Hi guys! I am having some trouble themeing this. I am familiar with transparency as I have done the status bar itself, and I did the background for the pull down bar transparent but it shows up black.. I've searched hi and low (I'm sure I'm doing something wrong not to find the answer, and I'm sorry for this but I really would like to know how to do this). Is there an edit I need to do to an xml file or something I'm not familiar with XML what so ever but if anyone could help me out in anyway guide me in the right direction or whatever that would be very great and I'd be very appreciative!, thanks guys
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You need to edit the services.jar i believe.
Gahh Its Lee said:
You need to edit the services.jar i believe.
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Gahh thanks for the reply man, I have noo idea how to do that i do have ubuntu set up though, I'll try and figure it out if no one else chimes in. Thanks again mang,
I'll upload my services.jar when I get a chance if you'd like
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That would be great, how do I open the file though?do I need some apk tool?
Just use mine in place of yours?? I just took the services out of a Rom and use that
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ahh yea I know how to do that, but I want to know how to do the actual work myself and not just copy n paste someone elses. theres much more in that file that I may not want. ya know?
Then sorry to say i can not help you.
Ive only learned how to take things out and use them for what i want.
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Then sorry to say i can not help you.
Ive only learned how to take things out and use them for what i want.
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No I hear you I appriciate it man, I do the same thing I just recently learned how to deodex an RUU file so I've just been running stock rom with my own additions, which is why I asked this question
If you're really interested in learning this, and you can't figure it out with extensive google research, try sending a private message to stoney 666, jlechner, or chingy51o.
Be mindful that they are all senior members and are very busy, but they are also very committed to this community. Show due respect and they should help you out.
Good luck my friend.
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Peace all,
I hope someone here can assist me (not good at all making my own themes). I'm currently running xxBabiBoixx's Carbon ROM --which by the way is a fast EXCELLENT ROM, everyone on Evo should try it. He curently has a themed Rosie based on HTC stock's Rosie (Carbonized). For more space on my homescreen (for minimalist type view) I would like to use Manup's Alternate Rosie (files found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7812533&postcount=1023)
The reason why I'm asking for a Metamorph is because BabiBoi has implemented a whole set of nice mods including flip/fold animations, transparent notification shade and app drawer and modded icons for notifications. When I tried to flash Manup's Alt. Rosie it copied itself over top of his (i guess cause his ROM is heavily themed). I even tried to flash xxVirusxx's BACKTOSTOCK ZIP and it removed all of BabiBoi's modifications to his ROM.
Any help or tip to get this working on my phone would be greatly appreciated (I'm learning daily from being on this site )
-ZDK-
I would like a metamorph of the 5 apps in a row from the latest ava rom. I like that rosie but have a few mods to the rosie I'm currently using, so if I knew exactly what file or edit I could replace so that I could keep most of my rosie.
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Can someone please help...or lead me in right direction?
Thanks in advance,
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I would like a metamorph of the 5 apps in a row from the latest ava rom. I like that rosie but have a few mods to the rosie I'm currently using, so if I knew exactly what file or edit I could replace so that I could keep most of my rosie.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8801770&postcount=97
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8801770&postcount=97
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Peace JsChiSurf,
What about Manup's Alt Rosie (not the one Myn is using)?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8801770&postcount=97
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thanks bro,
just wondering, is this the same as in ava's rom? (not that it matters much.)
only reason being that the text on the icons are well centered. thanks for the share though. im sure if it is not, i can extract the file i now know of. you are great!
again, thanks!
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thanks bro,
just wondering, is this the same as in ava's rom? (not that it matters much.)
only reason being that the text on the icons are well centered. thanks for the share though. im sure if it is not, i can extract the file i now know of. you are great!
again, thanks!
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This is not, based on SteelH's request, I went ahead and did the mod, as I had done it many moons ago as well, on the Hero, though, as mentioned, I don't personally prefer .
