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[APP] Skyrocket MMS for Android 2.3 Gingerbread

After alot of work and help from many people I have completed it. This is a MMS apk for Deodexed Gingerbread ROM's such as Calkulins Stock Deodexed or Calks GB ROM.
Download attached apk
Move apk to system/app
Set Permissions to RW/R/R
Reboot.
Note: You may want to back up the original mms.apk. You can always get it from the Stock ROM zip if you need to.
Many many thanks to all that helped me. I learned alot from this little adventure.

Try the png's first. I'm not sty the computer right now so I can't remember the name, but it says simmering about chat bg.9. If nobody has helped you by the time I get home, I can tell you more. Hit up 12many,, he could probably tell you exactly where to look.
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think dazed is right, there are often background png's (and sometimes not in the drawable-hdpi folder). most the time "bg" will be in the name so look for that first. otherwise the xml would be in colors.xml or styles.xml in the res/values directory
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That is actually a smali edit.
Mms.apk\com\android\mms\ui\ComposeMessageFragment.smali
Line 16051 const v1, 0xd4d2d0
change that to what you want you color to be. that ones hex is 2b2d30. Remember in smali the numbers are not in hex.

rujelus22 said:
That is actually a smali edit.
Mms.apk\com\android\mms\ui\ComposeMessageFragment.smali
Line 16051 const v1, 0xd4d2d0
change that to what you want you color to be. that ones hex is 2b2d30. Remember in smali the numbers are not in hex.
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Never worked with smali before. So gonna give this a shot. The code you gave me is that the code for white.

OK. So I decompiled and that file isn't there. I have a butt load of compose message files but not one that has fragment in it. Also just to make sure this is 2.3.6! Mms.apk
I attached a pick to kinda make sure we're on the same page.

check these bg images maybe?... msg_bg_dsrk etc
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I did. I went through all the pngs in the drawable-hdpi folder. I swapped all those and any others that related to it. Still grey background. I changed out an XML and got the white background I wanted but it broke mms for some reason. Couldn't send or receive.

scarmon25 said:
I did. I went through all the pngs in the drawable-hdpi folder. I swapped all those and any others that related to it. Still grey background. I changed out an XML and got the white background I wanted but it broke mms for some reason. Couldn't send or receive.
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im off in a few hours and doin some other theme work, i'll take another look when im at my comp
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im off in a few hours and doin some other theme work, i'll take another look when im at my comp
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Thanks a ton. I'm at a loss at this point. I have went through all the XML I could find and tried everything j know how to do. XML and smali edits aren't a big deal for me to do. Just don't know what to edit. They're so many of those damn files and of course they wouldn't name it like conversation background.XML/small. It has to be some off the wall ****. But as well that's ok . I appreciate all your help. My wife has wanted this mms and others did too a while back. Once its done gonna post it for everyone and finally get my wife happy. lol

Try the twframework-res. You control the mms font color from editing the twcolor02.

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Try the twframework-res. You control the mms font color from editing the twcolor02.
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Would it be in the draw ables folder?
Also. I was able to get it to turn white by swapping the file Res/values/drawables.XML. but that broke mms. Just for information to help.

scarmon25 said:
Would it be in the draw ables folder?
Also. I was able to get it to turn white by swapping the file Res/values/drawables.XML. but that broke mms. Just for information to help.
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I believe it was under values/colors.xml. The list of "TWcolor_001, TWcolor_002", etc.
EDIT: Find the grey color you're looking for in an image editor like Gimp or photoshop and search the colors folder for that hex code, I'm sure it'll pop up.

also check the drawable folder for something like "listitem_backgound.xml" or "conversationitem_background" might do it....
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would this be for GB or ICS? just curious

Success100 said:
would this be for GB or ICS? just curious
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Its for GB.

Overstew said:
I believe it was under values/colors.xml. The list of "TWcolor_001, TWcolor_002", etc.
EDIT: Find the grey color you're looking for in an image editor like Gimp or photoshop and search the colors folder for that hex code, I'm sure it'll pop up.
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i decompiled the TW framework. the color code for the background is ff2b2d30. I searched the colors xml and couldnt find that code. so i looked for anything close to it. still no dice. thinking i may have to go another route on this and do a different style. you wouldnt think changing the background color would be such a ***** to do but then again it is me doing it and my luck never seems to be the greatest. haha

scarmon25 said:
Thanks a ton. I'm at a loss at this point. I have went through all the XML I could find and tried everything j know how to do. XML and smali edits aren't a big deal for me to do. Just don't know what to edit. They're so many of those damn files and of course they wouldn't name it like conversation background.XML/small. It has to be some off the wall ****. But as well that's ok . I appreciate all your help. My wife has wanted this mms and others did too a while back. Once its done gonna post it for everyone and finally get my wife happy. lol
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It is not in the xml it is in the smali files if you are using apkmanager to decompile it will be in the projects\Mms.apk\smali\com\android\mms\ui\ folder
The color I gave before is the stock color white would be
Line 16051 const v1, 0x1

