why is it so hard? i spent the last 2 hours searching, i have found many links to .apks and a couple of zips, MOST of them either dont work anymore, are old versions, or have stupid GREY text on black background thats rediculously hard to read.
then there are a few that looked promising but say "not installed" when i run them.
does anyone know of a .apk gmail with WHITE WHITE WHITE text? i would be oh so greatful!
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why is it so hard? i spent the last 2 hours searching, i have found many links to .apks and a couple of zips, MOST of them either dont work anymore, are old versions, or have stupid GREY text on black background thats rediculously hard to read.
then there are a few that looked promising but say "not installed" when i run them.
does anyone know of a .apk gmail with WHITE WHITE WHITE text? i would be oh so greatful!
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Not without editing the whole rom as the text color codes are not all contained within the gmail apk. I have been working on a rom and still cant find some of the black text. To change the color for the text are over 50 xml edits not to mention the smali edits needed.
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Not without editing the whole rom as the text color codes are not all contained within the gmail apk. I have been working on a rom and still cant find some of the black text. To change the color for the text are over 50 xml edits not to mention the smali edits needed.
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JEEbus. well i guess ill just get over the idea of a black gmail with white text then..........
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JEEbus. well i guess ill just get over the idea of a black gmail with white text then..........
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Or do what I did when I started. Find the thing that ticks you off the most in your case the gmail text and learn to find it and fix it. With time and great searchfu nothing is impossible. The great thing about android is you can. It may not be easy but things that are worth it never are lol. Never know you might be the next great themer if you have a mind to it. Good luck in your search
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I was wondering if there is a way to reverse icon colors in the status bar. I just downloaded a black status bar and a lot of the icons blend into the black bar (if that makes sense).
If anyone can help me out, thanks. I don't know anything at all about coding and very little about the root process, so a Metamorph option would be the easiest way for me, although I can figure out theming.
Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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Maybe you like those...http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...tatusbar-icons/page__view__findpost__p__33425
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I saw those. I wasn't quite sure if it changes the Messaging, Gmail, Voice and other icons since all I see is the USB and USB Tethering icons. Do you know if those are changed?
Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Haven´t checked that...best, open file and have a look before you morph.
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Wow that is a great idea. I never thought of that haha (still brand new to this stuff). Well, unfortunately it doesn't have icons for Messaging, Gmail and a few others. Thanks for the idea though. Now I know I can check.
Any other ideas?
Anyone know of anything else to do?
Shameless bump because I really want this.
There is a desire morph around somewhere, locate the files or images you want and I can make a morph, just need to know what rom and icons.
Also bumping. Now that CM has theming, I think someone should have one out.
Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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Made this one a while back...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766561
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Use ninja morph and inverse the images u want in framework-res.apk ...really easy
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I checked out ninja morph. You're right, it does exactly what you said...EXCEPT you have to modify every icon individually, which ends up being an enormous pain.
Also, I could have missed something but how do you inverse icons directly on the phone? I looked around and still couldnt find anything. Ended up transfering them to the pc and editing them from there.
In the end, I'm just amazed that android doesn't have a unified icon / theming system yet. To edit messages, you have to go in to mms.apk (took me forever to figure that one out), to edit gmail you have to look in gmail.apk, system icons were in framework, etc. What a pain.
well guys, seen this theme here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1006709
I thought everyone here would like this so i ported it
=======I am not responsible for what you do to your phone. You have been warned=======
-----------Must be on EC10 PnP 0.3 for this to work-----------
report any errors to me and ill get them fixed...i know i dont have a silent button for the notification bar, ill have 1 soon
Instructions :
disable lagfix if you got it on
wipe dalvik cache
wipe battery stats
flash in CWM
Reboot...wait 28 years for it to boot
enjoy!!!
all credit goes to those stated in the link where i got this theme from...all i did was port it to the mesmerize
Download Link : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CUEEDRUM
Fixed the text issue...gray boxes with white text
Looks good so far, but can't read any in-app menus (hit the menu key in email for example) and the default messaging app looks messed up... tried with ec10 pnp rom
mvpalmer271 said:
Looks good so far, but can't read any in-app menus (hit the menu key in email for example) and the default messaging app looks messed up... tried with ec10 pnp rom
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ill have to make an edit then...is it all dark or all light...the text?
the text is all black, blends in with the background. In the messaging app, the bubbles aren't quite black, so you can just BARELY see the text. White text in both of these scenarios would make this look just about perfect in my eye.
