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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] darkstar38:
Yes it works on Modaco alpha 17. Been working fine for a day for me.

Heres how I did it:

1. Uninstal Htc_ime(I used SUFBS app go into app> Press menu>more>mount system rw. Then select system>app>long press HTC_ime.apk select delete.

2. Download this: http://www.gimpsta.com/random/htc_ime-v18-update.zip

3. Put it on the root of your sd card

4. Enter recovery. Flash zip from sd htc_ime-v18-update.zip

5 Reboot phone

6.Download metamorph from market and a skin from first post and install it using metamorph

8. long press in text field and select touch input.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
Anyway to get the nextheme keyboard without using morph or the goodies pack?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Easiest way, download the goodies pack, open it up with any archive manager (winrar, 7zip, winzip, etc) and goto system\app and you will see HTC_IME.apk. just extract that file somewhere and then adb push it to /system/app on your phone (or use a root file explorer or whatever your preferred method). This is HTC_IME v18 prethemed. Allthough, this doesn't really seem easier then just using the morph, hahaha.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Huey85:
would it be possible to get the keyboard skinned to look somewhat like the SE Xperia X10's keyboard?

I reckon it looks hot
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Are the keys flat white? I can't move buttons around or anything but I could certainly mimic the look as close as possible. I'll do some digging around in a bit and see if I can't throw something together tonight.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ztrafe:
Very nice :D i would love a black keyboard/white text AND NexTheme in 50% transparence.

Keep the good work up! I will donate if you have a donate page. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
Sweet! Thanks for the instructions!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Huey85:
Not quite sure about what kind of white but looks curvey. Would love to see what you could throw together to mimic it. I'll see if I can find a higher res pic of the keyboard.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] J3V:
Would it be possible to make a skin that's completely transparent so thatthe only thing that is displayed are the characters of the keyboard?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Very possible, i'm not sure how good it would look but I can try. 100%, background and keys too?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] enriqueluis:
is my phone need to be rooted first before i can apply these keyboard themes??
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] forkup:
The zips on the first page seem to be all the same file..ie none of them are actually themed as they were a few weeks back. Can you make sure you didn't accidently overwrite them with the wrong files?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
only the HTC_IME-v18 is a FLASHABLE .zip....The others are applied through metamorph....

EDIT: Just downloaded and applied x2 skins without problem...Not sure what you are asking...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fitsnugly:
+1 on this skin, would be nice...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] forkup:
Yes I'm aware of that. If I open the zips all the images are stock tho.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Except that they aren't.... Is there a particular morph you are trying to apply? I just applied one of each of the different morphs with different text colors and they all applied with no problem and look identical to my screenshots.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] polo79:
yes i commented earlier on how i could not get the themese to work. every time i applied the theme in morph it looked like it deleted the "touch input". even under language and keyboard it didn't list "touch input". well after playing with some things i applied it, it got "deleted" and then one time i applied it a second time. sure enough, it showed back up and now it is working. so, if anyone sees that "touch input" has been deleted, go back to morph, apply the theme again and it should work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I have something close but not quite. Unfortunately, on HTC_IME almost all the keys are drawn with the same files (except for the darker function button keys). I can't change the 3 buttons in the middle of the bottom row (space bar, and the buttons to left and right of it) because they actually use the same image as all the keys above it. I'll probably tweak it some more and put it up as is but dont think i'll be able to get any closer :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
Just wondering...why when I pushed the extracted apks from the Nextheme to the phone...it worked without issues...then all of a sudden after a fresh wipe...I would get FCs?

I got it taken care of...I used the update zip first then repushed the apks to the phone...and now it's working fine.

Just wondering.

Took me a little more than a half hour to figure out the correct combination to get it to work again!:eek: LoL!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I can explain exactly why :)

There is a library file that gets installed to /system/lib when you either adb install -r HTC_IME.apk, install via file/package manager, or flash my zip. Before you wiped your phone you must have already had that file in there from doing one of the above at some point. Once your wiped your phone you no longer had it and simply adb pushing it was not enough. I think if you had done

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app

adb install -r HTC_IME.apk

it would've worked as well as it would've extracted the .so file to the right place.

Hope that makes sense :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
@gimpsta

Are you taking any requests by any chance for customs skins?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Sure, what do you want to see?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
I was wondering if you could make me a Pittsburgh Penguins theme like the UK one you made. Instead of the UK logo, put the Pens logo there and change the colors from blue to Pens colors. The logo is attached below. Could you make it transparent too (50% Transparent Background Stock)? Id really appreciate this. Thank you...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
No problem, I'll try to have something up tonight :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
thanks a lot!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Bunch of updates + new skins

All colored text skins have been updated (optimized, new black keys for each theme that used it, etc).

