Long overdue... I give you: pureblack3
It's not supposed to be fancy, just black. Based on the latest (as of 10/2/09) theme files (Build 23060). For (W)VGA and (W)QVGA devices.
Changelog:
10-3-09 1:04am: (W)QVGA Added
10-2-09 6:29pm: Initial Release
waiting for a qvga version..thx..
the font is neosans?
Wonderful 3rd installment. thanks for the hard work.
Perfect works indeed,waiting for your QVGA release for this theme
m.carroll said:
Long overdue... I give you: pureblack3
It's not supposed to be fancy, just black. Based on the latest (as of 10/2/09) theme files (Build 23060). Only for (W)VGA devices at the moment.
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as requested: first post updated with (w)qvga theme installer. please test and report back that everything works, i don't have a qvga device to test on.
it's good to be back
i liked your older ones - so nice to see you did work on it and now it's supporting the new theming of wm65
great job - thumbs up
Great work M.Carroll
was waiting for this one since i dont know when.
Thanx dude.
Love ur work
....very nice work, indeed. Works very fine on my AtomLife. Thanks so much. Will include this on my next ROM, if you will permit...
Thanks a lot, just what I was waiting for!! And it definately looks fancy to me .
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....very nice work, indeed. Works very fine on my AtomLife. Thanks so much. Will include this on my next ROM, if you will permit...
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no problem on cooking it in your rom. let me know if you need help putting it into a package
really liking this but i got 2 small probs
the text at the top is not there
also the buttons at the bottom are wrong
nice work, will you be doing a gloss v3 as well?
i use it all the time as it goes so well with EVERY rom
Drury said:
really liking this but i got 2 small probs
the text at the top is not there
also the buttons at the bottom are wrong
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it would appear that you're using the (W)VGA version with a WQVGA device. Try the (W)QVGA version in the first post.
GutsyTripod said:
nice work, will you be doing a gloss v3 as well?
i use it all the time as it goes so well with EVERY rom
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i think i might be able to swing it. I'm looking for the files i used... gotta be around here somewhere...
that is the one im using
researching.
Thanks m. carroll. I was hoping you'd put this out. So far, it's working great on build 23420.
Thank-U!!! I love your themes they rock; I will publish in my kitchen when released, with all due credit
All the best - DA
PureBlack?
With all due respect (and genuinely mean that, cause I sure as hell haven't been able to create anything of the sorts... although I'm still trying) But for "PureBlack3" There sure is a lot of white and faded shades of gray rather than black. if it's call pure black, then make all the backgrounds in the menu's, and GUI in general, that are usually white... make those black, invert the font colors, and you'll be amazed just at how much batter life alone you will be saving people. The handset expends little to no power to display a black pixel, because there is simply nothing to display. Displaying a white pixel uses the most battery power. It's also really helpfull when usign the handset in a night time vehicular setting because you have less light distracting your vision.
Could maybe it be possible if you were so inclined, when creating PureBlack4, or perhaps a PureBlack3a, truly make it as pure black as possible.
I apologize if in anyway this post is insulting or derrogatory, for that was not my intention. Keep up the good work.
Blu
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With all due respect (and genuinely mean that, cause I sure as hell haven't been able to create anything of the sorts... although I'm still trying) But for "PureBlack3" There sure is a lot of white and faded shades of gray rather than black. if it's call pure black, then make all the backgrounds in the menu's, and GUI in general, that are usually white... make those black, invert the font colors, and you'll be amazed just at how much batter life alone you will be saving people. The handset expends little to no power to display a black pixel, because there is simply nothing to display. Displaying a white pixel uses the most battery power. It's also really helpfull when usign the handset in a night time vehicular setting because you have less light distracting your vision.
Could maybe it be possible if you were so inclined, when creating PureBlack4, or perhaps a PureBlack3a, truly make it as pure black as possible.
I apologize if in anyway this post is insulting or derrogatory, for that was not my intention. Keep up the good work.
