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[Theme] Mélange v 1.0 for CyanogenMod 4.2.x

All new Mélange 1.0
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New version with Stericson's lock screen:
New!All versions to be found here
If you're a Google Wave-er, try this:
Code:
with:public mélange for cyanogenmod
*** Warning: This theme contains themed versions of Google apps, so if you would like to be able to revert to stock 1.6, be sure to make a Nandroid backup (or backup individual APKs) ***
Icons for some Market apps:
ChompSMS
Hi MSN
StreamFurious
Twidroid (or other Twitter clients)
Blank icon background
Thanks to all of XDA - noone mentioned, noone forgotten. You have all in some way contributed, willingly or not!
But I can't help but mention Cyanogen, Irrenhaus, Ohsaka, Stericson and jonnybueno
/Mats

looks good

good job.
more screenshot pls.

Nice job on the theme man. I've been using the Smorg theme for awhile, and now SmorgWhite. I like what you've done with this. Really like the icons also. I'll try to flash this right now and see how I like it. I'll give you some feedback when I'm done.

Alright I downloaded the .zip file for the theme. When I went to flash it for whatever reason it wouldnt' let me. kept giving me a failure notice. I'm not sure why it did that. Deleted the file and tried to download it again. STILL not able to finish the entire flash. HELP!!!

JimmyJayCEO said:
Alright I downloaded the .zip file for the theme. When I went to flash it for whatever reason it wouldnt' let me. kept giving me a failure notice. I'm not sure why it did that. Deleted the file and tried to download it again. STILL not able to finish the entire flash. HELP!!!
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Yeah, I tried to flash this too. I don't think you signed it correctly. During the flash, it aborts saying something about IM apk failure.
Nice looking theme though. I love the icons. Hope you can fix the issue bro

this is my favorite looking theme but i'm getting an error when i try to flash
Verifying update package...
E:Wrong digest:
system/app/ImProvider.apk
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
love the fact that it's very B/W and the new icons are hot. would like to have voice search still but i can deal without it.
would be cool to keep the status bar icons from smorg 1.8 to keep the true B/W feel going.
beautiful theme, thanks for the contribution, hope i can get it on my G1 soon.

Darn! Worked on my phone. I'll check out what's wrong.
Edit: Resigned, and test installed on my own phone. Worked. Please report if it still doesn't work on your device. (Replaced original browser with new browser while I was at it)
/Mats

thanks alot bro. i'm gonna test it now
lol, sorry bro. you fiddle with one thing, seems something else doesn't want to work. and i think your phone runs fine with it because whatever is missing in the update is already on your phone so it doesn't ve any issues. maybe if u do a clean wipe or ext3 wipe and then flash your theme you'll see the error which is:
E: Wrong digest:
system/app/Browser.apk
E: Verification failed
Installation aborted.
I assume it's issues with the icons after you changed them or something because the last issue was IMprovider.apk and now it's Browser.apk

Thanks for the heads up. I'll give it another go.
/Mats

New version up.
This time, I wiped, flashed CyanogenMod 4.0.2, Flashed Melange 0.9.2, pulled out SD card and rebooted. Worked. Keeping my fingers crossed it'll work on Your phone too.
/Mats

hey bro thanks alot for working on this. it works! ...keep up the good work- just a suggestion if you'll take it--- the theme could use a few touch ups where the icons are in the notification bar (they seem to be surrounded a little bit by rough black edges from what i am seeing. thanks.

No need to thank me - I should thank you for volunteering as guinea pig.
If I'm to publish this, (besides just using it on my own phone) I'd better make sure it's at least possible to make it run on someone elses phone
Yeah, I know about those status bar icons.
When I started off with this, I had the intention of making them with a slight bevel around. Didn't turn out all that well, so some are beveled (or surrounded a little bit by rough black edges as you so eloquently put it! ), and some are just with transparent backgrounds. Now that I made app icons, I think I'll try to get the status bar icons to match too.
/Mats