Also posted 2 new "keyless" skins (bottom of first post), with alternate background versions.

More to come!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Added to first post :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
Thanks for explaining that. I'm learning bit by bit. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] AbsoluteDesignz:
is it possible to make a skin that resembles WinPho7Series?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Think you could find an image as a reference point?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fitsnugly:
double post
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Just what I posted back a page or so (pasted below). I'll have to dig the files back out and take a screenshot and post and see what you guys think. I have mixed feelings about it haha.

"I have something close but not quite. Unfortunately, on HTC_IME almost all the keys are drawn with the same files (except for the darker function button keys). I can't change the 3 buttons in the middle of the bottom row (space bar, and the buttons to left and right of it) because they actually use the same image as all the keys above it. I'll probably tweak it some more and put it up as is but dont think i'll be able to get any closer"
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fitsnugly:
Thanks... I'm sure it will work out good enough :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
Badass bro! Thank you so much...You def got some skills!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] AbsoluteDesignz:
only images I can find it looks too much like the standard android one..

but how about like semi transparent balck background and like dark gret forground...like the all black no keys one but with slight distinction between the keys and the BG with partial transparency...I think it'd be sexy.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] carnegie0107:
I almost hate to ask...

but I can't root, as I JUST RMA'd my nexus, got my new one, and the trackball is messed up, so I have to wait AGAIN... and I just wiped my hd and installed Win7, and won't be reinstalling the SDK until after I reinstall Ubuntu, so I can't sign apk's myself anymore... would anyone mind signing a black, non-transparent bg HTC_IME.apk and posting it? If not I'll just wait until I have Ubuntu all set up nicely again. But whoever does that for me would be my favorite. :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Huey85:
any luck on making a skin to mimic the X10's keyboard, gimpsta? :) thanks in advance.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dessanct:
I'm a little new with Android :( I read through most the thread, but couldn't find an answer! I've already done adb push clicker.apk and HTC_IME.apk into system/app and downloaded metamorph and applied the themes, but my keyboard won't change! Could someone please help me?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
You need to download "Metamorph" from market place. Then follow direction in the op. (Move the downloaded .zip to "AndroidThemes" on your SD card, open metamorph, pick theme, apply). Once thats down, long press wherever you are typing and will give you keyboard choices (Android and Touch), select touch and you are good to go!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dessanct:
I feel pretty retarded, didn't know you had to hold to choose! Works great now, thanks a lot :) loving it
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
No problem, it happens!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
Guys I have a problem. I am trying to install the pengiuns theme through metamorph. I am able to install the HTC keyboard first. It is enabled under language and keyboards. The HTC_IME.apk and clicker.apk are in the /system/app folder.

Metamorph applies the theme. The problem is that the HTC keyboard gets deleted after M applies the theme. Has me stumped. Tried both the adb method and using cut/paste with root explorer.

Am on a rooted droid using JRummy's Cyanogen ROM remix(From Koush). THanks for any help...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I read someone else has had this happen and I'm not sure what causes it. If you don't mind, try completely removing it (HTC_IME.apk and Clicker.apk from /system/app and /data/app, also look for full package name in those folders, ie something like com.google.android.htcime.apk and delete it as well.)

After you are confident it is no longer on your system, download the update.zip from first post, flash it in recovery (like any theme/rom update) then try morphing again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
Will try that thanks.

I downloaded the update.zip from op. Put it in the root of sd card. Booted into recovery.allow update. problem is that it keeps giving me an error saying installation aborted:confused:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
@gimpsta

I'm on a Moto Droid. I downloaded the htc_ime-v18-update.zip and renamed it to update.zip, tried to flash it using my recovery and it didn't work. Is their another way I can do this.

Can I just put the htc_ime.apk and the clicker.apk on my sdcard and then use root explorer to copy and paste them into the /system/app folder? Then do I just click the htc_ime.apk/clicker.apk and install them.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
Hving the same issue with update.zip. When I tried the root explorer method..it installs fine. Cant get it to theme with metamorph. Even though I apply the apk thru M the keyboard does not change...:confused:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Very strange guys... Do you have a computer with ADB setup on it? Probably the easiest way to get it working. I'm not sure the update.zip will work on droid (no way to test, but that's my hunch).

If you have adb working, can you try these 4 commands (assuming the 2 apks are in the path you are running adb from)

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app

adb push Clicker.apk /system/app

adb install -r HTC_IME.apk

adb install -r Clicker.apk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
Ill try this in a sec.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Thx, lemme know. Also, after you apply the morph you will need to reselect the keyboard (long press any text field, or the ?123 button, change input type, touch input) incase you didn't know :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
It worked using ADB, thanks a lot :) But for some reason it's only transparent at certain times. I attached photos below.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Nice!

