[Q] problems with modding SystemUI - General Questions and Answers

Hello,
I'm making my verry first custom rom. It's based on another custom rom, 4.4.2, and it wil be for jiayu g4, just like the base rom. I realy enjoy doing this and I'm learning a lot. but I need your help with somthing.
I have been trying to mod the SystemUI.apk of my phone for more than a week now and I just can't seem to get it done.
The purpose is to change it so people can activate/deactivate and rearrange toggles in quick settings. The ROM already has the the quick settings tab (when touching the button above in the right corner), but there are just 13 toggles, and you can't deactivate and rearrange them. Also I would like to add some volume sliders in the notification tab since the volume panel isn't expandable.
I followed this guide ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53364269#post53364269 ) since that the closest guide I found to what I want, but I keep having problems with recompiling the app when it has to be done for the first time.
I tried with apktool1.5.2 and apktool2, I tried with multi-tools, I used baksmali-manager, I litterally tried almost everything but I keep getting errors saying "error for input '.parameter': invalid directive" and other errors relating smali.
I'm realy out of ideas and have already spend a lots of time on this, so could someone PLEAS take some time to help me out? I would realy appriciate it!
My phone is jiayu G4t, (mtk6589t) running custom rom (vredniiy) 4.4.2.
I'll attach my systemUI.apk, mediatek-res.apk, framework-res.apk and also an example of what the ideal would be
It would realy make my month or so if anyone could help me make it work!

anyone?

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