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If your PS Vita is running custom firmware (HENkaku, EnsÅ, h-encore, HENlo, etc.), to install or uninstall custom themes you can use:
A homebrew app for PSVita to manage themes directly from the console. Browse, download, install, and uninstall directly from this repository!
A PC software (Java) to manage themes via FTP. Simple GUI to install folders, download from repository, and backup/restore databases.
Otherwise, if your PS Vita is on official firmware, the only way to install a custom theme is through the "injection into system backups" method. Unfortunately, this is a much longer and more complex procedure, but you can find a detailed tutorial on HackInformer.com. As for uninstallation, you can either use the same method to remove the files manually from the system backup folders and the PS Vita database file, or use a more drastic but faster approach, such as restoring the PS Vita database from recovery mode and formatting the memory card.
Remember that installing a theme doesn't apply it automatically. To apply:
Because of SPAM bots, the public form has been disabled. You can contact the owner through these methods:
For generic queries, you can also leave a comment on the repository discussion page.
In the days following the release of the Henkaku hack and the subsequent PSVita DB Theme Installer 360, one of the most frequent questions I read on forums and social networks was:
Of course, there were already threads or posts collecting custom themes on various sites, but they were often cluttered with user comments, varied preview image sizes and types, and dead download links from numerous file-hosting services. Hence the idea of creating a repository that was simple, fast, and mobile-friendly, yet complete and free, where all users could find and download custom themes for their console in just a few seconds. And thus, the PSVita Custom Themes - Free Repository was born!
In this repository, you will find custom themes created by amateur users, collected from around the web, and then tested, arranged, and reuploaded so that they are ready to download and use. Obviously, it was impossible to retrieve every existing custom theme on the web, and many of those found no longer had valid download links. However, this repository includes a public feature to submit a custom theme. Whether you are the creator of a new custom theme or you have just found one around the web that is not currently included, you can easily submit it so that it can be added soon.
The custom themes in this repository have been collected from around the web. All rights to them, therefore, belong to their rightful owners.
This repository is completely free. Its author (@redsquirrel87) is in no way related to the creators of these custom themes and therefore does NOT take any responsibility for their contents. For any dispute about a custom theme in this repository, you can use the Contact Us section to ask for details or request the removal of content that, unintentionally, may have caused you damage in any way.
The custom themes in this repository have all been checked and are clean from malicious files; despite this, it is still possible that you may experience some unknown problems out of our control. For this reason, please remember that you are using the custom themes in this repository always at your own risk.
Since there is a function in PSVita DB Theme Installer 360 that lets users download custom themes from this repository and install them directly on their PSVita memory card, all extra files and subfolders have been deleted from the ZIP packages of the custom themes to save space. They will still be available as a separate download.