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[Q] Beginners guide

Hello.
I am new to the Android community, only just getting my first.
Used to visit these boards some years ago, as an HTC Diamond winmob user.
Was previously an iOS user, enjoyed theming on that.
I'm familiar with tweaking those and psp's but Android is all new to me.
That said, I'm hoping to get some pointers on - I guess - the Android equiv. to an iOS jailbreak, applying a cooked rom I believe.
The current best one, perhaps a guide/wiki page for how to apply them.
Loving 3D quality on these.
Look fwd to trying some snes emu /got a recommended one?/ and just generally modding the look of it.
Thanks & bonjour

Hey, welcome
Well there's actually not really an equivalent to a iOS Jailbreak for Android. I view Android as an already jailbreaked version of itself.
If you're new to Android, I would suggest enjoying stock rom for a while longer. Especially when there's still not a lot of roms out for this phone yet.
What do you want to do to the phone? For example, you said jailbreaking iOS and applying themes. If that's what you're after, you don't need to put in a custom rom. A custom rom is similiar to a custom rom for your old HTC Diamond. Its pretty much a rom with some stock apps removed and some new apps added. In addition, they'll be other modifications that will benefit the rom over a stock rom. However, if you're only interested in applying a custom rom for the different theme, I would suggest against putting in a custom rom for now.
You can download launchers such as ADW Launcher EX, LauncherPro, GO Launcher, or any other launcher you have your eyes on and download themes for that.
Hmm, this phone could handle psx emulation so SNES emulation is no problem. For the snes, I believe this one has pretty good reviews.
Enjoy the phone, take some time to enjoy some of the different aspects Android has over iOS. Then when you get bored, explore some roms. Its very addicting.

Thanks DevJackey, thats very helpfull.
I'll take your advise and stick to stock rom for now.
I was thinking, besides theming, just getting some nice tweaks/mods on, but as you correctly stated, Android is already 'jailbroken' as it were, so dont really need to flash rom in order to install whatever i want. - So long on iOS i forget that not _every_ provider locks you out from adding your own stuff
Great info re: the launchers, i'll be looking into those for adding themes.
Cheers for the SNES link, perfect.
thanks again

[Q] Minimalistic Theme(s)?

Hi everyone.
I come from a Motorola Backflip, that although was a POS device, and didn't get root until ~6 months after release, I used to run CM6/CM7 on it and enjoyed using custom themes. In particular, I really enjoyed those slick, minimalistic themes. I know that there is a popular theme being developed (BlueICS or something) and I don't really dig the extravagant graphics and shading and everything, and much prefer a simple, minimalistic approach to theming. I know that once we get CyanogenMod fully ported to this device, a big number of options will open up for us, but as of right now, is anyone working on any other themes for the existing ROMs we have for this device? Such as a minimalistic theme? Sorry that I don't have any examples of what I'm looking for but I'm sure if you search for some you'll find some good ones around XDA. I'm sure some other people also prefer a similar look to their device and I was just wondering if anyone more capable than myself had considered working on such a theme.

Nova
I know its not the same, but have you tried using Nova?
I am on cleanROM 2.5 SE and I found the Sense a bit to "busy", I flashed the blueICS theme, and I liked the blue icons in notification as well as some of the other changes that were made it it, but I found using the free version of Nova was more then enough to simplify the general feel of the app drawer and desktop. This takes a little work and would be easier to just flash a theme, but its working great for me, and no theme would make it feel perfect for me?
If that makes sense?
or I could be completely off topic...

Hi, yeah, I'm currently running CleanROM DE and using Apex Launcher and I agree that the launcher does make a difference in the overall look/feel of the device but I'm talking about a full, complete themeing of the device (including stock HTC Sense apps. Here, I included some links of some kinds of themes that I'm talking about (yes, I know that some are for Eclair/Froyo/Gingerbread). I also took some screenshots of them in case you don't feel like opening the links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974429
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938394
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/6200-themehdpimdpiminimalarrows-for-cm7100811update/

Agree
+ 1
Got it, currently I have a stack of paps that allow me to get a similar appearance to the dark theme above. It would be nice if a gracious themer would create such a wonderful

[Q] stock tweaks...

hello!
Was wondering if there was a way, or an app/hack available to tweak some small ui elements w/out root...
Love my phone, but there are a few things that I don't like at all and want to change, such as some of the colors (ie. on calender)
Stock system, not rooted (yet =]
huawei G610-U200
There are stock themes on the phone, but they don't change the system ui itself, just icons and such (should these themes change other elements as well? My old htc themes did. If so, them maybe that would do the trick- but they are not changing system colors etc.
btw, any chance thre will be a dedicated forum to this phone any time soon?
Also, if and when I do decide to root, I want to make sure there are some solid roms/kernels avail. for this model- so far I have not found much-
Does anyone know of any out there besides MIUI?
Thanks.

