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EDITED FEB 4th 2010: de-bugged versions uploaded
Intended for those who want as little as possible on their homescreen so you canshow off your wallpaper(s).
Stock precision icons. Menus and call screens kept as stock. This allows for the small size in terms of memory (less than 500k).
Four varieties to choose from. Common features throughout:
1) Message alert shows up in upper left corner. Gray dot - unread messages; red dot -new messages. Scroll over the dot and click to open the messages application. All messages show as one dot (i.e., if you have voice mail and an email and a BBM message, only one dot shows to tell you have messages).
2) GPS signal in top right corner serves as toggle "switch" to hide / show an L-dock with user defined applications (more on this below).
3) Space bar launches QuickLaunch
4) $ launches SMS / MMS
5) Hidden today for calendar and messages
Blank theme:
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As blank as I could make it.
OTA for 5.0
OTA for 4.7
Blank theme with banner:
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Can't live without the date, time, battery and signal meters?
Date serves as launcher for calendar.
OTA for 5.0
OTA for 4.7
Blank with weather slot:
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First app from app screen shows in weather slot. Apps two through 9 fill the rest of the L. Only message dot and GPS show.
OTA for 5.0
OTA for 4.7
Blank with weather slot and banner:
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Frankly not all that different from a lot of other themes but in case you want all of the above ...
Date serves as launcher for calendar.
OTA for 5.0
OTA for 4.7
NEW VERSION WITH MORE FUNCTIONS IN BANNER
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In the top banner, more functions:
1) Time=clock
2) Bluetooth (next to time) = manage connections
3) Battery = profiles
4) Signal meter = BB browser
LINKS REMOVED AS SOME PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED THAT THEIR BLACKBERRY'S HAVE "BRICKED" AFTER INSTALL.
HOSTED BY themes4bb.com
Donations happily accepted but definitely not required.
Last edited by monkey_fist; 02-10-10 at 10:16 AM.
02-03-10 10:23 AM - Hey Monkey_fist!
It takes a lot to distract me from Foppa's themes, but yours did! I am checking out your "Blank theme with banner 4.7", and quite like it! It gave me a bit of a scare after I initially installed and activated it, because nothing worked (trackball, keypad, nothing!). But a reboot solved that
Anyway, I like wallpaper friendly themes, and yours is definitely wallpaper friendly! These are the things I like:
- super-small banner; nice battery icon
- messages circle on top left is pretty neat. I like how it turns red like that. And I like how when you focus on it, it is a hidden today icon and shows the new messages (I didn't think it would do that based on your theme description, so that was a pleasant surprise).
- clicking on the gps to show the L dock. Works well!
I can happily use your theme as is, which is great. But if I were to offer any suggestions, they would be as follows:
1) on top banner, allow focus on time (or date) to display calendar entries (or click to bring up calendar). That would be slick.
2) somehow get the date so that it is not truncating (it's stupid that the themebuilder doesn't let you abbreviate the dates!).
3) make the font for the hidden today messages a bit bigger (if that resulted in a few less messages being displayed, that would be ok with me).
4) when in the L-dock, when you scroll over an icon, temporarily display the icon name (for a second or two and then fade it out). I don't really care about this one, but I am used to that functionality.
Oh yeah, one problem found: pressing the spacebar is not launching quicklaunch. Now THAT one needs to be addressed LOL!
That's all I can think of for now. Great work! You should provide a link so that people can donate to your cause!
Cheers,
WayneLast edited by WayneN; 02-03-10 at 06:57 PM.
02-03-10 06:50 PM - Thank you for this theme. I downloaded the banner w/weather slot for OS 5.0 and I don't have a gps icon. Here a my 2 cents worth of suggestions if you care to hear them
1. Would be really nice if the entire top banner were clickable to operate a function, like the time to open the clock and maybe the batt meter to open profiles.
2. Would prefer the app screen to be a different wall, maybe a solid black or blue.
3. Would like to have music as a hotkey. I don't know if many others do, but I use "x" as a shortcut to open QL so having a version with maybe sms as space and $ as music would be awesome.
4. Are the today items for the messages supposed to be selectable? If so mine isn't working. I did a batt pull after installing but will do another one in case I'm having issues...and maybe the gps icon will appear.
So that's it. I appreciate your sharing this great theme
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.comLast edited by Iluvbb; 02-04-10 at 07:32 PM.
02-04-10 06:56 PM -
Not asking for too much?
1) That's certainly do-able. To be honest, the bannered themes were kind of a throw-in as the theme was originally meant to be "bannerless". But since a lot of people seem to be downloading the bannered themes ... no promises, but will consider it.
2) That's a personal preference kind of thing. I seem to remember that the in other themes, the wallpaper from the homescreen would carry over to the apps screen (I couldbe wrong about this). For now, unless a lot of people are really un-happy with the app screen background, no plans to change it.
3) Why not simply make you rmusic icon one of the icons in the L-screen? Then it's only a click and scroll away.
4) Yes, they should be. Unless you've put the calendar app into one of the L-slots. Then it's not reachable (unless you put it on the bottom in the third one from the left). If you scroll down from the date when you have the date high-lighted in the banner, you should be able to scroll and click through the calendar appointments.
GPS icon: If you have your GPS enabled (Options -> Advanced Options -> GPS - mine is set to Device GPS / Location On / Enabled) I don't know why the GPS icon wouldn't show.02-04-10 07:30 PM - I understand completely about the app screen and music hotkey, but hey it was worth the try Not asking for too much?
1) That's certainly do-able. To be honest, the bannered themes were kind of a throw-in as the theme was originally meant to be "bannerless". But since a lot of people seem to be downloading the bannered themes ... no promises, but will consider it.
2) That's a personal preference kind of thing. I seem to remember that the in other themes, the wallpaper from the homescreen would carry over to the apps screen (I couldbe wrong about this). For now, unless a lot of people are really un-happy with the app screen background, no plans to change it.
3) Why not simply make you rmusic icon one of the icons in the L-screen? Then it's only a click and scroll away.
4) Yes, they should be. Unless you've put the calendar app into one of the L-slots. Then it's not reachable (unless you put it on the bottom in the third one from the left). If you scroll down from the date when you have the date high-lighted in the banner, you should be able to scroll and click through the calendar appointments.
GPS icon: If you have your GPS enabled (Options -> Advanced Options -> GPS - mine is set to Device GPS / Location On / Enabled) I don't know why the GPS icon wouldn't show.
I had a typing error with my today ques, I meant to ask if the messages were selectable.
In regards to the gps icon...doh! I'm pretty sure I don't have my enabled
Thanks so much for the quick response
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com02-04-10 07:37 PM
