I've built themes for my old Captivate and Infuse using UOT Kitchen and had very good results. I would like to build a couple for my Skyrocket to try out. The one thing I've run into is UOT icon packs only have a few with LTE icons and I don't really care for them. I currently use the zips added on for whichever rom I'm using. I like the red version with Sky Coke, but the blue with Sky ICS is cool too. I'm not sure how they'll react after building a theme, installing it and dropping one of these LTE files on top of it.
Anyone have any advice or suggestions? A guide on how to tear down an icon pack, customize it and repack it would be good if anyone knows where find one. Thanks.
TX_Mason said:
I've built themes for my old Captivate and Infuse using UOT Kitchen and had very good results. I would like to build a couple for my Skyrocket to try out. The one thing I've run into is UOT icon packs only have a few with LTE icons and I don't really care for them. I currently use the zips added on for whichever rom I'm using. I like the red version with Sky Coke, but the blue with Sky ICS is cool too. I'm not sure how they'll react after building a theme, installing it and dropping one of these LTE files on top of it.
Anyone have any advice or suggestions? A guide on how to tear down an icon pack, customize it and repack it would be good if anyone knows where find one. Thanks.
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Dude you need to get 7zip and unzipped that pack you want to mode or you apktool then you need photo shop or Gimp witch is free to edit your png's if you use apktool u will have to learn how to decomplete and recomete the apk which I am sure is the systemui if u use 7 zip then extract your apk mod them then open the apk with 7 zip with no compression when u put the icons back in, but that is a every dirty way to do. I suggest you search apktool and how to use it
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Dude you need to get 7zip and unzipped that pack you want to mode or you apktool then you need photo shop or Gimp witch is free to edit your png's if you use apktool u will have to learn how to decomplete and recomete the apk which I am sure is the systemui if u use 7 zip then extract your apk mod them then open the apk with 7 zip with no compression when u put the icons back in, but that is a every dirty way to do. I suggest you search apktool and how to use it
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all i can suggest to the mod is to follow theme guides google it. but as far as this its mind boggling im almost about to come out with a perfect theme but its taking soo much time/mind and all that it gets to u but great things u can learn from it and be a pro eventually..
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all i can suggest to the mod is to follow theme guides google it. but as far as this its mind boggling im almost about to come out with a perfect theme but its taking soo much time/mind and all that it gets to u but great things u can learn from it and be a pro eventually..
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Dude its really not that hard and few png's hex color codes and.few tools bam your done. I guess if you get it you get it if you don't you don't best of luck to u with your theme learn how to do .9's will make your life easier
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Dude its really not that hard and few png's hex color codes and.few tools bam your done. I guess if you get it you get it if you don't you don't best of luck to u with your theme learn how to do .9's will make your life easier
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well so far im editing xmls and it is easy for sure you just gotta get a hang of it once u do as i was saying its icing on the cake and yeah even a kid can replace pngs but to xml them is a different story. and thanks i do this for hobby so far and hopefully get a degree in computer hardware/programming ..but anyways best of luck to everyone that does it and its good people are getting smart we need smart ppl today/future anyways.
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well so far im editing xmls and it is easy for sure you just gotta get a hang of it once u do as i was saying its icing on the cake and yeah even a kid can replace pngs but to xml them is a different story. and thanks i do this for hobby so far and hopefully get a degree in computer hardware/programming ..but anyways best of luck to everyone that does it and its good people are getting smart we need smart ppl today/future anyways.
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Lol. I hope u get your degree work real hard dude. I made some bad decisions in my life when I was young but things happen if you need any help just pm me
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Lol. I hope u get your degree work real hard dude. I made some bad decisions in my life when I was young but things happen if you need any help just pm me
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thanks dude..i mean i made some bad decisions too in life. dropped out of high school and then dated a wh*** who claimed to be pregnated by me but wasn't mine. and then didn't complete high school. now im 27 and im finishing up school, married, 1 daughter, and was working 2 yrs ago up until i was diagnosed with central canal stenosis so yah 2 yrs of being @ home and learning alot in life before i die. but yah keep in touch add me @ [email protected] ..
Download apk_manager and use it to decompile and compile your APKs.
You can manually decompile using apktool, as well. Either way, you can actually read the XML files as well as open and edit all PNGs contained within the APK.
