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I have modified Mallmans Storm theme to provide a single day agenda on the first page
4 pages: Desktop, Applications, Weather and Calendar
I have also included buttons for Bluetooth, Wifi, Sound and signal (comms manager) in a 'status' area at the top of the page.
On the desktop, the messages (white is for SMS and red is for voicemail), clicking on the red one will dial Voicemail in the UK, white will open "SMS". The email will open my default folder so you will need to change the shortcut for that.
Applications is a mixture of Storm Icons and default icons, I have lots of apps that I don't have time to create icons for so have allowed both to used on the applications page. Weather page is simple and does for me. Calendar provides 2 days worth of events.
I don't have a contacts page as I have mapped a single press of the 'green' button to iContact 6.45BE. Double press launches the phone dialer.
Normal instructions for installing a WAD2 theme. All of my icons and the wallpaper are contained within the zip file and you just need to unzip the file and then copy the folder to Program Files\Lakeridge\Wisbar Advance\Theme and then open WAD2, select 'Settings' by holding the stylus on the screen and select 'Change Theme'.
Thanks to Mallman for providing the base for this.
Any questions just ask away.
The 5Mb file can be downloaded from
http://www.imagesoflife-online.co.uk/GLOC_Storm_Theme.zip
Regards
cant d/l, can u reup?
Well done. Really cool.
Mirror! http://www.filedropper.com/glocstormtheme
Great theme, thanks!
antrak said:
Mirror! http://www.filedropper.com/bbstormtheme
Great theme, thanks!
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hi can u reupload again, when extracting the files, there are some errors like files missing
sunnyou said:
hi can u reupload again, when extracting the files, there are some errors like files missing
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Yes pls re-up!!!
Reup for you guys as requested. Link here and in previous post. http://www.filedropper.com/glocstormtheme
Thanks. I can download the zip file OK but when I try to unzip it asks for a password. Looks like page_desktop and page_applications are password protected? Can you help.
Even tho you have given installation instructions i still cant install the theme. Is there anything else required? I have created the folders that you mentioned but still no success.
Also when i unzip the file it says that there are some files missing. Can you please check and upload the correct file as this seems to be a brilliant theme!!
Wait since you mention "created folders"...did you install WAD before? Because after that all that needs to be done is copy the "BB Storm Theme" folder extracted from the zip into WAD's theme folder, start WAD, right-click somewhere on the desktop page, choose Settings and then Change Theme, or Search Theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
And for Chris5304: Your downloaded zip file is either corrupt, or you use an old packing program. Try free 7-Zip, it can also handle 00x file endings, and becomes part of your shortcuts when you right-click on your PC desktop. http://www.7-zip.org/
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Wait since you mention "created folders"...did you install WAD before? Because after that all that needs to be done is copy the "BB Storm Theme" folder extracted from the zip into WAD's theme folder, start WAD, right-click somewhere on the desktop page, choose Settings and then Change Theme, or Search Theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
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Thanks to ur help I managed to install the theme but it does not work properly. Infact i have extra windows icons that wont go away and when i click them it says "incorrect pathway"....I really like this theme and really want it to work!!!!
Well its natural to have Icons that lead nowhere at first, since the paths to your installed programs are not always the same as in GLOC's. Already your memory card might be named differently. So in order to adjust the paths you have to learn WAD a little bit. You will manage eventually, as I did.
Lucas0511 said:
Wait since you mention "created folders"...did you install WAD before? Because after that all that needs to be done is copy the "BB Storm Theme" folder extracted from the zip into WAD's theme folder, start WAD, right-click somewhere on the desktop page, choose Settings and then Change Theme, or Search Theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
And for Chris5304: Your downloaded zip file is either corrupt, or you use an old packing program. Try free 7-Zip, it can also handle 00x file endings, and becomes part of your shortcuts when you right-click on your PC desktop. http://www.7-zip.org/
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Thanks Lucas. I downloaded again and used 7-zip and all is good.
