Alright so I am running coredroid 7.6, and I attempted to change the color of the notifications in the drop down of the status bar using UOT kitchen, every change I applied worked, except that one. Tried it a couple of times no luck. Then I searched on how to do it myself and found the XDA thread, followed the instructions, edited the XML files with a hex editor, and it changed the color, however I ended up with a weird loop, where I would go to my home screen for 30 seconds, and then the boot animation. Any advice on what I might be doing wrong , or another way to go about doing this would be great.
Edit, after reviewing the xml file status_bar_latest_event_content.xml the colors are changed correctly in the XML file, but not on the device, I don't get it, Is there somewhere else they must be changed as well that I am missing, I have been informed that this has become much more complicated on the newer sense ROMS and involves changing a lot more than just this, however I am still looking for someone who is willing to teach.
Still looking for some assistance
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So, many know that I have been fighting with the xmls for weeks now with no success and while that is still mainly true there has been some progress thanks to JesusFreke who showed me how to understand the binary code a bit more and how to Hex Edit.
For right now, we cannot compile our own xmls for any of T-mobile's builds because we don't have the source for their builds. I tried and tried but to no avail.
However, With JesusFreke's help, I was able to do a few things.
I was able to change the date, and the notification text on the statusbar to any color I wanted. Sadly, the time will remain black because it is hard coded in and is not in those xmls.
I have also been able to change the color of the pull up menu background and make it more transparent, as well as totally transparent.
I have been able to make the t-mobile logo totally invisible in the notification menu
I tried making the keylock background transparent, which worked but it doesn't show the desktop instead it shows.....A black screen, go figure...
There are many other things that I can change, but....I won't continue to work on it.
As of tonight, I am moving to cupcake and plan on customizing that to my needs as it will be much easier.....
Please let me know if anyone has any questions.
Stericson
Very interesting stuff for sure. Thanks for keeping us updated!
I actually do have one question: How do I download the old source? I have the cupcake build, but since that's been delayed, and will probably be multiple mini-releases, I'd like the current source.
Also, if you have the time, once I get the current source, I'd like to edit some of those. The few feature you listed can help with the immersion of themes and such. If not, then oh well. Keep up the good work.
Go Stericson! Keep kicking the crap out of those xmls and lemme know how I can help.
Bro i need some of those .xml you made edits to so i can check it out. Great job keep doing your thing.
specifically, I edited the binary version of the xmls using a hex editor. All you can really do is change colors and stuff. unless your a master hex editor, which I am not.
Hello you all
I would like to have some information about editing the default android lockscreen.
First of all, I know that it is much easer to work with a lockscreen replacer like widgetlocker. But I hate the fact there is a lag on it, you sometimes can unlock the default screen, open for example the app drawer when suddenly your phone get locket again, but this time with the slow responding widget locker.
And besides that, I like to mess around with that sort of things
What I did so far just deleting the htc sense lock screen (thanks to warriorvibhu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948976). But when you do so, you notice that the sliders on your screen are way to big.
This can be solved by flashing an other framework, and I did that (using remove_HtcLockscreen.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10192875&postcount=2). The only problem is that this framework is, in my opinion, deadly ugly. So I thought "as I've seen that it is possible, I just going to modify the things my self".
I did all sort of things, using the new framework to see which things where changed. The plan was to look where the lockscreen was defined, to look for diferences and to make modifications in the standard sense framework.
The two most important things I already have done is
- modifying the keyguard_screen_tab_unlock.xml of the framework-res.apk so that it matched with the one in the framework-res.apk that I downloaded - resulted in nothing.
- deodexing the android.policy.jar classes.dex file. I've seen that there are a lot of smali files in there reguarding the "lockscreen" and "keyguard", but first of all I don't now which one does what an secondly, I've seen that the standard sense android.policy.jar doesn't contain a classes.dex file. I've already tried to push the android.policy.jar with the classes.dex file in my phone, but I noticed no difference.
Reading this it appears to me that it doesn't seem that I have done so much. But I can assure you, I've done a lot more, but most of the time it had nothing to do with the lockscreen and/or resulted in a bootloop.
But now my ideas have come to an end, and this is why I'm asking for help. Can somebody set me off in the good direction? I know that it must be possible to make the sliders normal, so it is really driving me crazy not to see which files I should edit.
Thank you in advance,
Erwin
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This can be solved by flashing an other framework, and I did that (using remove_HtcLockscreen.zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10192875&postcount=2). The only problem is that this framework is, in my opinion, deadly ugly. So I thought "as I've seen that it is possible, I just going to modify the things my self".
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I flashed this one when I was using Sense and the lockscreen looked OK, not too big, not too small, just like the default android.