rujelus22 said:
It is not in the xml it is in the smali files if you are using apkmanager to decompile it will be in the projects\Mms.apk\smali\com\android\mms\ui\ folder
The color I gave before is the stock color white would be
Line 16051 const v1, 0x1
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that's where i was looking, i decompiled and looked in the smali folder. let me try searching it
there is a compose message smali, just none that have fragement in the name

scarmon25 said:
that's where i was looking, i decompiled and looked in the smali folder. let me try searching it
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If you send me your file I will edit it for you

**JB Pulldown Notifications bar transparent black

Hi,
I was looking thru the framework apk trying to find the notification pull down thing becouse i want to edit it from grey to the standard transparant black. Can this be done via just changing the png file or is there other stuff i need to do ? ive tryed search button but dident find anything so any help apprecited thank you
**Big thanks to daman on thread who has supplied systemui.apk with transparent background

It is probably handled by an XML file or rendered from a small image file
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bummer if xml as wouldent know where to start png`s ie image file no problem with

I'm gonna mess with it at work tomorrow and see if I can find it
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I actually just wanted tk write a request for that. The tranparent black from ics looks 100 times better!
I'm really looking forward to your mod/work
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likewise and appreciate you taking the time out to look at thanks please post back when let us know how you get on.
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The tranparent black from ics looks 100 times better!
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agreed

really hate to bump a thread , but im guessing out of all the talented people here someone must know how to get this done or point me in right direction ?

U have to decompile systemui.apk .. its a .9 image therefore to edit it u need to edit in its decompiled state and only edit the color itself.. u cannot touch the black pixel boarder because that black patch is what tells the image how to stretch when phone is in portrait or landscape mode.. the image is called status bar close on.9 or something in the drawable xhdpi folder.. I will look into it but I'm not on jellybean yet
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Kevin3328 said:
U have to decompile systemui.apk .. its a .9 image therefore to edit it u need to edit in its decompiled state and only edit the color itself.. u cannot touch the black pixel boarder because that black patch is what tells the image how to stretch when phone is in portrait or landscape mode.. the image is called status bar close on.9 or something in the drawable xhdpi folder.. I will look into it but I'm not on jellybean yet
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I will look at it if apktool will stop pissing me off
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a black version would be epic!!

Ok I already had a decompiled jb systemui and framework res folder on my desktop and I looked and by the name youre giving it a pretty good size transparent square with a 66x66 block in the middle.
I looked through framework and I found status bar background files one of which is 7x1365 so if it was tailed across the screen would be about the right size. making transparent is no problem at all. getting the apk built after the fact might be trouble since apktool is being a flaming piece of **** the last few days.
I will try

thanks for replys and taking time to look into , very much appreciated

HumanXv2 said:
Ok I already had a decompiled jb systemui and framework res folder on my desktop and I looked and by the name youre giving it a pretty good size transparent square with a 66x66 block in the middle.
I looked through framework and I found status bar background files one of which is 7x1365 so if it was tailed across the screen would be about the right size. making transparent is no problem at all. getting the apk built after the fact might be trouble since apktool is being a flaming piece of **** the last few days.
I will try
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on ics the file you guys are trying to edit is called the notification tracking background

HumanXv2 said:
Ok I already had a decompiled jb systemui and framework res folder on my desktop and I looked and by the name youre giving it a pretty good size transparent square with a 66x66 block in the middle.
I looked through framework and I found status bar background files one of which is 7x1365 so if it was tailed across the screen would be about the right size. making transparent is no problem at all. getting the apk built after the fact might be trouble since apktool is being a flaming piece of **** the last few days.
I will try
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the fact that you're even looking at it is awesome!! Hopefully you can figure it out and help us noobs!
ive been trying to do it myself with no luck!

ok i found it it`s called the notification_panel_bg.9.png

I seriously hate apktool. I have tried apkmanager and apk multi tool and none of them work. apktool was working great then started acting crazy

HumanXv2 said:
I seriously hate apktool. I have tried apkmanager and apk multi tool and none of them work. apktool was working great then started acting crazy
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i have a method give me a sec i will post a test system ui

Ok guys push this should work im not using jellybean at the moment please post a pic and to the op put this in the op so people can see
https://rapidshare.com/files/2140464399/SystemUI.apk

can whoever that pushes that make a screen shot of it? thanks!

daman215 said:
Ok guys push this should work im not using jellybean at the moment please post a pic and to the op put this in the op so people can see
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Can you upload it to some other place? Xda's filehost is broken.
404 - Not Found
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please help...going nuts here...how to change battery icons???

ok so i'm going nuts here...i can't figure out how to change the battery icons...i tried using uot kitchen with no help...is there a guide to do this within a custom rom....i'm right now running tuchmi 5.0, and i really want the android battery icon with the % inside it...any help is appreciated...i've never themed before

The icons are in SystemUI.
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Where is systemui?
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thanks i thought i needed to change them in the framework.apk....so just changing the roms systemui.apk will work?

tonyph33r said:
Where is systemui?
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system/app folder of the rom....

