[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Apex Predator:
Hi Dully

First of all, I want to thank you VERY much for your amazing theme! I have lurked on xda for a few weeks since I got my SGS2 and have spent many hours reading, learning and mostly looking for ways to make my phone look the way I want it to.

Then I found your theme - and finally I had a good reason to register - so I could give you a huge thanks for all your hard work. Seriously, this is by far the nicest looking and best performing theme I have had the pleasure of using!

I have now read the entire thread and I want to give you some feedback on my experience:

I used the universal theme v1 and it flashed onto KI8 stock "Frankenstein" firmware no problems.

Then I came in yesterday and saw you'd updated to v2, great, flashed no probs. I wanted to re-try Revolution ROM with Siyah kernel to see if it would help battery life. Dropped revrom, siyah and phone candy onto sdcard, rebooted into recovery and flashed rom, kernel and then theme. Rebooted and all worked flawlessly! Congrats to you for building a truly universal theme!

On a side note, I didn't really like the new battery (no offense, just personal taste) so I tried to figure out a good way of putting a different battery on. The solution I settled was this:

I got the Mod Battery rom Criskelo Original from here

Unzipped the 204 battery images, added/replaced them over the original 204 images in the phone candy v2 zip and reflashed. Voila, it worked! Probably not tidiest way of doing it but it worked ok.

Then I hit on another idea - something that's always bothered me is the stupid vibrate and ring phone icon on the status bar. It's a setting I always have and probably always will use and I DO NOT need to have precious real estate wasted telling me about a setting I knowingly and permanently use. So I found mod from somewhere (cant remember now) that "removes" it by using a blank image for stat_sys_ringer_vibrate.png. Popped that into the zip as well and then flashed again - awesome, it worked, no more ring/vibrate icon. My main fear is that while it gets rid of it, it still seems to use the space which doesn't allow another icon to sit there. Ideas for a workaround? Nothing to do with your theme I know but just a general question I guess.

Anyway, before I finish (long post I know), I want to comment on your recent post about stopping work on this theme.

I have spent more hours than I will ever be able to count doing "stuff" for others on or via the internet over the years. Most of the time it was a thankless job, but I realised I never really did it for them, I did it for me...even though in some ways I kidded myself that I was "doing it all for them".

Once I had that realisation it really freed me up to set some boundaries on how I would approach this voluntary "work" that took up so much of my time. I decided to place strict rules on what I would and wouldn't do and how far I would go to help people. Once I did that I stopped getting resentful and what I did do came from a purer place.

Dully, you strike me as clever bloke with a good heart and I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Nor is this a thinly (or thickly) veiled attempt to get you to continue work on this theme. I for one would LOVE to see the new base colours and one or two of the other addons you mentioned, but having said that, even if you never add another byte to this marvellous theme, I am in your debt for helping me pimp my new toy. :)

I just wanted to let you know there are ways to stay on board the ship without having to do every job including the steering. Let others help, maybe bring an apprentice or two on board. Or simply build the theme to the best of your ability and then take on a hands-off, all-care-no-responsibility approach...i.e. no support, no custom jobs for every Tom, **** and Harry's apk's etc. Provide the theme, answer the odd applicable question in this thread and that's it. ;)

If you got this far, thanks for reading and enjoy BF3, I'm really looking forward to it too!

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TL;DR - thanks for awesome theme, works great across different roms, managed to customise my own battery, don't give up on the theme, set boundaries on what you'll do.