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grilldos: Mar 27, 2004; "DING! ORDER UP!"

I'm never eating at this joint again.

yamdankee posted:

Top: Beautiful Home Weather 4 x 1 (LTR Theme)
Middle: Pure Calendar Widget (Transparent)
Bottom: SwitchPro Widget (WiFi, BT, GPS, Flashlight)
Dock: Gmail, Market, App Drawer, Google Voice, Dialer (LP Swipe Gesture respectively: WordFeud, Browser, Alarm Clock, Notes, Maps)

Droid X 2.2 running Tranquility 3.0

You schedule types of laundry? Do you just wash all your darks at the same time every week no matter what amount of dark clothes you actually need to wash?

# ? Dec 1, 2010 03:52

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# ? May 26, 2013 01:24

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Events can be one-time affairs, you know. See: Mazda Inspection. Also, might be a shared calendar.

Although that laundry thing made me double-take, too. My wife would nod her head approvingly at your list-making prowess, yam.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 06:04

grilldos: Mar 27, 2004; "DING! ORDER UP!"

I'm never eating at this joint again.

Well so would mine, which is why I drive her insane.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 06:11

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

I do my laundry in marathon sprints all at once every two weeks or so once I run out of clean stuff to wear. It drives my fianc� batty. In android desktop news I nearly have my December/Christmas desktop completed; it just needs a little more icon editing. Is deviant art usually the best place to find icon sets? I'm using the suave set because it is good looking and currently all the rage, but I'd like to find something more suited to android.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 14:30

letsgoflyers81: Aug 7, 2003; C IS FOR COOKIE!

yamdankee posted:

Top: Beautiful Home Weather 4 x 1 (LTR Theme)
Middle: Pure Calendar Widget (Transparent)
Bottom: SwitchPro Widget (WiFi, BT, GPS, Flashlight)
Dock: Gmail, Market, App Drawer, Google Voice, Dialer (LP Swipe Gesture respectively: WordFeud, Browser, Alarm Clock, Notes, Maps)

Droid X 2.2 running Tranquility 3.0

This might be a dumb question, but how do you have the event indendented so it doesn't line up with the day in Pur Calendar? Every line of text on mine lines up exactly which makes it more difficult to read. I'm using the transparent theme as well.

Edit: Here's what mine looks like for reference. I've played around with text size and still can't get mine to look like yours.

letsgoflyers81 fucked around with this message at Dec 1, 2010 around 15:28

# ? Dec 1, 2010 14:39

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

I don't know if I'm completely happy with it, especially the left screen, but this is what I came up with for December.

Left screen is beautiful widgets with the 3DWeather skin
Center screen is Digital Clock Widget by Maize, Smooth Calendar and SMS Unread Count
Right screen also has SMS Unread count, and the Launcher Pro Plus Friends widget.

The icon set is suave (deviant art) that I modified with some stuff I stole from color me android. The wallpaper is something I quickly hacked together from something I found on Deviant Art.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 18:52

Iananan: May 3, 2007; Portrait of the Artist as a Grump

letsgoflyers81 posted:

This might be a dumb question, but how do you have the event indendented so it doesn't line up with the day in Pur Calendar? Every line of text on mine lines up exactly which makes it more difficult to read. I'm using the transparent theme as well.

Edit: Here's what mine looks like for reference. I've played around with text size and still can't get mine to look like yours.

I don't think yamdankee is using the transparent theme, looks like koxx:black or something with the transparency turned way up, like mine, rather than the fully transparent one.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 20:16

yamdankee: Jan 23, 2005; ~anderoid fragmentation~

I double checked, it is the transparent theme.

I think what was making the indent were those colored bars just to the left of the text. I disabled "Show events calendar and tasks priority as color bars/plots" in the Colors tab. Now the space for the bars is there, but the bars are not there, so it's technically indented.

I'm using Google Stock Calendar, Normal text size, and Maximum number of lines used per event: 1. I hope one of those settings does it for you.

