[Q] Changing softkey colours? - Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, ive done some searching around for an answer to this, but cant find an answer related specifically to the Note 10.1.
Thought I should ask some expert advice before I mess up my tablet!
I just want to change the colour of my softkeys/status bar icons, from white to blue. I was going to use darkmans BlueDark theme, which is mostly freat, but unfortunatrly it will only work if I let it add a data signal icon to my bar (im on an 8010 so thats not ideal).
It also changes the discrete little multi-window menu arrow, to a huge blue tab thing, which I dont like. (An alternative solution is a way to edit this big tab out of the theme? Maybe I should ask darkman)
I just want to change the status softkeys (keyboard minimise, back, home, task manager, screenshot, multiwindow) colours/icons.
Only decent guide I found was this:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/0...s-soft-keys-to-customized-colors-or-versions/
But its for the nexus phone, with some different icons, so wasnt sure if it was the way to go..
Im on an 8010, with revolutionHD 8.0 ROM.
Thanks for any help you can give

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Whats next? (Suggestions)

Im just rambling, but over time ive seen these roms get better and better, and as far as suggestions go, Id LOVE to see something based around this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333763
something totally new for our wizards. If there could be a way to remove the bars from the top and bottom and make the left softkey be the start menu that would look slick, Im tired of the bars. It would also be neat if we could find a way to change the background color in the windows to match the home screen, all the touch and today stuff is dark grey and when Programs or Settings is open , its got a white background. I think its an Idea, it would be nice to see the bars gone from the op and bottom of the screen and incorporated like in the chinese plugin link i posted earlier. what do you guys think, yay or nay?

Remove the start bar at top

hey guys,
wonder if this possible, i love the the new SPB3 but is there anyway to take out the start and bar at the top of the page, the standard WM6, cause looks really nice then you have the standard ugly bar at the top
If it is possible can you explain in detail, cause not a great 'Hacker' as such
thanks in advanced
Shane
The answer that I got from SPB regarding the very same question:
SPB said:
Unfortunately it is not technically possible to skin the taskbar in
Windows Mobile 6.1 (might be changed in 6.5) and we don't want to hide
it. So the only way now is to choose color theme (or Today theme) that
looks good with the background.
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Even if there is away to disable the start button and take it out, leave the bar with the sound, and signal etc just want to take the start button and wording away??
i just want someway of getting rid of it, as it really spoils it
There might be a Custom Firmware, but i dont think you want to go Through all of that.
But other than that... You can download a Registry editor and:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell]
"DisableCtrlEsc"=dword:00000001
Strange
I installed PointUI Home2 on my xperia and it has a option to remove the top bar!! it really makes it look alot better... SPB should just make the same option available... shouldnt be to hard...
if the start bar is removed... wouldn't there just be a visibly blank area in its place?
isn't MS3 built to fit a specific dimension?

Quick question, theme colors.

I have a quick question I am sure someone could answer rather quickly, and I have tried searching to no avail. I have the Sprint Touch Pro and am happy with the phone as it is (for now). I just want to change the yellow selection color on the default Sprint Tf3d interface to a different color. How do I go about doing this? I am familiar with cabs, installing, registry edits, etc. So please if anyone could just point me to the right program to change the theme colors I can probably take it from there. Thanks.

(WM 6.5.5) Transparent Taskbar and editing the Start Icon. But How?

Hey Guys,
after reading and learning a lot from this Forum,
I need Your help a second time now:
1) At first I want to know how i get the upper and main Taskbar transparent.
But I dont want to change my Theme cause of many Tweaks i made.
Are there any Solutions for that.
2) I want to change the Windows Startbutton Icon.
I have installed the standard icon, but i want to replace it with a b/w
Sony Ericsson Icon.
Hope You can help.
Can't find any working solutions.
I'm from Germany, so my English is not very good and i have problems to search for the correct words/tags etc.
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[THEME][UPDATE] GreengerBlack v1.1 [Overcome KRATOS]

