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[Q]is there any way to theme the messaging app?

i just want to change the color of the bubbles since good ol blue and yellow is starting to seem bland to me. or are there already themes for just that?

sephiroth009 said:
i just want to change the color of the bubbles since good ol blye and yellow is starting to seem bland to me. or are there already themes for just that?
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You could look at WP7 theme (link in my sig). The bubles are colored there. It might give you the clues you need.

sephiroth009 said:
i just want to change the color of the bubbles since good ol blue and yellow is starting to seem bland to me. or are there already themes for just that?
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Which build? EC05 or GB? Impaler747 did a whole bunch of themed messaging apps with differerent colored bubbles and icons. You could hit up the the guys in the theme forum. They are always glad to help.
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kennyglass123 said:
Which build? EC05 or GB? Impaler747 did a whole bunch of themed messaging apps with differerent colored bubbles and icons. You could hit up the the guys in the theme forum. They are always glad to help.
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Sfr 1.2 no theme. Ill check out impaler's themed messaging apps if I can find them

sephiroth009 said:
Sfr 1.2 no theme. Ill check out impaler's themed messaging apps if I can find them
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They were in the Theme sub forum I believe. Try searching for Impaler747 and transparent messaging.
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Oops thought I edited my post. I just searched his name then looked through his started threads till I found it. While those are nice it would be cool to be able to do it myself at will. But this will do for now.
Thread link for anyone with the same question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991259

sephiroth009 said:
Oops thought I edited my post. I just searched his name then looked through his started threads till I found it. While those are nice it would be cool to be able to do it myself at will. But this will do for now.
Thread link for anyone with the same question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991259
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In his sig are all the tutorials to learn how to do it yourself. He said it is easy. I think it is xml editing and knowing the hex code for colors if I remember what he was trying to tell me.
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Here's a simple way.
1.) Download a theme for EC05 with a messaging app you like.
2.) Open it in 7zip or winrar(do not unzip)
3.) Delete all folders(if any) in the root of the zip except for system and META-INF.
4.) In the system folder delete all folders except app.
5.) Inside the system/app folder, delete everything except MMS apk.
6.) Back out of the zip
7.) Copy to SD, and flash through CWM
Follow that for any system/app.
Here's a video from qbking77 on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cVOb4YXGts&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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If you switch to a Gingerbread Rom, here's the link to the new Transparent Themed Messaging apks. Froyo version won't work.

RandomKing said:
If you switch to a Gingerbread Rom, here's the link to the new Transparent Themed Messaging apks. Froyo version won't work.
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The froyo version is already working for me, thanks though.

sephiroth009 said:
The froyo version is already working for me, thanks though.
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Good. Grab those tutorials I mentioned in Impaler's sig. Then you can start themeing lots of stuff. The only drawback to themeing non-system apps is they won't update, so keep that in mind if you theme an app that gets frequent updates.

Also Shane's themes often pack them seperately. Check Honeycomb Fusion explosion. It's my fav and the mms theme is very cool.

Glad you got it going. If you don't mind me asking, which MMS did you choose?
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[THEME][JUNE 4][HOWTO] { Full ICS } - Removed all old GB styles - AOKP 38

Hey guys,
I was fairly disappointed by the amount of gingerbread styling left over using apps that havent been designed to use the new holo theme.
I have taken it upon myself to remove the default gingerbread styling and move to the holo resources.
This fix is all xml and uses no additional images.
To incorporate I believe you can just move over the styles.xml to framework-res.apk/values/styles.xml
Anyone using this theme please provide feedback since there may be buggy or incorrectly themed instances throughout.
Theme Flashable
Downloads
http://goo.im/devs/blackdino
You can use this with themes from the aokp theme chooser

BlackDino said:
Hey guys,
I was fairly disappointed by the amount of gingerbread styling left over using apps that havent been designed to use the new holo theme.
I have taken it upon myself to remove the default gingerbread styling and move to the holo resources.
This fix is all xml and uses no additional images.
To incorporate I believe you can just move over the styles.xml to framework-res.apk/values/styles.xml
Anyone using this theme please provide feedback since there may be buggy or incorrectly themed instances throughout.
(also this theme includes evilisto's wp7 style app switcher)
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AOKP 31 only - http://www.mediafire.com/?d7piq7ymsb4zyiq
The theme version is only available for aokp 31 but I hope other themers will grab my styles.xml and use it in their theme.
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Thanks...I'll use this in my theme too...credits to you...does this just fix the orange to blue? I did that already.

ezcats said:
Thanks...I'll use this in my theme too...credits to you...does this just fix the orange to blue? I did that already.
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No, it adds most holo theme elements such as menus, progress circles, scrollbars, etc.

