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[THEME] Robotech - Macross JFv1.5 Hv1.5r3

Built this theme upon request by a friend who recently bought a G1 from me. Being a huge fan myself I had a lot of fun w/ this one =) Features JrBourque's red VK. If anyone wants a port, this can be done relatively easy so feel free to throw that out there if interested.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mimfg25tzmj/Robotech_Hv1.5r3_A2SD.zip
Aight. Decided to make the switch this evening so I ported my latest theme over. Ended up ranting bout a bunch of stuff that came to my mind after the icons of this theme were criticized. Here is the link and screen shots to spare anyone not interested bout the rant lol. To give credit where credit is due, I compiled JrBourque's Red VK into this build. Anyone who need's a custom VK should hit him and Diaztradeinc up asap. Quality stuff fo sho.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gmyyzgnyxa2/Robotech_JFv1.5.zip
Thus far, posting this las night (in Hv1.5 form) I've only gotten one post of criticism regarding the icons... but I don't really care. I'm open to constructive criticism within my means and MO, but I'm not here to please absolutely everyone. I enjoy making these things, have a zillion different ideas for themes that I'd like to see on my own phone and will continue to post them up as I make them, for whomever might be interested in them (no point in keeping them to myself).
This criticism over my icons put a lot on my mind today so I suppose I'll take the opportunity to put it out there. There seem to be 2 destinctive types of themes to me - Graphic driven themes and Subject driven themes. By graphic driven theme I mean those like Aero and Gloss that are based on no subject but built from scratch, open completely to unique artistic creation to no end. By subject driven themes, well, that's self explanatory (IE Mario, X-men, Punisher, Spider-Man, Gambit, Megaman, Robotech etc. etc. etc.).
Don't expect any of my themes to be graphic driven themes. Subject matter inspires me to build these themes, not graphic design, and I really don't see that changing anytime soon. I really only do this for the enjoyment of seeing my work and particular subjects come to fruition and don't have much interest in pushing my graphic art skills beyond where they currently are. I'd consider my graphic art skills intermediate at best. My skills are not nearly up to par w/ other designers on here. I'm far more inspired to see themes based on my favorite comic books and anime (among other potential mediums) come to fruition than I am to take the time to create unique and original designs. I'm in constant awe of what other members create and share w/ the community. I'm not in this for competition or comparison. I'll let peeps do their thang while I do mine. Jus in this for my own personal enjoyment and there's no point in keeping the fruits of my labors to myself if anyone else is ever interested in running it themselves.
To speak more directly regarding my feelings about icons representing the individual apps instead of the subject matter... in building a subject driven theme, I feel if the icons don't represent the subject in particular, they aren't nearly as interesting. I guess I think of it in the terms of what a Desktop theme would look like (because, Android really is a miniaturized desktop afterall). Even if I extracted a calculator (for example) from the source of the subject (like a calculator that appears in an episode of Robotech in this case), it wouldn't be recognizable as representation of that subject unless it were a character holding a friggin calculator or something. And if an icon like that was made you really wouldn't see the calculator once the image was scaled to the small size that the system icons are.
My work being criticized as though it should be similar to other themes in this regard bothered me enough that I guess I felt compelled to rant and explain my point of view, (and if you're readin this, naw man, I'm still not offended, jus put a lot on my mind). Anyways. This thing is long enough I suppose lol

OK... but don't you think you could make the icons at least sort of related to the apps?

momentarylapseofreason said:
OK... but don't you think you could make the icons at least sort of related to the apps?
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If I wasn't at such a loss for source material I would have. I'm not kidding. About 80 or 90 google image search pages later I was still at square 2 where in previous endeavors id be at square 6.
Besides, I DO honestly strive for that (my settings icon in my Megaman theme being a good example of that, it was the start menu of MM2), however, I compare my work to that of a couple other cats on here and their icons aren't too particular to the individual apps either.
I agree. It would be REALLY sweet to be able to be that specific but the truth of the matter is I'm decent w/ Gimp (photoshop clone, much better), but I'm no ace by any means. There aren't enough pictures out there to do such a thing in the way id prefer. Calendar/calculator for example. Don't know if either ever appeared in a robotexh episode but if they did, even though it was taken from robotech it wouldn't feel in accordance w/ the theme cuz it wouldn't be familiar looking at all nor would it be destinctively related to the subject matter.
Sorry for the novel lol. You touched a softspot for me, not in a way that I'm offended at all, more like I WISH I COULD make the icons in stronger accordance w/ the individual apps but it's just not possible.
Id actually be curious to see someone else's attempt at such. Do you know of a charicter/show/whatever based theme that's been able to pull this off well? If so you should point me in that direction so I can scope it out

Man. Ain't no other Robotech fans up on here? Really? =) guess I stand alone. Or maybe no one is running H's 1.5 anymore now that he's released 6.0 =) I'm actually gonna update my phone to JFs 1.5 update so I think ill be porting it anyways and when I do ill post the port as well I guess.