As far as the laundry, yeah it's a shared calendar with my wife. I do the darks Tuesday and the lights Friday. Trust me that I would forget if I didn't schedule it. She basically does everything else around the house.

# ? Dec 1, 2010 23:07

TurboLuvah: Jul 24, 2004; Scientifically proven to be more fuel efficient than hybrids!

letsgoflyers81 posted:

This might be a dumb question, but how do you have the event indendented so it doesn't line up with the day in Pur Calendar? Every line of text on mine lines up exactly which makes it more difficult to read. I'm using the transparent theme as well.

Edit: Here's what mine looks like for reference. I've played around with text size and still can't get mine to look like yours.

How are you guys getting Pure Calendar to have that layout? I've only been able to display either the entire month or a full week but nothing like that. If it matters i got a server unavailable error on the skinning page don't know if that would have anything to do with it.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 00:11

letsgoflyers81: Aug 7, 2003; C IS FOR COOKIE!

^ I have mine set for one month, and I have scrolling enabled.

yamdankee posted:

I double checked, it is the transparent theme.

I think what was making the indent were those colored bars just to the left of the text. I disabled "Show events calendar and tasks priority as color bars/plots" in the Colors tab. Now the space for the bars is there, but the bars are not there, so it's technically indented.

I'm using Google Stock Calendar, Normal text size, and Maximum number of lines used per event: 1. I hope one of those settings does it for you.

As far as the laundry, yeah it's a shared calendar with my wife. I do the darks Tuesday and the lights Friday. Trust me that I would forget if I didn't schedule it. She basically does everything else around the house.

I have the color bars disabled too, and I'm using the same text size on one line. When I turned on the color bars they showed up to the left of the text, still leaving all lines of text lined up together. I wonder what the difference is.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 00:13

pmMike: Mar 6, 2009

I spent way too long on what is essentially not a lot, but I am very pleased with it all the same

I do have a question though, does anyone know if it is possible to get MetaMorph working on a Rooted Desire running 2.2? I am having trouble finding anything saying yes at the moment sadly.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 02:52

God Exists.: Sep 26, 2010; by Ozma

pmMike posted:

I do have a question though, does anyone know if it is possible to get MetaMorph working on a Rooted Desire running 2.2? I am having trouble finding anything saying yes at the moment sadly.

If your phone is rooted the app itself should work, yes.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 04:37

TurboLuvah: Jul 24, 2004; Scientifically proven to be more fuel efficient than hybrids!

What is that wallpaper?

# ? Dec 2, 2010 05:36

EVGA Longoria: Dec 25, 2005; Let's go exploring!

God Exists. posted:

If your phone is rooted the app itself should work, yes.

It required BusyBox. 99% of rooted roms have this, but there's the possibility there are some that don't.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 05:50

pmMike: Mar 6, 2009

Casao posted:

It required BusyBox. 99% of rooted roms have this, but there's the possibility there are some that don't.

yeah i don't have BusyBox, and apparently it isn't easy to install either. I'll keep poking at it and thanks for your help guys.

TurboLuvah posted:

What is that wallpaper?

It was from earlier in this thread from what I remember but I can't find it now. Anyway here it is, and if it was you who posted it then shout for some recognition!

Click here for the full 960x800 image.

pmMike fucked around with this message at Dec 2, 2010 around 11:56

# ? Dec 2, 2010 11:51

Death of Rats: Oct 2, 2005; I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct

pmMike posted:

yeah i don't have BusyBox, and apparently it isn't easy to install either. I'll keep poking at it and thanks for your help guys.

If you download titanium backup, and then click on "Problems?" it will automatically download busybox if you don't have it.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 12:00

aim: Nov 28, 2010

Here's my effort at a Android 7 interface, I've got my own images to replace these ones but haven't gotten round to it yet

# ? Dec 2, 2010 12:13

Death of Rats: Oct 2, 2005; I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct

New home screen and lock screen.

