Alright so I ran into some trouble while changing my Icons. When I change the phone.apk Icon it works. But when I change the contacts app icon it changes the phone apps icon to the contacts icon. I dont know why. Im relatively new at this sooo any help would be much appreciated. thanks!
Are you editing directly (i.e. using APK Edit) or you using something like BetterCut/LauncherPro/ADW? I've never tried editing the icons directly, but I have changed my icons on my homescreens using these apps and have never have any issue. If you want a different launcher, ADW/LP will make changing the icon simple, BetterCut can be used with Sense to achieve a similar effect
Ah I was editing directly.
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techobsessive said:
Ah I was editing directly.
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Yea, I very much suggest using launcherpro, it's as easy as holding down your finger on the homescreen, selecting application and then choosing an app. When it opens the text editor, just click on the actual icon to change it. I keep a special folder called "My Icons" on my sd so it's always in my gallery for use.
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Yea, I very much suggest using launcherpro, it's as easy as holding down your finger on the homescreen, selecting application and then choosing an app. When it opens the text editor, just click on the actual icon to change it. I keep a special folder called "My Icons" on my sd so it's always in my gallery for use.
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Hey I had no clue launcher pro could do that, I've been using folder organizer for all that stuff. Now I have one less program installed taking up resources, thanks.
N-Forced said:
Hey I had no clue launcher pro could do that, I've been using folder organizer for all that stuff. Now I have one less program installed taking up resources, thanks.
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FYI LauncherPro/ADW cannot change the icons for folders, just for apps, you're still going to need Folder Organizer for changing folder icons
EDIT: At least the free versions can't
Zoon0n said:
FYI LauncherPro/ADW cannot change the icons for folders, just for apps, you're still going to need Folder Organizer for changing folder icons
EDIT: At least the free versions can't
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Both paid and free cant.
As for "theme", I am happy with just the default.
What I want to do is just change the icons. I have seen a ton of icon sets that I love, but no clue how to bring them in.
I am running Syndicate with Genocide. Before when I was on stock, I was using File manager or something to "change" the icon. Basically it was putting a file manager widget there instead of the actual app icon.
Is there a tutorial for jsut changing icons? Or maybe an installer?
I reccomend for you to try this.
0.) Make a nandroid in case something goes wrong[Optional, reccomended]
1.) Open up the roms zip file(not extract) in 7zip onyour pc, and go to the system/app directory of the zip.
2.) Open up(not extract) the apk you want to edit in 7zip, and the icons are usually in the res/drawable-hdpi folder.
3.) Rename the image you want to be in there to match the one in the apk, and replace the old one with yours.
4.) Then back out, save, and do steps 2 & 3 for all of the apps in that folder who's icons you want to change.
5.) Flash that zip in cwm.
6.) Reboot
7.) Report if it worked. If it didn't, restore your nandroid.
Thanks!
I will try that this week.
Ok, I will stay subscribed to this thread so post here if you have any problems
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Ok, so I am starting to run through this, and I thought of something.
By editing that ROM, I am editing the default icons.
How do we do the apps I get from the market? These would not be in the ROM.
For example, Google Music, or Accuweather.
Can we edit these straight on the phone? Or are we getting more into themes?
Shot in the dark....
Could I take my nandroid backup, copy it, open it up and replace the icons there, then "restore" this backup?
lardo5150 said:
Shot in the dark....
Could I take my nandroid backup, copy it, open it up and replace the icons there, then "restore" this backup?
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I dont think so. To edit the ones you get from the market, you have to copy from data/app to your pc, edit the apps icon, then put the apk back in data/app, replacing the old one, and rebooting
zanderman112 said:
I dont think so. To edit the ones you get from the market, you have to copy from data/app to your pc, edit the apps icon, then put the apk back in data/app, replacing the old one, and rebooting
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I am going to try this tonight.
Just prepping for it though, I cant see the folders when going through the PC.
Do I need to download a file manager, and on the phone, copy the folder to the SD card, then to the PC, edit, and repeat in reverse?
Yes, you'll need es file explorer, and you'll have to turn on its root capabilities in it's setings. Then you can see the data/app folders contents. Curious though, did you try changing the default apps icons already that came with the rom?
Roll Tide
I am hoping to do that tonight.
I will let you know how it goes.
I am going to do that first, then I will tackle the added apps.
K, and remember to backup before just to be sure lol
Roll Tide
Ok, so tonight I tried some things...
1. ROM Package - I unzipped this and checked the majority of the apk files. I COULD NOT find the phone icon to save my life. none of the icons my epic has now with syndicate and genocide, I could not find. Any ideas where they might be? In the res folders, there are several combinations of the drawable folders.
