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[Theme] Android Meets Ubuntu-[update - 1/17/09 - final update

Andriod Meets Ubuntu. Theme for G1, based on Ubuntu Linux.
Thanks to Stericson for all his help. Without him, this would not be possible. We were together able to figure out how to change fonts and resize fonts. Also thanks to him for supplying the empty update.zip file.
Instructions: rename to update.zip and rest same as everyother theme.
http://rapidshare.com/files/184949525/Android_Meets_Ubuntu.zip
my final release will not change your fonts. if you guys want my changed version, you'll have to pm me.
Warning - might brick your phone. has been tested on jf 1.31. recommend to have dev bootloader installed just in case.
will post small updates from time to time.
This is the final version for this theme. Time to move on now

awe man, the distortion icons! I love those, I had downloaded them and thought about using them in a theme, they look good
Hey! How did you edit the font for the clock?

very nice work~

Any chance of an ADP1 version?

That looks really good. Is the notification bar transparent as well?

MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is great! love the boot scrren, the ubuntu symbol when you input the password. this is an amanzing themre! Great job!

REAL NICEEEE thnxxxxxxxxx

Theres something wrong with this theme. Once you install it, its like the font stays on the phone. I uninstalled this theme and installed two other ones to be sure, and the font remained the same! i also had trouble browsing through pictures and the name of some of my applications was "....."............???? =/ in order to fix the phone i had to reinstall RC30 which made me reinstall all my apps..big pain in the butt!

Awww... I was planning on doing a Tango theme for Android so it looked more like the default Ubuntu (or any GNOME distro for that matter) installation... It would look significantly different, so I'll probably make it anyways, but...

looks like he renamed the font he is using to the font the G1 uses droidsans.ttf and droidsans-bold.ttf reinstalling a new theme unless it has custom font will not change it back to change it back you will have to reinstall jf rc30 or push the font back.I could be way off but that is how it looks to me. stericson if you read this can you add the original font to your original theme thx

Kron2 is correct. Thats how i did it, anyway for anyone who wants to go back to default fonts, i'll post an update with default font.

yo yo yo, get us the hook up with an ADP1 version if you don't mind. do you have a donation bucket?

theme is nice, especially the change in the unlock pattern, how did you change it? Would throttlelauncher be a source to these new patterns? If so how do you apply them?
Could we see further support/development for unlock patterns?

There will be an update sometime jan 13 or 14. my school started and dont have enough time to work on the theme anymore. I will still be working on it but not as much as before. Also major update this weekend.
ADP version coming this weekend

jdwme said:
awe man, the distortion icons! I love those, I had downloaded them and thought about using them in a theme, they look good
Hey! How did you edit the font for the clock?
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i never changed the font for my clock. i just changed the dial.

necromancerr said:
i never changed the font for my clock. i just changed the dial.
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Nah I was talking about in the status bar, lol. But I see how you did the font change for the entire device

kron2 said:
looks like he renamed the font he is using to the font the G1 uses droidsans.ttf and droidsans-bold.ttf reinstalling a new theme unless it has custom font will not change it back to change it back you will have to reinstall jf rc30 or push the font back.I could be way off but that is how it looks to me. stericson if you read this can you add the original font to your original theme thx
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Done!
But I added it seperately. Just in case some people want to change themes but keep fonts or change fonts but keep themes.
Stericson

The Best!
I just wanted to say that after trying most of these themes the past couple of days (the ones that worked), this by far is the best looking and most complete. You have outdone yourself.

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I just wanted to say that after trying most of these themes the past couple of days (the ones that worked), this by far is the best looking and most complete. You have outdone yourself.
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Thanks man!
Quotes like these, helps me push myself even further... I have another update coming out this weekend. Major updates in music player, and browser minor updates in other stuff....

Hey, can you post the default font update again?
wergeld

Post your icons or links to icons HERE

looking for some opinions on icons
here are some icons I have been making started out with blackberry bold icons but started to make icons so here are the ones I made some still are like the blackberry bold but made them more brighter looking for some ideas and good opinions but not to go to far from the design

i like them, simple and nice. what program are you using to make the icons?

Very nice, minimalistic and simple, yet stylish. Well done.

i like simple and clean and i have adobe photoshop elements i had for a good 10 years and i use paint.net and gimp but the icons i did in photoshop i have a hard time going to a new photoshop

I love those Icons, they make a nice interface for the phone.

nice nice.. need em.. lol

Love em. You need to make a theme using these. Preferably a completely dark theme so that the icons stand out a lot.

