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[Q] CM 6 Theming

Hope posting this here is OK- I never get answers in Q&A...
I have made & modified themes for the SE stock 'rom' and as you know the framework-res and system apks do not need to be recompiled or signed when just exchanging images.
Is it the same for CM 6 'roms'?
I am looking into theming Wolfbreak's rom and noticed the framework-res that I'm using as a base says "signed by SignApk" when I open it in winrar.
Do I need to recompile & sign or not?
Thanks in advance!

AyDee said:
Hope posting this here is OK- I never get answers in Q&A...
I have made & modified themes for the SE stock 'rom' and as you know the framework-res and system apks do not need to be recompiled or signed when just exchanging images.
Is it the same for CM 6 'roms'?
I am looking into theming Wolfbreak's rom and noticed the framework-res that I'm using as a base says "signed by SignApk" when I open it in winrar.
Do I need to recompile & sign or not?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
You dont need to sign regardless of OS if you are only swapping images for system files. But remember to use optimized pngs and zipalign as final step to minimize resources consumption.
If you are modding any resources.arsc you need to decompile to do that and recompile and sing accordingly.

Ok, thanks- just making sure... the winrar message threw me off...

AyDee said:
Ok, thanks- just making sure... the winrar message threw me off...
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try 7-zip.....hope seeing themes from u soon....

[Mod] [i9003] Overscroll glow mod XXKPH & JPKP5

Extract framework.jar from zipped file and replace the same in /system/framework
Note: This is a deodexed version; hence i am not sure it will work on odexed. If you have cwm, you can take a chance by replacing (take backup of original file which can be replaced via CWM)
Edit1: extract framework-res.apk from zipped file and replace in /system/framework for CRT effect and blue overscroll. As usual take back of orignal file.
Edit 2: Added framework.jar overscroll for jpkp5. This is for deodexed roms. If you want to test on odexed can test it but make sure you have CWM and backup of orignal file.
Extract framework.jar from zipped file and paste in /system/framework
Take backup of original file in case you run into bootloop. I will not be responsible for bricking.

hi, can you make also for jkp5 please......

ebmq8 said:
hi, can you make also for jkp5 please......
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Kindly send me the deodexed framework.jar in /system/framework

Ask him to send deodexed framework.jar!!
Sent from my GT-I9003 using XDA App

View attachment framework.zip
here the framework. My device was cf-rooted already
but not deodex. dont know how to deodex

thanx jaskiratsingh...this is exact mod which i was finding so many days. Really thank u...!!!

ebmq8 said:
View attachment 707795
here the framework. My device was cf-rooted already
but not deodex. dont know how to deodex
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Refer to below link for deodexing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15657738&postcount=1

Thanks men.
so i can use the files for kph?

ebmq8 said:
Thanks men.
so i can use the files for kph?
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These files are for kph. Use framework.jar for overscroll glow (yellow) and framework-res.apk for CRT and blue overscroll glow.

askiratsingh said:
Kindly send me the deodexed framework.jar in /system/framework
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Hi
This is the deodexed framework.jar for jpkp5
db.tt/p6rFhMh

ahmadalsaady said:
Hi
This is the deodexed framework.jar for jpkp5
db.tt/p6rFhMh
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Hi! Where did you get deodex system file for jkp5. Coz i asked mizled his not sure if the system file posted for the newbies will work on jkp5.
Sent from my GT-I9003 using XDA App

ebmq8 said:
Hi! Where did you get deodex system file for jkp5. Coz i asked mizled his not sure if the system file posted for the newbies will work on jkp5.
Sent from my GT-I9003 using XDA App
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Learn deodexing after reading vishal's post on deodexing.... that guide applies to all firmwares ..
Sent from my gt-I9003 with A.I. Type

[MOD] Battery meter mod with %

Please find here attached. It is for european 1.33 ROM.
Have to be flashed through recovery.

