Removing Pesky Themes
Ever had those tough to remove themes? Installed them, but after awhile they lose their appeal and when you try to remove them, they aren’t even listed in the list of uninstallables?
S60 3rd’s Echozulu has this trick up his sleve. (The Step by step is a quote from their site, click on the link to see the guide with pics)
1. Connect your device to your PC in ‘Mass storage’ mode - or insert your Mini SD card into a card reader and connect it to your PC.
2. Once your PC recognizes your card a new drive will appear under ‘My Computer’. Open it, and browse to \private\10207114\import.
3. Browse through each of the folders in this directory to find the theme you would like to remove. The MBM, MIF, and SKN files in each folder should each be named after the theme - so if you want to remove a theme called “MyTheme”, look for “MyTheme.mbm” etc.
*Note that you may see some MBM/MIF/SKN files named simply “themepackage.mbm” etc. In this case, simply open the SKN file in Notepad and you will see the actual theme name in the first few lines of text. Here is an example:
In the example you can see that the actual name of the theme is N80 Simplified v2 (created by teddymustupo).
4. Once you’ve found the folder containing the theme files you’d like to remove, simply delete the contents of the folder (don’t delete the folder itself).
Now put your card back in your phone you’ll notice that the theme is no longer listed under themes and you’ve freed up some space on your memory card.











Some of the names don’t show up in the .skn file.
My problem is a little bit different. Some of the themes just disappear when I install new themes and I cannot reinstall the ones I have lost!
Hi Salaah,
I faced the same problem as you are now facing. A hard reset seemed to have solved the problem for me. I was again able to re-install the theme which I lost.
I suspect something in the E61’s innards / registry went haywire and short circuited.
Cheers,
Andrew
i find it easier to remove themes by going to the app manager and removing them.
or you can go to the themes tab and just press backspace to delete the theme you wanted. just a thought.
omg. the backspace wont work anymore for removing the themes. dont know what happened. grrrrrr