Hello xda, I was wondering if anyone would like to see a rom/mod I made and have been playing around with. I was thinking about compiling a finshed project on this upcoming sunday after I make and add some cool things like a custom transparent notification bar, clear backgrounds behind the icons, transparent drawer, etc.
The only question is..anyone interested?
I'd be down to try it out. I change roms every other day for something new.
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I'm also interested. I'll give it a try if you post it.
No one will condemn you for trying, and every effort is appreciated. Of course you can expect a flood of reports if it doesn't work or lacks functionality, but that's the point of posting ROMs here, to get feedback and make them better. Good luck, hope to see something soon.
I will definitely give it a shot.
Release it. I am sure many other MT4G users will appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
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Thank for the replies, as of right now I am currently working on the icons and notification bar.
+1 im bookmarking this
i'd like to test it out as well.
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]Here's a shot of the notifactions its not done yet lol I think ill add some more spark to it an you can see my unfinished app drawer icon, that also still WIP. ( http://www.mediafire.com/i/?t1xsvqyu1b5slag ) this is a sub link if that attached pic doesn't appear.
I'd love to see something different. Pleasee!
looks good. cant wait till its done.
Was this ever completed? Anything like this out there?
I was gonna do this, but I already found out that there is a TouchWiz theme for the CM7 for the CM7 theme chooser, (as well as more selections, such as Sony's TimeScape, Vanilla Froyo, MotoBlur)... So I just left that and used the themes instead, they're pretty amazing.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback, and quick reply!
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Okay so like yeaah. This may sound stupid but here's what I'm thinking. Because there are so many UI's like the Blur from Motorola. Sense from HTC. Blaah blah blah, why not make a custom one. We can make it based off of what the people want. Honestly, I like Blur (Don't laugh at me!) So why not try to get t how we like it. I know everybody's going to want something different, but why not try? We can try to take different parts of different UIs, and put them together and make our own. I know it's lame and all, but think about it. Don't keep reading... pause for 5 seconds. Okay now think about it and stop reading. We can even make this UI use-able for Vanilla Android 2.1 and 1.6 (and even people on 1.5 [hahahaa]). And hey, maybe it'll be so good that the Swagger Jacker Windows Mobile users can Swagger Jack it from us. So what do you say, wanna give it a shot?
where do we start? im interested
Idk. I posted here to see if anyone who knew who to do it was interested and wanted to help. I think we should start Googling.
lol.. trolling is fun
Fosho it is =] I'm trollin on 22's.
But lets be honest, a custom UI like MotoBlur is just like a theme. You just falsh it over something and make it look different and add-on some more widgets and etc... Motoblur is just 1.6 with a custom UI. Not saying that I like it, but it's okay and I mean, what's different from MotoBlur and Android 1.5? Notification Bar, Widgets, More tabs on the bottom, different clock, and more Social Networing connections. How hard would that be to make. We already have our own Widgets. Fasttest I think was the first to make the amazing looking clock that is now used in SuperCSDIv4 Rex3MixCSDI has a Black Notification Bar. We can make some custom Icons. We could Theme ADW_Launcher and give the bottom two buttons some use like how on Sense, you can go to;
All Apps-Phone-Add Widgets
and on MotoBlur, you have;
Phone-All Apps- Contacts
Why not make our own. Give it some customization. Take some random peoples requests. All these UIs and stuff, their all (I think I'm almos 100% correct on this, think about it) Home Replacements. Like BetterCut, DxTop, Home++. They all chang everything and give you more widgets. With MotoBlur and Sense you get new Boot Screens. We can do that. Make everything look cool. We been doing that. Why not make it. Post it on Google.Code. Be everywhere. Everyone will be talking about us and how cool we are. Port it to all the cool devices. Other then a few apps and Modifications, Custom UIs are just Themes. Like Enoch, JesterDroid, etc...
I may not know too much about coding and things like that, but I have more than enough experience with graphics and such. I'm all for this idea so if you need any help designing or just ideas you can pm me or add me on gtalk: [email protected]
Yeaaah, that's what I was waiting for. I thought about the same thing not too long ago. My opinion is, that for maybe the biggest android community it shouldn't be a problem. So good luck
I'm interested in seeing what could be made up. There are a lot of great features from all of the different themes out there, and piecing them together could be awesome if done right. I think a design should be aimed at before you have a million people all willy-nilly trying to make them. We should design, then build, then post a how to, that way the rest of the community can make their own based off of a common idea.
Now can we get anyone up in here who know how to make widgets? WE NEED WIDGETS UP IN HERE!
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Now can we get anyone up in here who know how to make widgets? WE NEED WIDGETS UP IN HERE!
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Maybe you could ask Koxx he creates, very good widgets, with great functionality.
