I have tried a couple of roms recently. Both times my wallpaper changer app has replaced the rom's wallpaper. I have searched and not seen an easy way to get the original back. I really don't want to have to reinstall if not necessary. Any help?
I can offer you two approaches:
1. Long press on home screen and choose Wallpapers > Wallpapers and click Reset to Default
2. Using Root Explorer (or similar), navigate to /system/framework and "View" the framework-res.apk - navigate to framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi and find the file called default_wallpaper.png - copy and paste it to your sdcard to use as you'd like...
EDIT: Maybe i'm not understanding you properly - does your wallpaper changer app (btw, what does that app do besides change wallpapers?) possibly swap out the default_wallpaper.png file mentioned above? If so, you can just browse to the same file location in the full ROM file you originally downloaded, using 7zip (or the like), and grab the original wallpaper that way..
Found file with explorer. Must not have looked in right dir. Wallpaper changer will change wallpaper at assigned intervals; hours, minutes etc. It pulls images from designated folder. I . bored with same wallpaper day after day. Its nice to wake up each day and see what my wallpaper of the day is. Thanks for the help.
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i found a way to use the clocks found on the home customizer on S2U2.
1. open HHC and choose the clock you want to use and apply changes
2. backup the settings under the options tab (will be saved to "My Documents" in file explorer)
3. in file explorer open HTC Backup file and open "Clock" file, there you should see the clock you chose.
4. Back out and copy the "Clock" file and paste in "gfx" under S2U2 (found under "Program Files" "S2U2"). *I did this just for ease of use, so i didnt have to go through 5 files everytime i wanted to transfer a number*
5. open the "clock" folder inside gfx and you will see the attributes of the default clock you are using on S2U2 currently.
6. the numbers being used in this folder are 1,2,3... in the HTC Backup folder, it is different. I am currently using Alien Round and they were labled as HHC...1,HHC...2 and so on
7. all you have to do is rename these HHC numbers to 1,2,3..., copy them, and paste them to the corresponding number in the Clock folder in gfx.
8. You will be asked if you would like to over-write the files, just say yes.
9. You can even change the "am" and "pm" from the files and the colon style.
10. Soft Reset and you should see the changes.
Hope this helps anyone, i thought it was pretty cool, i just figured it out today...I hope its not old news LOL
So miui had been great and allows us to customize our own icon on launcher. So I thought maybe we can share our icons here for theming needs.
Some background for those who are not aware of what this is.
In MIUI, at first boot after flashing, miui will rip through your list of apps in /data/app/ and extract the icon associated with that app and put it into the "/data/system/customized_icons_1" folder. For instance, if I have the appbrain app on my /data/app/, there will be a corresponding PNG file in /data/system/customized_icons_1/com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.apps.png.
Now what do you do with this PNG file?
First of it's an image file, and if you do theming or for some reason you don't like the default icon, you can certainly replace them with newer icon.
So cool, how do I replace the default icon?
OK, so go find an icon of your choosing in PNG format and specific size (check mine for sample). Rename your new PNG to the exact same name of the app, so in my example the new icon I downloaded named "someofthepic.png", then I'll rename it to "com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.apps.png" to match with appbrain.
After you renamed it, upload these to /data/system/customized_icons_1/ and reboot your phone. You will then have a brand spanking new icons.
This process can be applied to newly installed apps as well.
CREDIT: these icons are from Suave HD theme I got over miui forum.
I know the app but not sure what is the related "system" name of the app, what do I do?
Head over to http://www.androlib.com/, put in the name of your app, in my example it'll be "appbrain" and search. Scroll to the middle of the page, the section above screenshot will have what is call a "Package Name". This is the one that you need to copy&paste.
EDIT: these customized icons will only work if your apps are located on /data/app and if MIUI launcher parsed it to create an icon in /data/system/customized_icons_1 folder. For maps and other which is system apps, you will have to tinker with the apk itself or the framework-res.apk
Thanks for the write-up, I swapped a couple of icons (Yahoo!, facebook, ScanLife and Spare Parts..) and plan to make more custom icons to match for the others I have installed now..
Great guide. Already been doing this since miui started on the evo, but go od to show others
-Swyped away on my addiction
Thanks for the how to! Already put my newfound knowledge to use!
cool dudes, glad it helps out...
After following the steps to change the icons. It worked after the reboot but after subsequent reboots, Miui reverted back to the original icon. I am using version 11.5 stable. Any thoughts as to why this may be occurring?
robert_ayala said:
After following the steps to change the icons. It worked after the reboot but after subsequent reboots, Miui reverted back to the original icon. I am using version 11.5 stable. Any thoughts as to why this may be occurring?
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Same here. Some of the ones I changed are still my custom icon, where the others reverted back to the original ones.
I'm trying to change my Google maps app icon and I cant
Yup I got it to work but after a couple of reboots and and some mounts to the computer, some of them reverted back to default and after a check inside the customzied_icon folder they had reverted there to and after a delete of the file and a copy with the new icon it directly reverted back.
Freddan80 said:
Yup I got it to work but after a couple of reboots and and some mounts to the computer, some of them reverted back to default and after a check inside the customzied_icon folder they had reverted there to and after a delete of the file and a copy with the new icon it directly reverted back.
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I had the icons there and reboots countless of times but not reverting back. What you experience is that might be some of the apps got updated in market and therefore, icons revert back obviously, and yes you have to replace them again.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find the folder "/data/system/customized_icons_1" anywhere, not on my phone, or on my sd card
Can someone help me get these wallpapers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103342
I like the Sony Ericsson wallpapers from this ROM, but i'm switching to EB.
