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[THEME]Lockscreens for CDMA

I found out the hard way that this won't work for the CDMA hero (don't judge, I got my first Android phone last week) so I set out to port this to work on CDMA.
If you have some sort of custom these running, this may or may not break it, These are based on Modaco's 1.1
eViL Lockscreen Port:
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Transparent Lockscreen:
Please do nandroid backup before proceeding
Attached is com.htc.resources.apk that needs to be pushed to /system/framework
One way to do it is by copying com.htc.resources.apk to a directory called lockscreen on your sdcard, and using SDK tools
Code:
adb shell
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp -r /sdcard/lockscreen/com.htc.resources.apk /system/framework/
reboot
Download:
eViL Port:
com.htc.resources.apk
update.zip Thanks to Thann
Transparent:
com.htc.resources.apk
update.zip
Enjoy

nice work, what exactly had to be done to convert this to cdma?

nothing too hard, just had to move 4 images from the original lockscreen into a CDMA hero com.htc.resources.apk

this isnt working for me, I get access denied if i type it like you put. I put in the command su and it let me do the first line, but then i get cp not found???

ruskiyab, if you want I can package all these files as a signed update.zip you could just run from the recovery mode. The lock looks good, and it would remove the need for command line work.

Thann said:
ruskiyab, if you want I can package all these files as a signed update.zip you could just run from the recovery mode. The lock looks good, and it would remove the need for command line work.
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hook it up

For some reason I just can't upload to XDA today, it just keeps failing. The file is here so be sure and tell me if you have any problems.

Thats, I haven't really gotten around to reading about signing the update.zip files yet

Thann said:
The file is here so be sure and tell me if you have any problems.
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Guinea pig approved, looks/functions great.

Did nandroid backup just to be sure, but everything works fine. Looks very good too!

I love the lockscreen. Would you mind if I include this in my Gutted Hero rom?

Ahhh you beat me to it. I was gonna do the same. I figured out how to port the themes and sign them.

Great work ruskiyab good to see other people joining in with customizing our Hero's!

chuckhriczko said:
I love the lockscreen. Would you mind if I include this in my Gutted Hero rom?
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Ofcourse! I stole your animations and Rosie, it's only fair
New transparent lockscreen added!

How would one edit, or create there own lockscreen?

Is the clear lockscreen the same as the one ratcom posted?
If not, can you provide a screenshot? thanks!
I'd like to know how to create my own aswell and sign the update too!

The screen shot is in the OP

ruskiyab said:
The screen shot is in the OP
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ahh, thanks.
the site that is hosting the pic must be blocked at work then, because I don't see any pics in the 1st post.
I'll look tonight before trying to flash it in
EDIT: bvm, I switched to our wireless test network (glad I'm in IT) and I was able to see the pics. It looks like the same one ratcom used/posted.
Now I just need to lookup how to make my own, lol

This looks great. Thanks for sharing!

Any chance we can get an update.zip file made to revert the lock screen back to the original one? I did make a nandroid backup, but I'd rather not have to use it just for the lock screen. Thanks in advance!

[Theme] Stock Camera app minor theme

Hi guys,
Hated the original ugly stock camera so I very minor-ly changed it. Hope someone likes it or finds it useful.
Ugly stock one
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Themed one
Install by Pushing 'Camera.apk' to /system/app
Code:
adb push Camera.apk /system/app
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Working on CM 5.0.3
Wont work on Desire roms!!!
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Nice! I was waiting for something like this. The stock camera app is so ugly, i cant even begin to tell you.

Kepp up the good work!
Could I use this in my Metamorphs?

Formel-LMS said:
Kepp up the good work!
Could I use this in my Metamorphs?
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yeah sure mate

It is very very cool! I've installed it as a morph, to try and test it. Cool!

I've uploaded it as a meatmorph. If you want to change it in the easy way:
http://www.4shared.com/file/227573393/c7440782/Camera.html
m00m00:
If you don't like, that I've posted it, please say it. Then I want to cancel it!
I hope you like it.

Looking good... any way to have blue instead of green highlights?

Hups.... where? On my Nexus it is green as the original from m00m00.
Sorry, I don't want to get this thread to me... I only wanna help.
Now I've tested it again and it's green. I can't see any blue at it.

Ok i did adb remount > adb push and now I dont have the camera app on my phone anywhere.
I tried pushing it again and no luck any suggestions?

C:\Android\tools>adb remount
remount succeeded
C:\Android\tools>adb push Camera.apk /system/app
1103 KB/s (627216 bytes in 0.555s)
C:\Android\tools>
Seems to be pushed correctly but I dont have it anywhere.

