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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.
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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?
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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!
can anyone post up a themed version of the stock or new MIUI rom flashable 3G indicator, themed to match this (or both):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788214
Thanks!
Do you mean you're after:
A theme for MIUI which has the 3G icons from that theme
or
That theme with the MIUI 3G icons?
Josh.
fllash said:
Do you mean you're after:
A theme for MIUI which has the 3G icons from that theme
or
That theme with the MIUI 3G icons?
Josh.
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I would like the 3g icon from that rom to flash over SkyRaider 3.2
^Same^ but likt the one from the smooth blue theme that is a blue 3G indicator. Or JUST the stock HTC 3G indicator in blue if possible. Thanks
just pull it out of the framework and color it yourself, it's like 4 images
worm- said:
just pull it out of the framework and color it yourself, it's like 4 images
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How do I do this?
Thanks
Funny. I was just going to post asking anyone if they had it in red. I would also like to know how to do it.
Contempt4You said:
Funny. I was just going to post asking anyone if they had it in red. I would also like to know how to do it.
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I know. I really want it lol, because i kinda hate the 3G indicator in the theme i have currently, as it's hard to see the upload/download arrows, so i just wanted a flashable indicator so I dont lose the cool notification pulldown
I can edit it with photoshop if I can find it. Can anyone give me a hint to the file path?
EDIT: Hah...ok I suck and fail.
I found the apk and edited the images. Looked great. Put the apk back together. Unistalled the original apk and tried to install my modified apk. Would not install. I'm done with it for now. I guess I will read up on signing tomorrow although I thought I had read that system apps didn't need to be signed.
I'll play with it more tomorrow.
do adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk
And the images should n in the drawable-hdpi. Folder if not just look around until u find the images
Then pull the framework from your current Rom and replace your images with the images you want then repush your framework hack to the phone and reboot
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I can edit it with photoshop if I can find it. Can anyone give me a hint to the file path?
EDIT: Hah...ok I suck and fail.
I found the apk and edited the images. Looked great. Put the apk back together. Unistalled the original apk and tried to install my modified apk. Would not install. I'm done with it for now. I guess I will read up on signing tomorrow although I thought I had read that system apps didn't need to be signed.
I'll play with it more tomorrow.
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If you figure it out can you pack a zip of just the 3g icon in blue as well for me?
Thanks man
Thanks for the tips. With a little help from google, I was able to figure it out.
Which icon did you need exactly? The 3g toggle or the notification bar?
well, i did it and replaced some old icons with cooler looking ones, but the 3g icons (along with similar data icons) did not show up. all of the other ones showed up. also, i read a thread where this dude got 4g icons from another rom and installed them on his phone to make it look like he had 4g, but then hours later, he experienced loss of mobile data... and now i think i am too... any suggestions?
I'm sorry I can't help you. I am learning all this myself and wouldn't pretend to know where to start on that. All I can say is that if you are going to make any changes then backup early and often.
The 3g toggle icons I was looking for were in system/app. I merely reskinned them and dropped them back in.
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I'm sorry I can't help you. I am learning all this myself and wouldn't pretend to know where to start on that. All I can say is that if you are going to make any changes then backup early and often.
The 3g toggle icons I was looking for were in system/app. I merely reskinned them and dropped them back in.
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i wanted notification bar icon
I'm running a theme and mine is already skinned. I think either way you would still have to adb push it onto your phone. I did some googling and took a crash course on changing system icons.
Once I figured it out, it made sense (i know that sounds stupid, but after i did it, I was like oh yeah I get it now). I know that's not a big help, but I'm new to this and wouldn't want to bork your phone. Maybe someone more knowledgable will come save the day.
Otherwise I would google in terms like editing apks and adb pull adb push etc. and maybe you will figure it out too.
Hell I can't wait to ruin my phone now that I am armed and dangerous =)
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I'm running a theme and mine is already skinned. I think either way you would still have to adb push it onto your phone. I did some googling and took a crash course on changing system icons.
