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[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] Cosmo123:
Hey,

thanks for those nice boot animations. I am using the ICS one at the moment and love it.

But one little issue: It loads each individual picture (frame) pretty slow the first time. Once loaded it plays the animation smoothly tho.

I am wondering if others are experiencing the same behavior or if this is how it's supposed to be.

Is the phone just too slow to play it right the first time?

Thanks :)
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] lsusparky621:
Yes everyone has that issue because it does have to load first. Happens with any boot animation.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] Cosmo123:
OK thanks, piece of mind achieved XD
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] Zackhery:
Thanks for these.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] souldrainer2021:
sweet! i shall be using these haha. my ol aria still has life in it :D
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] lsusparky621:
Updated. Added splash images.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] dansou901:
Most of the links are broken... on all of the bootanimations, I get a Dropbox 404 error (only CM9 link is good). Please update the links!
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] mr.mydoom:
Links Broken

Links are broken... please share new links
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] sifat3d:
I don't think you'll get these files, you have to search For them, and try searching 'hvga mdpi boot animations'

They work on our phone.

The op is long gone from this phone I think, if someone else have these files please Re upload.

Sent from my HTC Intruder using my brain.
[HTC Aria Themes and Apps] docthienthu:
Help

Please re-up "CIA Loading BIOS: (Thanks to UOT Kitchen)"

Thanks bro
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sty3x:
No matter what I do It won't read the sim card I restored to stock plus wipe cache and wipe/format and still it can't read the sim card Please help!!!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cnote74:
Have you tried another sim card. Your sim card might be shot.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
My MT4G won't read a SIM either, I put a folded in half piece of paper in the SIM slot and slide the SIM in under it to make proper contact. It's no big deal, I've thought of getting it fixed but it's not worth it.

Give it a try, see what happens. Make the paper about 1/2 the width of the SIM slot and long enough to grab it to remove the SIM if needed.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemoon1221:
So the new google market came out like a week ago I think and i've had it since the day it came out.

So as you guys all know it comes with books and movies.

I really don't want to read books on my phone. But I do want to watch movies.

However i've didn't rent any yet because I thought the "renting" was really stupid...

So my questions are

1. Is there any way to get movies permanently?

2. And like app sideloading, is there a way to get movies for free?

Sent from my Galaxy S captivate
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boborone:
This is not the place for warez and posting/asking of such can lead to being banned.

Edit thread reported
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
No and no....

Thread closed. Do not ask questions like this again. Thanks
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] massinegro204:
Hello all, I would like to ask a question on dialer streakdroid 1.9. are

managed to make my Contacts.apk transparent by simply adding

theme.wallpaper styles.xml in the background of my dialer but continues to be increasingly

gray. how can I do to make it transparent?. thanks
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
custom dialer background

Ive been searching everywhere building and testing contacts.apk, Can someone with some more code knowledge have a peek at this please?

Ive dug through all the .xml's, the Manifest .xml, the .smali (even though I dont understand very much at all), there are only a few .png's the rest are .9.png, so Im sure the grey comes from code. in colors .xml there are a couple which match this dark gray perfectly, I changed those to black as well as styles Theme to Theme.Black, and Theme.Wallpaper(which will change the other 3 backgrounds but not dialer), ive tried changing background only in styles, no luck.

I saw on Dell website where it says Streak has Customized Dialer, which obviously we know, but I think ours is a unique situation
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] donalgodon:
"Customized" is not a word I'd choose to use when describing the horrible dialer. Hope someday we can improve it. I really think the dialer is the worst part of the UI.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
if I find it I will gladly make a guide to theme it.

I may even send Dell developer an Email... oh yeah too late not supported..
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] nickshertzer:
+1

I think the EOL is only USA. But I don't think the dell dev team cares too much about us ;)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
Brainstorming: Reference for anyone else trying to find this..

the dialer background is not a .png, most images are .9's I pretty sure the background is not a .9.png. There is only one .png close to the color and Ive already tried changing that one.

It could be a color in color.xml, they could have coded it as android:color, but if they did that it would likely be a solid color such as black or transparent, and would have to rely on framework-res. More than likely they would have made their own color in colors.xml, since there is only a dozen or so, at least 2 of which are almost identical greys, I have tried changing these colors to black with no luck.

Ive tried changing almost every .xml refernce I could find to a drawable window/background, etc. to android:color"black" , Theme.Black or 000000,

It could be in .smali, Is where I will dig next, I have tried checking a few of the codes I found in there, they seem to be based on a deep purple?

this is just reference use to help others who may search, wish me luck!!

spelling error found DialtactsActivity.smali line 205 says: const-string v3, "Dailtacts" ,yeah wonder if this why dialtacts theme doesnt theme completly.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
some progress!