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Well its natural to have Icons that lead nowhere at first, since the paths to your installed programs are not always the same as in GLOC's. Already your memory card might be named differently. So in order to adjust the paths you have to learn WAD a little bit. You will manage eventually, as I did.
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ok for some reason i still cant figure it out. Is there any website or link that you can provide where i can read up more? I checked the WAD website but that didnt make me more intelligent
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ok for some reason i still cant figure it out. Is there any website or link that you can provide where i can read up more? I checked the WAD website but that didnt make me more intelligent
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Plenty of threads on WAD, you will need to read up a bit but for the basics try this:
press and hold anywhere to get a menu with "Author Mode" as an option. Select this. Then press and hold on a button which doesn't go anywhere for you. Choose "Properties". Click on "Script". Click on "Launch a program" and then "Edit". Click the drop down list arrow next to the program path and choose a program on your machine from the resulting list.
If this is still not clear I think you should search other threads here and on Lakeridge web site forums as this is getting off topic!
Hi, firstly thanks for this great theme, took me a while to figure out what WAD2
I have one slight problem, when on the desktop after I have checked my email or sms and I click close the phone dialer shows up with "Save to Contacts" any idea what is causing this. I am using Duttys 2.6 rom and have the latest trial version of WAD2.
Also how did you make the icons as I would love to create some for HD tweak and othe rapps I use.
Thanks
Sully
Glad you like it.
With regards to adding new contacts I am not sure but it has only just started happening with mine. I am also using Dutty 2.6 extreme and it comes up, it didn't come up when I used the vanilla rom, so I wonder if it is something to do with the new Rom.
With regards to the icons, I am not sure but I know that if you search the Lakeridge forums there are some posted there. I personally use the application icons as I can't be bothered to create new icons!!
Regards
Brilliant mate, love it ! Thanks.
I have the same problem
Probably I do not undestand well
I have instaled WAD2 in my touch hd
I try to unzip your theme zip file, on my desktop, but there are many, many errors.
where is my mistake ?
thanks in advance for your help
I bought a license for TitaniumBackup Pro and they emailed me a zip file containing the license. I'm now using a GN and I can't download the zip file because its a potentially dangerous file type.
Without access to a PC, how do I get thiis license?
What email are you using? Email app, gmail app.. webmail?
My CM7 gmail won't let me download attached zip files so i use the Browser, Mobile Gmail page instead.
Gmail and built-in email app.
Will try the browaer method!
Look on the market for an app called Save My Attach. It should let you save any attachment regardless of file type. There's also another app i use called Attach My Files or it may just be called Attachments. That app lets me attach anything i want in Gmail. Make sure the TB license TXT file is in the root of your sdcard when you run TB for the first time so it applies the license. Good luck.
Save my Attach. Great tip, thanks!
Well save my attach would be great if it worked. I just sent myself a zip file and got the same error LOL. I think i like the 2.3.x version better.
The latest update from Dropbox suck big time and I tell you why.
They changed the long press to download a file to Export option.
To ddownload a file, you do long press, choose Export, choose sdcard, then choose folder destination.
You must do this each time for each file you want to download.
This is way inefficient, and pain in the ass if you want to download multiple files.
Sucks!
The previous version was better, simply long press then choose download for each file.
Then it will be downloaded to the sdcard/dropbox folder.
And to add the injury, they moved the dropbox folder to Android/data/...
Which is not recognizeable by Gallery for example.
So, anyone has the older version? Please attach here.
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The latest update from Dropbox suck big time and I tell you why.
They changed the long press to download a file to Export option.
To ddownload a file, you do long press, choose Export, choose sdcard, then choose folder destination.
You must do this each time for each file you want to download.
This is way inefficient, and pain in the ass if you want to download multiple files.
Sucks!
The previous version was better, simply long press then choose download for each file.
Then it will be downloaded to the sdcard/dropbox folder.
And to add the injury, they moved the dropbox folder to Android/data/...
Which is not recognizeable by Gallery for example.
So, anyone has the older version? Please attach here.