Having said this, I did not spend a lot of time other then getting the icons to be 5 wide, so yea, there's probably some optimizing that can be done. Hope this gets you started in the right direction.
This should work on any Rosie based on the current Sprint 2.2.
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This is not, based on SteelH's request, I went ahead and did the mod, as I had done it many moons ago as well, on the Hero, though, as mentioned, I don't personally prefer .
Having said this, I did not spend a lot of time other then getting the icons to be 5 wide, so yea, there's probably some optimizing that can be done. Hope this gets you started in the right direction.
This should work on any Rosie based on the current Sprint 2.2.
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thanks. so what would happen if i took this file from the rom i was looking for. would it work properly? just a thought.
Rydah805 said:
thanks. so what would happen if i took this file from the rom i was looking for. would it work properly? just a thought.
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Yep, you "should" be able to do this w/o issue. YMMV, nandroid first!
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Yep, you "should" be able to do this w/o issue. YMMV, nandroid first!
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just did a nandroid. =]
while were speaking of nandroids, your a smart dev so maby you will know the answer. i made a nandroid yesterday before trying to mod something. nandroid said all was fine. when my modding didn't go over well, i went to restore my nandroid and i keep getting md5 missmatch. ????? i dont know whats wrong.
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just did a nandroid. =]
while were speaking of nandroids, your a smart dev so maby you will know the answer. i made a nandroid yesterday before trying to mod something. nandroid said all was fine. when my modding didn't go over well, i went to restore my nandroid and i keep getting md5 missmatch. ????? i dont know whats wrong.
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Never happened to me, but I know I've seen posts with similar problems. Are you using Clockwork recovery? There are some things you can try, but, really, just do a search in the forums, you'll find a resolution. Also, did you rename the nandroid?
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Never happened to me, but I know I've seen posts with similar problems. Are you using Clockwork recovery? There are some things you can try, but, really, just do a search in the forums, you'll find a resolution. Also, did you rename the nandroid?
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Hmmm...I still dont get it...is this Manup's Alternate Rosie as well or just the transparent app drawer?
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Hmmm...I still dont get it...is this Manup's Alternate Rosie as well or just the transparent app drawer?
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Neither. Sorry for hijacking the thread. My link was just for getting the app drawer to display 5 icons wide instead of 4, per rydah805's request.
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Neither. Sorry for hijacking the thread. My link was just for getting the app drawer to display 5 icons wide instead of 4, per rydah805's request.
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I got you---no problem---now if someone could help me....
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ZEDEK said:
I got you---no problem---now if someone could help me....
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Also sorry for contributing to the hijacking.
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Hey JsChiSurf, I did the swapping of the file in the layout folder from the Rom and nothing happened. Any suggestions? I don't know why its not working. I'll post the file rightnow.
Edit: here it is. http://db.tt/3XB1Wlq
Please help. Thanks.
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Hey JsChiSurf, I did the swapping of the file in the layout folder from the Rom and nothing happened. Any suggestions? I don't know why its not working. I'll post the file rightnow.
Edit: here it is. http://db.tt/3XB1Wlq
Please help. Thanks.
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I didn't look at the file, but I'd have to assume that the mod was done using a different approach then. PM me and we can continue the discussion. I have text removed from icons, so when I modded the XML I didn't notice an issue. If you let me know, I'll just fix in the version I posted, whatever the issue may be.
ok...now that the hi-jacking of my thread is complete---can someone please help/assist me in making a metamorph of manup's alternate Rosie that wont disrupt or change the theme i have now?
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ok...now that the hi-jacking of my thread is complete---can someone please help/assist me in making a metamorph of manup's alternate Rosie that wont disrupt or change the theme i have now?
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Okay, since I partially contributed to the hijacking of this thread, as my penitence, I'll help you out.
I don't use this Rosie, so if you can point me to where it is / what it looks like, I'll whip something up for you, out of nothing other than sheer guilt...
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Okay, since I partially contributed to the hijacking of this thread, as my penitence, I'll help you out.