sounds awesome. keep up the great work. you're one of the few guys who bothered to skin the icons and to me that makes a huge difference on how great the g1 can look. i wasn't feeling the smorg icons but i loved the smorg theme, so i tried using the bettercut method but that took forever to appoint random icons, and it also slowed my phone down. you've pretty much done what i wanted for my phone, so thanks bro. i'll be looking forward to your updates if you keep it up.
now it's time for me to sleeeeeeep

yay it works
i feel the same way as opasha. i like the smorg theme but wasn't a fan of the icons and when i tried to change them with better cut but my phone started to get choppy, the icons you created are beautiful.
i did manage to keep voice search/dialer. not sure how exactly, i flashed over smorg without flashing back to the unskinned CM 4.0.2, maybe that had something to do with it. keep up the good work and truly a wonderful theme, thanks for sharing.

Alright so I was able to finally flash this theme. So far so good. I noticed the "bevel" effect on the notification bar, but really not that big of a deal. VERY hard to see unless you're looking for it. LOVE the icons as well. Which theme are those from, or did you do them ALL yourself? either way Imma run this theme for a little while and I'll give you some feedback and suggestions later today. Any ideas on the horizon? One thing I did notice is that the keyboard is different....which makes sense. The transparent one of Smorg is SICK. All the initial checks are good, be back later with a full report

Thank you for helping me - Really appreciate it.
Plans are enhanced browser (no zoom buttons), icons for all default apps (and keep the ones i don't need/want/use in the update), nicer status bar icons.
In fact I am now running a version with new browser and new status bar icons - but I'm reluctant to release it to the World after this mornings (my time) debacle.
If you'd like to be my crash test dummy, you can try 094 here
Thank you!
/Mats

0.9.4 is working perfectly for me. wow, this is everything i want in a theme. thank you so much. can't wait to see what's next
edit: one thing that would be neat is to replace the notification icons to match the rest of the theme

JimmyJayCEO said:
LOVE the icons as well. Which theme are those from, or did you do them ALL yourself?
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Icon background is my own. very simple with 2 gradients in a rounded rectangle actually.
The actual icons are mostly by a guy/gal by the "name" of chrfb on DeviantArt. A few apps I didn't find anything matching for, so I had to come up with something myself, like Super User.
riddimmaster said:
edit: one thing that would be neat is to replace the notification icons to match the rest of the theme
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Thought I had! What icons specifically? And in what way don't they fit the rest of the theme?
Thank you for your feedback
/Mats

ing about the
I was talking about the gmail notification icon, it's the default one, unless something messed up when I was flashing.

{Official thread} New lockscreen.. Questions?

So here it is, been meaning to do this for a while but I've been so busy....
First of all, the credits for the new lockscreen go to two people.
JDWME -- Came to me with the idea of building a lockscreen for a theme of his, and as a result JDWME pretty much designed the look of the lockscreen, meaning the layout. So if you like how it looks, you can thanks him for that. He is the designer, so to speak.
Stericson --- If JDWME is the designer then I am the Architect. I took the images from JDWME and the idea of what he wanted and built it. It took me well over a month to do this. I dont have alot of timke for Android with school, family, and work....so you may see why it took so long.... I also implemented features of my own such as the fade in and out animations and the settings panel.
JDWME will continue to have a large influence in this lockscreen design as I consider him to be a partner in all of this.
Others who have contributed to the lockscreen: MoonsSpoon (Text shadow, makes text stand out on lockscreen), Manup465 (suggested having two different images for the docks instead of one)
Moving on...
One of the most important things I want to point out is as follows: If you flash a theme with our lockscreen you wont be able to simply switch to another theme without the lockscreen without having to reflash a full update...
Why, do you ask?
Well, I'll tell ya....The themes that have our lockscreen have 4-5 files in theme for the lockscreen to work. These files include, Settings.apk, framework.jar, framework-res.apk, services.jar, and android.policy.jar.
Most other themes only contain, at most, framework-res.apk and services.jar. So when you flash this other theme without the lockscreen, my android.policy.jar is looking for things inside of framework-res.apk that are not there annnnnd you get a bunch of problems.
What can I do about this?
What you can do is pull these files out of the full update and flash them back to your phone is going back to a theme without our lockscreen. Then your issue will be resolved...just make sure you do this in recovery.
What else?
Until Cyan puts this in his build I cannot make this perfectly compatible with his build. Mostly because it is difficult to absolutely replicate his source. This means that the video controls not working, will remain that way until he officially releases the lockscreen in his build, which he has made announcements that he would but again it is his build and it is his choice whether or not he does so and when he will do so....
Anything Else?
If there are any other questions about the lockscreen or things you might think are occuring because of the new lockscreen, please post them here.
Also, I always, always update my twitter on things first. Its just the fastest way I can get information out to people. If you would like to know this information when it becomes available, please visit my twitter and follow me so you can be notified when these updates are made.
www.Twitter.com/Stericson
Lastly, In the next post, at a future date, I will share information on how to do some advanced tweaks/tricks to the lockscreen, mainly for theme devs who want to make it a bit more different.
Thanks for your support guys/gals,
Stericson
Source for the lockscreen can be found at: www.GitHub.com/Stericson
I support anyone building onto this project and advancing it in any way.