BlackDino,
Can you merge this fix to your FULL ICS?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588613
It's a COLOR Gradient Fix in System Settings for ICS because the Color Gradient there is not good and heavily jagged.
Thanks a lot. LOL.

Thanks so much for this
I ported styles.xml to my mod for Captivate and of course gave you credit!

Fate-Silver said:
BlackDino,
Can you merge this fix to your FULL ICS?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588613
It's a COLOR Gradient Fix in System Settings for ICS because the Color Gradient there is not good and heavily jagged.
Thanks a lot. LOL.
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Updated,
New version up guys. Change your styles.xml

Wow. Looks beautiful. At last ICS seems complete. Unfortunately changing the list popups background to dark sometimes causes letter color issues. For example in Tapatalk. But it is not a big problem for me. Big thanks for this mod.

Pawbrotm said:
Wow. Looks beautiful. At last ICS seems complete. Unfortunately changing the list popups background to dark sometimes causes letter color issues. For example in Tapatalk. But it is not a big problem for me. Big thanks for this mod.
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What version of Tapatalk? And what version of the theme?
With Tapatalk 2.0 and b2 you should have white menus
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Tapatalk 2 final. Dark theme.:
And one more thing. Somewhere there are still old progressbars. For example start screen in Amuse app.

Pawbrotm said:
Tapatalk 2 final. Dark theme.:
And one more thing. Somewhere there are still old progressbars. For example start screen in Amuse app.
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ah, thanks man.
Ill fix the progress bar on the next version.
As for any weird colors on menus I can't really fix them.
This is from app developers using inline styles and not following the android style guide lines

Impressive! New Color Gradient Fix will be up again soon because I found there's still some places which have ugly Color Gradient. I think you'll need to update soon. LOL.
See here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24684714&postcount=23
Thanks for the CWM Flashable zip, I'm loving it.
I think this FIX should be merged to all UP COMING ROMs. It's simply AWESOME!

Simply awesome!
Sent from my francoPhone

Fate-Silver said:
Impressive! New Color Gradient Fix will be up again soon because I found there's still some places which have ugly Color Gradient. I think you'll need to update soon. LOL.
See here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24684714&postcount=23
Thanks for the CWM Flashable zip, I'm loving it.
I think this FIX should be merged to all UP COMING ROMs. It's simply AWESOME!
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I'll implement any future changes.
Also a new build should be out tomorrow with more resources converted
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BlackDino said:
I'll implement any future changes.
Also a new build should be out tomorrow with more resources converted
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This is the most useful mod I have seen in a while. Any change of a zipthemer file? I'm trying to use this on black ice.

Maybe you could create a zip with this MOD http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24630697&postcount=96

I have flashed it but it's not working, do I need to activate it or something?

Tried downloading the file but kept asking me to try again any luck Open can attach the file here? Tks
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kara mustafa said:
Maybe you could create a zip with this MOD http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24630697&postcount=96
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Quite possible, I will look into it
thomaswackers said:
I have flashed it but it's not working, do I need to activate it or something?
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This theme does nothing more then to replace the gingerbread styling in legacy apps. Are you sure you're not just over looking the theme?
GNEXc said:
Tried downloading the file but kept asking me to try again any luck Open can attach the file here? Tks
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I will attach the zip to the main post

BlackDino said:
Quite possible, I will look into it
This theme does nothing more then to replace the gingerbread styling in legacy apps. Are you sure you're not just over looking the theme?
I will attach the zip to the main post
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The task switcher isn't working

This is great. Thanks.
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AOKP Market Themes not working

Anyone having issues with aokp and themes from the market? The statusbar and menues always get themed, but not the icons for mms, contacts, phone, browser, etc.
Any idea why ? The photos from the themes I try to install all show themed icons but this never seems to happen.
Thanks

are you rebooting after? that did it for me.