Hmm, from kitchen. Would've been nice to add a screenshot of it so we know what does it look like. Cheers

Screenshot
Alex C. said:
Hmm, from kitchen. Would've been nice to add a screenshot of it so we know what does it look like. Cheers
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Added a screenshot. Look at the upper right corner

If its from uot kitchen, its probably Rom specific.
Nice post but you need to say what Rom it is I think?
The uot kitchen is great, I used it for my battery
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Tapatalk

It is not ROM specific
qbert456 said:
If its from uot kitchen, its probably Rom specific.
Nice post but you need to say what Rom it is I think?
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It is for the european 1.33 ROM.
Cheers

very good

Is it suitable for 1.52 ROM?

Alastor_ru said:
Is it suitable for 1.52 ROM?
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NO !! it is not.. just tested it on mine..

Make your own! It's easy and Rom specific....

qbert456 said:
Make your own! It's easy and Rom specific....
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You said it before me

Hi,
I just bought a Chacha for my wife and i would like to mod the battery. The problem is that i can't make UOT kitchen work with this phone. I uploaded to kitchen files from 1.54_EU and 1.57_Asia and got same SHTF error each time. Though I have used uot kitchen many times for my Desire without one problem, this time i'm really stuck.
Does someone know if it's possible or not to cook a zip on UOT kitchen from a Chacha rom ? If the answer is yes, what am I doing wrong ?

Ed Roid said:
Hi,
I just bought a Chacha for my wife and i would like to mod the battery. The problem is that i can't make UOT kitchen work with this phone. I uploaded to kitchen files from 1.54_EU and 1.57_Asia and got same SHTF error each time. Though I have used uot kitchen many times for my Desire without one problem, this time i'm really stuck.
Does someone know if it's possible or not to cook a zip on UOT kitchen from a Chacha rom ? If the answer is yes, what am I doing wrong ?
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Get the files from your ROM (it's ROM specific) using a file explorer (copy-paste to your SD card).

Alex C. said:
Get the files from your ROM (it's ROM specific) using a file explorer (copy-paste to your SD card).
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Thanks Alex. I did what you suggest. I got them by 'adb pull ...', by file explorer to sd card, extracted them from a 1.54_eu zip, nothing works ... Same error each time.
I tried the same battery mod with the 1.33_eu zip (extracted from 1.33_eu ruu) and got no problem with this one. But no way for 1.54_eu, uot kitchen didn't work with it ... Don't know if it is possible, though it seems to me that some may have succeeded with this rom if i believe some screen shots.

Hmm, weird. It should work, as I've had the same ROM and changed some icons inside.
Do you get errors when uploading all 3 files? Or only for some specific file?
Gingerbread with sense rom: framework-res.apk, SystemUI.apk and com.htc.resources.apk

Maybe the problem is specific to battery mod with this rom ? I'm going to try another mod with the same rom just to be sure of that.

I've tried an icon mod and i got SHTF error too with 1.54 files ... The errors occur when compiling SystemUI.apk.
Are you sure you made some mods on exact same rom ? Just to guess if i'm doing something wrong ...

Ok, it took me a pair of hours but i have the great satisfaction to have found a workaround ! I share it below with whoever would be interested.
I observed with more attention than i did before the error.log of uot kitchen and i saw that the issue seemed to be with the res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.jpg file of SystemUI.apk.
I compared 1.54_eu SystemUI.apk to 1.33_eu SystemUI.apk and saw that in this one it was named res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.png.
I knew that 1.33_eu SystemUI.apk was ok for cooking, so here is what i did :
- decompile 1.54_eu SystemUI.apk with apktool
- in the decompiled apk, replace res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.jpg with res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.png of 1.33_eu SystemUI.apk
- recompile SystemUI with apktool
- copy resources.arsc of the newly compiled SystemUI.apk into the original SystemUI.apk
- in the original SystemUI.apk, replace res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.jpg with res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.png of 1.33_eu SystemUI.apk
Modified as described, the 1.54_eu SystemUI.apk is now ok for cooking in uot kitchen along with the other needed files (framework-res.apk and com.htc.resources.apk). I tested it with a battery mod, it cooked and flashed ok !
No need to do the mod yourself, you can download the result below : you have modified 1.54_eu SystemUI.apk to use with uot kitchen and a CM7 style battery mod ready to flash with CWM into a 1.54_eu rom (don't forget to hit thanks if you use these files, this SystemUI.apk file has cost me many hours of googling and brain storming ! )

Congrats man!
Now I'm wondering why would HTC switch to the non-transparency enabled .jpg format instead of keeping to the official .png.