I fixed the spelling mistake in DialtactsActivity.smali, though i dont /think/ this is what we see. I did change call_background.xml and secondary_call background.xml all parameters to android:color/black, I will keep experimenting, funny how in vertical only the right side of keypad is black,

Once we find the right string , we should then be able to create a custom style instead of just a solid color and use a custom background.png

edit: FOUND IT!, cant post screenie, out right now, should release something later and info. Sit tight everyone.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] chrisrotolo:
found it

right where its "should" be, contacts\res\layout-long-finger and res\layout-long-land-finger. the first is portrait, second is landscape. the file for both is twelve_key_dialer.xml. The first line:

LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:id="@id/top" android:background="#ff000000"

just change the android:background="ffRRGGBB" to whatever 6 digit RGB/hex value you desire.

working on this now to call out a custom.png will likely get scaled like cr4p, but will give it a go.

If you dont have any .9.png errors decompiling, then you can recompile and flash it straight away.

If you use my phone&contacts theme, it wont compile because some of my .9.pngs must not be patched. So use stock to change, then after compiling extract the new .apk. If youre using my theme or whatever, then change my contacts.apk to contacts.zip, open my contacts.zip as an archive with 7zip, copy the 2 twelve_key_dialer.xml's, and close. Then in your stock framework where you changed the .xml's go to resources.arsc and right click use 7zip to add to archive... browse and select your contacts.zip with new .xml's. Its important that archive method is .zip and compression must be set to store. make sure update mode is: add and replace files. Then rename back to contacts.apk and place in your update.zip and flash!

I plan on making a guide and probably a stock framework with a custom.png for everyone to use.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
So I was thinking the other day that there is no reason why some tiles couldn't be smaller. It would be cool if you could long hold a tile and have an option com up to split it into a half tile. Other hub like tiles could be further subdivided. I use IE to demonstrate this, but the music up could allow you to pin a favorite artist or two to it. Or the game hub could likewise use 1/2 tile to display game invites, and then two 1/4 tiles to link directly to your two favorite games. What are your thoughts?

Edit: here is what it would look like in your hand:
[Windows Phone 7 General] Aleki:
+1!

I would love to see this
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
like this too...
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Here's what I've been wanting MS to do, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and full width sizes
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
If only Microsoft would actually come in here and read some of this stuff...
[Windows Phone 7 General] M1cky:
Genius!
[Windows Phone 7 General] mrdaco:
I realy like it too. Eather I don't understand why there is no option to make smaller icons at the beginig of WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
There should be an option when pinning to the home screen which size you want. It would call for more work on the dev's part to add all of the extra icons in their apps that encompass all of the sizes, but WP7 is already easy to work with.
[Windows Phone 7 General] truffle1234:
this will be great..... i hope MS will look at this and add this to the mango update...
[Windows Phone 7 General] PsychoAssasin:
hmmm, honestly dont really like the split tiles. Just doesnt look as clean and simplistic as the original. I like the interface as it is now, however adding more options or subdivisons(and not separate tiles) within a single tile would be welcome.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
hey, they're almost icons, keep going!
[Windows Phone 7 General] mrdaco:
You are probably one of 1000 who don't like this opinion. So if you don't like, just use biger icons. Us who like smaller, than could use smaller.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Localhorst86:
I really like this layout. It adds diversity to the screen and also allows you to see more at the first glimpse. I would really welcome this, but I am pretty confident we'll never see this :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] courtlandre:
I would love this layout as an option! Make it so that to add it you would need to go into the app settings, then people wouldnt complain about it being mandatory.

Edit- Imagine this concept with a facebook app, you could have different parts of the tile split into different functions, like one could be facebook chat with notifications, just a straight notifications one and then another with new messages. So, each would have seperate notifications and tapping it would take you directly to it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lugi93:
brilliant!
[Windows Phone 7 General] drky:
The concept is nice, but I like the original tiles any smaller and it will look like icons :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
I would bet the OP used to have a HD2 because this reminds me of a great mod everyone was using to be able to accomodate more icons to the homescreen. While it was awesome for Winmo 6.5 I don't really like it for WP7 because the tiles are not just icons, they're supposed to display information.

I've just read the comments over this concept at WPCentral and this is what I had to say...

I think the people who see an issue with the tiles don't actually see where the real issue is. The real issue is some(most) tiles only act as counters and are the ones wasting space. However we have to keep them on the start screen because there isn't a notification center.

I said that before, Windows Phone needs to go the Meego route and have a 3rd page that's just for notifications (and maybe one more useful feature like data/wifi toggles as someone suggested).

