Hello hello everyone. I recently picked up this Atrix and thought I would mess around with it a bit. I searched the forums here a couple of times and didn't see anything about the animated pull downs so thought I would whip one up for you to enjoy. If you haven't heard of this modification, it's it exactly how it sounds... When you slide down the notification / status bar screen the animation will start and will cycle through on repeat. Imagine it kind of like the looping part of the boot animation playing on the screen. I am not the creator of this modification. It was first presented here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/151983-animated-status-bar-pulldown-gb-roms.html So special thanks to Alastrionia!
Instructions for Windows users... (Linux users: You should be able to follow along, as the idea is the same in both)
Things you will need:
The knowledge that whatever you do with this information is YOUR responsibility and not mine, nor the creators / developers of the mod and / or rom.
Basics -
Working computer.
Time.
Patience.
Animation / Idea for making your own animation.
Computer Programs -
Java: http://www.java.com/en/download/chrome.jsp?locale=en
Apk Manager: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701
Command Prompt: Start Menu > Search/Run box > Type: CMD > Hit Enter
Text Editor (Suggested - Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v5.9.3.html)*
Archive Managing program (ie WinZip, WinRar, 7zip) (Suggested - 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)*
Image Manipulation program - (whether it be Photoshop, Paint.Net, or GIMP we'll refer to it as PIMP for short from now on)
(Suggested - Dark Silent GIMP: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9903887/PCApps/Dark_Gimp.rar)*
If wanting to make one with images from a video you will also need -
A Video (if you are wanting to use one from, say, www.youtube.com then you would copy/paste that web address to a site like www.savevid.com Hit Download, Run Java Applet and select size/quality)
Video Editor (Suggested - iWiSoft Free Video Converter: http://www.iwisoft.com/videoconverter/)*
Apks -
SystemUI.apk (rom.zip > system > app > SystemUI.apk)
framework-res.apk (rom.zip > system > framework > framework-res.apk)
moto-res.apk (rom.zip > system > framework > moto-res.apk)
blur-res.apk (rom.zip > system > framework > blur-res.apk)
Move apks to the "other" folder in the Apk Manager.
(Let's say my Apk Manager folder is on my Desktop and I have renamed it ApkManager.)
The path to move the apks to would be:
C:\Users\es0tericcha0s\Desktop\ApkManager\other
Change directories to the "other" folder which you moved the apks to. In Command Prompt:
cd C:\Users\es0tericcha0s\Desktop\ApkManager\other
Enter these 3 commands:
java -jar apktool.jar if framework.res.apk <Enter>
java -jar apktool.jar if moto-res.apk <Enter>
java -jar apktool.jar if blur-res.apk <Enter>
Place SystemUI.apk in the Apk Manager place-apk-here-for-modding folder.
Double Click the Script.
Choose 22.
Choose the number of SystemUI and hit Enter.
Choose 9 for Decompile.
Naviage to Apk Manager > projects > SystemUI > res > drawable hdpi > status_bar_background_animationX.png and open your PIMP.
Edit to your heart's delight.
Common Question:
How big does the image need to be? - The screen size is 540 px x 960 px. However, I didn't even think to check this as I am used to 480 x 854 from my last few phones, and it looks fine... Your results may vary.
What kind of animation should I do? - Only you can answer that! If you are having trouble of thinking of ideas, browse the forums and see if you can't find some ideas. Search www.youtube.com for a cool video. Play with some creating some logos. Only limitation is your imagination.
After editing images...
status_bar_background_animation
Navigate to Apk Manager > projects > SystemUI > res > drawable > status_bar_background_animation.xml and open with your Text Editor. Here you will be able to adjust for the amount of images you want and the speed of the image changes. You can just go from 1 - "X" number sequentially or you can have the images go 1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2 etc. depending on the style of animation or if you are trying to keep the image number down.
Save xml.
Common questions:
How many images can I have? - I'm not sure. The one I made has 31 and there have been no issues whatsoever. The original Droid would not like many on most roms, but the difference in power and speed of the two are vast, as I am sure you are aware of. With the amount of RAM / processing power, I'm sure you could easily have 50 or more.
What duration should I change the animation to? - Again, this really depends on what you are going for. How the animation looks, how many images you have, etc. I did not change mine for the default "200" Trial and error ftw!
After that... (it really does not matter what order you do these in, but this might help you the first time or two to have a set path)
Navigate to Apk Manager > projects > SystemUI > res > layout > status_bar_tracking.xml and open with Text Editor.
Find -
android:background="@android:color/transparent"
Change to -
android:background="@drawable/status_bar_background_animation"
Save xml.
{Now I wanted to try and keep both the transparent color and the animation but I could not figure out how to do a double attribute. If you know what that is, and have ideas on how to implement in this case, lemme know please.}
-What that means to the layperson is that I am not sure how to control the transparency quite yet.-
After you have edited your images and xml and saved all of them go back to the script for Apk Manager and choose 11 to compile. After it finishes it will ask you if it is a system apk (Y/N). "Y" + Enter. It will ask you if you want to keep blah blah blah (Y/N). "Y" + Enter.
Go to the "keep" folder in Apk Manager > keep and delete the "res" folder and the resources.arsc file (this is the lazy way ).
Go back to the Apk Manager script and hit Enter.
The apk will be completed and named unsignedSystemUI.apk and you will find it in the "place-here-for-modding" folder. Even though it says unsigned, it is signed and you will not need to do anything else to it beyond renaming it to SystemUI.apk. This new finished SystemUI.apk will be added to a flashable zip file in this format (open zip as archive to not break the signature):
flashable.zip > system > app > replace previous SystemUI.apk
Place this on your SD card and install via ClockworkMod Recovery. You will not need to wipe data or cache for this.
The example that I have made is themed for the Alien Rom (green version) built by developer kennethpenn and showcased here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186537 - So the rest of the thanks go to him as I like the rom and it inspired me to make this in the first place.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9903887/AlienPullDown.zip
It is the Alien text from his thread that each letter fades in 1 at a time after each other and then it glows and fades away, then repeats. Nothing crazy, just wanted something that went with the rom that would not be offensive to anyone. It's a good base to use since I have already have all of the fixes there that you could edit to your liking. If you would prefer the stock images vs. the green Alien theme from the rom, then find the SystemUI.apk of the rom you are using and open both the stock SystemUI and the flashable zip as archives and replace the images of all but the status_bar_background_animationX.pngs.
Sorry if this seems crazy difficult, but I just wanted to be thorough so even relatively new people can at least see how it is made. If you need help, hit me up on Talk with my screen name. Enjoy!
*I receive no form of compensation for these recommendations. I merely suggest them as they are free, have a fair amount of support, and work well enough for me.*
I made a how to on this a while back,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16184786&postcount=88
Haha. Nice. I searched the forum three different ways and didn't find anything. Ah well. There's still a new animated pull down for Alien rom users.
Oh - That and XDA has the thread suggestion box when you first go to post a new thread title too, and it wasn't there. XDA needs to partner with Google for the search engine algorithm. Heh
I just flashed this using Romracer unlocked CWM over top of Alien 4 w/theme. It worked beautifully.
Here is screenshot
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Thanks for the screenshot. I was trying to take some video earlier, but couldn't get it to work right...
es0tericcha0s said:
Thanks for the screenshot. I was trying to take some video earlier, but couldn't get it to work right...
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It definitely took a bunch of shots to get it just right.
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Thanks for the screenshot. I was trying to take some video earlier, but couldn't get it to work right...
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Any chance you could make one that has Android on it.
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You can also use the ultimate online theme kitchen to add an animated pull down. They have several on there already.
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coldfusionb said:
Any chance you could make one that has Android on it.
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I could be persuaded... What color text do you want? Do you want it to just have the letters fade in and glow like the Alien text? Lemme know and I'll see what I can do.
es0tericcha0s said:
I could be persuaded... What color text do you want? Do you want it to just have the letters fade in and glow like the Alien text? Lemme know and I'll see what I can do.
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I would love to have it GB green and fade in. I think that will go with more roms. Thanks
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Excellent work! I got this working perfectly on my ATRIX. Built it myself following your instructions instead of copying and pasting, just to make sure I got it right. However, I tried porting to my captivate themes and it just sits at the first animation.png. Its a gb 2.3.4 rom that uses systemui.apk, the modded systemui.apk recompiled perfectly, I made the shade_bg.png transparent, as well as status_bar_background_.png just for good measure, but no animation. Pulled it down several times, all animations are on, tried rebooting, tried reflashing, and its not working. I literally did everything the exact same way on both devices, works on ATRIX but not cappy. Weird.... Anyone have any ideas to help me out?
