Help me "Hello Kitty" the hell out of a new 16GB Nexus 7. I need some ideas. I'm leaving it stock(since she's eight). I'll probably have it run Nova Prime. That's about as far as I have gotten. I don't want to just slap a hello kitty wallpaper on it and call it a night, I'd like to make it really shine. Any ideas? Any screenshots of said ideas?(They wouldn't have to contain hello kitty, just sort of be a template).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sd.google.helloKittyCafe
Of course make sure you do NOT have a credit card associated with this Google Account if a child is using it. Hello Kitty feeds on in app purchases.
The next thing you want besides a wallpaper is some sort of theme or icon set. A quick search on Google Play found a couple, but it seems iffy if they will run on a tablet (they don't seem to have been updated in a while)
Help this person out everyone!
Lucky kid you got there You should probably make a whole folder of Hello Kitty wallpapers and then use some kind of app to keep switching them up every once in a while.
Try this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.photoWallpaper
Or try Multi picture live wallpaper.
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Worth rooting just to be able to do a HelloKitty bootanimation.
A bit of googling finds these:
http://androidforums.com/droid-all-things-root/232419-bootanimation-hello-kitty.html
http://madteam.co/forum/design-16/bootanimation/30/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34786556&postcount=1213
NOTE: I haven't tried any of these.
Boot animation would be cool, but you may want to avoid system changes like that as they may make future ota updates a hassle.
http://mycolorscreen.com/?s=hello+kitty&searchsubmit=Go
you could get some pretty ideas from there and no root required
I would try to find anything related to hello kitty on the app store..Maybe find some nice Hello Kitty icons? Most of this will probably be paid purchases but at least you will be giving her exactly what you want and not just something.
Skinit.com front and back skin with matching wallpaper icons and boot...
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Or just search web images and copy into your gallery the correct size and use as wallpaper.
That's pretty much how I find all my wp and icons. I'm doing the same for a 10 year old. So much easier finding free apps at the Amazon app store for kids... things I've installed:
"Tools": eclean, School Helper, the English Dictionary, Airdroid, Unit Converter, Mobi Calculator.
"Photo": Zedge, Photo Editor, Picasso, Picsay, Quickpic.
"Media": IMDB, Kindle, YouTube, Flipboard (with kids stuff), Shazam, My Piano.
"Google": Earth, Sky, Goggles, and all the normal ones.
"Games": Air Control,Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, X-Construct, Dropwords, Block Puzzle, Jewels, Crossme, Chess Free, Temple Run, Ocean Bubble, Bean's Quest, Magic Academy, and Origami Instructions.
HOLO Launcher, easy to set up, very fast and smooth. Wifi Status icon on each screen so she turns it off. World Weather Clock widget.
Just trying to decide between "Text Now", "Heywire", and Google Voice, for her texting... probably let her decide.
make boot animation a hello kitty one that says "hello kitty and hello childs name"?
How about a UCCW clock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35565257#post35565257
(zip file to be renamed uzip)
At OP,
You said you would be using Nova Prime so use it!
You can install a pink adw theme which will change some of the icons using the icon theme under the look and feel settings, under the same setting change the colour theme to pink, uncheck infinite scroll on the home screen setting so when you hit the last home screen it glows the colour you've set....pink.
Set the transparency under the drawer setting to a ΒΌ or less so you can vaguely see your wallpaper, grab a free hello kitty clock and some Widgets and you're away.
Pic is for illustration purposes, you have to use your imagination cos a hello kitty on my N7 was a bit a step too far for me to show you.....hint, don't forget to save your settings, I didn't lol.
And what you have is a stock N7 with a light pink theme plus calenders, widgets and clocks of your choice for free, if you wish to pay for an hello kitty icon pack its your choice.
"Completely Pink ADW - Free"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davidjr621.pink.free
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Edit: I hate spelling predictions.
Soft case
Hi - I have a seven year old daughter, and she managed to drop my Nexus 7 on the floor and break it within a few months of me getting it, so first and foremost, get a soft case that will make it drop proof. My daughter is pretty sensible, but accidents happen and these things are fragile.
I've now got an Amzer soft silicone case for the replacement N7 (which is presently wrapped and under the tree), which should make it drop proof (based on reviews on Amazon). They are available in various shades of pink!
Sjbstowe said:
TouchPal actually has a Hello Kitty keyboard and a couple other girly keyboards as well.
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+1 amzer silicone case, they have a hot pink one that'll work with hello kitty smashingly. There's a Hello Kitty live wallpaper from Sanrio and a few cafe/salon games. UCCW for sure, and then use HDW or Beautiful Widgets to add in a pink control bar for her, so she can easily access the settings she'd want to change such as brightness. The hello kitty keyboard would be great because typing takes a lot of screen space, and besides, keyboards are one more way to express style. Just make sure it's durable/waterproof. And I'd get a hello kitty satchel/purse that fits her tablet securely. You're an awesome santa for doing this, BTW! -Ara
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Thanks for the idea and inspiration.