I like dark backgrounds and I have started a theme I hope to have it out by Saturday.so far I have gutting good replies but my concerns are which my faves icon do you think I should use and do you think the settings looks ok the way it is or do you think the gear needs to be bigger or I was thinking no gear and add a wrench. oh decisions ineed to make up for my stargate theme lol

I like the myFaves icon with the people, but I don't use myFaves at all so my opinion on that doesn't really matter xD
Which icon is the Settings one? The one that looks like a Toolbox? I think that you should make the icon for that either a wrench or gears, but honestly the toolbox will be good enough to identify it since there would be text underneath each icon.

<3 them kron. just waiting for you to release them

Very nice, very nice.

what size do the icon have to be 46x46????

48x48 is the icon size

Great icons! I like the "people" icon for my favs, they all look very nice. hurry up with this theme, lol.

Changing Market app icons?
Does any one know if you need to do anything special to repackage a market app icon? I tried changing an icon for cinema player and signed it with the test keys and it wont install. it says it installed but it isn't.

i would love to know as well

The market icon is in vending.apk
You added your icon to the music app close it, reopened it to make sure it saved it, then resigned it and I didnt work? If you are having trouble signing files try the Stericson signing made easy thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580

I don't mean the market app, I mean apps from the market like cinema or shopsavy for example.

i get same error. I can change any of the app icons in the update.zip but when i extract an app with astro and update and sign, it wont install. I even tried the desktop install tool. No luck.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't you need access to that developers source code to do this.

Themes Ala Carte???

I haven't gotten into zip signing and all that yet. But I was wondering if it's possible or would even make sense to ala carte themes?
I saw a thread on fonts that sort of addressed this, but would it work of the clock and icons or other select things? Where instead of installing the whole theme, you could mix and match which ever you want?

I'm not sure what you mean but I'm guessing you wanna pull some icons from one theme and put it in another, yes that is possible and you MIGHT have to resign the zip and apk's.
You can just put the /system/apps or /framework folder by itself, with the updated apks in it, in an update zip and just flash it.

No that isnt what he means, he wants to know if you can just flash a specific set, such as just the fonts or just the clock or just the notification bar. Right?
While it does seem possible through a couple unrelated threads, the more you brake up the flashes, the more "ugly" the strucure gets/ That is not the correcr word, but it would probably be safer and cleaner to build a theme. But, I believe it is possible. Someone with a better understanding of the entire process, such as Stericson, could address your question with a little more certainty.

i took this as you like a clock that is held in theme A and the fonts in theme B and the icons in theme C and you want to flash those three components, if that is not right then please tell me and try to explain a little better what you meant by this. if you wanted that you would have to either extract those such items from the themes they are apart of(with the devs' permission of course) and then put them all into one zip and resign it, which isn't that hard at all, especially easy if you have windows and you download the auto-signer app. or if you do not want to make the sip and sign it you would have to ask the theme dev to extract the files for you and sign them for you and give them to you.
personally as a theme dev i would probably tell you to figure it out if you wanted parts of my theme, and if in a few days you decided to ask again i would be willing to help you. i certainly wouldn't just take the file you wanted and zip and sign them. i like to help people learn, that would be spoon feeding and i am really against that

My question is about the structure / theory of themes. Right now a theme consists of many things; a clock, icons, background, menu button….. and whatever a dev decides to put in that one update.zip is what you’re stuck with.
I’m wondering if you could have an update.zip that just does the clock without changing the other icons. And visa versa, and update.zip that just does the menu button without changing the clock…. And so on.
So as a theme creator can I create a bunch of clock update.zips.. or a series on menu buttons.. so themes become more like skins, where you can skin just the clock, or just skin the icons.
Can I install an update.zip for the clock. Then immediately after, install an update.zip for the menu button without messing up the install of the clock.
I’m not thinking of anyone’s themes in particular… and I’m not talking about a single update.zip that does the clock and icons.. I’m thinking of multiple update.zips that are either the clock or the icons or the font.. where it’s more ala carte.

theDante said:
My question is about the structure / theory of themes. Right now a theme consists of many things; a clock, icons, background, menu button….. and whatever a dev decides to put in that one update.zip is what you’re stuck with.
I’m wondering if you could have an update.zip that just does the clock without changing the other icons. And visa versa, and update.zip that just does the menu button without changing the clock…. And so on.
So as a theme creator can I create a bunch of clock update.zips.. or a series on menu buttons.. so themes become more like skins, where you can skin just the clock, or just skin the icons.
Can I install an update.zip for the clock. Then immediately after, install an update.zip for the menu button without messing up the install of the clock.
I’m not thinking of anyone’s themes in particular… and I’m not talking about a single update.zip that does the clock and icons.. I’m thinking of multiple update.zips that are either the clock or the icons or the font.. where it’s more ala carte.
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Yes, that is very much possible. You WILL have to resign everything you edit though.

