Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Super Status Bar (SSB) Themes

*** You must have the premium (paid) version of Super Status Bar to use themes. *** 

Click link to download the super status bar theme. Once downloaded, click the download and select "package installer". I use APK Installer. You will get a message that will ask if you want to install this application. Click install. Once the application is installed, click open. This installs the theme in SSB. When complete, back out and open SSB. Go to the theme section and your theme should be there. 

**Keep in mind the instructions may be a little different depending on the apps you use. 

GoSMS Themes

Click on the GoSMS theme link to download. After download completes, click on it. A box will come up that says "Complete action using". Select Package Installer. I have APK Installer on my phone. Any APK installation app should work. Install theme and click open.

To use the theme, go into GoSMS to menu. Go to the theme area to your installed themes and select the one you want. 

GoLauncher EX Themes

Click on the GoLauncher EX theme link to download. After download completes, click on it. A box will come up that says "Complete action using". Select Package Installer. I have APK Installer on my phone. Any APK installation app should work. Install theme and click open.

To use the theme, go to your home screen to the menu. Go to the theme area to your installed themes and select the one you want. 

Smart Keyboard Skins

Skin only works with Smart Keyboard which you can download from Google Play Store. 

From phone, click on the smart keyboard link and download. Go to your download folder and find the zip file. Hard press the zip file and select "copy". Navigate to your skins folder. If you don't have one, create one. Path should be sdcard/skins. Paste into skins folder. ***DO NOT UNZIP***

For the phones that use the actual phone's storage such as the SG3 or Note2, the path will be storage/sdcard0/skins. This is NOT your external sdcard. 

Go to settings for your keyboard and select skin.

Another way to do this is to save the keyboard skin to your computer. Hook your phone to the computer and transfer the zip file to your skins folder



Once your skins are in the folder, press your Smart Keyboard icon. This screen comes up. Press settings at the bottom. 

Make sure the box next to Smart Keyboard Pro is checked. Click into the link above it that says Smart Keyboard Pro (Smart Keyboard Pro settings)

 Now click General Settings

 Select skin

 Scroll to the skin you want to use and press it



BeWeather Icons

*** To use BeWeather icon sets, you need the premium (paid) version of BeWeather found in Google Play Store ***

Click on the BeWeather link to download the icon set. Go to your download folder in your file manager and locate the weather set you just downloaded. I use Astro as my file manager. Hard press the downloaded file and select copy or move. Navigate to your BeWeather folder and paste. 

If you already have the BeWeather widget on your homescreen, go to settings and select the new iconset. 

If you are just adding the BeWeather widget to your homescreen, select the size you want (I normally use 4x2). Choose the widget type (I normally use "current weather"). Select your font, size, color. If you do not want text on your screen, make the color fully transparent. If you want the background behind the weather set to be transparent, go to the bottom under Widget Background and change the solid color to fully transparent. Click save. 

Here are some screen shots of what you should see:
Once you have the widget on your homescreen, press it to get to settings

Go to Iconset

The installed icon tab should show the icon sets you just downloaded

The download icons tab is a list of icon sets on the Bellshare servers you can download 

If you click the 3 dots that is to the right of my current temperature (34), it brings you to the setup screen where you configure colors, fonts, background, change widget type etc

Options (self explanatory)

The very bottom under "Solid Color" is where you would make your background transparent on your home screen. Or you can have any color you want :)






Icons

The icons I post on my site will come in a zip file. This is just a guideline because there are many ways to get the icons on your phone. I use Astro File Manager. It works really well for me. I also use dropbox and box.

Icon pack in a zip file- click on link and download to your phone. Go to your download folder on your sdcard and find the zip file you just downloaded. Hard press the zip and select "move". Navigate to your icon folder within your media folder. If you don't have an icon folder, create one. Then create a new folder with the name of your icons and paste the zip file. Now hard press the zip file and select "extract", then "extract to this directory". All the icons will be in this folder. 

To change the icons on your homescreen(s) to the new icons, hard press the icon, select "replace" (I use GoLauncher so it may be different with other launchers), select "gallery" and your individual icon folders should now show up. Click the icon folder and select the icon you want to use.

Other ways to do this is with a dropbox or box account. Place the icons within your own folders on these apps. When changing your homescreen icons, you can navigate to your dropbox or box account and select the icons you wish to use. 

Example: sdcard/media/icons/(folder with name of icons)