Edit lock screen icons???? - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Looking into editing and making my own lock screen icons but haven't been able to find the .png files. If anyone can help me out with there location I can get this work started

pouxonu said:
Looking into editing and making my own lock screen icons but haven't been able to find the .png files. If anyone can help me out with there location I can get this work started
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off topic: lol nice sig, that was hilarious when i first saw that episode too

pouxonu said:
Looking into editing and making my own lock screen icons but haven't been able to find the .png files. If anyone can help me out with there location I can get this work started
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I have not looked myself. But try framework-res.apk in /system/framework/
or if the lockscreen has an .apk in /system/app/ try that too

Looked through there and found a couple that I might work on and see if it works and also its the best quote out of all three movies or. " what do you mean just rebuild it. And who's going to give a loan? What do you have an atm on that torso light bright of yours"
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Some of the images are compiled with special attributes. I don't remember what the exact extension is but it will be like .png.9 or something like that after the png. These have to be made with a tool in eclipse as far as I know. Any of the rest of the regular png files can just be edited like normal and placed back in the apk.
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I'm trying to modify certain icons on the status bar but not having any luck. Some files are locked when I open them up in photoshop so I can't edit them.
Anyone have any idea why that is? It isn't a .9 file...
I've attached a screen shot so you can see what I'm talking about:
http://img573.imageshack.us/f/screenh.png/
TIA.
blazinazn said:
I'm trying to modify certain icons on the status bar but not having any luck. Some files are locked when I open them up in photoshop so I can't edit them.
Anyone have any idea why that is? It isn't a .9 file...
I've attached a screen shot so you can see what I'm talking about:
http://img573.imageshack.us/f/screenh.png/
TIA.
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This is most likely because the image is in indexed color mode. Try changing it to RGB by going to Image > Mode > RGB. Hope this helps!
Edit: I'm stealing the text from the very bottom of your signature btw
Double click the locked layer in the layer palette a dialog should pop up and hit ok that usually unlocks the layer for me.
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thomasskull666 said:
This is most likely because the image is in indexed color mode. Try changing it to RGB by going to Image > Mode > RGB. Hope this helps!
Edit: I'm stealing the text from the very bottom of your signature btw
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That worked! Thanks And have at it
halfcourtshoes said:
Double click the locked layer in the layer palette a dialog should pop up and hit ok that usually unlocks the layer for me.
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I tried doing that but no dice. Thanks for the suggestion though
blazinazn said:
That worked! Thanks And have at it
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Awesome, I ran into this problem a few times as well, some of the images in the framework are indexed and some are not, there are even a few in there that are grayscale, which will really throw you off when you are trying to add color haha
thomasskull666 said:
Awesome, I ran into this problem a few times as well, some of the images in the framework are indexed and some are not, there are even a few in there that are grayscale, which will really throw you off when you are trying to add color haha
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I think I ran into one that has grayscale. So how do I add color?!
blazinazn said:
I think I ran into one that has grayscale. So how do I add color?!
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I'm not on my laptop right now so I can't check to make sure this works, but try changing the mode to indexed color and save it. Then exit photoshop and reopen it and open the file again and change it to RGB. That should do the trick, if not let me know and i'll look into it myself; i'll be back at my comp in like 15 mins lol. Also, if it still isn't being colored in RGB mode, make sure that the hue/saturation is not turned all the way down in the document itself, not just the layer.

