Nearly a week ago to the hour, a beta for the Plazmic Content Developer's Kit (CDK) version 4.7 leaked out on the net. Though it's an early beta and there are some known bugs, that hasn't stopped BlackBerry theme developers from going crazy on pumping out Storm and Curve 8900 themes, which have had a massively pent up demand. Just take a quick gander at the Storm themes forum to see how much it has grown in a week!
One free theme in particular has caught the attention of the CrackBerry community, with the action on the accompanying forum thread rivaling that of a leaked Storm OS! CrackBerry.com member hastings has created the AppleBerry theme for the BlackBerry Storm. There tends to be a love or hate opinion on themes that are based on another device's OS (be it mobile OS or desktop OS), but regardless of that opinion the AppleBerry theme is SLICK. I installed it on my Storm and have been thoroughly impressed. Pretty much everything has been re-skinned, I love the message/calendar preview on the homescreen and "touch strip" is clever. On the homescreen, clicking in the empty area above the eight shortcuts (the "touch strip") takes you to the Application screen.
For more images, info and to download, head on over to AppleBerry forum thread.
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Truly an awesome theme! I've had this loaded for a few hours now and I love it! Hastings did an awesome job!
can any one help me? I downloaded this them but cant load it. I am still new to bb
Did you figure it out? If it downloaded successfully it should have asked you if you want to reboot? After the reboot, go to Options>themes and choose AppleBerry. It should be the first theme in the list!
like it saysz reboot and everything and then yu told someone to go to options and then it saysz themes? i never found thattt ? where do i look up optionsz. this is for the blackberry storm. this is my number to help mee
805-290-2882 please and thank you,
when i touch the text messages or the calander it doesnt show up like the above pic how do i get it to
thanks for the heads up. looks great. will dl soon.
Theme looks great on my iStorm! :P
Thanks for the theme! it does look good tho'!
Try this Theme.
http://www.mobireach.com/upload/771/25771/com_plazmic_theme_iBerryX_Blac...
ONLY on the STORM.
Your welcome.
I've had this theme from Hastings for a few days. It's truly amazing. I've had no problems at all. And he's put out an update every day. Good work hastings.
Make sure to donate guys, if you are able to.
Can u email me the new storm theme because I cant get to my phone please help
Great job. Any chance for an 8900 version?
Its too i phonish for me thanks....i'll stick with blackberry since i already have a mac computer, i will keep my blackberry a blackberry all the way around.
Yeah good call elad. I don't understand this obsession with iPhone themes. Why get a blackberry if you're just going to superficially make it an iPhone? Oh well, I guess to each their own...
Thank you Hastings, for making my Storm oh-so-beautiful!!
It makes the storm work faster(scrolling, screen rotation...)!
Wonderful job! It's beautiful!
I do actually like the max os x theme from mmmooo more :)
Andrew Hastings did it the right way. It's WONDERFUL.
This is my first time installing a new theme. I have downloaded to my computer, but how do I get it installed on my phone? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
...I got it. Feel like such an idiot now! ha
I download the new theme and it looks great! However, my download apps are not showning up, such as Bolt, Quick Launch, ect. Any ideas?
I lost my SMS Icon as well? Everything else looks great but I use this a lot!
I found afetr downloading the new theme, it moved all my downloaded app icons back in my download folder. I moved them back to "home" location and everything is working fine, except, I am also missing my SMS icon.
Yeah I had to do the same thing for my downloaded apps...no biggie. Still don't have my SMS icon. Everything works fine cause texts come into the "messages" folder but I just liked having them separate. Everything else works great though...I am really enjoying this so far. It seems to boot faster as well!
Try this:
-Open Massages
-Click "Options"
-Click "General Options"
-Look at "SMS and EMail Inboxes". "Seperate" should be selected.
Sorry for my bad english. ;-)
Thanks Papa...I had forgot about that! I remembering having to do that when I first setup the phone after purchase but forgot about it. Worked like a charm. Thanks again!!
I have the 9530 version of the storm and it doesn't have the option of clicking "general option" etc. I went under SMS text however and it doesn't give me the choice of making it seperate. HELP?!
I've tried it a number of times as well as other suggestions from the thread, eg - typing in the link to my browser but i still cant get it to work - any suggestions please guys?
I just went to crackberry.com on my phone's browser and went to the correct page and just used the main "download" link and it installed like most other apps. Good luck!
I copied the link from my laptop and sent to my email. Then clicked on link in email and all worked fine.
I you didnt get it already... Go to crackberry.com on your phone. scroll down and zoom in. Use the curser and click on download now. It will down load it right to your phone. Go to options themes and select new theme. my email is vincetybor@yahoo.com if you need anymore help.
I have had it for a few days also...it is great! Please donate to Hastings if you are able, he did his homework on this one. He collaborated with the developer of QuickLaunch for better integration!
Thanks for you for the great work!
its a wonderful Theme very impressive who ever has developed it.
Its a nice looking theme but could never figure out why in all the today themes, that my SMS Messages are sent messages that were from a week or so back and then jump to December?
the Android theme is very nice as well, it needs some love too!
This theme looks great but it seems to slow my storm up for the theme i was using :(
I think I'm gonna rock this one for a while! Excellent work Hastings!
I cant get it to download
Beta tested it.
Using it now.
Loving it! I've tried 5 dif themes and this by far is the very best to date. Very complete and has a few features you wouldn't expect in a theme this early on!
Good job man!
Cool App, makes the appearance look much nicer then the plain and standard BB Storm theme, my only complaint is you cant touch the top screen to bring up all the icons anymore you have to hit the BB button and I cant set my home screen icons (Top 8) to what I want, it defaults back to E-Mail, Messages, Contacts, Browser, Music, Media, Games and Instant Messanger, othewise I really Like it.
Im SO glad there is a new theme. Lookin forward to more to come
Donate if you can...he's put a lot of hard work into this for our community. He's made a couple of versions doing what we've asked to make it a better product and he's not done yet.
Thanks Crackberry friends....
I got the theme downloaded. But how do I get my calendar events to show up like the pic above?
Do you have dates (events) listed in your calendar? If not, add something. It should pop on the home screen.
thanks! it worked!
once i download this sick new theme can i switch back and forth between this and the stock Zen theme whenever i want?
Yes. options<>themes,select theme.
How do I get the theme. Ive been trying to figure it out for an hour now and can't get it. Some 1 please email me vincetybor@yahoo.com
I love the theme it looks amazing! Though I seem to have lost my facebook?! and some of my applications say "research in motion limited" whats that mean and how can I get my FB back?! If anyone could help I really would appreciate it!
Thanks
look in your applications and downloads folders.
I've been using it for a couple of hours...still not set on it.