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[MOD] 11/19 - Gutted Rom Extras (Without the Gutted Rom) MR Ready!

UPDATE!!! EXTRAS FOR MR AVAILABLE!
The extras have now been updated with the new apps to support the MR that Sprint has released. I also included new files. The files are listed below:
New!! Hosts file to block ads for faster web browsing
Optimized Rosie
Optimized framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk (Animations and lockscreen)
New Bootscreen
Installation:
Just put it in the root of your sd card, select the file in recovery and flash. This should work fine on any rom (Stock Rooted, MoDaCo, Fresh, etc)
Please report any bugs in this thread. Note, I havent had time to test so report what doesnt work and I will fix it.
Thanks go out to Mlign (Dream forums) for the new animations and ruskiyab for the new lockscreen and of course every developer on these forums. Without you guys we would be nothing.
Downloads: (These are only for MR systems. If you do not have the MR download the file below Old Downloads)
Gutted Rom Extras - MR Only! - http://www.4shared.com/file/155693549/bc10459/gutted-hero-15-extras-signed.html
Old Downloads: (These are only for non MR systems. If you have the MR download the file above)
Gutted Rom Extras - Non MR - http://www.4shared.com/file/154100566/d9f8dd9/bootscreen-anims-lockscreen-signed.html

thank you...thank you

awesome, works great

Works nice. Is there anyway to adjust the animations?

davidboyd said:
Works nice. Is there anyway to adjust the animations?
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Another person on the forums are looking into this. The xml files that contain the animation data seem to be encoded or encrypted in some way so until we can modify them we can't do anything just yet.

Well, for the short of it, adjusting the boot animations (like the Sprint logo or the Hero animated gifs) shouldn't be much harder than creating a new animated gif, packaging it up inside a zip under the /system/media/bootscreen/ directory (see chuckhriczko's mod in the first post of this thread for a good example), and installing it.
Customizing the actual animations, meaning the way things like menus or new screens fade/slide/grow/etc both in and out, that's a whole new, and fairly complicated ball game. Customizing the XML files themselves actually isn't that difficult. Packaging them up is.
I have more research and testing to do, but the general idea is that you write out your custom animation sequence in plain text XML. However, android expects this XML to be in a customized binary format when it reads it from the apk file. To do that, you need to package the apk and sign it through the android tools. The plug-in for Eclipse can do this, and supposedly so can aapt though I couldn't get it to serialize the XML when I tried earlier. So essentially, an entire repackage of the framework-res.apk file is necessary to have your own custom animation sequences within the UI.
Once I learn more I'll try to post a thread about it. I'll post it in Themes and Apps (seems appropriate) but link it here.

Thanks chuckhriczko!

Doh! After installing this, my sensesui always force closes after many reboots... not sure why, using the newest fresh rom...

gqukyo said:
Doh! After installing this, my sensesui always force closes after many reboots... not sure why, using the newest fresh rom...
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me too, but i didnt get pass the the htc logo..it kept boot loop....using fresh rom .4(MR)update.

gqukyo said:
Doh! After installing this, my sensesui always force closes after many reboots... not sure why, using the newest fresh rom...
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I believe that this will have to be redone using the MR that came out yesterday. not sure, but the .apk files are probably different.

rockcrawler said:
I believe that this will have to be redone using the MR that came out yesterday. not sure, but the .apk files are probably different.
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Yeah. Someone else mentioned this to me as well. I am going to update this soon as I can. Question for yall, I have an optimized Rosie for use with my Gutted rom. Would yall be interested in me including this optimized Rosie in this package too?

chuckhriczko said:
Yeah. Someone else mentioned this to me as well. I am going to update this soon as I can. Question for yall, I have an optimized Rosie for use with my Gutted rom. Would yall be interested in me including this optimized Rosie in this package too?
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does it make my hero faster..if yes...im up for it....btw...we really appreciate what you do here for all of us, i cant speak for everyone but for myself i thank you.....

tango22203 said:
does it make my hero faster..if yes...im up for it....btw...we really appreciate what you do here for all of us, i cant speak for everyone but for myself i thank you.....
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Thank you and yes it does make the phone faster. I am getting ready to upload the newest version so be prepared

Update is out guys! Check it out!

Thank you kind sir. This is a very nice little set up. I love the changes. Thank you again.

chuckhriczko said:
Update is out guys! Check it out!
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Installed on Fresh Rom .4. Phone is noticeably faster, love it! Thanks!

This is superb the fasted my Hero has ran Thank you much chuckhRiczko

Works lovely but I can't seem to change my lock wallpaper... is that because of the new lock screen? I believe I was able to change it previously even w/ the addons... another thing that I'm not sure is related to these addons or not is that I can't seem to do a PRL update. I'm gettin a Error code 1012... anyone else getting that error?

Thank you SO MUCH!!! This thread deserves a sticky since it can be added on to many custom roms!
I just flashed Fresh ROM .5d and tossed the extras on top. LOVE the quick and simple boot, LOVE the new bolder lock screen and I LOOOVE how my hero FLIES now, and the animations make it so much cooler!!!!
This weekend has been great for Hero owners!

[MOD] Enable 270 degree rotation in ROMs without it

With the help of Tibedabeeto and Papa Smurf151 you can now enable 270 degree rotation in roms that don't have it enabled.
- They found out what was needed to enable it, all I did was make an update zip and test it out
Simply boot into recovery and flash the attached zip to replace the framework.jar file. (reboot may, and most likely will take a little bit of time since Framework has been modified)
Then under display > Enable/Check the orientation box
Done
Attached pictures are from Fresh 2.0d, but it was also tested on Infinitefx45's stock rom.

Thannxxx!!

Someone wanna try the framework.jar file from darchdroid to see if it will work on a sense rom
I'm on my phone or I'd do it.
Darchdroid has 360 rotation

I tried that as well, but I couldnt get it to boot :/

kyouko said:
With the help of Tibedabeeto and Papa Smurf151 you can now enable 270 degree rotation in roms that don't have it enabled.
- They found out what was needed to enable it, all I did was make an update zip and test it out
Simply boot into recovery and flash the attached zip to replace the framework.jar file. (reboot may, and most likely will take a little bit of time since Framework has been modified)
Then under display > Enable/Check the orientation box
Done
Attached pictures are from Fresh 2.0d, but it was also tested on Infinitefx45's stock rom.
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Thanks for creating the update zip, I was hoping someone could create the file. Much appreciated

kyouko said:
I tried that as well, but I couldnt get it to boot :/
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I figured. If I have time ill crack open the classes.dex file from his framework and see if I can pull it and put it in a framework for sense

Yeah... I tried doing that earlier to the classes.dex file but I had nooo idea which .smali file to even look at haha. Good luck tho

kyouko said:
Yeah... I tried doing that earlier to the classes.dex file but I had nooo idea which .smali file to even look at haha. Good luck tho
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Yeah I don't either but I know people that do.

So this only works on sense roms? or does it work on AOSP roms too?

ipfreelytech said:
So this only works on sense roms? or does it work on AOSP roms too?
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Not sure. If ur using an aosp rom use the framework.jar from darchdroid. That's the one u want but u can try this one and see

Good job gentlemwn, i'll look into putting this into my new Rom. Should be getting ready for testing by the end of the weekend.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

Here's an AOSP version I whipped up. Tested with Buufed 2.0.3
I did not do the modding myself. This is the framework.jar from DarchDroid. I just threw it into a signed zip.

Was there any real mod work done here, or was the framework.jar file just pulled from Flipz's ROM and added to an update zip? If so, you should probably mention this, just sayin, as Flipz if the one who ported this original feature from the Eris leak that had this feature built in.
In terms of actually modding to allow for rotation, a search for 'orientation' in the decompiled files should get you closer to what you are looking for.

JsChiSurf said:
Was there any real mod work done here, or was the framework.jar file just pulled from Flipz's ROM and added to an update zip? If so, you should probably mention this, just sayin, as Flipz if the one who ported this original feature from the Eris leak that had this feature built in.
In terms of actually modding to allow for rotation, a search for 'orientation' in the decompiled files should get you closer to what you are looking for.
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agreed man. i just told them where to get it from. No real mod work but just found out where it was kept and put into an update.zip file.
but ill look for the 360 and try to pull it from the aosp and put it into a sense framework.jar file
thanks for the heads up

Tried to flash this on top of the stock odex'd rom from nfinite and waited 15 minutes for boot up, never happened.

robchaos said:
Tried to flash this on top of the stock odex'd rom from nfinite and waited 15 minutes for boot up, never happened.
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nfinites rom is deodexed and did u use the one from the first post or the later one that says 360. cause the 360 one does not work on that rom. the one on the first post is the one that works

Papa Smurf151 said:
nfinites rom is deodexed and did u use the one from the first post or the later one that says 360. cause the 360 one does not work on that rom. the one on the first post is the one that works
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I beleive he is using the odex versoin of my rom this is why it didnt work he would need to switch to the deodex versoin first or maybe I'll see what I can do to odex this framework for him.

nfinitefx45 said:
I beleive he is using the odex versoin of my rom this is why it didnt work he would need to switch to the deodex versoin first or maybe I'll see what I can do to odex this framework for him.
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ah i see. i didnt know you had an odexed version of your rom even out. but yeah that would be the reason why its not working

That's what I thought. Thanks for the responses

After the I flashed this framework file I get a weird glitch (Things get out of place) every time I drag down the notification bar, and the phone is in landscape mode to the right. Is this a bug? Should I wipe Rotate settings in Recovery??

[MOD] [Themes] Change Your Animations...AOSP and Jaybob's Build of BlackMod

THEMES ARE IN POST 10 ON THIS PAGE
In the UOT Kitchen it shows we can now change our window animations. I have tried and tried cooking files with no success. I had some spare time today and did a little searching and found THIS thread that shows how do change them without using the kitchen. I chose "Flip" and I dont notice any bogging down from them, its the same as before. Really cool looking too!
Copy N Paste from OP
Below are four new android UI animations created by Stale Bread, these will change how things popup and show on screen.
There are two ways to apply new animations first is Metamorph and second is to manualy copy new animations to your android phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrBF0TE3Qk
End Copy N Paste
I tried the Metamorph method and got FC all over the place, had I rebooted recovery and wiped Dalvik this may not have been the issue. What I did instead was open my themes framework and delete the anim file and replace with the animations I chose, Flip. Rebooted recovery and reflashed my theme and then wiped Dalvik cache, I am using firerats so I had to reboot recovery again to flash FR-boot but all is well FC's are gone and I have new animations!
There all also videos in the original OP to help you select what you like best...

Can anyone get this to work with Aosp 2.2.1 v0.9.9.1 rom
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raymond4 said:
Can anyone get this to work with Aosp 2.2.1 v0.9.9.1 rom
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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I dont see any reason it wouldnt work. AOSP removes quite a few of the regular animations but by doing this MOD you are just replacing them with different ones.
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You have me curious now lol. I will try it on aosp 9.9.1 in the morning Maybe even a different one like the "Fly"

Are they actually smooth on the hero?

theimpaler747 said:
Are they actually smooth on the hero?
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Believe it or not they are smooth! Atleast the Flip one is, havent tried any others.

cordell12 said:
Believe it or not they are smooth! Atleast the Flip one is, havent tried any others.
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Cool cool, well that's good then

raymond4 said:
Can anyone get this to work with Aosp 2.2.1 v0.9.9.1 rom
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Just tryed it on AOSP 0.9.9.1 and no go on the animations. However, it is nice to know that even with UOT Kitchen not having the AOSP rom posted in their system as one that works with the kitchen, I was able to get a battery and bootanimation to work.
The site does state that the animations are for the Desire Sense rom Only.
Now, that being said, I have opened the framework on the downloaded UOT package. I personally do not know what I am looking at but if someone wants to take a look at it and see if it can be modified to work with AOSP, that would be great.
Happy Holidays

It won't work using the kitchen for sure, least it hasn't for me. Did you try using the link in my OP? It shows how to replace with Metamorph, what I did was open the file from the kitchen with 7zip, open framework, open the folder named res and scroll down and deleted the whole folder named anim. I then opened the animation I downloaded the same way using 7zip and did a drag and drop of the file called anim, taking the animations and putting them in kitchen framework. Close that out and put your modified kitchen zip on SD and flash, then before boot wipe dalvik. Should work
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Yep, tried that too. However I am not familiar with creating apk files. Something may have gone wrong when I rezipped the framework file.
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They work just fine on AOSP 9.9.1, or any other version for that matter. Somewhere somehow you are doing something wrong. This is NOT done through UOT KITCHEN! HERE is the LINK that shows how to do this with Metamorph. I did not use Metamorph, I edited the framework apk myself. BUT metamorph does the same, just be sure to boot into recovery and WIPE DALVIK cache or you will get tons of FC's. I am posting a theme I use for AOSP (fLiPAOSPTHEMELS7_signed.zip), TwoPointTwo by thoughtlesskyle. It has some Icon changes plus it has the animations called FLIP. Flash, WIPE DALVIK, reboot/reboot recovery and flash firerats boot if you are using his MOD. Takes a few minutes to boot as you wiped Dalvik. This theme is NOT MINE, it is thoughtlesskyle's TwoPointTwo Theme with some Icons I changed via kitchen Check it out
I am slso posting the theme in the screenies. This is flashed over jaybob's BlackMod 6.1 stable build (FLIPinBLUE theme). I am sure it will work over any of his builds, but not so sure about cm6.1 stable. I did not make any of the 2 themes from scratch, they are mixtures of thoughtlesskyle's TwoPointTwo Theme AND hackahero's port of Incognito Remix AospMod 0.9.9.1.
MAKE NANDROIDS No promise of support as new build releases are posted. These things take a couple hours and with so many ROMs it is nearly impossible to support all of them I will keep jaybob's up to date though, as thats the ROM I use daily
Link for Launcher Pro Docks is HERE

ok so i went with bounce on AOSP-mod 9.9.1 and it is working great.... fast smooth and perfect... very cool dude.. thanks for sharing...

Big-O-Devil said:
ok so i went with bounce on AOSP-mod 9.9.1 and it is working great.... fast smooth and perfect... very cool dude.. thanks for sharing...
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No Prob, glad someone else got them to work, especially on aosp I thought they were kinda cool and was trying to make them work since I seen it on the Kitchen. The bounce is the next one I want to try

cordell12 said:
No Prob, glad someone else got them to work, especially on aosp I thought they were kinda cool and was trying to make them work since I seen it on the Kitchen. The bounce is the next one I want to try
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bounce is cool ... but flip is cooler... ... lol

Hi cordell12, quick question
I have looked and looked for that battery meter Icon you use. Is it part of Beautiful widgets?
If not, where can I get it? Thank you!

Never4saken said:
I have looked and looked for that battery meter Icon you use. Is it part of Beautiful widgets?
If not, where can I get it? Thank you!
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I'm sorry I'm not on my computer but if you look for mod kitchen you can fine it there... its in a kitchen that lets you mod your framework to have that battery img... and alot more... hope that helps... If not tonight ill jump on and give you the link..
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

Never4saken said:
I have looked and looked for that battery meter Icon you use. Is it part of Beautiful widgets?
If not, where can I get it? Thank you!
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Here is where you can modify battery icons and a whole lot more! You must pull framework apk from your rom and use that at the end of kitchen. Do not use framework supplied by them. To get your framework apk, use a program called 7zip, open your rom (not extract) then drag and drop the framework apk to your desktop. Then upload that through the kitchen. The will give you a flashable file, put that on sd card and flash in recovery
http://circle.glx.nl/

cordell12 said:
Here is where you can modify battery icons and a whole lot more! You must pull framework apk from your rom and use that at the end of kitchen. Do not use framework supplied by them. To get your framework apk, use a program called 7zip, open your rom (not extract) then drag and drop the framework apk to your desktop. Then upload that through the kitchen. The will give you a flashable file, put that on sd card and flash in recovery
http://circle.glx.nl/
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Thank you cordell!! Looking into it now between work projects!
Yes I like to use the computers here at work, we are on a T3 and the download speeds can't be beat.
Hey, great site! The UOT Kitchen, this is the first I have heard of or seen it, but I have just come from the WinMo world, hence the ignorance. But Android is a lot easier to pick up on than Win Mo. Once again, thank you so much!

Never4saken said:
Thank you cordell!! Looking into it now between work projects!
Yes I like to use the computers here at work, we are on a T3 and the download speeds can't be beat.
Hey, great site! The UOT Kitchen, this is the first I have heard of or seen it, but I have just come from the WinMo world, hence the ignorance. But Android is a lot easier to pick up on than Win Mo. Once again, thank you so much!
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Glad you like it and welcome to android! The real thanks goes to the makers of these mods, I am just sharing the information

im following that guys steps to manually do it using adb. and everytime i get to the boot into recovery and do adb remount it says "remount failed: invalid argument" and when i do adb devices it says under list of devices "00000000000" and under attached "recovery". does our hero not have adb remount as a command or somthing. using recovery : RA-heroc-v1.6.2

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vinnypel2ella said:
im following that guys steps to manually do it using adb. and everytime i get to the boot into recovery and do adb remount it says "remount failed: invalid argument" and when i do adb devices it says under list of devices "00000000000" and under attached "recovery". does our hero not have adb remount as a command or somthing. using recovery : RA-heroc-v1.6.2
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Can you not flash it like I explained to you in the AOSPmod thread? That seems to be the method that works for everyone using the htc hero. Again take rom and remove anim file inside framework apk. Replace with the animations you want. Reflash rom and wipe dalvik before you reboot. If you are using a theme replace anim folder in theme rather than rom.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

[Q] Will Themes from the International One X work for us?

Shouldn't the themes for the International One X work for us as well? Especially since there's a new way of theming that just replaces the graphical stuff and not the actual apk. They say it should work on most devices with same sense versions. We have the same sense version, same resolution same buttons etc. I've tried a few but the developers have a model check and they abort. The one that i found over there that did not do a model check worked fine. Could someone with experience with themes chime in please? thanks!
EDIT. I'm only talking about themes With the villain theming system. It does not replace the apks, only mods them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1207017
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/th...e-system.4971/
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VillainTheme System 0.4.0
As a user, you don't need to know much - just flash this zip like a regular zip, and you'll get your theme running. But you should be able to apply themes to any device, ROM, and version of the ROM, without it causing adverse effects. That means less time spent by themers making the original theme, and less time spent modifying it constantly for new versions of ROMs.
Features..
Will modify APKs in a ROM, without changing signatures, and can be used on any ROM where the filenames of themed files is the same.
Should not need updated between versions of a ROM
Zipaligns all APKs before installation
Stores a backup of all files being modified in /cache/vrtheme-backup/
Requires no coding abilities or editing of files - just drag and drop
Can copy "raw" files, though at risk of not working on other devices
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What "new theming method" are you talking about?
The only type of themeing I've seen is replacing system files, like SystemUI.apk and stuff.
It that's the case, then no it won't work.

rohan32 said:
What "new theming method" are you talking about?
The only type of themeing I've seen is replacing system files, like SystemUI.apk and stuff.
It that's the case, then no it won't work.
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Well its not real new. And i'm not a themer so i could have misunderstood.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207017
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/threads/about-villaintheme-system.4971/
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VillainTheme System 0.4.0
As a user, you don't need to know much - just flash this zip like a regular zip, and you'll get your theme running. But you should be able to apply themes to any device, ROM, and version of the ROM, without it causing adverse effects. That means less time spent by themers making the original theme, and less time spent modifying it constantly for new versions of ROMs.
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I changed text to red that i thought pertained to this subject
I installed this theme without issues. Was made using villain theme system for the International one X
Quote from changelog of this theme
UPDATE 21 May: After a lot of tweaking and tinkering, have managed to make the theme work with the VillainTheme system. This means that it should now work with any ROM, and shouldn't affect any of the ROM dev's individual tweaks.
The theme modifies the following system apks:
framework-res.apk
SystemUI.apk
com.htc.resources.apk
fusion.apk
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Anyone?

only way to know is to try.
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I was able to flash the glass dialer from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601719
so it looks like we may be good to go
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I just tried the bubble battery mod it didn't work

gunnyman said:
only way to know is to try.
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I was able to flash the glass dialer from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601719
so it looks like we may be good to go
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I just tried the bubble battery mod it didn't work
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For me a lot of the themes to a model check and since we dont have endeavor it aborts.

Bumpity bump

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Bumpity bump
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Sense 4 is sense 4 as far as I know. I'm sure you can remove the model check form the update script. link one you'd like to install and I'll check it out

That's definitely not a good idea. Most Sense themes contain the SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk. So if the rom your using on your AT&T One X has any mods done to any of those apk's you will loose them and if the rom that the theme was built for has any mods done to those apk's you will more than likely have issues. If there is a specific theme you like, get me the link and I will try to port it over.

Tiffany84 said:
That's definitely not a good idea. Most Sense themes contain the SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk. So if the rom your using on your AT&T One X has any mods done to any of those apk's you will loose them and if the rom that the theme was built for has any mods done to those apk's you will more than likely have issues. If there is a specific theme you like, get me the link and I will try to port it over.
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good point. I can be such a noob sometimes.

Here's some I've used.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699380
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gunnyman said:
good point. I can be such a noob sometimes.
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No you're right, not a noob. Tiff didn't realize I was talking about the villain theming system.. This system only replaces graphics, not the entire apk. Unfortunately she said she wasn't familiar ( hasn't used it) so that reply is a little misleading. I'll get you that theme I was talking about to try and change the model.

gunnyman said:
only way to know is to try.
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I just tried the bubble battery mod it didn't work
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Remember I'm just talking about themes done with villain only. All others will replace system ui etc. We don't want that...just the new school

gunnyman said:
Sense 4 is sense 4 as far as I know. I'm sure you can remove the model check form the update script. link one you'd like to install and I'll check it out
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See if you can change this to evita. Or remove the model check all together. I'll test it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635779.

nugzo said:
See if you can change this to evita. Or remove the model check all together. I'll test it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635779.
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Ok I've found the model check lines in the aroma installer but I have no idea how to disable them.
It LOOKS like if you unzip the theme you can push the vrtheme folder to your sd card on your phone and then run the installtheme.sh from adb shell.
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BZZZZZT thanks for playing try again.

gunnyman said:
Ok I've found the model check lines in the aroma installer but I have no idea how to disable them.
It LOOKS like if you unzip the theme you can push the vrtheme folder to your sd card on your phone and then run the installtheme.sh from adb shell.
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BZZZZZT thanks for playing try again.
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Wouldn't it be a little hard to install a theme while the rom is running? Just thinking it would be A mess changing graphics while active. Unless I misunderstood yooz.
Maybe I could swap the vrtheme folder in the theme that does work, doesn't check the model. That cream theme I posted earlier..mwhat a horrible name lol

nugzo said:
Wouldn't it be a little hard to install a theme while the rom is running? Just thinking it would be A mess changing graphics while active. Unless I misunderstood yooz.
Maybe I could swap the vrtheme folder in the theme that does work, doesn't check the model. That cream theme I posted earlier..mwhat a horrible name lol
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if you look at updater-script you can change endeavor0 to evita.
Then it will pass the check. but I'm scared to try it myself
but swapping the files in that cream theme might make more sense
I just tried swapping out the vrtheme folder and it dien't work it failed to install in recovery

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if you look at updater-script you can change endeavor0 to evita.
Then it will pass the check. but I'm scared to try it myself
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Not familiar with this..Which file is it?
nm found it
nm no i didnt thought it was in install theme but it is not.

nugzo said:
Not familiar with this..Which file is it?
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meta-inf/com/google/android/

gunnyman said:
meta-inf/com/google/android/
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ok here goes. changed to evita in about 5 places
installed fine..rebooting zipaligning

[APP][MOD] (not so) Faster (and buggy) TouchWiz Launcher [XXLE4]

I saw a lot of comments about how slow the new TouchWiz launcher is, so, because I had already downloaded the ROM, I want to try something.
I'm not using this ROM, so I don't know if it works, let me know.
This is the new launcher, don't be fooled by its name, that's how Samsung named it.
It should be uglier than the unmodded one, but it should be as ugly as the one from Gingerbread, unless Samsung used more transparencies and fancy shades this time (transparent widget should be affected by this change too). Here the explanation.
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Downloads in the next post.
Note:
If you are not familiar with adb, I suggest you to install an alternative launcher first, then copy /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk somewhere safe, for example in your SD card. In this way, if something goes wrong, you can always start the second launcher and restore TouchWiz30Launcher.apk with a file manager.
At least until someone tries the two zips to restore the unmodded launcher.
No launcher, no way to launch apps

Issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27736310&postcount=15
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28218963&postcount=28
Downloads [apk + flashable files]
There are 4 flashable zips, two of them restore the original TouchWiz launcher.
Read the name of the file, fasterTouchwiz-odexed.zip obviously is for odexed, fasterTouchwiz-deodexed.zip for deodexed.

loSconosciuto said:
No one is interested? Maybe you don't like to do things manually, so here some flashable zips.
There are 4 flashable zips, two of them restore the original TouchWiz launcher.
Read the name of the file, fasterTouchwiz-odexed.zip obviously is for odexed, fasterTouchwiz-deodexed.zip for deodexed.
fasterTouchwiz is here.
(the only one I'm sure it will work is fasterTouchwiz-odexed-restore.zip)
(and BTW this is the launcher from XXLE4)
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Like always I like ur work. Usually I use golauncher but I will surely try this faster twlauncher. Really thanx buddy. Also I will post about this thread in XXLE4 thread so that people will come to know about this mod

loSconosciuto said:
I saw a lot of comments about how slow the new TouchWiz launcher is, so, because I had already downloaded the ROM, I want to try something.
I'm not using this ROM, so I don't know if it works, let me know.
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Well I just flashed the deodexed file, and apply with CW and working EXCELENT!!! Good job my friend!!!.
I have the Clean Rom by Luiseteyo V3.1.... So now I have 2 lanchers!!!!.....
Thks very much!!!!
Edit: Its no smooth as the holo launcher but work very very fast....

I tried on xxkpq. But force closes.

I really don't know how this new TouchWiz launcher is, anyway, I explain what I did in this mod.
(I wanted to know first if this really changes something)
Basically this new TouchWiz launcher uses 32bit transparency, or at least that's what I can see decompiling it:
Code:
<bool name="config_force32BitWindowAlways">true</bool>
What I did was to put that boolean value to false.
32bit transparency makes everything better too look, but it also slow down the UI. Without it, you should see some bands in trasparent backgrounds, it's the little price to pay to have a smoother interface. (In Gingerbread the default setting is 16bit, so you should see these bands)
@vishal
I think there are too many differences. Samsung apps use their own framework (twframework-res.apk) and probably this launcher needs the new framework. I don't think you can simply replace it with the new one. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know anything of this ROM.
Anyway, if you want to see how much this little change can do, you can enable 32bit transparency in GO launcher (it's somewhere in the settings, I can't remember exactly where, maybe it's called "high quality drawing". It's not the same thing, because they are two different launchers).
@machotecba
Thanks for trying this. I'm glad to hear that it works.

TouchWiz30Launcher? Wasn't it TouchWiz4? Will test right now. Thanks for ur work

I tried this in and there seems to be a lot of performance increase.... As always, your mods are simply incredible...

luiseteyo said:
TouchWiz30Launcher? Wasn't it TouchWiz4? Will test right now. Thanks for ur work
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Luise.
No that isn't touchwiz 3
But it is only the name of apk
It is touchwiz4 :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
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luiseteyo said:
TouchWiz30Launcher? Wasn't it TouchWiz4? Will test right now. Thanks for ur work
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Nop..... Its the same as the stock. In combination with your Clean pack (V 3.1).... Well the rom.... flies!!!!!!! and give you a choose between 2 lanchers.
Thks both for your work!!!

Great work man !
It's very smooth. Waaaaay better than the stock one.
Keep up the good work !

loSconosciuto said:
Note:
If you are not familiar with adb, I suggest you to install an alternative launcher first, then copy /system/app/TouchWiz30Launcher.apk somewhere safe, for example in your SD card. In this way, if something goes wrong, you can always start the second launcher and restore TouchWiz30Launcher.apk with a file manager.
At least until someone tries the two zips to restore the unmodded launcher.
No launcher, no way to launch apps
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Can I ask a question? Could you port the 14 toggles for Deodexed and the extended menu for this rom? I tried and I could not, well I must learn / read more for that....
thks

machotecba said:
Can I ask a question? Could you port the 14 toggles for Deodexed and the extended menu for this rom? I tried and I could not, well I must learn / read more for that....
thks
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I don't think I'll do it now, maybe in the future. I did this one simply because it was fast and easy to apply.
If you want to try again, here I posted the links of some tutorials.
Anyway I think that sooner or later these mods will be ported to this ROM and if I'm not wrong, someone had already ported something, I can't remember where are the links, maybe in XXLE4 thread.

Hey losnosc!! I am using the tested 'n' worked version, but i have a little issue: when press home, the screen goes black during a 500 msecs and then goes desktop. It's normal??
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ale210 said:
Hey losnosc!! I am using the tested 'n' worked version, but i have a little issue: when press home, the screen goes black during a 500 msecs and then goes desktop. It's normal??
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Tested, but not by me
I think that the problem is that there's a transition application->desktop that does a large use of transparencies and because of the 16bit what should be semi-transparent is solid.
It's just a guess, I flashed this ROM for 5 minutes just to fix the WIFI, I didn't even try this mod.
If that's the problem, I could change this behaviour.
So let's try something (this one too is a guess, I don't know if it works or if I changed the correct thing): fasterTouchwiz-experiment-deodexed.zip
(flash the old zip in case of problems)
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EDIT: Samsung could have at least changed this
Code:
const-string v0, "GT-I9000"

with Cm9 there in no reason to use samsung roms!

loSconosciuto said:
Anyway I think that sooner or later these mods will be ported to this ROM and if I'm not wrong, someone had already ported something, I can't remember where are the links, maybe in XXLE4 thread.
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Thks for the link... Itried and well I get the extended menu... but it´s no fully functional yet.... Proof and error... Im afraid... :good: . One thing... Im not a dev... only a curious guy who want to learn about android and the samsumg phone.
Well I did it!!!. The extended menu is functional. But I must try more and do more test.... So.... Ill hope soon got the flashable file.....

mojtaba_esp said:
with Cm9 there in no reason to use samsung roms!
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Are you sure? I prefer 100% GB.

am sorry to ask this am a bit noobie , i cant copy files because my phone is not rooted ,, i have tried to search google i uesd z4root ,superoneclick & unlockroot , but no use ,, so please tell me how to root , thank you

fady1908 said:
am sorry to ask this am a bit noobie , i cant copy files because my phone is not rooted ,, i have tried to search google i uesd z4root ,superoneclick & unlockroot , but no use ,, so please tell me how to root , thank you
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Check in development section for cf root.. Flash it using Odin..
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