Do you have an explorer on your nexus? Like "root explorer" "astro file manager" or "ES File Manager"?
Then copy it simply to this folder and you're done.
Or try it with metamorph. Should be the same.
Do whats easier for you.

Yeah tried that with linda. and also using droid explorer. The camera app shows on my system/app but not accesible anywhere and when i try to open it throug hgallery it crashes.

Thats not good...
Please reflash your rom.
You didn't have to do a wipe. Reflash it and try it with the metamorph version.

Running CM 5.03.1 and NexTheme 1.8 and A2SD and it pushed fine for me, rebooted and the icon on my home screen was gone, but that was to be expected, i opened up the app tray and made a new shortcut works like a charm! thanks!! the stock one looks like a 2 year old made it during "art" in pre-school....ugh....i dont understand why the google versions of these HTC devices have to have such crappy themes!! i LOVE the Desire theme, even without all the sense ui crap... just so much better over all.....
/rant

Awesome! good work man, looks 100 times better!

GNOve said:
Yeah tried that with linda. and also using droid explorer. The camera app shows on my system/app but not accesible anywhere and when i try to open it throug hgallery it crashes.
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What ROM are you on? I have a feeling your ROM is odexed. If so, do the following:
Code:
adb pull /system/app/Camera.odex .
adb pull /system/app/Camera.apk .
adb shell rm /system/app/Camera.odex
adb push Camera.apk /system/app/
The first step pulls Camera.odex to your current location (backup). Replace the "." with "C:\bla bla" if you want to. The second command backs up your apk (but I think yours is already gone ). The third command deletes the odex file, the last one pushes the apk in.

Much better looking...nice work!

pushed... works like a charm! Thanks for your great afford!

pushed it fine using debian, thanks for the nice work

for all, who wanna have this themed without changing the whole camera.apk, here's the metamorph theme new uploaded:
http://www.4shared.com/file/b-RV9Zm6/CameraThemed.html
//Works on every ROM with stock looking camera. Also 720p. Not on Desire Camera.

Has anyone installed a modified widgetlocker.apk to nexus s?

So I installed widgetlocked from the market and it all runs lovely. However, I wanted to use the Ultralinx mods for it.
I tried a few different ways, extracting it with root explorer. Copying the .apk to my desktop and modding the files there and signing them with signapk, but the modified .apk will not install no matter what I try. It always comes up with 'Application not installed'.
I am a bit newb at this I admit but have installed other apks just fine.
Any help appreciated

Figured it out. HAD to use adb. No other method would I tried would work, but that did first time!

I was trying to PM you, but they weren't going through...
Anyway, is there any chance you could tell me how you did this? I've tried every other method and nothing has happened. Whether it's because I own a Nexus S or a Mac, I don't know, but it's pretty hard (though I am new to this).
Regards,
Jon.

I usually use WidgetLocker, would you mind explaining what the modded one is? Thanks

The modded version I mention is UltraLinx's lovely unlock slider mod as in these pics.
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Both available from here: http://www.theultralinx.com
As I mentioned the only method I could get to work was using ADB and Ultralinx actually has a youtube video on his site about how to do it, but I will list it here anyway.
Your phone needs to be rooted to do any of this...
Install WL as normal from market.
Copy the file com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker-1.apk from data/app to /sdcard somewhere using astro or rootexplorer etc.
Then move that file to your computer desktop into the /sdk/tools dir where adb.exe is.
Add the WL modded files from Ultralinx to that .apk in the /res/drawable-hdpi/ directory using winrar or whatever program you use to open/mod .apk files. Make sure it has overwritten the original files!
Fire up a command promt and change dir to where adb.exe is sdk/tools or whatever.
type these next couple of lines and enter after each one;
abd shell mount /system
adb push com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker-1.apk /system/app
Then reboot your phone and that should be it done. You can select the new slider from WL options (it modded the iphone slider so select that).
As I say, this is the only way I could get the thing to work.
Coming from windows mobile this whole abd thing of modding stuff seemed a right pain in the arse but I guess like anything once you have done it once you know it for next time and I think this mod is worth it.

Hi,
thanks for the instructions!
I've encountered an issue and would appreciate if you could help. So i follow your steps, however i get the following issue after the push command:
failed to copy 'com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker-1.apk' to '/system/app/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker-1.apk': Read-only file system
I'll really appreciate if you could help, thanks!

Update: So i managed to push it successfully. Problem was I needed to enter the command adb remount beforehand in order for it to let me write.
sage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
Red-Teams-MacBook-Prolatform-tools cloakroom$ adb push com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker-1.apk /system/app
3158 KB/s (1202848 bytes in 0.371s)
However, even after rebooting the phone I am still stuck with the old iphone slider and not the one made by ultralinx. Any thoughts as to why this is?
Do i have to uninstall widgetlocker from my phone before i pushed the modded apk?

