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The important bit - get it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551119
Note - this is a link to the corresponding thread on the Dream forum. All new versions and change log info can be found there (because I'm getting fed up with maintaining two threads )
What is this?
This is a new build of the stock browser, that incorporates the multitouch code from Cyan's build, along with some additional code of my own, primarily intended to make zooming less painful, and looking to gradually move towards an experience as rich as the Hero browser.
What does it do that's new, then?
* option in settings to disable the obnoxious on-screen zoom buttons that usually appear whenever you so much as breathe on the screen (turn off "Visual Zoom Controls" in the menu to get rid of them - off by default).
* when Visual Zoom Controls is disabled, option in settings to add zoom in and zoom out to the menu (although this will bump over options that are normally on the main menu to the "More..." list)
* NEW! Double tap to zoom! Double-tap the screen to zoom in. When it gets too ginormous (about four zooms) a subsequent double-tap will zoom all the way out. (Feedback request: I'm interested in what people think of the double-tap to zoom. Does it go one zoom too far before zooming all the way out?)
* As requested by fastludeh22, there is now an option for "Mobile Web View". Enabled by default. Turn it off and you'll get the full desktop version of website such as YouTube etc that autodetect mobile devices.
What do I need to run it?
It was written to run on Cyanogen builds, originally. Others have tried it on JACxROM and other ROMs with multitouch in the kernel. I personally see no reason why it wouldn't run on pretty much any Cupcake ROM, although I haven't tried it, and obviously Cyan's multitouch stuff wouldn't work without the kernel mods.
Is this the same browser that's been doing the rounds on this board lately? What's with the version 1 stuff
Yes. I've reset the version numbering and given it a name (i.e. BetterBrowser). So this is BetterBrowser v1 (which comes after Loccy's Browser v5 ). Next versions will be 1.1, 1.2, etc. It was getting a bit silly going up a version number every time I added a single menu option!
Future improvements I'm hoping to do:
* Full screen option
* Hero-style lairy Mac-type bookmarks
* Maintain zoom level across pages on same site (so it doesn't suddenly zoom back to 1:1 level when you browse to the next page).
* tidy up what behind the scenes is, unfortunately, some really kludgey code!
Thanks go to:
* Cyan, obviously, without whom none of this would have been possible, and whose ROMs continue to break new levels of awesomeness
* makethetick, who pointed me in the right direction for the code in the first places
Raspberries go to certain individuals in this thread.
*sigh* if only we had multitouch on 32A. I dream of the day
PS for asking a stupid question =x.. but how do i push this browser into the rom? i love cm roms and having an additional feature like tis 1 is always superb!
Something like this from your PC should do the trick:
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
mv Browser.apk Browser.original
exit
adb push Browser-cyan-pn-mod2.apk /system/sd/app_s/Browser.apk
okay thnx! will get back to you once i try it out
OKay so I've try it out.. the zoom is gone! Nice and Thank you.. So this browser doesn't have zoom functions?
it does have the zoom function but you zoom by pinching the screen verticly, like the iphone.
btw works ok so far just flashed it.
Oh, but mine can't seem to zoom tho, even with the pinching method did you follow the steps given by Loccy also?
alabasta10 said:
Oh, but mine can't seem to zoom tho, even with the pinching method did you follow the steps given by Loccy also?
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which phone are nyou on? it will not work on 32A devices. that is why you might not have the multitouch.
well im 32A htc magic but still i dunno where i went rong.. i tried 3 times oredy no hope and m using cm 4.01 wif gbo kernel tingy.. lol
edit: oh Ps never see u say it wont work on 32A . But thanx for telling me.. if not hu noes for how long m going to try n try.. so wheeree.. can i get d original browser back XD..
alabasta10 said:
well im 32A htc magic but still i dunno where i went rong.. i tried 3 times oredy no hope and m using cm 4.01 wif gbo kernel tingy.. lol
edit: oh Ps never see u say it wont work on 32A . But thanx for telling me.. if not hu noes for how long m going to try n try.. so wheeree.. can i get d original browser back XD..
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if you did not make a backup, just go and reflash the rom and you will get it back.
OKay Thanx! Everything's working fine now . Thank you.
Wow this is great, thanx..now can you make it stop refreashing on reopen and im desparate for a setting to lock it in landscape (somewhere i read that there used to be a setting like this in earlier version, maybe someone could copy code# from there)
fit333 said:
Wow this is great, thanx..now can you make it stop refreashing on reopen
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Afraid not - that's an Android thing not a browser. When it refreshes, it's because Android has let the browser drop out of memory to use it for another app. So when you go back to the browser it's as if you're loading it from scratch all over again. At that point if it didn't refresh all you'd have would be a blank page.
fit333 said:
and im desparate for a setting to lock it in landscape (somewhere i read that there used to be a setting like this in earlier version, maybe someone could copy code# from there)
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That, I could probably do.