Blu
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With respect, I disagree.
As an electrical engineer, I can confidently assure you that the color of a pixel has an unnoticeable effect on battery life. Black backgrounds would have no effect on battery life. The backlight is the battery-drainer, and the theme has nothing to do with that. Other than that, the way that WM is written, it's almost impossible to do what you're suggesting. My aim was to give a "mostly black" theme that the Microsoft set of themes were missing. I suppose your argument on the semantics of the theme name is correct, but I guess that's why I'm not an english major
Thanks for the suggestion!
Related
Here is set 2.
I'm not looking for anything like donations, but if I dont hear anything about people using these with some replies to this post, I'll assume all of this work that I'm doing is going to waste and nobody is using these. It takes quite a bit of time to find decent fonts and get them drawn up and sized and positioned correctly then make individual files, test them, screen cap, zip, etc.
Here is set 2 which includes:
Disney
Industrial
Industrial Red
Karate
Mael
Magna Carta
NASA
NeoGothic
Scratch
USA
rar version http://rapidshare.com/files/70722136/Kireols_HHC_Clocks_pack_2.rar.html
the last 3 screen caps
pack 1 had 400 views and no real replies other than people who didnt have bz2 compression for zip so i made a normal compressed file. pack 2 is normal compression.
Also, here's a .rar version if anyone is still having issues with my winzip
http://rapidshare.com/files/70722136/Kireols_HHC_Clocks_pack_2.rar.html
Nice job man!
Kireol !
thanks for your time and efforts ! These clocks look really great!
Ofiaich
you have done the kaiser community proud. thank you for the effort and time into making these clock fonts.
thanx these look nice and work great .any chance of getting them in lighter color ? I use all black themes for better day time contrast and I just can't see em,which is a shame bc they look really nice. thanx again
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thanx these look nice and work great .any chance of getting them in lighter color ? I use all black themes for better day time contrast and I just can't see em,which is a shame bc they look really nice. thanx again
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thanks guys.
and sure. have a color preference? or just a white or grey?
excellent work mate!
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thanks guys.
and sure. have a color preference? or just a white or grey?
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white please!
sure. no problem. will do tonight. it's 9:30am est here. I get home from work in 9 hours. will do then
kaiser blue? eblue? white? as long as I can see em. also the usa font kinda messed up my htc home, had to soft reset. all the rest worked flawlessly!
thanx again for these great faces.
hrmmm. not sure how usa would have messed it up. they're just image files. can you try it again and screen shot it if it does please?
I know that's what I thought, I'll try to get a ss.
did it 2x but when I tried for ss it won't do it again . must have been a glitch on my phone lol . works great now . thanx for the quick rely tho .
These are great!
I think the white set you are working on will work better for me since I have a black background.
Hi Kireol... it's possible the Karate White?
Tks for advance
Kireol, Sorry to take you thread off topic slightly. Whats the battery/memory status bar your using in your screen shots?
Great work Kireol, thank you very much.
A really simple monochromatic skin for Windows Mobile (Phone) 6.5, cab's fully uninstallable. Works with VGA/WVGA and QVGA/WQVGA, just download the correct resolution (without the W). Enjoy.
While I do realize that both versions could be installed from one Cab, I've chosen not to do this to avoid cluttering devices (especially those with small internal storage) with unnecessary files which are not fit for their resolution. My theme releases will be 2 separate cabs (maybe 3 if I ever figure out this square thing...).
Changelog:
May 7, 2009 - Fixed bubble/toast bug in (W)QVGA version and updated installers hardcoded to device (just to bypass nag in installation).
