Hello,
It's been a while since i last posted a theme.... I've been used to making themes using Metamorph. I have a question, I recently decided to create a few concepts/themes. I have everything setup ie Eclips,SDK,... and when i try to apply the themes using metamorph it does not theme parts of current ui in CM7.1... i read somewhere that CM7 Theme Engine overwrites any modification done with metamorph, can anyone confirm this?
Also here a few images of the themes i'm currently working.... It would definitely be great help if someone can help me to get metamorph to run in CM7.1.
Thanks in Advance.
I have never had an issue applying metamorph themes as long as I don't have a theme chooser theme applied. So before I apply the theme I make sure to select "system" in the menu. If that doesn't work you can back it up, delete it and then try it..
I think you are correct i just applied one of my old metamorph themes usng the System theme from theme manager and it worked. Upon looking into the 9png files i found that they are labeld differently now in the new cm7.1 build, and have to rename my old .9png files to the new file name to work... I will report back to see if this is correct when i get back to my android station.
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so i was working with cyonbread theme and turning it into a tron theme.
I got all my icons i want so far, but am unable to install the apk (all i did was replace files in the current theme and then emailed it to myself, to try and install) but it keeps saying it fails to instal the apk
any help on what i'm doing wrong...
thanks in advance!
Is it a flashable theme or morph?
If it's morph, the name of the zip has to be EXACTLY the same as the .xml file in the root of the .zip.
it's a theme that you would install like with an apk
this is probably the issue, what xlm file is it? and where can i find the line of code to change the name?
also any good free xlm editors out there?
Hi everyone,
I followed reverendkjr's tutorial to install khalpower's v4 rom onto my phone. His tutorial starts with the miuioptimizedv3 rom first, then builds on it using updates.
Afterwards, I wasn't able to Metamorph anything, so I used ZipThemer to install owq's Gingerbread theme (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955698), which worked! However, the Dialer did not get themed and remains in a broken MIUI theme (can provide screenshots if you'd like), and I am not sure how to theme it...
I would like the Gingerbread dialer that, if I remember correctly from Metamorphing in 2.1, came after applying owq's Metamorph. Is there any way to accomplish this in the state that I am in?
Cheers!
Looking at the Morph the only things I see changed are Framework-res.apk & services.jar. (Does the dialer pull graphics from framework-res ?) If it does I would think you could push the default dialer from Dexter's ROM.
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Looking at the Morph the only things I see changed are Framework-res.apk & services.jar. (Does the dialer pull graphics from framework-res ?) If it does I would think you could push the default dialer from Dexter's ROM.
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Hey 3rdstring,
While I am trying to improve my android knowledge steadily, I have not tried pushing apks using adb before. Could you tell me how to go about this please?
Should have done more research
I found unyaffs, which decompresses nandroid backups, and decompressed the stock 1.3 nandroid. Then I pushed Contacts.apk and Phone.apk into /system/app, and tada it's Gingery
My memory failed me. The metamorph doesn't theme the dialer, but I remember the gingerbread dialer from using Khalpower's 'custom' apks from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9784619&postcount=13
I tried pushing Phone.apk and Contacts.apk from his files to a few emulators (eclair and froyo), but they both failed (I wonder if that's the fault of the emulator, not my device.) But then I pushed them to my device, and the apps wouldn't appear in the main menu anymore (also couldn't make any calls). Any other tips?
So if I make a custom theme in UOT kitchen, I can just make it a theme to use in Theme Chooser?
Do I still have to flash anything in Recovery?
And I thought boot animations couldn't be changed with a Theme Chooser theme...
Edit: OK so I got the zip, and does appear that yes I need to flash it, since its more than just an .apk. But is all of the mods done in Theme Chooser or are some independent (ex. boot animation).
Also, read somewhere else that flashing a new ROM build won't undo the custom mods. True?
Edit 2: "This theme was improperly compiled and cannot be applied. Please report this incident to the theme author"
There something special we have to do out of the norm?
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So if I make a custom theme in UOT kitchen, I can just make it a theme to use in Theme Chooser?
Do I still have to flash anything in Recovery?
And I thought boot animations couldn't be changed with a Theme Chooser theme...
Edit: OK so I got the zip, and does appear that yes I need to flash it, since its more than just an .apk. But is all of the mods done in Theme Chooser or are some independent (ex. boot animation).
Also, read somewhere else that flashing a new ROM build won't undo the custom mods. True?
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You can technically make a theme Chooser APk. But it never worked for me. I had to use the zip way. And had to use every workaround to get it to work. Its true that it does modify things other than theme Chooser files. But flashing a new rom wipes everything.