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Ok so this is very basic and its only my second morph but i think its really funny and i had a good time making it and i havent seen anyone else have this
so anyway if you cant really tell what it is
its a little android vibrating instead of the default phone
if you dont like it sorry but if you want it feel free to have it
its not that good i know haha
im kinda proud cause its my first full morph
and thank you to knowfear for his awesome tutorial on making these things
Alright another simple morph kinda the same concept haha but its basically a android guy spitting out an gmail envelope
its a notification icon also i just changed the sms notification to dark blue, you can take that out tho is you want YAY!
Love it. Thanks.
@michaelo147
Nice background.
Where can i download this ?
if you're on cyanogen's rom
menu > wallpaper > 2nd one ...
I use CM, but i did not have the wallpaper.
Way cute. It'll look even better on a black status bar (which I have).
Any way you can change the gray/black vibrate bar/rings on the sides of the android guy to white? Would look better for the black status bar peeps like myself.
Thanks!
I kanged you and made a black bar version, hope you don't mind
Wu-Kang Clan!
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I really do not mind, anything you guys can do to help each other out or help me out its chill with me, I'm still. fairly new so I have a lot to learn but I'm glad you guys like it, I really just want to have fun with this, so do it up, post yours with the white vibrate lines if you want
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RixKliq said:
I kanged you and made a black bar version, hope you don't mind
Wu-Kang Clan!
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Getting an error about the theme control file could not be read blah blah. Downloaded 2x just to be sure...
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Getting an error about the theme control file could not be read blah blah. Downloaded 2x just to be sure...
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I just edited the png file? Try extracting to AndroidThemes and pick existing theme in metamorph?
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I just edited the png file? Try extracting to AndroidThemes and pick existing theme in metamorpg?
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Yeah but you also renamed the zip file, so you need to rename the .thm file inside the zip to match it.
Ie, Black-morph.zip and Black-morph.thm.
Right now you have just morph.thm.
Ahh I fail. I re-upped the zip. Thanks gimp!
Messed with it some more and added silence.
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post the silence morph, I would like to see it
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Took someones battery droid and edited it.
hahaha this is great.
You toss your first morph up, which is a fun one by the way...then you get kang chunged in no-time-flat.
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I don't know what kanged means Haha, can some one explain
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When someone takes your work and takes credit for it.
Ohh so that's the definition of kanged i was wondering about that! Well in that case, i guess if it's for everyone's benefit and not just for people to gloat about credit then i guess being kanged is good! lol
THIS IS THE GREEN MACHINE DC+ MOD
(its a rom not a theme)
**LINK UPDATED TO DC_3.2.3 on 7/9**
I saw damages newest release yesturday, so i put this little mod together for myself so i could check it out. I can never just flash the plain rom anymore, w/o modding it first, so when im done i just take out the paid apps and then ul for others that may like it. pps were asking me for a green mod so this is what i did. Its damage, just skinned with a new rosie,htc weather clock,themed lockbar,status bar header,status bar bottom, and changed font to comfortaa. I also fixed my EVO modded main nav scroller.Make sure you check out the new suped up dconfig ui. its sharp.
Here Is Exactly what is added app wise
Utilities:
(these are all VERY small, but VERY useful apps)
androzip
autokiller
systray(for ram)
battery widget(batt%)
oc widget
wireless tether
mount usb
dual mount
spare parts
Keyboards:
htc_ime mod
DroidX
htc_green slide
Dialer:
dialer one
LWP:
4 touchwiz
1 nex mod
1 starfield
LAUNCHERS:
ROSIE_MOD(ME)
TOUCHWIZ(testing)
ADW(only non-sense launcher i use)
ALL but the htc_kb can can be removed from Data/app BTW
EVERYTHING ELSE IS WHAT CAME IN THE DAMAGE RELEASE
WHY NOT POST THIS IN THEMES?
because i always have a **** ton of problems with pps trying to flash to the wrong rom then blame me, so i just do the dirty work and set it up for you so all you have to do is flash the rom;i add everything so you dont have to even sign into google to get started(if you flash as much as i do youll understand)
SCREENS
IF YOU LIKE THIS MOD GIVE THANKS TO:
DAMAGE&TREVE=BASE ROM
LCARS=AWESOME BOOT
ME=BEING ADDICTED TO MODDING
PLEASE KEEP THE THREAD CLEAN THIS IS FOR THOSE THAT HAVE FLASHED THE ROM AND HAVE CRITIQUE FOR IMPROVEMENT OR ISSUES; NOT TO COMPLAIN BECAUSE YOU DONT LIKE ME. NO ONE HERE CARES ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU
If you are more fond of the espresso rosie go HERE and pick up the zip.