Needing some assistance with Launcher Edits

I am trying to remove some useless options in the SGS3 TW Launcher. In the pic below I highlighted what I am trying to remove. It is a redundant option and when you select those two options it gives you blank boxes. I have decompiled the apk and have searched through the xmls and smali. I cannot seem to find which or what determines how many slots and what it displayed in that menu.
If anyone has any ideas or insight into this it would be greatly appreciated.
scarmon25 said:
I am trying to remove some useless options in the SGS3 TW Launcher. In the pic below I highlighted what I am trying to remove. It is a redundant option and when you select those two options it gives you blank boxes. I have decompiled the apk and have searched through the xmls and smali. I cannot seem to find which or what determines how many slots and what it displayed in that menu.
If anyone has any ideas or insight into this it would be greatly appreciated.
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I could take a look but don't have a copy of the sgs3 launcher. I just fell in love with the LG launcher. The way you can pinch the widgets on and off the home screen rocks.
I can upload it for you if you want. I already have it decompiled. If you want i can zip it up and link it.
See if deleting the strings in strings.XML work. It may remove the boxes.
Ascertion said:
See if deleting the strings in strings.XML work. It may remove the boxes.
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OK. I'll try that first thing in the morning. Thanks for the reply.
scarmon25 said:
OK. I'll try that first thing in the morning. Thanks for the reply.
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Sorry for not getting back to you quick enough i had fallen asleep. But that was what I was gonna do was check the xml's and look for the menu settings then delete any lines that had parameters associated with those menu options. Sometimes I get it right and other times I just F it up. Lol
timmetal6669 said:
Sorry for not getting back to you quick enough i had fallen asleep. But that was what I was gonna do was check the xml's and look for the menu settings then delete any lines that had parameters associated with those menu options. Sometimes I get it right and other times I just F it up. Lol
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Its all good man. I just now woke up myself. Get me some caffeine in me and I'm gonna try that. See what that does.
Well I tried editing the stringsxml and it seems to be somewhat in the right direction. Now when you long press the homescreen it just force closes. I have uploaded a zip that has the launcher in apk and in decompiled state for anyone that wants to look through it. Ive been working on this for like a week and kinda scratching my head right now LOL.
You will not be able to remove strings like that. any time they get called in the app it will FC if you do that. You will need to find where that string is being called in the xml or smali and remove it from there. Usually putting a 0.0dip width and height will remove them with no errors.
rujelus22 said:
You will not be able to remove strings like that. any time they get called in the app it will FC if you do that. You will need to find where that string is being called in the xml or smali and remove it from there. Usually putting a 0.0dip width and height will remove them with no errors.
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Right! I should have thought of that from working on a lock screen mod a few weeks ago. Unfortunately Im not that good with smali, baksmali yet. When I recompiled it, the lock screen showed up but wouldn't unlock the phone, lol. Ended up restoring.

