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[REQUEST] Theme from MIUI

Hello, I made a theme on MIUI, but for some reason I can't get it working on Weapon G2X..
I got the notification bar icons to work, but I don't really know how to mod the drop down notification bar. I have all the icons in the MTZ in the SystemUI file.
Could someone help me port this over?
I attached Backup_0.mtz (the theme from MIUI).
SystemUI.apk (My modded SystemUI.apk which has the notification bar icons from the MIUI theme)
(the framework that must be modded I'm assuming is framework-res.apk? Or how else do I mod the notification drop down bar?)
Thanks for any help!
http://www.mediafire.com/?p9g8vcg2k2i2219
http://www.mediafire.com/?uuq2tlwo9utz9ag

Holy hell. This might bring me over to CM7 again. Once you MIUI its hard to go back. I wish the main apps like the dialer and messaging app would be installable on other roms.
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player911 said:
Holy hell. This might bring me over to CM7 again. Once you MIUI its hard to go back. I wish the main apps like the dialer and messaging app would be installable on other roms.
LG G2x - 2.3.5 MIUI
Asus Transformer - 3.2 Revolver
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I miss MIUI too. Unfortunately for me stuff was just not working at all, 3g connectivity broke, and certain things wouldn't work properly.

On weapon most of the pulldown is in systemui.apk. the other basics is in frameworkres. I have alot going on lately but if I have time I will look at it.
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kwes1020 said:
On weapon most of the pulldown is in systemui.apk. the other basics is in frameworkres. I have alot going on lately but if I have time I will look at it.
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I'd thank you but I'm on XDA App. Thank you though
I'll check out systemUI when I get home. I was peeking in framework-res and couldn't find the files, so I'll check again SystemUI.apk
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I have it somewhat done...
http://www.mediafire.com/?bbnck75fstval0z
It's getting there. I just have a problem with the time being in white so you can't see it, and blotchy black colors on the drop down bar.
Also, the status bar when closed just looks like a purely white straight across line. I wanna make it a little more gradient towards the bottom. Anyone good with doingthings like that?
Edit:: How do I edit the color of the text of "Emergency" (I think it's the carrier name).
And also edit the colors of the background of the status bar expanded? I've changed every png so far. I'd like to make the status bar black until you pull it down, then it turns white. Possible?

It is possible. The easiest way I have found is using partially transparent status bars. As for the text colors its in various XML files. Their names pretty much will give them away.
For the backgrounds of where it shows notifications like download and such is app_item_background.9 but if your talking about the bar itself I think you will have to make semi major mods
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kwes1020 said:
It is possible. The easiest way I have found is using partially transparent status bars. As for the text colors its in various XML files. Their names pretty much will give them away.
For the backgrounds of where it shows notifications like download and such is app_item_background.9 but if your talking about the bar itself I think you will have to make semi major mods
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Dang :S
I can't open the xml files, it always comes up as random squares. I'm using notepad++ btw.
Any reason why they're coming up weird?
And yeah, like I changed the bottom tab of the drop down bar, and I changed the background for text and for the quick toggles, but the actual bar still seems to be black on the background. The things I changed just seem to be overlays. Do you know how to change the actual entire bar?

You have to decompile Apks before you can edit the xml with notepad++
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kwes1020 said:
You have to decompile Apks before you can edit the xml with notepad++
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Whoa that sounds complicated.
I'll google around how to decompile apks. After decompiling and editing xml files can I just drag and drop them back into the apk? Or do I need to recompile.

Yes you would have to recompile them.
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kwes1020 said:
Yes you would have to recompile them.
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K got some googling to do.

barqers said:
Whoa that sounds complicated.
I'll google around how to decompile apks. After decompiling and editing xml files can I just drag and drop them back into the apk? Or do I need to recompile.
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There is a great thread for theming by theimpalar747 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
If I remember correctly I use apk manager 4.9 to decompile and recompile. You have to set up some Java to work on certain system apk files, and the resources.arsc file can bite you in the a$$ sometimes. I replied to you in my thread btw, did they answer your question?
I also like the villainrom theming script, makes it easy to make flashable zips. But that is just my 2¢.
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wewoapsiak said:
There is a great thread for theming by theimpalar747 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
If I remember correctly I use apk manager 4.9 to decompile and recompile. You have to set up some Java to work on certain system apk files, and the resources.arsc file can bite you in the a$$ sometimes. I replied to you in my thread btw, did they answer your question?
I also like the villainrom theming script, makes it easy to make flashable zips. But that is just my 2¢.
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Yes thank you it did
I'm slowly piecing it together. For some reason though I tried changing all the png's and it still doesn't change the actual color from black to white.
I'm wondering now if it's even a png for the true background of the status bar.
I will definitely check out the application for compiling/decompiling, hopefully I can get this thing working lol