Be sure to thank KONI for all his hard work(he still needs his evo)
AS ALWAYS, for best results, wipe then flash(this is up to you)
ENJOY
I'm so flashing this. Amazing job, man.
Looks great man.
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I'm so flashing this. Amazing job, man.
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awesome. thanks man glad you like it. funny, where i come from(cdma hero) we have darchstar who they have a fund for cus he made all our aosp's over there on hero.last i checked i think they had 220 or something. BTW, what device is that dev from? thanks again
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Looks great man.
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Finally green. Cant remember how long youve been telling me you wanted a green....so means alot that you like it, and i knew you were running damage too so this should fit like a glove
Awesome!
Wow, this is amazing. Running without a hitch. Love your mod!
Thanks
p.s. Coming from froyo. The initial boot screen scared the piss out of me, lol. HTC field test, I thought Sprint was gonna come after me, haha.
Man, im sorry. Thanks for reminding me about that i for got to turn the volume down. I meant to go in and change it to 1. Im going to do it real quick, then re-up.Thanks again for the reminder, glad you like it
i have to say i like the colors ! any chance of getting a normal clock /weather and a normal espresso theme im liking everything else
this aint a zip.... how do i flash this
Which version of DC is this based on?
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this aint a zip.... how do i flash this
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i figured it out... thanks
maybe i did this wrong.... y isn't this rom already in zip format?
great job. do you think you can whip-up a royal or navy blue version of this?
can these be made in to themes that can be flashed without having to install the whole rom? so i can switch between colors?
if it this is based on 3.2.2, that one has bugs. Newest DC version is 3.2.2.1
I'd love to try this out but unfortunately I can't seem to do download it on any of the mobile browsers I've got. I keep downloading a really small .dat file. Can anyone upload it somewhere else? It would be greatly appreciated
Sporkman said:
i have to say i like the colors ! any chance of getting a normal clock /weather and a normal espresso theme im liking everything else
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Yeah, i can do that, i used to hate the factory rosie but now i love it because i can do SO many things to it. To a mod freak like me, thats where its @. The other rosie is pretty basic. I like to replace it using my own shapes, but if you want it what color? my buddy drew wants it too. Colors are pretty limited to Black or a type of green between dark green and neon green. Lemme know. Glad you like it.
JUST ADDED TO OP:
If you are more fond of the espresso rosie go HERE and pick up the zip.
Be sure to thank KONI for all his hard work(he still needs his evo)
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maybe i did this wrong.... y isn't this rom already in zip format?
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It is. If it wasnt no one else would be able to comment on it and if they did it would be to flame me for messing up
stress1ner said:
great job. do you think you can whip-up a royal or navy blue version of this?
can these be made in to themes that can be flashed without having to install the whole rom? so i can switch between colors?
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The easiest way to do that and the way i do, is to get ur setup perfect, then nandroid. Verify the nandroid. WIPE. Flash the new rom. Set it up to ur liking. Nandroid. REPEAT(this requires some space on sd and hd to backup).I wish it was that easy. If i could whip them up id have every color When i have some inspiration, ill be working on a blue next, if i have time maybe ill try and spit out two themes @ once. pm you when its/they are finished.
Like i explained in ops, i setup the whole rom so you get everything working the way its supposed to. Easier on everyone. If you dont like my work, just nandroid.You wont need it any time soon though
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if it this is based on 3.2.2, that one has bugs. Newest DC version is 3.2.2.1
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I DO ALOT of research before i pick a base so i dont have 5000 ppl mad and more flames in my thread than the sun. Yessir, this is 3.2.2.1. Gotta love dconfig
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I'd love to try this out but unfortunately I can't seem to do download it on any of the mobile browsers I've got. I keep downloading a really small .dat file. Can anyone upload it somewhere else? It would be greatly appreciated
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You can get it but on phone it is rather difficult to dl a 180mb file w/o corrupting the dl by slow data transfer speeds & combo of what type of sd you have it saving to. I can gurantee it works from pc and that is your best bet. I cant count the roms ive dl'd but never once have i dl'd with phone directly. I actually assume it would not complete and just waste my time. Sorry about that. If i knew another way id gladly share. If you have any other issues ill try my best to get you up and running.
