I'm looking for the status bar icons that come with vanilla Gingerbread. Like the ones in CM.
Also, would like to know where I should copy them to.
I tried looking inside the CM7 zip, but couldn't find anything that looked familiar.
Anyone knows if it can be extracted somehow from the CM7 ROM and be used with the stock rom?
Yes, theyre in system/systemui.apk
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Thanks! Found it. It's actually: system/app/systemui.apk
The folder structure is obviously different from the stock rom. Anyone have an idea how I replace the existing icons?
Use 7zip to open the apk and replace them in system/res folder i think it is
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There is no res folder inside "system". There's a res folder in the root, but there's only one file called "encryption"
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There is no res folder inside "system". There's a res folder in the root, but there's only one file called "encryption"
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Is it in framework/res?
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The one he wants its in systemui.. Look in the res/hdpi or so folder
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I've found it. I tried modifying the stock SystemUI.apk by replacing the icons in it with the ones from the CM7 rom. I then replaced the original SystemUI.apk with the modified one using Root Explorer, but by doing it the SystemUI process force closed leaving me with no status bar. It remained without status bar even after reboot.
So I guess this is not as easy as it seemed to be. I don't want to mess around with the root folder anymore, so if anyone has a flashable zip that can replace the status bar with AOSP icons I would greatly appreciate it!
Really easy to do, next time change the permissions then you wont get FC but if you have the odex version of the update heres the link to get the icons. Its by mikeyinid towards the bottom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20377172
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Really easy to do, next time change the permissions then you wont get FC but if you have the odex version of the update heres the link to get the icons. Its by mikeyinid towards the bottom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20377172
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That's exactly what I need! But the link is down Thanks anyway!
I'll PM the guy for a copy I guess.
I pm him too last night for some files.. Dont know if he replies at pms. Some people on here get really mad.. But any chance you can help me out on the swype files?
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Sure I'll try to help. I'm not sure what you're referring to though. What swype files?
I pmed you
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Bear with me guys....I know this is a question and would be better suited in Q&A but Idt anyone in there would no the answer.....I want a red themes phone.....I was able to do the keyboard with HTC IME and I used uot kitchen for the status bar and icons. But I want more than just this....I want to make my sliding tabs on my lockscreen red with red icons. I also want red loading bars and status bars.....pretty much anything that was white I want to make red.....is there any way I can do this?
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You need to edit images if your using cm7 or a Gingerbread Tom its in framework-res in the framework folder and in SystemUI on the app folder as for sense you will need to edit files in the HTC resources apk its in the framework folder if its a sense 2.0 Tom then inside of the I believe customize folder find an apk to edit(that is if your wanting to be able to resourt to stock theme) and edit that or just edit the HTC resource file like mentioned for sense sorry if there are any mistakes in this I'm on my phone and can't check for proper names of the locations.
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Ok thanks for the info....what programs are out there that are good for editing these apks? I'm sorry I'm new to editing apks and this is my learning experience!
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Well to edit the images in the apk just change the .apk to .zip and look through it for the files you want to edit they will be images as for the txt you will need to edit the services.jar there is a guide on here somewhere that tells you how to do it just Google changing txt color in android notification bar.
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I'm not worried about text color I already did the notification bar I'm more concerned with the lock tabs and loading bars....the small green accents here and there
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Those are in framework-res if your on an aosp rom so just open it up and play around.
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Also what program should I use to edit xml documents?
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That's something I'm not exactly sure of you will need to decompile the apk first if I remember correctly then u edit never took the time to research how to decompile bit after its decompiled you should be able to use several programs just Google for one
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Well I changed apk to zip and then extracted....there weren't a lot of images but there were a lot of xml documents that had titles that looked like they were for what I needed to edit so now I just need to figure out how to edit them....I know a lot of html and basic javascript so from my understanding it should be easy but my version of visual studio won't let me edit xml.....I need another program....recommendations?
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Go into it and look for the hdpi folders there should be about 600 images if your in framework-res
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Found it....looks like quite a job! Any idea where I could find replacement icons without having to re edit all of these?
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Just edit the hue in Photoshop or paint.net its real easy I use paint.net plus its free and lightweight only 3 megs and does a great job
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So I'm using paint.net to work my way through the hdpi images....when I'm done do I just rezip the framework file with the stuff set to store and then change extension to .apk and then rezip the Rom and flash it? Idk how to apply my changes
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Yup
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sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck
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sick i just finished editing com.htc.resources.apk and framework-res.apk.....i changed anything that was green to red and im letting my phone build a bit of a charge before i flash it....wish me luck
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Flash it? Did you make an updater for it or did you replace the files in a ROM that you're going to flash? I personally just push the .apk via ADB shell.
