Trouble creating icons - XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps

I'm having trouble creating Icons for the X10, I downloaded the Satio icon pack but the icons that the Satio (and S60) use are 30-40% larger than the X10 (and android) icons.
So not realizing this I used the app 'FolderOrganizer', and assigned the icon with folder. The icons are too big, Android automatically shrinks the size of the icon resulting in the icons been overly sharp and looking poor. So I started over and resized the icons but I'm still having problems with icons looking poor.
I use Paint on my PC to resize the icons,
Any ideas?

Try resizing them using paint.net. hope this helps. ;-)
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Cheers
Looks decent so far

Okay so everytime I resize the icon it looks fine on the Laptop but on the X10 it looks blurry.

I'm not great with image editing but I found some pics just don't scale well. Btw how do u resize? With the mouse or from the menu? I find the menu way keeps the image sharper
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10123 said:
Okay so everytime I resize the icon it looks fine on the Laptop but on the X10 it looks blurry.
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If you tell me which OS you have, I will be able to get the resolution corrected..

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Size of Icons question

I recently purchased better cut to change icons, great application by the way.
I downloaded the android 2.0 icons from the market, they are great.
But I am now looking for other icons to replace my favorite apps. So far I found some really nice ones on the market (X-icons 1,2,3 and 4 are very complete and beautiful) but they all are a bit smaller than the regular ones.
Obviously I can make some myself but a) I don't know the resolution of the icons and b) it is quicker to get them somewhere on the internet
Does anybody knows where I can download icons for the X10?
Cheers,
Arnold
inorder to have quality display minimum Icon size should be 72px by 72px with 72dpi rez. preferably RGB to display most colors correctly.
I know u understand this very-well.
Ps: let me know what specific icons ur lookingfor, I might be able to get it 4 you

Large Icons

Can anyone give suggestions on how to get an icon to overlap multiple slots. Launcherpro allows you to resize widgets, but if you use an icon to resize it doesn't make it bigger just centers it, thoughts?
I've never tried this but what if you reduced the number of rows and columns?
Desktop Visulizar
Download Desktop Visualizer from the market
THanks Toatman!!
large icon
Glad to help
Does anyone know how to make the icons in the dock of LauncherPro bigger? I have put some icons on my dock but they are too small for my liking. I have searched this board and online for a while, and I haven't found a solution.
I just want my dock icons bigger.
bump - anyway to do this ?
Don't think you can make them bigger. I think the size is 84x84 but if the icons you're using has transparent pixels around it, that would make it seem smaller.
You could try lcd density changer, and just go bigger instead of smaller like everyone else is doing. Default is 240, try 280 maybe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768809
Try Multicon in the market
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[Q] customize status bar to a white theme?

I have a white xperia, ive been looking at ALOT of forums and I dont understand code that everyone posts up, all i want to do is make a white status bar with the blue like font that usually on the background of the x10, is this impossible???
egyptshun said:
I have a white xperia, ive been looking at ALOT of forums and I dont understand code that everyone posts up, all i want to do is make a white status bar with the blue like font that usually on the background of the x10, is this impossible???
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I't possible. However it's a lot of work. You have to redo all the icons with a paintprogram. Rynoons actually made a white statusbar for the X10, see here:
rynoons modified framework-res.apk: (post #43)
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The white statusbar looked really awesome on my white X10. However a white statusbar has some problems though.
-The color of the clock can't be changed as far as I know. That's why Rynoons added a black box. However when a message appears in the statusbar (like when connecting the phone to the pc), the clock (letters) will disappear. However the blackbox stays (as it's part of the statusbar background).
-Some SE apps (like mail, Timescape, Mediascape etc) include icons with a blue background. These icons will remain when using the white statusbar and thus will just not look right.
That's why I removed the white statusbar after some days of use and reverted to a black statusbar. Still some icons appear to be on a blue background. However they don't stand out that much on black as they did on white.
U can adjust the font colors by modifying the odex files. I have wanted a white status bar and black letters since I got the phone too. I'm working on it but it requires a lot of work. Hopefully this weekend.
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U can adjust the font colors by modifying the odex files. I have wanted a white status bar and black letters since I got the phone too. I'm working on it but it requires a lot of work. Hopefully this weekend.
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Snap. I have been working on this as well
gonna give font color a try hopefully lol
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Mhmmm if anyone creates one without bugs please send out over, the kinks stated were just too much for me, but hopefully it turns out alright... :/
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OH OH OH, I forgot to ask about changing the app drawer slider colour, domoco made abunch of different themes for their users like a different app drawer slider button thingy, I saw pirple and pink and other stuff
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I've tried deodex the whole framework, and changed the color in services.jar. And then transfer the jar files to the x10 and odex all the files. but after restart the mobile phone froze on the bootscreen.
If I change the services.jar, I need to deodex the applications too? or just the framework?
As I understand it everything needs to be deodexed, then pushed back to the phone where it will be reodexed. Keep in mind the phone will take a while to startup bc its odexing everything.
I may be wrong and I still don't fully understand it. Lots of stuff to learn, not enough time.
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Edit: if the phone gets stuck at boot is there a way to view what went wrong? Would ddms work for that? I would try before asking but I'm not at home. Thanks
How do I install Rynoons theme?
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[Q] x10 themes fit for the screen?

