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Thank clockvstrain for your input. The "next" theme will not look like this at all. It will be a theme that has never been done on a Blackberry.
Seriously.
However, some of your points are reasonable and good with regards to this enso | levitation theme.
1)I can easily drop the logo in the lock screen. The reason why I put them there was to stay true to the theme "enso". If people don't like it, then they can donate and have their personalized wallpaper/lock screen.
2)That pesky WeatherBug program again eh?
If you have gone to the original enso thread, there's a little discussion about this. I decided to not put WeatherBug on the Home Screen because it takes away the minimal design. Remember, I am staying true to my concept/design. Also, how many time a day does one need to look/check the weather? As for VyMail, I use that too.
>>>As for skinning 3rd party icons, it CAN be done, but will only show on the HOME Screen. And this is what you want. There are some extra work to get this to work.
>>> If anyone is interested in WeatherBug / VyMail / or any other app that he/she uses and want to put it on the home screen with the SKINNED icon, let me know and I will look into this. However, you'll have to donate. I spent so much time and effort on this already and can not afford to do anything else for free.
3)"Flashing blue" after clicking a button/option is the Plazmic limitation. I can not control that.
4)Great point on clicking on battery to open up the status. Let me see what I can do about that.
-rorschackLast edited by rorschack; 04-07-09 at 10:45 AM.
04-07-09 10:43 AM - I hardly check my memory any more. If the Storm runs a bit laggy, then I just reboot it with QuickPull. However, in order to test, you might want to do a controlled test.
before you go to bed, reboot the storm and don't run anything like 3rd party apps. Then check to see how much memory dropped in the morning. In fact, I'll do that tonight and see.
After that, you can do the same as above but with just one app opened at a time.
Without a methodical way of testing, there's no way to know. However, I read on a blog somewhere that you can buy a memory status app for $3 bucks which tells you exactly what each app is doing in terms of memory loss/gain throughout a certain time span, etc.... maybe someone can point out that app for you.
For me, I'm not worrying too much about it and wait for the official OS to come out. Right now, I'm running 113 and toward the end of each day, that memory drops to below 10mb. For today, I used the following 3rd party aps: Viigo, Boomberg, BB App World, and Google Map. BB App World is still known to have huge mem leak. GMap seems to slow down the whole storm anyway. So, you can see, it's difficult to pinpoint which app(s) is the culprit.
Maybe you might want to schedule QuickPull to reboot every night. I know it's kind of lame to have to worry about mem leak for such a device. The next official OS release better fix a lot of craps or RIM is really testing people patience with half baked product. I feel like running Windows ME or 95 sometime with the current BB OS but when Win XP came out, it was night and day different.Last edited by rorschack; 04-08-09 at 01:26 AM.
04-08-09 01:14 AM - Okay, so last night I did the memory controlled test. Before I went to bed, I used QuickPull to reboot and got about 24mb free. In the morning, I checked before opening any app, I got 23.8mb free. The only thing I used over night was the alarm clock.
During the drive to work, I used Bloomberg, and exited it when I arrived. Boom! The memory went down to 15mb!
Like I said, memory leak is probably the beta OS and/or apps issues not playing nicely together. Right now, there's another leak OS, 122. At this point, I am tired of updating to beta OS every single damn week. I might just wait this out.Last edited by rorschack; 04-08-09 at 11:03 AM.
04-08-09 10:58 AM - Thanks for checking out the theme.
8 icons - there's a reason for that. remember, this is a minimal theme. However, if you'd like 8 icons, I can customize it just for you.
>>>But, big BUT, a special edition is coming! 3rd party app icons SKINNED FOR HOME SCREEN only!
dreaded white line - is this the beta OS issue? I'll check with BboyerUGA and rcdeck. Thank you for pointing me to that direction.04-09-09 11:03 AM - Just letting everyone know, I am working on a special edition. It will depart from the minimalism of this theme a bit with some phat, bells and whistles for you hungry/addicted crackberry peep. However, I may have to make this a "premium" edition where donation is required. I'm spending way too much of my time on this project. Those who donated shall get this for free, and you are more than welcome to donate a bit more.
<<<SPECIAL EDITION>>>
< 3rd party icons SKINNED! > only works in Home Screen.
< with HIDDEN SLIDING FEATURE >
< click on battery to open battery status, memory status, etc >
Let me take a poll.
1)who here is interested in a hidden sliding feature where it would slide in/out with your frequently used 3rd party apps?
2)Which 3rd party apps you use the most? List your top 4-5.
weatherbug or bbweather or another weather program
viigo
vymail
slacker
etc........
when I get a consensus of the top 4-5, apps, I will create the sliding feature with these 3rd party apps. So far, I am abled to skinned 3rd party apps for the Home Screen!Last edited by rorschack; 04-09-09 at 11:29 AM.
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