Working on a gingerbread theme for DK28, not quite sure if i'll release it or not, but while dumping the pngs in and testing on my phone, I noticed the issue in the attached screenshot. The backgrounds for the icons when you hit menu from the homescreen are now black so the black text no longer shows up.
Anyone know where this text can be found in the framework xmls so I can edit it? Its the only issue I found and I poked around the xmls but couldnt find anything that jumped out at me, thanks for any help!
EDIT: correct png uploaded
bump - cmon guys, no help on this?
This is what I'll trying to figure out as well, its really pissing me off as its the only thing stopping me from releasing my rom. Im keeping an eye on this thread as well.
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Where did you find the png(s) to change the menu bg?
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Where did you find the png(s) to change the menu bg?
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newest android SDK for the most part, i also pulled some things that were missing from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864819.
I think I'm ready to post it except for that text for the menu backgrounds, just gotta get permission for the things i stole, eh hem, borrowed also!
I was trying the same thing, try a menu smali file in the framework.
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newest android SDK for the most part, i also pulled some things that were missing from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864819.
I think I'm ready to post it except for that text for the menu backgrounds, just gotta get permission for the things i stole, eh hem, borrowed also!
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Sorry, I mean on our phones. Its probably a dumb question, I know. Its like the only one I can't find. I have changed every one of then, even some in apps but I can't find that one. What and where is the files. lol
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Sorry, I mean on our phones. Its probably a dumb question, I know. Its like the only one I can't find. I have changed every one of then, even some in apps but I can't find that one. What and where is the files. lol
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oh right, well its gotta be in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi for sure, i changed out almost every icon in there, flashed it and voila, black menu backgrounds. so i dont know exactly what pngs were responsible. doing a quick search for menu though i get the following i put my money on the starred one:
menu_background.9.png
***menu_background_fill_parent_width.9.png
menu_submenu_background.9.png
so what is a menu smali file? i'll search around but i've never done anything with one.
EDIT: sounds like smali might be a little out of my league, lol. but i think i may have found something, testing now before i reveal it. then just one more thing to fix and i think its ready to go!
okay well i found what to do for xml edits here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9664604&postcount=77
but i did them and it doesnt look like it took. i've asked the OP of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863860 for some advice and also on changing the notification text from white to dark as it doesnt look good on the lighter gray notification background in GB.
hopefully i'll have something up today or tomorrow, its looking great other than that!
looking good so far, even with a GB battery 1% mod! just 2 more little issues to fix!
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oh right, well its gotta be in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi for sure, i changed out almost every icon in there, flashed it and voila, black menu backgrounds. so i dont know exactly what pngs were responsible. doing a quick search for menu though i get the following i put my money on the starred one:
menu_background.9.png
***menu_background_fill_parent_width.9.png
menu_submenu_background.9.png
so what is a menu smali file? i'll search around but i've never done anything with one.
EDIT: sounds like smali might be a little out of my league, lol. but i think i may have found something, testing now before i reveal it. then just one more thing to fix and i think its ready to go!
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Thanks a lot for that, the one is round and didn't catch my eye. Thanks again!
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okay well i found what to do for xml edits here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9664604&postcount=77
but i did them and it doesnt look like it took. i've asked the OP of this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863860 for some advice and also on changing the notification text from white to dark as it doesnt look good on the lighter gray notification background in GB.
hopefully i'll have something up today or tomorrow, its looking great other than that!
looking good so far, even with a GB battery 1% mod! just 2 more little issues to fix!
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Looks nice, damn...
I like those Icons!
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Had so many ideas floating around in my head about this one I couldn't help but use my day off yesterday to throw it together. Compiled JrBourque's blue VK for this build. worked out pretty well =)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dt5v4iytg2f/Hv1.5_Megaman_A2SD_final.zip
This is the pre-status bar version. That's my next step and I'll likely be posting an update to it w/ the status bar and notification background modded to match. Then i think I might take a few days off lol (aside from posting the Gambit theme once my homeboy tinkers w/ the clock for me). I haven't stopped since I started working on my Amazing Spider-Man theme nearly 2 weeks ago lol.
