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[Q] fission 2.4.3 gingerbread theme lockscreen slider fix

Hello, im trying to use a gingerbread theme for fission 2.4.3. However, for some reason, the insides of the silence sliders are completely transparent and do not have the dark transparent gray of the other sliders.
I've edited the .png files and tried recompiling the theme many times, but when i get to the lockscreen the slider just doesnt move. I just cant seem to get the 9-patch process right.
In other words, i want to use the attached pngs named edit1 and edit2 in place of the original sliders, which are also attached.
any help is appreciated, thanks!

asyntax said:
Hello, im trying to use a gingerbread theme for fission 2.4.3. However, for some reason, the insides of the silence sliders are completely transparent and do not have the dark transparent gray of the other sliders.
I've edited the .png files and tried recompiling the theme many times, but when i get to the lockscreen the slider just doesnt move. I just cant seem to get the 9-patch process right.
In other words, i want to use the attached pngs named edit1 and edit2 in place of the original sliders, which are also attached.
any help is appreciated, thanks!
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How are you trying to edit the sliders? Those are .9.png files, they need to be edited different than normal .png files, as .9.png files are stretchable....
I use apkmanger 4.9 for extracting/signing/compiling etc.... if I'm only editing .png files or replacing(not editing) .9.png files, I use Simple Tasks section...
If I'm going to edit .9.png files, I use the Advanced Task sections, as they have to be Decompiled and Compiled... you will see a difference in the .9.png files when you do a regular extract and decompile, it needs those black borders/dots to make them work right... I don't get all fancy with my editing, so I use either gimp or paint.net to edit the .png/.9.png files...
I attached the sliders that you are wanting to use.. give those a try.. since you're only replacing the .9.png and not doing any editing, you should just be able to extract the .apk, and replace the sliders....
Good luck...

[Q] How to change wifi/data signal and battery icon colors?

Is there a way to change the colors of the wifi/data, phone signal and battery icons in the status bar? I'm currently using weapon 2.4, so I'm rooted and was wondering if it might be a simple file edit to do so. If there is an app that lets you do that, I haven't found it yet but I would love to know how they work so I can potentially assign each icon a different custom color. Thanks in advance for any help.
--UPDATE--
ok so from what i've read so far it looks like i'm going to be editing some lines in the classes.dex which i extracted from the services.jar file in the framework folder. when I open up the classes.dex with baksmali i cannot find the \com\android\server\status\StatusBarIcon.smali file .. not just in that folder but anywhere within the expanded classes.dex archive. Is StatusBarIcon.smali where I'll be able to change the color of the icons in the notification bar or am I completely off track here?

You want to change the color of the icons? They are png files in the SystemUI.apk, so either pull them out and edit them in some photo software, find icons you like and add them, use a theme, or use UOT Kitchen.

do you have the "Theme Chooser" app on your phone?
If so, you might want to check out some themes and install one of those
or use Metamorph or a zip application to make your own
and remember, always backup your rom

Just use NinjaMorph, and edit SystemUI.apk... If you're looking to make them green, check my thread in the Themes section.
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Urm... I lost my drop down bar after modding SystemUI.apk. How do I get it back?

I've spent the past 5 hours or so figuring out how to change the status bar icons in the Blue Lightning Theme to the icons from VB final. Got that working perfectly.
(I also tried changing the dialer and contacts screens with no luck, but that's a problem for another time.)
In the Blue Lightning theme, the background image of the notification drop down has a pic of a tattooed girl. I grabbed the background image with the same name from RaverX3X's VB final zip and swapped them.
Now the background looks great, but the little bar used to drag the notifications up and away has disappeared. And, it seems like it's much more difficult to flick the drop down away when estimating where that footer bar "should" be. When I check the drawable-hdpi folder in SystemUI.apk, I can see the .png file for the footer, but it doesn't appear on the phone.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Try rebootin?

Rebooting doesn't help.

is that file by any chance a .9.png file? (otherwise known as a Draw-9 patch file)

I thought it might have been that, but nope, just a regular .png.

some launchers have a setting that will hide the notification bar. I wonder if that has somehow been triggered.

Try booting into recovery a fix permissions
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Send me you systemUI in a zip and ill try and fix it for u
if you ain't first you're last

[Q] Framework editing

Does anyone know what file I need to edit to make the notification drop down more transparent? I'm running Embryo 3.2, and I believe that it's one of the framework files from the S3 launcher, but I'm not sure which one.
I want to make some edits to customize it more for my own liking.
An additional question...does anyone know the color code for ICS Blue?

Anyone? This is really driving me nuts. I'm looking through all of the files that I think have the right PNGs in them, and I see some that seem to fit the right names/images, though I wish I knew which ones controlled which images. Some look like they should, in terms of the filename, but don't match what I'm seeing...
I miss the old days

Surely the S2 forums contain an answer, I would imagine at least.
It's not the usual system ui, tw, and framwork res huh?

dac1227 said:
Surely the S2 forums contain an answer, I would imagine at least.
It's not the usual system ui, tw, and framwork res huh?
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It might be, but I can't seem to find the right files. For example, the only close PNG I see is nowhere near what I see on my own phone. With the presence of those 3 files (and perhaps more) I don't know which one I should edit.

Its in the xml's
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So I have to edit the XML's now to theme my phone?
Wow...when did that change. I used to be able to change the PNGs and re-insert them into the apk files with no problems...

XML is what declares color and transparancy of status bar if memory serves its been that way on most phones for a long time
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nrm5110 said:
XML is what declares color and transparancy of status bar if memory serves its been that way on most phones for a long time
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Not looking to theme the status bar itself, just the notification dropdown and the icons on the status bar.
On my Droid 1, you had to edit the Services.jar if you wanted to change the color of the status bar itself, but it was a simple png edit within framework-res.apk if you wanted to change the dropdown color/transparency or any of the icons up there (signal, wifi, etc).

That's correct I misinterpreted what you were trying to do that's my bad
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You need to be looking in SystemUI. apk, that's where notification drop down background and quick panel icons live.
Btw, there are many duplicates, original ics and tw versions.

[Q] Changing all icons to black&white

Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!

oombongo said:
Hi there,
So recently I got Nexus 5 after 4 years of HTC Desire. Quite a huge leap performace wise I might add, and this phone is absolutely a sweetheart. The first thing I did was rooting the phone :laugh:
Anyways, I am thinking to change the color of all icons (including icons of applications) to black and white. I get it that I would need to extract the icons first, and then change the color using some icon or icon editing program or simply a photo editing program etc.
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Why don't you just use a Launcher that allow you to use custom icons? with Nova and Apex you can do it

oombongo said:
Now what I would need to know is that how can I repack the icons back to the application? or would I need to place it in some directory and fiddle with some xml file?
Cheers!
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Icons are icons. The colour of icons does not need xml files. Its all controlled by images.
You can actually repack quit easily, but also takes a lot of effort. You need to look at the villain rom theme engine. It is a flashable zip that unpacks each apk and replaces whatever you have in the zip in the apk. Essentially you would have /system/app_name/res/icon.png (pretending that this is the location of the icon in the apk, each will be different I expect)... but you have to do this for every app.