Both screens:
Unread SMS with icons from here: http://www.colormeandroid.com/2010/11/legacy.html
SiMi Clock (Once with transparent text for homescreen clock bar).

Widget Locker:
Slide with Agenda Widget "Event List" activity link.
Doubletwist widget
BattStatt

Home Screen (LPP - using modded 50% black version + non-fullscreen widgets (Here)):
Beautiful Widgets Weather 4x1 (hide current weather)
Analogue Clock Collection
Custom arrow dock icon: White and Black

Wallpaper changes pretty regularly, but current one came from the zip of wallpapers at the beginning of this thread.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 13:14

EVGA Longoria: Dec 25, 2005; Let's go exploring!

Death of Rats posted:

If you download titanium backup, and then click on "Problems?" it will automatically download busybox if you don't have it.

One of the major devs also put BusyBox on the market for a couple of bucks.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 13:22

pmMike: Mar 6, 2009

Death of Rats posted:

If you download titanium backup, and then click on "Problems?" it will automatically download busybox if you don't have it.

i've done this, but metamorph still complains busybox isn't installed for some reason.

Casao posted:

One of the major devs also put BusyBox on the market for a couple of bucks.

That one isn't compatible with HTC Desire apparently

spent a long time today playing with ROMs and terminals and it just doesn't seem possible on the Desire because of some security bullshit they bundled with this and not the Nexus One. If someone can prove me wrong then I will love them forever, but in the mean time I will play with what I have!

pmMike fucked around with this message at Dec 2, 2010 around 19:31

# ? Dec 2, 2010 14:27

Megaspel: Mar 12, 2007; kodie.me
That's me

I'm having a bit of trouble with Desktop Visualizer and a different problem with OpenDesire.

This is how my homescreen looks after spending hours making all my own images:

This is how it's supposed to look:

It seems Desktop Visualizer is compressing the images for some retarded reason and making them all blurry. Is there anyway I can fix this or any alternative to Desktop Visualizer?

The other problem is that I've used the UOTK to get those icons and my percentage battery, but when it's not charging/100%, the text in the centre of the battery goes pixelated. Also for some reason, even though I selected to change the notification window, when you pull down the notification bar, it's still stuck with the default cyanogenmod one.

Here is what I mean: http://i54.tinypic.com/2pt78l3.png

# ? Dec 2, 2010 21:44

EVGA Longoria: Dec 25, 2005; Let's go exploring!

Make your images slightly smaller or larger, it's resizing them. My guess is smaller, but I seriously can't notice much of a difference in those two images.

And disable the Battery Meter in Cyanogen, that's what's screwing up the battery.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 22:50

Corez: Dec 3, 2007

No matter how hard I try I always end up returning to the HTC carbon fiber background. After a bit of tinkering last night I think I've finally got my phone configured for good (ha, yeah right).

Lock screen:

Home screen:

Every day apps:

Nerd apps:

And on the far screens I've got the launcher pro people & facebook widgets, but nobody gives a poo poo about that.

# ? Dec 2, 2010 23:59

Megaspel: Mar 12, 2007; kodie.me
That's me

Casao posted:

Make your images slightly smaller or larger, it's resizing them. My guess is smaller, but I seriously can't notice much of a difference in those two images.

And disable the Battery Meter in Cyanogen, that's what's screwing up the battery.

The images are the exact size that they're displayed at, I've tried doing it a few pixels less and more but it's a no go.

Also I can't believe I didn't realize that I had the battery meter enabled. As soon as you said that I could see the black 99 in the screenshot. Thanks mang.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 00:23

landis: Jun 16, 2003; Until the end.

Megaspel posted:

I'm having a bit of trouble with Desktop Visualizer and a different problem with OpenDesire.

It seems Desktop Visualizer is compressing the images for some retarded reason and making them all blurry. Is there anyway I can fix this or any alternative to Desktop Visualizer?

Yo:

landis posted:

You gotta make a bigger widget than you need and then resize it to the size you want.

Bottom was resized down.

