Hi,
I wonder how I can get the following done within contacts.apk for ICS (LPB):
1. In the contacts list get rid of the default icons on the left, (green in the attached screenshot 1). I simply don't need caller / contact pictures at all.
2. On the same screen how can I get rid of the dark blue tab-button on the top (red in screenshot 1)? I'd prefer to have it in black or even more without any color.
3. How can I get rid of the big space reserved for a dummy picture in contact detail view (red in screenshot 2)? It eats up a lot of valuable real estate without providing any kind of useful information.
I guess it's not done by editing .png files alone. I did this already - as you can see there's no longer a dummy picture in contact detail view - but I failed for the contact list. Most likely I would need to edit one or more .xml files but don't have a clue which ones and what.
Any ideas or useful hints?
Cheers
Toscha
You will struggle to get this done.
You're right, you do need to edit XML but apktool doesn't like Contacts.APK for some reason.
I've been trying to figure out a way for a while now and haven't had much luck.
Let us know if you succeed.
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That makes me wonder. De- and re-compiling for contacts.apk worked fine already; did a small 'maintenance' for German already.
Nevertheless, thanks for your reply.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
That makes me wonder. De- and re-compiling for contacts.apk worked fine already; did a small 'maintenance' for German already.
Nevertheless, thanks for your reply.
Cheers
Toscha
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Oh really?
Does your Phone application work ok? Whenever I have decompiled/recompiled Contacts.apk with NO changes, it force closes. Ive even swapped out resrouces etc with original, no difference.
I am working on another solution as well.
That's true, I also experienced some FCs for phone application. But only randomly and not reproducable. Honestly I didn't care too much as it always recovers instantly.
But for sure, to have a compiled contacts.apk and phone.apk both working smooth would be better.
Cheers
Toscha
Same problems on Galaxy NeXus as well with Contacts.apk. I can compile it, but as soon as Phone.apk touches it, it's FC's..
In Bezke's UltraICS ROM both phone.apk and contacts.apk are themed. There *must* be a way. My guess, it only works on a de-oxed ROM.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
In Bezke's UltraICS ROM both phone.apk and contacts.apk are themed. There *must* be a way. My guess, it only works on a de-oxed ROM.
Cheers
Toscha
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Themed? or png's replaced? if hes not changing xml, it wont cause the fc were talking about...
In the thread on UltraICS, second row of screenshots, the dialer does look themed. If it's all done through .png I'd like to know how!
Ciao
Toscha
Cm9 mms
- CM9 Contatcs
- CM9 Dialer
- CM9 Browser
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He's using CM9 contacts. ALL he has then done by the looks, is remove the fine lines that are normally in the background. Just PNG's have been changed.
Further down, the call screens are the same. Colours are stock CM9 I think?
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Look under "SCREENSHOOTS FROM 2.1 - 2.2:"
Contacts is still white - very first screenshot.
Im downloading it now. Will have a look.
Edit2:
Hrmm... I have a feeling he might have changed some xml.. will look into it
Of course, contacts looks like AOSP(?) / CM9, although I haven't yet installed any of them.
But I'd be happy enough I could get rid of the dark blue background in the tab bar on the top of the dialer (see attached in comparison to UltraICS screenshot) - and of contacts as well. As that's gone with Bezke's UltraICS, and I failed with exchanging nearly each and every .png, I wonder what he did. I only can imagine it's sort of xml-voodoo.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
Of course, contacts looks like AOSP(?) / CM9, although I haven't yet installed any of them.
But I'd be happy enough I could get rid of the dark blue background in the tab bar on the top of the dialer (see attached in comparison to UltraICS screenshot) - and of contacts as well. As that's gone with Bezke's UltraICS, and I failed with exchanging nearly each and every .png, I wonder what he did. I only can imagine it's sort of xml-voodoo.
Cheers
Toscha
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.png are in framework-res not in contacts
Try this
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Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
wanam said:
Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
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hi Wanam .. thanx for your work ! .. i use your rom
Thanks for your comment Wanam. But the problem isn't to de-/re-compile contacts.apk, that works fine. But just de-compiling and re-compiling again, without any changes, of contacts.apk results in FCs in phone.apk once somebody calls you. Actually, the FC comes when the call ends, not during the call.
Cheers
Toscha
jbAttitudEs said:
.png are in framework-res not in contacts
try this
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Cool, thanks! I'll have a look at this immediately.
Cheers
Toscha
toscha42 said:
Thanks for your comment Wanam. But the problem isn't to de-/re-compile contacts.apk, that works fine. But just de-compiling and re-compiling again, without any changes, of contacts.apk results in FCs in phone.apk once somebody calls you. Actually, the FC comes when the call ends, not during the call.
Cheers
Toscha
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Try it with compression level set to 0 .
Interesting, I'll give it a try tomorrow!
Cheers
Toscha
jbAttitudEs said:
.png are in framework-res not in contacts
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Funny, when I have made changes to PNGs in Contacts for the Phone/Dialer, the changes I make actually happen... are you sure they're in framework? (Wouldn't it look to "android" only if they werent in the apps apk?) According to your Screenshot#2, you have only changed the background? which is a single PNG in Contacts/Phone?
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Just make sure to install framework-res & twframework-res with apktool before decompiling phone or contacts and it should work.
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CM9 doesn't have twframe* I always decompile with latest framework-res from CM9.
Contacts.apk decompiles with no errors then with no changes, it also compiles with no errors however when you push it to the phone, Phone.apk FC for upon even opening.
