6StringDave
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My Incredible is my very first smart phone. Before I made the transition, I used an Ericsson music slider, which supported themes, and free software enabled me to create my own fairly easily. Working with GIMP, I created custom highlights, animated bullet pointers, and screen backgrounds, which were then used to create new themes for that phone. The satisfaction from that made it much easier for me to spend so much time scrolling through menus just to access the simplest functions.
Since I made the switch, I have found that Android themes depend on the support of your home screen developer, and anyway I have found less appeal in them where it's icon-based navigation - especially when they get really cute and tweak your icons (so that they look too much the same to tell them apart, as well as hard on the eyes). Anyway, I spent too much time looking for perfect home screen functionality to that there hasn't been time to look into theme creation, even if I wanted to.
However, I use wallpaper changers which don't depend on the home screen developer, and so I'm wondering if the one thing which I miss being able to change on my older, simpler phone is possible with Incredible. I would like to change the splash screen which comes up when my phone is ringing. I would like to replace that dim-looking green android with, say, an image of Darth Vader, or of the android riding a lightning bolt (with animated smoke rising off it's green shell, as it turns somewhat darker)
Much as I love Android, there's not a creepier sight than an image which suggests that some damned robot is making phone calls to you, or worse, controlling your life. An upgrade on this idea would be to enable customization of the phone-ringing screen for your family and friends, depending on who's calling. It would really lift my mood if I could take back my control of this. Is there software available for this, for rooted or not rooted?
Since I made the switch, I have found that Android themes depend on the support of your home screen developer, and anyway I have found less appeal in them where it's icon-based navigation - especially when they get really cute and tweak your icons (so that they look too much the same to tell them apart, as well as hard on the eyes). Anyway, I spent too much time looking for perfect home screen functionality to that there hasn't been time to look into theme creation, even if I wanted to.
However, I use wallpaper changers which don't depend on the home screen developer, and so I'm wondering if the one thing which I miss being able to change on my older, simpler phone is possible with Incredible. I would like to change the splash screen which comes up when my phone is ringing. I would like to replace that dim-looking green android with, say, an image of Darth Vader, or of the android riding a lightning bolt (with animated smoke rising off it's green shell, as it turns somewhat darker)
Much as I love Android, there's not a creepier sight than an image which suggests that some damned robot is making phone calls to you, or worse, controlling your life. An upgrade on this idea would be to enable customization of the phone-ringing screen for your family and friends, depending on who's calling. It would really lift my mood if I could take back my control of this. Is there software available for this, for rooted or not rooted?