Hey all,
I find it incredibly stupid that car home keeps the standard wallpaper and just dims it. I'm using the album art wallpaper and it makes car home almost unusable.
Would it be possible to force the system to change the wallpaper to a black background when car home is in use and then change it back when you close it?
Thanks!
If your screen is too dark:
Look on bottom right corner, under EXIT CAR MODE. See the little > right arrow?
Hit that and change your screen brightness setting.
Automatic > Night > Day
As for changing the wallpaper. I've never heard about that possibility.
Maybe someone with theming or morphing skillz will come across this thread??!
rickytenzer said:
Hey all,
I find it incredibly stupid that car home keeps the standard wallpaper and just dims it. I'm using the album art wallpaper and it makes car home almost unusable.
Would it be possible to force the system to change the wallpaper to a black background when car home is in use and then change it back when you close it?
Thanks!
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That should be possible with Tasker.
Unfortunately I use settings profiles and would hate to pay for a software to handle this one thing. I wish CM could incorporate this change into the nightlies!
Would be easy to do with Tasker which is a great app anyway. I recommend getting it and I'm sure you'll find some other useful things you can do with it too (it should easily replace settings profile for you too)
This should be a simple change, but apktool is acting up and won't recompile the apk. Hopefully I will have one available soon.
Cool thanks! You rock.
This is turning out to be significantly harder than it should be. aapt seems to be ignoring the entire res/values folder, so even an empty decompile/recompile fails (but works fine for every other apk I throw at it), and MetaMorph is just flat out having no effect. I will keep working on it, but for now it seems hopeless by divine force.
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This is turning out to be significantly harder than it should be. aapt seems to be ignoring the entire res/values folder, so even an empty decompile/recompile fails (but works fine for every other apk I throw at it), and MetaMorph is just flat out having no effect. I will keep working on it, but for now it seems hopeless by divine force.
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Even if you can't get it, I appreciate the effort!
So you couldn't get it going?
I really haven't looked into it but isn't it possible to theme the app to use a black interface instead of the transparent one it uses now? I mean replace the transparent .png's with black ones.
The background does not use images, it specifies a theme resourse and adds a transparent black color. I have been trying to change that resourse, without apktool playing nice there is no real way to do this. I tried changing the theme by editing the smali code, but that is overridden by the view's style attribute, and the theme can't be set after the view is inflated.
From what I have found, the only two options with out the ability to compile resource files is either to implement the original idea of blacking the wallpaper on run, or editing the compiled binary xml blob manually.
I could always make a simple service app to change the wallpaper on car mode toggle, that would be easiest at this point.
Update: Did some research, its impossible to set a live wallpaper through code using the public API due to security concerns, so that removes all non-resource ideas. This has to be done through the style resources of CarHome itself.
I am not the creator of this live wallpaper & I do not take any credit.
ht tp:/ /lts .cr/aP R (remove spaces)
Above is the .apk of a live wallpaper currently available on the ASUS tablet. I wanted to share this with the devs here.
Upon installation, the wallpaper does work, however in low resolution. I was hoping someone could clean it up. I am trying to enhance the images a well.
The Live Wallpaper is supposed to be water with ice cubes that move according to how the phone is held, and raises and lowers in correlation with the battery.
Thread where I found the .apk.
h ttp: //w ww.a ndroidpolice. c om/2011/04/28/download-live-wallpaper-and-weather-widget-from-the-eee-pad-tra nsformer-hon eycomb-only/
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I am not the creator of this live wallpaper & I do not take any credit.
ht tp:/ /lts .cr/aP R (remove spaces)
Above is the .apk of a live wallpaper currently available on the ASUS tablet. I wanted to share this with the devs here.
Upon installation, the wallpaper does work, however in low resolution. I was hoping someone could clean it up. I am trying to enhance the images a well.
The Live Wallpaper is supposed to be water with ice cubes that move according to how the phone is held, and raises and lowers in correlation with the battery.
Thread where I found the .apk.
h ttp: //w ww.a ndroidpolice. c om/2011/04/28/download-live-wallpaper-and-weather-widget-from-the-eee-pad-tra nsformer-hon eycomb-only/
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I downloaded the apk and de-compiled it.
Keep in mind, I am not a Dev, I am a Graphics Designer.
I changed all of the images made some minor edits to the smali files and the xml files.
I changed the SDK Version and a number of minor things but I can't get it to work properly.
The problem isn't that it is in low resolution, it is not displaying the bubbles or the ice cubes.
I don't really understand why because it displays the water level just fine.
Like I said, I redone all of the bubble images and re-saved them, re-compiled the apk, signed it and installed.
I get the same results no matter what I do...
The ice cubes and the bubbles don't display, you just get a square white box in their place.
I hope someone picks this up, it is pretty cool. When someone that knows what they are doing gets hold of this it is probably something simple.
Sorry I couldn't help more.
I tried searching for the answer but can't find it anywhere so hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction.
I finally got my lockscreen looking beautiful with a wallpaper that isn't warped in some way thanks to the thread in here but now I've come across another problem. It's a light wallpaper so the white time, grey am/pm, and white unlock icon/ring are incredibly hard to see.
The closest thing I could find on it was someone going into the adb and doing xml changes on the G2x. Is that the only way?
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UPDATE: All info in this thread summarized here: [GUIDE] Pattern lock tweaks - Wallpaper Brightness, Pattern Lock Dots, etc.
Rooted phone running Cognition 1.5.1. I am using a pattern lock so I have the standard Samsung lockscreen.
How can I change the clock font on the pattern lock screen? It looks very out of place compared to the other fonts.
