[Q]Transparent top bar - Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)

I am running tehgyb's rom ( 2.3.6 ) and I want a transparent top bar but for some reason UOT never works and it always stays black. Could someone who has done it tell me how they did it please? Before anyone says " just edit it yourself ", I can't because my PC will not run Photoshop nor Inkscape or Gimp. Thank you for any help.

bswann said:
I am running tehgyb's rom ( 2.3.6 ) and I want a transparent top bar but for some reason UOT never works and it always stays black. Could someone who has done it tell me how they did it please? Before anyone says " just edit it yourself ", I can't because my PC will not run Photoshop nor Inkscape or Gimp. Thank you for any help.
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Just decompile systemui and edit status bar.xml
I've tried it, and am working on it, thing is a lot of apps have a gray bar where the status bar is, it gets hidden by the status bar, it looks like complete crap and is distracting. So i'm working on making that go away
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tehgyb said:
Just decompile systemui and edit status bar.xml
I've tried it, and am working on it, thing is a lot of apps have a gray bar where the status bar is, it gets hidden by the status bar, it looks like complete crap and is distracting. So i'm working on making that go away
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OK, thanks, looking forward to it.

I tried editing the XML but, it still isn't transparent. I quess ill wait and see what you come up with.
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Thats because transparency is not a png its a color code in the status bar xml decompile system ui res layout status bar xml status bar background change the #ff0000000 to #7700000 wala black transparent first 2 numbers determin if its filly filled ff full 00 100 percent trans parent the other numbers dictate color
Also note drop down a few lines n make date background all 00s to not cause bg bleed over

RaverX3X said:
Thats because transparency is not a png its a color code in the status bar xml decompile system ui res layout status bar xml status bar background change the #ff0000000 to #7700000 wala black transparent first 2 numbers determin if its filly filled ff full 00 100 percent trans parent the other numbers dictate color
Also note drop down a few lines n make date background all 00s to not cause bg bleed over
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Didn't work. I give up, i guess i was never meant to have a transparent top bar. Feel free to send me a SystemUI for Vahalla black 1.5 with transparency in the top bar.
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bswann said:
Didn't work. I give up, i guess i was never meant to have a transparent top bar. Feel free to send me a SystemUI for Vahalla black 1.5 with transparency in the top bar.
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Just a note not all launchers support it when done n make sure you turn off any launcher wallpaper hack

RaverX3X said:
Just a note not all launchers support it when done n make sure you turn off any launcher wallpaper hack
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I have, I have also tried three different launchers. Maybe you should include it on your next release or just go ahead and send me a systemUI with it done already.
Also, on my Optimus V running unofficial CM7.2 we just got the option of changing the color of the status bar. I do not think it is a CM7 mod either, so maybe that could be included in a update later down the road.
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bswann said:
I have, I have also tried three different launchers. Maybe you should include it on your next release or just go ahead and send me a systemUI with it done already.
Also, on my Optimus V running unofficial CM7.2 we just got the option of changing the color of the status bar. I do not think it is a CM7 mod either, so maybe that could be included in a update later down the road.
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Or you could just went through the themes section where i put the origional guide with pics n dl s

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Or you could just went through the themes section where i put the origional guide with pics n dl s
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Yea, I have read it and the problem with that is that I cannot install the java SDK or the Android SDK and apktool does not run properly. I am on a 7 year-old E-Machinces PC with a 1.2 processor and 512 MB of Ram. I cannot run half the programs I need to do this kind of stuff. I had a friend try your guide and others for me and the result was the same- not transparent. Thank you for your help anyway.

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[Q] customize status bar to a white theme?

