This is for Pure XL users that use the flip cover instead of the silicone case (or no case at all)
This was an interesting idea brought up by @MatisasB on this thread.
MatisasB said:
Is there any way to add new pictures?
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So I took some time to check it out and found out that it is possible to add or change the current background images that you see when you wake your phone with the flip cover closed.
Requirements:
Rooted Pure XL
Some File Explorer application with root capabilities (I personally use Root Explorer. The stock File Explorer app doesn't work, even if you grant it root permission)
Some suitably large images (at least 1440x1067 to be optimal, but can be larger or slightly smaller)
Image editing software
First get some pictures that you want to use as a background. If they're not 1440 pixels wide and 1067 pixels high (1440x1067), use some image editing software to crop/resize them to that size. It doesn't matter if the image(s) are larger if you only want a portion cropped from it. The image can also be slightly smaller, but resized and cropped to 1440x1067 because honestly, 720p resolution still looks acceptable to me on a 1440p 6.0" screen. Your opinions may differ.
Use your creativity to get them to look like what you want to see through the flip cover window!
Make sure to save in .png format, .jpg doesn't work!
Adding New Backgrounds:
After you're done editing your image, rename them to a number above 10 (11 to 10+whatever number of pictures you want to add)
Copy them to /etc/GN_SkyLight
Restart your phone and see the changes!
Replacing Existing Backgrounds:
Copy your edited images to your phone's internal storage or installed microSD card (Make sure your phone's USB connection is set to the File Transfer mode)
Use your File Explorer app to navigate to /etc/GN_SkyLight
Decide which image(s) you want to replace, and back up those files (e.g. Adding "(Backup)" or "(Original)" to their names, or copy the entire folder to your computer somewhere)
Rename your image files to those file names (1-11).png and copy&replace the old images.
It works instantly without a restart!
Hey, great job. Unfortunately I wasn't able to root this decice yet. I tried lots of 1 click root apps but bone of them worked auntik now...
Hello.
I have a simple question, is there any way to control Spotify with the flip cover closed. I mean, to get access to the controls (next, previous song, start/stop) from the flip cover window.
If this is possible, maybe there's a eway to change the flip cover background by syncing with the album art.
Thank you.
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In this post I'd like to share a small bit of Android information with you. I've discovered it while looking around at the build.prop file and did some research on it, and it turns out to be a pretty cool and powerful feature. Of course, seeing as this requires root you can probably already guess that it involves some more-than-consumer level risk, so anything you do here is your responsibility. This is not a tweak for a fairly novice user. You will need some basic knowledge on command line terminal and how to copy/edit files. I will be assuming you know how to setup and run ADB, and how to execute it and work with it in command prompt.
What's this mod do? Basically it changes your resolution (not really, but for simplicity sake we'll say it does) to a higher pixel density. What this means is everything on your screen will look smaller as if you changed your resolution on your PC to a higher setting. Now obviously we don't want to increase this too much or it will make our screen look bad and be impossible to read things, so I recommend you stick with the settings I have and only tweak it if you're daring.
Now for setup:
1: You require root access for this to work, so make sure you have it prior to doing anything else.
2: Next you will need to get your build.prop file from the /system directory. An easy (and free) way to do this is to use Astro file manager. Open up Astro, navigate to /system/ and copy the build.prop file to the sdcard.
3: Hook the phone up to your PC and enter USB Mass Storage mode. Open the drive on your computer and copy the build.prop file to the desktop.
4: IMPORTANT: make a second copy of this file, and rename it to: build.prop.BAK - accept the change to filetype and leave it alone for now.
5: Open up build.prop using notepad. Once its open you'll see a whole ton of text assuming you have Word Wrap enabled. Press Control + F and type in "density" then press enter.
6: Close out the search menu and find the number "240" to the right of "density"
7: Change the number from 240 to 200. Save the file and close notepad. (Note - higher numbers means bigger text/objects, smaller numbers means smaller text/objects allowing you to fit more on the screen)
8: Put your phone back into PC Mode, and then enable USB Debugging in Settings->Applications->Development
9: At this point I assume you have ADB setup on your PC. Copy and paste the modified build.prop file into the folder with ADB, and then open up a command prompt, change directory to wherever you have ADB installed (ex: cd C:\adb\ ), and type in "adb devices" without the quotes to start ADB and make sure your device is configured properly
10: Now you must push the modified build.prop file to your sdcard. To do so type this in:
adb push build.prop /sdcard/build.prop
11: You should see the text indicating it successfully transferred the file. Now type in "adb shell" without quotes. You should see a $: appear. Once it does, type in "su" and it should change to a #: sign.