Can I make the pattern lock dots smaller or more transparent? I don't like how it covers up almost all of my wallpaper. I know CyanogenMod has an option to make the pattern lock dots completely invisible. I don't really want that either, I just want them to be less obstructive.
Thanks in advance!
You can't change them afaik! You can always use third party lockscreen app like Widget Locker to get your desired lock screen.
I figured out how to change the clock font. Simply replace the Clockopia.ttf in /system/fonts. You can also use the Font Changer app, available on XDA or Market: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874658
However I noticed that my replacement clock font did not seem to line up properly. I think this is a common problem with replacing Clockopia.ttf. So you might need to adjust your font with something like FontForge first. Check out the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990853
UPDATE: This thread on Rootzwiki gives a good description of the Clockopia alignment problem and how to fix it. Basically, use a font editor to replace the glyphs in the Clockopia.ttf with the glyphs from your favorite font.
Still investigating the pattern lock dots.
Figured out the pattern lock dots! The files are in the framework-res.apk, under res\drawable-hdpi. There are two files you need to edit:
btn_code_lock_default.png -- This is the white dot in the middle
indicator_code_lock_point_area_default.png -- This is the dark circular background of the dot
I reduced the size of the white dot by 50% and used a clear transparent background so it doesn't block the wallpaper. Files are attached below in case anyone wants to use these.
One more discovery today. Normally the pattern lock wallpaper is not as bright as the original -- there's a dim or dark filter over it. To change this, decompile framework-res.apk (need to use apktool or apk_manager), and edit res\layout\keyguard_screen_unlock_portrait.xml.
On line 4, change android:background="#70000000" to android:background="@color/transparent"
Compile framework-res.apk and put it back into system\framework. Reboot and you should see that the pattern lock wallpaper is much brighter!
Also I've made another set of pattern lock dots. For this one, I reduced both the white middle dot and the outer ring by 50%. Then I increased the transparency of both and made the outer ring a lighter gray. So now the dots are larger, but even less intrusive. I've attached the files below, plus a screenshot.
Thanks a lot for the background transparency trick ! That was exactly what I was loogking for.
Also, may I add something just for information if ppl need it :
There are other files if you want a complete edit :
the ones you told about :
btn_code_lock_default.png (the small dot in the center)
indicator_code_lock_point_area_default.png (the black circle around)
The pngs that shows up when the pattern is the wrong one :
indicator_code_lock_point_area_red.png (the circle around)
indicator_code_lock_drag_direction_red_up.png (the arrow showing the direction)
And if you use "visible pattern" in the options, these are the green ones :
indicator_code_lock_point_area_green.png
indicator_code_lock_drag_direction_green_up.png
btn_code_lock_touched.png (the small dot in the center, touched version)
One more thing, if you're only editing pngs, you don't need apk tool, a simple unzip with 7zip is possible.
Thanks for the modification ideas.
I am using a Htc Desire on dGB aosp rom but just to add to this thread. In the keyguard_screen_unlock_portrait.xml, I changed:
android:background="#70000000" to android:background="@drawable/patternlock_background"
Added an image called patternlock_background.png to the drawable-hdpi folder.
Made some of the images mentioned in the previous posts transparent.
And came up with this:
Obviously, I still need to edit other aspects of that screen to tidy it up.
Great work LfcFan1977! I would be really interested in seeing more wallpapers that incorporate the pattern lock into their design. There could be some pretty cool ideas by mixing a pattern lock wallpaper with custom pattern dots and lines.
Yea, I have been wanting this kind of mod ever since I got my Android.
Here's a few ideas:
Galaxy with stars/rockets/shuttles/astronauts/planets/moons.
Dot to dot of a gingerbread man.
Flowers with the honeycomb bee.
Treasure maps and pirates.
Football.
Homer Simpson and donuts.
Pacman.
Anyway, I had a bit more of a play with the xml/images and got this.
Hi,
a few month ago I investigated the size of the background image to fit the pattern dots, and after a few experiments I saw that android was doing a bit of resizing, even if the image was exactly the screen size.
What worked for me, is to make an image smaller than 800 in height (763px to be precise) and 480 in width (regular width of 1 screen). But when done editing, I stretch its height back to 800. Then, when applying within gallery ("use as..."), it stretch it back to undeformed.
I made a template in photoshop, for those who are interested, also with my actual pattern background. Still can't post urls here, so...it's hosted at mediafire.com :
Code:
/?fo04gtvp82y1xw1 (the template)
/?82txu5qxdea6usb (the background)
Wow, this thread is a great resource for customizing the lockscreen, and it's rather painless (not much APK tool messing to do, if simple unzip, rezip works, wonderfull )
This is going into my bookmarks
I wish I would have found this thread sooner. I was looking for which files to edit for the buttons but found them elsewhere. I still have one question, though. Does anyone know how to change the path color? I can't find which file it is located in. TIA.
I can only assume the colour is applied by something in the framework.jar but as my understanding of smali coding is practically none, I can not figure it out.
I was thinking that maybe re-posting all the previous information and the above question in the android themes thread may be better. I do not think any of it is device or rom specific and we may need a wider audience in order to resovle questions like the last one.
I can't find the path color in the xml or png files so it must be something in smali code. Moving to the Android themes forum is a good idea. I am going to summarize everything and repost it in that forum.
Check out the new thread here! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330063
A little help
This line about android:background is in keyguard_screen_unlock_portrait? I think it's keyguard_screen_password_portrait
I was wondering if anyone knows what to change part of the app needs the icon chanced to get the correct image on the second screen. I've done theming, but I can't figure out which folder to edit for icon.png? I was thinking it was drawable-mdpi-v4, but it didn't do anything. I just get red squares. Any help, or info would be appreciated. I am sure I'm not explaining myself, so please ask