Use apktool to decompile the apk and you'll see the icons there, to break it down even further

If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.

Tiffany84 said:
If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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lunercrab said:
Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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I wouldn't recommend using them unless there using something like the Villain Theme System which only replaces the images and some xml's instead of replacing the entire apk. I just got home so give me a few and I'll send you the xml's you need to use and you 'll be fine.
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Tiffany84 said:
If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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ok need your help....i got the pngs to change but i can't get the animations to work...i tried fixing the xml files but no go...if you can maybe get it to work i'd appreciate....here is the rom i want the battery png and xmls in...
tuchmi 5.0 http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22527720516747580

Notification tint on status bar

Does anybody knkw the file in systemui.apk and values to change to disable left side notification tint on statusbar?
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i wish this was permanently deleted on all roms. That tint does not make sense

I personally like the way it makes the notification icons look...
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I have weatherbug app and its shows temp there dull as hell. Ive had rom with tint removed and I could see it from 5 ft away. I got the files to do now just need to do
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Jsarge45 said:
I have weatherbug app and its shows temp there dull as hell. Ive had rom with tint removed and I could see it from 5 ft away. I got the files to do now just need to do
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whats the files locations?

samevo said:
whats the files locations?
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Decompile systemui.apk
In vaules folder
Status bar icon edit to 100% dimens.xml
Tw status bar icon edit same as above
I have been haveing troubles with apktool and apk manager so if you're more lucker then me can you pass alomg a zip
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Jsarge45 said:
Decompile systemui.apk
In vaules folder
Status bar icon edit to 100% dimens.xml
Tw status bar icon edit same as above
I have been haveing troubles with apktool and apk manager so if you're more lucker then me can you pass alomg a zip
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what rom your trying to mod cause ill do it for you

mackentosh said:
what rom your trying to mod cause ill do it for you
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Im on lk8 stock deox now.. b4 update leak I was running your rom but I kinda want to just tweak lil things and keep kinda stock for now so yea. Stock lk8 deox.
Last night I was trying again with apktool and when decompiling systemui, framework-res.apk and twframework-res.apk only twframework would install in prompt. I trued from link you supplied and found another on youtube with vid tut. So after tring to decompile the systemUI
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Fcuk hit send button..
In the systemUI folder that pops up in apktool folder there was only smali folder. No manifest no res nothing just smali.. I deleted and retried like 12 times with different rom bases. I even tried yours to just see where edits where made maybe thinking I could make zip but nothing worked. The closest I got was with apk manager. Im dumb though and just literally installed notepad++ now. Wish I had yesterday. My desktop looks like my kids room. Lol
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I want to remove tint, remove am pm. Change thickness of lockscreen clock.. dumb sh*t ...
Kinda play around..
That andriod kitchen was waste of time too
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Jsarge45 said:
I want to remove tint, remove am pm. Change thickness of lockscreen clock.. dumb sh*t ...
Kinda play around..
That andriod kitchen was waste of time too
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Have you tried the drawables.xml?
<item type="drawable" name="notification_icon_area_smoke">#aa000000</item>

shiftr182 said:
Have you tried the drawables.xml?
<item type="drawable" name="notification_icon_area_smoke">#aa000000</item>
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I havent because I didn't know what to edit in drawables. Only had info for vaules.
So in drawables whats the edit to remove. AA TO OO?
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Jsarge45 said:
I havent because I didn't know what to edit in drawables. Only had info for vaules.
So in drawables whats the edit to remove. AA TO OO?
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Thats what I would do.

Jsarge45 said:
I havent because I didn't know what to edit in drawables. Only had info for vaules.
So in drawables whats the edit to remove. AA TO OO?
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Change aa to ff to remove transparency and make it bright white again
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What tint are you talking about? I don't notice it.

There is a tint of your notifications that come in the top left of the screen. I believe it takes away a lot of the good looks of touchwiz roms. When the tint is removed I believe it looks so much better

The correct way to do it is decompile the SystemUI.apk, then in the values folder open the dimens.xml.
Edit line 25 and 26 and change the % to 100.0% on both lines and recompile.
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Hey bp. Thanks for the response. Any possible way you can make a zipp that can be flashed on touchwiz roms to eliminate the tint? It would be much appreciated!

stu5797 said:
Hey bp. Thanks for the response. Any possible way you can make a zipp that can be flashed on touchwiz roms to eliminate the tint? It would be much appreciated!
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What ROM are you on, I can make a zip for you.
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Wow Thanks so much! Anyway you can do macs rom and project rom?