[MOD] [Sprint] [LG2] [TouchWiz] Add/Remove ICS On Screen Navigation Buttons

I present to you a mod that enables on screen navigation buttons
TouchWiz Only
Downloads
!! Make sure you're not using Cyanogenmod or another AOSP-based ROM !!
!! Make sure you're on an LG2 ROM !! If not, you will need to flash stock again.
Add Buttons
Remove Buttons/Reverse Mod
Flash the zip of your choice in recovery like you would for any ROM
HolySmokesBatty's Disabled Capacitive Button Lights And Home Key Remapped Version
!! Not made by me, made by HolySmokesBatty !!
Add Buttons
Remove buttons/Reverse Mod
Nice and first! Downloading now...
Very nice!
Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
yousefak said:
I present to you a mod that enables on screen navigation buttons
TouchWiz Only
Download
!! Make sure you're not using Cyanogenmod or another AOSP-based ROM !!
Add Buttons
Remove Buttons
Flash the zip of your choice in recovery like you would for any ROM
Disable Capacitive Button Lights
If you'd rather have the capacitive button lights off:
Download "Night Mode" from play store
Set slider to 100% and start service
Go to settings
Disable "Minimum brightness" and "notification"
Now it won't mess with your brightness but disable capacitive button backlights
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you just choose the option "always off" in system>display>touch key light duration in order turn off the capacitive button lights?
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swampy67 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you just choose the option "always off" in system>display>touch key light duration in order turn off the capacitive button lights?
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For some reason, that option disappears after turning on On-screen buttons.
yousefak said:
For some reason, that option disappears after turning on On-screen buttons.
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Interesting
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you can just disable d lights before flashing....works great looks even better...can we get different looks 2 the buttons
joselb said:
you can just disable d lights before flashing....works great looks even better...can we get different looks 2 the buttons
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I've tried, but the PNG's don't appear to be in res/drawable-hdpi. I'll look through the other folders tomorrow to see if I can find anything.
If I can, I plan on making another mod for Gnex style buttons.
yousefak said:
I've tried, but the PNG's don't appear to be in res/drawable-hdpi. I'll look through the other folders tomorrow to see if I can find anything.
If I can, I plan on making another mod for Gnex style buttons.
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They are there. I they are in a weird folder but just search for them. Its called like ic_sysbar_home_normal.png but i already tried changing look. And couldnt pull it off. If u do please pist how-to
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Edited to remove my douchebaggery.
holysmokesbatty said:
I like how this guy posted our work as his. Oh woe is XDA.
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Your work?
I followed a guide to do the edits and you probably did too so its none of our works really.
I spent hours figuring out how to successfully recompile framework-res.apk. Then I had to figure out how to get it to boot. Then I had to change the height and figure out how to disable capacitive backlight.
Instead of being selfish, I released my mod to public.
I guess releasing my own work to public was a mistake.
(Oh, and I'll make a video of me decompiling, editing, and building/testing if you don't believe me)
Edit: lol, do you even have a link to your work or do claim I somehow stole your private work?
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monstaX said:
They are there. I they are in a weird folder but just search for them. Its called like ic_sysbar_home_normal.png but i already tried changing look. And couldnt pull it off. If u do please pist how-to
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Go to freezas system apk thread and use that to figure out how to decompile/recompile system apps.
Decompile framework-Res.apk. do all of your editing. Then you can recompile and push to /system/framework and boot the phone. If you did everything correctly, the bar at the bottom should reflect the edits.
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Anybody can do this btw. Decompile framework-res.apk, look for the Navigation bar bool and set it to "true"
If you want different pngs for the buttons you need to look in SystemUI.apk
Here's a blank zip you can use
http://db.tt/mmOQPE5Z
Extract it and add a system folder then add an app folder within it (if modifying anything in /system/app or a /system/framework folder if you modified anything in /system/framework) and place your modified apk's in the appropriate folders
Zip up the META folder and system folder and flash in recovery
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fergie716 said:
Anybody can do this btw. Decompile framework-res.apk, look for the Navigation bar bool and set it to "true"
If you want different pngs for the buttons you need to look in SystemUI.apk
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Yeah, I'm in no way a dev or modder. It just got me annoyed how someone claimed this was his work.
Sent from my Sprint SGS3
yousefak said:
Yeah, I'm in no way a dev or modder. It just got me annoyed how someone claimed this was his work.
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Well it's no one's "work"
Bools are like switches. Anyone can turn them off/on. But yea anyone with the power of Google could do it. No ones specific property
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Sweet. Can you disable capacitive buttons though? I heard cm10 can do this.
Can you please post a screenshot?
yousefak said:
Your work?
I followed a guide to do the edits and you probably did too so its none of our works really.
I spent hours figuring out how to successfully recompile framework-res.apk. Then I had to figure out how to get it to boot. Then I had to change the height and figure out how to disable capacitive backlight.
Instead of being selfish, I released my mod to public.
I guess releasing my own work to public was a mistake.
(Oh, and I'll make a video of me decompiling, editing, and building/testing if you don't believe me)
Edit: lol, do you even have a link to your work or do claim I somehow stole your private work?
Sent from my Sprint SGS3
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Sorry, man. Was half asleep when I saw this, and wasn't exactly rational.
To be fair though, monstaX and I were going back and forth on this over in Themes & Apps over the last couple days, and all progress was very visible there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771908
I was gonna package it and post it here (with an additional edit to the /keylayout folder to turn off capacitive keys and remap home to be a camera key) but my wife's car broke down yesterday and I had to deal with that.
Again, I apologize for being a douche. I need to stop using the internet when I'm tired.
holysmokesbatty said:
Sorry, man. Was half asleep when I saw this, and wasn't exactly rational.
To be fair though, monstaX and I were going back and forth on this over in Themes & Apps over the last couple days, and all progress was very visible there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771908
I was gonna package it and post it here (with an additional edit to the /keylayout folder to turn off capacitive keys and remap home to be a camera key) but my wife's car broke down yesterday and I had to deal with that.
Again, I apologize for being a douche. I need to stop using the internet when I'm tired.
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No problem. I apologize for also being hostile in my post too.
Sent from my Sprint SGS3
Just a little reminder: ANDROID IS OPEN SOURCE. I dont like it when people call crap "their own work". All anybody is doing is tweaking the things that are already there.
Sorry, it just frustrates me.

