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Whats the benefit of installing themes vs skins with 3rd Party Home apps?

I see a ton of skins/themes on the market for aHome and Open Home. Whats the benefit of installing themes via recovery mode vs using a 3rd party Home app to install skins/themes?

androidmonkey said:
I see a ton of skins/themes on the market for aHome and Open Home. Whats the benefit of installing themes via recovery mode vs using a 3rd party Home app to install skins/themes?
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As far as ease and stability's sake, hardly none.
Some advantages of the themes via recovery mode are these (someone correct me if I'm wrong on some):
-A theme in aHome or Open Home can't do as many changes systemwide as a normal one can (for example changing icons in the music player app or changing the layout of the unlock screen) since it only has permission to change its own stuff and the notification bar.
-Themes from xda are more plentiful since not all of them are snagged and brought to the market.
-Anything new that comes out in theming is going to be available here first, and (no offense to the devs at betterandrod, etc. They do a great job) it just will take a while longer for those sorts of changes to be able to propagate into the replacement home apps.
Bottom line: It's far safer to install themes from the market, but here is where the developers can meet and share ideas, and it's bound to throw you some patchy themes, and maybe even a bricked phone or two. It's all a matter of preference.

Well themes from here give you a much more rich experience in my opinion. While skins save you time and are easier to use, i still prefer a theme from xda. I like the little details that really make the g1 shine. There really is no danger of bricking phone, none that i know of anyways. If you know what your doing then there are no worries.

ih why do just 1 ?
Not sure about the others, but with dxTop you could keep your root theme as far as notification bar and app bar went and use the icons wallpaper or optionally app bar from one of the market themes
I was using glossy min for a while with deep blacks icons and it all seems to go well.

The only thing a skin changes is the clock, application launcher, and icons.
A theme is a full theme, including full customization vs just a few little parts.

How to get this theme ?

Is the nexus theme shown in the following P6 review available ? http://www.androidcentral.com/huawei-ascend-p6-review

Hmm looks like a launcher as Nova or Apex with a jb wallpaper
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muse789 said:
Hmm looks like a launcher as Nova or Apex with a jb wallpaper
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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I would follow this :
1. Change your home screen.
nova_jelly_bean
There are a lot of cool options for launchers, but Nova Launcher is probably your best bet for this purpose (Play Store Download Link). Simply using the default settings of Nova immediately makes your phone look a great deal like stock.
2. Customize your “look.”
holo_iconsYou’re also going to want to change your icons. Holo Icons is filled with stock icons, and looks great with Nova (Play Store Download Link).
You can even download stock wallpapers for an even more Play Edition experience. The Play Edition devices come with a new SunBeam live wallpaper, which you can download for your device for free (Play Store Download Link). If you’d rather have the other, non-live wallpapers that come with Jelly Bean, you can also get those in the Play Store (Play Store Download Link).
And if you want that minimalistic clock you see above, you can get that too, with Clock JB (Play Store Download Link).
3. Change your lock screen.Jelly_Bean_Search_Widgets_and_Halo_Launchr
The lock screen is the part of your device that you see the most often. Just like launchers, there are many options for alternate lock screens as well. For the purpose of making your device look like a stock device, Holo Locker is your best option (Play Store Download Link). It has many customization options, it’s stable, and it looks cool.
4. Install Google apps.
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Stock Android devices come with only Google created apps. That includes the stock keyboard, which Google released on the Play Store a few months ago. Also make sure you have Gmail, Maps, Chrome, Calendar, and any other Google apps you desire. You can find them all in the Play Store through this link.
dialer_cameraYou’ll probably notice that there are some stock apps that are on stock devices, but that Google hasn’t released to the Play Store. You’re not going to be able to find all of them, but some, like the Camera app, complete with the awesome Photo Sphere feature (Download Link) and the Dialer (Download Link) have been leaked for you to enjoy.
5. Make all of these apps default, and disable bloatware.
While setting up these apps, some will prompt you to make it the default app, but others will not. Make sure you make all of them default, so they will open automatically whenever you want to use them. You can do that using a very useful app called Default App Manager (Download Link).
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If your device isn’t stock, it comes with a lot of your carrier and manufacturer’s bloatware. Without rooting, it’s hard to get rid of it all, but if you go into Settings / Apps, you can individually tap on the bloat apps and manually disable them. For more information, check out our guide on disabling bloatware. Also, if you’re using Nova Launcher, you can upgrade to the premium version and make them disappear from your app drawer and have them out of sight.
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here is mine screen ###

I´m using Apex Launcher with the Jelly Bean 4.3 HD Theme. It replaces the most Huawei icons with the default android ones. Tried Nova first, but placing widgets at the home screen doesn´t work with it.

