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I have searched the forums but cannot find a fix for this.
I am a noob when it comes to rooting/flashing but just rooted my hero and am running ddamage control v2.02, i think it is great but I have always hated the HTC lock screen, the flan one imo is much better.
I looked around and found that by entering
adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
rm HtcLockScreen.apk
rm HtcLockScreen.odex
reboot
and rebooting the phone I get a messed up version of the flan style lock screen. It was supposed to remove the HTC lock screen and give a flan version. I am thinking that it may be because I did not type exit, but rather safely removed the hardware.
Anyway the problem is that the flan lock screen is the green lock circle that is supposed to slide to the right is in the bottom middle part of the screen, the only way to unlock it is to slide it up/the silent circle must be slid down to enable it to be silenced. Also the time is on the left side, and it is currently 12:15, however the time will show
12:1
5
because of the unusual version of the lock screen.
I looked around and found a fix that was supposed to re add the HTC lock screen, however the fix was for a 1.6 version and I cannot find the thread.
If anyone could help me either reinstall the original HTC Slider or preferably a properly working flan style I would appreciate it. I am thinking that because it is not an official ROM the developer did do a great job, but did not make it with the original flan style.
Here ya go.........................BTW there is no fix yet....
mjz147 said:
I have searched the forums but cannot find a fix for this.
I am a noob when it comes to rooting/flashing but just rooted my hero and am running ddamage control v2.02, i think it is great but I have always hated the HTC lock screen, the flan one imo is much better.
I looked around and found that by entering
adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
rm HtcLockScreen.apk
rm HtcLockScreen.odex
reboot
and rebooting the phone I get a messed up version of the flan style lock screen. It was supposed to remove the HTC lock screen and give a flan version. I am thinking that it may be because I did not type exit, but rather safely removed the hardware.
Anyway the problem is that the flan lock screen is the green lock circle that is supposed to slide to the right is in the bottom middle part of the screen, the only way to unlock it is to slide it up/the silent circle must be slid down to enable it to be silenced. Also the time is on the left side, and it is currently 12:15, however the time will show
12:1
5
because of the unusual version of the lock screen.
I looked around and found a fix that was supposed to re add the HTC lock screen, however the fix was for a 1.6 version and I cannot find the thread.
If anyone could help me either reinstall the original HTC Slider or preferably a properly working flan style I would appreciate it. I am thinking that because it is not an official ROM the developer did do a great job, but did not make it with the original flan style.
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u didnt do anything wrong when deleting the files. the flan screen is messed up on sprint release so far. No one has attempted or has failed to fix is so far
thanks alot, appreciate it. Obviously I would rather have the working HTC Lock screen than a broken flan one.
Did the same way. Could find no way to get the htclockscreen to install again. Pushed it, ran it, whatever...I ended up just re-flashing.
mjz147 said:
thanks alot, appreciate it. Obviously I would rather have the working HTC Lock screen than a broken flan one.
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maybe one of the dev out there could look at it and fix it for us. maybe one day.
My HTC Sense lock screen is working again. Thanks for the link again.
I think a majority of Sense users love sense but don't like the lock screen, it is easier to open in the pocket and the flan style is smoother and more natural
mjz147 said:
My HTC Sense lock screen is working again. Thanks for the link again.
I think a majority of Sense users love sense but don't like the lock screen, it is easier to open in the pocket and the flan style is smoother and more natural
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Yeah and flan looks better IMO. And being able to silence the phone easily is another plus.
Wasney said:
Did the same way. Could find no way to get the htclockscreen to install again. Pushed it, ran it, whatever...I ended up just re-flashing.
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I may be a little late with this..... but i found when i removed the .apk and saved it for replacing later via estrongs I was able to simply copy and past back in /system/app and reboot. my original lockscreen was back with no problem. Although you must have the root options checked in options of estrongs file manager to be able to move the file.
Figured I post up what i found.
Bret
forgot to mention.....
I am sure others may know but you can also download lockbot from the market for free which has a few lockscreens, the pay or pro version has the flan lockscreen and have confirmed it works on DC2.1 treve mixture that I am running with no problems.... battery life good, VVM works, Location spot on, and no prl issues..(anymore)
anyway there my 2 cents And thanks to everyone out here I am starting to learn. All the devs keep it up!!!)Your Awesome
Looked at it a little bit
So, I really wanted to get the Flan Lockscreen working/appearing correctly so I started digging into the layout XMLs in framework-res.apk.
