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Lookin for Two files

Anyone know where the two files or apk's r located that shows the screens...1. changing from sync to hard drive to charge to tether. 2. the screen when u long press the end call button ie switching from ringer to vibrate to airplane to mobile networks.
trying to change color of background from white to another color

I would like to know also. they might not be a png. they could be in an xml file. I might have to find a theme that gas this changed and start digging through everything.
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I found the icons for the long off press in system\framework\com.htc.resources.apk\res\drawable-mdpi but I didn't see a file for the background

seyer0686 said:
I found the icons for the long off press in system\framework\com.htc.resources.apk\res\drawable-mdpi but I didn't see a file for the background
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if i had to guess its in xml
The Joys of hex editing

The file for changing between charge, tether, drive is PCSCII.apk located in /system/app/

tristan202 said:
The file for changing between charge, tether, drive is PCSCII.apk located in /system/app/
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thanks. it is a png background or is it in xml files in the layout folder

cbarlan said:
thanks. it is a png background or is it in xml files in the layout folder
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I cannot remember.

Clear Power Widget w/out metamorph? (AKA - just an apk)

Does anyone out there know if there exists an APK of the Power Control Widget, but clear? I tried doing it with some metamorph zips I found, but they didnt work at all.

The clear part of the widget is spread across different framework files. Well, actually just the one. So, you'd have a modified com.htc.resources.apk to deal with. Better off just doing it yourself.

drummingfool said:
Does anyone out there know if there exists an APK of the Power Control Widget, but clear? I tried doing it with some metamorph zips I found, but they didnt work at all.
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just adb pull your com.htc.resources.apk and I can update it for you if you don't want to change it yourself, pretty easy.

Heaterz16 said:
just adb pull your com.htc.resources.apk and I can update it for you if you don't want to change it yourself, pretty easy.
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I pulled the apk and have no issues doing it myself, if I could just find the png for the backgrounds and such on this particular widget. Anyone know?

drummingfool said:
I pulled the apk and have no issues doing it myself, if I could just find the png for the backgrounds and such on this particular widget. Anyone know?
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I got this to work with metamorph, but I cant get it to work now. I think it has to do with metamorph upgrade.

drummingfool said:
I pulled the apk and have no issues doing it myself, if I could just find the png for the backgrounds and such on this particular widget. Anyone know?
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It is called appwidget_bg.9 and it is located in /system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk
unzip the .apk file and locate the png in res/drawable-mdpi folder
Let me know if you have anymore questions.

While we're on the sunject, where do I change the color (and potentially shape) of the green bars below the widget. Like, the green indicators that show that you have one of the options set to on.
I can pull the .apk and do it myself, I just need to know where Thanks!

change icons in side apk

Hello, im back with more questions an curiosity. Iv heard u can change Apps I cons by opening the APK an replacing the icon.png. an iv gtten a little mixed up, some said only stock icons but theoretically if u can open u can change any right?
Also is it possibly to change app layout colors? an can menu colors or ur phone e changed like when u power down ur phone can u change it to black insted of grey or the bottom of ur phone where all apps phone an the + button change it black wih green letters ect?
im tryin to get dee into modding my phone perfect to my style

DubsideWICKED said:
Hello, im back with more questions an curiosity. Iv heard u can change Apps I cons by opening the APK an replacing the icon.png. an iv gtten a little mixed up, some said only stock icons but theoretically if u can open u can change any right?
Also is it possibly to change app layout colors? an can menu colors or ur phone e changed like when u power down ur phone can u change it to black insted of grey or the bottom of ur phone where all apps phone an the + button change it black wih green letters ect?
im tryin to get dee into modding my phone perfect to my style
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You can literally change everything about the appearance of your phone. Any apk file can be opened and modified. If you download an app from the market, but you don't like the icon, you can open the apk and replace the icon.png You can also change the color of your menus etc. It is a complicated process and you'll have to learn how to work with apks, edit 9.png files, and even work with XML files and HEX colors. I actually gave up on themeing because it ended up taking up too much time...but if you're willing to jump in and get your elbows dirty you can change anything you want about your phone's appearance, and it actually is a really rewarding experience. To get started, just search the forum for a "guide to themeing".
You can also ask some of the themers for advice by sending them a private message. That's the best way to learn, if someone is willing to teach you.
Hope that helps.
-alex

Well I thing i got changing the icons down. an when i open the xml files in a hex editor theres too meny numbers, any simpler way to change colors by chance?
Im really surprised that kno one has been able to evelope an app that just gives a list of colors an icons an what not an u just click ok, if i was developer savy anuff id tottally have an app editor in the works

Just realized somthing, to change icons, wouldnt it be smarter to just open the apk in root explorer an over write the icon, insted of moving it to ur computer an possibly making it not install back on ur phone?

nah its a lot deeper than that, because after you open and edit an APK the .apk file must then be re-signed it's like it's digital signature... or it will not install on your phone... There are a few apps out that help a lot with the theming process.. and as for .xml files i think they are encrypted so you would have to use an xml decrypter and edit it then encrypt it again and add it back into the apk and resign the file... all these topics are covered in various parts of the forums though... here's a link with lots of information that can help you along your way...
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en
good luck!