Z-Man™ said:
are you rebooting after? that did it for me.
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I am having pretty much the same issues as the OP. However, rebooting as you suggested worked on some themes. But on most it did not. I did notice a warning popup window when applying some themes.
Perhaps some AOKP/CM9 themes are not compatible with our S2 variant?

Z-Man™ said:
are you rebooting after? that did it for me.
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Ill give it a shot. Didnt think to reboot.
What theme are you using where the icons also get themed? Maybe Ill DL that one to test this out.
THanks!

jordanishere said:
Ill give it a shot. Didnt think to reboot.
What theme are you using where the icons also get themed? Maybe Ill DL that one to test this out.
THanks!
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Sorry it took so long but im using crimson cobalt. Hope u got it working.
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I've noticed that some themes change the icons after a reboot and some dont. The holo series themes never change the icons for me, I end up downloading an icon back and doing them manually. All of the themes by hoolm like freehand and circles mod always change the icons.
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[Q] MIUI-style status-bar mod for AOSP ROMS?

hey guys,
i've done some searching, but have come up short, and i was wondering if anyone knows of a way to mod AOSP status-bars to be clear like MIUI (maybe with a flashable zip?)

My bad, misread your post. Carry on...

Ferenczy68 said:
My bad, misread your post. Carry on...
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Hey, I'll take the arbitrary bump
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atljatl said:
Hey, I'll take the arbitrary bump
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screenshot of what you want?
have you tried the UOT Kitchen, it has the ability to make your status bar transparent. along with a whole lot of other customization's. just got to pull a couple of files from the phone and upload them to the kitchen and bam pretty much theme the rom how ever you want.
here check it out :
UOT Kitchen

life said:
screenshot of what you want?
have you tried the UOT Kitchen, it has the ability to make your status bar transparent. along with a whole lot of other customization's. just got to pull a couple of files from the phone and upload them to the kitchen and bam pretty much theme the rom how ever you want.
here check it out :
UOT Kitchen
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Totally new to me (no dev/themeing experience) but ill give it a shot. Thanks!
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atljatl said:
Totally new to me (no dev/themeing experience) but ill give it a shot. Thanks!
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if you need any help, let me know.

I might have some questions. I read the op in that thread, and there were a couple things that I wasn't clear about, but it looks really cool. I appreciate it.
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life said:
screenshot of what you want?
have you tried the UOT Kitchen, it has the ability to make your status bar transparent. along with a whole lot of other customization's. just got to pull a couple of files from the phone and upload them to the kitchen and bam pretty much theme the rom how ever you want.
here check it out :
UOT Kitchen
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I just stumbled across this thread. The issue is that its not just simple status bar transparency. That's easy, and it's already in the settings menu in ROM Control for AOKP. With MIUI though, you can have the status bar as totally transparent when viewing the launcher/desktop, but it's not transparent, or it's semi-transparent when you are viewing apps like the browser or when viewing the lock screen. So the question is, how could one implement different status bar settings for different views as it is implemented in MIUI?

m4570d0n said:
I just stumbled across this thread. The issue is that its not just simple status bar transparency. That's easy, and it's already in the settings menu in ROM Control for AOKP. With MIUI though, you can have the status bar as totally transparent when viewing the launcher/desktop, but it's not transparent, or it's semi-transparent when you are viewing apps like the browser or when viewing the lock screen. So the question is, how could one implement different status bar settings for different views as it is implemented in MIUI?
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I was really just trying to find a way to implement a clear status bar on the desk top/launcher on GB aosp roms (specifically, on decks reloaded.) I wasn't so concerned with the status bar in apps, browser, etc. I've tried uot kitchen which was mentioned above, but wasnt successful. as to why it wouldn't work, I don't know.

atljatl said:
I was really just trying to find a way to implement a clear status bar on the desk top/launcher on GB aosp roms (specifically, on decks reloaded.) I wasn't so concerned with the status bar in apps, browser, etc. I've tried uot kitchen which was mentioned above, but wasnt successful. as to why it wouldn't work, I don't know.
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as i said in the pm's i really think its the way the statusbar is incorporated in the rom, best bet would to be ask in the rom thread that way a developer could give the right answer instead of me guessing at it.... lol im guessing the thread you found didnt work either?

