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Help with making a custom lockscreen

I usually make a custom wallpaper for my lockscreen or homescreen everytime I switch a rom but so far they are pretty elementary mostly because I have no idea what the hell I am doing lol. I am on a mac so I am working in GIMP but I have a few things I cant figure out. I am uploading a picture of what I have so far. I would like the black areas around the pictures to be semi-transparent and the edges of the pictures themselves to be rounded slightly to give it a smoother feel. I will upload the individual pictures also. I would much rather learn to do it myself but I understand if for whatever reason no one wants to show me. Believe me its not the end of the world. Just something I like to have so when I pull my phone out at work I can see my family. That is me, my wife, and daughter,by the way. ....oh I also wanted a small slightly-less transparent box around the time and smaller but proportional boxes around the sprint and date. I know its alot but I got this image in my head of the perfect lockscreen and not a clue on how to get it to the phone lol.
oh and the reason I posted this in CDMA and not themes and applications was because I wasnt sure if to get the transparency it would have to be update.zip style and I wasnt sure if it made a difference if the phone it was being flashed on was CDMA or GSM. Oh and I am on modaco 2.0

I've got the photo shop experience for this, but I can't seem to find the images in com.htc.resources.apk or lockscreen.apk that need to be edited. If you can point out which images control the lock screen, I will help you with this.
I'll write a quick how to later when I have a linux box/gimp at my hands.

I was just looking into this myself. I know that any overlays are a file known as lockscreen.topedge. I am not good with Photo shop so I havent tried but I downloaded a lockscreen and extracted the .apk and found that image to be the overlay. You could create a picture and use the wand function to single out the background, add transparency to it. I wish i had to the time to mess around with it but work isnt the place unfortunately.

kbizzle said:
but work isnt the place unfortunately.
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I wish work wasn't the place for this kind of stuff

Well it would be if i owned a laptop. Lol Hopefully I can dig in tonight or tomorrow and see what I can do.

The 1st part of what u need I can probably help with, u want the black background semi transparent and the pictures of you and your family rounded a bit correct? That's what I understood from there. The second part I'm not so sure of still

I see in gimp that there is a menu layer ->transparency but I cant see how to make certain regions transparent and if I try to make the whole image semi transparent I do not know how to preserve that transparency through saving, transferring and applying the image to the phone. I figured it would be better off as an overlay as NOJs lockscreens are but I am unexperienced in update.zip and how to sign and package them. I could push them via adb but I am not sure where to push overlay images to the lockscreen. Thanks for all of the help yall are giving me I really appreciate it. This stuff can get frustrating nice to have helpful people in the community.

I am not sure if you are willing to pay a few bucks for it, but i know that Noj is taking requests for custom locksreens for a small donation.
You can find Noj's custom lockscreen request @ Flipz's GeekFor.Me HERE
p.s. I would love to see someone write a quick tutorial on which files need to be edited to make our own lockscreens.

Im really hoping to learn how to do it myself I'll go broke as much as I change the pictures on my lockscreen(about twice a week) lol

The reason you are having issues is due to you probably not following a correct workpath in PShop/GIMP. Use layers/masks/etc.

really he would make u pay money for a little project -___-, well since i dont work today let me take a shot @ this, ill post up what i done later

rockcrawler said:
I am not sure if you are willing to pay a few bucks for it, but i know that Noj is taking requests for custom locksreens for a small donation.
You can find Noj's custom lockscreen request @ Flipz's GeekFor.Me HERE
p.s. I would love to see someone write a quick tutorial on which files need to be edited to make our own lockscreens.
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I stumbled coincidentally in this thread. I wrote a tut for Desire HD recently, since this mod is one of the easiest around anyway. This should answer all your questions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907477

Looking for a palm pre style theme

When i had my g1 i remember someone making a palmpre style theme....is there a way i can find it again?

Darkstar has the rounded notification bar like palmpre

Im fairly sure the dev of that theme was given orders from Palm to stop using their copyrighted images.

open home has one..
and i believe GDE has one as well..
check the market.

I went looking for it too. Found a video and a C&S letter, but nothing else yet. Oh well maybe something will come up.

He(@l3wish) was working on it a few weeks ago,posted it to his Twitter,and took it down within the hour he posted it.....try asking him for it.

That theme is somewhere in the old theme section is called "Screwpal" if im not mistaken. But the one thing you'll be having problem with is getting it on your phone, unless you can port it to one of thew new ROM's out.

Links were removed b/c palm didnt want the images used, i was able to make a palm theme using darkstar with launcher but cant release cause i dont want a letter either

here is dwang v1.13 it has a palm pre just flash and boom donut palm pre dont know if it helps but here it is sorry new users cant post urls
www dot mediafire dot com/?eijnmyyyv0m
replace dot with .

Cool thanks man, downloading now. I'll see what happens

Works for me thanks man.

no problem glad i could help

Hi,
you can flash the Advxromlauncher, it looks like Palm Pre.
here ist the link : http://fubu.googlecode.com/files/customization2.8.zip
Inside the Zip is the Launcher zip, flash it.

[Q] How to build this particular theme ?