[Q] New boot animation?

flashed CM 7 yesterday, I was wanting to change to a custom boot animation, but my regular one is under system/media and I tried using root explorer to give full perms, but no matter what I can't seem to get it to work, any ideas?

The Chosen Bum said:
flashed CM 7 yesterday, I was wanting to change to a custom boot animation, but my regular one is under system/media and I tried using root explorer to give full perms, but no matter what I can't seem to get it to work, any ideas?
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You shouldn't have to mess with permissions. Just put your bootanimation.zip in /system/media just like the one that's already there and replace it.
^ Shift Faced

Don't forget to rename it the same as the one you are replacing. you can just pu old in the name of the original and leave it there and when the phone boots it will recognize the new bootanimation.zip. Abd if it doesn't work for some reason you can change the name back and you should be back to normal.

The problem I'm having is that every time if I try to place it there I get a system is read only folder error

The Chosen Bum said:
The problem I'm having is that every time if I try to place it there I get a system is read only folder error
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Are you using root explorer? If you are when you have that file open at the top of the screen in a little box it says mount R/W tap that ,then try to paste the file in that folder.

it worked that time, thanks for the help

The Chosen Bum said:
it worked that time, thanks for the help
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Not a prob let us know if ya need anything else.
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Ok replaced it, and for some reason it still doesn't show up

The Chosen Bum said:
Ok replaced it, and for some reason it still doesn't show up
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Got permissions set right? Got it named right?
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And it looks just like this?
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All lower case and everything?
ALL HAIL OTAKING71, THE RAPER OF HBOOT!!!

mine's --xrwxr-x instead of rw-r--r-, could that be it?

The Chosen Bum said:
mine's --xrwxr-x instead of rw-r--r-, could that be it?
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Probably. I've never had to change the permissions myself. If you're using Root Explorer then mount r/w then long press on the file and choose Permissions. Change them to match below:
Let us know if that fixes it.
ALL HAIL OTAKING71, THE RAPER OF HBOOT!!!

turns out the one I was trying to use wouldn't work, I just used another one instead, thanks for the help though!

Does anyone know how to do down animations on this phone??? I tried adb and root explorer, but I keep getting a black screen for shut down.

phreshy said:
Does anyone know how to do down animations on this phone??? I tried adb and root explorer, but I keep getting a black screen for shut down.
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I actually just literally changed my boot animation back to the BIOS one after upgrading to CM7.1
Hook the Shift up to your computer with USB Debugging on
Have the boot animation you want on the root of the SD card called bootanimation.zip
Open up CMD, cd to where you have adb set up
From there do this
adb devices
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
To test it: adb shell bootanimation
Works for me everytime

[Q] How do i remount my system so that its no R-O?

Hello Ive recently flashed my phone with a new ROM that its boot animation doesn't appear because its named wrong, Ive tried renaming it using root explorer but it doesn't allow me since the system is mounted as read only, i have "fixed my permissions"
Sgs 4g t959v running razorx3x's 1.3.6 rom
Thank you

Czajkus said:
Hello Ive recently flashed my phone with a new ROM that its boot animation doesn't appear because its named wrong, Ive tried renaming it using root explorer but it doesn't allow me since the system is mounted as read only, i have "fixed my permissions"
Sgs 4g t959v running razorx3x's 1.3.6 rom
Thank you
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I believe Root Explorer has an option to do that. However, I've not used Root Explorer before so I'm not 100% on how to do it from there.
You can do it with adb through the command prompt:
adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system

Thank you for responding and no root exploroer doesnt have any thing like that =( and can you explain me what adb is? thanks

Czajkus said:
Thank you for responding and no root exploroer doesnt have any thing like that =( and can you explain me what adb is? thanks
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Could've sworn I read it does. No worries, though. ABD (Android Debug Bridge) is available through the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) @ www.Android.com. Download the SDK, run the installer, and only select to install the platform tools. Once it's done then open a command prompt and CD to either:
32-bit: C:\Program Files\Android\Android-sdk\platform tools
64-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\Android-sdk\platform tools
Make sure your phone has USB debugging enabled (Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging) then plug it into the computer. After that, issue the command from my previous post. Let me know if you have any qurstions. Good luck
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I think at top if you long press r/o it should change r/w,i think.
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Root explorer will allow you to mount system the system as read write. I don't use it so I am not familiar with how to do it but the option is there. I would guess the post above mine is on the right track I use super manager free on the market. Maybe try a different file explorer if you can't figure it out.
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Hi
Root explorer allows you to change read-write permission of every folder quite easily.
Look at the top right corner - you have a grey button there to do just that.
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