There are a few apps that draw an image behind the keyboard regardless, there isn't anything I can do about it (I don't think anyways). I know the market does it, maybe the stock messaging app (i use handcent and that stays transparent, but IIRC stock doesn't).

Sometimes the image it draws behind it is white, sometimes it's black. It's really a pain in the ass and I personally stopped using fully transparent because of it, but I know some people still like it for the times it is transparent so that's why I still include them.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
Did that the first time. It installs fine. When I try to theme with metamorph(penguins theme) and apply the apk it deletes the keyboard that I just installed
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
I don't know why it would. I think someone posted a few pages back that that happens to them occasinaly (must be a ROM thing because it has never happened to me on cyanogenmod) and he said he just applied the metamorph AGAIN (or maybe even a couple of times) and it worked. After it "deletes it" does metamorph still let you apply the theme again or does it error out? If it lets you apply it again without error then it isn't "deleted".
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
It is not listed under language and keyboard. For some reason it deletes the htc ime.apk but not the clclicker.apk. I am stumped too. Sucks because would really like to apply the theme
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Allright this is what I did; I pre-themed a v18 HTC_IME.apk with the penguins theme and it is attached to this post. Special note, since I had to resign it, you will have to make sure HTC_IME.apk is not in /system/app right now as it will fail to install due to being a different certificate. Likewise, if you wanted to install jonasl's version again you would have to remove mine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Attached to this post is the black, non transparent skin pre-themed to HTC_IME.apk v18. Since I had to resign it, if you wish to use this make sure you delete /system/app/HTC_IME.apk first.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] stlcity:
Bro you are the best:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fitsnugly:
Any way of having a 50% transparency on this as well???
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
Hey @gimpsta....These skins are awesome!! Will these work on the iPhone 3g?? ;) lmfao
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Absolutely without a doubt! Make sure you iFlash the update.zip first tho!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
Ok thanks man!! Keep up the great work!!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] carnegie0107:
Thank you so much! Even though I sorta feel like a leech asking.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Updated to v19!

All moprhs have been updated today to v19!!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
w00t!!!! thanks man!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
hmmm, everytime i morph it it doesn't change it?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Did you end up getting it fixed? Saw you posted in the other thread as well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] zonbal33:
@Gimpsta

Hey buddy, how do I update my penguins theme to version 19 w/out starting all over again?

Thanks...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
The one you downloaded from me, how did you install it? If you used adb to push it and/or install -r it to /system/app you should now be able to just use metamoprh, download the v19 skin and apply it with metamorph.

If for some reason this doesnt work lemme know and I can theme/resign v19 and post it again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
yeah but i had to install it through a file manager, it wouldn't let me flash it. i'm going to try again though. :o

*edit* yeah, everytime i try to the new v19 flash from sdcard it fails :( now i can't morph it. this blowsss lol.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Right, if you install it with file manager it's not going to be in /system/app..... installing it thru file manager should only really be done if you don't have root and can't put it in /system/app where it should be.

I forget what rom you are on, but you could try either flashing the update.zip i put in first post (jus tmake sure to uninstall/remove touch input first) or the adb commands i've posted a few times (with the htc_ime.apk v19 downloaded from jonasl's thread)

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app
adb push Clicker.apk /system/app
adb install -r HTC_IME.apk
adb install -r Clicker.apk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
i'm on cyanogenmod 5.0.5.3

i'll try that now though:)

*edit* that worked! thank you so much man!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Suppose I should post these instructions in the first post. Seems to happen a lot! I think because Jonasl is unrooted, his thread suggests to install using file manager which of course works fine, until you want to morph it. Metamoprh requires apps to be in /system/app as resigning "market apps" (stuff that goes in /data/app or /sd-ext if u have cyanogens new apps2sd) breaks things like updating, etc.

Anyways, glad it worked!! I personally can't stand using the unthemed keyboard at this point just because i'm so use to it so tightly matching the way the rest of my phone looks :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
yeah man, those instructions are very useful! i appreciate it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
Hey gIMpSTa,

I was trying port v19 to the nextheme version. I ported over by replacing the .xml files from the drawables folder of the HTC_IME.apk files and also the icons from the drawables-normal-hdpi folder.

Everything is working except the only thing is the letter keys are not the correct color, although the enter key and smiley keys and a few others are correct, the number and letter are missing the blue/green scheme.:confused:

Do you have simple instructions on how I can update those keys?:D Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
If you download the v19 metamorph from this thread, you can grab classes.dex out of it. You need to replace classes.dex inside the v19 HTC_IME.apk with this classes.dex for the text colors!

