hello,
why my galaxy s3 status bar icons like clock,operator signals and wifi signals are always remain some grey/dim these are not bright white ?
can i change them to white?
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fktiwana said:
hello,
why my galaxy s3 status bar icons like clock,operator signals and wifi signals are always remain some grey/dim these are not bright white ?
can i change them to white?
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Yeah, they are normally grey at StockROM. If you want to have the normal statusbar, like on the Nexus, I can advise you CyanogenMod, ParanoidAndroid or SuperNexus. These are CustomROMs and built by the Source Code of Google, that means that these CustomROMs have nothing to do with Samsung.
When you want to stay at StockROM (Samsung's preinstalled ROM/Firmware) I can advise you to root your phone, flash Philz Recovery and cook your SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk and TouchWizUI.apk on UOT-Kitchen (the description is on the mainsite)... UOT Kitchen is a site where you can replace some elements of the design.
Your warranty will be lost at both things!
BACKUP THESE APKs BEFORE APPLYING THAT! WHEN YOU DON'T BACKUP THESE FILES YOU MUST REFLASH YOUR STOCKROM TO GET THE NORMAL DESIGN BACK!!!
Click here to enter the UOT-Kitchen:uot.dakra.lt
Greetings...
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my galaxy s3 android version is jelly bean 4.1.2 so can i expect that color of clock,operator n wifi signals will be changed to bright white in next update like 4.2?
fktiwana said:
my galaxy s3 android version is jelly bean 4.1.2 so can i expect that color of clock,operator n wifi signals will be changed in next update like 4.2?
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nope
is there any change in s4 status bar clolor icons?
fktiwana said:
is there any change in s4 status bar clolor icons?
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Status bar autodimming solution
Hi, guys!
The solution is simple:
Decompile SystemUI.apk
Navigate to res/values/dimens.xml
You'll find a dimen item called status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
In Samsung roms you'll also have tw_status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
The value is given in percentages. Android dims the icons by setting their transparency (usually to 65%, Samsung - to 50%)
Increase the number and the dimming will go away.
Note that increasing it to 100% will make them a tad too bright. Use 100% only if using translucent status bar with bright BG.
Recompile and Enjoy
Where is this defined for SCH-I535?
daxgirl said:
Hi, guys!
The solution is simple:
Decompile SystemUI.apk
Navigate to res/values/dimens.xml
You'll find a dimen item called status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
In Samsung roms you'll also have tw_status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha
The value is given in percentages. Android dims the icons by setting their transparency (usually to 65%, Samsung - to 50%)
Increase the number and the dimming will go away.
Note that increasing it to 100% will make them a tad too bright. Use 100% only if using translucent status bar with bright BG.
Recompile and Enjoy
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Hi, can you advise the location of this xml in the Verizon S3 SystemUI.apk? Or if it's an entirely different setting outside of the apk? I can't find the path you mentioned. Thanks.
Did you decompile it? How much of the path did you follow?
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I don't see \values in the \res folder. Here's what mine looks like inside of \res:
anim
color
drawable
drawable-hdpi
drawable-sw360dp-xhdpi
drawable-sw600dp
drawable-sw600dp-xhdpi
drawable-sw720dp-xhdpi
drawable-sw800dp-xhdpi
drawable-xhdpi
layout
layout-land
layout-port
layout-sw600dp
layout-sw720dp
layout-sw800dp
menu
raw
xml
drawable does seem to contain the status bar xml's but none that look like they control the icon transparency. Any ideas? I'm on a custom ROM, but it is based on stock TW ROM, if that helps.
The folder is res > values then the file called dimens.xml
They are around row 25 but if you don't see the values folder then you haven't decompiled the apk, are you sure you know what to do
Haha, well I was "cheating" by using Root Explorer to extract, expecting to mod then zip and change .zip extension to .apk. If I need to properly decompile to see the dimens.xml, I'll use APKTool on the PC. Thanks.
Brianakin said:
Haha, well I was "cheating" by using Root Explorer to extract, expecting to mod then zip and change .zip extension to .apk. If I need to properly decompile to see the dimens.xml, I'll use APKTool on the PC. Thanks.