April 19, 2009 - Initial Release
looks nice, thanks for creating
looks and works good, thanks for job
thanx alot mate.. works beautifully
glad to contribute guys. it was more of a learning experiment for 6.5 themes for me. i've got a pretty good handle on how it works now, and am working on an idea for an original theme. if you've got any questions on how theming works on 6.5, head over to the WM6.5 Themes and Development Thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501506
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glad to contribute guys. it was more of a learning experiment for 6.5 themes for me. i've got a pretty good handle on how it works now, and am working on an idea for an original theme. if you've got any questions on how theming works on 6.5, head over to the WM6.5 Themes and Development Thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501506
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good to hear that m.carroll.. good luck for the new theme! hope to see it soon
tc bro..god bless
Thanks its great
hi
just now loaded on my Phone wow it looks great thanks a lot for this great creation of urs
Nice work, thank you!
Love black
Sweet man. this is awesome. I love the theme.
Great job! Thanks a lot!
just want to say a huge thanks for making mine as well as everyone elses HD's that much more awesome...
Does anybody else have the 'rainbow effect' towards the top of the screen? Does it show some blue, green and red as the color tries to transition... or maybe my backlight is up to high?
Anywho, great theme m.carroll!
could that possibly a battery that u have installed? cause i know that those sometimes use a rainbow effect
yeah !
Black is better coz I'm fed up with win blue
nice job
Thanks
ps: is a glossy version possible ?
Excellent, I tend to always stick with a nice clean black theme, more gloss would be nice
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big Thank You ............
Too bad nobody remembers 'bout square screens (320x320) of Treo and i780
Square QVGA should work just fine seeing as 320x320 on the TreoPro and the i780 are still both 192 DPI, save for the background. I could resize the background and cab up a square one for you if you'd like, but try the QVGA one first and let me know if it works.
EDIT: What's the DPI for the Square 320x320 devices? I'd love to get you a theme if you can get me the resources from a working Classic Blue theme...
EDIT2: Thanks to bnm7bnm, I've found an issue with the QVGA cab, in that if you click on the signal strength indicator, battery icon, any of the top icons looking for a status pop-up window, it shows the old-style notifications, instead of WM6.5-skinned style. Working on a fix and will update when available.
Speaking of bugs, anyone (AdamNimrod) having the rainbow effect: can you try and take a screenshot with a program like CapSure or something similar and see if the rainbow effect still shows up. I don't really know what your talking about, but the screenshot would help, and also identify if its an actual rendering issue or an optical illusion.
PS: I'm working on a Glossy Black theme roughly using a glossing effect similar to Windows 7, but trying to keep it classy and not look like it's "trying too hard". Its coming down the pipe, but I just got out of finals at the University of Florida, and start an internship soon, so it'll be here when it gets here.
For WM6.5 square screeners there is only 96dpi
The attachment contains the slightly modified theme - I've added the 320x320 wallpaper.
Can't wait for the square version
Dear Cooks,
We love you dearly, and we respect and value all the sleepless ours you spend on making our phones look and work beautifully.
But I think I'll speak for a lot of people here (maybe even a majority?) if I dare to say that we are tired of the perpetual darkness of every manila theme out there.
I understand that phone is black, and it's all-business, and black looks classy... but every single rom out there is ever completely black, or very dark. It's seriously making me depressed.
I, for one, use my phone at work so much that I'm starting to worry about buttons/screen wearing out. I sync with exchange and I'm all pro-work, but I still want it to be colorful and bright.
Browsing through our awesome collection of ROMs in this thread I can't help but think how much it'd benefit from having some brightly-colored themes cooked-in in the ROMs Manila.
Here's hoping that this could be one of the ways we can have even more fun with our devices,
Me.
P.S: Here's an awesome alternative to the eternal darkness in our Manila. It's not finished yet, and it looks like developers could use a hand.
yes, but u can install them afterwards
cant u
agent_47 said:
yes, but u can install them afterwards
cant u
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Nope, if you look at the official WM6.5 Theme thread, they are all dark/black. Some dark blue ones, and many poorly-designed/unfinished ones.
Besides, properly updating manila's design isn't that easy or reliable as changing WM's theme. A good, fully-integrated, fully-working bright theme is yet to be seen.
