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Would anyone be interested in a Themed BlackPad variant that would look like the attached photo?
Like all my ROMs, it would have a clean setup, nothing useless. It would be optimized for both speed and memory and stability. It'd just be a variant of my CleanROM.
Yes, killed, the "glossy" look but I like it that way. It would have HTC Album replacing the standard picture app, and a few other things... I'm just brain storming. I might release it along with my Kitchen whenever I find all the bugs with my current CleanROM beta. But for that to happen, I need people to HELP ME TEST IT!!! lol
Anyways, this ROM will be completely themed. It will have everything (or everything I can) looking black with as little white as possible. (Except for the white letters of course.) All backgrounds and all will be black.
There would be a Herald version and a Wing version.
I have a few apps in mind...
When PointUI becomes more stable and allows skinning, this will extend that way.
im interested, my home screen on all of my devices is black.
maybe you could include ui tweaker with the latest .sys
I think it is slammin. I will help test it for you. I have a tmobile wing. Right now I have open touch on it and I am looking everyday for bigger better things! I would love to put my 2 cents in it.
I will definatley help you test it if you would like and I think using HTC Album would be very awesome and not to mention all the black it will look flush oh and that point ui thing seems pretty promising but judging from the skreenshot it wouldn't be too missed because that home skreen looks [email protected]
I think thats a very good idea. The photo looks great, I really like the icons. I will help you test. I have been using pointui for the past couple of days and its actually pretty dang close to being ready to go. The creators are very active in making fixes for it and there are only a couple of issues that I have found. Have you found a way to skin it?
here is the today .tsk (just copie to \windows\)
and the icons for htc home.... (you need hhccustom to use)
and the icons for htc actionscreen. (just copie to \windows\)
have fun.
btw - it is not stolen from ivan - it is a today screen from me. he wanted to cook the rom....
ivanmmj said:
Would anyone be interested in a Themed BlackPad variant that would look like the attached photo?
Like all my ROMs, it would have a clean setup, nothing useless. It would be optimized for both speed and memory and stability. It'd just be a variant of my CleanROM.
Yes, killed, the "glossy" look but I like it that way. It would have HTC Album replacing the standard picture app, and a few other things... I'm just brain storming. I might release it along with my Kitchen whenever I find all the bugs with my current CleanROM beta. But for that to happen, I need people to HELP ME TEST IT!!! lol
Anyways, this ROM will be completely themed. It will have everything (or everything I can) looking black with as little white as possible. (Except for the white letters of course.) All backgrounds and all will be black.
There would be a Herald version and a Wing version.
I have a few apps in mind...
When PointUI becomes more stable and allows skinning, this will extend that way.
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That looks great bro,
My first time uploading a theme I did for Sense 2.1.
Its based on Burberry's Original, Black and Purple Checks. This includes the background and clock of Sense 2.1. I can't make a screen shot, so sorry about that, maybe someone who tried it can be kind enough to post it for me.
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Checked out your theme. Very nice clock...I am not very familiar with Burberry the colors for the wallpaper are they the right ones? if you had something a little brighter or lighter it would show up better against tabs, programs and other options. I took some screen shots and will upload them for anyone who wants to see the good work you did. Thanks, I will find a place amongst my collection of clocks that actually work as they should.
Great job and hope to see some more quality work from you. Maybe a theme that could go a little futher and skin other buttons and options?
Chavtastic!!
Update 2(Jan 20, 2010): We have just released the white and black themed dialer to Android Market(Look down for how to find it). Please see the screen shots below. Hope you'll like it. Any feed back is welcome
Update 1 : Thanks everyone for the replies, that's more than what we expected Right now more people like the black/white one than the other, we will probably go with black/while. (right now it's blue though). For people who want to try it out, the blue one can be found on android market, please refer to the bottom of the post about how to find it.
We are working on a new Dialer project, and here are two sets of UIs we decide to use, and would like to know which one you like more
Our designer like the white/black one, I (the developer) like the blue one myself.
The blue one except the dialer part is in the Market already, if you like, you can search for "movesti" in Market, then in the result look for "AContact". (Just type "AContact" won't work)
most definitely the white and black one
They both look outstanding, but I'm leaning towards the blue one.
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I am liking the Blue one alot but the white would look good with the theme that are out these days.
looks good!!! would def use.
Black and white for sure
Definitely the blue, very sexy
The black and white
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Blue
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black and white... blue needs some contrast, maybe blue and more black?
Black and white.
should have made this a poll. i like the black and white
black and white
Black and white. The block of just blue is too much, either it needs to be contrasted with something (white?) or scrapped for something else (green/white?).