I have a white xperia, ive been looking at ALOT of forums and I dont understand code that everyone posts up, all i want to do is make a white status bar with the blue like font that usually on the background of the x10, is this impossible???
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I have a white xperia, ive been looking at ALOT of forums and I dont understand code that everyone posts up, all i want to do is make a white status bar with the blue like font that usually on the background of the x10, is this impossible???
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I't possible. However it's a lot of work. You have to redo all the icons with a paintprogram. Rynoons actually made a white statusbar for the X10, see here:
rynoons modified framework-res.apk: (post #43)
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The white statusbar looked really awesome on my white X10. However a white statusbar has some problems though.
-The color of the clock can't be changed as far as I know. That's why Rynoons added a black box. However when a message appears in the statusbar (like when connecting the phone to the pc), the clock (letters) will disappear. However the blackbox stays (as it's part of the statusbar background).
-Some SE apps (like mail, Timescape, Mediascape etc) include icons with a blue background. These icons will remain when using the white statusbar and thus will just not look right.
That's why I removed the white statusbar after some days of use and reverted to a black statusbar. Still some icons appear to be on a blue background. However they don't stand out that much on black as they did on white.
U can adjust the font colors by modifying the odex files. I have wanted a white status bar and black letters since I got the phone too. I'm working on it but it requires a lot of work. Hopefully this weekend.
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gavriel18 said:
U can adjust the font colors by modifying the odex files. I have wanted a white status bar and black letters since I got the phone too. I'm working on it but it requires a lot of work. Hopefully this weekend.
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Snap. I have been working on this as well
gonna give font color a try hopefully lol
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Mhmmm if anyone creates one without bugs please send out over, the kinks stated were just too much for me, but hopefully it turns out alright... :/
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OH OH OH, I forgot to ask about changing the app drawer slider colour, domoco made abunch of different themes for their users like a different app drawer slider button thingy, I saw pirple and pink and other stuff
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I've tried deodex the whole framework, and changed the color in services.jar. And then transfer the jar files to the x10 and odex all the files. but after restart the mobile phone froze on the bootscreen.
If I change the services.jar, I need to deodex the applications too? or just the framework?
As I understand it everything needs to be deodexed, then pushed back to the phone where it will be reodexed. Keep in mind the phone will take a while to startup bc its odexing everything.
I may be wrong and I still don't fully understand it. Lots of stuff to learn, not enough time.
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Edit: if the phone gets stuck at boot is there a way to view what went wrong? Would ddms work for that? I would try before asking but I'm not at home. Thanks
How do I install Rynoons theme?
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(Theme) Senseless Red "Released"

