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[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.

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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.

[REQ] Dialer themed like payphone

I am surprised nobody has done this yet...but how about a Dialer that looks like the keypad on a public phone?
This is a screenie from one that was done for the iPhone. If I knew more about the structure of an APK, and how the images were, I would try it myself.
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This sounds like a similar request someone made sometime ago, I'll have to look for it because I remember someone made it.

I could do it. I've done lots of phone skins back in my WinMobile days. But I have a great fear that if I did, it would catch on like the incredibly stupid 70's flip clock. Can you imagine anything more ignorant than making a beautiful and versatile digital device look like a completely mechanical and annoying piece of counter technology from the 60's and 70's. The only thing worse would be nixie tubes. Yes, I have seen the nixie tube clock skins. Thank God that did not catch on...

This would be cool =]

I actually looked into skinning the phone. It's not as simple as replacing some .png files. It would require quite a bit more work. Sorry dude, not for me.

Charrion said:
Well put. Rest assured there are some of us who do appreciate your work and the work of the many others out there. In fact, it's largely due to many of those ungrateful children that I spend very little of my time on XDA any more. I found Twitter to be a better forum; I don't have to follow the people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Thank you, I appreciate everyone's work, regardless of if it's my taste or not. The effort everyone puts in to do their own things, is what has made out little Android grow into what we can do today. Ive also found the same, I'd rather use twitter to find stuff out.

Okay, as the OP here, I think it is well within my right to say that this tread has veered WAY off course of its original intention, heh. It was not my intent to have a flame war start, even if it was mildly entertaining for a few minutes
Anyways, for the dev's that have been kind enough to contribute to this discussion: I have used 99% of the ROMs available for the G1, and I thank each and every one of you for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated by more people that I am sure you had ever imagined. Keep up the good work.
Now, back on topic. A refresher:
I am surprised nobody has done this yet...but how about a Dialer that looks like the keypad on a public phone?
This is a screenie from one that was done for the iPhone. If I knew more about the structure of an APK, and how the images were, I would try it myself.
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wcdisciple said:
If you read between the lines, the OP isn't asking a rhetorical question. He actually would like to see it done. As would others. Myself included. But hey, thanks for nothing, genius.
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Did you read past the first sentence?
But I have a great fear that if I did, it would catch on like the incredibly stupid 70's flip clock.
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But back on topic.
It could probably be done, as said by others, and it is a nice idea worth looking into. It's certainly possible.

Cleanup applied to thread.
@new posters:
Please respect the OP and not post in the thread if you have nothing constructive to add ... this request is not unreasonable.
Regards,

Hey, given the facepalm from this thread so far I will make the theme for you. Time is precious to me but whatever. I'll post back when I'm done. Yea, you can thank twitter and that fact that teh flamez was had to get me to find this thread. Consider it done I think it would be awesome.

enatefox said:
Hey, given the facepalm from this thread so far I will make the theme for you. Time is precious to me but whatever. I'll post back when I'm done. Yea, you can thank twitter and that fact that teh flamez was had to get me to find this thread. Consider it done I think it would be awesome.
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I KNEW I read one of these posts up on Twitter, but I dug around and couldn't find it.
Either way, I thank you for your time enatefox. No rush, as I know you have a plethora of projects on your plate right now.

I think i would love to use this little addon...looks cool lol!
brb grabbing quarters...

jmhecker said:
I KNEW I read one of these posts up on Twitter, but I dug around and couldn't find it.
Either way, I thank you for your time enatefox. No rush, as I know you have a plethora of projects on your plate right now.
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Guilty, so are @Dr_Cloverdale and @Jaithemes and possibly @charrion.

done
what I know this is an old thread but I was just curious if anyone actually made this.. if so someone can please post a link to it send me a a screw up sit on your face or whatever just let me know so that way I know what's going on so that way I can let other people know what's going on sup everybody knew what was going on but then we'd all know and I'll be in the know people to tell people what's going on in the know so if you could just tell me so that way I know. and no I not not drunk

[IDEA] Zipper Lockscreen - we've got a few concepts!