This can be done but certain apks contain multiple features (the Launcher.apk contains the clock and the programs drawer).

90% of all graphics, save for icons, are located in just three or four apk's, so you can't really mix and match all that much.

mannyb said:
90% of all graphics, save for icons, are located in just three or four apk's, so you can't really mix and match all that much.
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Unless you are willing to dive deep into the waters, and learn what images are for what aspect and where they reside. Then, you can mix/match/replace as you see fit. My phone has a few icons from Blue Star 5, most from Fade to Blue, most elements are from Fade to Blue, some status icons from Code Name Ninja, a custom status bar & tray handle, a custom designed clock, and some custom text on the lock screen.
But it definitely involves some time and work, figuring out which elements I want, where to put them (or get them from if not creating my own files), resigning each APK, repackaging into an update.zip (or multiple updates, as I do incremental changes often flashing only the modified file over) resigning that, and crossing your fingers that you did everything right. Of course nandroid nandroid nandroid!!!

daveid said:
Unless you are willing to dive deep into the waters, and learn what images are for what aspect and where they reside. Then, you can mix/match/replace as you see fit. My phone has a few icons from Blue Star 5, most from Fade to Blue, most elements are from Fade to Blue, some status icons from Code Name Ninja, a custom status bar & tray handle, a custom designed clock, and some custom text on the lock screen.
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Definitely. Though that is almost as much work as making your own theme from scratch

mannyb said:
Definitely. Though that is almost as much work as making your own theme from scratch
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Except for designing the icons, and all the painful work that Damnitpud put into the .9.pngs for FadetoBlue. It surely wasn't as easy at copy and paste to get it the way I wanted it. But, I gotta say, it is nice to have a theme that I know is unique and holds some really cool elements.
I took some of my friends complex line drawings, used one for the status bar, and three different ones for the launcher drawer. I also used a photo I had taken for the clock, while placing the minute/hour hands outside of the numbers - keeping the rest transparent so it would work on any background.
But, yeah, to the OP - anything is possible. But it can turn into you creating your own theme for the most part.

Cute girl too!

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Cute girl too!
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That's my wife, I get to keep her forever now. We got married just under 7 months back. on a supposedly very lucky day 8/8/8. And, yeah, she is very cute!

[Theme] MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.8-DS (Black Bar) [6-19-2010]

Thanks for all the hard work Cyanogen and Team. You Rock!
This is a simple theme for CM's Live Stable Eclair 5.0.7-DS. MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.7-DS It has a Black Bar. Some of it has been collected from other Themers. Some has been created by me. I start with CM's files and replace PNGs only. The 5 APKs I edit are Framework, Launcher, MMS, Email, and Settings. The wall paper I used is from Ubuntu a few versions back.
5/20/2010 - Test7 changed the ballgame on me. I thought I was having problems getting the clock color to change from black to white. Turns out, it is now a feature of Test7. After flashing my theme you will need to go into Spare Parts and change the color of the "Date" and the "Clock". The fun thing is now you are not limited to what I choose for you. You can choose from several colors. Kewl! I also discovered which .9.png to modify to get the search to have a black background. Enjoy!
5/27/2010 - Updated to include a couple of edits to ADW.Launcher.0.7rc3 Just to keep it inline with my taste. It is a full version with my theme edits applied. Awesome work AnderWeb! Donation coming your way. Link below.
06/05/2010 - Here we go again. I can't help myself I've started down the road on the new CM-5.0.8-DS test builds. My slightly themed ADW Launcher hasn't changed and it still works well with the new test1.
06/06/2010 - I changed some more icons. I didn't like what I had done to the bright popup PNGs. I changed that back to the white instead of the biegie-gold. I also cleaned up the CD image in Music so it doesn't have the black background. That is now transparent.
06/07/2010 - Updated for CM-5.0.8-DS-Test2. Fixed the USB Debugging notify icon. Somehow, I don't know how far back, the DPI for the icon was set slightly off. It was 71.986dpi instead of 72dpi. (go figure) I changed the USB Connected icon color from my previous yellow to more of a gold color. I changed the Bright popups to a more opaque white with a gold beveled edge. I like it better than the biegy-orange color I had before (Dirty Blueshirt liked) and I like it better than the transparent white. Not much else changed except CM has incorporated ADW's Launcher into the Test ROM (three cheers for CM!) So you don't need to flash the ADW.Launcher after my theme.
06/10/2010 - I had some problems with Test3 and Test4. I ended up having to wipe and reflash. I don't think it was anything to do with the Theme. I was having some lag issues when trying to make or answer phone calls. All is well now. Since 3 and 4 happened so quickly I ended up skipping 3. I had to make some adjustments with my files and locations to match the new Settings layout including SpareParts and ADWLauncher. I really like having that all together now.
06/19/2010 - Nothing much changed in my stuff. I just updated it to work with CM-5.0.8-DS
It's old school... I haven't got into the metamorph yet.
Copy to SD
Nandroid backup (always)
Flash the zip
Enjoy!
MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.8-DS **STABLE**
MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.8-DS-Test4
MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.8-DS-Test2
MrInc_Theme.1_CM-5.0.8-DS-Test1
MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.8-DS-Test1
MrInc_Theme_CM-5.0.7-DS **STABLE**
MrInc_Themed_ADW.Launcher.0.7rc3 **Do not need after CM-5.0.8-DS-Test2**
Better version of the wallpaper