This is my daughter's tablet. She is going to be one happy girl tomorrow!
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Very cute, I hope she enjoys it.
I don't want to lose man points, but that looks pretty sweet.
pretty sweet. i picked up an n7 for the wife and was thinking about doing a similar theme. pink official cover with a pink theme and a hello kitty icon for the app drawer. i'll let her open it first though
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This one is for Blade Themes and Applications!
Invisible Home
The idea:
Your home screen is just the background. Everything is still accessible from it.
I found some really nice backgrounds but found they were being obscured by various icons so I thought why not make them invisible.
Implementation:
Very successful, I have three screens, left screen is system stuff, right screen is newsfeeds, centre screen is basic things.
I found the invisible .png icon and using LauncherPro applied it to everything on the homescreen.
Result: My homescreen when I unlock is now just the background.
I have a 4x5 icon setup (adjustable in LP) and then a dock bar at bottom.
The top row is google search; left half is web, right half is voice. I used LPs Activities Shortcut and found the intents.
Then there is a large block (4x3) of Invisible Lock Widget to lock my phone by tapping the middle of the screen.
At the bottom I have 5 dock icons which have swipe actions so 10 actions all in all, plus a second dock scrollable behind that (kept the icons on that one).
Basically I can access everything easily from this screen because they are regularly used functions so I know where they are.
Implications:
You can draw your own background and effectively make up your own home screen.
Further Ideas:
I had an idea whereby you had a Monopoly type gameboard as a background, each square around the edge had an intent like direct dial home, direct message a contact, etc. Then you had some dice in the middle that you click to get to apps, the Chance card stack goes to Google Search, etc.
Black - Just have a black homescreen, the uber minimalist setup.
If you could have a diff wallpaper for each homescreen imagine you swipe left to see your fave contacts displayed on a GuessWho board and you can click each one to call/msg them.
This may be old news to some of you but after setting it up on my phone I am quite excited about the possibilities.
Perhaps I'm a bit late but I'd like to point out that you can have multiple wallpapers using the live wallpaper 'MultiPicture', which is available from the Android market. It's quite handy and perhaps you could do the Monopoly/Guess Who thing with that.
EDIT: Found something. I'll see if I can't fashion some kind of wallpaper out of it, but I can't link to it yet...
Is there an app to change themes........?
Good
very good este post.
simon.rogers said:
Is there an app to change themes........?
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get cyanogenmod 7 for zte blade,
There are so many ways to configure themes etc.
Some launchers support themes (adw). But themes mainly change look of some apps, clock for example. Themes also change wallpapers, icons etc... but that's easy doing by hand...
Also for CM7 there's a theme switcher, which only work for specific themes. And one for adw themes.
All this is too confusing to me...
Someone should explain..
I just use LP with custom background, custom dock and custom icons all applied one by one myself
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zte
I am using lp sense ui it is good
https://market.android.com/details?id=fr.allo_mobile.lpsense.classicsense&feature=search_result
zte
I am using widget locker screen it is good
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&feature=search_result
zte
I am using power amp it is good
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&feature=search_result
zte
how to update zte blade to cyanogenmod 7 stable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ9VgyaIT4w
zte
how to overclocked on cyanogenmod 7 729MHZ max 122MHZ min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCeBoRovNpk
it runs smooth
review of cyanogenmod 7 for zte blade
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zte
death worm is the best games
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.playcreek.DeathWorm&feature=search_result
zte
backreaker is the best
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideaworks3d.tackle&feature=search_result
andrew.matten said:
I am using widget locker screen it is good
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&feature=search_result
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I like it, thank you for the idea
I need a samsung theme which is default in android phone
divyesh2129 said:
I need a samsung theme which is default in android phone
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Huh? The Samsung theme is custom which means it can't be default. But if you use Swedish Spring (from Modaco) then you can flash a Galaxy S theme.
andrew.matten said:
death worm is the best games
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.playcreek.DeathWorm&feature=search_result
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nice game.
divyesh2129 said:
I need a samsung theme which is default in android phone
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... or make it using UOT Kitchen.
Hopefully this is in the right place to post, but I had to share this for those that never heard of this live wallpaper.
Its easy on the battery since there's not alot moving, and overall just a nice informative wallpaper to have.
There's a free and paid version 65cents? Paid version doesn't really offer to much more than the free one, besides choosing a background and different color fonts and making the font move. But at 65cents not a bad deal I suppose.
Its called WP Clock on the market.
i just love WP Clock..
May I ask if anyone knows what is the widget that looks like the wallpaper with the clock and the tine n stuff but its a widget instead of a wallpaper.
