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How to Add Background Themes
Here's my guide for adding background themes for your SideKick3.
You may want to start by watching the video explaining and showing the steps taken to downloading or uploading a sidekick them. Click here to watch the video.
1. Plug your USB cable into your computer and SideKick3
2. On the cccxcc,xzcxz,cbrowse to the SideKick3 drive folders
a)My way is to select and open "My Computer" then select the SideKick3
3. You will see two folders listed, make a new folder here, name it "themes" (without the quotes)
4. Open that "Themes" folder.
5. In that folder make another new folder with your new theme name.
a) This is the name you want to appear on the SideKick3 Backgrounds menu.
6. Open Windows Notepad and paste the following text into it
string Name(en_US) themename
bitmap ring-background ring-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-background ring-folder-background.png
7. Save this .txt file to your newly named folder as "theme.txt"
a) There are more strings that can be added and modified, this is a simple start.
8. Save the picture you want as the main background in this folder. (ring-background)
a) The name of the file should match the Notepad text file string.
b) Make sure its a .pgn or .jpg file, the text file should reflect the choice of the picture file format.
c)Sizing for backgrounds is commonly listed as 240x138 or 240x160 pixels
9. Add the second picture you want for the sub category background. (ring-folder-background)
a) This is the same size as the main background file.
10. The picture file names must match the text file to work, I sometimes save a .jpg image but still leave the .png in the text line and the background will not load.
11. Close the files, unplug your USB cable from the device.
12 . On your SideKick select Menu/Settings/Backgrounds and your new theme name should be listed below the original four. This is the name you set as the folder and in the text file.
a) Select the new theme and it applies.
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TIPS:
Some of the other string categories beyond what I listed above. Not all will work, although I hope at a future date we are allowed to replace some of the other icon images.
string Name(en_US) themename
bitmap ring-folder-oval-large ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-folder-oval-small ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-item-oval-large ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-item-oval-small ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-background ring-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-background ring-folder-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-decoration ring-folder-decoration.png
bitmap chooser-phone-splash-screen chooser-phone-splash-screen.png
bitmap chooser-web-browser-splash-screen chooser-web-browser-splash-screen.png
bitmap chooser-category-im-large im-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-im-small im-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-games-large games-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-games-small games-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-apps-large phone-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-apps-small phone-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-pim-large pim-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-pim-small pim-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-sms-large sms-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-sms-small sms-icon-small.png
sound system-hinge-open-sound hinge-open-sound.wav
sound system-hinge-close-sound hinge-close-sound.wav
You may want to start by watching the video explaining and showing the steps taken to downloading or uploading a sidekick them. Click here to watch the video.
1. Plug your USB cable into your computer and SideKick3
2. On the cccxcc,xzcxz,cbrowse to the SideKick3 drive folders
a)My way is to select and open "My Computer" then select the SideKick3
3. You will see two folders listed, make a new folder here, name it "themes" (without the quotes)
4. Open that "Themes" folder.
5. In that folder make another new folder with your new theme name.
a) This is the name you want to appear on the SideKick3 Backgrounds menu.
6. Open Windows Notepad and paste the following text into it
string Name(en_US) themename
bitmap ring-background ring-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-background ring-folder-background.png
7. Save this .txt file to your newly named folder as "theme.txt"
a) There are more strings that can be added and modified, this is a simple start.
8. Save the picture you want as the main background in this folder. (ring-background)
a) The name of the file should match the Notepad text file string.
b) Make sure its a .pgn or .jpg file, the text file should reflect the choice of the picture file format.
c)Sizing for backgrounds is commonly listed as 240x138 or 240x160 pixels
9. Add the second picture you want for the sub category background. (ring-folder-background)
a) This is the same size as the main background file.
10. The picture file names must match the text file to work, I sometimes save a .jpg image but still leave the .png in the text line and the background will not load.
11. Close the files, unplug your USB cable from the device.
12 . On your SideKick select Menu/Settings/Backgrounds and your new theme name should be listed below the original four. This is the name you set as the folder and in the text file.
a) Select the new theme and it applies.
``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
TIPS:
Some of the other string categories beyond what I listed above. Not all will work, although I hope at a future date we are allowed to replace some of the other icon images.
string Name(en_US) themename
bitmap ring-folder-oval-large ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-folder-oval-small ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-item-oval-large ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-item-oval-small ring-bubble-invisible.png
bitmap ring-background ring-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-background ring-folder-background.png
bitmap ring-folder-decoration ring-folder-decoration.png
bitmap chooser-phone-splash-screen chooser-phone-splash-screen.png
bitmap chooser-web-browser-splash-screen chooser-web-browser-splash-screen.png
bitmap chooser-category-im-large im-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-im-small im-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-games-large games-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-games-small games-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-apps-large phone-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-apps-small phone-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-pim-large pim-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-pim-small pim-icon-small.png
bitmap chooser-category-sms-large sms-icon-large.png
bitmap chooser-category-sms-small sms-icon-small.png
sound system-hinge-open-sound hinge-open-sound.wav
sound system-hinge-close-sound hinge-close-sound.wav
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| abostic08 | download background | 1 | Mar 2 2010, 2:22 AM EST by cafarlic | ||
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Thread started: Aug 8 2009, 5:28 PM EDT
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i coulld not figure out how that works..and there any other ways?
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| g_game | install | 0 | May 18 2009, 11:01 PM EDT by g_game | ||
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Thread started: May 18 2009, 11:01 PM EDT
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i followed the steps and everything.... the .txt file look like this
string Name Goodbye bitmap ring-background bg1.png bitmap chooser-phone-splash-screen phone.png bitmap ring-item-oval-small 24.png bitmap ring-folder-oval-small 242.png bitmap ring-item-oval-large 44.png bitmap ring-folder-oval-large 442.png bitmap ring-folder-decoration foldec.png bitmap ring-back-arrow 16back.png bitmap ring-empty-oval 12.png bitmap keyguard-background gb-kg.jpg and I really don't get why it won't show up on my phone... |
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| Vildetika | Download Theme with a Mac | 0 | Jan 2 2008, 7:22 PM EST by Vildetika | ||
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