I don't use this Rosie, so if you can point me to where it is / what it looks like, I'll whip something up for you, out of nothing other than sheer guilt...
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Thank you so much JsChiSurf....the files can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7812533&postcount=1023
Peace
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Any of these super chefs want to give us a definitive guide on how to add the CRT animations to a ROM?
I am more than comfortable with decompiling and modifying XMLs, but it would be nice to know where i am going.
Think of it this way... Whenever anyone else asks you about the animations, you can just link them to this thread and be done with it.
And yes, i have searched and there isnt much good information out there.
Even better - any way someone can create a flashable zip to add these to any rom? Now that devs are baking them into their roms,i dont see why it wouldn't be possible!
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Any of these super chefs want to give us a definitive guide on how to add the CRT animations to a ROM?
I am more than comfortable with decompiling and modifying XMLs, but it would be nice to know where i am going.
Think of it this way... Whenever anyone else asks you about the animations, you can just link them to this thread and be done with it.
And yes, i have searched and there isnt much good information out there.
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Call me a noob and slap me silly.... what exactly are crt animations?
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fdb8231 said:
Call me a noob and slap me silly.... what exactly are crt animations?
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OK NOOB...hahaahaha...CRT animations are, WELL....is better if you just see it and you'll understand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWaDS_CIqI
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Even better - any way someone can create a flashable zip to add these to any rom? Now that devs are baking them into their roms,i dont see why it wouldn't be possible!
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Try this flashable zip BUT before you go and do all of this, NANDROID backup your ROM......ONCE AGAIN, BACKUP your ROM.....because this is 50/50, it might work, I just tried it on sense 2.2 and it works like a champ!
Also, don't just flash it and NEVER come on here again....let me know if it does or doesn't because if it does then I'll start up a thread so others can use it....
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OK NOOB...hahaahaha...CRT animations are, WELL....is better if you just see it and you'll understand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWaDS_CIqI
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Ok Ty
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Thanks skcussrepolevedadx, you're my biggest fan.....HEY, call sis when you get a chance dude!
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Try this flashable zip BUT before you go and do all of this, NANDROID backup your ROM......ONCE AGAIN, BACKUP your ROM.....because this is 50/50, it might work, I just tried it on sense 2.2 and it works like a champ!
Also, don't just flash it and NEVER come on here again....let me know if it does or doesn't because if it does then I'll start up a thread so others can use it....
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Doesn't work for me.
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Didn't work on evo with warm 2.2.
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this is something i am greatly interested in..
no devs are interested in this anymore??
Alright guys, need some help. Who here knows whats going on with my quick settings? Everything does work even though they are saying these weird things.
wildstang83 said:
Alright guys, need some help. Who here knows whats going on with my quick settings? Everything does work even though they are saying these weird things.
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are you using the stock notification bar modded?
JoelZ9614 said:
are you using the stock notification bar modded?
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No I'm using the Quick Settings found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16347577&postcount=4
Unfortunatly I don't know where they originaly came from. I'll I know is they are the only one's that I've found that actually work.
Should be noted that I am also using the 4 settings tybe apk's from the vision_gingersense-2.30.405.1 Rom because they do not have the 4G settings in them.
Come on guys somebody has got to know something, lol
I'm thinking the .xml's in the systemUI.apk aren't looking in the right place for the info that it needs. I'm just not good with that kinda stuff yet though.
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well, if you but the hublaboobla.fjk in the function jar then rearange it and format it to I'm a fatty 32, it should work properly. Man when it comes to developing, I know nothing at all. I can help you with pretty much anything else though, very knowledgeable there.
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Yea that sounds pretty close to what I need to do. Lol
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thats a sense 3 systemui.apk.....thats why lol
cvbcbcmv said:
well, if you but the hublaboobla.fjk in the function jar then rearange it and format it to I'm a fatty 32, it should work properly. Man when it comes to developing, I know nothing at all. I can help you with pretty much anything else though, very knowledgeable there.