I'll will donate to anyone who helps, after I set up my new Paypal.
Private message me your email so I can send them to you.
EDIT: The wallpapers included are stock Android 2.1+...
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
You should also be able to download the ROM (make sure this is a copy that you don't intend on trying to flash to your phone), extract it, go to /system/app and change the name of Launcher2.apk to Launcher2.zip, then extract that, and go into a folder called 'res', then inside a folder called, "drawable-hdpi', you'll find all kinds of static wallpapers.
I've done that several times to pull wallpaper from roms that I saw, including the stock g2x wallpaper.
Someone told me I could also use androzip (or maybe it was astro, can't recall) to insert files like jpgs and pngs INTO a zipped folder without extracting it first, thus leaving it in its flashable state...I haven't tried it yet, but maybe I"ll toy with that today after I make a good nandroid.
edit: I can't find that particular wallpaper in that folder location, so I'm going to keep digging and report back.
edit 2: Found it...it's in \system\etc\customization\content\com\sonyericsson\wallpaperpicker\wallpapers , all KINDS of cool wallpapers I hadn't noticed before in there...so thanks for motivating me to dig.
Hello All
I just though of sharing my experience with you all.
To tell you the truth, I am just a new-born baby in the world of Android and have purchased my very first Android-based device, i.e. Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-N8000, just a week ago.
I have been trying too hard to extract the default wallpapers from my new tab just to look at the details of the images so I can create my own wallpapers (custom images to fit right into the screen in both landscape and portrait layout).
I searched a lot about how to extract just to find that the other posts were related to other versions of Android, there was no post for the exact model that I have. Probably people have now lost their interests in changing the wallpapers or customizing them.
However, with the help of some older posts and after putting some of my brains in the device and Android, I somehow managed to extract the wallpapers. Being very new to Android (just a week old lol), it is really a great achievement for me to enter into the root and extract something out of it
Really excited!!
I am writing this post for others like me who are looking ways to get the default wallpapers out from the system to modify or do whatever they want to do.
Here's what I did.
I rooted my tab. (Was really scared of doing so in the beginning as I am very new and was afraid of damaging my expensive gadget just after a week of its purchase).
I downloaded and installed AntTek Explorer. (A notification popped up recommending this app when I tried to open a file in the device root).
I started AntTek Explorer and in the center pane (don't know what it is called), I tapped on the 'Device' option at the top.
A menu appeared and I tapped on 'Device Root'. (Don't know why but the folder didn't change automatically so I tapped the 'Device Root' icon in the left most window to see the contents of 'Device Root' folder in the center pane).
Then I tapped on 'system' folder from the center pane, and then tapped on 'app' folder.
Here I located 'SecWallpaperChooser.apk', and touched and held the icon for a second or two.
A menu appeared and I tapped 'Extract'.
On the next menu that appeared, I tapped on the 'Education' folder that I had already created to extract the files.
Then I tapped 'OK' to extract the contents.
I opened the 'Education' folder by going to 'My Files' and found that a folder named 'SecWallpaperChooser' was automatically created.
I opened that folder and opened 'res' folder.
In the 'res' folder, I then opened 'drawable-sw800dp-mdpi' folder and found all the default wallpapers there.
Aah!! But I still don't know how to place my own images in the 'SecWallpaperChooser.apk' file in the Device Root>system>app folder so that my custom pics are also displayed along with the default ones when I try to set the wallpaper and choose 'Wallpapers' option from the options list.
Can anyone help me out with this? Or if you have any suggestions from where should I start looking?
Thanks for reading
I successfully was able to replace one of the dot view live wallpapers with a custom one I through together.
I'm not sure how to actually add another live wallpaper, just replace one.
Some people asked how I do it, so I'm going to show you.
First, find a gif image you want and convert them to separate images. There is online converters for that or photoshop. (has to be 29 images)
1.) grab the dot view apk from the phone root directory (if your rooted) or online somewhere.
2.) open the apk as a zip file and navigate to assets. There you will see live wallpapers 1-7.
3.) Choose one of them you don't mind replacing and extract the folder to your desktop
4.) You will see in the folder 3 sets of 29 images (home, incommingcall and notification)
Take all the first 29 images (home) out and import them to photoshop or something similar.
5.) Erase whatever is on the images already or just paint over it with a solid color.
6.) Grab your first gif image and place on top of the first (now erased or painted over) live wallpaper image and resize/move according to your taste.
7.) save it by overwriting the image (ex: home_01.png)
incommingcall and notification pngs are an exact replica of the home pngs. So when you replace ex: home_01.png, also use the same image to replace incommingcall_01.png and notification_01.png
8.) repeat steps 6-7 with all 29 gif images you have.
9.) after you are all done with that, drag the live wallpaper folder with the modified images back into the zip file (.apk)
I would suggest deleting the folder inside the zip your are trying to replace first incase overwriting it screws things up with it (which I don't think it should).
You can (if you want) find the wallpaper icon that goes with the live wallpaper you are trying to replace and mod that image with an icon of your live wallpaper if you'd like.
10.) Put apk in your phone storage and download zipsigner from the play store. Choose the path where your apk is and the path where you want the signed apk to be. Leave the key/mode to stock (auto-testkey)
11.) after it has signed the apk. You can install it via a file browser or something and you can go to the live wallpapers in dot view, click on the one you replaced and it should work.
Any questions, feel free to ask.
Link to the one I made http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59535572
Can you upload the version you edited?
jduke05 said:
Can you upload the version you edited?
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It's in another thread which I linked in the op.
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AHHHHHHH I still cant get this to work, feel like such a NOOB
If anyone who is not rooted gets this to work let me know