I'm looking for the png or xml that controls the white background for this menu. Found the icons that are in the menu but not the background itself
Thanks for the help guys. They are pngs in the framefork-res.apk= drawable-hdpi= and they are menu_submenu_background.9, menu_background_fill_parent_width.9 and menu_background.9
But now i have a new problem. Does anyone know how to change the text color? I need it either white or even red.
The menu background color will be located in an xml file in the /system/framework/framework-res.apk
Not sure the file but it will be controlled by a theme xml
That is a png it is most likely in a sub folder you have to look just because menus are in drawable-hdpi doesn't mean that the menu base is ill try and find it and edit post when I do
Edit its in drawable-hdpi search menu its there you have to really look though
Are you sure that you didnt just find the .9.pngs? i am pretty sure the color itself is controlled by the XMLs as well though wouldnt bet my life on it.
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Are you sure that you didnt just find the .9.pngs? i am pretty sure the color itself is controlled by the XMLs as well though wouldnt bet my life on it.
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I dont recall seeing the .9.png behind the images name's if it is crap :\ uhh best thing i could think of was this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904769 its a myn mod but might work for what he's looking for if i had the chance to get on the pc i could find out but yea basically id have to fight whom ever is on to get on haha hectic man hectic
i know how that is when i searched menu all i got where the .9 files and the icons for settings etc. You could be right and i am just missing it if you are thats awsome i could get into modifying the menu background to have cool graphics as well then for my phone pretty easily. If you get the chance or someone finds out for sure please let us know.
Thanks for the help guys. They are pngs in the framefork-res.apk= drawable-hdpi= and they are menu_submenu_background.9, menu_background_fill_parent_width.9 and menu_background.9
But now i have a new problem. Does anyone know how to change the text color? I need it either white or even red.
Bump..... Anyone know the answer on how to change the color of the text in the menu
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Text color is def in xml files. Also as a warning make sure you are correctly modifing the .9 files if you treat them like plain. Png files you will likely have problems down the road.
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Text color is def in xml files. Also as a warning make sure you are correctly modifing the .9 files if you treat them like plain. Png files you will likely have problems down the road.
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Yup yup looked in pretty much every Xml in htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk and i'm starting to think that i'm looking in the wrong place. Maybe it's in a .jar?
I already got the .9 pngs made up and they are about 90% transparent. That is why i need to change the text color cuz u cant really see it now.
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I need help from the experts. I cannot find where this png is located that shows the volume changing and the status of a download. I want to change it from green to red to finish off my red incredible themed look.
Can someone point me to where I can change this? Thanks for your help.
craigmack said:
I need help from the experts. I cannot find where this png is located that shows the volume changing and the status of a download. I want to change it from green to red to finish off my red incredible themed look.
Can someone point me to where I can change this? Thanks for your help.
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Its either in the framework.res or the htc.resources files.
Open the res folders and find the png that is just green highlights. Then edit all those to red, you probably need to do this anyway.
TNS201 said:
Its either in the framework.res or the htc.resources files.
Open the res folders and find the png that is just green highlights. Then edit all those to red, you probably need to do this anyway.
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thats my problem i have extracted both of them and still no dice.
I'm having trouble finding those pngs too. I'm trying to find them in CM6 but they aren't in Framework from what I see. I thought they might be in settings but they aren't in there either.
been searching all around for this as well
found this:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/60280-theming-guide-progress-bar.html
its actually not a png
the process is a bit involved, but it works. and once you figure out how to make it work, its not that complicated
i just did it and am going to upload a new version of my cm6 nightly theme
Does anyone know what XML is responsible for the pop-up menu text color?
See screenshot.
I'm pretty confident it is in framework-res.apk, beyond that I am not sure.
+1 to this
DJZager said:
I'm pretty confident it is in framework-res.apk, beyond that I am not sure.
