i was looking around this weekend for a way to make custom themes. the one i found that appeared to be the easiest was through pandaapps. i made part of a theme and i wanted to try it out on my inspire, so i saved the apk file. then i put it on my sd card and installed it. i believe it installed just fine.
i've attached a screen shot of what it looks like when i try to apply the theme. i looked in the theme chooser app and i didnt see my apk file in there. anyone ever done this before?
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Please delete this thread.
Im keeping this on my phone forever!
how do you get this to work it aborted when flashing in recovery??
Okay here's the thing. It's not flashing in recovery because you are missing the update-script (usually found under a few subfolders within the meta-inf folder. take a look at someone elses update.zip (for anything, theme, rom, some of my keyboard themes etc) and you should find what I'm talking about.
Second problem, the framework-res.apk you provided contains only your changes. Had this successfully flashed, you'd now be boot looping as your framework-res.apk would be jacked up.
I took your images and made them into a morph (hope you don't mind, I put your name on the "author" line). I just applied it via metamorph and it's working great!
Benefit to this is it *should* be cross rom compatible, and shouldn't need any updates (whereas if you built a true update.zip that contained all of framework-res.apk, you'd have to update it every time it changed and release different versions for different roms).
Feel free to grab this attachment and throw it on first post!
remember, it's a metamoprh, you must have metamorph from the market to apply it!
kamikazimonky said:
how do you get this to work it aborted when flashing in recovery??
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Right now unfortunately you can't flash through recovery yet.
I am hoping to have a fix for that later tonight.
See post above. You can now use this with Metamorph thanks to gIMpSTa.
LOL....
This is great!
One thing though, can you make it a bit more discernable for us colour blinds?
hmmm I posted this on the MORPH thread yesterday!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6056140&postcount=7
If you want to get a mod to delete my post and put yours in there that would be fine by me.
I have no idea how to delete this off my captivate. I reset my phone, format internal sd and reflashed the unleashthebeast rom. Please help me. Its still there! I want the original battery icon back
Can Someone please help me, i always support developers by purchasing apps, please help so i dont have to refund the app.
How long should it take to apply the frameworkres.apk??? its been appling for about 15mins now.
i tried a different theme, and metamorph didnt pick up the .thm file so i converted it, while installing it got to part 3 of 4 and restarted and now looks on different. Any ideas?
Ive tried 3 different themes still cant get the black status bar
if you have the newest metamorph, make sure you have a new style morph aswell, the old ones wont work with new metamorph unless the themer updated their morph
EkostonS said:
if you have the newest metamorph, make sure you have a new style morph aswell, the old ones wont work with new metamorph unless the themer updated their morph
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^what he said ... make sure there's the new .xml file in the root of the .zip file
xidominicanoix said:
^what he said ... make sure there's the new .xml file in the root of the .zip file
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thanks for you help both of you, the zip files has no xml file in it, but its the latest got it from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=637245
the kustom one. It contains no xml file at all, and the one i created from the .thm doesnt work.
I have the latest metamorph from andriod market v 1.9.8.3
EDIT: metamorph never asked me about busybox is this only need for older versions of metamorph?
anyone ?
Try THIS, credit goes to its creator (Danation @ ModMyMoto) All you have to do is put the .thm file in the same folder as this, then run the program. It makes an .xml file that you can put back in the Morph zip file, then you should be good to go. If it tells you it already has a valid xml file, tell it to make one anyways.
PS- follow the link, the version i uploaded is not the newest one
pablizzo said:
Try THIS, credit goes to its creator (Danation @ ModMyMoto) All you have to do is put the .thm file in the same folder as this, then run the program. It makes an .xml file that you can put back in the Morph zip file, then you should be good to go. If it tells you it already has a valid xml file, tell it to make one anyways.
PS- follow the link, the version i uploaded is not the newest one
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Hi thanks for your help i appreciated it! I already tried to create the xml file using that program, but when i try to apply it only applies some parts of the theme not the black bar. Ive got chrome icon and messaging icons but no black bar. Any ideas?
Ive tried so many different morphs that are meant ot change my status bar to black but still none that work, it seems to just change the clock font to white, so i can hardly see it. This is really frustrating, i think i better refund metamorph before its too late.
is morph of kspec working for others? Are they using their own made .xml file? is it making their topbar black?
