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I installed Facade and chose a green theme.
Anyone knows if it is possible (and how) to change the background color of HTC apps (comm manager, for example), so that they better integrate in the new theme?
Or my question how to just change them completely?!
The connection manager has a bunch of .png files in the \windows directory on the device. These should be hackable with a graphics program and be displayed after the device is reset.
To customize the rest of your normal (non-HTC) WM programs, see http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartphone-General-Discussion/236832/Homescreen-guide-for-beginners/
Most of the styles are saved in XML files which you can edit with web page writing tools. As such you should be able to see the path's to the graphical files and then just change their color.
Would think so, havnt looked yet but I am planning on changing my home screen to a nice blue. I like the HTC look, but a soft blue would be better than grey IMO.
Well, at last it seems it was rather simple changing the colors of my Facade theme: I've converted it from green to grey editing the xml file and modifying a few gifs with Gimp.
So it's all grey now, and HTC apps are again integrated with the overall style.
Thanks.
post us ur theme. would be cool
Here it is.
But it's no other than the original facade style, with changed colors and a cool (I think) background...
(I didn't change the profile gifs cause I don't use this plugin)
HTC MANILA THEME revisited withAURORA THEME FOR POCKET PC
Release notes:
**New Release 3/28/08**
Manila Theme V1.0
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-Manila-like clock
-5 softkeys on bottom for batterystatus skin (home, explorer, action screen, contacts, weather)
-live calender
installation instructions for manila theme:
1. install batterystatus and put htc clear folder and htc clear xml file in your batterystatus folder and set it as your theme.
2. install rltoday and put the manila folder in your rltoday folder and set it as your theme as well.
3. put the rltoday plugin in your ultimate launch tab and enable only ultimate launch and batterystatus in your settings/today/items screen.
4. install mortscript to make the appointment notifications work.
enjoy.
Aurora Theme V2.0
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NOTE V2.0 is just a folder of replacement files for v1.0, you need to download 1.0 and replace with the files with 2.0
- New skin for LG keys on the bottom, the overlapping button problem was fixed by making seperate rows (credit to xda-member scicarb for the nice changes)
- New analog clock on home screen with ticking second hand
- cleaned up some graphics
Installation instructions for aurora theme:
1. install BatteryStatusExt.1.04.UPXed.build_0270.CAB and put the htc home.xml and the htchomeskin folder in your batterystatus folder in the windows directory. select htc home as your theme and untick every row except for the "messages" row
2. install rltoday.cab and put the s2u2 folder in your program files/rltoday folder and replace the rltoday.ini with the one i provided.
3. place all 3 htc home files in your windows directory to overwrite the old ones
4. install testtodayplugin.cab (photo speed dial)
5. put dcinobar.exe in your windows directory and make a shortcut for it in your \windows\startup folder
6. put the aurora.jpg on your device set it as your today background.
7. finally, install ultimate launch via the setup.exe and replace the ultimatelaunch.ini with mine.
that should be it! if you have any questions lemme know.
A lot of questions are answered on page 8, read these before asking please!
all credits given to the creators of rltoday, ultimatelaunch, and batterystatus
NEW COLORS, taste the rainbow:
is anyone else seeing a download link for the theme?
hey theres no download link yet, it involves a few different programs and im still perfecting it so sit tight and itll be available soon
It's a very nice theme I'm waiting for your news
hey mañtha looks awesome! could u shoot me a pm when a dl link is avalible?
cant wait,
dwizzy130
red sunset aurora theme:
pitch black aurora theme:
very cool! is that lg buttons at the bottom? or a skinned rltoday?
its a skinned batterystatus, most ppl dont know how skinnable batterystatus is
WOW!
Very beautiful themes, HIGHLY attractive concept as well... all the right information in the right places!
Any idea on an ETA? Looking forward to it...
would be really cool.. to explain how to do it,
i don t like the htc home plugin, cause it is to big on the screen..
please bring thes uploads...
greets
voxid
voxid said:
would be really cool.. to explain how to do it,
i don t like the htc home plugin, cause it is to big on the screen..
please bring thes uploads...
greets
voxid
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using ultimate launch i can slide to different tabs. the home tab is blank and less cluttered, if i slide to the weather tab i get the htc home plugin so its not always there.