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Try it with compression level set to 0 .
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Hey wanam, how do you set compression to 0?
shayne77 said:
Funny, when I have made changes to PNGs in Contacts for the Phone/Dialer, the changes I make actually happen... are you sure they're in framework? (Wouldn't it look to "android" only if they werent in the apps apk?) According to your Screenshot#2, you have only changed the background? which is a single PNG in Contacts/Phone?
CM9 doesn't have twframe* I always decompile with latest framework-res from CM9.
Contacts.apk decompiles with no errors then with no changes, it also compiles with no errors however when you push it to the phone, Phone.apk FC for upon even opening.
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Hey wanam, how do you set compression to 0?
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Use Apk manager (with updated apktool & aapt).
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Hi there I have just got my SGSII
i've been able to root it and install TW4.5 and pretty much have the device exactly how I want it with just one gripe
The drop down of the notification bar is way too dark especially for notifications with black fonts.
Can anyone point me to any kind of guide or way of changing the the background graphic for this drop down?
Thanks in advance
Everything you'll ever need to know
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
dully79 said:
Everything you'll ever need to know
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916814
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Hey man thans very much for the resources they helped me find what I needed.
however the methods of editing seemed very complex for my needs ....
Since I only wanted to change some of the png graphics slightly (just to lighten them up) I opened the framework-res.apk and the systemui.apk in winrar extracted the png's I wanted lightened them up with irfanview dropped them back in the still open apk in winrar and then copied the apk's back where the originals were (renaming the originals .bak first).
I didn't change any .odex or .jar files in any way and I have kept backups of all the originals just in case so I only have one question for you.
can you think of any reason my simple method, for graphics only, would have caused any harm?
it doesn't seem to have after a reboot it seems to have had the desired affect on the notfication bar (which was to make all notifications readable whether they had black or white fonts)
There are 2 kinds of PNG files. Ordinary PNG files can be edited without any problems, but to properly edit .9 png's, you need to decompile the apk first, make changes and then recompile.
To do that, you need to use apktool/apk manager.
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sileshn said:
There are 2 kinds of PNG files. Ordinary PNG files can be edited without any problems, but to properly edit .9 png's, you need to decompile the apk first, make changes and then recompile.
To do that, you need to use apktool/apk manager.
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ok so if I have edited one of the .9.png and I think I might have done and simply dumped it back in the apk with winrar what harm might I have done and what symptoms might I see?
Sometimes you can get away with editing .9' s the way you have if the black border around the outside stays completely black, any slight discoloration and its force close city on a one way ticket courtesy of systemui.
It seems you my have gotten away with it......this time.
Thanks to everyone who has repsonded to me on this thread you have all been very helpful. This is a truely wonderful phone I cant believe how big a step up this is from my old SGS. I tired all sorts of custom roms and mods on that to get features on that, with this I have it pretty much exactly where I want it simply by rooting and installing a the custom Touchwiz 4.5 (I have other lauchers but find myself going back to that all the time)
So the only remaining thing was the fact that some notifications were in black and the backgrounds on the notification drop down were too dark to read some app's notifications in black with a simple glance so your help with finding the right pngs and files (systemui.apk and framework-res.apk) were very very helpful. Not sure if this was the simplest way to achieve what I needed but it worked so I am happy.
Thanks again one and all.
[THEME/MOD] LatinIME(keyboard) SystemUI, Mms, Contact & Calendar - Jelly Bean 4.1.1 -
These here are inverted, modded and tweaked apk's for ...Awesome...'s 4.1.1 Jelly Bean rom, I really like the inverted Mms and Contacts I use on ICS. So I decided to do the same for Jelly Bean. As well as some other work I will randomly add here, Hope you all like them.
EDIT!!!#1 Here is the Mms with left right conversation, rename it to just Mms.apk. And smaller DeskClock Widget 1x1, so it doesn't take up that much room.
EDIT!!!#2 Darkened the Contacts Widget and made the text gray. Thanks Ngo93 for pointing it out.
Mms Side Note: This has animated notification. Thanks to tgwaste, nbeebe24 (Contacts too), santacruzdz for their inspiring theming work.
EDIT!!!#3 SystemUI.apk. Added Menu button to NavBar, with blue android battery. BIG! Thanks to mistm for his work on hiding new buttons on lock screen.
SystemUI Side Note: I've made it so the little menu, the one with the 3 little vertical dots, won't show up. It's still there and works in some windows, just to the right of the big menu, but you won't see either the little dots or the button animation when you press it.
EDIT!!!#4 Fixed SystemUI NavBar while in Camera.
EDIT!!!#5 Fixed Mms Contact Search, now easier to see. Make sure to rename any and all Mms apk's to just Mms.apk. The G-Icons-Mms's stand for Green Icon, for those of you that prefer the green icon...
EDIT!!!#6 Calendar. Darkened the Calendar, tried to get it as close to RootzWiki's travp624 themed Calendar App.
Calendar Side Note: Menu: Calendars to display and Settings Windows are not inverted. This is because when I make those changes, the app stops working. This won't always be like this, just til Jelly Bean source comes out... hopefully.
EDIT!!!#7 Updated all apps to Jelly Bean 4.1.1. Changed Contact picture in Mms and Contacts. If you do not like the new contact picture, I have uploaded a zip of different contact pics for you to choose from. just drag n drop via zip or 7zip
EDIT!!!#8 Fixed Contacts background in landscape and lower lcd_density. And fixed Calendar background, no longer green.
