ive spent the last 3 days learning how to theme android and have had alot of success. Ive successfully themed framework-res, SystemUI,and Trebuchet. All with the exception of the text colors. all apk color xmls seem to refer to framework-res/values/colors.xml. Any time i change the html colors for halo blue which i think is the default and rebuild the pushed apk causes bootloops. i actually got it to boot once and the color were changed but i got fcs from multiple apps constantly and it never would load completely. then after a dalvik wipe it booted said android is upgrading in the changed colors got to like 125/127 then bootlooped and i havent got it to boot again. This is driving me crazy any insight anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
If it bootloops the apks most likely didn't compile correctly after decompiling and making your edits also what sense are u using ? Because I can possibly help with the text color as u see I changed almost all of mine shown here. http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?10501-THEME-ICS-3D-V1-works-with-newest-3D-rom
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not using sense using aosp ics 4.03, touch pros beta 3. I can change the pngs fine it only boot loops if I change txt colors. thanks for the reply having a hard time finding help with this. I've seen some of your work on the Mik Mik , nice job. I think most of my issues are with ics itself they've changed some things up and I don't think my process likes it.
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I'm pretty new to the whole root scene, literally rooting my Inc last month when the bugged OTA was rolling out. Managed to root before my phone tried to update, and I couldn't be happier.
Probably tested about 30-40 ROMs in a day, and really was impressed with Nils' roms. They always seem really smooth and lag free. Recently went to the full 3.0 after running the 2.1/3.0 Hybrid.
I tried using UOT to theme the boot animation, fonts, battery icon, overscroll, and normal icons like 3g/reception etc.
The only things that took were the font, battery icon *Gears of War COG is awesome*, and the overscroll to a darker blue.
The 3g/reception bar/etc did not change, nor did the boot animation. Not gonna lie, I loved wildstang83's boot animation, so I stole the zip and replaced it with Nil's standard one in the rom, then flashed the whole rom again.
I notice 3.0 is a little laggy, but I'll deal with it. I'll just pretend it's my OG Droid running Lookout with just a rooted system.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had success theming this ROM? If so, how do I go about changing these icons. Like I said, I tried using UOT with the files straight from the flashable rom, but it only took care of a couple of the items I wanted.
Nils? Any advice? I friggin love your ROMs, they're so stable I'm shocked that it's worked so easily. I'd just like to theme them for myself. If I can't use UOT, I'm willing to learn how to do it without it.
(Yes this is a question and I forgot to click the button? Problem?)
TheManCalledX said:
I'm pretty new to the whole root scene, literally rooting my Inc last month when the bugged OTA was rolling out. Managed to root before my phone tried to update, and I couldn't be happier.
Probably tested about 30-40 ROMs in a day, and really was impressed with Nils' roms. They always seem really smooth and lag free. Recently went to the full 3.0 after running the 2.1/3.0 Hybrid.
I tried using UOT to theme the boot animation, fonts, battery icon, overscroll, and normal icons like 3g/reception etc.
The only things that took were the font, battery icon *Gears of War COG is awesome*, and the overscroll to a darker blue.
The 3g/reception bar/etc did not change, nor did the boot animation. Not gonna lie, I loved wildstang83's boot animation, so I stole the zip and replaced it with Nil's standard one in the rom, then flashed the whole rom again.
I notice 3.0 is a little laggy, but I'll deal with it. I'll just pretend it's my OG Droid running Lookout with just a rooted system.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had success theming this ROM? If so, how do I go about changing these icons. Like I said, I tried using UOT with the files straight from the flashable rom, but it only took care of a couple of the items I wanted.
Nils? Any advice? I friggin love your ROMs, they're so stable I'm shocked that it's worked so easily. I'd just like to theme them for myself. If I can't use UOT, I'm willing to learn how to do it without it.
(Yes this is a question and I forgot to click the button? Problem?)
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UOT will work for a lot of things as it states but you need to make sure you take the option in the kitchen to create a zip that goes to /data/system.app/ If you don't the files will go in the wrong place and you won't see the change.
For the things UOT does not do you can manually extract the apk's for systemUI, framework-res and com.htc.resources and change the icons directly in them.
Using something like 7zip extract the res folder, change the icons, and drag and drop the res folder back into the apk. The best way is to either create a flashable zip and flash it in recovery or just put it in the install zip to replace the unmodded version.
Good luck
I'm not a big fan of blue or green so could someone with a higher power bless us with a red theme for EI22 so my phone can finally be complete.
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Honestly I want a red theme too
i think i maybe able to put together pieces and make sumthin
because i been red theme shopping lol and i was looking for a nice battery
or ill help out with some files if needed
*No Honeycomb Battery* lol no offense
Please thanks in advance
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I wouldn't mind seeing one as well. I am a fan of the circle battery icon. But I don't have any clue on how to help but I would if I could. Thanks to someone who does have the ability .
I prefer the circle battery because its eaiser to see the percent number
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I'm currently running a black/red theme, but dunno how to set it up just as a theme. It's currently pasted over the ACS mostly stock ROM, with samurai kernel. a bunch of custom apps. A lot of the stuff was either edited or fully contributed by several different sources. i cant remember them all, but i'll try crediting the ones i remember. Suggest ADW launcher, since a red theme pack is included
You should only Need to wipe Cache and Davlik Cache, as log as you're on a standard EI22 you can keep Data.
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I'm still working on fixing the kink on the menu where the letters cant be read. If anybody could help solve the issue it'd help a lot
Need a custom swype though
includes custom (some very partial):
Facebook
Mirem Browser
Market (older version, disable Market Updater)
Google Quick Search
Phone
Calendar
Calculator
Dialer Tab Activity
Advanced Task Killer
Email
GMail
Gallery
Browser
Music Player
Video Player
Voicemail
Talk
TWLauncher 4 (manager included
Boot Animation (may not kick in till second reboot)
Shutdown animation
Red Circle battery but its not the standard one
But i don't have enough posts to post the link to it
LASuxs said:
I'm currently running a black/red theme, but dunno how to set it up just as a theme. It's currently pasted over the ACS mostly stock ROM, with samurai kernel. a bunch of custom apps. A lot of the stuff was either edited or fully contributed by several different sources. i cant remember them all, but i'll try crediting the ones i remember. Suggest ADW launcher, since a red theme pack is included
You should only Need to wipe Cache and Davlik Cache, as log as you're on a standard EI22 you can keep Data.
Warning
I'm still working on fixing the kink on the menu where the letters cant be read. If anybody could help solve the issue it'd help a lot
Need a custom swype though
includes custom (some very partial):
Facebook
Mirem Browser
Market (older version, disable Market Updater)
Google Quick Search
Phone
Calendar
Calculator
Dialer Tab Activity
Advanced Task Killer
Email
GMail
Gallery
Browser
Music Player
Video Player
Voicemail
Talk
TWLauncher 4 (manager included
Boot Animation (may not kick in till second reboot)
Shutdown animation
Red Circle battery but its not the standard one
But i don't have enough posts to post the link to it
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no custom framework? check out the red swype beta in the link in my sig. btw if u could just take the current blue ei22 blue ics theme and just change all the blue to red it would be perfect i think. just time-consuming. but that way it'd already be flashable
FrankyFiggz27 said:
no custom framework? check out the red swype beta in the link in my sig. btw if u could just take the current blue ei22 blue ics theme and just change all the blue to red it would be perfect i think. just time-consuming. but that way it'd already be flashable
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oh yeah the framework, tw framework, and system UI have been customized. and i'll give that swype a tr, might make it completely black and red, see if it stays visible. The issue is that the themes dont seem to install the apps for me. Only the roms seem to do so. Probably something in the script or something i dont know about
i will be making one as soon as we get locks mod for ei22
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i will be making one as soon as we get locks mod for ei22
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Thank you sir, Thank You
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i just metamorphed a bunch of red cm7 morphs. It worked for the most part, so now I have red progress bars and red volume sliders (and possibly some other things red...haven't checked too thoroughly yet). If you're like me and waiting for a red ei22 theme, these minor red accents might help hold you over, too. here's the sick morphs - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013757
whoever decides to finally made the red ei22 theme should try to incorporate some of these things.
