Hello everyone. Im just starting out theming and i cant post in the dev section yet But here my question. I rooted my friends phone and install CM10 and installed a purple theme for her. Shes having a data dropping issues. It sounds like a hand off from 4 to 3 and never going back to 4..no sure..she just complains that she loses data. So my thinking was is because she like the feel of the AOSP roms, i was going to install a senseless one and then theme it. Whats the easiest way to merge an exsisting them apk into a custom rom that doesnt have the theme picker app? would i extract the rom, add the files from the APK into it, compile sign then install?
I've never done any theming, but I'm guessing you'd have to decompile the theme apk, resize all of the images to the DPI and resolution of the sense rom, decompile framework-res.apk from the sense rom and swap out the drawables and then recompile. If you really want a good answer though, I'd PM who MIKE D and ask. He's done some really sick theming.
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Obaterista93 said:
I've never done any theming, but I'm guessing you'd have to decompile the theme apk, resize all of the images to the DPI and resolution of the sense rom, decompile framework-res.apk from the sense rom and swap out the drawables and then recompile. If you really want a good answer though, I'd PM who MIKE D and ask. He's done some really sick theming.
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Ok cool, Ill do just that. Ive done some basic themes on apk but never a full blown rom theme, i know because of the system files, there a different way you have to go about it
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Well in short its horrid in my opinion is there any way I can get the white one from cm6 it's much more clear with the battery and signal etc. Or what is the best theme for cm7 thanks in advance.
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furrabbit.nh said:
Well in short its horrid in my opinion is there any way I can get the white one from cm6 it's much more clear with the battery and signal etc. Or what is the best theme for cm7 thanks in advance.
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kevin's inexus theme is pretty clear to me.
furrabbit.nh said:
Well in short its horrid in my opinion is there any way I can get the white one from cm6 it's much more clear with the battery and signal etc. Or what is the best theme for cm7 thanks in advance.
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Why don't you just take the notification bars and icons from the framework-res.apk in a wildfire cm6 rom, and flop them into your framework-res.apk and systemui.apk in the cm7 rom.
you can use the UOT kitchen: http://circle.glx.nl/ to theme your phone.
Or you can use the theme chooser.
Or you can flash my theme... if you want.
kevin2516 said:
Why don't you just take the notification bars and icons from the framework-res.apk in a wildfire cm6 rom, and flop them into your framework-res.apk and systemui.apk in the cm7 rom.
you can use the UOT kitchen: had to delete can't post links lol
Or you can use the theme chooser.
Or you can flash my theme... if you want.
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Hi thanks for the quick replys. Is there a tutorial you could point me to? I'm still learning the android system only been using for a week or so. I know the basics, flashing roms and rooting also pre packed themes etc etc. I already have the android Dev kit setup and functioning I pressume it will be required to extract cm notification bar.
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you won't need a tutorial for the UOT kitchen, it's as simple as choosing the stuff you want, then it asks you to upload your framework-res.apk, then it creates a .zip, then you flash it.
as for putting and changing icons in your framework-res, you just need the sdk to push the framework to your phone (if you dont know how to make a flashable zip) - there's a guide somewhere in the wildfire general section (just search for it). all you have to do is open the framework-res.apk with winrar, and place the icons you want to change into that rar file, and replace, - ok, done bla bla.
Nice. Thanks for your help. I'm going to try your theme as soon as I get chance aswell ill let you know how it goes. Thanks again
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Hey guys,
I'm building a theme and i'm running in to some trouble. I'm hoping someone might want to team up with me on this who has a little more experience. Currently, i have themed all the images in drawable-hdpi, and it took me about two days of work to do. I replaced the originals within 7zip with my new ones and then ran the rom through my kitchen to resign it...but now i'm getting errors about the framework when i try to do anything.
So anyway, i'd like to be able to just make this in to a flashable .zip theme that can be used on all the roms. If anyone can help me out, i'd appreciate it. Send me a PM and i will email you a zip of all the files i have themed so far, and we can collaborate from there. This theme is Orange...It looks real nice and i've put a lot of work in to it so far. Painstakingly long hours. Thanks in advance.
Thatisandwas
If your using 7zip to replace the images than there is no need to resign it.
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Yeah i did...really i'm just looking for someone with some more theming experience that might want to help me on this. I'm fine with doing the legwork..i just need a few pointers with xml's and editing the nav bar..various things.
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Yeah i did...really i'm just looking for someone with some more theming experience that might want to help me on this. I'm fine with doing the legwork..i just need a few pointers with xml's and editing the nav bar..various things.
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Shoot me a PM with your questions or what you need help with.
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Well test one...took the smali edits made for the atrix and threw those in and it made the status bar disappear lol. So not that easy...
Will update as progress develops
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ZiggSVO said:
Well test one...took the smali edits made for the atrix and threw those in and it made the status bar disappear lol. So not that easy...