EDIT!!!#9 Fixed Mms emoticon, heart wasn't showing up properly.
EDIT!!!#10 Post #148, BigBrother1984 pm'd me his SystemUI.apk which allows displays menu in landscape.
EDIT!!!#11 Added modded keyboard from lates AOSKP nightly, with carriage return (a.k.a next line) in smiley popup. Download links are in Post #149
ADB Push these or use a Root Explorer to get them to your "/system/app".
Side Note: If you use a Root Explorer to move these over, your will have to reboot after to get the Icons back.
How can i install them?
Thanks mate, they look awesome.
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mariachi202 said:
How can i install them?
Thanks mate, they look awesome.
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You can either adb push or move them over with a root explorer.
Either way they go in your "/system/app/" folder.
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dermann said:
These here are inverted apk's of the Mms and Contacts from 4.1 Jelly Bean, I really like the inverted one's I use on ICS. So I decided to do the same for Jelly Bean. Hope you all like them.
Side Note: The Mms.apk has animated notification.
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hey sorry if its too much to ask any way you can have sms with one person on the laft and the other on the right?? will donate for sure either way
Kryptonian_Knight said:
hey sorry if its too much to ask any way you can have sms with one person on the laft and the other on the right?? will donate for sure either way
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Not a problem, just give me a bit.
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dermann said:
You can either adb push or move them over with a root explorer.
Either way they go in your "/system/app/" folder.
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So i just need to overwrite my existing ones with these, and then reboot or sth?
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i pushed contacts.apk to system/apps and changed permissions using root explorer. But the contacts and the phone apps and icons have disappeared. I cleared cache+fixed permissions and the problem still persists. I re-installed Modaco JR1 Rom and still. I may have to nandroid restore.. any suggestions?
wollyka said:
i pushed contacts.apk to system/apps and changed permissions using root explorer. But the contacts and the phone apps and icons have disappeared. I cleared cache+fixed permissions and the problem still persists. I re-installed Modaco JR1 Rom and still. I may have to nandroid restore.. any suggestions?
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Grab your roms Contacts.apk from the rom zip and push that back... maybe that'll do it? Make sure the C is capitalized, case sensitive. I'll do some more testing with that apk to see if I can reproduce this problem.
EDIT!! The only way I could the icons to disappear, was when I used my Root Explorer to move them over to the system folder. But after I rebooted, they came back. Did you use a Explorer to move them or ADB?
Mms Left, Right is up.
No it didn't work..
I attached both the modaco Contacts.apk and phone.apk if you want to have a look on them..
I used root explorer, changed permissions and rebooted. But the icons didn't came back.. Weird
I want the original icon, what should I do? I mean the green messaging
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Thanks for these great works!
Use the attached file, flashable zip (put the app in zip/system/app/ folder)
wollyka said:
No it didn't work..
I attached both the modaco Contacts.apk and phone.apk if you want to have a look on them..
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Tired both and both worked for me... Odd, I could upload a flash able zip if you like?
annie42 said:
I want the original icon, what should I do? I mean the green messaging
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Here you go, Mms with green icon.
EDIT!!! links moved, See first post.
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Tired both and both worked for me... Odd, I could upload a flash able zip if you like?
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if you could, i will be very thankful
I like the MMS animation on the notification bar
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One thing we need is to change the ugly white Google search bar on top, it needs to be transparent, or at least much darker.
Wait. Is this mod plain vanilla inverted MMS? Because I see you have different colored dates (green, orange), so I was wondering if it's all white/black/ics blue?
Is this for deodex or odex?
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I think the apks don't work on Modaco JB ROM for some reason. I had to revert to nandroid to have the contacts and phone apks back!
wollyka said:
I think the apks don't work on Modaco JB ROM for some reason. I had to revert to nandroid to have the contacts and phone apks back!
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Sorry I don't know what else to do for ya, I installed the Modaco JB rom to see if I could do anything to fix this. But they all installed fine for me.
Here's the flash able zip if you want to try that.
Hotfile Link. Contacts-Inverted.zip
Update: 3/13/13 More thanks go out to the people that were able to get this done. I was able to get a flashable zip with more of bleached45's images working.
I know many people (including myself) are missing the black status bar mod from ICS. After a collaborating with other people I was able to figure something out.
By the way you don't need my permission to do anything with this zip (haha). All I ask is that you please thank me (always wanted to be thanked) and give me any critical advice to theming you have (trying to learn the right way).
To Install: (You must be on ZVB Deodexed to use!)
1.Flash the attached zip
2.Wipe cache and dalvik
3.Reboot
3.Win MVP
I'm responsible for nothing that happens to your phone (always wanted to say that). If your qualcomm enhanced location service force closes, Wipe your cache between the reboot. Otherwise just go to settings/wireless networks/more.../mobile networks/connections optimizer. Accept the terms and uncheck the box. The service is annoying anyway.
Issues:
The edit quick toggle button looks kind of weird :-/
There is a very small line inbetween the quick toggles and the date bar
Thank These People!
AdriVelasquez for the Deodexed Rom
B-Reezy for our original LG port of the black mod
bleached45 - Original theme creater and source of the files, and the flashable zip base
Lrod0175 - Provided the status bar with the cool blue bottom and was very helpful with feedback
pcrhckyman - Pointed me in the right direction for source of files
Kobe Bryant - For having the heart of a champion
Re: [MOD][JellyBean] Black Status Bar (Work-In-Progress)
Cool, I thanked you by the way
Edit: the reason you have the white edges is because that's a .9 image and you cannot color the whole image, you have to color the image inside the dots or lines in the edges, those are the ones that allow the image to stretch. You also need to decompile the app to see the points and lines of the .9 images other wise they will show as a regular PNG.