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You can pull the .apk out of the zip file and apply it using theme chooser.
I have had the best success using the empty theme apk available from the UOT site, just make sure you uncheck the "Theme chooser preview" box on the upload tab and choose CM7 theme.
It won't apply the boot animation, but you can also extract the bootanimation.zip and apply the boot animation through romtools.
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You can pull the .apk out of the zip file and apply it using theme chooser.
I have had the best success using the empty theme apk available from the UOT site, just make sure you uncheck the "Theme chooser preview" box on the upload tab and choose CM7 theme.
It won't apply the boot animation, but you can also extract the bootanimation.zip and apply the boot animation through romtools.
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Even with 'theme chooser preview' it still fails for me. did a straight .zip from files and most all works. Did battery, animation, and font fine. Icons didn't seem to take however
Edit: Scratch that, icons took too. Just had to undo the 'Bionic Blue' theme and go back to 'System'
Hi I've been trying to change individual icons for my apps in MIUI with no luck. Does anyone here know how to change the icons?
Or if the only way to do it is to make my own theme, does anyone know how to do that? I've tried to follow a guide on the MIUI forum with no luck. It was a really easy thread and just didn't work at all.
Have also tried to modify an already existing theme with no luck. (rename .mtz to .zip. unzip, change the icons they have in there, rezip, rename to .mtz, do import theme from theme manager).
This has been bugging me, so if anybody knows that would be amazing! Thank you!
There might be an easier way, but I'm pretty sure you can open each application apk with a zip tool(winrar) and pull out the image icon, then edit it and replace the original in the zip tool(overwrite). then push the apk back to your phone.
Hola guys. To all of you. Particularly the ones who are familiar with MIUI. I will just stick to the point. If you ARE familiar with miui then you must have come across those flashy themes. You must also have found out the way to bypass the infamous theme policy WSM tools and Xposed and all. But I recently started taking interest in those flashy themes. You know that once you download a theme from the default Themes app the mtz file starts getting downloaded and as soon as the downloading has finished it gets unpacked into bits (com.android.contacts, com.miui.home, icons, lock_wallpaper, locksreen and so on) and gets copied to the MIUI folder in main storage and again into data/system/theme. This is the first problem. I can't copy the whole mtz file to a safe place because it gets unpacked as soon as it has been downloaded which is basically a zip file containing several other zip files that is, the 'bits' I was talking about. Second thing. the default themes app does not recognize mtz files downloaded from the official miui themes website. It declares them as third party themes. What I did was, took some of those 'bits' and replaced some XML files inside them and some png elements and put them back into data/system/theme. But miui has a way to prevent this from happening. As soon as it detects a modified file present in data/system/theme it reverts back to the default plain theme by deleting all files from data/system/theme. My guess is it keeps checking out verifying in regular intervals the checksums that it must have generated earlier. The same thing happens if I just replace a bit in the mentioned directory with a bit from another theme. So my questions are:
1. Is there a way to preserve the mtz file downloaded from within the default Themes app as a whole mtz file?
2. Can I make changes to just the Themes app so that it would apply any mtz file?
3. Is there a way to prevent miui from continuously checking or verifying the checksums that it has generated? (just a guess but I reckon thats what it actually does) because for an hour or so after replacing or modifying the 'bits' everything works fine but the reverting process takes place in an hour or so.
Thats all folks! jk. Any help or suggestion would be really appreciated because I think a thread like this was long since needed here. And dont talk about visiting MIUI's official forums. Most of the guys there don't know half the things that is really worth discussing. Thank you guys.
note- dont want to use WSM tools nor can I find one for miui7.
note2- if I change the permissions of the folder (data/system/theme) to 444 allowing READ permissions only, the phone would just reboot without warning and continue to reboot until the permissions are changed back to normal (755).
seriously guys. no one?
I'm right now at your point.
I want to modify some files or overwrite some files in "data/system/theme" and after a while the theme manager applies the original miui theme .
Does someone have any solution to this?
Damntoosleepy did you get any solution?
Xiaomi doesnt let global phones use unapproved icons, themes, fonts etc. If you changed any of these you will be reverted to default. Only way to design your theme or apply one is becomming a designer in miui website(theres tut at gearbest.com). Or you can adjust your current one in themes \app bottom right corner\ click button/ customize theme. You can mix things there. Take icons from one theme, bg or font from another one and so on. But the themes you must have downloaded from approved miui themes app. I had issue when 3rd party icon pack caused me this problem on a approved theme from miui themes app. Then i changed the pack through the miui themes app and problem solved
Any solution?