From what I can tell, it's forcing everything into the left 100 pixels of the screen causing things to wrap.
My first thought was to override the widths/heights from the -1 and -2 values to actual screen values (240x320). I updated most of the keyguard*.xml and screen*.xml files (hexedited) but the screen is still garbled. There may be a parent screen that is causing the restriction still though.
My second thought was there's an image file missing or is sized incorrectly. I pulled all the .pngs from DC1.0 (it was working there, correct?) framework-res.apk and placed them in the newer framework-res.apk. This changed the screen so that the slide buttons are at least visible (they weren't showing on DarchLegend at all) even if in the wrong place.
There might be something in the smali code that is preventing things working too... I still need to look into services.jar and policy.jar.
If anyone has any other ideas or insights, please let me know.
-Daryel
Quick question. How are you looking into the .xml files? I tried looking into this as well and got stuck at not being able to view the xmls.
daryelv said:
So, I really wanted to get the Flan Lockscreen working/appearing correctly so I started digging into the layout XMLs in framework-res.apk.
From what I can tell, it's forcing everything into the left 100 pixels of the screen causing things to wrap.
My first thought was to override the widths/heights from the -1 and -2 values to actual screen values (240x320). I updated most of the keyguard*.xml and screen*.xml files (hexedited) but the screen is still garbled. There may be a parent screen that is causing the restriction still though.
My second thought was there's an image file missing or is sized incorrectly. I pulled all the .pngs from DC1.0 (it was working there, correct?) framework-res.apk and placed them in the newer framework-res.apk. This changed the screen so that the slide buttons are at least visible (they weren't showing on DarchLegend at all) even if in the wrong place.
There might be something in the smali code that is preventing things working too... I still need to look into services.jar and policy.jar.
If anyone has any other ideas or insights, please let me know.
-Daryel
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Good work. The heck with the Flan lockscreen, lets figure out how to remove the wallpaper to have a clear lockscreen. LOL
maxium01 said:
Quick question. How are you looking into the .xml files? I tried looking into this as well and got stuck at not being able to view the xmls.
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There's a java utility called AXMLPrinter2 that will take the Android XML files and create a text file. Unfortunately it's only a one-way process, so editing of the XML files requires Hex-editing. That's how I edited the status_bar.xml file to change the font from white to black on the Taskbar.
-Daryel
daryelv said:
So, I really wanted to get the Flan Lockscreen working/appearing correctly so I started digging into the layout XMLs in framework-res.apk.
From what I can tell, it's forcing everything into the left 100 pixels of the screen causing things to wrap.
My first thought was to override the widths/heights from the -1 and -2 values to actual screen values (240x320). I updated most of the keyguard*.xml and screen*.xml files (hexedited) but the screen is still garbled. There may be a parent screen that is causing the restriction still though.
My second thought was there's an image file missing or is sized incorrectly. I pulled all the .pngs from DC1.0 (it was working there, correct?) framework-res.apk and placed them in the newer framework-res.apk. This changed the screen so that the slide buttons are at least visible (they weren't showing on DarchLegend at all) even if in the wrong place.
There might be something in the smali code that is preventing things working too... I still need to look into services.jar and policy.jar.
If anyone has any other ideas or insights, please let me know.
-Daryel
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Wow, you have put in a lot for that.
I am running damage control v.2r2 and I believe that because it is not an official rom, damageless did not put in unneccesary android suff, the lockscreen being one of them. Their wouldnt be a point in installing or including in the rom a perfect standard messaging app, if HTC has their own.
However someone earlier in this thread gave me an .apk of the HTC lockscreen after installing it and rebooting it worked perfectly again.
I know this sounds stupid because I have no knowledge of developing at all but is their anyway to get an .apk of the 2.1 or even the 2.0 lock screen and just install it, it seems that it would just repair the broken version in damages rom, and all we would need to do is manually disable the HTC lock screen.
Any thoughts?
mjz147 said:
Wow, you have put in a lot for that.
I am running damage control v.2r2 and I believe that because it is not an official rom, damageless did not put in unneccesary android suff, the lockscreen being one of them. Their wouldnt be a point in installing or including in the rom a perfect standard messaging app, if HTC has their own.