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Lrod0175 said:
Cool, I thanked you by the way
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sick dude
I see the thread title changed and doesn't say work in progress anymore, is it complete? I'm excited for this!
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I see the thread title changed and doesn't say work in progress anymore, is it complete? I'm excited for this!
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Nope definitely not done. I didn't want to scare people away lol. But now that you mention it, I probably should keep it in.
I liked everything b-reezy did, so I'm gonna try and get it there. Not sure about the battery bar mod.
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Hey, I have a JB version out for the ATT variant, I believe you can get the files out of my mod and copy them into yours.
I would offer more help but have class in a few minutes and don't have my computer.
I recompiled the .9.pngs and I believe the file names are the same.
What the files are called I don't remember off the top of my head.
Just copy/paste any pure black images from my mod and the bottom slider (the two pngs with the 3 horizontal bars) and the quick settings edit buttons.
It is mostly just eyeballing what file looks like what part of the UI.
I can't promise it will work, but it should.
HERE is my thread. All 4 JB versions have the same image files, so it shouldn't matter which one you grab.
bleached45 said:
Hey, I have a JB version out for the ATT variant, I believe you can get the files out of my mod and copy them into yours.
I would offer more help but have class in a few minutes and don't have my computer.
I recompiled the .9.pngs and I believe the file names are the same.
What the files are called I don't remember off the top of my head.
Just copy/paste any pure black images from my mod and the bottom slider (the two pngs with the 3 horizontal bars) and the quick settings edit buttons.
It is mostly just eyeballing what file looks like what part of the UI.
I can't promise it will work, but it should.
HERE is my thread. All 4 JB versions have the same image files, so it shouldn't matter which one you grab.
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Nice work, I was hoping this would happen.
shuwoo said:
Nice work, I was hoping this would happen.
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Haha, thanks.
If (big if) I get a chance tonight and I don't see anything else posted here, I'll see if I can port (read: copy lol) the rest of the files and post a test apk.
If it works I'll make a .zip.
Well, that's the plan. No promises ATM.
bleached45 said:
Haha, thanks.
If (big if) I get a chance tonight and I don't see anything else posted here, I'll see if I can port (read: copy lol) the rest of the files and post a test apk.
If it works I'll make a .zip.
Well, that's the plan. No promises ATM.
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Thank you for everything. I used your indi_noti_btn_edit_normal.9 and indi_noti_btn_edit_pressed.9 files in drawable-xhdpi and it appears they are not stretched the same for our phones. I attached a screen. I'm reading how to edit .9 pngs but I haven't had any luck. If you could drop a few words of wisdom I would appreciate it. Specifically, I see the original dots of the png. I'm assuming I erase those in the photo editor and resize the image, then use draw9patch and put new dots in the same place? And if I see a black border on the side of the grey image, can I assume they stretched the entire side of the png? Thanks for everything and sorry to take your time from school, I'm in school as well.
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Thank you for everything. I used your indi_noti_btn_edit_normal.9 and indi_noti_btn_edit_pressed.9 files in drawable-xhdpi and it appears they are not stretched the same for our phones. I attached a screen. I'm reading how to edit .9 pngs but I haven't had any luck. If you could drop a few words of wisdom I would appreciate it. Specifically, I see the original dots of the png. I'm assuming I erase those in the photo editor and resize the image, then use draw9patch and put new dots in the same place? And if I see a black border on the side of the grey image, can I assume they stretched the entire side of the png? Thanks for everything and sorry to take your time from school, I'm in school as well.
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I have some time now, I'll see if I can do it for u.
Edit; is this what u are looking for?
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Lrod0175 said:
I have some time now, I'll see if I can do it for u.
Edit; is this what u are looking for?
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Gimme gimme gimme gimme!!!!
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I am going to play with this tonight and see what I can tinker with to get colors and icons to be more AOSPish lol. I just decompiled my LGSystemUI, time to play...
Scotty_Two said:
I am going to play with this tonight and see what I can tinker with to get colors and icons to be more AOSPish lol. I just decompiled my LGSystemUI, time to play...
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Good luck! Start with simple stuff, like changing status bar icons and go from there.
I would love to see a Black Status Bar similar to the one b-reezy posted for ICS or the other JB Status Bar but without the changed icons.
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Lrod0175 said:
Good luck! Start with simple stuff, like changing status bar icons and go from there.
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Thanks! Is the main stuff I should be worried about in the drawable-xhdpi folder I'm guessing?
Actually it doesn't look like the apk decompiled right. Anybody have any tips on apktool? followed the directions with the LG framework but it's still spitting out errors.
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Thanks! Is the main stuff I should be worried about in the drawable-xhdpi folder I'm guessing?
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Yes, that's correct, shoot me a pm if you hit a wall. If u want download my OptimusBlueBlend theme and decompile the systemUI, compare it to yours, that way you'll see the themed images, then you can start with yours, by the way u can use mine if you wanna add a full battery set from 1 to 100.
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_Epic said:
I would love to see a Black Status Bar similar to the one b-reezy posted for ICS or the other JB Status Bar but without the changed icons.
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I'll look into it as soon as I can.