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the text is all black, blends in with the background. In the messaging app, the bubbles aren't quite black, so you can just BARELY see the text. White text in both of these scenarios would make this look just about perfect in my eye.
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shouldnt be that way anymore...reflash and have a look for me please...forgot to check the msg app...checked most all else and it looked good though
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ok...ill take care of it
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yeah for black menus, text has to be inverted...heres the how to (on the off chance you didnt have it ):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9664604#post9664604
nitsuj17 said:
yeah for black menus, text has to be inverted...heres the how to (on the off chance you didnt have it ):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9664604#post9664604
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ty sir...i think i have the files, i just forgot to add them in
.......... double post somehow
I am still getting black-on-black text. Has the file updated at megaupload yet?
FANTASTIC theme btw
kasandoro said:
I am still getting black-on-black text. Has the file updated at megaupload yet?
FANTASTIC theme btw
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try it again...i tested this 1...should be gray boxes and white text
and thanks....dont forget to thank the people who originally made and ported this theme oover to the sgs phones
Same issue still... For example:
1.) Press the "Menu" soft key (from a home screen)
2.) Press the "More" option
Can't view text
Also, in notifications, it's white text on a gray background. Any possibility of making the text a little more visible?
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Same issue still... For example:
1.) Press the "Menu" soft key (from a home screen)
2.) Press the "More" option
Can't view text
Also, in notifications, it's white text on a gray background. Any possibility of making the text a little more visible?
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ill have to play with it and see what i can do...never hurts to try
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ill have to play with it and see what i can do...never hurts to try
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It's all covered in this reference; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831715
For the secondary menu i'ts under "expanded.menu" or something like that, for some reason that one won't work if called with @/color so what you actually need is the original code that was there (something like "?SmallTextInverse", and just remove the "inverse" from the end, and that will change the text color properly.)
For notifications, you'll have to edit XML located within the Layout folder, i'ts listed in that guide too. Let me know if you need help!
love it, but conversations in default messaging app are also difficult to read.
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love it, but conversations in default messaging app are also difficult to read.
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guess ill have to do some theming to the mms.apk, green sound good?
NOTE : You should blur out the number of your friend...anyone looking up stuff for the mes on google can get that number
Sounds good, thanks!
Didn't even think about that. Oops.
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I re-downloaded the file but when applied, messages are still quite dark. Is the file that's online the updated one?
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I re-downloaded the file but when applied, messages are still quite dark. Is the file that's online the updated one?
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He never said he updated yet.
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At the bottom of the first post it said updated the text issue, and I thought that was in reference to the text messaging issue. Oh well.
foofoo982 said:
At the bottom of the first post it said updated the text issue, and I thought that was in reference to the text messaging issue. Oh well.
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i thought i had fixed it but apparently not...lol got this one and another to do some work to...ill get it fixed...im hoping so anyways
UPDATE - So i finaly figured it out, feel like a absolute NOOB atm. but these things happen.
Basicaly i edited the "Styles.XML" to make the backgrounds tranperant.
i looked for the style that the android manifest referenced and changed the parent to "@android:style/Theme.Wallpaper"
changed the background image to just a black transplucent image
rebuilt the app, copied the resources.arsc and the moded image,
pushed it to my phone, and BOOM! it worked a treat.
this should work in any app i think.
sometimes the hardest problems are solved so easliy.....
once i have tested it a bit i'll wrap the phone / contacts / mms apps into a update zip hopefully tonight or tomorro.
also i'll put a quick tut together if ppl are interested.
PVY
I am trying to make a fully transparent theme. Got all the framework-res stuff downpat. But I can't for the life of me get the other apps to go transperant.
I tried just changing the background image to semi transparent in the contacts app, then I went fishing around in the xml files but can't find any thing that relates to the background.
then in the mms app I found all the colours in the res/values
Changed the alpha but it didn't work.
Been searching around and can't find out how to make it work.
Thanks in advance.
Pvy
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FINALY!!!