I'm still trying to figure out a way to get this as a simple install but it might be a step by step tutorial instead. there is A LOT of configuration involved so we will see. It should be available shortly though
it seems much better than HTC home!!!!!
wonderful
tazma said:
it seems much better than HTC home!!!!!
wonderful
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id sure hope so, it is a lot more involved and way more possibilities than htc home, i do like the weather in htc home though but the other tabs of it are not needed
spencepu3 said:
using ultimate launch i can slide to different tabs. the home tab is blank and less cluttered, if i slide to the weather tab i get the htc home plugin so its not always there.
I'm still trying to figure out a way to get this as a simple install but it might be a step by step tutorial instead. there is A LOT of configuration involved so we will see. It should be available shortly though
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How do you manage to remove the tab bar in the HTC home plug?
Even if i only have 1 icon/tab the bar is still there
looks great waiting for release with simple way
matthieup said:
How do you manage to remove the tab bar in the HTC home plug?
Even if i only have 1 icon/tab the bar is still there
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it involves editing the .png file named HH_FW_framefill.png I will release it when I release this theme if you can't get it to work.
thanks. i'll give it a go
Whoa!!!!!!! U R The Man!!!! These Look Awesome. Waiting Eagerly
thanks guys, i appreciate the compliments!
Beautiful theme, really can't wait to see some step by steps on how to replicate your theme.
I created a new skin for the HTC Long Press End Key App since it was out of place with every theme I've seen for TF3D. I must admit that my inspiration was from a a dialer I found and liked. All the credit for the design should go to that author. His thread can be found HERE The only real difference is the blue highlight to go with the TF3D theme I designed which can be found HERE.
The cab is very straight-forward as it only replaces the actual png files in your windows directory and makes no other modifications. Either way you should *Always* back up your files first. I would imagine this should work for any VGA HTC device that has the LongPressEndKey app installed. The install will prompt you to reboot after install and I highly recommend doing so.
Cheers,
Eidolen
FYI: It looks much better on the device than these screen shots. I wonder if the forum upload compresses the pictures?
Mate,
Took the liberty to modify your skin so it accomodates users who still have the stock colour scheme of black with green highlights. Hope it's OK.
Screenshots and files below. To apply unzip and copy to /windows.
Thanks,
NC
thanks!!! loving this although i dont use the shortcut very often
Thanks
Thank you very much. I hope you don't mind but I also took a liberty.
I took the liberty of taking the modified green graphics and making a new cab for those who wanted the modified theme posted by NCU1980.
Here's the cab:
What is the long press end key application? I did not see it in any of the links provided, it was just referenced. Does it come on the Raphael? Or do I have to download it?
Agent Blair said:
What is the long press end key application? I did not see it in any of the links provided, it was just referenced. Does it come on the Raphael? Or do I have to download it?
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It comes on the Raphael. You can find the settings for it in system settings and when you press and hold the end key on your device it should pop up a menu or perform a certain task depending on what you have it set to do.
Hi All, thought I would publish my first effort at a WAD2 theme. My main aim after using other peoples themes was to make one that is 'thumb friendly' and real simple to use. It has 3 menu pages with large graphical buttons, and a 'home' screen with shortcuts to txt, email and call list. this theme is 99% portrait, how ever on my touch pro 2 if i flip the keyboard and go to landscape i do have a very basic black home screen with the 3 shortcuts. If people like the theme and would like to produce their own icons, let me know and I can post up some photoshop templates.
Installation
Install the files to your normal theme directory and search for new themes, then select Angularz as your portrait and/or landscape theme. Please make sure you install the fonts prior to use, as it may not the clock etc correctly.
Fonts
I use helvetica Neue fonts in the theme and have supplied these in the zip file. I also have replaced my system font with helvetica as it looks nicer, but I will leave that down to you. If you just want to use the fonts for WAD only, place the 3 helvetica fonts in your windows folder (with the rest of the system fonts)
I think I have packaged up all the correct bits (if not please let me know!!)
PLEASE CAN A MOD ALLOW ME TO SHARE LINKS!!
This looks neat. Nice docks.
good day.
it's just WOW!!
Thankyou!, I just wanted something simple but visually nice to look at, and this is the end result!
