Hey guys,
would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to change the 5 buttons in the pulldown bar please?
I changed them in my UOT theme, but still the original ones keep showing.
Thnx a lot.
Cheers
Sgace said:
Hey guys,
would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to change the 5 buttons in the pulldown bar please?
I changed them in my UOT theme, but still the original ones keep showing.
Thnx a lot.
Cheers
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The only thing I know is yo modify your SystemUI.apk with apk manager . I don't know the exact steps .
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Yup, you'll have to find and replace the image files. Contact Seilent or search for the tutorial in section "Android Themes"
OK thnx you guys. Gonna do some more searching.
You have to do this manually. Open your systemui.apk with winrar. Open drawable-mdpi and you will find your current pulldown menu buttons. Just replace these files with what you like and also make sure that file names match.
Hey SGAce, i perfectly didnt understand your question. Do you just want to change the icons pngs or do you want to change their functions itself? Changing icons png has been expained before by other users but if you want to change functions of these, its a tedious job with editing xmls and resources and etc. It is a lot better to wait for the nightlies of CM7 lol
THNX y'all,
i did it, i managed to change the button png's. Afterall it was a STUPID and unnesessary question, coz i did this with a few other apk's before
Sorry, this thread can be closed.
Cheers.
just use 7-zip
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When i theme i always do it on my phone without a pc
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How would I go about changing the color of the "15 toggle" mod myself?
What color did you want? There's blue, purple, and green.
I know what colors there are lol. Off the top of my head I can think of 140+ other colors I'd might like to have...
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BlackZenith said:
I know what colors there are lol. Off the top of my head I can think of 140+ other colors I'd might like to have...
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Eh...ok...sorry. Only trying to solve a need.
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How would I go about changing the color of the "15 toggle" mod myself?
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Open up the lidroid apk with 7zip or similar program pull out the drawable-hdpi folder.Leave the Lidroid.apk open on your desktop. Color the images to your liking. Then drag the folder back to the open lidroid.apk on your desktop.Close apk.Push to phone. PROFIT!
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You could pull it apart, decompile the apks, change the color of the images, and recompile, and you'll have to for each new color you want. It's a decent bit of work but probably the only way you're going to get it unless you talk to the person who makes it and convince them to make another color for you.
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welchertc said:
You could pull it apart, decompile the apks, change the color of the images, and recompile, and you'll have to for each new color you want. It's a decent bit of work but probably the only way you're going to get it unless you talk to the person who makes it and convince them to make another color for you.
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Understood. I was hoping someone could also point out the exact file/apk that I would need to mod and hopefully it would be as easy as doing a replace all for the color code I want to replace... which I see bigfau provided (lidroid apk)
What about the icons in the notification area? Battery, signal strength, and etc?
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Your right, no worries.
No, I didn't by chance happen to see bigfau's post before I got mine in, as he beat me to the punch and slipped in while I was typing mine.
Besides, even though he replied just before me, is there a problem with me providing similar information? If anything, two people telling the OP essentially the same thing will further reassure the OP and give him more confidence to try his own hand at theming.
And what does pointing me to his ROM thread have to do with my post? I'm well aware of the development going on for our phones.
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BlackZenith said:
What about the icons in the notification area? Battery, signal strength, and etc?
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SystemUI.apk and Framework-res.apk.
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bigfau said:
SystemUI.apk and Framework-res.apk.
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So I read here that if you are using a mod to change stuff, you can't further update those same mods from the ROM (which might help explain why I have been unsuccessful). So I went into the "15 Toggle.zip" I am using and tried to swap out some PNGs from the "drawable-hdpi" and got a "Not Implemented" error from 7zip... what's up with that?
Not sure if it matters but the PNG's I am trying to swap are not those 9.PNGs... I can't even open those to see what they look like. Something about unsupported compression method...
I think its because you need to decompile the apks, swap out your images, then recompile. It's what you have to do for standard theming, so it should be the same for what you want to do.
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I think its because you need to decompile the apks, swap out your images, then recompile. It's what you have to do for standard theming, so it should be the same for what you want to do.
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hmmm, read somewhere else you only needed to decompile if you were doing stuff to data, like changing values or code in XML files. There are folders within the apk that I can copy to without problem (although expected changes have yet to take effect). Guess it wouldn't hurt to de/recompile and see what happens.
