Personal Themes

Just wanted to let you guys know that we're going to start removing the more personal themes that get uploaded to the site. Themes that have a picture of you, your girlfriend, your kid, your friends, etc. Basically things that only you and one or two other people would want to download. If you want to send these to your friends, we recommend emailing them directly. We're not sure why people are uploading these for everyone else to sort through. The themes created by the Theme Generator will still be left for long periods of time for multiple downloads as long as you save the link. Currently we go through and clean these all up every few months to save on space. Let us know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on this stuff or anything else on sk3themes.com

No name themes?

Are you a non-US sidekick owner trying to load themes and they show up with blank names?

Open the folders and open theme.txt in notepad. You should see something like this:

# Theme name
string Name(en_US) NameOfTheme

What you need to do is take out the (en_US) so you have:

# Theme name
string Name NameOfTheme

That should do it! We've also updated the theme generator so that it creates themes that aren't english specific.

Move complete!

Whew... what a day. We're finally up and running on the new server and things are looking better. There will probably be a few kinks to work out over the next few days because there were some software upgrades as well as hardware. If you see anything out of the ordinary on sk3themes.com please email us! admin@sk3themes.com

Thanks and enjoy the faster server!

New theme trick

Want to include a Keyguard image in your theme as well? Just add the following line to theme.txt:

bitmap keyguard-background name-of-your-image.png

In order for this to work you have to have the default T-Mobile Sidekick 3 keyguard selected on your device and you may have to reboot (1-@-0) to reload the themes.

Server move

Ok, due to some personal life happenings as well as issues with the server, the move got postponed. We're working on it right now and will hopefully (*fingers crossed*) have the site running on the new server by the end of the day. We did some testing of the new server and are basically waiting for all the files and databases and everything to be synchronized to the new server. With the size of the site and the slow speed of the old server it's taking a little longer than expected. Hang in there guys!

By the way, we've heard a lot of requests for a search functionality. We've got it in the plans and should be in the next revision of the site, along with sorting by ratings. But the server move is first priority now. :)