Would be nice if you could make a proper Samurai Champloo, after seeing this I'm sure it will be great

Haha I just posted on the other one. Do you have to wipe for this? I haven't flashed a theme in a good while, also like i posted there is there any way that you can make a Samurai Champloo? After seeing this i would jump on your work of SC

Shindokie said:
Haha I just posted on the other one. Do you have to wipe for this? I haven't flashed a theme in a good while, also like i posted there is there any way that you can make a Samurai Champloo? After seeing this i would jump on your work of SC
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Ha ha ha. FUNNY thing you mention that. I just decided this evening to start workin on a Cowboy Bebop theme. The robotech theme was on my list and when my friend bought a G1 from me and said "hey you should make a robotech theme" I took that as a sign. Now a dif friend is buyin a G1 from me on Sat and said "hey you should build a cowboy bebop theme" (which was also on my list =)) followed just a few hours later by "man a Samurai Champloo theme would be awesome too" lol. So I'm thinking at this point w/ 2 people already requesting both, both being on my list, that I can't make one w/ out doing the other ha ha. Once my Cowboy Bebop theme is done and released I'll def have to dive into Samurai Champloo as well ha ha.
Oh and, no wipe necessary. What build are you running? If you're runnin Haykuro's 1.5 jus flash it and it should update fine (in which case you'd want to grab the Hv1.5 theme on the other thread). Same w/ JF's too. =)

Ah perfect! Damn i wish i would have known this earlier to beat your friend and have you make the Samurai Champloo first but a man can wait I'm running JF1.51 ADP. So maybe you can work on it... whenever you're done a nice thank you will be heading your way

Shindokie said:
Ah perfect! Damn i wish i would have known this earlier to beat your friend and have you make the Samurai Champloo first but a man can wait I'm running JF1.51 ADP. So maybe you can work on it... whenever you're done a nice thank you will be heading your way
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Yeah. there are some major complications regarding 1.51 US that I wasn't really wanting to get into. I'll prolly look into it further but ultimately the only real dif between 1.5 and 1.51 was MyFaves and Amazon for me so I decided against updateing. And from what I understand, flashing a theme built on 1.5 onto 1.51 US doesn't really work right =(. If someone figures out an easy way to extract the framework-res.apk I might jump on board. Otherwise I might actually look into 1.51 UK (which is also compatible w/ the JF1.5 themes that I'm constructing I do believe). I'm pretty sure that the only thing dif about US and UK is that the US f/w has My Faves, which isn't really a big deal since you can adjust your faves (if you even have any) using t mo's website.

AndroidAutobot said:
Ha ha ha. FUNNY thing you mention that. I just decided this evening to start workin on a Cowboy Bebop theme.
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heh, CbBb, my all-time favorite anime/show/whatever. I was thinking of one a while back, thought of making it real subtle, in-so-that only a fan would know it was anime/Cowboy Bebop. Heavy use of the opening credit style, pictures of the swordfish, profile silhouettes, etc etc etc.

AndroidAutobot said:
Yeah. there are some major complications regarding 1.51 US that I wasn't really wanting to get into. I'll prolly look into it further but ultimately the only real dif between 1.5 and 1.51 was MyFaves and Amazon for me so I decided against updateing. And from what I understand, flashing a theme built on 1.5 onto 1.51 US doesn't really work right =(. If someone figures out an easy way to extract the framework-res.apk I might jump on board. Otherwise I might actually look into 1.51 UK (which is also compatible w/ the JF1.5 themes that I'm constructing I do believe). I'm pretty sure that the only thing dif about US and UK is that the US f/w has My Faves, which isn't really a big deal since you can adjust your faves (if you even have any) using t mo's website.
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The 1.51 Adp doesn't actually have myfaves or amazon apk. so if it's like the uk one it will be cool

Fared said:
heh, CbBb, my all-time favorite anime/show/whatever. I was thinking of one a while back, thought of making it real subtle, in-so-that only a fan would know it was anime/Cowboy Bebop. Heavy use of the opening credit style, pictures of the swordfish, profile silhouettes, etc etc etc.
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Yeah it took me, literally HOURS to find a good element to use as the menu background, I ended up using a contour from the opening credits that actually worked pretty well =)

Shindokie said:
The 1.51 Adp doesn't actually have myfaves or amazon apk. so if it's like the uk one it will be cool
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yeah man. I actually think you'll be in good shape then. Pretty sure the US build is the only one w/ that issue. If you flashed this robotech theme (or the Megaman one I ported for JF 1.5 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515742 ) that'll tell ya whether this CbBb theme and the SC theme to follow will work or not =) using the same template to build these.

