I'm really disappointed by the lack of themes for MT4G. I'm looking for a 'stock-ish' green Android, or even better, something with some Gingerbread elements, theme. There's one out there called Androidian http://bit.ly/eL7Q29 which is great except I'm not really feeling the circuit board-like effect.
Any suggestions, or devs willing to take something on?
Thanks
I like that theme that u linked =)
but true, there should be alot more MT4G themes to choose from by now =(...someone should make some!
No one seems to care for the espresso running on stock. Theres plenty themes for cm6 and the full sense roms. Just not in this thread. I'm running a gingerbread theme now on cm6 from the nexus section
if you want more themes, simple....make em. Devs make themes and roms on their time. Go up to a dev and tell them why they havent done a rom or to make you a theme and see what they say. They take time off their job, families, and life to make our phones better. Don't be questioning why they aren't producing. They spend hours on end with no expectations of money to make a better android experience for users. You should think before you question about the lack of mt4g development
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Hi there.
I am wondering, as I see the amount of custom ROM's Using Sense and 2.1, why people are asking to have Expresso on their mobile?
This UI is an horror for my eyes, and i was happily using Hikary ROM until he began to integrate Expresso. Than i tried the other Sense, but Expresso is everywhere.
I am now using a vanilla one ( Cyanogen mod) and i don't regret leaving this horrible Expresso.
I am wondering if it wil be easy to get back the "real" sense on future 2.1 ROM or if i'll have to forget all this stuff...
If i spend money on my hero, that was for Android and the UI. Changing the UI can make me change my mobile, because that is not anymore what i expect.
Please tell me if i am the only one thinking that...
profete162 said:
Hi there.
I am wondering, as I see the amount of custom ROM's Using Sense and 2.1, why people are asking to have Expresso on their mobile?
This UI is an horror for my eyes, and i was happily using Hikary ROM until he began to integrate Expresso. Than i tried the other Sense, but Expresso is everywhere.
I am now using a vanilla one ( Cyanogen mod) and i don't regret leaving this horrible Expresso.
I am wondering if it wil be easy to get back the "real" sense on future 2.1 ROM or if i'll have to forget all this stuff...
If i spend money on my hero, that was for Android and the UI. Changing the UI can make me change my mobile, because that is not anymore what i expect.
Please tell me if i am the only one thinking that...
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Bubbles around icons in Expresso UI are worst but rest of features are better than Hero Sense UI.
We are using custom rom because we want to have different UI's on the same mobile. If u want Hero Sense UI then ask HTC not here. You paid money to HTC.
There are only two shortcomings with the Espresso that I dislike, and they can easily be ignored.
One is the bubbling, which most custom roms remove anyways
The other is the color scheme in the mail app. I rather dislike the hot pink or neon blue on a black background, as opposed to the black and green scheme of the Hero SenseUI.
You can try this one which is realy nice:
Chpoubs 1.7 :
http ://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=615497
I swear that I can remember there being a host of Metamorph themes that will morph SenseUI with dark Rosies and different types of batteries (yes, I know there are lots of circle battery flashes) and things.
I scum through the Hero themes and apps, and can't find much.
I scum thorugh the Eris themes and apps, and SWEAR I can remember more, months ago.
I am I confused? I feel like SOMEONE would have/did make a blue battery/highlight color flash, or a different Android guy when a no-picture-stored contact/caller is on the line, or a graphite/black battery, or clear notification bars.
I see that there are LOT of cyanogenmod themes, and that's super. But although I see an awesome orange xtrSense theme there, I am lost on where all the metamorph themes I remember seeing, went to.
I feel stupid almost, since I've been around computers for years, and spent LOTS of time on forums, and even helping people, and rooting friends' phones, etc etc etc.
I swore I remember seeing a HTC hero theme repository thread with like 100 different little themes and metamorphs. I can't even find that (assuming any of those would work).
Am I crazy? Confused? (feel free to slap sense into me if so)
Where are all the SenseUI metamorph themes? Do I need to try to learn how to make some?
Yessir
I've been wondering this too, I remember before I rooted seeing a picture of an Eris with a black rosie and all the grey turned black. Heck that was half the reason I rooted, but I never have found it lol. guess I got side tracked.