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10tonhammr said:
Excellent work! I got this working perfectly on my ATRIX. Built it myself following your instructions instead of copying and pasting, just to make sure I got it right. However, I tried porting to my captivate themes and it just sits at the first animation.png. Its a gb 2.3.4 rom that uses systemui.apk, the modded systemui.apk recompiled perfectly, I made the shade_bg.png transparent, as well as status_bar_background_.png just for good measure, but no animation. Pulled it down several times, all animations are on, tried rebooting, tried reflashing, and its not working. I literally did everything the exact same way on both devices, works on ATRIX but not cappy. Weird.... Anyone have any ideas to help me out?
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Thanks! I tried to be super thorough to make it as painless as possible for you. I know it sucks to have to piece together everything through a bunch of threads (not a knock against the author of the other thread, as I was unaware when I first posted). As far as for the Captivate, my first thought is that if it is a TouchWiz based rom, then you will also need to make the same adjustment in the TWFramework (I think) in the /system/framework/TWFramework.apk That or whatever the main TouchWiz apk is in framework. I had a Fascinate for a brief period of time and it had something or other to do with that. Hope that helps!
es0tericcha0s said:
Thanks! I tried to be super thorough to make it as painless as possible for you. I know it sucks to have to piece together everything through a bunch of threads (not a knock against the author of the other thread, as I was unaware when I first posted). As far as for the Captivate, my first thought is that if it is a TouchWiz based rom, then you will also need to make the same adjustment in the TWFramework (I think) in the /system/framework/TWFramework.apk That or whatever the main TouchWiz apk is in framework. I had a Fascinate for a brief period of time and it had something or other to do with that. Hope that helps!
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Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely look into it, but the twframework-res.apk was rendered almost obsolete and useless in the gb builds. Everything status bar related was moved to the sysui.apk. Having said that, it will of course turn out to be the problem. Thanks again, and ill report back.
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One of my friend's pointed out a couple of other potential culprits could be image size and / or timing on the animations. Have to remember that the Atrix will be able to play larger animations much more smoothly than the Captivate could (not that it isn't a nice phone, but still single vs dual core...). Just in case the TouchWiz stuff doesn't pan out...
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One of my friend's pointed out a couple of other potential culprits could be image size and / or timing on the animations. Have to remember that the Atrix will be able to play larger animations much more smoothly than the Captivate could (not that it isn't a nice phone, but still single vs dual core...). Just in case the TouchWiz stuff doesn't pan out...
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Yea, the TW stuff did not pan out. I tried tweaking the anim speed, to no avail. The one I'm using is only 9 frames and played perfectly on my atrix, so I'll try tweaking the image sizes. Thanks for the ideas. Its driving me nuts, lol. WORK, DAMN YOU, WORK!!
I tried making a 30+ frame animation back when I first starting messing with this and it caused SystemUI to FC so I think there is a limit, but I don't know what it is. Ive got 15 frames working fine.
9 images, sounds familiar.
The ALIEN animation is 31 images, and I haven't had any issues with that one. It's not large though since it is a semi transparent background and just text. If you want, I could take a look at what you are working on and see if I don't see something that might be tweaked?
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The ALIEN animation is 31 images, and I haven't had any issues with that one. It's not large though since it is a semi transparent background and just text. If you want, I could take a look at what you are working on and see if I don't see something that might be tweaked?
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Thanks guys, but I think I found the problem. Reviewing the stat bar tracking.xml code at work D) and there is some missing code that appears in the ATRIX sysui.apk and not in the cappy version. Ill be testing tonight and report back.
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Hey there guys. Sorry, but I have already moved on to another phone, so can't really do much more to help with this one. The Atrix was meant to be my next phone, but shortly after purchasing my first GSM phone, I learned that that version of the phone is not completely compatible with the HSPA+ bands of T-Mo so I sold it to get a LG G2x. I wish you all luck with modding your phone and if you do have specific questions, I will be more than willing to try and provide assistance, but I will no longer have the time to make more stuff for the phone such as the "Android" pull down I was working before. Good luck and good night.
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I'm fairly new to actually "cooking" roms, and in no way am I a developer, but I thought I'd contribute to a fairly slow developing community, just throw something somewhat different out there, a twist. I don't need the crap about not being original, no one wants to hear it. I'm aware of what I am posting, and that it is based off of another ROM. I am in no way calling this an original ROM. Please, don't hesitate to make comments or suggestions, or even to contribute something more. I'll gladly take advice and help from the community to better the ROM
I will also take requests for other themes to be ported to CR_Mod, but keep in mind that I am attending school, and that I have a life, and that this is a side project and it might take awhile to get through requests.
This ROM is based off of CR_Mod 1.35.531.1 OTA, so you MUST be rooted in order to flash this ROM. You can find out how to root your MyTouch Slide by reading the respective thread in the Slide Android Development section.
Almost all of the credit here goes to ChiefzReloaded, who originally gave us the rooted OTA stock ROM, MiguelTheRocker, who ported themes from other devices to CyanogenMod, which gave me the idea for this, and of course, MRagu, who originally made the AndroGreen theme.
Also thanks to TrueBlue_Drew for giving me TONS of advice and pointers while working with the theming obstacles.
Here is a full list of the modifications I made + the changelog:
12/19/10 Original
-Removed AmazonMP3 (honestly who uses that?)
-Deodexed
-Did my best to port the GreenSlide theme
-Added ADWLauncher (Don't worry, I didn't remove the Sense UI; see below for more info on that, minor glitch)
12/20/10 Revision 1
-Made minor color changes in the browser to match the theme
-More thoroughly ported GreenSlide (notification bar and its icons are now GreenSlide, UI is significantly more green now)
-Replaced HtcMusic and MyTouchMusic with MusicMod (the one that's in cyanogenmod, it's much sexier.)
12/21/10 Revision 2
-Fixed 9patch glitches (let me know if you find any, like buttons or text fields being stretched or distorted)
-Replaced HTC IME and Swype with the Gingerbread keyboard (I can't edit the secure android settings file without a platform certificate or something rather, so dragon dictation is set as the default on first boot, so the first time you enter text just longpress on the input field, input method, and gingerbread keyboard. If anyone knows a workaround or a way to set the default system keyboard, the help would be most appreciated)
-Even MORE thoroughly ported GreenSlide, the stock HTC apps and interfaces should either have the GreenSlide framework elements or at LEAST be green instead of blue. The only things that I know are still blue are the progress bar, and the big buttons in the MyModes app, the ones where you select change mode or change theme, and the ones where you select the widgets to be placed on the home screens.
-Added the circle battery meter (I love that thing )
-[12-25-10] Added flip window animations (If you already downloaded the ROM, there is a flashable update to add the animations [6:45 PM PST]
Issues:
-Default new SMS icon is still the old notification theme, white on solid black, so it doesn't look quite right against the gradient notification bar. Same thing with the USB icon. Still looking for the location of those two icons
-Default input method is not GB keyboard (if that's even a fixable issue)
-Browser loading progress bar has a 9patch glitch, will post an update tonight Fixed with the flashable update attached to this post. You need to flash this only if you downloaded revision 2 before 11:15 PM PST 12/22/2010. I integrated the browser fix and reuploaded it, so if you have not downloaded revision 2 yet, you don't need to flash this. (I tried to decompile the APK and edit the 9patch and then recompile it, but for whatever reason, there are framework resources missing, at least according to apktool, so it won't properly recompile the apk. So, I had to leave the progress bar blue. BUT the rest of the icons are still green. Sorry!)
I also attached a flashable update that will revert your battery icon to the regular icon, if you don't like the circle one.
Still to do:
-Live wallpapers (I'll probably just end up implementing this into the current revision, rather than bother with a separate one. For those of you that have already downloaded and are running this, I'll post a link to a flashable zip for live wallpapers, it'd be too much of a pain in the ass to flash a whole new rom just for live wallpapers) Attached a flashable zip to this post titled LWP.zip, but you ONLY need to flash this if you downloaded the full ROM before 5:55 PM PST 12/24/2010. I integrated the flashable zip into the full ROM and reuploaded it, so if you are just downloading, you don't need to flash the zip.
DOWNLOAD & INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download both of the files in this folder to the root of your SD card (the archive is for older versions, no need to download anything in that folder)
2. The GreenSlide Addons is a zip that contains LauncherPro icons and dockbar background, as well as wallpapers and a themed fancy widget to match the theme. Use it if you'd like by extracting and selecting manual shortcut and dockbar images in LauncherPro, which you can download from the market.