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That'll only work with images really.
rootSU said:
That'll only work with images really.
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Hmm, well I finally got around to doing this the right way with apktool (loaded both framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk, decompiled, changed the status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha and tw_status_bar_icon_drawing_alpha values, then re-compiled), then copied the entire res folder and resources.arsc file from my modded apk back to the original using 7-zip, then pushed back to my phone. Still no change in shade of status bar icons. What could I be doing wrong?
Is it the status bar icons or the clock colour or both you want to change
ag4751 said:
Is it the status bar icons or the clock colour or both you want to change
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It's the status bar icons, but I finally got this! The part of the guide talking about opening 7zip and dragging changed folders to the original apk structure wasn't working between 7zip windows because the RES folder wasn't overwriting the existing RES folder so it was failing and not telling me. Once I deleted the resources.arsc file and the RES folder from the original apk in 7Zip I could then drag those over. Closed it, pushed it rebooted and finally saw brighter icons on the left side! Many thanks to this forum, all the contributors, and of course all the developers that make all this cool stuff possible! Now on to deciphering the location of all my right side icons and replacing them with brighter versions to match.
Brianakin said:
It's the status bar icons, but I finally got this!
Now on to deciphering the location of all my right side icons and replacing them with brighter versions to match.
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Look in the SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-xhdpi folder also the clock colour is in the SystemUI.apk\res\layout folder and the tw_status_bar.xml file on this row, changing the colour highlighted in red will change the clock colour, this as you probably know is white yours will probably be #ffa6a6a6 this is a mid to light grey,leave the initial #ff just change the last 6
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.Clock android:textSize="@dimen/status_bar_clock_text_size" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:
ag4751 said:
Look in the SystemUI.apk\res\drawable-xhdpi folder also the clock colour is in the SystemUI.apk\res\layout folder and the tw_status_bar.xml file on this row, changing the colour highlighted in red will change the clock colour, this as you probably know is white yours will probably be #ffa6a6a6 this is a mid to light grey,leave the initial #ff just change the last 6
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.policy.Clock android:textSize="@dimen/status_bar_clock_text_size" android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:
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Great stuff! Actually I can customize the battery icon and clock color through my ROM settings, but not the wi-fi/data/signal and ringer icons. I have to go to the drawable-xhdpi folder for that, but at least it doesn't require a full decompile/recompile to change out the .png's. Thanks for all the help!
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Hello ...
I've been searching a lot and didn't found where I can modify the date color (the one that appears when pull down status bar), the notifications color (also when pull down status bar), and the icon label color. See attached files.
I've been searching in framework-res, twframework-res, policies.jar and services.jar and also in LauncherPro.apk: there are related stuff but nothing moves ... It's a mess, some resources are defined in more than 1 file so we don't know which is the good one !
Nothing very important but ... if someone knows I would apeciate as I don't like white neither green colors on phone
Thanks !!
sambastrakan said:
Hello ...
I've been searching a lot and didn't found where I can modify the date color (the one that appears when pull down status bar), the notifications color (also when pull down status bar), and the icon label color. See attached files.
I've been searching in framework-res, twframework-res, policies.jar and services.jar : there are related stuff but nothing moves ... It's a mess, some resources are defined in more than 1 file so we don't know which is the good one !
Nothing very important but ... if someone knows I would apeciate as I don't like white neither green colors on phone
Thanks !!
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I am not sure, but you can try this:
1) unpack the twframework-res.apk/framework-res.apk...unpack not extract, so that you get readable xml files,
2) In those files, there are options to change color most probably...
dharamg3 said:
I am not sure, but you can try this:
1) unpack the twframework-res.apk/framework-res.apk...unpack not extract, so that you get readable xml files,
2) In those files, there are options to change color most probably...
