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Any way to hide pictures from Gallery?

Okay before you get all up in arms, not for dirty photos. I figure I could download photovault, but I'd really rather not, as it's not too huge of a deal.
Basically, I have a bunch of icons on my phone for use on my desktop, but I don't particularly like when I have to pick a photo for a contact or for a frame, having to scroll through my hundred or so icons.
I guess what I'm asking is has anyone found a way to hide certain folders from the gallery? Or, does anyone know how to make an icon pack, for dxtop, better home?
: )
Thanks

rename the folder to have a . in front of the name. This hides files in linux.

missxoash said:
Okay before you get all up in arms, not for dirty photos. I figure I could download photovault, but I'd really rather not, as it's not too huge of a deal.
Basically, I have a bunch of icons on my phone for use on my desktop, but I don't particularly like when I have to pick a photo for a contact or for a frame, having to scroll through my hundred or so icons.
I guess what I'm asking is has anyone found a way to hide certain folders from the gallery? Or, does anyone know how to make an icon pack, for dxtop, better home?
: )
Thanks
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ITS easy，rename the floder you put picture,for example kkk。now you can rename this to .kkk。 you would find its been hidden in Gallery。

But will I still be able to access them in order to use them on my desktop?
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yiyunzhi said:
ITS easy，rename the floder you put picture,for example kkk。now you can rename this to .kkk。 you would find its been hidden in Gallery。
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y it gotta b kkk? but yea jus do as every1 else said, there was already a thread like this, but its all good, and yea ull still see it on ur desktop

AsaSpades said:
y it gotta b kkk? but yea jus do as every1 else said, there was already a thread like this, but its all good, and yea ull still see it on ur desktop
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Yea, it should have been "blk". jk, but yea, just add a . the beginning of the folder.

When I tried to rename my folder, Vista wouldn't let me. It said, "must have a valid filename" or something like that...
any help?

Download a file manager off the market, i rpefer astro and just rename it through your phone

AsaSpades said:
y it gotta b kkk? but yea jus do as every1 else said, there was already a thread like this, but its all good, and yea ull still see it on ur desktop
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LOL! Yeah, most us folks in the south are still a little sensitive about that and with good reason.

Only one issue with the period method. Ironically your phone will be a little *****y. When you do this, existing icons will be hidden from gallery and still work. Just remember to put NEW icons in download or some other folder to set them, then move them to the hidden folder. Icon and other picture selection screens use the gallery program to display that image selection screen. In other words, if you put new pictures directly in a hidden folder, you cant set them as icons.

There are also some apps on the Market that will create a protected area for pictures that can't be seen by the Pictures app. And yeah, I assume this would be used for your porn collection rather than your icons.

AsaSpades said:
y it gotta b kkk?
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With a name like yiyunzhi, he's gotta be racist...

Black Glass Facebook Theme ??

Can someone make a Black Glass Facebook theme? The widget would look a lot nicer if it was black glass. Sorry, should have put request: in the title
Something like this would be nice

dmoses1969 said:
Can someone make a Black Glass Facebook theme? The widget would look a lot nicer if it was black glass. Sorry, should have put request: in the title
Something like this would be nice
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Not to sound naive, but why can't u just install that one then?

I have found several on other sites but I assume they are not compatible with the EVO, I have tried to install them but the theme never changes or they will not install

dmoses1969 said:
I have found several on other sites but I assume they are not compatible with the EVO, I have tried to install them but the theme never changes or they will not install
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If it's a sense widget, then you need to adb push it rather than install it.

screw the widget. I want that notification bar!
know where to get it?

1wingangel said:
screw the widget. I want that notification bar!
know where to get it?
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http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/themes-wallpapers/1007-theme-smoked-glass-updated-02-08-a.html

dmoses1969 said:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/themes-wallpapers/1007-theme-smoked-glass-updated-02-08-a.html
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daaaaamn that looks sick...i wish someone could get this ported to the evo...

Hell yes. I'd pay for that.

anybody know exactly which file it is that is the taskbar?

Answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708005

i dont see how that was the answer but i fig. it out.

Rydah805 said:
i dont see how that was the answer but i fig. it out.
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What dont you see? Its a black themed version of facebook, exactly what was requested...its not rocket science.

oreoOozZz said:
What dont you see? Its a black themed version of facebook, exactly what was requested...its not rocket science.
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LOL^^^^^^^^

oreoOozZz said:
What dont you see? Its a black themed version of facebook, exactly what was requested...its not rocket science.
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actually op was requesting a black "glass" themed version.....so technically thats not what was "exactly" requested lol j/m around....neway i did like that, much credit to the dev really great work, but the fb widget wasnt vibing wit my homescreen layout so i modded it alil and made the fb widget smoked thanks to rori~s' hard work heres link to thread if anyone wants to see wut it looks like
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731625
basically u have the smoked fb widget with the inverted fb app
here is flashable .zip if ne1 wants it i've only tested on CM6

oreoOozZz said:
What dont you see? Its a black themed version of facebook, exactly what was requested...its not rocket science.
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well i asked a question right before you posted "answer:" and your "answer:" had nothing to do with my question. what an @$$h0le you are. or atleast made yourself look to be. anyways, its not a big deal.