Folks,
In the topic "Post you homescreen", I saw this marvellous one.. ( I attached it )
To be honest it's like the best i've ever seen..
Without any doubt I send a pm to the user but i think he is quite busy and couldnt reply me.
I've been searching the internet for about 3 days and i did find nothing..
I couldnt even find how to make such a dock ( with texts ) ..
downloaded ADW - launcher pro - dxtop lite - ... nothing works.. no themes around at all similar to this.
Is there anyone who has a clue about how to build such a theme ?
cuz its definitely not a single file to install

you think that is the best you've ever seen!!!
sorry it's just that i hate orange themes

From what I can see:
LauncherPro
The dock icons are posted on this forum actually. "TallMin" by Lekky
The theme itself (statusbar etc) I don't know. Run it through UOT. It's black with orange icons and Rounded Battery, no big deal.
Widgets:
Pure Messenger
Beautiful Widgets
BattStatt
SwitchPro
Transdroid
The music player can be any. They all have that certain feel to them.
The icons on the homescreens I don't know about. Probably something popular
Check DeviantART > Customization > Icons > Dock Icons > Most Popular Ever
It's extremly basic stuff here, it's probably all been mentioned a million times in "Post your Homescreens".
BTW: LauncherPro doesn't theme your statusbar.
You're gonna have to be rooted in order to change it.
And I'm sorry but: You've been searching the internet for three days? That's pure bull****! If you'd been
searching for three days you'd know all this three days ago.

ljbaumer said:
you think that is the best you've ever seen!!!
sorry it's just that i hate orange themes
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Well, the reason i said that is, i really like simple and pro looking themes..
I've been using I9000 for about 3 weeks, and just started to customizing it..
thats why im quite new about this stuff.
The majority of the themes i saw until now is containing too much stuff in a small screen which i really dont like .. thats why when i first saw this theme i thought this is it !
but anyways i'll keep looking .. thanks for your comment ..

I'll now try to run thorugh what you've written Hope i'll get something similar at the end..
I dont know much about being root .. i need to do a quick search about that..
Well , searching internet for three days.. yes but meanwhile i am doing my second year uni project and writing a few essays so thats not an actual three days time i am not a dumb
anyways i am gonna update the post ..
P.s i couldn't quote your post, it does not allow me to post external links ..
Update: I was really confused about everyting .. starting from what you've writtin i've done what i want , thank you [zHk3R]

[Q] Finding amazing theme

Community,
I am sorry to make my first post a request. I was browsing through this forum the other day and came across an amazing theme/rom (cant remember which). I didn't know a whole lot about how to do what so I went to investigate what I needed to do to get my phone to look that cool. Now that I know what to do, I cant find the post that had the theme/rom. Here is what I know.
-It was in the past day or so that I found the post and I am pretty sure it must have been in one of the first pages of the captivate forums.
-It might not have been the main theme in the post, and instead been a link posted at the start (crediting the inspiration of the theme)
-There were pictures of screen shots in the post
-Its look was very metallic, almost rusty
-There was a circle segment going across one of the screens, I think it was the dock on the main screen
-very simple, dark and apocalyptic
If anyone has any clue which theme/rom this might have been, I would be forever in their debt. I would also appreciate any advice on how to search better for this...I have been at it for hours.
Thank you so much,
Dezdemona

oops!
10char

could it be this one..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=813497

Thanks for the reply. I do like that one, but it isnt the one I was referring to. The one I was looking at had a brownish red type feel to it.
Dez

Who knew? My browser history actually came in handy. This is the one I was looking for, if anyone is interested.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915041

Different animations when swiping home screen?
Does anyone know what them or launcher uses the option to change how you swipe through your homescreens?
Also, when i was running COG 3.04 i had a scrollable bottom dock bar..can't seem to figure out how to get it. Couldnt find it in the options menu's.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Coreym said:
Does anyone know what them or launcher uses the option to change how you swipe through your homescreens?
Also, when i was running COG 3.04 i had a scrollable bottom dock bar..can't seem to figure out how to get it. Couldnt find it in the options menu's.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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The reason you had a scrollable dock in cog 3.04, was because it came packed with launcher pro (I think..). Launcher pro has the option to have multiple docks. It also has different transition options between homescreens.
Another that does the aforementioned is adw.
Hope this helps!

Dezdemona said:
Who knew? My browser history actually came in handy. This is the one I was looking for, if anyone is interested.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915041
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So you are running a HTC Droid Eris theme on your phone?

That's a nice theme, I'm likeing the keyboard/keypad interface. Has a very fresh/clean look to it, I wonder if I could use it somehow..

What happened to the black theme called Cogul?

One of the main reasons I bought a Samsung phone finally, was the fact that I could change the way TW looked (I hate the colors they use). The black theme called Cogul was perfect, and I am unable to find it. Is there any way to still get this? Anyone know if it will be back on the Samsung store?
Thanks.

As far as I know we saw the video and posts for it from some tech sites, but I never saw it on my actual device yet. I got mine as soon as it came out on VzW and my buddy has the T-Mo reg S6 and doesn't have the theme either. I assumed the update hasn't come yet.
If you're impatient like me (lol); use Nova and just change the icons... similar effect. I use a black background and icons "3K SR black.."

psufan5 said:
One of the main reasons I bought a Samsung phone finally, was the fact that I could change the way TW looked (I hate the colors they use). The black theme called Cogul was perfect, and I am unable to find it. Is there any way to still get this? Anyone know if it will be back on the Samsung store?
Thanks.
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see the link below
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/31sk6w/samsung_prepping_a_lot_of_galaxy_s6_themes/