12: Now that you're in root access, you must mount /system as read/write to copy over the new build.prop file. To do so type this in exactly as it is, making sure to not skip any spaces or use wrong letters/characters:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/system /system
You should see the line repeated and that means it went ok. If you get anything else like an error, somethings not right with the text you entered. Go back and double check it.
13: Now we'll copy the file from the sdcard to the system directory to overwrite the old build.prop file:
cp /sdcard/build.prop /system/build.prop
Again, you should see the line repeat below to confirm it copied it successfully. You can now reboot the phone to make the changes happen (note: for a speedy reboot, simply type in "reboot" from the #: prompt, this will drop you out of root shell and do an automatic reboot of your phone pretty neat)
Once your phone is booted back up you should notice some pretty significant changes in appearance. Everything will look smaller much akin to the changes you see on your desktop PC when you increase the resolution from say 800x600 to 1600x1200. In case you want to change it back to the old look, simply re-trace your steps using the original build.prop file, with the pixel density set to 240 instead of 200.
Screenshots for comparison. Note how lines of text are fully exposed in the new screenshots compared to the old ones, where it has to scroll/cut off text in App names etc:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-x-roms-hacks/32035-how-resolution-tweak-req-root.html
Or you can save a whole lot of time and effort and use this app. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/lcd-density-changer-application-v3-0-released/
I think that is pretty sweet bro!! Great finding
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njfoses said:
Or you can save a whole lot of time and effort and use this app. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/lcd-density-changer-application-v3-0-released/
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Been using this for a few days now. It works great. They should have released the Evo with the higher resolution from the start.
Looks great in my opinion. I lowered just slightly to 220 and i used RootExplorer to just change the Build.prop file.
Shouldn't this be in general? This is like dpi in windows lol... not resolution
rawdikrik said:
Looks great in my opinion. I lowered just slightly to 220 and i used RootExplorer to just change the Build.prop file.
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yeah, root explorer is fantastic. it even creates a backup for you after you edit the file.
The interesting part about this is, I made a thread about the density change back when the EVO first launched and nobody cared lol
Just changed to 200 with the aforementioned app, the only problem I have is the main status bar and most of the popup menus and stuff look like crap. Hoping we can find some higher resolution (or whatever) pieces to use. Might be because I'm using Manup's theme.
bdoople said:
Just changed to 200 with the aforementioned app, the only problem I have is the main status bar and most of the popup menus and stuff look like crap. Hoping we can find some higher resolution (or whatever) pieces to use. Might be because I'm using Manup's theme.
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i noticed that too....so i just went to like 215. 200 was looking good though
ro.sf.LCD_Density=240
Is that the proper value to change in root explorer?
Right below it, there is another value of 160, that's why I ask. I'm on an Evo
Poor resolution has always bugged me. On such a big screen, that number of pixels really isn't enough. This will be a great mod, just don't wanna mess it up.
Thanks.
see there's an easier way to do everything, by that i mean there is an app for that, lol.
scottspa74 said:
ro.sf.LCD_Density=240
Is that the proper value to change in root explorer?
Right below it, there is another value of 160, that's why I ask. I'm on an Evo
Poor resolution has always bugged me. On such a big screen, that number of pixels really isn't enough. This will be a great mod, just don't wanna mess it up.
Thanks.
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The line below it (With the value of 160) has a # in front of it as that is the default value if none specified. Change the 240 to 200 or 220 or 210 or 190 etc depending on your preferences. Again, appelflap has an awesome application to easily do this for you and it provides a boot monitor as well that will check to make sure you can see the screen, and if you can't it will revert back to default setting in case you mess something up. It costs approximately $1 and is well worth it.
On my evo I am using the app and I set mine to 180. Everything looks fine so far. I don't recommend using it with the sense launcher at this level though.
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Appreciate all the feedback. When it comes to system tweaks like this, I've always preferred to do them manually. Makes it easier to keep track of changes, and, if you know what's goin on 'behind the scenes'. Even with winmo, I always would opt for tweaking via registry editor, rather than some blind, hands-off tweak app.