More screenshots...
Awesome. I love megaman. Great work with the icons!
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Awesome. I love megaman. Great work with the icons!
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Thanks =). It was deathly slow at my work the other day and I was playing Megaman 2 on my Dash and got all kinds of ideas and inspiration. Couldn't shut my brain off until I saw the project completed lol.
Hey that music widget needs to re-signed thats why in port it's off.
Keep up the good work! Not my style but looking good.
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Droppin the megaman theme out of no where, without so much as a warning! ?!??!! That's boarder line illegal
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Hey that music widget needs to re-signed thats why in port it's off.
Keep up the good work! Not my style but looking good.
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Resigned? I've never had to sign anything other than the update.
Adding the guide lines using either 9patch or if you know how to do it using CS3 and signing the .9.png using eclipse. Thats what i am talking about as far as signing.
great theme, can u port it to JF 1.5?
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Adding the guide lines using either 9patch or if you know how to do it using CS3 and signing the .9.png using eclipse. Thats what i am talking about as far as signing.
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yeah I spent about 3-5 hours trying to get eclipse to work right. Once I figured that out I spent another 2-3 hours trying to master the skill of editing in 9patch, following the steps precisely but just couldn't get it to look right =L It was too foreign to me and I just ended up giving up in frustration. It seems what the image looks like is variable on where you place the markers on the top and left columbs. Just couldn't get the image to look right no matter what I tried. And yeah... was following damnitpud's instructions. =( I guess I'm just not naturally inclined for editing in 9patch as some others might be.
But I'm pretty okay w/ the MP3 player as long as the inner isn't stretching out of the body or anything like that. When I copy the file from a Haykuro G build into the 1.5 as I have w/ this one, it just seems to take the same shape as the default mp3 player and that looks aight by me since I can't seem to comprehend 9batch editing he he. Thanks for the feedback man.
I've seen some of your work and work by others on here and the graphic design elements of the themes puts mine to shame lol. I'm just really inpsired to make themes based on sources of influence, like Spider-man, Megaman etc. etc. =) I keep it real basic compared to most but I have fun with it and that's all that really matters in the end I guess.
Aight. Got the Statusbar done. Was tempted to dive deeper and make all the notification icons blue as well... But it looks good as is and I don't think I'd have the time to mod the 60+ images required to acheive that end lol.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dt5v4iytg2f/Hv1.5_Megaman_A2SD_final.zip
Send me the two icons ill send them back with the guides for you to see how it's done,you said you do have eclipse working?
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Send me the two icons ill send them back with the guides for you to see how it's done,you said you do have eclipse working?
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Awesome. That I do =). I'm drivin to work right now but will send the files to ya tonight when I get back from work (about 8PM pacific). Thanks man =)
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great theme, can u port it to JF 1.5?
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Thanks to the help of Manup... I FINALLY have a semi-sound comprehension of editing the stretchable images (IE the images that are used for the music widget and VK among other things). Thus I'm currently working on making a custom music widget, and might change up the notification are a lil more before I'm completely finished. Once I am ill prolly make an attempt to port it to JF. If its as easy as pasteing over all my modded apks into a JF build it should be a snap (any insight/input on this from anyone else on here would be much appreciated =)).
This theme is looking nice. I know my bro would love it. Is there any way you can make one of Zero? I tend to like more the Z-Zaber than the Buster, lol..
just my .2 cents..
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Thanks to the help of Manup... I FINALLY have a semi-sound comprehension of editing the stretchable images (IE the images that are used for the music widget and VK among other things). Thus I'm currently working on making a custom music widget, and might change up the notification are a lil more before I'm completely finished. Once I am ill prolly make an attempt to port it to JF. If its as easy as pasteing over all my modded apks into a JF build it should be a snap (any insight/input on this from anyone else on here would be much appreciated =)).
