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[Android Themes] FormelLMS:
Stericson have a new Metamorph App.

It uses xml theme control files instead of the old thm files.

danation from the ModMyMoto forum has made a program, that updates the thm file to the new xml format.

It works very very well.

Please at all themers:

Use the Pro Version, use the new Metamorph with xml. Upgrade your Morphs with the xml files. Its not many work for you, but you can help us themers and users if you do this.

Download

http://www.4shared.com/file/5l0E6t76/ThemeControlFileUpgrader.html

Original Post at ModMyMotoForum

http://www.modmymoto.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3917253&postcount=10

Thanks, danation, thanks stericson! Great work!
[Android Themes] FormelLMS:
Ummm, do you themers not use the pro version?

Only a question. I think, this app from stericson is every buck worth!

I've upgraded my themes all for Metamorph xml files.

Now all themes have an xml AND a thm file, so everybody could use them.
[Android Themes] FormelLMS:
Today is the day.

I hope, you themers out there have changed your theme control files to the new one (*.xml)

Today, stericson has released the new Metamorph free version which supports only the xml file.

Please update your themes. We dont want to have some chaos in the theming community, isn't it so? :)
[Android Themes] JAguirre1231:
Stop getting angry at Stericson for moving Metamorph into a safer environment for the user (giving more information as to what is being changed).

HTCClay put it best:

This utility is VERY easy to use and will convert any .thm file to .xml in seconds.
[Android Themes] Danation:
Thanks :) I've updated it, in case anybody still needs some converting to do. This is the final version, unless there are any bug fixes needed.

Included in the download is an executable JAR file that will work on any operating system that has the Java Runtime Environment installed (version 6 or later.) Windows, Mac, and most Linux Distros will be able to run this program.

An equivalent EXE file was also added for the convenience of Windows users.

Original download location at M3 is here.

Download from XDA here.

-1.3-

* Drag and drop directories - All .thm files in the directory and all subdirectories will be converted. Other files are ignored. You can convert all of your themes at the same time :)

-1.2-

* Drag and drop feature added (I borrowed some public domain code found here.) Tested on Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Should work on Mac and Kubuntu as well.

* Option to disable dialogs

-1.1-

* Fixed bug that always warned about duplicate files

* When errors are found, it finishes writing all valid data before terminating.

-1.0-

* Ignores single blank lines

* Captures notes after double blank lines

* Adds functionality to enter in header information

* Prevents file overwriting

* Puts framework at the bottom no matter where it is in the .thm file
[Android Themes] Ultra Droid:
I'm still not clear on how you actually *use* this converter. Could someone post a step-by-step breakdown? Right now, I have the thing sitting on the root of my SD. Do I need to move it to the Android Themes?
[Android Themes] FormelLMS:
No, not using with your mobile phone.

Copy it to your pc.

Open the Programm and take your *.thm file you want to convert to an *.xml file.

Thats all.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] coderli:
Does anyone know can point me to the right direction on creating an install script that can be flash from recovery to install apps? I've tried searching but can't find a solution. Someone suggested from previous threads about using adb to do it but I want to be able to just flash an update and have all the apps install on the phone, thanks in advance.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
You can save all apks on your computer and make a .bat file to push. Discussed in this thread for the opposite purpose of rm. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=663014

Another alternative is to just use Titanium backup, the paid version in Market even saves your market apps link to market.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] coderli:
I can do a batch file for it but there are times when I flash a ROM while away from my computer which I can't use batch file for.

As for the thread you mentioned I did read through all the posts on there and that is how I got my update.zip to remove all the stock apps before the first load after flashing a new ROM. But I also want to add apps that I've already downloaded and apps that I download that is not on the market on the phone.

I found a thread that I can just put the apks in either

/data/app

or

/system/sd/app

that it will automatically show up but it only show up for some not all the apps that I have.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] coderli:
Anyone??? What about the developers?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] tkirton:
Download A2SD v2.5: http://www.darktremor.com/files/misc/a2sd-2.5-signed.zip

Then break it out (unzip it).

You should see an install.sh in the root of the zip. Grab that.

Also grab the /META-INF/com/google/android/update-script. That will show you how the install.sh is launched.

That should give you a starting point.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] ViperFUD:
I watch American Idol. And I love the Vote for the Worst website (Link not allowed :( ).

I wanted to vote for the "VFTW" candidate, but I also didn't want to spend hours of my life doing it. I have unlimited texting from AT&T, so I decided to write this app to help me automatically vote.

In the "Enter Number" box, you enter the number you want to send the text to (i.e. 5703). The browse button lets you select from your contacts.

In the "Count" box, you specify the total number of texts you want to send.