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Pm me ill email to u if u want
Agreed.. the change in 'save location' sucks.
What I do to save a file.. which is just as quick, is tap the arrow, click "favorite".
Then it downloads it to the random ass directory it saves to.
I bookmark that directory in astro or root explorer so I can easily jump to it.
I know it's not the intention of this thread (which should prob be in general or q&a), but for anyone else frustrated with the new features.
Thanks decalex for the tip.
They could easily overcome this by:
- Add "default download location" setting, where we can specify folder location to store downloaded file
- Bring back the long press download which will be put in the above location
That should be enough.
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Agreed.. the change in 'save location' sucks.
What I do to save a file.. which is just as quick, is tap the arrow, click "favorite".
Then it downloads it to the random ass directory it saves to.
I bookmark that directory in astro or root explorer so I can easily jump to it.
I know it's not the intention of this thread (which should prob be in general or q&a), but for anyone else frustrated with the new features.
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As you have already found out, an Android device is useless without the Android Market. Here is how you can get it working on your A7+.
First do a factory reset on your tablet.
Go to Settings>Privacy>Factory Data Reset
Once your tablet restart you will be ready to go.
Download this package here:
Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38313345/Elocity A7+ Market.rar
Filesonic: http://www.filesonic.com/file/u0jxLhN
and extract the contents to your micro sd card or USB stick. (I used a USB stick and it worked great). There is a folder and two files:
gapps folder
Amazon Marketplace.apk (optional - see below)
Z4Root.apk
You will also need to acquire a copy of root explorer. It's a paid app and well worth the $4. How YOU acquire it is entirely up to you, I will count on you to do the right thing. The Amazon marketplace DOES work on the Elocity A7 and you can buy Root Explorer from there. I personally installed Amazon MP and bought a copy, even though I already bought one from Android Marketplace. (You can use the Amazon MP on all devices and log in with the same credentials to install on multiple devices with one purchase.)
Insert your SD card or USB stick in to your tablet and wait for them to mount.
Open your app drawer and find OI File Manager that came pre-installed on your tabled and open it, and hit the HOME button icon in the upper left corner.
Now hit storage and scroll down and look for:
SDCARD - look for sdcard-disk
USB - look for usb0-disk
Find the appropriate folder and click it, then find the z4root.1.3.0.apk and click it and you will go to the installation screen. Click Install at the bottom. Once its done, open it.
You will be presented with two options, temporary root and permanent root. Click permanent root and let it do its thing. It will restart your tablet and it will be done. (if it fails - especially if it hangs on reboot, turn the tablet off and do it again).
Repeat the steps above to install the Amazon Market if you need to. Either way you do it at this point you need to install Root Explorer.
Once you have Root Explorer installed open it, you should get a prompt for Super User access. Make sure you choose to ALLOW.
With Root Explorer open you should see / in the upper left corner, if not hit the back button until you do.
scroll down and click find the system folder, open it, then find the bin folder and open it. Scroll all the way down and find the file
wpa_supplicant
long press on this file and choose COPY, and hit the back button twice so you are back at /.
At the top of the screen is a button that says Mount R/W - click it so that is says Mount R/O, then click the PASTE button at the bottom of the screen.
Long press on wpa_supplicant and choose rename - rename the file to wpa_supplicant_bk.
Now in this same folder find the Storage Folder and open it, and find the correct folder for your external storage method (same as above) and click it. Open the gapps folder, then system folder, then the app folder.
Hit the menu button, choose Multi Select, then click select all, then copy.
Now hit back again untill you are at the / directory, then go to the System folder, and open the app folder.
Click PASTE. (if you get an error hit the Mount R/W button again) when it asks if you want to over wright some apps, choose YES to all.
Your device will flash, and jump to the Elocity Boot screen, then it will make you go through the Android setup wizard.
At this point ensure WiFi is turned OFF.
Now open root explorer, browse back to your storage method, open gapps>System>bin and find the wpa_supplicant file. Long press it, and copy it.
