Posted by optiplex
This is the theme I use in my phone, and I thought I’d share it with you guys. This theme is created by joining and modifying two other themes. I took the startup animation (the rotating walkman logo) from the theme: Black metal walkman anim created by s0real , and I added it to the color changed W800 default theme to make this gray walkman theme. The theme is made to match the colors of the Media player and radio applications. Hope you guys like it.
Download theme for K750/W800
Download converted theme for W900 (May contain errors, please let me know)
Standby screen
Standby animation
Desktop
While I was browsing for new themes I found the Black metal walkman theme and loved the animation, however the rest of the theme (especially the tabs and popup menus) weren’t to my liking. So I ripped off the animation and added to my next favorite theme which was the default W800 theme. Then I started playing around with colors and finally decided that the gray color looks best on the K750.
[ This Message was edited by: optiplex on 2006-01-12 01:23 ]
Posted by Del
Nice theme mate
thanks for sharing it.
Posted by optiplex
Thanks, and I’m glad you liked it
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Posted by souljav
WOw thanks a lot for this theme it is exactly what i have been looking for, this is the best k750i theme so far even beating the original ethernal theme! Thanks
Posted by Supa_Fly
Very nice work!
>>god you gotta love animated desktops for phones as well as animated themes. Beats me why a smartphone cannot do that?! S60 I mean. Hence 1 major reason I'm selling mine soon.
Posted by CrackerJack
optiplex,
Can you make one for the W900? I mean, convert your awesome theme that I could also use it on my W9.
Thanks.
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Posted by leenuss
Looking good!
Posted by optiplex
I will try to port it to W900, but will take some time cos images and other stuff have to be resized to fit the larger screen of W900. In the meantime you guys also can play around with the Themes Creator
Posted by CrackerJack
Thank you.
Posted by jalal
Nice thanks
Posted by CyberVisitor
Does anyone have the red/orange Walkman picture that is shown on all pictures of the W900? Not the one for W800 or W550 though (they are different).
Posted by marlonski
Nice theme mate
Posted by CyberVisitor
@CrackerJack
Look at your avatar. Do you have that background picture in your W900? Can you (or anyone else who has it) post it here?
Posted by optiplex
I’ve done a quick port. And here is the first version of the theme for the W900. I don’t know how it looks in an actual W900 cos I don’t have one
. So, if you guys see any weird stuff in the theme (like unreadable text or bad images etc..) let me know. I’ll try to fix them.
Link removed. Check the first post for the new link
I made few changes to the very first version to make the animated standby image smaller, I did manage to shrink it a bit but still the image is around 800k. So if you experience any performance problems by running it please post here.
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Posted by SloopJohnB
very nice theme, one of the best i´ve ever seen for k750/w800. using it right now, thx
Posted by Jennifer™
i cant download it! can someone upload it onto yousendit or something
EDIT: nevermind i have it, and very nice it is too
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Posted by dr_thug
can i have this theme for my k700i?
Posted by S4k1s
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So there is actually something a "dumb"phone can do that a smartphone can't? \o/
Posted by Rookwise
Cant download it from Rapidshare. I waited for it to download. When it said complete I looked in the 'recieved files' folder on my pc and nothing. Did a search on my pc and didn't find anything either.
Posted by curmurdar
Very nice theme.
Posted by CrackerJack
CyberVisitor,
The image that you are referring to is part of the W8/9 startup animation. I would presume that it is a GIF file.
Sorry, I don't have access to the system of the phone to get that particular file that you asking for.
optiplex,
I tried the converted Black Walkman theme that you did for the W9. It looks great. High quality. No pixelization or deterioration of the images.
Can I request that you reduce the file size? The 1.35mb file size is slowing down the phone.
Thanks again.
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Posted by Rookwise
Finally got it and its on my W550i. Great theme. Goes with my newly sprayed black facia
Cheers.
Posted by optiplex
@CrackerJack
It was very late yesterday when I started porting the theme. So I just resized the images without thinking much about the size. However I did noticed that the file was big and suspected that it might slow the phone down, but was feeling too sleepy at the time to do anything about that
. I’ll optimize the color palette to reduce the size. Will do it when I get home.
Posted by CrackerJack
optiplex,
Thanks. I have your 'original' black walkman theme on my K750. It really does look great.
Looking forward to having the same theme on my W9.
Posted by rockafeller
@ optiplex
hi there.. could you tell me how you ripped the animation from the theme?
i also got a nice theme (the animation is nice) but the body sucks! i was wondering if you could tell me how you removed the animation from the body? thanks.. im also using themes creator but i can't remove the animation..