Help.... Secsettings

I completely hate asking for help and usually just figure it on my own because that's the best way to learn, and have done this before with other phones but that method just doesn't work for me on the s4.
So I've added my own shortcuts to the secsettings from Alpha rom, such as cloud storage (copy, Dropbox, drive), screen recording, pc connections (unified remote, team viewer), IR remote, etc etc and have everything how I want it.... Except one thing. I can not for the life of me change the background to a 50-75% transparent image.
So far I've changed the png, the theme in styles, color codes in colors, color codes in styles, and settings main xml, default theme lines in the Frameworks styles, changed the system background png, and a few other things I can't remember. But none give me what I want. When I first open the settings for a split second I see the transparent image I added but then it's soon covered with a black background.
So does anybody know how or where to edit for a transparent image to be the background of the sec settings?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Bummer nobody?

Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Spastic909 said:
Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Exactly
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Spastic909 said:
Maybe you should ask in the section called q&a, help & troubleshooting
Just a thought?
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Well let's see.
Apk= application package
Which huh... application
And theme'n the apk aka application in question .... Holy **** theme and application. Which holy **** again we're in. It's probably the Oh I don't know the most appropriate forum for it. Which holy **** times 3 has a bunch of themers in it. Huh who the hell knew.
But thanks XDA mom for the suggestion. You were of much help.

What does this xml show?
SecSettings / SecSettings / res / values / styles.xml

theexel said:
What does this xml show?
SecSettings / SecSettings / res / values / styles.xml
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Has the device themes in it, which I messed with by changing device theme to Device.Light which changes it to a light theme (white background/black letters). On other phones you were able to change it to Device.Transparent or Device.Transparentcy but those 2 error out on recompile.
Having a solid image is no issue by swapping out a png but using a transparent don't work because there's still a background being displayed behind it.

Adam0524 said:
Has the device themes in it, which I messed with by changing device theme to Device.Light which changes it to a light theme (white background/black letters). On other phones you were able to change it to Device.Transparent or Device.Transparentcy but those 2 error out on recompile.
Having a solid image is no issue by swapping out a png but using a transparent don't work because there's still a background being displayed behind it.
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Right, well.. check this out:
okay, so this is how i was able to change the background of stuff like SecSettings.apk. ***warning, because of the way Samsung coded stuff, this will change the background of a lot of stock app stuff, ie MMS, Clock, etc.
you need to decompile your framework-res.apk
once this is done, nav to res\values\drawables.xml
change
<item type="drawable" name="screen_background_dark">#ff000000</item>
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<item type="drawable" name="screen_background_dark">@drawable/background_holo_dark</item>
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Adam0524 said:
Well let's see.
Apk= application package
Which huh... application
And theme'n the apk aka application in question .... Holy **** theme and application. Which holy **** again we're in. It's probably the Oh I don't know the most appropriate forum for it. Which holy **** times 3 has a bunch of themers in it. Huh who the hell knew.
But thanks XDA mom for the suggestion. You were of much help.
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You're the one complaining about not getting any replies. And before you go flipping out you should really read the rules. This sub topic is for releasing apps you've written or sharing apps specific to the s4. If you need help with something, that goes in the q&a , hence you have a question and are looking for an answer.
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elesbb said:
You're the one complaining about not getting any replies. And before you go flipping out you should really read the rules. This sub topic is for releasing apps you've written or sharing apps specific to the s4. If you need help with something, that goes in the q&a , hence you have a question and are looking for an answer.
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One I wasn't complaining.
Two if that's the case, you have some mall cop duties to jump on in some threads asking for Crap like live wallpapers and etc.
Three if you have an issue with where my thread is, I really don't give a Crap. Use the report button.

Adam0524 said:
One I wasn't complaining.
Two if that's the case, you have some mall cop duties to jump on in some threads asking for Crap like live wallpapers and etc.
Three if you have an issue with where my thread is, I really don't give a Crap. Use the report button.
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Lol attitudes like that are a great way to get help!
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Cut it out you two before you both get banned, lol.
Just carry on.

elesbb said:
Lol attitudes like that are a great way to get help!
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Only have an attitude towards people who try to play forum rent-a-cops who post useless Crap to what somebody is asking. Like I said kid, if you have an issue or your panties are in a wad of where my or any body's thread is located feel free to use the report button.
Notice no attitude to the one actually helpful guy that didn't play forum rent-a-cop? Yeah.