30GB iPod Themes (Need Help)

[Omerta]

Hey Guys I'm kind of new at this so bear with me.

I have a 30GB Video iPod with Rockbox installed. I want to apply a theme called PJ Green. I downloaded it, and extracted all the files to their proper folders. When I start up the iPod and go to "Browse Themes" in "Settings". I tryed the RocboxUtility (MAC) but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

I was able to get the backdrops to load from "Files", but what I want is the entire theme to load with all the icons, fonts, etc etc.

Now I have searched google for quite a while looking for a solution, so I hope one of you can help me.

Thanks,
Omerta.

[mschneider]

Are you just having trouble putting the files in the right place? If so, just drag and drop the .rockbox folder that you unzipped to the root of your player where the other .rockbox folder is. the files should put themselves in the proper places (then you can go to "browse themes" and get it up).

[Omerta]

That's not the problem I'm having. I'm having a problem with getting the theme to load.

[Chronon]

You said:

When I start up the iPod and go to "Browse Themes" in "Settings".

Can you please complete that sentence?  What happens when you do this?

[Omerta]

Lol, sorry.

When I go into "Browse Themes" I don't see any of the themes that I downloaded. I don't know how to apply the entire theme.

[Chronon]

That suggests that you didn't unzip them to the right place.  Check the path to your .wps file for starters.

[Omerta]

I did.. everything is correct

[etien]

I usually install my new themes manually. I also have a mac, so seeing invisible files can be a bit tricky. Here's what I do:

1. navigate to the iPod root folder in Terminal: open Terminal window, type "cd " (note the space) and drag the iPod icon to the Terminal window. press enter.
2. make invisible rockbox folder visible: "mv .rockbox rockbox". This renames the ".rockbox" folder as "rockbox", thus making it visible.
3. unzip the theme you've downloaded. Most themes once unzipped are named ".rockbox", so do the same 1-2 steps to make it visible (in step one you need to "cd " to the directory where the theme was unzipped)
4. copy files one by one to their correct location, if a directory does not exist in your iPod's rockbox directory, create it (eg the folder "fonts" does not exist by default, you'll need to create it).
5. "cd " to your iPod again, and make "rockbox" folder invisible again ("mv rockbox .rockbox")

test it, it should work now. Always worked for me anyway. Please note however that some themes require that you install special builds of Rockbox (with special fonts and additional patches, such as scroll bars etc)

[Chronon]

etien, that might help if the OP has trouble unzipping the folders to the correct location.  However, the OP claims to have all of the files in the correct place. . .

Omerta, what happens if you go to /.rockbox/themes/ and "play" one of the .cfg files there?  Do the themes that you installed all have a correspondingly named .cfg file in the themes folder?

[Omerta]

If I go to files/rockbox/themes the files are there, but nothing changes when I load them.

[Febs]

If I go to files/rockbox/themes the files are there, but nothing changes when I load them.

This is not the right path.  The theme .cfg files should be in /.rockbox/themes.  If they are actually in a directory called /files/rockbox/themes or even /rockbox/themes, then you have not extracted them properly.

Note that the leading dot in the /.rockbox directory (which you have omitted) is important.

[Domonoky]

Anotherway would be to use the Rockbox Utillity (rbutil), you can find it in the Wiki.

This Tool can install Themes from rockbox-themes.org with a few clicks.. :-)