Captain_Caveman

It normally prompts you to make an account when you do the initial setup of the phone. Unfortunatley, i don't know of a work around but there are far many positives to having a google account than there are negatives. One big positive is you can sync your contacts with google so if you do have to wipe your phone. You can have ALL of your contacts back with 1 click Every time i add a new contact, it is instantly (well, when my google account re-syncs itself automatically) synced. Obviously you get an email address aswell, i use my gmail one for websites, giving to people that aren't my friends/family (ie ebay, forums etc) so it does come in handy.

People seem to be missing an important point here. You, yourself have admitted that the medication is affecting your driving, do you really think that you should be driving at all after you have admitted this? I for one wouldn't want to come accross you on the road knowing you had taken a handful of pills that make your head all wobbly and you can't concentrate on driving. As said above, the driving test is the easy part. After that, you actually start to learn how to drive and things are a whole different ball park, no randomer sat next to you with some pedals ready to bail you out either!

Haha, has Dave Parker told you all his boring stories yet? Just ask him a random question and he will digress for the whole lesson As 'abstract' as Dave Lawford's teaching is, listen to him, especially when it comes to calculus because he REALLY knows what he's on about When i did my apprenticeship i had John Markovych, Paul Lindley, Phil Holdsworth, Julie Bamford (huuuuuge rack!) and a few others that were so boring i can't remember lol. Sorry for going offtopic, it's not often you find someone else living a few miles from you that has the same tutors as you!

Ahh, know of them but never had them myself. I had Dave Lawford, Dave Parker and Rob Fisher last year, of and some Steve guy that we did C++ with.

If you had read the thread, you would of noticed that several referances to xda-developers have been mentioned, try looking on there and you will find what you need. Yes you will need to root your phone to apply themes (skinning launcher pro is TOTALLY different to theming) I'm not going to direct link you to a specific thread just because you can't be arsed looking yourself! I wouldn't be suprised if you typed into google "samsung galaxy themes", plenty of links to XDA-developers would show up.

SimiClock FTW I noticed you have a battery percentage thingy, try the one called 'batt stat' from the market, it's free and imo looks neater.

I dunno what people use, i'm guessing photoshop but i think some people use GIMP perfectly fine. Any image editing software will do the job, just use one that you're familiar with. Nothing to be worried about when it comes to rooting, it's a very safe process nowadays.

That's probably where i've seen you then. I was doing my HNC in Mech Engineering last year up there. Which tutors do you have?

For some reason i recognise you but can't picture where from, where abouts in hudds are you from? Where you do work or study/what do you study?

EVERYTHING you need on rooting/ROMs etc is in this thread here. Seriously, don't start messing around with scripts, S-Off etc until you are familiar with your phone and the SDK. Scripts aren't dangerous really but will 'screw up' your phone (to a point where it runs very badly) but is easily recoverable by over writing the script. S-Off'ing is a different matter, you CAN brick your phone extremely easily and it isn't recoverable at all (ie - deleting the hboot/bootloader off the NAND partiton and being left with no bootloader...in laymans terms, you can't boot your phone!) Rooting is much easier now that it was when i did mine, i believe you can do it in a couple of clicks of the mouse now.

Anyone can make icons but it's very time consuming if you want to make them for all of your apps so they all match. A lot of the MIUI devs develop icons for their themes and some of them look absolutley amazing. I'm running gingerbread (2.3) on my Desire at the moment but i keep getting the urge to go back to MIUI, i think i will once they release the new GUI

Just about to send you the email with the icons, there are some icons for popular apps aswell from the market. Just long press on an icon on your home screen/toolbar thing at the bottom and a pop up will appear, just select change icon or whatever it says and choose from gallery.

I don't get along with the suppressor on the AUG, just doesn't feel right. However it's a beast with a red dot! Despite most people using red dot sights and i don't know if it's just in my head but me and a few of my mates i play with have noticed there is less kick/recoil from most weapons when using the reflex sight.

Make your own There are plenty of tutorials on how to make themes, fairly simple aswell but you will need a rooted phone. Just make a nandroid backup incase it doesn't work or you'll have a phone with no GUI

A lot of it will be 'themed', where you have to flash modified framework. Launcher pro does have the option to choose an icon from your gallery. I have a folder with 124 icons in but they are all in the same style and only really work with a dark-ish background, they are also theme'd blue (only a bit of blue on them though) If you have a look over at www.xda-developers.com and find your phone's section, there will be a 'themes and apps' section which may contain some icon packs. If you want to create your own, you will need to root your phone and use ADB to pull the app from your phone, change the .9.png icon image, re-compile with the new icon and then push it back to the phone and hope it doesn't cause force closes (which it shouldn't if done correctly). If you want my icon pack then PM me your email address (or stick it here if you don't care about spam fritters) and i'll email you it. It's only about 1mb .