AndroidAutobot said:
Yeah it took me, literally HOURS to find a good element to use as the menu background, I ended up using a contour from the opening credits that actually worked pretty well =)
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Blue suits it well

Fared said:
Blue suits it well
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ha ha. Yeah I can't seem to stay away from Blue. It's my favorite color. =)

AndroidAutobot said:
ha ha. Yeah I can't seem to stay away from Blue. It's my favorite color. =)
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Samurai champloo better not have blue! *shakes fist* haha I'll be checking out the theme right now I'm scared though

Shindokie said:
Samurai champloo better not have blue! *shakes fist* haha I'll be checking out the theme right now I'm scared though
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Naw I was actually thinkin of goin Green for the Samurai Champloo one. there are some graphics I remember seeing around the net I'm already thinking of incorporating into the theme lol. I can't help myself. Just can't stop. Haven't been able to get any more than 5 hours of sleep a night and have been completely exhausted but still can't seem to pull myself away from my computer lol.

AndroidAutobot said:
Naw I was actually thinkin of goin Green for the Samurai Champloo one. there are some graphics I remember seeing around the net I'm already thinking of incorporating into the theme lol. I can't help myself. Just can't stop. Haven't been able to get any more than 5 hours of sleep a night and have been completely exhausted but still can't seem to pull myself away from my computer lol.
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If i knew how to create a theme i would help you out, but I'm dumb and useless so expect a lot this *shakes fist* If you do something wrong, and i feel your pain about sleeping 5 hrs a night. I'm about to go on for four :/ and then wake up to school :/

Shindokie said:
If i knew how to create a theme i would help you out, but I'm dumb and useless so expect a lot this *shakes fist* If you do something wrong, and i feel your pain about sleeping 5 hrs a night. I'm about to go on for four :/ and then wake up to school :/
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Ha ha ha. Hopefully the theme I build will be satisfactory w/ out any fist shaking necessary lol

AndroidAutobot said:
Naw I was actually thinkin of goin Green for the Samurai Champloo one. there are some graphics I remember seeing around the net I'm already thinking of incorporating into the theme lol.
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You think so? I imagined something warm, like orange...

[Q] [R] Can someone make me a green theme for Synergy Kingdom

I was just wondering if anybody could throw a decent green theme together for Synergy Kingdom. If not no big deal.

Also I don't know if this matters,but if someone is going to do it I use Launcher Pro.

com on ,Nobody ?

Your best bet if you are really set on it, is to create one yourself. There are a tons of howto's out there. I would help you out by my time is already stretched thin.

sednafx said:
Your best bet if you are really set on it, is to create one yourself. There are a tons of howto's out there. I would help you out by my time is already stretched thin.
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Okay I'll look into the howto's. I really want a cool green theme. I guess you're right also, the only theme I'll be 100% satisfied with is my own, lol.

Help... Which one Rom?

Hi, i am very new at all of this, i have never even rooted a phone before. my question is which rom do i want... there are like 10-15 of them, i want one thats fast, i hear that touchwiz really slows everything down so i guess one that gets rid of that. everyone talks about the pure google experience, which one(s) would give me that. but also with features like the cool crt thing, and the the toggles in the notification bar (4g,wifi) there was one with alot of different ones...
then like 2 weeks ago, the infamous bubby got ics working but there werent any fixes because apparently he was banned... so i guess, cant really expect anything new to come from there... is anyone else going to continue it, or start over? is bubby's stable enough?
also, one last thing, please dont laugh, but if someone could just tell me how the procedure works, i can watch the how to videos but the order is my question, first you root (with "odin"), then you flash a rom?
thanks

mottyengel said:
Hi, i am very new at all of this, i have never even rooted a phone before. my question is which rom do i want... there are like 10-15 of them, i want one thats fast, i hear that touchwiz really slows everything down so i guess one that gets rid of that. everyone talks about the pure google experience, which one(s) would give me that. but also with features like the cool crt thing, and the the toggles in the notification bar (4g,wifi) there was one with alot of different ones...
then like 2 weeks ago, the infamous bubby got ics working but there werent any fixes because apparently he was banned... so i guess, cant really expect anything new to come from there... is anyone else going to continue it, or start over? is bubby's stable enough?
also, one last thing, please dont laugh, but if someone could just tell me how the procedure works, i can watch the how to videos but the order is my question, first you root (with "odin"), then you flash a rom?
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there are probably a lot more than 10-15. there could also be ROMs in other places (sites) for your device. the rule is, that you have to check ROMs yourself. what someone else finds great may not run so smoothly on your hardware. you just have to try them yourself. there are different 'flavors' of ROMs, because the user experience is subjective. sticking with the 'flavor' metaphor, do you think a group of 1000 people could tell you what flavor of ice cream you would like 'best'? of course not, people like different things. the only thing you can do is try them out, and decide for yourself.
I'm not positive, but I think almost all of the ICS builds you'll find will likely be 'alpha' or 'beta', at best. Which means that they're not really stable enough for daily use yet. right now, ICS is more of a proof of concept and for devs who are working hard to get it ready to be ported to your phone. asking 'Are we there yet?', isn't going to make it arrive any faster.
and to your last question. that's about right. when you've rooted, then you can flash. read, read, read. then when you feel ready...flash away.
hope this helps. good luck!

