Sense 5 Toolbox the best customizer for HTC Sense 5 based ROMs

If you havent used it yet - you really should. Im talking about the "Sense 5 Toolbox" application, made initially for Android Revolution HD. In the last few weeks the popularity of this application reached an unexpected level, and we believe its a reason to celebrate.

More details about the Sense 5 Toolbox can be found on this blog, under "Sense 5 Toolbox" link on the right panel. Or, just click here.

Why Sense 5 Toolbox?

The application is an answer for 2 basic issues: many users wants to customize their OS as much as possible, but currently available solutions similar to Sense 5 Toolbox are very limited when it comes to the possibility of using them on most custom ROMs.

Android Revolution HD is known to be a "stock-looking" ROM, which was always the most important aspect for many users, who were looking for a stable and well known custom ROM. However, having a custom ROM with such popularity brought our attention to many users, who were looking for a stable custom ROM, but also with a little touch of customisation features - like displaying the battery percentage, or being able to re-order or re-design some part of the UI. This leads to two different approaches:

1. having a custom ROM full of many more or less advanced features coded into the framework, which always ends up with all sort of issues, bugs, waiting a long time for a new ROM version based on freshly released official OS update etc; or
2. having a custom ROM like Android Revolution HD, close to stock with just a few changes under the hood to make Android users life easier, combined with a standalone application like Sense 5 Toolbox.

The result is what most users are looking for: stock looking by default, a stable and optimized custom ROM - but with the capability to change many things inside the OS.

With Android Revolution HD and Sense 5 Toolbox you have:

1. fast updates when a new OS is released/leaked,
2. a stable custom ROM,
3. the capability to customize your OS,
4. great performance because of the tweaks under the hood,
5. many features not available on the stock ROM.

The Sense 5 Toolbox is under continuous development. More and more features are coming with each new release and the "to do" list is quite large.

In the background, another project is still alive and under heavy development too. Im referring to the "Revolution Toolbox" application, announced in this post few weeks ago. Its still being tested, however we are getting close to the first public beta. Just one little secret I can say out loud now - Revolution Toolbox and Sense 5 Toolbox will "connected" in a particular way. Cant say more for now, stay tuned!

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HTC One won Gadget of the Year by T3

Since the release date, the HTC One has won almost every smartphone contest. Its won awards on many sites because of its unique design and great performance in conjunction with my favourite Android custom UI - HTC Sense. Now, months after the launch event in London, the HTC One has won yet another slew of awards - T3 Gadget of the Year, T3 Phone of the Year and finally T3 Design Award 2013! We are not hiding the fact that we are not surprised!

"The HTC One is a product designed to save a company in financial trouble – and it seems HTC’s design and engineering team work well with their backs against the wall.

This Android phone is the best product HTC has ever built, with a gorgeously thin, reassuringly rigid aluminium body bonded to the 4.7-inch screen by a technique that doesnt leave a single gap. And speaking of the screen, it’s eyeball-piercingly sharp, with a 1080p full HD resolution and Retina display-spanking pixel density of 468ppi. It’s one of a handful of phones that can be mentioned in the same breath as the iPhone when it comes to looks and build quality.

Performance is no less impressive, with the quad-core processor blazing through tasks with nary a trace of lag and the 4MP Ultrapixel camera serving up some of the finest snaps weve ever seen from a smartphone."

Source: Awards T3

Android Revolution HD in courtesy of HTC is giving away brand new HTC One to the lucky winner of the giveaway #RevolutionChange contest. Dont miss it!

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Sense 6 Toolbox for HTC One HTC One M8

Happy day for all users who love to customize their HTC Sense UI! Sense 6 Toolbox (previously Sense 5 Toolbox) is known to be the best and the most advanced tool to customize your Sense 5/6 based device. It’s based on Xposed eco-system and it allows you to change a lot of settings of the user interface, including colour schemes and different layout styles.

More details can be found here ---> Sense 6 Toolbox with Android Revolution HD

Want to see some goodies it offers? Just take a look!

Some of the features you can find in Sense 6 Toolbox:

Interface mods

·         Transparent statusbar and notification drawer

·         Center clock, AM/PM removal, traffic meter, horizontal EQS

·         Gestures to manipulate recent apps and additional information about each app, AOSP styled recents

·         [Sense 6] Custom color themes for every app

Statusbar mods

·         Icons by vomer (CleanBeam)

·         Customizable color themes for all new statusbar icons

·         Ability to hide icons

Sense mods

·         Transparency for many UI elements (dock, clock widget, app drawer, folders, etc)

·         Infinite apps in folders, 7 home screens, home popup menu, more grid options for homescreens and app drawer

·         Actions for vertical swipes and shaking on homescreens, horizontal swipes on dock

Messaging mods

·         Wake on SMS, increase MMS size

·         Replace delivery notifications with toasts

·         Increase MMS size

Controls mods

·         Volume2wake

·         Activate flashlight on power long press

·         Bind actions to hardware buttons (Back long press and swipe up from Home)

·         Bind actions to volume keys for camera and music playback controls

·         [M8] Smaller softkey bar

Various mods

·         Advanced Power Menu

·         Show more information about installed apps and apps that are being installed

·         Improved screen locking and unlocking

·         Hardware buttons backlight control

·         Large caller photo in dialer and on lockscreen during calls

·         Disable unwanted notifications and confirmation dialogs

·         On/off screen animations (Fade, CRT)

Full list of the features can be found here - complete mods list.

Sense 6 Toolbox is tested and fully compatible with Android Revolution HD 5.0 for the HTC One M8 you can download from this xda-developers thread.

Official Sense Toolbox homepage

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Inspire Envy the HTC One M8

The HTC One M8 is not just a „better HTC One” as some might think. Honestly saying, I’ve been thinking the same way before I had a chance to hold this beauty in my hand for a first time. Lets put aside the hardware specification for now. Before I’ll review the newest HTC One M8 let me show you some close, high quality pictures of the youngest HTC piece of art.

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