I didn’t understand why this regular archive has these armv7 dependencies in its filename. It should be something like .noarch. Maybe you can just rename it to install, i don’t try it.
Another thing that comes to mind is that the old ambiences don’t work correctly design-wise with the new ambience system, which requires the background picture to be square so it also looks good on the rotating home/lock screen in landscape mode.
The images have strong JPEG compression artifacts. They should use a lossless format, the current displays show the artifacts with no mercy. Maybe we can remake the themes if Jolla allows us to, I can do it.
And finally, Jolla could put the reworked themes in their store.
Hiya, I am very new to all this. I recently got a hold of the Stella Themed Jolla and was a lil disappointed (but understanding) that when trying to download the ambience from the store, it wouldn’t work.
I came across this thread and it seems like there’s a roundabout way to still be able to get the ambience onto my phone, however I am clueless on how to even go about it. I would appreciate any help or links that anyone could provide. This has been a holy grail item for my Angry Birds Stella collection and it would be nice for the phone to be “complete“.
If you go to the link I posted a little higher up in the thread, click on ‘stella’, and then download all four .rpm files to your phone. It’s easier to do so on your computer and then transfer them over to the phone, because you’ll need to copy the URLs and remove ‘index.php’ from them to make them work. Once you’ve downloaded them, you can install them one by one by just tapping on them. It could be that you first need to go to Settings → Untrusted software (or something like that) and make sure that’s enabled.
Technically speaking the ambience itself is just the first .rpm file, so if that’s all you’re after, you can save yourself a bit of work. The other files are, in order: the translations for the ambience, a ‘partner space’ (which was basically just an advertisement for Rovio), and the translations for that ‘partner space’.
I installed a file browser app onto the phone to access the files. I dragged them from my computer into the downloads folders. Tapping the files on the phone isn’t doing anything and I have enabled untrusted software.
Strange, normally a dialog should pop up at the top of the screen, with a big ‘+’ button. You could try installing them manually through the terminal. First you’ll have to enable developer mode through Settings, after which a terminal application should show up. When you open it, you can enter the following command:
And hit enter. Do so for all RPM files you want to install. You can press ‘tab’ on the terminal keyboard to autocomplete, so you don’t need to type the whole name of the RPM file. For example, you could type:
Sorry for the late reply. When trying to download the main RPM, I get: Fatal error: nothing provides ambience-stella-all-translations needed by ambience-stella-0.0.16-10.32.1.jolla.armv7hl.rpm
So I try installing the translations, which goes further on, asking me to proceed with changes, and I just type in y next to the [N/y], and then get: Fatal error: Failed to obtain authentication.
Sorry, you probably need to do the following first:
Set up a password in the settings for developer mode (just use a single character, it doesn’t matter for these purposes).
Open the terminal app again, and this time, enter the following command first: devel-su
It will ask you for your password. Type in whatever you set as the password and press Enter. You won’t see anything appear when you’re typing the password, but it’ll work.
That will give you so-called root privileges to install applications (and do many other things, but none of them relevant in this case).
Then, retry the pkcon install commands mentioned above.