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Dream Theme Competition - Work in Progress!

"The powers that be have been very busy lately, falling over each other to position themselves for the game of the millennium."
The next competition is in the works. We learned a lot from the previous round and I assure you its only going to get bigger and better from here. Please stay tuned for updates and when the ground work is in place we will announce the new competition.

*RESULTS*
Here is how the voting stacked up across the board before .......
Artistic Category: 1st-Aero, 2nd-Gloss Suite, 3rd-MoOn Dust, 4th-Dark Symmetry, 5th-System Force
Creative Category: 1st-Dark Knight, 2nd-Mario Droid, 3rd-Gloss Suite, 4th-Vista, 5th-MoOn Dust
Technical Category: 1st-Impossible, 2nd-Gloss Suite, 3rd-Dark Knight, 4th-Aero, 5th-MoOn Dust
Overall Category: 1st-Gloss Suite, 2nd-Aero, 3rd-Dark Knight, 4th-MoOn Dust, 5th-Dark Symmetry
And now the final results for the First ever HTC Dream theme competition started at XDA-developers.com .......
3rdThe top 5 themes all came very close, but it was clear that the battle for first and second would be the closest. Regardless, in a close third place, the second most praised theme from the notes section of the ballot, beating out MoOn Dust by less than 5% was Aero by UltraSpikey.
2ndIn second place, with most comments on the ballots, Dark Knight by jdwme. This theme stole the hearts of the judges and showed more passion and effort than any others. Even tho it didnt win I think it made the biggest impact on the community and I think this theme embodies everything that this contest was about.
1stFinally the winner by only 1%!!! Ok, so its no surprise that Gloss Suite takes the cake. This was the undisputed winner of the popular vote and a truly exceptional theme. I know that MoonSpoon is technically the submitter but big props go to Stericson for his help too.
All of the winner please email me your info so I can send out your winnings.
First off, I want to give a big shout out to xda-developers.com, androidcommunity.com, and modmygphone.com. Without you guys this would not have been possible.
Dark Symmetry
by: Geo411m
pics: none
theme RC33: link (8.8MB)
theme ADP1.1h: link (9.4MB)
Bloody
by: godfatherone
pics: none
theme RC33: link (9.5MB) *UPDATED*
extras: link (248KB)
Dark Knight
by: jdwme
pics: none
theme ADP1.1h: down (9.6MB)
theme RC33: down (12.9MB)
theme RC33 w/ full update: link (40.4MB)
Mario Droid
by: JesseOwen
pics: link (1.1MB)
read me: link (1KB)
theme RC33: link (8.7MB)
MoOn Dust
by: Manup456
pics: none
read me: link (22KB)
theme RC33: link (9.2MB)
extras: link (1.8MB)
System Force
by: Prash
pics: none
read me: link (1KB)
theme RC33: link (9.3MB)
extras: link (3.2MB)
Vista
by: Pud
pics: none
theme RC33: link (9.1MB)
Purple Android
by: Sangeet
pics: none
theme ADP1.1h: link (7.6MB)
Gloss Suite
by: MoonSpoon
pics: none
theme RC33: link (9.2MB)
Impossible
by: Stericson
pics: none
read me: link (500B)
theme ADP1.1h: link (16.4MB)
Android Ware
by: tubaking182
pics: none
theme RC33: link (9.1MB)
Aero
by: UltraSpikey
pics: none
theme RC33: link (9MB)
extras: link (500KB)

.....this is also reserved for later use.....

Ya, this is the first g1 competition for themes I know about and it was kind of a crap shoot to see what happened. I think the main thing we will get from this contest is a starting point. We now know what the "best" themes look like. My hope is that someone will use one and say Holy ****, someone won $400 to make this, I can make one twice as good for the next contest, and so on and so forth. Now that the ball is rolling its only a matter of time before we see amazing things.

brandenk said:
Ya, this is the first g1 competition for themes I know about and it was kind of a crap shoot to see what happened. I think the main thing we will get from this contest is a starting point. We now know what the "best" themes look like. My hope is that someone will use one and say Holy ****, someone won $400 to make this, I can make one twice as good for the next contest, and so on and so forth. Now that the ball is rolling its only a matter of time before we see amazing things.
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Well put!
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Your patience is rewarded
And if you are one of the authors of a submission and would like to submit more information for your theme please contact me via email.

3/25/2009 11:59 PM what time zone, lets clarify this up NOW. lol

This is gona be a close contest.....they all seem far above what we have seen in previous themes...
And they are all amazing

Ends 3/25/2009 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
And I chose the PDF to make the voting standard for any G1 forum. I tried to make it as easy and "no duh" as possible but I know nothing is foolproof to a clever fool so let me know if you guys have suggestions.

XDA Dream Theme Competition - Poll
This is for us to get an idea of the popular vote. *These results have no effect on the voting, this is just for reference*

I'm not a judge nor did I donate. How am I able to download these?

If you want to offer a second/alternative link to download/screenshots/readme of my SystemForce Theme it can be found from http://www.injun.org/themes/SystemForce.html (capitalization matters..sorry lol)

uberingram said:
I'm not a judge nor did I donate. How am I able to download these?
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Are you kidding me?? they are in post 1 Next to each theme, there is a link to download.

Mikey1022 said:
Are you kidding me?? they are in post 1 Next to each theme, there is a link to download.
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Heh, sorry if my question was unclear. I was under the impression that these would only be available to judges and donators for the next week or two. Since I am neither I was a tad surprised to see them available publicly.

Great Idea!!!
i like the due date on the 28th! gives me time to try them all... lol and the pdf is pretty easy too. Decisions, decisions lol.... but to all GOOD LUCK!!

uberingram said:
Heh, sorry if my question was unclear. I was under the impression that these would only be available to judges and donators for the next week or two. Since I am neither I was a tad surprised to see them available publicly.
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lol i wanted to say that as well but... why would i?

samysam05 said:
lol i wanted to say that as well but... why would i?
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Honesty is a great thing.

I would like to try out stericons impossible, but its only for adp1.1

Consider these links as an early gift to all you wonderful XDA Android members

Grrr...I want to try a couple of these but I'm at work, so I can't use the USB ports. 2 more hours until I get home...

[Q] Any themers willing to put a old school dialer in their theme?

I was hoping you guys know of a themer, or can point me in the right direction....
I would like my dialer to look like a pay phone, big block silver buttons. I realize pay phones are a thing of the past, but I think it would be really cool looking to have shiny silver buttons on the G1.
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Thoughts? With that said, I LOVE the Call button and Delete button on the screen too like the newest Cyan Dialer has... would hope to keep that in there.

I think I am being boycotted from XDA, none of my posts seem to get any response.

You may want to read the sticky in this forum. Android Themes have moved/merged into a single place where you may find all the theme makers.

Prash, thanks man... I know there is that section now, but I thought it was for actually finding themes to download... WTF is this section for now? I figured it was more of a request/Q&A for themes....
I'm NOT a fan of the new categories/

@s15274n
There is alot of work and effort that goes into making a theme.
That's why most of the kick-ass themes you DO SEE are updated versions of past themes where the developer has optimized their images, added a new this or that.
You've not been boycotted, but maybe your theme idea just has not generated enough interest.
There has to be some kind of interest in this old school phone dialer idea for it to even be considered.
Even with that, there is lots of work to be done.
I'd recommend that you read the stickies posted about HOW to make a theme. If you are on Windows XP or Vista, it should be pretty simple. It's an easy to follow set of long complex instructions.
If you should do it yourself, you guarantee that NO ONE IN THE WORLD has this kick ass theme.

OrganizedFellow said:
@s15274n
There is alot of work and effort that goes into making a theme.
That's why most of the kick-ass themes you DO SEE are updated versions of past themes where the developer has optimized their images, added a new this or that.
You've not been boycotted, but maybe your theme idea just has not generated enough interest.
There has to be some kind of interest in this old school phone dialer idea for it to even be considered.
Even with that, there is lots of work to be done.
I'd recommend that you read the stickies posted about HOW to make a theme. If you are on Windows XP or Vista, it should be pretty simple. It's an easy to follow set of long complex instructions.
If you should do it yourself, you guarantee that NO ONE IN THE WORLD has this kick ass theme.
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glad to see that the people with a smaller number of posts actually know the stickies exist and know where to point people. maybe there is some hope for XDA.
and as far as the dialer goes. its mostly editing and changing png files. if you can find a good pic of a payphone dialer, you should be able to do this yourself or with the help of a theme maker.

Yo....If you find me a good pic of the old school dialer, I'll get this made up for you.

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f37/pay-phone-dialer-skin-27719/

Gonna try it using that pic. Should have it up by Wednesday night.

palosjr said:
glad to see that the people with a smaller number of posts actually know the stickies exist and know where to point people. maybe there is some hope for XDA.
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I've been a lurker for YEARS!!!!
It is only now that I have enough experience to share with others where applicable.
Started with my old AudioVox SMT-5600, Tilt, Wing, Dash and now the G1. Hopefully soon, I'll have the NexusOne

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I've been a lurker for YEARS!!!!
It is only now that I have enough experience to share with others where applicable.
Started with my old AudioVox SMT-5600, Tilt, Wing, Dash and now the G1. Hopefully soon, I'll have the NexusOne
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yea i was the same way for a long time. started with the old blackjack and dash lol now im all grown up in android world. XDA has come a longggg way

Here is a preview of what I've been working on, the images are a little too big, so I'll be working on that, and adding background elements. Let me know what you think.

rp1783 said:
Here is a preview of what I've been working on, the images are a little too big, so I'll be working on that, and adding background elements. Let me know what you think.
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I don't have or use Android but that is sweet! Any way you could post some PSDs so I can make a WM version?
dwizzy130

I really like it, but think it would look cooler without the black background. I want it to look like you picked up a payphone and are looking at the silver face.

Request a theme :)

If you guys have any themes you would like to see go ahead and request them and I will see what I can do.

Id like to see a black and blue teme. I kno there typical but blue is pretty damn nice. The galaxy series blue is little to light for my liking. Pretty much turn everything that's blue and green (Highlights,check marks, etc.) to like a royal blue. Also with a transparent staus bar and an EVO like status bar theme.(battery, signal, etc). Maybe kinda of a big request but its worth a shot.

Shouldn't be too hard, you want the stock evo icons? What type of launcher are you looking for?

If you can get me this theme on my epic 4g that would be awesome, I used to have it on my vibrant and honestly is all Im missing on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758797

Fidelio_o said:
If you can get me this theme on my epic 4g that would be awesome, I used to have it on my vibrant and honestly is all Im missing on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758797
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s0niqu3 Epic Theme as requested by Fidelio_o v0.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789253
Screenshots in post not perfect but a good start. Enjoy!
@hugo87: Your request will be released sometime tomorrow. If you could post a link to the icons you want me to use.

Thanks man! Appreciate it. Evo icons or something similar.. I'm using launcher pro plus so I'm kinda doing black blue grey look. Thanks again!

elegantsteel
This might be a little too involved, but.. I'd REALLY like to see ElegantSteel.
Here is the original concept http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699497
Then it was ported to Nexus One here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759990
and then it looks like some kind of half-assed version for the Vibrant here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779628 (no offense to vibrant themer.. just assuming?)
Either way it looks like its taken a lot of people a lot of time and still never really been done perfectly.. it'd be great to see it on the Epic, though!

Once I get a v0.1 of Hugo87's request out there I will start working on an elegant steel port. Thanks for the reference links btw.

crake001 said:
Once I get a v0.1 of Hugo87's request out there I will start working on an elegant steel port. Thanks for the reference links btw.
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That'd be awesome! It seems kinda involved so thanks for even looking into it.

Can you do this one? I know its sense based but the rest of it minus the sesne would be wonderful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727117

rjmjr69 said:
Can you do this one? I know its sense based but the rest of it minus the sesne would be wonderful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727117
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Sure thing, probably gonna try to release a bunch of these requests tomorrow/friday. Will keep you guys updated. Keep the request coming.

crake001 said:
Sure thing, probably gonna try to release a bunch of these requests tomorrow/friday. Will keep you guys updated. Keep the request coming.
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Omg im so aimed i can't wait. Pull that off and you got a nice donation coming

Can you do a red, black, and white theme? I'm a huge Nebraska fan so whatever you can do as long as it isn't over the top. It doesn't have to have anything about Nebraska on it as long as the colors are right.

While in the process of making hugo87's request I came across some pretty bad news.....
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So as of right now a transparent status bar is out of the question.
Hugo, any other kind of status bar you are looking for possibly a royal blue one?
BTW that screenshot is far from a finished product.

Cyanogen mod theme?
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It is what it is man. I just appreciate your taking the time to do it. If it can't be transparent than black would be fine. I noticed the blue minimilism theme status bar is gray when not pulled down. than when its pulled down it like a textured gray color if that makes sense. If you could make the status bar transparent when its not pulled down and blue when it is if that makes sense. Let me knew if I confused you. Thanks!
Edit: Hope the dev doesn't mind me borrowing this but its grey where signal, battery ( what I want transparent) and like a textured gray on the bottom of the the pull down tray( would want blue if possible like your screen shot a few posts above). Hope this makes a little more sense.

dnathan13 said:
Can you do a red, black, and white theme? I'm a huge Nebraska fan so whatever you can do as long as it isn't over the top. It doesn't have to have anything about Nebraska on it as long as the colors are right.
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Yea I don't really have an ETA but will try for sure.

