SPB Shell 3D (New Launcher)

Mr E · 30-03-2011 9:51pm #1

Just released today. Its hard to justify spending just over a tenner on a launcher with ADW and LauncherPro free (or very cheap), but damn this looks slick....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVU84J1ShSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqn6vANxpw

ronkmonster · 30-03-2011 10:00pm

It really needs a demo version for that price. The 15 minute refund time is too short to determine if it's worth the money.

Looks very good though.

Mr E · 30-03-2011 10:10pm

I had a quick look over on XDA and its a mixed response. It doesn't work on a lot of phones (apparently) and there are some custom ROMs it doesn't work on.

Be wary of Android's 15 minute refund window if you're taking a chance....

ronkmonster · 30-03-2011 10:21pm

Hmmm, I've a galaxy s with Insanity. Can you post a link to xda?

Was better when the market had a 24hour refund time.

Squeeonline · 31-03-2011 12:27am

You could always download it by .... other means. Like a planet on which one may find apps, to try it for an extended time, then pay for and download the official one. Ok I've said too much :-)

G1032 · 31-03-2011 8:31am

ronkmonster wrote: »

Hmmm, I've a galaxy s with Insanity. Can you post a link to xda?

Was better when the market had a 24hour refund time.

Tried it on my SGS with Insanity 7.0. Didn't work.

Gryzor · 31-03-2011 9:04am

Looks great...price is a bit over the top alright, and 15 minutes to evaluate this isn't gonna work....with this type of app, you need to get a feel for it over a few hours to see if its gonna stay or not...

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 9:47am

Wont work on my desire HD with CM7. keep getting some error. Im after deleting it and all so cant remember what the error was.

instaled it again to get the error, now the error wont come up but its still not working. lol

Gryzor · 31-03-2011 10:24am

works on desire cm7 rc3....just had a quick 13 minute look...then refund...no way enough time to give it a good look, i might go back to it after its got a few updates, and becomes a bit more customisable....

ronkmonster · 31-03-2011 10:27am

G1032 wrote: »

Tried it on my SGS with Insanity 7.0. Didn't work.

I got it last night after. Running on SGS with Insanity 0.6.9

G1032 · 31-03-2011 10:47am

ronkmonster wrote: »

I got it last night after. Running on SGS with Insanity 0.6.9

I might flash back to 0.6.9 and try this out. Is it worth it?

ronkmonster · 31-03-2011 11:33am

G1032 wrote: »

I might flash back to 0.6.9 and try this out. Is it worth it?

Not sure if it's worth a tenner, although that may be just because I'm used to applications being very cheap on Android. I've no problem paying more for applications on PC and this seems like a high quality application.

I'm happy with the purchase although I did buy, refund and then rebuy after thinking about it. Make sure you have wifi when downloading to give yourself enough time to download and try before the refund time runs out.

Loggie · 31-03-2011 1:53pm

It can be found in this Android 2.3.3 rom MIUI-Celebration HD 1.2 D2W for Nexus One and Desire from moviestar on XDA and MIUI Germany
I think its a public beta release so I assume its ok posting.

http://miui-ger.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=445&pageNo=1

The_B_Man · 31-03-2011 3:30pm

Squeeonline wrote: »

You could always download it by .... other means. Like a planet on which one may find apps, to try it for an extended time, then pay for and download the official one. Ok I've said too much :-)

Never heard of that app before. Just tried it there. When I installed it, it borked up me phone and the Android market uninstalled itself. Need to completely wipe me phone now and reflash cyanogenmod7 RC4. :mad:

Wont be goin near that again!

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 3:39pm

I downloaded it from a different place and it has a little security check that matches it to your google account to verify it.

Airplane mode seems to stop that. It's weird

ronkmonster · 31-03-2011 4:12pm

seanybiker wrote: »

I downloaded it from a different place and it has a little security check that matches it to your google account to verify it.

Airplane mode seems to stop that. It's weird

Yup I seen that too

When it happened, it was gone from the choice of home screen to use too.

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 4:26pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

Yup I seen that too

When it happened, it was gone from the choice of home screen to use too.

Just go into airplane mode and install and start it and you be flying.

I waited a few minutes before I turned internet back on just to be sure. Seems to be grand now

ronkmonster · 31-03-2011 4:31pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Just go into airplane mode and install and start it and you be flying. I waited a few minutes before I turned internet back on just to be sure. Seems to be grand now

I bought it anyway

Would have liked to try it for bit longer.

What do you think of it so far?

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 4:34pm

I like it. Just messing about with it now putting things where I want them. The carousel is deadly

ronkmonster · 31-03-2011 4:41pm

Yeah, Google should have done something as flashy as this as the stock launcher. Differentiate it bit more from Apple.

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 4:46pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

Yeah, Google should have done something as flashy as this as the stock launcher. Differentiate it bit more from Apple.

Yeah that would have been cool alright.

PogMoThoin · 31-03-2011 5:21pm

I get a parsing error everytime I try dl it

G1032 · 31-03-2011 10:17pm

seanybiker wrote: »

Just go into airplane mode and install and start it and you be flying. I waited a few minutes before I turned internet back on just to be sure. Seems to be grand now

Is it still working for you? Stopped working for me after a couple of hours.

seanybiker · 31-03-2011 10:32pm

G1032 wrote: »

Is it still working for you? Stopped working for me after a couple of hours.