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Looks like some1's autocorrect kicked in big time but hublaboobla is actually hublabooblia
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thats a sense 3 systemui.apk.....thats why lol
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Sense 3 or not it still looks the same. I need to figure out how to make it look for what it wants to find. Darker header and pulldown dosn't matter at this point...
Its one of those features people want and if I can make it work I don't mind putting it in.
Happened to me before on a rom, but I can't remember which. Reboot helped for a little while, but it returned shortly after.
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Its just kinda weird that a systemUI.apk from Sense 3.0 will work even with those weird strings but a systemUI.apk from any of the current 2.1 roms on the forums won't even work.
What happens is if I grab the systemUI.apk from any of these 2.1 that has the quick settings with sliders and put it in my rom the status bar won't show up. Theres no force close...nothing.
im finally ready to learn to theme for reals, & i need some help so if ya got gtalk mines [email protected] hit me up i need to learn xml & smali starting with the basics & it turns out my stuff has alot of bad .9.pngs that need to be fixed b4 i can even decompile
this is my only nite off for over a week, Im bored & need someone to lend a helping hand
I would like this help too.
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Some links that may help
[GUIDE] Want to learn how to theme?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
[Guide] Learning To Theme: Putting the tools to use pt. 1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821638
Android Development and HackingAndroid Themes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=527
maybe that can help get you rolling in the right direction.
I've been reading them myself trying to get going too.
Have fun!
Dreamsforgottens tutorial is great. Learned most of my android knowledge there. (Had a little help from Google too);-) Once you get eclipse set up I reccomend installing paint.net it's a nice image editor and it's free. It handles transparent pngs better than photoshop also. Pngcrusher is great for reducing image sizes too. Just remember to optimize your .9.pngs before compiling them in eclipse.
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Flint420 said:
Dreamsforgottens tutorial is great. Learned most of my android knowledge there. (Had a little help from Google too);-) Once you get eclipse set up I reccomend installing paint.net it's a nice image editor and it's free. It handles transparent pngs better than photoshop also. Pngcrusher is great for reducing image sizes too. Just remember to optimize your .9.pngs before compiling them in eclipse.
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i use gimp & apk manager, what i need is the modified 1.apk bc it keeps erroring when i decompile, & ive been waitin all day for 1 of 2 people to send it to me b4 i can even start anything
ok i got the 1.apk but now i hve no time 2day
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ok i got the 1.apk but now i hve no time 2day
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Bro, Normally I'd be all over helping you, but this week is just crazy busy for me. Hopefully next week will be better.
shane6374 said:
Bro, Normally I'd be all over helping you, but this week is just crazy busy for me. Hopefully next week will be better.
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I would be usin dreans guides but I've always sucked @ doin work from reading I'm more hands on & ask a lot of questions
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greenmuggy said:
I would be usin dreans guides but I've always sucked @ doin work from reading I'm more hands on & ask a lot of questions
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Me to seems like videos are the best for us huh?
I love the guide Dream put up though its straight up awesome lol wsh there was more to go along with it though
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ac16313 said:
Me to seems like videos are the best for us huh?
I love the guide Dream put up though its straight up awesome lol wsh there was more to go along with it though
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Ya the vids & tutorials are good but I tend to be the person that's has problems left n right, I used to piss my teachers off a lot...
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ac16313 said:
Me to seems like videos are the best for us huh?
I love the guide Dream put up though its straight up awesome lol wsh there was more to go along with it though
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There's Dreams himself. I mean he's up to stuff sometimes, but I'm pretty sure he's pretty open to discussion.
shane6374 said:
Bro, Normally I'd be all over helping you, but this week is just crazy busy for me. Hopefully next week will be better.