Saw this (MattedBlues Theme - CM 6.0) on the EVO Theme & App, looks really nice. Can this be ported to our EPIC running either AOSP Magic ROM or Andromeda ROM?
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768848
Thanks!

I would love to see Sony Xperia X10 theme.There is one on xda that you can use for the base(in mdpi) if you want i can post a link.

the theme used on the bionic roms for the vibrant is awesome
here is a link for the rom with screen shots of the theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027

[THEME][FINAL]MusicPlayer[28/3](HONEYCOMB)

Hi again!
I'd like to present you my FINAL music player in honeycomb style.
I've changed the music control PNG's to very smooth buttons.
This time i won't delete the previous version, so you can choose
between the text based music controls, or the new ones
Screen:
http://img508.imageshack.us/i/downloadvn.jpg/
If you download it, leave a message please.
Enjoy it!
Grtz [B-shorty]
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Back with an update!
changes:
Edited some buttons
Themed more PNG's
Screenie:
http://img4.imageshack.us/i/downloadqu.jpg/
Enjoy!
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Hi Guys!
Here is my themed honeycomb musicplayer!
This is my first try to theme something.
So suggestions are welcome!
Credits to Crysis21 and obsessionXYZ for inspiration.
Screenshot:
http://img819.imageshack.us/i/downloadhf.jpg/
You can use this themed musicplayer in combination with the Valle-mod theme.
Find that great theme here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958788
Install:
- Download the musicplayer.apk below
- Your phone needs to be rooted!
- Download file explorer from the market
- Put the musicplayer.apk into the system/app folder
- That's it!
Greets
[B-shorty]

Today i'll continue theming the mediaplayer.

Awesome mate, thanks!

hmmm... the volume button and 5.1 souns familiar... oh yeah. I created them and you took them )... not to mention the design idea :-j just changed the colour...
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left yours right mine. Try to come with something original... theft it's not gonna help you

Crysis21 said:
hmmm... the volume button and 5.1 souns familiar... oh yeah. I created them and you took them )... not to mention the design idea :-j just changed the colour...
left yours right mine. Try to come with something original... theft it's not gonna help you
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Theft, theft, theft. As far as I know everyone here uses eachothers work to create something new. Its quite normal on XDA, the mistake made here was that he should have given you some credit for your work. I agree with you untill that point. And im using simply galaxy and this music player fits way better with my theme than your crysis themed one. So it is useful and original in the way that is differentiates itself from other themes..
B_sHorTy: Edit first post and give credit to Crysis for his work. And now both of you play nice please

Stitch! said:
Theft, theft, theft. As far as I know everyone here uses eachothers work to create something new. Its quite normal on XDA, the mistake made here was that he should have given you some credit for your work. I agree with you untill that point. And im using simply galaxy and this music player fits way better with my theme than your crysis themed one. So it is useful and original in the way that is differentiates itself from other themes..
B_sHorTy: Edit first post and give credit to Crysis for his work. And now both of you play nice please
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agreed man, but he should've asked me, as many others did, and give the credits. I never said no to someone when used my battery and so on... but I encourage inspiration, he should put his head at contribution and do something original. Many apps you see "themed" today, are getting just an color change and that's it. Nothing deep....

Edited the first post. Sorry Crysis21, for not asking you.

Crysis21 said:
agreed man, but he should've asked me, as many others did, and give the credits. I never said no to someone when used my battery and so on... but I encourage inspiration, he should put his head at contribution and do something original. Many apps you see "themed" today, are getting just an color change and that's it. Nothing deep....
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Come on man, he took 2 pngs. I had a case that one user took half of my theme (much much more pngs), and the other half was from 5 other themes and only who didn't get credit was me. It is not nice, but also there were a lot of people that used his theme and that is what is important, to please more people.
Sent from my GT-I9000

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Come on man, he took 2 pngs. I had a case that one user took half of my theme (much much more pngs), and the other half was from 5 other themes and only who didn't get credit was me. It is not nice, but also there were a lot of people that used his theme and that is what is important, to please more people.
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+1
Second that dude

vukandric said:
Come on man, he took 2 pngs. I had a case that one user took half of my theme (much much more pngs), and the other half was from 5 other themes and only who didn't get credit was me. It is not nice, but also there were a lot of people that used his theme and that is what is important, to please more people.
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yes man, you have your right, I have seen your work and I respect you for that. But isn;t bothering when you work weeks for something, brick your phones and flash it over and over again, and when you hae done all the work, some guy sees a little spot missed by you, he fixes and gets all the credit.
XDA should be about innovation, not reinventing the wheel... I think you must agree with that! With no innovation.... nothing new... just changing some colors...