Kinda like this, but better:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10486389&postcount=85
Thank you, but again, this is something that changes icons etc. And all I want to do is make the slide bars look like in that ROM
But reading trough that topic, it looks to me that it appears to be difficult to make changes in sense roms... Still hoping that someone can point me the files that should be edited, or at least set me of in the good direction.
But thank you Alex_GP for your fast respons!
Erwin
I don`t know these stuff, but you can try PM-img HewGBalls http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3193485 and asking him for directions, seeing that he`s the one that worked on this before.
I don't know what caused this but when a call is incoming, the ignore button is totally white while the answer button is normal as it should be.
Any idea what might have caused this?
Have you applied a custom theme? Try changing your theme to the default theme.
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Have you applied a custom theme? Try changing your theme to the default theme.
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the theme is default.
Can the installation of root tools have something to do with that?
This also happened to me, affecting lockscreen numbers too. I'm going to look look into the registry later as I think it's probably just caused by root tools or a custom theme accidentally changing one of the button color codes to #000000. I'll post my findings later.
Sent from my LG-C900B using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
it is happened to me too some time ago (before install root tools 0.9)
when i managed custom themes with metro themes or other homebrew registry hack (ie advanced config or mods for black mails layout) for theming the accent colors
reinstall metrothemes and try to apply default theme to black background and white background also and restart phone (remember to apply black layout to black themes and white to whote themes)
hope you fix, i have fixed my white ignore button with this method
it is due to changing the registry entries of theme/0 or theme/1 folder, chromecolor or an another entry, i have the same issue and get it back with all the stock settings. or you have copied some xaml files to the windows/ folder of your device that changed the registry edits for you, if they are still in the windows folder you must delete them, but you also must delete the custom accent of that xaml that you delete.
I was using the app Metro theme or something like that, homebrew. Reverting to the stock worked.
Thanks.. I reset to default and it works again. Strange as I swear I've done that many times already. Cheers
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I was using the app Metro theme or something like that, homebrew. Reverting to the stock worked.
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metro sytle or something? i know, it changes the background but also some other parts and if only one xaml file dont work like it should then some thing mess up the phone icon in call history as example, or the call ending button during call, or the status bar, or the icons of each letter in the people hub. and so on, if you want to change some things you must know which registry entry is for what, and you must know before you change it how it is gonna look use photoshop or some similar program that lets you compare colors, you can paste there your color code from the xaml files, and look if it is the right choice, then simply switch in registry, but only if you are sure what you change
Question. I'm running stock Sense 3.0 on my Inspire 4G (same as Desire) non-rooted. I managed to fix HTC Sense from crashing constantly by doing a hard reset and restore all my information, but my question is why did this happen? Story goes I found a skin that I wanted really bad (I think the normal UI looks a little on the low end). I was going to install slate3DUniversal. The file however said it would not work on the Desire HD/Desire C. So after managing to learn how to sideload .apk's, I learned from this forum that the AndroidManifest.xml had different coding and that's and assumed that's why it wouldn't work and why other skins I was trying to sideload wouldn't work. I figured instead of learning to modify the file, I could replace it with a file from another skin that worked. Used APKManager to unpack it, replaced the file, and signed it again. I sideloaded the skin and it managed to come up in the skin picker. I selected it, the background changed, the bottom bar for the ring lockscreen and status bar both turned a nice matte gray, unlocked it..and HTC Sense crashed instantly. I would click "Force Close" just to have the same pop up appear again. My question is why did it do this? Was it the skin I choose to do it on? Was it the AndroidManifest.xml? I realized today that I didn't remove the SD card but I'm not sure if that affected the process anyway.
Thread for AnroidManifest.xml: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657479
Slate3DUniversal: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163879
Hi - I can't find the edit to change the 2 text colors in the Settings/Application Manager menu. I'm also pretty sure that the same edits will change a couple of other sub menus. I'm on 4.3 MK3. It's no longer the tw primary or secondary colors. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been changing all kinds of XML's for the last couple of days and I'm stuck
Solved: I was never able to find the two texts mentioned. However, I did lots of searching and found this guide by @grgsiocl: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334315
In it, he shows how to change the entire framework style from DeviceDefault to DeviceDefault.Light. Great guide, thanks
nyfl2004 said:
Hi - I can't find the edit to change the 2 text colors in the Settings/Application Manager menu. I'm also pretty sure that the same edits will change a couple of other sub menus. I'm on 4.3 MK3. It's no longer the tw primary or secondary colors. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been changing all kinds of XML's for the last couple of days and I'm stuck
Solved: I was never able to find the two texts mentioned. However, I did lots of searching and found this guide by @grgsiocl: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334315
In it, he shows how to change the entire framework style from DeviceDefault to DeviceDefault.Light. Great guide, thanks
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Did you change this ?