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Scotty_Two said:
Actually it doesn't look like the apk decompiled right. Anybody have any tips on apktool? followed the directions with the LG framework but it's still spitting out errors.
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Try apkmultitoolhttp://apkmultitool.com/ I've been using it a long time now and it has worked good, make sure u install android 4.1.2 framework-res.apk, you can also use your phone framework, you can do it from the set up script, it will pull your phone frameworks for u.
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I did this for myself last week, even decompiled the apk to look into changing the teal/grey to ICS. Never got around to that, though.
And since no one has posted an apk yet... here you go. First post, too, heh
i.imgur.com/UkJFWpM.png
Pulled the images straight from bleached45's variant.
pcrhckyman said:
I did this for myself last week, even decompiled the apk to look into changing the teal/grey to stock google. Never got around to that, though.
And since no one has posted an apk yet... here you go. First post, too, heh
i.imgur.com/UkJFWpM.png
Pulled the images straight from bleached45's variant.
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it looks awesome. Do you mind if I put it in a flashable zip and put it in the OP? I will of course credit you.
edit: My statusbar disappeared. I'm going to try again to make sure.
edit2: Just tried again, no statusbar. I'm wondering what others mileage is
shuwoo said:
it looks awesome. Do you mind if I put it in a flashable zip and put it in the OP? I will of course credit you.
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Great idea, that's perfectly fine with me.
shuwoo said:
edit: My statusbar disappeared. I'm going to try again to make sure.
edit2: Just tried again, no statusbar. I'm wondering what others mileage is
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I wiped cache/dalvik as soon as I replaced the file, if that helps.
Thread below, comments also there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542134
Had to do a lot of messing around to get it to work, as far as white background, wrong icons but I'm on Wicked and I spent about 45 minutes messing with it and this is what I got
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Don't know how close it is to the original because we have voice mail for the left bottom button and you guys must have voice calls or something. I tried
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Tiffany84 said:
Had to do a lot of messing around to get it to work, as far as white background, wrong icons but I'm on Wicked and I spent about 45 minutes messing with it and this is what I got
Don't know how close it is to the original because we have voice mail for the left bottom button and you guys must have voice calls or something. I tried
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What did you do to get rid of the white background? thnx..
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What did you do to get rid of the white background? thnx..
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Very curious..what did you do to rid the white background? voicemail icon seems streched there, and underneath the icons you have extra buttons that dont belong there, also dialer have layout that dont belong, can you please send your seccontacts.apk so I can solve this once and for all.
Darn this SecContacts is pain in the butt.
Yeah you guys supposed to have that voicemail button, we have the videocall button there.
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What did you do to get rid of the white background? thnx..
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Here is fix for the bad looking voicemail icon, mess around this same way to see if it gets normal looking. Please report back soon as you can so I know, and thanks.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/hphu5r94qit3yxs/Contacts_voicemail_strecth_fix.zip
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Here is fix for the bad looking voicemail icon, mess around this same way to see if it gets normal looking. Please report back soon as you can so I know, and thanks.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/hphu5r94qit3yxs/Contacts_voicemail_strecth_fix.zip
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Voicemail icon isn't the problem for me...it's the white backgorund on Dialer and contacts...Here's an example of the dialer screen.........Other than that everything else is fine...:good:
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Very curious..what did you do to rid the white background? voicemail icon seems streched there, and underneath the icons you have extra buttons that dont belong there, also dialer have layout that dont belong, can you please send your seccontacts.apk so I can solve this once and for all.
Darn this SecContacts is pain in the butt.
Yeah you guys supposed to have that voicemail button, we have the videocall button there.
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Hey, I'm at work right now so don't have much time but I'll get in touch with you when I get off. As far as the background it's different for the rom I'm using(Wicked) because he's calling on his own image for that background which is named evil.png. There is one in the contacts app and the dialer app. I know the voice mail icon is stretched. It's an icon I pulled from your contacts theme but didn't have time to resize it. That screen shot was all I was able to manage in the 45 minutes I had to spend on it. I'm going to open up a stock rom and see if I can't help you figure out the white background issue. I'll send you a pm when I get off of work to see if your around and hopefully we can get this solved. If you need someone to help you manage the T-Mobile version I'd be more than happy to, with all credit going to you of course. I know how hard it can be to get a theme to be compatible across several devices. Totally your call. Talk to you soon.
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Hey, I'm at work right now so don't have much time but I'll get in touch with you when I get off. As far as the background it's different for the rom I'm using(Wicked) because he's calling on his own image for that background which is named evil.png. There is one in the contacts app and the dialer app. I know the voice mail icon is stretched. It's an icon I pulled from your contacts theme but didn't have time to resize it. That screen shot was all I was able to manage in the 45 minutes I had to spend on it. I'm going to open up a stock rom and see if I can't help you figure out the white background issue. I'll send you a pm when I get off of work to see if your around and hopefully we can get this solved. If you need someone to help you manage the T-Mobile version I'd be more than happy to, with all credit going to you of course. I know how hard it can be to get a theme to be compatible across several devices. Totally your call. Talk to you soon.
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Thanks, no I will credit YOU in my thread update if you solve this, if we can find what is causing it, I simply include it to my next update, that means if you find the location of the white causing png, then I simply theme it to dark and it should overwrite it with the users experiencing problems. And yeah I was thinking maybe it is in calling apk itself, thou it wont make any sense that users with the problem dont have white background and then flashing my SecContacts.apk causes them to have a white background even there is no png's there to cause this, and morhphing do not overwrite non themed png's whats already inside apk, so this is a headache big time. Once it's solved, I will theme the rest of the icons, like onehands dialer icons, solved the missing "1" button dialer problem with some users already.
