I decided to compile my own how-to. It's not a one click solution but it's still easy if you can follow simple directions. It's also safe, effective and looks great when 3G service is connected. It also allows the change of only the icon so if you are running a custom rom or other icons, the icon pack won't be changed.
The guide looks long but it's just well broken down to make it very easy.
Your not going to get 4G LTE , so please, trolls can troll else where. This is simply something new to look at, lets begin!
*** This will only change the 3G Icon to 4G LTE, nothing else ***
USB Debugging must be checked. Settings>Applications>Development>check the USB Debugging box.
Please make a Nandroid or backup. Using a custom ROM or theme may cause your wallpaper to revert back to stock when phone restarts. Please make sure you place the icons on the root of your SD Card to begin, you can always move them around later.
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For BLACK top bars (Can be used on any color top bar but it will have a black outline around it, much like stock 3G against a white bar)
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For WHITE top bars (Transparent background, can be used on any color top bar other then black) ** Please note that these are black in color with a transperant background, if it appears as there is nothing there, no need to worry, the image is there. You will not be able to tell unless it's against another background color other then black **
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Blue 4G LTE Icon (Transparent background, can be used on any color top bar)
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Yellow 4G LTE Icon (Transparent background, can be used on any color top bar)
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Light Blue 4G LTE Icon (Transparent background, can be used on any color top bar)
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GB Green 4G LTE Icon (Transparent background, can be used on any color top bar)
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Thanks to Funnyface19 for the custom colors
Steps:
#1. Download the four files I have listed. It's the only four you need to change your icon. They have been named the correct file name already, place them anywhere that you can easily access them on your SD Card.
#2. Download & install Stericson's NinjaMorph from the market.
#3. Start NinjaMorph ( It will run a quick check, tap yes ) and tap on New Project.
#4. Navigate to /system/framework/framework-res.apk (Files will be extracted and a backup is created automatically)
#5. Go into /res/drawable-hdpi and find your stock 3G icon which will be named stat_sys_data_connected_3g.png.
#6. Tap on the file and it will ask you to find the image you want to replace it with in a new screen ( your SD Card root ).
#7 Find the file with the 4G LTE connected logo named stat_sys_data_connected_3g.png , tap it.
** Please make sure your icons actually apear. It will show the icon when you go to select it. If it's not valid, a big X or nothing, please do not continue and let me know. Just a small precaution to take.**
#8. You will get a warning asking if you're really sure you want to replace it, tap yes. A little window will quickly flash " item should have been replaced, what do you want to change now? "
#9. Repeat the process, tap res/drawable-hdpi, find your stock 3G in icon named stat_sys_data_in_3g.png, tap it.
#10. Find the file with the 4G LTE inlogo named stat_sys_data_in_3g.png , tap it.
#11. You will get a warning asking if you're really sure you want to replace it, tap yes. A little window will quickly flash " item should have been replaced, what do you want to change now? "
#12. Repeat the process, tap res/drawable-hdpi, find your stock 3G inandout icon named stat_sys_data_inandout_3g.png, tap it.
#13. Find the file with the 4G LTE inandout logo named stat_sys_data_inandout_3g.png , tap it.
#14. You will get a warning asking if you're really sure you want to replace it, tap yes. A little window will quickly flash " item should have been replaced, what do you want to change now? "
#15. Repeat the process, tap res/drawable-hdpi, find your stock 3G out icon named stat_sys_data_out_3g.png, tap it.
#16. Find the file with the 4G LTE out logo named stat_sys_data_out_3g.png , tap it.
#17. Tap on the blue arrow on the bottom right corner.
#18. Tap on Finish Project.
#19. Tap on framework-resapk (NinjaMorph will now package/create the apk).
#20. You will get a warning asking if you're sure you want to overwrite the apk, tap yes.
#21. You will now get a warning asking if you want to zipalign, tap no.
#22. Tap ok on the next warning.