xda___ said:
hello!
Was wondering if there was a way, or an app/hack available to tweak some small ui elements w/out root...
Love my phone, but there are a few things that I don't like at all and want to change, such as some of the colors (ie. on calender)
Stock system, not rooted (yet =]
huawei G610-U200
There are stock themes on the phone, but they don't change the system ui itself, just icons and such (should these themes change other elements as well? My old htc themes did. If so, them maybe that would do the trick- but they are not changing system colors etc.
btw, any chance thre will be a dedicated forum to this phone any time soon?
Also, if and when I do decide to root, I want to make sure there are some solid roms/kernels avail. for this model- so far I have not found much-
Does anyone know of any out there besides MIUI?
Thanks.
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XBlast tools may help.But root is needed at first to install xposed framework.

[Q] How to create a theme for galaxy fit??

I have knowledge about programming, creating android games and live wallpapers but have little knowledge about programming of rooted devices and related. I know creed's rom is very good and I use it almost daily, I want to make a theme for my phone, as I would be making some cool graphics. If it turns out to be succesful I would also share with you. Can you tell me how to make one? I looked and found three themes for creed's rom. Also I don't know what ddk??'s mean. I heard that you just have to change some images in some specific files like framework, theme.zip etc. with custom images, that would be easy? Would you help me?

[Needed] Custom Dark Themes for Stock Roms

I wanted to know if anyone out there has got a custom theme installed for stock roms.
I seen some for CM..
I want my menu's to be dark background based but not after have a custom rom to do it.
I looked through this sub forum and seen nothing related..
Thanks if anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how i can start patching it myself.
If i knew where the stuff is controlled form that would help.
I have experience doing all kinds of thing such as making a Rockbox Theme.

I don't think anyone has done any yet, I've done AOSP signal cluster and navbar mods but haven't touched the theme yet. If you use xposed "lollipop themer" seems to be popular for theming stock ROMs.
Here's a great guide and its always evolving and improving...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2978121
[Guide][How to theme lollipop roms with ease]

Interesting thanks.. 230 pages on that link wow LOL
Sadly it seems you would have to decompile a lot of apk's.
I wasn't sure if there was just some settings somewhere (in 1 place)
You would think the Android dev's would at least support some basic color theme changes right ?
I am surprised there is no built in support for this idea.
I have no doubt a lot of people out there want dark backgrounds like me.

xpmule said:
Interesting thanks.. 230 pages on that link wow LOL
Sadly it seems you would have to decompile a lot of apk's.
I wasn't sure if there was just some settings somewhere (in 1 place)
You would think the Android dev's would at least support some basic color theme changes right ?
I am surprised there is no built in support for this idea.
I have no doubt a lot of people out there want dark backgrounds like me.
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The majority of the system can be pretty easily themed. Its framework, systemui, settings, dialer and phone. Then there's guys like team black out who do a lot of 3rd party apps and gapps. If there were more interest from the stock ROM users I'd do a dark system theme but I've done a few mods here and people don't seem to interested because of all the custom ROMs we have.

thanks for more info.. never heard of Team Black no idea what that is about but i love it already LOL
i am bonkers for patching everything i can so it's black
i'm an Android noob and getting my crash course done ahha
i had a Samsung Galaxy S3 way back for a while then broke it..
i pulled up and broke the digitizer under the glass and had to sell it for parts on ebay.
listed honestly as broken i still got $60 though
I even threw in the unused glass repair kit i had ready.
So my interests are cracking, modding / patching software usually on windows.
i have experience going back 15 years on linux but i drop it and forget lots by the time i go back to Nix.
i also have a passion for graphics modding.. i am good at editing graphic UI's and pic's etc
I did a popular Rockbox theme for the Fuze+ PMP too called Carbon.
I have the same theme on that as my Windows desktop theme and WMC theme and even on my phone. (on my old 2008 phone and wallpaper on my Moto-E)
A whole suite of digital devices that all have a theme i made
But hey guy of you get motivated and have the time go for it i bet many of us would like some black'ness
Projects can eat up a lot of time.. my Fuze+ Rockbox theme took me months.
I created icon sets and statusbar icons many i made by drawing out 1 pixel at a time with Fireworks.
anyway lol
yeah many of us use the stock rom (often with Squid's custom kernel + TWRP)
I have looked at CM and others and felt it was just too much.
i appreciate their work though even if i choose not to use it.
A lot of people do a lot on the web and share it all for nothing in return.. respect for them !
i found this place hacking an old phone back in 2008 and recently came back for Android..

Check this out...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283828

Sounds like a job for LuckyPatcher and thanks for the link