DarkDvr said:
Dear Cooks,
But I think I'll speak for a lot of people here (maybe even a majority?) if I dare to say that we are tired of the perpetual darkness of every manila theme out there.
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Have you posted a request for a bright theme in the "Rhodium...Themes and Apps" sub-forum?
I've seen quite a few colorful themes there, by the way...even if they're not to my taste.
MCbrian said:
Have you posted a request for a bright theme in the "Rhodium...Themes and Apps" sub-forum?
I've seen quite a few colorful themes there, by the way...even if they're not to my taste.
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Don't think I did, at least I don't recall.
There are no complete colorful themes. Bright wallpapers don't count - you can't read Manila's text on anything that's not black or very dark. Open a calendar tab to see what I mean.
If I missed some, please point me to it, but I don't think I have.
malina is not so good.
try spb mobile shell,
I have taken Kevlar Mash v1.69
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701283
plus the Circle Battery
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702663&highlight=circle+battery
(Both made by droidkevlar) and combined them into one theme.
All credit is due to droidkevlar for making both themes I just combined them and changed the color of the battery to match. I dont know if anyone will even like this or use it but this is my first contribution to the droid community and my first theme so I hope you like it.
I have added the screenshot below the file. Not much but It's a start. Let me know if anyone can think of any improvements.
Also note that this has only been tested on the Droid Eris so I do not know if it will work on other phones but no matter what phone you have DO A NANDROID BACKUP!!!
Disclaimer: If you brick your phone its your fault. I hate it for you but I am not responsible. You are doing this at your own risk.
Who cares if only 1 person likes it. We have another themer on board. Now get to making more, lol.
Cant wait to see a screenie.
ironically, i did this myself last week
BUT i flashed a new rom and changed my theme to incorporate a bunch of things i saw in themes/roms that i liked.
200 views?
Over 200 views and no one has any tips for me for future themes. No posotive or negative feedback on how it looks or if it works. Anything?
atta boy!
droiderisuser said:
Over 200 views and no one has any tips for me for future themes. No posotive or negative feedback on how it looks or if it works. Anything?
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It looks pretty good dude, just keep on tinkering around and you'll be golden
snyluc13 said:
It looks pretty good dude, just keep on tinkering around and you'll be golden
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ive been having trouble getting any kevlar to work on my droid does rom, if a fix for incompatible rom is there that would be an awesome fix.also itd be cool to have more all around themes.i wish i knew how to... incorparation of dialer would be cool, thanks for the share tho
I love the blue theme! I downloaded Aloysius 2.0.1 v12 and added this theme. This is my first experience with rooting, and I'm loving it. Everyone has been so helpful.
Any way to get the battery percentage in the notification bar circle?
Also, since the blue is working so well, any way to get a blue message icon too? When I tap letters on the keyboard, they turn green. It would be cool to get that blue too!
Great job!
for some reason the signal bar will not change for me. Could be the ROM I'm using
does the circle battery go over the checkered bar or does it have a black square on the end?
It has a black square I will be fixing this in the next update along with some other new things I am working on.
That's what I got switched to kevlar for the time being. Thanks for the update. Looking forward to the update
Ok folks, my friend just got a hero and we were talking about why to root. I showed him several ROMs from this site and all the cool themes. We got to talking about how cool it would be if there was a STEAMPUNK themed ROM out there.
Here's the rub... I SUCK at theming.
I looked at the "buufed" rom and I like some of the style, but it's just not quite what I'm looking for. Props to the developer of that ROM because it's very thorough. This is the depth I'd like the Steampunk theme to have, but I just don't know how to do it. I've never built a ROM from the ground up, so I don't even know where to start.
Is anyone out there interested in a project like this, or could someone help me know what to do?
Thanks!
-mb
+1
A steam punk theme would be pretty awesome
It has begun...
Ok... I have a great deal of respect for all you devs and themers out there. This is a beast. Time-consuming and not very forgiving...
