Hi everyone,
i´ve searched this forum and google, but i can´t find a tutorial about "how to create a Theme for manila" or else.
I´ve got an idea for theme, but i don´t know in which folder they are or to change them.
Has someone an idea?
benalive said:
Hi everyone,
i´ve searched this forum and google, but i can´t find a tutorial about "how to create a Theme for manila" or else.
I´ve got an idea for theme, but i don´t know in which folder they are or to change them.
Has someone an idea?
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Welllllllllllllllllll first you have to define "theme" there are alot of people with a Dinik Icon set and Dinik slider.. paired with a wallpaper of choice and call it a theme..
Then there is stuff like Buuf s theme and OrangeStreet that dig a little deeper than just a few icons and skins..
Then.. there is the THEMES... but before diving into a THEME.. know that even something like OrangeStreet (my first theme i did with ConanTroutMan) has over 1300 editted files in it.. and this was before i even knew about pngs in the windows folder or .dll mods , signing and unsigning certs, swype and t9 skins.. hell we could go on for days..
SOOOOOOOOOO
imo
Start by skinning all the manilla files you can find..
Then take alot of the ones you dont know .. and write a number on them.. 1-whatever.. and upload them to your phone.. this will help you find the stuff that wasnt obvious on the first pass..
THEN edit the pngs in the windows folder of the phone..
THEN Open PE explorer and start cracking open dlls..
which requires signing and unsigning certs.
By now you will have lost 45 pounds...AND your wife ...and you dog will have died of starvation.. But you will have a theme that is nothing more than a heavy duty skin.
So then you learn .lua and registry editting.. lua there are entire college courses on lua btw.. coding.. and xml... and use this to move and push some stuff around.. and THEN youll have a full theme.
Thanks, for the quick reply.
Well i think i have to start at the beginning:
so how can I extract the manila png files to edit them?
Use CFC_GUI and plus your phone in and turn it on.. .then click device.. import from device.. then export to pngs.. aim it at a folder.. and you will get a whole fist full of icons to edit.
The second easy to get to set you already know.. phone/windows/_.pngs
and if you cant get one to insert and replace itself, via copy and paste to replace.. then use WinCe to cab it and replace it.
Just make sure when you are done.. pile them all up in one cab so there arent a million cabs on your phone.
Read a Tutorial on CFC_GUI.. you can edit about 1200 files using just that.
Btw i cant wait to see what you come up with.. and if you need anyhelp that you dont wanna post on here (some ideas arent meant to be shared till AFTER they work) feel free to pm me.
This is where it all started for me......
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700826
this is a great tutorial and will have you doing some basic manila editing in no time......
enjoy.....
Well, let me offer my support too
If you have any questions, feel free to ask conan, m0b and myself
I'm also quite interested in which theme you want to do
Grtz,
Degake
degake said:
Well, let me offer my support too
If you have any questions, feel free to ask conan, m0b and myself
I'm also quite interested in which theme you want to do
Grtz,
Degake
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Me too!
Hi degake!
antoniomistretta said:
Me too!
Hi degake!
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Hi antonio
How are you doing? It's been a while.
Thank very much you for your great support
If I have some questions I´ll post them.
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Hi all,
I've been leeching and surfing on this forum for quite a while now and never really took the time to post a thread when i had a question. Normally i'd search the entire place but in this case i just can't find a good solution.
So here is my first question:
A friend of mine got himself the SE- Xperia, I took a good look at it and liked the theme's a lot.
Once I received the files (Root;my documents) and tapped on one of them they didn't show up in the todayscreen wich provides .tsk themes like T-mobile1+2 etc.
Now I know I can do such things as installing a new ROM etc, but perhaps thats a little to much for such an issue.
I'm not expecting a complete walkthrough, but perhaps if someone could help me a little i'd appreciate it.
Many thanks and greets from The Netherlands
Dindnt quite understood, you want just the wallpaper?
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This one works on mine, but the bars dont get flat black.... Nothing that cant be fixed, of course.
Got it from the full theme with extras, here:
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=2479
Thank you very much,
I'll check that one out tommorrow to see if it works on my phone.
Have a look at ThemeGenCE. It allows you to customise the tsk for your phone:
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1523
And still the .tsk file isn't showing up in the todayscreen (Start>Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance)
I got stuck at the third point:
) Connect your device to your desktop by ActiveSync and explore it.
2) Transfer all the unrar'd files and folders the My Documents folder of your Pocket PC, except the rlToday folder which should be transferred to the Program Files folder.
3) Apply the Xperia skin (Start>Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance).
4) Apply the Wisbar Advance skin (Start>Programs>Wisbar Advance>Theme>Use a Theme File): \My Documents\Wisbar Advance v2.x\Xperia\Xperia.skn
5) Apply the rlToday skin (Start>Settings>Personal>Today>Items>rlToday>Options): Skin: Xperia. Note that the download also contains WM6 style .png icons if you are using PPC2003SE/WM5 and want to use more modern looking shortcuts. If you don't live in Singapore, please edit the skin.xml file to the country of your choice (notepad works).
