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How to port a theme?

Hello everyone. I have been using a theme called enoch for cm5.0.8, white widow rom, and I love it. Its a dark theme with blue highlights. My question is there any way to port it to work with cm6? I am using kaosfroyo and would like to see if I can port some of the graphics. Any help? Thanks!

PimpShit420 said:
Hello everyone. I have been using a theme called enoch for cm5.0.8, white widow rom, and I love it. Its a dark theme with blue highlights. My question is there any way to port it to work with cm6? I am using kaosfroyo and would like to see if I can port some of the graphics. Any help? Thanks!
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Switch file names to the one you want and resize. Thats all it takes. Ive ported from Hero/N1/DROID/G1 to our phones with just doing that and no issues when using MetaMorph.

Im not quite sure I follow you? Why would changing the name help? Also the maker of this theme only makes it flashable via recovery as of now. Is it possible to port it to metamorph?

by the way I am using your theme as of right now Kevlar. I like it alot!

PimpShit420 said:
Im not quite sure I follow you? Why would changing the name help? Also the maker of this theme only makes it flashable via recovery as of now. Is it possible to port it to metamorph?
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Some times the file name might be different from G1 to the Eris. So then you have to rename it to the Eris file name. Easiest way to do it is to compare from an Eris ROM. Then you have to resize to our size.
PimpShit420 said:
by the way I am using your theme as of right now Kevlar. I like it alot!
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Thank you. Glad you enjoy it.

I am really new to all of this. Can any theme at all be ported to our Eris? I would really like to have this one on mine running CM6.
The theme is on Droid-forums.net and is 24k Black glass by Cuttalott. I can not post links yet. Sorry. I do not believe posting that is any rules infractions, but I do not post here very often.
Being from Pittsburgh, it obviously would be right up my alley, but I don't think it is possible. He doesn't have it running yet on CM6, but his other ones are. Is this anyway possible or is it out of the capabilities of our device. Like I said, not trying to bother people here, just too new to know what can and can't be done.

eghill1125 said:
I am really new to all of this. Can any theme at all be ported to our Eris? I would really like to have this one on mine running CM6.
The theme is on Droid-forums.net and is 24k Black glass by Cuttalott. I can not post links yet. Sorry. I do not believe posting that is any rules infractions, but I do not post here very often.
Being from Pittsburgh, it obviously would be right up my alley, but I don't think it is possible. He doesn't have it running yet on CM6, but his other ones are. Is this anyway possible or is it out of the capabilities of our device. Like I said, not trying to bother people here, just too new to know what can and can't be done.
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Any theme can be ported. Just look into making MetaMorphs and compare file names and sizes. Its that easy. Only time consuming part is resizing.

Might wanna give this a shot hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737526

There us a theme porting script over in the main theme forum,i haven't had a chance to try it yet, but definitely plan on it
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rEVOlution port for G1 (mdpi)

METAMORPH THEME
This is a super quick (and dirty) port of the rEVOlution theme by manup.
Its not complete but most of the important parts are in it
if people are interested then ill try and add more
if i shouldnt put this up then pull it
Again i didnt make this just ported it to mdpi and put it in a metamorph so anyone can use it
Download Link: http://www.multiupload.com/EH5O9TPX6M
Original Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736487

AWESOME!!
downloading and testing now.

SoCalSpecialist said:
AWESOME!!
downloading and testing now.
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let me know how it goes bc i opened it up and its 99% hdpi images.....i dont know how he ported it mdpi....seems like he just copied and pasted the hdpi pngs only...maybe like 2 statusbar images seemed ok....that's it....but as far as it working...id like to be wrong since it is a solid theme.

opasha said:
let me know how it goes bc i opened it up and its 99% hdpi images.....i dont know how he ported it mdpi....seems like he just copied and pasted the hdpi pngs only...maybe like 2 statusbar images seemed ok....that's it....but as far as it working...id like to be wrong since it is a solid theme.
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didnt work at all to be honest.
i went thru the files and they were all still hdpi.
major let down homie..can we get someone to actually do this

my bad posted wrong folder..ill get the right one up when i get home from work

lilwing said:
my bad posted wrong folder..ill get the right one up when i get home from work
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Which ones up now?