How did it go
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I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....
edited alll the files that I wanted and re packed them into my rom (skyraider) then just flashed the rom as if it were a nightly update (no wipe data/factory reset).....It worked great! I mucked a few things up here and there but overall it looks very slick....I've officially made my first theme for skyraider 4.0! Wasn't too hard at all....But now that I've done all this work there's a few images I can't seem to find that I want to change the color of....Mainly the highlights press color on the select a connection type dropdown and more importantly the volume popup bar when you increase the phone volume. Also I'm interested in trying to edit some apps like the market and the messages list......and my keyboard so I can get rid of the green in the candidates bar but unfortunately I think these apps are "signed" or something.....Does anyone have information on editing apks like that? when I try to edit them it seems to work correctly until I try to install it on my phone....Input on how to change these apps and the volume bar and everything else stated would be greatly appreciated.....And many thanks to odst for being as helpful as he has been with all of this. This has been a great learning experience
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I did the xml editing for all the status bars, vol bars etc on my old Eris to change them to blue. Wasn't too bad, just extracted the XML where the current colors were all listed then edited the raw xml with a hex editor and put the new colors in (backwards) then applied, was pretty cool....
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Sorry I didn''t realize you had posted the answer to my question about vol. bars.....Where do I find this xml and more importantly how the hell do I open and edit it? I can't figure out how to open these xml's for the life of me
I am trying to add fonts to the clockq widget. I've never done anything like this before and it isn't working, so I am hoping for some help here.
I tried going to the apk for clockq under data/app and renaming it to a zip file, then extracting it. At that point in the assets folder there is a fonts folder. So I figured I would just paste in a bunch of fonts, rezip the whole thing and rename it to .apk
Didn't work. Broke the app. Had to re-download from the market.
Anyone able to tell me what I did wrong? Please
Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.
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Pretty sure that would involve decompiling, adding your fonts, modifying several .xml files, then adding your changes to resources.arsc before re-compiling, signing and installing.
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Woah.
way over my head, thank you. I might've tried to figure it out if it just involved signing or something, but even that would've required more help.
Oh well.
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Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font
I know a simple apk decompiler, it turns Apk to zip and zip to apk it has a ui to let me know if u still like to try
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Linch89 said:
Download rom toolbox from the market you can change the whole system font
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Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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Well I guess it will be about the same but I have try some apks that wouldn't change to zip so I use the decompiler
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Unfortunately doesn't effect the widget font. Wouldn't necessarily want the same font there anyway.
@ubuntunerd: I am always interested in learning more. Isn't that what I was doing already though? (Change .apk to .zip, unzip, fiddle around, rezip, change from .zip to .apk)
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I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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I'd use apk manager. Search for it here on xda. Great tool.
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That's the one I was talking about
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Can't hurt to try. I'll let y'all know if it works.
OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?
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OK, I don't know if I am missing something but that doesn't seem to do anything that the phone's installer doesn't already do.
What is the point of that app if all it does is install/uninstall apks?
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It allows you to decompile/recompike, zipalign, and sign apks.
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ok so i'm going nuts here...i can't figure out how to change the battery icons...i tried using uot kitchen with no help...is there a guide to do this within a custom rom....i'm right now running tuchmi 5.0, and i really want the android battery icon with the % inside it...any help is appreciated...i've never themed before
The icons are in SystemUI.
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Where is systemui?
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thanks i thought i needed to change them in the framework.apk....so just changing the roms systemui.apk will work?
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Where is systemui?
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system/app folder of the rom....
Use apktool to decompile the apk and you'll see the icons there, to break it down even further
If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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Thanks might have to take u up on that. I found the pngs in the systemui.apk and changed them around but it didn't take properly. The Battary icons didn't display properly at all. I was hoping I could've used uot kitchen but that never worked. I'm going to mess around again tonight. The rom I'm currently on still has everything factory as far as the status bar goes. Dumb question. I know u can't flash the i9300 Rome to the att version but what about themes?
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I wouldn't recommend using them unless there using something like the Villain Theme System which only replaces the images and some xml's instead of replacing the entire apk. I just got home so give me a few and I'll send you the xml's you need to use and you 'll be fine.
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If the rom your on doesn't currently have the battery percent then you'll also need to modify stat_sys_battery.xml and stat_sys_battery_charge.xml which is in res/drawable to look for all the additional png's. If your not sure what I'm talking about or how to do it let me know and I'll upload the right xml's for you.