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Thanks, no I will credit YOU in my thread update if you solve this, if we can find what is causing it, I simply include it to my next update, that means if you find the location of the white causing png, then I simply theme it to dark and it should overwrite it with the users experiencing problems. And yeah I was thinking maybe it is in calling apk itself, thou it wont make any sense that users with the problem dont have white background and then flashing my SecContacts.apk causes them to have a white background even there is no png's there to cause this, and morhphing do not overwrite non themed png's whats already inside apk, so this is a headache big time. Once it's solved, I will theme the rest of the icons, like onehands dialer icons, solved the missing "1" button dialer problem with some users already.
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The bg for the contacts in the US versions is controlled in xmls. The names of the xmls are dialpad_fragment_xxx.xml found in the SecContacts\res\layout-sw359dp-xxhdpi folder. There's going to be a few of them, each carrier has there own. I would suggest just doing all of them. The bg will be in the first line and if you go down a few lines you'll also find the line to change the text color of the input numbers (the numbers when dialing). You'll want to change those too since by default I think they're black. If you want you're custom bg to show from the framework, then you'll want to change the alpha of the bg to 00.
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Hey, I'm at work right now so don't have much time but I'll get in touch with you when I get off. As far as the background it's different for the rom I'm using(Wicked) because he's calling on his own image for that background which is named evil.png. There is one in the contacts app and the dialer app. I know the voice mail icon is stretched. It's an icon I pulled from your contacts theme but didn't have time to resize it. That screen shot was all I was able to manage in the 45 minutes I had to spend on it. I'm going to open up a stock rom and see if I can't help you figure out the white background issue. I'll send you a pm when I get off of work to see if your around and hopefully we can get this solved. If you need someone to help you manage the T-Mobile version I'd be more than happy to, with all credit going to you of course. I know how hard it can be to get a theme to be compatible across several devices. Totally your call. Talk to you soon.
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Thanks, no I will credit YOU in my thread update if you solve this, if we can find what is causing it, I simply include it to my next update, that means if you find the location of the white causing png, then I simply theme it to dark and it should overwrite it with the users experiencing problems. And yeah I was thinking maybe it is in calling apk itself, thou it wont make any sense that users with the problem dont have white background and then flashing my SecContacts.apk causes them to have a white background even there is no png's there to cause this, and morhphing do not overwrite non themed png's whats already inside apk, so this is a headache big time. Once it's solved, I will theme the rest of the icons, like onehands dialer icons, solved the missing "1" button dialer problem with some users already.
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The bg for the contacts in the US versions is controlled in xmls. The names of the xmls are dialpad_fragment_xxx.xml found in the SecContacts\res\layout-sw359dp-xxhdpi folder. There's going to be a few of them, each carrier has there own. I would suggest just doing all of them. The bg will be in the first line and if you go down a few lines you'll also find the line to change the text color of the input numbers (the numbers when dialing). You'll want to change those too since by default I think they're black. If you want you're custom bg to show from the framework, then you'll want to change the alpha of the bg to 00.
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While technically this constitutes thread clutter (sorry OP) - it's nice from time to time to acknowledge/appreciate the collaborative spirit when it shows itself - you guys rock
That is all. Carry on.
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The bg for the contacts in the US versions is controlled in xmls. The names of the xmls are dialpad_fragment_xxx.xml found in the SecContacts\res\layout-sw359dp-xxhdpi folder. There's going to be a few of them, each carrier has there own. I would suggest just doing all of them. The bg will be in the first line and if you go down a few lines you'll also find the line to change the text color of the input numbers (the numbers when dialing). You'll want to change those too since by default I think they're black. If you want you're custom bg to show from the framework, then you'll want to change the alpha of the bg to 00.
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So it is... but how do you explain that before they flash my SecContacts.apk, they have black bg? but yet so far no xml's are in my themed SecContacts.apk or anything that would change the bg color, only png files, nothing more yet. What changes the bg color when original xml's and rest of the non themed png's remain inside original apk and only the png's I themed are being replaced.
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So it is... but how do you explain that before they flash my SecContacts.apk, they have black bg? but yet so far no xml's are in my themed SecContacts.apk or anything that would change the bg color, only png files, nothing more yet. What changes the bg color when original xml's and rest of the non themed png's remain inside original apk and only the png's I themed are being replaced.
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Because the international contacts is different then ours. If US users flash your theme over other roms or themes that already have it black or any other color, then they would also not see the white bg, but if they flash this zip which is a vrtheme and only contains the pngs on a unthemed rom, then they will have the white bg.
For example - If users flash this zip over wicked, they will see the bg that the rom uses since the bg and the xml are changed in that rom. And if someone was to flash this over my theme which has our contacts inverted, then they also wouldn't see any white.
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The bg for the contacts in the US versions is controlled in xmls. The names of the xmls are dialpad_fragment_xxx.xml found in the SecContacts\res\layout-sw359dp-xxhdpi folder. There's going to be a few of them, each carrier has there own. I would suggest just doing all of them. The bg will be in the first line and if you go down a few lines you'll also find the line to change the text color of the input numbers (the numbers when dialing). You'll want to change those too since by default I think they're black. If you want you're custom bg to show from the framework, then you'll want to change the alpha of the bg to 00.