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I cant seem to get apkmanager to sign my apk :/ i decompiled, edited an xml file and recompiled fine but signing errors out instantly and the log says:
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'
Could Not Find C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\apk_manager_5.0\place-apk-here-for-modding\../place-apk-here-for-modding/unsignedunsignedMms.apk
Do i need to put java in path like sdk?? im confused lol any help would be great! I currently use signapktic from market but dont know which key to use lol
EDIT: NVM lol i saw what i did wrong...i moved the Java folder out of /program files xD
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I cant seem to get apkmanager to sign my apk :/ i decompiled, edited an xml file and recompiled fine but signing errors out instantly and the log says:
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'
Could Not Find C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\apk_manager_5.0\place-apk-here-for-modding\../place-apk-here-for-modding/unsignedunsignedMms.apk
Do i need to put java in path like sdk?? im confused lol any help would be great! I currently use signapktic from market but dont know which key to use lol
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The fact that your apk is named unsignedunsignedmms is odd. Do you also an apk named unsignedmms in the modding folder as well as a decompiled unsignedmms folder in the projects folder? Also are you trying to sign from the modding folder and not the signing folder?
Edit: I missed something here. You're using a market app to sign your apk's? Why not just use apk manager?
Edit2: I just dl'ed that app, and trying it.
Edit3: With that app you need to have both the original apk and the unsigned modded apk in the folder. Though most apps that you sign, you're only doing it to take the resource.arsc file out of it so not sure why you would do it on your phone.
I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
might want to change your topic it's EL26 EL22 was talked about but just as an RDF file that showed up iirc.
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might want to change your topic it's EL26 EL22 was talked about but just as an RDF file that showed up iirc.
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ACK! you're right. stupid typos
thanks
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I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
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You don't know about UOT kitchen? Also you should read up on theming since the two things you are asking for can easily be done by you. Its just a matter of changing PNG files within the apk.
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playya said:
You don't know about UOT kitchen? Also you should read up on theming since the two things you are asking for can easily be done by you. Its just a matter of changing PNG files within the apk.
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here's the problem with that
I have absolutely no idea what you just said, lol
PNG files are image files. Like a .jpg they end with .png
An apk (.apk) is the application package. Every application on your phone is an apk file. You can open them with 7zip - don't unzip it though unless you feel like signing it and other crap. Also, make sure you zipalign and optimize the PNG files (Google that).
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PNG files are image files. Like a .jpg they end with .png
An apk (.apk) is the application package. Every application on your phone is an apk file. You can open them with 7zip - don't unzip it though unless you feel like signing it and other crap. Also, make sure you zipalign and optimize the PNG files (Google that).
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hahaha now he is really confused. Lol Hey try UOT Kitchen hopefully by now you have looked it up and not just said I dont know what that is. If you have not then pm me and I can try and help you further. But try to help yourself as well...Good luck
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I was going to ask this for EL13 but being that a new leak is out, might as well ask on that, lol...
I like to run stock but 2 things I'm addicted to are the battery % mod and the transparent drop-down drawer.
if I'm the only one, I wouldn't expect a themer to go nuts... but I know a lot of people like to run stock so if this can happen, I'd be eternally thankful
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If this is something you really want I can do it for you. I would say do it yourself but the battery % mod can be a little tricky. I am assuming you just want the stock battery icons then?
PM me and we can chat more.
Uot kitchen is so easy to do. Just upload the needed files and theme it up
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If this is something you really want I can do it for you. I would say do it yourself but the battery % mod can be a little tricky. I am assuming you just want the stock battery icons then?
PM me and we can chat more.
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What's tricky about exchanging files. He will be.alright and its great practice for future theming. Its android not IOS so nandroid and go at it.
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Thanks for all the info guys, Im not the OP of this thread but I have learned just as much by reading it, thanks!
i would also like this done...
jocampo86 said:
i would also like this done...
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Have you ever tried UOT Kitchen, it may also even teach you something about theming....Maybe? Give it a shot
playya said:
What's tricky about exchanging files. He will be.alright and its great practice for future theming. Its android not IOS so nandroid and go at it.
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The default system is not setup for % icons so you have to add a bunch of images and set the xml file to use them. It was more going through the xml. If this is all he wants changed then why would he learn xml?