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Yeah, i can do that, i used to hate the factory rosie but now i love it because i can do SO many things to it. To a mod freak like me, thats where its @. The other rosie is pretty basic. I like to replace it using my own shapes, but if you want it what color? my buddy drew wants it too. Colors are pretty limited to Black or a type of green between dark green and neon green. Lemme know. Glad you like it.
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yea dark green to match the theme if you would not mind
possibly remove the EVO from above the phone button if its not to much trouble
I keep getting a .dat file also (downloading from pc)
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I keep getting a .dat file also (downloading from pc)
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i like ur work but this rom isnt downloading in zip format for me?
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i like ur work but this rom isnt downloading in zip format for me?
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Download and rename to .zip.
You can then open it with 7zip or winrar and peek inside.
OK, so basically im looking for a partner in crime. Im starting to fall behind on everything lately, from school to themes. And the requests just keep coming to my inbox. And currently im barely able to keep up, and soon wont be.
What im really looking for is someone with decent photoshop, etc skillz. I'm OK with cut and paste, hues, gradients, color changing etc. But images from scratch are beyond me. Knowledge of everything else(compiling apks, .9.pngs, xml editing) isnt a must. I can do those if needed, its just the images take up most the time and I could use some help.
Im looking to share all future credit with someone or more. TBD.
Currently on the todo list:
Get swype for more colors.
Finish up themeing the 3-4 apps in the works
really fine tune the images in my main theme
Add more stoke apks to the theme.
Getting my theme to more roms (a few have been tested by other people, but would like to verify myself)
Plus when The good ROMs hit the threads (sapphire team, BB, CM, etc), I want them supported quickly.
and the list goes on and on.......
Get a hold of me one way or another if your interested
I'm interested dawgg!
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haha, you see the date on this thread?
And you can see all the people that jumped on board.
I can help with testing. I'm not super great at from scratch image creation. But i understand the xml's fairly well in combination with the decompiling and recompiling.
Lol yeah I see it. I am good at everything you said! Lol.
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Sys - IM working on the SlideIT keyboard now. If you want to help me find the xml that determines the letter color I could use the help. I looked all over last night. Couldn't find it. Wanda give it a go?
SlideIT is free in the market.
@gold - stop trolling the x forums. LOL
We will get stuff going in the tb area.
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Sys - IM working on the SlideIT keyboard now. If you want to help me find the xml that determines the letter color I could use the help. I looked all over last night. Couldn't find it. Wanda give it a go?
SlideIT is free in the market.
@gold - stop trolling the x forums. LOL
We will get stuff going in the tb area.
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hey do you still need help?
Also looking for someone who is good at packing things into a MM theme.
I have a swiftkey theme that needs to be built into a mm.
Also once slideit is done (if the xml for key color is found) it will be easier to distribute if its in a MM.
bad4u6669 said:
Sys - IM working on the SlideIT keyboard now. If you want to help me find the xml that determines the letter color I could use the help. I looked all over last night. Couldn't find it. Wanda give it a go?
SlideIT is free in the market.
@gold - stop trolling the x forums. LOL
We will get stuff going in the tb area.
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Ok...hm. Having some issues trying to recompile the apk. I keep getting those aapt errors on AndroidManifest. not sure how to correct them...
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Ok...hm. Having some issues trying to recompile the apk. I keep getting those aapt errors on AndroidManifest. not sure how to correct them...
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It decompiled fine for me lol but I didn't find anything for colors does it pull from framework?
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I didnt find anything referencing android color either. If that is found we can take out where is says color=inverse or something like that and put in the hex number. I used to have to do this in pandora and the blur music apk
Don't feed the troll! Fine! Lol, I'll stay in my TB zooonneee. Lolol.
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We at team Gummy want to make Gummy Charged a themer friendly rom. We want to make a wide variety of themes available through the gummy tool box. to this end we will be "sanctioning" themers. however we only want the highest quality themes sanctioned and released through the gummy tool box. we will have a list of requirements that must be met for each theme.
Team Gummy theme requirements:
1.Minium apk’s: These are the minimum, you can of course theme more apk’s
a. Framework-res
b. Twframework-res (Froyo)
c. Systemui (Gingerbread)
d. Dialer
e. Phone
f. Settings
g. Browser
2. All apk’s must be able to be decompiled and recompiled without errors. The exception to this, if the unaltered apk cant decompiled and recompiled with out errors.
3. All themes must be submitted to Team Gummy 24 Hours before release on any forum.
Sanctioned themers will have access to a Gummy Themers Drop box account.