Really enjoyed this theme on t4. Nice work indeed.
Your current link for t5 points to the file "update-cm-5.0.7-DS-test5-signed.zip".
I think this may be in error. I would like to DL your new theme once you get the link up.
Thanks for your work again!

yeah.. lemme know when you ge the DL link & name right

Oops
Sorry... OP fixed.
I stole (oops, borrowed) some more icons. Added prettier icons for the settings from Dr. Cloverdale (thanks)

mr.incredible said:
Sorry... OP fixed.
I stole (oops, borrowed) some more icons. Added prettier icons for the settings from Dr. Cloverdale (thanks)
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LOL, just in time for Test 6!
Look forward to the new version! Thanks for your hard work on this theme.

Got it
Got it done. Tested all day. Just need to post.

It may just be me, but I cant get your test 6 link to work. Just takes me to a google account page, but great work, looks good and cant wait to get it on my phone!

The link????

Having problems with the color change for the clock. I'll post a fixed version soon.
test6 should be working. I don't know if it will work properly on test7. The google docs page is where I'm storing the files.

i can not access the download link
need userid and psw

Try it now it should be fixed. I don't know what happened that link was suppose to share it with the world.

It's open to anyone, but you need to login with your google account.

mr.incredible said:
Try it now it should be fixed. I don't know what happened that link was suppose to share it with the world.
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it's OK now. thank u nice guy!

I can't download either ... I am getting a forbidden error and I am signed on to google.

aohmer said:
I can't download either ... I am getting a forbidden error and I am signed on to google.
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I just tried it from my wife's computer with here google account and it downloads fine.

i downloaded the cm 507 stable version and it didnt change the date time color or the time color in the status bar.

darb said:
i downloaded the cm 507 stable version and it didnt change the date time color or the time color in the status bar.
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Look in Spare Parts, set, reboot
TrOjAn

Widget
pretty awesome looking theme can someone tell me where to find that 1X4 widget with the weather and time? I've been looking all over for it ... thanks in adv

mine is actually weather widgets 1x2 and digital clock 1x2 the one in the market with the clouds on the icon. The one you are looking for is actually Beautiful Widgets. I was looking for it too.
I was using the Weather Widgets flip clock but it constantly stopped keeping time. They have a weather service to help stop that but it was killing my battery. I'm having other problem with weather widget now so I may just drop that completely and use the Beautiful Widgets clock.

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mine is actually weather widgets 1x2 and digital clock 1x2 the one in the market with the clouds on the icon. The one you are looking for is actually Beautiful Widgets. I was looking for it too.
I was using the Weather Widgets flip clock but it constantly stopped keeping time. They have a weather service to help stop that but it was killing my battery. I'm having other problem with weather widget now so I may just drop that completely and use the Beautiful Widgets clock.
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Yeah I'm having the same problem now with the weather flip clock ... so I'm trying to find this one. Thanks a ton

Theming help (AOKP)

I want to theme my own ROM's for this phone such as AOKP. I just themed Nova Launcher to all purple. But, I want to be able to create a theme that I can flash in CWM and not just the whole ROM (either works.)
I themed Nova Launcher with GIMP, just by extracting the drawable folders, editing, exporting/replacing, then adding back to the archive and resaving.
Can anyone help me out on creating a theme so I can fully theme a ROM such as AOKP? Or even create one for the theme manager? I can already tell I would get addicted. If anyone wants to help i'd highly appreciate it, so I can slowly get into Android Development

I myself have been wanting to learn how to theme for the theme engine. Didn't really find any tutorials though. I'm pretty handy with Photoshop but know nothing about development. Would be very interested in learning about the theme engine used in CM9, AOKP, CNA, etc.