You can follow these steps to pull the smoke news widget out of the smoked theme mentioned. These steps also apply for the news widget. A lot of the time I do not have ADB accessible and this method can be completed with only the phone.
- Save the smoke.zip file to your sdcard (this is the smoke theme already mentioned in this thread)
- Open Root Exporer and navigate to /system/app/ and mount it as R/W
- Move the stock geniewidget.apk to the SD card (/sdcard) in case you want it back later.
- Now navigate to the smoke.zip file, press on it and choose view.
- Navigate to the smoke.zip /system/app/ folder and copy the geniewidget.apk to your phones /system/app folder.
- Most important part now - long-press on the file and click on permissions from the pop-up menu. Permissions should be "read" for user/group/others and "write" for only user. All other boxes unchecked. If you don't do this it wont load.
- Restart phone and the transparent widget should be good to go.
This wont work for all apps - so make sure to keep the originals if you are getting creative. You can apply this across handsets, but try to stay away from system-dependent apps like cameras and power control widgets.

james105 said:
actually op was requesting a black "glass" themed version.....so technically thats not what was "exactly" requested lol j/m around....neway i did like that, much credit to the dev really great work, but the fb widget wasnt vibing wit my homescreen layout so i modded it alil and made the fb widget smoked thanks to rori~s' hard work heres link to thread if anyone wants to see wut it looks like
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731625
basically u have the smoked fb widget with the inverted fb app
here is flashable .zip if ne1 wants it i've only tested on CM6
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Good stuff man, gonna update that too my current rom now. Thanks. =)
Rydah805 said:
well i asked a question right before you posted "answer:" and your "answer:" had nothing to do with my question. what an @$$h0le you are. or atleast made yourself look to be. anyways, its not a big deal.
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Im the asshole but you answered to something that had nothing to do with you right? I never was answering your question, I was answering to the OP obviously what you do when you post in a thread...you respond to the original post but ok, i guess so... maybe next time.
Anyway, he updated the app again so anybody who decided to use the app in the link i posted, go and update. =)

I'm just about ready to give up. I have been trying for a couple of days to make mine look like the pick I posted. Can't seem to get it done. It's really not that important, just thought it would match the other sense widgets a little better.

This is as close as I could get. For some reason I cannot get rid of that blue background in the widget, must not be editing the right file.
Sent from HTC EVO using Tapatalk

cath0dez said:
You can follow these steps to pull the smoke news widget out of the smoked theme mentioned. These steps also apply for the news widget. A lot of the time I do not have ADB accessible and this method can be completed with only the phone.
- Save the smoke.zip file to your sdcard (this is the smoke theme already mentioned in this thread)
- Open Root Exporer and navigate to /system/app/ and mount it as R/W
- Move the stock geniewidget.apk to the SD card (/sdcard) in case you want it back later.
- Now navigate to the smoke.zip file, press on it and choose view.
- Navigate to the smoke.zip /system/app/ folder and copy the geniewidget.apk to your phones /system/app folder.
- Most important part now - long-press on the file and click on permissions from the pop-up menu. Permissions should be "read" for user/group/others and "write" for only user. All other boxes unchecked. If you don't do this it wont load.
- Restart phone and the transparent widget should be good to go.
This wont work for all apps - so make sure to keep the originals if you are getting creative. You can apply this across handsets, but try to stay away from system-dependent apps like cameras and power control widgets.
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Thanks for this tip. It worked perfectly.

[Q] Homescreen icons

I was wondering, Is there an app to change the icons of folders on the homescreen? Im trying to make my phone look pretty simple.

simpledesign said:
I was wondering, Is there an app to change the icons of folders on the homescreen? Im trying to make my phone look pretty simple.
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Download a theme, from here or from the market. Or make your own.
Thow that's a lot of work, and even more if transparancy is involved.
You could try Axialis Icon Workshop. Extract the icons and change them, manually, pixel by pixel. Save them in your gallery and you could apply those.

Im talking about to app for my andoid phone to change the icon. I worded it right according to my situation.

I use SiMi Folder widget.

simpledesign said:
Im talking about to app for my andoid phone to change the icon. I worded it right according to my situation.
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Well then use a widget as 3rdstring suggested. I thought you where a bit further in android development. Sorry for that, although its fun to have your own icons. And pretty exlusive too.

you could also use folder organizer lite.

[Q] Missing "Google" icon

Hi,
I've just installed the Android 4.3 cyanogenmod (cm-10.2-20130909-UNOFFICIAL-crespo) on my Nexus S and everything is ok, but I don't have the "Google" icon. This is the icon from where you can launch the google applications like gmail, play, etc. Is it in the 4.3 at all? It is very useful for me and would like to use it.
Thanks,

Did you flash gapps?..

