I have a new Motorola V3 RaZor with a Beautiful 262000 color screen just dying for some talented person here to make a special "Skin" for it. The OS is the same as the E398. I will post my review of the RaZor this weekend if someone would like to have their skin featured....it would be a first outside of Motorola...

bengalboy - which software to make it with?

yeah. is there any 'skin compiler' or at least a guide to tell us which items can be altered within the skin and what the dimensions of each item are? What kind of images are supported and what kind are not?

I did a little search on skinning E398 but came up empty handed Any suggestions?

i did find the a motorola "thememaker" but it was aimed at the v series...and all you could do is change the wallpaper, assign a ringtone, and add screensaver...can't really call that theming...

yeah i know about that one, but it is my understanding that on the E398 9and therefore also on this razor) one can change the ENTIRE look of the whole ui... so there needs to be a skinning program out there somewhere, right??? I mean, it can't be that ONLY motorola makes those skins

Just says its a .tcf file....no way to send the 3 that are installed....can only be deleted...

I've done some researching myself, and found this from the E398 documentation :

I'll take some photos of the screens associated with different skins so you guys can see how a menu look changes or a item such as a clock can be changed from one skin to the other....

expert - i used it and the new models have been added to it i.e. e398...still searching for an application that lets you do more...if that's possible..

by the looks of it...the v3 has similarities to the series 60 themes...maybe a link?

Just to reinterate...I played with the 3 different themes today...definitely a big difference from the K700....the shape and size of the menu items can be changed as well as color and background... Photos will be posted tomorrow but it looks like something you guys would really like to play with...

sounds very interesting...
if only i could find the dang software for it

Hi Mark

Would sure be fun to do some themes for this very beautiful phone, and the impressive 262+ colours :-D

Since there are themes on the phone, then I guess it would be obvious that users could do these themselves ?
V3 is so new,..that might be the reason why no application can be found yet.


Some of it, especially clock part does look like Series 60 (but I sincerely hope that if there is a theme builder for this V3, then it will not be as un-userfriendly as the Series60 studio).

BR
Jan

I too hope there is a tool to theme the razr, but I guess jh67's right about:

Hehe Adonis

I never really got that theme studio right,..it always stopped working after a while, simply hate it *LOL*
Gotta be the most un-userfriendly thing I've ever experienced,..
A good place to start would be to convert it to XP usage,...I know, it should work there too, but just not very well ;-D

BR
jan

jan - this was my experience with it

http://www.mobile9.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=1996&hl=

actually, the new version of theme studio is for XP, and is faster i heard? nevertheless, it's still not user-friendly. I guess we are spoilt by TCP

All I can add to this thread for now - is that on Motorollas developer section there are no mentioning of any upcoming themeeditor besides the media manager 1.5 which only changes background, screensaver and ringtone. This is also mentioned in the whitepapers as the only themingsupport for E398 if we are to compare this a litle with V3.

Ok Expert,..I didnt even know, hehe,...
but then, if they didnt make it more userfriendly, then theres no point in trying it out again *LOL*

Spawn,..
hmmm, does sound a bit odd,..would think that they would let people do themes, IF its possible.
Doesnt Motorola have a site like the SE "Fun and Downloads" ?
(guess that would be the place to look for alternative themes for the phones, IF there are any ?).

BR
Jan

I've been to a site that was previously called 'moto one' but now has a new name (which i have forgotten ) and they claimed to be waiting for a theme creator like program by Motorola as currently they say there are NO alternative skins out.

Now it appeared they've been waiting for quite some time now

Also I have not been able to find a single skin other than 3 regularly named skins that came on the E398

I don't get it though...... they must have included skins because they saw the popularity of the feature.... but if they did they must know a skin creator is required...... so wehere is it? and why canm't we just have it?



Bengal Boy was any software for skinning included on a CD with the phone by chance?

And has anybody been able to lift a skin off a motorola?? So perhaps we could try and 'disect' it?

the E398 is out though

Posted a review of the RaZr on Howardforums....you can see the 3 Skins and the differences it makes in the appearance of the screen now....