I respect your work too! ofcourse i do. But don't react like that. Ok, i forgot to give you the credits in the first post. So i added them. And it's not only changing some colors. I just help the guy who is responsible for the valle-mod theme. I'm no developer or something. And i don't have as much knowledge about photoshop like you. But at least i try to make something, that matches the valle-mod theme. And make people happy with my work. That's what this is about. And i don't want to ''steal'' something from you. As i said, i already deleted the two PNG's. So there is no need to say i stole it from you or something like that. It's just a theme that matches the valle-mod theme.

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yes man, you have your right, I have seen your work and I respect you for that. But isn;t bothering when you work weeks for something, brick your phones and flash it over and over again, and when you hae done all the work, some guy sees a little spot missed by you, he fixes and gets all the credit.
XDA should be about innovation, not reinventing the wheel... I think you must agree with that! With no innovation.... nothing new... just changing some colors...
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Yes, I agree. I was mad, but I kept it to myself. Once I sent a PM to user who also had a lot of my pngs in his theme, but that was it. I know that it is really good to do something all new, but this user took only 2 pngs from your theme. After all, some people liked my theme just with battery icons changed (also done by some other user) and I respect that because I can't please everyone with one theme. Hope you understand, I do understand you and he should give you credit for that.

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I respect your work too! ofcourse i do. But don't react like that. Ok, i forgot to give you the credits in the first post. So i added them. And it's not only changing some colors. I just help the guy who is responsible for the valle-mod theme. I'm no developer or something. And i don't have as much knowledge about photoshop like you. But at least i try to make something, that matches the valle-mod theme. And make people happy with my work. That's what this is about. And i don't want to ''steal'' something from you. As i said, i already deleted the two PNG's. So there is no need to say i stole it from you or something like that. It's just a theme that matches the valle-mod theme.
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sorry man for that erruption, but I had a rough day and I just got too mad on you without a real reason. Went for a walk and now I'm relaxed and I see things from another point of view

saw a distinct likeness with the old textures from tayutama's early eclair/froyo theme in a fairly recent theme *whistle* kinda missed those good to see em put to use once again

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sorry man for that erruption, but I had a rough day and I just got too mad on you without a real reason. Went for a walk and now I'm relaxed and I see things from another point of view
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don't mind! I like your work, and i see all those themes on xda, so i thought let's make one my own. i didn't want to steal anything from you
Anyway, i hope you like my theme this way. I'll continue theming this week and finish it.

Hahahaha, one happy family Thats what this scene should be about, respecting eachother, sharing is caring and helping noobs. For me XDA over Apple service center anytime

One happy family indeed haha

FINAL version here! If you like it, hit the thanks button please! or leave a note.
Thanks!

Nice, thanks!

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Nice, thanks!
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You're welcome! enjoy!

[Request] Request to all theme makers

Hi all,
We are having various themes currently for our s3, but if you people note one thing all of them are based on blue color or using blue as the base(which become a trend from the debut of ics). The thing is there were many beautiful themes for galaxy series mobiles during the gingerbread rom period, but once the ics got released most of those beautiful themes were buried and didnt make it to ics.
So i here by request all the themers to kindly consider this as a request to resurrect good old themes to our galaxy s3. This also would be helpful for themers from other mobile section to port them so that the theme wont be dead again. I dunno whether it is possible to port some old themes , but atleast we can give it a 2nd thought about the possibility and also porting a theme(editing images, xmls,resizing etc etc) is a very long and time consuming process, but for the sake of our xda community we cannot afford to lose those beautiful themes. .
i also request our thread members to post the themes they like/feel missing here in this thread along with the name so that our themers can get a chance to go through the possibility of porting/resurrecting it.
ill post a few good old themes here now as example.(sorry search is not working as of now , so im posting a few randomly selected old themes link which may/may not be good) .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222285
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220048
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212157
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266640
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705838
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131746
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477601
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755262
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297393
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1249483
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289734
please use this thread in a constructive way and if this works well we people have a very good chance of seeing legendary themes back alive in our s3.
thank you all

+1000
thanks bala for making valid points... plz take this as humble request to all themers...
really bored with Blue & black...

