Incredible Transparent status bar - Droid Incredible Themes and Apps

I was working on changing the framework.apk and figure some others may want a transparent status bar as well..
Place the framework-res.apk on the root of your sd card
reboot into recovery
mount system and sdcard
adb shell
/system/bin/cat /sdcard/framework-res.apk > /system/framework/framework-res.apk
/system/bin/chmod 4777 /system/framework/framework-res.apk
exit
reboot
ENJOY!

I can't seem to get adb shell to work - says my device is disconnected. I have the latest sdk installed. What could I be doing wrong?

intenselyinsane said:
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mount system and sdcard
ENJOY!
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Complete NOOB question:
How do you mount system and sdcard while in recovery ?
TYIA

adb remount

I can't wait for a transparent notification tab at the top. Bring on customizations!

You need to be rooted with unrevoked reflash tool and reboot to recovery. Go to partitions menu
Mount system and mount sdcard.
Here is a pic of my personal one...
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Last screen shot did not upload right. See if this one does...
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Just curious -- what program are you using to edit the images? I can't seem to get the transparency right, so if there's any way you can give a few "steps for success" that'd be awesome.
No matter what I do, when I push my own modifications back to the phone, the transparency is either lost (i.e. opaque) or too much (i.e. 100% transparent).
Anyway - great work - hoping you can share the technique. (sorry if it's a bit of a graphics noob question!)

Nevermind! Got it all figured out. Well, except for those .9 png's. Been trying like hell to turn to actual -items- in the notification pane transparent too, but no dice.
Anyway, thanks for the inspiration!

The .9 s are easier if you zoom in. I use coreldraw. Gimp is a free one you can download but i don't remember if it did the transparency right. U can copy the transparency from mine and resize it too. Works well.
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Thanks! i like it.

can someone post a version for skyraider rom?

Which files did u edit?
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I think it was
Status bar header.png
Statusbarbackground.png
Statusbarclose.png
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No Luck
intenselyinsane said:
I think it was
Status bar header.png
Statusbarbackground.png
Statusbarclose.png
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I tried replacing the files from your apk to mine with no luck. Can you double check?

You have to re-sign it if you change it unless you use 7zip.
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I use 7zip. Those are the files you changed?
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I tried just using those files also (with 7zip) and I just get a black background. Is there another file I'm missing?

Can anyone confirm this working on skyraider 2.0?

So I made a flashable patch to get this ported to 2.2 (leak)
I'm having a small issue. The colors change just fine, however, it is not transparent at all. Yes, I'm certain the PNGs themselves are transparent, but once applied to the phone, zero transparency.
Is there something I'm missing? Is there a file I need to edit to 'allow' transparency on the device?
Thanks in advance.

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Jonnybueno's customizations Now with more RED!!!

