[Home Replacement App] Sweeter Home public Beta is out!!

[Dan.Droid]

This is most probably a stupid question, but here goes...

I downloaded the .apk, but when I upload it to the phone, where do I put it? I don't seem to have a folder for it.

 

[KZIWarrior]

This is most probably a stupid question, but here goes...

I downloaded the .apk, but when I upload it to the phone, where do I put it? I don't seem to have a folder for it.

on your SD card just put it wherever you like. It's just an install file. there is a folder on the SD card called 'download' (or will be if you've d/l anything via the browser). Then you'll have to use a file manager to navigate to it a launch it. Good file managers are OI filemanager and Astro. Both available via marketplace or http://www.openintents.org/en/download

 

[KZIWarrior]

Hey guys I'm making another theme again, this dedicated to my favorite Droid site!! lol What do you think? It's just a mock-up of what the default screen will look like. This one is probably only going to be 3 screens in total.

Got an ETA? And are you icons included in the program or did you pull them from somewhere else. They look great. Looking forward to it.

 

[Dan.Droid]

How do you make themes for this? I've been looking through the themes and haven't seen anything that does what I'm looking for. So, I'm willing to try my hand at making my own.

Edit: Actually, I think I found one. But I still wouldn't mind knowing how to make my own, so if anybody has a link to a tutorial or something, I would much appreciate it.

 

[andysly5]

I took one of the existing themes and started customizing it to my liking. or you can simply start from scratch. I highly recommend watching the youtube vids on the sweeterhome site to understand how things work.

 

[ipawd1]

Okay..After failed attempt at using sweeterhome and a theme on it. My phone wont go past the red eye. How can I uninstall the application and get my phone back running normally?

 

[andysly5]

did you pull the battery? Happened to me last night and I pulled the battery for about a minute or so.

 

[JonKyu]

That's AWESOME. I was going to try to make a theme today. Where did you get the icon? I really like them (sorry if it's a dumb question, like if they are already included in the theme builder, haven't played much with it yet).

Have you uploaded it yet? Please update us when you do. I'd like to use that until I get mine up and running.

very nice work with this home replacement, everyone! is it 2.1 compatible? johnkyu that droidforum theme you made is great

That hasn't been answered yet (least that I've seen). That's one reason I was going to wait but after using a few themes I'm going to go ahead and go with it. To be honest I will probably hold off a bit on the 2.1 update (a few days) just to be sure it works and doesn't break to much. Worse case we may have to wait a few days for the guys over at Sweeter to make some minor changes. But it's a great question I wish more developers would start to address.

Ugh I just uploaded it but I don't know if you should download it since it seems to lag my phone extra. I don't know why the only thing I can think of is that I used images this time instead of making it entirly in sweeter home.

EDIT: Ok I figured out what was causing it. It was the picture I was using as the wallpaper on each screen, I'm going to fix and re-upload it without the image causing the problem.

Which icon are you referring to? and I'm not sure if it's compatible with 2.1, might have to ask Lemon about that one.

Okay..After failed attempt at using sweeterhome and a theme on it. My phone wont go past the red eye. How can I uninstall the application and get my phone back running normally?

did you pull the battery? Happened to me last night and I pulled the battery for about a minute or so.

Holy Jessus, this just happened to me and it took me 3 restarts and 3 battery pulls until it finally booted past the red eye. I thought I was a goner for sure.

 

[KZIWarrior]

Ugh I just uploaded it but I don't know if you should download it since it seems to lag my phone extra. I don't know why the only thing I can think of is that I used images this time instead of making it entirly in sweeter home.

EDIT: Ok I figured out what was causing it. It was the picture I was using as the wallpaper on each screen, I'm going to fix and re-upload it without the image causing the problem.

Which icon are you referring to? and I'm not sure if it's compatible with 2.1, might have to ask Lemon about that one.

Hrm... I'll def be waiting for the updated one after your crashes, lol.

The icons that were on the bottom of the last pic you posted (the big black square looking buttons).

I'll look for your reloaded theme after dinner or later tonight. Thanks for all the work (if you get around to it update your post to let us know it's stable, I'd rather not have to do battery pulls lol ).

 

[JonKyu]

Ugh I just uploaded it but I don't know if you should download it since it seems to lag my phone extra. I don't know why the only thing I can think of is that I used images this time instead of making it entirly in sweeter home.

EDIT: Ok I figured out what was causing it. It was the picture I was using as the wallpaper on each screen, I'm going to fix and re-upload it without the image causing the problem.

Which icon are you referring to? and I'm not sure if it's compatible with 2.1, might have to ask Lemon about that one.

Hrm... I'll def be waiting for the updated one after your crashes, lol.

The icons that were on the bottom of the last pic you posted (the big black square looking buttons).

I'll look for your reloaded theme after dinner or later tonight. Thanks for all the work (if you get around to it update your post to let us know it's stable, I'd rather not have to do battery pulls lol ).