Hi there!
I've got an idea for a lockscreen. When you turn on the screen a zipper appeares and has to be pulled down in order to unlock the screen. There could be different zipper types to choose from and also an option to choose between a vertical and a horizontal orientation of the zipper, maybe even diagonal. A nice animation of the aligner in the sort of it hanging loose would be great. Besides that the textures should be customizeable, like a leather or a silk background, for instance, to polish the things even further. During the unlock process the texture would be "pealed" aside and reveal the homescreen.
I hope I could explain my idea properly. Maybe we could collect a few more ideas and improvements until some talented programmer gets interested in making one.
Since I don't have the skills to do it myself I thought I'd post here so that maybe a talented person gets interested.
Tell me what you think or throw faulty tomatos at me And don't forget to vote this thread up, so somebody takes notice...
Here are the first concept designs. Great thanks goes out to...
...BronzedDroid
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Another thanks goes to Fr4gg0r for this advanced preview

V.Good Idea

+1 sounds funny

sound very interesting and stylish

superb idea. unzip sound as well

I would be the first one to instal this lockscreen. Question is, is it possible to make such a thing?

domchik said:
I would be the first one to instal this lockscreen. Question is, is it possible to make such a thing?
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Why not? It's norhing special, really. Just a different kind of animation. Besides, since 2.2.1 there is already an option to set a lock screen background (which unfortunately doesn't work for me).
We should vote this thread up to drag some attention to this... Thanks for the mental support so far, guys

sounds really cheeky and naughty....

I like the idea!
Hopefully someone will come along and help you develop it.
Wish I could code! xD

Yeah I like this idea would love to see a developer interested in this.
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I like this idea

+1
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yeaaaaaaah.... no.

Very good idea, it would be a very nice lockscreen. Pls developers.

I was bored and made a quick concept art:
Edit: Not very realistic, I know, but I thought it looked nice.

@bronzedroid
Looks pretty awesome dude nice job!
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@BronzeDroid
Yeah awesome! That's what I had in mind. Now just to put some leather polish on it and we'vr got our first concept. Great worl, I'll put it in the first post when I'm feeling better...

I was bored too and made a quick concept art too :
Lets hope some good developer put his eyes on this treat!

Lock screen zipper should reveal womans panties followed by a live wallpaper with the same panties and a little happy android poking up and down looking really happy. The creator of such a thing would instantly be elevated to the position of my main house god.
Ps: Good thing you shoose a zipper, a bra´s unlocking mechanism would be near impossible to synthezise as its real world implementation is still not fully mastered by any man...
I thank you very much

Jdgp42 said:
I was bored too and made a quick concept art too :
Lets hope some good developer put his eyes on this treat!
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Looks good and yeah I hope a developer sees this and does something good with it.
TettZor said:
Lock screen zipper should reveal womans panties followed by a live wallpaper with the same panties and a little happy android poking up and down looking really happy. The creator of such a thing would instantly be elevated to the position of my main house god.
Ps: Good thing you shoose a zipper, a bra´s unlocking mechanism would be near impossible to synthezise as its real world implementation is still not fully mastered by any man...
I thank you very much
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Get a girlfriend or see a doctor. Lol
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What do you think about the new Play Store?

I think the icons for the apps are way too big for our note. I personally think it was better before when we could actually see more apps before scrolling.

Eh... it definitely could show more on one page like it did before. I rarely go through lists of apps except for when setting up my phone after a flash. I did end up turning my phone sideways and then it showed the apps list similar to how it did before
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This design is good for the elderly and hard to see people. Kind of like the Big Launcher.
But for me, I would like to see more on one screen.

I prefer the previews version.

Not sure if it's possible but yeah, it would be neat if someone could maybe modify it.

