Hi All,
I'm wondering if anyone knows how to define the settings for ADW.Launcher in a custom ROM. Is there some sort of XML file I can put in /system or something?
I'd like to pre-define the icons/widgets on the desktop and the action buttons.
jrebeiro said:
Hi All,
I'm wondering if anyone knows how to define the settings for ADW.Launcher in a custom ROM. Is there some sort of XML file I can put in /system or something?
I'd like to pre-define the icons/widgets on the desktop and the action buttons.
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Umm. You would need to look at how ADW stores its settings just now. They will be in /data/data/com.adw.launcher/ or something like that. Play with the files there and see what happens and look inside the sqlite databases etc.
Then try putting those files into the data folder of your zip.Give that a go.
Did anybody get this to work yet? A similar question was asked in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7571896#post7571896
I replied with an XML file I found that may be useful, but I didn't get a chance to test it yet.
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HI guys
I seem to try a lot of roms but would like an easy optioin to go back to my preferred layout. I dont want to use a backup program as I am also learning rom cooking.
OK so what I want to do is take overcome, pack adwlauncher into it AND modify its settings (add icon theme, move front screen icons, add some widgets to the homescreen etc)
I Have been experimenting and not having much luck.
First thing i did was edit the build.prop and modify the density to my liking. Works fine.
I deleted launcher.apk from and added adwlauncher.apk to /system/app.
It boots but no launcher , I assumed it would come up with the default "select program for this action" in first book allowing me to set adwlauncher, but it does not.
So useless to me, no launcher.
How do i do this?
I also assume that there is a better place to put adw so as to allow for updating? Where are market programs stored?
ALSO
How do I change adw's settings to my liking and pre package them?
I assume I can just setup adw how I like, take the config files off my galaxy AND package them into the overcome zip somewhere. Where might they be and where might I need to put them to.
Oh one other thing, adwthemes. These come from market I'm assuming as an apk. If I just add the apk to appropriate place is that enough for adw to see them so that once my config is in place the correct icons will be used.
Thanks very much for any help guys and excuse me if these answers are easy to find, I didnt have much luck with my search terms.
Hopefully one day I will be talented enough to build my own overcome. lol
Oh, for those who dont know, overcome is a rom for our galaxy tabs, forget the references I'm after generic help
I'm not sure, but I believe that putting apps in the /system/app folder makes it more difficult to update them.
I would create a folder called 'data' in your ZIP, with the APK in it. Not sure though, never tested it Perhaps you'll have to modify the update-script too, to make it work, but hey, that's the fun of cooking
I thought so, because that is a protected system folder..
Anyway I half figured this one out. I need to push /data/com.ADWFOLDER with an update script. Re the settings. Unfortunately, I have been told this is impossible..
Can anyone elaborate?
You could possibly try renaming it launcher.apk..
Hey guys, I apologize if this is the wrong forum to place this, but I couldn't find one that seemed more appropriate.
I'm using the MIUI ROM on my Defy and don't like some of the icons it selects for my applications. Core apps I know where the APK is located so changing them isn't an issue. My question is with ones I install that aren't core apps. I found the data file, but it doesn't seem "hackable" and haven't found any way around this. Am I just stuck with whatever icon the ROM thinks is best, or can I change them somehow? Thanks!
Maybe try a different icon changer? Like using launcher pro to change them instead?
ve3xls said:
Hey guys, I apologize if this is the wrong forum to place this, but I couldn't find one that seemed more appropriate.
I'm using the MIUI ROM on my Defy and don't like some of the icons it selects for my applications. Core apps I know where the APK is located so changing them isn't an issue. My question is with ones I install that aren't core apps. I found the data file, but it doesn't seem "hackable" and haven't found any way around this. Am I just stuck with whatever icon the ROM thinks is best, or can I change them somehow? Thanks!
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Having never used MIUI ROMs myself I am not sure if this applies but on a Collective/CM/AOSP roms and using one of the alternative launchers (e.g., Nova Launcher, APEX, etc.) you can simply long-press the icon you wish yo edit, click EDIT, then click on the icon symbol and this gives you a list of actions and allows to pick from gallery, files, icon packs, etc. Again, I'm not sure if that applies but thought it may be worth trying and doesn't require fiddling with files at all. Cheers and good luck.