DubsideWICKED said:
Well I thing i got changing the icons down. an when i open the xml files in a hex editor theres too meny numbers, any simpler way to change colors by chance?
Im really surprised that kno one has been able to evelope an app that just gives a list of colors an icons an what not an u just click ok, if i was developer savy anuff id tottally have an app editor in the works
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DubsideWICKED said:
Just realized somthing, to change icons, wouldnt it be smarter to just open the apk in root explorer an over write the icon, insted of moving it to ur computer an possibly making it not install back on ur phone?
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nah its a lot deeper than that, because after you open and edit an APK the .apk file must then be re-signed it's like it's digital signature... or it will not install on your phone... There are a few apps out that help a lot with the theming process.. and as for .xml files i think they are encrypted so you would have to use an xml decrypter and edit it then encrypt it again and add it back into the apk and resign the file... all these topics are covered in various parts of the forums though... here's a link with lots of information that can help you along your way...
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcdxIJRSH9ypZGZzc2pxNDlfMjdnazk4OHNxZA&hl=en
good luck!
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xml files in android are not encrypted they are just compile form of xml. Its a space saver thing.
As for having a program to edit things in xml files on the fly its might be possible but since xml its soooo generic and there is really no way to make a program that would go through an xml file and change the things that represent colors and value etc... Something like this could be done for say a framework but then it would really be only for that framework or apk.

I copied the browser from system app to my sd an opened it with 7zip i didnt extract it i just moved the icon i wanted to the corect spot. an moved it back over to system app an copied over the old now browser is gone y wont it install :S

did you take out META-INF file then resign it that works for me sometimes

Lol didn't we just say it had to be re signed to replaced stuff in the apk.
Also tip fore you guys when you resign an apk you don't need to delete the meta inf folder in will replace the old one
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I read in a few post that if u dont extract the file it doesnt break signing. an also herd system apps that arnt downloaded dont need signed. , so much mixed stuff ahh lol.
Well when i went to move te original apk back is didnt work eathier :S idk y or what im doing wrong.
Also i havent found any but is there a program to resign apks with out useing abd

DubsideWICKED said:
I read in a few post that if u dont extract the file it doesnt break signing. an also herd system apps that arnt downloaded dont need signed. , so much mixed stuff ahh lol.
Well when i went to move te original apk back is didnt work eathier :S idk y or what im doing wrong.
Also i havent found any but is there a program to resign apks with out useing abd
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If you want it to install, you need to sign the .apk
There is a signing tool. Search for it. I would link it, but I am on my phone, not the computer
Sent from my FroYoed Sprint Hero

I cant figure out how to sign, i found app manager 4.9 bt im lost i signed browser moved it to sd an then back to system app an it wont install....
y wont it work? would meta morph be better to change icons
or any other ideas to make it easyier and hopefully with out useing ABD,
and a idea off what icons i want to change
calendar
call history
camcorder
camera
gmail
IM
internet
latitude
maps
market
messages
navigation
Myspace
pandora
people
phone
photos
places
root explorer
talk

DubsideWICKED said:
I cant figure out how to sign, i found app manager 4.9 bt im lost i signed browser moved it to sd an then back to system app an it wont install....
y wont it work? would meta morph be better to change icons
or any other ideas to make it easyier and hopefully with out useing ABD,
and a idea off what icons i want to change
calendar
call history
camcorder
camera
gmail
IM
internet
latitude
maps
market
messages
navigation
Myspace
pandora
people
phone
photos
places
root explorer
talk
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Go here and use that... Thats about as easy as I can make it.

I got the apk signed what am i doing wrong, i moved the new signed apk back to my sd card an moved it back to system/app an it still dont install. this is getting very frusterating.
Is is because its a stock system app that i didnt download or what?

DubsideWICKED said:
I got the apk signed what am i doing wrong, i moved the new signed apk back to my sd card an moved it back to system/app an it still dont install. this is getting very frusterating.
Is is because its a stock system app that i didnt download or what?
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maybe rename it back to its original name. dont move it from the sdcard to the system/app folder just use astro and open it from the sdcard then it will install.

still wouldnt work but adb did witch it took me hours to figure out how to set up adb.
so is there a good adb cmd guide on here

DEV HELP??? Editing email.apk file

So, i've got the perfect email.apk that bypasses the exchange security, and never gives me any error messages, but the email icon is outdated, and the refresh, compose, and accounts icons are all wrong when running in gingerbread.
Can anyone help me fix this? I can't seem to figure out how to force it to use different icons.
I have attached the file incase anyone can help out. I would appreciate it

