Sunday, July 31, 2011

Widgetsoid - Best free system widget android 2.2 and 2.3

Widgets are one of the greatest features in Android phones. They are small apps designed to work from the home screen. System widgets makes the innards of android phones easily accessible.

Widgetsoid2.x is the system widget I use most. This app provides more toggles and more customizability than any other apps out there. And the best part - its free. Two versions of the app is available in the android market. Widgetsoid and Widgetsoid2.x. the first one is aimed at devices running on android version 1.6 and below. The 2.x is for those running on android 2.0 and up.

The app provides an option to toggle almost every toggleable setting available on android phones.
 
Update:

Complete Feature List of Widgetsoid2.x

These are the complete list of options with their descriptions available on widgetsoid2.x. The list is based on the latest version of widgetsoid2.x ie, 3.2.4

Network
  1. WiFi
  2. Portable Hotspot -Share your internet connection over wifi
  3. Bluetoot
  4. Mobile Data - Toggle mobile internet (2/3/4G)
  5. 2G/3G - Switch between 2G and 3G
  6. 4G - Enable/Disable 4G
  7. Data Sync - Chose whether your online accounts(Gmail, Facebook) needs to be synced with the device or not
  8. Data Sync Now - Force a data synchronization immediately
  9. Tether USB - Share your mobile internet over the USB cable
  10. USB storage - Turn on/off USB storage mode
  11. Airplane - Disconnect all your wireless connections which includes cell coverage bluetooth, wifi, gps, radio
Screen
  1. Screen Timeout -  Two sets of screen timeout options are available. You can either toggle between 15s/1m/5mts or 30sec/2min/5min
  2. Lock Screen - Turn off the display and lock the device
  3. Lock pattern - Change the lock pattern
  4. Auto lock - Doesn't like to unlock the phone everytime?. This options disables the device lock so that you can use the phone right away.
  5. Orientation - Determine whether you want the phone to rotate the screen on device rotation.
  6. Brightness - Switch between brightness levels
  7. Always on - Screen stays on
  8. Stay awake - Screen stay awake when phone is being charged
Sound
  1. Ring Mode - Switch between ring and vibrate
  2. Vibrate - Enable/Disable vibrate
  3. Silent - Silent mode
  4. Speaker - Audio speaker
  5. Volume control - Change volume for media and sounds
  6. Media Scanner - Initiates media scanner to find new files on SD card
  7. Previous - Previous song
  8. Play/Pause - 
  9. Next - Next song
Other
  1. GPS
  2. Battery - Level meter
  3. Temperature - Battery temperature not the climate one
  4. Phone memory - Available phone memory
  5. SD memory - 
  6. RAM memory
  7. Flashlight - use the flash as a continuous light
  8. SD card - Mount/unmount SD Card
  9. Lock Buttons - Lock for widgetsoid widget
  10. Reboot - Reboot phone - requires root
  11. Locale - Change the locale of the phone
  12. Debut USB - Phone will change the mode to Debug upon connection with a computer
Shortcuts
  1. Application - 
  2. Contact - Call/SMS/email a contact
  3. Bookmark
  4. Tasker task - needs tasker to be installed
Some of the switches have further customizations avilable in the global preferences. For example The sub-settings in Mobile Data toggle will allow you to select the method with which the widgetsoid disables the data. You can use APN toggle, APN rename or Root toggle for disabling the mobile data network.

Extensive customization options to tweak the appearance of the widgets are also available in widgetsoid. And it performed well on every task I throw at it . Overall I think widgetsoid2.x is the best system widget available for android platform.

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