The "Base Delay" box specifies how quickly to send them (2000 mS = 2 seconds). I built this delay in because American Idol will through out texts that they determine are "not valid". I figure a tween could probably send about 1 per second, so a normal human could probably send one every 2 seconds. YMMV. I also added a randomization factor to the delay of 1/2 second + 20% base delay - this way, AI doesn't get 1000 texts at 2 seconds apart each; they get one, then 1.5 s another, then 2.5 s later another, etc.

The "Message" box is the message you want to send. For American Idol it should be "vote".

Once you've filled in all the fields, click "Send". If you decide to stop voting before the app quits, just click "Cancel".

There are two files attached to this post; you only need one. The .zip file contains an installer that will run on your computer if you have your Windows Mobile smartphone connected via Activesync. The CAB file will run directly on your phone to install the software.

All my code is included in the install - I'm a big fan of Open Source.

Let me know of any problems at maxvip99 -AT- hotmail -DOT- com.

Thanks!

~ViperFUD
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps] denco7:
Oh great, I was just thinking that I do not get enough text spam and was wishing that people would start developing easier ways for people to spam me.

As with every " plague " , how about providing an antidote ( text spam filter ) with your poison.

On a side note: I can only imagine what I would feel like if I was a hopeful,very talented singer, trying my hardest to get one little break in the music business, only to get thwarted by a bunch of " no life losers " who skew the " honest " results by voting for the worst singer because they have no hopes or dreams of their own and way too much time on their hands. You seem to be inventive and talented in app developing, why not persue this instead of trying to ruin other people's dreams.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danwar:
hello,

I have question about setting date format.

In menu setting/date-time I can set simple date format 12.31.2010, 31.12.2010,...

But this settings is different from date format in clock app.

Is way to some deep system date setting, or to date setting for clock app?

I want change date format on lockscreen.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peterc10:
I assume you mean one of the HTC standard clocks? In that case open it up by pressing on it. The hit menu>local time settings>select date format
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d12boy420:
I recently tried to switch rom's from vanilladroid to evileris 1.1. When doing so i did a ndroid backup and i wiped the data like it says. This is the error message i'm getting

Installing update...
Formatting system...
Formatting boot...
Copying files...
E: Can't chown/mod /system/bin (No such file or directory)
E: Failure at line 7:
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0755 SYSTEM:bin
Installation aborted
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidfreak:
Doesn't it take you back after that to the system restore? I have had that happen to me and after it aborted, it just took me back to restore and I did a nandroid restore...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d12boy420:
I tried to restore and it says error while restoring boot image. Also when booting the recovery image it says E: Can't read MISC (No space left on device).
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spencer_Moore:
Dumb question, but did you wipe?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidfreak:
that was a good question... now for a stupid question: can you just reflash the original rom? or does that not work?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spencer_Moore:
that would work. If you still have the backup just wipe data and cache and try restore and that should work otherwise, wipe data and cache and flash rom same steps
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d12boy420:
No I don't have the backup I can't restore the original flash image file either. It's saying FAILED: remote not allowed whenever I flash trying to use fastboot. Does anyone have the update.zip file with the correct android-info.txt and android-product.txt files? It should work if i'm able to get that.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d12boy420:
bump i need it fixed.
[HD2 General] agrox:
hi,

am having trouble copy pasting text between programs (an rss reader and email for example) and was wondering if anyone had an idea why. the rss reader will let me copy the text but when i get to the email there is no option to paste.

thanks for your help
[HD2 General] sixty watt:
Touch the screen where you want to paste and hold until a menu pops-up with paste as an option.
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
it's a third party app but very good

download fingerkeyboard 2.1 from here on xda

it's a very nice keyboard in which you can assign things to.

if you press shift you have the option to undo/cut/copy/paste etc and it works everywhere youre allowed to bring up the keyboard

hope this helps
[Touch CDMA Android Development] graphic914:
I was hoping to put the HTC clock widget on my vogue. I put the apk file on the sd chip and tried to launch the app. I got a message that the app can not load on my phone, why?? Running haret warm donut.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] incubus26jc:
because its a sense widget. It will only work with rosie. You need weather widget donate or beautiful widgets 2.36
[HD2 General] Pluisje89:
Hi,

I've got my HD2 now for some weeks.

It's been to HTC for repair for 2 weeks of that.

The problem:

After a soft reset, when I press the right softkey, the screen dims for stand by.

But then it goes back on. Not very efficient for my battery use.

The only way to make it go off is to sync (really sync, not just connect) it with the PC of charge it with the AC adapter.

I have attached a txt file with a youtube link.

Since I'm a new user, unfortunately I can't post links...

Can anyone help me? It's been to HTC for repair and nothing has been fixed.