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cubanito151 said:
May I ask if anyone knows what is the widget that looks like the wallpaper with the clock and the tine n stuff but its a widget instead of a wallpaper.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814054
Is this what you're looking for?
Been using this for a full month by now. It's by far the most useful/pretties widget replacing wallpaper I've yet to use.
And for its price, it's a steal.
this thing rocks... LOVE IT!!!
just bought wp clock and i must say it looks fantastic. one thing abt it though, i don't like how its a wallpaper so every homescreen's filled with the thing. really need the space on other homescreens for other stuff. if only they could make this into a widget. typoclock looks similar but i love the data connection and battery info. i tried using multi live wallpaper to have multiple wallpapers simultaneously but it doesnt support using a live wallpaper and a normal one from the gallery. so i guess im stuck, or has anyone found a solution for this yet?
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just bought wp clock and i must say it looks fantastic. one thing abt it though, i don't like how its a wallpaper so every homescreen's filled with the thing. really need the space on other homescreens for other stuff. if only they could make this into a widget. typoclock looks similar but i love the data connection and battery info. i tried using multi live wallpaper to have multiple wallpapers simultaneously but it doesnt support using a live wallpaper and a normal one from the gallery. so i guess im stuck, or has anyone found a solution for this yet?
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the developer is really good at taking and implementing suggestions... I asked for drop shadow, but he wasn't able to figure that out, so he did the outline so I set my text to white (40% opaque) and outline to black (4pt 80% opaque) and it's almost as good as drop shadow... definitely gives enough contrast to where you can read it no matter what your background is... tell you what, I would actually like the same thing, so I will request it as well, and maybe we'll get it twice as fast =)
benjamminzIS said:
the developer is really good at taking and implementing suggestions... I asked for drop shadow, but he wasn't able to figure that out, so he did the outline so I set my text to white (40% opaque) and outline to black (4pt 80% opaque) and it's almost as good as drop shadow... definitely gives enough contrast to where you can read it no matter what your background is... tell you what, I would actually like the same thing, so I will request it as well, and maybe we'll get it twice as fast =)
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deal. noob question though, where can i make my request? market?
what do you think is the best live wallpaper that doesn't slow down phone and looks good I would like to know
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This should be posted in the questions area not themes man lol
I love fireflies
Seeds of life! Black background =good battery /nice looking
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TDC Live Wallpaper, with out a doubt!
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I've always liked the Nexus S live wallpaper..
heathmcabee said:
I've always liked the Nexus S live wallpaper..
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which one, microbes or nexus?
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Sean Hicks said:
Seeds of life! Black background =good battery /nice looking
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My favorite also.. grabs lots of attention too
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Does anyone have a link to the seeds of life live wallpaper?
Sorry my favorite is microbes but I seen the seeds of life on my friends phone and do like that also.
It's in the market
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Does anyone have a link to the seeds of life live wallpaper?
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I'm not a big fan of a live wp. But I like the optimus 2 wallpaper the rain one and can't remember Tue name off the top of my head but Tue one where it uses all your pics on in your dcim folder and changes them. Like a digital picture frame.
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heathmcabee said:
I've always liked the Nexus S live wallpaper..
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This.
I also liked starfield
There's also a DOOM lwp that's pretty easy on the battery. Plus that dev was making updates to the rendering engine every few days to better optimize it.
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Firewall Live wallpaper *has other themes*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/firewall-live-wallpaper/com.twistandroid.firewall
Solar winds Live wallpaper *Runs smooth as butter and has different themes*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/solar-wind-live-wallpaper/com.mai.livewallpaper.christmastree
Wallpaper slideshow *... what it says transitions through wallpapers in a file folder and only takes 1% cpu*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wallpaper-slideshow/com.birbeck.wallpaperslideshow
Light Grid Pro *lots of shapes and colors and effects very cool*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/light-grid-pro-live-wallpaper/com.joko.lightgridpro
Thunderstorm live wallpaper * change lighting color and cloud color and rain color i think*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/thunderstorm-donation/fishnoodle.storm
Aquarium *pick the background and the number of fish and the plants, if done right it doesn't look tacky*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/aquarium-live-wallpaper/fishnoodle.aquarium_free
Bamboo Forest Live wallpaper *change the color of the bamboo, lighting, fog, ect, very cool if you're into green or kinda ninja-esh things i use this the most the screen shots dont do it justice on the Epic superamoled screen*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/bamboo-forest-donation/fishnoodle.bamboo
Ascension Live wallpaper * different line effects and options to make a live wallpaper to fit your taste. touch response lights the lines like piano keys*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/ascension-live-wallpaper/com.cower.ascension
Galactic Core *waaaaaaaaaay better then the stock live wallpaper must have*
http://www.appbrain.com/app/galactic-core-donation/fishnoodle.spacescapewallpaper
Full version lets you pick the color layers of the core, white color with blue and purple :3
Those are all the ones i bought and kept to support the creator and liked.