Missing "Google icon"
Setting.Out said:
Did you flash gapps?..
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Yes I did. With this one: "gapps-jb-20130813-signed"

Setting.Out said:
Did you flash gapps?..
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Can I dowload the .apk for this? Is it an .apk? Thanks,

Looks like you're talking about the folder on the homescreen with all the Google apps in it?
If so, you can make your own easily. Put one app on the homescreen. Then drag another app on top of it and it will magically become a folder. You can add a whole bunch of apps to the folder in the same way, rearrange them however you like, and change the name of the folder to whatever you want.

treesurf said:
Looks like you're talking about the folder on the homescreen with all the Google apps in it?
If so, you can make your own easily. Put one app on the homescreen. Then drag another app on top of it and it will magically become a folder. You can add a whole bunch of apps to the folder in the same way, rearrange them however you like, and change the name of the folder to whatever you want.
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Looks like you're right...

treesurf said:
Looks like you're talking about the folder on the homescreen with all the Google apps in it?
If so, you can make your own easily. Put one app on the homescreen. Then drag another app on top of it and it will magically become a folder. You can add a whole bunch of apps to the folder in the same way, rearrange them however you like, and change the name of the folder to whatever you want.
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Thaks, that's it. I wouldn't have thought that it will be so simple...

Using Icons From Themes In Nova Launcher

Is it possible to use the icons from the stock Theme Store in a 3rd party launcher such as Nova?

Y.G. said:
Is it possible to use the icons from the stock Theme Store in a 3rd party launcher such as Nova?
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Did you ever figure this out... I know we can change the icons but only built in one's show up

If your rooted, you could use a file explorer app like root explorer to go into data/app and find your themes appicon folder. Inside you will see a base.apk. You can copy that base.apk onto your phone and extract it, or pull it onto your pc and extract it. Inside you will see a res/drawable-sw360dp-xxxhdpi-v13 folder. The icons are in there. Save them in a folder on your phone and manually edit your icons in Nova on your homescreens and /or folders to replace icon.
I know it sounds like a bunch of work, but it really doesn't take that long. It's about the only way you can do it.

Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....

dazednconfused said:
Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....
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Thanks... Definitely more of a hassle than I thought it would be, but it works! For now just changing main home screen icons....

dazednconfused said:
Here's what the folders for the themes look like in data/app.....
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I've been trying to make a similar change. I'm using the Sense 7 Launcher and the only icon I have left is the "Apps" icon. I'd like to change it out with this icon.
I have looked in data/app/com.htc.launcher-1 and copy that base.apk to a different location on my phone. Opened the base.apk. Found res/drawable/all_apps_button_icon.xml
My question is what is the best way to convert my image to an .xml and replace the one in the base .apk so I can paste it back into the original location?
Ugg. I sure hope that made sense?

wildjeep said:
I've been trying to make a similar change. I'm using the Sense 7 Launcher and the only icon I have left is the "Apps" icon. I'd like to change it out with this icon.
I have looked in data/app/com.htc.launcher-1 and copy that base.apk to a different location on my phone. Opened the base.apk. Found res/drawable/all_apps_button_icon.xml
My question is what is the best way to convert my image to an .xml and replace the one in the base .apk so I can paste it back into the original location?
Ugg. I sure hope that made sense?
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If you send me a copy of the apk, I'll try to take a look at it tomorrow.

dazednconfused said:
If you send me a copy of the apk, I'll try to take a look at it tomorrow.
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BOOM!!!
Well Done @dazednconfused​

wildjeep said:
BOOM!!!
Well Done @dazednconfused​
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Glad it worked man. ....that's awesome!
Did they get the sense theme store working on that launcher?

dazednconfused said:
Glad it worked man. ....that's awesome!
Did they get the sense theme store working on that launcher?
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Yes, as long as all those steps are done in that order. It's okay, but yours are way better than I've seen in the HTC Themes store
Google+ in the blink feed is the only thing that isn't working yet for our phone

wildjeep said:
Yes, as long as all those steps are done in that order. It's okay, but yours are way better than I've seen in the HTC Themes store
Google+ in the blink feed is the only thing that isn't working yet for our phone
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Thanks. My AnaKonda theme got released in the Sense themes about 3 weeks ago. I think it's in the others section. But those themes are pretty simple and don't really get into deep theming.

Sweet. I hope it gets lots of hits. Can you see how many downloads it has?
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dazednconfused said:
If your rooted, you could use a file explorer app like root explorer to go into data/app and find your themes appicon folder. Inside you will see a base.apk. You can copy that base.apk onto your phone and extract it, or pull it onto your pc and extract it. Inside you will see a res/drawable-sw360dp-xxxhdpi-v13 folder. The icons are in there. Save them in a folder on your phone and manually edit your icons in Nova on your homescreens and /or folders to replace icon.
I know it sounds like a bunch of work, but it really doesn't take that long. It's about the only way you can do it.
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This is good work. Thanks.