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thanx man!!!!!
update -
Music player skinned. Notification background changed out. I cleaned up the image on the menu background so it's not so obvious that it's tiled and looks a LOT cleaner now. I thought that image looked a lot better than the one I was previously using for the notification background so I used it there instead as well. Here's the updated link -
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dt5v4iytg2f/Hv1.5_Megaman_A2SD_final.zip
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Very nice collabo.
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Very nice collabo.
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Try it out, let me know how you like it.
looks nice! i might try it out when i have time.
my phone is busy haha
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Try it out, let me know how you like it.
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Ok I'll give it a try.
There. Now people can admire your handiwork!
Thanks, got my first computer for christmas, kinda new to the internet thing. Xda has been a pleasure though. Your music widget is awesome!
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Thanks, got my first computer for christmas, kinda new to the internet thing. Xda has been a pleasure though. Your music widget is awesome!
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glad you like it. I wanted something that would go with just about everything and still look good.
Thanks for that! Makes the effort worthwhile.
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glad you like it. I wanted something that would go with just about everything and still look good.
Thanks for that! Makes the effort worthwhile.
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It must have been quite an effort... I've edited a few .9.png files, and its not fun. In fact, I've decided to avoid it as much as possible! Figuring out which files to replace is easy, but actually editing them and creating new images is a pain. Thankfully, there are quite a few nice themes already floating around. Lots of tutorials as well.
this is beautiful. anyone tried it on 3.9.1 yet?
smooth I like the icons.
+1 I wanna try with 3.9.1
Got stuck on the g1 screen when flashed on 3.9.1.
Was wonderimg if you can port this theme to 3.9.1
samethsom said:
Got stuck on the g1 screen when flashed on 3.9.1.
Was wonderimg if you can port this theme to 3.9.1
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K. Ported to 3.9.1. Ported as fast as I could, so far as i can tell, everything works just fine. Let me know if there is any "weirdness" and I'll try to fix it.
Hey johnny, where can i get the clock from the screenshots??
Can do you think you can make the highlights and loadbars green in your next update??
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Hey johnny, where can i get the clock from the screenshots??
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Clock is android apps weather widget(donate). It's a paid app so i couldn't include in the update.zip.
samethsom said:
Can do you think you can make the highlights and loadbars green in your next update??
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Most likely not. I put this together cause I hate green and all the other themes use alot of green. Green.... ewww.
Okay...thanks alot
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Most likely not. I put this together cause I hate green and all the other themes use alot of green. Green.... ewww.
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I agree. If there were a color to add....in my opinion blue. And in fact only as a selection highlight.
Sooo, noob question:
There are two links - one for the thee, one for icons. Do the icons from the crenshots not come with the theme? How do we put them into it if not, just flash the .zip.
Related question: why not make theme that the icons can be switched in, like as if using ahome or something. that would be nice
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Sooo, noob question:
There are two links - one for the thee, one for icons. Do the icons from the crenshots not come with the theme? How do we put them into it if not, just flash the .zip.
Related question: why not make theme that the icons can be switched in, like as if using ahome or something. that would be nice
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The link for the icons is for bettercut/openhome/ahome/dxtop users who want to use the icons separately.
I would make a theme that can have switchable icons, but I'm not a programmer. You should try the modified launcher thread... I would definitely add that if someone else can code that into the current launcher Cyanogen is using
I've spend some time searching for a modded apk, but I've been unable to find one. From what I've read it's possible to do. (h**p://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/42629-how-invert-colors-gmail-apk-message-display-screen-3.html)
I just think it will be much more easy on the eyes and battery life with a nice black screen like the default email app.
I second this - I'm sure many devs would include this in their ROMs if it is ever created.
I think a customized version matching the black/blue touchwiz colors would be nice!
Black base with blue details. I'd use it! I can't wait for Froyo for the new Gmail though.
i really like this idea, devs we need this!!pretty please
+6 !
I'm going to have to second this one too... Black GMail sounds awesome especially on these AMOLED screens
+1
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haha. ya, what's next?
not it!
Agreed, that would be awesome.
