A Symbian Christmas 2007: Part 2 - S60 3rd Edition Themes
Published by krisse at 17:51 UTC, December 11th 2007
There are lots of themes for S60 3rd Edition phones, and there are lots of them which feature Christmas, but only a few are actually practical to use. All About Symbian serves up a selection of stylish and legible themes for your handset.
A Symbian Christmas 2007: Part 2 - S60 3rd Edition Themes
(We're concentraing on S60 3rd Edition themes for the very mundane reason that this writer no longer has an S60 2nd Edition handset. Those of you with 2nd Edition phones should check out symbianthemes.com.)
We're back, this time with a guide to Christmas-related themes which not only look nice and festive, but also manage to keep text clear and readable. We went through dozens of themes, but only nine made the grade.
The following themes should work on pretty much any S60 3rd Edition device, and most of them work in both horizontal and vertical mode. To save space though, we're just posting the vertical screenshots.
You can also see a video of these themes in action, and a video tutorial on how to install S60 3rd Edition themes over on the Nokia Duck blog.
All these themes are free. If you're interested in a theme, click on its screenshot and you'll be taken to its download page. Themes come as .SIS files, which are installed just like S60 applications and games.
Categories: How To, Comment, Software
Platforms: N-Gage, S60 3rd Edition
Feature Discussion
I thought that meant the N95 for example.
But when I try and install "Waiting For Christmas", or "Christmas Tree", the installation on the phone, tells me they are "not for this type of phone".
Where am I going wrong?
EDIT: DESPITE the warning errors, they seem to work however.
I just wanna share a great themes from Luciola called
"Candy Xmas"
It's a great christmas themes!!
Here is the link
(snip)
Sorry no screenshot
Enjoy!
Those themes should work if you use them with the phone in vertical (portrait) mode.
Ericko, the link you gave was to a corrupt zip file.
Thanks for the link wingphil, that theme does look excellent.
http://www.pizero.net/archives/232
"winter" is not a Christmas theme!
But like i say, they both work.
With a BUG however...
The first theme...
When typing, as if to dial a number direct, the text is in WHITE, in a WHITE box. In other words, totally invisible.
Same for the caller name on incoming or outgoing calls though - so you cant see who is calling etc.
That works totally fine for me, and I actually tested it on two different S60 models (N93 and 6290). The text is white on a red background.
If you meant Waiting For Christmas, that too works fine for me, it's white text on a blue background.
Do you have any software running in the background when you install or use the theme with the bug?
One thing I did notice was that the text colour on the official preview screenshots didn't always match the text colour when I actually installed the theme. Several of the themes I tried failed to make it into the article because they had precisely the colour bug you encountered, white on a white background.
Is it possible that some S60 3rd phones and/or firmwares interpret themes slightly differently to others?
Whatever the case, these themes are all free so there's no harm in trying them. :-)
http://nokiaduck.blogspot.com/2007/1...on-themes.html
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Originally Posted by Ericko
Hi there..
I just wanna share a great themes from Luciola called "Candy Xmas" It's a great christmas themes!! Here is the link Sorry no screenshot Enjoy! |
Thanks Ericko for enlisting me ^_^
Here's the missing screenshots of my Christmas theme.
Thanks Nihilum for the great iconset.
Wish everyone here a holly jolly Xmas :)
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(Sorry about the inconvenience, the sis file exceeds my upload limit)