Thanks I'll PM him right away. This is going so well!
So any advancement in this?
I PM'd koxx, but he didn't say anything back yet. I'll wait. Until then, anyone know how to add the little tabs on the bottom, like how MotoBlur has Dialer/All Apps/Contacts, what do you guys think we should make it. Gimmie some opinions.
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ok kl. Im not sure on how to add buttons. maybe look at one of the launcher2 modifications where buttons were added.
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That's a really good idea, I could ask one of those Devs. Do you know who made it? That's a really good idea I love you guy. As a bro.
Okay. Here are some links to some threads with customized buttons. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645683 <-- link to helix launcher and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630659&highlight=doc <-- link to launcher with buttons.
We'll be using the Launcher with Buttons. It's better becuase we can use only two buttons instead of 5. All we need to do is replace the Left and Right tabs, and make the Middle tab a different image so that the Launcher looks better. I think for the All Application Drawer, we could use the 2.1 rectangle. We could make it go like a straight line like the Espresso Launcher, but without the curved corners, ours is going to get all the way to the end of the screen. We could... give me some more ideas on what to put on the left and right tabs, what do you use most. For me it's Messaging and Brower.
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i think the left tab should be contacts, middle all apps, and right should be direct message. just like on GDE.
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Taken into consideration, post will be saved for future refrence. Here's the thing, this is a CUSTOM UI. We are not trying to copy any ideas. But yeah I do text a lot so that'll probably be one of them. In fact, I contacted one of the people who makes Custom Launchers and asked him if he could make his a little different then it already s, so that people could choose what they want where. This is a Custom UI by the people, for the people.
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okay good. now we need to come up with a theme and a list of neccessary widgets needed.
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Thanks to all the DEVS on here i appreciate your time and talent, and i would donate to every one of you guys but im not the richest person in the world. I do have a request if it's possible, here goes. I do have a brand new mt4g 3 days old now because of the screen and constant apps crash from my other. Since i downloaded a couple apps from the market and made it much more USER GUI custom rather than roms, because i have found to fail in this department with finding anything that i like (i'm picky, sorry devs, you do make great roms though ).
Attached is my home screen and i was wondering if anyone could make a simple mod (rom) to make the icon boxes transparent? Just show the icons? and remove the clock? I only ask this because I have the clock with beautiful widgets and did download another app for the power widgets. Or is there a simple setting i could mod in terminal? I appreciate it a bunch for anyone that could do this for me thanks a ton and....... (LONG LIVE XDA DEVS AND SUPPORTERS!!!)
I don't know about the clock, but ADW Ex will take care of the icon thing for you.
is that on market or can i get it here?
nvm i found it thanks again!
Launcher Pro as well...
I've been using it since I first got my nexus one and it's fantastic! The developer just added some nice new home screen transitions as well. Very customizable.
jay4mont78 said:
Thanks to all the DEVS on here i appreciate your time and talent, and i would donate to every one of you guys but im not the richest person in the world. I do have a request if it's possible, here goes. I do have a brand new mt4g 3 days old now because of the screen and constant apps crash from my other. Since i downloaded a couple apps from the market and made it much more USER GUI custom rather than roms, because i have found to fail in this department with finding anything that i like (i'm picky, sorry devs, you do make great roms though ).
Attached is my home screen and i was wondering if anyone could make a simple mod (rom) to make the icon boxes transparent? Just show the icons? and remove the clock? I only ask this because I have the clock with beautiful widgets and did download another app for the power widgets. Or is there a simple setting i could mod in terminal? I appreciate it a bunch for anyone that could do this for me thanks a ton and....... (LONG LIVE XDA DEVS AND SUPPORTERS!!!)
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You can also download the Androidian theme from the market (free) it will also remove the boxes but alow you to continue using your sense launcher.
TrueBlue_Drew said:
You can also download the Androidian theme from the market (free) it will also remove the boxes but alow you to continue using your sense launcher.
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you beat me to it....
haha
U can also download a mt4g theme called androdian. It keeps the htc sense on, but does exactly wat u want, which is remove the boxes around the icons . I use it (even tho I have adw ex over it) and it looks niceee
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Awww mann u beat me to it too xD
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This is more a proof of concept i have been working on since yesterday. I love aosp roms but i hate the lockscreens, sense 3.0 is where its at. I stumbled upon a new lockscreen that may be ported into the cm7 roms soon. Its a honeycomb sytle lock. It is available in the OMFGB nightlies only.
I basically modded the framework.res with png's i found from the miui & widgetlocker sense 3.0 lockscreen themes. As you can see from my screenshots this looks very similar to the sense lockscreen. The only thing it will not have is the 4 shortcuts.