However someone earlier in this thread gave me an .apk of the HTC lockscreen after installing it and rebooting it worked perfectly again.
I know this sounds stupid because I have no knowledge of developing at all but is their anyway to get an .apk of the 2.1 or even the 2.0 lock screen and just install it, it seems that it would just repair the broken version in damages rom, and all we would need to do is manually disable the HTC lock screen.
Any thoughts?
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The Android lockscreen is part of the framework, separating it out would create other problems within the ROM. There isn't an "Android lockscreen" APK, the code is built into services.jar, framework.jar, policy.jar, and framework-res.apk.
I did have another thought, maybe there's something in the HTC code that is conflicting or overriding the stock settings. I'll take a look at some of the com.htc files tomorrow and see if anything jumps out at me.
-Daryel
daryelv said:
So, I really wanted to get the Flan Lockscreen working/appearing correctly so I started digging into the layout XMLs in framework-res.apk.
From what I can tell, it's forcing everything into the left 100 pixels of the screen causing things to wrap.
My first thought was to override the widths/heights from the -1 and -2 values to actual screen values (240x320). I updated most of the keyguard*.xml and screen*.xml files (hexedited) but the screen is still garbled. There may be a parent screen that is causing the restriction still though.
My second thought was there's an image file missing or is sized incorrectly. I pulled all the .pngs from DC1.0 (it was working there, correct?) framework-res.apk and placed them in the newer framework-res.apk. This changed the screen so that the slide buttons are at least visible (they weren't showing on DarchLegend at all) even if in the wrong place.
There might be something in the smali code that is preventing things working too... I still need to look into services.jar and policy.jar.
If anyone has any other ideas or insights, please let me know.
-Daryel
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I luv to see someone trying to fix this.....still using the screwed up version still like it messed up more than anything else.... *** dcv1.0 it was working fine as well as some others** Thanks for keepin this going!
daryelv said:
The Android lockscreen is part of the framework, separating it out would create other problems within the ROM. There isn't an "Android lockscreen" APK, the code is built into services.jar, framework.jar, policy.jar, and framework-res.apk.
I did have another thought, maybe there's something in the HTC code that is conflicting or overriding the stock settings. I'll take a look at some of the com.htc files tomorrow and see if anything jumps out at me.
-Daryel
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that would be great. That sounds about right perhaps their is something in damages rom that are overriding the stock setting?
I wonder though if someone running a stock rooted hero rom, could remove the hero lock screen and get the normal android "menu" lock
You know what? I bet it IS somewith with the HTC settings. Why else would they push out the ROM with all the HTC stuff working and not the Android lockscreen working? Because we're not supposed to be modifying the phone in the first place! So therefore HTC is adjusting the settings without regards to what Android stuff will be broken (because they assume we are going to only use Sense). Good thought.
if i remove it? when i unlock it will i get the animations? like on the normal htc losckreen or no?
I would like to use this Widget again but simply cant stand for any background to it, as it doesn't then fit the rest of my simple no background widgets. I tried pulling the apk apart myself and editing the PNG files to be transparent but then I could not get the apk to install nor did pushing it to my device work at all.
If someone can tell me how to modify the apk or modify it for me, I'd be very appreciative.
I emailed the Dev of this and have not gotten a response about adding a transparent background option so that is why I am here now asking for help. Thanks.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.zedray.calllog
So you can see what Last Call looks like I have attached a screen, I believe it is an issue with editing the .9 file. I can't figure out how to do it correctly, ugh..
No one eh? Does anyone think it's just a matter of figuring out how to edit these .9 files and I should be ok no need to resign the package? I Wish the dev would help out here, I'd gladly throw em ten spot for just changing the image background.
I've added a transparent style to the Widget (was a little bit more complicated to implement in practice than it sounds).
For future reference, nine-patch files are altered by the Android build system during compilation making it more difficult for a third party to make the changes described. Hope it suits your home screen.
I use SlideIT keyboard, but I don't like the color in it, because it doesn't match my theme I am using. So I ask here if anyone can help me change the colour so it match the GreenGlow theme. Is there anyone here that can help me? I can donate to the person that's help me.
Best regards
J
Sent from my ~FreeX10 2.2~GreenGlow~ Using SlideIT
gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though
bad4u6669 said:
gonna give this a bump.