Anyone?
Thanks
you probably can get more info on the official modaco post, lol...
hi , iam a new user of htc hd2 and i want to know what should i do to make my mobile better
i want to know how to install themes and how to change home appearance
Hi and Welcmome
Roushdii said:
hi , iam a new user of htc hd2 and i want to know what should i do to make my mobile better
i want to know how to install themes and how to change home appearance
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Hello and welcome to the XDA Forum. At first i think you had to read the threads there are always much info´s.
Theme, Slider and etc mostly are .cab files. Thes .cab files you put on your storage card and then tab on it. After tab on it, it will be install the theme or slider.
And after restart you device you shoule see it.
And here we have an question and answer thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=694
I think here you should find information to.
Hope this helps a little bit. Have Fun
Agree with Dic3Ptor,
Also take a look to CHT:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625483
and CHT Editor:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633590
very recommendated of different users, and useful.
Also very useful; a small application if you will changed your Icon style.
JWMD Icon Changer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080
Now about witch theme? Difficult to help you with that part, depends of your taste.
But if you need some ideas on what is possible/exist, take a look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582619
Hope it help's you.
thanks alot for you both ,,, i will look at these links
thanks again
welcome and read the Sticky FAQ...its a good way to start!
make sure you make use of the Q&A section in the HD2 forum area and search
hello...I'm a noob thatd had my he2 now for some months...I've figured out a lot of thingz like installing cabs and what not...but then came cht 2.O and how you can change the theme of it phone...even with a stock ROM you can change it theme...now my problem is that once i download the cab or zip file...i must not neo utting it in the right place or extracting it right.can someone please help me out and explain this to me.i mean even the most knowledgeable people were a noob like me at one point. i have used google bit no help, and can't find it in here.thanks for your time.
try this thread......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834139
thanks for trying to help...but that is for some1 who pretty much knows all about cht...that just said make a wallpaper file...what then i out the theme cab/zip in that file and just using chts will make it change...?
Your welcome....
Sorry I thought thats what you were asking about....
Im not sure if your talking about a ready made CHTS layout/theme or just a normal theme that you want to save and use with CHTS.
Which theme are you talking about? Knowing that will help solve your problem.
What you might need to do is set everything up and then save it as a layout in CHTS.
If you can link me to the stuff your trying to use that will help too
i REALLY appreciate you taking ye time to help me...i will look for the post I'm talking about...its a theme/skin that dinik made where the clock and quicklinks all look like glass...i might not even be using the right wording...lol...doubt it though...give me a little and ill put the link up...
back again...i think i really might be using wrong words...instead of theme i might mean ROM...here is the link...scroll down to the second post...any of the 4...once again...thanks 4 taking ur time to help me...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591784
ok, you either mean diniks "anastasia" theme or djc's "touch of glass" theme.....
neither of these are directly available to use with chts straight away.
what you need to do is install the various elements of the theme to your device then when you have it set up how you like it, save it with chts.
that way even if you flash a new rom or do a hard reset then you can restore that theme in a few seconds....
search the themes and apps section for whichever theme you prefer and start from there.
hope that helps.....
thankyou but what i mean is that i don't know how to get it to work...once i download thatd say...touch of glass...where exectly do i put it on my as card...and and when i extract it all the files that come up don't do anything...I'm used to cabs that do everything for you...lol...
i have cht 2.0...and when i download touch of glass...the look of my phone doesn't change...am i putting touch of glass in the wrong file...main qeustion is what to do after i download touch of glass to make it working on my hd2...
thanks for hanging in there with me...really...really appreciate it....VERY MUCH...
no problem....
I thought touch of glass was in cabs.
im at work just now but when I get home ill have a look
touch of glass and diniks cabs need to be installed on device not sd card...soft reset...done
pakure said:
touch of glass and diniks cabs need to be installed on device not sd card...soft reset...done
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really....i thought most cabs you can run from it ad...i have CHT 2.O...and i found a dinik glass cab for CHT 1.8.5...kind of works except my icons don't look fully right...here's my screen...any suggestions...?
p.s. i did run an anastaisa icon cab...nothing really changed...
yes some do and some don't especially touch glass cabs...need install to device !...why some even have problems with chtscheduler on sd card and have to install it to device (i have no probs on sd card with chts)
as for diniks icons for cht2.0 are available, but a little different (valeria style). you can change all to total dinik valeria icon set for matching
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really....i thought most cabs you can run from it ad...i have CHT 2.O...and i found a dinik glass cab for CHT 1.8.5...kind of works except my icons don't look fully right...here's my screen...any suggestions...?
p.s. i did run an anastaisa icon cab...nothing really changed...
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i dont trust using a cab to install icons.
search out jwmd icon changer and use that, once you have changed the icons you can save them as a theme and switch between sets quickly.
You also need to clear the sense icon cached to make some icons change.