Black & White looks clean and sexy
I think they BOTH look awesome. I would use either one. I know that's not very helpful, but it doesn't help that you made two awesome looking UI's either.
Hmmmmm.... But if you really need input, I would prefer a dialer that's pretty much all black, with tron-blue highlights to the buttons when selected.
Other than that, I can't wait to try these out.
Black and white would be easier to use in brighter light conditions, but I really like the blue one. It would look much better if the sections of screen above the letterpad and dialpad were blue headers and white sections though - I agree with the previous comment that there is just too much blue!
So i tried using aContact from the Market. When opening, the app says it's importing my contact data, then quits and displays an error in a toast notification. I tried emailing, but it says that movestiatgmail.com does not exist.
The error I receive is:
"An error just happened:java.lang.StringIndexOutofBoundsException: String Index out of range. -1"
Any ideas?
wow - the black white
They both look amazing. I am leaning more toward the black and white one but I would definately switch it up.
Is there a reason most themes for Captivate are made of mostly 2 colors? I read once that back when LCDs were not-so-good, a sharp contrast made the screen look better and the text easier to read(or something to that effect).
But the screen on the Galaxy S is very, very nice. So why the lack of color options? Is it a popular styling? Emulation of something more popular? Lack of creativity? Power consumption?
I'm not saying all of the themes available are like this. I've used PaulDiddy's theme in the past, and I loved it. It really showed off the screen and gave everything on it some life. Looking through the offerings that come with ROMs, their custom replacement themes, and the Themes subforum, I'd say the majority of themes offered exhibit this duo-chromatic characteristic, but in the I9000 theme directory thread, many of the themes are colorful, some to an extreme. But getting these themes to work with Captivate ROMs seems to involve just as much work as making the theme itself.
This is not meant to be a rant. I would like to know if I'm missing something about black+a color themes, or some sort of reasoning to the trend. Then again, if I'm completely off base and there are, in fact, more color themes than I'm seeing, then by all means, let me know. I'd far prefer that to a 'that's the way it is, get used to it'-type answer.
My best answer would be because people like consistency. The background one color with the text and other items another color. Too many colors and it gets confusing quickly.
Also with the type of screen we have, black as a background uses less power so that is the norm
WTF are you talking about? There are themes for the captivate in a multitude of colors.
There is one for mosaic (an earlier version as we just updated the ROM and haven't ported the themes yet) called rainbow bright. It is rainbow colored. ROYGBIV.
Not to mention all the other themes we have.
And this is just speaking of one ROM.
Take a look at fusion, that is a HEAVILY themed ROM...
Idk where you have been looking where all you see is black and white.
ugoff said:
Is there a reason most themes for Captivate are made of mostly 2 colors? I read once that back when LCDs were not-so-good, a sharp contrast made the screen look better and the text easier to read(or something to that effect).
But the screen on the Galaxy S is very, very nice. So why the lack of color options? Is it a popular styling? Emulation of something more popular? Lack of creativity? Power consumption?
I'm not saying all of the themes available are like this. I've used PaulDiddy's theme in the past, and I loved it. It really showed off the screen and gave everything on it some life. Looking through the offerings that come with ROMs, their custom replacement themes, and the Themes subforum, I'd say the majority of themes offered exhibit this duo-chromatic characteristic, but in the I9000 theme directory thread, many of the themes are colorful, some to an extreme. But getting these themes to work with Captivate ROMs seems to involve just as much work as making the theme itself.
This is not meant to be a rant. I would like to know if I'm missing something about black+a color themes, or some sort of reasoning to the trend. Then again, if I'm completely off base and there are, in fact, more color themes than I'm seeing, then by all means, let me know. I'd far prefer that to a 'that's the way it is, get used to it'-type answer.
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Ever tried fusion no black and white there.
Currently Fusionized
Hi guys,
I have updated to stock sense 3.0 on IS OTA yesterday, but immediately I found that the look/feeling on our IS is quite different from which on Sensation (in the bad way).
I know 3.0 was originally targeting QHD display not WVGA, and the screen ratio of Sensation is different from which of IS. But, as an official UI product, IMO, you either do it well, or don't do it at all.
1) the notification UI, I could easily notice that there are three sections: top bar displaying network operator's name; middle layer showing 8 recent apps; bottom the biggest notification area. The problem is that these 3 sections look soooo separated (split by a thin white/grey line), you can see the top bar has gradient colour variation from grey to black, the middle layer has black background with grey dots, while the notification area is just white. They are just so not consistent and the white/grey line in between them makes the feeling even stronger!!