+1 to this
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In all honesty, I don't think you answered his question...but good try (I think). He's referring to the XML file within that APK you mentioned that is responsible for the text colors in the homescreen menu options.
I still have to practice how to swap icons. I just want to change the spinning icon...
You're right, I am pretty confident that I didn't answer his question. The only reason to believe that the xml is in framework-res.apk is the fact that the icons and menu_background are also in framework-res.apk. I have found that although the icons are there, doesn't necessarily mean that the layout/colors/etc. are controlled by that apk.
For example, if you open com.htc.resources.apk you will find a ton of icons associated with the HTC Sense Dialer, but the color & layout are stored in phone.apk and HtcDialer.apk separately. I say all that to say this, I am pretty confident that you are looking for /res/values/styles.xml or maybe /res/values-hdpi/styles.xml in a decompiled framework-res.apk but 1) can't be sure that this is the correct xml to edit or 2) that the text color is even an xml edit.
So again, +1 to wanting to know how the text color is changed.
Nobody knows? All these theme experts and nobody helps....
Awesome!
Ok so I've managed to edit a few of my apks on my phone to something that I like better and that's been easy because i knew the files I needed to edit would be in the apk itself. With me so far?
So now I want to edit some files on the ROM I'm using, but this is where it gets tricky, because I dont know if I need to edit the framework, SystemUI, or Roise, etc.... to get what I want.
So... here is my question: Attached is an image of my menu that pops up when I git my Meny button on my Evo. You'll notice my icons are pulled from another Rosie.apk which I replaced with my current Rosie.apk. I had to pull edit and push this mod because flashing it was not compatible with my current ROM. So now, that i have the icons I want, I want to make the background of this menu (and possible others) black transparent and the text white. I know this can be done because I've seen it and would like to know which files need to be edited.
Does anyone know that could toss me a bone??
I've also posted this on Android Central, but no one seems to know there...
for the menu background color it should be either menu_background or menu_background_fill_parent_width both in framework-res.
For the text color i dont know but poke around the .xmls in framework or ask here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468254&page=283
eniamg02 said:
for the menu background color it should be either menu_background or menu_background_fill_parent_width both in framework-res.
For the text color i dont know but poke around the .xmls in framework or ask here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468254&page=283
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Many thanks my friend... MANY MANY THANKS!
Yw,if you figure out how to change the text color in menu you should post findings here.
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Hi there I have just got my SGSII
i've been able to root it and install TW4.5 and pretty much have the device exactly how I want it with just one gripe
The drop down of the notification bar is way too dark especially for notifications with black fonts.
Can anyone point me to any kind of guide or way of changing the the background graphic for this drop down?
Thanks in advance
Everything you'll ever need to know
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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Everything you'll ever need to know
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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Hey man thans very much for the resources they helped me find what I needed.
however the methods of editing seemed very complex for my needs ....
Since I only wanted to change some of the png graphics slightly (just to lighten them up) I opened the framework-res.apk and the systemui.apk in winrar extracted the png's I wanted lightened them up with irfanview dropped them back in the still open apk in winrar and then copied the apk's back where the originals were (renaming the originals .bak first).
I didn't change any .odex or .jar files in any way and I have kept backups of all the originals just in case so I only have one question for you.
can you think of any reason my simple method, for graphics only, would have caused any harm?
it doesn't seem to have after a reboot it seems to have had the desired affect on the notfication bar (which was to make all notifications readable whether they had black or white fonts)
There are 2 kinds of PNG files. Ordinary PNG files can be edited without any problems, but to properly edit .9 png's, you need to decompile the apk first, make changes and then recompile.
To do that, you need to use apktool/apk manager.
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sileshn said:
There are 2 kinds of PNG files. Ordinary PNG files can be edited without any problems, but to properly edit .9 png's, you need to decompile the apk first, make changes and then recompile.
To do that, you need to use apktool/apk manager.
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ok so if I have edited one of the .9.png and I think I might have done and simply dumped it back in the apk with winrar what harm might I have done and what symptoms might I see?