Posted by optiplex
It was kind of a tedious process. But I did it anyway cos I had lot of time to kill that day and really liked the animated walkman logo
* First I took out the animated gif file of the standby screen from the original theme. Then extracted individual frames using a gif animation tool (can’t remember the exact name I think it was gif animator or something like that; sorry I’m not at home so I cant check it right now).
* Then I made the background of each frame transparent (removed all the unnecessary parts except the W logo) and merged it with my new gray color background
* FinallyI made a new animated gif file with the modified frames.
Luckily in my case the original animated W logo had a black background, so taking off the W wasn’t that difficult.
Maybe there are more sophisticated tools to edit animated gif files as single files, but I didn’t find any. And I’m not a graphics designer, so I don’t know much about imaging software.
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Posted by dr_thug
the next time u have some time to spare,kindly make a K700i version of this theme...please.
Posted by optiplex
OK, However I don’t think having a walkman logo in a K700 would make much of a sence..., anyways I'll see what I can do
Posted by dr_thug
thanks!! i already have the orange animated walkman theme...but this looks very cool and also,black might look good on K700i.so make it quick.
Posted by simply__me
Nice work optiplex. The theme looks awesome.
Posted by Sir-SonyEricsson-man
had it before but got myself an w900i and have now waited a while to get that one for w900
Posted by batesie
Nice! shame i cant download (shared ip) it can someone PM me if they have the W900 one. thanks.
Posted by dgilmartin
Very Nice theme indeed! I can only PM yo the W800i theme batesie, sorry.
Posted by starhannes
i also cannot download it off rapid share.
please someone upload it elsewhere!
PLease, and thanks
and to the theme creator: lovely theme thank you
Posted by dr_thug
aaaaaaggggggg...so many good reviews.
@optiplex...make 1 for my K700i soon.
Posted by jcpsad
downloaded it... one of the best i may say! nice work!
Posted by optiplex
@ dr_thug
Hold on.. I’m working on it...
I resized the animation and made a K700 theme, then I uploaded it to a K700 to test it out, unfortunately I don’t see the animation. In the theme creator I can see the animation but not in the phone... Still trying to find out the problem.
Posted by rockafeller
@optiplex
ei dude.. how will you extract the animation of the default orange theme? im making a theme right now, and i want to get the GIF of the default w800i theme..is it possible together with the animation? i can only get the pic but not the animation.. could you teach me? thanks...
Posted by optiplex
The animation is stored in an animated gif file. To extract it from the theme file, you have to rename the extension of the theme file from .thm to .zip and open it using WinZIP or any other zip file opener.
You can find out the exact file name of the animated gif file by loading the theme in Sony Eriksson Themes creator. The file name is displayed on the very first tab (standby). Generally it is the largest gif file in the theme package, so you wont have trouble locating it
Posted by starhannes
nvm for someoreason the link worked now. Using this theme, looks great specially the animation
Posted by rockafeller
@ optiplex
ei dude! thanks for the tip!! it helped me a lot!! really!! hehe.. thanks so much..
Posted by Rookwise
For those having trouble downloading the theme. I've uploaded it to Yousendit.com.
Hope this was ok with the origonal poster ?
Black Walkman Theme
Btw. The K750 version will work on the W900, W800, W550, Z520. Same goes for all themes done by
or by others for the above handsets. They will work on any of the above mentioned phone's.
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Posted by CrackerJack
optiplex,
I have your revised theme for the W9.
The animation is still slow. But, comparing the K750 and W9, any kind of GIF file does run slow on the W9.
Thanks for making the theme.
Posted by private_ryan
WOW! very nice mate! thanks!
Posted by optiplex
CrackerJack,
By slow do you mean slower than viewed in a web browser on your computer??
Even in my K750 the animation is considerably slower than what you get when viewed from the PC, and it is not completely smooth either, but looks ok.
Posted by Salisbury_Steak
Very Nice theme! a classy looking walkman.
Would anyone be kind enough to do an s7oo version?
Posted by dr_thug
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...i will wait.
Posted by CrackerJack
optiplex,
I installed the themes on both my phones (K750 & W9). Then side-by-side compared how fast the walkman logo rotates. The logo on the K750 would have cycled 4.5X compared to 3X with regards to the W9.
But I also checked this out using
animated screen saver (GIF), and the W9 also cycles through slower than the K750.
I think, further reducing the file size would only make a small difference. The bigger screen size of the W9 needs more juice, maybe that's why
slowed things down.
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smartphones can..both my 6680 and 6280 have animated themes running on them...you can simply make them yourself.
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But not as nice as we observe in Sony Ericsson.