So i fgured this out. thought i'd share
only took a few weeks of googling. (and finding the correct thing to google)
lol...
i had to add the style to the AndroidManifest.xml
i used
Code:
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Wallpaper"
and i put it in the application brackets. so it looked like this
Code:
<application android:label="@string/app_label" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher_smsmms" android:name="MmsApp" android:taskAffinity="android.task.mms" android:allowTaskReparenting="true" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Wallpaper">
then the usual stuff with making stuff Transparent.
attached is a screeny or 2 the funny lines is my wallpaper. (fireflies Live wallpaper)
next im going to do the Phone and contacts apps, then move my way through the rest of the phone
Pvy.
are you still working on this? i think it would be cool to have all menus transparent
Yeah mate, been having mega issues with my new laptop. it wont decompile/recompile apks properly... i think it is a win 7, 64 bit issue...
so i hit a bit of a snag. was thinking of releasing a theme if ppl were interested. (gotta figure out the whole recovery zip thing tho)
Pvy
alamatnitotoy said:
are you still working on this? i think it would be cool to have all menus transparent
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I have tried what you said in the code but didn't get the same result.
What do you mean here by the usual stuff?
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then the usual stuff with making stuff Transparent.
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modifying the alpha/transperancy of the images and the alpha in the xml files.
ie int the color.xml it has the background colors,
so #ff000000 is fully opaque black,
and #99000000 is like 60% Transperant Black
i'll post the MMS.APK if thats what you are after. and you can see all the changes i made. it was rather rushed after i had my epipheny
EDIT- I attached the MMS.apk that i was working on recently, it runs on the emulator, and the transperancy works for both black and white backgrounds. the apk is signed so it should run on a phone. but normal stuff aplies,
Make sure you have a backup of the original, and i'm not responsible for any damage, ect ect ect.
alot of the XML files have small changes.
let me kno if ya want any more info
Thanks PVY.
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I have tried what you said in the code but didn't get the same result.
What do you mean here by the usual stuff?
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How is the work coming along? I'm gonna try the messaging app, I'd love to try anymore that you have finished
slow atm , i am having issues getting the moded apps to work on the phone... FCs.... lots and lots of fcs...
i should prob update the first post... maybe later.
the mms.apk above will work i am running it on my phone (using wolfs CM6 v006). i used x10 mod tool ( by mr rush i think) to push it to the /system/app folder ont the phone, take a backup first tho to be sure.
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How is the work coming along? I'm gonna try the messaging app, I'd love to try anymore that you have finished
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So i figured it out see the first post!
Pvy
nice..you did it..ill try it maybe later cause im on miui now
yeah i was prety happy hey
heres some screenies!
http://s789.photobucket.com/albums/yy180/aaronkable/Transperant%20Theme/?albumview=slideshow
Pvy
sure it will all work good
I have been trying to get the Dialer screen to be transparent. Most of it has been done except a dark band where the tapped numbers appear. Can't seem to find the settings for this in DialerTabActivity.apk in xml or image files. Screen attached. Is this a framework edit? A little guidance please?
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I have been trying to get the Dialer screen to be transparent. Most of it has been done except a dark band where the tapped numbers appear. Can't seem to find the settings for this in DialerTabActivity.apk in xml or image files. Screen attached. Is this a framework edit? A little guidance please?
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I'm not too sure myself. However, what you have looks great. When you black out the phone background, or make that transparent, can you post that one or give me a copy? IMO, it looks good. Good job, neo.
qkster said:
I'm not too sure myself. However, what you have looks great. When you black out the phone background, or make that transparent, can you post that one or give me a copy? IMO, it looks good. Good job, neo.
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Here's the version with all blacks. Only the Numbers have the blue underlines as in the transperant version. I liked this one too. I hope this is what you were looking for.
I believe it's call_dial_panel_bg.png isn't it?
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Here's the version with all blacks. Only the Numbers have the blue underlines as in the transperant version. I liked this one too. I hope this is what you were looking for.
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It looks great, Neo. Thank you. I owe you a few.
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I believe it's call_dial_panel_bg.png isn't it?
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That image I already edited. Has not made a difference.