http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?m...ead&tid=194645
I read about this theme in a post on development section
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46077710&postcount=15) ,
someone knows how to translate what is written on this site? can we downlod and use as .hwt theme ?
THX

interdan said:
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?m...ead&tid=194645
I read about this theme in a post on development section
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46077710&postcount=15) ,
someone knows how to translate what is written on this site? can we downlod and use as .hwt theme ?
THX
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I have managed to reach their dowload site of that second theme:
http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=3818376665&uk=3406717033
Use google chrome browser and translate and click normal download.
This is theme section of forum. Many themes there:
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=44
How to download:
1) go to a china theme thread and the end of the first post you probably see a locked link. It gets unlocked only when you reply to that thread.
2) On clicking the locked link, you probably end up in signup/login. I already had account on english forum, i just used that and password in the two sections. But im not sure if that actually created new account or logged in same account. The login id is done using email id. So email id and password.
3) after typing email id and password, it led me to a page with a single section to type. I was stuck here. But got around it. It basically asked to type a nickname. So type forum nick name.
4) now that you successfully logged in, reply to the topic to get theme unlocked

I have installed it. Freakin awesome. Customizes the whole thing. Cant sleep today.
I tried these three themes:
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=193267&extra=page=1
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=194645&extra=page=1
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=192683&extra=page=1
Works fine. No issues noticed yet. In two of those themes, you wont get the clock as shown in screenshot. Its maybe a separate widget.
Also one of the theme, the screen lock is different from screenshot. There is no lock icon anywhere as supposed to be according to screenshot. But just swiping over screen unlocks it in a different way which looks cool by itself.
Note that the themes section does not come under a "p6" section. So themes could be for other EMUI versions and other models. I dont know if problems might happen if other used.

Tried this holo theme:http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=78602&mobile=yes
Very beautiful too. But again, although on the details it mentions that widget has been customized, yet i dont see where that is. I dont get the clock widget as shown in screen shot.

thanks so much

warea said:
I have installed it. Freakin awesome. Customizes the whole thing. Cant sleep today.
I tried these three themes:
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=193267&extra=page=1
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=194645&extra=page=1
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=192683&extra=page=1
Works fine. No issues noticed yet. In two of those themes, you wont get the clock as shown in screenshot. Its maybe a separate widget.
Also one of the theme, the screen lock is different from screenshot. There is no lock icon anywhere as supposed to be according to screenshot. But just swiping over screen unlocks it in a different way which looks cool by itself.
Note that the themes section does not come under a "p6" section. So themes could be for other EMUI versions and other models. I dont know if problems might happen if other used.
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These themes are amazings! I have installed the second and looks great ...without any bug.
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06

These themes are spectacular, I love the Miui Style on my P6 :victory:.

neodante said:
These themes are amazings! I have installed the second and looks great ...without any bug.
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06
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Can you share this themes, here pls.
Thanks in advance.

Remember a majority if not all the themes located on vmall's website automatically append the .txt extension. Just rename the extension to .hwt and copy to your themes dir located on internal or external sd card. The themes app should automatically scan those directories and import on opening.

alex.79 said:
Can you share this themes, here pls.
Thanks in advance.
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Here you got it :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468360
New Miui style Huawei P6 Theme
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06

I tried this flyme 3.0 theme:
http://cn.club.vmall.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=196888&extra=page=4&page=1
Its a neat and sweet theme but a little incomplete. The folders open as opaque window which is unique, but the font within that is in a black color that is not visible. It should be made white, and also the homescreen should be dimmed out a little more when opening folders, so that the opaque folder does not cause stuff on homescreen to show up in folder. The dialpad could have been made with a flatter keypad and a color that matches theme overall, but that isn't really a problem. Also a couple of icons have not been updated and may look out of place.
If someone knows how to edit this theme and fix those issues, it would be great.

neodante said:
Here you got it :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468360
New Miui style Huawei P6 Theme
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06
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Thanks, looks great

Also came across this huawei site, that promotes competition for prize money on different issues including themes.
http://zh.ui.vmall.com/partner/?f=cate&catid=20
But unfortunately the themes seem to be only in that drawing phase.

neodante said:
These themes are amazings! I have installed the second and looks great ...without any bug.
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06
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is the status bar change with you ? like miui status bar ?

frdan said:
is the status bar change with you ? like miui status bar ?
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Exactly,changes the status bar and the toggles.

neodante said:
These themes are amazings! I have installed the second and looks great ...without any bug.
Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06
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neodante said:
Exactly,changes the status bar and the toggles.
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still stock status bar with me . i cant get miui status bar style !!!! whatss wrong

Icon Pack post

Hey Guys,
This is the post where you can mention which icon pack developer do you mostly purchase from.
I personally purchase icon packs from Vertumus
who updates every icon pack he made weekly.