Well so far i have a few part for the theme
ill be flashing and posting screen shots today
and let me know what yall think for the red theme
its for ei22
and i will be testing on Legendary
sorry it took so long i had an house warming party i hosted lol
Tha_Dynasty2049 said:
Well so far i have a few part for the theme
ill be flashing and posting screen shots today
and let me know what yall think for the red theme
its for ei22
and i will be testing on Legendary
sorry it took so long i had an house warming party i hosted lol
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Thank you sir. I'm so anxious to see the results
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silkassassain said:
Thank you sir, Thank You
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19802733#post19802733
Hope you like it
I do at least i may change the battery tho
I've found that Marcusant's ROM Revival 7.1 is awesome no bugs runs fast and a beautiful red theme to it its amazing big Props to Marcusant for this rom i totally recommend it if you are looking for a clean red themed ROM
Hey everyone. I know that you all have way to much on your hands already but I just wanted to throw something out there.
I am looking for a theme that is not very far from stock, actually it would be exactly like stock except instead of green colors everywhere, you would have a different color like blue. I would REALLY love one where the green was changed to purple or a purple/pink color but I would probably be the only one to use it so blue is ok.
Would this be a hard theme to make since not much is changing but the green color? I wish I knew how to do it. I am using the EK02 UnNamed ROM also and there aren't many theme options so maybe this could be one of the firsts.
You can try the ICS theme we have, some people have gotten it to work on UnNamed, some havent.
It's not that it's hard to change it all to pink, it is just very time consuming to change every single piece to pink. It could be something simple like just the battery & network Icons but going all out and changing the overscroll glow, dialer, and the framework etc. is a ton of work. Most of it requires working with .9 files which can't just be edited like a normal .png.
i think a red one would be awesome. blood blood blood.
i can imagine changing everything would be tedious. tracking things down in every menu, etc etc.
requires more patience than i probably have.
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You can try the ICS theme we have, some people have gotten it to work on UnNamed, some havent.
It's not that it's hard to change it all to pink, it is just very time consuming to change every single piece to pink. It could be something simple like just the battery & network Icons but going all out and changing the overscroll glow, dialer, and the framework etc. is a ton of work. Most of it requires working with .9 files which can't just be edited like a normal .png.
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I made (edited) a theme chooser theme once for my motorola cliq on cyanogen and it was very time consuming and I had to work with a png9 editor and it did kinda suck...
If I could find a theme out there that was very close to stock....I would have no issues editing the icons myself and then sending it back to the owner for resigning or whatever needed to be done. I just can't find a theme that is close to stock LOL.
raveniselizabeth said:
I made (edited) a theme chooser theme once for my motorola cliq on cyanogen and it was very time consuming and I had to work with a png9 editor and it did kinda suck...
If I could find a theme out there that was very close to stock....I would have no issues editing the icons myself and then sending it back to the owner for resigning or whatever needed to be done. I just can't find a theme that is close to stock LOL.
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You would just download a stock rom and extract the images.
I want to theme my own ROM's for this phone such as AOKP. I just themed Nova Launcher to all purple. But, I want to be able to create a theme that I can flash in CWM and not just the whole ROM (either works.)
I themed Nova Launcher with GIMP, just by extracting the drawable folders, editing, exporting/replacing, then adding back to the archive and resaving.
Can anyone help me out on creating a theme so I can fully theme a ROM such as AOKP? Or even create one for the theme manager? I can already tell I would get addicted. If anyone wants to help i'd highly appreciate it, so I can slowly get into Android Development
I myself have been wanting to learn how to theme for the theme engine. Didn't really find any tutorials though. I'm pretty handy with Photoshop but know nothing about development. Would be very interested in learning about the theme engine used in CM9, AOKP, CNA, etc.
Just add ur apk to the app folder in this zip. This is a base zip that anyone can use (I took it from Overstew's theme, and erased all of his apps/framework items.)
Ascertion said:
Just add ur apk to the app folder in this zip. This is a base zip that anyone can use (I took it from Overstew's theme, and erased all of his apps/framework items.)
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So I just edit the png's inside the folders I want edited, then move the whole folder into that folder, re-zip, and flash?
Ok so after playing with everything, I update all of the png's I wanted (which still left a lot of blue.. from AOKP). I then moved them all back into the framework-res.apk and moved that back into the archive. I got it to be flashable along with my .apks, but after I flashed it System UI kept force closing, eventually it stopped. I saw a lot of the stuff I themed was actually themed, but there was still a lot of stuff that wasn't. But what causes the force closes on System UI?