You know, honestly, the new Weapon 2.7 theme I can totally live with.
If someone of greater knowledge would like to take over my project though, I wouldn't object lol. I just don't really know what I'm doing, I've had my phone stuck in bootloops like 5 times now -.-

If you want and I get some free time I will look at porting it to 2.7 for you once I get through updating all my crap.

kwes1020 said:
If you want and I get some free time I will look at porting it to 2.7 for you once I get through updating all my crap.
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That would be amazing!!
Whenever you have time that would be great
I'm done trying it out for the night. I'll continue testing PNGs tomorrow.
So far I have all the icons ported, and some proper white backgrounds. But then there's random black blotches and the clock color is white, gotta change it to black.
Thank you for all your help so far!

barqers said:
That would be amazing!!
Whenever you have time that would be great
I'm done trying it out for the night. I'll continue testing PNGs tomorrow.
So far I have all the icons ported, and some proper white backgrounds. But then there's random black blotches and the clock color is white, gotta change it to black.
Thank you for all your help so far!
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On weapon you can change clock color with the edttweaks app. No need to stress over that. Framework.jar is where you would normally change it.
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kwes1020 said:
On weapon you can change clock color with the edttweaks app. No need to stress over that. Framework.jar is where you would normally change it.
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Oh perfect! One more problem solved
Now now only thing that I gotta worry about is the black to white background
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Editing 14 toggle for ICS

Hey Guys and Gals,
How difficult would it be to edit the 14 toggle mod to remove the line indicator and just leave the icon to light up when pressed? I like a bit more room on my notification bar and this would be perfect. I tried editing it myself. I've done some theme work but I can't really find the correct places to remove to re-size it. If anyone wouldn't mind taking a shot at it I'd appreciate it or tell me how.

phoenix2217 said:
Hey Guys and Gals,
How difficult would it be to edit the 14 toggle mod to remove the line indicator and just leave the icon to light up when pressed? I like a bit more room on my notification bar and this would be perfect. I tried editing it myself. I've done some theme work but I can't really find the correct places to remove to re-size it. If anyone wouldn't mind taking a shot at it I'd appreciate it or tell me how.
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To resize I don't think it would be a matter of removing code, but altering it, or altering the dimensions of the images.
If you want more screen real estate I'd recommend changing your pixel density.
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I'd post a screenshot but the app is being really weird right now...
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It's inside the drawable folders in SystemUI
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Clock Widget

Hi guys
Does anyone know what clock widget this is?

Wow that looks amazing. I hope somebody for somebody to know the answer
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Its probably from the Xoom2....
Hope someone can extract it for us

It is one of the Motorola clock widgets in the xyboard factory OS.
Here is the apk for the widget. I don't know if there are other apps needed for it to work or not, but you can try it.
http://db.tt/w9nRUB3Z
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I never heard this

Thanks, I'll try it!

scottishwarrior said:
It is one of the Motorola clock widgets in the xyboard factory OS.
Here is the apk for the widget. I don't know if there are other apps needed for it to work or not, but you can try it.
http://db.tt/w9nRUB3Z
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It cannot be installed. Probably other permissions / sys files needed or non complete apk.
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scottishwarrior said:
It is one of the Motorola clock widgets in the xyboard factory OS.
Here is the apk for the widget. I don't know if there are other apps needed for it to work or not, but you can try it.
http://db.tt/w9nRUB3Z
Edit: added link
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It didn't installed for me (Xoom CyanogenMod 9). It opens the install dialog and then says "Application not installed"
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It probably needs the odex file also, but I haven't spent the time to learn how to combine them. I will post it in a couple of minutes if someone can deodex the files it might make it installable.
http://db.tt/vnVXuCCI
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Thanks alot
Thanks for sharing the files!
Is there anyone here that can help combining them order deodex?

Anyone?
Is there anyone that can help us?

I may not be ableto make this apk work, but I can try to skin a clock that does work.

wes_s said:
I may not be ableto make this apk work, but I can try to skin a clock that does work.
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That would be cool?
What program will you use fot it?