Ed Roid said:
I observed with more attention than i did before the error.log of uot kitchen and i saw that the issue seemed to be with the res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.jpg file of SystemUI.apk.
I compared 1.54_eu SystemUI.apk to 1.33_eu SystemUI.apk and saw that in this one it was named res/drawable-mdpi/battery_low_battery.png.
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Hi,
I've tried to use in UOT your systemUI.apk file. It works with battery mod, but only with it.
If you try to add another mod such as emoticon or icons, it fails.
It seems because there is emot*.JPG files in framework-res.apk according to the SHTF log, so the problem is quite similar.
But I'm not able to sovle it as you did...

max1309 said:
It seems because there is emot*.JPG files in framework-res.apk according to the SHTF log, so the problem is quite similar.
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You're right, compared to 1.33_eu framework-res.apk many png files have been changed to jpg, including all emot*.png.
The same technique i used for SystemUI.apk should be ok, so i'll give it a try as soon as i have enough time. There will be no jpg left, neither in SystemUI.apk, nor in framework-res.apk or com.htc.resources.apk !
Stay tuned, i'll be back !

[Req] Themes for ODEXed ROMS!

A lot of the community would be grateful if someone could make a theme + tweaks for Odexed ROMS also. (For those giving me that strange look, no it is not impossible!)
As most of us are using XXKPQ, it could be a good beginning.
If it has been requested before, I (or google) could not find it. Thanks for listening!

use uot kitchen

tarunagg said:
use uot kitchen
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I am already doing that, but EDT tweaks and 14 toggles are really what I am after

It's a very good idea. Other phone users are doing that. Look at i9000 section. They say that deodexing a firmware doesn't make it smoother or something like that..

i'm using Odexed Jpkpa Rom fo a while now, using ics theme of xxkpq by pushing the deodexed files then using a script to generate the .odex file Format

iceman-x9 said:
i'm using Odexed Jpkpa Rom fo a while now, using ics theme of xxkpq by pushing the deodexed files then using a script to generate the .odex file Format
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Please be kind enough to share the script

shardul_seth said:
Please be kind enough to share the script
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Which theme would you like to be odexed? Am right now on ICS theme on Odexed system. Just let me know I can upload it for you.....

trip007in said:
Which theme would you like to be odexed? Am right now on ICS theme on Odexed system. Just let me know I can upload it for you.....
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I would be grateful if you could odex the MEIZU Theme. Personally I do not like the blue of ICS.

use this script http://www.mediafire.com/?28j21ppmk821x4x
source : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1264611

shardul_seth said:
I would be grateful if you could odex the MEIZU Theme. Personally I do not like the blue of ICS.
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Which version of the theme?

v2 (i hope the screens are from v2)

I do this on ODEXED ROM.
Step 1- Download a theme for de-odexed ROM itself.
Step 2- MANUALLY put files using Root Explorer or anything similar.
Step 3- While you re-place, delete .odex files.
Step 4- After copying all teh files and deleteing .odex then and there, re-boot
step 5- ???
step 6- PROFIT!
*Dum Tan Tsssssss*

Here is the Odexed Package CWM flashable zip of the MeizuV2 theme for XXKPQ. Thank Tarunag for the port...I have just odexed it and made it CWM flashable. Please report any theme related bugs in the theme thread..
Dont forget to nandroid backup system using recovery, incase you are caught in boot loop, you can restore it...

trip007in said:
Here is the Odexed Package CWM flashable zip of the MeizuV2 theme for XXKPQ. Thank Tarunag for the port...I have just odexed it and made it CWM flashable. Please report any theme related bugs in the theme thread..
Dont forget to nandroid backup system using recovery, incase you are caught in boot loop, you can restore it...
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Can you also port the ICS theme for an odexed phone?

swapnilraj said:
Can you also port the ICS theme for an odexed phone?
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Which version Tarun's or Mine?