Made a video tutorial for Hex editing the lockscreen to change the font colors, check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h8kzHTp6fA (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMvVxtuZgk (Part 2)
Stericson

Thank you stericson, you've done so much for android theming. Can't wait to see what new features you will be adding!

Good work stericson. I appreciate everything you do.

If you are running 4.0.4 just pull services.jar, framework.jar, framework-res.apk, and android.policy.jar. All of these go into /system/framework. Also, pull settings.apk and put it into /system/app. then you should be good to go.
Also, it doesnt matter to me whos you use...Let me clarify, when I say JDWME was the designer I mean the icons being at the bottom, the clock and date being at the top, etc.
While other themers may theme it and make it look different, it will still retain JDWME's layout that he chose to use for the lockscreen.
Regards,
Stericson

I agree thank you so much!!!

This thread should be stickied since there are both themes with new lockscreens and themes without, and chances are people will flash without reading about what they're flashing. So it will be easier to point them to this thread and let them know what to do if they run into problems.
Thanks Stericson for all the awesome contributions since day 1! Great job on the lockscreen too.

Question n hopefully i don't get flamed since having to do with this lock screen. Has the music been fixed or is there already a thread talking about that, that i have missed? Sorry if there was
But yes like Prash said please sticky this

imbonez9 said:
Question n hopefully i don't get flamed since having to do with this lock screen. Has the music been fixed or is there already a thread talking about that, that i have missed? Sorry if there was
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The music hasn't been fixed, it still says "Music controller, work in progress!" I can't wait for the music control to happen, I've been longing for it for a while, as someone who uses his phone regularly (~3 hours a day) to listen to music. I even dabbled with Hero for the lock-screen music controls, but Hero was just far too slow.
And thanks Stericson for your hard work and opening this thread - I've been searching for a thread like this for a while.

Hello stericson!!for first,thanks you for all your great works!!!...but i have two questions:
1)the battery in the lock screen is moved to the left..what can i do for changing battery position??
2)the message icon in the lock screen is inactive..it is normal??
excuse for my english and thank you again!

im trying to use this in a theme but i cant get the t-mobile text on the pull down to turn white

Thanks Stericson! Love it! one quick question,
Do you know if this is regarding your lock screen or specific themes. When receiving calls it current stays on the lock screen so i am unable to see who is calling unless i press menu first. This is ok normally however is rather annoying when catching a call late and having to enter a call blind so to speak.
Thanks again and some more top work!

good work. I do have a concern though. There's a lot of files involved, and this kind of renders the lockscreen usable only for the framework version it was designed for, since further changes (or backwards compatibility) could pose a problem. Do you think it would be possible to have the android.policy instead call on a separate program and launch a custom lockscreen, making it, thus, slightly more modular. Cyanogen's builds are a moving target and, though his framework hasn't changed much lately, i do feel it's going to be useless once he gets more work into donut and abandons cupcake for good.