Here are some things you can use to customize your rooted droid incredible. I'd like to thank Jairomeo, bgill, HOCKEY, kmobs, htc and motorola as well as unrevoked and xda.
Apply these mods at your own risk... I accept no responsibility for anything that may happen to your phone or you.
New Awesome Framework/htc resources kanged from cubanaso
props!!! all credit goes to him!!! Please donate if you like his work
Download for stock 2.1 Sense:
Htc resource apk with red drawables
framework with stock sense notifications
framework with red notification icons seen in link above
To install:
boot into recovery
choose mount /system
put framework-res.apk into tools folder in your sdk directory
put com.htc-resources.apk into tools folder in your sdk directory
open command line to tools folder in your android sdk directory
Code:
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework/
reboot
Framework-res.apk with red highlights for Stock 2.1 Sense---
download:http://www.mediafire.com/file/nmimngkn5mj/framework-res.apk
To install
boot into recovery
choose mount /system
put framework-res.apk into tools folder in your sdk directory
put com.htc-resources.apk into tools folder in your sdk directory
open command line to tools folder in your android sdk directory
Code:
adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework/
adb push com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework/
reboot
fonts seen in above screenshots
to install:
download fonts.zip and extract folder fonts
put fonts folder into tools folder
boot into recovery
Code:
adb push fonts /system/fonts
Modded DroidX live Wallpaper
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n4jbyezugmi/Droidx-modded-htc.apk
To install: use file manager
A different mod
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?zlkzdjhicvg
galaxy s ocean waves mod
download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mhvqy2in3fn
galaxy s dandelion mod
download: http://www.mediafire.com/?zin2gn23nyg
Icons seen in above screenshots
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?znzw3wmjm0q
To install: use folder organizer or bettercut
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! This is exactly what im looking for. Wish i could have more red though, some thing are still green but that's a sense thing.
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skaterA223 said:
Thanks! This is exactly what im looking for. Wish i could have more red though, some thing are still green but that's a sense thing.
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No problem... i uploaded newer framework apk... try that one out
this is great, i hope in newer updates you can kill more of the green
b00sted said:
this is great, i hope in newer updates you can kill more of the green
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When we get something without sense, for sure
how do you get the fonts to work? pushed them no problem.. framework worked fine
worm- said:
how do you get the fonts to work? pushed them no problem.. framework worked fine
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did you get an error message? doing it in recovery right? make sure folder is extracted
yep, all the font files pushed no problem, when i rebooted nothing changed w/ fonts
i'll re push, push in recovery w/ /system mounted i'm assuming
yo another question, edited framework apk to change battery indicator from red to blue, now it has a white box behind it, how do we fix this
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yep, all the font files pushed no problem, when i rebooted nothing changed w/ fonts
i'll re push, push in recovery w/ /system mounted i'm assuming
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You assume correct...
I just tried my own instructions, and everything pushed just fine.
worm- said:
yo another question, edited framework apk to change battery indicator from red to blue, now it has a white box behind it, how do we fix this
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What program did you use to edit pngs? wanna upload the color and I'll see what i can do?
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No problem... i uploaded newer framework apk... try that one out
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Love the font but I wish everything was red. The mix of red and green looks a bit strange.
I'm too lazy to edit the htc resources apk... .9 pngs are no fun, and with no /system write access, its a pita to test themes. I need my phone right now and seeing as how vzw is a cdma carrier, its a pain to switch phones. Believe me, the green bothers me just as much as it bothers you guys... but I'm just gonna wait it out till koush ports cm to our phones. Having the source for .9 pngs makes things a lot easier for theming, and I don't want to waste any time.
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I'm too lazy to edit the htc resources apk... .9 pngs are no fun, and with no /system write access, its a pita to test themes. I need my phone right now and seeing as how vzw is a cdma carrier, its a pain to switch phones. Believe me, the green bothers me just as much as it bothers you guys... but I'm just gonna wait it out till koush ports cm to our phones. Having the source for .9 pngs makes things a lot easier for theming, and I don't want to waste any time.
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completely understandable.. you do know i will need you to help me get the lamppu widget to go red and SwitchPro widget too or else I may go mad with disorder lol
b00sted said:
completely understandable.. you do know i will need you to help me get the lamppu widget to go red and SwitchPro widget too or else I may go mad with disorder lol
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Lampu is easy I'll do that now... switchpro is paid though so i can't upload that
Heres Lamppu
http://www.mediafire.com/?zytnejm2imk
You should try ExtendedControls instead of switch pro... transparency as well as different color schemes
Hey thanks for everything love all the red...its understandable that certain things will remain green....one thing tho...the date isn't centered properly on the unlock screen. The tab you slide down..
bump for less green... yay for "borrowing" from others. go donate to that guy somehow. Check out first post.
Good to see some of my work getting over to the incredible. As soon as I get some time ill try and port over my themes.
This is a nice and minimalist tweak. Thank you.
2 questions:
1) If I load just the framework file, will the stock Droid fonts stay in use? (would prefer those over your modded version)
2) Any chance you'd consider doing a blue version? I think the blue mixed with the un-editable sense green would go a little better than the red.
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bump for less green... yay for "borrowing" from others. go donate to that guy somehow. Check out first post.
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Excellent! Any chance of getting those battery icons that show the percentage?

Progress

I was able to change the system and framework directories from R/O to R/W and add circular battery png's to the framework-res.apk and push to the phone, screen shot is attached..
It might not be the progress to get complete root, but atleast we can mod the look of it and it stay after power down.
Wow. I need to get rid of the preinstalled swype so I can install the one with speech mic on it
And this mod holds after a restart?
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Yea, so far rebooted 2 times and still holding.
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Good news.
good find bro... def something to look into nice to have other ideas to build on
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Yea, so far rebooted 2 times and still holding.
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...with fastboot OFF?
Fastboot is off, used root explorer to change attributes and pushed with adb.
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Ok so newb question here... I've tried to mod framework-res.apk numerous times on my n1 and adb never works right, won't push or doesn't exist, or just bootloops... Any chance you could do a step by step write up on how you got the battery .pngs To work? I was just using uot kitchen before and now without full root I can't use it... I know its a pain but this is a mod I did constantly to every rom I ran. Ie: phone on? Resign apk? Commands in adb? Thanks ;-)
Yes! instructions would be awesome!
Instructions and someone else is what it will take before I believe this. Since it is not even deodexed as well as the battery icon in the picture looks blurry (to me anyways) and doesn't look native.
I pulled the framework-res.apk from system/framework
opened it within winrar and moved the battery png's to res/drawable-mdpi
it asked to update after move and click ok
went into root manager and remount /system as r/w
pushed framework-res.apk to /system/framework
that is the exact steps I followed as I did with when I had my mytough3g as well
I still can't wrap my head around this. How do these changes persist beyond a reboot if the system partition cannot be written to??
I thought this was the single biggest issue blocking progress in developing for both this device and the G2. So, it would appear that Root Explorer can re-write anything in the system partition by simply changing from r/o to r/w?
I don't get it.
NICE NICE, and nice Applanet ^_^
so this does work. Only thing i did was mount system in clockwork recovery then push framework-res.apk to /system/framework as far percentages go, there are only .pngs for 0,10,20,40,60,80 and 100 percent so i would assume the .xml needs redone. But cool to be able to do this!