Just add ur apk to the app folder in this zip. This is a base zip that anyone can use (I took it from Overstew's theme, and erased all of his apps/framework items.)

Ascertion said:
Just add ur apk to the app folder in this zip. This is a base zip that anyone can use (I took it from Overstew's theme, and erased all of his apps/framework items.)
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So I just edit the png's inside the folders I want edited, then move the whole folder into that folder, re-zip, and flash?

Ok so after playing with everything, I update all of the png's I wanted (which still left a lot of blue.. from AOKP). I then moved them all back into the framework-res.apk and moved that back into the archive. I got it to be flashable along with my .apks, but after I flashed it System UI kept force closing, eventually it stopped. I saw a lot of the stuff I themed was actually themed, but there was still a lot of stuff that wasn't. But what causes the force closes on System UI?

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Ok so after playing with everything, I update all of the png's I wanted (which still left a lot of blue.. from AOKP). I then moved them all back into the framework-res.apk and moved that back into the archive. I got it to be flashable along with my .apks, but after I flashed it System UI kept force closing, eventually it stopped. I saw a lot of the stuff I themed was actually themed, but there was still a lot of stuff that wasn't. But what causes the force closes on System UI?
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If there's any missing pngs on the SystemUI's drawable-hdpi, it'll FC instantly because it cannot find the png require for a certain task. (For example, if you accidentally deleted a signal bar icon, it cannot display what is not there, so it'll FC.)

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If there's any missing pngs on the SystemUI's drawable-hdpi, it'll FC instantly because it cannot find the png require for a certain task. (For example, if you accidentally deleted a signal bar icon, it cannot display what is not there, so it'll FC.)
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Ok so, I don't have to change anything besides the framework-res.apk? Do I have to sign it or anything?
Also, I themed nova launcher successfully with just changing png's without any signing. But when I tried to theme Facebook, and then tried to install it, it just kept failing to install?
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hrffd said:
Ok so, I don't have to change anything besides the framework-res.apk? Do I have to sign it or anything?
Also, I themed nova launcher successfully with just changing png's without any signing. But when I tried to theme Facebook, and then tried to install it, it just kept failing to install?
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Same with framework-res. Any images missing will make it fc.
You only need to resign market apps. System apps do not need to be resigned.

only thing that sucks about having a white e4gt with ics... is that the menus clash with the product color lol. not that its that big of an issue, but i came across this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654546 and am guessing it takes a lot of work to apply a white theme similar to this?
i tried flashing the syk sky theme on my phone just to see what would apply, and the majority of it did; however, there were some conflicts as i expected.
is there any way i could use some of what has already been created with this theme to work with the e4gt correctly? if so, any direction/info would be appreciated.

hrffd said:
I want to theme my own ROM's for this phone such as AOKP. I just themed Nova Launcher to all purple. But, I want to be able to create a theme that I can flash in CWM and not just the whole ROM (either works.)
I themed Nova Launcher with GIMP, just by extracting the drawable folders, editing, exporting/replacing, then adding back to the archive and resaving.
Can anyone help me out on creating a theme so I can fully theme a ROM such as AOKP? Or even create one for the theme manager? I can already tell I would get addicted. If anyone wants to help i'd highly appreciate it, so I can slowly get into Android Development
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Try here and see if it helps ............... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814

renzyyy said:
only thing that sucks about having a white e4gt with ics... is that the menus clash with the product color lol. not that its that big of an issue, but i came across this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654546 and am guessing it takes a lot of work to apply a white theme similar to this?
i tried flashing the syk sky theme on my phone just to see what would apply, and the majority of it did; however, there were some conflicts as i expected.
is there any way i could use some of what has already been created with this theme to work with the e4gt correctly? if so, any direction/info would be appreciated.
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In case you didn't know, with samoled+ screens you want the most dark pixels as possible to save battery because a black pixel is completely off consuming no power. That being said, a white theme will just completely destroy your battery life...
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yeah i know, but i wanted to give it a shot & see what kinda impact it would have first hand. i always have an extra battery on me to swap out haha
ill just deal with what i got and try one with transparency or something. thanks for the response.

This is the absolute best place to learn to theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320891
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