Now browse back to the system folder, and open the bin folder, and click paste. It will ask to confirm over wright - choose YES. (Same as above if you get protected directory error).
Finally reboot one last time and you should now have a working market!
stuck at trying to paste into /system/app folder and can't seem to toggle Mount R/W there.
update: if this happens, apparently a reinstall from the amazon appstore fixes root explorer
Even with reinstalling the app I am unable to toggle the Mount R/W button at that same point.
Update: Installing BusyBox seemed to fix whatever was keeping the toggle from working. But once I go to paste the files, it tells me there isn't enough space.
Also, somewhere along the way I lost the keyboard software, and its not detected under settings either -.-
Hey, this worked! I didn't actually do a factory reset because I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to keep, so i thought I'd take a gamble.... My Elocity A4+ didn't restart automatically after copying the files, so I restarted it manually. I thought I might be in trouble when it brought up the "sign in to google" page over phone data. Of course that couldn't be done since I have no phone and the wireless authentication wouldn't work.
I restarted again and noticed that the google authentication had a "later" option, which I selected. That took me into my tablet like it had been before. I disabled the wireless, copied the wpa_supplicant file provided, restarted again and ... viola! It worked. Reenabled wifi, went into the market and updated a bunch of apps through appbrain. I thought this tablet was good before (able to sideload most apps I needed) ... I love this tablet a lot more now. Thanks again for the info.
Got Android Market working on Elocity A7+
I also was getting the message that there was not enough space to copy the files, so I deleted some the apps that were on the Elocity A7+, like Fring. It gave me an error when deleting Fring but I did a reboot and it was gone. Android Market is now on my tablet. So far so good.
Thank you! This worked for me.
(I'd click the Thanks button but I don't have one, maybe I'm too new?)
I didn't do the factory reset either.
Had to manually reboot.
Didn't have any space problems but I uninstalled some stuff anyway.
Very Grateful
Hey Destron5683,
As someone who is not particularly well versed with Android I am super grateful for this step by step fix you've provided.
I got the A7+ yesterday and found it to be quite a deal. I was unpleasantly surprised however to discover this whole no android market none-sense. Your fix worked flawlessly, I now have the market app an have downloaded a bunch of apps that have worked great.
Skype is the 1 app I have had no luck with. I've installed it but when I try to sign in it reads an error message like:
"Skype has stopped working. Would you like to sign in again or exit Skype?"
I can't get passed that error loop. Reading around, I get the sense that Skype detects whether or not the device is compatible and blocks you from successful log in.
If by chance you now of a way to get around this, please do tell!
Again, thanks so much for posting this useful step by step guide and for going through the trouble of creating this well needed fix.
I followed these instructions to a T but after copying the app files the tab did not switch to the splash screen, so I rebooted and the "Click the android" came up but I could not click the android to continue the setup, it just got stuck there.
Android market working
Followed the instructions and it worked like a charm if you get the not enough space error delete the video trailers and try again!!
android market
Great post. I have been looking for this since getting my A7+ passed over to me. One problem, I cannot get the file from the Filesonic site. They have changed policy and only the user can download his files. Is it possible to send another link to access this file?
The instructions are very helpfull and greatly appreciated
I got everything working fairly easily with the exception
of having to reboot it myself, as others have noted it didn't
auto reboot.
Still in process of trying to find a google play apk as the
old market app from this thread while functional, it really
sucks compared to play on my infuse.
via rooted/hacked A7+ with xda app
updated market app or play store?
only problem with this hack or mod is the included market app while functional it really does suck, anyone have a line on an apk for an updated market or play app?
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ok I'm a Tool, I asked first rather than work for it... I dug around a bit and found exactly what I needed, installed and tested, then wrote a quick set of destructions.
my following post answers the question...
Elocity A7+ working market / play store
I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)
Thank you Destron5683
with a few exceptions, as noted in previous reply's most people had to manually reboot
I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.
Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582422
scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card
Thank you Deeco7
Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...