iCe87 said:
Hello stericson!!for first,thanks you for all your great works!!!...but i have two questions:
1)the battery in the lock screen is moved to the left..what can i do for changing battery position??
2)the message icon in the lock screen is inactive..it is normal??
excuse for my english and thank you again!
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I need screenshots of your battery position...In the newest updates the battery should always be centered, make sure you have the newest updates...
The last icon, undetermined yet what it will be, is inactive.
As for the problem with the lockscreen not unlocking when a call comes in, this is not a lockscreen problem, rather it is a problem with my status bar mod. I believe I may have found a bug in Googles code....Still looking into it...
Also, this will still be good for donut. Cyan is going to implement this into his source and it will be available on all builds there on. As for making a custom app for the lockscreen, calling a method in android.policy.jar... It would still require changes being made to these files which would have to be done on every rom, and it would still be rom specific...so it wouldnt solve anything...I have provided my source so this can be put into other builds....
Stericson

Do to your tough schedule do you expect another month or so for the music control and the undecided icon to be updated

nabzilla1990 said:
im trying to use this in a theme but i cant get the t-mobile text on the pull down to turn white
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Have you tried the colorChange.jar thread? I use that everytime an update comes out with the files from the lockscreen and have not had an issue

I can't say...I'm sorry...this is why I made the source available...maybe someone could do it faster then me?
Stericson

Curiosity. What would happen if theme was changed to 1 that doesn't contain this lockscreen?

bruce_wayne said:
Curiosity. What would happen if theme was changed to 1 that doesn't contain this lockscreen?
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if you did this without flashing the ROM in between, then you're in for quite a number of FCs from multiple programs

Stericson said:
I need screenshots of your battery position...In the newest updates the battery should always be centered, make sure you have the newest updates...
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thanks you for the answer...in this screenshot u can see the battery position and the sms icon (that appears decentralized)
thanks again..

[Theme] CM-Hero 4.2.12.2 [MetaMorph.apk]

Hello everyone,
Back in the CM-4.0.2 days, I briefly used the HTC Hero 1.5.0 theme from tehseano.
I have now taken bits and pieces of it, and updated it for CM-4.2.12.2.
Please note that this replaces the classes.dex file in services.jar. This theme may cause problems with any other version of CM, and may not work with any other ROM. If in doubt DO NOT apply the services.jar subtheme.
If you would like the Power Control Widget theme in the screenshots, it is located here.
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Thanks to tehseano for the initial theme.
EDIT:
I forgot to make it clear that this theme can only be applied with MetaMorph.apk
Edit: Increased version for 4.2.12.2
In the future, themed music widget, themed calendar widget, and some fixed icons are coming. Please bear with me, it is near the end of the semester, and I am working full time, and going to school full time.
4.2.11.1 has re-vamped dialer icons.
The Power Control widget theme is now included.
Music Widget is now included also.
I have not forgotten about those that want a Dwang's ROM port, I am looking into it.
I am also going to work on a version to be flashed over Stericson's Lock.
Hopefully the next release will also include themed music/calendar/search widgets.
Sorry about the gap in updates... The holidays are a hectic time.

Dang it.
Apparently 4.2.6 made some changes to the Phone.apk images... it will look a little off until I can rework the images. You could just skip that sub-theme until then.

m0zes,
are the highlights green or orange selecting icons or in search and browser?
i love the power widget, hope that you addressed music and search widget accordingly.

My time in the notifications is still black, any suggestions?

matthewboii said:
My time in the notifications is still black, any suggestions?
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It sounds as if you did not apply the services.jar sub-theme. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but the reason I have to use that piece is because those colors (for date and time) are hardcoded in the classes.dex file. I wish there were a better work around, but this is the best I can do for the moment.
shtuka said:
m0zes,
are the highlights green or orange selecting icons or in search and browser?
i love the power widget, hope that you addressed music and search widget accordingly.
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Hilights are supposed to be green with this theme.
I will fix the music widget in my next release, and update a couple of the browser icons. (Browser highlights correctly, but the colors are off on two of the icons)

m0zes said:
It sounds as if you did not apply the services.jar sub-theme. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but the reason I have to use that piece is because those colors (for date and time) are hardcoded in the classes.dex file. I wish there were a better work around, but this is the best I can do for the moment.
Hilights are supposed to be green with this theme.
I will fix the music widget in my next release, and update a couple of the browser icons. (Browser highlights correctly, but the colors are off on two of the icons)
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I like the theme helped me out on my morphs on how to get ther .jar files working....love the power widget! please theme the music widget so it can look similar
keep up the great work