Is there no way this browser can be used on 32A? Even with the new kernel and all? Really LOVE the functions listed down
Loccy said:
I've built a new version from Cyan's source that adds a menu item so that you can turn off the (in my opinion) obnoxious zoom controls that jump up in your face whenever you so much as breathe on the screen. Obviously, if you're running a Cyan ROM, you'll still have his multitouch zoom in and out. If you're not running a Cyan ROM, you zoom in and out from the menu options.
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Thanks - it's a nice improvement
does this have the double tap to zoom like on hero as well?
tazz9690 said:
does this have the double tap to zoom like on hero as well?
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Nope. Not yet. That's the next thing I'm planning, though, although if I get time today I might quickly add another settings option so you can enable/disable the zoom buttons in the menu (some people in the Dream forums like them, others not, so it makes sense to make it a user config option). Multitap to zoom is a bit less trivial though and will have to wait until later on in the week when I'm not doing my day job!
Bounce for new version (see edited first post for details).
Loccy said:
Something like this from your PC should do the trick:
adb remount
adb shell
cd /system/app
mv Browser.apk Browser.original
exit
adb push Browser-cyan-pn-mod2.apk /system/sd/app_s/Browser.apk
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i followed the above commands (replacing "Browser-cyan-pn-mod2.apk" with "Browser-pn-v5.apk") and now i have no browser whatsoever.
any ideas?
How do you get more home screens? Is there a file which is edited and synced on the phone or does it require a rebuild and resign of an APK?
Is there a central repository for ROM developer info like this? I have looked on the Sapphire Wiki but that's mostly "How to load a ROM" rather than building your own. I've searched these forums but I'm obviously not looking for the right thing.
(Sorry if this is the wrong section, it seems more appropriate to post in dev as this is something changing the phone, as opposed to a general help request with the phone.)
Actually, the easiest way would be to just download Advanced Launcher from the market. Multiple screens, hiding applications, etc.
Advanced Launcher looks quite good though I'd like more home screens to add more widgets.
Advanced launcher allows you to edit number of screens
It also doesn't work with Better Cut, which I rely on quite alot.
I'd rather just know how to hack the stock Home screen app to display 5 screens.
Super Jamie said:
It also doesn't work with Better Cut, which I rely on quite alot.
I'd rather just know how to hack the stock Home screen app to display 5 screens.
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Could just pull the Launcher.apk from Dwangs 1.14 build. Its the stock launcher with 5 screens.
dills84 said:
Could just pull the Launcher.apk from Dwangs 1.14 build. Its the stock launcher with 5 screens.
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Good call actually, alot easier than editing and recompiling from source. 5 home screens for me
If anyone's interested how, I extracted Launcher.apk from Dwang's ROM.
(Note: This is Donut-based so it will work with the Amon_RA v1.6.2 I already have on my phone. If you have Cupcake or Flan then get a customised launcher from those builds.)
Code:
./adb pull /system/app/Launcher.apk LauncherBackup.apk
./adb pull /system/app/Launcher.odex LauncherBackup.odex
./adb remount
./adb push LauncherDwang.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
./adb shell rm /system/app/Launcher.odex
./adb reboot
If things break or you want to revert, you can always
Code:
./adb remount
./adb push LauncherBackup.apk /system/app/Launcher.apk
./adb push LauncherBackup.odex /system/app/Launcher.odex
./adb reboot
I have updated my TP2 with the stock Verizon WM6.5/Sense 2.1 ROM upgrade. I have noticed that the weather animations on the Today screen wallpaper, which I think are great, will stop working if I go to beyond the Start screen and hit "All Applications", and it brings up the full apps list. Even without starting any of the apps there, going back to the Today screen, the animations on the wallpaper will not work with any method that I can find other than restarting Sense 2.1 with a soft reset or similar restart of manila.exe
I know most folks here are beyond the stock ROMs but wondering if anyone has seen this too and figured out how work around this problem that I assume is a bug and will not in all probability ever get fixed from HTC. Hopefully this is the worst probelm with the new ROM, whick I can live with but would like to correct if possible.
Thanks!
After a while it does stop the animation. One trick I found out (and it helps with the memory leak), is just move around the tabs just to initate the reloading of sense. Then it will do it again.
Hit the task manager at the top right of the screen (where you close running programs, etc) and then close it. The animation will restart.