ZIPthemer Control File

I have finally found a tool that seems to work for me to adjust components of a theme. I love some of the stuff that is in vomer's thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791815. However, I am running PA and obviously these files don't work for it (found that out the hard way, because I'm a noob). I was able to find a zipthemer zip on another thread to replace the navbar that is stock on my ROM. Next I want to change the status bar wifi/signal/clock/battery(circlemod) to white.
There is a link on the above page that has a file MiNCO, but I want to ziptheme it for my PA version. I didn't realize it wouldn't work, so I tried to just use that ZIP and it says there is no theme control file. What can I do to create one?
Maybe this will help... https://sites.google.com/site/zipthemer/creating-themes
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kellinwood said:
Maybe this will help... https://sites.google.com/site/zipthemer/creating-themes
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Unfortunately the "control file" section of that page is empty...not sure if it will ever get filled out. I had seen that page before I posted here
The Metamorph XML format is the control file format for ZipThemer. At one point I planned on adding ZipThemer specific features, but never got around to it. Sorry for the confusion.
Ken
kellinwood said:
The Metamorph XML format is the control file format for ZipThemer. At one point I planned on adding ZipThemer specific features, but never got around to it. Sorry for the confusion.
Ken
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So if I use Metamorph I ought ot be able to figure it out, okay, sounds good. I will give it a go.
I was able to ziptheme my navbar softkeys, but two of the softkeys didn't change. Any idea why that might happen? Any advice? Specifically, the Search key and the minimize keyboard key.
Right now I am working on changing the status bar icons/clock. We will see what happens.
Edit: well, it looks like my zipthemer zip didn't have a minimize keyboard softkey. gonna have to find one lol.

Found S-View Wallpaper - how to sorta

No Expert, but after digging I found where that wallpaper is located. As mentioned no expert but I was able to change mine, it will still show default wallpaper when setting color in accessory but the one you place is displayed. It is located in:
framework-res.apk in res\drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi\mainbg_pattern_mainarea.png
I just pulled to desktop, opened with 7-zip, replaced, pushed.
Maybe someone with more theming experience can create a better way to mod it so that you don't have to set the color as it takes away from the actual image. Tried taking a screen shot but no go. Just using solid black background with size 1002x891and naming it the same as what it was in that dir.
If i helped, hit thanks!
slice2011 said:
No Expert, but after digging I found where that wallpaper is located. As mentioned no expert but I was able to change mine, it will still show default wallpaper when setting color in accessory but the one you place is displayed. It is located in:
framework-res.apk in res\drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi\mainbg_pattern_mainarea.png
I just pulled to desktop, opened with 7-zip, replaced, pushed.
Maybe someone with more theming experience can create a better way to mod it so that you don't have to set the color as it takes away from the actual image. Tried taking a screen shot but no go. Just using solid black background with size 1002x891and naming it the same as what it was in that dir.
If i helped, hit thanks!
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awesome have been wanting to do this for so long... might be a bit over my head at this point still. but i can not wait! thank you!
Sweet, I just want a solid black background.
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Let me know how it worked out for you.
tWeaKeD ouT notE III
Tikerz said:
Sweet, I just want a solid black background.
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Just get this from the app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.citc.colors&hl=en
ggrant3876 said:
Just get this from the app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.citc.colors&hl=en
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Did you read what this does? Sorry, this is for sview background for those that have the sview case not changing the homescreen background, wouldn't have to edit the framework file for that.
thr0wN t0geTheR bY my tWeaKeD 0uT n0tE III
look at here ! perhaps :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47776313#post47776313

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