I've been thinking of trying to make some Themes for punk.kaos's froyo sense when it gets stable. I've figured out a little about theming android, (I'm still not that good and have never themed sense, so dont expect much.)
I'd LOVE to have a white and blue sense theme though, that'd be on point.
I have only made two themes for the eris. One I posted on here the other is not done, so I guess that technically 1 1/2 but who's counting, and I can tell you it is more tideous work then actual challenge. The reason for lack of themes is probably just a demand thing. Most people that have the eris have had it for awhile. So they either already have it how they like it or have moved onto another device. I think it would be great for those of us with the eris to help out with theming and developing. With all the hard work the developers put in to the roms the least us as the end user can do is make some themes for others to use and give a variety of option for roms to look. </rant>
I think that may come off harsher then it was meant to when I was typing this. Anyway, if you or anybody else on here needs help making themes, I would be more than happy to help in anyway I can just message me on here I check this place probably 50 times a day. I would love to help some people get on the theming bus and help make some new themes for us to choose from.
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I have only made two themes for the eris. One I posted on here the other is not done, so I guess that technically 1 1/2 but who's counting, and I can tell you it is more tideous work then actual challenge. The reason for lack of themes is probably just a demand thing. Most people that have the eris have had it for awhile. So they either already have it how they like it or have moved onto another device. I think it would be great for those of us with the eris to help out with theming and developing. With all the hard work the developers put in to the roms the least us as the end user can do is make some themes for others to use and give a variety of option for roms to look. </rant>
I think that may come off harsher then it was meant to when I was typing this. Anyway, if you or anybody else on here needs help making themes, I would be more than happy to help in anyway I can just message me on here I check this place probably 50 times a day. I would love to help some people get on the theming bus and help make some new themes for us to choose from.
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I dont think thats harsh at all, its just plain fair.
the handfull of devs here work so hard bringing us roms we never would dream of seeing on our phone, the least we can do -if we are able- is contribute a little time to editing some pictures. it makes all our phones have that many more options. course...lifes not fair
I would love to learn. Where do you suggest I start? I've already taken pieces from several different themes to make what I want. I would like to see a nice sense ui theme. It can be done, shadowrom has a theme that is as close to sense that I've seen yet. They got about everything but HTC Widgets and the real htc launcher. However the themer made an HTC launcher dock background and some blank icons that when using launcher pro is very nice because your icons don't show up on the dock like they normally would. What would it take to incorporate the real launcher into a theme?
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Here are some of the metamorphs I think you were talking about. Really the only ones I could find that seem to work. I know there's more out there. Anyone else got anything?
Simple Black Lockscreen arch
Espresso Rosie!
Im tryint to figure out where to find the icons at. I want to change my folder icons blue. Any help would be appreciated
I've been helping buddies get rooted on their phones and one thing they always want is a custom theme... because of this I research and find good (professional) ones for them, and there are MANY to choose from.
I don't expect people to start fresh, but can some of these be ported?
Bring the Vibrant some Sexy-Time.
Black Froyo is amazing... wish there were more options
(especially ones that played well with Nero too)
Back in the game and I've really just started using widgets to customize if you dont mind losing some battery life launcher pro plus is awesome for this
Nerov3 voodoo
^ check out some other theme sections and you'll discover what I mean.
Example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853923
Looking at that made me want a clear swype pad
Nerov3 voodoo
I agree but beggers can't be choosy. I would love to learn how to theme however I never find the time to learn with so many things going on in my life. I read somewhere that junkdruggler will help you theme if you ask. Hopefully next Monday pr Tuesday I can start to play with new themes and morphs.
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I know good and well where my skill set lies, and it's not with themes. I can beg all I want to, just hope it benefits ALL of us.
Just a heads up, a basic theme for the Vibrant will involve roughly 750 image edits in order to make it consistent enough to feel right. That isn't even getting into app specific edits to fit the system theme.
You think it's possible if we all share these files in PSD and edit them from there? The only thing I know how to do is edit pictures on Photoshop which I usually do. I haven't even tried edit .9.pngs but i'm willing to do it if it's not that time consuming either.
That would be pretty awesome if we had a shared dropbox folder or something.... shoot, I'll try and learn!