Wow, I Always Preferred The Hero Themes, Just A Suggestion; Can You Port This To Dwang's Rom
Thank You And Keep Up The Great Work

what's the name of the topmost widget? The one with wifi/bt etc toggle?

tristan202 said:
what's the name of the topmost widget? The one with wifi/bt etc toggle?
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That is the "Power Control Widget" (Part of Donut, themed with this.)

Sorry I don't have an update for 4.2.7.1 yet, guys. Full time work and School hasn't left me with much time as finals are coming up. I am going to try and have an update this weekend.
I'll also look into posting a theme for Dwang's ROM.

Great work, it makes me love my G1 all the more.
Even with the small issues with clock and dialer, this is a fantastic Morph!
School > Making our G1's pretty. Finals week incoming.
Edit:Failed at reading whole thread first.

4.2.7.1 is posted. I am hard at work attempting to theme the music/search/calendar widgets and fixing a couple of images that aren't of the quality I would like.
I have fixed the dialer bug in this release.

Thanks for the update. I've been patiently waiting on it....

ive never used metamorph before but is it supposed to take forever on "framework"
it was taking to long and it kinda of killed home to the point where I had to unlock my sim card.So i exited out of the program and everything seems to be running fine except all my widgets were not loaded.
should I try again and let it finish?

J.a.M said:
ive never used metamorph before but is it supposed to take forever on "framework"
it was taking to long and it kinda of killed home to the point where I had to unlock my sim card.So i exited out of the program and everything seems to be running fine except all my widgets were not loaded.
should I try again and let it finish?
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framework-res should take 30-45 seconds (maybe more with the latest MetaMorph update)
Widgets are notorious for needing to be re-added after theming. You should delete them and re-add them.
I am also replacing a decent number of icons in the Home screen, so Home will generally need to be reloaded afterward.
Not to mention the fact that any changes to framework-res should be followed by a reboot .

m0zes said:
framework-res should take 30-45 seconds (maybe more with the latest MetaMorph update)
Widgets are notorious for needing to be re-added after theming. You should delete them and re-add them.
I am also replacing a decent number of icons in the Home screen, so Home will generally need to be reloaded afterward.
Not to mention the fact that any changes to framework-res should be followed by a reboot .
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yea I ended up doing that
I "morphed" framework and the other last one separate and rebooted.I dont know what it does but everything is working so Im happy.
I was looking for a hero theme for the longest on 4.2.7.1 so thanks

Everything worked out fine with the install. I started to leave my job last night and turned on my bluetooth headset. It would not connect at all. I was thinking to myself, "This guy is taken this hero s*** too far. No working bluetooth!!!" I just rebooted my phone and the bt connected again, LOL! Other then that BT prob, everything is working just fine. Thanks again for your work.

SG_Shadow said:
Everything worked out fine with the install. I started to leave my job last night and turned on my bluetooth headset. It would not connect at all. I was thinking to myself, "This guy is taken this hero s*** too far. No working bluetooth!!!" I just rebooted my phone and the bt connected again, LOL! Other then that BT prob, everything is working just fine. Thanks again for your work.
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Heheh, maybe I could try that for the next version
I may be able to get it to nuke a driver somewhere...

I have a question, can I delete the files the theme creates?
I have 700 images now on my phone and going into gallery to look at my pics and wallpapers is like going through a jungle.

@m0zes:
You should put a .nomedia file in your morphs, that would solve the issue with the images showing up in the gallery.
You can take the file from other morphs cause it's universal and contains no data.

Creating themes/bootscreens?