I recognize the open and closing of Task Manager does restart it under normal situations, but it will not restart it if you go into the All Applications page. Thats what breaks it...keeps the aminations from running again until you restart Sense 2.1 through several methods, soft-reset, going through the motions of changing the Today screen icons (see above) or some app that resarts the manila.exe program like cleanRam.
Interesting I never noticed this before.
ohaness said:
I recognize the open and closing of Task Manager does restart it under normal situations, but it will not restart it if you go into the All Applications page.
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Doesn't do it on mine. I've got the "All Applications" page in Sence 2.1. I've also installed 4 icons in the All Applications and All Programs pages, Awsome Start (single row WinMo start menu). Plus animated weather with any home screen wallpaper and a working BG4All.
Goin to My Application, or All Programs, then back to home and weather works fine. So either somthing in the .cabs & tweaks I've done has fixed it, or somthing in the .cabs & tweaks you've done broke it.
Yup it does it for me. Now I know what stops the weather.
msh441 said:
So either somthing in the .cabs & tweaks I've done has fixed it, or somthing in the .cabs & tweaks you've done broke it.
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I have a pretty much stock phone with several tweeks/cabs (stop sent message balloon, restore message light flashing capabilities, and a couple of other minor ones) that I don't believe have anything to do with breaking it so I'm gussing that some of yours are "fixing it".
Hmm maybe its the weather for all backgrounds that is making the weather stay. I guess I will look for that cab and see if it fixes our problem.
Don't have the ability to hook up my phone and upload the .cab... but search for: "2.1apristel BG4ALL_W_Fullscreen_Animations.cab" and you should come up with it pretty quick.
That's the only one that worked for me with the CDMA Verizon 6.5/Sense 2.1 phone without breaking somthing else.
Good luck. Hope it works for you.
ohaness said:
I have updated my TP2 with the stock Verizon WM6.5/Sense 2.1 ROM upgrade. I have noticed that the weather animations on the Today screen wallpaper, which I think are great, will stop working if I go to beyond the Start screen and hit "All Applications", and it brings up the full apps list. Even without starting any of the apps there, going back to the Today screen, the animations on the wallpaper will not work with any method that I can find other than restarting Sense 2.1 with a soft reset or similar restart of manila.exe
I know most folks here are beyond the stock ROMs but wondering if anyone has seen this too and figured out how work around this problem that I assume is a bug and will not in all probability ever get fixed from HTC. Hopefully this is the worst probelm with the new ROM, whick I can live with but would like to correct if possible.
Thanks!
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Myself personally, I do not like the Manila start menu, and have disabled it. I use the standard WM 6.5 honeycomb start menu. I have not experienced any problems with the animations since disabling the manila start menu.
How do you disable just the Manila (Sense 2.1) start menu and use the WM6.5 one?
ohaness said:
How do you disable just the Manila (Sense 2.1) start menu and use the WM6.5 one?
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You can do it one of two ways.
I did it with a .cab that also added a "Programs" tab in the TouchFlo/Sense interface as well. But using the registry editor. HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\Configuration. Open File 11 and under the D word value "Enable", change the value from 0 to 1.
There is another edit, though, where you can choose which start menu the device uses. I'm 99% sure it's HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila and under the D Word Value "IsWM6.5" and the default setting is no (which = 0). Change it to a "1" and I'm pretty sure you'll get what you're looking for.
msh441 said:
You can do it one of two ways.
Open File 11 and under the D word value "Enable", change the value from 0 to 1.
"IsWM6.5" and the default setting is no (which = 0). Change it to a "1"
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In both cases, my settings are "1" and I have not changed these at all from the Stock VZW 6.5 upgrade. Am I misreading?
ohaness said:
I have updated my TP2 with the stock Verizon WM6.5/Sense 2.1 ROM upgrade. I have noticed that the weather animations on the Today screen wallpaper, which I think are great, will stop working if I go to beyond the Start screen and hit "All Applications", and it brings up the full apps list. Even without starting any of the apps there, going back to the Today screen, the animations on the wallpaper will not work with any method that I can find other than restarting Sense 2.1 with a soft reset or similar restart of manila.exe
I know most folks here are beyond the stock ROMs but wondering if anyone has seen this too and figured out how work around this problem that I assume is a bug and will not in all probability ever get fixed from HTC. Hopefully this is the worst probelm with the new ROM, whick I can live with but would like to correct if possible.
Thanks!
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Hmmm, I Downloaded My ROM from PCD & I Don't Have Animated Weather for My Today Screen, Only In My Weather Tab. Where Did You Download Your ROM From?
Downloaded from the same place as you...PCD.