life said:
as i said in the pm's i really think its the way the statusbar is incorporated in the rom, best bet would to be ask in the rom thread that way a developer could give the right answer instead of me guessing at it.... lol im guessing the thread you found didnt work either?
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Yeah, i didn't know quite how to explain what you said in the pm.. And You're right..that thread didn't work.

atljatl said:
Yeah, i didn't know quite how to explain what you said in the pm.. And You're right..that thread didn't work.
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yeah, i would post in the reloaded thread and see if any of them know, if it can be done and how.

Thanks, life, I just asked in the reloaded general thread.

Yes there is. Google search pvyparts battery bar. He wrote an app that does this. Only downside is that u have to edit ur systemui to get it to work. Since every rom is different its hard to make it flash able due to didferent systemui.apks. this is the battery bar mod I added to my cm9 rom.
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Papa Smurf151 said:
Yes there is. Google search pvyparts battery bar. He wrote an app that does this. Only downside is that u have to edit ur systemui to get it to work. Since every rom is different its hard to make it flash able due to didferent systemui.apks. this is the battery bar mod I added to my cm9 rom.
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Fantastic, thanks! I'll check it out

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371330
And here it is. I'll check it out when I get to a computer
Thanks again

Papa Smurf151 said:
Yes there is. Google search pvyparts battery bar. He wrote an app that does this. Only downside is that u have to edit ur systemui to get it to work. Since every rom is different its hard to make it flash able due to didferent systemui.apks. this is the battery bar mod I added to my cm9 rom.
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we are actually talking about the statusbar and making it transparent. in reloaded there is an app for the battery bar and is simple to adjust. but in the rom it has a ICS-like statusbar (all black with the ics-blue signal bars and battery icon and what not). What atljatl is wanting is the entire statusbar to be transparent. Like in the miui and some sense roms that have had the flashable zips to make transparent statusbar.

Gotcha. That is a simple mod in the systemui.apk. just changed either the icon or xml backgroubd to transparent. Again I'm mobile so can't do it fir u right now but will when I get home if ud like
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Papa Smurf151 said:
Gotcha. That is a simple mod in the systemui.apk. just changed either the icon or xml backgroubd to transparent. Again I'm mobile so can't do it fir u right now but will when I get home if ud like
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I would love that, papa. Thanks!

atljatl said:
I would love that, papa. Thanks!
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What rom r u using so I know which systemui to pull
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Should I Port These Themes?

If you guys don't mind, have a look at the themes in my sig. I've been considering porting (or re-create, rather) them, since I got my MT4G but I didn't like the device enough to bother. My favorite has been the LBP theme since I had so much fun making the icons. I'll likely create an icon pack for Nova/Apex for the icons but I was considering something cool for the toogles and such too.
If there's any interest, I'll recreate these for the GS3.

Sure sounds good
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damn those are G1 themes

adolfo778 said:
damn those are G1 themes
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Yep. I been using Android since way back then lol. I'd be creating all the images from scratch, of course. No sense trying to port such low-res junk to the GS3.

I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:

evilgdaddy said:
I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:
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Yep same here, can't see the themes but found the LBP which looks pretty slick.

evilgdaddy said:
I did not see any of the themes in your sig but after doing some searching I found them and I have to say that the LBP one you did looked sweet man. I know I would be happy to see them. Thank you for the heads up. :good:
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Sorry about that. I took them out of my signature about a week ago. I'm getting myself up to speed with the Theme Engine (as my old ones were flashable .ZIPs). In the mean time I'm working on icons. I'd like to release something for the various launchers (Go Launcher, Apex, Nova, etc) along with Theme Engine.

Thank you for the update. Will keep checking back!:thumbup:
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AGx-07_162 said:
Sorry about that. I took them out of my signature about a week ago. I'm getting myself up to speed with the Theme Engine (as my old ones were flashable .ZIPs). In the mean time I'm working on icons. I'd like to release something for the various launchers (Go Launcher, Apex, Nova, etc) along with Theme Engine.
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Sweet but im wondering will there be any themes for those who like stock touchwiz ? Like a flashable zip..
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