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I'm kind of sick of using HTCH w/Customizer. Anyone have any better options? I've got about 93 different cabs sitting in a folder on my desktop and I am unsure which route to go. Which programs do you feel are essential for customization? I do require a nice looking digital clock but haven't found a great one other than HTCHOME
Here is what I have for customization other than HTCHOME:
SPB
Phonesuite
PocketPlus
Time
MobileShell
Full Screen Keyboard
S2U2 (which I like a lot cause it gives me the option to display a nice looking clock and .gif images while the phone is locked)
rL: Not to familiar with getting a great lookin, while user friendly interface, theme onto my phone.
Any suggestions or screenshots would be great. I viewed the show your today thread, which I got most of these programs from. However, I think many of them looked better with HTCHOME.
Maybe my question should be, is there a way to get rid of the 5 launch tools (today, favorite contacts, weather, launcher, sounds, and music player) and cut it down to three?
This should be the idiot of the week thread considering i never bothered to hit the download button on the customizer menu durr
It sounds like you need HTC Home Customizer. You can find it here .
lol gee thanks but i think i established that in the first sentence of the posts. Thank you for your assistance though.
redbandana said:
lol gee thanks but i think i established that in the first sentence of the posts. Thank you for your assistance though.
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WOW . I feel stupid. Me thinks I shouldn't respond to posts this late at night.
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WOW . I feel stupid. Me thinks I shouldn't respond to posts this late at night.
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lol, its cool. i guess all i really want is to only have three or four tabs with different icons but i cant find where to replace the icons on my phone. i feel stupid too.
Ok I feel like a fool now. I never realized what would happen when i clicked download under the settings. HAHAHA I GOT THE REDSox on my phone now. Sick thanks emu. Sorry for my ignorance.
redbandana said:
Ok I feel like a fool now. I never realized what would happen when i clicked download under the settings. HAHAHA I GOT THE REDSox on my phone now. Sick thanks emu. Sorry for my ignorance.
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u can maybe try rltoday
Don't forget PointUI, Throttle Launcher, the LG Prada Interface and SPB MobileShell as your today screen.
You should check out the development and hacking forum more often
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Don't forget PointUI, Throttle Launcher, the LG Prada Interface and SPB MobileShell as your today screen.
You should check out the development and hacking forum more often
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Definitely!
That section is the bread and butter.
I'm creating a new theme, but I have problems with this file. I followed some "how to" guides, but I still don't get it.
This image should make round corners, but I always get a wrong-stretched image. I have been working on this for some days and I don't get, maybe I'm too stupid, can somebody help me?
PD: of course I used drae9patch and other method, but , no way
just make it 320 pixels in width and you can avoid signing it.
draw9patch is useless without having eclipse set up. eclipse is what allows for the stretching to be maintained. however, like david said, you can just scale the image to that width without having to worry about using the more complicated methods of stretching/compiling a .9 png.
I thought about this too, what, you know, that's the easy way and I wanted the hardest and best way, but I didn't know that eclipse is necessary for this. Now, I know, and until I learn about eclipse, I will use your method.
Thanks to all!. It's nice to have guys like you here
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I'm creating a new theme, but I have problems with this file. I followed some "how to" guides, but I still don't get it.
This image should make round corners, but I always get a wrong-stretched image. I have been working on this for some days and I don't get, maybe I'm too stupid, can somebody help me?
PD: of course I used drae9patch and other method, but , no way
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hehe, you're doing what I did with Darkstar I can edit the .9.png for you, but what'd be the fun of that? you've got to edit the .9.png so that it only stretches the area between the black curves. If you've already done that then the problem is how you're using eclipse. It is really tricky to get eclipse set up to work right, but you need to do it eventually if you plan on making themes. Just keep reading through the tutorial and you'll get it eventually ^_^ It took me a long time to figure it out at first too
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hehe, you're doing what I did with Darkstar I can edit the .9.png for you, but what'd be the fun of that? you've got to edit the .9.png so that it only stretches the area between the black curves. If you've already done that then the problem is how you're using eclipse. It is really tricky to get eclipse set up to work right, but you need to do it eventually if you plan on making themes. Just keep reading through the tutorial and you'll get it eventually ^_^ It took me a long time to figure it out at first too
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Of course, I'm using this idea, remember I asked for help by private message, because I think this size fits better with the widgets in your theme, but I didn't get answer, so, I decided to make my own theme and ask for help in a own threat. I was going to give you credit in the future theme's thread for the idea.
My problem was, that I didnt use eclipse, that's why I got crazy. So, until I learn how to use it, I'll use a 320px png.