Kinda tricky once you start filling up the screen though.

edit: It looks like you can resize it all the way down to 1x1 and then back up to whatever you need as long as you start bigger. That way you can make room for more widgets and then resize them again when you've got what you want on the screen.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 00:35

Megaspel: Mar 12, 2007; kodie.me
That's me

landis posted:

Yo:

This has done it, thanks you also mang.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 00:42

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

there's cell service in Iqaluit? I wouldn't have guessed.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 02:45

qvc on the tivo: Mar 23, 2005; Eat your vegetables or I swear I'll start another atheist thread

pmMike posted:

It was from earlier in this thread from what I remember but I can't find it now. Anyway here it is, and if it was you who posted it then shout for some recognition!

Click here for the full 960x800 image.

That was my butchering of Jeremy Fish's illustrations. I also made some buttons because I seem to always get carried away with Desktop Visualizer. I use them at 1x2 widgets.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 03:20

Secret Sweater: Oct 17, 2005; dup

do you need to do anything special to preserve the transparency around the edges? alpha channels and whatnot? or just don't put anything there and it'll work?

# ? Dec 3, 2010 03:58

qvc on the tivo: Mar 23, 2005; Eat your vegetables or I swear I'll start another atheist thread

Secret Sweater posted:

do you need to do anything special to preserve the transparency around the edges? alpha channels and whatnot? or just don't put anything there and it'll work?

Nothing special, exporting as a PNG-24 with Transparency in Photoshop preserves all the transparencies.

# ? Dec 3, 2010 04:22

Death of Rats: Oct 2, 2005; I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct

Just bashed together a (small) doubletwist widget with transparent background + pure white buttons. Haven't done large (though wouldn't be hard to do, so if enough people request it, I can do it).

I've put it up on Dropbox: Click Here (Unless there's an SA preferred file-sharing option).

# ? Dec 3, 2010 15:28

ZShakespeare: Jul 20, 2003; The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

qvc on the tivo posted:

That was my butchering of Jeremy Fish's illustrations. I also made some buttons because I seem to always get carried away with Desktop Visualizer. I use them at 1x2 widgets.

I love these.

# ? Dec 4, 2010 03:01

PalaNIN: Sep 19, 2004; Strawberry Poodle

Long time listener, first time caller:

Lockscreen:
Widgetlocker
SimiClock
Beautiful Widgets
Circle Battery

Homescreens:
Calwidget
PowerAmp
SimiClock
Circle Battery
Beautiful Widgets
Extended Controls
Desktop Visualizer

Download Dock
GIMP template for Text on right homescreen

Edit: using LauncherPro, obviously.

# ? Dec 4, 2010 03:35

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

I love MIUI. This theme is called Crystal.

# ? Dec 4, 2010 04:16

EVGA Longoria: Dec 25, 2005; Let's go exploring!

diarrhea for girls posted:

I love MIUI. This theme is called Crystal.

Been thinking of moving to crystal, but I like my SWG setup right now.

How's the SMS look?

# ? Dec 4, 2010 04:19

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

Casao posted:

Been thinking of moving to crystal, but I like my SWG setup right now.

How's the SMS look?

I just recently started messing with the themes. I really debated on going with SWG but decided to give this one a try first. Definitely enjoying it.

Here's what SMS looks like when you're helping someone with a Samsung Moment. God I feel sorry for them.

# ? Dec 4, 2010 04:46

landis: Jun 16, 2003; Until the end.

FYI in most phones holding the ~~power button~~ standby button down for a few seconds also restarts it. I've never had to pull my battery.

edit: VVVV Well drat.

landis fucked around with this message at Dec 4, 2010 around 17:09

# ? Dec 4, 2010 04:54

Secret Sweater: Oct 17, 2005; dup

My phone has locked up really hard a few times where holding the power button does nothing and I have to battery pull.

I'm having an absolute blast with Desktop Visualizer. Thanks for posting that guys

I am a little stuck though, how can I make my 'games' link to a different homepage or a folder with my games in it? So far all I can see is having them link to apps.