Tarun's .

[GUIDE] How to make your OWN CUSTOM ROM

Hi friends !
Many of you asked me to include different languages to NEO ROM. As I have been unable to do so, So I've come up with links to different guides/tutorials for MODs that are used in NEO ROM.
By following these guides you will be able to make your own fully functional CUSTOM ROM with various MODs.
I used the same links to build my own ROM (NeO RoM).
STEPS:
(1) Basic features of a CUSTOM ROM includes: deodexed, rooted, zipaligned, init.d scripts support, busybox, custom bootanimation, bootsound, vold.fstab, build.prop tweaks etc.
These features can be implemented in any ROM using dsixda's Android Kitchen.
Follow this to know how to use kitchen for making custom ROMs.
Just grab .tar file for any of stock ROM that you wish to use as base build.
It will give you a CWM flashable zip of your ROM. However there may be some problems with updater-script.
So before flashing the ROM to your device, upload this file here, I'll look for problems & modify for you.
(2) Next modification that you can make to your ROM is theming.
Basic theming includes changing icons, fonts, transitions, transparency, status bar mod, quickpanel icons mod etc
Use UOT kitchen for theming purpose.
see this video on how to use UOT kitchen.
(3) For advanced MODs, you must know how to compile, decompile APKs, comparing apks using NOTEPAD++ & winmerge tool
Follow these guides to setup android sdk & apktool:
ANDROID SDK
APKTOOL
(4) Lets start adding advanced MODs to our ROM:
a) simplest one CRT OFF ANIMATION CRT OFF
b) LIDROID 14 toggle MOD 14 toggle
c) CRT ON Animation CRT ON
d) SWIPE to remove notifications
e) ICS style settings.apk
I'll add more links to the other MODs later.
Before that you should try to implement the above MODs in your ROM.
Post here your problems, errors etc, I'll provide assistance to you all.
Why depend on DEVs when you can yourself make your OWN ROM?
Believe me, NEO ROM is the result of all these links/tutorials/guides.
So, start making your OWN first custom ROM !!! :good:

Woah !
Thank you very much man.

'cooleagle' said:
Woah !
Thank you very much man.
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GOOD LUCK Buddy.
Go ahead
I'm always here to help you.

pankaj88 said:
GOOD LUCK Buddy.
Go ahead
I'm always here to help you.
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Yeah will need your guidance & tips.
I'm just waiting for my PC's components to come back from service center. :banghead:

Great guide pankaj :thumbup:
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda app-developers app

First of all, thank you very much for your work and effort, and for this wonderful initiative. I've been reading here and there to try to make my own rom and this is just the push that I needed.
So far I managed to get the dsixda kitchen running. I downloaded the I9103ZSLE6 original rom, unziped it and uncompressed all the stuff through the kitchen, so I have a working directory "WORKING_062812_032259" with everything on it. I also selected the option Add root permissions and I suppose everything went OK.
Now I'm trying to customize it with the UOT. I watched the video, but the problem that I found is that inside the framework folder I just have the framework-res.apk but not the SystemUI.apk, among a lot of jar and odex files.
Should I deodex the rom with the dsixda kitchen to get the System-UI.apk?
Another question I have: should I change de CSC version? I remember reading somewhere that if you take a rom from another country or zone it is necessary to do so.
Thank you very much in advance.