Sanctioned themers will have early access to all updates and ROM releases.
Sanctioned themers will have their themes distributed through the Gummy Tool Box.
All interested themers post in this thread and i will contact you via pm.
I have no idea how to theme, but this sounds like a pretty friggin good deal
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I may get into this. I'm thinking a Windows 7 inspired theme, lots of see thru sh*t.
Sweet!
I am looking forward to work done for this! Thanks, gunnermike!
Team GummyCharge rocks!
I just recently figured out the whole Android theming process, and I'm still very new to it, but my technical skills are fairly advanced and I learn quickly. I'm no noob.
I've only messed with the framework-res.apk, but I imagine the process is similar with other .apk's like the Phone, Contacts, Calendar, etc. .apk's. I also imagine there's different problems to run into when modifying other applications.
What IRC channel does everyone hang out on? I'd love to help out and create various themes. I have a few colored schemes in mind, and I've been planning on making my own Volkswagen theme for a bit. I actually created a handful of the icons already in my attempts to use GoLauncher's Theme Factory, but eventually stopped the theming once I discovered the fact that the Export function was busted.
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I just recently figured out the whole Android theming process, and I'm still very new to it, but my technical skills are fairly advanced and I learn quickly. I'm no noob.
I've only messed with the framework-res.apk, but I imagine the process is similar with other .apk's like the Phone, Contacts, Calendar, etc. .apk's. I also imagine there's different problems to run into when modifying other applications.
What IRC channel does everyone hang out on? I'd love to help out and create various themes. I have a few colored schemes in mind, and I've been planning on making my own Volkswagen theme for a bit. I actually created a handful of the icons already in my attempts to use GoLauncher's Theme Factory, but eventually stopped the theming once I discovered the fact that the Export function was busted.
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irc.andirc.net -> #charge
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
I can't really use IRC at work, but thanks for the heads up.
There are so many images to edit in the drawable-hdpi folder, and I feel like I haven't seen the majority of them when using my phone. I'm just going to start modifying the obvious until I can get on IRC to ask questions.
Are these file names standard? If so, someone should create a tool similar to the GoLauncher Factory
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I can't really use IRC at work, but thanks for the heads up.
There are so many images to edit in the drawable-hdpi folder, and I feel like I haven't seen the majority of them when using my phone. I'm just going to start modifying the obvious until I can get on IRC to ask questions.
Are these file names standard? If so, someone should create a tool similar to the GoLauncher Factory
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This is the Web version if you can use from work.
http://chat.andirc.net:9090/
#charge
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I can't really use IRC at work, but thanks for the heads up.
There are so many images to edit in the drawable-hdpi folder, and I feel like I haven't seen the majority of them when using my phone. I'm just going to start modifying the obvious until I can get on IRC to ask questions.
Are these file names standard? If so, someone should create a tool similar to the GoLauncher Factory
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The files names are indeed standard. But when you throw touchwiz into the mix it adds a bit of new stuff.
And no metamorph junk. Only real themes and themers.
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And no metamorph junk. Only real themes and themers.
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So you mean MuffStuff themes wont make their way in?
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So you mean MuffStuff themes wont make their way in?
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Most likely not because he ditched us and got rid of his charge.
Guess some people never change.
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Most likely not because he ditched us and got rid of his charge.
Guess some people never change.
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His themes were drag and drop crap any way, he is just to lazy to do a good job. Its ashame because he isnt stupid, I know he could have been a good themer. He just needs to grow up.
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His themes were drag and drop crap any way, he is just to lazy to do a good job. Its ashame because he isnt stupid, I know he could have been a good themer. He just needs to grow up.
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It's a shame gunnermike as you all tried really hard to help him out.
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His themes were drag and drop crap any way, he is just to lazy to do a good job. Its ashame because he isnt stupid, I know he could have been a good themer. He just needs to grow up.
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very true or stolen i remember what happened on the fascinate forum im still surprised he didn't get the boot for that.
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So you mean MuffStuff themes wont make their way in?
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I must admit I lol'd at this.
gunnermike said:
His themes were drag and drop crap any way, he is just to lazy to do a good job. Its ashame because he isnt stupid, I know he could have been a good themer. He just needs to grow up.
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So true. The only time I flashed one of his themes was on the fascinate and then I had to clean it up extensively so I would be satisfied with it. It was just sloppy. I wish him the best and hopefully he decides to take the time to theme a bit better.