I find that if you increase the display cache size (through altering the windows registry) it does make it scroll through pages a little smoother.
thatbastard,
I'm using your theme and IMO, it is a simple but gorgeus. However, I have a problem with all notifiers. They are not appeared when I have some unread sms or missed calls. Do you have any suggestions? My device is Omnia i8000.
hi Laruku
You can try going to author mode, then page - show notifiers. Go to the properties once held down on the notifier and have a look through there. Mine is set on 'notifier type - unread sms' etc. by default this should work, however I dont know how different it would be on an omia. have a look in there and see if anything has changed.
how do you get out of author mode
taphold at any page and you'll get yourself the popup menu, i forgot which is the get out of author mode menu,,, but it is there,,,
@thatbastard,
would you mind sharing the images? the home wallpaper is really nice.
new version of WAD converts all the images folder into .wadesktop extension,,, which prevents me for extracting the images,
thx
here's my version
hello everybody !
Here's MY angularz, i hope you'll like this.
Koralii
you can see this on Youtube : v=GXtEynNZaf4 (sorry but i'm new here and can't post the shortcut.
Great Work
Great to see an original piece of work. i will give this a shot
Thanks for adding a bit of originality to my blackstone
Mark
Looks great !!!
wow, great theme
i think i'll make some personal changes and it'd be perfect for my daily use, YO~
DOOD JOB!!
Really nice. It's a shame, imo, that windows phone7 doesn't look more like this. My only comment would be that it might look better to have the text in panels up and to the right a few pixels, and have the voicemail icon transparent. (I can only comment on the screenshot as I don't have VAD2 installed on my device...
Thought it would be handy to have a volume icon on the home screen...
Steve.
Hi all, thanks for checking out my theme, Ive glad youve all liked it. Unfortunately I dont have wisbar installed anymore (and Ive had a lot goin on recently) so will not be continuing anymore projects but I thought I would share the remaining files I have. You can continue modding from my theme as freely as you like, as long as you mention it was based on my creation
Xue v.2 said:
@thatbastard,
would you mind sharing the images? the home wallpaper is really nice.
new version of WAD converts all the images folder into .wadesktop extension,,, which prevents me for extracting the images,
thx
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Sure, there should be a zip file with ALL the angularz images. Ive also included a new homescreen which is a gloss black version (was going to be called Mono Tonez) but it will not be finished.
Enjoy!
good looking theme
willing to release a WQVGA version?
I´m new user of wad and i don´t know how to install this theme. I´ve installed mortscript and wad, and theme in lakerbridge/themes, and fonts in windows/start menu/programs fonts folder, but I don´t know where install angularz.wadesktop
Thanks a lot of.
Uncle Google says:
1. Using ActiveSync, copy the .wadesktop file to any location on your device.
2. From your device, use File Explorer to navigate to the .wadesktop file you just placed there, then tap on it to launch it.
3. You will be prompted as to a location to place the extracted files. Choose any location you wish (I personally find it helpful to have a Themes folder set up in advance).
4. Once the files are extracted, open WisBar Advance Desktop (if it's not open already), tap and hold on the screen, then tap Change Theme.
5. Now tap Menu > Scan for Themes. When the scanning process is complete, the theme you just installed should appear on the list.
6. Tap the theme, then tap Menu. Choose the appropriate menu option for setting as portrait or landscape. Please note that theme files are usually designed for one orientation or the other.
7. Tap Apply and you're done.
This should get you set up.
Thank you, uncle...
I´ll try.
Hi all.
I thought i would write a basic guide on how to modify a skin apk the way YOU want it. There are some great skins being made, but often the colour scheme is not the way you might like it. I am new to android so if i have made any mistakes please let me know and i will correct ASAP.
Firstly i will say if you modify any skin, please DO NOT post it unless you have the previous developers permission. This is IMPORTANT. They are for personal use only.
First you need to install the following on to your PC:
Android SDK Here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Java JDK and JRE Here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Auto sign Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
A good photo editing tool. I use photoshop.
Once installed open the android sdk and download the relevant Android Platforms.
