10 May 2012

[tutorial] Windows 8 Android Phone

Hi, here is my Windows 8 Android Phone setup again, but this time with a tutorial!
I will guide you trough every step of it!
You can find the wallpaper here in my Dropbox
And the Metro icons, in 2 colors - Dropbox
You will need them for the setup.
Also necessary apps are Minimalistic Text, Desktop Visualizer, Extended Controls, WP7 Lock.
I'm using Launcher PRO +.

And let's go:

1. Screen for beginning:
2. First you need to remove everything from your homescreens:
 
3. Now go to Preferences>Appearance Settings>Dock Background and set it to None
the result:
4. Time to remove the Notification Bar - Preferences>Appearance Settings>Hide Notification Bar
the result:
5. Now you have to lose the dock icons - hold your finger over the icon and select Change Shortcut in the menu:
Then select Blank:
 and you will have this:
Remove the rest of the icons and change the last one with some of Win8 Icons (I've used the clear blue square)
6. Next step is to change the wallpaper using Win8HomeWall:
7. Set the Number of screens - 3, rows - 8 and columns - 7 in Preferences>Homescreen Settings
8. Now hold your finger on the screen to add some widgets. First is Minimalistic Text 3x1(hor)
9. In widget settings we have to set some of the options: Name: Social; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal text>Right; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>68dip Color>white (FFFFFFFF). You don't need to mess around with other options except the Custom layout - go there and make this:
add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "Social" in the static text field.
Now tap OK and you have your first Windows 8 style widget on your screen!
Place it on the left top corner of your first homescreen.
10. 2nd widget is minimalistic text (3x1) again with this settings:
Name: Commu; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Right; Horizontal text>Right; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>46dip Color>transparent white (68FFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "Commu" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 2nd row on the right side of the screen:
11. Go to your second screen and place new minimalistic text widget 3x1(hor).
Settings:
Name: nity; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Left; Horizontal text>Left; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>46dip Color>transparent white (68FFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "nity" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 2nd row on the left side of the screen:
 12. 2nd widget on this screen: Minimalistic text 5x1(hor)
Settings:
Name: Communit; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Right; Horizontal text>Right; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>66dip Color>white (FFFFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "Communit" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 1st row on the right side of the screen:
  13. You have to place one more widget here.
Minimalistic text 3x1(hor)
Settings:
Name: Med; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Right; Horizontal text>Right; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>46dip Color>transparent white (68FFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "Med" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 2nd row on the right side of the screen:
 14. Go to your 3rd screen and place new minimalistic text widget 2x1(hor).
Settings:
Name: ia; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Left; Horizontal text>Left; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>46dip Color>transparent white (68FFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "ia" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 2nd row on the left side of the screen:

 15. 2nd widget on this screen: Minimalistic text 2x1(hor)
Settings:
Name: y; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Left; Horizontal text>Left; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>66dip Color>white (FFFFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "y" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 1st row on the right side of the screen:
 16. 3rd widget on this screen: Minimalistic text 3x1(hor)
Settings:
Name: Media; untick Show Background; Vertical block>Bottom; Horizontal block>Left; Horizontal text>Left; Predefined layout>Custom; Text Style - Normal - Font family>segoeuil Size>66dip Color>white (FFFFFFFF).
In the Custom layout: add>misc>static text and set the style to Normal. Type "Media" in the static text field>ok and place the widget on the 1st row on the right side of the screen:
 17. Now you can go to the 1st screen and add there 3 Extended Controls widgets. (I'm using Screen ON, Bluetooth and WiFi)
18. Now is time to add icons or panels in our case (:
Add new Desktop Visualizer widget 2x2 and place it on the 3rd and 4th rows on the left side of the screen:

tap on it and select the icon for facebook from your gallery:

19. Now add the same widget next to facebook's panel for your messenger app:
20. Desktop Visualizer again but this time - 4x2 - for Instagram
21. When you add 2 more widgets for Skype and Calendar, your first screen is ready, for now:

22. On the 2nd screen you have to use Desktop Visualizer again - 6 widgets, size - 2x2: Contacts, Phone, Play Store, SMS, Internet and Lock.

23. On my setup I'm using Minimalistic text to add battery widget on the right side of the screen:
24. 3rd screen: 5 widgets (Desktop Visualizer) 4 - 2x2 for Camera, Pixlr-o-matic, Music, Aldiko and 1 - 4x2 for the Gallery panel:
 25. Now add one more Minimalistic Text widget for the clock:

26. The last action is to go in Preferences>Homescreen Settings and set the number of rows to 7:
27. For the lock screen you can use WP7Lock Lite or WP7Lock Pro .

After all of this customization you have your new Windows 8 Android Phone look!


What do you think about this tutorial? Use the comments for feedback.

9 comments:

  1. Anonymous23/6/12 13:38

    Wow very impressive!! But how did you get that font?

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    1. Thank you. I'm not sure where I found it.

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    2. how did you install the font on your phone? thanks in advance..

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    3. It isn't installed on the phone, only in minimalistic text. Place your font in some specific folder and go in minimalistic text preferences>global settings>fonts folder and select the folder.

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  2. Anonymous8/8/12 09:29

    Your #10 instruction should have Horizontal block>Left and not to the right

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    1. No.10 is for "Commu" and it should be on the right side of the screen, not on left.

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    2. Anonymous9/8/12 07:34

      I actually meant #11

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  3. Anonymous21/8/12 12:05

    this is really awesome... can you pls reupload win8 panels?

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