I bought two packs that I ended up using a lot. Minimal UI (squares) and Click UI (circles). Both from Kxnt.

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I bought two packs that I ended up using a lot. Minimal UI (squares) and Click UI (circles). Both from Kxnt.
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I own those icon packs too. My wallet has a hole because I have more than 60 paid icon packs ?. I usually take Kxnt for his wallpapers rather than icons.

Have you had any luck getting Unicon to work on Pixel XL?

jaredtritsch said:
Have you had any luck getting Unicon to work on Pixel XL?
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How if there is no Xposed?.. -_-

Nope, custom Launcher which don't customize your System UI for now?

Lumos by kovdev is my all-time favorite. Just wish I could apply custom icon packs with the Pixel Launcher...

Anyone tried the all new Praos Icon Pack by Viktor (better known as Vertumus).

I've got a new favorite. Pivot Icon Pack by DraseArts.

I have been using Tersus Icon Pack for a good 3 years now

serpentxx said:
I have been using Tersus Icon Pack for a good 3 years now
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Did you try Audax Icon Pack by the same developer.

Umbra

Currently loving Pivot Icon Pack

Atomic icon pack by drumdestroyer is great
Sent from my Pixel XL using XDA Labs

I purchase a lot of icon pack..
U can try cadrex
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Slipped C Burgundy....

Currently using Cryten. Always seem to come back to it. Simple and not so bright as like the Pixel icon pack

Currently using Platoon Icons.

please ignore this post, see the below post.

My new favorite icon pack is quantum dots, you might like it!!

What icon pack?

I'm after some icon pack suggestions please. All the ones I've found that look promising have a lot of icons missing and/or the masking function doesn't play well so you can tell that there missing. My favourite at the moment is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sikebo.immaterialis.icons
Thanks all

How are you applying them on stock launcher?

GlitchMob said:
How are you applying them on stock launcher?
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I'm using nova launcher

p70shooter said:
I'm after some icon pack suggestions please. All the ones I've found that look promising have a lot of icons missing and/or the masking function doesn't play well so you can tell that there missing. My favourite at the moment is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sikebo.immaterialis.icons
Thanks all
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Immaterials has always been one of my favorites. I've been enjoying H2O icon pack lately...

dtroup64 said:
Immaterials has always been one of my favorites. I've been enjoying H2O icon pack lately...
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They look a bit colorful for me but I will check them out. Thank you ?

I'm currently using RetroOxygen. I also use Saturate, Delta, Empire, Glitch, & Halo. Using stock launcher with the pixel launcher mods app.

p70shooter said:
I'm using nova launcher
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Oh, I thought there was no gesture support for Android 10.

GlitchMob said:
Oh, I thought there was no gesture support for Android 10.
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There is for the 4xl and I think for the other pissel from now or soon

I have been using stealth icon pack since forever, and after trying out different packs always come back to this one. Perfect for dark backgrounds and oled displays.

p70shooter said:
I'm after some icon pack suggestions please. All the ones I've found that look promising have a lot of icons missing and/or the masking function doesn't play well so you can tell that there missing. My favourite at the moment is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sikebo.immaterialis.icons
Thanks all
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Using Oxygen HD icon pack with Nova Launcher personally

Oxypie or Letitbe O are my two favorite

Icon Pack Studio

rickysidhu_ said:
Icon Pack Studio
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Ooh nice. I had forgotten all about that one. Thank you

Currently running Pixel Pie Icon Pack with over 11000 icons.

Guys, try Minimo. Great icon pack, works with most wallpapers.

I like Borleas.

Appstract icons are an absolute go for the Doodle live wallpaper.

Circo
Really nice colorful icons that work with the Pixel mods for stock launcher. Use it with the Pokemon background or something similar.

I've been using 2 different packs switching back and forth between ruggon and drawon they're pretty cool especially with pitch black wallpaper the colors are great
Sent from my SM-A102U using Tapatalk

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.randomvector.outline
Been rocking this for a while now!

Themes / Apps / Mods Pixed theme, ideas?

Hello, i was searching for a Pixel theme and nothing, any ideas?

oli231 said:
Hello, i was searching for a Pixel theme and nothing, any ideas?
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Probably the easiest way would be to use a custom launcher, something like Ruthless or Nova can be configured to look like a Pixel. You can use custom icon packs and widgets to complete the look.
If you want to go deeper then something like Hex Installer would work as well. I prefer the AOSP status icons over the Samsung ones personally.