Flashed my phone to PROven rom with the help here. Much better now than FUZE stock set up. Have seen some cool setups, icons, etc and have done some reading. I think I am confused. What is the difference between a theme and a wallpaper. I know in the DiamondConf program you can change the theme (i dont not have any in my drop down box, but i looks like the Settings>Wallpaper changes the today screen. I am confused but learning.
There was a great first time flash instructions in Rom developement forum. Would like to see the same for icons, clocks, etc.
same difference as on pc
a wallpaper is a background image
a theme is a setup of background image
and titlebar and fonts...........
Hi All
hope this wasn't already posted but i have found way to switch off weather animation and keep your static wallpaper.
if you go to
HKCU/Software/HTC/Manila
and change "HomeWallpaperMode" from "0" to "2" you will end up having your static wallpaper but without weather animation.
0 - Weather Animation ON
1 - Animated Wallpaper
2 - Static Wallpaper and Weather Animation OFF
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This will work until you change your wallpaper.once you do that,weather animation is back.i'll try to find solution for that.
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I feel so dumb now.if you don't want weather animation just select animation wallpaper and choose one of your static ones.and that is it!
Thanks, I was looking for a solution for that.
I like the weather animation and was wondering if there's actually something more along the lines of the opposite of this.
What I mean is when you get the animation with the clouds going across the screen, it seems to stop if you slide across the tabs & back and the clouds disappear. I wish it was that easy to change the weather!
But I hope that makes sense - I like the animations & would be happy for them to continue moving whilst my screen is active.
Good find for those who don't though obviously!
I'm okay with all the other animations but the cloud anims just piss the crap outta me . Is it possible to leave the little animation in the center of home screen but remove all the other crap flying around?
EDIT: Ah, this was solved simply by selevting one of the static wallpapers. Thanks!
An I just gotta say, don't yall just love how tweakable the OS and all the interfaces are? Gotta love WM. Screw my old iPhone!
Yep - that's why I love this, but each to their own.
Heh heh - it's the clouds etc that I really like. I want to keep them there longer.
Again - each to their own I guess!
just curious, when it rains on the home screen, is it me or is the wall paper hidden and then slowly comes back when the wiper wipes? It's quite annoying that it goes all black and then back to red (i have the xmas theme)
Theres a cab for that ... its called dirty rain and the cab removes it so the rain is over your wallpaper...
GG
thanks, worked perfectly
Longer Animation
I also would like a longer weather animation, it looks cool. Has anyone any suggestions??
Thanks, Carlos.
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I have an HTC Fuze Raphael basic rom with a few tweaks including mUns backgrounds for all tabs. I am a wallpaper freak & I constantly like to change it up. That means to see how my new wallpapers will look I have to go in & out of files which is time consuming. How about something where you plug in your phone to the computer your phones face shows on the computer screen & on the side you have all your background choices and everytime you click on a background it shows what your phone will look like with that wallpaper including what the tabs would look like too. Then how about an option to select a different wallpaper for each tab & viewing what it would look like. I also use Basic Hue Express which helps match the task bars to wallpapers. How about something that changes the task bar color with it too & having many choices of colors. Also the font style & color. If you want to get more into it have a selection of different clocks & icons. Then once statisfied click on complete & the theme shows right on your phone instead of downloading cabs or installing anything. Well thats my idea feel free to take it and run & make it better or add more ideas. Have fun developers! If you take on my idea keep me updated & let me test it out first hehe. Thanks! *Priscilla
Moved as not theme release.
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Yea thats cool
ive seen people change the floating circles to different things in the animated wallpapers but id like to be able to create completely new one like those used as live wallpapers in android. If they were able to put the measly 3 animated ones on the phone theres gotta be a way to make them. Anyone have any ideas on how? i know animated gifs wont work
A quick search for "Animated Wallpaper", would have given you these and more.
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A quick search for "Animated Wallpaper", would have given you these and more.
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That's just a layer on top of a wallpaper, not an animated wallpaper.
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That's just a layer on top of a wallpaper, not an animated wallpaper.
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Actually these are what HTC calls "animated" (or moving) wallpapers.
Yes they are simple and not as coooool as Android Live Wallpapers,
but these are the type that's available for our HTC Sense, as far as animated wallpaper goes.
dam that realy blows theres only so much you can do with those. Ive only mainly seen the falling circles wallpaper animated and im not too keen on that one. Theres gotta be a way to get this dam thing to show gifs or swfs or something as animated wallpapers.
So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Update: 2/7/11 Ok so another update here. I added a few more icons for some commonly used apps. Only 7 of them. They are all 72x72 so they should match up with the background ok. Probably not exact but they should work.
Also the dock apps actually have 'twin' app icons in the app drawer that use the stock image. So these icons in the app drawer have the 'common' background image applied to them (blue square). you can replace the dock version icons for these default ones if you like them better. I placed them above the counterparts in the pics below. Other than this I also changed the app drawer tab look to the dot matrix style. makes things a little more cohesive.
I have also included a .zip file with all the dock icons in 60x60 format for you to put on your device and change manually. Just in case the apk leaves them out for some reason. When you change them manually they also tend to be just a little more crisp.