Hey Friends,
I've mixed up a theme with the classic Gingerbread Icons (exept the battery).
This theme is made on the base of the "Meizu Dark theme" from natious (you will see some colors and impressions of this)
so thanks a lot.
Sorry, the screenshots are a little crap
Update:
Now I use the Installation file from Meizu Dark with the most of natious themed apks. It shut be complett. My sugestion is replace the bootanimation with the "Particel ring" and flash the themed calendar.apk from sohrab1985. Looks great.
If you don't like the Battery, you can change it with the UOT Kitchen
New Version:
add providersettings.apk from meizu Dark
add calculator.apk from meizu Dark
add settings.apk
add swipe.apk from meizu Dark
add mms.apk from meizu Dark
add contacts.apk from meizu Dark
add a few fonts from meizu Dark
Download:
http://netload.in/dateiHEfqugMCfO/GreengerBlack1.1.zip.htm
Have fun and keep it simple
Please, tell me if there any problems.
look great... testing now.
great theme but i love blue on black or white on black ... but still great theme well done
Fab I like it a lot. This'll stay installed for a while. Any chance of sticking a percentage in the battery icon?!
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
biffroy said:
Fab I like it a lot. This'll stay installed for a while. Any chance of sticking a percentage in the battery icon?!
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
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Use UTO kitchen to change the battery. Just go to the page, make your choise and upload the systemUI.apk (root/system/app) and the framework-res.apk (root/system/framework). UTO Kitchen works not at every option but for change the Battery does it work.
my Tab fights with Kratos
This is a great theme, thanks a lot for sharing! But I have a quick question:
Is there is a very plain and basic 100% Stock Gingerbread Theme for KRATOS?... just the 100% stock mostly BLACK (which saves battery) along with orange highlights that comes straight from Google... nothing else or modified just stock, no more no less!
Thanks for the advice.
VeEuzUKY said:
This is a great theme, thanks a lot for sharing! But I have a quick question:
Is there is a very plain and basic 100% Stock Gingerbread Theme for KRATOS?... just the 100% stock mostly BLACK (which saves battery) along with orange highlights that comes straight from Google... nothing else or modified just stock, no more no less!
Thanks for the advice.
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I can try it at the Weekend but I can not do any promise. If you have other wishes or suggestions, tell me. Maybe you like 6 Bottens in the quick setting bar for example.
Btw: I'm just a expirienced user so I have no special skills to do this. I also have no original GB Themed device so I don't know how the Stock theme looks exactly but I'll do my best.
odysseus84 said:
I can try it at the Weekend but I can not do any promise. If you have other wishes or suggestions, tell me. Maybe you like 6 Bottens in the quick setting bar for example.
Btw: I'm just a expirienced user so I have no special skills to do this. I also have no original GB Themed device so I don't know how the Stock theme looks exactly but I'll do my best.
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Thank you very much for your reply. I am not sure which the Quick Settings button is that you refer but its OK, the only thing basically I would like is to strip out all customizations that Samsung and the KRATOS chef did, and have a lean and plain stock Gingerbread like Ive seen n most phones. Its a pure battery-saving theme with most screens using black background and highlighted items are orange. If you can look at a few standard phones with Gingerbread in it they will all look the same kind of like this. It is actually the most simple and cleanest interface.
Anyway, thank you VERY MUCH for your interest and effort and I look forward when you have time to try it and give you feedback. I know many other members and users of the galaxy tab would appreciate having a stock Android look on their machine that has been impossible because of the changes Samsung made to their ROMs.
Danke noch einmal
Icon Resource for theme..
Hi guys! Im making a theme for Kratos and am stuck. Can someone help and tell me WHERE the icon (below attached) that pops up on the task bar during Media Scanning, is hidden? I looked everywhere, all system APKs I can think of including framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk and cannot find it anywhere. Its driving me crazy!
Thanks in advance for the tip!
Download link broken for theme
I was going to try this theme, but the download link is broken
bovineyard said:
I was going to try this theme, but the download link is broken
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I'm very sorry, Bro.
I lost the File...
But try the vanillaginger theme.
It looks good too.
http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242591
new downloadlink ?
Looks great.
Download Not Working.
Can someone help me out with a mirror to download the theme, please.
HELP with some elements
Its been a while I posted on this great thread and have since then done a lot of customization on my Tab but now stuck on 5 key elements id like to know if someone can help me:
1) How do I change the background color of the Phone App? On all 5 tabs of he phone app (Dialer, Logs, Contacts, Groups, Favorites + the outgoing dialing screen itself) the background is White. I want it changed to black but dont seem to locate the file. I was successful in changing the background color to black on the incoming call screen (the files are call_incoming_bg.png and call_incoming_bg_h.png on the phone.apk and just made them black and that's it)... looks super nice. But for the outgoing calls screen and phone app itself, its all still white and I dont know where to edit or if there is a PNG file that control the background.. I dont seem to know where it is (see attachments 1 & 2)
2) I wanted to change the Missed Call icon with a custom I made that I already and use on the top taskbar, that was very easy (its the stat_notify_missed_call.png in framework-res.apk). But the same icon that's displayed in the phone's Log tab I dont seem to locate where it is and to my surprise its NOT in the phone.apk. Can someone tell me where that file is? (see attachment 3)
3) I have managed to successfully tweak many of the elements of the notification pull down menu, like giving it transparency in certain parts on bottom and top, but I cant control color or transparency of the background of the ONGOING operations that have a fixed white background and that id like to change. (see attachment 3) Equally, Id like to change the color and some of the wordings of the WIFI, BLUETOOTH, GPS, SILENT, ORIENTATION LOCK functions. Where can I edit those?
4) Where can I edit the white background color of the pop-up Power-Off menu on the tab that is white (see attachment 5)? I edited the icons easily from the framework-res.apk but dont seem to know what controls the background color..
5) Finally, which files control the blues that usually are displayed in most dialog pop-ups and dialogues? I want to change them to black and grey but have no idea where they are located and which files I should edit.
When Im all done Ill post my theme for download, I think maybe some users might like to give it a try and feedback will be welcome wither way
In advance, thanks a lot for your expert advice on all this

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