Rebuilt my theme from the moment http://forum.sdx-developers.com/theme-files/suave-enamored-di18-di06-and-de03-versions-updated/ for the EVO.
Dont let the name fool u it will diffenetly have sense
This theme has a modded services.jar taken from the azreal rom. So if your runing a different rom that has a modded services.jar u will lose those changes. As always nand backup b4 u flash
http://www.mediafire.com/?ct584khzzamr0u0
note: do not flash more then one zip at a time. flash theme then reboot to system then flash clock
Red Htc clock: flash via recovery
http://www.mediafire.com/?o54af5g4jzsga9a
Original thread/author http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853832
Wallpaper: DO NOT FLASH, UNPACK AND PUT ON SD CARD
http://www.mediafire.com/?fz15sqohfjd318q
PLANNED FUTURE CHANGES:
power controls in the notification bar
themed htc widgets
This theme has only been tested running the newest azreal rom based on the 3.70 ota. But should work with any 3.70 rom.
I'm not responsible if u turn your lovely evo into a paper weight
Having a problem, i have been trying to make the notification pulldown transparent and i made the png transparent, but now it just shows a black background. So i'm assuming there is a second background controled by a xml file or another png. Does anyone know what i have to edit to get it fully transparent?
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Reserved for my use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748868&highlight=Transparent
2.2 requires an .xml edit in the services.jar to allow transparency in the notification background.
nebenezer said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748868&highlight=Transparent
2.2 requires an .xml edit in the services.jar to allow transparency in the notification background.
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Thank you, thats what i was thinking. So i guess i will go poke around in the service.jar. Themeing the evo/2.2 is way more involved then 2.1/other phones
Looks good, can't wait... Thanks
Looks pretty sweet. My chick would love this on her evo
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One request: make a stock battery but red all the way through.
Yeah thinking about doing that but with % inside it.
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flight01 said:
Having a problem, i have been trying to make the notification pulldown transparent and i made the png transparent, but now it just shows a black background. So i'm assuming there is a second background controled by a xml file or another png. Does anyone know what i have to edit to get it fully transparent?
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it's not an xml edit... you just need to resize the png to fit. it uses a small png and tiles it. so just resize it to 480x800 and you're cool. i've been modding those far a long time.
Oh, nice clock, by the way... if you are going to use my clock, can you please use my download link instead, thanx.
you want power widgets with custom themed pulldown backgrounds and pulldown bars hit me up...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852858
Stoney 666 said:
it's not an xml edit... you just need to resize the png to fit. it uses a small png and tiles it. so just resize it to 480x800 and you're cool. i've been modding those far a long time.
Oh, nice clock, by the way... if you are going to use my clock, can you please use my download link instead, thanx.
you want power widgets with custom themed pulldown backgrounds and pulldown bars hit me up...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852858
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Sorry bout that i thought i put up a link back to you. I purposely put it as a seperate dl to make sure i credited u. Awesome will look over your thread and get back to u
I love the theme . But quick question , how are you changing the colors of the signal bars in the status bar ? I have tried and tried but once i pull them out GIMP2 only lets me darken them not change the color . I already know I must be doing it wrong so any help would be nice .
cbrown245 said:
I love the theme . But quick question , how are you changing the colors of the signal bars in the status bar ? I have tried and tried but once i pull them out GIMP2 only lets me darken them not change the color . I already know I must be doing it wrong so any help would be nice .
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What!!!!! your asking me to give away my trade secrets? Just Kidding!!!! In gimp right click png go to image=mode=switch to RGB mode. Now u should be set to change color.
Also quick note Not sure if u know but the signal bars are actually in the com.htc.resources.apk and are named cdma_sys_6signal_X
I did not know that's where they were. Thanks I am going to give that a try.
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Thanks. Worked great. Now my next question is where is the location and location off png I have checked all pngs and can't find it ,, I could be overlooking it but does any one know the correct file to look in ?? Thanks
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I believe what u are looking for is the gps pngs and it is in the com.htc.resources.apk and the pngs are sym_gpsone_3_sprint for gps off and sym_gpsone_0_sprint for gps on

Need help with theme for bionix

Ok i love the bionix rom i just dont care for the white status and dropdown menu so i used UOT kitchen to cook a theme and i tried flashing the. Zip with framework-res. apk inside through cwm but nothing changed so i just pushed it manually and did the same with twframework and everything changed and looked nice except the icons at the top of the notification dropdown menu look like the stock froyo icons but everything else in the dropdown menu looks the way it should. I also cant find where to change the dropdown notification icons in UOT anyways? There not even an option? You figure it would be under status bar mods but i dont see anything? Anybody know a solution?
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Heres some pics!! just remember there's still a couple of things that still need to be adjusted but i can handle that i just need to figure out the drop down notification icon problem. Also i forgot to mention the time is missing in the notification bar?? It showed it in green text in UOT why doesn't it show up?
Probably because you set your time color the same as your status bar color
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rickyy00 said:
Probably because you set your time color the same as your status bar color
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No i set it to green it even showed it correct in the preview but when pushed its still black or not there at all.
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That is a sick looking color scheme. I like it!
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I got trigger working for bionix I just had that same problem with the black text on the black status bar.
Eric-1987 said:
I got trigger working for bionix I just had that same problem with the black text on the black status bar.
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how did you fix it?
Ok made some adjustments and tried again but no luck i dont know if its UOT or the ROM?? But i think it looks good so far just need to get the time green so i can see it,lol and some better dropdown menu icons the match the theme. If anybody can help me fix this it would be great, thanks.
Bryanb82 said:
how did you fix it?
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I didnt that was the problem.
Bryanb82 said:
Ok made some adjustments and tried again but no luck i dont know if its UOT or the ROM?? But i think it looks good so far just need to get the time green so i can see it,lol and some better dropdown menu icons the match the theme. If anybody can help me fix this it would be great, thanks.
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You can't change the color of the time in UOT Kitchen only the date I would maybe make the status bar green and your icons black.
And you can cook the twframework-res.apk and make your own drop down menu. Only change the status bar in uot kitchen and you will have to unzip it and rename it back to twframework-res.apk copy it then replace it in system/framework.
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lenny hodapp said:
You can't change the color of the time in UOT Kitchen only the date I would maybe make the status bar green and your icons black.
And you can cook the twframework-res.apk and make your own drop down menu. Only change the status bar in uot kitchen and you will have to unzip it and rename it back to twframework-res.apk copy it then replace it in system/framework.
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Theres got to be a way to change the color of the time at least back to white anyways can i extract the frameworks file to change the time color? If so does anybody know how to?
Also i have already made my own dropdown menu i just cant figure out how to change the 5 wifi, bluetooth, gps, vibrate and flip icons. Theres gotta be a way? how do other people make themes with the icons changed?
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Bryanb82 said:
Theres got to be a way to change the color of the time at least back to white anyways can i extract the frameworks file to change the time color? If so does anybody know how to?
Also i have already made my own dropdown menu i just cant figure out how to change the 5 wifi, bluetooth, gps, vibrate and flip icons. Theres gotta be a way? how do other people make themes with the icons changed?
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Not in uot kitchen. Maybe ninjamorph?
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This has potential"!
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[MOD] Transparent Enabled Notification/Statusbar Sprint OTA 4.22