Hmmm, By Any Chance Do You Still Have The Original ROM You Updated Your TP2 With? Can You Send It My Way? I'd Really Appreciate It
Actually I deleted it. The phone was updated and working properly so I saw no reason to keep it as I could always download from the PCD website again.
Did you load other tweak cabs to your new 6.5 ROM that you had in 6.1. Maybe you did someting. Try a hard reset?
Sorry thats all I have for suggestions.
ohaness said:
How do you disable just the Manila (Sense 2.1) start menu and use the WM6.5 one?
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Change registry setting below:
HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\EnableManilaStartMenu
Set DWORD to 1 (use TF3D)
HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu\EnableManilaStartMenu
Set DWORD to 0 (Use WM Menu)
ohaness said:
Actually I deleted it. The phone was updated and working properly so I saw no reason to keep it as I could always download from the PCD website again.
Did you load other tweak cabs to your new 6.5 ROM that you had in 6.1. Maybe you did someting. Try a hard reset?
Sorry thats all I have for suggestions.
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I'll Give It a Shot Doing a Hard Reset, Thanks for The Help Though
hello friends, after several hours of work I bring the style
Sense the original launcher nexus one!!
I have updated and theme to version 1.1
Log:
NexusDesire V1.1
- Fixed minor bugs
- Added theme to the dialpad
- Added theme to: facebook widget, youtube widget, control of energy, music widget, contacts, Market, and others ...
- Launcher2.apk with new design enhancements and deleting images unnecessarily
INSTALLATION IS STILL THE SAME
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NexusSense 1.0 for CMD 5 - Tested in CM 5.0.3.1 - not if it works on others roms
it brings?
- Launcher2 + 3 buttons, Dialer, applications, and browser totally
functional
- Status bar taken from the desire with all status icons
- 2 wallpapers of desire embodied in the launcher2
- Facebook widget Desire STYLE
- Youtube widget Desire Style
- Search widget Desire Style
- Folder background desire style
like to settle?
1. create a NANDROID backup!
2. Download the file NexusSense.zip, unzip within the
find the modified launcher2.apk installed via ADB, first erases
original launcher2.apk ---- adb shell rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
and then install with the following command ------ adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/
3. Download and Install MetaMorph in the market
4. copy the cm5-DESIRE folder in the AndroidThemes folder in
your SD card or create, SD/AndroidThemes/
5. open MetaMorph and applies the theme CM5-DESIRE
6. REBOOT
7. ENJOY YOUR NEW NEXUS ONE DESIRE STYLE
Credits and thanks: DocRambone, cyanogen, xeudoxus ... AND SAMUAZ (Me =) )
NOTE: Sorry about my English ... I SPEAK SPANISH
duylong186 said:
Works perfectly! I love the launcher
Can you design another version of dialpad? too green for me, maybe blue like cyan or just black and white combination
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samuaz said:
excellent idea to combine colors, I will work on them, blue was excellent listening, combined with the black right now xD I prove it, thanks for the
council in a few minutes to update some have blue as
see!
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I did something fast, it's just an idea, I will work to improve it xD
download install using MetaMorph
blueDialpad
blackWhit Dialpad
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PREVIEW and DOWNLOAD
What is the command to remove the original launcher2.apk? Sorry I'm not good with the SDK yet.
within minutes upload an update that adds more elements to the interface on the theme for metemorph ... you can try the current version 1.0, within minutes I upload the version 1.1
to clear the launcher this is the command
adb shell rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
Any plans to skin the geniewidget and the powerbar? I am actually running Desire rom but have been looking for geniewidget and powerbar apps that better match the sense ui. Nice to see folks making Sense type themes already for stock rom!
bluehaze said:
Any plans to skin the geniewidget and the powerbar? I am actually running Desire rom but have been looking for geniewidget and powerbar apps that better match the sense ui. Nice to see folks making Sense type themes already for stock rom!
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if the search widget is made from the source, then it is the same size and has the same guidelines as most of the other major appwidget_bg.9.png images and can be renamed and inserted in for the geniewidget, power control widget, and the music widget. the picture frame widget requires different guides to work properly, but overall you can do most of the widgets with that one background image.
Also, you should be able to take every image from the framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi minus the ones at the end with zzz_ in the name, and drag and drop no problem.
corrected some small bugs, and almost ready to upgrade these are some of the things I've added to widgets
within minutes I put the update
david1171 said:
if the search widget is made from the source, then it is the same size and has the same guidelines as most of the other major appwidget_bg.9.png images and can be renamed and inserted in for the geniewidget, power control widget, and the music widget. the picture frame widget requires different guides to work properly, but overall you can do most of the widgets with that one background image.