Now i need some testers and some modders to help me out in porting this from OMFGB to other aosp roms such as cm7 & liquid. I am a themer, not a coder. As you can see from my screenshots i cannot get the ring to recess at the bottom and when you go to unlock it cuts the top of the ring off. This is where i need help, i believe a resource file or xml in the framework needs to be modded, i cannot do this.
To me this has huge potential, we could possibly even port custom rings over like we have for sense roms.
*Credits go to whoever created this honeycomb lockscreen and to the makers of OMFGB.
Lets see what we can do with this guys. Pm me if you feel you can help finish off this mod.
http://imageshack.us/g/560/snap20110814101033.png/
Edit: I have attached two zips below. The sense_theme can be flashed via clockwork on OMFGB only to show you guys the work i have done. The sense3d zip is all the files i used to do the mod and the framework.res from OMFGB. feel free to use this to help get this lockscreen completed. So you know, i flashed a different style font to get the excact look of my screenshots, yours may look different depending on what fonts you use.
R2doesinc is now onboard to help finish what i started. He said he will include this in a future OMFGB nightly. But as we know alot of projects never get finished so if you feel you can help with this theme or use it in your aosp rom, get in contact with me. I definitely want to see this concept be completed.
reserved for whatever.
I love this. I cant help but I can test.
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ridobe said:
I love this. I cant help but I can test.
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feel free to test, i need to make sure there is more interest in this before we proceed.
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feel free to test, i need to make sure there is more interest in this before we proceed.
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Outstanding. Clearly the potential is there. This is the ONLY part of sense I miss. I even like it without the shortcuts. Make it black and I'm done. I will be following this with much anticipation. Thanks again.
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Definitely interested. Just went over to uber bamf and although very nice, to me AOSP is just smoother. But like you said, sense 3.0 lockscreen is amazing so I'm here as well to test out. Wish I could be of more assistance but I don't know how to code. hopefully this gets worked out.
ridobe said:
Outstanding. Clearly the potential is there. This is the ONLY part of sense I miss. I even like it without the shortcuts. Make it black and I'm done. I will be following this with much anticipation. Thanks again.
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i could make a black ring, we just need to find a way to make the ring recessed at the bottom and not cut off when unlocking. i doubt we will be able to make shortcuts as of now. i also love the look, we just need to get this ported to cm7 and or other aosp roms. right now it only works in OMFGB. hopefully the cm team will approve the honey lock into his nightlies, i know it has been submitted already.
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Definitely interested. Just went over to uber bamf and although very nice, to me AOSP is just smoother. But like you said, sense 3.0 lockscreen is amazing so I'm here as well to test out. Wish I could be of more assistance but I don't know how to code. hopefully this gets worked out.
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lol yeah, i have no idea how to mod xml's or resources. that's what i think need to be done to position the ring properly. best of all this works better than any 3rd party market app out there right now.
Heads up. potential for more tester coming your way... a link to the was created on Android Central
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Heads up. potential for more tester coming your way... a link to the was created on Android Central
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this was posted at rootzwiki as well. testers yes, i need them but i also need a devs help to edit the theme so the ring is positioned correctly. i hope we can get this to work on all aosp roms. as i said the potential for this is HUGE. i can see custom rings being ported over as well. it's like having the best of both worlds here while not taking away any elements from aosp.
Amazing. I don't normally run OMFGB so I can't use it on my AOSP rom right now, but I'll flash later in the day just to try it out.
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Amazing. I don't normally run OMFGB so I can't use it on my AOSP rom right now, but I'll flash later in the day just to try it out.
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i normally use liquid aosp but im switching to OMFGB for the time being to work on this.
to get this ported to all AOSP's would be awesome... no matter what ROM's im testing or trying, i always seem to come back to CM7.
Im going back to liquid until this can be ported over. i hope the cm team approves the lockscreen so i can theme it. if anybody wants to continue developing this to get the ring sorted out, pm me.
Hmm...400+ views and hardly no replies? Doesnt seem like alot of interest here.
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Hmm...400+ views and hardly no replies? Doesnt seem like alot of interest here.
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Check your rootz thread
r2 wants to fix it and add it to tonights nightly. Hes asking for help in irc.
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I'm totally interested. Unfortunately all I can offer you is to be a tester.
Fix, I can test but cannot mod. I am running CM7
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R2doesinc is now onboard. Im mobile right now. Ill update the thread tonight.
ive been talking to R2 and this will be available shortly in their nightly. he is also implementing the 4 shortcuts with a on & off type toggle so everyone can be happy. once this is complete i hope we can get the aosp devs to port it to their roms. the source will be available on the githubs. glad i started this and never thought it would actually take off.
Last night I decided it was time to try something different. Task's ROMs are popular, but unfortunately for us... there is not a whole lot that makes one ROM really different from another.