Hey gang!
I was perusing the Themes and Apps Section for the Evo 4g and noticed a couple trends. A lot of the themes and mods are for the ports of late, which is awesome! But I know some of you are very happy with the Sense 1.0 with GB that we've received recently (OTA 4.22). While I prefer the Sense 2.1 with GB Roms myself, I want to provide mods and themes for all sorts of stuff. The other trend I noticed was that a few flashers wanted transparency. Everyone loves transparency, right? With Gingerbread, as many devs and themers have found out, theming is much more ingrained in dex code than previous issues of Android OS. No worries, there are some smart cookies floating around.
Well, I just wanted to upload this for the folks out there who would like to start theming or want to incorporate transparent Statusbar and Notification Area but are not quite familiar with smali/baksmali and xml editing. I have uploaded deodex and odex versions of the mod.
Here is exactly what I did in general terms.
used baksmali to decompile the SystemUI.odex
edited two lines in "com/android/systemui/statusbar/StatusBarService.smali"
used smali to compile the smali folder back to classes.dex
made the statusbar 100% transparent (just for sample purposes, ie it can any level of transparency, not necessarily clear) but PhotoShopping "statusbar_background" in SystemUI.apk/res/drawable-hdpi
used apktool to decompile SystemUI.apk
made the notifications text white instead of black by editing values
made the notification area a transparent black instead of stock white
I think that is all that I did...
This little mod was by request and I can't guarantee that everything is 100%. I should also note that the ROM I used to was xHausx's stock odex rom as found HERE. Thanks xHAUSx! I figure this one would be as stock as it gets, and also the requester is using this ROM.
Let me know how it goes. I do not to take credit for actually coming up with the mod for transparency for Gingerbread. That smali hack should be credited to KBanause. What I did was make it work for the Evo and also inverted the text color a little bit. I also do not take credit for broken devices. Please Nandroid.
Sorry for the long post!
Deodex download
Odex Download
Thanks Tom, I will let you know how things go.
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Well...it works, and it looks nice on my home screen, but the white icons and stuff make it impossible to read the notification bar in some apps like gmail. Still cool though
p.s. This was on Fresh 4.1.1.0 btw
Would it be difficult to make it play nice with this status bar mod? The only thing that remains after flashing your mod over his is the battery percentage. Thanks in advance!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127475
Hey guys. I'm sorry but I do not use this ROM, and thus it will be difficult for me to make mods for it.
I only wanted to release this so peeps can do it with their flavor. Maybe one of the other themers who use this Rom like rydah can fill these requests.
I do however, agree with the white icons being too white.
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Love the mod. We just need the status bar up top solid black while having the dropdown transparent. I'll take a look at it and see what I can come up with . I'm good with xmls not smalis.
Evolutionmods said:
Love the mod. We just need the status bar up top solid black while having the dropdown transparent. I'll take a look at it and see what I can come up with . I'm good with xmls not smalis.
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Just insert a black png for the status bar. I only enabled the transparent, but it isn't necessary.
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tommytomatoe said:
Just insert a black png for the status bar. I only enabled the transparent, but it isn't necessary.
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awesome! great work!
I really want to use this mod however I get no status bar at all when i run the zip. Android just starts up with no status bar, what's the issue?
xlxcrossing said:
I really want to use this mod however I get no status bar at all when i run the zip. Android just starts up with no status bar, what's the issue?
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Let me ask you. What Rom are you using? Also, if you using stock Rom, you're likely on 4.24 ota. This was made for 4.22.
I've had same issue btw. A full restart worked for me.
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I'm using MikG which is using 4.24 OTA. It's Sense 2.1 so I guess no go. What would be the best way to replicate your theme? I know how to replace the background png but I don't know how to edit scripts or anything for the font color change.
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I'm using MikG which is using 4.24 OTA. It's Sense 2.1 so I guess no go. What would be the best way to replicate your theme? I know how to replace the background png but I don't know how to edit scripts or anything for the font color change.
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MikG is not based on OTA. It is based in Evo shift ota which had sense 2.1.
Go to themikmik.com and you will find this mod in several themes.
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Transparent status bar