So far I hate the new layout. I liked it better before
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+1 many times on the previous version. When turning pages, icons seem way too big.
Someone on Google has an increased visual prescription :silly:

I don't care for it very much. Seems like a more childish version of the store, were as the previous version seemed more mature and had a nicer style to it.
I really hope this isn't what to expect for key lime pie
noted for future reference on my Note 2

I just went through every layout available with hybrid properties in Paranoid Android and I couldn't find one I don't hate.
The best looking one was actually the 360p, the others have even fewer apps per page.
What were they thinking?!
Sent from my phablet.

Previous version is better ....
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I don't like it. Looks like the play store lost it edge. It's to big, to immature looking, and if it could display all my previous purchases that would be great.

I think the previous purchases are there. Just that the icons are 1000x bigger.

It's horrible for reasons mentioned. I tried it in a early release and quickly switched back to my modded version. Just look for modded versions and find one that doesn't auto update. I imagine they will become more popular soon enough. It was such a bad choice that I hope that dept or designer gets fired. What a sh!theaded move...

You'd think that they could come up with something better...

sino8r said:
It's horrible for reasons mentioned. I tried it in a early release and quickly switched back to my modded version. Just look for modded versions and find one that doesn't auto update. I imagine they will become more popular soon enough. It was such a bad choice that I hope that dept or designer gets fired. What a sh!theaded move...
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Or hit by a bus. It is complete and utter crap. You'd think they'd have learned from seeing Microsoft suffer with Win 8. Don't make massive UI changes that people can't opt out of. Yes I know you can access the desktop in W8, but you need Classic Shell or other stuff to get a proper start menu.

muqali said:
Or hit by a bus. It is complete and utter crap. You'd think they'd have learned from seeing Microsoft suffer with Win 8. Don't make massive UI changes that people can't opt out of. Yes I know you can access the desktop in W8, but you need Classic Shell or other stuff to get a proper start menu.
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Yup... Same reason why I'm stickin with my Win7/Linux setup for a couple of more years. I was kinda excited initially but got turned off the more and more they released hints and sneak peaks for 8. I haveven considered a iMac. I helped purchase and setup one for my in-laws. Yup they're old and technologically inept lol! I wanted to sandbox them without worrying about too many viruses. Last model winxp they had (too cheap to run decent antivirus) drove me insane. My dad (graphics artist) has been preaching the praises of apple for years (way before iPod was a twinkle in Steve Job's brain) and has one also. I have to admit it is pretty nice for some things but is still too limited IMHO. Thinking about EVER owning an Apple product makes me cringe no offense cause some of em are great products just too hipster and limited in capacity.
Back to Playstore (still think the name change was stupid)... Maybe they could make it have different file views like file explore r or multiple views based on DPI a compromise next UI overhaul. I wonder sometimes if Google is making poor choices the more mature Android gets. Over simplifying things just because of the fact that a few critics claim Android is too complicated isn't a great thing. Sometimes things get more confusing and lose fuctionality in the process of simplification. Thank goodness this just a isolated case with playstore and maybe a couple of things for now. It could be way worse. Android is still the greatest mobile player around but they better continue to listen to the little guy and developers especially on the eve of Ubuntu Mobile which could take a piece of the pie.

im very happy with it they removed the dumb ass page after installing / updating apps :good:

The store seems to be going downhill ever since they renamed it from Google Market to Play Store.

it doesnt bother me. It looks much better inverted though. . I wish Google would bring back the purchased tab
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XDA Classic Theme.