I'll give this a shot this week. APK manager will make it easier but not guaranteeing any results.
Anyone feels like assisting on this pm me, two heads are better!
^I'd offer to help but I've already looked through everything in my realm of "knowledge"
I've found some xml files already that probably control it all but it might be simpler than that I'm checking tonight
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^I'd offer to help but I've already looked through everything in my realm of "knowledge"
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Man I've looked all over and only gotten one thing to change. I am hoping you struck gold here. (fingers crossed)
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I'm getting started now
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Man I've looked all over and only gotten one thing to change. I am hoping you struck gold here. (fingers crossed)
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I'm getting started now
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Good luck!
If I had any clue how to edit the XMLs I'd offer to assist.
I guess some of these xmls weren't supposed to be touched. First attempt and I have no Epic for the time being. I'm doing what I can on the phone itself to avoid Odin, but that's next. I have to try another route that is showing promise. It might require a theme to work though because one way is to edit the colors in the framework that is inherited by Gmail. Once I'm back up and running I can see where I can push this.
Back up one nandroid was corrupt, the older one worked. Now I can see where I went wrong, don't expect any results tonight lol.
Here's where my two errors happened. I deleted gmail.apk with root explorer, phone did not like that. Bootlooped. I restored the nandroid backup that was corrupt. It didn't work fc everything once booted so I did a factory data reset. That fixed it to boot and run. Next I applied the modified gmail with an update zip. This crashed the phone worse. I am back up to where I was earlier today, I'm going to try a different signing method as well as making it's own update zip. If that doesn't work, the xmls won't allow me to edit so it will be up to me changing colors in the android framework.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...olors-gmail-apk-message-display-screen-3.html Link from first post if you missed it
This may help.
Are you working odex or deodex BTW?
Care to fill us in which framework files you are editing? I will play with this some tonight to, off work in 1 1/2 hours.
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And which xmls won't let you edit them?
Been looking all day, but I can't find the one I'm looking for. Found plenty of circle battery mods that will work with CM7 RC2, but I'm looking specifically for one that looks like the first pictures posted in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724778
Anyone know of one that exists yet?
you can either make it yourself, wait for me or another developer to do it this weekend (your welcome ) or try shift_'s sculpted theme. it is pretty sweet. it is theme manager compatible so it doesnt need flahsing. jsut make sure to at least hot reboot after.
if you dont like it, i'll try to incorperate this mod into the frameworks this weekend. it'll be my first time going into the gingerbread framework, so i might see problems, but it hsould be fine.
Unfortunately I've yet to go in and figure out how to do things like this. If you're already planning on making one though, that's great. I can definitely wait patiently. You get many thanks from me.
Ok I can't get it done till saturday tough so it will have to wait. Then lets see if I'm allergic to gingerbread
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Unfortunately I've yet to go in and figure out how to do things like this. If you're already planning on making one though, that's great. I can definitely wait patiently. You get many thanks from me.
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Ok I can't get it done till saturday tough so it will have to wait. Then lets see if I'm allergic to gingerbread
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i would love this as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999284 check it out..
Dusty539 said:
Been looking all day, but I can't find the one I'm looking for. Found plenty of circle battery mods that will work with CM7 RC2, but I'm looking specifically for one that looks like the first pictures posted in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724778
Anyone know of one that exists yet?
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ok, i'm starting right now. thanks for waiting.
edit: damn i hate problems.... i found the stock battery, but that goes down every 5 percent. i'm searching for the "batt percent" icons, but i found none. i have explored 8 apps and found nothing. time to keep looking....