Me and another dude are working on a few themes, but we cant find the xml to change key color to white. I will PAY someone if they can find it.
not having white keys are limiting the possibilities. we still have a few versions in progress though
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I'm browsing through the apk right now, and there are a LOT of .xml files, what would it be called on any other keyboard (if you know) or what line of code would i be looking for exactly? im pretty much just looking for the HEX of 00000 or FFFFF not sure which one is black
is is definitly not in the xml as a hex color. 000000 is black ffffff is white.
last week i changed all instances of 000000 to ffffff and it didnt change it. also in the aramibi folder changed the .so file. changed "000000ff" (found twice) to "ffffffff" still no go.
However, messing with my theme i just noticed something. After messing with images i realized something and verified this by changing the background.png to full transparent. once i applied this change the full background is black.
there is something in the xml's that call for a dark background. Im going back through the xmls now. Hope this will help find the string.
I think that this is too much for me, maybe if I knew more about what I was looking for. I'm used to doing this kind of stuff for iOS .plist files and strings...maybe after I get used to android and .xml files I can be more useful. I'll keep looking around though.
I know not everyone prefers ShapeWriter, not sure why it's the best keyboard out there, but with all the ICS stuff and themeing, here's a ICS themed ShapeWriter Keyboard.
ps-if anyone knows how to change the tracer color, please let me know. I've asked, pm'd, googled, all with no luck.
TheBeardedMann said:
I know not everyone prefers ShapeWriter, not sure why it's the best keyboard out there, but with all the ICS stuff and themeing, here's a ICS themed ShapeWriter Keyboard.
ps-if anyone knows how to change the tracer color, please let me know. I've asked, pm'd, googled, all with no luck.
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just like swipe. its in the libshapewriter.so file. only way to edit it is to use a hex editor. use this as a guild http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1162558
you will need to figure out what the HEX code for the stock color and find it in the .so
OK. So any help on finding that color in Hex Editor? I knew it was in the .so file but don't know the location.
TheBeardedMann said:
OK. So any help on finding that color in Hex Editor? I knew it was in the .so file but don't know the location.
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you would have to decompile it and see what the hex code is used for the color then search the .so for it.
its easier in linux. i will see what i come up with then i am home tonight.
synisterwolf said:
you would have to decompile it and see what the hex code is used for the color then search the .so for it.
its easier in linux. i will see what i come up with then i am home tonight.
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Thanks. I appreciate it. No worries if nothing happens.
I thought I was the only person alive that still uses shapewriter. Is there any way to remove the background image? It's a bit distracting
Akomack said:
I thought I was the only person alive that still uses shapewriter. Is there any way to remove the background image? It's a bit distracting
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=812313
Check this out. It's a few replies in. If you want a certain color or background or whatever, I could probably do something for ya.
After I posted that, I did a little playing around.. Made an orange and black one to go with my orange MIUI 4.0 theme
Got it. I posted on other thread.
Shapewriter bug
HI
long time shapewriter user - recently upgraded to ICS (BCM on the desire)
did a restore of shapewriter from a titanium backup of it i had (this was from CM7 ie gingerbread). Works perfectly but for one problem: Whenever i switch to the number keyboard it duplicates the last digit when i switch back to the alpha keyboard.
Any ideas how to fix or workaround?
Presume the "data" part of the titanium restore is the bit that cointain info on my writing style etc so would be up to 2 years worth of learned data that i would rather not have to wipe and relearn. Maybe the app isnt as clever as this. Im not sure?
I think you might be able to do a fresh install and then copy over the library files. Once I get to a computer I'll look into it.
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I think you might be able to do a fresh install and then copy over the library files. Once I get to a computer I'll look into it.
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Shaspewriter isnt available on the market/play any more i know that there are modified variants out there but i'm not so comfortable getting it from a lesser source do to the security/easy ability to capture all keyboard input - do i need a special installer file etc or will the data stored by titanium backup suffice. Not sure if it has the apk file.
Any help appreciated.
I have a galaxy note and am still using shapewriter as it is STILL the best tracing keyboard out there. BUT unfortunately it appears on the note in a compacted form, only taking up 2/3 of the width of the screen. Does anyone know if there is a version that would adapt to any screen size??
ICS Shapewriter [Now with xhdpi support!]
Here is a nice ICS themed shapewriter. It also has support for hi res devices. :laugh:
I know this is probably petty, but for me it's sort of a big deal.