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I figured it would be an xml given what people were experiencing and I knew you would have the solution. Thanks for popping in and lending a hand and for continuing to do what you do. Your a huge asset to this community and I, a long with many others I'm sure are very grateful. Thanks again buddy
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So it is... but how do you explain that before they flash my SecContacts.apk, they have black bg? but yet so far no xml's are in my themed SecContacts.apk or anything that would change the bg color, only png files, nothing more yet. What changes the bg color when original xml's and rest of the non themed png's remain inside original apk and only the png's I themed are being replaced.
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Not sure what all you know but if you need help with the xml edits I'd be more than happy to help and not trying to speak for him but foreverloco is a beast when it comes to themes and in my experience is always the first to lend a hand if you have questions.
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I figured it would be an xml given what people were experiencing and I knew you would have the solution. Thanks for popping in and lending a hand and for continuing to do what you do. Your a huge asset to this community and I, a long with many others I'm sure are very grateful. Thanks again buddy
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Not sure what all you know but if you need help with the xml edits I'd be more than happy to help and not trying to speak for him but foreverloco is a beast when it comes to themes and in my experience is always the first to lend a hand if you have questions.
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What I just learned is that users experiencing white BG is simply because them contacts app is "light" not "dark" therefor my unthemed "tw_background_holo_light.png" from framework-res "drawable-nodpi and drawable-sw360dp-xxhdpi" keeps them app white, but users with "dark" SecContacs.apk have everything ok, because the SecContacts chooses the dark wallpaper. but the problem is that most likely light app have black text, in this case SecContacts, so font color needs to be edited from xml to be black, and searchbox in contacts also, I don't know yet if searchbox there is png or is it controlled from XML.
Well would ya look at that, guess I'm late to the party! Here I thought I was the only one looking for that illusive white incall dialer screen when you pull up the dial pad. (Say that three times fast!)
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markbencze said:
Well would ya look at that, guess I'm late to the party! Here I thought I was the only one looking for that illusive white incall dialer screen when you pull up the dial pad. (Say that three times fast!)
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Hey, I would be more than happy to help you if you need it. I'm actually at the zoo right now so it may be a little while but if you still need help let me know.
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Well would ya look at that, guess I'm late to the party! Here I thought I was the only one looking for that illusive white incall dialer screen when you pull up the dial pad. (Say that three times fast!)
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Just one screenshot and I can fix it, its only one of those darn white buttons still left haunting there, easy as 1 2 3 to fix. And ofcourse your Secphone.apk.
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Just one screenshot and I can fix it, its only one of those darn white buttons still left haunting there, easy as 1 2 3 to fix. And ofcourse your Secphone.apk.
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Got it now thanks to loco. Gonna update my theme soon too
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I'm trying to do a little theming with the phone dialer & contacts so I thought I'd start out with some easier ones like the dialer & contacts Silhouettes (see screenshots).
BTW, what used to be SecPhone.apk is now system/priv-app/SecTeleservice.apk. The silhouette images are there and I can change them out but there is no change in the dialer and contacts (contacts.apk changed too btw).
Any of you brainy themers out there can help with this one?
Tnx - TD
How to remove Banner from incall screen:
(Examples in attached screenshots 3 & 4)
Change only the values in InCallUI.apk/res/values/colors.xml to match:
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<color name="incall_call_banner_active_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_disconnect_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_incoming_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_onhold_bg">#00000000</color>
<color name="incall_call_banner_default_bg">#00000000</color>
tdunham said:
I'm trying to do a little theming with the phone dialer & contacts so I thought I'd start out with some easier ones like the dialer & contacts Silhouettes (see screenshots).
BTW, what used to be SecPhone.apk is now system/priv-app/SecTeleservice.apk. The silhouette images are there and I can change them out but there is no change in the dialer and contacts (contacts.apk changed too btw).
Any of you brainy themers out there can help with this one?
Tnx - TD
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Moderators - I do realize this is a 'question' but please be kind enough to leave this post in Themes & Apps thread as we find a resolution.
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Looks good so far! Definitely diggin' the black n blue themed contacts. Would be awesome if you could black out the dialer!
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Looks good so far! Definitely diggin' the black n blue themed contacts.
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Ahh yes, I'm importing a theme from a Note 3. The image sizes are very similarly sized and I've used this guys work before. It's pretty awesome if I can figure out the file differences. Our 4.4.2 is totally different than the other builds out there.
I think the file we need to deal with is called InCallUI.apk. I side-tracked a little though because I'm trying to repair the InCallUI file so it will fully recompile so I can try removing the call banner because that method is not working an longer either.
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Ahh yes, I'm importing a theme from a Note 3. The image sizes are very similarly sized and I've used this guys work before. It's pretty awesome if I can figure out the file differences. Our 4.4.2 is totally different than the other builds out there.
I think the file we need to deal with is called InCallUI.apk. I side-tracked a little though because I'm trying to repair the InCallUI file so it will fully recompile so I can try removing the call banner because that method is not working an longer either.
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Yes I believe you are correct, InCallUI and SecTeleservice are the main APKs for phone/contacts now.
What do you mean by "removing the call banner"?
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Yes I believe you are correct, InCallUI and SecTeleservice are the main APKs for phone/contacts now.
What do you mean by "removing the call banner"?
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An example of the call banner is that large green banner at the top of the screenshots I posted for the in-call screen. It changes color depending on the call status but I hate it, want it gone and prefer the full screen display without it. If I get it working, I'll post a screenshot so you can see the difference.