Open the apk as a zip archive I use 7zip then navigate to the folder res/drawable-hdpi look for the icons you don't like if the icon
isn't there, try res/drawable-mdpi sometimes icons are in the mdpi even on hdpi devices like the nexus. Copy and icon you wish over making sure the name is exactly the same. You can take the latest email app to get the updated icons or make your own. Delete the current e mail app and install your modded one.
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Use ninjamorph.
OR
If u want to learn something then use apkmanager. Its command line driven and it fairly simple with linux.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695701

Sense 4.0 all app background image

Hi there!
One of the thing that I'm struggling with HTC is the fact that from the moment the have moved to android they have always put the black background on the all apps menu which isn't so beautiful. Is there anyway here who know if it could be possible to have, at least, the same background image of the home for the all apps menu?
P.S. And by the way I don't get why is not possible to customize the background iamge of the all apps menu, come on this was possible on windows mobile!!!!

light_n_roses said:
Hi there!
One of the thing that I'm struggling with HTC is the fact that from the moment the have moved to android they have always put the black background on the all apps menu which isn't so beautiful. Is there anyway here who know if it could be possible to have, at least, the same background image of the home for the all apps menu?
P.S. And by the way I don't get why is not possible to customize the background iamge of the all apps menu, come on this was possible on windows mobile!!!!
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i havent had a chance to look into sense 4.0 yet but in sense 3.0 all apps background was a color reference in the rosie apk > res > layout> all apps view .xml
you can edit the code to reference a wallpaper of your own
i was having trouble decompiling sense 4 files so didnt really look into it

thesparky007 said:
i havent had a chance to look into sense 4.0 yet but in sense 3.0 all apps background was a color reference in the rosie apk > res > layout> all apps view .xml
you can edit the code to reference a wallpaper of your own
i was having trouble decompiling sense 4 files so didnt really look into it
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sp do you think that I can also put a different background image from the one on the home screen ? It would be awsome!

light_n_roses said:
sp do you think that I can also put a different background image from the one on the home screen ? It would be awsome!
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yea you sure can, easiest is to make the background transparent so the home screen wallpaper is visible but you can surely make it reference an image

thesparky007 said:
yea you sure can, easiest is to make the background transparent so the home screen wallpaper is visible but you can surely make it reference an image
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actually I have tried to open that file from a custom rom with sense 3.5, I have extracted the file with 7zip but it was not readable with notepadd...

light_n_roses said:
actually I have tried to open that file from a custom rom with sense 3.5, I have extracted the file with 7zip but it was not readable with notepadd...
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Well of course, you extracted it with 7zip. Grab apktool or something else that can unpack APKs properly and decrypt the XMLs etc., use it to extract the APK and then you should be able to edit it easily enough.
EDIT: You'll also need to pull com.htc.resources.apk from /system/framework and install it with the command
Code:
apktool if com.htc.resources.apk
to properly decrypt the APK
EDIT: Although I can't find the XML referenced above in the Rosie.apk from my Sense 3.5 device...(HTC Explorer).
EDIT: In res\values\colors.xml I found a reference for a colour "all_item_background" which is #ff000000 (i.e. black), but it only appears to be used for as the colour for some text. Despite not really wanting to have a transparent background here, it's bugging me.

Is it possible to have this background on all aps for galaxy y s5360
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stokaa said:
Is it possible to have this background on all aps for galaxy y s5360
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Galaxy Y is a Samsung phone, so it doesn't have Sense. It has TouchWiz. So the launcher is different to the Sense one. It is almost certainly possible to do a similar thing, but it won't be done exactly the same.
I believe the TouchWiz launcher it called twlauncher.apk or something like that. Pull that file off your phone and use apktool to extract it, look in the XMLs in res\layout and try to find the background colour. It'll probably be #ff000000. You could try using something like grep to search for that in the folder to try and narrow down the possibilities.
Just a few thoughts that might possibly help.

SifJar said:
Well of course, you extracted it with 7zip. Grab apktool or something else that can unpack APKs properly and decrypt the XMLs etc., use it to extract the APK and then you should be able to edit it easily enough.
EDIT: You'll also need to pull com.htc.resources.apk from /system/framework and install it with the command
Code:
apktool if com.htc.resources.apk
to properly decrypt the APK
EDIT: Although I can't find the XML referenced above in the Rosie.apk from my Sense 3.5 device...(HTC Explorer).
EDIT: In res\values\colors.xml I found a reference for a colour "all_item_background" which is #ff000000 (i.e. black), but it only appears to be used for as the colour for some text. Despite not really wanting to have a transparent background here, it's bugging me.
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actually it would be nice to have the chance to put also a different image on background not just have the black background turn transparent so you can see the same of the home.

light_n_roses said:
actually it would be nice to have the chance to put also a different image on background not just have the black background turn transparent so you can see the same of the home.
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Well that is easily done once the right value is found in the right XML. It's find the value that is the tricky part.

yea I see...have you made any progress with that?

light_n_roses said:
yea I see...have you made any progress with that?
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Nope, I gave up because I couldn't find it in the Rosie.apk from my device.