Thanks all, though.
Edit: ok, foot in mouth. So I opened root explorer, found build.prop, opened it clicked the mount R/O toggle, but can't seem to edit it no matter what. NVM, found editor
Also, I checked out the app on the market, looked at comments and saw lots of people say that density broke certain apps, and can't get back to normal, broken phones, blah blah blah
Anyone speak to this?
Exposes lame apps
Worked great on rooted EVO running CM6.2.
Need to increase the power of my bifocals now!
Also exposes lame apps that display set screen resolutions, such as WeatherChannel. Poopnoodles!
Very cool find, not one I will be keeping though. The taskbar icons get a bit blurry, and the widget/icon spacing looks ugly.
njfoses said:
Or you can save a whole lot of time and effort and use this app. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/lcd-density-changer-application-v3-0-released/
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Just tried that. Was able to make a few changes with no problems. As soon as I tried to go back to the stock settings my phone would no longer boot past the white EVO screen. Doing a restore now
And of course the restore isn't working properly for some reason. Argh.
yeah
Yeah, I read the thread by Appleflap, about his app, and it really sounds like there are a lot of issues from doing this (at this point), some of which cannot be recovered from. And at the very least, there are apps and icons that won't scale properly, and there's no fix for that but to find new ones (from the horses mouth).
Things to be worked out by some real sharp devs.
I'm not totally convinced that this makes things anything beyond just smaller. I've been testing this a various resolutions and am not sure it really adds any new pixels...aren't "pixels" more hardware related? If it were just a software thing wouldn't everyone do it?
Just flashed (yet another) rom and I seem to have lost the 'photoview' app.
When I would go to change a wallpaper or icon I USED to have the option to view with photoview (or photoviewer) as opposed to 'gallery'. The icon for it was the two semi-photo frames.
This is important to me (and probably others) because the 'gallery' takes forever to load and looks like crap because of the accelerometer. ALSO, and this is a big one, when I select a wallpaper through galley it comes in kind of 'grainey' and not clean... as if the resolution is bad even when usung the same picture as earlier.
Any thoughts?
It seems that whatever program I use to view photos, the image is clear but it loses resolion when I set it as a wallpaper.
Is this something in the framework?
i don't like the gallery either, i wish we had the htc gallery for the g tablet somehow. to view pictures i use astro most of the time.
I am confused about the camera, if you look at the picture bellow that I have attached you can see different sizing of images. So for example if I change from 12m to 7m would that decrease quality... Are these m basically for the aspect ratio for example if my TV has 16.9 ration and I take the image at 4.3 ratio does that mean that the 3.7 m would fit on the screen but the 12m wouldn't feet the whole screen... Hopefully you get what I am talking about....
Does the quality get reduced if I use different m's I know that it still says the same pixels for quality.
Does the m mean megapixels?
Sorry this might be a noobish question but I want to find out...
Some of them are the aspect ratio, and some are the amount of compression (visual quality). So there are two 4:3 options in the list, one is going to be cleaner than the other.
The "m" represents the Megapixel i do believe which means yes, as you go down you are effectively lowering the resolution of the images. The aspect ratio is listed to the left and thats pretty much the standards. So yes, 16:9 would fill a standard wide screen and 4:3 would be the old conventional more square aspect ratio.
Hello
Yes the M means Megapixels, here is an example:
"The definition is characterized by the total number of pixels in the image, defined by the number of pixels over the image height multiplied by the number of pixels over the image width." This value is therefore absolute. An image of 2000 pixels by 3000 (6 Mpx because 2000x3000 = 6 000 000) will always have the same number of pixels, whatever size it is given next. A digital camera with a resolution of 10 Mpx (about 3888x2592 pixels) can simply offer a larger size with equal resolution.
So if you change the size of the image there will be fewer pixels and I think it affects the final rendering.
When i open camera & click on Gallery it also shows the WhatsApp videos and pics
I want to set it to only see the Camera pics i click
anyone knows how ?
Please
Always shoot in the highest mega pixels. All the lower ones do is crop the data from the largest setting and throw away the extra picture data before saving. If you save the largest mega pixel setting you can manually crop to all the others afterward if you like. But if you set it to a smaller setting the extra data is never saved.
