Before I take a chance of having to reflash my phone I wanted to make sure about something. To change or remove the battery icon from the status bar involves modding the framework-res.apk? Or is there another way to do it?
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Yup it involves the framework-res.apk. just replace the . Png images with the ones you'd like. Thats the only way I know
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Yup it involves the framework-res.apk. just replace the . Png images with the ones you'd like. Thats the only way I know
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Same here. Just swap the .png file and it works very well.
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I'm looking for the status bar icons that come with vanilla Gingerbread. Like the ones in CM.
Also, would like to know where I should copy them to.
I tried looking inside the CM7 zip, but couldn't find anything that looked familiar.
Anyone knows if it can be extracted somehow from the CM7 ROM and be used with the stock rom?
Yes, theyre in system/systemui.apk
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Thanks! Found it. It's actually: system/app/systemui.apk
The folder structure is obviously different from the stock rom. Anyone have an idea how I replace the existing icons?
Use 7zip to open the apk and replace them in system/res folder i think it is
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There is no res folder inside "system". There's a res folder in the root, but there's only one file called "encryption"
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There is no res folder inside "system". There's a res folder in the root, but there's only one file called "encryption"
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Is it in framework/res?
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The one he wants its in systemui.. Look in the res/hdpi or so folder
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I've found it. I tried modifying the stock SystemUI.apk by replacing the icons in it with the ones from the CM7 rom. I then replaced the original SystemUI.apk with the modified one using Root Explorer, but by doing it the SystemUI process force closed leaving me with no status bar. It remained without status bar even after reboot.
So I guess this is not as easy as it seemed to be. I don't want to mess around with the root folder anymore, so if anyone has a flashable zip that can replace the status bar with AOSP icons I would greatly appreciate it!
Really easy to do, next time change the permissions then you wont get FC but if you have the odex version of the update heres the link to get the icons. Its by mikeyinid towards the bottom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20377172
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Really easy to do, next time change the permissions then you wont get FC but if you have the odex version of the update heres the link to get the icons. Its by mikeyinid towards the bottom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20377172
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That's exactly what I need! But the link is down Thanks anyway!
I'll PM the guy for a copy I guess.
I pm him too last night for some files.. Dont know if he replies at pms. Some people on here get really mad.. But any chance you can help me out on the swype files?
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Sure I'll try to help. I'm not sure what you're referring to though. What swype files?
I pmed you
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ok so i'm going nuts here...i can't figure out how to change the battery icons...i tried using uot kitchen with no help...is there a guide to do this within a custom rom....i'm right now running tuchmi 5.0, and i really want the android battery icon with the % inside it...any help is appreciated...i've never themed before
The icons are in SystemUI.
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Where is systemui?
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thanks i thought i needed to change them in the framework.apk....so just changing the roms systemui.apk will work?
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Where is systemui?
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system/app folder of the rom....
Use apktool to decompile the apk and you'll see the icons there, to break it down even further
If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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I wouldn't recommend using them unless there using something like the Villain Theme System which only replaces the images and some xml's instead of replacing the entire apk. I just got home so give me a few and I'll send you the xml's you need to use and you 'll be fine.
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If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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ok need your help....i got the pngs to change but i can't get the animations to work...i tried fixing the xml files but no go...if you can maybe get it to work i'd appreciate....here is the rom i want the battery png and xmls in...
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im looking to change the default icons of phone, contacts, messaging, internet, and camera. but im having a hell of time locating the icons i need to change to make them appear. if some1 could give me the names and locations to make it easier that would be great. i dont know if its rom specific or not but JK-3.5
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im looking to change the default icons of phone, contacts, messaging, internet, and camera. but im having a hell of time locating the icons i need to change to make them appear. if some1 could give me the names and locations to make it easier that would be great. i dont know if its rom specific or not but JK-3.5
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Use some kind of apk manager or 7zip to edit the file. Go to mipmap-hdpi and replace/change the icon in their. There can sometimes be multiple icons in that folder. Also, some apps have the icon in drwable-hdpi called icon.PNG or ic_launcher_(name of app)
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I've been trying to figure this out myself. I want a based 4.0.4 stock rom with the skyrocket icons. and The 4G icon as well. But when I changed the framework-apk it doesnt work. I dont know if im doing it right or not but would be nice if some one could make a flashable zip with these icons for all of the stock 4.0.4 based roms
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Use some kind of apk manager or 7zip to edit the file. Go to mipmap-hdpi and replace/change the icon in their. There can sometimes be multiple icons in that folder. Also, some apps have the icon in drwable-hdpi called icon.PNG or ic_launcher_(name of app)
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tried this, definitely not working. it works for other apks like ones you download, but for the ones im looking for it does not change the icon... im guess the file i need to replace is hiding somewhere... but where is what i would like to know. Of course there could be, im editing the wrong icon.. i would think to change the phone icon i would edit phone.apk but maybe that my mistake thinking i know what i'm doing...
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tried this, definitely not working. it works for other apks like ones you download, but for the ones im looking for it does not change the icon... im guess the file i need to replace is hiding somewhere... but where is what i would like to know. Of course there could be, im editing the wrong icon.. i would think to change the phone icon i would edit phone.apk but maybe that my mistake thinking i know what i'm doing...
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What apps?
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What apps?
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asked somebody, who's been a big help to me. told me that if you want to change the phone icon, it not in phone.apk thanks for that! Its actually in the contacts.apk image that...
Looking to remove the stock battery icon, leaving only the battery percentage showing. Is this possible without root? I've rooted a lot of phones recently but didn't want to do this one yet...
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not sure if you need root to flash theme
Not possible without root.
