Guys i think i just messed up.... my status bar has vanished ....m a newbie ...i wanted to change the icons of the battery so i extracted the SytemUI.apk file from the device and opened it up with winrar then i went into the drawable-hdpi folder and replaced the png files with the new ones but i kept the names same as they were in the original SystemUI.apk files ...then i went into the recovery and removed the SystemUI.apk and then i tried to move the new updated SystemUI.apk file from sdcard to system/app/ but its showin can't rename the file: no such file or directiry exists.....guys please help me :crying:
You are sure that system partition is mounted in recovery before you try to move the new file there?
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i want to change the colors on a couple widgets.
if i took the .apk file from the /data/app/ and copied it to my computer, renamed it from .apk to .zip, opened it and edited/changed the .png files, saved it, rezipped it and named it back to .apk and put it back in /data/app/ folder and overwrote it would that work?
GandhisEvilTwin said:
i want to change the colors on a couple widgets.
if i took the .apk file from the /data/app/ and copied it to my computer, renamed it from .apk to .zip, opened it and edited/changed the .png files, saved it, rezipped it and named it back to .apk and put it back in /data/app/ folder and overwrote it would that work?
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I tried to do just that with SystemUI.apk and had issues. I haven't tried with any other apps. I got around it by using 7zip. Within 7zip you can look in the apk and just drag and drop you're new pngs into the apk without actually extracting and re-zipping anything.
If your not familiar with 7zip. It's a free compression app just google it.
i've heard of 7zip, not sure if i've actually ever used it before though.
do you know is /data/app/ the right place to pull the .apk file from?
Yep, I think that's right the right place for apps that you've installed. System apps are in /system/app.
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that will definitely not work. Go get 7zip... never never unzip an app. use 7zip to open the app and find your image folders. drag only those to the desktop.. or a new folder.. then edit and stick those images back into the app using 7zip.
hello all
I was trying to edit the framework-res.apk which can be found in system/framework/framework-res.apk
this file holds alot of images that you can edit (e.g slider, incoming call, icons etc...) framework-res.apk\framework-res.apk\res\drawable-mdpi folder
i edited the png's jog_dial_bg_rev_down.png and jog_dial_bg_rev.png
they are the call slider revamped (just removed the shadows so it doesnt cover the incoming call)
i have used apk edit, Apk manager, APK sign and everytime i build the framework-res.apk and move it to the system/framework/ folder
everytime i move the file my phone either gets bricks, bootloops or get tons of force close down of some apps
has anyone got any solutions how to edit framework-res.apk without all this bricking bs?
i have uploaded the edited images for the sliders on Slider_Revamped.rar
When you sing apk than you need to replace :
Meta-inf and recourse.so from original framework-res.apk.
You just open both frameworks with 7zip and drag from original to edited
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Eyama said:
When you sing apk than you need to replace :
Meta-inf and recourse.so from original framework-res.apk.
You just open both frameworks with 7zip and drag from original to edited
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i had same issue.. thanx will try
Download "NinjaMorph" off of the market, it decompiles any APK, TAR whatever and allows you to replace any file (including XMLs if you like) from the APK with those on your SD. What I do is decompile the APK then plug my phone in and navigate to where NinjaMorph decompiled the APK to on the SD, which is "AndroidThemes", do the editing on my PC then disconnect the phone, recompile the APK and it automatically pushes the APK to wherever you pulled it from. I've used it many times when I've been messing with frameworkres, it works every time.
Does this method also work with .9.patched files?
christophermaisch said:
Download "NinjaMorph" off of the market, it decompiles any APK, TAR whatever and allows you to replace any file (including XMLs if you like) from the APK with those on your SD. What I do is decompile the APK then plug my phone in and navigate to where NinjaMorph decompiled the APK to on the SD, which is "AndroidThemes", do the editing on my PC then disconnect the phone, recompile the APK and it automatically pushes the APK to wherever you pulled it from. I've used it many times when I've been messing with frameworkres, it works every time.
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Hi i am trying to edit the framework res apk so i can change the text colour and the themed clock colour. I can decompile with apktool and change the colors.xml but after compiling framework res i just get stuck in a bootloop. I have tried just copying the reaources file to my original framework but still bootloops. I have searched google and here and finding it hard to find a solution. One thing i noticed in 7zip it says that for resources the OS is FAT but on the edited one it is UNIX as well as being a smaller file when compressed. If anyone can help that will be great.* Thanks
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sign the apk as a system app.
no you shouldn't have to sign it just rename unsigned framework-res.apk to framework-res.apk and reflash to phone it shouldn't bootloop when you compiled did you select yes to system file and yes to copy everything then delete what was in keep file? If its an XML when you delete from keep file you have to delete the file you modified also.
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One thing i noticed in 7zip it says that for resources the OS is FAT but on the edited one it is UNIX as well as being a smaller file when compressed.
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Did you choose Store as the compression method when adding the Resource file to your original apk?
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no you shouldn't have to sign it just rename unsigned framework-res.apk to framework-res.apk and reflash to phone it shouldn't bootloop when you compiled did you select yes to system file and yes to copy everything then delete what was in keep file? If its an XML when you delete from keep file you have to delete the file you modified also.
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I originally just renamed mine and got a bootloop. Signed it as a system apk and stuck it in an update.zip and flashed it and it worked. Also, as the above post mentions, store must be selected as the compression method.
I have some changes that I like to make to the Settings.apk, Systemui.apk, and framework-res.apk. Typically, I just pull these files from the Rom I'm using, edit the images in the drawable folders, and then copy them into the system files on my phone. I'd like to be able to create a zip file to do this for me. It looks like I can take someone elses update package and edit the "update script" file to do this. Is it that simple or is there more to it? What other files are important to creating an updater zip.
Thanks
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I have some changes that I like to make to the Settings.apk, Systemui.apk, and framework-res.apk. Typically, I just pull these files from the Rom I'm using, edit the images in the drawable folders, and then copy them into the system files on my phone. I'd like to be able to create a zip file to do this for me. It looks like I can take someone elses update package and edit the "update script" file to do this. Is it that simple or is there more to it? What other files are important to creating an updater zip.
Thanks
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Just head over to perkas files stash (google it) and look for a empty system cwm.
Now you just have to make folders in this zip and add your files. example you want framework-res.apk and systemui.apk flashed.
So open the cwm zip and add a folders called app and a folder called framework.
The zip will be/system and so with the folders it creates /system/framework/framework-res.apk and system/app/SystemUI.apk. Etc
This empty system cwm should have all the folders you need for the zip
Hi
I deleted odex file for my galaxy system/app ... yes i know iam idiot
but i create copy all odex files on my sd card
my phone still bootloop
can anybody create for me zip file with odex files ??? install this zip by CWM
I cant write this script and create folders to copy this files to system/app
PLS help me !
i can't post link with pack with odex files. Send on priv to somebody who want help me
Ive got a backup of the entire system on my pc but can't get it for a couple of hours
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flash the odexer script