Not that I was super active poster in the recent years, but I was more or less always here.
I had the pleasure to read about the last happenings and so on....
Well that pleasure ended few weeks ago when I was forced to switch from my beloved and usable yellowish theme to one of the "modern" ugly/heavy/unusable themes.
I hoped in a temporary malfunction or about a scheduled maintenance but, after many week passed, is clear that it was removed on purpose.
I understand that kids tend to prefer the novelty and/or sleekness over a proven working thing, but designers /webmasters should remember that the audience is made also by people used to simple things that are just working and that don't need to be "improved", think to the almost perfect W7 style start menu and compare it with W10's one (which is already a step back).
Think to Android Gingerbread, somewhat rough and primitive, but with an unmatched usability by any of the "sleeker" following version
So as my friend the CEO of Vivaldi is used to say, "when in doubt make it an option", which is exactly the opposite of what happened here.
So pleease get the classic theme back or at least add a theme that mimic the removed one just like many other forums did when forced to upgrade the board engine for whatever reason (see My Digital Life, for example).
I'm sure my opinion here is shared by many others although not the majority of the userbase.
Thanks in advance for your attention.

sd_shadow said:
There is a feedback and recommendation thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987254
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Thanks, I linked this thread there

The Solutor said:
Not that I was super active poster in the recent years, but I was more or less always here.
I had the pleasure to read about the last happenings and so on....
Well that pleasure ended few weeks ago when I was forced to switch from my beloved and usable yellowish theme to one of the "modern" ugly/heavy/unusable themes.
I hoped in a temporary malfunction or about a scheduled maintenance but, after many week passed, is clear that it was removed on purpose.
I understand that kids tend to prefer the novelty and/or sleekness over a proven working thing, but designers /webmasters should remember that the audience is made also by people used to simple things that are just working and that don't need to be "improved", think to the almost perfect W7 style start menu and compare it with W10's one (which is already a step back).
Think to Android Gingerbread, somewhat rough and primitive, but with an unmatched usability by any of the "sleeker" following version
So as my friend the CEO of Vivaldi is used to say, "when in doubt make it an option", which is exactly the opposite of what happened here.
So pleease get the classic theme back or at least add a theme that mimic the removed one just like many other forums did when forced to upgrade the board engine for whatever reason (see My Digital Life, for example).
I'm sure my opinion here is shared by many others although not the majority of the userbase.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
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There is a feedback and recommendation thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987254
There is major overhaul of the XDA website in the way.
Classic theme will not be the only casualty.
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This basically. How do I get the classic theme back? The new theme is objectively worse.

rpgdev said:
This basically. How do I get the classic theme back? The new theme is objectively worse.
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These are your options.
Light/Dark/Classic Themes

sd_shadow said:
These are your options.
Light/Dark/Classic Themes
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Is classic supposed to be the old xda theme? This one:
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Because it doesn't look like that at all, looks the same as the others with a few changes to the colors maybe (honestly can't tell the difference, nothing 'classic' about it as far as I can see).

Old prior XDA Classic is history. The new themed light/dark Classic is the closest match your going to have...

galaxys said:
Old prior XDA Classic is history. The new themed light/dark Classic is the closest match your going to have...
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Can you put a screenshot of the new light dark classic? It looks just the same as the others to me.
PD: Thank you xda devs, for fixing what ain't broken just to justify your designers payroll.

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PD: Thank you xda devs, for fixing what ain't broken just to justify your designers payroll.
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Not broken? There have been posts about how broken the old site was every day for years.

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Not broken? There have been posts about how broken the old site was every day for years.
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Don't be daft, you know I'm talking about the design of the site.

I see you prefer to back blindly whatever decision is taken in the "high spheres" rather than discussing the matter.
Is not a good way to discuss, just replying with preformatted sentences like "the classic theme is dead, period".
The point is that a good theme was first removed, then replaced by a theme with the same name which has nothing to do with it, not even the colour palette!!!
So to summarize
before: who didn't like it had a choice of many modernish/metroish themes
after: who miss it has no choice other than an ugly theme which is "classic" only in its name.
As I said before, zillions of other forums boards where replaced/upgraded, for technical/security reasons, forcing them to leave behind the historical themes, but at least the webmasters attempted to provide something that resembled, as much as possible, the gone theme.
MDL forum is a notable example, but there are many others.
Why this is not done here (one of most technical forum around the web) is just beyond me.