3. Reboot into clockwork recovery, and flash CR_Mod-Deodexed-GreenSlide-signed.zip
4. If you'd like, download dumfuq's OC kernel here, remember to edit your init.d files, or you might not boot. (I have found that the OC kernel actually increases battery life while sleeping, but it does drain quicker while awake. It makes everything really smooth though)
5. Use, you should be good to go
OPTIONAL: etu_aty provided this link for more mymodes themes if you'd like them, but they will override the green theming I did to the stock HTC apps (I won't include them in the ROM because they add 20 MB to a ROM that's already tight on space).
MORE INFO:
ADW Launcher info: For some reason, HTC Sense has itself set as the default launcher on first boot, so you have to go into Setings>Applications>Manage Applications>HTC Sense>Clear Defaults and then press your home button and select ADW Launcher to use ADW.
I initially was just going to do this for myself, because I hated the battery life issues on CM6.1.1, but I loved the theming I had on it. But, I also loved the battery life and 2d animation speed and quality on Sense ROMs, they never lagged with window animations and such, but I disliked the inability to theme. So I thought, why not try and combine the two? I also thought why not give it to the community, contribute, even if it isn't anything too special, you know? It's not an original ROM but it has some cool things like the GB keyboard and of course, the awesome theme, that I thought I'd share it.
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We need more deox! Thanks dude
Carnivore9 said:
We need more deox! Thanks dude
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No problem, thanks for the props, and yeah I'm hoping to learn more as I go, hopefully make this something more original with my own little tweaks here and there, but this is a start haha
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No problem, thanks for the props, and yeah I'm hoping to learn more as I go, hopefully make this something more original with my own little tweaks here and there, but this is a start haha
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Looking good man!!! Keep it up!!
Im loving the green!!
which of the features of sense couldn't you remove?
edit: second question, does the facebook app let you sync the facebook phonebook or is it just the online directory?
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which of the features of sense couldn't you remove?
edit: second question, does the facebook app let you sync the facebook phonebook or is it just the online directory?
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I couldn't change the notification bar without making it glitch up, I'm still working on that. Also for some reason in certain htc apps, like contacts and settings, their theme still shows up for buttons. Basically, occasionally you'll see an occasional blue button or something, rather than the greenslide ones, but for almost everything it's themed. Like the dialer is still totally htc, as well as the contacts app for example. I will probably spend some time tonight working on getting it more completely themed, first priority is the notification bar, since that is only barely themed. When I get more work done on it I will post a flashable zip that will just replace the things I changed so that you don't have to go through a whole new wipe and reflash and resetup again. As for your facebook question, it syncs to your contacts but differently. You can't use the market facebook to sync, you have to use Facebook for MyTouch, which is built in. Then it links facebook friends to your contacts through the contacts app. You can also manually link facebook friends to your contacts by pressing link. When I'm done with this I may also port blackslide, or whatever the really black one that miguel ported is.
As for the dialer and other htc apps, I may be able to theme up settings, but probably not the dialer, it would screw it up to replace it with the stock android one I'm pretty sure.
I'll post a new full rom as well as an update zip when I get more work on it done tonight
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This sounds (and looks) very cool. It's just what the CR_OTA needs. I think I'll flash and try this out. I'll report back and let Arayray know if you know what you're doing, as this is still Espresso.
Cheers, MusicMan.
Hayzie said:
This sounds (and looks) very cool. It's just what the CR_OTA needs. I think I'll flash and try this out. I'll report back and let Arayray know if you know what you're doing, as this is still Espresso.
Cheers, MusicMan.
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Thanks! I still have a bit of work to do with the notification bar and possibly other HTC apps to make them more reminiscent of the theme, I'll post an update probably later today
Looking forward to it. This is great work.
Suggestions only if you're up for it: only thing I can think of is remove more stock apps. Too many open up on their own and run in the background frequently and are known to drain battery (in all roms). Other than that, I don't even need to tell you anything else. You got it pretty much covered.
I'm thinking this should be added to the Rom Bible.
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Looking forward to it. This is great work.
Suggestions only if you're up for it: only thing I can think of is remove more stock apps. Too many open up on their own and run in the background frequently and are known to drain battery (in all roms). Other than that, I don't even need to tell you anything else. You got it pretty much covered.
I'm thinking this should be added to the Rom Bible.
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Yeah I may take a shot at that again, but last time I tried that with some of the widgets, sense kept crashing because it couldn't open the widgets. When I froze calendar with titanium the phone wouldn't sleep because calendar sync was on, glitching everywhere. I'll take another shot, maybe remove some of the redundant music apps and include the musicmod app instead. Thanks for the input.
Update for everything else, themed up the browser to be a bit more green with the buttons, rather than the blue. No luck with the dialer, no matter how much I screw with the images it just won't display the images. Also, there is ONE notification icon that is still stock, the rest have been changed to GreenSlide. For whatever reason, the USB data icon is still white w/black background stock icon, you'll know what I'm talking about when I post the update. I just have to work on changing the text color of notification items and it should be ready to upload. I still have not figured out the stock HTC apps themes, I keep editing their individual drawable-mdpi folders, but they aren't effective when I push and reboot. It must be taking them from something else that I haven't found yet. Somehow it's retaining its own theming. I will post the work that I have in a little bit though. I will continue to look for the theming of the stock apps, it must be in some funky location.
Great job Musicman n_n
oh and another thing, since this is a espresso rom i dont know if you guys have all the themes (my modes) but i managed to get them from a thread somewhere and i removed the bubbles in the desktop and the drawer from all of them (i hate those freaking bubbles) if you want me to post them just tell me.. i have bubbles and no bubbles, i think there is 18 themes apk.. so you know, just let me know if you want them n_n
Proper good winzip!
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oh and another thing, since this is a espresso rom i dont know if you guys have all the themes (my modes) but i managed to get them from a thread somewhere and i removed the bubbles in the desktop and the drawer from all of them (i hate those freaking bubbles) if you want me to post them just tell me.. i have bubbles and no bubbles, i think there is 18 themes apk.. so you know, just let me know if you want them n_n
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What exactly are you referring to, bubbles? And I didn't remove the themes, so yes they're there. I'm almost finished, just having a bit of trouble finding the XML files that specify the color of the text for the notifications themselves, they are black by default. Once I figure that out I'll upload. Then I'll get some work done hopefully with the stock app theming, that's next.
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I like how we have 6 ROMs in this section for the exact same thing.
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What exactly are you referring to, bubbles? And I didn't remove the themes, so yes they're there. I'm almost finished, just having a bit of trouble finding the XML files that specify the color of the text for the notifications themselves, they are black by default. Once I figure that out I'll upload. Then I'll get some work done hopefully with the stock app theming, that's next.
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the bubbles around the icons, and im not saying you deleted the themes but the stock rom includes just 3 or 4 i dont remember... these are the other themes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695439
there is the thread, i found it again and the files are still up
Someone acknowledge my trolling!
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I temporarily came back to XDA, just so I could tell you that this seriously made me LOL.
Back to my self imposed exile.
etu_aty said:
the bubbles around the icons, and im not saying you deleted the themes but the stock rom includes just 3 or 4 i dont remember... these are the other themes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695439
there is the thread, i found it again and the files are still up
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Oh yeah okay I see. Huh. Well this actually gave me a little bit more context to what I was doing. The default "nest" theme is the one I was actually editing when I was editing framework-res and such. If you change the mymode theme, it modifies a lot of the changes I made. But if you change it back to nest, it goes back. Interesting. This might actually help a lot with the issues I'm having with stock HTC apps.
Sooooo basically I've never actually gotten all technical with the the theming on android. Nothing legit like you guys. But isn't it just a series of file replacements? Im an artist and have spent all my life drawing n such, and if someone would show me what to replace and how to safely do it I would give then whatever they need to release a flashable theme if anyone likes It. Im a very picky person. I like change on my phone baaddddd. If shown how; expect to see new themes like every other week if possible (depending on how difficult it is). Along with wallpapers that I usually spend hours trying to find.
Any takers?
Use search. I found some great links in this forum alone on theme creation.
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I'm new to theming, but for my theme, UOT Kitchen helped me out! The only downside is that you can't do status bar, boot animation, or lock screen. There's a thread for UOT Kitchen some where around this forum. But your right, just file replacements. Look under the systemUI.apk and framework-res drawable-hdpi files with 7zip (or something similar). You can edit the images without unzipping the file!
I started with a UOT Kitchen file and added/changed stuff in the file. If you can't find an image or need help with changing something, try asking the ROM creator, the would probably know where the stuff is in the ROM.
If you fail, try and try again! I epically failed my first time and SBF a couple times because I was an idiot. Then I asked some questions and got started the right way. But make sure you do a back up before you flash a new file. I learned the hard way. A file can look fine to the phone at first, then it deletes everything it should, and then starts to copy files over like normal until a part of the file is bad. Then you have to SBF or restore.
Backing up is easy, just go into recovery and go to advanced, then back up, and choose to put the back up file under internal or external SD card. I do external, just my preference.
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A lot of it is file replacement. However to change some of the colors such as text and the color of the volume indicator (those are the only ones that I can think of right now) will involve replacing the color hex values in XML files. In order to get the xml files in a readable/editable format you'll need to use apkmanager or apktool. Those are used to decompile the apk packages. You can then edit what you need to (including images) then re-compile the package. Search around in this themes forum for Navenedrobs post about android tools. He includes a download for apkmanager, apktool and some other necessary tools. I use apkmanager myself.
I also use 7zip for some small edits as mentioned in the last post but I prefer to decompile then edit. Apkmanager makes it easy to then optimize the images prior to recompile.
Oh another that required xml edits for colors is AOSP calendar. Not too many images in there but lots of colors are defined.
Here's a link to naven's android tools post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261198
Theming is time consuming... its not quite as easy as simple image replacement especially on stretchable images also known as 9 pngs ... also if u want to start creating your own images that too could get tricky as u will need to use a program like gimp or another photo editing program.. gimp is the best in my opinion... sometimes it is necessary to add layers when creating your own images.... Hedwig... do use draw 9 patch for your. 9 pngs.... if not how do u edit those... I use apk manager to decompile and recompile each apk.. just curious if u know of a better tool for editing the. 9 pngs .. neways the way I started theming is with 7 zip... I went in and changed the images regular pngs and then tested it out uot kitchen is a good start but u r limited as far as how much u can theme
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Hedwig... do use draw 9 patch for your. 9 pngs.... if not how do u edit those... I use apk manager to decompile and recompile each apk.. just curious if u know of a better tool for editing the. 9 pngs ..
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If you decompile the apk the 9.png images gain the one pixel border where the patch is drawn. I'm just careful not to edit any of the black pixels around the edges. When you re-compile the border is lost (values of those are stored). So, no, I don't use draw 9 patch at all. If you're making new images that you plan to compile into the apk the you can just draw the patches in gimp, photoshop, or whatever you use. Just remember to add a one pixel border all around to the size of your new image.
So, XGrinder911. Any of this discussion helping out or are we all just blah, blah, blah?
Well I was considering Adobe Illustrator? Might that program work to create images? And so I get this apk manager, it decompiles and whatnot then I edit the files. Recompiles and voila theme? I get using apk manager on like the calendar cause its an actuall app but what about things like the status bar n notification pull down? they are in serious need of a make over.
And I tried using the kitchen. Didn't work out for me. Got my loving boot loops. Even when replacing the framework res apk.
Ooohhhh! Is It that? That's the apk?
PS- Hedwig your my new best friend.
IDMA.DROID.X2 said:
I'm new to theming, but for my theme, UOT Kitchen helped me out! The only downside is that you can't do status bar, boot animation, or lock screen. There's a thread for UOT Kitchen some where around this forum. But your right, just file replacements. Look under the systemUI.apk and framework-res drawable-hdpi files with 7zip (or something similar). You can edit the images without unzipping the file!
I started with a UOT Kitchen file and added/changed stuff in the file. If you can't find an image or need help with changing something, try asking the ROM creator, the would probably know where the stuff is in the ROM.
If you fail, try and try again! I epically failed my first time and SBF a couple times because I was an idiot. Then I asked some questions and got started the right way. But make sure you do a back up before you flash a new file. I learned the hard way. A file can look fine to the phone at first, then it deletes everything it should, and then starts to copy files over like normal until a part of the file is bad. Then you have to SBF or restore.
Backing up is easy, just go into recovery and go to advanced, then back up, and choose to put the back up file under internal or external SD card. I do external, just my preference.
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Just want to say you DO NOT go to advanced for backup(nandroid)
You go to backup/restore
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Good luck OP....hope to see some awesome theme soon....don't give up PLEASE! !!
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Just want to say you DO NOT go to advanced for backup(nandroid)
You go to backup/restore
just clarifying
Good luck OP....hope to see some awesome theme soon....don't give up PLEASE! !!
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Oh yeah! Your right! Sorry about that!
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Wasn't trying to "get on your case"
just wanted to clarify
Haha didn't even notice it. I make a backup everydayyyy (flashaholic).
Question: is there anything I can do about those lil lines that separate lists like in messaging and settings? I hate them and we all know on this phone's screen they basically become invisible while scrolling anyway. Get them out of here.
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I used UOT Kitchen to color. Not sure what file you would change to take them away. Ain't no shame in being a flashaholic! I bootlooped my phone on purpose when I for bored
Ash, no worries. Glad you clarified. Don't know what I was thinking with the advanced haha
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To "take them away" can't u just make em the same color as the menu
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Haha didn't even notice it. I make a backup everydayyyy (flashaholic).
Question: is there anything I can do about those lil lines that separate lists like in messaging and settings? I hate them and we all know on this phone's screen they basically become invisible while scrolling anyway. Get them out of here.
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The file is in framework-res.apk
framework-res.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\dark_header.9.png
Do what ashclepdia said and change the color in the bottom of that image to match the top. You'll see what I mean when you look at the image.
(Or light_header.9.png if you're working with a light framework.)
hedwig34 said:
The file is in framework-res.apk
framework-res.apk\res\drawable-hdpi\dark_header.9.png
Do what ashclepdia said and change the color in the bottom of that image to match the top. You'll see what I mean when you look at the image.
(Or light_header.9.png if you're working with a light framework.)
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What is this exactly? All I see is a long rectangle with a hint of blue at the bottom.
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What is this exactly? All I see is a long rectangle with a hint of blue at the bottom.
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That image is streatched across the width of the screen. Creating the menu item that has the blue line at the bottom.
Think of it as that image repeating over and over again side by side.
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That image is streatched across the width of the screen. Creating the menu item that has the blue line at the bottom.
Think of it as that image repeating over and over again side by side.
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Wait so where exactly is this rectangle?
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Its a vertical rectangle repeated over and over again to make a skinny little horizontal line?? Wow, that's deep.
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I have a question too. How do you devs mod the build.prop? Is that mostly the difference between ROMs?
(Thought it would be better here instead if a new thread. Don't mean to thread jack)
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I have a question too. How do you devs mod the build.prop? Is that mostly the difference between ROMs?
(Thought it would be better here instead if a new thread. Don't mean to thread jack)
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No the differences between roms isn't mostly the build.prop
the build.prop can easily(usually) be modified using root explorer or similar.(I am having trouble editing the additions that kejar has made to build.prop tho. Never had this problem before. But its just the extra entries at bottom I can't change.
The biggest differences in roms come from the UI and system frameworks and scripts inside init.d
There are a few performance tweaks and edits u can make inside build.prop but ur.choices are kinda limited in what can be.done. even the line in eclipse build.prop that mentions raising the touch points recognized by the screen to 5 requires changes elsewhere in the "framework" to allow it to actually recognize that amount.
An Introductory Guide To Theming Miui
Much like CM7’s theme chooser, Miui has it’s own powerful theme engine. If you’ve ever wanted to create your own theme or have a theme that you like, but want to make some personalized changes; then this guide’s for you. This guide is intended as a supplement to Team D3rp’s thread; [Guide][Reference] An Intro to Themeing. Please keep all questions, comments, and suggestions in this thread Miui related also feel free to hit us up at #miuithemes on the IRC. General theme questions, image editing questions, xml editing questions, or anything of that nature should be asked in the afore mentioned thread. Before we begin it’s necessary to thank scott951 and bigrushdog for there past, present, and future work on this rom. In addition, thanks to toastcfh & Cayniarb for they’re work on the AOSP kernel, to bliind for his ongoing IRC support, tips & tricks, and lastly thank you to Team D3rp (il Duce, ranger61878, thoughtlesskyle, vanessaem, dkdude36, jdeloach, and pstevep), all the old HeroC guys, the many talented themers, and everyone else on XDA and IRC who continue to advance my knowledge of the Android Operating System.
To begin your adventure into the world of Miui theming you will need some tools, listed below:
7zip or similar archiving program
Notepad ++ or similar text editor
gimp or another image editor of your liking
Root Explorer (or your prefered file manager with root access)
Patience, patience, patience
Time, time, time
A willingness to bork your theme over and over again until you’re satisfied with how it looks
Recommended knowledge of adb and/or Android Commander- not required but may save you the time of having to restore a nand.
Table Of Contents: for your convenience in finding specific areas of help.
Lesson 1: File Structure
Lesson 2: Beginning Your Theme
Lesson 3: Lockscreens
Lesson 4: Changing Icons
Lesson 5: SystemUI
Lesson 1-File Structure
Before you can actually theme anything, you need to learn and understand the basic file structure used by Miui. Themes are compressed into zip files with a .mtz extension and are applied by the Miui theme engine at “run time”, meaning you can change almost any aspect of your theme on the fly, without a reboot. Download my intro.mtzfor use along with this guide. This is the default Miui theme with a simple lockscreen included that you will have to edit (It works but you will have to edit it per my instructions for it to look good), and a generic android boot animation / boot audio file. If you currently have a theme that you are generally happy with and would prefer to edit that more to your liking, you may do so by opening the Miui theme engine, select customize, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select “Backup Theme” After the backup finishes running, navigate to /sdcard/Miui/theme/backup and move the “backup.mtz” to your computer. Now let’s extract our .mtz and have a look at what’s inside. Right click on the intro.mtz, select 7zip from the popup window, and then select extract. Now navigate to the extracted intro.mtz folder and have a look inside. You should see the following:
“boots” folder
“preview” folder
“ringtones” folder
“wallpaper” folder
“com.android.launcher” zip file
“description” xml file
“icons” zip file
“lockscreen” zip file
The folders can be opened as any normal non-compressed document folder, the zip files (although their extensions are nonconventional can be extracted with 7zip, and the xml file can be edited with notepad ++.
Lesson 2 – Beginning Your Theme
Decide what you want your theme to be called and create a new folder for it somewhere that’s easily accessible.
Open up the description xml with notepad ++ and edit it to reflect your theme name on this line: <title>Default</title> (Change default to the name of your theme), edit this line: <author>MIUI</author> (Change MIUI to your name), and edit this line: <version>1.0</version> (from 1.0 to whatever version # you would like to call your theme). Save your changes and move the document to your newly created theme folder.
Now, if you so desire, in your theme folder create a sub-folder entitled “boots”. Place any boot animation & boot audio files in there that you would like to use, and make sure they are named correctly (bootanimation.zip & bootaudio.mp3).
Create a “preview” sub-folder next. This is where you’ll put screenies of your theme as you continue to develop it. Make a note of the file names and sizes in our original preview folder, also if you look you’ll see that some of the photo’s are jpegs and some are pngs. I’m not sure as though it matters, but I’ve developed a habit of keeping the extensions the same.
Now you can create an optional “ringtones” subfolder and assign rintones, notifications, and alarm sounds, by default when applying your theme. Use any mp3 you like so long as the files are named alarm.mp3, notification.mp3, and ringtone.mp3.
Create a “wallpaper” sub-folder within your theme folder next. This will be the home of your theme’s default wallpapers. Again look back at the intro.mtz and notice the size of the wallpapers in that folder and the file names. When you put your jpegs in this folder make sure they are named exactly default_lock_wallpaper & default_wallpaper.
Congratulations, you’re now on your way to making your own custom theme. Now that we have the simplest things covered and out of the way, we can really start to dig in and do some theming!
Lesson 3 – Lockscreens
Skipping over icons for a moment, lets jump to the lockscreen. As you know by now our Evo 3D’s QHD displays don’t play nice with a lot of lockscreens. So lets have a look at what we can do to fix some lockscreens. Please keep in mind that depending on which lockscreen you want to use they will require varying degrees of changes to work properly. The lockscreen I included with the intro.mtz functions, but looks terrible so now we’re going to fix it.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Extract the “lockscreen” file that you downloaded. Inside you’ll see an advance folder.
Open the advance folder. This is where the lockscreen magic happens. In this folder are all of the lockscreen png’s and the manifest.xml
Let’s start with the png’s.
-Resize bg to 540X854
-Resize bottom to 540X178
-Resize bottom_batterylow to 540X178
-Resize bottom_batterylow_light to 540X240
-Resize charging_bg to 540X178
-Resize charging_bg_mask to 540X178
-Resize status_bar to 540X40
-Resize time_bg to 540X107
Feel free at this time to edit and/or replace any of the png’s in here, as you see fit, but be sure to keep the icon names correct and watch out for the .9png’s (there are none in this lockscreen, but if you’re using a different one beware).
Now that the png’s have been fixed let’s have a look at the manifest.xml, shall we? Our images are all the proper size, but if we loaded the lockscreen now the icons and text would all be shifted to the left of the screen. In addition to making positional adjustments in this file we can change font sizes, font colors, time & date format, even which apps the lockscreen will launch. Go ahead and open that xml file now with notepad ++.
Find the two lines that begin with <DateTime. On these lines you can change the x & y locations to get the proper spacing from the edge of the screen. (x is the horizontal plane, y is vertical x0,y0 being the top left corner of the screen). You can change the text color (#FFFFFFFF) to whatever you like, the font size (size="22"), and the date format (format="EEEE, MMM d")
Now, work your way down through the xml file making any adjustments you want to make to text sizes, colors, and the necessary x shifts to get your lock screen lined up and centered. If by chance you get stumped, compare your manifest.xml with my manifest_edited.xml.
*hint, I usually use a pencil and paper to draw out the screen, then calculate how big of a left margin I want, add the image widths, to figure how big of a change to make. For example x20 + 480 png width=500 (leaving a margin of 40 on the right). Now if I change to x30 + 480 png width = 510 (leaving me a margin of 30 on both sides).
Once you’re done editing the .xml save it (keeping the original of course to refer back to)
Back out of the advance folder now and right click on it. Select 7zip from your popup window and “add to archive”. When prompted, save as “lockscreen.File”, set your file type as .zip and save your lockscreen to your theme folder. After it saves delete the .File from the name. Windows will prompt you that this may make the file unusable, click ok.
Navigate to your theme folder and select all of the contents inside of it (boots, preview, etc…). After selecting all of your theme components, right click again, select 7zip, and add to archive. Save your theme as “whatever_name”.mtz again choosing .zip as the file type.
Place your newly created theme on your sd card in /sdcard/MIUI/theme
Apply your theme and enjoy. If you’re happy with your lockscreen take a screenie to add to your preview folder when you make your next edits. Remember if you do something that breaks your lockscreen you can unlock by pressing back & volume up, or you can use adb to delete lockscreen from /data/system/theme and push a good lockscreen back.
Lesson 4 – Changing Icons
Changing your desktop and folder icons is a great way to enhance your theme. Miui’s theme manager makes this a relatively simple process. You can edit the default system icons with your image editor, or take your favorite icon collection and resize them to 90 X 90 pixels if you wish to keep the default Miui icon size. Lets begin!
Navigate to your intro.mtz and use 7zip again to extract the icon.File
Inside your extracted icon folder you’ll find all of the icons for the default system apps.
Changing system app icons
Find the icon that you want to replace in the folder. Let’s use the browser for example.
Find the icon you want to replace it with and rename that icon to com.android.browser
Copy your new browser icon into the icon folder, overwriting the existing one.
Adding icons for user installed apps is a little more involved but worth the extra time to make your theme complete. Here is where it’s handy to have Root Explorer.
Let’s say we want to add an icon for dropbox
To do this we need to know the process name. There’s a couple of ways we can figure this out. Since every app installed creates a data folder we can use Root Explorer to look in /data/data for the package name of dropbox.
If the package name didn’t jump out at you, don’t worry there’s another way to do this. Again using Root Explorer navigate to /data/app and find the dropbox apk, long press on in and select “extract all”, navigate to /sdcard/extracted and open up the extracted dropbox apk. Now tap the AndroidManifext.xml file, which should open up a text document and the very first line should give you the manifest package name.
By now you should know that the package name for dropbox is com.dropbox.android
Find the dropbox icon you want to use.
Rename the icon to com.dropbox.android
Drop the icon into your icon folder.
Repeat these steps for all of the icons which you want to replace.
Once you are finished replacing and / or adding icons, from within the icon folder, select all, then right click, select 7zip, and add to archive.
When the 7zip popup screen appears, save them as icons.File
Delete the .File extension
Move your zipped icons file to your theme folder.
Zip your themes folder up as a .mtz and apply it to your phone the same as you did after you finished your lockscreen.
Again, if you are happy with your icons take a couple of screenshots for your preview folder.
One last side note in regards to icons. You may notice some apps such as google + install additional icons to your homescreen (G+ Messenger). I have not figured out the image naming trick yet for these icons to display from the theme, but I’m working on it. For the time being I extracted my G+ Messenger and replaced the icon in the /res/drawable-hdpi folder, but I am searching for the correct way of doing this and will update accordingly once it’s figured out.
Lesson 5 – SystemUI
Now, we're going to add a whole new element to our theme. We're going to create a SystemUI zip in our theme mtz. Examples of some things that we can change in SystemUI are notification bar icons (signal, battery, gps etc), Statusbar back ground, and the various tabs you see in your drop down expanded notification page. Let's begin.
Create a working folder somewhere easily accessible on your computer (I like to work from my desktop)
Inside of your working folder, create a subfolder named "res"
download my theme_values_SysUI.xml, place it in your working folder (not in the "res" subfolder), and rename it to theme_values.xml.
Now you will need a SystemUI.apk from Miui. You can either unzip the rom on your computer and move the .apk to a convenient location of your choosing, or you can use adb to pull the SystemUI.apk from your phone. It's located in /system/app.
Now that you have your SystemUI.apk, using 7zip, extract it.
Open up your extracted apk and navigate to the "res" folder. Copy the "drawable-hdpi" folder and the "raw" folder and move them to the working folder on your desktop, placing inside of the "res" subfolder you created earlier.
Begining with the "drawable-hdpi" folder, use your image editor to make any .png adjustments that you want incorporated into your theme, or replace the png files as you see fit. Be sure to maintain the nomenclature of the images if you opt to replace them. Beware of editing .9.png's as they cannot be edited in a conventional fashion. If you need help editing .9.png's there are several methods and guides around xda. Or ask in [Guide][Reference] An Intro to Themeing.
When you're finished with the drawable-hdpi folder move to the raw folder. This is where your battery icons are located, contrary to Sense and CM7 roms. You'll notice that there are not 200 little battery png's but 3 large png's with all of the images put together in a sort of battery collage. To assemble a battery collage, take your individual battery pngs and resize them to 38 X 38. For graphical and charge indicators, you will now need to create a new image sized at 152 X 190, copy and paste your individual png's into the large image so that you have 5 rows each with 4 png's. Follow the same procedure for making a % png, except that you'll be using 10 rows of 10 images, so your png size should be 380 X 380.
When you're done with all of your images, open up the theme_values.xml with notepad ++ and make any color edits that you see fit. Please note, that these color changes will have minimal impact on the look of your theme. Most of the color changes of your system will not happen here. These are default values for only a handfull of apps.
When you're finished editing the xml save it and close it.
Finally select your theme_values.xml and your "res" folder and right click your mouse, select 7zip, and add to archive. In the 7zip popup window name your file com.android.systemui (no additional extension here, make sure it does not say zip at the end....just: com.android.systemui)
After the folder is compressed and zipped, move it to your theme folder and zip your theme up as a .mtz as you have been doing right along. Apply theme to your phone and enjoy.
To Be Continued…..Next update will be for Framework-res or launcher depending on my upcoming amount of free time!!!
Additional Information: Tips, Tricks, & Links
Advanced Lockscreens - Tips and Tricks
Thanks il Duce for these links:
Lockscreen 2.0 Reference
General Miui Tips & Tricks
I wasn't born rich, I'm good lookin' instead!!
Great job Hockey!! Love how everything is coming together!
Added to the OP in the one stop shop also.
Edit: This is really thorough. Very nice indeed.....
Awesome work
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Is that all we do to the manifest because I really want that Evoluer slider to unlock my phone.
Temari x Shikamaru
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Place holder for me
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Thank you sir, for providing us with a rom worthy of the time it takes to do all of this!......No disrespect intended to any of the other developers who's roms I also use, but I've fallen head over heels for Miui
knowledge561 said:
Is that all we do to the manifest because I really want that Evoluer slider to unlock my phone.
Temari x Shikamaru
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Well, there's a lot you can do with the manifest xml, but to make them work properly yeah....It's just resizing the png's and shifting the x & y values accordingly for our screen size. I'm downloading the lockscreen you're trying to use now.
Thanks for this.
hockeyfamily737 said:
Well, there's a lot you can do with the manifest xml, but to make them work properly yeah....It's just resizing the png's and shifting the x & y values accordingly for our screen size. I'm downloading the lockscreen you're trying to use now.
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Thanks because im Stumped!!!! If you manage to hook it up do you think you can throw in that green charging light? And when its not charging it turns blue when you touch it? Check out "ikun" to understand the lockscreen.
Temari x Shikamaru
vanessaem said:
Thanks for this.
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My pleasure. Hopefully everyone including myself can learn from this, because I'm certainly no expert. Just a guy who like to take stuff apart to see how it works.
knowledge561 said:
Thanks because im Stumped!!!! If you manage to hook it up do you think you can throw in that green charging light? And when its not charging it turns blue when you touch it? Check out "ikun" to understand the lockscreen.
Temari x Shikamaru
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I'll do what I can. First let's see if I can get it to work right Working lots of O/T right now so I haven't had a heap of time.
Thanks so much for this hockeyfamily737!
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Thanks homie.
Temari x Shikamaru
Also I will possibly be able to help out on this as well if someone doesn't get it figured out by Sunday... been working alot of double shifts..
knowledge561 said:
Thanks because im Stumped!!!! If you manage to hook it up do you think you can throw in that green charging light? And when its not charging it turns blue when you touch it? Check out "ikun" to understand the lockscreen.
Temari x Shikamaru
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Hey, nice introduction =)
If anyone is inerested in speeding up the process of testing your themes, I have created a Makefile/Windows Batch file for compressing themes and pushing them to the phone auto-magically
http://forums.miui.us/showthread.ph...ild-Script-(Windows-Unix)-Now-with-a-Makefile
Let me know if you guys have any problems!
Thank you for posting this amazing tutorial!
I am slowly fixing my lock screen, I'll post some before and after screen shots.
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now to figure out more stuff...
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Thank you for posting this amazing tutorial!
I am slowly fixing my lock screen, I'll post some before and after screen shots.
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Terrific and this was the one I was trying to do today. Great job with this.
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Wow! Great work... looking forward to more. Thanks hockeyfamily!
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I have tried UOT Kitchen before, always was unlucky at having flashing errors.
My question is this... If I take a flashable theme, with permission from the creator, I should be able to use the scripts that they include for flashing? I am savvy with un-APKing zipping, signing and what not, is that all I would have to do to recreate a theme using my own images?
Thanks to everyone here!
Yes, the script you see other themes using can be changed out with your own, as well as the content. You can also just use the UOT Kitchen script. Credit given where credit is due, of course, but the script itself (IMHO) is not something you really need permission for.
Another tip, this from firsthand experience, when you're zipping everything up getting ready to flash, make sure you're zipping the contents of the theme folder (/META-INF/ & /system/) vs zipping the theme folder.
It sounds really stupid, but it took me forever to figure out why everything I did in UOT Kitchen perfectly but everything I did, using the same damn script, just froze. But ya gotta learn somewhere, right?
Remember when using the kitchen make sure u click amend scripting in the area where u load the apks... x2 uses 2. Something recovery.. if u don't click that there will be errors everytime
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Thank you, I think I've tried UOT 5 times but never had success.
Kevin, I tried the amend scripting, it solo didn't work.
I would much rather use my own images then those offered in uot kitchen.
I'm going to try to put a theme together this weekend, I haven't modded anything since BF2 wake island air show
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Ok, how much do you know about themeing? Because if you are wanting to edit just the images(.pngs) you will need some info first...
You can "simply" take the framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk and go to the HDPI folder(or wherever the images are) and "drag n drop" to your desktop and edit those... OR you can take a .png that you wanna use(say one from another theme) and just drag n drop in the HDPI folder. And then, simply make a flashable .zip and your good to go.
.9s !!!
These are a PAIN if you dont know what you are doing.
If you are going to try and get into themeing, download APKManager and decompile the framework-res.apk ... go to a .9 image(i think its .png.9 or something of the like). When you load the image(say in GIMP) you will see black squares on the OUTSIDE of the image(like near the edges of the ACTUAL picture edge)... DONT TOUCH THOSE!!!! leave them there and make edits how you choose to the rest of the image. Once you are finished, just recompile(DONT SIGN AND YES! THESE ARE SYSTEM APPS!). Put in a flashable .zip and your set.
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When you are doing the drag and drop method, make sure you are REPLACING an image and not ADDING more images.. catch the drift?
this is quick how to, hope it helps and good luck. let me know if you need anything else.
All the themes rock! I have poor eye sight (far sight) so my main concern always is status bar and the battery icon. I love being able to see the percentage, but some themes use smaller battery percentage text.