Hi Everybody
I installed adw launcher and tryed out some themes. but the themes doesn't mach the size of the screen.
Do we have to change something in the program for the themes to fit the screen? or do we have to find themes made for the x10?
from Norway sorry about the bad English
do you mean wallpaper? i don't understand what you mean by themes cause they all work...
assuming you mean the wallpaper, make sure the wallpaper size is 854 x 400 and it will fit perfectly
mrtim123 said:
assuming you mean the wallpaper, make sure the wallpaper size is 854 x 400 and it will fit perfectly
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960x854 is the correct size to cover 3 screens.
XperiaX10iUser said:
960x854 is the correct size to cover 3 screens.
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Do you have the correct sizes for 5 and 7 screens?
telmoabff said:
Do you have the correct sizes for 5 and 7 screens?
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still 960x854 ;-) it only moves less when you use 7 pages...
no i dont mean the wallpapers. but the wallpaper doesnt go over the whole screen aswell. but thats not the problem. you know. the notification bar and the meny bar can be scrolled down from the middle of the screen. i can't put my finger on top of my screen and take down the notification bar from the top. have to do it from the middle of the screen. hehe im not so good to explain but its like the whole theme is to small. not just the wallpaper but everything. does anyone know of a working theme for the x10 in the market place that i can test?
try THEME ONE, it is free and worked great for me...
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no i dont mean the wallpapers. but the wallpaper doesnt go over the whole screen aswell.
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Are you using ADW themes? I've never had an issue like you describe so not sure what might be causing it. In regards to your wallpaper, you need to drag the little box so it covers the whole image otherwise it just gets cropped.
I have tryed put some themes and it happend with 4 themes i think.
but i found some themes that everything works with.
i know about the box that you have to drag all over the picture. but that wasnt the issue. if you don't drag the box bigger you will zoom in the picture but the picture alwas goes over the whole screen.
but i fixed the problem now. it was only a couple of themes that was something wrong in the file or something.
thanks for all the answers

Help with "invisible" buttons :)

Have a look his video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPihz5x4enE
As he explains, the buttons are just part of the wallpaper, fair enough, but how to
get the different apps and activities to respond to touch?
Also, what launcher is the best for the tab... i always find myself annoyed by the fact that icons and widgets never sticks where i want the, or i find a good d placement, but space between are to big, etc..
I have bought both launcher pro plus and open home 6, and there is ADW... but what do you guys think?
Anyman: what do you use in the video?
Get desktop Visualizer and have blank pngs for icons, set a 10x10 grid and you'll b able to put the anywhere, adw and LP can resize Widgets so you shouldn't have a problem with placement
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
natious said:
Get desktop Visualizer and have blank pngs for icons, set a 10x10 grid and you'll b able to put the anywhere, adw and LP can resize Widgets so you shouldn't have a problem with placement
swyped from a galaxy far far away...
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What size for the .png's would you recommend? (what are the original sammy png's in px?)
Also, where do the png's go after i have made them?
Thx
torespen said:
What size for the .png's would you recommend? (what are the original sammy png's in px?)
Also, where do the png's go after i have made them?
Thx
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any size will do, just make it 50x50px, and put them on your sd card where you will remember, all my icons go in sd root/icons

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