I'm working on homescreen art currently, and I'm trying to get a transparent status bar. Not goin so well. I'm using ZduneX's patcher, but it simply does not work.
Iv tried repatching my systemui.apk and framework.res.apk but it does not work. Manually pushing the systemui.apk does not work either. Iv tried flashing the patch and undoing a couple of times but that does not work either. Iv tried using meizu and miui and neither works. Am I missing something?
The error log in the patcher file says that nothing went wrong but there's obviously something I'm missing. Is it possible to get a transparent status bar on a g2x?
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I've read that using a live wallpaper helps for some reason?
or a live wallpaper selector... it's kinda annoying... I've done it, but wasn't happy because of the notification bar and some apps really look odd because the status bar is blank/transparent... if you look at my homescreen on that "Post Your Homescreen" thread I do have a semi transparent status bar... I don't now because by having my status bar trans when I pull down the notification the top is blank and empty showing my background... doesn't look right... and like in apps say... the browser the status bar is all white? I can't see the time or anything...
I'm not that much of a do it yourself'er but I tried, was happy then found flaws... if I can find where the Number X Number dimensions for the notification box maybe I can pull it up to cover the top status bar... but then again that's just the notification on the homescreen... in an app I have no idea how to change the status bar config...
I've played with iPhones, and kinda got it to work... but on android I think the status bar plays a bigger role in the OS...
good luck and sry if I confused you at all
Haha its alright I got most of that but maybe there's some way to get different status bars for different apps.... well in the meizu and miui screenshots iv seen that he managed to a different status bar for the homescreen and for when the tray has been pulled down... anyways do u have any idea why I can't get it to work? BTW live wallpapers and multi picture live doesn't work either
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try the UOT kitchen? and select the Transparent Status bar box?
Major Zero said:
try the UOT kitchen? and select the Transparent Status bar box?
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Ya imma give that a go but I still kinda need to use Zdunes patcher
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alright post back your results I'm sure some guys would like to know how to do it...
lol I didn't know what Zdunes patcher was at the time and just kept reading different ways until one worked sort-of lol
Major Zero said:
alright post back your results I'm sure some guys would like to know how to do it...
lol I didn't know what Zdunes patcher was at the time and just kept reading different ways until one worked sort-of lol
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I got it. I had to fix up my notepad++ cuz something was messed up
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If you are running cm9 you can use reloaded ics.
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