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Ok so after playing with everything, I update all of the png's I wanted (which still left a lot of blue.. from AOKP). I then moved them all back into the framework-res.apk and moved that back into the archive. I got it to be flashable along with my .apks, but after I flashed it System UI kept force closing, eventually it stopped. I saw a lot of the stuff I themed was actually themed, but there was still a lot of stuff that wasn't. But what causes the force closes on System UI?
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If there's any missing pngs on the SystemUI's drawable-hdpi, it'll FC instantly because it cannot find the png require for a certain task. (For example, if you accidentally deleted a signal bar icon, it cannot display what is not there, so it'll FC.)
Ascertion said:
If there's any missing pngs on the SystemUI's drawable-hdpi, it'll FC instantly because it cannot find the png require for a certain task. (For example, if you accidentally deleted a signal bar icon, it cannot display what is not there, so it'll FC.)
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Ok so, I don't have to change anything besides the framework-res.apk? Do I have to sign it or anything?
Also, I themed nova launcher successfully with just changing png's without any signing. But when I tried to theme Facebook, and then tried to install it, it just kept failing to install?
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hrffd said:
Ok so, I don't have to change anything besides the framework-res.apk? Do I have to sign it or anything?
Also, I themed nova launcher successfully with just changing png's without any signing. But when I tried to theme Facebook, and then tried to install it, it just kept failing to install?
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Same with framework-res. Any images missing will make it fc.
You only need to resign market apps. System apps do not need to be resigned.
only thing that sucks about having a white e4gt with ics... is that the menus clash with the product color lol. not that its that big of an issue, but i came across this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654546 and am guessing it takes a lot of work to apply a white theme similar to this?
i tried flashing the syk sky theme on my phone just to see what would apply, and the majority of it did; however, there were some conflicts as i expected.
is there any way i could use some of what has already been created with this theme to work with the e4gt correctly? if so, any direction/info would be appreciated.
hrffd said:
I want to theme my own ROM's for this phone such as AOKP. I just themed Nova Launcher to all purple. But, I want to be able to create a theme that I can flash in CWM and not just the whole ROM (either works.)
I themed Nova Launcher with GIMP, just by extracting the drawable folders, editing, exporting/replacing, then adding back to the archive and resaving.
Can anyone help me out on creating a theme so I can fully theme a ROM such as AOKP? Or even create one for the theme manager? I can already tell I would get addicted. If anyone wants to help i'd highly appreciate it, so I can slowly get into Android Development
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Try here and see if it helps ............... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
renzyyy said:
only thing that sucks about having a white e4gt with ics... is that the menus clash with the product color lol. not that its that big of an issue, but i came across this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654546 and am guessing it takes a lot of work to apply a white theme similar to this?
i tried flashing the syk sky theme on my phone just to see what would apply, and the majority of it did; however, there were some conflicts as i expected.
is there any way i could use some of what has already been created with this theme to work with the e4gt correctly? if so, any direction/info would be appreciated.
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In case you didn't know, with samoled+ screens you want the most dark pixels as possible to save battery because a black pixel is completely off consuming no power. That being said, a white theme will just completely destroy your battery life...
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yeah i know, but i wanted to give it a shot & see what kinda impact it would have first hand. i always have an extra battery on me to swap out haha
ill just deal with what i got and try one with transparency or something. thanks for the response.
This is the absolute best place to learn to theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320891
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I've published a couple Go Locker themes and recently just noticed something that is driving me insane. I am using a Galaxy Nexus and kanged a couple of their lockscreen's. No problems with those at all. Install fine on every device that I've tried. MDPI, HDPI, XHDPI no problems, all with just a HDPI folder, no other resources. Recently I made a football lockscreen and want to make sure it's available to as many people as possible. This is where the problem lies. It will not work on an XHDPI phone from the market. It installs fine when testing and from using the same apk as i used to upload to the market. But when a person download and installs it then tries to apply it, they get all white preview images and then if you apply it it gives a completely clean screen that looks like its unlocked but is locked only unlocking by the home button or a status bar pulldown action. I've tried for a couple days to figure this one out and am pretty stuck. The apps are not checked for copy protection in the market either. If anyone has any clue what-so-ever it would be greatly appreciated.
(I tried adding a drawable-xhdpi folder too, no bueno)