[APP]GenieWidget.apk from the Galaxy Nexus

[Nitroz]

Hello Everyone!

As you may or may not know, the Galaxy S3 doesn't have the News & Weather widget in-built like it did on the SGS2 so lets change that shall we?
Read the instructions below and you should have the news & weather widget back up and running on this awesome device!

What You Need:
Rooted Device
Root Explorer (Or ES File Explorer)
Room on your SD Card

Instructions:
-Download the GenieWidget.apk from the attachments below
-Put GenieWidget.apk onto your internal SD Card (Or external, doesn't really matter)
-Open Root Explorer and navigate to where you put GenieWidget
-Highlight it and select copy
-Navigate to /system/app/
-Paste
-Reboot
-It will be there in the widgets!

Screenshot to prove it works:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekk7d3uc45pitlg/2012-06-03 10.55.31.png

I'd appreciate it if you clicked the thanks button

 

[avetny]

Hello Everyone!

As you may or may not know, the Galaxy S3 doesn't have the News & Weather widget in-built like it did on the SGS2 so lets change that shall we?
Read the instructions below and you should have the news & weather widget back up and running on this awesome device!

What You Need:
Rooted Device
Root Explorer (Or ES File Explorer)
Room on your SD Card

Instructions:
-Download the GenieWidget.apk from the attachments below
-Put GenieWidget.apk onto your internal SD Card (Or external, doesn't really matter)
-Open Root Explorer and navigate to where you put GenieWidget
-Highlight it and select copy
-Navigate to /system/app/
-Paste
-Reboot
-It will be there in the widgets!

Screenshot to prove it works:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekk7d3uc45pitlg/2012-06-03 10.55.31.png

I'd appreciate it if you clicked the thanks button

Thanks man we need this

 

[Sleek69]

I'm gonna try this on my htc rezound. Hoping it doesn't need touchwiz framework to work!

 

[Dr.Franz]

the widget is transparent?

 

[jerricson]

Screenshot link doesn't work. can you upload a working screenshot?

 

[coffeelovy]

Interesting...
But can't see screenshot
Reupload please...
Thank U

Sent from my BeautyBeast GT-I9300 using xda app

 

[vibez]

Anyone notice that the weather detail view crashes when "force GPU rendering" is turned on in developer settings?

 

[WinterSilence]

@OP: Thanks a lot for this useful app, Iv'e been missing during my review of the SGS3 on my portal.

Is there any chance you can port it over to non-root user? And if not, please specify why that would not be possible (need it for my article).

Thank you very much in advance and for your contribution to the Android society and other users as myself

 

[Alb-Spirit]

thanks a lot it's look great

 

[sa1105]

doesen,t work wit HTC Evo 3D

 

[Evo_Shift]

doesen,t work wit HTC Evo 3D

It's not in the OP but did you remember to fix permissions to rw-r-r? At least I thought you had to do this for any app you put into the /system/app folder. I always do and this works fine on my EVO LTE.

 

[hellhawk741]

I can confirm this works on my Rezound.

 

[lgkahn]

here is a transparent version of it:

 

[pdgpereira]

here is a transparent version of it:

Could you provide a preview?

 

[Armin_van_buuren]

GenieWidget fully themed for me.

Download from here:

http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=400713

 

[KPY]

Hum, i've just download and installed the htcmania's version (last post from Armin van buuren) and it's working in a stock and un-rooted galaxy s3.

Thanks

 

[ItsDon]

Just installed this on my Skyrocket using the Dragon stripped rom - worked great!

 

[chowyungfatso]

Are there different versions (there was one that came with TeamDRH's ICS for the gtablet, but it seems to be an older version)?

I tried to replace the one that was already there, but it won't let me change the permissions.

 

[silvio82]

Not works on omega 9.0. Put the file in system/app, fixed permission and rebooted, but no widget.....

Edit: found, it was called "news and meteo", i was searching for Geniewidget......:-D

 

[dhinged]

Won't install on Razr. Why does it need root?