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!
Does anyone know how to change the default contact/caller ID photo for the Galaxy Nexus? I hate the new weird face they have. I'm talking about the image that is present when the contact doesn't have a picture assigned. It also shows up on the Caller ID for anyone that's not in your phonebook, or in the phonebook without a pic.
I'd prefer the little android robot.
Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated.
i think theres a thread in the theme section that has images metamorph zips
i forget what its called but try typing in something like "andy's back contact picture"
good luck
The image is in Contacts.apk. You can just replace it with what you want.
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where would I find contacts.apk? Also can I change the default picture without screwing up my phone?
So I whipped up some neat icons for a custom theme I'm working on and found to my horror that Zooper Widget seems to not support importing .png files as static images? Perhaps I'm wrong and this is a bug but if it's not then It's a feature that I highly desire to have, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I looked around for ages to see if there was anyone else who might have mentioned this but I've seen nothing, aside from .svg support.
I do have the paid version of Zooper and do enjoy using it immensely. I loathe having to return to UCCW just to make a couple of folder widgets to use my icons on so if that tells you anything about how much I enjoy Zooper.
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If nothing else, where do I go from here? I'm using a gradient as a background for my folder bar so the icon images I'm using absolutely have to have transparency and I already exported them all in .png format. I have around 25 and I still have yet to figure out how to load an alpha channel from my transparent background in photoshop (because apparently you can't, you have to manually do it).
Best wishes and thanks for the great app devs! Keep up the hard work!
Png works man...We are using since ages
Must be a bug then.
On my app if I choose "Bitmap: Add a static bitmap from your Device Gallery" and then select the .png image then nothing happens. I've left it there for a few hours to see if it would just load up in time, even rebooted to check and see if that might be a bug as well. No dice either way, just the default folder icon sitting there mocking me.
Is there a size requirement to the images that I wasn't aware of? I was using 640x640 images... which is a little on the large size so if that's it then it's totally my fault. If not then I need to go and find a place to submit a bug report because it's not working properly for anything other than .bmp and .jpg files on my end it seems.
From what I've found you have to select always on the open with dialog, and only gallery. No idea why.
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I rooted my phone and the issue appears to have been resolved.
Whether that was due to the rooting or an update I'm not sure. Either ways your solution is extremely helpful. Thank you.
Hi, I was wondering if anybody here could give me some advice. Using my Zooper widget Pro, I made my own template with Bitmaps and all. It works great on my phone so I decided I would share the template and had it uploaded in my google drive so I could just share a download link. Now I did a test run and downloaded the template using my other phone (also has zooper widget pro) and used the template. To my surprise, the bitmaps don't show. They only appear as folder icons. All the other parts of the template such as text and weather icons work fine.