaper and can't get the weather to update. It's currently incredibly cloudy outside, and the wallpaper says sunny. any ideas how to get this updated?


Nevermind, I think I figured it out with the "beautiful home" widget?
 
Alright I don't get it. Can someone tell me how to set the wallpaper to work? I can't seem to get them to sync. Every time I click the beautiful home widget it tries to set it as a full page widget, not the wallpaper. When I select "wallpaper program" or whatever it is, it takes me to the market, where I've already installed the program.


Nevermind again, sorry guys, I guess I just had to play around with the setttings for a while. It looks awesome! :)

Just how much does it drain the battery? I bet it's a fair amount, but it just looks so cool!
 
Liquoredolce said:
Alright I don't get it. Can someone tell me how to set the wallpaper to work? I can't seem to get them to sync. Every time I click the beautiful home widget it tries to set it as a full page widget, not the wallpaper. When I select "wallpaper program" or whatever it is, it takes me to the market, where I've already installed the program.
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go to your live wallpapers and it should be there.
 
Heelfan71 said:
go to your live wallpapers and it should be there.
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It was, but it wasn't syncing, I had to change some settings to make it sync, as much as I'd love it, it wasn't sunny today, despite what my phone was telling me. Apparently the best weather app is still....a window! :cool:
 
go to the market and download 2 things,

Beautiful Widgets (costs $1.83 or so)
Beautiful Live Weather
(Both by LevelUp Studio)
 
I installed the LWP this morning to go with Beautiful clock/weather small widget. I installed the "none" skin for Beautiful Widgets to eliminate having 2 suns on my screen.

Looks cool. I haven't really noticed any lag with the LWP on my Incredible but I can tell it's not as snappy to scroll between screens.

I'll live with it for now because it does look pretty good.
 
this is so weird, I have the beautiful widgets weather thing and it is pouring down outside and lightning and my phone is saying cloudy, but the sun is shining n the grass is green on the wallpaper, lol...1 time I saw the thunder storm live weather on my phone and it was really cool, the lightning was nuts. so my question is, is this normal to not sync up with the weather or am I missing a step? I have the why so serious skin with the realludi weather icon pack, am i missing something?
 
I have Beautiful Live Weather wallpaper and Beautiful Widgets installed. In settings of Beautiful live weather it saYS unlocked for Beautiful widgets but I only get a Sun and clear sky. I have tried with Home and smaller widget on screen also. But the live weather will only show a sun eventhough it is raining and the Beautiful widget shows rain. I laos have tried refreshing and even refreshing the wallpaper.
When I go to configure for Wallpaper, I have Animate Sun and moon checked, Update on Click checked, Disable Grass unchecked(I even tried checked), CPU HOG Checked, 15 FPS, Unlocked beautiful widgets detected, It still will only have a Sun which is weird.
For Beautiful Home I have

Default city
Fort Erie, ON, L2A2E4

24 hour format
Unchecked

Celcius Temp
Uncheckd

Geolocation
Checked

Use GPS
Checked

Refreshing rate
15

Force English
Unchecked

Sunrise/sunset
Official

Temp Notification
Checked

Forcast opening effect
Checked

Clock font
Android

Application for 3 tapping
Beautiful live weather

Short date & hide background
Unchecked

BG Transparency
Opaque

Does it need certain settings only to work?
 
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