Hi clever people!
Ok so it's taken me a few days to really figure this thing out and decide to root my T-Mobile UK G2 Touch (Hero or whatever) and after doing it, I installed villain4beta2 which at first I liked. however I've had it a day now at work (it get used alot at work) and its just not right.... things seem nicer and perhaps a touch faster but with silly errors. for example even when I'd disabled open home and put sense back on it kept coming up with force kill open home *sigh*
anyways i think I'm going back to a rooted stock rom because i dnt really want much from my phone i only rooted it to create "full" themes for it, apart from maybe apps2sd perhaps. This brings me on to the point...
So, I want to theme it, I know this can be done via open home ahome and other desktop replacement apps but they all seem to slow my phone done compared to sense - plus i like sense, and even when i use them I cannot a)edit the notification bar
b)change the bootscreen
so I want to know if the following few things are possible and point me in the right direction...
-create MY OWN bootscreen (not one off another phone)
-change location/fonts/colours on notification bar
-change the colours/font of the sense buttons (phone add apps)
this lot is probably way more complicated than i imagine, however I have made F0 (firmware - flashed) themes for the PSP, so i think i can handle this, its just i know very little about android atm. So please take pitty on me and point me in the correct direct of what ever is possible...
mattyyey

c'mon guys! can you at least tell me how to make a bootscreen - what files are involved etc?
(FYI i have a rooted stock ROM now - 2.73.110.26)

have a look at /system/media, in 1.5 roms you will find a folder called "bootscreen", in 2.1 roms there is either a folder or a zipfile. have a look at these, then ask your specific questions here after you did a search.

I would also like to know how to make/create/customize themes.
bootscreens are easy enough, what tools and files are involved in the theme and where can we locate them?
Do we need to get the sign tools etc from the dev of the ROM were creating it for?
Thanks in advance

edit the pngs inside the apks. do not unpack them, just update the files inside them. do not resign them with anything. and there is no rom developer key, there are the testkeys from htc.

Cheers kendong, your a gent.
I thought there would of been more to it than that, best fire up photoshop and alike

dully79 said:
Cheers kendong, your a gent.
I thought there would of been more to it than that, best fire up photoshop and alike
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goes without saying that i expect a spectacular theme in return

Guys check out PHAELOX's guide linked in my sig,... Its bang on.
Here's the one PHAELOX helped me make.
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It plays in portrait, with black bars at the top and bottom.

ddotpatel said:
Guys check out PHAELOX's guide linked in my sig,... Its bang on.
Here's the one PHAELOX helped me make.
(edited to remove repitition)
It plays in portrait, with black bars at the top and bottom.
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that is beyond awesome. tell me youre working on a theme to go with it!

seyer0686 said:
that is beyond awesome. tell me youre working on a theme to go with it!
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You like?.. Nice one. Themes are something I'v never looked into. I might do some research. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.
Thanks.

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edit the pngs inside the apks. do not unpack them, just update the files inside them. do not resign them with anything. and there is no rom developer key, there are the testkeys from htc.
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Wow I so forgot about this thread! Thanks kendong2 I have a lot of it figured out now editing apks and making bootscreens... and getting the final customization via sweeter home. LCARSoid is basically finished apart from a few widgets.
I have yet to figure out how rearranging the notifications bar is done or fonts. I know fonts can be done tho.
Anyways thanks, I managed to piece it together in the end. :-D
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(3/7/2011) TRANSPARENT GLASS(colors) email/sms CHT 2.0 Wdgts-Use W/any Wallpaper!