I don't think I have the same feeling in sense 2.1 or in 3.0 on Sensation.
2) if you open the app drawer or personalize panel, apart from the inconsistent feeling described above, you will find there are a thin white/grey line on each left and right side. what the reason did they put these two lines here? it feels like (take app drawer as example) the black area displaying the 16 apps was poorly PhotoShopped on top of something and HTC were rushed pushing out the OTA without having a proper designer to make the 3.0 on WVGA look as close as possible to which on Sensation...
Again, on Sensation or stock sense 3.5 on Rhyme, you only feel comfortable looking at those UIs.
3) when you pull down the notification panel, on the bottom of UI, the black bar with 8 dots on left and right side and one single dot in the middle. if you look at the left side of this bar, you will see a thin white/grey line while on the right you won't! If HTC deliberately designed those white/grey lines on other UIs to compromise the screen ratio difference between IS and Sensation, why didn't they keep both side the same?
OK, above are just three main problems I found, of course, the font size is not ideal but, well, we had over sized font on 2.1 in the beginning...
Oh, by the way, can someone confirm on your official OTA 3.0, you have similar thing as I described above? Just in case my update was somehow, broken... (Silly question cos broken=unsuccessful update. but this time I am really disappointed in the 3.0 on IS)
Hope we will have a next update from HTC soon to make the UI look better otherwise I may consider root and go customizing...
H_H
yes, i have the official unrooted update. Everything you described is correct.
You can see that sense is a layer over android instead of build in. It becomes even more clear if you change the skin to blue, it becomes really inconsistent when you see the blue or when you see stock android colors.
What bothers me most is that the background doesn't move anymore when sliding through homescreens.
I thought I was the only one who hated this poor Sense 3.0 update. I'm running ARHD 2.1.0 apart the last issue you described everything is the same here. Sense is badly scaled I'm really upset by that.
Thanks god I'm still soff so flashing Sense 3.5 Roms is all I want for now.
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HTC upgraded your 9 months old phone to their newest ui for free, and you complain about tiny graphical changes?
To me the important stuff is the lock screen and the 3d carousel, and the fact that 3.0 runs smoothly. I am happy with it to be honest.
It does run smooth but not stable. Updated yesterday and had +5 forced closed, the last one 2 mins ago.
dialer forced closed 2 times (can reproduce the error)
contacts forced closed 3 times (can reproduce the error)
Messages failed to link the phone numbers to the contacts 2 times stating only numbers at sms instead of contact name (only reboot solves this).
The favorites widget reloads at random, offcourse only when you want to use it, than you have to wait a bit.
esbenm said:
HTC upgraded your 9 months old phone to their newest ui for free, and you complain about tiny graphical changes?
To me the important stuff is the lock screen and the 3d carousel, and the fact that 3.0 runs smoothly. I am happy with it to be honest.
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I think its right to complain because virtuous unity properly scaled and resized the qHD sensation ROM for several WVGA devices including the IS a long time back.
I have no problems with the ui, sense is nice and smooth.
The only thing that bothers me is the presence of the good old damn dialer issue sucking the battery.
Why?
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fallenwout said:
It does run smooth but not stable. Updated yesterday and had +5 forced closed, the last one 2 mins ago.
dialer forced closed 2 times (can reproduce the error)
contacts forced closed 3 times (can reproduce the error)
Messages failed to link the phone numbers to the contacts 2 times stating only numbers at sms instead of contact name (only reboot solves this).
The favorites widget reloads at random, offcourse only when you want to use it, than you have to wait a bit.
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That sucks, I don't have any of those problems myself though.
I experienced HTCs upgrade path for the original Desire and think they have done a much better job on the Incredible S.
I agree.. Not very well scaled graphics.. And too big font.
For my taste the 2.1 with "ardesia" skin has been one of the best interface ever.
In addition I hate to put that tiny green phone into the circle to reply a call.
Just asked to customer service how to come back to the 2.3.3 waiting the next (I hope) upgrade.
Unfortunately no "official" solution for that.
Why dont you go for ARHD? It's exactly same as sensation. xD
Where can I download the official rooted of this Rom?
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alexanderi said:
Where can I download the official rooted of this Rom?
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I know of 2 people (myself included) who have attempted to produce a rooted version of the official 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 RUU/ROM but have not been successful when flashed to phones using the older HBOOT versions. The ROM will install, but will not boot past the HTC screen and you have to pull the battery.
It appears that the ROM may now be checking the HBOOT version and may not run on older HBOOT versions.
alexanderi said:
Where can I download the official rooted of this Rom?
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Take a look at Android Revolution HD thread on development forum.
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