How do you change the app drawer background?
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I believe you need a launcher such as ADW or launcher pro to be able to change it. It would then be under Launcher settings.
I believe you'd have to find the basic apk for the app drawer in the system files, then edit the /res folder, find the png, then change it.
teh roxxorz said:
I believe you'd have to find the basic apk for the app drawer in the system files, then edit the /res folder, find the png, then change it.
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Awesome. Thanks for the tip.
sivarticus85 said:
Awesome. Thanks for the tip.
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You're welcome; and it should be in the /system folder, I believe.
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Is there a folder app which allows you to change folder icons and rename them ex. GAMES?
ddgarcia05 said:
Is there a folder app which allows you to change folder icons and rename them ex. GAMES?
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I'm not sure if there's an app for that, or a way to change the icons, but you can rename them. Just open the folder you created and hold down on the title bar that says "Folder". Now just type in your new folder name.
seancneal said:
there's an app for that,
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Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
@OP: search the market for any cut or better cut. They allow creation/renaming of shortcuts to anything, as well as using custom icons... for folders as well.
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AdhvanIt said:
Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
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I shoulda put a /s after that.
AdhvanIt said:
Those are forbidden words in the android community. This is NOT an iphone.
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I shoulda put a /s after that.
You don't need any app to just change the folder name though.
I found Apps Organizer to work the best. You make a shortcut, name it, then scroll a list of your installed apps and check off which to add to it. After your done you can change the icon to a custom icon downloaded from a any free or paid icon pack. Best of all it's free!
How do you change the folder icon with any/bettercut? I haven't ever been able to figure that out. I thought I actually read once that it wasn't possible
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i like desktop visualizer for changing icons/names (or in my case having no names)
I have been using 7zip to replace icons for my docked apps. The only one that has eluded me so far is the phone icon. I found the stock green phone icon in res\drawable and replaced it but it did not change on the app or dock. Usually the icon for others was in res\drawable-hdpi. Soooo my question is where the heck is the one I need to change. Thanks.
I believe its in dialertabactivity.apk
Thats where it takes the icon from
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gtuansdiamm said:
I believe its in dialertabactivity.apk
Thats where it takes the icon from
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That was it! Thanks.
No problem
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Now, any idea where that default apps icon is stored? The white 16 square rectangle that Zeam, launcher and LP use? Is it in Framework-res? I can't find it in Zeam so think it is in the system somewhere. Thanks.
kennyglass123 said:
Now, any idea where that default apps icon is stored? The white 16 square rectangle that Zeam, launcher and LP use? Is it in Framework-res? I can't find it in Zeam so think it is in the system somewhere. Thanks.
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What launcher are you using? It is in the laucher. I use adwex, one of its features is the ability to change the icons....I change them all the time.
shiftr182 said:
What launcher are you using? It is in the laucher. I use adwex, one of its features is the ability to change the icons....I change them all the time.
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Zeam. It's not in the drawable-hdpi where I found all my other icons for apps.
The way I do it sometimes it just open the apk with 7zip, the take the res folder and drag it to the desktop, or whatever, open it in windows, and change the view to large icons, then you can look at all the images in the apk and find what you want.
shiftr182 said:
The way I do it sometimes it just open the apk with 7zip, the take the res folder and drag it to the desktop, or whatever, open it in windows, and change the view to large icons, then you can look at all the images in the apk and find what you want.
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Yeah, that is what I have been doing, but Zeam has so many drawables... I guess I have no choice but to look at them all. Really though the apps icon was a system default a lot of launchers used.
Got it! Had a wierd name action_apps_grid or something like that. Thanks for the help. I have made my phone my own now...
Where is the default wallpaper location on the T989? I have downloaded some nice wallpapers, but I want to know how to add them to the phone so they can be selected from the wallpaper menu.
sevenslugs said:
Where is the default wallpaper location on the T989? I have downloaded some nice wallpapers, but I want to know how to add them to the phone so they can be selected from the wallpaper menu.
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you can add them to the "pictures" or "downloads" folder or make a new subfolder titled "wallpaper" under "pictures" if you want
OK thanks.
I thought there was something you had to edit in system/framework/
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sevenslugs said:
OK thanks.
I thought there was something you had to edit in system/framework/
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I don't know how to add them to the "wallpaper chooser" but functionally it's easy to add them from a downloads or pics folder.
sevenslugs said:
Where is the default wallpaper location on the T989? I have downloaded some nice wallpapers, but I want to know how to add them to the phone so they can be selected from the wallpaper menu.
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To add to the wallpaper chooser, you have to go to system/app take the wallpaper apk out (this could vary depending on the ROM) and open it with zip or extract with an apk manager. Then switch the jpg's out with your own.
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Tmogalaxys2 said:
To add to the wallpaper chooser, you have to go to system/app take the wallpaper apk out (this could vary depending on the ROM) and open it with zip or extract with an apk manager. Then switch the jpg's out with your own.
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Thank you very much. I been looking for a way too but I wanted to have the stock skyrocket wallpapers for this phone. Zedge is just not as hd as original
gypsy214 said:
Thank you very much. I been looking for a way too but I wanted to have the stock skyrocket wallpapers for this phone. Zedge is just not as hd as original
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NP. Always glad to help.
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I just realized I can make folders in my app drawer and organize it. I've never seen any launcher do this. Has it been a touchwiz feature for a while or new for the note2.
Apex does it. Think nova does it too
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Hey futant, How did you do that? I figured out how to make the folder, but I can figure out how to drag the apps into the folder.
go launcher do it man look at that pic in my app drawer!
I think its been around since the S2
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chrispyutec said:
Hey futant, How did you do that? I figured out how to make the folder, but I can figure out how to drag the apps into the folder.
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whenin the app drawer hit menu, select edit, pick the folder you made and click the + icon. Then select all the apps you want to put in that folder.
I was using apex on my last phone. I guess I never noticed it. Thanks for the info guys.
Clould anyone point me to the location of the icons for the home screen are please? I'm using IconFinder to make me a custom homescreen but it's a hasle to have to store them into Gallery and then crop... would me much easier if they would just pop up with the theme icons.
Thanks
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st1114g said:
Clould anyone point me to the location of the icons for the home screen are please? I'm using IconFinder to make me a custom homescreen but it's a hasle to have to store them into Gallery and then crop... would me much easier if they would just pop up with the theme icons.
Thanks
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Others, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but they are built in to an apk, so you would have to extract the apk, change the icons, and then reconsruct the apk.
pedal2themedal said:
Others, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but they are built in to an apk, so you would have to extract the apk, change the icons, and then reconsruct the apk.
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I believe you're right. It's been a while since I've decompiled a launcher. In any event, if anyone does need to decompile and recompile an .apk I would recommend elesbb's APK Tool GUI. Makes the whole job very easy. Once you have all of your icon images you should be able to drag and drop them into their appropriate folders and recompile.
Thank you for the replies! I was hopping to be an easy-breeze doing but I guess not... I will try the tool you recommended: ) Wish me luck
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