Hope you guys enjoy.
EDIT: I just noticed the app drawer tab icons are getting shrunk by go launcher so they dont match the background. Too tired to change them now. Maybe tomorrow, so.....late......zzzzzz
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So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. However Im having the hardest time to get them to look uniform and not do that weird jumping around thing that small dots tend to do with aliasing and such. Do you think it may have something to do with me designing the icons small rather than starting big and shrinking them?
I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Looks pretty sweet Taz. Keep up the good work man.
So.. are you planning on selling your theme? As a Go Launcher theme..? Just wondering
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If you're using photoshop just set the DPI so that 1px = 1 dot. Then just set the canvas size to whatever the icon size is and you can "paint" in each pixel.
Just a thought..
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tazbo28 said:
So this is my first theme Ive ever done. It took the better part of today and wasnt too difficult. I used the Go Launcher Theme Factory to build it. The home screen icons are custom made in either Illustrator or Photoshop. As Im not yet experienced with button layouts and styles, I would really love some feedback on what you think works and what doesnt.
I was really inspired by the Miui widget styles with the dot-matrix look. However Im having the hardest time to get them to look uniform and not do that weird jumping around thing that small dots tend to do with aliasing and such. Do you think it may have something to do with me designing the icons small rather than starting big and shrinking them?
I havent paid for my dev account with Google Market yet, so please download this theme here. And thanks for all the critiques and what-not!
Looks pretty sweet Taz. Keep up the good work man.
So.. are you planning on selling your theme? As a Go Launcher theme..? Just wondering
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Actually I was planning on giving this one away on the market for free since it is my first attempt. Im gettin the hang of the theme factory a bit now. It can be really confusing to replace some of the images properly. And with no Manual on how to use the dang thing, its all guess work.
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If you're using photoshop just set the DPI so that 1px = 1 dot. Then just set the canvas size to whatever the icon size is and you can "paint" in each pixel.
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Thanks, I was trying to use Illustrator with artboards that were the exacct size of the icons, but i think i was setting the dpi wrong because they would come out bigger. I guess ill stick to photoshop for my next ones. Wondering if icons are usually painted large then shrunk down?
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I'm digging this theme. The ICS blue layout, the simple minimalist look is how I like my themes. Unfortunately, the dock icons look a little odd to me. Though I'd gladly use this if you kept improving on this theme.
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I'm digging this theme. The ICS blue layout, the simple minimalist look is how I like my themes. Unfortunately, the dock icons look a little odd to me. Though I'd gladly use this if you kept improving on this theme.
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That is exactly what i plan to do. I figured out my problem with the dock icon resolution problem too. Go Launcher shrinks the normal icon image from 72x72 down to 60x60 when you place the icon on the dock. I was making the dock icons at a resolution of 72x72. This is why the dots would look weird when they were put there. So im going to try and fix that by creating a template for myself. I will upload it onto a new thread with pixel guides for the various icon sizes and a psd file for people to create their own icons with. After doing all the pixel math I was able to layout all the guides for the home screen grid according to a 5x6 pattern.
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That is exactly what i plan to do. I figured out my problem with the dock icon resolution problem too. Go Launcher shrinks the normal icon image from 72x72 down to 60x60 when you place the icon on the dock. I was making the dock icons at a resolution of 72x72. This is why the dots would look weird when they were put there. So im going to try and fix that by creating a template for myself. I will upload it onto a new thread with pixel guides for the various icon sizes and a psd file for people to create their own icons with. After doing all the pixel math I was able to layout all the guides for the home screen grid according to a 5x6 pattern.
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Thanks for the explanations. I ended up trying this out on my mom's Fire last night and it looked awesome.
I then went ahead and loaded it up onto my Infuse and I'm definitely liking this theme more. I love the folder icons on this theme especially.
One of the things I noticed is that there was an icon pack when I installed it on the fire (one of them was the facebook icon which had some subtle snowflakes on them) and it doesn't show up on my Infuse (just the standard blue border) and when trying to pick icons from the themes it says there are no images. I was hoping there would be a different icon for music and the browser so that my dock would match more.
I'm attaching some of the images of my phone right now for others to get a good look.
And one more thing, where did you get that lockscreen and clock widget?
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Thanks for the explanations. I ended up trying this out on my mom's Fire last night and it looked awesome.
I then went ahead and loaded it up onto my Infuse and I'm definitely liking this theme more. I love the folder icons on this theme especially.
One of the things I noticed is that there was an icon pack when I installed it on the fire (one of them was the facebook icon which had some subtle snowflakes on them) and it doesn't show up on my Infuse (just the standard blue border) and when trying to pick icons from the themes it says there are no images. I was hoping there would be a different icon for music and the browser so that my dock would match more.
I'm attaching some of the images of my phone right now for others to get a good look.
And one more thing, where did you get that lockscreen and clock widget?