Will update as progress develops
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HA! I did similar...I'm trying to get us the HTC Sense 3.0 notification bar. Uninstalled the Photon SystemUI.apk (yeah...oops!). Lost my notification bar totally. Good times. All is back to normal now tho!
Gonna keep trying my project too...love the toggles in the HTC bar.
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HA! I did similar...I'm trying to get us the HTC Sense 3.0 notification bar. Uninstalled the Photon SystemUI.apk (yeah...oops!). Lost my notification bar totally. Good times. All is back to normal now tho!
Gonna keep trying my project too...love the toggles in the HTC bar.
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Yea i decompiled our values/public xml added a bunch of lines for the new battery images and cant get it to recompile lol. I love the touchwiz pulldown...maybe i should hit up dreams and see how hard it would be to make them for a non touchwiz phone lol. He buolt them for the nexus lol.
But yea i need to see if i can get the xml to recompile. Already edited the services.jar file to add the battery smali needed for the mod to work on the atrix. After that tried the xml editing and cant get it to recompile lol.
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Should holla at madd about this...sure theres a much easier method
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Custodian said:
Should holla at madd about this...sure theres a much easier method
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Idk if you checked already, but I responded to your pm.
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.
Anyone still working on this or figure it out?
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Anyone still working on this or figure it out?
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This^^^^^^ i need!
kennypowders said:
This^^^^^^ i need!
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What rom are you on? I can whip something up today when I get back from grocery shopping.
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What rom are you on? I can whip something up today when I get back from grocery shopping.
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I am on star wars rom with alien flashed over. I would love this!
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Im also waiting for this modd
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Guys, just so you know, i loaded this the new homebase rom with update, and it has the battery percentage as 1% thank god!!!
Making an attempt...
I'm still a noob so pardon me if i'm not really adding anything here. I'm going to try to make the mod. So far I've:
1) Downloaded apktool
2) Decompiled the framework-res.apk file
3) Went into stats_sys_battery.xml and added the lines for each percentage
...LOL that's where I'm at and this'll take a while...so sorry if I'm taking a long time with this...I also just saw that last post about having the 1% mod on the home based rom...****! LOL! Well, if anyone's interested, I'll still give it a shot...hopefully i don't brick my phone.
4) Went into UOT Kitchen and downloaded some battery icons (now i have all charging/status icons...I didn't want to make it myself)
5) Wondering if I replace stats_sys_battery.xml with my modded one, recompile, that it would work?
If you use minimalistic text, it shows battery level in increments of 1%
Any updates to this mod
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any updates at all?
What ROM do you need the mod for? If you're talking Joker's skinny ROMs, then you can flash those as they have the % mod. Also Rangerbry posted the % mod way back for BLUR Roms. If you're talking ICS. Not ready yet, though I had extracted the systemui.apk and decompiled it, made my xml edits. but apktool doesn't compile the unrecognized ICS yet, so right now, we're stuck.
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What ROM do you need the mod for? If you're talking Joker's skinny ROMs, then you can flash those as they have the % mod. Also Rangerbry posted the % mod way back for BLUR Roms. If you're talking ICS. Not ready yet, though I had extracted the systemui.apk and decompiled it, made my xml edits. but apktool doesn't compile the unrecognized ICS yet, so right now, we're stuck.
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You probably need to update your apktool. I believe ICS support was added back in December.
http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/wiki/Changelog#1.4.3
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You probably need to update your apktool. I believe ICS support was added back in December.
http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/wiki/Changelog#1.4.3
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I was on 1.4.3 when i tried it, but maybe I'm just messing up somewhere with it. I installed framework-res.apk, systemui.apk's and decompiled the System apk just fine, made my edits, but when I built it, a **** ton of errors popped up.
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What ROM do you need the mod for? If you're talking Joker's skinny ROMs, then you can flash those as they have the % mod. Also Rangerbry posted the % mod way back for BLUR Roms. If you're talking ICS. Not ready yet, though I had extracted the systemui.apk and decompiled it, made my xml edits. but apktool doesn't compile the unrecognized ICS yet, so right now, we're stuck.
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what about stock?
im rooted but still rolling with stock for now, mainly cuz i need 4g
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I was on 1.4.3 when i tried it, but maybe I'm just messing up somewhere with it. I installed framework-res.apk, systemui.apk's and decompiled the System apk just fine, made my edits, but when I built it, a **** ton of errors popped up.
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To see if its your environment or your edits, decompile and don't make any changes then recompile. Depending on the results you'll have your answer.
http://flyme.meizu.com/flysys/en/system.jsp
I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to make an aweomse theme like this for cm10?
i would pay for something like this! or pay for someone to make this theme?
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http://flyme.meizu.com/flysys/en/system.jsp
I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to make an aweomse theme like this for cm10?
i would pay for something like this! or pay for someone to make this theme?
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It's basically a new revamped version on MIUI.