.9 seem like the stretchable area I'm beautiful widget... I understand that
Thanks Peperm1nt
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I was thinking of trying out theming. That is until I looked at the crap load of images just thrown into one directory. lol. It may not be as hard as it looks but I havent looked any further than that yet. I still want to try something out though. Is there an easy way of figuring out what image does what on the phone? Like if I want to change some things, I have to know the name of the image. Well, to me, it looks like they aren't named plain and simple. Plus when they are just thrown into one directory its kinda hard to distinguish what is what. It was so much easier theming for webOS. lol
Js if u really look at the framework u will see all the images in the drawable hdpi folder are really a lot of the presses..tabs. status bar icons... over scroll glow theming takes a lot of time to build straight from scratch... any .9 PNG can be edited when it is decompiled in apk manager or apk multi tool just don't edit the black patch as peppermint said or u will not compile...
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Js if u really look at the framework u will see all the images in the drawable hdpi folder are really a lot of the presses..tabs. status bar icons... over scroll glow theming takes a lot of time to build straight from scratch... any .9 PNG can be edited when it is decompiled in apk manager or apk multi tool just don't edit the black patch as peppermint said or u will not compile...
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Yeah, one of these days ill download the tools and play with it. I've always enjoyed theming.
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I'm just trying to figure out the script to flash, is it the one in the google folder?
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@js I know what you are saying about the desire to do it but the system isn't really what I would say themer friendly! Admittedly I am not the sharpest tool in the shade when it comes to some things (like the Android OS), so I would imagine that plays a big role in my intimidation of the whole thing.
What got me was the De-Compiling and Recompiling of everything just to change something. Not to mention the signatures and etc... perhaps one day someone will write a piece of software (be it windows based or Android in a shell on a PC) that will make it all pretty simple on that part. Till then I will prob. just enjoy and appreciate the work of others.
GL, Slim!
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@js I know what you are saying about the desire to do it but the system isn't really what I would say themer friendly! Admittedly I am not the sharpest tool in the shade when it comes to some things (like the Android OS), so I would imagine that plays a big role in my intimidation of the whole thing.
What got me was the De-Compiling and Recompiling of everything just to change something. Not to mention the signatures and etc... perhaps one day someone will write a piece of software (be it windows based or Android in a shell on a PC) that will make it all pretty simple on that part. Till then I will prob. just enjoy and appreciate the work of others.
GL, Slim!
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Yeah, I agree about the decompiling and recompiling thing. When I had a webOS phone I created my own theme just by simply replacing the images and restarting the phone. With android, it seems you have to take the whole framework out, theme it and recompile the package file and flash it to the phone. Just seems a bit overwhelming.
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It's not that bad if you are just changing the images... Just timely. I suggest gimp to do the work. Another tip, some of the images are indexed. In gimp change from indexed to rgb...back to indexed, then rgb. Reason being that you are now able to add any color and doing it twice clears the pixelation...
What gets hard is smali editing and .xml editing. Let me know if you need help there.
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Send a PM to "KTT16" on the Motorola Photon Forums, he is a great themer, let him know what you need help with, tell him you are running stock on the X2, he'll ask you for whatever files he needs, and he will help out.
By the way, if you are at all interested in a signature image, I can create one for you, just PM me, and I'll get on it.
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It's not that bad if you are just changing the images... Just timely. I suggest gimp to do the work. Another tip, some of the images are indexed. In gimp change from indexed to rgb...back to indexed, then rgb. Reason being that you are now able to add any color and doing it twice clears the pixelation...
What gets hard is smali editing and .xml editing. Let me know if you need help there.
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I can batch process in PS.....and what is this bout clearing the pixelation...lol
Thanks I'll check it out
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When you find a indexed image going to rgb pixelates the image...going back to indexed and then to rgb fixes this.
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When you find a indexed image going to rgb pixelates the image...going back to indexed and then to rgb fixes this.
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I was p playing with you, all my online gaming and forum names have always had pixel, pixelated, pixelation, pixelized or any variety of pixel
Edit: swyponese
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I am trying this out for the 1st time. My main goal is to create a transparent status bar for CM7. Will this make that "patch" I need for this?
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Js if u really look at the framework u will see all the images in the drawable hdpi folder are really a lot of the presses..tabs. status bar icons... over scroll glow theming takes a lot of time to build straight from scratch... any .9 PNG can be edited when it is decompiled in apk manager or apk multi tool just don't edit the black patch as peppermint said or u will not compile...
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i seem to be a complete idiot lol
im sitting here trying to use apk manager and have no clue how to go about it
i cant get it to friggin pull files, i have no clue what im doing tho lol
i been trying to find info on how to use it with the x2 but cant find jack that is actually useful.
time to go eat, clear my head, and get back to researching, im probably just missing something extremely easy i knoow, but hey, i havent had a working computer in years so yea, im kinda learning on the fly here, lol
Lol @ash
In apkm select the apk you want, then decompile... Make edits, recompile.
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BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT IF YOU USE THIS TUTORIAL AND MAKE WORK THAT YOU PLAN ON POSTING, ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU ASK ANYONE YOU BORROWED FROM BEFORE POSTING FOR PUBLIC USE, AND CREDIT THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR IN YOUR OP.
*****I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND MESS UP YOUR PHONE. MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE YOU PROCEED*****
Lately I’ve been asked a lot of questions of how to theme, or how to make simple changes to themes. So I decided instead of explaining the same thing over and over, I would put together a walk thru on some basic changes and how to port themes. This walk thru teaches how to do this all right on your device. So if you are looking for a tutorial on XML edits and how to use tools like apktool, this isn’t the thread. I do plan on making another thread in time for this. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE DIRECTIONS ARE SPECIFIC TO THE NOTE II AND TOUCHWIZ. IF YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT OTHER DEVICES YOUR QUESTION WILL BE IGNORED.
So lets get started. First you need some apps from the market
1. Xplore File Manager. This is what you’re gonna use to theme. I used to use metamorph and ninja morph but they are no longer being developed. This is actually just as easy.
2. Root Explorer. If you’re a root user and don’t have this I don’t know how you function. This is a paid app. You can still do all the functions with Xplore, just takes a while longer due to its interface.
3. Photo Editor (DevMagyver) Great app for adding simple effects, basic recoloring, this will even successfully crop .9 images (I’ll get into those more later)
4. ZipSigner2 (optional) You’ll need this if you take this guide further with market apps. Don’t worry I plan on getting more in depth with market apps in time.
Okay, now we need to set some settings in these apps to get this to work better. You MUST go into Xplore, hit menu then configuration, and check open apks as zips, also under root access set to superuser + mount writable. You don’t need to do this part, but I suggest going into root explorer and into preferences and select sort type to type, and check list folders first. This will make your life easier, trust me!!
NOW LETS GET STARTED!!!
First using root explorer, create a folder on the root of your sdcard (internal or external, where ever you want to work). I usually name mine the name of the theme I’m porting, this will serve as a project folder, and will reference it as project folder. Next, you need the theme you wanna port. Note that you need to have one from the Note II or another Touchwiz Device. This won’t work with another manufacturers device either (example this wont work to port a HTC Sense theme). Find the theme on your phone, and using root explorer extract the whole thing. When you extract files in root explorer they extract to sdcard/speedsoftware/extracted. You can change this in preferences if you’d like. I will refer to this folder as extracted. Navigate to extracted and find the folder containing the theme. Move it to the project folder.
Now you need the apks from the rom you are gonna theme. I RECOMMEND INSTALLING THE ROM AND PULLING THEM FROM SYSTEM/APP AND SYSTEM/FRAMEWORK. IF YOU JUST PULL THEM FROM THE ROM ZIP, AND THAT ROM USES AROMA, THE FRAMEWORK-RES AND SYSTEMUI WILL NOT CONTAIN ALL THE FILES NECCASARY AND YOU WILL BOOT LOOP.To get started we are only gonna work with SystemUI (found in system/app), framework-res, and lidroid-res (both found in system/framework). Copy them to the project folder. I SUGGEST MAKING A FOLDER WITH BACKUPS OF THESE AS WELL I CASE SOMETHING GOES WRONG. EITHER THAT OR DIRTY FLASH YOUR ROM AGAIN TO RESTORE AFTER AN OOPSIES
Now we are gonna switch over to Xplore. Xplore utilizes a dual pained display, meaning you have one folder open on the left, and one folder open on the right. When you copy a file, you copy from one pane to the other. This makes this a breeze.
On the LEFT pane, you want to open up your project folder. If you set it up correctly, you should see the extracted theme’s folder, and all the apks you pulled from system/app and system/framework. You’ll notice that there is a little plus icon on the apks just like the folders. If you don’t you need to make sure you go into configuration and tick open apks as zips. This gives us the ability to browse whats inside the apk without extracting it. Open the SystemUI you pulled from the rom and navigate to SystemUI/res
Now on the RIGHT pane, navigate to the project folder, and then into the folder the theme is in until you get into the system/app folder of the theme. Here you will find the themed SystemUI.apk. Now navigate to SystemUI/res. The only real folder you will use from SystemUI is drawable-xhdpi. What you wanna do now is check the folder drawable-xhdpi in the RIGHT pane. Now copy that to the left pane. It will ask you if you want to replace all the files, just check do this for all and continue. Just to recap, youre copying them from the theme to the rom you are theming. SystemUI is now done.
