Hey,
I started to make my custom own theme, it is mix of the crysis sensation, modded steelblue theme with the gingerbread theme of clarkkov as base. But the theme has some bugs that I can't fix, so I hope someone will help me to clear the bugs.
Here are some screenshots.
Here are the bugs.
So, if someone would like to help me, sent a pm and I will give you the files you need
Note: I'm not going to release this theme.
the battery icon must be in the framework or it wont be showing...
For the rest I think .9 pngs are the problem..you must have edited them without decompiling... try to decompile your edited framework with apktool and if u get any error like "cannot find .9 patch chunk in file" edit them appropriately
Google is ur friend
Ok, thanks for your answer, will try what you've said.
Btw: the battery icon is not in my framework files, I've looked everywhere and couldn't find it :/
try looking in folders other than drawable-ldpi, I'm sure u might find it
EDIT: Other possibility,the problem could be two framework-res.apk in your system partition...when the system scans two same packages it keeps one and ignores the other...remove any duplicates if u find
Thanks again, will try to find
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Hey everyone,
So I, like most people on XDA, flash different ROMs all the time. The problem is each ROM has one thing I like but others I don't.
However, the joy of Android is just that! You get to make your phone custom
Anyway, I really like the notification drop down bar on Serendipity. I think Mikey and Chance did a phenomenal job with it. Looks great. But I like the functionality of CyanogenMOD.
Is there anyway to port the notification drop down from Serendipity to CM7?
Thanks!
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Hey everyone,
So I, like most people on XDA, flash different ROMs all the time. The problem is each ROM has one thing I like but others I don't.
However, the joy of Android is just that! You get to make your phone custom
Anyway, I really like the notification drop down bar on Serendipity. I think Mikey and Chance did a phenomenal job with it. Looks great. But I like the functionality of CyanogenMOD.
Is there anyway to port the notification drop down from Serendipity to CM7?
Thanks!
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I'm doing this off memory so bear with me for any errors. On the cm rom, pick a theme that u like and find the apk for it in system/app. Pull that apk and decompile it with apk tool. Then download the ROM that u want and take systemUI.apk and framework-res.apk and decompile them. After u decompile it, look for some file names in res/drawablehdpi for the images u will want to transfer to the cm theme. Then copy them to the cm theme. I think u have to rename them, but I'm not sure what to rename them to. I will update this when I find out since I'm working on my own theme for this. After u copy them recompile the apk and sign it using apk tool and send it to your device and install it.
If u have no idea on what I am talking about search for how to make themes by jivy26 on themes and apps. Or I can help u make a port, but u would have to be willing to test because i dont feel like switching roms.
If I had money, I would get a credit card. If I had a credit card, I would donate.
Waddle said:
I'm doing this off memory so bear with me for any errors. On the cm rom, pick a theme that u like and find the apk for it in system/app. Pull that apk and decompile it with apk tool. Then download the ROM that u want and take systemUI.apk and framework-res.apk and decompile them. After u decompile it, look for some file names in res/drawablehdpi for the images u will want to transfer to the cm theme. Then copy them to the cm theme. I think u have to rename them, but I'm not sure what to rename them to. I will update this when I find out since I'm working on my own theme for this. After u copy them recompile the apk and sign it using apk tool and send it to your device and install it.
If u have no idea on what I am talking about search for how to make themes by jivy26 on themes and apps. Or I can help u make a port, but u would have to be willing to test because i dont feel like switching roms.
If I had money, I would get a credit card. If I had a credit card, I would donate.
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Thanks for your reply. The only problem is that I've done this and cannot seem to find any corresponding images in the theme/res/drawable-hdpi directory.
bscotth said:
Thanks for your reply. The only problem is that I've done this and cannot seem to find any corresponding images in the theme/res/drawable-hdpi directory.
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In system ui in drawable there should be pictures with the labels status_bar something. There will be multiple background images and should be the toggle images. You wouldn't be able to find this if you were looking in framework-res
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I saw lots of theme which has this in their title. but I can't find any guide or tutorial about this. So, what is this? how could I use it? has it any benefit over usual "decompile/theme/recompile/replace"ing an apk?Is there any script to implement it like apktool?
Its the universal theme flasher created by Villain ROM.
As for all your other questions I'm not sure.
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thanks,
correct me if I'm worng pls.
Universal theme flasher, is kind of template. and I should extract compiled PNGs and xmls from apk file and paste theme into that. and for editing theme, I need to paste and replace those files into the apk file and then decompile that apk.
then what should I do if I changed something in "values" folder? cause it just appears in decompiled apps and It can't be seen in a compiled app.
sam5154 said:
thanks,
correct me if I'm worng pls.