Where on the android filesystem is the lockscreen wallpaper stored?
Is it different from version to version of the Android?
Or maybe it is launcher specific?
I couldn't find any mentioned of it in the SDK.
I'm not just looking for the way of setting the lock screen WP via menu, which has mandatory cropping in new TW anyways.
obender said:
Where on the android filesystem is the lockscreen wallpaper stored?
Is it different from version to version of the Android?
Or maybe it is launcher specific?
I couldn't find any mentioned of it in the SDK.
I'm not just looking for the way of setting the lock screen WP via menu, which has mandatory cropping in new TW anyways.
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On launcher2.apk under /system/app/. Copy it to the PC and use 7zip to extract launcher2. I don't have my personal PC, else I would have given you the exact folder name.
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Interesting, so whenever use changes lock wallpaper it get's repackaged in to that APK?
I've examined the above mentioned APK and although it contains a bunch of wallpaper images none of them is a lock screen one. Which makes sense, why the APK will have current lock screen repackaged in to it. Just doesn't make sense.
So the currently set lockscreen wallpaper must be saved either on the file system or in the launcher DB.
Any ideas where it is?
In case someone needs it, it is here (for TouchWiz):
/data/data/com.android.sec.galery3d/zzzzzz_lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
obender said:
In case someone needs it, it is here (for TouchWiz):
/data/data/com.android.sec.galery3d/zzzzzz_lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
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This is killing me. I've spent a couple hours now looking for the frickin' location of my lockscreen wallpaper, and was super excited to find this, the only post on the internets with a path to the file rather than a path to the default system wallpapers or some other answer to a question similar to the one asked (where's my current lockscreen wallpaper stored?), but this path isn't on my galaxy s2.
Anyone have any idea where it might be? It HAS to be somewhere, right? I mean, it's being loaded when I turn on the phone, so even though the original that I used to set it is gone, it has to be cached somewhere.
obender said:
In case someone needs it, it is here (for TouchWiz):
/data/data/com.android.sec.galery3d/zzzzzz_lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
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Found it at /data/data/com..sec.android.galery3d/lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg on an AT&T Gnote2 with stock Android 4.1.2.
How to find lockscreen wallpaper photo on Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Root needed and an app like Root Explorer to navigate to the file.
/data/data/com.sec.android.gallery3d/files/lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
My girl passed away and I had her photo on my lockscreen Note4... if anyone else needs this information.
for Samsung Stratosphere ii it's under /system/wallpaper
what about s3 mini?
For my grand is at data/data/com.sec.android.app.wallpaperchooser/files. The files have not extension
Does anyone know of a free Windows program that allows you to edit .ttf files?
I'm looking to change the font type of the numbers of the NT's DroidSansBold.ttf file so that my status bar clock is in a different font.
I understand it will also change all other system numbers in that same font, and that's fine. To be honest, I'm more curious now just to find a program that will allow me to do this, haha.
I did a pretty extensive Google search and tried a few different programs (FontForge, Font Creator), but it doesn't seem like they have the ability to do what I need.
Could someone point me in the right direction? Or is this just not possible at all?
This will be my one and only bump on this thread. If anyone can help me out, let me know. Thanks.
MMM
nvm xD
Hello, I was wondering, how do I change the apps that are in the premade folders? I can't seem to figure out how. When I try dragging and icon into it, it just replaces it.
that is a feature they really really need to have
Me too on the same boat.... Mebbe these concerns are addressed once the app gets outta beta phase.
There are some themes with folders, but with a theme like GTA V there isn't.
xShockz said:
Hello, I was wondering, how do I change the apps that are in the premade folders? I can't seem to figure out how. When I try dragging and icon into it, it just replaces it.
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If you open your app drawer, long press on the app you want, you should the be able to add that app to the screen.
If you drag these apps into the existing folders, they will be added to that folder. Similarly, you can remove existing apps on the screen or in the premade folders