I forgt how to do this manually because jwmd has it built in as a feature.....
and yes, all mods MUST be installed to device memory not sd card.......
conantroutman said:
i dont trust using a cab to install icons.
search out jwmd icon changer and use that, once you have changed the icons you can save them as a theme and switch between sets quickly.
You also need to clear the sense icon cached to make some icons change.
I forgt how to do this manually because jwmd has it built in as a feature.....
and yes, all mods MUST be installed to device memory not sd card.......
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i have both of them...but i really can't figure out jwmd...and i used ssic...its just that all the icons don't have that glass looking template...really possessions me off...lol...but i also have a lot of stuff saved to ad card...and when i tries to uninstall dinik theme it says that it can't be fully removed...and i really don't want to hard reset again...takes for ever to get back...
run the cab again and it will ask if you wish to remove the previous install, say yes then when it asks about device memory or sd card hit cancel and it should be uninstalled....
if not just find the files on your sd card and delete them....
HI I have new beta icon pack & taskbar mod ready! for conversion to custom .cab update files!
I say beta because i still have work to do but not much 4 or more custom icons to finnish not a big deal my taskbar & icon mod pack is pritty much done
I know as much as you would love to see pictures im not in the mood to have anymore work stolen leeked from em ME!
xbmod helped me get started about to months ago & sead he could make the cabs for me if I made the icons wich are now completed!
the packs consist of totaly new defalt icons for default applications and taskbar dark theme
I dont know how to edit the light theme taskbar icons so I did not edit those!
I have made nice new marketplace icons full color but used the winmo6.5 marketplace icon as a starting point in the final verison i plan on
1 making full color wp7 marketplace icon
2 making new sms icon
3 making new linkedin mail icon
4 making new microsoft exchange mail icon
then i can relese final version
that is all I have left to do all other icons are done and ready to be converted to custom cab update files
I am not intrested in learning the making of custom cab updates and have much other inportent work and projects on my hands if someone could be so kind to do the convertions and send me the cabs for testing i would be very greatful
please pm me if you can help.
nice...
looking forward for you job....
THX
looking forward too
post it when your finished, this is useless, just filling the forum, and people expect real development here.
I need my mods bult to cab files!
weeezel said:
post it when your finished, this is useless, just filling the forum, and people expect real development here.
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i am finnished have ben finnished now i need someone to make the cab files!
thats why im posting! Your post is wrong mane!
The post is not useless but insted urgent!
you expect real development but I dont see you offer anythang but negitivity!
I will repeat my self once more so you can hear it with your eyes!
I NEED MY MODS BULT TO CAB FILES!
and I wil post it when i feal like it dont be ordering me about! with your 45 posts!
ware is your develpment threads mane ? mr people expect real development hear???
have some respect to developers who are giveing away free blood and swet!
use ya head mane!
Please keep flaming out of XDA. If you need use the report button. You both are warned.
poyensa said:
Please keep flaming out of XDA. If you need use the report button. You both are warned.
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Thats funny I did use the report button!
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Thats funny I did use the report button!
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And he saw the problem without first seeing the report.
That's active moderation.
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And he saw the problem without first seeing the report.
That's active moderation.
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good to know and thank you! for cleaning this mess!
can built theme windows 7 alike windows 6.5 ?
Hi & 1st off if this is stupid please dont take the piss to badly lol...
years ago i was well into the whole Windows thing, Stripping its resources & making batch files that would find & replace icons that were of a better quality.. They would then be injected into the resource files of the OS so when it was installed it looked nicer...
Now to my idea...
Ive seen lots of nice Themes out there for my phone but dont seem to like any of the theme managers & how they change the feel of the phone & was wondering if its possible to strip the icons (.png ) from these & create an APK that just over writes them directly to the phones installed files..
An example would be the awesome Blue Theme for one of the custom roms you can get.... just having the png files on there own installed without the theme itself..?
Sorry if this is stupid as im only thinking from a windows point of view & dont no really if its possible or even an idea for android..
War3zuk said:
Hi & 1st off if this is stupid please dont take the piss to badly lol...
years ago i was well into the whole Windows thing, Stripping its resources & making batch files that would find & replace icons that were of a better quality.. They would then be injected into the resource files of the OS so when it was installed it looked nicer...
Now to my idea...
Ive seen lots of nice Themes out there for my phone but dont seem to like any of the theme managers & how they change the feel of the phone & was wondering if its possible to strip the icons (.png ) from these & create an APK that just over writes them directly to the phones installed files..
An example would be the awesome Blue Theme for one of the custom roms you can get.... just having the png files on there own installed without the theme itself..?
Sorry if this is stupid as im only thinking from a windows point of view & dont no really if its possible or even an idea for android..
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check the link below, it might be of some help to,also u can PM the OP of that post for any further clarification.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28793952&postcount=134
Wicked
Thats wicked thankyou.... Just what i was after really as I want to learn to do this myself.. Thankz again