If it is really a HW problem but I'd rather not lose my HD2 again for 2 weeks.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Hi there,

For the customizations addicts, I just made a new Home that allow you to theme your desire very easily!

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.profete162.FreedHome/

You will loose all your HTC widgets, but if some graphist want to work with me on this, just contact me.

I am now developing this home on my new Desire Silver :-p

Give me feedback if you have time.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
FreedHome allow you also to hide the notification bar if you want ( press menu to see it) and this kind of fullscreen mode is quite cool!

It also allow you to uninstall applications by dragging icons more than one second. I get this idea from launcher+ and home++ ( thank to them)

Any feedback appreciated.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
I just made the option to choose the size of the icon grid.

A 5*5 or a 4*5 is really nice on the Desire!

Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch
[Desire Themes and Apps] ephumuris:
Looks just like Helix to me. But i like the idea of 5x5 icons.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
I think the main difference between the 2 apps and what I am focusing on is to allow the user to create easily his own theme by editing some ressources on the SDCard. I wanted to make this feature really easy to do for everybody.

Maybe I am wrong, but I haven't seen such a stuff on other home replacement for now.

That's a feature that I would like to develop on my application.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
You can now add your own shortcuts with personnal icons!

Theming has never been so easy!

I still need a little bit work on the UI and correcting bugs, but all seem OK for general use.

Let me work on it a few weeks and all will be perfect.

Hope you will enjoy my hard work.
[Desire Themes and Apps] DocRambone:
Nice work, will be a great tool when finished. :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Moglie_blue:
Is there any way of getting a 5x5 grid onto the original sense UI? I really want the extra line for app icons but don't want to loose the look of the sense set up. Also can you add extra screens to the sense UI? It would be great to have 9 screens like other mods but keep the sense look and the helicopter feature.

Cheers,

Keiran
[Desire Themes and Apps] xrichx:
yeah i miss those features too, but still, great app!
[Desire Themes and Apps] The Professor:
There are elements of Sense, HelixLauncher, and FreedHome that I wish all of them would take from each other and put into one home replacement.

Sense: The pinch Expose-like feature to see all workspaces is fantastic.

Helix: The ability to add small shortcuts on either side of the program launch icon at the bottom (but I wish you could add widgets, too!)

Freed: The ability to customize number of icons per row and column is excellent. Wish you could define that per screen, perhaps, but it's good.

So if somebody made a launcher that allowed shortcuts at the bottom, had pinch-to-Expose, and could define different grids per screen, I'd be in love. As is, well done with FreedHome, profete. A very nice app so far.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
I hope my english is understandable :-p

If feel really sorry for the latest updates. there were too much in a few times, but the orientation with the custom grid was a big jigsaw for me!

But the result is very exciting: here is my Desire in landscape with 5 icons grid and no icons name!

Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

I lost a lot of neurons, but after a huge amout of coding, I realized that a few optimized linecodes were perfect.

I just rewrited most of the code during the night ( it's 6.03 am here) and all seem now very stable and smooth on my Desire.

Really sorry for the inconveniance of having so much updates ( that's why there is a beta and a paying version, the paying is stable and not experimental)

Hope to have a feedback on the landscape/portrait mode. If you don't like it, i will think about a checkbox in the option, but in my mind, everybody like that.

I will now focus on my website with all the themes and tutorials ( only in french for now) but if someone love my project and want to contribute it by helping me to work on the website, we can talk about that.

I will be honest with you:

* I don't plan to do something like the Sense Expose-like. That would be too complicated for me. Maybe something like home++ but seem to be too much time.. Maybe when FreedHome will be perfect and whith no bug, I will work on this.

* The shortcut on the launcher is my first objective after finishing the website. I promise to work on that and bring you this feature soon.

* the different grid per screen seem complicated and not user friendly, but as some widgets are not working on a bigger grid, i must do something like that! I agree with you!

So I promise to work on the all your points in this priority: shortcuts: asap - different grid seem complicated but i will have a look in the next weeks - sense expose will be done at the end of the programation, maybe in a few month, don't expect it soon...
[Desire Themes and Apps] redeyes717:
really nice job Profete162!!:)

any chance to get custom system fonts without rooting?

Red.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Certainly not the system fonts ( with my current knoledge of Android)

But I have great hopes to provide custom fonts for the Homescreen. ( in a first time I will include them in the apk, and I will learn if it's possible to take them from SDCard)
[Desire Themes and Apps] redeyes717:
thank you!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
The theme section is growing fast.

http://profete162.sfhost.net/FreedHome/category/themes/

Most of the new themes also include a Beautiful Widget Skin.

Feel free to send me your best creation/screenshots.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Gobbla:
Can someone please tell me how to add themes?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Menu -> FreedHome, you have 2 choices:

1) download themes that will add the themes automatically to your SDCard

2) more themes will download a zip file that you have to unzip manually to the correct folder.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
Just to let you know: the latest update on the Market has a fully customizable doc with 2 icons.