Universal theme flasher, is kind of template. and I should extract compiled PNGs and xmls from apk file and paste theme into that. and for editing theme, I need to paste and replace those files into the apk file and then decompile that apk.
then what should I do if I changed something in "values" folder? cause it just appears in decompiled apps and It can't be seen in a compiled app.
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I think after compiling the apk, you should copy the "classes" and the other file *-) I can remember its name, and add them there.
Am not sure *-) I had this question too but I thought abt trying it first and if it doesnt work I wld ask. I have no time to try I have exams
Ba7rani123 said:
I think after compiling the apk, you should copy the "classes" and the other file *-) I can remember its name, and add them there.
Am not sure *-) I had this question too but I thought abt trying it first and if it doesnt work I wld ask. I have no time to try I have exams
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classes.dex is for the smali that has been edited if there was any.
I assume that if the xmls were edited and they point to new PNG images/objects then the resources has been changed. I would say that in this case you would need to have an updated resources file for these adjustments? This could be pulled from your newly compiled .apk that you want to base your flashable theme off?
I am unsure if resources needs to be updated though for certain? I have flashed in the past new xmls and they worked fine, however these were not referencing any new sources or images...so my thoughts are that these mods I made didn't require this additional file?? I could be wrong. I really should read the thread about it here on XDA. I did a long time ago, but have come a long way since then.
I diverse. Try using it without new resources file and see what happens?
You may also like to looking into Morphing as well (very similar concept).
James
i would also like a explanation to what vrtheme is, all i know is that when i flash it IT NEVER WORKS!
xdarkmario said:
i would also like a explanation to what vrtheme is, all i know is that when i flash it IT NEVER WORKS!
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is your ROM deodexede? It only works on deodexed Rom?
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sam5154 said:
is your ROM deodexede? It only works on deodexed Rom?
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yep, both my phones i tried them on are deodexed.
I have been struggling with this procedure for the past couple of weeks and I am at my wit's end. I have tried both APKTOOL and APK Manager to decompile my SystemUI.apk and no matter how many ways I try to decompile it, there absolutely is no smali directory.
If I post my SystemUI.apk, would an experienced themer, developer, or modder be kind enough to edit the smali coding to make the clock a different color? I am happy with the icons and everything else; I just want the color change.
The color I was looking for is #33b5e5 (the ICS blue). I would appreciate any help someone would be willing to give. Thanks.
Higgs_Boson said:
I have been struggling with this procedure for the past couple of weeks and I am at my wit's end. I have tried both APKTOOL and APK Manager to decompile my SystemUI.apk and no matter how many ways I try to decompile it, there absolutely is no smali directory.
If I post my SystemUI.apk, would an experienced themer, developer, or modder be kind enough to edit the smali coding to make the clock a different color? I am happy with the icons and everything else; I just want the color change.
The color I was looking for is #33b5e5 (the ICS blue). I would appreciate any help someone would be willing to give. Thanks.
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I will gladly do it for you right now.
Give me about 10 mins time.
EDIT: took a look at the apk, the reason why there is no smali folder is because you are using an odexed rom I believe. You have to be deodexed to be able to modify the smali inside system apks.
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klin1344 said:
I will gladly do it for you right now.
Give me about 10 mins time.
EDIT: took a look at the apk, the reason why there is no smali folder is because you are using an odexed rom I believe. You have to be deodexed to be able to modify the smali inside system apks.
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Thank you very much for your help.
Is there nothing that can be done?
Higgs_Boson said:
Thank you very much for your help.
Is there nothing that can be done?
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You could deodex the apk, make your smali edits, re-odex it again, and then push both files into the correct directories, but it is a very annoying and tedious process.
You should flash a custom rom (all of them are deodexed) and make your smali edits from there.
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Hi,
thanks to all the rooted ROMs here I was able to do some changes, like removing the SMS app and placing back the stock one. I am sure that something like it can be done with the phone/contacts as those APKs are around too.
What I don't know how to do is to get rid of the aweful touchwiz gray status bar, colored settings and mostly hideous 2.3-like dialogs that touchwiz uses.
I thought I just replace SystemUI.apk but that did not work at all, kept force-closing.
Can anone point me the right direction? Do I have to change the resources (png and XML) inside the systemui.apk and then repackage it? I know how to edit layout xmls since I am an app developer, but I never repackaged apks, especially when they come with OBEX classes.
Or is it not even possible without completely new ROM?
Some rooted roms here have black notification bar.
You might wanna check them out
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Hi no only systemUI test change also in settings.apk and framwork-res.apk now for change on apk need deodexed one
Well I have tried the apktool to decompile, but that fails, surely because of it being odex apk.
