I was wondering if it's possible to edit a ROM after download. I'm currently using H3Y3BRIDTH3ORY and I'm not a fan of the circular battery at all, so I was curious if we're "allowed" to edit a ROM to bring it back to the stock battery with percentage and how I'd go about doing that.
you can theme it anyway you want. xpack is working on themes for it currently, you might get with him about it.
Check out UOT kitchen, you can do a lot there, or you can just swap out the icons from a Rom that has stock battery icons on your pc using winrar or 7zip. The battery icons are in framework-res.apk and there are 200 of them.
I tried going there already and was very confused.
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Most users here are interested in theming the status bar icons (battery, antenna, etc.) to add flashy elements like battery percentage, etc. I'm looking to do the opposite. I'm using a Sense rom (Fresh 3.2.0) and loving it, but prefer the stock Android status bar icons like those in CM6. Is there any relatively easy way to change from the HTC status icons to the stock ones?
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Most users here are interested in theming the status bar icons (battery, antenna, etc.) to add flashy elements like battery percentage, etc. I'm looking to do the opposite. I'm using a Sense rom (Fresh 3.2.0) and loving it, but prefer the stock Android status bar icons like those in CM6. Is there any relatively easy way to change from the HTC status icons to the stock ones?
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Not to hard, you need to get a framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk from a ROM that has the icons that you want then extract them and put them into the framework and resources files from Fresh's ROM. should be in the drawable-hdpi folder. Use adb to push over the new files. Hope this helps
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Not to hard, you need to get a framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk from a ROM that has the icons that you want then extract them and put them into the framework and resources files from Fresh's ROM. should be in the drawable-hdpi folder. Use adb to push over the new files. Hope this helps
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Thanks. I found the framework-res.apk from the CM6 rom, but could not locate com.htc.resources.apk. Any ideas?
Curious what would happen if I use Theme Kitchen with Gummy 1.85 framework.res to make some modifications to battery and status bar. Am I asking for trouble?
not developement... post in general
You can try... theme kitchen is mostly for HTC Sense stuff I think
Just wanted to confirm it did work without issues. All I did was change the battery icons.
Didn't use it on the gummyframework, but have used it on my own and changing battery icons worked fine.
Is there a way to change the colors of the wifi/data, phone signal and battery icons in the status bar? I'm currently using weapon 2.4, so I'm rooted and was wondering if it might be a simple file edit to do so. If there is an app that lets you do that, I haven't found it yet but I would love to know how they work so I can potentially assign each icon a different custom color. Thanks in advance for any help.
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ok so from what i've read so far it looks like i'm going to be editing some lines in the classes.dex which i extracted from the services.jar file in the framework folder. when I open up the classes.dex with baksmali i cannot find the \com\android\server\status\StatusBarIcon.smali file .. not just in that folder but anywhere within the expanded classes.dex archive. Is StatusBarIcon.smali where I'll be able to change the color of the icons in the notification bar or am I completely off track here?
You want to change the color of the icons? They are png files in the SystemUI.apk, so either pull them out and edit them in some photo software, find icons you like and add them, use a theme, or use UOT Kitchen.
do you have the "Theme Chooser" app on your phone?
If so, you might want to check out some themes and install one of those
or use Metamorph or a zip application to make your own
and remember, always backup your rom
Just use NinjaMorph, and edit SystemUI.apk... If you're looking to make them green, check my thread in the Themes section.
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How can I change the battery icon from stock to %?I am on 1.77.708.2(Asia rom)Or can UOT work on stock rom?
also would like to have a % battery icon too
Any type of theming usually requires deodexed apk so since your on stock it won't work. The uot kitchen does not support ics at this time as far as I know. Almost every Rom in the dev section has the % battery mod so that is you easiest route.
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Download "notification Toggle". That will give you that option plus many more. Downloadable icons too.
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
oombongo said:
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Why don't you just use a Launcher that allow you to use custom icons? with Nova and Apex you can do it
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Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Icons are icons. The colour of icons does not need xml files. Its all controlled by images.
You can actually repack quit easily, but also takes a lot of effort. You need to look at the villain rom theme engine. It is a flashable zip that unpacks each apk and replaces whatever you have in the zip in the apk. Essentially you would have /system/app_name/res/icon.png (pretending that this is the location of the icon in the apk, each will be different I expect)... but you have to do this for every app.