THESE ARE TRANSPARENT AND CAN BE USED WITH ANY WALLPAPER!​
Thanks to Dunc001 for his incredible work with his theme and CHT mods we are now able to create EMAIL/MESSAGING widget themes without having to change any of the SENSE MAIL tabs Mode9 or QTC files. What that means is that we can skin the widgets and have no affect on the sense mail tab so there shouldn't be anymore problems with these skins crashing sense or anyone having to worry about using the CFC cabs or the noCFC cabs because every skin cab will work for every rom and every phone that is WVGA. So for the HD2 users that were having issues with some of my older skins those issues will not be issues any more.
INSTRUCTIONS: (THESE ARE NOT OPTIONAL)
(STEP 1) If you have the email widget already on one of your CHT pages you have to remove it.
(STEP 2) Install (Mcluvn Mail_wdgt_Mode9.cab). Then restart sense or soft reset the phone. This is Dunc001 new mode9 file for the new email widget. If you don't install this cab first the email widget WILL NOT get skinned.
(STEP 3) Install one of my Trans_Wdgt cabs. Then restart sense or soft reset your phone.
(STEP 4) Add the email and messaging widgets back onto your CHT pages where ever you want them and I assume that everyone knows how to change the font color on the widgets using CHT EDITOR by now so I'm not going to get into that to much but for black fonts don't do anything or the code is 0,0,0 and for white fonts the code is 255,255,255 your done.
Note: If you want to change between these skins you need to uninstall the Trans_Wdgt cab that you have install at the time and then restart sense before you install one of the other skin cabs. Its never a good idea to install theme cabs on top of one another.
THANKS AND ENJOY EVERYONE!!!!
Trans_Mail_wdgt_Black-Glass
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BLACK GLASS WITH COLOR HIGHLIGHTS
Trans_Mail_Wdgt_Blue_Glass_Hi-Lights
Trans_Mail_Wdgt_Green_Glass_Hi-Lights
Trans_Mail_Wdgt_Red_Glass_Hi-Lights
Trans_Mail_Wdgt_Sharkie_Blue_Glass_Hi-Lights
Trans_Mail_Wdgt_Yellow_Glass_Hi-Lights

Also for later......

And this one.......

Oh yeah this one to.......

These look great!
Thanks Mcluvin...looking forward to trying these out....

works great so far on my tmo hd2. thanks!

wow. Once again you've done it again! Thanks for the share

great mcluvn..
will try this...

Thanks guys Im glad you like em. I got some colored versions coming soon.

Looks awesome brotha!!

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Looks awesome brotha!!
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Thanks it took me a little while to get all the transparencies correct so that the text was still visible but yet still be able to see the wallpaper throw it.
Colored cabs are posted in the 2nd post. ENJOY!!!!!!! EVERYONE

What´s up? Nice job.... See you´ve been further playing with illusions and now with transparencies. Thanks for all the work and sharing with us

Thanks for sharing. Worked like charm TP2 NRG ROM, it completed my transparent setup on cht2.

hi luv ur work could this work on cht 1.8

Hi mcluvn,
very good to see that you have done the next step .
But here i have find back the next issue where ideas from some other CHTS team members and me are used, but this was planned for the next CHT 2.1 Update. I mean the Mcluvn_Mail_wdgt_Mode9.cab file. In this cab file is the 6AC2AEA17_manile file. It is a mode9 control file. The idea that is used here, was defined for the next update. How do you get these information?
Because this was never discussed public. And Ber, rat_2665, santod and me we have tested between 26. December and 30. December a special CHT 2.1 update system. So now this part for the next update is public.
This makes a general CHT update difficult, because we are still trying to find out all the information that was leaked out of the CHTS and CHTA BETA and where it has been used.
Could you please help us where you got this information?

mike2nl said:
Hi mcluvn,
very good to see that you have done the next step .
But here i have find back the next issue where ideas from some other CHTS team members and me are used, but this was planned for the next CHT 2.1 Update. I mean the Mcluvn_Mail_wdgt_Mode9.cab file. In this cab file is the 6AC2AEA17_manile file. It is a mode9 control file. The idea that is used here, was defined for the next update. How do you get these information?
Because this was never discussed public. And Ber, rat_2665, santod and me we have tested between 26. December and 30. December a special CHT 2.1 update system. So now this part for the next update is public.
This makes a general CHT update difficult, because we are still trying to find out all the information that was leaked out of the CHTS and CHTA BETA and where it has been used.
Could you please help us where you got this information?
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I got the file from Dunc001 theme THEME THREAD. His theme has been out for awhile now. Sorry for the early release of the mode9 file but I didn't know that it wasn't public yet. Other than that I don't know anything else about any leaks. If you want I can pull the cab off the thread but I think a number of people have already got it.

nice job!!!

Hi mcluvn,
i have modded a little bit your glass blue. Look for yourself. It is done to have the personal note for the 4 seasons theme from nordpolcamper.

That looks pretty good. nice job. I like to see others mod my work and what they come up with.