Download the skin apk you want to modify. The apk can be opened with winrar. There will generally be 3 folders a xml and arsc. The two we need to look at are assets and res.The assets folder contains the preview pic and the wallpaper for the skin. The res folder contains all the png files. In res, the drawable folder contains the xml's. drawable-port-hdpi contains the png's for the home screen like the softbar and sense clock. drawable-land-hdpi contains the pngs used in land scape. drawable-hdpi contains the bulk of the png used in the skin
The following is how i changed the carbon fiber orange skin to green.
Extract the Carbon fiber apk. Then i wanted to change to colour scheme from orange to green so i used the res/drawable-hdpi from the evolution skin by extracting with winrar as this uses green png's. Copy the green png from the extracted evolution res/drawable-hdpi to the extracted carbon fiber res/drawable-hdpi. You will need to go through each png and just replace the orange png as the carbon fiber skin has some parts in this file.
Then take a look at the png's in the extracted carbon fiber res/drawable-port-hdpi. You will see the ones used for the home screen button colours (there the one's that are orange) Here is were photoshop comes in. You can remake the buttons or simply edit the colour of the existing png's your choice. I also changed the colour of the clock numbers from silver to green. Then replace your modified pngs with the ones in res/drawable-port-hdpi.
Next you can change the wallpaper and preview pic in the assets/image.
Now you need to add the modified folders with winrar. Open the original orange carbon fiber.apk with winrar and drag the modified assets and res folders from the modified extracted carbon fiber, to the archive. It will now replace the folders. Then close winrar.
Next you need to resign the apk with autosign for it to install. Please read the instructions on the autosign thread. Once auto sign is set up just right click on the modified carbon fiber.apk and click resign APK, wait a few seconds and job done!
I hope this info comes in useful. If i have missed anything please let me know and i will add it.
That's great! Thanks!
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original_ganjaman said:
I hope this info comes in useful. If i have missed anything please let me know and i will add it.
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Thanks for the guide. This will come in really useful!
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Dear original_ganjaman:
First thanks for your guide.
I had Edit Skin .apk's.
But when I change the png that name is lockscreen_arc_incall.png in res/drawable-hdpi.
It always can't show on lockscreen.
Can you tell me why.
Thank you.
laphone said:
Dear original_ganjaman:
First thanks for your guide.
I had Edit Skin .apk's.
But when I change the png that name is lockscreen_arc_incall.png in res/drawable-hdpi.
It always can't show on lockscreen.
Can you tell me why.
Thank you.
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That png is for when you are receiving a call. Edit lockscreen_arc.png, thats the one you want.
original_ganjaman said:
That png is for when you are receiving a call. Edit lockscreen_arc.png, thats the one you want.
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Thank you for your answer
original_ganjaman said:
Hi all.
I thought i would write a basic guide on how to modify a skin apk the way YOU want it. There are some great skins being made, but often the colour scheme is not the way you might like it. I am new to android so if i have made any mistakes please let me know and i will correct ASAP.
I hope this info comes in useful. If i have missed anything please let me know and i will add it.
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Dear original_ganjaman:
How can I change name of skin??
I try use apktool to do.
But apktool like can't decode skin's apk
I got way to change name of skin
Thanks
I downloaded a win rar for a dock,
and I have no idea how to get it onto my phone, I have tried to read this, but I'm just soo confused I don't get it.
superdaddy said:
I downloaded a win rar for a dock,
and I have no idea how to get it onto my phone, I have tried to read this, but I'm just soo confused I don't get it.
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Which part are you stuck on? I don't understand how far you have got.
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Which part are you stuck on? I don't understand how far you have got.
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I downloaded this dock and wanna put it on my phone.
http://dutchlimits.deviantart.com/#/d324v1v
superdaddy said:
I downloaded this dock and wanna put it on my phone.
http://dutchlimits.deviantart.com/#/d324v1v
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It is for launcherpro. I don't use this sorry. it is not a skin but a whole dock replacement.
I have only been using android for around 2 weeks, so i am new to this.
Edit: i took a look and it is a skin for launcher pro. install instructions seem easy: Taken from the readme.txt:
Install:
- Download launcherpro
- On home: Press menu -> Preferences -> Appearence -> Dock background -> Custom
Can anyone tell me, after edit the apk file, how can i change the name of the skin and author?
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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thnx!
thnx guy, this is useful 4 all the newbies on the field of edition skins!! xP
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