Example: I currently have Accuweather and AlphaJax pinned to my start screen. Accuweather is an informative tile that shows useful information at a glance. AlphaJax doesn't do anything. It just shows a number that tells me it's my turn to play, it's just a counter. AlphaJax could be on my notification page and moved away from my start screen in favour of a more informative app like prime tv.

Think about it, how many of your "live" tiles are just counters?

Also I'm not too keen on the "they could still make it and make it optional". It's not like it would require a snap of the fingers, there's still lots of work to be done (including changes to the core UI) for something people

might

use. All these resources would be better used in creating something like a notification page.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Looks too cluttered, smaller icons will be harder to hit on smaller screens, more frustration which will be blamed on "Windows Mobile".
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
I definitely like this idea of adjusting the live tile size, more options and choice is always good. That coupled with adding extra pages to help categorize your apps would make the UI that much better for notifications and wifi/bt/etc toggles or even just a page with live tiles dedicated to news or games or whatever. I would have thought that MS who prioritize efficiency would give us the option of additional pages so we don't have to endlessly and skillfully scroll down our home screen to find what we want 'quickly'
[Windows Phone 7 General] cx1:
Love it. Ability to fit a few more things on the home screen without scrolling would be awesome.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dj21o:
This concept needs to be brought to MS's attention. Seriously. I bet any money they would take this into consideration, or add it as an option for users. This would be ah-mazing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Wyn6:
As someone who doesn't have the UIs of iphone, winmo, android, or any other icon base UI, ingrained into my head, I think this would be a bit much. The ideal behind the current design is clean, simplicity.

This proposal makes things too cluttered. Now, I can understand those in favor wanting more of what they've been used to in the past but this is a new paradigm in homescreen-ness. (made up word)

Same thing goes for extra pages to categorize apps. Here we are back to iphone and android again with page after page of apps or multiple homescreens or what have you.

Windows Phone 7 is clean, it's simple, it's informative.

Now, I could possibly get onboard with a third page to the left of the homescreen with notifications and maybe some toggles. But, this again borders on overcomplicating the OS. Alternatively, a notification tile that could be pinned on the homescreen may work within the OS's framework better.

Summary... nice concept but I prefer things as is.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
I really don't understand the naysayers for this proposal. The live tiles are great I'm sure we all agree, but they simply are uneconomical in their space for the information value (messaging and email especially). The problem is you need the notification tiles to be there at the top cause they're important but they take up crucial home screen space.

I also don't see why having the option to add pages is so bad, you can always choose to leave it the way it is. I for one would rather have a live tile that opened up the applications list instead of it automatically being the page to the right.

What you say about the paradigm I get but why should we let big corporations tell us how our UIs should be, surely our feedback as consumers is important as well and we're only offering improvements.

I think that MS is gonna have to give on the customization thing cause people are unique individuals who want to personalize their electronics. The best compromise is for consumers to enable advanced options if they want to properly tweak their device, this way MS will be able to steal Android market share from those who are used to completely customizing their devices. iOS's boring interface will become less and less attractive as people become more tech savvy because technology plays a larger and larger part in our lives and people won't settle for screens and screens of icons.

MS needs to find that sweet spot balance in between Android and iOS and I just don't think they've found it yet.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
To address a few concerns:

Size - If you will notice, the quarter tile size is larger than many UI buttons that MS has already implemented. Accidental presses would be a near non issue, especially with the algorithms already in place that can pretty much determine what you were trying to press.

The potential of Tiles w/notifications - If you look at the text tile, there is really no other relevant info they can put on the tile - it isn't realistic to put the messages you missed on the tile it self, so most of that tile is space is mainly wasted. There are a lot of other similar instances like this on the device - like facebook. But if we turned that tile into its own hub, 1/2 could be used to launch FB/see notifications, and then there could be two 1/4 size tiles that could launch into any part of the app you want.

With this concept, I am just trying to take the foundational concepts already introduced, and take them the next logical step. Again, these would be things the user would have to enable, not default, because I do believe there is a place where people just want large tiles. And I think about half my tiles would remain the size they are, but I could also then fit a lot more information on the screen with some of my sub tiles. It isn't any more confusing, because these sub tiles are all with their parent tile. So I am just trying to get more use out of the tile realistate.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
I couldn't agree with you more! We need to lobby MS for this feature, there is influence in numbers.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
It'll come closer to matching the look of Win8 with it's off-center blocks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
For all we know this is an upcoming feature for Win 8.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Wyn6:
I can certainly see the merit in the idea. But, I would rather, as a personal preference, the OS stay away from the clutter that is android and IOS.