[Request] Update.zip or MetaMorph to change Clock/Notifiations White

Was wondering if anyone could make an update.zip or metamorph to change the Clock and Notification item text color White. I saw it could be done through ADB, need an easier solution. I also tried using SkaggzColor did not work as well. If you could upload here would be greatly appreciated. This is also for the Motorola Droid X device.
thanks again
droidpirate said:
Was wondering if anyone could make an update.zip or metamorph to change the Clock and Notification item text color White. I saw it could be done through ADB, need an easier solution. I also tried using SkaggzColor did not work as well. If you could upload here would be greatly appreciated. This is also for the Motorola Droid X device.
thanks again
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If you get xUltimate 2.2 you can use that to change the clock color and some of the notication bar colors. Notification drop down text color would require the framework for whatever ROM you are using. T he changes would need to be made within xml files.
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still nothing, followed all the steps, deodexed the device ran the change clock color... it rebooted the device still black clock.
droidpirate said:
still nothing, followed all the steps, deodexed the device ran the change clock color... it rebooted the device still black clock.
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If you have the correct drivers on your pc for adb, then run the following from a command line on the pc:
Adb pull /system/framework/services.jar C:\
You should now have a file called services.jar in your C drive. Attach that to a post and I will change the clock color for you.
Note you will need to change the .jar to .zip to be able to attach it correctly
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Theming for the 4G

I used to work on themes for the Vibrant and I then I bought my 4G. Been working on a theme for it whenever I have time since I have been working on a website for my dad.
Here is the deal. When I unpack the Framework-res.apk and edit the Values.xml and then recompile... when I push the framework-res back to the phone it causes a bootloop... Can someone tell me if this is because of a kernel issue? I had been trying to change the text color on the bottom pop up menu.
if anyone knows pls advise. ill post up my theme to push to framework soon. thanks!
jay
Jaynrb said:
I used to work on themes for the Vibrant and I then I bought my 4G. Been working on a theme for it whenever I have time since I have been working on a website for my dad.
Here is the deal. When I unpack the Framework-res.apk and edit the Values.xml and then recompile... when I push the framework-res back to the phone it causes a bootloop... Can someone tell me if this is because of a kernel issue? I had been trying to change the text color on the bottom pop up menu.
if anyone knows pls advise. ill post up my theme to push to framework soon. thanks!
jay
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What are you using to push?
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easiest for me has been to use Android Commander. You have to 1. Run Shell root from superoneclick 2. Mount the system RW 3. open android commander and push what u want.
Try this tool.
Place your modified Framework-Res.apk into the extracted folder.
Plug your Phone into your computer with USB Debug enabled and charge only selected. ( do not mount SD card )
Then click change framework.
Your phone will reboot and you should not have any bootloops
note :you must have ADB
i tried that framework updater and its still bootlooping me. I know the process to get the popup menu panel text color to change BUT when i make my edits and recompile it craps out along the way somewhere... im trying a bunch of diff things... looks like i have project on my hands.
figured it out... i was overlooking the simplist thing in the world... i was forgetting to copy the Original Meta INF and Androi....xml to the apk... i need a vacation... i got the menu text white so now i start with my fun work.