Once I figured it out, it made sense (i know that sounds stupid, but after i did it, I was like oh yeah I get it now). I know that's not a big help, but I'm new to this and wouldn't want to bork your phone. Maybe someone more knowledgable will come save the day.
Otherwise I would google in terms like editing apks and adb pull adb push etc. and maybe you will figure it out too.
Hell I can't wait to ruin my phone now that I am armed and dangerous =)
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Lol, i actuallly finally figured out how to extract the png's, so i am going to edit in photoshop, then replace the current images with the app ninjamorph.
*didnt work* left a huge blank space on noti. bar and when I rebooted to see if it would show, I bootlooped*
Well. I spent last night learning to resign edited apk files, so literally nothing on my phone is safe now.
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Well. I spent last night learning to resign edited apk files, so literally nothing on my phone is safe now.
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Is there any way to pack the png's so that I can flash them or install as an apk?
Anyone know how I'd do this? I already have the edited png's.
Can I send any of you guys the folder with the icons and you can help me out with this?
Thanks again
It seems the easiest way to change or theme icons is to not unzip them. Just open them with 7zip and make your changes, then close it. They will stay compressed and all of the info and size will remain intact.
Once changed you will have to resign the apk or zip file.
I spent the better part of 2 hours reading up on it using these forums and google, but I do not in any way feel knowledgable enough to instruct you on the finer points. There are oodles of topics on editing apk's and signing them when you are finished.
The steps seem pretty clear:
1. download or pull apk
2. open with 7zip
3. make changes keeping sizes and file names the same
4. close
5. re-sign the apk or zip file (most likely have to delete the existing files to the original signing which will be replaced with your own)
6. push or install the zip or apk (make sure the original app is uninstalled prior to reinstalling the changed app)
There are various methods and tools. The most helpful thread I found on signing is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
I hope this covers it all and is helpful to you. I am new at it and can only tell you to backup everything and if you are unclear on any of it, then don't attempt it.
Read all the posts related to it. There is great info and plenty of feedback on known issues or mistakes others have had.
One of my biggest *****es about the themes available in theme chooser is no, matter what, MOST (not all) leave the 4G icon on the status bar that lime ass green. Is there a step by step guide on how to make a custom theme for the NS4G? I am pretty pro at CS5 and have DW as well to exit the XML files, this is something I would be pretty confident in doing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance guys (and gals).
Here's a guide for the Theme Engine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964391
I think, but am not certain, that if you wanted to make a flashable zip, you can grab SystemUI.apk and framework-res.apk from you ROM and use apktool to decompile SystemUI
In cmd:
apktool if framework-res.apk
apktool d SystemUI.apk
Then you look for the Wimax images, should be something like
stat_sys_data_wimax_signal_0.png
Of course there will be different values representing the different states of connection.
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I ran into a major issue last night.
This was REALLY pissing me off, you know one of those things that SHOULD be working but isn't. Whenever I view the decompiled apk (framework-res, and systemUI)
The files are decompiled everything looks correct, but when I open the image files in cs5 they look all blurry as hell. I have attached some screenshots. Make any sense to anyone?
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One of my biggest *****es about the themes available in theme chooser is no, matter what, MOST (not all) leave the 4G icon on the status bar that lime ass green. Is there a step by step guide on how to make a custom theme for the NS4G? I am pretty pro at CS5 and have DW as well to exit the XML files, this is something I would be pretty confident in doing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance guys (and gals).
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Themes have just began fixing the 4g icon. I know for cm7 androidian and cyanbread were fixed.
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Rem3Dy said:
Themes have just began fixing the 4g icon. I know for cm7 androidian and cyanbread were fixed.
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Understandable. New things take time, but I have time to do it and start making all kinds of crazy themes, but just curious why the images would show up that way once they were pulled into PS. Its not just that image, its all the images. Does anyone know how I can resolve this or even prevent it from happening?
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I ran into a major issue last night.
This was REALLY pissing me off, you know one of those things that SHOULD be working but isn't. Whenever I view the decompiled apk (framework-res, and systemUI)
The files are decompiled everything looks correct, but when I open the image files in cs5 they look all blurry as hell. I have attached some screenshots. Make any sense to anyone?