You have to nake a transparent color in colors.xml, the image is called dial_edit_btn or close to that name... To make the dialer transparent xml colors must be changed also and styles
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That box is not an image. It is a color found in the res/values/colors.xml.
Look for <color name="tw_color002">#FF000000</color> and change it to <color name="tw_color002">#00000000</color>. That will make that little box transparent. However, you will run into an issue...there is another xml that calls that color for text. Your text will be invisible. So you need to edit that xml to call on a different color code. Find the file layout/dialer_searchdialog_contents...in it you will see several places that call on the color/tw_color002 line in the color.xml. Simply change those codes to tw_color017, which happens to have the value FF000000, and your text issue will be nonexistent.
Good luck.
Thanks Dman and Nunhugger. Collective Rox.
NUnHugger your answer is SpotOn!!!
HTC provided quite a few skins for this phone which I'm grateful for and combing the Matte skin with Apex is close to giving me the benefits of both ICS and Sense 4.0 looks (the Matte skin uses what appears to be the/a close representation of the ICS blue). Unfortunately, for whatever reason, HTC decided to leave a certain disgusting looking green present in its default menu/selection popup. Whats odd though, is that when you select something, it uses the blue from the Matte skin. HTC evidently didn't think this far through because there is no way those go together. What I was wondering was if anyone knows of where this green is, whether its a color code used somewhere (this is what I would expect) or an actual image. This is just very irritating to look at when it pop ups and really ruins the consistency of the phone IMO.
If your not sure what color I'm talking about long press on a photo and its that menu I'm referring to. The reason I think its just a color code is because the same green appears in the Root Explorer app at the top (thin line, right underneath the icon) so I would imagine the app is just referring to some default system color and using it to color that image. Could be totally wrong though and its just calling for an image that stretches to fill the space since its only a solid color.
Your solution would be to edit the systemui.apk and the framework-res.apk
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Your solution would be to edit the systemui.apk and the framework-res.apk
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I figured it was one of those two. I've only looked through the images contained in the SystemUI.apk file and didn't see anything that looked quite like the green bar. Guess I have to go through looking at the .xml files I'll check the framework-res.apk first thought and see if there's anything in there.
If I remember correctly, the images that are stretched in android are the png files that are the .9 images
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Just change the skin type under the Personalize settings. Implements system wide changes for colors and everything.
root for this?
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Your solution would be to edit the systemui.apk and the framework-res.apk
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probably a dumb question, but do we need root access for this, or can I find other means of access? I have encryption mandated by my corporate administrators and I dont feel like decryption/factory resetting/rooting/editing and finding out that it's all for naught when my conpany re-encrypts so i can get my email. Also, please note i'm a noob and may have just said nonsensical things herein
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probably a dumb question, but do we need root access for this, or can I find other means of access? I have encryption mandated by my corporate administrators and I dont feel like decryption/factory resetting/rooting/editing and finding out that it's all for naught when my conpany re-encrypts so i can get my email. Also, please note i'm a noob and may have just said nonsensical things herein
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You can't edit those without Root access You won't even be allowed to edit files in the /system directory without root.
So I looked in the framework-res.apk file and I found a lot of images that I believe are the green selectors I was referring to in the OP. The only problem, is I'm not sure of a perfect way to replace them (tried naming the original something weird, but then everything started crashing and needed to use adb to rename the file) and I'm not sure how good it will even look since it appears when you select something it uses several images to create a "light -> dark" type selection. I suppose I could edit the transparency of the files, but I don't know if it will be worth the effort. I might not even be doing the process correctly because I just rezipped my customized framework-res file and changed the extension from .zip to .apk. Is that even the proper thing to do?
Look at the second post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869198
This is NOT a complete guide for our phones, but reading this will get you on the right track. I know about a bit of themeing, and can try to help you on the way.
i know this hasnt been seen or touched lately but can any one tell me where and what to edit/change to change the color of the green since i dont realy like it? if its possible
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i know this hasnt been seen or touched lately but can any one tell me where and what to edit/change to change the color of the green since i dont realy like it? if its possible
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i know this post is fairly old now, but i too would love to know how id be able to change this fugly green color in messages. i have a coredroid theme zip that includes a nice blue message "bubble" but i would have no idea how to go about putting it in my current rom.