HERE IT IS FOLKS
i have to admit, i couldnt figure the damn thing out, so i used the online kitchen and it worked very well. this is UNTESTED. it will only work with AMON-RA OR CWM 2.X. thanks again for waiting. this was built off of the framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk of nightly 26.
now i'm going on the irc to figure out how to do it myself
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HERE IT IS FOLKS
i have to admit, i couldnt figure the damn thing out, so i used the online kitchen and it worked very well. this is UNTESTED. it will only work with AMON-RA OR CWM 2.X. thanks again for waiting. this was built off of the framework-res.apk and systemUI.apk of nightly 26.
now i'm going on the irc to figure out how to do it myself
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Please post instructions when you figure out how to self edit. The kitchens breaks themes when I use it for the battery mod, I get the mod but not with the theme I am using, aka Honeybread theme by Hax!
cordell12 said:
Please post instructions when you figure out how to self edit. The kitchens breaks themes when I use it for the battery mod, I get the mod but not with the theme I am using, aka Honeybread theme by Hax!
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you want it with honeybread? send me the honeybread.apk and i'll whip it right up. and i cant figure out how to do it manually. its definitely hiding in an xml code or another. damn java...
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you want it with honeybread? send me the honeybread.apk and i'll whip it right up. and i cant figure out how to do it manually. its definitely hiding in an xml code or another. damn java...
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I would just like to know how you do it with a themed apk please?
Rename the Hoenybread.apk to framework.apk and run it through kitchen? <<<guess, lol
cordell12 said:
I would just like to know how you do it with a themed apk please?
Rename the Hoenybread.apk to framework.apk and run it through kitchen? <<<guess, lol
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ok, in the kitchen, in the file upload part, the third option is to upload a cm7 theme. just shoot honeybread into that, select the theme you want to apply, and run the kitchen! easy.
I've searched all over this place and the web, I cannot find a concrete solution that actually works, so like the title states, I need to know how to edit the text colors of the Mms.apk (more specifically for Juggs 5.0 and Warfare).
I've checked out several of the xmls inside of it and it's not doing the trick.
I am about 97% done or something to that effect, with my next theme and after I get this down it should be good to go for first release.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!
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I've searched all over this place and the web, I cannot find a concrete solution that actually works, so like the title states, I need to know how to edit the text colors of the Mms.apk (more specifically for Juggs 5.0 and Warfare).
I've checked out several of the xmls inside of it and it's not doing the trick.
I am about 97% done or something to that effect, with my next theme and after I get this down it should be good to go for first release.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!
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You know I'm a theme king man, and the mms.apk is the most annoying app to mod, I tried everything myself. I think some things in the styles.XML redirects back to the twframework which then redirects back to the framework-res itself.
Poke around in layout/msg_list_item.XML
On the Galaxy S Vibrant I was able to add
"Android:textcolor=ffxxxxxx" or what ever in the
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You know I'm a theme king man, and the mms.apk is the most annoying app to mod, I tried everything myself. I think some things in the styles.XML redirects back to the twframework which then redirects back to the framework-res itself.
Poke around in layout/msg_list_item.XML
On the Galaxy S Vibrant I was able to add
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I appreciate that info M&S, unfortunately I actually already tried that one :/
I read somewhere it might refer back to framework-res styles somehow but not sure how to change that...
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I appreciate that info M&S, unfortunately I actually already tried that one :/
I read somewhere it might refer back to framework-res styles somehow but not sure how to change that...
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I'm gonna look there again tonight
M&S
I been all over that app it sucks
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Ima third that, MMS is completely for the loss
In Values>Colors theirs a way to change the color of the timestamp. Just change the hex code of the first line I think. Never tried it though xD
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In Values>Colors theirs a way to change the color of the timestamp. Just change the hex code of the first line I think. Never tried it though xD
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Nope...not it, that's the timestamp as in the time under the message text
M&S
The color is set in twframework-res.apk\res\values\colors.xml it's "tw_color002" The only problem is that this also controls the color to a handful of other things... Still trying to find what xml in the mms.apk calls on tw_color002.
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The color is set in twframework-res.apk\res\values\colors.xml it's "tw_color002" The only problem is that this also controls the color to a handful of other things... Still trying to find what xml in the mms.apk calls on tw_color002.
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Ill look into it.
I cant thank you enough man
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Ill look into it.
I cant thank you enough man
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good times. let me know if you figure out the last step!
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Ill look into it.
I cant thank you enough man
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I bet i could find it lol
evil.........out!