Sometimes you can get away with editing .9' s the way you have if the black border around the outside stays completely black, any slight discoloration and its force close city on a one way ticket courtesy of systemui.
It seems you my have gotten away with it......this time.
Thanks to everyone who has repsonded to me on this thread you have all been very helpful. This is a truely wonderful phone I cant believe how big a step up this is from my old SGS. I tired all sorts of custom roms and mods on that to get features on that, with this I have it pretty much exactly where I want it simply by rooting and installing a the custom Touchwiz 4.5 (I have other lauchers but find myself going back to that all the time)
So the only remaining thing was the fact that some notifications were in black and the backgrounds on the notification drop down were too dark to read some app's notifications in black with a simple glance so your help with finding the right pngs and files (systemui.apk and framework-res.apk) were very very helpful. Not sure if this was the simplest way to achieve what I needed but it worked so I am happy.
Thanks again one and all.
Can one of you guru's give a noob a hand and tell me what i'm doing wrong.
no matter what i do i can't seem to theme the status bar.
I've created a new statusbar_background.9.png (yes i know .9.pngs are odd)
but i can't seem to actually make the phone take the change.
everything else i try and change shows up with no problem.
i've tried everything i could think of but am sure i'm missing something.
this file (attached) seems to do what i want if i drop it in framework-res on my old phone. or systemui on my tablet.
there is a statusbar_background.9.png in systemui but ????
but on the touch even if i edit the .xml and call it as drawable both as a .9 and a normal .png and i can't seem to make the touch like the change. i don't get a FC i just see the standard black bar. if i just delete the png i do get a fc though so...
I've even tried with a solid red bar just to see if it was the transparency but no go.
is it calling a different statusbar_background from somewhere i just can't find?
Many thanks to the person who tells me how im an idiot
http://www.multiupload.com/YOGY8OQCIE (mirror same as attached)
Ahh yes the dreaded 9.PNG file... it drives us themers nuts... it takes special edit which a little more than I can explain here. Search edit 9.PNG and I think you will find threads that will explain it in depth... probably not the answer you wanted but there are people on xda who have explained it much better than could...
thanks i'll give it a few more shots. but i'm fairly certain i created the .9.png correctly as it works on a couple other devices. and all my other .9 edits seem to work as intended. just was wondering if it was possible that it really wasn't the statusbar_background.9.png in systemui.apk that themed the status bar by some chance. as it seemed to FC if i had an incorrectly made png, but boots fine just with no change if i use one i'm pretty sure works.
just wish some themer had skinned the statusbar at all so i'd know it was just me being a mooley
I'm wondering the same thing, as I've changed almost everything else to MIUI style status indicators just by swapping PNG's in the drawable-hdpi folders. Crysis21 uses an HTC style status bar in his SensatioN ROM, and I've downloaded it to search the files and still can't find where the hell the change is made.
Yea just seems to want to foil my every try. It should just be the status_bar.9.png in systemui and mine seems to work on my buddies international s2 but for some reason ........ Dunno it may take me a while but ill figure it out eventually. Unless some kind soul steps in and shows us the answer
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I'm wondering the same thing, as I've changed almost everything else to MIUI style status indicators just by swapping PNG's in the drawable-hdpi folders. Crysis21 uses an HTC style status bar in his SensatioN ROM, and I've downloaded it to search the files and still can't find where the hell the change is made.
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Do you mind aharing what youve done already? Im running starburat rom and would love to get rid of the green gingerbread icons lol
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Sorry about the format, I wasn't able to upload a zip for some reason, the attached file has all of the drawable-hdpi folder changes I've made. The work isn't my own, only some of the tweaks and proper naming, its from HTC, the MIUI devs, and the brilliant minds (obviously mine excluded) on XDA.
Thanks....gonna try and learn as well. You guys are mch better than i but we all start simewhere right
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