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Always shoot in the highest mega pixels. All the lower ones do is crop the data from the largest setting and throw away the extra picture data before saving. If you save the largest mega pixel setting you can manually crop to all the others afterward if you like. But if you set it to a smaller setting the extra data is never saved.
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Cheers
ilordvader said:
When i open camera & click on Gallery it also shows the WhatsApp videos and pics
I want to set it to only see the Camera pics i click
anyone knows how ?
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Try putting a file named exactly ".nomedia" (without quotes, even of 0 bytes it's ok) in the Whatsapp root folder.
If you look into your sdcard folders you can find such a file somewhere, so you can copy and paste it.
Otherwise you could create this file on your PC and then copy to the Whatsapp folder.
Then reboot the phone.
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Try putting a file named exactly ".nomedia" (without quotes, even of 0 bytes it's ok) in the Whatsapp root folder.
If you look into your sdcard folders you can find such a file somewhere, so you can copy and paste it.
Otherwise you could create this file on your PC and then copy to the Whatsapp folder.
Then reboot the phone.
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Where in the WhatsApp folder do i put this Folder - .nomedia
In WhatsApp folder there are 2 Folders
1) Databases
2) Media
I put in WhatsApp Folder
It did not work & I do not even see the Folder i created
I HOPE THIS WILL NOT MESS UP MY PHONE Please
Anyway, .nomedia is a file, not a folder!
The folder to put this file is sdcard/Whatsapp.
After adding this file, have you rebooted the phone?
You probably should also have to refresh the gallery database to purge the image caching:
go to Settings, Apps, Show system apps, find Media storage, open it, select the storage memory option and clear the data. Reboot the phone.
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Anyway, .nomedia is a file, not a folder!
The folder to put this file is sdcard/Whatsapp.
After adding this file, have you rebooted the phone?
You probably should also have to refresh the gallery database to purge the image caching:
go to Settings, Apps, Show system apps, find Media storage, open it, select the storage memory option and clear the data. Reboot the phone.
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I made a Folder & naming it .nomedia, i put it in WhatsApp Folder
After that what i did was Delete all Pics & Videos in WhatsApp folder
Now what has happened is,
I do not see any Folder of WhatsApp Pics/Videos when i go in the Gallery,
which is a Good thing :laugh: (rest Folder are there)
So now when i click the Album in Camera
i only see Pics i click with my camera & the Screenshots if i make any
So Thanks Bro somehow it worked for what i wanted
any suggestions do let me know
Can you upload the .nomedia file you were talking about
There are plenty of apps that let you select a directory and the app will add the .nomedia file for you.. just search nomedia in the play store.
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Can you upload the .nomedia file you were talking about
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The only way to upload on the forum this unusual file is to put it into a zip file.
Attached.
Hello everyone!
Does anyone know how to flick a setting so that pictures are saved as year-month-day-time or _1 _2 instead of time e.g. 202106_12132753 or 202106_1 202106_2 etc (second is actually preference). Even if I have to download a new picture gallery that can override the default one, how would I do it? Maybe a google gallery app. The screenshots work like this, why can't the normal cemera images be like that!?
I hate how it becomes DCIM_X because when you transfer your files off to store on the computer. It resets the DCIM and you end up with conflicting names on the second/third/forth transfer this is a UX flaw.
Question 2) I also want to make it so everything is saved as .png instead of ,jpg - how?
Hi guys,
I often see the question howto backup and restore GB Whatsapp...
I faced this problem by swiching in april 2023 to a new phone and restored all there, my chats, my pictures, my videos, just everything!
Its very easy to do this and here is my tutorial...
1 ) On youre old phone open GB Whatsap, tap the 3 dots menu on the top right corner,
then tap on the bottom of the popup menu settings (NOT GB SETTINGS), tap chats, on the bottom of this menu tap Chat-Backup!
2) For the next step start again on the 3 dots menu on the top right corner,
now tap GB Settings (the opposite of the first step), then tap Universal, then Backup and restore, on the top tap Backup WhatsApp data!
3) Now close GB Whatsapp and connect your Phone via USB to your PC with Datatransfer enabled, i use a Windows PC, first time will take a view seconds to install the Drivers (on Windows 10 and 11 automaticly), then open the File Explorer and click on youre device (xiaomi, samsung or whatever), on Linux and OSX it should be allmost similar!