The icons are from the the "iPhone 3G icon pack" available on the market for free. I used bettercut to put them in to the dock.

Also I think it should be good to go now. I'm still getting a lot of FC when I try to edit the theme though I don't know if it's the theme or just my phone cause this theme was a nightmare with all the FC I was getting while trying to edit stuff. Also if you do install it can you tell me if your messages are showing up in the left screen, mine won't show up no matter what I do.

I have a headache...This is going to be my last "complex like" theme until SH2 gets more stable. If I do make a theme its going to be really simple lol.

I'll post screenshots tomorrow of how I've set it up on mine.

 

[KZIWarrior]

The icons are from the the "iPhone 3G icon pack" available on the market for free. I used bettercut to put them in to the dock.

Also I think it should be good to go now. I'm still getting a lot of FC when I try to edit the theme though I don't know if it's the theme or just my phone cause this theme was a nightmare with all the FC I was getting while trying to edit stuff. Also if you do install it can you tell me if your messages are showing up in the left screen, mine won't show up no matter what I do.

I have a headache...This is going to be my last "complex like" theme until SH2 gets more stable. If I do make a theme its going to be really simple lol.

I'll post screenshots tomorrow of how I've set it up on mine.

Cool, d/l it now. Will let you know. I actually am looking forward to making a "simple" theme. I haven't tried to 'create' a theme yet but I have done some basic editing to the default theme and didn't have the program FC once. But it could be something more complex like the springboards or something (I didn't get into those yet). While I like things to be easy to get to and fast I don't care for too much complexity or "flash."

Update: Got it loaded. It seems to be running great. Nice and smooth and everything things to load fast. I don't use txt messaging though (only via GV so if it's txts you're trying to check you'll need someone else). Does that left screen actually communicate with the forums or it is just skins? I could see any way to configure anything (like where it says add icon or screenname). Looks great overall, thanks for the hard work (and thanks for not using an 'overlaying' wallpaper, I really like the wallpaper I have and most of the other themes have something overlaid on top of it for the homescreen, it was annoying me). Thanks again. Looking forward to your 'simple' layout in the future.

 

[JonKyu]

The icons are from the the "iPhone 3G icon pack" available on the market for free. I used bettercut to put them in to the dock.

Also I think it should be good to go now. I'm still getting a lot of FC when I try to edit the theme though I don't know if it's the theme or just my phone cause this theme was a nightmare with all the FC I was getting while trying to edit stuff. Also if you do install it can you tell me if your messages are showing up in the left screen, mine won't show up no matter what I do.

I have a headache...This is going to be my last "complex like" theme until SH2 gets more stable. If I do make a theme its going to be really simple lol.

I'll post screenshots tomorrow of how I've set it up on mine.

Cool, d/l it now. Will let you know. I actually am looking forward to making a "simple" theme. I haven't tried to 'create' a theme yet but I have done some basic editing to the default theme and didn't have the program FC once. But it could be something more complex like the springboards or something (I didn't get into those yet). While I like things to be easy to get to and fast I don't care for too much complexity or "flash."

Update: Got it loaded. It seems to be running great. Nice and smooth and everything things to load fast. I don't use txt messaging though (only via GV so if it's txts you're trying to check you'll need someone else). Does that left screen actually communicate with the forums or it is just skins? I could see any way to configure anything (like where it says add icon or screenname). Looks great overall, thanks for the hard work (and thanks for not using an 'overlaying' wallpaper, I really like the wallpaper I have and most of the other themes have something overlaid on top of it for the homescreen, it was annoying me). Thanks again. Looking forward to your 'simple' layout in the future.

Cool glad it's working ok. I had to uninstall sweeter home and reinstall to see if it would make my life easier somehow. I got stuck in a red droid eye loop for thirty minutes, I was just about to do a hard reset and bam there went the unlock-screen, seems like I got lucky yet again lol. unfortunately I now forgot my password :\ lol Anyway. No it doesn't connect to the forum you have to plug-in your username at the three places, and for fun put in your avatar lol. I hope you have find them easily they're kinda buried in layers of mush (I really wish there was a way to hide layers while your editing so it'll be cleaner and faster to edit.

 

[Itsrayraytime]

I find setting the layers to 1 through 10 helps when working. It will default to the highest number layer when pressing.

 

[brock]

ya i just uninstalled it. just way too buggy. back to home++ because it rarely crashes for me.

 

[KZIWarrior]

ya i just uninstalled it. just way too buggy. back to home++ because it rarely crashes for me.

HUH?? This hasn't crashed on me yet (while, once in the theme editor, but never running the Home app). Home++ would crash every time I brought the phone out of sleep (though it did work flawlessly for several days, then for no reason it started crashing regularly... I hadn't installed any new apps or changed any settings, it just got corrupted somehow). Here's hoping the same thing doesn't happen with Sweeter Home.