What am i doing wrong? Do i need this busybox?
awesome forum!
Hey everybody, this is my first post here.
I recently installed Rubix Focused and the Linear theme for it. All is well and good except that some of the edit menu icons are themed and some are not. This really bugs me and I wanted to change them all back to the stock icons. I've found the icons inside of the framework.apk inside the linear theme zip, but when I replace them via 7zip and try to reinstall the theme, they aren't changed and my phone pretty much flips out.
Also some of the icons for other programs (Gmail, others) are also changed, I'm assuming whatever would work to fix the ones inside the framework apk would also work for changing out the icons in those specific apps.
So how do I go about doing this? I thought it would be a simple fix but I'm thinking I'm missing something during the process.
If you use the rubix zip u flashed...
Open it up with 7zip and pull ouy everything but the framwork-res.apk
Then reflash the new zip. I believe u can do this...read it in this forum somewhere...
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Would I be reflashing Rubix's framework or the theme's (Linear)? The modified icons came from the theme installation.
Use the rubix framework if you want them to look like the stock rubix icons.
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I replaced the icons in the theme with the icons I wanted and replace the framework file in the original theme's zip and deleted everything else, keeping the file structure to the framework file intact. It freezes whenever I try to install it now.
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I replaced the icons in the theme with the icons I wanted and replace the framework file in the original theme's zip and deleted everything else, keeping the file structure to the framework file intact. It freezes whenever I try to install it now.
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What process and exact steps did you take to do this?
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Alrighty, I ended up getting something to work. I used another simple theme mod's zip file and replaced the framework file with mine and installed fine. I'm guessing it had to do with signage or something.j Would life have been made easier if I used apk manager?
Yes, if you are just replacing images, apk manager would probably make life easier...
Sorry I didn't think to mention this before... was just trying to think of the easiest method to get you back to where you wanted to be in terms of look/feel.
I have metamorph, my phone is rooted and I have busy box. The only thing i need is the themes that I download to use on metamorph. Do they come with the app, because I dont have anything except the empty folder, or can i get a link to where to download the new themes?
Thanks to anyone who can help
Ok, again. I'm learning. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just Frankensteining things together and seeing if they'll work.
I took T-mobile theme chooser apk and theme manager apk (Not sure if that one's related) out of cm7 and put them into a deodexed rom. I also took the permission for T-mobile theme chooser out of cm7 and put it into the stock deodexed rom.
NOW, I'm not 100% sure if those were ALL if any of the files I really needed for this. Again, I'm just messing with things. If someone knows what I'm missing (even if it's not possible; just for knowledge) it would be appreciated.
Mainly though: I'm wondering why everything else installed fine except theme chooser itself. I even took the apk and resigned it to see if it would install and nothing. Why is that?
Thanks for helping my ignorance.
Another side question for anyone who want's to help me. How would I write the script to make this a flashable one (assuming it was one that worked) so I could install it over my current rom.
The folder itself is set up this way: (It's no zipped, but obviously that would need to be done)
/Rom/System/
-- /App/
----- /themechooser.apk
----- /thememanager.apk
-- /Etc/Permissions
----- /com.tmobile.software.themes.xml
Thanks again.
Theme chooser needs to be in the rom when it's built
derekwilkinson said:
Theme chooser needs to be in the rom when it's built
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Thanks....
I added it to a stock deodexed rom in /system/app/. Everything else I added went in. How would I do it otherwise?
The secondary update zip layout wasn't used. It was a general if that was the update zip how would I write the script (not being for theme chooser).
If I'm not mistaken the framework needs to be modified for the themechooser to work. Thats what someone on here previously told me.
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If I'm not mistaken the framework needs to be modified for the themechooser to work. Thats what someone on here previously told me.
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Figured it would be more than just that.
Theme chooser aside anyone wanna help me with how to make the script for said above zip (if it was an actual zip with something else that would work).
Moved to proper section.
i guess it would be similar to porting TW apps to cm7
try understanding this and proceeding
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452004
PM me if i can be of any help!
this is something many want, so way to go!