2. I did a test of modding an app I downloaded. I took google music and the PSD template for the Illest Icon Set. I created an icon for google music. Now, I know the icon works, cause when I was using that other program to change the icon before I rooted (file organizer or something???) it worked. Under the res folder there were a TON of drawable folders, some were like v8, v9, v10, v11, etc. etc. There were a ton. So I went with the default drawable.hdpi folder. I found an ic_musiclauncher_normal.png and ic_musiclauncher_small.png. I changed the normal one, drug it back into my 7zip, yes to overwright, copied it back to my SD card (talking about the com.google.android.music-1.apk now), used ES to copy it from my SD card back into data\apps, yes to overright and rebooted.
When it rebooted, I got that default green and white android box and the application did not work.
I did a restore from my backup and everything is good now.
So...where do I need to look in the ROM to find the actual stinking icons?
And what am I doing wrong with the market apps?
lardo5150 said:
Ok, so tonight I tried some things...
1. ROM Package - I unzipped this and checked the majority of the apk files. I COULD NOT find the phone icon to save my life. none of the icons my epic has now with syndicate and genocide, I could not find. Any ideas where they might be? In the res folders, there are several combinations of the drawable folders.
2. I did a test of modding an app I downloaded. I took google music and the PSD template for the Illest Icon Set. I created an icon for google music. Now, I know the icon works, cause when I was using that other program to change the icon before I rooted (file organizer or something???) it worked. Under the res folder there were a TON of drawable folders, some were like v8, v9, v10, v11, etc. etc. There were a ton. So I went with the default drawable.hdpi folder. I found an ic_musiclauncher_normal.png and ic_musiclauncher_small.png. I changed the normal one, drug it back into my 7zip, yes to overwright, copied it back to my SD card (talking about the com.google.android.music-1.apk now), used ES to copy it from my SD card back into data\apps, yes to overright and rebooted.
When it rebooted, I got that default green and white android box and the application did not work.
I did a restore from my backup and everything is good now.
So...where do I need to look in the ROM to find the actual stinking icons?
And what am I doing wrong with the market apps?
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1.) Phone icon is in DialerTabActivity.apk. DialerTab is the actual dialer part you open up, and phone.apk is the "in call" stuff.
2)Different apps use different drawable folders for their icons, but they are usually in drawable-hdpi. they are sometimes named "icon.png" or "ic_launcher_appname.png." I think the new icon you want has to be the same pixel size as the one you're replacing.
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1.) Phone icon is in DialerTabActivity.apk. DialerTab is the actual dialer part you open up, and phone.apk is the "in call" stuff.
2)Different apps use different drawable folders for their icons, but they are usually in drawable-hdpi. they are sometimes named "icon.png" or "ic_launcher_appname.png." I think the new icon you want has to be the same pixel size as the one you're replacing.
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Yep, the one place I did not look. Thank you! I will try again tomorow, I have practice tonight. Stay tuned....
What is the reason for the same pixel? Is that set somewhere? The reason why I ask is people theme the phone out and make the icons anyway they want.
I gave you a thanks as well
1.) Yeah, two apks is confusing lol
2.) I'm not 100% sure about that, buut images can be resized to match the resolution of icons.
3.) THX4THX
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Ok, so I replaced the phone icon with the one I wanted in the ROM's zip file.
Wiped the phone and installed the rom and kernel and my icon is there!
So success.
I did make the icon the same size in pixesl as well. 72x72
Nice! Glad it worked!
Btw, by doing this, you're dabbling your toes in themeing water lol.
Ya, I realized you are like Mr Miyagi, lol.
I do appreciate this, I would rather learn it then someone just give it to me.
Although, like the issue I had before cause of all the apk's, I could use some help with locating a few items....please
Here is what I need to find...
facebook
text messaging
calendar
settings
yahoo mail (is that standard?)
youtube
market
maps
voicemail
email
movies
I am going to start looking here in a bit (wife is making me watch jersey shore with her )
The rest of the icons I have are for google music, dolphin, etc....so I need to figure that out and why it bombed out on me before, I am assuming like you said the pixels were wrong.
screw it, I am going to try and tackle the status bar as well.
lardo5150 said:
Ya, I realized you are like Mr Miyagi, lol.
I do appreciate this, I would rather learn it then someone just give it to me.
Although, like the issue I had before cause of all the apk's, I could use some help with locating a few items....please
Here is what I need to find...
facebook
text messaging
calendar
settings
yahoo mail (is that standard?)
youtube
market
maps
voicemail
email
movies
I am going to start looking here in a bit (wife is making me watch jersey shore with her )
The rest of the icons I have are for google music, dolphin, etc....so I need to figure that out and why it bombed out on me before, I am assuming like you said the pixels were wrong.
screw it, I am going to try and tackle the status bar as well.