masual said:
First of all, thank you very much for your work and effort, and for this wonderful initiative. I've been reading here and there to try to make my own rom and this is just the push that I needed.
So far I managed to get the dsixda kitchen running. I downloaded the I9103ZSLE6 original rom, unziped it and uncompressed all the stuff through the kitchen, so I have a working directory "WORKING_062812_032259" with everything on it. I also selected the option Add root permissions and I suppose everything went OK.
Now I'm trying to customize it with the UOT. I watched the video, but the problem that I found is that inside the framework folder I just have the framework-res.apk but not the SystemUI.apk, among a lot of jar and odex files.
Should I deodex the rom with the dsixda kitchen to get the System-UI.apk?
Another question I have: should I change de CSC version? I remember reading somewhere that if you take a rom from another country or zone it is necessary to do so.
Thank you very much in advance.
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For advanced MODs, deodexed apks/jars are required.
So, I recommend you to first deodex /system/app & /system/framework
folder using kitchen.
Though UOT kitchen can work with STOCK ODEXED files, but you should first deodex your ROM
also SystemUI.apk file lies in /system/app folder
not in /system/framework
You need to upload three files:
SystemUI.apk, framework-res.apk, twframework-res.apk

Added this to my Guide's List..
Hope you dont mind
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721539

Ok, I just deodex the rom:
Could not deodex the following (you can try to deodex these files again):
GoogleQuickSearchBox.odex Maps.odex Phonesky.odex PlusOne.odex VoiceSearch.odex
A summary of the deodexing has been logged in deodex_062812_115659.log
5 *.odex files remain in system/app
0 *.odex files remain in system/framework
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Is there any problem with this apps remain odex?

masual said:
Ok, I just deodex the rom:
Is there any problem with this apps remain odex?
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some files cant be deodexed using dsixda's kitchen.
delete those files & extract the updated files from a working ROM (data/app/folder)

Thank you very much for your time. I downloaded NeoRom V2.1 and in this rom this 5 programs are removed and not replaced with the corresponding apks... so It's ok to just remove them or I'm missing something?

masual said:
Thank you very much for your time. I downloaded NeoRom V2.1 and in this rom this 5 programs are removed and not replaced with the corresponding apks... so It's ok to just remove them or I'm missing something?
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phonesky.apk is play store.
So you must grab this apk from neo rom system /app folder
all others can be removed. they are not necessary.
EDIT: com.google.vending.apk is the file for play store
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda app-developers app

Ok, it must be "com.android.vending-1.apk" then. I've been looking for phonesky.apk like crazy
Thank you very much.

Ok, so now I have the rom rooted and deodexed, and I added the apk of the market.
I flashed the stock zsle6 rom with odin.
To flash the deodexed one, so I can try the theming I created with the UOT Kitchen, what should I do?
I suposse the steps are as follows:
1.-Select "Build ROM from working folder" at dsixda kitchen.
2.-Flash CWM with ODIN.
3.-Flash the rom created with dsixda kitchen (Odin or CWM??).
4.-Flash the zip from UOT Kitchen.
Is that correct?

masual said:
Ok, so now I have the rom rooted and deodexed, and I added the apk of the market.
I flashed the stock zsle6 rom with odin.
To flash the deodexed one, so I can try the theming I created with the UOT Kitchen, what should I do?
I suposse the steps are as follows:
1.-Select "Build ROM from working folder" at dsixda kitchen.
2.-Flash CWM with ODIN.
3.-Flash the rom created with dsixda kitchen (Odin or CWM??).
4.-Flash the zip from UOT Kitchen.
Is that correct?
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yes.. the steps are in order.
flash the zip obtained from dsixda kitchen via CWM
there may be some errors with the updater script file.
upload here when zip is ready.
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda app-developers app

Just the update-script or the full zip?

masual said:
Just the update-script or the full zip?
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just updater script file not the full zip.
Sent from my GT-I9103 using xda app-developers app

Ok, here it goes.

masual said:
Ok, here it goes.
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use neo roms updater script and update binary files
since the file you uploaded is update script not updater one.
dsixda doesnt fully support SGR
. it requires some changes to updater script.
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Sorry, I think I made a mistake.
dsixda gives me the option of replace the update-script with unpdater-script and undate binary. I just rebuilt it, and say yes to that this time. I attach the files.