Something else I noticed is that for the "15 Toggle.zips" that don't change the status bar icons, I can swap the status bar images np. But when I run the .zip in CWM, none of my changes take effect. But if I try to change the status bar icons of a "15 Toggles.zip" that I know changes the status bar icons (like bigfau's green 15 toggle mod), I get the "Not Implemented' error.
While I know swapping using 7zip works for some stuff, you're going to run into trouble with .9's and like you've said, xmls, but if you take the little bit of extra time to just decompile and recompile all of the changes will work. In my opinion, its worth the two extra minutes just to not have to deal with the hassle of guessing if something will work or not.
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Thanks For The Instructions
I just want to say thank you to all those who have provided information in this thread. With the guidance given I was able to change the color of the toggles from the available purple/green/cyan to what I wanted a teal green and a white version. I only changed the toggle colors nothing else in the notification icons but I feel awesome about it being my first try at anything like this. Both the teal and white look great! I just extracted the images and recolored with gimp then repacked the zip. So thanks! :good:
Amanda (Pimms)
P.S. If anyone wants the teal or white version PM me and I can send you them!
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BlackZenith and I figured out how to change the color of the battery and other icons in the notification bar, you must edit the drawable-xhdpi (note the x :laugh for the images to change from the SystemUI.apk file. Just letting you all know in case you are having trouble with that aspect. I was editing the drawable-hdpi folder at first and when flashed nothing changed.
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impimms said:
BlackZenith and I figured out how to change the color of the battery and other icons in the notification bar, you must edit the drawable-xhdpi (note the x :laugh for the images to change from the SystemUI.apk file. Just letting you all know in case you are having trouble with that aspect. I was editing the drawable-hdpi folder at first and when flashed nothing changed.
Amanda (Pimms)
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I think you may need to do the battery icons in the drawable-xhdpi folder in the Framework-res.apk also.
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Hi, guys
How can I adapt the 15 toogles from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677245 (The one that says stock) to our version of our Notes. I tried flashing it and works but I like to see the 4G and 4g Lte icons in the top screen. Thanks.
Can someone tell me how to get a png of the orange and white text messaging app in the photo attached. I want to add it back to my dock but I cannot find a photo of it anywhere. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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did you install a theme? if so reinstall the unthemed app. or if you want to keep rest of app themed and keep unthemed icon you can extract image from .apk file for unthemed. it should be in a folder res/drawable-hdpi/icon.png or simply look here for a new set of icons you like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824656
You are a god send! That's exactly what I needed! Much appreciation!!
Hi Can anyone tell me how to change system font colour to someother colour other than white...
Well that depends on the apk. So if you want to change the font colour then you will have to manually decompile each apk and do some XML edits, unless there is any other way to do it..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353706
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sounds so hard
Need some help from you themers. What files do I need to edit to make my status bar and the settings menu pure black? I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 i605 (VZW) on the latest official firmware s-off and rooted.
FWIW, I'm working with a MacBook Pro using apktool 1.5.2 and smali/baksmali 1.4.1.
If you don't mind, I would much rather not use someone else's mod. I would like to just learn to do it myself
Thanks.
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Thanks for the help everyone
For others, here is the answer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33975827&postcount=1
Status bar would be in the system ui apk, res drawable xhdpi folder or folders. The settings bg is in the settings apk or maybe framework res apk and I think it is in the same folder. I can look tomorrow to give you a for sure file path.
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Status bar would be in the system ui apk, res drawable xhdpi folder or folders. The settings bg is in the settings apk or maybe framework res apk and I think it is in the same folder. I can look tomorrow to give you a for sure file path.
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Sounds good BTR, I appreciate that. So I take it what I need to edit is png files and not xml color resources right?
wildstang83 said:
Sounds good BTR, I appreciate that. So I take it what I need to edit is png files and not xml color resources right?
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Yes you are correct. Goodness has some status bar color mods and some settings bg mods, but the names were renamed and that cause of the settings and mods available. I'm fixing to have to go to work so I'll have a chance at some point to look and get that file path.
The status bar is a XML edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985689
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The status bar is a XML edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985689
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Thank you for the link. It worked perfectly.
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wildstang83 44254606 said:
Thank you for the link. It worked perfectly.
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Woot! No problem. :highfive: