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Password/Lock Screen

I dont know if this is in the right section...never ventured into this part of the forum
but does anyone know of a lock program(with a password) that has a more appealing look the wm default on is really ugly. or if anyone knows how to skin that one can you tell me where the files are
thank you

try throttlelock!
it's a android lock kinda clone...
you define a pathway, and that pathway is your password.
way better looking... way nicer!
you'll find it in the dev section

i saw that dont like it much
i want something with numbers

No one has any recommendation? I would kill for an application like this!

Since there are a lot of topics about this in the various phone-specific forums, lets just keep the discussion here
I found this thread in the XPeria forums. It is mentioned that by changing the windows today screen theme, you can change the colors of the buttons:
maedox said:
The colour of the buttons follow the Today screen theme. (At least it did when I changed the theme in Spb Mobile Shell (not the panel one).)
I chose blue theme, and the buttons are now dark blue. That's all I know.
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I checked this and it works! Unfortunately, on my Touch Diamond, this means that the top and bottom bar of my screens aren't stylish black anymore
kramki said:
i know you can change the colors in registry, refer to http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WindowsMobile5Colors, the value number that you may need to change is 8..dont know about changing the pictures on them. Hope that helps
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This is, however, for WM5. And in [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Color] in the registry, there isn't a value '8'.
I don't know that much about the registry, but I made one (binary). The values seem to be the HEX codes for colors, but with spaces between them and ending with 00. Black would thus be '00 00 00 00'. This didn't change the background color, but the color of the keys itself (behind the text), without changing the top and bottom bar of my TF3D screen Changing the value to 'FF 00 00 00' will change it to red, for example.
So does anyone know how to change the background? I'll mess around with other numbers a bit to see if it works in the meantime. To be able to skin the unlock screen with custom images would be even better ofcourse
Personally, I don't want to install a seperate lock-program, which drains the battery.

I wouldn't use a password program without a backup, I didn't backup, was locked out and had to flash a new rom which let to my radio stack being corrupt.
Just a warning

[THEME] The Ultimate Android Themeing Guide - Updated 4/26

No longer will be posted here due to XDA finding it acceptable to harass someone for saying "Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior" but allowing their mods and xda tv hosts to be racist and post slurs (@ashasaur and @azrienoch). I wish for XDA to delete all of my threads and posts.

Amazing. HUUUUUGE read-through coming later! Thanks

Brilliant. Been hoping for something like this so I could try my hand at Theming

jairomeo's you are my heroo. great write up. easy to following. lovin it. finally half of android makes sense to me. lol
MODs please sticky this. please please. I've been looking for all of this info for weeks now.
Thanks

Thanks, manup and sirmez and a few others are going to be looking at it to add to it, I've just been to busy with my designs at work that I just can't focus enough to finish this.
Once I get time I am going to dig into things and continue to find more things we can change.
If you have something to share, let me know so we can add it also.

Maybe you can add link to AXMLprinterGUI based on AXMLprinter2 but with gui created by bigbear at modaco. Here is the link. http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/304547/android-xml-decompiler/#entry1217176
That's what i use and it works great.

deanesn said:
Maybe you can add link to AXMLprinterGUI based on AXMLprinter2 but with gui created by bigbear at modaco. Here is the link. http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/304547/android-xml-decompiler/#entry1217176
That's what i use and it works great.
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Cool, I didn't even know about that, I'll have to tak ea look at it and add it too, thanks for the tip.

I see in the write up about how to change the statusbar.xml for music to white. What about changing to another color?

thebowers said:
I see in the write up about how to change the statusbar.xml for music to white. What about changing to another color?
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As far as I know, and I haven't seen it stated anywhere else, the ranges are for black or white, and the increment is size.
That doesn't mean it isn't possible to edit it somewhere else, like smali or something. Which is one of my hopes, is give enough information for people to be dangerous and find some new things.

Well Done Jai I have been living and dying by this write up!!!!
this is bgill55 btw

Great work man, will help a lot of ppl to create nice themes!

bga7x said:
Well Done Jai I have been living and dying by this write up!!!!
this is bgill55 btw
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Yeah you were one of the lucky one's to see it early lol. I'm glad it has been helping you though.

When porting to a new version of cm what are the usual changes that have to be made to properly port it over?

mrty4short said:
When porting to a new version of cm what are the usual changes that have to be made to properly port it over?
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The services.jar changes in most updates, so safe practice would be to redo that. Same goes for the framework-res.apk.
In apk's the thing you have to redo if you edited when an apk has been updated, is any xml in /layout.
For example, in framework-res.apk there are 4 ( 5 if you want to change the battery % color)
Locations:
/drawable/progress_horizonal.xml (this hasn't changed, it's safe to keep reusing the same on over and over)
Update all of these:
/layout/status_bar.xml
/layout/status_bar_expanded.xml
/layout/status_bar_icon.xml (this isn't in the guide yet, this is the battery %)
/layout/status_bar_latest_content.xml
Same would go for the xml's in the layout of:
DownloadProvider
Music
Phone
If you are trying to get around redoing all the apps, you need to ensure that the apps haven't been updated since the last copy. There is a utility that will do a compare, something that I need to bookmark so I can add it to be able to use as a reference.
Examples are like going from the 5.0.5's to the 5.0.6, when the ability to move apps back and forth between internal and sd-ext, this option was not in Settings, it's in MediaProvider, so if you had themed it before, you need to replace it with the new copy and put the images back in again.
ROM to ROM these things are different also (for services, framework-res; most apps are the same minus the ones carrying options like Settings, MediaProvider and SpareParts). So you want to redo them for that.
Edit: This may be a good question to add to an appendix of the doc as a reference only thing, I'll give that some thought.

jairomeo said:
If you are trying to get around redoing all the apps, you need to ensure that the apps haven't been updated since the last copy. There is a utility that will do a compare, something that I need to bookmark so I can add it to be able to use as a reference.
Examples are like going from the 5.0.5's to the 5.0.6, when the ability to move apps back and forth between internal and sd-ext, this option was not in Settings, it's in MediaProvider, so if you had themed it before, you need to replace it with the new copy and put the images back in again.
ROM to ROM these things are different also (for services, framework-res; most apps are the same minus the ones carrying options like Settings, MediaProvider and SpareParts). So you want to redo them for that.
Edit: This may be a good question to add to an appendix of the doc as a reference only thing, I'll give that some thought.
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I use beyond compare great program!!!

bga7x said:
I use beyond compare great program!!!
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Never used to do that lol, dunno why I never thought to, thanks.

Mods, is there a chance of making this a Sticky?
My thoughts are:
Once the guide is done, Iĺl leave the link up, but will attach it to the thread also.
For questions that give information to add, Iĺl add it to the document.
To help keep good questions organized, I will make a second document, a Q&A, and Ill pull them so it can be used as a reference

Looks great and thanx i hate having to dig thru 7 million bookmarks for different theming posts. Thought i'd throw this out there you might know this already and it may be too detailed but google changed the color code line in the blue_button.xml in Calculator.apk/res/drawable to 08 00 00 1D instead of ending with a C. I haven't seen any other xmls with that change but it's something to keep an eye out for in the future if a search for 08 00 00 1C doesn't get any results and dunno if this will help but here http://markcarson.com/markcarson/ColorCalc.html is a color calculator that i use to get my xml hex colors. It has some presets and you can adjust the lightness and sat to your liking, so all you have to do is reverse it and add the aa after you find the color your looking for.

amac25 said:
Looks great and thanx i hate having to dig thru 7 million bookmarks for different theming posts. Thought i'd throw this out there you might know this already and it may be too detailed but google changed the color code line in the blue_button.xml in Calculator.apk/res/drawable to 08 00 00 1D instead of ending with a C. I haven't seen any other xmls with that change but it's something to keep an eye out for in the future if a search for 08 00 00 1C doesn't get any results and dunno if this will help but here http://markcarson.com/markcarson/ColorCalc.html is a color calculator that i use to get my xml hex colors. It has some presets and you can adjust the lightness and sat to your liking, so all you have to do is reverse it and add the aa after you find the color your looking for.
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Nope, nothing is too detailed I figure anything that dives into a lot of detail, like when I add in the meanings in the xml that Stericson wrote, I'm going to add it as an appendix to the document.
Thats good to know and I'll make sure to put that in. I have seen 08 00 00 1D in a few places, but I never messed with it to see what it changed, I guess with that tip, it's time to start playing more.
I would like to slowly come up with a list of xml's we know to edit and where they are.
I've thought about adding links in for hex sites, and since you are the 2nd person to mention it, I will add it in.
Thanks amac for the inputs

jairomeo said:
Nope, nothing is too detailed I figure anything that dives into a lot of detail, like when I add in the meanings in the xml that Stericson wrote, I'm going to add it as an appendix to the document.
Thats good to know and I'll make sure to put that in. I have seen 08 00 00 1D in a few places, but I never messed with it to see what it changed, I guess with that tip, it's time to start playing more.
I would like to slowly come up with a list of xml's we know to edit and where they are.
I've thought about adding links in for hex sites, and since you are the 2nd person to mention it, I will add it in.
Thanks amac for the inputs
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No problem wish i had more to add then a color code and a link but you did a great job putting it together already, can't wait to see the finished product!

Hex Codes For Colors

This is being posted for people who want to edit the colors of certain parts of their phone. This is simply meant as a resource for those folks. This IS NOT a [How To] thread, and if you don't know what to do with these links, this is not the place to ask. I simply wanted an easily searchable resource here on XDA for those who need it. Don't know what they are for? You don't need it. Yet
To those that do need this, Happy Hex-Editing!
Dithering:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-color-chart-grid.html
Non-Dithering:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3479001

tejasrichard said:
This is being posted for people who want to edit the colors of certain parts of their phone. This is simply meant as a resource for those folks. This IS NOT a [How To] thread, and if you don't know what to do with these links, this is not the place to ask. I simply wanted an easily searchable resource here on XDA for those who need it. Don't know what they are for? You don't need it. Yet
To those that do need this, Happy Hex-Editing!
Dithering:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-color-chart-grid.html
Non-Dithering:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/article.php/3479001
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What do I do with this??
Can you show me how to color certain parts of my phone. I'd like to color my entire physical phone blue... how would I go about doing this using these Hex codes?
/s

pseudoremora said:
What do I do with this??
Can you show me how to color certain parts of my phone. I'd like to color my entire physical phone blue... how would I go about doing this using these Hex codes?
/s
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step one: print copy of hex codes
step two: place phone on top of large, flat surface
step three: cover phone with printout of hex code chart, colorside-up
step four: Hit phone repeatedly as hard as you can with a hammer* until desired saturation is achieved.
*BE CAREFUL! ONLY hit the color that you intend to transfer to your phone, otherwise you may have unintended results!

tejasrichard said:
step one: print copy of hex codes
step two: place phone on top of large, flat surface
step three: cover phone with printout of hex code chart, colorside-up
step four: Hit phone repeatedly as hard as you can with a hammer* until desired saturation is achieved.
*BE CAREFUL! ONLY hit the color that you intend to transfer to your phone, otherwise you may have unintended results!
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Hahahahaha.
What should I do for transparency?

pseudoremora said:
Hahahahaha.
What should I do for transparency?
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Print it on Saran Wrap

i know you said not to ask about these things, but i thought it best to ask here over posting a whole new thread (and this came up in the search results...so...yeah...)
i know vaugly about hex codes and the colors, mainly from HTML structure, but im not to familiar with how android implements it.
my question is simple:
green. the browser loading, highlighted ANYTHING, the box around a floating widget, alllll the greeeeen; is this a global hex edit, or does it have to be stripped down piece by piece, app by app, widget by widget.
i ask because in regawmod, everything that was green was grey. i really liked that, and it proved it was possible, but i also know that ALOT of dev'ing went into that theme (thanks neb!!) and that the simpliest of changes to the theme messed with the whole lot. implying that it wasnt a matter of changing on line, but many. is this fact?
tia&sorry for the clutter :-D

Short answer is no, there is no global hex code that affects all the highlights. There are many png's that must be edited to change all the green to another color. While there certainly is SOME hex involved, it is mostly super-tedious PhotoShop work.

tejasrichard said:
it is mostly super-tedious PhotoShop work.
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Yup, basically, me and neb photoshopped pngs for days, and I had to recompile every single .9.png in Eclipse for it to work after all of the changes. I actually did no hex editing for the themed RegawMOD, BUT there are a few things I'm going to be adding that involve that when I get back into this soon.

thanks for the info guys
geuss ill learn to love the green until your next release dan

you could just take all the files of one color and batch hue change them in photoshop and then take all the white files and batch throw a new layer on, paint it green and then set it to overlay...and then just repatch all the 9-patch files...

venumx said:
you could just take all the files of one color and batch hue change them in photoshop and then take all the white files and batch throw a new layer on, paint it green and then set it to overlay...and then just repatch all the 9-patch files...
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i thought the green was dictated by hex, not individual images.
im straight, reg and neb are crazy for sitting there for days and turning probably 200 images grey lol.

mountaindont said:
i thought the green was dictated by hex, not individual images.
im straight, reg and neb are crazy for sitting there for days and turning probably 200 images grey lol.
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a quick secret about the changing green to grey, the "change to black and white" option is VERY fast but still, took a long time to do, then 9patch and recompile them.

[Tutorial] Where to change the text colour of softkeys and taskbar app name

After searching a while, and partly thanks to poyensa who pointed me to maxtf3d tool, I compared the whole HKCU and HKLM reg trees before and after using that to change the softkey colours, and here's the summary:
Go into the following reg folder
Code:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today
and create (if not already present) a string key named
Code:
Skin
in which you insert any name (example "myskin") and then create a folder in the same path with the same name of the skin and go in there.
In case the key "skin" already exists you have to go into the folder which goes by that name.
The key
Code:
Color_CommandBarText
is the one you want, if already present in the preset theme you need to change it, if instead you created the skin reference, or the key was not present in the preset theme, create a BINARY key by that name, and insert a 4bytes value inside.
For the black value it would be
Code:
00 00 00 00
Restart, the softkeys text colour will have changed.
To change the application name in the taskbar, you have to go into
Code:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\
and add a BINARY key (if not already present) named
Code:
9
in which you set the text colour in the same manner you did for the softkeys. Restart, served.
The colour for the start menu icons text should be situated in that same folder, in the BINARY key named 39, yet adding that key and restarting doesn't work.

Absolutely noone knows?
Yes, this is a bump

Hellooww
I know as a fact that it's possible, as GTX sports black text softkeys... noone actually cares to share the info?

Have a look HERE my friend...I suppose it could help you !

try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493011
for me HD2 it works but only the tab for color>commandbar text, active enable box and once you have choose your favourite color in RGBA code press activate, TRefresh and softeresset afterwards

Method posted by poyensa worked, I could finally change the text colour of the softkeys using his instructions... thank you
Yet I am prone to tin2404 approach, as I need to know *how* to change that, I mean registry wise or manila wise, which are the things that I manually need to change, otherwise after each flash I will need to use max tf3d utility

Updated thread with working method.

Thankyou ephestione, i have changed the color blue (08 08 8A) using your instructions and it works!

Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.

AvRS said:
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Yes, I have read about that also in MS KB, yet I had no entry whatsoever for any skin under that registry folder, I had to create one specifically for that purpose...
@poyensa, karma going back and forth, you pointed me to max tf3d utility, and only then I could "reverse engineer" it to devise a method

Hi all,
newbie questions,
how to add a new binary key using the PHM registry editor?
How to change the color of the taskbar clock's number?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all

ephestione said:
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Hi ephestione,
You made my day! Thank u very much!
I installed totalcommander and followed all your instructions and I did it successfully.
Any idea on how to change the color of the taskbar clock?
Thanks in advance.

ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that

ephestione said:
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.

[email protected] said:
Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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What conflict is there? Do the Stripes occupy the same space? If yes, just make them empty in BattClock or put them in another place or show other information.

notification bar icons?

Is there a way to change the color of the icons and clock in notification bar. I'm looking to make them yellow

ubigdumy said:
Is there a way to change the color of the icons and clock in notification bar. I'm looking to make them yellow
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You could try Team EOS3 JellyBean ROM. I believe it has some options for changing the color of the status and notification bar icons and clock.

I tried that rom for a bit but I use my tablet for too much daily stuff to stick with it until it gets a little less buggy, great build though. I wonder if it is possible to pull out that part of it and port to ICS.

You'll probably have to decompile the framework-res.apk
Edit some XML and or png

baseballfanz said:
You'll probably have to decompile the framework-res.apk
Edit some XML and or png
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I was thinking that and I was going to use a zip someone has here for the back, home, menu, and recent apps and just change image in there but don't know about images on other side like clock, sd card, batteries, etc... I never tried anything from scratch like that and don't think I am knowledgeable enough. I have read guide on how to theme and have the programs but I am not a developer so some of it gets confusing. Any ideas on a zip out there that have those in it that I can redo would be great.

ubigdumy said:
I was thinking that and I was going to use a zip someone has here for the back, home, menu, and recent apps and just change image in there but don't know about images on other side like clock, sd card, batteries, etc... I never tried anything from scratch like that and don't think I am knowledgeable enough. I have read guide on how to theme and have the programs but I am not a developer so some of it gets confusing. Any ideas on a zip out there that have those in it that I can redo would be great.
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Everything there except the clock can be done with simple png edits. To get all the batteries right without going throught each of them individually throw it through photoshop in batch sort of thing. The clock is the only thing which is done in xml

mrevankyle said:
Everything there except the clock can be done with simple png edits. To get all the batteries right without going throught each of them individually throw it through photoshop in batch sort of thing. The clock is the only thing which is done in xml
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DO you know what xml is to be edited to change the notification clock to blue?

wolfspirit68 said:
DO you know what xml is to be edited to change the notification clock to blue?
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I havent really done much actuall xml editing but i did some googling and this thread seams to explain it pretty well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800049