Thanks
if you use 320px width then in landscape mode it'll looks bad..
Barina said:
if you use 320px width then in landscape mode it'll looks bad..
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when it is an image like that without much detail it will look fine, i know because i did something similar to what the OP was wanting to do. if you do it with an image that had a lot of small detail then it will look odd in landscape.
What Barina said has sense, but I tried and, as David said, it still look fine.
So it works, thanks, again
You can see the results here, later I'll post a screen of landscape too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=595285
Ohhh very nice! Glad it worked for you and waiting for the landscape version
making a bug
G1/MT3gThis is my first attempt at a mod/theme, so take that into consideration. It is a modded launcher for cm4.2.7, But I believe it will work on all of his- somebody needs to try it on earlier versions for me to verify.- Chris
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G1/MT3gThis is my first attempt at a mod/theme, so take that into consideration. It is a modded launcher for cm4.2.7, But I believe it will work on all of his- somebody needs to try it on earlier versions for me to verify.- Chris
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It just looks to me like a launcher we've already seen with a grid over it. I'm glad you're learning the process but we need a little more than that please.
Eh, he's trying. That's more than I've done.
Agreed, no use in putting it down, if you want to make the case of 'we've seen that launcher tab before with a minor change' I'll point you to all the hero themes.
Thanks for sharing at least. Hope more and more people are encourage to try out theme editing.
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Agreed, no use in putting it down, if you want to make the case of 'we've seen that launcher tab before with a minor change' I'll point you to all the hero themes.
Thanks for sharing at least. Hope more and more people are encourage to try out theme editing.
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Exactly, its better than nothing . Nice work thus far, maybe more can come out of this like grid lines IN the launcher?
how come u haven't try this first then post it up..sme ppl not going to try it if the Dev haven't done himself
I wasn't putting him down first off I was just saying its a little plain. I'm entitled to an opinion and I didn't say anything negative.
I have tried opening the original default GDE theme to give myself a basic template to work from. I edited many photos and have a theme ready to use, however I would love to change the name and information which is stored on the AndroidManifest.xml.
Last night I installed Eclipse and all android addons, however the AndroidManifest.xml in the GDE skin I've tried editing, will not open in Eclipse.
As I am new, I'm positive I'm doing something erroneous that's simple to fix or solve, but any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance to anybody who replies.
Jon.
Nevermind!
I'm an idiot, it literally took less than an hour of reading and investigating the xda forums.
Found the APKTool to edit and change the original GDE theme.
For those of you who actually look for themes for GDE still rather than metamorph, be looking for my themes.
Jon.
sounds promising.
.. GDE has been a bit dead lately..hopefully u can revive it.
I hope. I've tried all the home replacements, and GDE is the only one I'm really interested in. Anybody have any suggestions? I'm working on multiple colors of the hero first, nearly finished with them all..
If you all know any specific theme types I should work on that would target some crowd, all suggestions are appreciated.
theres a nexus, hero, cliq, and few other device ui's that are badass which have all been created..but no one has created an Espresso one..might wanna give that one a gander.
Funny, I didn't think of trying any of those, however the only one you mentioned having not being done yet, is the one that inspired me. Haha, I have an espresso one. It was created by someone I believe from this very community.
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theres a nexus, hero, cliq, and few other device ui's that are badass which have all been created..but no one has created an Espresso one..might wanna give that one a gander.
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Lier, there's a one called bokeh and I'm using it <3
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Lier, there's a one called bokeh and I'm using it <3
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oh sssshiiit..
nevermind op.. this dude was right
good looks!
This is one I've got so far, needs some alignment on the bottom buttons, but so far so good.
Let me know what you think.
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This is one I've got so far, needs some alignment on the bottom buttons, but so far so good.
Let me know what you think.
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i can barely see it..
whats the middle icon?
I just wanted to say how ez it was to pose as some noob ... (samsungfan05) on IRC and get the knowledge of how to change the status bar on Generation X to the Revolution 3.6 solid black bar. All you have to do is, go into the framework.apk that is in your theme that you want to use as the base using your rar/zip program and drag n drop the images from the framework in the theme you want to take stuff out of, into res/drawable-hdpi in the base themes framework.apk ... APKs evidently open up with zip programs so i could have been doing this since i had my nexus one. hell i think i might post my dock i used and made for my iphone it was hella slicc. The whole process is really simple as hell I just wanted anyone that wondered if you can do this sort of thing (i used to decompile and customize themes like hell on iOS) in android, you can. it's not any more involved either... just drag n drop. if you can't pull that off... kill yourself.