Awesome theme when it gets ported.
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lilwing said:
my bad posted wrong folder..ill get the right one up when i get home from work[/QUOTE
its all good..ive subscribed so hopefully tonight i can apply this thing. ALSO can you post some screenies of ur own with the theme applied.
Original Android <3ers! said:
Which ones up now?
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the hdpi version,for devices other than the G1, Hero & Eris.
loki154 said:
Awesome theme when it gets ported.
u are correct..its gonna be killer on my device.
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SoCalSpecialist said:
lilwing said:
my bad posted wrong folder..ill get the right one up when i get home from work[/QUOTE
its all good..ive subscribed so hopefully tonight i can apply this thing. ALSO can you post some screenies of ur own with the theme applied.
the hdpi version,for devices other than the G1, Hero & Eris.
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COME ONNNN!!!
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This is great, but there are a couple of things that are still way to big (lockscreen, check boxes and radio button e.t.c). If someone can point me to where I can get the images sizes for MDPI I am happy to resize them, I just don't know what size they are supposed to be :S

l0st.prophet said:
This is great, but there are a couple of things that are still way to big (lockscreen, check boxes and radio button e.t.c). If someone can point me to where I can get the images sizes for MDPI I am happy to resize them, I just don't know what size they are supposed to be :S
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same here... check boxes, radio buttons, text boxes and dropdowns are HUGE!
and could you post a screenshot so we know what has been changed... like the 3G and signal icons? Mine didn't change to the look like the ones in the thread you posted.

He wrote that uploaded theme is wrong and upload the MDPI late on. For those who don't know the size of MDPI .png you can view them from your original MDPI folder in framework-res.apk
I can help with resize too

I have been watching this thread for a while to see if it would be updated, but no luck...if anyone has any luck porting or getting the proper size icons and whatnot, I would be very interested in the theme...

oh... i thought the new one was already uploaded... i guess i'll just have to have some patience then

sydtrakked said:
oh... i thought the new one was already uploaded... i guess i'll just have to have some patience then
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The status bar is the right resolution, but pretty much everything else is still too big. I am looking at resizing the rest myself, but I am having trouble with the .9 files. I have been reading tutorials but still, very confusing...

l0st.prophet said:
The status bar is the right resolution, but pretty much everything else is still too big. I am looking at resizing the rest myself, but I am having trouble with the .9 files. I have been reading tutorials but still, very confusing...
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Use the LCD density changer app, I'd upload but I can't right now. If you set it to 120 everything will look better. Try that.

many of u have seen the screen shots and u kno it works. the key factor is that this theme ( personal experience here ) works best on a 2.2 ( froyo ) rom.
yes some things are still out of wack.. but the status bar and notifications flow almost perfectly, the rest can be changed by the user anyways.

Smoked Glass Themes

I came across some pretty sweet themes but they dont seem to work with 6.1 Cyanogen. Anyone think they cant port/set them up for the Slide? I think it would be pretty rocking...
http://droidpirate.com/2010/09/09/theme-nextheme-for-cyanogenmod-v6-rc2/
Seems this is a more updated version of the above theme?
http://m.droidforums.net/forum/koush/103771-theme-cm_6-1_-final-nextheme.html
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http://droidpirate.com/2010/09/09/theme-perfect-smoked-glass-for-cyanogen-v6-0-0/
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http://droidpirate.com/2010/09/09/theme-smoked-glass-esque-for-cyanogen/
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Good luck and anyone that pulls it off is the best!

As far as I could tell from at least the first link, they're HD themes. Gotta resize everything in the framework.apk as well as every individual res folder for each skinned app.
But the LauncherPro theme you could use. Be wary that it's an older version of launcherpro.
I thought these were gonna be the smoked glass themes someone posted from the nexus one forums. ;p
Gotta say these do look nice

I am looking into using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737526
Theme importer script.
Seems very promising. But if they need to be resized i dont think this script can handle that... as for the Nexus ones.. how do they compare? and i think the nexus has the same resolution? probably wrong about that lol Just recently got into the whole android moding scene so learning alot

Nexus One is like 800 x 480, we're 320x480 ;p But I heard the N1 is more of a quasi-WVGA. I wouldn't know. I just know it's got a higher resolution.

No fun! Oh well was hoping What other phones themes are compatible size wise with the slide? Maybe i can find a theme for them and convert it...didnt notice anything about screen resolution on the tread so i didnt think it mattered. Also seen something about a pixel densety changer and wonder if that will do any good?

Well looking on wikipedia. i checked out the resolutions and the regular droid seems to be of the same resolution and those themes seem to be for the droid?

also does HDPI and MDPI refer to the resolutions or just the icons? Like should any MDPI theme work on any MDPI phone?

I physically opened the themes on the page and checked the framework.apk's. They have to be resized for our phones.

hm i see. well i hope someone can get these up and running!

The theme porter script has an image resizer that MIGHT work, never actually used it. But it could just make everything look vertically stretched, circles look like ovals, etc, because HDPI is a different aspect ratio than MDPI. Worth a shot though.

[REQ] Galaxy S theme for CM7/Tmobile Engine

Has anybody done a Galaxy S theme for CM7 engine? Maybe the nhnt11 could do it if he's already got the framework from his NTSense theme, it'd be easy to drop in the new PNGs.
Anyway, fingers are crossed!

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I really want the touchwiz framework. Sense and Motoblur frameworks are out, why not touchwiz?

Find me a hdpi and mdpi framework and I'll try make one

Someone please make it

waiting for it

Try captivate theme on market
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kevin2516 said:
Find me a hdpi and mdpi framework and I'll try make one
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This should have most of what is needed for the framework, it is a theme for Cyanogenmod 6 for the Evo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831865&highlight=galaxy+theme
I don't think there have been any MDPI phones with the modern touchwiz interface.
Here is a full rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790080&highlight=JH7
If I get a chance I can extract just the framework folder and send it to you as well.
I would love to see this, we would have all three of the big manufacturer interfaces just a couple of clicks away.

Or a port of Nextheme which is just jazzed up galaxy s.

laydros said:
This should have most of what is needed for the framework, it is a theme for Cyanogenmod 6 for the Evo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831865&highlight=galaxy+theme
I don't think there have been any MDPI phones with the modern touchwiz interface.
Here is a full rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790080&highlight=JH7
If I get a chance I can extract just the framework folder and send it to you as well.
I would love to see this, we would have all three of the big manufacturer interfaces just a couple of clicks away.
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Thanks, i'm going to try resizing the hdpi drawables to mdpi, might take a while xD. Or... I might release it for hdpi first :O

kevin2516 said:
Thanks, i'm going to try resizing the hdpi drawables to mdpi, might take a while xD. Or... I might release it for hdpi first :O
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Yeah just do hdpi first

It has long been looking for this theme, really want it.

kwajda said:
It has long been looking for this theme, really want it.
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Check my motoblur thread, I uploaded one.

See this: https: / / market.android.com / details? id = com.rmgeren.theme.captivatedfree & feature = search_result not work for me (no battery status, and Statusbar.)

@kevin2516 you do not have to resize anything, theme engine does it. All you need for mdpi is title_bar_xxxx (medium, portrait) resized.

ZduneX25 said:
@kevin2516 you do not have to resize anything, theme engine does it. All you need for mdpi is title_bar_xxxx (medium, portrait) resized.
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oh really? ahahhaa, but then again, i want to resize the whole framework for mdpi, so it looks clearer and better/sharper etc.

hmmm do you really think that makes any difference?? but that's your time, so will be waiting

Lol im done, will upload tomorrow.

You are quick

Done. check my motoblur thread.

is there any theme?

[Q][Suggestion]A CM7 rom based off of Windows Phone 7?

Here's an idea,
With all the hype and excitement of the successful WP7 OS, many apps are being made for android phones to copy the look of WP7. One of the best launchers in the market based off of wp7 is Launcher7. It has good customization like change the tile colors, Background, option to have a wp7 style status bar, etc. And there are apps being made to duplicate the look of the music player app, contacts app, Photos app, etc.
What i am proposing to u developers is to make a WP7 rom based off of cm7 and using these look-alike apps to replace the stock apps. It would be very pleasing to the Sprint hero and the android community.

its not possible all the win7 devices are hdpi so nothing would be compatible with the hero witch is mdpi however theres as good alternative home launcher called launcher 7 i believe and theres a couple of themes floating around as well.

Bierce22 said:
its not possible all the win7 devices are hdpi so nothing would be compatible with the hero witch is mdpi however theres as good alternative home launcher called launcher 7 i believe and theres a couple of themes floating around as well.
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Bah, it would just be png resizing. A fair amount of work, but not impossible.
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That's actually not a bad idea, but it wouldn't really be a ROM, since CM7 is the ROM. If it's just using the launcher and some other WP7 apps, all it would need to be is a flashable zip to put the apps in /system, the user would just have to remove the stock apps. And yes it would be a lot of png and 9png work, but could be done. Of course if the hdpi-mdpi converting was done, each user could also just use the WP7 apps they like, moving them into /system and deleting apps with whatever method they like.

The point is i want to replace stock apps with wp7 themed apps as much as possible. Also shouldnt apps be made for both hdpi and mdpi? cuz some apks i see when i look in them to mod some parts of it theres a hdpi folder and a mdpi folder.

XGodOfModzX said:
The point is i want to replace stock apps with wp7 themed apps as much as possible. Also shouldnt apps be made for both hdpi and mdpi? cuz some apks i see when i look in them to mod some parts of it theres a hdpi folder and a mdpi folder.
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Sure, if you are going to run apps on a hdpi device. For just the Hero, no, you wouldn't need to, and you could probably delete the hdpi folders to save space.
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user7618 said:
Sure, if you are going to run apps on a hdpi device. For just the Hero, no, you wouldn't need to, and you could probably delete the hdpi folders to save space.
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Delete them using 7zip while keeping everything in a apk file so it stays signed? You know what? This encourages me to start getting into android development, I need to figure out how to use androidSDK.
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http://www.wp7android.com/
Saw this site the other day, they started a project called WP7Android and I saw that they are gonna start development for Roms for the "popular devices", wouldn't the hero be popular? Even though its outdated, it was the first android phone to have HTC Sense. And it seems like our hero is still pretty popular here at xda-developers especially after it being out for 1.5 years. I will be watching this site for info for cdma hero.
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