I thought ICS law was blue blue blue and no other crayons in the box .
jje

Well said bala.
Hate to sound like an ungrateful SOB, but I feel also that theme development has been very disappointing. Seems like most themers are working solely for AOSP/AOKP/CM9. Obviously it's their work, their decision, but nonetheless disappointing.
I'm seriously considering trying - again - to learn how to theme. Reckon I can get it sussed by 2025.....
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Try blackcolors theme by eladios.that's more like old theme and it's a morp theme so it works on all Sammy.

here is one theme screenshot from dlev rom from sgs2, it went totally missing after ics
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First request to themers at the moment should be to use Villain Theme System, so that you can use several mods combined.
ATM there are plenty of Mods outside you can't combine because they replace a whole framework or systemui, even this is not needed.

Hi
Bala, you forgot about my Red Horizons Theme for ICS on the SGS2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535956
My SGS3 is arriving today so I'll get moving A.S.A.P

B3311 said:
Well said bala.
Hate to sound like an ungrateful SOB, but I feel also that theme development has been very disappointing. Seems like most themers are working solely for AOSP/AOKP/CM9. Obviously it's their work, their decision, but nonetheless disappointing.
I'm seriously considering trying - again - to learn how to theme. Reckon I can get it sussed by 2025.....
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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It's really not that hard. There are plenty of guides. I learned as I went along, starting with changing images, learning about .9.pngs and then editing XML's. If you ever need any help please PM me.

Phone_Guru said:
Bala, you forgot about my Red Horizons Theme for ICS on the SGS2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535956
My SGS3 is arriving today so I'll get moving A.S.A.P
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nice, expecting different colors of horizon from you

Don't expect too much. I'll do red because that's what I like but probably not any other colours.

Phone_Guru said:
Don't expect too much. I'll do red because that's what I like but probably not any other colours.
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fine then glad u got s3 /

Well i agree that blue is all over the place
Even before ICS came in ICS themes floated for various devices..
Over the period of time Blue lost its charm(personal opinion)...perhaps too much blue in every ROM
Well all i have to say is "Get over the mundane blue !" Lets bring more colours themer's.. Probably this is one of those posts where folks can chime in and say .. we need some thing different.

safepacket said:
Well i agree that blue is all over the place
Even before ICS came in ICS themes floated for various devices..
Over the period of time Blue lost its charm(personal opinion)...perhaps too much blue in every ROM
Well all i have to say is "Get over the mundane blue !" Lets bring more colours themer's.. Probably this is one of those posts where folks can chime in and say .. we need some thing different.
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It's funny that you should say that but I think we are in the minority. The most popular theme by far is ICS Domination by Vertumus which is blue and there are a lot of others out there and other colours were not so successful. My red theme has some followers but nothing of that level of interest. It seems that blue is very popular.

great thread
i really really miss this theme! had it on my x10 mini running cm7
its called eye candy its colorful and well fitted together!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945576

I'm really busy but i'll see what I can do. but again, im super busy right now so no promises..

@ phone guru
We can't say other themes generate enough interest, say for example when we had s2 no good theme was released to generate public interest after the release of ics.
The theme in the above post looks wonderful.
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egyptshun said:
I'm really busy but i'll see what I can do. but again, im super busy right now so no promises..
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Thanks for showing interest
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bala_gamer said:
@ phone guru
We can't say other themes generate enough interest, say for example when we had s2 no good theme was released to generate public interest after the release of ics.
The theme in the above post looks wonderful.
《tapatalked from galaxy s3》
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I know from the amount of downloads that I got per page view that there was very little interest. There were good themes released after ICS but mostly for AOSP/AOKP/CM9. This is because custom ROM makers moved to AOSP/AOKP/CM9 and themers need to theme for the ROMS that people download. I wanted to make my own theme for stock ROMS so that I didn't have to wait for custom ROM and theme updates.
Maybe I'll be lucky and take advantage of the relative lack of themes for the SGS3 to get attention.

Theme Preview Out Now!!!!!
I've just posted a first preview of my theme. When my SGS3 arrives I'll get moving. In the mean time if someone wants to flash it and post a screenshot in the thread it will help me out.