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[Q] red sliding tabs, loading bars, and volume bar....

Bear with me guys....I know this is a question and would be better suited in Q&A but Idt anyone in there would no the answer.....I want a red themes phone.....I was able to do the keyboard with HTC IME and I used uot kitchen for the status bar and icons. But I want more than just this....I want to make my sliding tabs on my lockscreen red with red icons. I also want red loading bars and status bars.....pretty much anything that was white I want to make red.....is there any way I can do this?
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You need to edit images if your using cm7 or a Gingerbread Tom its in framework-res in the framework folder and in SystemUI on the app folder as for sense you will need to edit files in the HTC resources apk its in the framework folder if its a sense 2.0 Tom then inside of the I believe customize folder find an apk to edit(that is if your wanting to be able to resourt to stock theme) and edit that or just edit the HTC resource file like mentioned for sense sorry if there are any mistakes in this I'm on my phone and can't check for proper names of the locations.
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Ok thanks for the info....what programs are out there that are good for editing these apks? I'm sorry I'm new to editing apks and this is my learning experience!
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Well to edit the images in the apk just change the .apk to .zip and look through it for the files you want to edit they will be images as for the txt you will need to edit the services.jar there is a guide on here somewhere that tells you how to do it just Google changing txt color in android notification bar.
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I'm not worried about text color I already did the notification bar I'm more concerned with the lock tabs and loading bars....the small green accents here and there
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Those are in framework-res if your on an aosp rom so just open it up and play around.
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Also what program should I use to edit xml documents?
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That's something I'm not exactly sure of you will need to decompile the apk first if I remember correctly then u edit never took the time to research how to decompile bit after its decompiled you should be able to use several programs just Google for one
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Well I changed apk to zip and then extracted....there weren't a lot of images but there were a lot of xml documents that had titles that looked like they were for what I needed to edit so now I just need to figure out how to edit them....I know a lot of html and basic javascript so from my understanding it should be easy but my version of visual studio won't let me edit xml.....I need another program....recommendations?
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Go into it and look for the hdpi folders there should be about 600 images if your in framework-res
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Found it....looks like quite a job! Any idea where I could find replacement icons without having to re edit all of these?
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Just edit the hue in Photoshop or paint.net its real easy I use paint.net plus its free and lightweight only 3 megs and does a great job
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So I'm using paint.net to work my way through the hdpi images....when I'm done do I just rezip the framework file with the stuff set to store and then change extension to .apk and then rezip the Rom and flash it? Idk how to apply my changes
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Yup
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sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck

elixir911911 said:
sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck
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Flash it? Did you make an updater for it or did you replace the files in a ROM that you're going to flash? I personally just push the .apk via ADB shell.

How did it go
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I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....

edited alll the files that I wanted and re packed them into my rom (skyraider) then just flashed the rom as if it were a nightly update (no wipe data/factory reset).....It worked great! I mucked a few things up here and there but overall it looks very slick....I've officially made my first theme for skyraider 4.0! Wasn't too hard at all....But now that I've done all this work there's a few images I can't seem to find that I want to change the color of....Mainly the highlights press color on the select a connection type dropdown and more importantly the volume popup bar when you increase the phone volume. Also I'm interested in trying to edit some apps like the market and the messages list......and my keyboard so I can get rid of the green in the candidates bar but unfortunately I think these apps are "signed" or something.....Does anyone have information on editing apks like that? when I try to edit them it seems to work correctly until I try to install it on my phone....Input on how to change these apps and the volume bar and everything else stated would be greatly appreciated.....And many thanks to odst for being as helpful as he has been with all of this. This has been a great learning experience

x2kjosh said:
I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....
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Sorry I didn''t realize you had posted the answer to my question about vol. bars.....Where do I find this xml and more importantly how the hell do I open and edit it? I can't figure out how to open these xml's for the life of me

Add fonts to widget?

I am trying to add fonts to the clockq widget. I've never done anything like this before and it isn't working, so I am hoping for some help here.
I tried going to the apk for clockq under data/app and renaming it to a zip file, then extracting it. At that point in the assets folder there is a fonts folder. So I figured I would just paste in a bunch of fonts, rezip the whole thing and rename it to .apk
Didn't work. Broke the app. Had to re-download from the market.
Anyone able to tell me what I did wrong? Please

Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.

artvandelay440 said:
Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.
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Woah.
way over my head, thank you. I might've tried to figure it out if it just involved signing or something, but even that would've required more help.
Oh well.
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Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font

I know a simple apk decompiler, it turns Apk to zip and zip to apk it has a ui to let me know if u still like to try
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Linch89 said:
Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font
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Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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Well I guess it will be about the same but I have try some apks that wouldn't change to zip so I use the decompiler
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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artvandelay440 said:
I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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That's the one I was talking about
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Can't hurt to try. I'll let y'all know if it works.

OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?

TheAtheistReverend said:
OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?
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It allows you to decompile/recompike, zipalign, and sign apks.
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Request: Manually add fonts to JB

I was wondering if anyone knew how to manually add fonts to the galaxy S3 jellybean tw rom. By manually I mean using root explorer and putting files in a particular folder if that can be done. I don't want to buy a font app that just does a transfer I can do myself. Please and thank you
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You can, you would just need to put the correct file in the systems font folder.

The fonts in that folder don't appear in the touchwiz font selection screen under display settings->font
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Joshb60796 said:
The fonts in that folder don't appear in the touchwiz font selection screen under display settings->font
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I see then; well honestly, you're better off just downloading an app to do it; as you're have to change everything in the system ui to that new ont. There are TONS of free root font changer apps. Have a go at them.

teh roxxorz said:
I see then; well honestly, you're better off just downloading an app to do it; as you're have to change everything in the system ui to that new ont. There are TONS of free root font changer apps. Have a go at them.
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I would like to learn the areas of the ui I can edit to get that effect. I'm on XDA to learn anyway. I just finished a semester of C++ in my pursuit of an electrical engineering degree so I'm more interested in the journey than the effect anyway
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You can install fonts manually in the system/fonts folder but it takes time... you need to find a font that has all the different font "states" (light, bold, italic, condensed/ all combinations of these) and should be in .ttf format
So here's what you need to do:
1.Make a nandroid !FIRST!
2.Download your font
3.Use a root browser and find system/fonts
4.Locate the main fonts the system uses (ICS&JB use roboto)
5.Write down all the font state names that begin with roboto (ie roboto-italic)
6.Rename the font states from your downloaded font to the corresponding roboto font states (font-italic to roboto-italic)
7.Paste all renamed font states in system/fonts
8.Set permissions for each pasted font state
9.Boot into recovery and wipe cache/dalvik & set permissions
10.Reboot and enjoy!
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Just Google search for flip fonts. There are tons of free ones on the internet. They install like apks.
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Is there any way to theme the Messaging app....

Without having to download THIS messaging app? The messaging app in my ROM has direct call and a couple of other goodies that I really like... just the colors are very boring and plain! Any help is very much appreciated, thanks.

The standard way of theming is open the mms. Apk in a zip viewer. Either win rar or 7 zip, then find the area that holds folders named draw able hdpi. Extract ONLY THE ICONS AND IMAGES You want to change. Font extract the whole apk. Then, open the images in photo shop or any editing program, change the colors as you please, save, (DONT CHANGE IMAGE NAME OR TYPE), then drop them back into the apk in the folder you found them and save changes to the zip. Once that's does, go into system/app, rename the end of the name .Bak. So apkname.Apk.bak
Then just copy and paste it into system app and then give it correct permissions if it doesn't already and then reboot
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ReapersDeath said:
The standard way of theming is open the mms. Apk in a zip viewer. Either win rar or 7 zip, then find the area that holds folders named draw able hdpi. Extract ONLY THE ICONS AND IMAGES You want to change. Font extract the whole apk. Then, open the images in photo shop or any editing program, change the colors as you please, save, (DONT CHANGE IMAGE NAME OR TYPE), then drop them back into the apk in the folder you found them and save changes to the zip. Once that's does, go into system/app, rename the end of the name .Bak. So apkname.Apk.bak
Then just copy and paste it into system app and then give it correct permissions if it doesn't already and then reboot
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Too complicated for me man!

Joe0113 said:
Without having to download THIS messaging app? The messaging app in my ROM has direct call and a couple of other goodies that I really like... just the colors are very boring and plain! Any help is very much appreciated, thanks.
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Try using gosms or handcent. I believe they have theming capabilities.
All Battery results are on a 6300mah battery, unless otherwise noted!

adamdelozier said:
Try using gosms or handcent. I believe they have theming capabilities.
All Battery results are on a 6300mah battery, unless otherwise noted!
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I used Handcent since my EVO 3D days but I really like the 4.2.2 Messaging app.... I just hate that I can't theme it. No need for a 3rd party messaging app... I can live with the plain colors, I'd just rather be able to theme it if possible!!