I actually got copy of jonasl's cert and, with his permission, going to be posting pre-themed HTC_IME.apks in addition to morphs. Going to take me a bit to update my scripts to use his keys, but I should have them uploaded tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Edit: Oh and I don't make any changes to XML files, only drawables-normal-hdpi and the code behind classes.dex.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SiNJiN76:
OMG! That was easy enough! LoL! Thanks for the quick reply!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] qvert:
can't morph after update to v. 19

worked before, did everything i did the last time but when applying the morph the keyboard is still white

installed via:

adb remount

adb push Clicker.apk /system/app

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app

adb install -r HTC_IME.apk

adb install -r Clicker.apk
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Hmmm which morph are you using? Does the morph apply okay or does it error out? I installed it by doing exactly that and "spot tested" the themes (applied about 1/4 of them) before uploading and no issues here. Sure we can get it sorted out tho.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] qvert:
there was no error

don't know

but i fixxed it

i did an adb reboot after the last comment and then i update the morph

and now its working!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
oh.. hahahah yeah probably good idea to reboot, or at least kill/reopen keyboard after pushing new version and before morphing.

Glad you got it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Huey85:
Hey gimpsta, not sure if you caught my msg from a few days ago, so just bumping it again :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Hahaha sorry!!! I'm at the bar right now. I'll post my best attempt when I get home.*

*I'm not responsible for themes I post when I'm drunk :-P
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Huey85:
LOL all good man. Have a drink for me ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jrodizzkool01:
awesome! looking forward to it
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] adam18488:
ive lost the option to disable touch input and go back to stock keyboard. this was after i pushed htc_ime.apk to /system/app and applied the clear theme...

can some please tell me how to get stock back.

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
A friend had similar issue. Think its unrelated to morph. I assume u have amon ra recovery image? Just boot into recovery goto other and do the fix apk uid mismatch option. Should fix it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] irishrally:
I have the issue where when I try to paste the HTC_IME.apk to system/app it says I cannot because the system file is read only.

Is there a more direct fix for this then trying what you did?

Did you just turn this into a morph? I had the transparent (non-black) before and I didn't think it was a morph (bad memory probably). The one I'm having trouble with at the moment is the black transparent.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
These keyboards have always been morphs.... You need to "adb push..." the HTC_IME and then the Clicker...It's been stated before....Once those are installed, place these .zips (whichever you choose) on your SD card /androidthemes. Then when you get into morph it finds it!!!

ONE LAST THING: WHEN U ADB PUSH MAKE SURE YOU "ADB REMOUNT" FIRST or you may get that read-only error
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Gr8gorilla:
when applying this morph it completely erases all of the changes made to the keayboard by ljonas. Is there a way we could apply the colors and not destroy the work he has done?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Hmmm it doesn't destroy the work he's done... My morph is only applying images and no code or anything. If I had to guess, you installed the htc_ime.apk originally rather then pushing it to system/app? My guess would be, you are installing it with astro or package manager and it's going to /data/app. Then my morph is morphing the one in /system/app (where htc_ime SHOULD be) which is probably an older version.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Gr8gorilla:
I installed it via adb, and upgraded via adb, I pushed the .apk, and then applied the moph.

I am going to extract the new apk from the v9 and then install the morph and from what you said, that should fix it.

And that was the problem, the old apk that I pushed was never replaced when I used the adb install -r command, after pushing the new apk to /system/app it worked fine.

Doh! how stupid of me!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Yeah just make sure you are doing

adb push HTC_IME.apk /system/app

and

adb push Clicker.apk /system/app

and you should have no problems!!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] adam18488:
I tried that but it did not work. Can you think of any other way of getting stock back? or at least having the option to chose stock again...

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Reflash whatever rom you are on? (you wont lose anything, but as always take a nand backup first).
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sh0ebox:
Any new skins in the works? :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] gIMpSTa:
Hahah yes sorry, I have a couple pretty much ready to go. I've been busy hacking code to change the font color because I have a few really nice ones ready but need white text first. I'll try to post a couple tonight :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sh0ebox:
Very nice... looking forward to it!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] JoshHart:
Works great, can't wait for white on black, have you talked to Enomther about the white text? I know he was the one that hooked manup for his themes with the white text, might want to shoot him a PM.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Prod1702:
for some reason adb isn't working for me anymore on Win 7 64 it was last night but it isnt now. So i just the app Root File Explorer which lets you turn anything on the phone into being able to be rewirteable. Then i jsut copy and pasted the files into the /system/app folder. It is working now great. Nice job.