I like light characters on a black screen, especially at night. There are flashlight apps to turn the screen white because it's bright and at night I would prefer to have a black screen.
Is there a way to change the conversation history to black, and lso for the background behind the balloons in an SMS?
Is there a ROM that has an option for this?
Thanks for the help!
Go sms. Totally customizable. Backgrounds, fonts, font colors, etc
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Ends said:
Go sms. Totally customizable. Backgrounds, fonts, font colors, etc
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk
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Handcent will let you do this too.
If you get GoSMS Pro, grab the Theme builder in the market as well. It will allow you to totally create your own theme.
liquidzoo said:
Handcent will let you do this too.
If you get GoSMS Pro, grab the Theme builder in the market as well. It will allow you to totally create your own theme.
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I should have included that I've tried all those. Yes, they're good and very customizable. But I've not been able to get them to work seamlessly and to replace the stock messaging. One of those my keyboard does't display properly with and simple other things. Plus I really like how I can go to messages and slide to the right to call. That's the easiest way to call people. That's my favorite feature and no one else has that.
What's so hard about changing the stock messaging to black with white text? lol At one point there was a night mode that made the conversation history black, but not now.
One question... For example a lock screen. There are different ones to install. Is there a different messaging to install to replace stock that someone has added things to? I don't even know if it's possible to replace messaging or not. I don't really want to install another app... I've just not had the best luck with them having the right feel.
Firstly, are you on GB or ICS? And which ROM?
If GB, you could swap out the AT&T mms.apk with the Rogers version, as they use a dark charcoal background behind matte blue and yellow bubbles (was always my favorite). Or you could try the mms.apk that Sean used to include in his GB ROMs. It was basically stock, but came with 5 themes. If you're on NexusMod GB, somewhere in the thread R4INS posted a CM7 mms.apk which has a light and dark theme.
If you're on an AOSP ICS (which I know you're not since you mention swipe to call), you could try the inverted mms.apk, which is black. If you're on stock ICS, the only thing I can think of is to just decompile the apk and use Gimp to change the colors as you'd like them (which goes for any apk really), although I think the important images are *.9.png's which are tricky. Or since you like TouchWiz, see what the T-Mobile mms.apk from their leak looks like? And if it works? As I don't know the answer to either.
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I'm running ICS that I just flashed. I put in SKYICS also.
Thank you for getting back to me. I'm new to this and starting to figure things out. I opened the mms.apk with WinRar and found most of what I want to change. I've not used Gimp. For colors I usually use Office Picture Manager. I'll have to check out Gimp. I'm starting to understand a little about the xdaAutoTool. I suppose I have to decompile the mms.apk , modify what I want, then recompile it, zip it all back up, then install it through CWM. I can't get the adaAutoTool to run because of the OCX thing and I don't know how to register the files. I wish I knew someone that could decompile the apk, let me change some of the .png files and recompile it for me. I want to change the editor box from this almost black to black beause it looks incredibly grainy at 1% gray or whatever it is. The hard thing for me would be figure out how to change the text color to white if I had to on the conversation list. I think I'll do as you suggested and look for another mms.apk.
You said I like TouchWiz... I'm not exactly sure what that even is. Isn't that something to do with the buttons and how they look at the bottom?
You mentioned the CM7 something. I'm not exactly sure what the CM is. I have CM5 and it said I have a mismatch when I tried to restore my original ROM that I backed up. it was 2.3.6 I think.
Thanks for the help and I'll be back. I'm going to look for another mms.apk...
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I'm running ICS that I just flashed. I put in SKYICS also.
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I'm going to look for another mms.apk...
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I think I may have just come across a solution for you. Did you see this post in the SkyICS thread?? I'd look into that one first before attempting any of the above.
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I'm new to this and starting to figure things out. I opened the mms.apk with WinRar and found most of what I want to change. I've not used Gimp. For colors I usually use Office Picture Manager. I'll have to check out Gimp. I'm starting to understand a little about the xdaAutoTool. I suppose I have to decompile the mms.apk , modify what I want, then recompile it, zip it all back up, then install it through CWM. I can't get the adaAutoTool to run because of the OCX thing and I don't know how to register the files. I wish I knew someone that could decompile the apk, let me change some of the .png files and recompile it for me. I want to change the editor box from this almost black to black beause it looks incredibly grainy at 1% gray or whatever it is. The hard thing for me would be figure out how to change the text color to white if I had to on the conversation list. I think I'll do as you suggested and look for another mms.apk.