#23. It will ask you if you want to delete the project, you can choose what you want. ( I choose no )
Your phone will now reboot itself with the new icons in place. Enjoy!
Thank you. It worked flawless. Now i can mess with my friends at work that have droid x's. This will be priceless.
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Sweet.. any way to get the black icons for this method for those who run a white noti bar?
TIA
btucker2003 said:
Sweet.. any way to get the black icons for this method for those who run a white noti bar?
TIA
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I'll try and work on this but if anyone can get these to me sooner, I wil upload them and update my post. However, it's not just white font as stand alone, it's in a black box so it will work for the meanwhile but yea, solid black would be cool as well.
Used Ninja Morph before and it worked flawless...Great Job
You can follow the how to make themes thread and change the color of the 4g text yourself. Just a thought.
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I'll try and work on this but if anyone can get these to me sooner, I wil upload them and update my post. However, it's not just white font as stand alone, it's in a black box so it will work for the meanwhile but yea, solid black would be cool as well.
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yeah i figured that out trying to use GIMP to edit the color to red to go with UD theme lol
just like to know?
Will this work and or look good with the ginger bread theme?
lieffring said:
Will this work and or look good with the ginger bread theme?
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it will work, if it looks good is up to you lol, its just looks cuz it aint real 4g
Ok thanks
That's all i needed to know ill try it out
currently designing red ones for myself to match UD theme
Im running the red liberty theme and having trouble. I did everything step by step and everything looks like it went through fine but 3G icon still shows. I put a image in my notification already but im not sure if that's affecting it. Not sure what to do help pleaseeeee
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Are you sure you saved the project and your phone restarted? If so, it all should have went through completely. The fact that you still have your 3G icon is a sign that something didn't get saved or you changed the image to something else.
So just to make sure, when you saved the images to your SD card, did they show up? You should have been able to see the 4G icon. Second, repeat the process. If it restarts and looks like it went through but your 3G icon is there then it might be because of your image. What is the icon you already changed?
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how can i change the color of the 4g icon
i would really like a dark blue 4g icon if you could make one or tell me how to change the color that would be cool!!
lieffring said:
i would really like a dark blue 4g icon if you could make one or tell me how to change the color that would be cool!!
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I could make you some like the red ones if you know how to put them in
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Ok my phone restarted and ninjamorph said it was done. But when the phone came up it still showed 3g icon. When I go into my gallery I see the 4g lte icons there. I repeated process several times and same result. I even went to my backup rom and tried it and it also did the same. In this rom I didn't change anything in ninjamorph before. One thing that I noticed is when I go to replace the 3g icon in ninjamorph and select the 4g icon it says it should be replaced but it still shows 3g. I then put another image other than the 4g icon and it changed the 3g icon in ninjamorph. The image was in a .png format but why would that work but not 4g icon? ??? Do I have to push it or do something diffrent? ?? Any other suggestions?
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Yesssssssssss!!!!!! I don't know what happened but finally got it to work I had to change the. Png and rename then it showed up.
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cool n a little weird
i followed these steps perfectly.. the whole 4g icon worked, however when i went into my messaging.apk it didnt display any names, or contact photos.. just numbers.. went into my accounts and nothing was there.. doing a reboot right now.. see what happens.
update: after reboot the issue was still there.. i opened the market to see if it let me in and i had to login to my gmail.. dont know why this happened but hopefully me logging back into gmail solves any and all sync issues.. kinda weird. thanks for the icons btw! pretty nice eye candy
Just log back in into your Gmail account. I am not sure why it would have logged you out, it never logged me out from changing a simple res image. However, on my girlfriend's OG Droid, it had logged her out but from changing the notification drop down. Coincidence? Not sure lol.
Glad it worked out!
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UPDATE
Now available in post #1, white 4G LTE for white bars, stock themes etc!
I flashed my WiFi Xoom to the stock 3.01 using the stock images in the thread here.