Also, you should be able to take every image from the framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi minus the ones at the end with zzz_ in the name, and drag and drop no problem.
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I just push the already skinned apps to their current locations seems to work fine. Problem is just finding the skinned apps, geniewidget does not come with desire so it is not Sense themed. Powerbar does but it is the stock one that comes with Nexus. I am not a themer so editing the images myself is not an option for me unfortunately.
Anyways I do not wan't to derail samuaz thread, was just curious if he had plans for skinning those apps. Thanks.
genie widgets, such plans vere soon as I change it xD
a question that you think this is very heavy dialpad? or seems good
UPDATE
UPDATE NOW 1.1
Works perfectly! I love the launcher
Can you design another version of dialpad? too green for me, maybe blue like cyan or just black and white combination
duylong186 said:
Works perfectly! I love the launcher
Can you design another version of dialpad? too green for me, maybe blue like cyan or just black and white combination
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excellent idea to combine colors, I will work on them, blue was excellent listening, combined with the black right now xD I prove it, thanks for the
council in a few minutes to update some have blue as
see!
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I did something fast, it's just an idea, I will work to improve it xD
download install using MetaMorph
Can you explain for beginner?
I connect my phone to computer and I typed
adb shell rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
then I got this
rm: remove '/system/app/Launcher2.apk'?
and nothing happen
and when I type
adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/
I saw this:
cannot stat 'Launcher2.apk': No such file or directory
Where I have to copy launcher2.apk , In sd card or in my computer and in wiche folder?
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I connect my phone to computer and I typed
adb shell rm /system/app/Launcher2.apk
then I got this
rm: remove '/system/app/Launcher2.apk'?
and nothing happen
and when I type
adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/
I saw this:
cannot stat 'Launcher2.apk': No such file or directory
Where I have to copy launcher2.apk , In sd card or in my computer and in wiche folder?
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You have to specify the directory that Launcher2.apk is residing in on your computer. You do not have to do the rm command just
Code:
adb remount
adb push Launcher2.apk /system/app/Launcher2.apk
Dialer is to big ?
for me dialer is too big and not fit in screen .
look at the picture .
1020323 said:
for me dialer is too big and not fit in screen .
look at the picture .
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temporary fix for this, as applied by the MetaMorph
Normal installation
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Great theme man, I'll give it a try.
Gracias!
PS: The links in the original post to blue and white dialer skins is inverted.
The theme looks great, specially the launcher.
Problem is with the dialpad, I tried installing the cm5-Desire-BlackWhite-Dialpad.zip and I have the same issue mentioned before but after applying the temporary fix I see all the dialer buttons in black not the nice black and white combination of your screenshot.
neoranga said:
The theme looks great, specially the launcher.
Problem is with the dialpad, I tried installing the cm5-Desire-BlackWhite-Dialpad.zip and I have the same issue mentioned before but after applying the temporary fix I see all the dialer buttons in black not the nice black and white combination of your screenshot.
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if what the fix is to return to the original dialpad, I'm working on
solve the problem with the dialpad of the theme, soon actualizare
can i use launcher with stock n1 rom? n1 is rooted and unlocked.
Looks great, please make for Enom 1.6.1 ???
I tried it and just getting boot loops lol
the evo didn't really have any special screen transitions when i was using fresh .3, and compared to what i had when i was using the hero, it was a little bland. i had a few spare minutes today so i downloaded the darkstar theme at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589409 (which is, by the way, a really cool theme) and just ported over the transitions. there was a darkstar theme that was ported to the hero but i don't have the time to port the entire theme. i just thought that the next best thing was to do the transitions
so here it is. it's all just eye candy. changes to what you get on the evo right now?
- clicking menu has the menu screen fade in
- transitions in apps like facebook, twitter, settings, etc. has your windows fly up and the new window fly down
- other things that are really cool
give it a try. make sure you back up your framework-res.apk though, or just take it from a rom.
just push the framework-res.apk to /system/framework. code for this:
Code:
adb remount
adb push <directory where you downloaded the apk to> /system/framework
credits are, of course, the people who made the darkstar theme. i just transferred files to an apk.
hope you like it!
edit: i just realized i posted this in the wrong section. if a mod could please move this to the themes/apps section please?
it worked but something strange happened i had to reenter my account gmail facebook twitter ... and it kinda messed my lock screen a tad
Hmm... I didn't have any problems with entering my account info, but I just noticed the locksceen thing. The partially transparent rectangle right? Weird... I honestly don't know what would cause that. I didn't even see it though.
So i have Aloysiu's rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702361) which is based off of fresh .03 you think there might be any problems if i flash this?
Any way to do this via terminal?