Stopped on me to

PogMoThoin · 31-03-2011 10:46pm

Just installed it, works fine and looks great, but it frooze after 5 minutes. Back to launcher pro for me

G1032 · 01-04-2011 11:30am

Issues so far.
Wind speed and rainfall do not update on the weather panel for Irish locations. Not good enough really for €10 worth of an app.

Someone might be able to help with this:
I have mixzing music player installed and like the 4x4 widget for it.
However on the SPB panels the 4x4 widget doesn't fill the screen. It's as of the screen is 5x5
Anyway to make the panel a 4x4??

G1032 · 01-04-2011 2:46pm

Has anyone selected different cities other than Tokyo, New York and London in the Travel Panel?
Each time I put in new cities it will soon revert back to the default 3 of Tokyo, NY and London.
Anyone else with the same issue?

seanybiker · 01-04-2011 2:52pm

Just changed mine now. Ill get back to ya later if they change

ronkmonster · 01-04-2011 5:20pm

G1032 wrote: »

Someone might be able to help with this:
I have mixzing music player installed and like the 4x4 widget for it.
However on the SPB panels the 4x4 widget doesn't fill the screen. It's as of the screen is 5x5
Anyway to make the panel a 4x4??

Are you on Insanity rom?
Insanity has a different dpi so more room on the screen. You can change it back in nitrality

G1032 wrote: »

Has anyone selected different cities other than Tokyo, New York and London in the Travel Panel?
Each time I put in new cities it will soon revert back to the default 3 of Tokyo, NY and London.
Anyone else with the same issue?

Mine have stayed the same since I set it few days ago.

You could firewall it to keep it working. That could stop other updates (weather etc) for the launcher to stop though.

G1032 · 01-04-2011 8:12pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

Are you on Insanity rom?
Insanity has a different dpi so more room on the screen. You can change it back in nitrality

Mine have stayed the same since I set it few days ago.

You could firewall it to keep it working. That could stop other updates (weather etc) for the launcher to stop though.

Changed back the dpi. What a disaster. Phone crashed. Wouldn't reboot properly. Took battery out to kill everything. Still wouldn't reboot. Had to go back into recovery and to a factory reset.
Through the whole rigmaroll of reinstalling apps/changing setting etc.
Back on track again. And the Cities in the travel panel are staying the same since. Happy days.
Still no wind speed update etc. on the Weather Panel. Just getting N/A for these.

ronkmonster · 01-04-2011 9:31pm

G1032 wrote: »

Changed back the dpi. What a disaster. Phone crashed. Wouldn't reboot properly. Took battery out to kill everything. Still wouldn't reboot. Had to go back into recovery and to a factory reset.
Through the whole rigmaroll of reinstalling apps/changing setting etc.
Back on track again. And the Cities in the travel panel are staying the same since. Happy days.
Still no wind speed update etc. on the Weather Panel. Just getting N/A for these.

What city have you set it to?
Mine is dublin and has all weather appearing.

shadowninty · 01-04-2011 9:42pm

Oh dear.. i remember the RAM horrors this caused on my old Nokia 5530

Cant justify shelling out €10 for it

BTW guys.. take a Nandroid before using this!

G1032 · 01-04-2011 10:37pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

What city have you set it to?
Mine is dublin and has all weather appearing.

Galway.
Tried Dublin and that works alright.
Not working for Galway. Tried Castlebar. No luck there either.

seanybiker · 02-04-2011 1:58am

G1032 wrote: »

Galway.
Tried Dublin and that works alright.
Not working for Galway. Tried Castlebar. No luck there either.

Working for Waterford anyways. The clocks are still on tjr cities I changed them to aswell.

lord lucan · 02-04-2011 1:30pm

I decided to give this a go last night. Feckin' disaster,crashed my N1 resulting in an endless boot screen. Had to do a hard reset and start from scratch again but my SD card decided it wouldn't co-operate.:mad:

shadowninty · 02-04-2011 2:19pm

As I said, lads, Nandroid

cqms13 · 02-04-2011 3:15pm

tried it myself yesterday/today, like the carousel effect and being able to move icons and widgets etc but overall i think its too gimicky - prefer the simple look/feel of adw ex.

uninstalled...:D

StRiKeR · 04-04-2011 8:16pm

tried it just now, everything works fine on my Desire HD running CM7 nightly #30, its a bit heavy on ram, not really a shell for all devices. I still prefer LauncherPro with a bit of customization

seanybiker · 04-04-2011 8:31pm

Been using it a few days now and I love it. No problems so far anyways

G1032 · 11-04-2011 9:56pm

How do you get the calendar widget to show events up to a week in advance?
I have an event showing for 3 days time but another for 6 days time that's not showing on the widget.

lord lucan · 13-04-2011 9:15pm

Maybe an alternative to SPB,and cheaper too(it's free!):)

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nemustech.regina

G1032 · 13-04-2011 9:59pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

I got it last night after. Running on SGS with Insanity 0.6.9

Has anyone tried SPB 3D on Insanity 7.1?
All I get is a black screen when I launch it on Insanity. Worked fine on Darky's 9.5, but want to stay with Insanity ROM.

SPB Shell 3D (New Launcher)

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