I then did the standard OTA upgrades to 3.1 and 3.2. I noticed the other day, that when i'm in a file manager and i tap to open a file (video for example) it doesn't prompt me which app to use to open the file.
The semi-transparent black background fades in as if the dialog had popped up, but it doesn't show. If i press the back button or tap the background, the semi-transparent background fades away and i'm back to the file manager as normal.
It does it in every file manager i have tried and for any file i try open.
Anyone seen this before?
Namheul said:
I flashed my WiFi Xoom to the stock 3.01 using the stock images in the thread here.
I then did the standard OTA upgrades to 3.1 and 3.2. I noticed the other day, that when i'm in a file manager and i tap to open a file (video for example) it doesn't prompt me which app to use to open the file.
The semi-transparent black background fades in as if the dialog had popped up, but it doesn't show. If i press the back button or tap the background, the semi-transparent background fades away and i'm back to the file manager as normal.
It does it in every file manager i have tried and for any file i try open.
Anyone seen this before?
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Yes, this seems to be a bug in HC3.2...when it dims, just rotate the Xoom from landscape to portrait mode, for instance, forcing the Xoom to re-draw the "picker" window. You should have no further problems with that app, but it's best to choose a default app when asked.
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Yes, this seems to be a bug in HC3.2...when it dims, just rotate the Xoom from landscape to portrait mode, for instance, forcing the Xoom to re-draw the "picker" window. You should have no further problems with that app, but it's best to choose a default app when asked.
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Oh wow, i thought it was something i had done wrong.
Thank you. I will test this out tonight.
Since the official threat i closed i'm hoping someone else can help me.
I used Galaxy icon Themer on my note 5 marshmallow and everything was working great. it broke and had to instal the stock rom again.
Now everything is working again exept that for some reason the phone gets the icon from the contacts in the system settings, so when i have the phone app on my lockscreen it haves the contacts icon.
I tried to clear cashes, deleted the app and reinstalled it again but nothings seems too work.
Anyone knows how to solve this?
So the phone icon on locks creen is changed to the contact icon? Does tapping that open contacts or phone?
It opens the phone
In the appdrawer they both have the right icons
In the system the contacta have the right icon but the phone icon is the same of the contacts
Notification symbols show at the top of my screen but when I pull down they do not show up. Screenshots do not show this. When I pull down the notification panel it shows those things like Wi-Fi and GPS but nothing else. On my lock screen I see the notifications but I cannot touch them to go in to those running apps. Can someone please tell me how to get those notifications. One is Google photos another is an email also the download Arrow is there but I do not know what is downloading and then there are three dots indicating that there are others. And also when I do pull down the symbols are all in dark background not white as it was a few days ago. I do not know what I did
Please help.
Have you tried restarting your phone?
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Yes I did restart the phone and I have just done that again with the same result. The pull-down says no notifications yet there are notification symbols at the top
dwlotter said:
Yes I did restart the phone and I have just done that again with the same result. The pull-down says no notifications yet there are notification symbols at the top
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I uninstalled the lock screen app called Next. With no success. I also have turned on notifications for all apps but the same result.
dwlotter said:
Notification symbols show at the top of my screen but when I pull down they do not show up. Screenshots do not show this. When I pull down the notification panel it shows those things like Wi-Fi and GPS but nothing else. On my lock screen I see the notifications but I cannot touch them to go in to those running apps. Can someone please tell me how to get those notifications. One is Google photos another is an email also the download Arrow is there but I do not know what is downloading and then there are three dots indicating that there are others. And also when I do pull down the symbols are all in dark background not white as it was a few days ago. I do not know what I did
Please help.
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Take a look at screenshots below.
Have you switched this Staus bar setting off ?
Phone /Settings /Display /Status bar
Problem solved. I had an app installed called Material Status, Bar. I uninstalled it and everything came back to normal and the notification panel works now.