So, no more can you port this theme threads for me, i'm just going do the **** myself... or if someone has a requests, for a generous donation, i will port it for you since I am well on the way to doing so. Peace
There is actually a lot more to it.then just editing the drawable hdpi.folder in the framework...,most of make at.minimum edits to over to.xml.files in the frameworks......and use smali/backsmali to edit the service.jars
Also why did you have to pose as someone else to get information...,everyone is more than willing to share what they know
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I just wanted to say how ez it was to pose as some noob ... (samsungfan05) on IRC and get the knowledge of how to change the status bar on Generation X to the Revolution 3.6 solid black bar. All you have to do is, go into the framework.apk that is in your theme that you want to use as the base using your rar/zip program and drag n drop the images from the framework in the theme you want to take stuff out of, into res/drawable-hdpi in the base themes framework.apk ... APKs evidently open up with zip programs so i could have been doing this since i had my nexus one. hell i think i might post my dock i used and made for my iphone it was hella slicc. The whole process is really simple as hell I just wanted anyone that wondered if you can do this sort of thing (i used to decompile and customize themes like hell on iOS) in android, you can. it's not any more involved either... just drag n drop. if you can't pull that off... kill yourself.
So, no more can you port this theme threads for me, i'm just going do the **** myself... or if someone has a requests, for a generous donation, i will port it for you since I am well on the way to doing so. Peace
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So... the point of this post is that you want to charge people a lot of money to port themes?
Wow, that's not cool.
I also don't understand why you needed to pose as a noob to ask for advice. Are you that disliked in IRC that you won't be helped if people know its you?
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So... the point of this post is that you want to charge people a lot of money to port themes?
Wow, that's not cool.
I also don't understand why you needed to pose as a noob to ask for advice. Are you that disliked in IRC that you won't be helped if people know its you?
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good point...personally i refuse to take donations for theme ports and ive done like 5 or 6 at this point....but really again...there is much more to themes than drag and drop
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good point...personally i refuse to take donations for theme ports and ive done like 5 or 6 at this point....but really again...there is much more to themes than drag and drop
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There really is. I've been playing with it a bit in an attempt to port the NeonGT theme from the i9000 but there's more to it than swapping a few .png's and apparently I'm not totally getting it yet. A few more hours of learning and I think I'll have it down though.
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There really is. I've been playing with it a bit in an attempt to port the NeonGT theme from the i9000 but there's more to it than swapping a few .png's and apparently I'm not totally getting it yet. A few more hours of learning and I think I'll have it down though.
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in terms of total number of files? then yeah its mostly pngs...but really the xml edits are what do it imo
if you need any help with what files/programs you need to get going just pm me and ill help ya out
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in terms of total number of files? then yeah its mostly pngs...but really the xml edits are what do it imo
if you need any help with what files/programs you need to get going just pm me and ill help ya out
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Just don't forget the generous donation first
Hatespawn said:
There really is. I've been playing with it a bit in an attempt to port the NeonGT theme from the i9000 but there's more to it than swapping a few .png's and apparently I'm not totally getting it yet. A few more hours of learning and I think I'll have it down though.
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I would love if you got neon gt on my fascinate.
however I do understand all the work that goes in to it.
I'd like learn about this kind of stuff, is therea tutorial or overview anywhere?
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jordanzink said:
I would love if you got neon gt on my fascinate.
however I do understand all the work that goes in to it.
I'd like learn about this kind of stuff, is therea tutorial or overview anywhere?
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theres not one tutorial per say (well updated one) personally i scoured xda/mydroidworld/af and bit by bit have found most of what ive needed...its kinda jumbled
Demanding a donation in return for your work IS NOT a donation..... Seems like you are not the only one to make this mistake in the Fascinate forums either *COUGH*webstar1*COUGH*
jordanzink said:
I would love if you got neon gt on my fascinate.
however I do understand all the work that goes in to it.
I'd like learn about this kind of stuff, is therea tutorial or overview anywhere?
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Me 2, I would love to rock the NeonGT on my phone, i love the green theme!
u ppl...
NM... 12346
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NM... 12346
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Good riddance.
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NM... 12346
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whata duche. hey everyone, im gonna charge for this open source stuff that i ripped off someone else and changed a few icons. you can get it free from, well right here on this web site, but...give me money cause im awsome.
its one thing for a dev who makes us awsome ROM's and kernels, or themes they create them selves, hey they deserve it. but to ask for a donation for something you ripped off from some one else?? duche bag.
Cleaned and closed.