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Now I'm no expert on this or anything and haven't done much research on it, so I don't know everything you're talking about. But when I manually swapped out battery icon images from framework-res.apk, I didn't do any unzipping, rezipping, decompiling, recompiling. All I had to do was *open* the archive with 7zip (NOT unzip). Delete the images in there I wanted to replace. Then drag and drop the new images into the archive. As long as they were the same names and I wasn't adding or removing any images, there was no need to change any of the XML files. And it all worked fine.
As I said though, if I recall (as I actually looked into trying to do this myself with the help of another guy -- I wanted to make the AT&T mms.apk look like the Rogers mms.apk) the background image and maybe the bubble images too are 9-patch files, which are the image_name.9.png files. They require a very special process for editing. So that might require a bit more work.
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You said I like TouchWiz... I'm not exactly sure what that even is. Isn't that something to do with the buttons and how they look at the bottom?
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Haha something like that. TouchWiz is the graphical overlay (UI skin) Samsung puts on top of "vanilla" Android, or AOSP. Every manufacture does it. Motorola's is called MotoBlur. HTC's is called Sense. And so on. The Nexus line of phones is the only one to get stock, vanilla Android (AOSP). So it's the reason all android phones from the same manufacture look somewhat the same.
TouchWiz does consist of those buttons at the bottom and how they look (I assume you're talking about the docked apps - Phone, Contacts, Email, Apps). But it's also the system apps (Messaging, Email, Phone, Contacts, Settings, etc.) and how they look and act. The swipe right to call / swipe left to message is a feature of TouchWiz, which is why I said you liked TW because you like that feature.
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CodeRedDewd said:
You mentioned the CM7 something. I'm not exactly sure what the CM is. I have CM5 and it said I have a mismatch when I tried to restore my original ROM that I backed up. it was 2.3.6 I think.
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CM stands for CyanogenMod and consists of a more AOSP feel, unlike Samsung's TouchWiz. So it doesn't have the swipe to call feature; usually just tap the contact picture inside Messaging and it gives you the option to call. CM7 was their Gingerbread build. CM9 is their Ice Cream Sandwich build.
Basically CyanogenMod has created a replacement/aftermarket firmware to replace Google Android (AOSP). It's sort of different than just a custom ROM because a custom ROM is usually just built with one phone in mind (whichever one the developer owns). CM is a firmware built the same way, with the same features, for as many phones as they can support. So your specific phone still needs to be supported and have its own specific build, but once you have it on you phone, it will look and feel just like any HTC, Motorola, etc. that is also running CM.
So it's based off of Google Android (AOSP), it's completely self-contained as its own operating system (somewhat anyway).
We have an unofficial alpha of CM9 in the development section if you want to give it a shot! (Unofficial means it's not being built by or currently supported by the actual CyanogenMod team. Just a private individual is using their source code to make it work with our Skyrocket.) It works rather well and is like 99.5% a daily driver.
Wow, thank you for that information. Some of the fuzzy things are a little clearer now but not much. lol
What you said about replacing a png - I opened the ROM in 7Zip, clicked down to the Mms.apk. I right clicked and copied to desktop. I opened that in 7Zip and dragged and dropped the png into that. I changed the file extinsion to .zip and put in on my phone. When I tried to install it though CWM touch it just aborted.
I'm not 100% sure, but I edited the png in paint. I magnified it 800 times and could see a perfect rectangle inside of this other stuff. I only made the perfect rectangle black and saved. The one I'm doing is textfield_default_dark.9.png. I don't quite think I edited it wrong since it wouldn't even install. My editing wrong would make it FC or not show right?? I don't know how to troubleshoot.
In the meantime I'm going to check out some of your other suggestions. However I would LOVE to be able to fix what I want. Why make a black that's not black and can't be displayed right by the display because the pixels are just barely on?
Suggestions on my proceedure? I read somewhere earlier that there has to be some something done to the png for permission or something strange....
I checked out the dark themed Mms.apk you mentioned at the top. This is what it says.
This is not flashable. what you'll need to do is navigate to system--> app, rename your current mms.apk to something like "mms.apk.old" or "mms.apk.bak". Then paste the attached into the same folder. Reboot your phone and voila.