4) Now you will see the SD-Card folder, there you click the Android folder, then media folder, there you will find a folder named com.gbwhatsapp!
Copy this folder wiht all inside to your PC, for example on your Desktop! Be aware the folder can be huge , depending on your chats pictures and videos inside,
my folder was about 5 Gigs and needet about 10 Minutes!!!
4a) Instead of copy to PC you can connect a USB Drive to your phone and copy the folder to it!
5) Now connect your new Phone to PC the same way like before your old phone!
5a) Now connect your new Phone to SD-Card the same way like before your old phone!
6) Now copy back the saved folder to the same folder like before (Android - media, if the media folder dont exists, create it... )
7) Now install GB Whatsapp and open it.
8) ON THIS STEP YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFULLY, DONT TAP THE RED RESTORE BUTTON, INSTEAD TAP THE GREEN BUTTON UNDER THE RED BUTTON called something like AGREE AND CONTIUNE!!!
DONT INSTALL GB WHATSAPP BEFORE YOU COPIED THE BACKUPFOLDER or if you did allready, DONT OPEN IT BEFORE!!!
Enter your Phone Number using the simcard from your old phone (DO NOT USE A NEW SIMCARD/PHONE-NUMBER) and recive your verification Code after verification you will get a message something like found backup, restore? Tap yes, your username will be showed (in my case it was correct) and let it restore...
I think if the username is not correct (like John D. instead of John Doe) the restore will fail so if you make the backup it can be usefull to check your EXACT username just to prevent failtures...
Thats all, after restore everything should work like on your old Phone!
Let's get to the themes!
I really searched all over the internet
there is NO ONE tutorial on how to create your own GB Whatsapp Themes!
Everywhere you will only find "download themes through the app" etc!
However, I found out how to change background images of ready-made themes and that's enough for me personally!
So the themes of mine are existing themes where I just changed the background, in other words, don't thank me but thank those who created the original themes!!!
First, just look for one (or more) original themes where you like the layout, i.e. icons, colors, fonts, etc. regardless of the background image! If you download a theme in the app, you will find it in the Download - FMThemes folder, let's take the Coca Cola theme as an example!
It consists of 3 files:
Coca_Cola.xml
Coca_Cola_homeW.jpg
Coca_Cola_w.jpg
The first file is apparently responsible for the layout already mentioned and is not changed!
I'm not sure about the second one, although it has a .jpg extension, it can't be opened as an image file, so we'll leave that one as well!
The third file is clearly an image file and can be opened as such!
We will now replace this file with an image file of our choice!
To do this, we right-click the file on the PC and go to rename, we copy the marked text (Coca_Cola_w) with another right-click!
Then we find the image file we want to replace the original with, right click on it again and go to rename again and then right click on paste again, this way we make sure the file WILL BE NAMED EXACTLY THE SAME!
That's almost it, now you add your theme (preferably in a separate folder) back to the Download - FMThemes folder on your smartphone (or wherever you want)!
Then you open GB Whatsapp, go to the 3-point menu at the top right - GB Settings Themes - Load theme - look for the folder Download - FM Themes - Coca Cola Theme (or whatever you named the folder where your theme is)
and select the file Coca_Cola.xml from our example! If you then go back to your chat folder you can see your new wallpaper...
Some themes also have 2 working background images, there you can of course change both background images using the method mentioned above!
Presumably the non-working .jpg files mentioned above can also be changed with it, which will probably change the chat overview, but I haven't tested it myself! Feel free to do that and post the result here!
I picked a total of 18 themes and varied each of these 18 themes with about 90 different background images, that's over 1500 variable themes that I've attached in a zip file! I've also included the 18 original themes that were used as a zip file, so you can see for yourself what I've changed! Have fun tinkering...
Ps: My favored Varables are
1
3
6
8
9
10
(see in each Folder) Which variables do you like most?
I have also created some themes with adult content, but for understandable reasons I will NOT post them here, not even via PM!!!
You can basically use any type and size of image as long as it is in .jpg format!
I allso found a animated theme from an other whatsapp mod, maby a older version, the xml file is totally different from the files above and dont work in this version of GB Whatsapp! Is here a coder who maby can translate the code to work in this version of GB Whatsapp!?
Would be great if someone can make this work...