I have started working on my steampunk theme. Here are some screenshots of what I've done so far. By no means is this a complete theme. I am using ZenHeroFX 2.0 by nfinitefx45 as my base. Credit to all artists/devs for their work.
I have themed the notification pull-down as well, but I don't have a screenie of that yet. Also, I themed the stock sense rosie, but (again) no screencap yet. I'm curious what y'all think...
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Looks cool so far.
Wow. You're a fast learner! Here are some clear notification bar icons that I made. You can use them so that the black squares wont show up around the icons in the notification bar. Just unzip the zip file, and you'll see the folders that the icons are supposed to go into. Good luck!
http://www.mediafire.com/?nqe4mm2znhh <---- clear notification icons
(when I say clear, I mean that they are white with a clear background)
alexthearmo said:
Wow. You're a fast learner! Here are some clear notification bar icons that I made. You can use them so that the black squares wont show up around the icons in the notification bar. Just unzip the zip file, and you'll see the folders that the icons are supposed to go into. Good luck!
http://www.mediafire.com/?nqe4mm2znhh <---- clear notification icons
(when I say clear, I mean that they are white with a clear background)
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Awesome! Thanks. That file is really helpful! I'll post more screencaps when I can do some more work on the theme.
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This is looking really good. Here's another theme I found a while back that has some of the same elements of csrom and your current build. I've never used it, but maybe something in there will help you, or maybe this dev can help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478570
wow! this looks ... awesome! not usually an "extreme theme" kinda guy, but this I would use!
sadly though, I am using CM6 or AOSP, so would not actually end up using it, but I will be watching this thread for S&Gs anyway. the end result should look spectacular.
if I could add one "suggestion"? Get rid of the "branding" (SteamMod in big letters on the lockscreen?), I would think ppl would rather have something less intrusive in the look. I know I would. something clean and mechanical. just a IMHO kinda suggestion, great work regardless!
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This is looking really good. Here's another theme I found a while back that has some of the same elements of csrom and your current build. I've never used it, but maybe something in there will help you, or maybe this dev can help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478570
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Thanks for the link. There is some good stuff I might be able to use in there... credit to the creator of course!
kingdazy said:
wow! this looks ... awesome! not usually an "extreme theme" kinda guy, but this I would use!
sadly though, I am using CM6 or AOSP, so would not actually end up using it, but I will be watching this thread for S&Gs anyway. the end result should look spectacular.
if I could add one "suggestion"? Get rid of the "branding" (SteamMod in big letters on the lockscreen?), I would think ppl would rather have something less intrusive in the look. I know I would. something clean and mechanical. just a IMHO kinda suggestion, great work regardless!
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No problem-o... I appreciate the suggestion. Funny thing, too... I was using some of the mods from this on my daily use, and I thought "I need to take off that lettering 'cuz it's getting on my nerves." I'm just going to use it as the splash screen when sense loads rather than on the lock screen.
I have to take a break from this for a couple of days, but hopefully I can work on it some next week. Here's where I'm going to have most of my problems... DISTRIBUTION. I can theme my own phone b/c I know what I'm editing... I just am not sure how to make it so others can use it without bricking their phone. Any ideas? I hate Metamorph... was thinking more of a flashable zip? Or maybe just a themed version of a full ROM? ??
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I may be way off, but I'm a Hero user and digital scrap "designer". I have photographed and extracted some Steampunk watch parts that you are welcome to use if you like for your theme.
http://www.scrappincop.com/search/label/Steampunk
The DL links are right below the pics for each post. Again, if I'm way off and you think my stuff sucks, disregard this post!
I love your theme btw!
I have abandoned this project... it was too big for me to take on. If anyone wants to pick this up...?
mbuchholz said:
I have abandoned this project... it was too big for me to take on. If anyone wants to pick this up...?
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that's too bad, one theme I was really looking forward to.
and no, dont know diddle about theming.