thanks for your help... yeah, i guess ive just got to check them all out... maybe try a couple different ones..

mottyengel said:
thanks for your help... yeah, i guess ive just got to check them all out... maybe try a couple different ones..
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that's the best route. also, you can check youtube by searching for the name of a ROM you're interested in. sometimes you'll find walkthru videos that can help you eliminate some of them without wasting the time and effort of flashing. or maybe you'll see the video and say 'THAT'S the rom I want!!!'

[REQ] Themes for Android Keyboard

I know it just came out yesterday, but cant wait for these to come out. I know you themers are working on it and if not, GET TO IT :angel:

droidkevlar said:
I know it just came out yesterday, but cant wait for these to come out. I know you themers are working on it and if not, GET TO IT :angel:
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They aren't doing this for you. How about you try and make a theme.
Be patient.

exb0 said:
They aren't doing this for you. How about you try and make a theme.
Be patient.
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Really? Wasnt aware of that. I thought for sure devs were our slaves. Guess I learn something new everyday.
And if you cant catch it this post, Im joking/being funny. :laugh::angel: When adding those, they make things funny. Loosen up a lil bit buddy...btw, been making themes since the OG Droid, but when it comes to keyboards, I always failed.

Request custom bootanimations

Hi, I am a fan of custom bootanimations and I recently found out how to create my own. I liked doing it alot and creating each frame of it.
There are probably a lot of people who would love a custom bootanimation of their own, and I would love to help create those, because I have no idea what I could make.
So, if you have a good idea, leave it here and I'll make it for ya.

Mert-K said:
Hi, I am a fan of custom bootanimations and I recently found out how to create my own. I liked doing it alot and creating each frame of it.
There are probably a lot of people who would love a custom bootanimation of their own, and I would love to help create those, because I have no idea what I could make.
So, if you have a good idea, leave it here and I'll make it for ya.
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thanks so much in advance
maybe start off with some football clubs ones?
and also roms / kernel based ones?

Request
Mert-K said:
Hi, I am a fan of custom bootanimations and I recently found out how to create my own. I liked doing it alot and creating each frame of it.
There are probably a lot of people who would love a custom bootanimation of their own, and I would love to help create those, because I have no idea what I could make.
So, if you have a good idea, leave it here and I'll make it for ya.
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Hi there,
I am not sure what your limitations are so if im asking too much for what i want then please just say so. Im no artist or any good with Photoshop stuff but i have always wanted:
Gary C in the top half of the screen in holo blue with the C underneath Gary and the Leeds United badge in the bottom half. Now here comes the tricky bit. I would like it to appear as if it is sand or particles been blown in to make my name and the badge.
Is this possible? If not its fine, its just something ive wanted for awhile and i couldnt possibly do it myself as the best i draw are stick men haha. I just saw your thread so thought i would ask
Regards,
Gary,

synxx said:
Hi there,
I am not sure what your limitations are so if im asking too much for what i want then please just say so. Im no artist or any good with Photoshop stuff but i have always wanted:
Gary C in the top half of the screen in holo blue with the C underneath Gary and the Leeds United badge in the bottom half. Now here comes the tricky bit. I would like it to appear as if it is sand or particles been blown in to make my name and the badge.
Is this possible? If not its fine, its just something ive wanted for awhile and i couldnt possibly do it myself as the best i draw are stick men haha. I just saw your thread so thought i would ask
Regards,
Gary,
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Do you have any fonts in mind to use for the text?
Gary
C

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Do you have any fonts in mind to use for the text?
Gary
C
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Erm, I never really thought about that. I've got a font called Sony sketch installed on my phone from rom toolbox, so something simlar to that if possible.
Thank-you

Allright, got the font, the text, the badge, and then the background... have anything in mind? Sand on the beach and then water waving the stuff up?

Mert-K said:
Allright, got the font, the text, the badge, and then the background... have anything in mind? Sand on the beach and then water waving the stuff up?
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hi and sorry for the late reply. had afew things going on.
yea i quite like the idea of that thanks
regards,
Gary.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lCpPMoUTQxA
can you make this minions video tu bootanimation its funny and everyone would love it !!!
hope only that resolution would fit on SGS2 screen resolution 480x800
thanks in advance