Then if Reapers response is too complicated the answer to your question is then No. There's no other way to do it.
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edfunkycold said:
Then if Reapers response is too complicated the answer to your question is then No. There's no other way to do it.
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Guess I"ll just have to live with it or extract another MMS.apk from another ROM!

Joe0113 said:
Guess I"ll just have to live with it or extract another MMS.apk from another ROM!
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Sorry, i made it sound over complicated lol.. just find the thing you want to change and then save it and put it back and save the apk and then just put it on your phone..

Why wouldn't you just download that app? It makes it a lot easier on you to theme the stuff the way you want. :what:
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cbass15 said:
Why wouldn't you just download that app? It makes it a lot easier on you to theme the stuff the way you want. :what:
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I'm honestly thinking about just doing that hahaa.

[Q] Theming the Swype Keyboard

I have been using the blue glass Samsung Keyboard Mod By akapaul26for a couple of weeks now, and I love that keyboard theme. I was wondering if anyone knows how to theme the Swype keyboard? I have been looking into it, but I can't really find a good thread on XDA.
I tried to find the apk file after I bought Swype off of the play store yesterday, and I can't find it in either the /system/app folder, or the /data/app folder. I was going to take that apk file, and try to experiment with some of the image files inside, and hopefully create my own custom Swype theme.
So if anyone knows how to theme the Swype keyboard, please direct me to a thread, or please share with me your secrets!
Thanks in advance...

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I have been using the blue glass Samsung Keyboard Mod By akapaul26for a couple of weeks now, and I love that keyboard theme. I was wondering if anyone knows how to theme the Swype keyboard? I have been looking into it, but I can't really find a good thread on XDA.
I tried to find the apk file after I bought Swype off of the play store yesterday, and I can't find it in either the /system/app folder, or the /data/app folder. I was going to take that apk file, and try to experiment with some of the image files inside, and hopefully create my own custom Swype theme.
So if anyone knows how to theme the Swype keyboard, please direct me to a thread, or please share with me your secrets!
Thanks in advance...
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The easiest way would be to pull the images you want to use out of the themed apk apk rename them to the ones you want to replace in swype and overwrite them.
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The easiest way would be to pull the images you want to use out of the themed apk apk rename them to the ones you want to replace in swype and overwrite them.
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I tried doing exactly that, but for some reason when I try to replace the Stock "pkg.apk" with the one i had my custom images put into, Root Explorer says I can't complete the paste action because I don't have enough free space, when I clearly have enough space on my phone. I tried changing the permissions for the "/mnt/asec/com.nuance.swype.dtc-1" folder (the folder that contains swype's pkg.apk), but after changing the permissions to RWX-RWX-RWX, I still can't replace the modified pkg.apk.
Also, I don't know how to use Android SDK, so I don't know how to push files and folders using adb.exe, maybe I'll learn tomorrow after work.
Thanks for your suggestion!

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I tried doing exactly that, but for some reason when I try to replace the Stock "pkg.apk" with the one i had my custom images put into, Root Explorer says I can't complete the paste action because I don't have enough free space, when I clearly have enough space on my phone. I tried changing the permissions for the "/mnt/asec/com.nuance.swype.dtc-1" folder (the folder that contains swype's pkg.apk), but after changing the permissions to RWX-RWX-RWX, I still can't replace the modified pkg.apk.
Also, I don't know how to use Android SDK, so I don't know how to push files and folders using adb.exe, maybe I'll learn tomorrow after work.
Thanks for your suggestion!
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Try doing it on your computer with 7zip
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Try doing it on your computer with 7zip
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Yeah, I did that this morning, then pushed the pkg.apk in the right folder. When I changed my input method to swype, I saw my new custom keyboard! :victory:
BUT! After I rebooted my phone, I went to text my wife, and my Samsung keyboard popped up, and when I went to change my input method back to swype, it was no longer an option! In fact, I had to go back into the Play Store and reinstall Swype.
Might that issue have occurred because i'm modifying a paid app from the Play Store? Should I go into Titanium Backup and Detach "Swype + Dragon" from the Market?
Thanks again in advance.

Swype beta comes with themes. Not the one from play but from their direct site.
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I don't mean to bump an old thread, but did anyone get anywhere with this? I would love to be able to change some of the colors on these swipe keyboards. Most of the themes are laughable, and a few are tolerable at best.