Installing ambience [answered]

There are a few ambience on the openrespos.net that can be installed then why can't these be installed?

Otherwise nobody would buy other TOH from Jolla :)

@nkadithya31 - the ambience packages you find on Openrepos are 3rd party apps, they are user created, I know, one of them is my creation (Ambience AllBlack), but the ambience packages you see in Openrepos will never be found on Jolla Store. My ambience does not require a relevant TOH to be clipped onto the phone to make it work, but a TOH from Jolla Shop, will only give you ambience if you attach the TOH to your phone - in other words, buy one, you get the ambience and the nice coloured TOH itself; it's a business model.

The Ambience that comes with your white TOH is created by Jolla. Inside the white TOH is a white tag, that tag tells the phone to connect to the 'Jolla Store' to download that particular ambience package to your phone. Ambience on Openrepos are just ambience, no TOH/tag required to make them work, as a result, they are free for you to use!....I hope this goes some way to explaining why you cannot just download/get the Jolla ambience for free.

Regards,

@Markkyboy Thanks for the detailed explanation I get your point. What I am looking is it would be really nice if people like you would create more abmiences to suite varies people taste and choice not just the theme but also ring tones.

That would be really nice.

Thanks,

If you wish to learn how to create an Ambience package for yourself, there is a guide on Talk Maemo Org by Schturman. He shows how to prepare and create a .RPM package (a package that can be installed on Jolla phone). http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=92963

Of course though, content needs to be created, like your wallpaper choice, your ringtone and other tones. Be careful with using copyrighted songs for ringtones, most websites/forums don't allow/promote it. You may find yours being removed if you were to offer it up on Openrepos. There are lots of royalty free sounds and tunes one can use.

I did have 8 or 9 different ambience packages on Openrepos, but I removed them, most of them were a bit lame to be honest, so I removed them all, leaving Ambience AllBlack, bit only because it offers white highlighting instead of colour, but the package is still very limited. I created it for me but shared it.....890 downloads so far, I wonder how many keep and use it?, I know I do! ;)

I should mention that Schturman's guide for packaging .RPM files is for creation on the device (on Jolla phone) and NOT with Sailfish SDK. I still have not learned yet how to use the SDK.