I lost root access and cannot get it back when I installed SKYICS. I'm running UCLD2. I haven't been able to put together what to do about this. I tried to install my original backup and it said CM5 mismatch or something. I do believe I need root access to navigate to the system folder because I can't find it?
yeah. you need root. you dont really need to "flash" in CWM. Just replace the original in the system. But you do need root. Reboot into recovery and flash superuser
I did that a few times and nothing. I gave up on rooting for a while then now I'm rooted. Titanium, when I opened it, asked for permission. It wouldn't do that yesterday. I'm just going to have to say okay I'm rooted.
I'm trying to find the system directory right now...
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I'm not 100% sure, but I edited the png in paint. I magnified it 800 times and could see a perfect rectangle inside of this other stuff. I only made the perfect rectangle black and saved. The one I'm doing is textfield_default_dark.9.png. I don't quite think I edited it wrong since it wouldn't even install. My editing wrong would make it FC or not show right?? I don't know how to troubleshoot.
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Yea so like I said, since it's a 9-patch file (*.9.png), I'm not sure if you can just edit the image and throw it back in there. I'm guessing that Paint only recognizes it as a *.png, and so saves it as such. 9-patch images need to be recompiled, as far as I know. So that might've screwed you up, even if you installed it right.
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What you said about replacing a png - I opened the ROM in 7Zip, clicked down to the Mms.apk. I right clicked and copied to desktop. I opened that in 7Zip and dragged and dropped the png into that. I changed the file extinsion to .zip and put in on my phone. When I tried to install it though CWM touch it just aborted.
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So about installing it. Everything above sounds like the correct process EXCEPT for changing the file extension. A CWM flashable zip isn't just any old zip file. It's has a certain structure to it and includes a script file that tells CWM exactly what to do with the information contained inside the zip. With a system apk, all you need to do is get the file on your phone somehow (microSD, USB cable, Dropbox, etc.), and then copy and paste it into the /system/app directory, afterwards setting its permissions to rw-r--r--. To do this, yes you will need root access. It shouldn't be that hard to just root again if you lost it somehow. Or judging by your last post, you may have successfully rooted again.
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I checked out the dark themed Mms.apk you mentioned at the top. This is what it says.
This is not flashable. what you'll need to do is navigate to system--> app, rename your current mms.apk to something like "mms.apk.old" or "mms.apk.bak". Then paste the attached into the same folder. Reboot your phone and voila.
I lost root access and cannot get it back when I installed SKYICS. I'm running UCLD2. I haven't been able to put together what to do about this. I tried to install my original backup and it said CM5 mismatch or something. I do believe I need root access to navigate to the system folder because I can't find it?
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Which brings us back to this mms.apk. Definitely give this app another shot using the above method once you obtain root again. You will need an app such as Root Explorer, which can be downloaded from the Market.
As far as restoring your backup, the error you received was an MD5 checksum mismatch error. You can Google what MD5 means, and possible reasons why CWM gave you that error. I think it gives it to you sometimes when you rename a backup file and put a space in the file name.
I'll have to research that MD5 thing...
I got the Mms.apk copied to the right directory and my changes worked. I have to use something other than paint that allows me to keep white as the transparant color. This is pretty awesome... Maybe I'll post my result when I figure out what's going on. I'm thinking the text field is a box within a box. I got a black box with a very dark gray one in the middle... But it's progress! Thanks for your help!
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I'll have to research that MD5 thing...
I got the Mms.apk copied to the right directory and my changes worked. I have to use something other than paint that allows me to keep white as the transparant color. This is pretty awesome... Maybe I'll post my result when I figure out what's going on. I'm thinking the text field is a box within a box. I got a black box with a very dark gray one in the middle... But it's progress! Thanks for your help!
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That's awesome man, good job! Wanna post a screenshot for me? A before and after if you have it?
But if you need something better than Paint, I'd look into Gimp. It's what most of the guys on here use. It's basically the Linux version of Photoshop. And being Linux, it's free and open source... and has been ported over to Windows. It works great for quick image editing. Just takes a bit of Googling to learn all the buttons haha.
I'm using Gimp because it keeps the transparant background. I had a big white box around my box from paint.