What suprised me though is that the Minecraft-method fails too. That is removing META-INF and simply changing a few PNGs. That I thought would work. I did use zipalign 4 after changing those PNGs...
Give it time. They're still working on getting us a functional recovery.
blackknightavalon said:
Give it time. They're still working on getting us a functional recovery.
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Well I actually wanted to get into it and provide the stock-like SystemUI.apk for others
If anyone still interested...
I finally found a nice guide for deodexing here, did everything like I should - deodex, repackage, sign and zipalign, but SystemUI keeps crashing.
I never found anything about having a special signing key, but that's the only thing that I can think of that can be wrong.
try attached and if need complet rom try with mediafire link
http://www.mediafire.com/#bakk51bwngb9t i have cuted on 5 files just dezip using 7zip
and here have an autopatcher http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1719408
spawk said:
try attached
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Thanks, the deodexed attached apk works.
The question is what I did wrong Will try re-signing this one and if that fails I must be f-ing up the signing process I guess
(I should really stop double-posting)
So I tried to remove META-INF and sign manually using the debug.keystore from eclipse (used to develop apps) and SystemUI force-closes.
What am I doing wrong in the signing process that mine does not work and yours does?
Plague_CZ said:
(I should really stop double-posting)
So I tried to remove META-INF and sign manually using the debug.keystore from eclipse (used to develop apps) and SystemUI force-closes.
What am I doing wrong in the signing process that mine does not work and yours does?
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haha i am used only xdakitchen and deodexed all rom now need recovery for flash i have tested to flash but no chance hihihi in link have all rom deodexed is backup from my phone use it as you need
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and if need more control with - FC you can also change your launcher touchewiz have special framwork-res and if you searche on forum you find touchewiz ported from GIII and patched perhaps this can fix some FC
and files is from this ROM ver : I8190XXALJL_I8190LUXALJ2_LUX
spawk said:
haha i am used only xdakitchen
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Oh now I get it, you just created deodexed APK, which actually does not need resigning because you added classes.dex which was not there before.
It is still signed by Samsung original key and that's why your works.
So now my problem is how to get around the signature
Thanks anyway for steering me on the right track.
Plague_CZ said:
Oh now I get it, you just created deodexed APK, which actually does not need resigning because you added classes.dex which was not there before.
It is still signed by Samsung original key and that's why your works.
So now my problem is how to get around the signature
Thanks anyway for steering me on the right track.
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signature are generated when kitchen deodex and zipaligne your apk all tool are in kitchen you can add more like git bash and more now you can try and see remove manifest etc etc and test to deodex and in finale you can see new created files with signature for ur apk's but need very corect install to work because using JAVA
Hi all,
Someone can tell me which apk or framework i have to edit to modify status bat color , battery icon, Wi-Fi icon etc... ?
Thank you
SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk
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darxsen said:
Hi all,
Someone can tell me which apk or framework i have to edit to modify status bat color , battery icon, Wi-Fi icon etc... ?
Thank you
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Can't remember exactly which one but you want to mod these apks - settings, framework, lidroid, system ui, & if I remember right from htc devices.... also the Rosie.apk too. You're know which one controls what when you start searching!
Hope this helps & if so.... Press that thanks button :thumbup:
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deanr1977 said:
Can't remember exactly which one but you want to mod these apks - settings, framework, lidroid, system ui, & if I remember right from htc devices.... also the Rosie.apk too. You're know which one controls what when you start searching!
Hope this helps & if so.... Press that thanks button :thumbup:
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Those aren't needed, just the one I posted above.
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MaartenXDA said:
Those aren't needed, just the one I posted above.
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Just pull the 1 zip or 2 zips from the rom, & explore for you're self, I think its the system ui but could be wrong, I'm not near my computer at the moment to check so I can't say exactly which one it is? If you're gonna mod the battery icons you're gonna look inside anyway & I takes like 10secs to extract & search the apk? If you don't wanna do that, there are various apps in the playstore you can download for free to look at the framework pics from inside the apks without opening them! Hope this helps.... press thanks if it did
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deanr1977 said:
Just pull the 1 zip or 2 zips from the rom, & explore for you're self, I think its the system ui but could be wrong, I'm not near my computer at the moment to check so I can't say exactly which one it is? If you're gonna mod the battery icons you're gonna look inside anyway & I takes like 10secs to extract & search the apk? If you don't wanna do that, there are various apps in the playstore you can download for free to look at the framework pics from inside the apks without opening them! Hope this helps.... press thanks if it did
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Is this post meant for me?