New to UOT Kitchen

Ok, so im really new to using this and i followed everything the guide said. Something didnt go right when i tried to use it, all i was wanting to do was change the battery icon in the status bar. I found the apk files needed in my current rom. Everything went well with cooking the file and getting the zip file and putting it on the sd card, flashed it and when i went to reboot phone it got stuck on the splash screen. So im in the process of wiping and restoring the phone.
eollie has given me a good start and i plan on continuing with lightly modded, i mean lightly .
Now for the question, since i followed the steps to the letter something else had to go wrong, hopefully. Just wondering if anyone has an idea where i should start looking...
Thanks in advance..
BTW in trying to do this on AntonX's Barebones rom...dont know if that was a need to know
Have you tried to reboot to recovery and fix permissions? Wipe dalvik and cache while your at it.
eollie said:
Have you tried to reboot to recovery and fix permissions? Wipe dalvik and cache while your at it.
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I did the wipe but not the fix... I will try that next...
How would I know if the rom I was trying to use was preventing it from working...?
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EDIT: fixing perms didnt work...is this only for mtd roms or is it for both?
I'm having an issue with changing the data signal bars on Valhalla black....I chose icons and picked blue steel icon pack which includes the bars aswell as most all the icons on the status bar.....all the status icons are changed to blue steal but the data bars,I'm not understanding it....I made multipal changes such as flip animation in window,battery,and font and evreything is as I want it....just not the main thing I wanted....the dang bars I really wanted the blue steal signal bars.
Not trying to high Jack this thread....just figured better here than making a new thread based on similar question.
BTW yes I did do the work around with mounting and wiped cache and dalvic
Shortbus-Driver said:
I'm having an issue with changing the data signal bars on Valhalla black....I chose icons and picked blue steel icon pack which includes the bars aswell as most all the icons on the status bar.....all the status icons are changed to blue steal but the data bars,I'm not understanding it....I made multipal changes such as flip animation in window,battery,and font and evreything is as I want it....just not the main thing I wanted....the dang bars I really wanted the blue steal signal bars.
Not trying to high Jack this thread....just figured better here than making a new thread based on similar question.
BTW yes I did do the work around with mounting and wiped cache and dalvic
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I believe it has something to do with the zip UOT makes so try and grab the UOT zip and unzip it then unzip the rom its from. Then move over the systemui, framework-res and twframework-res to their appropriate folders rezip the rom n reflash then come back n hit the thanks button
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The way eoliie told me a while back worked perfectly, and I used tons of mods. Just push the uot. Apks into their respective spots using a root explorer, then reboot and fix permissions. Work perfect
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That's what it was.....didn't even think of doing that LOL....just had to push the systemui.apk.
Thanks guys
Thank you guys, I was wondering if I had to push them...
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erikmm said:
I believe it has something to do with the zip UOT makes so try and grab the UOT zip and unzip it then unzip the rom its from. Then move over the systemui, framework-res and twframework-res to their appropriate folders rezip the rom n reflash then come back n hit the thanks button
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So I followed these steps and it worked flawlessly...
Picture is just for verification...
And for some reason I'm on blue cwm instead of red...is that cuz of an update?
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Unzipping and pushing will work.
Once I figured out that changing the update binary option to galaxy I never had the issue of it bootlooping me.
I think the kitchen also says if you get a bootloop to pull the update binary from a rom zip that works and put in in the uot zip.
eollie said:
Unzipping and pushing will work.
Once I figured out that changing the update binary option to galaxy I never had the issue of it bootlooping me.
I think the kitchen also says if you get a bootloop to pull the update binary from a rom zip that works and put in in the uot zip.
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Yea I just replaced the framework and systemui apks in the rom and it worked great...it might be a long process but I've always said...don't fix what isn't broke...lol
Just noticed when I pull down the status bar it says desire...
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Here is a ss, but after some remembering I know what happened
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What I've done so far... Still working why bootanime isn't working and how come the time isn't blue either...
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Your bootanimation.zip has to be stored, not compressed. You can set the compression level in pretty much every gui out there.
Make sure you take a known good bootanimatin.zip and edit that since it'll save you a lot of headaches.
FBis251 said:
Your bootanimation.zip has to be stored, not compressed. You can set the compression level in pretty much every gui out there.
Make sure you take a known good bootanimatin.zip and edit that since it'll save you a lot of headaches.
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i take it i can find the zip in the system files of the rom?
nvm i get what your saying
I have every mod from UOT working fine. I pushed all THREE apks, and just changed the boot animation manually like you should. Push SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk AND twframework-res.apk... My phone boots up so fast, thought, that my boot animation doesn't have time to finish, lol.
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I have every mod from UOT working fine. I pushed all THREE apks, and just changed the boot animation manually like you should. Push SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk AND twframework-res.apk... My phone boots up so fast, thought, that my boot animation doesn't have time to finish, lol.
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That's what I'm working on now... Hopefully soon I will get it working... If I was to post the rom would other be able to use it... I don't wanna take anything from the rom maker isy biggest worry...
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as long as you DO NOT post the rom with YOUR changes, I don't think you have to worry about the rom maker.
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as long as you DO NOT post the rom with YOUR changes, I don't think you have to worry about the rom maker.
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eh i will just keep it to myself, dont wanna run the risk of pissing of some great ppl
Ok so I got everything but the clock right...apparently it is for froyo only but here is what I have changed so far...
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