Hey I have some .MTZ's on my phone and when I use 7-zip to open the archive I can get in to the mtz but I cant open the systemui folder. Im trying to place a carrier icon in there but it says that that file is unsupported. Is there a program that will support it? I don't have a problem with mtz's I download just the ones on my phone. Is it because it gets transferred to the new format or whatever?
If you tap on the .mtz MIUI will automatically apply the theme. You don't need any further software or something
Greets
oh nah im not talking about applying the theme to my phone. I want to add a custom carrier logo to the systemui folder but I can't access it and when I used 7-zip it says its not supported.
Hello, I just installed themer yesterday. It is now one of my fav apps of all time xD .
However, today I been trying to side load themes into themer without success, as i gathered from some websites and from a video by the one of the peeps at mycolorscreen: you just copy the zipped theme folder onto the folder called " Exported" and then to "Zips "(found in mycolorscreen->themer, on the phone), with that done the new themes should be visible in the themer app in My themes>Exported>zip option .
My problem is that I can't find any folder called exported or export inside my themer file directory in the phone, I checked everywhere , there is nothing like that. So I ended up creating a folder called export and then a folder called zip inside it , but still I cannot access this from the themer app ( Mythemes-> exported->zip->choose the new app ) .
Please help !
MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/zip is the right folder an i think its case sensitv.
sekhar4 said:
Hello, I just installed themer yesterday. It is now one of my fav apps of all time xD .
However, today I been trying to side load themes into themer without success, as i gathered from some websites and from a video by the one of the peeps at mycolorscreen: you just copy the zipped theme folder onto the folder called " Exported" and then to "Zips "(found in mycolorscreen->themer, on the phone), with that done the new themes should be visible in the themer app in My themes>Exported>zip option .
My problem is that I can't find any folder called exported or export inside my themer file directory in the phone, I checked everywhere , there is nothing like that. So I ended up creating a folder called export and then a folder called zip inside it , but still I cannot access this from the themer app ( Mythemes-> exported->zip->choose the new app ) .
Please help !
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Hi,
Try this:
1. Long press on the homescreen - Advanced - More - Export Theme (give it any name).
2. Once saved, it will create a .zip file in the /sdcard/MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/zip folder.
3. Place your .zip files into the same folder.
4. To find the themes - look in the My Themes - Exported section in the Theme Browser.
Good luck!
ThemerSupport said:
Hi,
Try this:
1. Long press on the homescreen - Advanced - More - Export Theme (give it any name).
2. Once saved, it will create a .zip file in the /sdcard/MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/zip folder.
3. Place your .zip files into the same folder.
4. To find the themes - look in the My Themes - Exported section in the Theme Browser.
Good luck!
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Thanks a lot for the help bro, much appreciated.
I loaded the app, but some of the app button shortcuts look weird, all of them has an icon of a folder, but when i press on them they seem to be shortcuts to google play, or youtube or stuff like that.
Once again, thanks for the super fast reply.
sekhar4 said:
Thanks a lot for the help bro, much appreciated.
I loaded the app, but some of the app button shortcuts look weird, all of them has an icon of a folder, but when i press on them they seem to be shortcuts to google play, or youtube or stuff like that.
Once again, thanks for the super fast reply.
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When sideloading themes, you can often get one that doesn't follow Themer's guidelines, meaning that the user will set shortcuts to his/her personal preferences.
ThemerSupport said:
Hi,
Try this:
1. Long press on the homescreen - Advanced - More - Export Theme (give it any name).
2. Once saved, it will create a .zip file in the /sdcard/MyColorScreen/Themer/Exported/zip folder.
3. Place your .zip files into the same folder.
4. To find the themes - look in the My Themes - Exported section in the Theme Browser.
Good luck!
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I can't find the My Themes tab or the Exported section
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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?
There are many good looking themes in theme store but almost everyone of those have hideous icons, so i was trying to find a way around & this worked.
- Download your theme
- Go to root folder of your device & then open data folder, further go to "app" folder, search for "appicon" & it will show you folder names ending with the same, delete the appicon folder that belongs to the theme you have downloaded(normally when we download the theme it creates 3-4 folder by the name of theme developer , we are looking for something like com.developer.appicon) , reboot your device & done, you will have stock icons back.
First of all the pre requirements are :
You should have a marshmallow running device in this case i have
non root samsung galaxy j7 2016.
You need to have 2 different themes of your choice either paid or frre .
You can apply a theme you want which you can easily download from theme store. After downloading backup the theme components, next you download the theme from which you want your appicons, backup this theme components also.
Now the theme that u have applied , open it's component thst is various apk's inside it such as home, appicon etc. Copy the name which appicon apk uses.
Now using apk editor pro open the appicon apk of the theme you want to have icons of, open it full edit as we need to edit it's manifest. After opening it go to manifests 2nd line from top and clivk on it in package line erase the present name and paste the nane you previously copied from another theme.
Now build the apk and install by first removing the previous installed apk and then install the latest build.
Now reapply the theme and restart your device you will have your loving theme but the icons will be of the other theme which you wanted.
Thank you