Thankfully the charge has GrainOsand and you mike from the fascinate to theme! (I wish nitsuj would have gotten a charge instead of the inc2 as well but oh well)
DroidBlaze said:
I must admit I lol'd at this.
So true. The only time I flashed one of his themes was on the fascinate and then I had to clean it up extensively so I would be satisfied with it. It was just sloppy. I wish him the best and hopefully he decides to take the time to theme a bit better.
Thankfully the charge has GrainOsand and you mike from the fascinate to theme! (I wish nitsuj would have gotten a charge instead of the inc2 as well but oh well)
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He was to lazy to edit the .xml files for his themes. If you look at GoS themes, he makes multiple .xml edits to the status bar text, download text, market text. The little details in a theme make a big difference. You cant just swap out images and hope it works out. I also suspect he was a big time kang artist........
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So true. The only time I flashed one of his themes was on the fascinate and then I had to clean it up extensively so I would be satisfied with it. It was just sloppy. I wish him the best and hopefully he decides to take the time to theme a bit better.
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He didnt even take the 5 minutes it would take to zipalign. He left so many useless images that his frameworks were double in size. It was a shame he even put out something so sloppy, but at least he is gone now.
would love to see a honeycomb theme for gummy on ep1q.
mrtruckincowboy said:
would love to see a honeycomb theme for gummy on ep1q.
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that will happen when we release the official GummyCharged GBE. FE is our stable "store front" rom, and is our priority at this point.. the gb leaks just dont have the stablility and reliability of source built froyo. once we release GC FE 2.0 then i will begin working on GBE.
I finally got my computer working again, so I have some questions regarding rom cooking. Would I need permission to use ayOteddy's "Stock [email protected] Deo Rooted" as a base for my roms. And If I really wanna get into this, some recommendations for ideas even if I dont use them?
ALSO. Its well known that we do not really have a soft lanscape keyboard, no matter what keyboard used, right? Well that's wrong. Its been awhile since Ive used this keyboard, I used it on my old Optimus T actually, however, the keyboard known as "Hacker's Keyboard" has an option to always view the landscape keyboard even if a hardware keyboard input is present. Just thought you all would like to know that I figure my little discovery could be useful to you all ^_^ Welcome.
*** One more thing, does anyone know ways I can change the settings options and navigation + links? Like, the Theme Settings space for example?
Zydrate_blue said:
I finally got my computer working again, so I have some questions regarding rom cooking. Would I need permission to use ayOteddy's "Stock [email protected] Deo Rooted" as a base for my roms. And If I really wanna get into this, some recommendations for ideas even if I dont use them?
ALSO. Its well known that we do not really have a soft lanscape keyboard, no matter what keyboard used, right? Well that's wrong. Its been awhile since Ive used this keyboard, I used it on my old Optimus T actually, however, the keyboard known as "Hacker's Keyboard" has an option to always view the landscape keyboard even if a hardware keyboard input is present. Just thought you all would like to know that I figure my little discovery could be useful to you all ^_^ Welcome.
*** One more thing, does anyone know ways I can change the settings options and navigation + links? Like, the Theme Settings space for example?
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I actually used KJ2 for TigerFusion without permission. I figured since ay0teddy retired long ago, he would not reply to my PM. I think as long as you give credit to him it should be fine.
I recommend using ASimmons Theme Injector if you want to port over a theme. Just remember that the Sidekick 4G uses hdpi. What I did for Froyo Iced Up was just change one letter in the apk.....the m in mdpi to h. If you don't do this, the result will be a brick. I had to use Odin to flash back to stock....lol.
And remember that the Bali kernel with keylogger removed will only work on KJ2. You can actually extract the zip and copy the contents from the kernel_flasher folder right into the update folder of your kitchen project.
Thanks for the keyboard app recommendation. I'll definitely try it out! Good luck with the rom cooking. :good:
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I actually used KJ2 for TigerFusion without permission. I figured since ay0teddy retired long ago, he would not reply to my PM. I think as long as you give credit to him it should be fine.
I recommend using ASimmons Theme Injector if you want to port over a theme. Just remember that the Sidekick 4G uses hdpi. What I did for Froyo Iced Up was just change one letter in the apk.....the m in mdpi to h. If you don't do this, the result will be a brick. I had to use Odin to flash back to stock....lol.
And remember that the Bali kernel with keylogger removed will only work on KJ2. You can actually extract the zip and copy the contents from the kernel_flasher folder right into the update folder of your kitchen project.
Thanks for the keyboard app recommendation. I'll definitely try it out! Good luck with the rom cooking. :good:
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Re: Thanks RicAndroid I was actually gonna theme the rom from each file individually though ^_^ and I could also use some help with another thing. How do I get the extended power menu? 0.0
Hats off to ayoteddy, sduvick, and krylon for the work they did. When all is said and done, those are really the people that pushed things forward and got the Sidekick 4g a couple useful 3rd party kernels.
As I recall, ayoteddy shared his stock deodexed rom so other people could have some fun cooking up their own custom. So, just credit him and move on. I don't think he'll be upset at all.
Make sure to also credit krylon and sduvick in anything you do. If you dig back into the forum, you'll see that they worked together.
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Re: Thanks RicAndroid I was actually gonna theme the rom from each file individually though ^_^ and I could also use some help with another thing. How do I get the extended power menu? 0.0
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That was way tricky. You need to add three pngs to the drawable-hdpi folder after you decompile the framework-res.apk.... reboot, reboot_ recovery and download. Then edit the strings.xml folder.... after that, it gets pretty hairy. I'll send you a pm with all the steps needed to configure the android.policy.jar file.
Oh, and thanks for the advice orange808!
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That was way tricky. You need to add three pngs to the drawable-hdpi folder after you decompile the framework-res.apk.... reboot, reboot_ recovery and download. Then edit the strings.xml folder.... after that, it gets pretty hairy. I'll send you a pm with all the steps needed to configure the android.policy.jar file.
Oh, and thanks for the advice orange808!
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That would be very helpful! Thank you. And about the keyboard, no problem. Have you checked it out yet?
Also, any ideas for a good color scheme? I wont name my project til I have a scheme for the look. AND.....should I kill touchwiz launcher? o.o
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That would be very helpful! Thank you. And about the keyboard, no problem. Have you checked it out yet?
Also, any ideas for a good color scheme? I wont name my project til I have a scheme for the look. AND.....should I kill touchwiz launcher? o.o
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Dude...I just thought of something. Why don't you make a custom Key Lime Pie theme? Just use the various images found on the net for inspiration....maybe you can make a kind of CM theme based on yellow and green...just a thought!
As for TouchWiz....ugh...I personally hate it. Why not go with Go Launcher? It is a bit on the hefty side but is very theme-able!
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Dude...I just thought of something. Why don't you make a custom Key Lime Pie theme? Just use the various images found on the net for inspiration....maybe you can make a kind of CM theme based on yellow and green...just a thought!
As for TouchWiz....ugh...I personally hate it. Why not go with Go Launcher? It is a bit on the hefty side but is very theme-able!
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That is a great idea not gonna draw conclusions yet, but the whole green color seems to look nice on the SK. And I used to love Go Launcher, but it became so chock-ful of ads and weird buying with credits and just....it became a bit too much I think? I might poke around and try to find an older version of ADW and just break the market link so it doesnt upgrade to the new one. Which by the way, I wanted to suggest in case Holo Launcher starts to get old for you, it looks alot like the ICS update, spare the icons. But with a theme installed its gotta be the best ICS launcher I've seen yet IMO anyway.
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Well, I tryed to set up the EPM for Sidekick from scratch. No go, it's different than a lot of other devices it seems. Could anyone direct me with this a little? Please? It would be awesome because I really want to learn some while building this.
I know I have a lot of questions, but believe me, I appreciate it more than you know and I love the community for all its provided help. I have one more:
Which file happens to be for the notification background? Have tried a few but see no differences :/
It is amazing how PDT and ayoteddy got all of this working. I tried editing the classes.dex file on my own, but it seems that the Sidekick 4G is a freak mutation of some sort.
I wound up taking a shortcut and used GenericGinger's android.policy.jar file. I edited the GlobalActions.smali file using Notepad ++ and added the reboot info from the public.xml located in the framework.
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SurvivorZer0 said:
need 10 posts. What a stupid rule
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Then make em useful posts instead of blabbing in random posts... if there is time to shoot the **it, then there is time to help. Just do some searching or redirecting. Or, post some opinions on someones theme or app or whatever, then they could use that feedback for the better rather than some random post.
Just saying, could be doing other things bud. Not to sound like a jerk or any bad way that can be taken. Good-luck with the posts.
Dude...you still working on this?
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