Now for the framework. Go back to the LEFT pane, and navigate to the framework-res.apk that you pulled from your rom that is in project folder. Next, navigate to framework-res/res.
Now on the RIGHT pane, navigate to the framework-res.apk that is in the theme folder. Now navigate to framework-res/res. We again are going to copy folders from the RIGHT to the LEFT. Check drawable-nodpi, drawable-sw360dp-hdpi, and drawable-xhdpi in the RIGHT pane. Now copy these from the RIGHT pane to the LEFT pane. Framework-res is now done
Now for your lidroid toggles. Go back to the LEFT pane, and navigate to the lidroid-res.apk that you pulled from your rom. Now navigate to lidroid-res/res.
Now on the RIGHT pane, navigate to the lidroid-res.apk that is in the theme folder. Then navigate to lidroid-res/res. We again are gonna copy folders from the RIGHT to the LEFT. Check drawable-hdpi in the RIGHT pane. Now copy this folder from the RIGHT pane to the LEFT. Lidroid-res is now done.
Now we are going to go back to root explorer. Using root explorer, navigate to your project folder. Your project folder should now contain the folder containing the extracted theme, and the files you pulled from your rom, except now they contain the pngs from the theme since you copied them. Now to test that everything went ok. What you want to do is copy the SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk and lidroid-res.apk that you pulled from your rom and added the pngs to and paste them in /system. Now using root explorer change the permissions of these 3 files to rw-r--r--. Once you’ve done this you can now safely move the SystemUI.apk to system/app and the framework-res.apk and lidroid-res.apk to system/framework. IF YOU DO NOT SET THE PERMISSIONS FIRST BEFORE YOU MOVE THE FILES YOU WILL BOOT LOOP. Now reboot. AT THIS POINT YOU SHOULD BE THEMED!!!
Now some things might not have turned out right. 9/10 if something went wrong it was in the status bar. This occurs because themes from other carriers/roms/devices are sometimes set up to use different pngs (like 5 signal bars over 4, 4g icons differ per carrier etc..). This is the part you’re not gonna like to hear. You have to fix them all manually. Ususally its not too hard, just takes some renaming or recoloring of some pngs and maybe looking for them somewhere. To find which ones that need fixed, go into root explorer and navigate to your project folder. Extract the SystemUI that you pulled from the rom and then themed. Go to extracted and navigate to SystemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi. This is kind of where you are on your own. You need to find the pngs in this folder that were not themed correctly. Yet again I can’t help you with this, its all trial and error. Most things are easy to find like the battery icons, 4g icons etc. if you are having trouble figuring it out, copy the pngs and make them each a different color. This way once you’ve made changes you can identify them easier.
Once you’ve made your changes, exit root explorer and go back into Xplore. On the LEFT pane, navigate to your project folder, then the SystemUI.apk you pulled from your rom and themed. Now navigate to SystemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi.
Now on the RIGHT pane, navigate to extracted. Now navigate into the SystemUI folder from the extracted SystemUI and navigate to SystemUI/res/drawable-xhdpi. Select all the images you changed, and copy them from the RIGHT pane to the LEFT. You can now use the previous method to test your changes. it’s a tedious process sometimes, but really just takes practice. Once you’ve done it a few times you get used to what you might have to fix. You can also use the above method that I explained for making corrections to selectively choose images from a theme to use. For instance, you only want the status bar of a theme. Extract it and copy just the pngs for the status bar. Once you’ve got the basic idea of whats going on here, you can use this method on all the other apks in system/app that are included in the theme.
I PLAN ON ADDING A LIST OF COMMON CHANGES WITHIN THE FILES, SUCH AS THE FRAMEWORK BACKGROUND ETC. THIS WILL BE LOCATED IN POST #2, JUST GIVE ME SOME TIME. HOPE THIS ISN’T TOO CONFUSING LOL
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First! Lol... Thanks for all the info. I'll try this over the weekend and let you know how it goes.
I'm curious to how many people will read and understand, and how many will skip over things and then blame you for breaking their phone.
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Wow thanks iced great info!!
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First! Lol... Thanks for all the info. I'll try this over the weekend and let you know how it goes.
I'm curious to how many people will read and understand, and how many will skip over things and then blame you for breaking their phone.
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I'm sure many people will mess up, most likely due to not following directions. This is pretty straight forward and I've tried to explain each step and whats going on. I will be adding more detailed information in time on specific edits, but this is a great guide to get started with.
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Thanks for the one you helped me with before making this I love it this is very helpful but ever time I make one my multi window goes haywire
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Does anybody know why I can't send messages on certain forums thanks
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Does anybody know why I can't send messages on certain forums thanks
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Really? You post this question here? To answer your question, you are titled a noob and can't post everywhere. Next time post in Q&A
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Yeah I'm sorry but my tapatalk wouldn't let me reply in alot of forums and this one worked. Again I'm sorry. I normally would not do this
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Yeah I'm sorry but my tapatalk wouldn't let me reply in alot of forums and this one worked. Again I'm sorry. I normally would not do this
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Try clearing data for the app or uninstall and reinstall it.
Back on topic...great write up. X-plorer is awesome, and glad to learn about putting the apps in the /system file first. I was wondering I could never push framework without it crashing. Other than keeping everything from crashing, what exactly does that do? Would you delete the files from /system after placing them in their designated folders and rebooting?
Curious about the .9.png's as well. I have a few apps that I can't seem to figure out or locate the right .png's but I'm thinking it might just be the .9's that are messing me up.
Thanks for putting this together for everyone. It'll certainly benefit the whole community to have more people taking an interest in modding/developing. :beer:
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Try clearing data for the app or uninstall and reinstall it.
Back on topic...great write up. X-plorer is awesome, and glad to learn about putting the apps in the /system file first. I was wondering I could never push framework without it crashing. Other than keeping everything from crashing, what exactly does that do? Would you delete the files from /system after placing them in their designated folders and rebooting?
Curious about the .9.png's as well. I have a few apps that I can't seem to figure out or locate the right .png's but I'm thinking it might just be the .9's that are messing me up.
Thanks for putting this together for everyone. It'll certainly benefit the whole community to have more people taking an interest in modding/developing. :beer:
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Once you change the permissions you just move them, not copy. If you don't set the permissions not only does it crash, but since the permissions are not correct the system won't start the app, and since your messing with the framework and system it won't start up. Once I get some simpler edits covered I'll get into the .9 images.
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Once you change the permissions you just move them, not copy. If you don't set the permissions not only does it crash, but since the permissions are not correct the system won't start the app, and since your messing with the framework and system it won't start up. Once I get some simpler edits covered I'll get into the .9 images.
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Ahhh. Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense.
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Is there a good way to batch edit multiple files, that your making (the same) edits on (color, effect etc), from your phone? I'm using photo editor, but didn't see a way to import multiple files.
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Cant say thanks enough for this guide. I finally got my green circle battery back.
Quick question: Could you tell us how to pull specific things from one theme instead of everything? Like just taking the battery, toggles, ect. Thanks
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Cant say thanks enough for this guide. I finally got my green circle battery back.
Quick question: Could you tell us how to pull specific things from one theme instead of everything? Like just taking the battery, toggles, ect. Thanks
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Yes I plan on covering some simple changes in time. One question for you, did you find this tutorial easy to follow?
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Is there a good way to batch edit multiple files, that your making (the same) edits on (color, effect etc), from your phone? I'm using photo editor, but didn't see a way to import multiple files.
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As far as batch operations go you will need a pc. One thing that makes this slightly faster, when making color changes in photo editor it gives you the option to save your preferences as a preset. If changing multiple images that start out as the same color this works well and can speed up the process.
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As far as batch operations go you will need a pc. One thing that makes this slightly faster, when making color changes in photo editor it gives you the option to save your preferences as a preset. If changing multiple images that start out as the same color this works well and can speed up the process.
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Awesome that definitely helps. And it looks like you CAN select multiple files if you use the photo editors file browser(it just takes a few seconds for the thumbnails to load). You can't apply the preset to multiple files, but you can at least get them into the project, and load the preset to each one individually but fairly quickly.
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Yes I plan on covering some simple changes in time. One question for you, did you find this tutorial easy to follow?
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Very easy to follow.
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