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As others members posted you have to root your mobile...
i'm not sure if it is worth it ..
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Looking to remove the stock battery icon, leaving only the battery percentage showing. Is this possible without root? I've rooted a lot of phones recently but didn't want to do this one yet...
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This would be nice. I'm sure the deb's will ad this to there custom roms in time. That battery icon is so annoying.
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Not possible without root.
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Rooted but not finding a good 1% mod and not finding something to hide stock...
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Rooted but not finding a good 1% mod and not finding something to hide stock...
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I've never really looked into removing the battery icons. I always use icons with the battery percent in them but just a quick thought. You could make all the stock battery images transparent so they don't show.
Edit: Also, if you find a battery mod that you like but it's not for your device let me know and I can make it for you.
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I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work and what do you know it did.. lol
I got the idea from when sometimes my battery disappeared on 1 of my theme and to find the reason was because somehow my battery xmls would get borked. So what I did is just delete the stat_sys_battery.xml from the SystemUI.apk. It's found in the res\drawable folder, I left the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml and the battery still shows when plugged in so I'm guessing if you delete that too you wont have any of the battery icons. Screen attached
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I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work and what do you know it did.. lol
I got the idea from when sometimes my battery disappeared on 1 of my theme and to find the reason was because somehow my battery xmls would get borked. So what I did is just delete the stat_sys_battery.xml from the SystemUI.apk. It's found in the res\drawable folder, I left the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml and the battery still shows when plugged in so I'm guessing if you delete that too you wont have any of the battery icons. Screen attached
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I didn't even think about that. I would imagine if deleting the battery xml got rid of the battery icon then deleting the charging xml would get rid of the charging animation as well. Very cool.
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I didn't even think about that. I would imagine if deleting the battery xml got rid of the battery icon then deleting the charging xml would get rid of the charging animation as well. Very cool.
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Yea I was expecting the system to crash but nope lol
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Yea I was expecting the system to crash but nope lol
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I would of imagined the same. Pretty clever
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where is this apk located? also will winrar work or is 7zip an absolute requirement?
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I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work and what do you know it did.. lol
I got the idea from when sometimes my battery disappeared on 1 of my theme and to find the reason was because somehow my battery xmls would get borked. So what I did is just delete the stat_sys_battery.xml from the SystemUI.apk. It's found in the res\drawable folder, I left the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml and the battery still shows when plugged in so I'm guessing if you delete that too you wont have any of the battery icons. Screen attached
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Awesome theme... Looks like I have to learn how to get into that and edit my stuff... I'll research when I get home. Thanks!
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Awesome theme... Looks like I have to learn how to get into that and edit my stuff... I'll research when I get home. Thanks!
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If you have problems or need some help let me know
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I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work and what do you know it did.. lol
I got the idea from when sometimes my battery disappeared on 1 of my theme and to find the reason was because somehow my battery xmls would get borked. So what I did is just delete the stat_sys_battery.xml from the SystemUI.apk. It's found in the res\drawable folder, I left the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml and the battery still shows when plugged in so I'm guessing if you delete that too you wont have any of the battery icons. Screen attached
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Thanks man, this is precisely what I was looking for. I also deleted all of the pngs pertaining to the battery to slim down sysui a bit . Prepare to be Thanked!
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I was just playing around to see if I could get it to work and what do you know it did.. lol
I got the idea from when sometimes my battery disappeared on 1 of my theme and to find the reason was because somehow my battery xmls would get borked. So what I did is just delete the stat_sys_battery.xml from the SystemUI.apk. It's found in the res\drawable folder, I left the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml and the battery still shows when plugged in so I'm guessing if you delete that too you wont have any of the battery icons. Screen attached
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so do we have to unzip this apk and manually delete these files, rezip it, and then reinstall it?
i dont understand what needs to be done to remove the battery icon
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so do we have to unzip this apk and manually delete these files, rezip it, and then reinstall it?
i dont understand what needs to be done to remove the battery icon
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Use 7zip to open the apk, (don't extract) then navigate to the folder I mentioned and delete the stat_sys_battery.xml and the stat_sys_battery_charge.xml if you also don't want the charging battery to display. Close it after you're done and add it back into your phone's system\app folder using something like root explorer, then fix permissions to rw-r--r-- and reboot. Also make sure to rename your current systemui.apk to systemui.bak in case something goes wrong with the new one, and if it does you can just delete the new one and rename the old one back to .apk
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where is this apk located? also will winrar work or is 7zip an absolute requirement?
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where is this apk located? also will winrar work or is 7zip an absolute requirement?
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It's located in system/app. I've never used winrar so I can't say but I'd imagine it would. I will say though if your going to be doing any more stuff like this 7-zip is a must have in my opinion. It's one of the first things I install on a new pc. If you run into trouble and foreverloco isn't available feel free to pm me.
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it worked with winrar, thanks for the help guys!
Any idea how I can do this? The verizon 4g icon is sweet. I wonder if this is possible. I see it on a few ROMs here and there just dont know if it will show up that way if Im running on tmobile because multicarrier etc..
For example there is the SynergyROM and i see that 4g icon.. just not sure if flashing that ROM will put me on that 4g icon too..
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the only way to do it is using morphology check the thread
thanks so much man
You can decompile your systemui.apk and change the icons to whatever you want the recompile and there you go. Easy peasy.
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Just open the systemui.apk in the 7-zip, replace your like image with the image inside [res/drawable-xhdpi] folder. Just make sure that your new image must be the same file size, file type, and file name.
The tmo 4.1.2 has a 4g icon not H+.
random easy fix haha
i just flashed jovy's darth stalker and he has it baked in! what a surprise.! lol
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