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yes, I already search in these files and made some modds for others colors aspects. I'm using a tool to decompile/recompile/build which work well. But ... no effects on the notifications area and I didn't found where is the resource for icon label color ...
if u decompiled the framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk look into res/values/styles.xml and res/colour folder most of the font colours are placed there....... alternately u can try assigning the colours in res/values/colour.xml and see if it helps....
deadwood01 said:
if u decompiled the framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk look into res/values/styles.xml and res/colour folder most of the font colours are placed there....... alternately u can try assigning the colours in res/values/colour.xml and see if it helps....
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Thanks for theses ideas, I did it for pulldown status. But, nothing for the icon label color ... Just found the icon menu label.
thanks again.
Hello all,
I'm trying to build a ROM which has a dark theme but the problem is that you of course can't read black text on a dark grey background, in which files can you change the font colors, is it in the framework-res.apk XML's or somewhere else?
Thanks in advance.
DonUber said:
Hello all,
I'm trying to build a ROM which has a dark theme but the problem is that you of course can't read black text on a dark grey background, in which files can you change the font colors, is it in the framework-res.apk XML's or somewhere else?
Thanks in advance.
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While you can change the fonts (you will need to edit around 60 xmls in the framework, settings, systemui and any device framework file like com.HTC.resources.apk) you will still run into black on black with 3rd party apps and there is nothing you can do about it short of editing every apk.
zelendel said:
While you can change the fonts (you will need to edit around 60 xmls in the framework, settings, systemui and any device framework file like com.HTC.resources.apk) you will still run into black on black with 3rd party apps and there is nothing you can do about it short of editing every apk.
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Ok, thanks, then maybe it's better to put work in a light theme instead of the impossible font color changing job
sounds so hard
Hi,
Does anyone know how to change the colour of the download progress bar in the pulldown notification area?
It's about the only green thing left on my phone!
Spannaa said:
Hi,
Does anyone know how to change the colour of the download progress bar in the pulldown notification area?
It's about the only green thing left on my phone!
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U need to change the following pngs in framework-res.apk to blueish
Res/drawable-hdpi
tw_progressbar.9.png, tw_progressbar_indeterminate1.png, tw_progressbar_indeterminate2.png, tw_progressbar_indeterminate3.png, tw_progressbar_indeterminate4.png, tw_progressbar_secondary.9.png
Cheers.
I've already changed those and, they show for nearly everything except when an app is updating itself then, the green progress bar still appears in the dropdown.
Spannaa said:
I've already changed those and, they show for nearly everything except when an app is updating itself then, the green progress bar still appears in the dropdown.
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Depends how much you want to change but also you can to do these
Framework > res > drawable-hdpi
progress_primary_holo_dark.9
progress_primary_holo_light.9
progress_secondary_holo_dark.9
progress_secondary_holo_light.9
All the progressbar_indeterminate_holo png's
XML files will also help if you know how to edit them
Framework > res > drawable
progress_horizontal
tw_progress_horizontal_shape
TwFramework > res > drawable
tw_progress
tw_progress_horizontal
tw_progress_horizontal
OK,
I've looked at Framework > res > drawable and it's not progress_horizontal.xml as the colours are orange but tw_progress_horizontal_shape.xml has greens in it.
I'll give it a try later.
Thanks.
tw_progress_horizontal_shape.xml was the one.
Changed to blue and looking good now.
Thanks again
Spannaa said:
tw_progress_horizontal_shape.xml was the one.
Changed to blue and looking good now.
Thanks again
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I've been looking to change mine to red to match my theme for ages and now it's finally done. Thanks to all who contributed to this.
My notification background color is transparent (the part that you pull down). I hate it...where the heck do I locate the files to change! I looked everywhere!!
bluejeanstv said:
My notification background color is transparent (the part that you pull down). I hate it...where the heck do I locate the files to change! I looked everywhere!!
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Looked everywhere ?? ... You sure .... ?? ... For doing that you must frst decompile SystemUI.apk. Then edit status_bar_tracking.xml to point to an image instead of the color. Then do some .smali changes and put a desired image to be the notification bar background ...
Hi everyone, hope i am posting this in
the right section..
Guys, my phone is Samsung Galaxy
Mini which is a ldpi device which now
runs on an ICS rom. I am trying to
change the color for the brightness
sliders and volume sliders.
Which .xml need to be edited to
change the colour..