Do you have the rom or system dump of MEIZU... if not I'll try and find it. but making a Meizu theme wouldn't be too hard... but as far as looking like that exactly wouldn't be possible... themeing it on MIUI would be easy since modding the lockscreens and placements of items such as battery like in the previews shown are MIUI based.
I'll do it if I can get my hands on the rom or system dump. hit me back in a few days and hopefully I'll have the stuff started.
Peace
Annex
Well i think the xperia play and Galaxy S I9001 peeps have a rom which would make it a bit easier, and its alright that lockscreen and battery placment cant be themed exact. I knew it couldnt anyways lol.
Yes i have a system dump, im just at work so ill have to get it to ya later on in the day.
Thanks for the reply man!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004284
Well couldnt upload the file but heres a link to a port of the system!
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Just trying to get a feel of the community and how many people would like a purple theme. if its in demand i will do it but if not i will stop because it is a lot of work. just let me know if you would like to see it!
I am not sure what the deal is with this community. Most of the time it seems like we have 10 active users. Then CM10 comes out and I can't keep up with everything.
Then it does down again and the themes and other things we put out don't get any recognition.
Just a warning, don't get bummed if nobody shows interest.
I have never been a big purple theme fan. But I'm sure that if you build it, they will come.
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GrayTheWolf said:
I am not sure what the deal is with this community. Most of the time it seems like we have 10 active users. Then CM10 comes out and I can't keep up with everything.
Then it does down again and the themes and other things we put out don't get any recognition.
Just a warning, don't get bummed if nobody shows interest.
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oh im not bummed at all lol. im making it for my personal use and am just seeing if anyone wants me to share it. if people wanted me to share it then i was gonna make sure that every bit of blue was gone. but if not, it doesnt bug me if i cant get a couple things and im not gonna sit here and dig for it . thats all
Off topic a bit, but I'd love an ICS blue theme... I'm not a fan of the dark blue themes..
Stock ICS notification bar icons on a sense Rom would be awesome too...
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Off topic a bit, but I'd love an ICS blue theme... I'm not a fan of the dark blue themes..
Stock ICS notification bar icons on a sense Rom would be awesome too...
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ICS blue for a stock ROM?
Phaded said:
Off topic a bit, but I'd love an ICS blue theme... I'm not a fan of the dark blue themes..
Stock ICS notification bar icons on a sense Rom would be awesome too...
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what version of sense are you running. 3.6?
cslingerland said:
Just trying to get a feel of the community and how many people would like a purple theme. if its in demand i will do it but if not i will stop because it is a lot of work. just let me know if you would like to see it!
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you build one for the CM theme chooser and i would rock it
if you need help i can give you a template i used back in the day to make one.
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you build one for the CM theme chooser and i would rock it
if you need help i can give you a template i used back in the day to make one.
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I was actually considering that. i am on board as long as youre willing to teach. i know nothing about making a theme. pm and ill give you my gtalk.
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ICS blue for a stock ROM?
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Ya, Ineff Dues
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what version of sense are you running. 3.6?
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I took a look at the theme chooser option for the theme.... I dont know where to start because the default folder that they give you is for GB and its hdpi... i know i can add a new folder for xhdpi and do it that way, but i dont know what files are exactly needed, and the ones that i have edited already would have to be renamed which is a giant pain in the ass. so unless i can find an uncompiled folder with xhdpi images that i can edit, i wont be doing that.
I have been using and really like the Jelly Bean Extreme Red theme from the Play Store, and there is also a Jelly Bean Extreme Purple, if anyone's interested.
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I took a look at the theme chooser option for the theme.... I dont know where to start because the default folder that they give you is for GB and its hdpi... i know i can add a new folder for xhdpi and do it that way, but i dont know what files are exactly needed, and the ones that i have edited already would have to be renamed which is a giant pain in the ass. so unless i can find an uncompiled folder with xhdpi images that i can edit, i wont be doing that.
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Oh well. Thanks anyways.
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I took a look at the theme chooser option for the theme.... I dont know where to start because the default folder that they give you is for GB and its hdpi... i know i can add a new folder for xhdpi and do it that way, but i dont know what files are exactly needed, and the ones that i have edited already would have to be renamed which is a giant pain in the ass. so unless i can find an uncompiled folder with xhdpi images that i can edit, i wont be doing that.
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I haven't tried an xhdpi but its similar to hdpi. Just a little bit bigger. I need to clear some space and set up my build box for the theme chooser again and I'll be down to help.
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I haven't tried an xhdpi but its similar to hdpi. Just a little bit bigger. I need to clear some space and set up my build box for the theme chooser again and I'll be down to help.
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It's 320dpi, if that helps.
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It's 320dpi, if that helps.
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yeah, i found a guide on the difference between hdpi and xhdpi and how to scale with photoshop. i just need to remember how to set up the folder structures again. the xmls will follow.