The original widget is on the left (came stock on my xyboard)
My moto skinned version of the miui-animated clock widget is on the right.
It's a bit smaller due to the size of the miui clock widget, but I tried to make it as authentic looking as possible.
the steps I went through were roughly done in this order:
1. open the original apk with 7-zip and extract the folders.
2. opened the images for the clock background and hands
3. cut as much as I could out of them and reformatted them to fit the miui clock widget images corresponding with the appropriate object as well as doing a lot of image editing to get them back into stock moto clock looking shape. I could only use the clock face and hands. I had to recreate some of the shading and the glass outer ring.
4 Opened a copy of the base miui clock widget and deleted the corresponding images
5 added the new images to the apk
6 resigned the apk
after this I installed it and added the "animated anilog clock" widget to my homescreen and resized.

wes_s said:
The original widget is on the left (came stock on my xyboard)
My moto skinned version of the miui-animated clock widget is on the right.
It's a bit smaller due to the size of the miui clock widget, but I tried to make it as authentic looking as possible.
the steps I went through were roughly done in this order:
1. open the original apk with 7-zip and extract the folders.
2. opened the images for the clock background and hands
3. cut as much as I could out of them and reformatted them to fit the miui clock widget images corresponding with the appropriate object as well as doing a lot of image editing to get them back into stock moto clock looking shape. I could only use the clock face and hands. I had to recreate some of the shading and the glass outer ring.
4 Opened a copy of the base miui clock widget and deleted the corresponding images
5 added the new images to the apk
6 resigned the apk
after this I installed it and added the "animated anilog clock" widget to my homescreen and resized.
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Hi wes_s
I must say, this is really well done! Thanks alot man, great work!

Good work, thanks!
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Thanked the wrong person, ^^rac ... oh well, I'll just thank everyone lol
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Glad to help.

Me vs Ninjamorph

Okay so I've looked around at couple different places and there no real way to explain how to get my status icons to stick. I'm trying to add a battery mod from my phone majority of the icons come from ROM tool box that auto flashes them to the device however some icons are missing like 20% battery icon.... so I go into ninjamorph open systemui and edit the icons as normal but when I go to finish the project its like the setting don't stick I'm running Jedi jelly anybody help or input on this
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Issue fixed unfortunaley I over thought and forgot to change the icon names so it would overwrite
Can a Moderator close this please thanks
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Editing Apps

The goal is to be able to change small things in some apps.
For example, there is an app called SnapChat which allows you to send a picture for 3 seconds and then closes the picture. In this scenario, I would like to be able to edit the .apk file to allow to stay for 4 seconds. Would this kind of this be possible?
How so?

Um....you can do this within the app.....stock....
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post this in android hacking. it is not a verizon gs3 topic. you'll find more support there.

Matthenson20 said:
Um....you can do this within the app.....stock....
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I know, it was a poor example. But I'm just wondering if it would be possible to do small changes like this to apps?

Dgameman1 said:
I know, it was a poor example. But I'm just wondering if it would be possible to do small changes like this to apps?
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most apps are customizable. there are threads over in android general/hacking specifically about this topic.

OK I have looked a lot. I want to change a lot of things not just an app. I want to change my app icon color I want to change the color of my clock widget my wheat her widget the resize outline of the box also the color of the lock on the lock screen. Anybody pm me plz I am clueless at this stuff.
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You can change alot of things in apps just by playing around with them. Using Apktool or another decompiling tool, you can change alot in the res/values folders Theres alot of stuff you can play around with in the various xml files

tihsllub said:
OK I have looked a lot. I want to change a lot of things not just an app. I want to change my app icon color I want to change the color of my clock widget my wheat her widget the resize outline of the box also the color of the lock on the lock screen. Anybody pm me plz I am clueless at this stuff.
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use the search box at the top of the page. type in theme/mod apk's. pages of stuff will come up. here's 1 place to start- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069287

So you are saying I can't decompile or recompile apks on my phone? I have to use adb to push/pull and then use a program to decrypt the XML then I can change the values to what I want?
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tihsllub said:
So you are saying I can't decompile or recompile apks on my phone? I have to use adb to push/pull and then use a program to decrypt the XML then I can change the values to what I want?
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You're gonna have to adb push/pull unless you build your own ROM.
You can get apktool from here: https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/

[email protected] OK. :/ hard drive crashed.
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You can swap out images but you definitely can't change app settings like animations and such without the right tools and procedures.
[email protected]'$ [email protected]@XY

OK. I don't want yo change animations just yet. I want to edit app icon colors widget colors. I pretty much want to theme everything.
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use 7zip on your computer to swap out png's. change app's name from whatever.apk to whatever.zip then move it to your computer using 7zip open the archive. don't extract or unzip. navigate to res folder and open it. find the png files you want to change and insert your png files you want. make sure they are the correct size, in the correct format (png) and are named correctly. exactly as they are in the zip file. then close the zip transfer it back to your phone and rename back to whatever.apk i do suggest doing some more research before doing this. there are a lot of threads dedicated just for this. use the search engine at the top of the page. XDA provides it for this exact reason.