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Thanks so much for the comments! Im glad you like it. The clock widget is called "Digital Clock Widget" in the market. Its usually the first one to pop up when you search it. I dont think I posted a lock screen. But I cant remember since i removed the pics. I actually usually just change the swipe actions in Go Launcher to hide the dock and status bar. But I now have discovered Statusbar+ and its really awesome! Looks like the windows phone status bar. all the icons will hide after a specified amount of seconds, except for the Clock in the upper right. really love it since its really minimalistic. when you tap the status bar the icons all drop in. Loving it.
I now just use the stock lockscreen. Im not sure why your internet icon didnt show up? I actually removed some of the custom icons that were in the last version. That means the facebook icon along with a few others will now use the original icon with the blue square around them. If you like Ill just upload the dock icons so you can change them manually. and maybe ill make a music icon for ya too!
Excellent. Better than some of the $2 themes I've purchased for Go Launcher. It's tough to find good minimalist themes!
Oh in the OP screens, what is the second icon from the left? Phone ? Apps SMS WWW
I thought it was contacts, but I can't get the icon to work for it.
tazbo28 said:
Thanks so much for the comments! Im glad you like it. The clock widget is called "Digital Clock Widget" in the market. Its usually the first one to pop up when you search it. I dont think I posted a lock screen. But I cant remember since i removed the pics. I actually usually just change the swipe actions in Go Launcher to hide the dock and status bar. But I now have discovered Statusbar+ and its really awesome! Looks like the windows phone status bar. all the icons will hide after a specified amount of seconds, except for the Clock in the upper right. really love it since its really minimalistic. when you tap the status bar the icons all drop in. Loving it.
I now just use the stock lockscreen. Im not sure why your internet icon didnt show up? I actually removed some of the custom icons that were in the last version. That means the facebook icon along with a few others will now use the original icon with the blue square around them. If you like Ill just upload the dock icons so you can change them manually. and maybe ill make a music icon for ya too!
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Hm, thanks for the new clock widget, it looks awesome. Though it's kind of lame that we can't use hex color codes or set the date and time to have the same color. Unfortunately something went very wrong with my phone after I installed and messed with this app. Random reboots, apps wouldn't load, extreme amounts of lag, home button stopped working, my extended power menu disappeared, you name it and I had it. Due to this, I was forced to send my phone back to stock. Oh well, I'll just stick with official TW now that we've got GB. Plus, TW is sort of nice now that I haven't used it in 6 months haha. I'll jump back to Go Launcher in a week since the TW icons are HUGE.
ANYWAYS, I am going to rock this theme once I can get my phone settled down and Go Launcher on this. A music icon would be awesome since I like having my music in my dock. And uploading all of the icons into the theme would be nice too since it'd give us options on which icons we'd like to use. And if you don't mind me being nitpicky, would you mind making an icon set of the stock icons but with the blue border? That would just be icing on the cake.
zhukov_ said:
Excellent. Better than some of the $2 themes I've purchased for Go Launcher. It's tough to find good minimalist themes!
Oh in the OP screens, what is the second icon from the left? Phone ? Apps SMS WWW
I thought it was contacts, but I can't get the icon to work for it.
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Yup, that's for contacts, I was wondering about this the first time I saw this also.
Yes that was for the contacts. Im really not sure why Go theme factory may be screwing up the apk. Im going to repackage a new one with the icons and without. Ill add the blue square to dock icons too as extras. Ill try to upload a zip with all the icons I make so you could just replace the dock ones with pngs if you want. Maybe thats how ill do the music one too is GTF doesnt package it right. Ill be sure to test it out first.
Also im relaly sorry to hear about the widget probs. Ive always had that widget and it never really gave me any problems. Maybe it was a malware app or something. Not sure about it. But Ill definitely add some more cool stuff to this theme since you guys seem to like it so much.
and heres some examples of another direction i want to go in for a theme...
Both were made in photoshop using mainly layer effects. Im leaning more towards the gray one. But the black one is inspired by my new Logitech k750 keyboard. I love the buttons and want something to come out looking like the theme is made of keys from this keyboard. enjoy.
Updated the apk. enjoy.
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Updated the apk. enjoy.
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Thanks alot! I will be using your theme for a very long time.
You have great taste and should consider monetizing your work IMO.
zhukov_ said:
Thanks alot! I will be using your theme for a very long time.
You have great taste and should consider monetizing your work IMO.
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Appreciate it! I definitely plan on placing my future themes up for sale in the app store.
AWESOME I am currently using this
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These icons are really good. Very pleasant too. Do you have a zip of these icons?
Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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You need to theme the things in your bar on top
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These icons are really good. Very pleasant too. Do you have a zip of these icons?
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I do not unfortunately, as I may be using them in an upcoming theme. But i will let you guys know when the theme hits the app store!
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Hi, id just like to update you on this theme. Im still loving it but i like a consistent look and feel to my phone so I've decided to use parts of this theme and and the ics theme. I love the way you've made the folders, background, and the app drawer look so I've kept those there. Here's some ss of my phone now. Thanks for making my phone look sick!
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That looks absolutely rad! I love it. Mixing and matching works best i think. I found myself doing the same thing! Im really glad to see people getting a kick outta this theme.