Just curious why it seems like there is no love towards RezRom? Im running 1.6 and there is literally not one single post about any mod what so ever for it. In my opinion Rez is about the smoothest and fast gb rom out there. Ive themed what i can myself but am not a pro at it. I would put up what i have but i dont feel its worthy compared to what other people do for theming on other mods.
Probably since bored has already themed the device and added pretty much every mod possible.
im talking about notification bar icons and things like that. I got the icons no problem, but when i try to do the date, etc., the clock goes back to white, when i change the clock, the date goes back to white. Not hating on it at all, but cleanrom has tons of mods where they have different status bar dropdowns, dialers, etc. But no one seems even remotely interested in Rez. I think it really is one of the best and def. props to bored, he is amazing with his work. Just wished more people showed love towards it.
I feel what you're saying man. People probably don't theme it since I assume altering a theme can be a pain in the butt. Not too sure about that since I know jack S about theming.
I theme quite a bit. Heck I used to theme all day. I have at least 6 full themes for sense 3.0. I know I did a full bravo theme for the rezound for gb, including a separate skin to go with it. I haven't had time to look at the framework for ICS yet so porting will take time.
You have to also keep in mind that I, along with several others came from the Thunderbolt. The framework or png's were completely different sizes on sense 3.0. When we all moved over to the Rezound, we realized we pretty much needed to redo a years worth of theming and upgrade all of our work to sense 3.5 png's.
I spent days trying to update one theme to sense 3.5 only to find out ICS came out a short while later. So, now all my work has to be matched up then ported over again to ICS which hasn't been done yet.
The big thing for some of the big themers here on the Rezound are skins. Simply because we make profit on the market. I barely have another skin to roll out for sense 3.5 gb and that took several weeks to complete. I plan on rolling out at least 5 more before I even begin to start theming for ICS. Unless ICS rolls out to the rezound sooner, I wouldn't count on a lot of themes for it.
I'm on ICS as I'm writing this but about all I'm going to put out for ICS are dialers.
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Theming will pick up once a official ota is out bc no one want to theme something and then rebase when we get a leak ... At least that's why I'm not theming right now lol
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im talking about notification bar icons and things like that. I got the icons no problem, but when i try to do the date, etc., the clock goes back to white, when i change the clock, the date goes back to white. Not hating on it at all, but cleanrom has tons of mods where they have different status bar dropdowns, dialers, etc. But no one seems even remotely interested in Rez. I think it really is one of the best and def. props to bored, he is amazing with his work. Just wished more people showed love towards it.
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FYI some stuff like dialers and other system apps will work on pretty much all the ROMS since they are all based on the same ICS leak
anything that changes the framework or systemUI is most likely ROM specific. you can however port images from one rom to another manually....if you have the time
You can go to the UOT Kitchen and easily do some light theming on your own. It's kind of fun!
I was already doing my own light theming like status bar icons. I just flashed to Rez 2.1 and am in the works of teaching myself more advanced theming to hopefully throw some out here on xda.
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I was already doing my own light theming like status bar icons. I just flashed to Rez 2.1 and am in the works of teaching myself more advanced theming to hopefully throw some out here on xda.
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Why theme a themed ROM??? lol
cause im not happy unless im messing around with something haha.
by the way mike, i finally jumped to ics, rez 2.1. i lost your gtalk name pm me with it if you dont mind.
My hopes for this thread is to give some insight to our Devs (Which are AWESOME btw) to get a feel for what the community would like to see brought to our device. Other than whats currently available for the Galaxy Note, what are some over your favorate roms from previous devices and what would you like to see ported over?
Roms that I would like to see added would be:
Jelly Bean (Of course)
MIUI (Official)
Gummy
Senseless (Sense UI with most bloat removed but including the One X Camera)
etc.
Feel free to add your thoughts and/or suggestions.
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The thing is tough that the developers pretty much make the ROMs for themselves and are nice enough to release then for others. Occasionally they will take request but usually it's what they developed likes
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Gotcha, makes sense. I know our Devs are pretty awesome, but when I look at the Dev section all I see is a few of each of AOSP,AOKP, and Hybrids. I really liked the MIUI and would love to see a variety of roms and UIs. Was hoping for people to make suggestions and get involved with that process.
Or.... take the plunge and fulfill your own request... Ionno just a thought