You may also choose to use no icons to create a laucher bar that integrate shortcuts ( like Sense)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Waza_Be:
I will be on holidays for the next 15 days, but when i'll come back, i promise you something really cool.

The scrollable widgets from Home++ ( thanks to Bo Wang) are working on this home:
[HD2 General] Frizzel:
Hey guys. Did an extensive search and Im 99.9% sure this hasnt been covered here before. The only solution was on cnet and it doesnt seem to be working.

Anyhow, is there a way to get push email for Hotmail on the HD2?
[HD2 General] the_cool:
Windows Live Messenger application will give you push email.

Watch out for the Sync Contacts check box when you set it up, it will merge your email address contacts with your phone contacts and cause a right mess. you have been warned!
[HD2 General] Frizzel:
Thanks for the response man.

So stupid question, but do I need to keep WLM running all the time to for push email?
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
No, it works without WLM running in the background.
[HD2 General] Frizzel:
So I signed into WLM, left it running and sent an email, but I didnt recieve any notifications. I had to hit the send/recieve option to retrieve the email.

Im starting to regret getting this phone. So many issues, and its just the first day.
[HD2 General] the_cool:
You have to go the sync schedule and choose for items to come as they arrive. you can set what you want it to do in peak and off peak times, and then define what you want as peak and off peak if i recall correctly

mate, its "not so many issues"...its just the first day. When i got my first WM and fisrt smart phone aswell, which was the touch HD, i wasnt too impressed until i started flashing roms, and learnt how the device works. give it time, its honestly far more interesting than most phones, WM phones are the first phones where i havent lost interest in a phone after owning it for a while (as happens with all devices! and im somewhat of a tech geek :P)
[HD2 General] Frizzel:
Nice one mate. Ill have a look into it.

Yeah, I guess my sentiments are a little premature. Just need to adjust after owning BB's for the last 8 years.

Thanks for the advice, and Ill let you know how I get on.
[HD2 General] jamieeeee:
that is no 'true' push mail and setting it to as items arive will couse a lot of battery drain :( its just that the free hotmail accounts don't support that feature.
[HD2 General] the_cool:
What is push email then? i always assumed its when items arrive as they come :\
[HD2 General] ozkaya:
I forward my hotmail along with all my accounts to my gmail. This way I get true push email, contacts and calendar.
[HD2 General] the_cool:
again, what IS "true" push email! please someone enlighten me...
[HD2 General] simeezee:
I'm a US TMO customer and I bought my HD2 on the first day it came out which was March 24th. I live in California and I have a 30 day exchange policy.

Unfortunately the there's a dead pixel on the screen and I would like to exchange for a new one. But due to the high demand, there's no hd2 available in store anywhere close to where I live. I put my name on the waiting list, but there's way too many people in front of me so pretty much I won't be able to do the exchange within the 30 days.

I think the only way I can do is to return it. Do you guys have any suggestions what I can do in this case?

Thanks.
[HD2 General] the_cool:
Well given that is is their stock levels which are messed up, and that you have gone back withing 30 days, they shoudln't penalise you for it. Tell them that you have come to return it within 30 days, tell them to sign a peice of paper with the mangers signature or something stating you did and that you can return your phone when stock comes in. Or just come to some agreement with them!

Or you could return it and then purchase the phone again lol
[HD2 General] akaotikpnoy:
Just came back from the t-mobile by my house here in Las Vegas and they had four on hand but couldn't sell me one cause I wasn't on thier list.
[HD2 General] simeezee:
thanks for the suggestions.
[HD2 General] Lasabar:
I returned my T-Mobile HD2 just two days ago, but the concerning thing was the rep at the Radio Shack informed me that I will not be able to sign up for T-Mobile again...

He was frustrated he was taking a return so I do hope he meant I cannot return for a period of time... I wouldn't mind T-Mo if they upgraded their 3g where I'm at.

But if you do decide to return it, check with them if you can come back at a later date and purchase the phone.
[HD2 General] tgerbracht:
I had to return my first hd2 that I got on release day due to the data connection bug. I called before my 14 days were up and let them know I'd like to turn it in for a new one but couldnt because they didn't have the stock. The manager let me know that when they had more, I could come in and exchange even though I was a couple weeks after my trial period. Call them.
[HD2 General] Raadius:
I'm in the same boat, I have 30 days and I want to return mine but my store said I have to wait. I'm like WTF?!
[HD2 General] simeezee:
I'm going to my local store tomorrow and ask them how this is gonna work. It's not my fault that the phone is defective and they cannot keep up with inventory. I will update you to tell you how it goes.