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An example of the call banner is that large green banner at the top of the screenshots I posted for the in-call screen. It changes color depending on the call status but I hate it, want it gone and prefer the full screen display without it. If I get it working, I'll post a screenshot so you can see the difference.
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Ok sounds good!
tdunham said:
An example of the call banner is that large green banner at the top of the screenshots I posted for the in-call screen. It changes color depending on the call status but I hate it, want it gone and prefer the full screen display without it. If I get it working, I'll post a screenshot so you can see the difference.
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looking right now brotha....On the S4 the Call Banner was in res-Values-Colors.xml and was incall_call_banner_in_call_background...which i always made Transparent
Sammy moved a TON of stuff around and has throw myself oiff a bit too lol.
Im just a little over halfway with my stuff, but still working on the COntacts and Dialer
GImme one sec, lemme see if i can track it down real quick
EDIT....YWait....are talking about the GReen in the SS? or the In cAll banner when your in an actual call? THere is a Banner for "In Call" and "End Call" which is in the Colors XML in the TeleService apk. THat will get rid of the Banner there, which i reall Dislike. If your trying to get rid of that Ugly green, thats an image
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looking right now brotha....On the S4 the Call Banner was in res-Values-Colors.xml and was incall_call_banner_in_call_background...which i always made Transparent
Sammy moved a TON of stuff around and has throw myself oiff a bit too lol.
Im just a little over halfway with my stuff, but still working on the COntacts and Dialer
GImme one sec, lemme see if i can track it down real quick
EDIT....YWait....are talking about the GReen in the SS? or the In cAll banner when your in an actual call?
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I already tried the colors.xml edit in SecTeleService and it did not work so I'm going to give it a shot with InCallUI here in a bit.
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EDIT....YWait....are talking about the GReen in the SS? or the In cAll banner when your in an actual call?
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That SS is the incall screen. Is there another one?
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That SS is the incall screen. Is there another one?
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NO, your right..SOrry i might have confused ya lol. Some Edits need to be chnage, like icons and such, which have a label of "End Call" rather than "In Call"...
Interesting, some icons changed when I morphed incallui but still the silhouettes are the same. I'll have to go through the drawables and make sure the filenames are the same but I think they are.
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Interesting, some icons changed when I morphed incallui but still the silhouettes are the same. I'll have to go through the drawables and make sure the filenames are the same but I think they are.
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i hate using morphs...Honestly....It sounds Real Stupid (Especially today) but i stopped Morphing images a long time ago. Some apks dont seem to like em, but VRTheme seemed to work pretty good on the Note 3 i heard....
You using VRTheme?
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Interesting, some icons changed when I morphed incallui but still the silhouettes are the same. I'll have to go through the drawables and make sure the filenames are the same but I think they are.
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i know how to REPAIR the InCallUI apk
Have you done that yet? You'll get the usuall "appt" errors, but it will recompile
HERE
Go To InCallUI>res>values-es>strings.xml
Then go to Line 544 and you'll see this: <string name="throttle_time_frame_subtext">"%1$d% del ciclo transcurrido.
Remove the last Percent sign from this "%1$d%" and make it this "%1$d"
InCallUI will now Recompile..You'll get the usual "appt" errors but it will be fine.
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i hate using morphs...Honestly....It sounds Real Stupid (Especially today) but i stopped Morphing images a long time ago. Some apks dont seem to like em, but VRTheme seemed to work pretty good on the Note 3 i heard....
You using VRTheme?
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I only use the term 'Morph' as an acronym. I really do use VRTheme. The real Morph template does not play well with TWRP but seems to be ok in Philz but I stopped using it because of that.
Alright, looks like I found all the images for the silhouettes are new filenames in the callui file. I think I better resize all of them to make sure they are happy as well. That's going to take me a little while... I'll report back in later.
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i know how to REPAIR the InCallUI apk
Have you done that yet? You'll get the usuall "appt" errors, but it will recompile
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Yes, repaired it already. Tnx.
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Yes, repaired it already. Tnx.
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ohh sorry lol, ok nevermind, i was just reading one of your previous posts...My bad!!
Ok, I'm getting there.
I still don't have proper images for contact silhouette images though for some reason.
Got rid of the banners as well.
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Ok, I'm getting there.
I still don't have proper images for contact silhouette images though for some reason.
Got rid of the banners as well.
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I gotcha. I'm gonna be home in an hour or so. If you want, you csn DL one of themes from the sprint S4 for a reference if you'd like. I gotta do this all myself today, so I'm gonna take it in a bit. There is a Contacts apk, just can't remember the correct file name off hand, but the contact photo will definately be there.
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I gotcha. I'm gonna be home in an hour or so. If you want, you csn DL one of themes from the sprint S4 for a reference if you'd like. I gotta do this all myself today, so I'm gonna take it in a bit. There is a Contacts apk, just can't remember the correct file name off hand, but the contact photo will definately be there.
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Great the avatar icons are killing me (the ones for the contacts/call logs/favorites). The only ones I can find are in SecSettings believe it or not but replacing them does not help.
Plus, I need a fresh set of eyes.
I posted a little guide on the OP to remove the banner from the call screens.
It is different than previous versions btw.
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I posted a little guide on the OP to remove the banner from the call screens.
It is different than previous versions btw.
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I actually like the banner. Would be cool if it was blue when connected and then red when ended though haha.
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