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darxsen said:
Hi all,
Someone can tell me which apk or framework i have to edit to modify status bat color , battery icon, Wi-Fi icon etc... ?
Thank you
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As Maarten already pointed out SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk. And if you want to use them in apktool you'll also need com.htc.resources.apk.
Just out of curiosity: are you going to use UOT or apktool? Been trying to change status bar clock colour on half-sense and fulmix (see my post in his thread) with apktool but haven't succeeded yet.
What are your plans on theming?
Just pull the zips & open using winrar? Thts what I've been doing for around 4yrs now
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deanr1977 said:
Just pull the zips & open using winrar? Thts what I've been doing for around 4yrs now
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That's just image editing.
If you want to theme it even further, you need to decompile it and edit .xml's and .smali's.
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I want to modify just some png , i would a complete BuuF theme on my desire X..
However i would use apktool, because i always used it, but i think i have to try something else, because when i try to debuild Rom's apk it says: "bad magic number" or something similar..
R: [Q] how to modify status bar and status bar icons?
darxsen said:
I want to modify just some png , i would a complete BuuF theme on my desire X..
However i would use apktool, because i always used it, but i think i have to try something else, because when i try to debuild Rom's apk it says: "bad magic number" or something similar..
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It gives you this errors because there is classes.dex file on it. Delete it and than decompile.
Dex files are most of them added by phone's company; for us HTC.
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fulmix said:
It gives you this errors because there is classes.dex file on it. Delete it and than decompile.
Dex files are most of them added by phone's company; for us HTC.
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Ok, but if i delete dex files when i rebuild the package will it work ?
Is there any room that allow to edit it theme? With a simple apk?
I hate work on others apk, mostly if these apk are HTC's apk U.U
darxsen said:
Ok, but if i delete dex files when i rebuild the package will it work ?
Is there any room that allow to edit it theme? With a simple apk?
I hate work on others apk, mostly if these apk are HTC's apk U.U
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Open with WinRAR or 7-Zip delete classes.dex and than decompile with apktool.
Note: you do not have to extract apk to delete classes.dex file.
fulmix said:
Open with WinRAR or 7-Zip delete classes.dex and than decompile with apktool.
Note: you do not have to extract apk to delete classes.dex file.
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Why would there be a need of deleting classes.dex? I've decompiled lots of HTC apps and they all worked fine.
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MaartenXDA said:
Why would there be a need of deleting classes.dex? I've decompiled lots of HTC apps and they all worked fine.
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Bad Mugic Number error is usually for this file.
Samsung, HTC, etc. have different dex files.
fulmix said:
Bad Mugic Number error is usually for this file.
Samsung, HTC, etc. have different dex files.
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have i to put back .dex files ? or not?
darxsen said:
have i to put back .dex files ? or not?
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It's not necessary.
But deleting it avoid the Bad Magic Number errors.
People, cause my brother has my same account I have to create my new one, so your fulmix now is xpirt
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fulmix said:
It's not necessary.
But deleting it avoid the Bad Magic Number errors.
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Can you prove this ??
Make a SystemUI.apk without classes.dex and put that in you ROM and release to all users to test. If it works, I will resign from making ROMs.
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darxsen said:
I want to modify just some png , i would a complete BuuF theme on my desire X..
However i would use apktool, because i always used it, but i think i have to try something else, because when i try to debuild Rom's apk it says: "bad magic number" or something similar..
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Use latest apktool, bad magic value errors fixed in new version.
Refer to this for more info : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642224
BTW... if it just some icons png that you need to change, just replace the pngs, decompile/recompile is not needed.
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darxsen said:
have i to put back .dex files ? or not?
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SystemUI must have classes.dex; there is where all the instructions (the smali files) come from for the apk to work. Like what to run for the EQS and many more.
As mentioned on the link given above
Code:
b) If you are using apkmanager, you can just export classes.dex, then delete classes inside the apk. Then decompile, edit, compile and add classes.dex back when ready.
MaartenXDA said:
That's just image editing.
If you want to theme it even further, you need to decompile it and edit .xml's and .smali's.
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Yeah you're right you can edit the xmls & smalis, I have never got the hang of that yet? I just do it the other way
darxsen said:
I want to modify just some png , i would a complete BuuF theme on my desire X..
However i would use apktool, because i always used it, but i think i have to try something else, because when i try to debuild Rom's apk it says: "bad magic number" or something similar..
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I have made wicked themed roms on the desire hd & now on the samsung galaxy s3! I just pull the res folder then mod the pngs with photoshop & then push back to the zip & flash.... ok its not perfect but I've made sum sweet looking ui & systems by doing it that way
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