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ok need your help....i got the pngs to change but i can't get the animations to work...i tried fixing the xml files but no go...if you can maybe get it to work i'd appreciate....here is the rom i want the battery png and xmls in...
tuchmi 5.0 http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22527720516747580
Without having to download THIS messaging app? The messaging app in my ROM has direct call and a couple of other goodies that I really like... just the colors are very boring and plain! Any help is very much appreciated, thanks.
The standard way of theming is open the mms. Apk in a zip viewer. Either win rar or 7 zip, then find the area that holds folders named draw able hdpi. Extract ONLY THE ICONS AND IMAGES You want to change. Font extract the whole apk. Then, open the images in photo shop or any editing program, change the colors as you please, save, (DONT CHANGE IMAGE NAME OR TYPE), then drop them back into the apk in the folder you found them and save changes to the zip. Once that's does, go into system/app, rename the end of the name .Bak. So apkname.Apk.bak
Then just copy and paste it into system app and then give it correct permissions if it doesn't already and then reboot
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The standard way of theming is open the mms. Apk in a zip viewer. Either win rar or 7 zip, then find the area that holds folders named draw able hdpi. Extract ONLY THE ICONS AND IMAGES You want to change. Font extract the whole apk. Then, open the images in photo shop or any editing program, change the colors as you please, save, (DONT CHANGE IMAGE NAME OR TYPE), then drop them back into the apk in the folder you found them and save changes to the zip. Once that's does, go into system/app, rename the end of the name .Bak. So apkname.Apk.bak
Then just copy and paste it into system app and then give it correct permissions if it doesn't already and then reboot
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Too complicated for me man!
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Without having to download THIS messaging app? The messaging app in my ROM has direct call and a couple of other goodies that I really like... just the colors are very boring and plain! Any help is very much appreciated, thanks.
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Try using gosms or handcent. I believe they have theming capabilities.
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Try using gosms or handcent. I believe they have theming capabilities.
All Battery results are on a 6300mah battery, unless otherwise noted!
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I used Handcent since my EVO 3D days but I really like the 4.2.2 Messaging app.... I just hate that I can't theme it. No need for a 3rd party messaging app... I can live with the plain colors, I'd just rather be able to theme it if possible!!
Then if Reapers response is too complicated the answer to your question is then No. There's no other way to do it.
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Then if Reapers response is too complicated the answer to your question is then No. There's no other way to do it.
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Guess I"ll just have to live with it or extract another MMS.apk from another ROM!
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Guess I"ll just have to live with it or extract another MMS.apk from another ROM!
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Sorry, i made it sound over complicated lol.. just find the thing you want to change and then save it and put it back and save the apk and then just put it on your phone..
Why wouldn't you just download that app? It makes it a lot easier on you to theme the stuff the way you want. :what:
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Why wouldn't you just download that app? It makes it a lot easier on you to theme the stuff the way you want. :what:
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I'm honestly thinking about just doing that hahaa.
Can someone help me or point me in the right direction for editing a theme? I want the Cobalt theme to have transparent status bar, transparent system backgrounds(dialer, settings...etc) just like the HoloGlass Beta but with all the nice stuff from Cobalt(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dustinb.theme.cobalt) (HoloGlass https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mix3d.theme.hologlass.beta)
I'm still trying to figure this out, I've decompiled both themes, copied like 50 images from cobalt(signal, wifi...etc) to hologlass overwriting the originals, edited preview and changed the default wallpaper then recompiled, signed it, installed but the only thing that I can tell is different is the default wallpaper, everything else is the same, the preview didn't even work, just shows a red X....I don't understand.
If it's a system app you don't want to sign it. You need to preserve the original signatures if I remember correctly. Utilities like apk multi tool can do this for you when it's time to recompile. Could that be the problem?
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Im at work....but when I get home I will tell you how to do it with 7Zip. Very easy to do
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DocHoliday77 said:
If it's a system app you don't want to sign it. You need to preserve the original signatures if I remember correctly. Utilities like apk multi tool can do this for you when it's time to recompile. Could that be the problem?
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I didn't know a theme was a system app?
Well I was wrong, It mostly worked, most things changed except WiFi and signal bars(Which was one of the main features I wanted from cobalt) Maybe it would be easier just to take the transparent stuff from holo glass and put it into cobalt? Idk but I still need help with this...
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I didn't know a theme was a system app?
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It depends on what you're theming. I'm just guessing but the status bar is probably in the SystemUI.apk or SecLauncher2.apk. so to theme it would require modding the correct system app.
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It depends on what you're theming. I'm just guessing but the status bar is probably in the SystemUI.apk or SecLauncher2.apk. so to theme it would require modding the correct system app.
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ok, but signing it didn't break it so idk.