themes and launchers - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I haven't applied any themes yet to a ROM, so this is a newb question:
Pretty sure the wallpaper can be changed, but can any launcher (i.e., LP) be used without affecting the appearance?
Thanks
Edit: was trying to figure from screenshots, but appears I can?

Yes, the theme on most roms change the notification bar, settings, dialer, etc. these things do not impact the launcher.
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mcord11758 said:
Yes, the theme on most roms change the notification bar, settings, dialer, etc. these things do not impact the launcher.
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Thanks much

Check out the Captivate Apps and Themes area...Themes for most ROMs already posted along with instructions for installation.

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Dock with sms
Looks good will try
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Does it support ffc?
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ronnyzilker said:
Does it support ffc?
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Not yet. Still have to learn how to do that.
Thanks for the reply imma give it a shot.
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Looks great! Flashing now
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Nice work Dan, may have to give it a spin.
Are the new darker themes going to be flashable themes or are you going to release a whole darker rom?? Thanks
Rom ie awesome! Simple and beautiful. Going to test battery life today!
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Like this Rom!!!
Hey great work i like it so far!! by the way love the MT4G Bar!!
when you say 'touchwiz free' what do you mean exactly? just no tw launcher? or all tw apps as well? i'm going to test it out regardless, but tw contacts is the only thing i'd miss...the only thing samsung did right imo.
hey
instead of contacts icon, can you tell me how to put a sms icon there?
thanks
awaisuk said:
hey
instead of contacts icon, can you tell me how to put a sms icon there?
thanks
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It uses Launcher Pro.
You should be able to long press that Contacts Icon to bring up the "Edit Dock Shortcut" Pop-up window.
then,
tap "change shortcut"
then "Applications"
Then "messaging"
bstromberg said:
when you say 'touchwiz free' what do you mean exactly? just no tw launcher? or all tw apps as well? i'm going to test it out regardless, but tw contacts is the only thing i'd miss...the only thing samsung did right imo.
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Removed everything except the tw contacts the the tw wallpaper chooser.
awaisuk said:
hey
instead of contacts icon, can you tell me how to put a sms icon there?
thanks
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You cant unfortunately. The icons in the dock are part of the .png file. You can change the shortcut, but not the actual icon itself.
nelson0140 said:
Are the new darker themes going to be flashable themes or are you going to release a whole darker rom?? Thanks
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I think Im going to theme the whole ROM. This will be my first attempt at the theming game, so it may take a little while.
this looks pretty nice. im liking the Einherjar releases more and more. currently rolling Trigger 2.0.1
Dan_Brutal said:
I think Im going to theme the whole ROM. This will be my first attempt at the theming game, so it may take a little while.
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An accurate battery mod would be ideal. Also, never been a fan of the tw notification bar. Too much color.
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bstromberg said:
An accurate battery mod would be ideal. Also, never been a fan of the tw notification bar. Too much color.
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Accurate battery is a must have. Im going to start on the status bar and notification drawer this week.
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Hey guys. Not trying to flame as I use Loki, but seriously you're putting out way too many roms and you need to consolidate because it's getting a little ridiculous.
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Successfully Flashed Honeycomb theme on FF 2.2