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I just answered u on G+ , but go grab Paint.NET http://paint.net/
With the pngs that are giving you problems (hopefully u haven't saved them in photoshop.. grab the originals), open them in Paint.NET first, save, then open them in photoshop. Almost always works for me.
So I've decided to start trying my hand at modifying apps. Here's my first crack at editing the MMS.apk to extend the Emoji support. This .apk is extracted from Sons of Android Build 2 Currently I have removed the silly green Android icons that show when typing an emoticon with some real Emoji and some that I tweaked to suit the meaning. I have only tested this against the Sons of Android build, but it may work with other ROMs. Please test this out and let me know if it works with other builds.
This is a work in progress, and I hope to one day have full Emoji support. I'll update this as I get closer to complete.
Thanks of course go to:
elesbb for his APK Tool GUI
ptmr3 and the rest of the Sons of Android team
Cyanogen Mod
Team Chopsticks
Everyone else who has helped me learn about Android modding
Here's my first build, let me know how it works for you.
http://d-h.st/s9F
EDIT: This can be installed as an update, but it will not survive a reboot. For a more permanent fix, place the signed-mms.apk file into /system/app folder with a root file manager. Rename Mms.apk to Mms.bak (just in case), rename signed-mms.apk to Mms.apk, set permissions to RW R R, then reboot.
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Pretty interested in this...any screenshots?
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greekunit690 said:
Pretty interested in this...any screenshots?
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This was the easiest way to show how it works. The new icons replace the bottom ones when you text an emoticon. These will only change the way that emoticons are displayed, it will not send an Emoji to your recipient.
Here are some real screenshots of how it displays. I think I've cracked how Emojis are sent and displayed and hope to have a few added soon.
Very cool, this does not include CM's way of inserting emoji though. On the receiving end it is just pain text. Maybe you could merge this with mine?
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skyrocketeer said:
Very cool, this does not include CM's way of inserting emoji though. On the receiving end it is just pain text. Maybe you could merge this with mine?
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It does actually include the CM emoji menu. It might not be selected by default, though. I meant to change that in the preferences.xml. You're more than welcome to use my PNGs if you want to merge them with your build. I can upload them to devhost if you don't feel like extracting them from my build.
Looks promising.
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Here's my first build, let me know how it works for you.
http://d-h.st/s9F
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Diggin' this. Running it on Vincom's SuperLite 4.3 AOKP! One request, if you're up for it. Any way to make the MMS background transparent for 4.3? m4570d0n had it but didn't update his since ICS and it hasn't worked since shortly thereafter properly. Either way, cool deal on the emoji inclusion, thanks!
m4570d0n's work which is based on MrDSL's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697429
UPDATE: Sent which showed up as proper emoji on my end
So I am sure many of you have noticed that when you decompile ClockPackage.apk or SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk you see a bunch of PKM image files. I have managed to replace most of them with PNG files and sucessfully theme both APK's.
Here is a link to both of my ASU Sun Devil themed ClockPackage.apk and SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk. http://d-h.st/q5D
You are welcome to theme them as you see fit. I spent over 100 hours on these. PS: the text color code I use is ffffb310 hex and -0x4cf0 smali. There are some smali edits in ClockPackage. None in Contacts.
Thanks for looking!!!
Enjoy!!!
Ok, I'm stumped. I took ALL the images from XXHDPI and vrthemed them into another SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk file and it didn't appear to do anything except maybe change the statusbar.
I pulled the apk just to be certain and sure enough, the themed png files were there. Any ideas?
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Ok, I'm stumped. I took ALL the images from XXHDPI and vrthemed them into another SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk file and it didn't appear to do anything except maybe change the statusbar.
I pulled the apk just to be certain and sure enough, the themed png files were there. Any ideas?
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You can't do that. The PKM files will still exist. You must morph the whole folder if you are going to do that so it erases the stock one.
Best way is to just decompile and theme it. Use my APK's as a base.