Update: When I used paint, it seemed things worked correctly besides the white box around the editor. The transparancy was lost. In Gimp, if I change 1 pixel I get a whole distorted image for the editor. In paint, I made the blue line gold and the box black. That looked great. Nothing seems to be working right with Gimp. Wait, in Paint I did notice one thing. The box was a true black, but with a lighter black, wide stripe in the middle from end to end, as if it was another png inserted into it. Hmmm... In Gimp it looks like nothing is getting inserted and the small image is stretching all the way across with the thin blue line getting super fat. I didn't jack the image up. I only changed one pixel to red in the middle of the black. I'm thinking there's more to this. Someone posted something about a decompiled image that had extra dots around the edge and one a one pixel line on two sides or something. I didn't break anything, because I put in an untouched png and it fixed things, so it's just the image.
Any ideas? I'm headed out to watch a movie, but I'm determined.
Look for a brush diameter or feathering option in Gimp and change it to the smallest one you have. I've had to do that in both Photoshop and Gimp before to get the apk changes I've made to look right and not have that outlining that you're referring to.
I understand what you mean, but this is different.The .9.png looks exactly the same when I edit it. I'm just making it darker. The .9.png files are made of 9 sections taht are stretched individually so the image is not distorted. In my case, Gimp is destroying that ability and the image is getting stretched the wrong way when displayed. For example, if you stretch a line along its lengt it still looks like the same line only longer, which is what they do. But if you stretch it across its width, it becomes this fat line, which is what is happening in my case.
I think you're editig just .png and not .9.png files?
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I understand what you mean, but this is different.The .9.png looks exactly the same when I edit it. I'm just making it darker. The .9.png files are made of 9 sections taht are stretched individually so the image is not distorted. In my case, Gimp is destroying that ability and the image is getting stretched the wrong way when displayed. For example, if you stretch a line along its lengt it still looks like the same line only longer, which is what they do. But if you stretch it across its width, it becomes this fat line, which is what is happening in my case.
I think you're editig just .png and not .9.png files?
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Do you think some information in this tutorial could be of any help? There's also a video tutorial available.
Yes it's possible that would be very helpful. I found either that or another tutorial last night. It was interesting how the .9.png files are sectioned. I conda figured that out on my own, because it would have to be to get bigger and not distort fine lines. I'll have to find that tutorial itself, because that post you linked has no links in it. I went to a 9patch website or something that had all the stuff, but it got too deep pretty quickly. In the short time I studied it, I had no clue how to even begin to install and use the program.
What baffles me is how Paint didn't screw up the .9.png. It worked fine with my edits, only it had no transparency so there was a white border. It was able to scale fine to landscape and portrait. It looked great. I totally though I had it figured out. :/ Have you looked at how to do .9.png files?
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Yes it's possible that would be very helpful. I found either that or another tutorial last night. It was interesting how the .9.png files are sectioned. I conda figured that out on my own, because it would have to be to get bigger and not distort fine lines. I'll have to find that tutorial itself, because that post you linked has no links in it. I went to a 9patch website or something that had all the stuff, but it got too deep pretty quickly. In the short time I studied it, I had no clue how to even begin to install and use the program.
What baffles me is how Paint didn't screw up the .9.png. It worked fine with my edits, only it had no transparency so there was a white border. It was able to scale fine to landscape and portrait. It looked great. I totally though I had it figured out. :/ Have you looked at how to do .9.png files?
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The tutorial is contained in the OP of that post I linked to. It contains links for all the tools you need and a short description of the process to follow. And then I think the video tutorial might just guide you through the OP of that first link.
But yea, that's really interesting how Paint worked so well. Did you happen to take any screenshots of the Paint-edited apk running on your phone?
And no, I actually have never looked into editing .9.png files. Didn't really even know how they worked until you explained them a little bit in one of the above posts.
I attached an image. I'm not sure if it's going to show up in the post as an image; we'll see.
There is a white box around what is suppose to be shown as the editor. In the center of the black box it's not true black as the black surrounding it that I changed in the .9.png. The center must be another image.
I'm thinking I'm just going to make the white black, find the other gray images the buttons are on and make that one black. Who needs transparancy when it's all black, which is what I want anyway. lol
I'm going to look into the 9patch some more... It just seems so complicated with how to install and get working. It would be nice to work with someone who is actively editing .9.png's to get me on track....
Do you have an interest in editing those png's? lol