[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] thfc1799:
I saw someone's font and decided to make a theme with it...This will be available in Pink, Blue, and Green...

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A few people have been asking me to write a how-to on my setup, so I figured I’d type one up…

For those who care, I’m currently using Cyanogenmod 7 RC1 and the Godmode (v9) kernel… It’s a fantastic setup, both extremely fast and efficient with battery life.

Ok, so the things you will need are:

1.	LauncherPro (I’m assuming you can do this with all launchers, but this is the one I’ve always used.) http://www.appbrain.com/app/launcherpro/com.fede.launcher

2.	Desktop Visualizer http://www.appbrain.com/app/desktop-visualizer/jp.co.bii.android.app.dskvzr

3.	WidgetLocker (for the lock screen) http://www.appbrain.com/app/widgetlocker-lockscreen/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker

4.	Simi Clock http://www.appbrain.com/app/simi-clock-widget/com.th.android.widget.gTabsimiClock

5.	Switchpro http://www.appbrain.com/app/switchpro-widget/alei.switchpro

6.	Some form of photo editing software (I personally use photoshop but I know a lot of people don’t have it… I have used gimp before in a pinch and it works just as well… www.gimp.org)

7.	Two cookies (preferably chips ahoy or girl scout thin mints, but, whatever you like.)

I will continue to add any themes that I create (right now I’m pretty happy with this one so it might be a while.) I’m also more than happy to make/edit an image for someone if they need it so let me know. Feel free to post up your own creations too.

Launchers:

To create your own launcher, open up your photo software and create a new image that is 480x85. You can use whatever you like, words, images, etc. Keep in mind that you need to space accordingly. Launcherpro has five slots for the dock, you don’t have to use all five obviously, but you cannot use more. Alternatively, you can use one of mine above.

After you’re finished, save it, and transfer it to your phone along with the “blank-tile.png” above. From there, press Menu – Preferences - Appearance Settings - Dock Background – Custom - and then pick your dock. When you’re done with that, press back, and then scroll down until you see “restart LauncherPro”. Press that, confirm yes, and TA-DA… Your new dock is on your screen!

For the final step, Long press on any of the icons, hit change shortcut and select it to what you would like it to be, if you do not want anything to be there, hit blank. Once you’ve done that, long press again, hit change icon, hit custom icon and select the “blank-tile.png”… do this for all five spots and you’re good to go.

Eat cookie number 1.

Theme:

*if you’re just trying to straight copy exactly what I have and you need help setting it up on your phone skip down until you see three asterisks (* <-- these things :)).

This part can get tricky, there are literally a million things you can do… If you want to just copy what I have that’s fine, but if you want to see some possibilities check out the following link, it’s a huge thread, but there are some really cool things in there, It even has the sizes for different configurations of images... http://www.androidforums.com/android-themes/199936-android-phone-7-theme.html

Anyway, getting back to mine… If you want to create something similar to mine, the application image sizes are 480x145, the application “banner” is 96x500, and the main image on the homescreen is 418x408.Keep in mind that these image sizes are for a LauncherPro setup with a configuration of 5 columns and 5 rows.

*** Alrighty… You have all your images and you want them on your phone. To start, clear everything off of all screens, get rid of everything so that all you’re left with is the dock. Hit menu – wallpaper – no wallpaper (if you’re copying me, if not choose whatever the hell you like. :)) Next, hit menu – preferences – Homescreen settings… and change the following… number of screens 3, Default screen 2, Number of columns 5, Number of rows 5. MAKE SURE THAT AUTO-FIT ITEMS IS NOT CHECKED.

Let’s start adding some stuff… Longpress anywhere on the homescreen, and then press: widgets – Desktop Visualizer – desktop visualizer 1x1. *edit* use 3x3 and then stretch not 1x1... using 1x1 causes images to blur for some reason... You should now have this:

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Long press on it and you get this…

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Press and hold on the gray triangle in the corner and stretch it so you get this…

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Once you have it to the right size press back, and it should no longer be orange. Tap the image and you get this:

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Press “select icon” and select you main image “eye.png” or whatever you have created. Press “select action”, press none. Leave the label blank. Touch Effect “none”… YAY!!!! You’ve uploaded your first widget.

Eat cookie number 2.

It’s really as simple as that… Just continue to do the same for the rest of the images (but select the correct application instead of none, obviously.) For the application images you can select desktop widget size 4x1 instead of having to stretch all of them.

One last thing, add all of the application images before adding the application banner. Otherwise the banner will cut off some of the application images.

K peeps, I’m out… If you need any more help just post up your problems.

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