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You can't do that. The PKM files will still exist. You must morph the whole folder if you are going to do that so it erases the stock one.
Best way is to just decompile and theme it. Use my APK's as a base.
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Ahhh!!! Gotcha. Totally forgot about that. I don't do a lot of theming I work on other development stuff mainly but this particular release is going to keep us busy for a while I think. LOL
Dev Edition?
Ok figured out that your contacts apk flashes and works fine on the Sprint S5 variant btw (very nice, this could come in handy later).
However, it does not play nice with apktool 2.0x so I decompiled it with apktool 1.5.2 and it 'almost' recompiled fine except for an apktool dummy error that was being generated by res/drawable/select_all_item_bg.xml. The resource is definitely there but it gave it that value for this line anyway.
Code:
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@*android:drawable/APKTOOL_DUMMY_0b03" />
To correct for that, I pulled the stock select_all_item_bg.xml, copied right over the decompiled one with the apktool dummy code (I know I could have just fixed the line but whatever ) and it now recompiles perfectly. I am attaching that file for anyone that may have issues. This xml file is ALREADY decompiled.
Edit: EMSPilot, I heard you got the original images from the S4. You don't still happen to have an stock/unthemed version of contacts we can work from do you ?
Dev Phone
Dennisg34 said:
Dev Edition?
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Yes Dev Edition
Awesome mate, I was going crazy looking for ways to thematize these PKM files.
Tested and works perfect s5 International. :laugh::laugh:
Thanks and regards.:good:
Hello guys, someone can tell me how to change the log window colors? I can not find ?
Thanks
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BoBCatRoM said:
Hello guys, someone can tell me how to change the log window colors? I can not find ?
Thanks
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That would be a tw_spinner in framework-res. Not sure which one as I always theme them all.
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That would be a tw_spinner in framework-res. Not sure which one as I always theme them all.
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thanks, I try to see in the framework
This is awesome work. Would love to see someone develop a dark contacts and SMS stock app darkened too. If anyone can do sothat would be awesome. But not dark MMS like the old school stuff but dark MMS with ways to change the bubble colors too. Would love to see where this goes thanks again devs
Of course we can make dark contacts, lol. Working on some now
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EMSpilot said:
So I am sure many of you have noticed that when you decompile ClockPackage.apk or SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk you see a bunch of PKM image files. I have managed to replace most of them with PNG files and sucessfully theme both APK's.
Here is a link to both of my ASU Sun Devil themed ClockPackage.apk and SecContacts_Phone_FLAGSHIP_USA.apk. http://d-h.st/q5D
You are welcome to theme them as you see fit. I spent over 100 hours on these. PS: the text color code I use is ffffb310 hex and -0x4cf0 smali. There are some smali edits in ClockPackage. None in Contacts.
Thanks for looking!!!
Enjoy!!!
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Do you also theme /system/app/InCallUI.apk? That's the contacts screen during a phone call.
InCallUI
blulite said:
Do you also theme /system/app/InCallUI.apk? That's the contacts screen during a phone call.
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Yes of course I theme InCallUI.apk.
i decided that i would try and make a theme for the tmo s5 varient even tho i do not have the device and boy i had no idea what i got myself into when it was time to theme contacts!!! i have never seen anything like this over my past years theming the s2-s4 and note 3! i was like a pkm what??? i was able to edit in my own images for dialer buttons and dialer bg but stopped there! lol. I was truly amazed when coming across this thread and just wanted to take my hat off to you! i have a question tho... sorry if you already answered for i attempted to search for the answer in this thread but am still a little confused.. so again how did you replace the pkm with a png? just by using another seccontacts image and replacing the pkm with the png?? i doubt thats how because you would have to change it in the values folder or something like that correct? kinda like i and i also saw you figured out how to edit our own dialer button image? ive just been so stumped with these pkms that i am like i need to know how you did it! lol.
@EMSpilot
Great work in here Sir..... made couples adjustment for AT&T S5 SM-G900A And everything look good....
EDIT: Sept 15
Hi Bill @EMSpilot
I really appreciated all your guide and pointers