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Status bar itself is in framework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/statusbar_background.9.png, so if you don't know how to edit .9.png's, you'll have to find a statusbar you like.
The other parts of the notifiation drawer start with status_bar_ and are .9.pngs as well.
But some parts of the notification drawer are in twframework-res.apk/res/drawable-hdpi/
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Cool, thanks.
Going after them now!
Hi,
Ever since I've installed the Android 2.3 updateI have a problem:
All icons for apps which are organized in folders and are stored on the SD card have disappeared. The apps still work, but the icon was changed to the standard android icon. If I delete the app icon from the folder and add it again the icon is there, but as soon as I reboot it's gone again.
Any ideas?
THX
Archer
Which launcher do you use?
revolutionary
This answer has absolutely nothing to do with my question. The launcher is the app with which you start your programs, customize homescreens, etc.
oh sorry. seems I need to do some homework on the technical terms ...
Then I guess you mean HTC Sense?
HTC sense do never display icons in folders.. Try to use go launcher..
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HTC sense do never display icons in folders.. Try to use go launcher..
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Not true. They do display icons in folders. Are those apps affected moved to the sdcard?
itachi1706 said:
Not true. They do display icons in folders. Are those apps affected moved to the sdcard?
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Yes. As stated above only apps I moved to the sd card in android 2.3.3 are affected. Apps that are stored on the phone, display the icons just fine. And with android 2.2 I didn't have the problem either.
So move the apps back to internal memory.
Hello,
I had searched for this bug(?) but I found nothing like this.
Normal situation: if I want to put a new widget in the desktop, before drop the widget somewhere there is a green shadow which indicates that the placement is correct. If another widget is in the same place, this shadow is gray.
My problem: somehow, in concrete places in the desktop, at the time to drop the widget the shadow is gray and no widget is there. This occurs in the 1st desktop the hole 1st row and in the 2nd desktop, the 4th column, 2nd row. All the time are the same places and no matter which widget i try to put.
I have tried: reboot, long press in the gray places (maybe was an "invisible" widget), uninstalling some apps.
I'm newbe in android and don't want to make reset to default. Somebody knows about this issue?
Thanyou.
Never occured that problem, unistall all widgets then reboot, and then try to instal and put it.
First thing to try is wiping data for the launcher. You many need root, never tried without so don't know.
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This problem is known and is due to a modification of the location of the widgets that were here before; for instance if you move it from memory to sd card.
If you do not want to root, you have to reset the launcher, but you will have after to do your personalization again. To reset the launcher, Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, All, Sony Ericsson Home, Wipe Data (sorry, my system is in French, so my translation can not be exact).
If you have rooted, you have to remove the line(s) concerned by your "ghost" widgets in the file: \data\data\com.sonyericsson.home\files\desktop.xml.gz\desktop.xml
Thanks to all for the answers and specially for thierryb because he got with the solution.
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Thanks to all for the answers and specially for thierryb because he got with the solution.
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Hello everybody!!
I have a question about setting the default browser on my Galaxy S III, Im currently using Dolphin Browser and I know about the option in the settings to make it the default browser. But when I use the default "Web" Icon on the homescreen it still opens the Browser that came with the phone. I tried downloading apps that "change" the default apps used but still opens the wrong one... I had gotten this to work for my other S III and Galaxy Note before i had to return it due to a dead pixel but ive had no luck in getting it working again... if anybody knows anything on how to get this set correctly i would greatly apprecaite it!!
Thanks in advanced!!
-Niru
seijyennite said:
Hello everybody!!
I have a question about setting the default browser on my Galaxy S III, Im currently using Dolphin Browser and I know about the option in the settings to make it the default browser. But when I use the default "Web" Icon on the homescreen it still opens the Browser that came with the phone. I tried downloading apps that "change" the default apps used but still opens the wrong one... I had gotten this to work for my other S III and Galaxy Note before i had to return it due to a dead pixel but ive had no luck in getting it working again... if anybody knows anything on how to get this set correctly i would greatly apprecaite it!!
Thanks in advanced!!
-Niru
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Tried Settings, App Maanger, All, Internet, Clear Defaults?
Yes I have tested that, but when I go to the Internet app it says that their is no default app set
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Oh, wait. I think I misunderstood your question. You want the globe icon that says internet to open Dolphin? Not sure if that is very feasible.
That icon is like an icon on your computer (I.e. it is not a shortcut). That icon is specifically for the stock internet app.
But, it's probably possible. I would start a new thread about how to change icons of apps. I use Nova Launcher and I can rename icons, but not change the picture. But, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me know how.
It is possible I've done it before but I am not able to recall how I did it lol
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Oh.
Well, if you don't figure it out, I found this today: http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/...guide-to-customizing-your-home-screen-icons/
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DesktopVisualizer does exactly this!