Wave Lite Live Wallpaper is great too. It's basically the PS3 live wallpaper, but on your phone. It also has good battery life because you can set the background to black, and the wave to white.
ballpaper
I have a few different favorite live wallpapers, as I have been using them for almost a year now (On one phone or the other). Most of them I see listed in the last few posts above me, but one I didn't see mentioned that I think is great, would be PhysX Pro Live wallpaper...
Physx Free/Pro live wallpaper is a bunch of configurable particles that bounce about around your screen. You can configure the colors of each particle, bounciness/rebound, size, and if you decide to turn attraction on, you can change the attraction/repulsion of each color of particle. If you don't want that, you can have them follow north on the compass, or just bounce around randomly. It looks really neat, and sort of high tech/sci-fi ish if your into that type of thing... definitly worth a look.
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ballpaper
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Oh yeah that's a good one. splurps up your battery however right?
Logcat Live Wallpaper
I like the camera live wallpaper. Lets me do things on my phone and I can see where I'm going. It eats up battery a bit, but with a 3300 MaH battery, that's not really a problem.
I was getting pretty frustrated with how our phones crop the wallpaper these days.
I was looking and looking for a wallpaper template, but couldn't find one. So I made one.
It's in Paint.net's PDN, Gimp's XCF, and Photoshop PSD
The wallpaper I made in the screenshot was using the PDN.
I only made the XCF and PSD for those of you who do not like using Paint.net, I assume they work just as well, but haven't tested them.
If they don't work properly, let me know and I'll try to fix them.
In the Templates.7z package you'll find the blank E4GT-Template.xxx which is 960x800 @ 206ppi
I had read that the stock wallpapers were 960x800, which seems to be the size of the cropping block when you set a wallpaper.
480x800 is the screen size, you'll notice there are (2) 240x800 black bars on the sides, these get truncated.
All you have to so is add whatever image you want as a layer behind the "Box" layer.
What you can see is what you'll get when you set the wallpaper on your phone.
I've attached a screenshot of my phone with a Borderlands 2 style wallpaper I made.
Just for you, I've included the template for it as well: BL2-Blank.pdn
You'll notice a solid red background on the this one, this is to check for gaps.
If there are no gaps, you won't see it when you flatten the image, or just delete it.
If you have more than 5 pages of stuff, you'll need to change the size of the top box for the page indication thing.
This is for people who are stock, or don't have scrolling wallpaper as an option.
Feedback is appreciated.
Enjoy!
If you're running stock, one of Samsung's updates actually disabled the scrolling wallpaper feature - originally, you would in fact make wallpapers 960x800. It's actually one of the reasons I went and rooted my phone - I loved that feature, and I thought it was lame that they took it out.
That being said, this is very useful, especially for those running a single screen setup, or running stock. I haven't made a wallpaper in such a long time - I'll edit one into this post for anyone interested. Maybe a Fallout inspired one?
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If you're running stock, one of Samsung's updates actually disabled the scrolling wallpaper feature - originally, you would in fact make wallpapers 960x800. It's actually one of the reasons I went and rooted my phone - I loved that feature, and I thought it was lame that they took it out.
That being said, this is very useful, especially for those running a single screen setup, or running stock. I haven't made a wallpaper in such a long time - I'll edit one into this post for anyone interested. Maybe a Fallout inspired one?
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This reminds me that I forgot to mention a few things in the original post.
Something Fallout/Pip-boy inspired could be cool!
Best game ever!! Can't stop playing.
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The wallpapers are extremely annoying. I never uses scrolling before, but when they took it away it messed up everything.
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I got the Nova Launcher from Play while it was on sale, made a background for it using the same template and made some folder backgrounds
The regular grey bar was ripped from the site same as the yellow one I used on the Maya background.
The regular box is made from it.
The Modified images I smoothed the coloring out, and made the orange a little darker, preserving the highlights.
I'm including the background if anyone wants it, and a screenshot of how I used it.
You need to make the dock margins Large.
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Hey so I was hoping someone knew how or would like to create a live wallpaper that would look nice. Back on sense on the original evo, there was that sense moving colorful circles, always wanted someone to attempt to make a cooler version of that. If anyone is up to it, or knows where I could find a section on xda willing, I would appreciate it.
But anyways, my general idea is like this wallpaper (not 100%) I found but moving, passing over one another, all that. Maybe color changing like fading to different colors or movement speed in its settings or any of that kind of stuff. This is only an idea I think some people would love for a nice neutral live wallpaper considering a lot now a days aren't so good imo...
Edit: I know this isn't a request forum or shouldn't be named request, more of possible ideas to be developed. And the reason I don't use the sense one is because it got a bit boring.. I'm personally a fan of black with bright colors or abstract, what ever it would be called.
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