I wish there were a lot of tweaks made.... lockscreens added... MIUI battery bar.... additional toggles.... long-pressing toggles to take you to the settings... etc.
But, we do not have those things... so, what are the real differences from one ROM to another? build.prop tweaks... boot animations... themes.... and of course all are deodexed/zipaligned.
All that said... for what it is worth, Overcome does feel better than Task 7-10 did. I used it with the stock kernel for awhile, and then I tried it with pershoots kernel at 1.2 (not 1.4). This made it feel even better.
I have experienced no issues, and while I use ADW EX, the stock launcher that is included felt really snappy. I just love my gestures.
Below is a video (not a great one) of Overcome v2.1.1.... would strongly encourage you guys trying it. This is not a sound board for this ROM is better than this ROM... it is simply so you can see another ROM and hopefully encourage people to try some new ROMs.
OVERCOME CAN BE FOUND HERE
Next on my list is BinDroid... the custom theme included on that is very sexy.
I am uploading another for a widget picket app that I would love developers to start including....UPLOADED... YOU CAN VIEW THIS AMAZING APP HERE
Big fan of the recovery...
TASK told me this video review has nothing that a ROM review should have..... I'd be curious what exactly I could have shown that I did not. Please let me know how I can improve for the next video.
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thanks for the video
I spoke to a guy here that is planning to release a rom for the tab that has all those things and a lot more. Hopefully he does cos it sounded fantastic. I checked his thread for one of his roms, I think it was the galaxy s 2 and it is great
^ who was it?
I have added another video of the Recovery... big big fan of the tweaks made to it.
strongly encourage looking at the Widget Picker app also... a must have for me.
It's a secret lol It wasn't a galaxy, don't know where I got that from. I am not saying much as it isn't up to me to talk about it yet. But you will see soon I just spoke to the guy ;-)
Thanks for the video. Great ROM.
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It's a secret lol It wasn't a galaxy, don't know where I got that from. I am not saying much as it isn't up to me to talk about it yet. But you will see soon I just spoke to the guy ;-)
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They should hurry... CM9 is right around the corner... not sure any of us are not going to be flashing that, haha.
You may want to update your sig.
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You may want to update your sig.
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haha, good catch....
here is the place to discuss anything theme-related such as theme ideas, requests, help/tutorials, or share your personal themes with screenshots , etc
I just have been feeling this itch lately of wanting to get back into it and a beautiful device like the U11(which i sadly do not own yet) does make me feel a little inspired and thinking about giving HTC another chance.
so, after shaking off the rust and little by little regaining the memory of some adb commands.. i finally got around to relearning how to decompile with apktool again(with some "ah ha!" moments in between)
coming from Sense 5/5.5, i notice a few changes when tearing into the latest version of Sense for the U11. i'm not sure what version of Sense we are at now as i have been out of the loop but i've observed that com.htc.resources is no longer in the framework.. and looking into prism and a few other apps i see alot of images in webp format(seems like a headache to modify) those are new to me. but then again i havent used an HTC device for quite some time so maybe those changes were already there.
anyway, without com.htc.resources i would think it be much easier to theme Sense now, whereas in the past themeing Sense took alot more guesswork and double the work with com.htc.resources and framework-res working in conjunction .you just never knew sometimes which apps were referencing from which framework, which was a nightmare in of itself. i'm kinda glad HTC streamlined Sense but i'm not familiar with the latest version so i wouldnt know. its all just a guess. :good:
Are you looking to load your theme(s) into the theme store, or baked into a ROM? Just asking...
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Are you looking to load your theme(s) into the theme store, or baked into a ROM? Just asking...
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would love to make flashable themes just like the old days but i dont have a U11 yet. i am very hands on when i work on themes and mods. lot of experimenting and constant flashing.
the challenge is doing it blindly without the device as i never done that before but if there are willing testers that can provide feedback then i would love to get started on them. :good:
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would love to make flashable themes just like the old days but i dont have a U11 yet. i am very hands on when i work on themes and mods. lot of experimenting and constant flashing.
the challenge is doing it blindly without the device as i never done that before but if there are willing testers that can provide feedback then i would love to get started on them. :good:
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What I am trying to do is theme it like AOSP. I have the stausbar icons done, but want to get at least the majority themed such as settings and what not. I am still waiting for the phone and have limited experience theming anything, but that is my goal. I always like learning new things.:good:
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What I am trying to do is theme it like AOSP. I have the stausbar icons done, but want to get at least the majority themed such as settings and what not. I am still waiting for the phone and have limited experience theming anything, but that is my goal. I always like learning new things.:good:
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nice! it's always good to get a little head start till your phone arrives. it's easy once you become more familiar with theming but can be tedious sometimes. haven't done any work for over 2 years but it'll all come back to me. i'll look at some old guides to get a refresher lol.