I decompiled framework-res.apk and
changed hex color values under @id/
progress and @id/secondary progress
in "progress_horizontal.xml", also
changed colors of few pngs in
drawable-mdpi in framework,now the
progress seek bar has changed the
color,but brightness slider color
remains the same.
I then decompiled systemui.apk and
changed the hex color values under
@id/progress in
"adi_seekbar.xml",but nothing got
changed..
Can anyone help me? Which .xml is
associated with the seek bar for
brightness and volume slider? Or
should i deal with smali files to
change the color of brighntness slider
and volume slider..
If that brightness slider you're talking about is in status bar, then look for it's pngs in /res/drawable/ or any drawable folder
iamareebjamal said:
If that brightness slider you're talking about is in status bar, then look for it's pngs in /res/drawable/ or any drawable folder
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Please see the ss.. need to change the color of brightness slider in the notification drawer.. tried theming all the png's which was mentioned on progress_xx.xml,only the progress bar got changed.. color of the brightness slider is still the same..
This is the ss of volume slider.. this and the brightness slider are the ones i am trying to theme..
Rajesh_m said:
Please see the ss.. need to change the color of brightness slider in the notification drawer.. tried theming all the png's which was mentioned on progress_xx.xml,only the progress bar got changed.. color of the brightness slider is still the same..
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Check the pngs in SystemUI.apk
iamareebjamal said:
Check the pngs in SystemUI.apk
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"ic_sysbar_highlight.png" ... will this be the png associated with it? I left to theme this as i thought this wont be the one..
Edit: the above mentioned png is associated with mid_navigation_bar.xml... so no luck with png's
On CM9 and CM10 is quickpanel_brightness_bg.png for the bar and quickpanel_brightness_icon.png for the icon between the bar
davidebeatrici said:
On CM9 and CM10 is quickpanel_brightness_bg.png for the bar and quickpanel_brightness_icon.png for the icon between the bar
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Thanks for the reply So Quickpanel_brightness_bg changes the slider color or the background color?
Slider I think; background seems to be something like quickpanel_brightness_background.png
davidebeatrici said:
Slider I think; background seems to be something like quickpanel_brightness_background.png
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Changed the color of quickpanel_brightness_bg.png.... and... guess what.... nothing got changed its all the same
Rajesh_m said:
Changed the color of quickpanel_brightness_bg.png.... and... guess what.... nothing got changed its all the same
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The xml files that control the progress bar color are theme-dependant and located inside the /res/drawable/ folder.
The names of the files are:
1. scrubber_progress_horizontal_dark.xml
2. scrubber_progress_horizontal_light.xml
In each of these files you'll find a layered list of png's which you'll have to edit to change the look of your progress bar. The last two, scrubber_primary_holo and scrubber_secondary_holo are what you're looking for.
You'll find these in /res/drawable-hdpi (usually). Galaxy Mini, being a LDPI device, it will firstly search for the pngs in drawable-ldpi, then if they're not present there, it will continue searching for the same pngs in the other folder in this order: mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi. Make sure you edit the pngs found in the folder which represents the lowest resolution possible.
One more thing, these being pngs, you can change the whole look of the slider, not just the color.
alin.p said:
The xml files that control the progress bar color are theme-dependant and located inside the /res/drawable/ folder.
The names of the files are:
1. scrubber_progress_horizontal_dark.xml
2. scrubber_progress_horizontal_light.xml
In each of these files you'll find a layered list of png's which you'll have to edit to change the look of your progress bar. The last two, scrubber_primary_holo and scrubber_secondary_holo are what you're looking for.
You'll find these in /res/drawable-hdpi (usually). Galaxy Mini, being a LDPI device, it will firstly search for the pngs in drawable-ldpi, then if they're not present there, it will continue searching for the same pngs in the other folder in this order: mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi. Make sure you edit the pngs found in the folder which represents the lowest resolution possible.
One more thing, these being pngs, you can change the whole look of the slider, not just the color.
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Thanks for the detailed post and you are SPOT ON! i have no idea how i missed those png's.. thanks a lot @alin.p