I know some people were requesting for the I9000 Honeycomb theme(s) to be ported over to Captivate. For those of you who were doing so, try flashing this theme with CWM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958788. I am currently running FireFly 2.2, and haven't had any issues. The developer however did recommend deleting bootanimation.zip as it would sometimes cause a loop. I did so, then replaced it with a custom bootanimation. The screenshots in the original thread show LauncherPro being used. I however prefer ADW launcher, and it works flawlessly with the theme/ROM. Obviously its not exactly like the real Honeycomb, but it looks and feels awesome. Flash at your own risk. Take a look below.
EDIT: screenshots didnt work. see attached below...
Two more screens...
do u think it would work with cognition too? theyre based off the same rom rt?
I also flashed it to FF2.2. No issues. Looks nice!
kuherrm said:
do u think it would work with cognition too? theyre based off the same rom rt?
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I honestly could not tell you...I dont know much about the differences. I just flashed to stock, flashed FF, then flashed the theme on top. Had my fingers crossed the whole time....
Hopefully someone else here can indulge.
Found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11511162&postcount=18
Guess not. But I do remember seeing somewhere on these forums a Honeycomb theme based off of Rogers 2.2. If I find it I give you the link...
jlsesler said:
I also flashed it to FF2.2. No issues. Looks nice!
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Yes you can as long as it is Cognition 3 you are talking about (any version of 3 so 3.1, 3.2, etc.). NANDROID before though in case it doesn't
What Calendar widget is that?
Good to hear its working. I will give this a shot. I was trying to cobble one together but its lacking polish since Im just replacing images and swapping XML files...lol.
I tried the other day but I think there had been too many theme flashes and something went wrong, so I had to go back to fresh sweet FF2.2
I like those oversized app icons, source? These are for ADW?
eep2378 said:
I like those oversized app icons, source? These are for ADW?
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The icons are available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=828832
Just load to SD card, and set each icon as a 1x1 widget using Desktop Visualizer. Yes, I am using ADW but you can do this with practically any launcher. I have it set for 5 rows on my homescreen
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What Calendar widget is that?
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The Calendar is Jorte Calendar, available on the Market. Just do a search for "Jorte" The widget I am using is the Black set with 50% transparency
sandrich said:
The icons are available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=828832
Just load to SD card, and set each icon as a 1x1 widget using Desktop Visualizer. Yes, I am using ADW but you can do this with practically any launcher. I have it set for 5 rows on my homescreen
The Calendar is Jorte Calendar, available on the Market. Just do a search for "Jorte" The widget I am using is the Black set with 50% transparency
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Thanks alot.
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Are you using a dock at all? What about accessing the app drawer?
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Also what app drawer icon is that (little android guy)?
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I have the ADW settings to be a 1 icon dock with no dock background (find this under dock/advanced in settings. Just a personal preference). The drawer icon is an icon in the ADW "Eyefold" theme available on the market. Hope this helps.
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I flashed it n only have two problems, force close on contacta and drm protection service, ne ideas on how to fix?
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I dont get any force closes. What are using for DRM protection. Are you trying to play protected music? Or is it an app that removes DRM protection on protected music (like a Zune subscription)
sandrich said:
I dont get any force closes. What are using for DRM protection. Are you trying to play protected music? Or is it an app that removes DRM protection on protected music (like a Zune subscription)
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its all good, i just flashed the newest cognition so im using that for now
sorry, im mistaken. the android dock icon is not from Eyefold theme, but from "AndroidPhone7"
What widget are you using to display the day of the week?

Pure AOSP 2.3.4?

I'm looking for a aosp rom with no extra features. Completely stock with maybe bug fixes. All the ones in the development section have theme Chooser or pull down notifications(like jaybob's). Anyone have a suggestion or know of one? Thanks in advance.
just use root explorer to delete the theme chooser apk and all 2.3 roms have that notification bar if your talking about the shortcuts.
uncle_seuss said:
I'm looking for a aosp rom with no extra features. Completely stock with maybe bug fixes. All the ones in the development section have theme Chooser or pull down notifications(like jaybob's). Anyone have a suggestion or know of one? Thanks in advance.
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You can deselect the notification toggles in the phones settings menu afaik. And delete theme chooser like Bierce said.
Meant the pull down power stuff
Evervolv doesn't have the notification toggles. If i recall correctly. You may not care for the font, but that can be fixed.
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The omgb ported rom is as close as it gets on the hero. It is a little slower than CM7 roms
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I wonder while I wait... for 2.3.4 omgb... think jaybob would release a newer build without cmparts or notification power Widgets? Maybe just wishful thinking
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Transparent CM7 themes?

Any suggestions? I'm currently using MEIZU and it's pretty awesome, but are there any other themes that work with transparency like this one does?
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off the top of my head a few are:
MIUI by same author as MEIZU theme
EasyDay
LunarUi
Orion
Moto
Evoluer
Naked Simplicity
i think you should be able to find them by searching "transparent status bar" in the search form (or something similar to that)
Also your gonna need ZduneX25 pacther to get it transparent.
kijp15 said:
Also your gonna need ZduneX25 pacther to get it transparent.
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Does that include transparency in apps like Settings and Root Explorer and others?
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graphic1982 said:
off the top of my head a few are:
MIUI by same author as MEIZU theme
EasyDay
LunarUi
Orion
Moto
Evoluer
Naked Simplicity
i think you should be able to find them by searching "transparent status bar" in the search form (or something similar to that)
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Thank you, I will check them out
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leolawliet said:
Does that include transparency in apps like Settings and Root Explorer and others?
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No sir, Zdune made it so we could tweak our statusbars to make become transparent for specific themes, like themes posted graphic. But using the patcher can also be used for centering clock and such.
Some of the themes have transparent settings, contacts, dialer, mms, etc..
Wanting to have an app transparent, you'll probly have to do manually. Unless someone has already created an app that you want, that's been transparent.
kijp15 said:
No sir, Zdune made it so we could tweak our statusbars to make become transparent for specific themes, like themes posted graphic. But using the patcher can also be used for centering clock and such.
Some of the themes have transparent settings, contacts, dialer, mms, etc..
Wanting to have an app transparent, you'll probly have to do manually. Unless someone has already created an app that you want, that's been transparent.
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I'm willing to try anything at this point to learn how to make the apps transparent at this point, it'd be pretty cool to start working on themes
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leolawliet said:
I'm willing to try anything at this point to learn how to make the apps transparent at this point, it'd be pretty cool to start working on themes
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Yes, I know it'll be cool. There's some guides floating around this theme section on how to create themes for theme Chooser and for MIUI Theme Manager.
I would post a linking to those threads, but I'm not currently at my computer. Sorry about that.
But good luck on learning how to create themes, I wouldn't mind testing a few themes from you when you start building some.
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Yes, I know it'll be cool. There's some guides floating around this theme section on how to create themes for theme Chooser and for MIUI Theme Manager.
I would post a linking to those threads, but I'm not currently at my computer. Sorry about that.
But good luck on learning how to create themes, I wouldn't mind testing a few themes from you when you start building some.
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That'd be great! I have some good ideas in mind, some concepts that blew my mind and I wanna make something out of it.
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Ahh thanks for that small list I never seen some of them.

How to change app icons in CM9?

Really like the Suave HD Icons that I was using on MIUI but now that I am using CM9 I am wondering how difficult this is.
I looked a the numerous theme tutorials and it seems to get really in depth and complicated. I don't want to theme everything... I just want the icons.
Here is the link to the SuaveHD thread. Maybe someone could be kind to either explain how it's done? If it's too complicated? Or maybe just make it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330577
Thanks!
alaindesjardins said:
Really like the Suave HD Icons that I was using on MIUI but now that I am using CM9 I am wondering how difficult this is.
I looked a the numerous theme tutorials and it seems to get really in depth and complicated. I don't want to theme everything... I just want the icons.
Here is the link to the SuaveHD thread. Maybe someone could be kind to either explain how it's done? If it's too complicated? Or maybe just make it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330577
Thanks!
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Download a pack for your launcher and use it. Else, hold the icon on home screen and click on edit, manually select the icon.
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If you are using apex launcher...
tap and hold the desired icon...
touch edit..
tap the icon and touch select picture.
now you can select and icon from gallery.
I'm using Teamhacksung's CM9 build 14 and I think it uses the trebuchet launcher? Sorry, I'm still new to CM9 since I came from MIUI.
I'll have to look into that launcher. Is there performance degredation from using different launchers? I don't quite understand that part yet... all I know is that I installed the MIHome launcher and it really wasn't that great since it was mix-matching a lot of stuff.
alaindesjardins said:
I'm using Teamhacksung's CM9 build 14 and I think it uses the trebuchet launcher? Sorry, I'm still new to CM9 since I came from MIUI.
I'll have to look into that launcher. Is there performance degredation from using different launchers? I don't quite understand that part yet... all I know is that I installed the MIHome launcher and it really wasn't that great since it was mix-matching a lot of stuff.
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Just download apex or nova launcher. Whichever suits you. Download an icon pack for it and then in settings of the launcher, select the icon pack under theme menu.
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