Now, I'm sure the Homescreen and OS will evolve over time to possibly include something similar or something we have yet to see, and MS will be vigilant in maintaining simplicity in design. Right now, there's an elegance as to how the user interface is handled and by extension this betters the user experience.

The flipping tiles of Mango are there to expose more information but still maintain the design theme as a whole. If they can come up with a way to implement a similar idea, as the above, in a cleaner fashion, I'm all for it.

Also, when I say a notification tile, I'm talking about a tile, which can be pinned, that says "Notifications" on its front with a counter. This you can tap and it takes you inside that app (like any app) to show you all your waiting notifications.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Not fond, that messes with the simplicity of the UI which is what sold me, if I had that I'd have the urge to tinker again, then considering each tile could be changed in size I'd find a way to change individual tiles to individual colors, then I'd keep going until I felt as though I was on android again which is something I was soooo happy to escape. WP7 is simple, beautiful, clean, and overall has a genius UI.
[Windows Phone 7 General] biper4x4:
Great concept.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nick0007:
clever!! i like it
[Windows Phone 7 General] doudouweb:
+1

Would be great...

In my opinion, it would be great too to have another page (when you swipe on the left) to see other tiles...
[Windows Phone 7 General] jan123456789012:
Absolutely brilliant...How didn't I come to that
[Windows Phone 7 General] jmerrey:
i guess i'm in the minority, it looks to much like icons for me
[Windows Phone 7 General] MrNetrix:
Why are icons bad? I happen to like icons.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
I think you guys are forgetting that live tiles are just oversized icons some tiles justify their size with the info they display others don't...
[Windows Phone 7 General] minibeardeath:
This makes a lot more sense than just what the original image conveys. I think it would be worth while to make this concept appear seamless so that the subtiles are contained within a ghost of the full sized tile to maintain visual consistency
[Windows Phone 7 General] jmerrey:
Just my opinion. I think one of the points of the metro UI is to get away from the very standardized model that is the 4x3 grid of icons. Like I said, it's just my opinion. I very much prefer the visuals of the tiles as opposed to icons. I'm very aware that I'm in the minority on this point.
[Windows Phone 7 General] KINGOFNOOBS:
Looks nice. But it better stay away from WP7. I would rather there be more options for live tiles. Perhaps a way to flip a tile.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
But even though they still belong to the same parent tile, when hitting the smaller subtile for example the xda site minitile would take you to the site and not simply open IE, right? I know this is common sense but I just want it to be clear.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MrNetrix:
The point would be to have the tiles work just as they do now, but allow them to be smaller so that a large part of the screen is not taken up by one tile. That would allow more tiles to be shown at once, which would make better use of the visible screen area.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
Exactly, the only other way to have more tiles in your screen is to have oversized screens which would reduce battery life which nobody wants. Hoping this idea becomes a reality...
[Windows Phone 7 General] jmerrey:
Honestly I think you guys would be much happier with an android phone that you can customize. I very much like how the tiles look, and I really don't want them to be smaller. Again, just my opinion. And I know this is just an idea, but even though there seems to be a few people who like it, I wouldn't get your hopes up. The odds of MS implementing this are pretty slim.

edit: btw I do think that the thread started did a very nice job with the idea, I just prefer the stock sized tile
[Windows Phone 7 General] MrNetrix:
Switching to Android just to have the home screen exactly the way we want it seems silly. Having to deal with a laggy, Java-based OS and non-standard libraries is not worth it for me.

I like this idea, but it is more of a "it would be cool to have..." sort of thing. I could live without it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
Yes but if programmers add this type of functionality and live tiles become completely customizable on Android then people will jump ship. Also tons of people especially on xda complain about the lag of Android and if hardware manufacturers want to continue selling their phones they'll have to improve the smoothness of the OS. If Android phones then have both customization and the smoothness of WP7 then obviously WP7 will loose in that basic aspect (I realize this is only one aspect when many more determine which OS people choose).

I was looking around and mosaic for Windows 8 is customizable with live tiles but still limited to the same size as our live tiles for WP7. I just don't understand why so many people are against this idea, consumers want choice, why deny them?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
It's inherent in human nature to desire everyone else love and want only what they want....basically the need for everyone to follow them. It has to do with social structure and why humanity evolved the social need for leaders. As a person grows to maturity, this need becomes subdued. But it plays havoc on a young person's life.
[Windows Phone 7 General] blindpet:
Can you clarify your point?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MrNetrix:
His point is that it in no way harms or inconveniences the people who would rather not take advantage of this theoretical feature, so why bother being against it at all? Would you rather not have other people more satisfied by having more options?

Bottom line: What does it matter to you if other people are able to use a feature such as this?