[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TaintedByte:
THIS THEME IS NO LONGER IN DEVELOPMENT!

The aim of this project was to remove Sense and provide a clean UI until stable pure-Android ROMs were released. We have now reached that point and I find that it is no longer necessary to continue the development of a theme that only removes ugly from a bloated skin. I urge you to consider giving these ROMs a try and bid farewell to Sense (awesome hardware paired with awesome software is bliss).

However, I understand that some people will always prefer Sense, and that is okay. This is why I will provide the community with a zip of the raw files I was working on in case someone wants to take over the project. Please do NOT reply to this thread.

Download Source Files

MD5: 8e417349bf79fc03f5088bacd5333dbd

Original thread follows.

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deSensed ICS

Last Updated: 9/25/2012​

፨ INTRODUCTION ፨

I don't like Sense.

I used to. In Gingerbread it kind of did spice up the UI and even now some of its non visual features are still useful. But when ICS came out, I believe it rendered Sense UI moot. ICS, to me, is the most beautiful mobile UI design to date and while I like HTC hardware, I can't stand their software. Unfortunately, for now we can either flash a AOSP ROM with some things broken or are stuck with nasty gradient Sense. Well. That ends today.

This mod aims to replace as much of the Sense UI with stock ICS as possible. It will take some time to get it complete but I want to put up the progress as I do it here so everyone can benefit and have a little bit less Sense on their phones with every update. :P As a matter of fact, we might even have a full working ICS/JB stock build before I ever get this to the point I want to get it at.

The theme is not completed. Look at the changelog for more details.

፨ DISCLAIMER፨

Before we get into the screenshots and the download itself, please keep in mind the following:

As cliche as this is: Anything you do to your phone is your OWN responsibility. No one will be responsible for any damage you cause but yourself.

This is my first major modification, there will be bugs and errors. Please point them out if you see them and I will get them fixed :)

Some things (like the data icon (3G, 4G) won't look like they do in stock ICS because of the way Sense messes with those icons. But it's replacement will carry on the spirit of stock.

This theme is intended to be used with a third party ICS-like launcher (like Nova or Apex). I will not be theming Rosie (the default Sense launcher).

Hit thanks if you like it ;) it's a small gesture that goes a long way for me!

፨ SCREENSHOTS፨

፨ DOWNLOAD ፨

*** UPDATE: I run CM10 as my daily driver and because of that I don't have a chance to test out every single update.

I release updates because I know that not everyone can live with non-Sense based ROMs and as a courtesy to the community.

Please proceed with caution. Report bugs and I'll do my best to fix them :) ***

Viper4G 1.0.0 -- v1.1

(Mirror - v1.1)

MD5: 2b3bdcfdb467a8c5c1628ea297df4557

MeanROM 3.9 -- v1.1

(Mirror - v1.1)

MD5: 334754d022d55acb0a7b9fa6af50fbdc

MeanROM 4.4 -- EXPERIMENTAL UPDATE HERE

Stock w Goodies 2.0 -- v1.1

(Mirror - v1.1)

MD5: b093bfcc89cb57b7511cf22ec2d62608

Stock w Goodies 2.11 -- EXPERIMENTAL UPDATE HERE

፨ INSTRUCTIONS ፨

Make nandroid backup.

Place zip on SD card

Flash through recovery

When you boot, open up Personalize app and choose deSensed ICS under Skin.

Have less gradients

(optional) If you want to keep Sense lockscreen, download and flash this

AFTER

you install the theme.

፨ RECOMMENDED APPS ፨

These are AOSP applications that have been ported to work on our phones. I will not theme the Sense apps whose replacements below work perfectly.

Jellybean Calendar by Tim Hutt. -- Everything works.

Stock Settings by Art2Fly -- Everything works (as is in stock ICS, you will lose Profile/PRL manual updates. Keep Sprint Zone and update through there).

፨ FAQ ፨

Q: I flashed this and the HTC lockscreen is gone! Can I get it back?

A: Yes. All my mod did is rename the HTC lockscreen file. Go to /system/app/ and rename HtcLockScreen.apk.bak to HtcLockScreen.apk reboot and you'll have Sense's lockscreen back. Or download and flash this.

Q: Can you do X, Y or Z?

A: At the moment, I won't do any "special" request. I want to get the entire stock ICS theme in and THEN I'll do extra stuff (like battery % and such). That being said, if you have any part of stock ICS that you want "prioritized" just post and I'll see what I can do :)

Q: The ROM I use is not supported, what gives?

A: Due to the fact that we have such awesome devs and so many ROMs, it is impossible for me to support them all. Download the generic file that will work with any ROM or if you don't mind losing some tweaks done by your dev, flash another ROMs zip file. I wish I could go back to supporting all ROMs through the villaintheme system but it currently has an issue with the framework-res file. If you know how to fix it, please drop a PM.

Q: I'm running Viper4G but my notification bar isn't transparent and my clock text color is white, why?

A: Viper4G uses its own tweaks to accomplish this. Just launch Venom Tweaks > Status and you can chage the pulldown background transparency and clock color. The hex value I used for the previous releases is #33B5E5 (default ICS color).

፨ BUGS ፨

The quick selection bar (when you select text and cut, copy and paste come up) currently has a background. Can't fix this until we can edit m10 images. Here's a picture of how it is vs how it should be:

፨ THANKS TO ፨

freeza whose idea for splitting up the signal bars to accommodate CDMA's 6 bars helped me through the same predicament :P

Pulser_g2 for his spectacular work on VillainTheme System!

Pneuma1985 for helping me tremendously with the Dialer.

nolageek for finding out how to disable HTC's lockscreen.

jbermi for helping me out by answering questions throughout the thread.

And anyone else who had any part in the dev of our phone at all. Thank you!