I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point
open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
, long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)
press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.
hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart
you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.
not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)
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Z4 seems to punish you when you uninstall it or turn off root. After uninstalling, my Bluetooth , Google Maps, Youtube and Foursquare no longer work properly on my A7+ Reinstall it and they all come back !
Dan
Google play
Ryan_D said:
I followed the destructions provided here (use at own risk, worked perfect for me)
Thank you Destron5683
with a few exceptions, as noted in previous reply's most people had to manually reboot
I bought root explorer on amazon market, required for getting base market working.
Once you get that up and running it's fairly straight forward to install
play Vending-3.5.16.apk (destructions below) which is available from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582422
scroll to bottom of first post and look for the attached files, I used the non mod version, save this file to root of an sd card
Thank you Deeco7
Again follow at your own risk, this process worked for me, it may not work for you...
I kept an sd card in so I could backup the file in a place that won't get overwritten/deleted if I have to factory reset at some point
open root explorer, make sure your at / in upper left corner, next navigate to /system/app scroll down list to Vending.apk
, long press, copy, hit back twice so your at / again, navigate to /storage/sdcard-disk0 (or wherever you prefer to save backup)
press paste, now rename file to Vending.bak (or whatever you will remember)
rename the Vending-3.5.16.apk to Vending.apk
long press it and select copy, navigate back to /system/app , hit Mount R/W , delete Vending.apk , then paste your new Vending.apk into folder.
hit back button untill root explorer exits, then shut off and restart
you should have Play Store icon in app bin, press it and enjoy.
not sure if it was my router or isp or tablet, apps didn't want to start downloading in play store,
as soon as I exited from play store it had downloaded 1 app and was getting the second one,
they installed fine, hope this helps people (next time I ran play it worked fine so likely isp)
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When you do this on Elocity A7+ does it allow you to use apps that would normally not work on the system?
filesonic link not working
Thanks for the great step by step! I just need the filesonic file(s) but the link does not seem to be working.
I would be most grateful if someone would host the file.
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for the great step by step! I just need the filesonic file(s) but the link does not seem to be working.
I would be most grateful if someone would host the file.
Thanks in advance.
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goto http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1582422
and if you click on the attached files you should be able to directly download the file that way.. its just under the meadiafire links i used the non mod after the modded version wouldnt let me download anything to my A7+
thank you is working good:good:
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thank you is working good:good:
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Jonnycrash did you find a way around the android welcome screen that wont respond. I am stuck with the same problem.
my usb port is not working anymore
I've received a couple of emails from a friend that has a .zip file attached. However, when viewing the email, the .zip file has "info" next to it......when I tap that, it says "Unfortunately, you can't save or open this type of attachment." I've have AndroZip app installed.....so what else do I need to do to be able to download this file type? Other files, such as pdf's and doc's give me the option to save, preview, view.
From the Play Store download
Download all files app by MDJ Software.
Already have that installed.
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Already have that installed.
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Dang, I have always used that app for that but you're right, I just tried it and got the same thing as you.
I bet gmail does that because it thinks all zip files are malicious.
There are a few different apps on the market (Play Store) for doing this but I can't find one that has been updated to work with ICS.
Google really needs to build this into the Gmail.apk
Boat Browser or any Browser that you can change your UA to desktop, then go to gmail.com
*cough* stock email app *cough*
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*cough* stock email app *cough*
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I had the same problem.
Agreed
I forwarded to my stock email downloaded zip from there.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
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I've received a couple of emails from a friend that has a .zip file attached. However, when viewing the email, the .zip file has "info" next to it......when I tap that, it says "Unfortunately, you can't save or open this type of attachment." I've have AndroZip app installed.....so what else do I need to do to be able to download this file type? Other files, such as pdf's and doc's give me the option to save, preview, view.
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What I recently discovered is, that if you forward your mail with the .zip attachement to yourself, or anybody else, the download button appears ...
Really stupid way, but that could be a solution for you? :good:
i cant download zip file from my gmail